Author's note: Okay, I have no idea why I started this story, but I did. So...yeah. Basically, this short story is based on the report on the assignment I'm working on for the Social Education class. We have to head to the downtown area for our assignments, and even though I've been there a few times, there are some things I learned while taking the train over there with my group and observe the city. The main point of this is to understand how people live around the city, why would they use different transportation, and what resource they can get for living just by going through different districts. Cuz the main thing is that we lived in the different area, so we lived and raised in the different ways. I guess that would be one of the reasons why I decided to use the Yugioh Arc-V characters in the story.

So obviously, this story is an Alternate Universe (AU), so that would mean that all the counterparts live in the same dimension and lived in the same city, at least up to this part. Their backstories differ as well. They are also in their college ages, not middle school age like in the canon. Even though romance isn't meant to be the main focus of this story, you'll probably see some YugoxRin (aka. Appleshipping) in here. Why? Because they're adorable together! I'm not lying about that! XD

Disclaimers: I'll get started now. I don't own Yugioh Arc-V, only the plot here. And I'm sorry if the characters happened to act OOC.

Chapter 1

Living in Different Areas and Ticket Mishaps

"Attention please! The next train will be arriving within one minute. Repeat, the next train will be arriving within one minute. Please stand behind the red line and prepare yourself at this time."

"Dang it! Guys, we have to hurry!" Yuzu yelled as she suddenly sprinted her way to the railway station. Her three friends were running behind her, trying to catch up.

"Oi, Yuzu! Slow down, will ya?" Yugo shouted while trying to keep up with the pink hair girl, "You know none of us can run that fast, right?"

"Then run faster!" was pretty much Yuzu's reply. It was clear to everyone that she was resisting the urge to smack the idiotic boy with that paper fan of hers.

"...Shit. How did it ended up like this?!"

"...Maybe if you haven't overslept, THIS WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED!" Rin yelled at her childhood friend, looking pissed off.

"I SAID I WAS SORRY!" The blue-yellow hair boy shouted.

And the bickering ensued between the Yugo and Rin. Ruri, who took notice of these two while running, just rolled her eyes at them, almost in a playful manner. She could only hope that everyone will still be in one piece, literally, once they get inside the train.

But honestly, this isn't how everyone wanted to start their morning...

It started yesterday at the Miami University. By the time their professor just announced the next assignment, everyone in the classroom started moaning. Their assignment is based on a community investigation, traveling downtown in Miami City to see how people adapt to the environment and so on. It's not that far, but it requires to take a train along the way. Plus, the students will be assigned into groups in this project, so the assignment wasn't as they as everyone thought. The worst part? They have to write a ten page report on it.

Obviously, everyone hated that part. Rin herself included. Though, she won't admit that out loud. Unlike Yugo, who pretty much said it out loud for everyone to hear. And he ended up receiving a protractor to the face by his professor.

...Poor guy. He ended up having blood squirting from his forehead.

But then again...that's what he gets for disturbing the class.

And it's gets worse. Rin will have to punish him later on.

And that's exactly what happened after class...

"YUGO! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING DISTURBING THE CLASS LIKE THAT?!"

Rin was giving a really long lecture to Yugo about the foolish thing he done in class. And she ranted for about ten minutes. God. Yugo got annoyed by this and ended up putting his hands over his ears, trying to drown out the green hair girl's shouting. Once Rin was finally done, Yuzu and Ruri came to their table, and the latter patted the green hair on the back.

"Feeling better now?" Ruri asked. Rin nodded in reply.

"Okay, I think we should get started by reading the instructions first, since tomorrow, all four of us will be heading to downtown together," Yuzu suggested as she handed out the papers that contains the instruction for the assignments. Everyone agreed and started scheming through them.

Oh, almost forgot about this. The professor have assigned the students into groups of four, since he decided it would be better this way once they start the community investigation. So obviously, Yuzu, Ruri, Rin, and Yugo are in one group. Yuya, Yuto, Yuri, and Serena are in another group. Sawatari, Masumi, Yaiba, and Hokuto are in another group. And the list goes on and on.

