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Duel Deck

Card 41: A Thousand Loves and a Broken Heart

One Saturday morning, Mokuba watched his brother worried. Seto had been sitting in front of the computer all morning without resting. He watched the computer and typed as if he was hypnotized by the light of the screen. He had been like this for several weeks now, but it was getting worse. 'If this goes on he will always be obsessed with work and when he's older he'll be a grumpy old man,' the young Kaiba started thinking about his poor brother's lonely future. 'Poor Seto he will die without a single date. I can't let this happen, I shall find the perfect woman for him.' So it was decided, Mokuba was now the official matchmaker.

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That afternoon, the young Kaiba went in search of all the girls he knew around his brother's age. The first one he saw was Tea Gardner, dancing on a DDR pad at the arcade. When she was done dancing he went to talk to her, "hi Tea!"

"Hi Mokuba! What are you doing over here, playing video games?" Tea smiled cheerfully.

'Téa is really friendly, I'm sure my brother will love her,' Mokuba thought. 'They'll fall in love, they'll get married and I'll be an uncle!' Mokuba smiled thinking about how much fun it would be playing with his many nieces and nephews. "Actually I was looking for you. Seto asked me to ask you something. You see, Seto has been secretly in love with you for some time now, but he's really shy around girls so he asked me to talk to you. Tomorrow we're going on a picnic in the park, I'll be there for a while to give him moral support and then I'll go to Yugi's and leave you two alone for your date," Mokuba smiled innocently.

Tea was completely surprised; she truly didn't know what to say. "Mokuba, I'm sorry but all I really want is to be his friend, okay?"

Mokuba gave her the sad chibi look. "Don't you like my brother? He's smart and handsome and has money, what more can a girl want?"

"I do like him, I just don't like him that way, please try to understand, but I can still be his friend," Tea smiled, trying to lighten the mood.

Mokuba sighed, "It's okay Tea, I understand." So the young Kaiba went in search of another candidate.

Tea watching Mokuba walk away. She had an odd feeling like guilt or pity. 'Maybe Kaiba deserves a chance; I shall teach him about friendship!'

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The next girl Mokuba saw was Mai Valentine at a jewelry store at the mall, "hi Mai!"

"Hey Mokuba, what are you doing over here?" She really didn't expect to find Mokuba there.

'Mai is really pretty, I'm sure my brother will love her,' Mokuba thought. 'They'll fall in love, they'll get married and I'll be an uncle!' Mokuba smiled thinking about how much fun it would be playing with his many nieces and nephews. 'Here we go, take two!' "Actually, I was looking for you. Seto asked me to ask you something. You see, Seto has been secretly in love with you for some time now, but he's really shy around girls so he asked me to talk to you. Tomorrow we're going on a picnic in the park, I'll be there for a while to give him moral support and then I'll go to Yugi's and leave you two alone for your date," Mokuba smiled innocently again.

Mai was also very surprised. She knew a lot of men were in love with her, but she never thought Kaiba liked her that way too. Furthermore, she was in love with Joey, even if she hasn't told him yet. "Mokuba, I can't. I just don't feel that way, sorry kiddo."

Mokuba gave her the sad chibi look. "Don't you like my brother? He's smart and handsome and has money, what more can a girl want?"

'He does have a point, but I'm not the old jewelry obsessed Mai anymore, now I'm the new Joey obsessed Mai... Did I just think that?' "Mokuba, sweetie, it just doesn't work that way, but we could just be friends, okay?" Mai tried to sound supportive.

Mokuba sighed in defeat once again. "It's okay Mai, I understand," Mokuba left again to continue his search for another candidate.

Mai watched Mokuba walk away. She had an odd feeling like guilt or pity. 'Maybe Kaiba deserves a chance; I could at least make Joey jealous.'

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Continuing his search, Mokuba visited the Ishtar museum, where he found Ishizu Ishtar, "hi Ishizu!"

"Hello Mokuba, have you come to see the Egyptian artifact exhibition?" Ishizu asked.

'Ishizu is really cool, I'm sure my brother will love her,' Mokuba thought. ,They'll fall in love, they'll get married and I'll be an uncle!, Mokuba smiled thinking about how much fun it would be playing with his many nieces and nephews. 'Here we go, third one's the charm!' "Actually, I was looking for you. Seto asked me to ask you something. You see, Seto has been secretly in love with you for some time now, but he's really shy around girls so he asked me to talk to you. Tomorrow we're going on a picnic in the park, I'll be there for a while to give him moral support and then I'll go to Yugi's and leave you two alone for your date," Mokuba smiled innocently again.

