To Live in YU-GI-OH (Rewrite)

After a minute of me being completely speechless Meiko goes back to the front of the store to tend to her newest customer as I stare down the box.

'Am I finally getting my well deserved karma back from dying so randomly? Why's the world so nice to me right now? You know what! I'm not gonna question it!' I quickly grab the box and sit down on the floor, ripping off the box's plastic covering.

'...Maybe I should've saved this...I mean considering how popular Duel Monster's is gonna be in the future maybe this could be valuable down the line?....Whatever I've done enough thinking! Now to savor this new pack smell.'

Opening the box reveals only 4 packs with a praying woman on each one. The woman is blonde with a green head piece in blue robes, she's in a praying position towards a beaten up warrior in old and worn armor.

'I...Don't recognize either of these monsters...The man is kinda familiar, probably some older warrior monster in the tag force games or something, but I don't know the woman at all..'

Slowly opening the pack I peel back the plastic and flip the cards around and begin opening the first pack.

Pack #1-Emissary Of The Oasis, Sealmaster Meisei, Oscillo Hero, Wattkid, M-Warrior #1

After opening the first pack I noticed that these packs only contained 5 cards in them compared to "Duel Monsters- Story Of The Red Desert" which had 12 cards in them.

'That's weird? Both of these are core sets right? I guess Industrial Illusions does it way differently than Konami..Though the quality of these cards are much better. Sealmaster Meisei and Oscillo Hero are much better than most of the other cards I've got. Maybe the less cards that are in a pack the better the cards are?'

Continuing on I set those cards down and slightly organize them first into Type and Subtype, then into power range and finally into effects as unlike before I obtained a monster card with an effect being Emissary Of The Oasis.

'I hope I get some spell cards..The only thing I got out of the red dessert pack was medicine cards..Either way I should hurry this up..' Opening the next pack I'm pleasantly surprised.

Pack #2-Mysterious Guard, Skull Stalker, Unknown Warrior Of Fiend, Kanan The Swordmistress, Magic Art-Spell Shield

'More cards that changed..Great...Though Mysterious Guard is amazing..' Looking over the cards I find even more changes other than the completely different Spell Shield Type-8. The monster Kana The Swordmistress is also different with it being classified as an Amazoness.

'And I'm probably right on this number of card theory. Kana The Swordmistress has to be one of the strongest cards available right now, it's probably the most valueable card I own cosidering it's apart of a archetype even though its stats are weaker than Worm Drake. Or maybe Wanderer Of The Red Desert is my most valueable card? It is as strong as a Red Eyes..'

Organizing these cards I crack open my next pack.

Pack #3-Water Magician, The A. Forces, Rapid-Fire Magician, Waterdragon Fairy, Dark Titan Of Terror

'Not bad! I finally got a usable spell card! What a damn second...Why is it called a magic card? I guess it makes sense since Magic The Gathering doesn't exist so there would be no reason to change it to spell cards.'

Opening my cheap deck box I take out my experimental deck and lay out my cards and start to organize them by Key Words, Type, Monster Type, Subtype, Attribute, and Level. While doing that I quickly open up the last pack and lay those cards in the same way.

Pack #4-Magical Mallet, Double Attack, Double Spell, Mataza The Zapper, Mystic Swordsman LV2.

'Well I guess I got what I asked for, more spell cards. These ones kinda of suck, especially Double Attack. Discard a high level monster to make a lower level one attack twice? It may be useful later but with how the rules are now high level monsters are way too valuable.'

Setting those cards down I get a rough idea of what my usable cards are. 'I guess it's time to rebuild my deck now..Well my first deck wasn't really a deck I just threw in the best cards I had at the moment. I guess I'm doing the same thing here but it feels different, I feel like I've actually made some progress in this life. I've made a connection with one of the future strongest families/corporation in the world, I've got somewhere to sleep that isn't a random alleyway and I've got a bunch of people I can take money from! It could've been much worse. Maybe if I get famous I can use this as a rags to riches story? That'd be great publicity whenever this world gets the internet up fully.'

Getting back on topic I set my cards down and start throwing them together putting together a functional but a hodgepodge of a deck.

[Deck Profile!]

