CHAPTER 1
"Yugi Goes Away"
Yugi walked into the Game shop after school. Yami followed Yugi in. "How was school you two?" Solomon asked. "It was good, grandpa." Yugi said. "Yeah, grandpa." Yami said. Yugi and Yami walked into the kitchen and saw Solomon sitting at the table going through the mail. "We have homework to do, aibou." Yami said. Yugi nodded. "Right." Yugi said and the duo started up the stairs. "Yugi, you have mail!" Solomon exclaimed. Yugi walked back downstairs to the kitchen table. Solomon handed it to Yugi. Yugi took the letter and ran up to his room and closed the door. "Who was it from, grandpa?" Yami asked. "You know my eyes aren't what they use to be, Yami." Solomon said. Yugi read the letter. Soon Yugi looked at his calendar. "That's only 4 days." Yugi said rushing to his computer and logged on. Yugi bought a plane ticket for the next day at 6:00 PM. Yugi walked downstairs into the kitchen. "What did the letter say, Yugi?" Solomon asked. "Grandpa, where'd Yami go?" Yugi asked. "His room to do his homework." Solomon said. Solomon gave Yugi the look. "Well?" Solomon asked. "It was from UC Davis." Yugi said. "I see." Solomon said. "You didn't know this. But, I took the GED and passed." Yugi said. "That's good." Solomon said. "That letter was an acceptance letter." Yugi said. "When do you leave?" Solomon asked sadly. "Tomorrow, I have to be at the airport by 4:00 PM to give myself time to get past secretly." Yugi said. "I see. Yugi, you should tell, Yami." Solomon said. "I know." Yugi said. Yugi sighed and walked upstairs. Yugi walked to Yami's bedroom door. Yugi knocked. "Yami?" Yugi asked loud enough for Yami to hear him through the door. "Come in, Yugi." Yami said. Yugi opened the door and Yami smiled at him. "What's up?" Yami asked seeing the look on Yugi's face. /Yami, I passed my GED and just got a letter from UC Davis./ -I see.-/I've been accepted./ -But...that's over 5,000 miles from here.- /I know it's 5151 miles to be exact./ Yami frowned sadly. -When do you leave?- /Tomorrow, night./ -I see.- /I'm gonna call the guys and see if they want to go to the amusement park tomorrow./ -Alright.- /Tonight is for just us, and grandpa./ -I'll enjoy that.- Yugi ran downstairs and closed Yami's bedroom door behind him. Yami looked at his homework on his desk decided to put it away. Yugi dialed the Joey's number first. "Yo, dis is Joey." He said. "Hey, Joey." Yugi said. "Hey, Yug." Joey said. "Can you come with me to the amusement park tomorrow?" Yugi asked. "Yeah, I'll meet ya dere tomorrow. What time ya wanna meet dere?" Joey asked. "How about noon?" Yugi asked. "Meet ya dere at noon, Yug." Joey said. "K, C'ya tomorrow." Yugi said. "Right, bye Yug. C'ya tomorrow." Joey said. "Bye, Joey." Yugi said. With that the two hung up there phones. Then Yugi called the rest of the gang. After Yugi hung up the phone from the last phone call, Yami walked up behind him. "Aibou, why didn't you tell them about Davis?" Yami asked sadly. "I didn't want it to ruin tomorrow. I'll tell them at 3:30 so we can all enjoy the day." Yugi said. "OK." Yami said. "Let's just spent the rest of the day together." Yugi said. "Alright." Yami said. "Hey Yugi," Yami started slowly. "Yeah, Yami?" Yugi asked. "How do you think Tea will adjust to this?" "I already told her." Yugi said. "And, what did she say?" Yami persisted. "Yami, we had a fight." Yugi said frowning. "About you going away?" Yami asked. "Yeah, she's really mad at me." Yugi said sadly. Solomon walked into the kitchen. "I'm gonna close shop until you leave Yugi." Solomon said. "Good." Yugi said. Yugi, Yami and Solomon sat and talked and spent the entire day together.
LATER THAT DAY
Yugi had fallen asleep on the couch. Yami carefully put a pillow under his head and covered him up. "Sleep well, aibou. You have a long day ahead of you tomorrow." Yami said.