"Oh, dear..." Ishizu certainly didn't expect something like this. "Mokuba, I'm afraid it wouldn't work out, your brother is destined to-"

Mokuba didn't let her finish and gave her the sad chibi look. "Don't you like my brother? He's smart and handsome and has money, what more can a girl want?"

Ishizu shook her head, "I'm sorry, our destinies are not with each other."

Failed again, "It's okay Ishizu, I understand," Mokuba left the museum to search for another girl.

Ishizu watched Mokuba walk away. She had an odd feeling like guilt or pity. 'Maybe Kaiba deserves a chance, I shall teach him to accept his destiny!'

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The next girl Mokuba found was Serenity Wheeler, who was at an ice-cream shop. They had a large buffet with many flavors of ice-cream. Joey was eating every ice-cream he could get his hands on at the buffet, while Serenity sat at a table in the corner furthest away from the buffet, eating her vanilla ice-cream and pretending she didn't know the blond bottomless pit. Mokuba went to get some ice-cream, then headed for Serenity's table. "Hi Serenity, can I sit with you?"

"Hi Mokuba, of course you can. Came to try the ice-cream buffet?" Serenity smiled.

'Serenity is really nice, I'm sure my brother will love her,' Mokuba thought. 'They'll fall in love, they'll get married and I'll be an uncle!' Mokuba smiled thinking about how much fun it would be playing with his many nieces and nephews. 'I have keep trying!' "Actually, I was looking for you. Seto asked me to ask you something. You see, Seto has been secretly in love with you for some time now, but he's really shy around girls so he asked me to talk to you. Tomorrow we're going on a picnic in the park, I'll be there for a while to give him moral support and then I'll go to Yugi's and leave you two alone for your date," Mokuba smiled innocently once again.

Serenity was also taken by surprise. "Kaiba doesn't seem to get a long with Joey very well."

Mokuba gave her the sad chibi look. "Don't you like my brother? He's smart and handsome and has money, what more can a girl want?"

Serenity tried to explain things, she didn't want to sound mean, but she was really concerned about what Joey would think. "I just don't want to upset Joey and ruin any chances they might have of becoming friends."

"It's okay Serenity, I understand," Mokuba was disappointed. Four girls and they all said no. 'This is a lot harder than I thought,' he finished his chocolate ice-cream and left.

Serenity watched Mokuba walk away, passing Joey who was being dragged away from the ice-cream buffet. She had an odd feeling like guilt or pity. 'Maybe Kaiba deserves a chance; I shall make him friends with Joey!'

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Continuing his search, Mokuba spotted Vivian Wong window shopping at a clothing store, "hi Vivian!"

"Hello Mokuba, how's your brother by the way?" She asked with a fan girlish squeal.

'Vivian is really um... fan girlish, I'm sure my brother will love her, or at least she'll love him,' Mokuba thought. 'They'll fall in love, they'll get married and I'll be an uncle!' Mokuba smiled thinking about how much fun it would be playing with his many nieces and nephews. 'Please say yes.' "Actually, I was looking for you. Seto asked me to ask you something. You see, Seto has been secretly in love with you for some time now, but he's really shy around girls so he asked me to talk to you. Tomorrow we're going on a picnic in the park, I'll be there for a while to give him moral support and then I'll go to Yugi's and leave you two alone for your date," Mokuba smiled innocently once again, this was really getting old.

"But Mokuba, I still haven't decided if I like Yugi or Seto best. Besides, all I really want is to duel by their side; we'll be the strongest team!" Vivian got all starry eyed.

Mokuba gave her the sad chibi look yet again. "Don't you like my brother? He's smart and handsome and has money, what more can a girl want?"

"Aw, I'm sorry, I just can't choose between them and if I'm the girlfriend of one of them, I can't be the fan girl of the other," Vivian explained.

'I'll never get him a date,' Mokuba thought. "It's okay Vivian, I understand," so the young Kaiba left again.

Vivian watched Mokuba walk away. She had an odd feeling like guilt or pity. 'Maybe he deserves a chance; if I date Seto, maybe I'll get Yugi's attention, then I can date both of them and be both their fan girl!'

