A/N: Before you are starting to think, 'Not another Jou/Mai (Joey/Mai) fic again!' Let me tell you… one: This is loosely based off both Yugioh the Shadow game and Duel Monsters series, but not the duels. I'm trying to write what happens if this happens in real life… or… erm… (sweatdrops) Two: The Japanese names are used here, so don't be surprised. Three: This fic… erm, there are some that based of true experiences of mine. Believe me… I hate getting in a love problem. Especially if it's two of my friends that I know… AHHHH! THIS IS GIVING ME A HEADACHE ALREADY! MY FRIEND IS TOO CHICKEN TO TELL MY BEST FRIEND HE (insert the L-word here…) HER!

Oh, by the way, the characters are acting out of character, but some might act the same. And I'm using the Japanese names instead of the dubbed ones.

Standard Disclaimer: YGO or Rurouni Kenshin doesn't belong to me. GET THAT?


Japanese names (English name is on the right) for Yugioh since everybody heard the dub…:

Yugi Mutou: Yugi Moto

Yami Mutou: Yami Yugi (his real name… I WILL NOT TELL!)

Katsuya Jyounouchii (Jou): Joey Wheeler

Anzu Masaki: Tea Gardener

Mai Kujyaku: Mai Valentine

Honda Hiroto: Tristan Taylor

Ryuji Otogi: Duke Devlon

Ryou Bakura: Bakura (I have no idea WHY they can't just put his real name down.)

Malik Ishtar: Marik Ishtar

Seto Kaiba: … the same name. Seto Kaiba.

Mokuba Kaiba: Again, the same name.

Shizuka Jyounouchii: Serenity Wheeler

Sugoroku Mutou: Solomon Mutou

More will be displayed soon. Along the way, I should tell some other characters' names…

Megumi Higato (OC… and NO, this not a Mary Sue! Trust me!.. I think…)

Jin Fuduka (OC)

Yumi Takashi (OC)

Ushio (some character from Yugioh the Shadow Games)

Professor Yoshimori (a character from YGO the Shadow Games)

Professor Hopskin (from YGO Duel Monsters)

Kenshin Himura (RK)

Kaoru Kamiya (RK)

Aoshi Shinomori (RK)

Misao Makimachi (RK)

Sansosuke Sagara (RK)

Megumi Takani (RK)

Again, more should be displayed soon…


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Stuck with You

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AU Fic (takes place in same place, same time, but different story)

PG-13

Romance/Humor/Drama


Summary: Jou is the rough guy. Mai is the popular girl. Jou and Mai hate each other. Literally. Their friends believe that they like each other, but they really don't want to admit it. They were wrong... kind of. Things were already out of hand for Domino High because of a couple of events. To make things complicated, two of their friends decided to handcuff Jou and Mai, which made things get out of hand… literally, again.


Chapter 1: The Rough Baka and the Popular Beauty


"Hiroto Honda,"

"Hai,"

"Ikari Shigure,"

"Hai!"

"Jyounouchii Katsuya,"

No response.

"Jyounouchii Katsuya…?"

Again, no response.

The icy blue eyed, black haired teacher sighed as he rubbed his temples. "All right then, I will count Jyounouchii-san abse-"

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

BAM! CRASH!

"AHHHH! CHIKUSHO!"

"What in the world?" One student abruptly asked. Some of the students heard the loud crash and ran over towards the door to see what it was. The teacher mentally groaned as he shut his attendance book. A crowd gathered outside the pile, which was covered in smoke.

When the smoke was cleared, sixteen year old Jyounouchii Katsuya was revealed, lying on his front, facing down. He was covered in heavy textbooks, a couple of notebooks, and his legs are tangled up in a cart, which read, "3-2", scawled in Sharpie. His book bag was still attached to him, and it wasn't open. And the worst thing about this crash was where it landed.

It landed in the door to the book storage room.

A wave of laughter escaped from many students as the young man tried his failed attempts to stand up from the pile of books and the cart. Three teachers helped his legs by moving the cart and the heavy textbooks that were bound to damage the cerebrum… no wait, the head.

"Itai…" he muttered to himself as he stood up.

