Hello, world! My first story is going up! :D I'm a bit (read: very) nervous, really. We won't get into all that puzzleshippy-goodness for a couple chapters. Well...I hope you like it! If you DO like it (heck, even if you don't) please leave a review! Happy reading!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Yugioh! (...duh.)
The boy grinned as two more pieces slid into place. He ran a hand through his crazy hair, mainly black with amethyst tips and blonde bangs, and yawned, tired. His wide amethyst eyes, matching his hair, drooped.
The boy checked his bedside clock and groaned. 2 a.m. He'd been working on the puzzle for almost four hours straight! He clicked off his lamp and slid into bed, his puzzle glinting in the moonlight on his desk, half finished.
"Yuugi! Get up, it's time for you to go to school!"
Yuugi groaned. He rolled out of bed. "Coming, Grandpa!"
He looked at the puzzle, sitting on his desk. Now that he saw it in the light, Yuugi could tell that it was a little more than half-finished. He took a quick shower and got dressed. He stuffed his puzzle box in his school bag as he hopped down the stairs.
His grandpa saw it. "Yuugi, how long have you been working on that puzzle?" Sugoroku said as he finished an omelet.
Yuugi blushed and shrugged. "I don't know...a few years, maybe?" He took a seat at the table.
Sugoroku shook his head and put the omelet in front of Yuugi. "It's been more than a few years, I think." He looked over at the clock on the stove. "Finish up your breakfast, now, or else you'll be late for school."
Yuugi quickly finished his omelet and downed his orange juice. He got up from the table and ran out the door, calling back, "Bye, Grandpa! I'll see you later!"
Yuugi Muto wasn't the most popular kid in school. For one thing, his short stature and unique hair, with amethyst, black, and gold in it, gave bullies plenty of material. Plus, he never fought back. He was a timid and kind person, but people just used that to their advantage. Any bully knew that you could taunt, kick, punch, yell at, and abuse Yuugi Muto, and he wouldn't tell anyone. If asked about cuts or bruises, he'd say it had been an accident, or that it was his fault.
So as Yuugi walked up to Domino City Junior High School, he wasn't too surprised to see Ushio and his gang. Yuugi walked into school with a limp that morning.
During lunch later that day, (after being tripped in the halls and being the target of many spitballs) he walked out and sat alone at the base of a tree. He plucked an apple from it. This would be his only lunch, as Ushio had stolen his lunch money.
He saw Ryou Bakura and waved. Ryou has unusually white hair and skin even paler than Yuugi's own. Ryou was usually shy, but the albino was one of the few people Yuugi called a friend. Ryou waved back and smiled. Yuugi patted the ground next to him as an invitation to sit. Ryou started to nod, but then his new boyfriend, Marik Ishtar, grabbed his arm and started pulling him away. Marik was part Egyptian, so he had almost brown skin. His hair was blonde-ish, resembling the color of sand.
Ryou looked back at Yuugi in apology, but Yuugi just smile and waved his arm away, as if to say, 'Go ahead, it's fine. I don't mind.'
Ryou still looked guilty as he sat down next to Marik, his tan skin contrasting with Ryou's white. But it was apparent that Yuugi was soon forgotten as Marik started feeding feeding Ryou cherry tomatoes and carrots, making them both giggle like girls.
Yuugi got up from his spot on the ground and threw his apple core at the tree, in a rare display of his irritation.
Then he sighed and pulled out his puzzle, watchful of bullies. The last time he'd been caught with it at school, Jounochi Katsuya and Honda Hiroto had thrown one of the puzzle pieces into a lake by the school, and broken up the pieces he'd already put together. He'd worked on it all night after that, but still never finished it. Still, he found it easier to work on when he was mad at someone. So his irritation at Ryou changed into joy at getting more of the puzzle finished. His slipped it back into his bag as lunch period ended.
After school, Ryou caught up with Yuugi as he was walking home and tried to apologize about lunch, but Yuugi just shrugged it off.
"It's fine," he said with a small grin. "I really don't mind being alone."
Ryou still seemed unsure, but he let it drop. "So..." He continued instead, "how about I come over tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow?" Yuugi asked. "Why not today?"
"Oh, you see..." Ryou rubbed the back of his neck self-consciously. "Marik and I were gonna go see a movie today..."
Yuugi laughed. "That's fine, Ryou. See you tomorrow, then."
Ryou grinned back. "Thanks, Yuugi. Tomorrow!" he called back as he turned off the road to his house. Yuugi continued on till he got to the Kame Game Shop.
"I'm home Grandpa!" He yelled. "I'm going upstairs to do homework!"
"Okay, I'll call you down when dinner's ready," Sugoroku said back.
Upstairs in his room, Yuugi flew through his homework, then grabbed the puzzle and continued to work on it. As he slid the pieces into place he thought about the bullies, Ushio, Jounochi, Honda. He thought of the friends who seemed to be abandoning him, Ryou and his childhood friend, Anzu. They'd started going out with popular people, Marik Ishtar and Ryuji Otogi, and never had time for him anymore.
He gasped in excitement as he saw there was only one piece left. He grabbed the last puzzle piece, one with the shape of and eye engraved on it, and slid it into the hole, finishing the pyramid shaped golden pendant.
Yuugi jumped from the desk as colored smoke started to leak from the puzzle and into the air. He gaped as the smoke slowly started to take form. His already wide amethyst eyes widened even further.
Yuugi looked at the shape in front of him-and promptly fainted.
Dun-dun-dun! Okay, I'm terrible with cliffhangers XD And no Yami this chapter, sorry! Does some cute Angstshipping make up for it? No? Fine then...This story will also have other pairings as well (likely Puppyshipping Perservereshipping, maybe Psycoshipping, if I decide to make the other Yami's real people...?). So! Please review, and have a wonderful day! ^_^