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Mokuba continued his search, he wasn't going to give up yet, but he was getting desperate. That's when he spotted Rebecca's trailer parked ahead. "Rebecca!" He called until she came out. 'Rebecca is really smart, I'm sure my brother will love her,' Mokuba thought. 'They'll fall in love, they'll get married and I'll be an uncle!' Mokuba smiled thinking about how much fun it would be playing with his many nieces and nephews. 'Ok so maybe she's a little too young and I won't be an uncle for a while, but I need find a girl who's willing to date Seto, anyone will do.' "Actually, I was looking for you. Seto asked me to ask you something. You see, Seto has been secretly in love with you for some time now, but he's really shy around girls so he asked me to talk to you. Tomorrow we're going on a picnic in the park, I'll be there for a while to give him moral support and then I'll go to Yugi's and leave you two alone for your date," Mokuba smiled innocently once again.

Rebecca blinked, "but Kaiba's too old for me."

Mokuba gave her the sad chibi look which was getting very, very old. "Don't you like my brother? He's smart and handsome and has money, what more can a girl want?"

"True, but he's also too old for me," she repeated.

"Didn't you like Yugi? They're the same age," Mokuba argued.

"Actually, I used to like older guys because I thought they were more mature, but then I realized guys are immature anyway so I might as well stick with the young ones. By the way, what are you doing tomorrow, Mokuba?" Rebecca winked.

"I have to go now, bye!" Mokuba ran away without looking back.

Rebecca watched Mokuba run like mad. 'She had an odd feeling like guilt or pity. 'Maybe Kaiba deserves a chance; I shall win Mokuba's heart by sibling rivalry!'

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As he ran for his life, Mokuba bumped into a girl. She had short blond hair, brown eyes, too much make up and was wearing a purple dress. "Sorry!" 'This girl is really... well actually, she's really creepy, but I'm desperate.' Mokuba thought. 'They'll fall in love maybe, they'll get married, I hope, and I'll be a monkey's uncle, hopefully not literally.' Mokuba smiled thinking about how much fun it would be playing with the many reject lab experiments, I mean his many nieces and nephews. 'Here goes nothing.' "Actually, I was looking for you," she looked at him strangely because she had no idea who he was. "My brother saw you from afar and asked me to ask you something," Mokuba explained. "You see, Seto has been secretly in love with you for some time now, I mean since he saw you, but he's really shy around girls so he asked me to talk to you. Tomorrow we're going on a picnic in the park, I'll be there for a while to give him moral support and then I'll go to Yugi's, my friend's house, and leave you two alone for your date," Mokuba smiled innocently once again, he was so tired of this.

"Really? That sounds interesting..." She smiled and for a moment Mokuba had hopes that his quest was finally over, but then a tall muscular man arrived. "I heard that kid, where's this brother of yours?"

Mokuba gulped and looked around, hoping to think of a way to get himself out of this without endangering his brother's life. He spotted Duke and Tristan walking down the street talking, or rather arguing, about video games. "There!" Mokuba said pointing at them.

The man walked over to them. "I don't know which one of you is the kid's brother, but I'll beat you both up, just in case!"

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After running away, Mokuba had an odd feeling like guilt or pity. He shook his head and decided to continue his quest anyway. This was for his brother's own good after all. After walking around the city for a little while, he decided to talk to the next girl he saw and soon after this thought crossed his mind, he saw a lime green haired girl. "Hi, what's your name?"

"Squeal! Mokuba!" The girl turned around and Mokuba recognized her. Even if she often changed her hair style and hair color, he could tell who she was. "Squeal! You know who I am, future baby brother, I am Mary Sue! I'm an actress, singer, model, a great cook, funny, nice, pretty, smart, powerful, have the eight millennium item, blah, blah, blah, etc., etc. etc." She went on for what felt like hours, making Mokuba dizzy. "And to summarize, I am over all perfect in every way!" Mary Sue finally finished and then she added with a creepy smile. "How is that adorable big brother of yours doing?"

Mokuba was about to give her the same old speech, but then he realized that even if he was desperate, he wasn't that desperate. True that he said he would talk to the next girl he saw, but maybe it was best to skip the Sue and talk to the next girl he saw after her. "Seto is..." Mokuba thought of a good excuse, but Mary Sue's impatient look wasn't helping. "He's dead!"

Mary Sue let out an exaggerated gasp and screamed "No!" In a high pitched squeaky voice, making poor Mokuba's ears, and everyone else's ears within a ten mile radius of Domino city, start ringing.