"Dude! Jou, you okay man?" one of the students asked him.

His eyebrow twitched as he rubbed his head, "Am I okay? NO, I'M NOT!"

"And here he goes…" his teacher grumbled under his breath. Some of the teachers were expecting the same thing also and so did the students. Only few of them weren't expecting a loud reaction from the troublemaker.

"I HAD TO WAKE UP EARLY THIS MORNING BECAUSE I WANTED TO GET TO SCHOOL EARLY! AND GUESS WHAT? FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, I GOT INTO THE BAKA MONITOR'S WAY AGAIN!"

The baka monitor is actually Ushio, a senior.

"AND YOU KNOW WHAT? HE WAS THE ONE WHO PUSHED THIS CART OF BOOKS ON ME!"

The student body (not teachers) gasped. Nobody dares to speak about that bully at the time like this… right?

"Excuse me, Jyounouchii-san," a small female teacher frowned, "But I'm afraid you're disrupting the classes of this school."

"So?" Jou glared at the teacher, "I'm making a point here!"

"So, I'm afraid you're coming with me, young man!" The principal dragged him by the ear as Jou yelled for the "old geezer to stop pulling my ear!"

A lot of students were laughing while some of the teachers shook their head in disbelief. His teacher however, sighed in annoyance, even though he rather not show emotion.

"He is impossible to control at the age like this." he muttered to himself out loud. Everybody else agreed; they were not surprised at this.

Then, as the students returned to class, a student asked, "Shinomori-sensei? Are you going to count him absent now?"

He paused. "No," his emotionless answer came as he walked over towards the class.

-Principal's office-

"I swear! I was late because of Ushio!" Jou exclaimed, trying his best to defend himself. "I was going to class when he came to me and-"

"Jyounouchii Katsuya," the principal groaned, "You have an incredible history of causing havoc with the sophomores for this year, and I am getting worried."

"Oh great; now you sound like my mother."

"…"

Jou blinked, "Oh.. Gomen. Go on, why don't you?" Geezer…

"You were beaten up everyday by some unknown cause; you pulled a prank on the history teacher, which we replaced with, nearly jumped into a pool that was around sixteen Celsius in the middle of spring, and do you expect us to now believe monitor Ushio shoved a cart of books on you this morning?"

"Well, why don't you explain the position I was in, the place I was crashed, and the screaming earlier?" Jou glared at him.

The principal groaned, "Well, I suppose I could let you off detention for once. But," he warned, "If I ever catch you late again, it would be automatic detention."

"Yes sir," Jou grumbled as he left. When he did, his left leg let out a nice amount of pain from the crash this morning. "ITAI!"

I pray to God for him. The principal sighed as he placed the files back in the corner of his desk, waiting for his secretary to pick the files up. "I suggest you go to Takani-san for your leg!"

"That's okay, gramps! I'm okay!" his voice answered before he crashed into an unsuspecting student, who was running an errand. "AAHHH! Gomen!"

And he says he's all right… The principal shook his head. Teenagers.

-10:54 AM: classroom 2-3…-

"Hey, did you notice the crash this morning?"

"Wasn't it Katsuya again?"

"Oh yeah… I wonder what happened to him…"

A lot of students were talking about the incident from the early morning. Since the exclamation Jou said about Ushio, the senior, shoving a cart of textbooks and notebooks for classroom 3-2 towards him and the wall, everybody thought it was a bad idea of blaming the senior monitor.

Scratch the last two words… the toughest senior monitor everybody is so scared off.

The subject was the gossip of everybody's subject the entire morning, especially for the most popular girl and her friends.

"Hey, Mai," fifteen year old Megumi Higato was talking to sixteen year old Mai Kujyaku and fifteen year old Anzu Masaki, "You did hear about that incident with Jou and Ushio this morning?"

The two others nodded, "Yeah, we've noticed," Anzu answered. "But I don't get it… why in all of the people of Domino, Jou?"

"I was wondering the same thing… why in the entire high school; Jou has to be picked on by that damn bastard…" Megumi muttered.

Mai frowned at Megumi's earlier comment, "Chotto, that's not true. My younger cousin has been picked on by that monitor,"

The two blinked, "You mean Yugi?" they asked at the same time. Mai nodded.

