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Watching the days slip by so fast
Knowing our fate has long been cast
Working our fingers to the bone
'Cause nobody loves you when you're gone (gone) (gone) (gone) (gone)
Coughing up feeling just for you
to find something real to hold on to
"Nobody loves you" – Garbage
Rating: PG-13 for colorful language, and adult themes
Summary: When poltergeist like occurrences start happening at Domino High its up to Yugi and crew to discover what's really going on, only problem is none of them can seem to concentrate on the case, especially when two letters show up, a love letter and a death threat??!! What's Going on?
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In fair Domino where we lay our scene it is currently Joey's favorite class of the day; notedly it is not really a class, rather a feeding time of the many students attending the high school.
Yugi made a small face as he entered the cafeteria; he always hated the way it smelled, like left over moldy baloney and sour milk. His purple eyes scanned the lunch room for a table containing his friends, They weren't in their usual place, not that they had a usual place anway- they just sat where ever and where ever usually happened to be a particular table in the back corner of the cafeteria that was currently occupied by a group of ridiculously perky cheerleaders, far too happy for his liking, especially since they happened to be in school, a very dreadful place in his opinion.
"Hey…um Yug?" The voice sounded familiar, very familiar and close by. Yugi turned around, he didn't see anyone.
"Yugi." Yes, Yugi DEFINITELY knew this voice, he changed his direction once more. Little did he know he was still facing the wrong way.
"Um…we're over here Yugi…" the small boy turned around once more, it turned out he had been standing in front of the table the whole time.
"I knew that voice was familiar! I guess I just wasn't paying attention." Yugi rubbed the back of his neck and smiled for a moment, then took his place at the blue and white lunch table as Tea and Tristan moved out of the way to make room for him.
"Sometimes I wonder how you can be so smart…and so out of it sometimes." Joey said waving around a french-fry before promptly chewing on it and reaching for another off Tristin's tray. Tristin made an annoyed face and grabbed Joey's arm before he could accomplish the theft of another delicious gold-fried delicacy of the school's cafeteria. Then, to add to the effect that he had not only stopped Joey from achieving his goal but also he twisted his blonde friend's arm for good measure as a reminder he should not try this again. Usually with Joey, this method worked, it depended on how hungry he was. Tristin sighed; he knew he would end up giving Joey most of them anyway.
Joey at the current moment was rubbing his arm tenderly and making a face at Tristin. He would have said "What did you do THAT for?" Only he knew, so it was pointless to ask.
Yugi laughed at his friend's antics and swung his new prized possession onto the table. The object made a clanking noise as it made contact with the table, as it looked like a metal lunch box.
"Well that's new, very cute Yugi." Tea mused commenting on the lunch box, which happened to be plastered with images of Yugi's favorite ass-kicking card; The Dark Magician.
"I used to beat up kids who brought those to school." Joey said eyeing the lunch box, partly because it contained a no doubt tasty lunched made by Yugi's Grandfather who, Joey knew for a fact, had the habit of making his Grandson suburb lunches.
"Well, my Grandpa got it for me, I really like it." Yugi answered Joey and then opened it revealing its wonderful contents.
"Not that I would beat you up Yugi I mean-
"Because you want some of my lunch?" The purple-eyed boy said looking up, after all he knew Joey very well.
"No, 'cause you're my friend." Joey said trying to make the cutest puppy face he possibly could, these usually prompted Yugi to give him at least part of his sandwich.
But as soon as Joey said the word "Friend" Tristin waved his finger across his neck signifying Joey to stop after the word friend otherwise it would send Tea into a passionate speech about friendship. Joey quickly nodded as to say "Right, I know."
"I'm just teasing you Joey." Yugi said breaking off half of a scrumptious looking BLT, Joey's mouth watered. It looked absolutely wonderful (as usual) the bread looked homemade and still partly warm (Yugi had informed his friends of his new lunch box's special features such as its insulation, virtually break proof, and made of stainless steel) He was sure he'd never seen greener lettuce (Joey didn't even usually like green vegetables) plump juicy tomatoes, bacon; yes lots of bacon and just the right amount of mayo, Joey Wheeler couldn't have been happier even if he had just beat Seto Kaiba in duel monsters right then and there.