THE NEXT DAY
Yugi sat up and stretched. Yugi threw the cover off himself and looked at the clock it was 11:00 AM. Solomon poke his head in the back room. "Morning, Yugi." Solomon said and went back to work. Yugi walked out into the shop. "Morning, grandpa." Yugi said. "How'd you sleep, my boy?" Solomon asked. "Good, where's Yami?" Yugi asked. "He's still asleep." Solomon said. "I'll go wake him up." Yugi said. "OK." Solomon said. "I'll be back." Yugi said. "I thought you were gonna close shop until I left." He said. "I'll close shop when we're ready to go meet Joey and the others." Solomon said. "OK, grandpa." Yugi said and ran upstairs. Yugi ran into Yami's room. Yugi walked over to Yami's bed and sat down on the edge of Yami's bed. Yugi gently shook Yami. Yami groaned and covered his head with his blankets. Yugi sighed and pulled the blankets off Yami. Yami felt for the blankets a moment and sat up and slowly opened his eyes. "Aibou?" Yami asked groggily. "Yep, morning, Yami." Yugi said. "What time is it?" Yami asked. "Oh we both have an hour to get ready and meet Joey and the gang at the amusement park." Yugi said. "I better get ready first." Yami said. Then Yami stood up and walking out of his room and took off his Pajama's and took a shower. Yugi walked out of Yami's room and into his own. Yugi started packing while he was waiting. Soon Yami walk in. "You can take a shower now, Yugi." Yami said. "But, I have to pack." Yugi said looking at Yami. Yugi sighed sadly. "Go on, I'll pack your things for you." Yami said sadly. "I'll come home, during the breaks and I'll write you everyday. I promise." Yugi said as he walked out of his bedroom and into the bathroom. Yami sighed sadly. Then started to pack Yugi's things. Soon Yugi walked back into his room and over to his dresser. Yugi opened his dresser drawer, pulled out his swimsuit then noticed Yami was still only wareing a towel. Yugi sweatdropped. "Yami, go get dressed." Yugi said. Yami brushed madly. Then Yami rushed into his bedroom and got dressed as well.
5 MINUTES LATER
The two walked out of their rooms both wareing a swinsuit and a shirt. Then they walked downstairs and into the game shop. "We're ready to go grandpa." Yugi said. Soon Solomon closed shop and the trio left for the amusment park. The trio arrived and Yugi and Yami ran over to Joey, and the rest of the gang. Solomon walked up to them not long afterward. They all enjoyed themselves.
3:00 PM
Yugi and everyone got off one of the rides and Yugi looked at his watch. Yugi sighed. "What's up, Yug?" Joey asked. Yugi looked between Yami and Solomon. Both nodded in accoragement. Yugi sighed. "Well, I'm leaving for a while." Yugi said. "Me and Grandpa are going take him to the airport." Yami said. "When?" Joey asked. "Now." Yugi said sadly. "How long ya gonna be gone, Yug?" Joey asked. "3 months." Yugi said. "I see." Joey said. "Let's go, Yugi." Solomon said sadly. "OK, grandpa." Yugi said. "I'll see you guys in 3 months." He said hugging Joey, Tristan, and Tea. Then Yugi, Yami, and Solomon headed out of the amusment park and got into the car. They went back to the game shop and Yami and Yugi rushed in and changed their clothes. Then Yugi grabbed his suitcase and deck and he and Yami ran into the car and they head to the airport. Yugi and Yami were sitting next to eachother in the backseat. -Yugi?- /Yami.../ Yugi leaned over and hugged Yami. Yami held Yugi tightly. -It's alright, Yugi. Everything's gonna be OK.- /We've never been that far from eachother./ -I know.- The car arrived at the airport. Yugi said his good-byes and hugged Yami and Solomon and got in line to get aboard with his carry-on bag which had his laptop in it. Yugi's grip on his laptop bag shifted and he griped it tighter and clinched his eyes shut. Yugi opened his eyes, and got closer to the door to the plane. 'There's no way Yami, and Grandpa can ever know how much I'll miss them. I wonder if Yami can still hear my thoughts like he used to be able to.' Yugi thought. Soon Yugi got to the door to the airplane. -Just to let you know I can still hear you.- /I'll really miss you, Yami./ -Me too. But, don't worry about me I still have the rest of the gang to be with. You just make sure you make some good friends while your there.- /I will and I'll see you in 3 months Yami./ With that Yugi walked through the door to the airplane and found his seat. -If not I'll have to do some major ass kicking, see you in three months.- /See ya./ -Good luck.- The plane took off. /Thanks./ -Give us a call when you get there becuase I don't know if we will have the mindlink.- /OK, I will./
A FEW HOURS LATER