"Oh yeah… he did get beat up, right?" Megumi asked her.

"Yeah, so Jou isn't the only one," Mai nodded again. Then she noticed both of her friends looking at her in surprise. "Nani?"

"You never talk about Jou before," Megumi answered this time.

"And not to mention how much you hate him for a really good reason…" Anzu reminded her.

The blonde girl had the look of a slapped face to reality. "What? Damn it! I did talk about that no-good-for-nothing-mutt!"

I knew it, Anzu thought with a sweatdrop as she heard Mai rant on and on about how stupid Jou was. She still hates him…

Megumi just blinked, "Why… in the world am I not that surprised…?"

"Hey ladies, how's it going?"

Three glares were given to the source of the voice. Fifteen year old Ryuji Otogi laughed weakly as he sweatdropped, "Hey, hey… I was just joking!"

"Easy for YOU to say, onii-san…" Megumi grumbled under her breath.

Anzu frowned, "Ryuji, what are you doing here? You are not supposed to be in this area."

"… My desk is here, Masaki,"

"Oh," Anzu slightly blushed in embarrassment. "Gomen ne, Ryuji-kun."

The young man slightly chuckled as he placed his hand on her shoulder, "Hey, it's not your fault." Then his face turned serious, "I know you were talking about what happened earlier this morning, right?"

"Speaking of that," Megumi snickered, "How is Katsuya?"

"Oh," he sighed, "That idiot's fine. The principal said that if he ever did something to disturb the class again, then he'd get a detention."

"Good," Mai's voice was covered with hatred and coldness, "Let's just hope he'd stay out of the misery of this school. I'm getting sick and tired of that mutt always getting into trouble."

All three glanced at her.

"Oi... Mai?" Megumi blinked.

"Are… you all right?" Anzu asked, her voice slightly shaking with fear.

"Yeah. Ryuji, If you ever see that bastard Jyounouchii," Mai glowered at him, "Then tell him to stay out of my way."

"Sure, why not…" Ryuji held his laughter as he left. Once he left them, he sighed in relief that he didn't have to handle her wrath for her hatred subject: Jou.

Mai was the most popular girl in the entire school and she had pretty good friends. She was very pretty, head of the sophomore student council, and she was the "drama queen" by her friends. Everybody enjoys her company, but not all of them like her, nor does she to them. When it comes to Jyounouchii Katsuya, who just so happens to be his friend, also known as the "prankster", that's when sparks fly out in Domino High. Every year at school, it's the same exact hatred for each other, and it's been around for so many times, practically everybody in Domino knows about it. Only the big difference was…

"I can't believe you told me their parents are best friends! So, remind me why they hate each other again?" Ryuji asked Yugi Mutou and Honda Hiroto.

"Well, it's not that simple to explain… So, can we talk about something else?" Honda answered, hoping Ryuji can accept it and change the subject.

He didn't. "Look, Mai wanted me to tell Jou to "Stay-out-of-my-way-you-bastard," but I don't' get it, so can't you just-"

"Since both you and Megumi came here this year as new students, and you heard about Jou and Mai's hatred for each other, I think it's best if we tell you the short version," Yugi slightly interrupted. "I mean, it should be all right if you know about it."

"Well," Honda grimaced, facing his spiky haired friend, "I don't know, Yugi. Jou doesn't want us talking about her and, well, it's not that simple to explain, even if it's the short version."

"… Crap. Then maybe I'll get it out of your onii-san then, Yugi," Ryuji glared at Honda for a lower self-esteem to Yugi.

The fifteen year old Yugi Mutou blinked. "I… don't know. Honda might be right. But Yami on the other hand… well, there isn't any way you can convince him to speak about what happened between the both of them."

"Doshite?"

Then a baritone voice answered, "Well, Ryuji, it might be because I have a slight problem of my own right now!" Yami Mutou came behind him. The three could've sworn Ryuji jumped in fright when he heard his voice.

"Ah haha…" he slightly sweatdropped as he saw Yugi's elder twin, "Hi… where were you?"