"Joey…Joey…you're drooling…ya gotta stop that…its disgusting…Yugi, Yugi just give him the sandwich…no, stop waving it in front of him and teasing him…Yugi he looks like a dog." Tea said as she watched Joey eagerly snatch the sandwich Yugi waved in front of him.
Of course there had been other things in the Dark Magician lunch box (Solomon Mouto wouldn't have his grandson go hungry) A few strawberries and grapes, but that wasn't the best item of food contained in his lovely container, a very large vanilla cupcake smothered in chocolate frosting happened to be placed next to the small bunch of grapes and it happened to be Yugi's next course of action after he finished his sandwich (he'd save the fruit for after school)
Through all this Bakura had taken his seat at the lunch table and proceeded to consume part of his perfectly ordinary PB&J sandwich. By the way it had been constructed, Yugi guessed he'd made it himself. Even though he personally thought that nothing Bakura made would be messy and he pictured his room pristinely clean and his clothes were never wrinkled, but as he looked at the pathetic looking pieces of bread that had been stuck together with two globes of peanut butter and grape jelly Yugi wasn't so sure Bakura's room looked as clean as he might of guessed.
"Maybe he's just not a morning person and has to rush out door." Yugi privately thought, though he quickly lost his train of thoughts when he began to eat into his cupcake.
"Joey what always happens to your lunch money? You seem to forget it a lot and I know you're not THAT forgetful." Tristin asked giving Joey the rest of the French-fries he hadn't eaten. Joey delightfully accepted Tristin's left overs before he began to explain.
"Well sometimes Serenity doesn't have lunch money because mom (he added a dirty glare as soon as he said the word "mom") sometimes doesn't have it after she goes to the horse tracks with her friends. Other times like last week she needed money for her field trip and well I had to help her, I mean I don't want her to not go on a field trip and miss the experience just because her mom can be immature sometimes."
"That's very kind of you Joey! You're such a thoughtful older brother." The brown-haired girl smiled at her blonde friend "He's so considerate, you'd never know."
Yugi began innocently finishing up the rest of his juice box before the lunch period was over, he watched Bakura drink a few sips of milk and polish off a fruit snack. After they'd thrown all their trash away they sauntered down the hallway and made their routine visit to their lockers.
Yugi wondered if he had anything he had to attend after school, after a moment of thought he remembered he didn't so he would probably return home to help his grandfather at the shop. The boy stored his prized lunch box at the top of his locker assuring it would be safe. As Yugi was about to close his locker he remembered he'd forgotten his coat.
"No!" he moaned he's left the his coat at home and he was sure it was snowing out, it was always so cold this time of year. As much as Yugi liked snow he didn't like the chilly weather all too much. After all snow was much nicer in theory than actual practice. Yugi picked up his backpack, but only for a few seconds because it was heavier than he'd thought so with added effort he lifted it again and managed to get it on is back. Momentarily the small boy had felt a chill down his spine.
"Its colder than I thought." He looked around for a window to see where the gust had come from, the nearest one was some ways down the hall.
"That's odd." Yugi dismissed the thought has he continued his walk down the hall to his History class.
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"Almost…yes the clock's almost there! 10 more seconds!" Yugi eagerly watched the clock's second hand, seven, six, five, four, three, four, five, six- "Hey…wait…the hand's moving backwards?!" Yugi looked at the clock extremely curiously the second hand was indeed moving…well counter-clockwise.
"This is sick, twisted, and EVIL." The small boy made a face equal to that of small adorable puppy trying to look stunned.
Yugi watched this phenomenon for a few more seconds figuring that it was probably broken, but then the hour hand and the minute hand decided to swing out of control much faster. By this time a few other curious clock-watching students also caught sight of this strange occurrence. Steadily the clock's hands picked up speed and the entire class watched not paying attention what-so-ever to what the teacher was patiently trying to explain. That is, until the glass surrounding the clock shattered once all hands reached the twelve. This got that teacher's attention as the glass when flying through the air and to various parts of the room.
