A/N: Hey! It's me again! This is a totally crack to the 10th power, fanfic….wait for it….that I thought of since December! Once again, GASP! Anyway, I know I'm kind of late with the whole "Valentine's Day" theme…but I couldn't find the purple scrapbook I wrote this idea down in-smiles sheepishly and rubs the back of her head- I know, lame excuse, but I swear it's the truth!

Atem: Then why are two of your fingers crossed behind your back?

Mana: Shut up, Temmie. Right, now that some people-points to Atem-are quiet, we can start! Yayyyy!!!

Summary: Before the "Valentine's Day" of 2009, your fav Yugioh characters dated as such; Yugi & Tea [sweet!], Atem &Mana [double yay!!], Ryou and Bakura[once they're happy], Marik[good] & Malik[bad], Katie[Mokuba's ex] &Seth[from one brother to another], Duke & Seto[lol!], Joey &Mai [okay]and Tristan &Serenity[he won!]. Mokuba and Emma [Tea's cousin], flirt with each other but are not together, yet. Unfortunately, things change. Expect tragedy, waterworks, drama and to mention Ryou's and Bakura's relationship is on the rocks...even if one of them is niave to the other couples are also in the same boat and just don't know will stay together?Who will drift even farther apart?And when the reality hits, will Ryou, and others in similar situations like him, lose themselves to loneliness?

Warnings: The scent of Death and Betrayal linger in the air….

Also, there's a strong chance of romance and slightly [Joey: but yuh forgetin' nothin' 'slight' wit baka Bakura! Me: Hush Joseph, hush!] lustful thoughts and phrases. Cross-dressing may also appear many times in this fanfic.

REMEMBER YOU'VE BEEN WARNED! ^. ^0

Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh! Or Yugioh! GX…but wouldn't it be cool if I did? But as previously stated I don't. Now, I'll go morn the fact that THAT-points to lines above- dream will never, ever come true. Although, just so you guys don't kill me in my sleep, I'll –out of the kindness of my heart-write a chapter of this mega traumatic fanfic.

Chapter one

As It Was

RYOU'S POV

Ah…it's such a beautiful day. The sun is shining, the winds are blowing, the birds, chirpping,but the sun isn't the only thing radiating warmth, the friendship and love echoing around me is, as well.

We had all, and I mean ALL even the Kaibas are here, gathered here today to celebrate being together, as friends. I'll give you one guess whose idea it was.-cough-Tea-cough-But since we all wanted an excuse to celebrate Spring-break,-that and we didn't want another 'friendship speech'- we all agreed.

It's been four years since all of us came together like this, though, at the time it wasn't this friendly.

Flashback

Joey to Ryou: Glad you could make it, man. Yug's been totally bummed-out since you-know-who …and he hasn't even smiled when Tristan an' I fight!

Ryou: Maybe he needs sometime…

Dude! He's been mopping around for 6 weeks!

True…Has any of you tried to…

We tried eveythin'! But Yugi barely even answers us anymore! And when he does, his voice is low and depressed! Check this out…

-Joey storms over to a near-by Sakura tree, where Yugi is seated underneath-

HEY! YUG!

Hey Joe…-answered a VERY hoarse Yugi.

End Flashback

Looking back at that moment, I saw what true grief and pain looks like, for the very first time. True at the time I was going through my own issues, which mainly involved Kura [Bakura's nickname for those who don't know. But like 'Temmie'-Atem's nickname-it' only used by his lover.]But it was nothing like this! 'Yugi'…I thought, 'What happened to you…'

He was so pale, his eyes, once big and full of love, kindness and compassion, a dull blur…and his body itself, oh my! He was so thin, that even in his seated position, his clothes hung on him! I shake my head at the memory. Too sad, much too sad for and event such as this…

Although, Yugi looks nothing like that anymore, he's now 6 feet 2 inches, same spiky hair of course, more matured facial features, thin, lean, muscular-well toned ass included-My eyes widen when I realize what I've said. Oh Kami-sama! What am I thinking!?! I've GOT to stop spending so much time with Bakura! Anyway, what occurred next makes up for its lack of joy…

Flashback

Yugi, as predicted, had given Joey yet another one-word answer .And of course, that only infuriated the blond more…

'YUUUGIII!!! ,' growled a now completely crazed Joey, grabbing a silent Yugi off the ground by the collar.