Anyway, the main point is that everyone has to answer some of these questions on the paper while doing the investigation before they can write their report on it. However, some of these questions have managed to trip some of them up, completely dumbfounded.

These questions are...

Take a group photo at a grocery store.

Take a group photo of a piece of art, preferably nearby a museum.

Count the number of green spaces along the railway and explained what do they indicated.

Inside the railway, ask at least three people of why do they take the railway in downtown and what do they think of it.

How many people around you are in the working class, youths, and/or tourists?

...and there are a few more questions in there like this but it's not really necessary to list them all.

"What...kind of questions are these?" Yugo finally blurted out.

"Weird ones, that's what," Rin replied, "Not the first time our professor gave us something like this."

"I guess that's what we get for having him in our Social Education class," Yuzu sighed as she twirled part of her hair in her twintails with one finger, "But it shouldn't be too bad. I know some place we can go to accomplish this."

Ruri realized something and glanced at the green hair girl, "Come to think of it, Rin, you never really been to the central part of the Miami City, have you?"

Rin shook her head. Rin was definitely not what you called a "city girl" now-at-these days. She never really had the chance to traveling around the central business part of the Miami City, so that would mean that she had never shop around the area that would be considered a price too high for her wallet, never eaten out at a high class restaurant, and never been to any special events that happened in downtown. But what can Rin say? Everyone has a different life style after all.

Ever since she was little, Rin lived with her single mother in some part of a rural area, so she never really experienced traveling around a "high class city". She never knew her father, other than the fact that he pretty much flaked out on her mother the moment he found out she was pregnant with Rin. But despite a few setbacks, life was okay for Rin until she turned seven, when her mother passed away due to cancer. Because there were no relatives around to take care of her, Rin was put into a foster care, where she met Yugo. The two became fast friends, through thick and thin. Though, most people would described their friendship as a love and hate relationship, because of the fact that Rin would always scold Yugo whenever he did something wrong (she probably got that side from both her mother and her caretaker).

But then when she was twelve, Rin was separated from Yugo once the woman, who happens to be her aunt named Crystal, discovered her and decided to take her in under her wings. It was a sad moment for both Rin and Yugo. Even though Rin gets along well with Crystal, she felt that it wasn't the same without her best friend.

By the time they moved into a sub-urban area, Aunt Crystal noticed the depressive state Rin is in and encouraged the latter to join some clubs when she started middle school. After a few decisions, Rin decided on track and music club. And it worked for the most part, since she made a few friends over there. Not only that, she became one of the top five, honor students in her school.

And speaking of new friends, Rin met Ruri during her time in the music club, and they really hit it off like peanut butter and jelly. They pretty much did everything together, going to each others house to work on the school project, work on the music piece together, sometimes hangout at the cafe with Ruri's other female friend, Sayaka, things like that. A lot of people have mistaken them for sisters, if it weren't for the fact that they have different hair and eye color. And by extent, Rin had also met Ruri's older brother, Shun, and their friend, Yuto. Though, Rin had a hard time looking at the latter, mainly because Yuto looked so much like her best friend back in the orphanage.

Eventually, things got better for Rin, because she reunited with Yugo when they were in high school. And how did that happened? Well, let's just say that it has to do with Yugo accidentally running over Yuto with his motorcycle on the first day of school, and both Ruri and Rin were with him during that time. Needless to say, the black and purple hair boy wasn't happy about this, and he had to spend weeks in the hospital. Some of his friends could've sworn that his eyes started to glow angrily in blue whenever he glanced at Yugo.

But back to the topic. Rin and Yugo managed to catch up with each other and continued to be close friends like they always do back in their childhood days. Rin even brought Yugo to her place a few times and introduced him to her aunt. Rin's aunt liked him instantly, despite the fact that Yugo would act like an idiot sometimes, and she would often teased him and Rin that they would become a great couple, much to their embarrassments.

