Hey everyone! Thanks for the reviews! I'm glad you guys are liking it so far.

Okay, just so everyone is aware, I got really bored and was on the computer and just decided to write a chapter of Taken Heart. Don't ask me why. I just did so be happy. : )

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. If I did, spiritshipping would not be a dream, it would be reality!

Claimer: I own my characters, this plot, the title, and anything else I decide to throw in!

xXx

Jesse walked into Chazz's room, instantly noticing that the carefree brunette named Jaden wasn't in the room. Jesse looked at Syrus.

"Where's Jay?" Jesse asked. Syrus pointed up at an angle, toward Jaden's room.

"He went back to his dorm. He said he was tired." Syrus answered. Jesse looked in the direction of Jaden's room, then at his watch.

It was only four in the afternoon. Jesse knew Jaden liked to sleep. Hell! He practically slept through his entire school day but still, four in the afternoon was a little early for bed.

"Where's Akaria?" Jim asked. Jesse looked at him.

"She went to my room. She's going to bed." Jesse answered. Jesse walked casually over to Jim and sat down next to him. He crossed his legs and folded his arms across his chest.

"Why is everyone suddenly sleepy?" Hassleberry asked. Jesse shook his head at Hassleberry.

"You gotta think Hassleberry, Akaria is still on American time." Jesse said. Hassleberry nodded.

"Right." He said. Alexis looked at Jesse.

"What was up with that 'catch me if you can' stuff?" Alexis asked. Jesse looked at her confused for a moment before remembering that he and Akaria ran away, chasing each other. Jesse shrugged.

"Just a little game we play when one of us gets on the others nerves." Jesse answered. Jesse then stood up. Aster looked at him.

"Going somewhere?" Aster asked. Jesse nodded as he headed for the door.

"Where are you going then?" Blair asked. Jesse's hand rested on the handle of the door. He looked over his shoulder at Blair.

"I'm gonna go talk to Jay." Jesse said. He opened the door and left before anyone could say anything else.

xXx

Everyone looked at each other as they heard Jesse's retreating footsteps.

"Okay, I still can't tell if he's dating Akaria!" Chazz yelled at a low level.

"I don't think the sneaky approach to this is going to work." Axel said. Everyone looked at him.

"Well, do you have any other ideas?" Alexis asked. Axel looked at her.

"We need to just ask them. It would be much better than trying to decipher their body language." Axel said. Adrian looked at him.

"I thought you could decipher their body language with ease? Isn't that would you said?" Adrian asked, looking at Axel closely. Axel shook his head.

"I can easily decipher many peoples body language but it's as if both Akaria and Jesse instinctively shift their body language so it doesn't match their thoughts or their words." Axel said.

"Is that even possible?" Syrus asked. Axel nodded.

"Yes, but it takes years of discipline and training to master it to the level Jesse and Akaria do it. And they're doing it without even thinking about it. That takes even more extreme measures of training." Axel said. Aster stared at him wide eyed.

"So, you're saying that Jesse and Akaria have trained for years just to master the ability to hide what they are really saying or thinking with their body language?" Aster asked. Axel nodded. Aster shook his head.

"What do we really know about Jesse?" Chazz asked everyone. Everyone thought a moment. They knew he was the top student at North Academy, he was from somewhere in the south of the United States, he won his deck in a tournament hosted by Maxamillion Pegasus, and…that's about it.

"We really don't know much about him, do we?" Alexis asked. Everyone shook their heads.

"What was Jesse's life like before we met him?" Jim asked. Everyone looked at the door where the subject of their conversation was previously standing.

xXx

Jesse knocked gently on Jaden's door, hoping the brunette hadn't gone to sleep yet. He heard some shuffling and the door opened. Jaden stood there, his jacket tossed carelessly on his bunk. Jesse noted that Jaden seemed shocked to see him.

"Jesse, what are you doing here?" Jaden asked. Jesse frowned at Jaden. He was a little hurt that his best friend would ask such a question.

