WARNING!!!!
This fiction is rated "T" for Teen. It is rated T for a reason. This fiction is about High School, and will be about High School things. It will include things like language, adult situations, language, possible drug talk, language, yaoi, language, boyish attitudes, language, undesirable behavior of a minor, and language. And did I mention language?
Atem: Only about a hundred times.
Angel: Yeah, well you have a potty mouth Atem.
Anyway. Further warnings- It's a parody of High School Musical. In the sense that some lines may be familiar, there will be basketball, math, drama and a musical. And that's pretty much where the similarities end. I think. Also, I'm not using the soundtrack from High School Musical (except maybe for chapter titles). The cast will be new songs.
Also, a warning to potential flamers! Your flames shall be used to make toasty golden marshmallows!! Which you may not eat!!!
Yugi: Why do you need flames to roast marshmallows? We have Atem to do that!
Angel: Hmmm…. Good point, Yugi. *evil grin*
Atem: Oh for the love of Ra, not again!
I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!, High School Musical, Lifehouse, or Tacky Red Suits.
Chapter One- Start of Something New
Anything can happen
When you take a chance
……
This could be the start
Of something new
It feels so right
To be here with you (ooh)
And now looking in your eyes
I feel in my heart (feel in my heart)
The start of something new
-Start of Something New, High School Musical
The scene looked like something out of a romantic ski trip ad. It was nighttime-in fact it was New Years Eve- and the starry sky made a beautiful backdrop for the snow topped hills, the cozy-yet-huge lodge, and the smoke winding lazily out of the chimney. Yep, it was perfect.
And the small, spiky-haired youth inside would rather have been anywhere else.
The only reason he'd come on this stupid trip was because his Grandfather was giving a speech about and receiving an award for his recent findings in Egypt. He'd discovered the tomb of Anubis, and while the boy was glad for his Grandfather, he thought it unnecessary for him to attend because he wasn't even allowed to listen to the speech or see his Grandfather receive the award. No one under the age of 18 was allowed in that hall tonight. Instead they were being directed to a "Young Adult Celebration."
'Yeah right,' the boy scoffed to himself. 'A bunch of sugar pumped kids bouncing off the walls and into each other is more like it. No thank you.'
Tonight he was going to stay in his room and read his book, and nothing was going to stop him.
"Yugi Moto, how many times do I have to tell you to stop reading that book and get dressed? The party's about to start!"
'Oh, Grandpa's still here.'
Yugi didn't even glance up from his book. "I'm not going, Gramps. You know I can't dance. Or party."
"Nonsense! Besides, if you stayed locked up here all by yourself on New Years Eve, I'd feel guilty."
'And here he goes with the guilt trips again. Well, he won't get me this time!'
"I'm not alone, Grandpa! I've got my book!"
"That's not the same, Yugi. But… I can see that there's no changing your mind."
Yugi breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'll just call downstairs and let them know that I can't attend."
And there goes the relief.
"You can't do that, it's your party! Go, have fun; I'll be fine!"
Grandpa shook his head. "You can't have it both ways. Either we both stay, or we both go. It's your choice."
Well, what was he supposed to do?
"Fine, I'll go get dressed."
In the same lodge, a different spiky haired youth was also wishing to be anywhere but where he was. He could have been over at his friends house playing card games and sneaking beer while their parents weren't looking; but instead he was trapped on top of a mountain with no cable, no Wi-Fi, and a puny basket ball court that was overrun with little people from about 11 AM to 7 PM. In short, it was living hell.
And another thing- he was being forced to share a room with his step father. Okay, more like adopted father, but step father was just shorter and less complicated. And his step father was Maximillion J. Pegasus, AKA the Most Annoying Man in the World. He never stopped bugging his not-son about anything and everything, including the stupid party that was taking place in the lodge's second ballroom. Well, maybe there were some people who enjoyed that sort of thing, but not this boy! No sir, he was staying in this basketball court even if he had to chain himself to the wall to do so.
He dribbled the ball to half court, faked left, and then took aim for the basket. Just as he was about to shoot, the door swung open and banged against the wall hard enough to shake the basketball hoops. Startled, the boy threw the ball wrong and it bounced off the rim and to the floor. Livid, he turned to face the intruder and came face to face with his equally livid step father. He was already dressed in a tacky red suit and his long silver hair had been straightened into submission.