'What da heck is wrong wit cha!?!' he screamed, shaking Yugi violently.

'Joey!' cried a now very disappointed and worried Tea, 'You're gonna hurt him!'

'So, he deserves it for kickin' us, his so called 'friends', no 'best friends', outta his life!'

Yugi, to everyone's dismay, still did not answer.

Joey growled and opened his mouth to continue his rampage-in hopes of waking Yugi out of this, trance he was in-when an all too familiar voice entered unexpectedly. 'You know, if he's really your friend-and you treat him like that-I most certainly wouldn't want to be your enemy.'

'Ya well, who asked ya!' he retorted, turning to face this unwanted 'intruder' and stops dead in his tracts. Everyone else, except for Yugi who was, at the moment, staring with great interest at the ground, heads snapped around and froze.

I remember thinking, 'What the hell!'

The 'intruder' simply smiled. 'Hello Joseph,' said 'intruder's' smile turned into a smirk at the sight of all the shocked faces. When a minute had passed, and no-one said anything but just stood there gawping, the 'intruder' continued, 'I hope I haven't interrupted anything.' As he calmly strode over to the crowed at the Sakura tree, we parted, clearing a way for him.

He nodded to Joey who still didn't believe what he had seen but, was conscious enough to drop Yugi, who was unfortunately, still staring at the ground intensely.

He sighed. 'Yuuuggii,' he cooed .Yugi's eyes widen significantly. I think I speak…umm, think, for everyone when I say…err, think, that I would ever here that particular person…coo. 'Look at me Yugi-kun…' To everyone's joyful surprise-yes even Kaiba was worried about Yugi even though he didn't say anything-, Yugi slowly raised his head .His eyes wide and brimming with tears, 'N-n-no…How? When? What? Why? ' His words were so soft they we nearly inaudible.

'Oh, I have friends in high places…'

Yugi shock his head in soft, whispered, 'Impossible…'

'Apparently not, I'm here, aren't I?'

'It's-it-it must be a dream! There's no way you're here! I've hoped and prayed and wished on every star in the sky, but there's no way…'

'Oh, but there is.'

'It really is you…'

'The one and the onl…' However, he never finished that sentence, because in that instance he was attacked and knocked to the ground by an over-enthusiastic -that's understatement, if I ever heard one- Yugi.

'ATEM!!'

'What the…Yugi…ha ha ha…okay abiou! Aboiu!'

End Flashback

I smile at the memory as I lose myself in another…

However, I'm interrupted by Yugi's friendly voice saying, 'Ryou, you're doing it again.'

NORMAL POV

Yugi sighed to himself. 'He reminiscing, again,' he thought.

Calmly, he put down the paper-plates in his hands and walked over to the white-haired man, who was once again lost in his memories and said [slightly frustrated] 'Ryou, you're doing it again.'

Said male's head snapped up to stare at his violet-eyed friend's worried gaze.

'Oh! Sorry Yugi!' was his quick reply as he smiled sheepishly.

As Yugi plopped down next to him he asked, 'So, what were you remembering this time?'

'Atem's Return…'was his simple reply.

This of course made the tall, spiky-haired man, smile. After few minutes of aimless conversation, the pair found themselves just staring out at their friends.

Atem and Mana were sitting on a blue blanket with curvy red designs on the front, on the lush, green grass just below them at the foot of the hill. Mana was in Atem's arms with her head on his chest. Occasionally, they moved, but that was only to either kiss, stare into the other's eyes or feed the other grapes from the elaborately decorated porcelain bowl, next to them on the grass.

