Destined to be Yours

Chapter 3: Jounouchi Katsuya

"Wake up, Akia. It's time to go to school. You're going to be late, again..." Yugi said to his twin sister, with exasperation clear in his tone.

"Give me five more minutes..." Akia mumbled into her pillow.

Every morning, it was the same routine. Yugi would try to wake his sister up, but he'd never succeed. In the end, Yugi would just give up and leave, so Akia would always arrive to class late and be lectured by their teacher. Akia used to be such a responsible girl. She started being indifferent to almost everything two years ago, when she turned thirteen. Akia was still a kind and cheerful person, she just stopped caring about certain things, which included school and people's opinion of her.

"Yugi, you'll be late!" Sugoroku called out to his grandson, not wanting him to be penalized for Akia's irresponsibility.

"Coming!" Yugi replied and rushed rushed downstairs, leaving Akia in her dream world.

"Akia is still asleep isn't she..." Sugoroku sighed when he only saw Yugi come downstairs.

"I hope she fixes that bad habit of hers soon... Bye grandpa!" Yugi waved at his grandfather while heading out the door.

With that said, Yugi left for school after saying goodbye to his grandpa. Around half an hour later, Sugoroku heard a scream coming from Akia's room.

"WHY DIDN'T YUGI WAKE ME UP!!" Akia shouted as she saw the time on her alarm clock.

"He tried, trust me," Mr. Mutou defended his grandson.

"Now I'm going to be late! Again! The damn teacher warned me that I'd get detention next time I'm late!!" The girl whined while quickly getting ready.

"Well, then it seems that you'll be late today," the twins' grandfather stated to her.

Akia put on her school uniform while brushing her teeth. She then packed her school bag, without forgetting to put her Millennium Scale in there as well. For five years, she'd been carrying her Millennium Scale around everywhere with her. After she was done, she ran downstairs and grabbed a sandwich before dashing out with a quick bye directed to her grandpa.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!!"

She sprinted through the streets at a record speed and finally arrived at the school gates. Of course, they were closed due to it being fifteen minutes after classes started. That was the average time that Akia arrived on when it was a normal day. When it was a bad day, she'd be around an hour late.

"Well... I'll need to jump over. It's so inconvenient wearing a skirt... At least there isn't anyone around so it's not that embarrassing," she said to herself.

Akia was a pretty athletic girl, despite being just as short as her brother, which was a trait that seemed to run in the Mutou family. She leapt over the fence with ease. She made sure her skirt was back in place and proceeded to her classroom. She ran as fast as she could and dragged open the classroom door.

"Sorry I'm late!" Akia yelled out.

"Again..." The teacher sighed.

Some students were sighing and others were chuckling. Yugi and Anzu were one of the ones who were sighing. Anzu was actually a good friend of hers. They didn't hang out all the time, but they were on pretty good terms with each other.

"It's not my fault that classes start so early..." Akia whined.

"You'll have to get used to it!" The teacher reprimanded her firmly, "now go to your seat! Your detention will start right after classes end."

"Damn it! I thought he forgot about that!" Akia thought to herself.

The girl went to her seat that was located right next to Anzu's. The latter gave her a small smile. Akia made a crying face before she sat down in her seat. Soon after the teacher picked up where he left, Akia dozed off and dreamed of the same violet-eyed boy once again.

At the sound of the bell, the sleepy girl finally woke up and started stretching.

"So how was that nap?" Anzu joked.

"Better than the lesson," Akia replied with a smirk.

Anzu then left to do something that Akia didn't bother figuring out. Yugi went to sit next to his sister.

"Akia... You know you should pay more attention in class instead of just copying my notes," Yugi lectured his twin.

"Come on, Yugi. You know that'll never happen," Akia chuckled at her twin.

"Yeah... I can't help but try," he sighed.

"Did you make any progress with your Puzzle?"

Yugi took out the golden box containing the pieces of the Puzzle. He shook his head.

"Nothing yet," the boy sighed, "I won't give up though."

Jounouchi and Honda, known as the class' troublemakers, started making their way towards the group who were too focused on the Millennium Puzzle to see them coming.

"Hey, so what are you nerds up to again?" Jounouchi mocked the twins. "Oh? Nice box you have there."

Without any warning he took the Puzzle box and lifted it high in the air so that Yugi and Akia wouldn't be able to take it away from them.

"Hey! Please, give it back!" Yugi pleaded with the blond.

"Why should we?" Honda chuckled.

Yugi was constantly bullied by these two. This always made Akia angry.

"Hey, assholes! Give that back!" She yelled out.

"Feisty, aren't we?" Jounouchi poked fun at the short girl.

Akia stood up on one of the desks and jumped on Jounouchi's back. She then managed to grab the Puzzle box and threw it to Yugi. What she didn't notice was that Jounouchi managed to steal one of the pieces of the Puzzle.

"Ow! Get off me!" Jounouchi shouted out at Akia who quickly jumped down after accomplishing what she wanted to do.

"It's not like I enjoy jumping on your back," Akia scoffed.

"Then don't do it!" Jounouchi yelled.

"Then don't pick on my brother!" She yelled back.

The two of them glared at each other while Honda was trying to calm Jounouchi down and Yugi tried to calm Akia down. For some reason, Jounouchi really got on Akia's nerves, but she didn't hate him. She wanted to hate him, but she just couldn't. Something within her actually liked him. She would always try to brush that feeling off. What she didn't know was that Jounouchi also felt the exact same way. He always tried to ignore that feeling.

"What do you guys think you're doing?" Anzu's voice was heard from the entrance of the classroom. She then started yelling at Honda and Jounouchi until they finally left Yugi and Akia alone.

"Thanks, Anzu-chan," Yugi smiled at his friend.

"Don't mention it," Anzu smiled back.

"Man that bastard pisses me off," Akia muttered under breath.

"Don't be like that," Yugi told her, "he probably has his own problems."

"Sometimes, you're way too nice for your own good, Yugi..." the twin sister sighed.

"So what were you guys doing?" Anzu asked them as she took a seat next the twins.

Yugi explained to her about how he'd spent quite a few years of his life trying to solve the Puzzle that his grandfather got him back from one of his previous expeditions in Egypt. Akia wondered what would happen if Yugi finished that Puzzle. Would it have weird powers like her Millennium Scale? Until now she never dared to use her Millennium Item, so she didn't actually have any proof that it held any form of power. She just believed it did, since Shadi had told her.