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At the Ishtar Museum, the glass covering the Egyptian artifacts in other words the rocks, shattered due to the vibrations from Mary Sue's super sonic scream, one of her many exaggerated magical powers. Ishizu's voice was heard screaming, "Marik! What did you break this time?"

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Back to Mokuba, as soon as he was able to get his body to move, he ran off full speed, even faster than when he ran way from Rebecca and left the crying Mary Sue behind. He decided to hide in a computer store, since he knew that deep down Mary Sue was really stupid and talking to a true computer geek could make her tiny brain over heat and blow up from confusion. He saw a girl staring at a computer; its covers have been removed to display all the pretty circuit boards and cards on the inside. Suppressing the urge to yell out 'Stop staring at the nekkid computer,' he decided to go talk to her, "hi"

"Hi," The girl replied.

'This girl is a computer geek, I'm sure my brother will love her,' Mokuba thought. 'They'll fall in love, they'll get married and I'll be an uncle!' Mokuba smiled thinking about how much fun it would be playing with his many nieces and nephews. 'Last chance!' "Actually, I was looking for you, Seto asked me to ask you something, he saw you and then asked me to ask you something that is. You see, Seto has been secretly in love with you for some time now, I mean since he first saw you, but he's really shy around girls so he asked me to talk to you. Tomorrow we're going on a picnic in the park, I'll be there for a while to give him moral support and then I'll go to Yugi's, a friend's house, and leave you two alone for your date," Mokuba smiled innocently once again. 'If she says no I'll quit.' Hoping to catch her interest he added. "You know my brother, right? Seto Kaiba, the CEO of Kaiba Corp, there's lots of computers there and its very high tech, just like my brother!"

"Okay, I'll go," the girl agreed.

By force of habit Mokuba, gave her the sad chibi look, which was getting very tiresome. "Don't you like my brother? He's smart and handsome and has money, what more can a girl want?"

"I said yes," the girl replied.

Mokuba sighed. "It's okay, I understand," he automatically assumed this girl rejected her brother too. 'I guess girls just don't like my brother,' Mokuba gave up on his quest and decided to return home.

The girl watched Mokuba walk away. She had an odd feeling like confusion mixed with pity, 'weird kid.'

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Even if he wasn't able to find a date for his brother, Mokuba wanted to go on the picnic anyway. So after asking his brother over and over and having Seto tell him he was too busy to go, it was time for plan B.

"We never do anything brotherly together anymore, you don't love me!" Mokuba gave Seto the over used sad chibi eyes, which he has practiced so much that day.

Seto watched Mokuba give him the sad chibi look, which he appeared to have perfected, he wondered since when his little brother got so good at that. He had an odd feeling like guilt or pity, but he decided to ignore it. "I do love you little brother, but I already told you, I'm very busy."

'I guess it's time for plan C,' Mokuba grinned evilly. He took a picture out of his pocket. "Seto, look what I found, favorite big brother of mine," he held up the picture for Seto to look at it.

The CEO's eyes went wide, his jaw almost touching the floor. There he was in the picture as a baby. He thought he burned all his baby pictures, but it looks like he missed one. The small baby in the picture appeared to mock him, threatening to make him die of embarrassment. "Mokuba that's low, give it to me!"

"No! I'll give it to you tomorrow after you're back from the picnic," Mokuba insisted.

"Give it to me!" Seto screamed, jumping on Mokuba. Mokuba quickly jumped out of the way and ran like mad. Seto chased him like a lion chasing his prey, all over the Kaiba Mansion. "Give it to me or else!" The truth was Mokuba had never seen Seto so angry, but he was doing this for his own good.

After more running, Seto had finally managed to corner Mokuba and take the picture from him. "You may have destroyed that one, but I have more!" Mokuba lied.

"Where are they?" Seto yelled.

"I'll tell you after we come back from the picnic," Mokuba grinned evilly.

"You little blackmailing brat, I'll get you for this!" Seto stomped away angrily, he had no choice but to go on that picnic tomorrow, even if he rather stay home and work.

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The next day, Sunday, the day of the picnic, they went to the Domino city park. Mokuba decided to go for a walk around the park, while Seto just sat there waiting until it was time to leave and work again.

Not too far from there, Tea, Mai, Ishizu, Serenity, Vivian and Rebecca were on their way to the park. They saw each other and decided to walk together and of course they talked. By the time they had arrived at the park, the girls had concluded that Seto had asked all of them out at the same time and they weren't happy about it. To top it all up, he even sent his little brother to ask them.

