Dueling for Answers ~ YuGiOh 5D's

Chapter 5: Old Friends

*edited 07/09/2020*

Old Friends

Leo, Luna, and Dexter were walking down the hallway of the Fortune Cup arena. Leo had his head down, still upset that he lost. "Hey, try and cheer up, Leo. It's not like everyone saw you lose," Luna tells him, reassuringly.

"Yeah, she's right. 15 million tops," Dexter adds.

Leo deadpanned before sarcastically saying, "Thanks."

The three friends were approaching towards Yusei, who was leaning against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest. "It's not a loss if you learn something from it. Now you know more than you did before, right Leo?," Yusei commented.

The three of them look up at Yusei, not noticing that he was there.

"Yeah, learned more about losing. Can't wait to use that in my next match. But funny you say that, Yusei. Xina said something similar to me back down in the arena," Leo tells him.

"I noticed she was talking to you after the match. Was that when she was talking to you about learning from your losses?," Dexter asks, looking at his friend.

Leo nodded. "She also gave me the address where she's staying at. She wants to help me improve my dueling skills," Leo informs them with a smile.

"That's nice and all, but why would she want to help you? No offense," Luna questioned, raising an eyebrow.

Leo thought about it. "I'm not sure, I think it's because I reminded her of herself when she was our age. She told me she lost lots of duels, until she finally started to win," Leo tells them.

Yusei hummed, trying to hide his smirk. "That is true," Yusei comments.

"Huh? You know her Yusei?" Luna asks, looking up at him with a raised eyebrow.

Yusei looks over at her. "I knew her," Yusei clarified, making the three of the kids look at each other.

"Excuse me!" A feminine voice shouts aggressively.

They all look up to see Akiza walking towards them. The three kids move out of the way, looking at her as if she was a bully. Akiza then shoots a hard glare at Yusei, who returns the same to her. She moves her eyes to Leo and Dexter.

She stops at her tracks, looking down at them. She recognized them being there at the incident. "Next time you all are in my way, I won't hesitate," Akiza threats. Leo and Dexter started to sweat as they became nervous under her harsh stare.

"Is there a problem here?" Another voice questioned from behind Akiza.

They all look to see it was Xina. She stared at Akiza harshly as if she was speaking to her through her two different colored eyes; her stare seemed to look like as a threat.

Akiza hummed. "Hmph. Not at all, just standing my ground," Akiza simply responds.

"You have to stand your ground to little kids? What? Are you intimidated by them or something?" Xina questioned with sass in her tone.

Leo and Dexter hold in their laugh by quickly covering their mouths. Luna just rolls her eyes at their immaturity.

Akiza took offense to that and fired back, "The only ones who should feel intimidated is all of you."

Xina shoots back, "Let me know when that intimidation is supposed to start kicking in."

Akiza rolled her eyes, and began to walk away down the hall, to the arena.