Bakura and Malik were, as always, up to no good. That is, unless your definition of good is stealing the food right from under Tea, Seth, Katie, Marik and Emma's noses, while they tried to set everything in place. Only to end up being hit upside the head by Marik for their and I quote Bakura, 'Well planned schemes.'

Joey and Tristan were fishing and every once in awhile, trying to beat the complete and utter shit out of the one another for obviously stupid or trivial matters. For example, 2 seconds ago, Joey caught a boot…he thought it was a fish that first; so, imagine his surprise-and Tristan's laughter-at realizing it was a old, black boot. That of course, led to the on-going 'war' taking place at this very moment.

As for everyone else, they were doing the norm; napping on the green, going for a swim, reading or just lounging around. That is, until Tea called everyone for lunch.

Lunch was delicious. They had mashed potatoes, green salad-Tristan and Joey stayed away from that-not to mention, it had several of Ryou's famous carrot casseroles-Bakura stayed away from that[he hates carrots and casserole so, he automatically earned a great hatred for the carrot-based dish]-lasagna, ham and cheese, PB and J and tuna sandwiches, fried chicken, macaroni pie and rice balls. For desert, triple chocolate-chip cookies, ice-cream, jello and chocolate fudge cake.

RYOU'S POV

The rest of the day went by smoothly. Joey, Tristan and Bakura were exceptionally well behaved-and silent-for the rest of the day, following the lunchtime carrot casserole tornado of 2009, that is. You see, Kura was once again complaining about my delicious and nutritious Carrot casserole, which caused Joey and Tristan in laugh at him, which then caused Bakura to grab my precious confection and hurdle it at the hysterically laughing duo!

'My poor casserole!' I screamed.

But it was to no avail, for the next thing I know, everyone's hurdling my three time prize-winning casserole at each other! Of course, once the 'festivities' were over, every one of them-especially the original culprits; Bakura, Tristan and Joey-were given a firm scolding by yours truly and were covered in my casserole! Never again, never again.

After that, old Mr. Motou arrived and we all spent a quiet evening enjoying the beautiful scenery. At 4:30, everyone started to depart. The Moto's, Kaibas, Bakura and I being the last to leave, as for everyone else, by 5 O'clock said persons were the only ones left.

Yugi, Tea, Mana and Atem all had to stay till about 6 O'clock, the poor dears. Apparently, their driver had an accident heading back to the island, between here and their private air/heliport. And yes, they own their own island. It's between here and the main land, and is twice the size of Pegasus's Island! It's complete with their own 8 story, fully equip-both magically and electrically-and extremely luxurious manor house, 4 ancient stone castles-in the north, south, east and west respectively-,3 lakes, 10 rivers, two mountain ranges etc. They also own their own air/heliport-situated conveniently here in Domino-, hospital- it's called Magic Memorial and I'm its chairman with Bakura its head surgeon-, 3 orphanages, 8 private schools-not including the 4 boarding schools of which they are headmasters or mistresses, respectively of-, an international chain of hotels and a gaming company that rivals Kaiba Corp. for the title of the 'best.' How, you ask? Let's just say, they put the gold and priceless artifacts from Atem's tomb and Yugi's prize money to very good use.

When their driver did arrive, Mr. Moto-Grandpa-didn't go with them. He doesn't live with them. Sure they all tried their very best to convince him to go live with them or at least let them help him, but he refused every proposal, every time. At least he visits them often, although they have been making increasingly more persuasive barging, what with his quickly decreasing health and all.

Less than 5 minutes later, Kura's and I's limo arrived and we left.

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So, what do you think? Review and tell me.

Imagine Bakura as a surgeon! SCARY!

Oh, and if you think I made Yugi, Atem, Tea and Mana's lives too awesome, deal with it, cause after all the hell they've been though in the manga, anime and in fanfics on the whole…they deserve it.

I'll go morn now...