Yu - Gi - Oh ! First Series - Episode 009 Summary . The gang is concerned and confused when they see Jonouchi with a gang wielding yo - yos as weapons . Has he turned his back on his friends ? Note : When Hirutani ' s thugs miss in throwing their yo - yos at Dark Yugi , his eyes are pale purple instead of the usual red . A man in a suit is running by an alley chased by a gang . The gang then attacks him with yo - yos . Domino High School . Jonouchi is showing off his new yo - yo and proceeds to do some tricks . When Anzu is not impressed with his sleeper and walk the dog , Jonouchi performs an out of control loop to loop . Honda comes in and tells Jonouchi not to play with toys in school , and Jonouchi responds by calling Honda an old man . Miho then says she wants to play too , and Honda says that it ' s too dangerous . Anzu then tells everyone about a gang who attacks people with yo - yos and takes their money . The gang has been attacking students at school and Yugi says that yo - yos aren ' t weapons . Jonouchi says that he will punish the gang for what they ' ve done . At home Yugi hopes that Jonouchi is ok fighting the gang . The next day . At School . Jonouchi is absent from school and the gang remarks about how good Jonouchi ' s health is . Yugi wonders what happened with the gang yesterday . Him and the gang go to Jonouchi ' s house after school to see what ' s going on but it appears no one is at home . Miho opens the door and a drunk man throws a bottle at them . Honda says that the drunkard was actually Jonouchi ' s father which is why Joey doesn ' t invite his friends to his house . Honda asks where Jonouchi could actually be . Jonouchi and the gang . Yugi and his friends looks around town for Jonouchi and can ' t find him anywhere . They see the yo - yo gang stealing someone ' s money and are surprised to see Jonouchi with them . Honda also see Hirutani a guy Jonouchi hung out with in middle school . Hirutani tells Jonouchi he should have came to Rinotama instead of Domino High School . Yugi tells Joey to come back and a gang member sick of Yugi punches Yugi hard in the face . Everyone is worried about Yugi and Yugi tells Jonouchi once again to come back . At the park . After Yugi heals a little Honda tells them about Hirutani and what he and Jonouchi did in middle school . Yugi remarks that he has Jonouchi as a friend because of the Millenium Puzzle . He remembers the first day he and Jonouchi became friends and what happened that day . Yugi thinks that Jonouchi hasn ' t changed but Honda says that Jonouchi is an idiot and that he ' s done with Jonouchi . Gang fight . Another gang comes to fight with Rintama ' s gang . Jonouchi says that a fight should be only with fists . Hirutani ' s gang abandons Jonouchi and Yugi ' s friends and him who are secretly watching wonder whether to help . Honda later comes up and tells them about a tournament he and Jonouchi were in . They were in last but Honda ' s quick running and Jonouchi ' s skill paid off . They got first place and became friends . The band Honda was wearing then was a mark of their friendship . Honda says he will use it to make Jonouchi open his eyes . Jonouchi then beats up every member of the other gang and Hirutani says Jonouchi ' s skills haven ' t gotten any worse . At J ' z . Yugi and friends go to J ' z where the storekeeper tellls them about Rintama ' s warehouse base and how a Domino student was tricked into joining their gang . Yugi and friends all know it is Jonouchi , and that it wasn ' t his fault that he joined the gang . Rintama . Yo - yo gang ' s warehouse . Yugi and friends meet up with the Rintama gang at their warehouse where Yugi tells Jonouchi he was tricked in to joining the gang . Jonouchi tells Yugi that he joined the gang to do what he wants without any rules all of his own free will . Honda shows him the band which Jonouchi steps on and punches Honda . Rintama School . The gang tells Hirutani no gang is left to challenge them . Hirutani thinks about where to attack next when Honda appears and challenges him . Honda says if he wins Hirutani must leave Joey alone . Hirutani uses a spiked yo - yo and Honda quickly grabs a broom to fight . The yo - yo cuts Honda ' s broom and Hirutani knees him in the stomach . Just before Hirutani unleashes his final blow , Yugi steps in and deflects the yo - yo with the Millenium Puzzle . The yo - yo then cuts Hirutani ' s face . Jonouchi Saves Yugi ! The Rintama gang tie Yugi up and start throwing fists at him . Out of nowhere Jonouchi breaks down a wall and runs into the room . He says he will finish it and throws his yo - yo at a gang member . Jonouchi reveals he made a deal to join the gang if his friends were left alone and that Hirutani broke the deal by attacking Yugi . The Rintama gang surround Jonouchi with yo - yos so that he cannot move . Jonouchi charges forward and deflects Hirutani ' s thrown yo - yo with his own and cuts Yugi free . A Rintama member then clobbers Jonouchi from behind and he falls to the ground . The Puzzle activates and Dark Yugi comes out . Dark Yugi Vs . Rintama Gang . The Rintama gang finds Dark Yugi on the roof where he spins a yo - yo extremely fast and says " It ' s Game Time . " Jonouchi corners Hirutani and tells him that he will finish things with him now . Yami no Game ( Game of Darkness ) . Dark Yugi explains the simple rule : Last one standing wins . Dark Yugi fights the gang at the same time Jonouchi fights Hirutani . The minions cannot hit Dark Yugi and Jonouchi wounds Hirutani in the face . Hirutani throws glass at Jonouchi and Jonouchi can ' t see . The gang seems to corner Dark Yugi at the end of the roof but Dark Yugi says that he ' s put holes in the ground . He wonders how long the roof can hold the minions weight and that yo - yos are not weapons . They fall through the floor and at the same time , Jonouchi knocks Hirutani off the railing . He uses a zip line that Honda made with the band to get away . Hirutani is holding on but Jonouchi uses a walk the dog to make Hirutani fall off . Yugi says that Jonouchi hasn ' t changed at all . Epilogue . Jonouchi has developed a new yo - yo technique , Loop in the Sky , which accidentally raises Anzu and Miho ' s skirts and ties him up . Anzu then gets angry and calls him scum .