Something I had been working on due to my total hype for the new 2016 Yugioh movie. Just keep in mind it's a FAN story so I ask that you please don't have odd expectations.

This is a peach shipping story, so that means Tea/Anzu x Yugi. It's most likely after all the crazy, life or death events of duel monster-ing and such.

Enjoy!

The bell had ringed for recess, dismissing all the kids in the elementary school. Despite the hot weather the playground slowly filled up with loud, cheerful children gathering on swing sets and looped slides.

All except for one little boy.

He was much shyer than most little boys and had funny hair, his name is Yugi Mutou.

In the playground, he went to his usual spot under a shady tree whose flowers were late to bloom. Yugi always brought along games from his grandpa's store since he wasn't any good at playing ball games with the other kids.

On his way to his spot, he accidentally tripped and bumped into one of the larger kids causing Yugi to drop a deck of cards he had in hand.

"Ow! Watch where you're going!" one of his classmates irritably yelled,

Yugi felt his blood go cold.

He made the mistake to bump into one of the meanest bullies in his school. This particular kid, Kouji, was big boned and smelled of old crayons and salted pretzels. He picked on just about everyone just for fun and Yugi became his prey.

"S-sorry" Yugi meekly spoke, afraid to make eye contact as he picked up his scattered cards on the concrete floor.

Yugi suddenly felt an intense weight pushing him back down to the ground causing his knee to collide with the hard ground feeling his skin tear. Kouji the bully slapped away the cards Yugi held in his hand scattering across the ground again. Kouji growled angrily at Yugi as he put more weight on his foot on top of the small boy and kicked him aside. Little Yugi was on the verge of tears, being both in pain and afraid.

"Hey! Cut it out, Kouji!" a shrill voice cried out,

Yugi scuffed away the dirt his face, clearing away the sting of his incoming tears to see a girl standing before him in defense. He had recognized her; she was his classmate, Mazaki Anzu. She had short brown hair wearing a pink sweater and a red skirt matched with a scowl etched on her face.

"You leave him alone, he didn't do anything wrong! It's not fair to pick on someone smaller than you!" she yelled pointed righteously at Kouji the bully,

Yugi's expression widened at the girl's Folly. On the other hand, Yugi had never seen anybody stand up for him, let alone a cute looking girl. It was like finding a large ant hill and poking at it until all the little red ants scurried out until they'd come towards you to bite you.

Kouji the bully laughed like it was the funniest joke he'd ever heard.

"Like I'm scared of a dumb girl like you, go play with your dolls, Mazaki!" the bully mocked her as he locked his sights on little Yugi who was still on the floor with his scattered deck,

"I said, leave him alone!" she demanded, moving in front of the bully who tried to reach little Yugi.

Yugi was frantic now.

He didn't see a teacher in sight and he really didn't want her to get involved in a fight just because of him. The thought of her crying or getting hurt was much worse than Yugi getting beaten to a pulp.

"I-It's fine really it was my fault-", finding his voice but she ignored him continuing to stand uprightly.

"And what if I don't, huh? What are you gonna do about it-"

The bully soon got his answer as her small fist roughly collided against his blubbery cheek hitting him square in the nose.

Kouji the bully cried out in pain as he fell over on his backside. His freckled sweat-filled face now red and swollen at the spot the Anzu had punched him in. His eyes nipped with salty tears as he cried out and quickly ran away.

"Hmph, coward!" she yelled out with her hands cupped around her mouth to make sure the bully heard her loud and clear.

Yugi couldn't help but stare at her in awe. She had guts to punch the bully and wondered if he should be scared of her too. The little girl turned around looking down at Yugi, still on the ground and offered a hand and a smile to him.

"Are you okay? He didn't hurt you bad did he?" she asked her tone became much gentler, her blue eyes full of concern for him. Her hardened face had softened, like a bad rainstorm that had cleared into a sunshine day.

Yugi was a bit distracted by his newfound heroine, not only was she cool but she was a total cutie!

"Uh…y-yeah" Yugi coyly replied as he took her hand and helped him up,

"My name is Mazaki Anzu, what's yours?" she gave him a sweet smile as she helped picked the cards up and gave them back to their owner,

'Anzu' he repeated in his head,

"I'm Yugi, Mutou Yugi" a smile of his own formed.

Yugi placed his deck of cards in his backpack to make sure he doesn't lose them. As he opened his bag Anzu saw how many games his backpack held.

"Wow! Are they all yours?" she gasped curiously.

Yugi thought for sure she'd make fun of him but to his delight, she had a big smile on her face as her eyes lit up,

"Yugi, can I play them with you?" she asked happily.

It had been weeks since the ending of yet another epic journey. Whether it was saving the world during a dynamic duel of a children's card game or just facing off against with people who just don't know when to quit.