In and instant reaction Yugi's arms covered is head to avoid any injury. He removed his arms from his face after the panic in the class that had started when the glass broke. A few seconds later the noise came to a sudden abrupt stop. Yugi thought the teacher was trying to calm the pandemonium when he heard the noise stop. But as he noticed the whole class seemed to be staring at him, nervously he looked up and down at himself, everything looked normal, that is until he looked at his desk. The purple-eyed boy couldn't believe what he saw, in front of him his math book was flipping pages…all by itself.
Or at least that's what it looked like at first, because to Yugi there was clearly a person in front of him flipping them.
"Um…Can I help you? Did you forget your book?" he asked concernedly to the person flipping the pages of the book he hated the most out of all his subjects.
The person looked slightly shocked, Yugi looked up it was now apparent to him that this "person" was a she. She certainly looked normal enough, well she didn't have a uniform on, but Yugi figured maybe she'd sent in for a new one and it hadn't come yet. After all he'd had trouble with the company he ordered his uniform from before. A strange expression crossed her pale face as she slowly began to start opening her mouth but paused a moment as if trying to make sense of something. She began to lean closer to Yugi, and waved her hand in front of his face, his eyes followed her hand steadily. She turned her head to the side as some of her hair swayed in the direction she tilted her head in.
"You can see…" she didn't finish what she was saying before she disappeared in a moment's notice. Yugi felt the shiver of and icy cold feeling run down his back again. He was sort of confused. The class started to whisper more and one of the people sitting next to him turned around to him a question:
"Yugi…Yugi…who were you talking too?"
He blinked a few seconds "What does he mean?"
"I don't know…" he began but then he saw the strange looks he was being given "Heh, just talking to myself, you know me" he laughed nervously.
"What WAS that? Who was that?"
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Eventually class was allowed to be dismissed, seeing as the teacher had a wristwatch and it was past dismissal time. He also warned who ever had pulled this horrendous 'stunt' that the persons involved should come foreword to him after class. (Like anyone would do that) Yugi wasn't really paying attention, well maybe a little but he just noticed the word 'horrendous' teachers seemed to use it a lot, maybe all teachers were taught certain words they had to use in their everyday vocabulary that they learned in teacher school or something.
As the rest of the class gladly exited in excited tones they discussed the events they had just witnessed. They were sure the page flipping and clock breaking were products of a poltergeist attack. So far one wild theory (Very quickly thought up) thought that the ghost was an old student that he had flunked in math once and was seeking revenge. As much as Yugi didn't like math when he was dead his number one priority certainly wouldn't be seeking revenge on his math teacher.
No doubt by the end of the afternoon there would be "Ghost" rumors floating amidst the school, maybe the rumor someone started about Joey's pink boxers would finally die out. That wasn't what Yugi was really worried about though, he was pondering about a few duel monsters combinations that would be good in a tight situation and then his thoughts drifted to the girl he'd seen. "Why hadn't anyone saw her?"
He bit his lip in a moment or two of thinking
"Maybe I AM getting Schizophrenic…" he finally decided.
Then again…Maybe Yami would be offended by that, well if he knew that even meant. This lead to thoughts about Yami, currently the other person who resided in him.
"That might also mean I have multiple personality disorder…but Yami really IS another person…" his thoughts trailed off "Wait does it count if he gives himself a name? Or do I?"
He decided not to continue his train of thoughts all this thinking about Yami might wake him up, instead Yugi unconsciously began to undo the lock on his locker, but before he could finish he realized the door was already open. "Did I…leave it unlocked? No I didn't…that's weird…"
Then he realized as he began to pull the last of his things from his locker, his lunch box was gone. Frantically he searched through his locker for it, thinking maybe it had fallen amongst the rest of his thing. After a considerable amount of searching he still couldn't find it.
The boy's jaw dropped considerably "My lunch box…my lunch…box…"
"MY LUNCH BOX!" he yelled suddenly in the hall. Joey had a locker a good deal away from him, Tea's was in the hall across from his, Bakura's was in the same hall, and Tristin's was on the other side of the school. Yet all of them were able to hear his yell.