"I was talking to Jou for a while… and he didn't seem too happy about what the principal said to him earlier,"

"Oh really?" Honda frowned, "And what's this problem of yours?"

"DO you really want to know?" he arched an eyebrow, "I don't think you should know about it. It's… personal."

"What? Okay, forget I asked," Honda complained to Yami, "Wonder what made Jou ticked off this time?"

Just on cue, Jou came in their conversation, creeping behind Honda, "Would you want to know?"

"Aah!" Honda slightly screamed as he fell off of his desk. His other friends laughed. "Not… funny," he glared at them as he stood up, brushing off the dirt.

Jou relaxed as he sat down, then his face became serious, yet a tinge of annoyance, changing the subject almost immediately after he came, "Well, Ushio DID shove that cart of books on me this morning, but my left leg only hurts for a day. And you know what that bastard said? "You-better-pay-up-otherwise-there-would-be-worse-things-happening-to-you-in-this-school-year!" What the hell did he mean by THAT?"

"…" Both Honda and Yami fell silent, arching an eyebrow at him with the look that read, "You-should-know-that-by-know…"

Ryuji, who was fed up with his friends not telling him anything about Jou OR Mai at all, spoke their responses for them. "What that monitor meant was you owe him money."

"Nani?"

"Jou…"

"How much?"

"Uh… Jou?"

"Tell me already!"

"JOU!" Yugi pointed at the dangling white paper that was stuffed coarsely from his right pocket. "You should look at that."

"Eh? What now?" Jou took the paper out, then silently read it. Then, his eyes widened in sheer anger and irritation when he read what the message was messily scrawled on the paper. As he flung the paper down and slammed his fist against the wall, loudly enough for the class next door to hear, his friends were surprised about his reaction.

"Jou? Hey, Jou, what did it say?" Honda asked his friend, breaking the sudden silence that formed inside the classroom. Ryuji noticed that Mai wasn't paying attention, but Anzu and Megumi were.

"That… damn… son of a…!" Jou never got to finish his sentence as he groaned in despair.

On the floor, the soon forgotten letter read:

"Blondie baka: U owe me, Ushio the monitor and bodyguard, thirty two thousand yen by tomorrow or I will do something worse."

-Lunch period: classroom 2-3 -

"I wonder what that was about earlier…?" Anzu asked Megumi as the two girls were eating their lunch and doing their homework at the same time.

Megumi shrugged, "I don't know." A silence formed, then she piped up again, "Hey, where's Mai?"

"Outside… she's hanging out with the popular group today, remember?"

"Oh… yeah. I forgot about that." Megumi wrote a sentence in her essay before she continued. "Hey Anzu?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you like onii-san?"

Anzu immediately blushed, almost dropping her pencil from answering the math formula she figured out. "Wh-what are you talking about?"

"You know…" her friend had a mischievous grin on her face, facing her friend. "Do you like Ryuji?"

Her brown haired friend was plotting revenge against her new friend inside her head as she tried to find her answer, embarrassed. "Erm… I… uh… well…"

Megumi giggled, "You go think about that. Maybe I should be glad I left you speechless for a while." Then she wrote another sentence before she even dared to talk in front of a seething friend of hers. "And I really needed that silence because you were bothering me for a while with the problems from Algebra 2."

"MEGUMI!" Her voice was laced in a warning tone.

"I'm just joking, Anzu!" she sweatdropped slightly. "Now, if you don't mind, I'll just grab something from the copy room…" Then she ran out of the door, panicking. Once she reached towards the hallway far enough from where Anzu was, she panted in relief, "Phew… what a relief. I was afraid I was a goner with Anzu there…"

"Meg? What the hell are you doing here?" a familiar voice asked her. Too familiar to be exact…

Crap. Turning around, she came face to face with the last two people on earth she would rather see. And there was one more person she would rather talk to right now…

It was Ryuji, Yami, and Honda. And they were in the hallway she ran into just so she can get away from Anzu, who was about to kill her just because she asked her if she liked her "brother."

"Megumi? Are you okay?" Honda asked her.

She blinked, noticing Ryuji and Yami were waiting for her answer. The only word she can answer out of her mouth at this awkward moment?