The plane arrived. Yugi soon found his way to campus and to his room. Yugi knocked on the door. Jason opened the door. "Hi." Yugi said. "Hello." Jason said while holding his hand out. "My name is Jason." He said. Yugi put his bag down and took his hand. "My name is Yugi." He said. "Well good to meet you, Yugi. I guess we will be room-mates then, so come on in and get yourself seateled." Jason said taking a step back to allow Yugi in. Yugi walked in. Yugi started unpacking and pulled out his deck. Yugi smiled when he saw his deck. Jason walked back in and finsihed unpaking himself and saw Yugi pull out his deck. "You must be Yugi Motou the world champion of Duel Monsters." Jason said. Yugi nodded. "Yep. Uh, is there a phone in here?" Yugi asked. "I'm supposed to call my brother, and grandpa." He added. "Cool took me a little bit to reconize you and yeah their is one right over there by the window." Jason said pointing to the phone. "Thanks." Yugi said running over to the phone and called the Game shop. The phone rang at the game shop. "Hello? This is the Kame game shop. How may I help you?" Kyshin asked. "Hey, Kyshin." Yugi said. Kyshin screamed in joy. "YUGI! YAMI! COME QUICK! YUGI IS ON THE PHONE!" Kyshin shouted. "Down in one minute!" Yami exclaimed from upstairs. "Hey, hold on and let me put you on speaker!" Kyshin exclaimed. "Alright." Yugi said. Yami walked into the kitchen where Kyshin was. "Hi Yugi. How are you?" Yami asked. "I met my room-mate already. And I'm fine." Yugi said. "That's good to hear. So, do you feel safe there?" Yami asked. "Yeah, Yami." Yugi said. "How was the plaane ride?" Yami asked. "Long." Yugi said with a yawn. Yami laughed. "You sound tired. Why don't you get some rest?" Yami asked. "I know I'm going to bed soon." Kyshin said with a yawn. "Night, Yami. Night, Kyshin. I've got to go guys. Bye." Yugi said. With that Yugi hung up the phone. Yugi went back to unpacking. Yugi soon finished unpacking and flopped down on the bed. "So how is your family, Yugi?" Jason asked. "They're fine." Yugi said sitting up. "So what classes are you taking?" Jason asked. "I'm taking the archeology class, and computer programing and an english class, and a watercolor class." Yugi said. "I'm taking some computer classes too, some Phsyc classes, and a couple history classes." Jason said. "Cool." Yugi said. "My brother made me promise before I left to make some new friends here." He said with a slight chuckle. Yugi layed back down. "I had a really long flight. So, Jason where did you come here from?" Yugi asked. Jason smiled. "I can understand why, moving away from everyone and not knwoing anyone, Im lucky I don't live to far from my family." Jason said. "Jason, I'm pretty tired." Yugi said. "Yeah me too and their is alot of stuff to do tommorow." Jason said. "I'm gonna go to sleep. Night, Jason." Yugi said. "Night." Jason said as he got into bed and went to sleep. Yugi closed his eyes and fell asleep.
THE NEXT DAY
Yugi woke up and changed. Yugi looked at Jason's bed to make sure he was up. Jason woke up and streached. "Morning." Jason said. "Morning." Yugi said. "Better get use to waiting in long lines today." Jason said. Yugi smiled. "Yeah, get changed and we'll go." Yugi said. Jason got up got some clothes and went into the wash room and cam out about 10 minutes later changed and ready to go. "Let's go." Yugi said. "Yup." Jason said walking to the door opeing it and steping out. Yugi followed him. Jason closed the door locked it and walked down the hall. "I think they have all the registration and orientation stuff in one of the main halls." Jason said. "OK." Yugi stopped and was stareing transfixed at a girl. She had long blonde hair and blue eyes. Yugi just stared transfixed. "S-S-She's..." Yugi studdered. "Better watch were your going or your going to run into that wall." Jason said noticing he was heading towards a wall. Yugi stopped. Yugi shook his head. "Jason, she's beutiful." Yugi said. "She is." Jason said noticing the one he was talking about. "But not my type." Jason said. "Yami, would tell me, to not give up until I try." Yugi said. With that Yugi walked over to Bridget. "Hi." Yugi said. "Hi." Bridget said. "My name's Yugi." He said. "My name is Bridget." She said. "Are you busy?" Yugi asked. "Not really I'm almost finished regestering for my class and already got everything for oritentation." Bridget said. "After I'm done can we maybe go for coffee?" Yugi asked. Bridget smiled. "Sure that would be nice." Bridget said. Yugi went took care of his school stuff and went back to Bridget. "Shall we?" Yugi asked. "Yup." Bridget said. Yugi lead her out of the school. "I just arrived last night." Yugi said. "Me too! Where did you come from?" Bridget asked. "Domino." Yugi said. "You?" He asked. "Japan? Wow long flight." Bridget said. "Yeah." Yugi said. "I come from Canada, Montreal Quebec to be exact." Bridget said. "That's cool." Yugi said as they walked into a coffee shop. "What'll it be?" He asked. "Latae." Bridget said. "K." Yugi said. Jason and Yugi had one of the same computer classes. Bridget and Yugi became very serious, very quickly.
