Chapter 3 A new Friend

It had been a week since Kanani dueled with Jaden against Mr. Ryuga and helped him get back syrus' card. You would think that after a month Kanani would've made some friends by now. Sadly Kanani was still friendless and still taking crap from Seika and her mindless goonies. Kanani gave out a long tired sigh, she didn't know how long she would last under all this stress. Thank god it didn't affect her dueling and school work or she would be risking moving into the slifer red dorms. Not that it bothered her, considering how she was treated in blue she welcomed the slifer red dorms with open arms.

Kanani strolled around Duel Academy with no real destination. She stopped every now and then to admire the ongoing duels and the cute little stores. She eventually found a quiet little hill not too far from the school and settled down on the hills soft grass.

She watched silently as the big white fluffy clouds slowly passed by creating different shapes of animals and things that she could identify. Without her notice, she had suddenly fallen asleep. She snored softly as the wing gave soft cool airy kisses along the expose parts of her skin that it was able to touch.

Shanai whistled a soft tune as she walked around Duel Academy. It was such a nice and beautiful day out that Shanai refused to spend it inside. She ran her hand through her long chocolate brown hair as she inhaled a large breath of fresh air that had blew against her. She ignored the looks and stares from the other girls as they stared at her. Shanai could care less of what other people thought of her. She knew she was a beautiful sun-kissed skin girl from Germany and she didn't need anyone to tell her nor remind of what and who she was.

'Today is such a beautiful day I vish my hubby vas here vith me.' Shanai thought to herself as she thought of her boyfriend that was overseas at North Academy. Even though she had went to the same school as him, she still hated to leave him behind.

'Oh, I hope he misses me.' Shanai thought as she began to worry that the love of her life was off flirting with some no good hussy or worse cheating on her. Not wanting to think about it anymore, she continued her peaceful walk around her new school.

An hour had passed and Shanai was starting to get bored. She had been all over the island and memorized every escaped route, secret spots, and shortcuts that the island had to offer. Shanai was starting to become annoyed.

"I'm stuck here on this damn island und vith nothing to do!" Shanai said angrily. Mostly because she was bored and partially because she got tired of seeing the same damn thing every time she turned a corner.

Just as she was about to call it a day, she spotted a figure laying on the ground upon a hill. Being curious, she walked up the hill to see what was laying there. When she made it, she was shocked to find that there was a girl laying there.

'I wonder vhy she's here und alone no less.' She thought to herself as she looked at the girl who was lying perfectly still in the grass. Shanai didn't want to bother the girl but a part of her refused to leave until it knew the girl was safe and sound. Shanai cursed to herself as she gave in to her nagging curiosity and walked over to the unconscious girl. Shanai kneel down by the girl and put her ear to her mouth. It was a stupid thing to but she didn't know of any other way that would confirm if the girl was dead or alive. Feeling out warm breaths against her ear, she sighed in relief.

'Oh thank gott. I thought she was dead.'

After calming her nerves, she began to shake the sleeping girl awake. Hearing a groan, she stopped shaking her and let the girl wake up on her own. The girl groaned and slowly opened her eyes. She squinted a little to take in her surroundings and to partially blink away the blurriness.

"Hey, are you okay?" Shanai asked still looking at the girl. The girl nodded and slowly began to sit up.

"Sorry to vake you I thought you vere hurt."

Kanani smiled. "No worries I didn't even realize I had fallen asleep. My name is kanani what's yours?" she asked

"Shanai Beilschmidt." Shanai replied with a warm smile

"Beilschmidt? That sounds German."

"Oh it is. I'm half American and half German. I'm a new transfer from north academy"

Kanani's mouth dropped in surprise." There's another Duel Academy?"

"Ja, its nothing compared to the original but it's still a good school. Maybe one day I can show you whenever you visit America."

Kanani smiled and nodded. "I'd like that."

For the next few hours shanai told Kanani all about herself and what it was like for her when she was at North Academy and what all her friends were like. In that short amount of time, the two girls learned everything about each other and had become fast friends.

"So, vhat vere you doing out here all by yourself shouldn't you be with your friends?"

Kanani frowned at the question. "Aside from you, nobody wanted to talk to me. I tried to make friends but all they did was look down on me and spread horrible rumors about me. And to add insult to injury, Seiko Kohinata has keeps messing with me." Kanani said sadly. Her voice started to become shaky as she tried to hold back her tears that were desperately fighting to be released.

"I'm not a bad person. But every time I try to make things right everyone just seems me as some kind of showoff."

Shanai stared at her friend sadly. She too knew what it was like for everyone to look down on you and judge you. Shanai grabbed Kanani and pulled her into a hug.

"You're never alone remember zat. Ja?" Shanai said softly to her friend. Kanani nodded and hugged her friend back as she cried out her pent up frustration.

~ The next day ~

Kanani and Shanai were walking around campus chatting about one of Shanai's favorite memorable times when she was at north academy. The two girls shared a quick laugh and continued their conversation. Right in the middle of another one of shanai's stories, Kanani saw a boy standing alone over what looked like a grave. It looked like the boy was grieving until she saw his face frown in anger.

'I wonder what's bothering him.' Kanani thought to herself as she watched the black spiky haired boy dig up the makeshift grave.

"Kanani!" shanai yelled in kanani's ear causing her to jump and look at her.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Kanani replied looking around.

"You know, if you didn't vant to listen all you had to do vas tell me to stop." Shanai said glaring at her friend but stopped when she saw what she was looking at. She smirked.

"Now I see vhy you stopped listening you vere checking out a hottie."

Kanani blushed and held her hands up in defense.

"It's nothing like that shanai. It's just- he seems really angry. I don't know why, but I suddenly want to help him." She said looking at the boy again and watching him bury whatever it was he had buried and walk back towards the school. She heard her friend snicker.