While Mokuba was away, Tea, Mai, Ishizu, Serenity, Vivian and Rebecca arrived. Called Seto every thing from jerk to names I rather not type, slapped him until they knocked him out and walked away angrily.

"Look Bakura," Ryou pointed as they walked by. "Kaiba is taking a nap, you should take one too, it's very relaxing."

"Naps are for babies," the spirit of the Millennium Ring pouted.

Mokuba came back to where he had left Seto and found him unconscious, but thought tat he had simply fallen asleep. After several hours, Seto woke up with a horrible headache from the slaps and screaming and very painful sun burn from being in the sun for too long. He decided not to tell Mokuba about why he was knocked out and let him think that he really was taking a nap.

Mokuba never found out that Tea, Mai, Ishizu, Serenity, Vivian and Rebecca came. The creepy girl in the purple dress went on a date with her boyfriend and forgot all about that kid's brother and the computer geek girl stayed on the internet all day and forgot all about the date.

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Card 42: Stop That Email (JoeyxMai)

Joey Wheeler got home and went straight to the computer. He kicked off his shoes, turned on the computer and waited impatiently for it to load. He tried to connect to the internet, hoping that the modem wouldn't die today, as it had been agonizing for the past few days. After two failed attempts, the modem finally connected and Joey checked his email.

Buried in all the spam was a message from Yugi. Their emails talked about Duel Monsters and the such. Joey answered it as he read so he wouldn't forget to write anything. Finally, at the end of Yugi's message there was a question, a random question that they added to each of their messages to keep the conversation going. "Do you have a crush on anyone? Who and why?"

Without thinking twice Joey answered it. Mushy romantic inspiration came to him and he typed up a detailed love confession all about Mai Valentine. Joey didn't mind sending it, Yugi was his best friend and probably already knew he liked Mai, besides, he wouldn't' tell anyone. Just as Joey was about to hit the send button, his cheap old mouse went crazy and moved on its own, causing him to click on his contact list link.

Joey battled against the rabid cursor, trying to make the mouse respond, accidentally adding Mai's address in the process. His cellphone rang and he answered it, "hello?"

"Hey Joey! I'm going Kaiba Land want to come?" Yugi asked.

"Sure Yug, I'll be right there!" Joey replied, he didn't like Kaiba, but everyone liked Kaiba Land.

After hanging up, Joey quickly hit the send button. The message was sent and the screen displayed a list of the addresses that it was sent to. Joey noticed there were two.

He opened his eyes wide as he realized one of those addresses belonged to Mai Valentine. He panicked, the address must have been added when he was fighting the mouse. There was nothing he could do now since his email didn't have an un-send feature. Joey really didn't want Mai to read that message, she could think he was some creepy stalker guy and never talk to him again. He didn't know what to do, so he did the only thinking he could think of, he ran all the way to Kaiba Land to ask for Yugi's help. He could have just called, but in his state of panic, Joey forgot he even had a cell phone.

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"Yugi! Yugi! Yugi!" Joey yelled as he arrived at Kaiba Land.

"Joey, what is it? How come you don't have any shoes on?" Yugi spotted the panicked Joey and ran over to him.

" Yugi, You have to help me! I'm gonna die if she reads it!" Joey yelled, still in his state of panic.

Yugi looked around and saw many people staring at them. "Calm down, let's go talk outside." Yugi dragged his desperate friend outside, away from most of the people and once at a safe distance, Joey narrated the events that occurred not too long ago. "I'm sorry Joey, maybe I shouldn't have asked you that."

"It's not your fault Yug, but we have to do something! I don't want Mai to think I'm some creepy stalker dude!"

"It's okay, we'll figure something out!" Yugi tried to make Joey calm down. "The first thing we have to do is keep Mai away from her email."

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They both ran to Mai's apartment and rang the doorbell several times. "I'm coming stop picking on my poor doorbell!" Mai opened the door and was a bit surprised to find Yugi and Joey. "Hi?"

Joey and Yugi looked at each other for answers. They had not formulated a plan, due to them being in such a hurry. "We're here to visit!" Yugi finally blurted out.

"Yeah, visit!" Joey agreed.

Mai noticed that they where acting strange, but invited them to come in anyway. "I was just about to read my emails, you guys want something? Something to drink? Cookies?" Joey nodded so quickly that his head nearly fell off. Mai just thought he just had an active appetite and went to get the refreshments.