For Yugi Mutou and his friends, it had been just another adventure. Another set of memories to implement into the scrapbook of their minds.

Fortunately, the life and death situations hadn't hindered their school life. The group of friends had graduated from Domino High School. Happy tears were shed, for Jounouchi mostly, celebrations were held and happy photos were taken.

It was spring, the time where cherry blossoms engulfed the air with its fragile aroma, invading the sidewalks to make it look like a pink floral wonderland.

On top of his desk, Yugi and his best friends posed with cheeky grins, fingers in the form of peace signs, and winks of the four friends dressed in their uniforms pinned with graduation flowers. The printed memory was framed brilliantly on Yugi's dresser.

It had felt like only yesterday the friends would spend their last moments together in a group before going their separate ways as adults.

Time seemed to have had an agenda against them as it was already mid-summer. Much of them had planned on their future life decisions beforehand.

Yugi decided to eventually take over for his grandpa's game shop and design brand new games for the next generation of gamers.

Honda would take over his father's factory and Jounouchi would train to become a professional duelist, much to the tease of his friends.

Naturally, Jou recently broke his duel disk after it was run over by a lousy pick-up truck that wouldn't wait for even a duck to cross. Despite his putrid luck, Yugi believed in his best friend's ability to make it as an all-star duelist.

Granted, to meet any standard of professionalism at any level would take stubborn efforts and determination, a sparkling quality Honda would call out for Jou to possess.

And Anzu…Yugi had known since they were children, but he never knew this day would come. It seems so surreal. He was naturally ecstatic for her yet his conflicted thoughts left a bittersweet sentiment for it all.

Yugi's conscious feelings had only caught up to him when they had gotten closer during their last year of high school. How he felt when Anzu had told him she got accepted even before school ended was so sudden.

The loud buzz of a digital beep suddenly stirred his thoughts.

Yugi stirred in his sleep as he opened his slumbering eyes, waving his hand around and slammed his alarm clock on snooze.

"Yugi!" an old voice croaked from downstairs,

"Are you up yet?" Grandpa Mutou called out, "weren't we supposed to meet up with Anzu and the others at the airport this afternoon? It's already half past noon."

Yugi heaved a lungful of air practically flying off his bed sheets. His sharp formed eyes gazed at the clock in utter dismay that his alarm clock hadn't been set to 9 am like he had intended.

He was late!

Yugi cursed under his breath. Of all the luck in the universe now had come to conspire against him today of all days!

He soared across his room to his closet as he managed to come up with wearing a light mauve dress shirt and a dark violet vest with pants.

Today was the day everyone was to meet up to see Anzu off to her flight to America.

This was a big day for everyone and Yugi didn't picture himself being late to see off his childhood friend. Worst case scenarios played in his head scornfully as she would have already left leaving a teary-eyed boy in the dust of the airplane's engine blowing a melancholy wind as the sun was about to set.

Yugi let out an infuriated breath; he hadn't enough time to savor such a thing. No thanks to the cheap alarm clock he's had since middle school. Next, to the contraption, Yugi had ready a woven present and a letter neatly placed in an envelope taped on top of it as a gift for Anzu before she headed off.

He dashed down the stairs, tripping as he nearly missed the last two steps. Before making his way out the door his grandpa called him once more,

"Ah, Yugi wait!"

But Yugi had darted out of the shop and looked down at his watch knowing full well he had already missed breakfast with the gang. He ran to the nearest bus stop he could catch and be lucky enough to be the last passenger the driver was able to take before it started taking off.

Yugi sighed in relief, holding close his special gift for Anzu. He had planned the gift for weeks as it held his thoughts about their friendship and anything that was related to it and more. Yugi cursed under his breath of his foolishness to oversleep. It wasn't until the bus had traveled down the street more than a few blocks that a sudden realization hit him like a ton of bricks.

He had forgotten to bring his grandpa along with him.

Meanwhile…

Jounouchi, his little sister Shizuka and Honda traveled together in a cab to the airport. They had left earlier looking around most of the morning at shops and gift antiques to find the perfect 'Good-luck-we-knew-you-could-do-it-but-why-do-you-have-to-go' gift.

Unlike Yugi, they were already there at the airport waiting for Anzu to arrive. The trio entered the cold lobby of the airport. A big relief from the searing humidity of the summer heat outside and found an empty table near the concession stand.

"Maybe we got here a little too early?"

"So? How's that a bad thing? Better late than never as I always say"

"You never say that. In fact, you're always late to things!"

"Shut up, Honda!"

Shizuka couldn't help but wonder the same thing fiddling with the professionally wrapped gift they had chosen for Anzu. It was a Pandora charm bracelet with the first charm being a pale pink ballet shoe tagged along with a metallic charm of the Empire State building. To a guy it would present itself as drawn-out and 'too girly' of a gift. Jou and Honda were no exception to such intricate taste, but what would they know.

