Destined to be Yours

Chapter 35: Another Transfer Student

"Well if it isn't the Duel Monsters Queen herself." Akia took a while to process that he was talking to her. Bakura and the Spirit of the Ring were watching the whole scene, feeling a bit annoyed at how she was acting.

"O-Oh! Me? Yes, well, you can say I am, haha," Akia answered him.

Yugi raised an eyebrow at his sister's behaviour. He'd never seen her stutter so much before.

"It's an honour to meet you. My name is Otogi Ryuuji." He then held up one of her hands in his and kissed it. All the girls around started to squeal. Akia's face was bright red by that point.

That was when the Spirit of the Ring snapped and took over. He slapped Otogi's hand away and stood between him and Akia, glaring daggers at the new transfer student, "hands off if you know what's good for you."

A lot of girls squealed at what was happening, since Bakura Ryou had also become one of the main heartthrobs of the school. A lot of them were jealous from the attention that Akia was getting, but they knew better than to mess with her, considering her increasing popularity among the guys of the school.

Otogi flinched a bit, feeling slightly intimidated by Bakura's sudden change. He however recovered quickly and smirked while twirling a bit of his hair between his fingers. Akia was also very surprised at how Bakura acted. She then realized that it was not Bakura, but the Spirit of the Ring.

"My, my, someone's on edge," Otogi scoffed.

Without another word, Bakura grabbed Akia's wrist and started dragging her out of there.

"Ah! Ryou!" No matter how much she called out to him, he kept going. Yugi and the others had stayed behind, apologizing for what had happened. When Bakura and Akia finally got back to the classroom, he let her go.

"What was up with that?" She asked him.

The Spirit of the Ring didn't answer. He just felt really angry seeing another guy get close to her. Before they could talk any further, the others were back in the classroom.

"Akia-chan! What happened?" Anzu went to check up on her friend.

"I don't know. Anyway, is Otogi alright?" Akia whispered to Anzu, making sure that Bakura wouldn't hear her.

"Actually, a lot of things happened..." Anzu told Akia about how Jounouchi called out Otogi's dice tricks as lame, causing Otogi to challenge him to figure out how one of his simpler tricks worked. Of course, Jounouchi couldn't figure it out and was, therefore, made a fool out of in front of everyone. Pissed off, he challenged Otogi to a Duel Monsters game. Otogi agreed but only if they used new cards from new Booster Packs.

"And Jounouchi agreed..." Akia sighed.

Anzu nodded in exasperation. "They both even bet on what would happen to the loser and the winner."

"What did they bet on...?" Akia was almost afraid to ask. Jounouchi was playing right into Otogi's hands, but his stubbornness wouldn't let him see that.

"If Jounouchi wins, Otogi would be forced to close his shop. If Otogi wins, Jounouchi has to be his personal servant for a week."

"When's this duel supposed to happen?"

"Otogi said tomorrow, since it's our day off of school."

Akia couldn't help but facepalm.

The next day, Akia woke up at her own leisure, since she had the day off. She knew that they had to go to Otogi's game shop for the little showdown between him and Jounouchi. She got ready, wearing her usual white flared mini-skirt, with her turquoise tube top and oversized white and blue flannel shirt which was falling off either one of her shoulders all the time.