-1"HIKARI, WHAT THE HELL!

Where the hell are you! It is 8 am on a Saturday; get me my goddamn beer NOW!"

"It's Friday Yami; I need to get ready for school. You can get it yourself."

Downstairs

A loud thump is heard when said Yami punches a hole through the wall, and loud footsteps making themselves up the stairs follow the loud bang.

Ryou knew it would be coming, but he had to stand up for himself at least one day in the whole week. Ryou's door was angrily thrust open and a fuming white haired teen made his way in, and slowly walked up to what looked like his twin. He stopped as soon as he was nose to nose with the shorter male.

"Now Hikari, what have I said about making me angry so early in the morning, hm?"

Ryou tried to speak, but he was too uncomfortable having little space to himself.

"I…"

"You what Hikari… Forgot? Do I have to remind you what happens every time you disobey me?" Bakura enjoyed tormenting Ryou, and leaned in closer just to make the boy uncomfortable. Ryou could feel his Yami's hot breath against his face and tried not to shift as his Yami moved his face closer to his ear.

"You're lucky I'm not in the mood, I'll make your life miserable later," Bakura whispered into Ryou's ear, and Ryou tried to make his way towards the door as quickly as possible, but Bakura was quicker and slammed his hands against the wall, trapping Ryou once again. "Now, now, what's the hurry? I forgot to mention one last thing. Remember to hide those wounds; you wouldn't want your only friends thinking you're a freak. They'll just end up leaving you like your family did. No one wants a pathetic person anyway!" Ryou felt tears building up and made his escape as soon as Bakura dropped his arms.

Ryou ran to the farthest area in the house and leaned against the nearest object. He felt like crying his heart out, but he knew that would give Bakura another reason to tease him.

'I wish things could be different. Well, there is no point in thinking this now; I have to get to school.' With that final thought Ryou walked out the door and hoped for a better day at school.

Ryou realized it was getting late and he started making a run for it until a sleek, shiny, black car made its way in front of him. 'First Kura threatens me and now I'm going to get kidnapped? This is beginning to be a crappy day.' His thoughts were cut short when the rear window rolled down; it was none other than Kaiba.

"You look like a fool, hurry up and get in" Kaiba had the usual scowl on his face, and it was hard to tell if he was joking or serious. The ride to school was long and Kaiba couldn't believe that Ryou was going to run it all the way.

"You do realize that school isn't as close as it seems don't you?" Ryou just sweat dropped.

"Well I ran into some trouble, and I just wasn't thinking." Ryou was too embarrassed to look at Kaiba, but was thankful the male gave him a ride.

"Speaking of trouble, I was wondering if you could help me with something. I know that you're the only person that won't laugh in my face." Ryou couldn't believe that he was being asked for help, let alone by Kaiba, "Sure, but I don't know how much help I'd be, you know everything about everything, you're Kaiba! How can there be something you don't know how to handle?"

Ryou's words made Kaiba hesitant, but he needed the help, so he didn't pay much attention to the other's words. "Well, it hast to do with a certain someone, they are incredibly obnoxious, loud, unbelievably stupid, and dense beyond words…" Kaiba would have continued until next week, but thankfully Ryou stopped him, "It is Joey isn't it?" "Yes, but how did you know?" "Well the description makes it obvious enough, and there are rumors going around that you molested him."

Kaiba couldn't believe what he was hearing, he even started thinking out loud, "What the hell has he been telling people? Stupid party, I knew I shouldn't have held it, but no, everyone just had to disagree with me. Stupid Joey, and stupid alcohol!"

"Oh, so there were drinks involved? And just what kind of party was this?"

"Crap, I wasn't supposed to let you hear that, but since you already know, I guess I can tell you. Well it all started because of Mai's birthday, she blackmailed me into throwing a party, or she would tell Joey how I feel about him. She brought alcohol, and I didn't want to tell her anything because then she'd end up blackmailing me. I tried really hard to stop Joey form doing anything stupid, but it was too late. We ended up making out, and he fell asleep on top of me. Everyone left, and he woke up in my arms while we were on the couch. That's when he left yelling so loud the whole neighborhood could hear him, and I guess the next day he started spreading lies. I would just like to tell you that he came on to ME!"

"Well, you still shouldn't have kissed him," Ryou stated matter-of-factly. Before Kaiba could defend himself, they had arrived at school. Kaiba just hoped Joey stopped telling people he had molested him. Ryou noticed his depressed face and just told him not to worry, "I wish it was that easy, but thanks for listening to me." "It's no problem."

Unfortunately the peace didn't last long, "IT'S THE PERVERT, HIDE ME!" "Joey calm down, it's not nice top accuse people, especially those smarter than you" Tea tried to calm Joey, but it only gave him something to complain about even more. "There is nothing nice about perverts!" Tristan stepped in, "Shut up Joe, you know you liked it." Kaiba and Joey's faces turned beet red, and Joey calmed down.

Yugi walked into class, "Hey guys, what's going on, I heard yelling from down the hall, is everything alright?" "Hey Yug, well I was just upset because there are certain people in this world…" Tea decided to clasp her hands over Joey's mouth before he caused even more outbursts. Thankfully before Joey could resume where had left off the teacher walked in and began class.