Narrated by: Otogi Ryuji (Otherwise known as the very sexy Duke Devlin)

I DO NOT OWN THE MANGA/ANIME THAT IS KNOWN BY THE NAME OF yU-gI-oH!

History class. Top floor. Broken heater. Bipolar teacher. fifty degrees. The pit of all that is evil and unjust. Can I be anywhere but here? Yeah, I'm completely bored out of my mind and my music playing device is dying. Sooner or later the damned thing is just going to die and I'll have to actually listen to this rambling teacher. Clearly this woman needs to get laid. I wouldn't bang her. Her face is kind of oily and she spends way too much of her time talking.

It's been five minutes and yes my music player just died. I guess I'll just slip off these headphones and say 'hello' to history class for the first time this semester. Maybe I'll have to learn something. The teacher seems to be talking about some sort of project. Oh, flap. Then there was something about partners? I'm not for sure, but I thought I heard something about partners. I desperately need partners. Partners equal less work. Less work equals a happy Ryuji-san. Yep, the teacher definitely said partners. Three people to a group. Decided by random draw out of a hat. This has to be a pretty sweet deal. My history class had a whopping fifteen kids in it. The odds of me actually getting someone I like is pretty high. Score.

Okay, so Yuugi is with Anzu and Miho. Yuugi's lucky he gets to work with two chicks. Too bad the sucker's too shy to try anything. Sigh. Jou is with Kaiba and some other chick. Heh. Kaiba and Jou don't like each other. Heh. It's kinda funny. Ooh. She drew my name. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for that blonde chick that sits across the room.

Bleh. I'm stuck with the two loonies. I'm not sure if I'm going to survive this experience. Probably not. I mean, Ryou's okay, I guess. He puts his shirts on inside-out and he talks to himself a lot. I can't really say anything about Malik, since I haven't known him for that long. I guess I can't call him evil anymore, since apparently he's not. Yeah, I have no idea what to think of him. One day, he just showed up at school. Weird. He was all like, "Oh yeah, about Battle City, yeah, that was just like a mistake. Just forget it ever happened."

So what's this? We group up today in class to get started. Score. They can't kill me with so many witnesses. I do my happy dance. I walk over to where my partners are sitting. They're talking about something. I hope it isn't going to be awkward. It's going to be awkward.

I approach the table. Dun. Dun. Dun.

Ryou whispers, "Hey, Malik. Do you have any gum?"

"No. Ask Otogi." replies Malik.

I am standing there listening to this, when I hear the weirdest thing since ever.

"No, Malik," whispers Ryou in a desperate sort of way, "I can't. It's not possible for me to do that!"

Things just got confusing. For me, anyway.

"Fine," replies Malik with a shrug of the shoulders. He then proceeds to look at me and ask, "Otogi-kun, do you happen to have a piece of gum?"

I nod silently. I don't want to say the wrong thing, I really don't. I hand Malik the piece of gum. Malik gives the gum to Ryou. Ryou sticks the gum in his mouth. This process could have been way shortened. I sit down. Malik is staring at me. It's like that kind of stare that pretty much confirms that the person staring at you is going to kill you. Okay, second weird thing to happen. Ryou has his eyes closed and he is chewing his gum. Not as weird as Malik staring at me. I focus my attention on Malik.

"What do you want to do our project on?" I ask.

Surprisingly, or shockingly, whatever, both Malik and Ryou respond at the same time, saying the same thing. They say simultaneously, "The fourth wall."

This is the beginning of a long flapping group project-thing.

So what if the Pride and Prejudice fic that I am doing is just sitting there? I am inspired! (By Otogi?) lolz. Yeah, Otogi is going to be playing the narrator. Kinda like a mix of 'Nick Caraway' from Great Gatsby and 'Narrator' from Fight Club. Is there anything definitive about Duke's personality besides that fact that he is supposedly good-looking? I don't know. I'm giving him a twist. I'm making him observant and sarcastic and awkward but in that natural teenish way. YESH. I am also making Malik and Ryou FUCKING PsyCHO, but they kinda already were a bit crazy weren't they? :)

I'm all jacked up on READs and REVIEWs!