The small statured, six-teen year old form of Yuugi Mouto, the weak boy who lived at the Kame Game Shop a block away from Domino High, made his way along the grey path adjacent to the road. A light gust of wind blew by ruffling the spiked, ebony, violet tipped hair of the boy, his blonde, lightning shaped bangs moved against his face. Large, innocent violet orbs hastily scanned the proximity watching for bullies whom he'd become accustomed to dealing with on his way to and from school.

His Grandpa didn't know, he didn't want to put him under nay more pressure, he ran a small shop and it was hard enough as it was to get Yuugi and education let along see to it that he wasn't bullied. Plus all his Grandpa would do would be to tell the school but what good would that do? The last boy that told was in the hospital recovery ward for a month and never came back to the school because he'd moved out of the country.

So it was basically just Yuugi, he was probably the most bullied boy at Domino, sometimes he wished he were someone like Yami Motto, or Bakura Agama, or maybe even Seto Kaiba. They, along with Mai Kujaku and Mariku Ishtal were the most feared, most adored gang in the whole of Domino. Even some of the weaker teachers paled and ran away from them, the County Council had been forced to sack the old head of the school because Yami's gang had had that man under their boots.

A small smile crept onto Yuugi's face as he trudged in through the school gates, for the first time in ages, a month to be exact, he had gotten trough the gate without loosing anything, gaining an injury or so little as seeing a bully. He was about to jump for joy when Mori and his little trio of big buffoons came in the school gate, they were chatting about something…a new game? Dungeon Dice Monsters?

Anyway, they were so preoccupied that they didn't recognise Yuugi and instead just pushed him out of the way and into the snow and wondered on. Yuugi sighed with relief, although his teeth chattered slightly from the cold, he picked himself up and brushed off his glove-coated hands. They were four weeks into their first term after coming back from their Summer vacation, after his exam results Yuugi had been moved to the higher set and now had all his classes with a good friend of his, Ryou Bakura.

Ryou was probably as good at his education as Yuugi was good at puzzles and games; the rumour of a new game had interested Yuugi very much. As he wondered through the halls of Domino high, having made his way through the swing doors at the front of the school to the warm inside he contemplated it. Yami was the King of Games at Domino, Yuugi himself had never played him but Yami had even beaten Seto Kaiba, x-world champion so Yuugi didn't think he'd have much of a chance.

Duel Monsters was his passion and he had a really good deck to prove it, he was a good duellist but hadn't entered any tournaments because the entire one's that were set up were immediately entered by Yami. Yuugi would rather save himself the embarrassment of meeting Yami there or anywhere to be exact so he just skipped it and played against his Grandpa who he could already beat with ease.

"Hey Yuugi," a soft, British tinged accent flew by Yuugi's ears, the small youth shut his locker and after locking it turned to look up at the average height, long, spiky, white haired, brown eyed British exchange student known as Ryou Bakura.

"Hi Ryou, had any trouble with Bakura today?" Bakura was known to throw dirty looks and vicious gestured and verbal abuse at Ryou everyday of his life just because he had the same second name as Bakura's first.

"No, not today, but I haven't seen him yet, it'll happen soon enough," Rou commented before turned and starting to walk away. "Bye Yuugi, see you first period!" the white haired bishounen called over his shoulder.

Yuugi sighed, the only problem with his timetable, although Yugi had all his classes with Ryou, Yuugi only stayed till three, Ryou took extra lessons and languages and stayed till quarter to four. They were in to different sets, Yuugi was in the standard, high set and Ryou was at higher level meaning they had different homerooms. Yuugi then trudged off to his classroom, slipping in quietly and taking a seat at the back.

Pulling a golden box from his school rucksack Yuugi pulled off the lid, on which were intricate carvings and a centrepiece of the eye of Horus. The same eye symbol was on the front of the box and it was obviously Egyptian, Yuugi's grandpa had given it to him on his birthday a few years back and he still hadn't completed it. The pieces were small and as good as Yuugi was at puzzles he couldn't seem to do it very quickly, however, he was better than his Grandpa who, to Yuugi's surprise hadn't even been able to piece together two pieces whereas Yuugi had done that in a thirty seconds.

Occupying himself Yuugi completely ignored all else around him and not surprisingly everyone ignored him, they did this anyway, whether Yuugi was occupied or not. He was the little midget that just had to learn to keep out of everyone's way and turn invisible somehow.

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