The boy opened his mouth to tell his step father to bug off, but Pegasus beat him to it.
"Atem Yami! Get dressed and get over to that party now, or I'll cut off your credit cards for a month! And you know I mean it!"
'Damn that man to the tenth circle of hell.' Atem swore in his head.
"Fine! I'm going!"
Yugi walked into the party and immediately knew he should've stayed upstairs, award be damned! Rather that the little sugar coated runts he'd been expecting, the place was overrun with sugar coated teenagers. Horny sugar coated teenagers from the looks of things.
'Well I promised Grandpa that I'd go, not that I'd stay forever. I'll pop in for all of five minutes and then I'll leave.'
Atem was having similar thoughts. He'd been cornered by about five different girls that night and all of them wanted to get him under some mistletoe. While Atem found them attractive, he was nowhere near plastered enough to allow himself to get roped in with these air headed rich brats, nor was there enough alcohol in the world to fix that.
Atem was just about to leave when the DJ got onto the microphone. "Well guys, it's time for our random karaoke picks! If you're hit by the spotlight, you're it!"
Atem smirked. 'Man I feel sorry for whatever loser gets suckered into that.'
Then he was blinded by a spotlight.
'Oh, hell on a pogo stick.'
"No! No w- Ah! Hey quite pushing me you-"
And before Atem could finish his curse, he was pushed up on stage. He looked around to see who else had been caught and saw another boy being shoved up onto the platform. The boy looked about as freaked out as Atem felt.
The DJ came up behind them and handed each boy a microphone. "Don't worry kids, someday you'll thank me for this." Then he smirked. "Or not." And with that he patted Atem on the shoulder, gave the other boy a wink, and jumped off the stage.
Atem glanced again at the boy. He was surprised at how short the kid was; he looked about twelve. And he still looked like he was about to faint. Atem gave the kid a smile and muttered, "Let's just get this over with, yeah?"
He looked to the screen and started to sing, thanking God that it was a song he was familiar with.
"Desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm closer to where I started
Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you"
And with that he turned to walk off the stage, but then the other boy began to sing.
"Forgetting all I'm lacking,"
And Atem froze.
"Completely incomplete,"
'Wow,' Atem thought. 'This kid sounds like…. Wow!'
"I'll take your invitation
You take all of me now,"
And then Atem joined in.
"I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you"
'Hey, this is kinda fun!' Atem though to himself.
There's nothing else to lose
There's nothing else to find
There's nothing in the world
That can change my mind
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
'Wow, I'm actually enjoying this!' Yugi realized.
"Desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm closer to where I started
Chasing after you....
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
Just hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment here with you
Yugi didn't even hear the applause coming from the watchers. He was too busy staring at the most handsome boy he'd ever seen.
The boy smiled and held out his hand. "I'm Atem."
"Yugi," he responded, taking the proffered hand.
"Nice to meet you." This time, it was in unison.
The second they jumped off the stage, Yugi realized that his drive to finish his book was gone. "Hey, Atem?"
"Yeah?"
Yugi looked away sheepishly. "Do you- I mean… are you doing anything? It's just, I don't know anyone here and-"
"WHAT?!? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
The DJ had thrown on some kind of dance track and Atem could barely hear his own words. He grabbed the kid- Yugi, he corrected himself- by the wrist and pulled him over to the edge of the room, where there was a sliding glass door that led onto an almost deserted balcony. It wasn't much better, but when they shut the door and walked to the ledge it was easier to hear each other.
"Well," Yugi started again. "I was going to-" He broke off, abruptly realizing that he'd seen this boy- Atem, he corrected himself- before. "Hey wait a minute! Do you go to Domino High?"
Atem nodded.
"I thought I recognized you! I go there too!"
Atem resisted the urge to smack himself in the head. "Oh yeah, I remember you now! I mean how could I not, you're the only other person in school who's crazy enough to style their hair after that of an Egyptian pharaoh."
Yugi smirked. Actually, his hair was slightly different from Atem's. Yugi's hair was black with edges dyed red and blonde bangs. Atem just had blond hair. "Hey," Yugi retorted playfully, "The Nameless Pharaoh had good taste!"