"…erk…" she muttered to herself before she walked slowly out of the hallway. "Eh heh… Gomen ne, onii-san… I was… argh, I'm outta here!"

She dashed off, embarrassed for her own good. Ryuji blinked, "… Megumi is crazy for her damn good…"

"You said it," Honda grumbled.

Yami wasn't the only one surprised, "Why was she running out in the first place?"

Then Anzu came, blushing red, but she had a furious, yet embarrassed expression on her face, "All right, have you three saw Megumi?"

"She ran thataway," Ryuji pointed towards the direction she ran off. "And she looked a little scared."

Anzu smirked, "Oh she should be. After all, she nearly EMBARRASSED ME!"

Then she stormed off, looking for her friend.

The three men blinked.

What was that all about? Honda thought.

Yami then realized why, but he needed an excuse from their conversation, so he had to make up a lie. "If the both of you don't mind," he said, walking off, "I'll be talking to Jou for a while. Meet me back at the classroom." That's not the best one I can come up with!

"Sure thing," the two others nodded. Their friend then left, going off on the same direction both Megumi and Anzu went, while the way to Jou as the other way. Honda rolled his eyes.

Then Ryuji nudged him, pointing after him, "Should we go after him? I highly doubt he's going to Jou at all."

Honda nodded, "Hoo yeah. Yami can lie, but he can't fool us."

"Tch… Jou went to see the other guys in the outside. And besides, isn't Mai with the popular group out there?"

"Yeah. I wonder why Jou wanted to go out there after Mai left earlier…?"

A pause came between the two of them. Then their faces slightly lost their color by a shade when they realized why Jou was REALLY going to the outside court.

"Crap," Honda muttered. "Jou's going wreck havoc on the lunch court again, and this time, on the popular guys."

"Do you think he's doing this to embarrass Mai?"

"… I guess… Maybe that's why Yami wanted to go the other way. Maybe we should be glad we're not with him and Yugi." Honda gave a smug grin, "I didn't fall for that lie of his for a minute!"

"Whose lie?"

"Yami's lie, dicey boy!"

His friend had the "What-the-hell-are-you-talking-about?" look on his face, "… Honda?"

"Yeah?"

"You DID fall for one of his lies once."

"When was that?"

Ryuji slapped his hand against his forehead as he slapped Honda on the back. "At the first day of school, moron! Now c'mon!"

-Meanwhile, outside…-

"So, let me get this straight: that damn senior bastard wants thirty two thousand yen from you?" one of the boys asked Jou.

He nodded, "You bet! That son-of-a-damn-bitch wanted that much from me, even though I already have my own problems!"

"Oh, you mean like…" the other guy pointed at a certain girl with blonde hair, "Her?"

Jou noticed her with the popular kids and let out a smug grin, "Oh yeah. Time for some chaos and havoc!" All of the other guys in Jou's group nodded as they decided out their battle plans for today's lunch period in Domino High.

"And here I was, trying to figure out what to do with that lame jerk that dumped my best pal in the coffee store…" One of the popular girls started to chat about silently gossip when a paper ball bonked on her head. "Owie!"

"What was THAT FOR?" she exclaimed at one of the popular boys.

"What did I DO?" he barked back, but he snatched up the paper ball. Then he read it, and he glared at the rough boys. "Did you throw this?"

"What? Do you accuse us?" one of the tougher juniors asked him. Then they all laughed, even Jou. Now they were mad. "All right then, are all of you that tough?"

"Oh ho, so NOW you want a challenge!" another sophomore laughed, fisting his left hand.

"You betcha!" the popular junior that picked up the paper exclaimed. Mai was now interested about this after talking with a couple of students.

"So, you boys want a challenge to prove you're a man?" she snickered.

Jou smirked, then stood up on the table, pointing at her, "Hell, YES! SINCE I HATE YOU SO MUCH, MAI, WE'LL HAVE THE CHALLENGE!"

"Yeah!"

"You can take them on, Jou!"

"C'mon, mutt boy!"

Jou smirked triumphantly, Since a lot of those guys are my pals, then I have a lot of support. Wish the other guys were here to see this, though!