Immediately they came rushing in thinking Yugi was dying of blood loss or his grandfather's soul had been stolen…again.
What they found was their friend staring into his locker with a horrified look on his face and very close to tears.
Normally Yugi would never look down on a human being or accuse them of anything…but his lunch box…his wonderfully purple Dark Magician lunch box was not there. This was all Yugi could think about.
"Yugi! Are you okay?" Joey rushed onto the scene his fists ready and an aggressive look upon his face. Yugi's innocent purple eyes continued staring at the thing that had contained his most precious container.
Tea was next to arrive, and Tristin was chasing after her clutching his hat to his head making sure it didn't fall off as he ran while Bakura followed in an awkward looking run (Yugi never thought he'd do well on the track team anyway, but it didn't matter he could kick anyone's butt from here to Tokyo in chess)
Still, Yugi stood there while everyone continued to look at him puzzled. They noticed his first movement was his hand shaking as he continued clutching it into a tight fist. That didn't really last long because almost immediately after he let go of his fist he attached himself onto Joey's leg like a barnacle to a rock. There he proceeded to make a few whimper noises as big watery tears fell down his cheeks.
"Yugi! Oh, Yugi what's wrong?" Tea said as she tried to comfort him. Joey's dark brown eyes blinked there was a Yugi attached to his…leg…
"Don't worry, what ever happened we'll help." Tristin assured him.
"What I want to know…is what happened…" Bakura finally said. He never really talked a lot, except when maybe Yugi was dueling or to keep Joey from pointing out the obvious.
"My lunch box…it's gone!" he finally explained.
Everyone's face faulted. They all knew Yugi really, really liked his lunch box but they didn't think he would be THAT upset that the metal lunch containing box went missing.
"How did they get in your locker?" Joey asked as he tried to pry Yugi from his leg.
"I don't know…" Yugi said, he was really upset after all. Though he didn't say it Tea privately thought her small friend was thinking murderous thoughts like 'Blood, blood will spill! Blood will spill!' She gulped she couldn't really see Yugi going psychotic, or maybe if he would, if he did it would indeed be scary. Mental images of Yugi running around rabid with a chainsaw laughing manically came to mind. Quickly she shook her head and erased the thoughts from her conscious mind.
"Maybe it was the ghost." Tristin suggested,
"Obviously rumors get around faster than I thought." Yugi mentally said to himself.
"Well its no use crying…that's not going to help me get it back." The small boy finally said with a new resolve.
"Well when you cry you make an adorable face and maybe who ever took it would give it back if they saw that face." Tea pointed out. Yugi felt tempted to give her a cookie for her out of the blue on-your-feet random thinking. Of course he didn't have any cookies at the moment. He made mental note to get some later.
"I still think it was the ghost, I mean who would want a Dark Magician lunch box?" Tristin commented as he scratched the back of his head trying to think of anyone who might possibly even consider wanting it.
Yugi promptly sent the best evil glare he could muster at Tristin, which was pretty bad because he wasn't very good at looking evil unless he was Yami, being unable to look evil was one of the disadvantages to being cute, except when people told him he was cute when he was angry which was really no lie. He was. Well at least in Tea's opinion anyway, Joey would never admit to saying the word "Cute" after all only people like Tea said that and well Joey didn't want to be like Tea. She was very sweet and all but Joey was perfectly fine maintaining the tough guy attitude he tried to project to all people.
Though sometimes he was guilty of making cute thinking faces.
"Don't worry!" Joey assured "We'll find it!"
"That is if someone didn't pawn it off on ebay already" Joey privately thought.
"We'll figure this out." Yugi said more calmly than he had been just minutes ago.
"Right" Tea agreed quickly nodding her head. "If anyone can do this, we can!"
The group groaned on cue this was going to start on of her friendship rants.
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Star light, Star Bright, where the hell is Mr. Right?
Well End Chap 1! Stay tuned in next time Kaiba fans! Also There will be Yami, and lots more of Bakura!