"I know, but all my friends thought I was nuts. I told them that it wasn't my fault that I'd been raises by freaking Egyptian History addict. He's the one who's responsible for this fiasco," Atem gestured behind him to where the party music was still blasting at ear-shattering volume.
"You're Pegasus' son, then?" Yugi asked.
Atem held back his twitch. "Adopted son," he said softly.
Yugi didn't notice the change in the other boy. "That's so cool! He's giving my Grandpa an award tonight. It's for-"
"Discovering the lost tomb of Anubis!" Atem finished.
"Yeah," Yugi sighed. "Actually, I'm only at this party because of my Grandpa. He said that if I didn't attend then he wouldn't go to the award ceremony."
Atem looked shocked. "He meant it?"
"Yep." Yugi tilted his head to one side. "So, you're a senior, right?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah." Atem hadn't been expecting the change in subject. "What are you, a freshman?"
Yugi scowled. "Hey! I'm sixteen, thank you very much!"
Atem smirked. "Touched a nerve, did I?" Then he quickly changed the subject before Yugi could respond. "So, I haven't seen you at school lately. Where've you been?"
"Oh." Yugi was thrown off. 'He noticed that?' "Well, when my Grandpa left for Egypt, I went with him."
For the second time Atem was shocked by what Yugi had said. "He just let you take off from school like that?"
Yugi suddenly looked very apprehensive. "Uh, yeah. See, I studied while we were there. And anyway, he and I both thought it would be best for me to take a break from school for awhile."
It was at that moment that Atem remembered why he knew that Yugi had gone missing. Before he'd left, he'd admitted to his friends that he was gay. And someone had overheard, and suddenly, Yugi's life had become hell. When Yugi had vanished, a lot of people had said that he transferred out and was going to some boarding school in Canada. Which had made no sense, but nobody had contradicted the rumor.
The boys were quiet for another moment, and then Yugi looked over to Atem. "By the way, I never got to thank you."
'For what?' Atem wondered.
"For what?" He asked.
"You saved me from the football team one day after school."
It took a few seconds for Atem to dredge up the memory, but eventually he did recall pushing Rex and Weevil off of some kid they were about to kick the crap out of.
"Wait, that was you? Wow, I feel like a complete moron."
Yugi gave him a sympathetic smile. "It's alright I'm used to people avoiding-"
"No, that's not what I meant!" Atem cried; unexpectedly he was finding it very important that Yugi not get the wrong idea. "I meant that I can't believe that I didn't realize sooner that that had been you."
Yugi didn't know what to say. He was sure that by this time Atem would have been halfway to New York, not still standing here next to him. After his "big confession", the only people who stayed by him were his friends Joey and Tristan- but they were kind of obligated to. The three of them had been friends since kindergarten. Joey was fond of comparing their friendship to herpes. "That shit is for life!" He'd say, before Tristan put him in a headlock and called him a "girly man" and told him to stop hanging around with his sister so much.
Yugi was pulled out of his thoughts by the DJ's voice over the microphone. "Alright guys! 15 seconds until the New Year!"
Yugi looked around wildly. No way it was that late! Atem looked equally shocked.
" 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!"
And then people started grabbing each other and making out.
Feeling suddenly very awkward, Yugi looked away from Atem's shocked face. "I should probably go find my Grandpa."
"Yeah," Atem replied, feeling suddenly very hollow. "I should probably go find Peg- my dad."
Yugi started walking away, and Atem called after him. "I'll see you at school, Yugi!" And Yugi turned back and waved. "Yeah, sure!" Even though he was convinced that Atem was just saying that.
Back in the hotel room, Solomon Moto turned to his Grandson and said, "So Yugi, how was the party?"
Yugi shrugged. "It was okay. I met up with this guy from school after the DJ made us get up and sing karaoke together."
Solomon gave Yugi a puzzled look, but said no more.
A few floors up, Maximillion Pegasus- having heard a similar proclamation from Atem, turned to his adopted son and said in a disbelieving tone, "Now really Atem, stop making up stories. You know full well that we didn't hire a DJ for this event."
Oooooh, spooky
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Atem and Yugi's song- Hanging by a Moment, by Lifehouse (which I don't own.