This will be fun, especially in front of the bastard, Mai thought, smiling evilly. "So, how about it?" she asked the popular group, "Want to take them on?"

"Oh yeah!"

"Let's show them!"

"We'll be much better than those ugly thugs!"

"All right then, Jou," the junior guy smirked, standing up from the popular table, "How about it then? A fist fight?"

"A fist fight would be fine!" he smugly laughed as he jumped off from the table. "No cheating, though!"

"I should say the same, mate," the junior laughed, cracking his fists, "Let's have at it, then!"

Yugi and fifteen year old Ryou Bakura were talking to each other when they saw the now proclaimed fight that is going on, "Yare, yare… should we get involved?"

"Dame," Ryou sighed, obviously not wanting to join, "Can we see your other friends for a while?"

"Eh… okay," Yugi shrugged, "Why not?" The two left to enter inside the classroom while a fight was now broken out in the court.

-Back inside…-

"Chotto! YAMI!"

"I'M BUSY RIGHT NOW!"

"SLOW DOWN, WHY DON'T YOU, HIGATO?"

"WHY ME? LOOK, ANZU, I'M SORRY ABOUT EARLIER!"

"I'M NOT GOING TO FORGIVE YOU FOR THIS!"

Yami was running after Anzu, who was running after Megumi for teasing her about Ryuji, with Ryuji and Honda following him. Al couple or a few of the students blinked at this sight, wondering about the chase scene that was before their eyes. Anzu was close to Megumi in order to strangle her, Yami was close to grabbing Megumi from being killed, and Ryuji and Honda were about to grab Yami, when they heard a loud cheering and shouting on the outside.

"What the hell?" Honda stopped, but he crashed to Ryuji, who grabbed onto Yami's shirt, who nearly crashed into Anzu, who grabbed Megumi, who fell to the ground, laying face down.

"ITAI!" the four others screamed at the same time.

"Get off of me, Hiroto!" Ryuji groaned.

"Why don't YOU let go of my SHIRT?" Yami's irritated voice surprised Ryuji.

"Well, can't YOU get off me?" Anzu asked Yami (more likely irritated).

"If Anzu lets me go before she can kill me by crushing me to DEATH!" Megumi's voice was muffled from the pile as the result of the domino effect that happened. "THAT GOES FOR ALL OF YOU!"

"Hey, I didn't know!" Honda helped the others up. "I didn't know I can create the domino effect! I just heard a couple of screaming out there!"

"Oh, and thanks to you, we nearly got squashed like a bug," Anzu glared at the pinhead.

Ryuji glared at him as he gave him a smack across the head. "You better not crash into me next time." Before he can continue, Yami gave him a kick on the leg.

"Bakatachi…" he muttered. "You are a hypocrite, Ryuji."

"Same for you!" Megumi glared at Yami, who tried to hit him, but his hand grabbed her fist to clasp it tightly. "You crashed into Anzu!"

"Oi, she was chasing you," he answered back, "And you were embarrassed back at the hallway. Do you mind explaining that?"

Before she did, another two voices reached them, "Oi! Minna!"

"Yugi?" Yami blinked.

"Ryou-kun?" Megumi asked at the same time as Yami. (Note that he never let go of her hand.)

The two boys ran towards them, panting and heaving at the same time.

"You okay?" Anzu asked them. "You look like you ran through the entire building."

"We nearly did!" Ryou panted, "You better look outside…"

"Huh?" all of them asked.

Yugi pointed, "Look out the window. You might find it interesting…"

They took a look and what they saw next had them horrified.

"Masaka?" Honda exclaimed.

"What are they doing now?" Megumi groaned, exasperated.

Anzu then saw who was in the fight, "Hey, isn't that Jou…?"

"Who is he fighting?" Yami asked, pointing at the junior he was fighting against.

"No idea." The two other boys answered at the same time.

"Just what are they doing? Getting themselves into more trouble?" Ryuji asked, "Didn't they cause enough trouble already?"

"For just one day…" Ryou muttered.

Yugi nodded in agreement, "I hate it when this happens."

They all nodded to agree with Yugi.

-On the outside…-

"C'mon! Beat the crap outta him!"