{Monsters (28)}

Wanderer Of The Red Desert, Beautiful Beast Trainer, Lady Warrioress Of The Red Desert, Beautiful Headhuntress, Rapid-Fire Magician, Worm Drake, Kanan The Swordmistress, Water Magician, Dark Titan Of Terror, Amazon Of The Seas, Mataza The Zapper, Oscillo Hero, Water dragon Fairy, Sealmaster Meisei, Wattkid, Unknown Warrior Of Fiend, Armored Rat, Nightmare Scorpion, Living Vase, Doron, Fiend Scorpion, Burglar, Arlownay, Dark Gray, Mysterious Guard, Mystic Swordsman LV2, Man-eating Plant, Armail, Tomozaurus, Steel Scorpion x2.

{Spells (8)}

Rush Recklessly, Magical Mallet, Double Spell, Double Attack, The A. Forces, Blue Medicine x3.

{Traps (1)}

Magic Art-Spell Shield.

'There's such a power gap from this set compared to the other one..I hope the game doesn't keep progressing like this if it keeps going like this Yugi might end up with a full dark magician deck by the end of Battle City...Though this probably good enough to get me through duelist kingdom as long as the game doesn't progress too much.'

Grabbing the rest of my cards I put them in a separate compartment in my deck box before making my way out of the back room, leaving the store with a slight wave over to Meiko.

Sighing I slowly make my way back towards the way I came. 'What now? I don't know what to do...I've been preparing for the future so far but this world seems very different from the Yu-Gi-Oh I know...Firstly cards are changed to be different with different Keywords that could set up for Archetypes than there is a random man going around giving out cards? That just seems like the perfect set up for Pegasus to suck my soul out of my body... Now that I think about it, maybe I shouldn't use these cards...'

Stopping at an intersection I pull back out my cards and start absentmindedly rummaging through them. 'I hope Pegasus can't see through these things..Though what reason would he have to look through them even if he could? There's way too many cards for one guy to look through them all! Plus he'd only see a like 6 year old. It'll probably be fine, just no talking into the cards I guess. Though what if one of them is a spirit?!'

Being relatively close to pulling out my hair I shake my head and continue moving, working my way down the street with only a few glances in my direction as a 6 year old in a clearly oversized coat and relatively dirty shoes and jeans is decently suspicious.

'And what about school? I can speak at least a little bit but reading? Writing? I don't want to be considered illiterate for the entire time I'm in Japan and to face it I'll probably stay in Japan since this is where most of the plot points happen. Not only that but I'm probably gonna have to learn Egyptian or whatever ancient language they speak to control the Egyptian Gods..But how does an orphan enroll into a school?? Do I even have a birth certificate?'

While I'm worrying over the legitimacy of my own existence under Japan's laws I do end up reaching the little tucked away room in the alleyway. Entering it with a key expertly hidden beneath a mat that's been ripped in half.

'Maybe I'll have to find an orphanage or something? They could probably arrange something like a birth certificate or at least some way to go to school..' Entering the room brings a familiar silence as the teens who were here and hour ago have left presumably for high school.

As I start to get comfortable I sit at the small couch turn on the 21 inch Box TV though before I can even change the channel or decide what to watch, a set of knocks come from the door.

'Ah. I forgot to put back the key..' Opening the door momentarily forgetting that I'm a 6 year old that can be easily kidnapped, I open the door to someone unexpected or rather two unexpected guests.

"Whose this geezer!" "Do you know this brat?"

A small boy with aqua colored hair and a larger than average man with intimidating dark blue eyes both look at me with agitated faces. "Noah? Hara? Why are the both of you here? And how'd you both get here?"

Hara opens their mouth first only to be elbowed in the side by the short boy and they clutch their side and Noah starts to speak. "I'm here to take you out of this place! I know you didn't want to go with me back to Domino City. But! You shouldn't have to live in a place like this! I'll save you from these evil people that hold you here!"

Noah holds his head out high and avoids my second question completely while Hara recovers from the sneak attack. "I got told to come here since Meiko saw you coming here with a couple of high schoolers and I'm here since..Well, er...I don't know how to say this to you but..Meiko and I wanted to adopt you...More specifically I'd adopt you and she'd help me out."

Both Noah and I blink and have entirely different reactions. As Noah just throws a thumb out at Hara while slightly shaking his head no while I make that funniest decision I could make in that moment. "So...Hara and Meiko are my mom and dad? Are you two married?"

In that moment a flash of red goes over the 6ft tall man's face as he shakes his head and starts talking at a speed my lower level of Japanese can't understand. 'Heh. Worth it. who knew he could become a tomato in record time.'

Looking over to Noah he just looks disgusted at the prospect of marriage (Like most young boys.).