Shelly: Warning. I don't own this. Well, I own the story, but not the characters or anything YuGiOh. I own the general story, though.

Joey: Nyehehe. And beware, there be monsters out here. And Heartshipping. And Puppyshipping. And another surprise. Later on.~ And Tea-bashing. And by that I mean makin fun of her. What did you think you sicko?

Seto: I love it when you get angry~ Now put your leash back on.

Joey: Nyeh :3

Shelly: This is a gift for LC. Enjoy~

"Bye, Grandpa!" Yugi skipped down the steps from the game shop and headed off to the school that everyone went to but never learned anything there. It was all card games, and motorcycles of the future, but that's a different story. In this particular story, a lot of things will change. When I say a lot, I mean a lot.

He walked down the concrete sidewalk, passing stores and kids playing Duel Monsters on outside tables. They really should be in school, but nobody really cared in Domino City. He skipped up the steps of the school building and ran up to his good friends Joey, Tristan, and Tea.

"Eh, Yugi," Joey greeted, ruffling his spiky hair, surprised it didn't stab through his hand…again. Yugi simply replied with a nod and a smile, looking around. "What are you lookin' for?" he asked, following his gaze. His eyes landed on the least suspected person. Ryou?

Tea looked in the direction the two boys were looking, and grimaced. "Why were you looking for Ryou, although it's obvious, but obviously I don't know much. Oh my womanly state~" So that was the end of that conversation. Yugi wouldn't answer, because she was a Tea. Nobody likes Tea. They only like tea.

So they all walked together to the non-educational school, of course, trading cards all the way. So when they arrived, there was a British boy waiting on the steps. (For it was only a 10-foot walk to the school from Yugi's house.) After a very awkward greeting, they all walked inside. They were all conveniently in the same class, so they sat in their little loner corner.

Meanwhile, about 5 feet away, Seto Kaiba was being a rich guy. In other words, he was eavesdropping on every word they said. And in other words, he was listening to Joey. In other words, he's a stalker. In other words, he was being a rich guy. Sounds fun right? hahaWRONG. He was simply being a sad little snob with no love life. Sounds sad right? hahaRIGHT.

So they went through 6 entire class periods and one lunch period of straight-up card games and a 5-minute lunch break. All in a musical montage. You had to have been there. It was awesome. So back on topic, on the ENTIRE 5-foot walk home, Yugi got blushy every time Ryou would talk, (who is that guy, anyway?) and Seto just followed Joey at a respectable distance, which was about 5 feet, because that's as far as he could get without walking in the opposite direction from school.

So they departed with bittersweet goodbyes which mostly consisted of tears and hugging. And see-ya-later's. So Yugi walked back into his game shop-house and completely ignored his grandpa's gifts of large stacks of trading cards that Yugi already had. After he was secure in his little boyish bedroom of his, he went straight to the phone.

*ring, ring* "Hello?" answered the slightly static-ified but mainly Ryou-ish voice.

"Lawl hi Bakura where's Ryo- wait never mind. Go away," Yugi demanded in a very baby-panda sort of way. With more force of course, he will be the one on- wait no.

"Oh shush. I'm in the middle of tea-time with Malik. YOU go away. I need to talk to Yami anyway about….nothing in particular. I just need to ask him a few questions," Bakura replied in his more or less baby-panda sort of way. More like a daddy panda. Or a grandpa panda. Maybe a grandma I don't really know. Something British.

"Questions about what?" Yugi questioned.

"How to kill- I MEAN WHAT TO GET HIM. You know, for his birthday."

"I don't believe you."

"Um…I give up. *strange whoosh noise* Yes?"

"Hai Ryou," insert kitty face here that Yugi knows full well Ryou won't see.

"Oh hello Yugi. What's going on? Did Yami pee on your pillow again?"

"What no…he did?"

"Never mind. So what's up?"

" :I "

"I see. Cool. I'm apparently having tea time." Insert Malik squeal.

"Oh… :I "

"Yeah it's not fun. Can I come over to your place?"

" :I ….YEAH."

Insert long and awkward cleaning and prepping montage. You had to have been there. It was awesome.

"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"*ding dong* "FRACK I'm not wearing pants."

Meanwhile, while Yugi was putting on pants, Ryou waited outside. "Hm… I wonder what those crashing noises are. I guess Yugi found out about his pillow… Oh well. I'm bored…." Suddenly, Yugi fell out the second-story window and on top of Ryou. (This is what I meant. LOL no.)

"Oh my god I saved your life! I guess you owe me dinner sometime heheh…" Behold, Yugi's sad attempt at a cover-up story for his epic fail.

"You didn't save my life you risked it…"

"… :I There was a grenade upstairs."

"Oh well in that case I should make you some pasta with a candlelit dinner."

" :I Okay."

Minutes later they ended up on the roof, it was suddenly night-time with a full moon, and they somehow hired a violinist. Nobody knows hot this happened and neither do they. Yugi just knew he liked it. "Wow, Ryou. I didn't know you could cook."

"Well Bakura's an idiot and Malik is who-knows-what. I need to know if I want to live. I also need to know other things but that's another story for another day," Ryou answered, twisting some spaghetti onto his fork. "So how's life been treating you?"