"You can beat him!"

"Hurry up with this fight; I want to see the casualties!"

"Ganbare!"

"I bet Jou would win!"

"No way, it's the junior guy I'm betting on!"

Mai let out a laugh as soon as she saw the two boys fighting. "One popular boy and the guy I hate so much in a fight. This is great!"

Jou and the junior boy had a lot of bruises and scratches all over them as they were fighting against each other. But just as they were about to get into a more brutal stage of fist fighting, somebody blew a whistle so loud, somebody's ear would just crack.

"All right, what the hell is going on here?"

It just so happen to be the gym teacher, Sagara-sensei. He was irritated and some other teachers were with them.

"I can see there was another fight here this week," A teacher for the seniors observed the damages done. "And it's the same two groups."

"Brilliant…" a teacher grumbled under his breath as he brushed his red bangs across to observe it more. Then he motioned the two students to come over. "Now I want a full explanation about this fist fight that occurred here. What happened?"

"Well, you see-" both Jou and the junior boy started off then a female teacher for the sophomores interrupted them.

"Hold on, Himura-san. Why can't you just let them get treated by Takani-san, then you can talk to them?"

"…" Thirty year old Kenshin Himura was silent as he faced the two boys. Then he sighed, "Fine. Do what Kamiya-sensei told you. Then meet me in my classroom after school in room 2-3. Understand?"

"H-hai!" the two boys exclaimed.

Then, once the teachers and students left, Jou glared at the junior that he was fighting against, "You know what? I will get you even one day!"

The junior guffawed, "Oh really?"

"Yeah! I BET!"

"Fine," he smirked, "Besides, that was a good fight."

Jou nodded, but he wasn't smiling, "Yeah. That was good." Deep down, he wasn't that happy it was a good fight. Then he glared at Mai, who was staying to glare at Jou and see that they were the ones to go to the clinic.

"Mai," Jou glared at her as they walked past by.

"Jou," Mai glared back at him.

"Witch,"

"Bastard,"

"Bitch,"

"Mutt,"

"Wench!"

"Blondie no baka!"

"DUMB BLONDIE!"

"SON-OF-A-BITCH!"

"All right, all right, yamerou!" the junior sweatdropped at the "small" talk that went on between the both of them, "Geez! Can't those two rest for a while?"

-Back inside…-

"I can't believe this," Megumi was against the wall. All of the students have about ten minutes until classes begin again. "Himura-sensei stopped them in time before there was actually blood."

"We should be relieved," Anzu sighed, checking her watch. "Wouldn't the principal expel them?"

"More like giving them Saturday school!" Ryuji joined in their conversation, "If anybody knows Jou better, it would be Honda, Yugi, and Yami. I have no idea why I said Saturday school."

"Well, Jou doesn't keep with his studies, and yet, he gets the highest grades in class," Honda looked out the window. "It's funny. Mai's the opposite for studying, but she's smart."

Yami nodded, "Exactly. I'm even surprised the two can actually make it this far without killing each other,"

Megumi and Ryuji blinked at each other in surprise. "So… this has been on for how long?" Ryuji asked them.

"Since second grade," Yugi answered. "It's also weird that their families are best friends."

"I wonder how THEY survived?" Ryou wondered. They about it for a while.

Then they groaned at the same time.

"Aren't you supposed to be prepared for your next class by now?" The small teacher with blue eyes asked them.

"Ah, we already did, Makimachi-sempai," Honda answered, not realizing she was an adult. " We did it when lunch period started."

A vein popped out of her head as twenty-eight year old Misao Makimachi ran over to Honda and started to strangle him, "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU CALL ME, PINHEAD?"

"Ack! I mean… (gags) Makimachi (gack) sensei!" Honda choked out his answer.

"Thank you," she was now relieved. The other students faced her in surprise.

"Sometimes, I worry about you, sensei," Anzu sweatdropped. "You are just like Jou…"

"That baka student?" she frowned, "Eh, I won't worry about him, you know."

"Uh, sensei?" Yugi pointed at the floor, "I'm sorry to bother you, but you dropped your files,"

"AAHHH! NO, Damn it!" she ran over to the dropped files, "I looked forever for those! They are for the next couple of classes!"

