Chapter 3: Where Did She Go?

The next day, Yugi lay on his bed, his eyes filled with tears. "How could you let her get away with my puzzle?"
A pang of guilt shot through his friends. Instead of getting it back, they were fighting and teasing. 
"I'm sorry, Yug. I guess I was just looking for a chance to get at Tea." Joey said.
"Don't you think you should say sorry to me, too?" Tea pointed to herself.
Joey glanced at her, shrugged and casually said, "No."
"WHAT??" Tea roared.
"Guys! We're doing it again. Let's try to find a way get Yugi's puzzle back." Tristen said. They all sat down in chairs next to Yugi, thinking. A few minutes later, Tea stood up.
"I got it! She had the same school uniform as us so she must go to our school. All we got to do is find out where Jinoto lives thought the school stats!"
"Hey genius, did you read the paper this morning?" Joey said. He help up a newspaper. On the cover story the heading read: "Teen-aged Girl Steals School Uniform" 
"How do we know it was her?" Tea defended.
Joey wordlessly pointed to the thief's descripition: white ivory hair, sea green eyes, olive complexion. 
"Oh...ahahaha." Tea sat down in defeat.
"Maybe if we put missing signs." Tristen muttered.
"For a thief?" Joey asked.
"No! For Yugi's puzzle. It's rather unique, one-of-a-kind, too so someone must have seen it. Especially since Jinoto is running around with it." 
"Good idea!" Yugi beamed. "Maybe, we'll find it faster than looking for it on our own!"
"YEAH!" they all cheered.

"What's this? Yugi has lost his Millenium Puzzle? Damn. I wanted to take it from him. No wait. Someone has stolen it? They must be powerful. What??? A girl took it from him? A 15-year-old bandit?" Merrik's eyes flew over the newspaper. He paused. Merrik laughed and laughed. He fell off his throne and rolled around most unroyally. 
"Master Merrik? What is wrong?" Odieon rushed to his side. 
Merrik got up and brushed the tears off his cheeks. "A young girl the same age as Yugi stole his millenium puzzle when he was walking half asleep and she offered to help him." Merrik roared with laughter again. "This is the boy who nearly defeated me when I first battled him through Bandit Keith. And he let her run off with it, expecting good come from her!" Merrik grinned evilly. "Yugi is no longer our worries. We have to find this Jinoto girl. She is pure genius and evil. I like that." He snickered. But I will rob her of the item and any others that she steals. Merrik thought.

"Come on, Bakura." Jinoto pulled him along. 
"Okay. I'm here." Bakura smiled sheepishly. 
"If we miss this plane I'm going to use your ears as wings!" Jinoto warned. They ran around the metal detectors. Bakura found a large crate that could fit three people. Jinoto pried it open and the got in. 
"Are you sure this the right one? It has to be one that says TO ENGLAND." Jinoto muttered.
"I'm positive." Bakura whispered.
They heard voices and they stopped talking. 
"Okay this one is going off to Stockholm." A man said. Someone picked the crate up. The crate was loaded on to the back of a plane. Bakura and Jinoto felt the plane's engines roar. They crawled out of the crate. Jinoto heard the flight attendant's voice on the microphone.
"Welcome to Flight-874! We hope you have a great trip to Stockholm..."
"Stockholm? Wait a minute." Jinoto muttered.
"Capital of SWEDEN!!"
"WHAT???" Jinoto loudly mumbled. She turned to Bakura, her angry eyes ablaze. "Sweden?" she growled.
"I thought Stockholm was in England! Honest!" Bakura said.
"You THOUGHT?" Jinoto whispered furiously. 
The plane lurched to the side. Bakura flew to one of the walls, landing on his back. Jinoto fell in the same direction and landed face-first into Bakura's chest. "Oww." Jinoto whispered. She gently touched her head and moved away from him.
"You can lie where you was if you want." Bakura mumbled.
Jinoto plopped her head gently on his chest. "Good. It cushioned my fall." Her eyelids drooped and she fell asleep. Bakura looked at her and smiled.

On Monday, a few of Yugi's classmates came by around his desk a little after school was over. 
"She stole your necklace thingy? That's stupid." one girl said.
"Hey, maybe it's important to him." a guy defended.
"Must fetch a high price." someone said.
Yugi got a frighting thought. "What if Jinoto sold it?" He asked Tea.
"Jinoto? That's the girl who took it?" a boy with blond hair asked. It was Haruyo. 
"Tell us Haruyo." Tristen said.
"Well, I heard that she and some guy from our class jumped a plane that took them to Sweden. They looking for these things called the Millenium Items." Haruyo said. 
"WHAT?" Yugi jumped from his seat so fast it flew backwards. "Tea! Do you know who was absent today?!"
"Um, Bakura, Duke, and that bubbly girl with the glasses." she answered.
"Well it can't be a girl and Bakura is our friend so it must have been Duke!" Tristen said.
"What would Duke want with them, anyways?" Tea asked.
"We don't know! But it's gotta be him!" Joey shouted with confidence. "It's probably just what is sinister mind would think."
"You're just jealous cuz you're a loser!" one of Duke's cheerleaders said.
"Jealous??"
"Yup!" The three cheerleaders said. "LOSER! LOSER! LOSER!" 
"Hey shouldn't you be with Duke in the first place?" Yugi asked quietly.
"Well, if you must know, Duke is out sick because of a horrible allergic reaction to some food he ate on Sunday." One girl cheerleader said.
"Oh really?" Joey said. The friends gathered their stuff and ran off to Duke's game store. When they ran upstairs to his room, a thin guy with glasses was guarding the door.
"Mister Duke asked not to be disturbed." he said.
"Shut up!" Joey knocked the guy out of the way. "This is important." They all ran inside. Lying in the bed was Duke. He was sleeping and his face was red and his cheeks were slightly swollen. Tristen and Joey held the noses to keep from laughing. "He looks...like a clown." Joey snickered.
"A big stupid clown." Tristen giggled.
Tea looked at him. "He looks so peaceful when he's asleep."
"An evil, stupid clown." Joey mumbled. The two couldn't hold it any longer. They burst into hysterical laughter. Duke's eyes flew open. Tea fell down backwards from the sudden movement. Duke glared at everyone.
"What the heck are you all doing in my room??" he asked angerily.
"Why did you steal Yugi's necklace?" Joey said back.
"What?" Duke looked at Yugi. His puzzle was gone. "What do I have to with that?" 
"You and Jinoto went to Sweden and sold his puzzle to some old guy didn't you??" Tristen yelled.
"I WHAT?" Duke shouted.
"You guys, stop!" Yugi said. "He obivously doesn't know Jinoto or any of this." He turned to Duke, his face downwardly sinking. "Do you?"
Duke felt almost sorry for Yugi. Whatever happened it must have been really bad. Duke thought.
"Come on, let's go home." Yugi took his backpack and walked out of the room. Everyone followed him. Joey slipped Duke a middle finger and mouthed out the words "I hate you."

Jina-chan: Well, I think that was a good ending for Chapter 3. Thanks to Bakura's poor geographic skills, him and me are stuck in Stockholm, Sweden for the time being.
Bakura: I said I was sorry!
Jina-chan: It's sad how a loveable guy is evil. Pity. Pity, pity.