"I'm here to hang with you of course." Jesse said walking past Jaden and sitting down on the vacant desk chair. Jaden closed the door and walked over to his bunk, sitting down on it. "Why would you ask such a question?" Jesse asked. Jaden shrugged.

"I just figured you'd be showing Akaria the Academy." Jaden said, looking away from Jesse. Jesse cocked his head to the side lightly.

"Akaria knows the campus Jay. She's been here before." Jesse said. Jaden nodded.

"Yeah, when we were in the dimension. I forgot." Jaden said. Jesse nodded, tossing that conversation out of his mind.

Truth is, Jaden was lying. He knew Akaria already knew the campus but he didn't want to tell Jesse what he really thought he was doing with Akaria.

'I thought you'd be making out with your secret girlfriend.'

Jaden sighed and looked at Jesse, who was absentmindedly flipping through some magazine that was on the desk.

"How long have you known Akaria?" Jaden asked. Jesse shrugged while reading an article about toilet paper and how it's bad for the environment.

(A/N: I totally made that up by the way.)

"All my life I suppose." Jesse said, not taking the question into deep thought. He figured Jaden was just curious about Akaria, like everyone else. He didn't know that all of his friends were just secretly interrogating him to see if they were dating.

"Oh, that's nice." Jaden said, looking out the window again.

How can I compete for Jesse's heart with someone he's known all his life? Jaden thought miserably. Jesse looked up and instantly noticed that change in his friend's demeanor. Jesse set the magazine down and looked at Jaden closely.

"Jaden? Are you alright?" Jesse asked. Jaden looked at Jesse, a fake smile on his face. Jesse noticed instantly.

"Fine Jess." Jaden lied. Jesse narrowed his eyes at Jaden, in a thinking manner of course. Jesse took mental notes that Jaden's body language was telling him he was lying and that he was sad and worried. His eyes told him that he was afraid and sad. The way his hands fiddled with the edge of his blanket told Jesse he was nervous. Jesse sighed, linking all of these causes to Akaria.

"Jay, you don't have to worry about Akaria." Jesse said. Jaden snapped his head up and looked at Jesse.

Jesse couldn't have possibly figured out that I was afraid Akaria stole him from me, could he? Jaden wondered in fear. Jesse smirked, because he thought he figured out why Jaden was worried about Akaria.

But he was dead wrong.

"Just because my life time friend is visiting doesn't mean I'll be hanging out with her twenty four, seven." Jesse said. He then chuckled, not noticing the hurt that instantly appeared in Jaden's eyes. Jesse saw the relief that filled Jaden's body language though. Not once did he look into his eyes.

"You can only take so much Akaria." Jesse said. Jaden smiled meekly at Jesse. Jesse then waved his hand in the air.

"Well, now that that's out of the way, let's talk about something other than Akaria." Jesse looked at Jaden. "Honestly, that's all anyone has been asking me ever since she got her. If I didn't know any better, I'd think you guys were interrogating me or something." Jesse said, laughing. Jaden laughed with him, but not because why Jesse was. He was laughing because that is exactly what they were doing.

Suddenly, Ruby and Winged Kuriboh appeared on the shoulders of their masters. Jesse stroked Ruby's cheek gently as Jaden scratched Winged Kuriboh on the head.

"Hey you guys, what's going on?" Jesse asked. Jaden looked at Jesse.

"Hey Jesse?" Jaden said. Jesse looked at him.

"Yeah Jay?" Jesse asked. Jaden pulled his deck out of his deck box and held it up.

"Wanna duel?" Jaden asked. Jesse smirked and nodded, pulling his own deck out. They slid to the floor and proceeded to set up their field, the old fashioned way. Little did these two know that outside Jaden's window, a ninja like shadow stooped, watching them.

xXx

"What cha doing up there Shelia?" Jim asked the shadowy figure. The figure eeped and fell from the tree, right into Jim's open arms.