A MONTH LATER
The two moved in together and Yugi somehow managed to handle 3 part-time jobs, 4 classes and to not neglict his relationship with Bridget. Yugi came home after work and flopped down on the couch. Bridget smiled. "Fatigué?" Bridget asked. (Tired?) Yugi sat up. "Ouais." Yugi said. (Yeah.) "Ah, attente, je n'ai pas ai écrit mon frère, puisque l'école a commencé." He said. (Oh, wait, I haven't wrote my brother since school started.) Yugi got up and walked to his desk and pulled out some paper and a pen. Bridget walked over and put a coffee cup on the desk. Yugi looked up at her and smiled. Yugi took a sip and wrote a letter to Yami. Yugi mailed it on his way to work the next morning.
A WEEK LATER
The letter arrived at the game shop. "Hey, look." Yami said and bended down to pick up the letter. "A letter came." He said. "Who's it from?" Kyshin asked. Yami reads the envelope. "It's from Yugi!" Yami exclaimed. Kyshin let's out a happy scraem. "What's it say?" Kyshin exclaimed.
Dear Yami and Keshin,
Sorry, it took me so long to write I've been pretty busy. You see, I'm working now, I have 3 part-time jobs. I'm also taking 4 classes and I have a girl friend. She and I have got pretty serious.
With care from,
Yugi.
Yami smiles. "That's my aibou. already with a girl." Yami said. "I'm glad." Kyshin said and smiles. "Now he'll have someone to trust and love. Just like Ilove you." She said and kissesYami playfully. Yami wraps his arms around her and they start making out and grandpa walks in. Solomon smiles. "Get a room you too." Solomon said. Yami smirks and cuddles Kyshin. "OK. We will." Yami said.
A MONTH LATER
Yugi flopped down on the couch again, after getting off work. Bridget sighed. "Je n'obtiens pas pourquoi vous travaillez les trois travaux. Stoppez un que vous à peine égal avez n'importe quand pour dormir." Bridget said. (I don't get why you're working 3 jobs. Quit one you hardly even have any time to sleep.) Yugi sighed and sat up. "Je sais. Mais, je ne peux pas stopper." Yugi said with a yawn. (I know. But, I can't quit.) Bridget sighed, then she went and called Jason. The phone rang in Jason's room. Jason answered the phone. "Hello." Jason said. "Hi, Jason, it's Bridget." She said. "Oh, hi." Jason said. "I was hopeing you would come over and talk some sense into Yugi." Bridget said. "I'll try." Jason said. "Good." Bridget said.
A FEW MINUTES LATER
Jason looked at Bridget and shugged. "It's no use I can't." Jason said.
2 WEEKS LATER
Bridget couldn't stand to see how tired Yugi was and found Yami's number and called. The phone rang at the game shop. "Hello. this is the Kame game shop and this is Kyshin speaking. How may I help you?" She asked. "Oh, my name is Bridget. I'm Yugi's girlfriend." She said. "Oh. your very lucky! Yugi is a great guy! It's nice to meet you...well! Talk to you." Kyshin said and sweatdrops. "You know what I mean!" She said. "I really need to talk to Yami. It's about Yugi." Bridget said. "Oh, sure. Yugi is ok isn't he?" Kyshin asked. "I'm worried about him actually. Is Yami there?" Bridget asked. "Sure." Kyshin said. "YAMI! PHONE!" She yells into the living room. Yami groans sleepily. "Hold on. I'm coming." Yami said and picks up phone. "Hello?" He asked. "Hi, Yami. It's about Yugi. He's hardly slept in almost 3 months." Bridget said. "Oh, you must be Bridget. What's wrong with him? Why hasn't he slept?" Yami asked. "He's been working 3 jobs, he has a lot of homework too he doesn't have time." Bridget said. "Well, he's gonna have to quit one of his jobs. His health and rest are way more important." Yami said. Jason ran into Yugi and Bridget's appartment out of breath. Jason told Bridget something. Bridget gasped in fear and shock dropping the phone. Bridget ran out and Jason picked up the phone. "Hello?" Jason asked. "What is it! Is something wrong!" Yami demanded. "Who are you? I assume you're Yami. Am I correct?" Jason asked. "Yes. Now answer my question. What is going on!" Yami demanded. "There was an accident...Yugi was involed, he's in the hospital." Jason said. "WHAT! WHAT HAPPENED!" Yami shouted in the phone. "What is it ? What is it!" Kyshin exclaimed. "Yugi is in the hospital! How where?" Yami exclaimed. "He's here in Davis and he had a car accident." Jason said. "Let's go Kyshin!" Yami said. Kyshin nods. "Right!" Kyshin exclaimed. Then both run out the door and to the airport.
TBC...