Still, their friendships remained strong, with a few ups and downs, even up to college. Rin would still be looking out for Yugo like she always do, hang out with each other on their leisure time, making sure that he did his work for all of his courses, and making sure that he doesn't do anything that would result in him getting punched in the face by Rin or getting hit on the head with Yuzu's infamous paper fan.

Oh by the way, the duo met Yuzu and a few other people in their first year of college which lead to some other hysterical events. But we'll talk about how these guys met later on. Right now, it's back to reality where they had to do the group assignment.

"Hey, don't worry, Rin. You'll like that place once we get there," Yuzu promised the green hair girl, "Besides the obvious assignment, it'll be fun."

Rin smiled at her pink hair friend. "Yeah. I hope so."

Present day...

Unfortunately for them, the day has been anything but fun in this event. Once Rin got herself ready for the sightseeing, she decided to head to Yugo's apartment to pick him up before meeting up with Yuzu and Ruri at the train station. However, Yugo was out cold on his bed, and it took a lot of pushing and yelling at the blue-yellow hair boy to get him to wake up and get dressed as quickly as possible. With little time left to spare, the duo finally met up with Yuzu and Ruri, and they ran for their lives at the train station, so that they won't miss their stop. But with less than a minute left before the train comes, they ran into another problem...

"Jesus fuckin' Christ! Why isn't this working?!" Yugo groaned in frustration as he repeatedly swipe his credit card and pressed the buttons on the machine just to get his ticket.

Rin and the other two girls had gone through the same process with the machines to get their tickets, but unfortunately, the ticket machine seemed to be malfunctioned, because it kept saying 'ERROR!' on the screen. The four college students were certain that there were nothing wrong with their credit card accounts, and they have tried inserting the coin and bills to the slot, which didn't work either. And it was definitely frustrating, because their train is already right in front of them!

"Forget about that machine! Try another one!" Ruri pointed out.

Everyone agreed and went to the next ticket machine. Starting with Yuzu.

In swift motion, she got her ticket in hand. Now it was Ruri's turn.

"Ten seconds the train will take its leave. 10...9...8..."

Ruri got hers. Now it was Rin's turn.

"7...6...5"

Rin got hers, so it was Yugo's turn. Unfortunately, he struggling because the machine didn't accept his card in the first try. And that just adds on pressure.

"4..."

"Yugo, hurry!" Rin yelled.

"I'm trying!"

"3..."

Yugo finally got the ticket in his hand.

"I got it!"

"2..."

"Guys, head inside quick!" Yuzu shouted.

The four students had to make or break for it to the train.

"1...beep!"

And they finally made their way inside to the train and sighed in the relief as the door closed behind them. All three of them decided to find the closest seats-

-woah wait a minute! Only three? That doesn't sound right.

The three girls froze at their spots and started looking around for the missing person.

"...Where's Yugo?" Rin asked.

Knock, knock, knock!

Once she heard the knocking sound, Rin turned around and gasped, seeing that Yugo was the one knocking on the door outside of the train. And unfortunately for him, the train had already start moving to the point where Yugo couldn't even chase after it. And the worse part, the girls can't do anything about it, even if they did try.

"RIIIIIINNNNNNNN!"

Author's note: Ehehehe...The last part happened to my classmate just seconds before the train takes off. But fortunately, the train stopped for him, so then he can get on with us as a group. But as the evil person I am, I let that happened to Yugo. Sorry Mr. Banana head!

Anyway, I think it should be obvious why would I use Rin and Yugo as main characters in this story. As for Yuzu, she pretty much is going to be a tour guide for them...kinda. And I'm not sure why would I add Ruri to this group. Maybe it's because that even though she and Rin haven't interact with each other in the canon, I can imagine them together as close friends.

This story is probably gonna have either two or three chapters, depending on the development. I haven't decided yet.

Anyhow, I hope you guys enjoy this. Let me know what you think of this and if there's anyway I can improve this story. R&R? ;)