As soon as Mai was out of the room, Joey ran over to the computer that was turned on in a corner and unplugged it. "Joey why did you do that?" Yugi whispered so Mai wouldn't hear. "So she can't check her email! We'll tell her the electricity failed and the computer was turned off all by itself," Joey proudly explained his master plan.

"She'll just see that it's unplugged!" Yugi plugged the computer again but didn't turn it back on. "Besides, we could have changed her password and locked her out, but now we can't."

Joey stared at Yugi, he was right. The blond hit his head on the wall repeatedly in frustration, his troubles would be over if he had only thought before he acted.

Mai came back from the kitchen with the snacks. "Why is Joey hitting his head on the wall and why did you turn off my computer?"

Joey quickly made up an excuse. "The electricity failed and turned off the computer by itself. I felt sorry for it because that's bad for computers!"

"I thought Kaiba was the only one who thought about computer's feelings," Mai said as she placed snacks on a small table in the middle of the living room. Joey obviously wasn't happy to be compared to Seto Kaiba and his well known obsession with computers and technology. At the mention of the CEO's name Yugi got an idea. "I just remembered there's something I have to do!" Yugi ran off, leaving Joey alone with Mai.

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Yugi arrived at Kaiba Corp. in record breaking time. That's around the time Yami woke up from the nap he had been taking in his soul room and Yugi explained the current situation. After mind crushing Kaiba Corp's security, Yugi and Yami made it to the top floor and ran into Seto's office. "Kaiba... I... need... help..." Yugi was out of breath from all that running.

"How did you get here?" Seto thought about who he would fire over this.

"No time to explain, you have to hack into Mai's email and delete a message Joey send by accident!" Yugi urged.

Seto laughed, causing Yugi to blink in confusion. "What do you really want, Yugi? A duel?" Seto asked.

Yugi realized this wouldn't be easy. "I'm not kidding, I really do want you to hack into Mai's email and delete a message Joey send by accident."

Realizing Yugi was serious, Seto grinned evilly. "Why should I?"

Tired from all the running around, Yugi was in no mood to argue. "Have some mercy this one time and help us out!"

Seto's answer took Yugi by surprise, "I'll see what I can do." As Seto demonstrated his hacking skills, Yugi could not help it but to feel nervous about the entire thing. Why would he agree to help so easily? Soon, Seto was in Mai's email.

"That's the one, delete it!" Yugi recognized the title of the email 'Re: Cards and stuff' but instead of deleting it, Seto opened it and forwarded it before Yugi could stop him. "What did you do?"

"I sent it to my own email, I thank you for this chance to play a very good joke on the mutt." Seto didn't know what was written on the email, but there had to be a reason the mutt didn't want Mai to read it.

"Don't you dare!" Yami took control.

"You can't stop me!" Seto laughed evilly.

"I challenge you to a duel to decide the fate of that email!" Seto accepted Yami's challenge and they had their duel. Yami won and Seto had to delete the email from Mai's inbox. Seto promised to delete it from his own email as well, so Yami returned to the Millennium Puzzle and Yugi returned to Mai's apartment.

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Yugi arrived at Mai's apartment to find that Joey was still there, talking to Mai about a new exercise he learned that had something to do with not wearing shoes. That was his excuse for the lack of shoes.

Yugi stayed for a while, they played duel monsters and even traded a few cards, until the sun began to set and it was time for Joey and Yugi to return to their respective homes. They said their goodbyes to Mai and walked home.

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"So Yug, I take it I'm safe?" Joey asked.

Yugi returned, he smiled and nodded discretely, as if assuring that all was well. "Yeah, I got Kaiba to go to Mai's email and delete it."

"Kaiba helped?!" Joey was in disbelief.

"Yami had to beat him in a duel first," Yugi admitted.

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A week passed uneventfully until one day, Joey was walking home when he heard Mai calling him. "Joey, I read your message!" She handed him a paper where she had printed his message. Joey feared she would proceed to scream his head off and call him everything from creepy to stalker, but instead she smiled. "It was so sweet that you published your email in the Kaiba Corp. website. It must have taken a lot of work to convince Kaiba to let you do it!" Mai hugged the surprised and confused Joey. Seto had actually helped; of course it was by accident, what Seto really wanted was revenge, but it all worked out in the end.

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