"Like I ran over its dog," he sullenly replied. "I've been having… problems… with…things," he hung his head. Ryou leaned forward with a concerned look.

"With what, Yugi? You can trust me, I won't tell anyone. No promises with Bakura, though. You never know when he's listening."

"Well, I'm having trouble with relationships. I can't find out if a certain person likes me or not," he answered. "Do you know any ways to tell?" Ryou found this as his chance for who-knows-what he was planning. I guess we'll find out, hm?

"Well, they find any chance at all to talk to you." Yugi nodded. "And they make you food." Yugi nodded again. "And they always give you good advice." Yugi nodded, a little more slowly. "They also have accents." Yugi just stared.

"Oh my god…"

"Yes, Yugi. Don't be too surprised."

"BAKURA LIKES ME!"

"What? He's never made you food ONCE in your life. God, Yugi it's so obvious. It's right in front of you. Literally."

"What- oh."

"Yes, Yugi."

"So the violinist has the hots for me. I KNEW something was up when he showed up randomly with a (very nice) bow. Wow, Gerald. I wouldn't have expected this from you. I didn't know you were like that."

"OH MY GOD, YUGI. IT'S ME, FOR BLOODY SAKES."

"What? Oh, that makes more sense."

"So. What do you think?"

"I think this is awesome that's what I was hoping."

"Oh goody :D"

Then they lived happily ever after. No, I'm kidding. That wouldn't make an interesting enough story. Let's back it up a bit to see what REALLY happened.

"Well, I'm having trouble with relationships. I can't find out if a certain person likes me or not," he answered. "Do you know any ways to tell?" Ryou found this a bit weird.

"Um…well. They… get all blushy around you, and…I don't know I've never liked someone or had someone like me. At least not yet… It could happen, and when it does, I'll tell you," Ryou answered, bit awkwardly, for all you people who couldn't tell.

Haha, hey Ryou. Tell Yugi you think he's HOT, Bakura commented.

Shut the bloody hell up, Ryou thought back.

Hey Ryou. Hey Ryou, tell him you want to get into his PANTS.

Shut UP Bakura. Don't make me do anything I'll regret.

You don't have the balls.

YOU don't have the balls.

Well of course I won't have balls if YOU don't. I'm in YOUR body.

This is really awkward shut up. If one could think growl, he just did.

"RYOU," he heard Yugi scream. Ryou shook his head and looked back at Yugi.

"Yes, Yugi?" He asked, mentally punching Bakura in the face. If one could.

"I called your name 7 times. What's with you?" Ryou blushed and scratched his head…and little too hard. It was probably the anger…or his hands were just shaky.

"Oh, um, I was…never mind." He hugged his shoulders and blushed more. Yugi looked at him, his head cocked slightly to the side. Ryou looked up, only to see the cute expression and blush more.

"Are you okay?" Suddenly, Yugi had an epiphany. He was blushing, and had made him a candlelit dinner. And had a violinist. All of this under the moonlight. It was a…he couldn't even think the word. But he could say it.

"Date."

"What?"

"Um….May 2. That's the date."

"Of what?"

"Of…today."

"It's November 12."

"Oh." Yugi blushed at his stupidity. He had the excuse, though. He was the one that actually liked the boy sitting in front of him. Ryou had mixed feelings, as far as Ryou knew. And Yugi only thought Ryou liked him, but Gerald was oblivious of it all. Confusing, right? Not really.

Ryou leaned his elbows on the table and held his head in his hands. He has no clue what was going on with his poor clueless little British mind of his. Not that British people are clueless…I mean that he is clueless, and is British. Totally different.

Yugi just twiddled his fingers. "Um, wanna come to my room and we could do homework? I need help with my math. Yami normally helps me with my homework, but he sucks at math. He only knows History, the Egyptian part, and Science, the robotics part which makes duel monsters come to life. Other than that, he's useless." Ryou agreed and followed Yugi to his room.

In Yugi's room, Yugi sat on his bed while Ryou sat at the desk. They didn't even bother pulling out their homework, because the teachers never checked it anyway. In fact, sometimes the teachers didn't even show up. Nobody cared. They were busy playing card games.

"So Ryou, what do you think about the weather?"

"It's…nice."

"Cool."

"Yeah. Weather is…cool."

"Yeah."

Hey Ryou, hey Ryou. Tell Yugi you wanna have his babies~

That's not even possible! We're both boys!

You're a boy?

Oh my god Bakura. If you want to know, look down. But don't…it's my body.

"Ryou. You're spacing out again," Yugi said, quite loudly. Out of the blue, Bakura took over for only a split second, and the two hikaris found their lips pressed together. Ryou didn't even pull away, mostly because he couldn't. Yugi had his hand behind Ryou's head, holding him there. Ryou closed his eyes, feeling Yugi's warm breath against his cheek. Ryou opened his mouth, and he felt Yugi's breath on his lips.

And the feelings were mutual. Yugi was enjoying this as much as Ryou was, if not more. He tangled his fingers into Ryou's soft silver hair and licked his lips. He heard Ryou sigh, so he took it as an invitation. He slipped his tongue against the other hikari's and heard him moan slightly. He liked this. He liked it a lot. He liked it too much.