"Uh-huh" shanai laughed. Kanani rolled her eyes and started walking away from her friend who was still in a laughing fit. Shanai stopped laughing once she noticed her friend was near her anymore and quickly ran after her.

A few hours later, everyone in crowler's class was in the lobby and looking at the lobby's flat screen that was showing the day's scheduled duels. Shanai stood in the back of the small crowd holding little interest of what was being displayed.

"I wonder who's dueling today." Kanani said while checking her nails. Shanai yawned.

"Vho knows? Knowing Crowler it's probably a blue vs. a slifer red." Just after shanai had said that the screen popped up the day's duel participants.

"Look! It's Princeton vs. Yuki! It's gonna be something." A student said after seeing the names pop up on the screen.

"Princeton, the guy who hasn't lost since he got here?" a student asked

"And Yuki from the slifer red, that's gonna be one hell of a match."

Everyone got quiet when they realized that the boy himself was standing behind them glaring at the screen. Shanai snickered and nudged kanani who rolled her eyes. She knew shanai didn't believe that she didn't like Princeton the way she thought she did. It was true she had admitted to herself that Princeton was indeed handsome and mysterious but he just wasn't her type. And besides, she had her eyes on a certain slifer red that had been on her mind since the entrance exams.

She felt her face start to heat up as she thought of the laid back brown haired teen that was already the talk of the school and in every dorm. Her blush started to darken as her thoughts delved a bit more into her romantic fantasies that she hid deep within her mind. Shanai looked at her friend and saw that her face was turning a very cherry deep red and instantly became worried

"Bosche* you okay?" shanai asked. When her friend didn't answer she started to shake her a little

"Kanani, everyone is leaving Bosche" Kanani's head shot up and looked at her friend and back towards the small crowd of students and just like shanai said they were leaving. Embarrassed, kanani ran out of the lobby leaving her sun-kissed German friend behind confused. Shrugging, shanai followed after her.

By the time the girls had caught up to the other students (because Shanai needed a bathroom break) the duel had already started.

"Aww, ve missed half of ze match." Shanai said pouting

"Well you had to have your bathroom beak." Kanani said smirking. Shanai shot her a small playful glare before running off to go ask what had happened so far in the duel. Kanani watched Jaden and Chazz duel and was impressed at how chazz was holding his own in his duel against Jaden.

'The intensity of his dueling is so strong. But he lacks compassion it's almost as if he's trying to prove himself. But for whom I wonder.' Kanani thought to herself as she looked at the spiky haired boy.

"Well Bosche we didn't miss much chazz is giving Jaden a run for his money." Shanai said walking up to her friend and filling her in on what they had missed out. Twenty minutes into the duel and it wasn't going so good for Jaden. He was down to his last 400 LP's and the best monster he had just got destroyed by chazz. Kanani started to worry about Jaden she didn't want him to lose. If he lost he was seriously at risk of being kicked out of Duel Academy.

'Oh, I hope he wins I don't want to see him go. Wait, why the hell do I care? I don't even know him.' Kanani thought a soft pink blush slowly sneaking onto her face.

'Duh, it's because you like him stupid.' The voice from deep inside her mind said again. Kanani ignored the comment but deep down it started to bother her. Surely she wasn't falling for the Slifer red duelist? I mean he was cute and she loved to watch all his duels and her heart fluttered whenever she saw his smile. No. it's all a lie. There are no feelings and her heart doesn't beat a mile a minute every time she sees him.

'Girl, You are in such denial it's sad. 'Kanani ignored the voice and her thoughts and focused her attention back on the duel.

"I summon Winged Kuriboh." Jaden yelled as he summoned the small brown ball of fluff on the field. Kanani's eyes widen in shock as she looked at the monster. She didn't know why but she felt that she had seen that monster somewhere before. She racked her brain mercilessly until she could remember where she saw that little monster before. But no matter how hard she thought she couldn't remember.

'I may not be able to remember where I saw you. But I know for a fact you're not an ordinary monster.'

Kanani snapped out of her thoughts when she saw the brown fur ball transform and was now sporting dragon like armor. She shielded her eyes from the bright light that Winged Kuriboh had emanated from his body. Just as the light came, it disappeared. Kanani slowly lowered her hand and looked at the field. Her eyes widened in shock when she saw that winged Kuriboh was the only on the field and Chazz's monster was destroyed and his life points hit zero

Kanani stood in shock. Never in her life had she seen someone put such faith and trust into their monsters and be she thought of the events that had played before made her question her bond and her skills with her deck and her dueling. Just by looking at Jaden and watching him duel she could feel the bond he had with his deck. She couldn't explain it, but she felt jealous of him. Whenever he dueled, he seemed to have so much fun and the bond with his deck was so powerful it made kanani shake in both fear and excitement. She couldn't understand it; he didn't have a title or parents who were highly revered as the King and Queen of the dueling world. And yet he seemed so calm and happy whenever he dueled. Jaden yuki was both intriguing and a mystery to kanani. She placed a hand over her fast beating heart and smiled softly. She may not want to admit it or believe it to be true but she knew that she was falling for the hot shot slifer harder than she realized.

Okay here is chapter three. I'm not to happy about this one I feel like I could have done better but I will leave it up to you. Also I'm very happy about introducing Shanai Beilschmidt. Now before any of you bite my head off I just want to say I did not intend to use Ludwig's last name as her surname. I couldn't think of any other German name and his was the only one that kept popping up in my head. Please note that she in no way, shape, or form related to him. Also I mentioned she has a boyfriend which is true but I can't decide who it should be. If you want you are free to PM and give me who you want her bf to be or you can just leave it in review (either way I'll get it) anyway hope you enjoy the new chapter. And please tell me what you think of it.