It was Akaria.

She looked up at Jim

"Why didn't I hear you?" She asked. Jim shrugged.

"I think you were a little to pre-occupied with spying on Jesse and Jaden." Jim said, setting Akaria back down on her feet. He then looked at her closely. "Besides, Jesse said you were going to bed." Jim said. Akaria scratched the back of her head nervously.

"Um, well, I was but then I, uh…" Akaria stumbled over her words. Jim chuckled.

"Just tell me why you were spying on Jesse." Jim said, pulling Akaria by the hand away from the tree that she just fell out of. Akaria sighed.

"Fine, but you gotta promise not to tell Jesse anything!" Akaria hissed, poking Jim forcefully in the side. He chuckled. Shirley growled at Akaria who simply looked at her curiously.

"Cute." Akaria said, and then she turned to gaze back to Jim. Jim looked down at Akaria.

She wasn't frightened by Shirley? Jim thought. Even Jesse was afraid of Shirley at first. What are you Akaria? Jim thought.

"Hello! Earth to Jim!" Akaria said, waving her hand in front of Jim's face. Jim smirked.

"I promise Shelia." Jim said. Akaria looked at him closely.

Well, if he's lying, I could just kill him. Akaria thought with a shrug.

"Now, what were you doing?" Jim said. Akaria sighed and looked ahead.

"I was spying on Jesse to see if I could figure out who he likes." Akaria said. Jim looked at her curiously. He wondered why she was going through so much trouble to find out something so obvious.

"Can I not tell Jesse because he'll get mad and tell you to drop it?" Jim guessed Akaria smiled at him.

"Well, that's half the reason." She said. Jim cocked on eyebrow. Akaria giggled. "Well, I already gave Jesse my word that I'd stay out of his love life." Akaria said.

"Well, if you gave your word, why are you doing it anyway?" Jim asked. Akaria made a face at no one.

"I just don't like knowing there is something going on around me and I have no clue what it is!" Akaria yelled. Jim chuckled and ruffled Akaria's hair like she was a child. Akaria looked at him.

"Did you figure it out?" Jim asked. Akaria smirked.

"I have a pretty good guess." Akaria said. Jim smirked.

"Well, coming from one of Jesse's closest mates here, I feel that it's my responsibility to tell you that if you even look at Jesse and his crush for even a moment, you'd figure it out." Jim said. Akaria pointed her index finger at Jim.

"Ha! So it is Jaden!" She exclaimed. Jim laughed a hearty laugh and nodded.

"Yes my dear Akaria, it is indeed Jaden." Jim said, smiling. Akaria blushed lightly at the little 'my dear'. Jim then took Akaria by the hand and lead her toward the boy's Obelisk Blue Dorm. "Now, again as Jesse's friend, allow me to show you the way to Jesse's room." Jim said. Akaria made a face at Jim.

"In other words, you're taking me to Jesse's room to make sure I don't spy on Jesse and Jaden any more." Akaria said. Jim laughed.

"Exactly."

xXx

In the dark shadows of the Slifer dorm, a set of eyes, one orange and the other blue, appear. The eyes were burning with rage and fury.

"Jaden Yuki…you will be mine." A feminine voice purred. "And you Jesse Andersen will pay!" The voice, once seductively purring was now icy and angry. Then, just as quickly as the eyes appeared in the darkness, they vanished, leaving only an eerie aura around where the figure stood.

This aura will go unnoticed by normal humans but one human, one person, will feel this aura. And everything that Duel Academy has faced its last three years will seem like a cake walk. Everything every student has learned, everything they have faced, it all has been preparing them for this moment.

In this moment, the pieces to a dark and sinister puzzle are falling into place.

xXx

Okay, I hope you guys liked it. Again, I just got really bored and decided to write another chapter for Taken Heart.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed! Don't forget to review!

-x-Anime-Queen-2011-x-