Due to such a predicament, they had trusted Shizuka's judgment to the chosen, over-sentimental bracelet. But this was for Anzu after all. For the sake of a meaningful present that would represent the bonds that projected their friendship. They'd take overly sentimental, cliché and cheesy any day!

"Even if we are early its better this way" Shizuka lightened up their ruffled moods.

"It's better for Anzu to see somebody already waiting for her to see her off. But I'm worried about Yugi. He missed breakfast with us, and I know he wouldn't miss to see Anzu off, right?" Shizuka asked with concern.

It was common for Jounouchi to not have a direct answer. He too was wondering where his little buddy is and couldn't wait to hear his sorry reason of an excuse.

'Idiot probably overslept' he thought.

"I'm sure he's on his way right now Shizuka" Jou stated confidently to ease his sister's nerves. She had a big heart for just about every living breathing creature, which unfortunately included Seto Kaiba. Though he had explained to her the terrible personality traits he had about him but that still didn't pop the giant balloon shaped heart in her soul.

Suddenly a pair of boys intruded their table,

"Hey! I finally found you all!"

They turned to see Bakura and Otogi.

"Don't tell me you guys were already here first?"

"Didn't you know? You just missed Anzu, her plane already took off." Otogi said solemnly.

"Say what!" Joey and Honda exclaimed worryingly as Shizuka gasped in confusion.

"Otogi, don't say such things! H-he didn't mean it guys. Actually, we just bumped into each other at the same gift shop and arrived five minutes ago." Always count on innocent Bakura to lay down the truth. The poor fella was innocent as the color of snow. It was no wonder much of the girls at school adored him.

Otogi snickered mischievously, "Sorry, I couldn't help myself. But your faces were sure priceless!"

"You asshole!" Joey grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, cursing and threatened him to beat him to a pulp the next time he jokes around like that.

"What the hell, Otogi! Don't ever joke like that you jerk!"

Jounouchi never appreciated being tricked especially when it came to his friends as Honda tried to break up the humorously manly combat.

Shizuka knew her brother temperament compared to a hardboiled egg. Underneath such an exterior was soft and mushy much like the inside of the egg, but he would deny such a compliment or straightforward perplexed.

"I guess we're all a little early," Bakura stated ingenuously,

"Tch, and you had me rushing here for nothing Honda" Jou teased elbowing him in the gut.

"Hey, better late than ever right Jou?" Honda chuckled, receiving a glaring look from Jounouchi attempting to trap him in a headlock.

"Everyone has those days"

That was what most people would describe the day Yugi was having.

In this case, it was just cruel and unusual. It was spiteful punishment covered with bad timing on top. Yugi slowly began to direct his extreme dislike on himself for presumably ditching his grandpa. He promised when he'd get back he'd do the honors of cleaning the shop for him, top to bottom!

Among other misgivings such as waking up late on one of the most important days, check.

All while missing breakfast with the gang, check.

Getting to the airport late, check!

Forgetting to take your grandpa with you, double check!

Yugi mentally battled the decision to go back for him all while contemplating to lose more time than he already had.

Even to the point of desperation to just make a run for the airport. Unfortunately, it was too far and decided against that he wanted to say goodbye to his childhood by arriving a soaking sweat mess.

To Yugi's dismay, he noticed the bus making an unusual turn where it was supposed to go left to the airport it continued making its way straight. He gasped as he read the bus's destination toward the highway instead. Pulling down the string for the bus to stop Yugi apologized as he dashed out of the bus with now no means of transportation.

He listed for a taxi cab to be another option, but the traffic during everyone's lunch hour was a driver's worst nightmare.

'Damn it, just great!'

His mind boggled on the next fastest transportation.

Yugi knew he didn't have enough time to think until he looked at his watch. He suddenly exhaled a sharp gasp that startled a few pigeons on the ground.

"No, no, no, no!" This day was just getting better, wasn't it?

Yugi then decided to go against fate and ran like a madman to the metro station. He figured he would probably have better luck with the scheduling than getting on the wrong bus like an idiot.

'Wait for me, Anzu!' He inwardly prayed in hopes she'd forgive him if he didn't make it on time.

Just as soon as Yugi turned his back away from the bus stop, as his luck would have it, the bus he had waited so long for finally made its way through traffic halting at the bus stop. Unfortunately for Yugi, he was already a few blocks away, unknowing the bus' arrival and its destination toward the airport, without him on it.

A/N: Did some edits and actually deleted the other story. I found way too many typos and odd grammar.

I have other future chapters that are tied to this one and currently working on the next chapter to this :)

I hope this is better!

Gabzgirl xoxo