closed to atem; a children's 🃏 card game.

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[ as soon as yugi had heard about an exciting new card game taking anastara by storm he couldn't contain himself. sure, it wasn't duel monsters, but he loved games of all kinds, so he jumped at the chance to get in on the fun. ]

[ literally. ]

[ as soon as he learned where he could get in on the fun he called for atem, roll his familiar dice, and took off for the tournament scene. he is so excited, and that much is clearly apparent in the way he volleys between asking questions and watching matches. it seems like it's easy to learn & hard to master sort of games... his favorite! he can't wait to get his hands on some of his own cards and, who knows, maybe he'll be lucky enough to get his hands on one of the fantastic foi- huh. ]

[ he's snapped straight out of his day dream at the sound of a couple of kids crying. ] Hey! [ he says, instincts taking over. ] Leave them alone. [ yugi approaches the scene, stopping to pick up the cards thrown to the ground and deemed trash by the upperclassman. ] Give them their cards back. You can't just take them. [ the upperclassman explain the ante rules, all while laughing. ]

... [ he looks to the kids, giving them an a small apologetic smile. ] Do you mind if I borrow these? I promise to give them back. [ at this point, the kids don't seem too invested in the game, the bullies having ruined it for them, so they have no problems giving their cards to yugi. ] If you want to play, then let's play. [ he spares a glance to atem, a playful smirk turning up his lips. ] We can even make it more interesting and have a four way match. [ oh, look, mittens has even come over to see what's going on! ]

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[ yugi is certainly excited about the prospect of a new game, which is why he'd jumped at the chance to drag atem to see. watching all the other participants has his enthusiasm growing exponentially, though there's, of course, somebody there to ruin it. he's reminded of home and all the times that bullies would pick on him, which is why he doesn't hesitate to interfere. his friends had always been there and stood up for him, so now it's his turn to do the same. ]

[ because he doesn't look all that intimidating the bullies agree without so much as a second thought, though they do seem a bit wary when atem enters the picture. ah well. they still believe they can take them down... unfortunately they're wrong. though they knew more about the game than yugi and atem the two of them are pretty much gaming gods ( one figuratively and one literally ) so the few short matches they'd watched they'd been able to pick it up. when then final cards are laid down and the match is over the bullies seem almost reluctant to give in, though the crowd that amassed has taken yugi and atem's sides and aren't about to back down either. ]

[ they leave, complaining that the game was stupid anyway, so yugi takes their cards and offers them to the original kids that had been the victim of their bullying. they don't seem interested in them, so yugi and atem get to keep them as a sort of consolation prize. ] Thanks. [ he looks to atem. ] That was a lot of fun! I really like this game. It's definitely not duel monsters, but it's sti- [ and then mittens the cat pads over, eager to test their skills, because she was pretty impressed with what she saw. ] Oh, uh, sure, we'll play you! I'm always up for a game~