"Okay, NOW I'm worried," Anzu muttered out loud for the others to hear.

Yami nodded. A rumor has it that Makimachi-sensei has been into teaching for two years, but she can't keep organized.

Then, just as they were about to assist her, another teacher stopped by to help out the poor teacher.

"You should be more careful of where you drop things, Misao,"

"I know, I know, I'm sooo careless, aren't I?" she let out a small laugh as she grabbed a file. When the teacher gave her another file, she was about face him to thank him when she saw thirty-eight year old Aoshi Shinomori, handing her the file.

CRAP! She silently thought. I see Shinomori-san here, and he's handing me a file! In front of the students! Ah, this is embarrassing!

"Ah, Makimachi-sensei?" Ryou interrupted her thoughts.

"Y-yes?"

"You're… blushing,"

"Nani?"

The students laughed as she tried to prevent herself from killing them when she realized the teacher was trying to hand her a file.

"Misao, here. I will handle them later,"

"You will?"

Now they all fell silent. "Crap, don't tell me you're gonna make us write an assignment, Shinomori-sensei!" Honda panicked.

"…"

"Did you really have to say that?" both Megumi and Yami exclaimed at the same time. Then, when they realized they said it at the same time, they slightly blushed, facing away from each other. Anzu, Ryuji, Yugi, Ryou, and Honda laughed at this.

"We'll see," the emotionless teacher answered in his deadpan tone. "Go to your classes." Then he left.

-Meanwhile…-

"OWWW!" Jou howled as the pain of the alcohol stung his scratches. Thirty-two year old Megumi Takani held his arm while the bandaged junior held him. "Itai!"

"Do you want to be treated or not, Katsuya?" the doctor demanded.

"It's Jou," he dryly answered, glaring at her.

The doctor arched her eyebrow before she continued. "Honestly… Mai?"

"Yes, Takani-san?" Mai asked politely, coming up to her.

"Can you hold Katsuya like this while I get bandages?"

"Sure…" she smiled evilly as Jou glared at Mai, "Why not?"

The doctor went up to look for bandages as Mai sat down to hold Jou. Then she turned her icy expression towards him. "Listen, you bastard. I don't care if you get into trouble or not. But I'm not going to be blamed for this!"

Jou narrowed his brown eyes at her, trying to punch her when she pinched his arm. "Itai! Listen, bitch, I''m not done with YOU yet!"

"Oh yeah?" Mai smirked, expecting his challenge. "What is it?"

"I'm going to do something to you, it'll ruin your reputation as the popular peacock of this school!"

"Ha! And I'm going to do something to ruin your chances of being the rough man, thinking that you are so tough and all!"

"Oh yeah?" Jou glared at her. "Well, are you going to do it by yourself?"

"Yes, I will! I'm not that stupid like you!"

"Tch, like I'd rather get stuck with another girl than you!"

"I would die than getting stuck with YOU!"

"Fine!"

"Fine!"

The doctor sighed, thinking of someway to prevent those two rivals from killing each other literally. This is what hell must feel like between me and niwatori-atama… I hope somebody can do something about those two already!

-Later, after school…-

"Hey, Anzu! Megumi!" Ryuji hollered for the two girls to come with them for a while.

"Hey, onii-san," Megumi and Anzu ran towards where Ryuji, Yami, Yugi, Honda, and Ryou were. "What is it?"

"You know where Jou is?" Honda asked.

They all paused. "I… do not know that answer," Anzu answered.

"I think he got a detention from Himura-sensei," Yugi frowned, "but I might be wrong. How did that fight start, anyway?"

"I heard that Mai challenged Jou to fight with that junior guy at lunch," Ryou frowned, "Then that's when the fight broke out. Even after the fight ended, Mai and Jou were still arguing like… how do I say this?"

"An old couple?" Ryuji answered for him.

"That's it! That's how they always fight!"

"I swear to Kami-sama," Megumi complained, "I don't know WHY they are fighting like this, but I think they have something between them! Like… I don't know!"

"Like a relationship?" Yami frowned, "Megumi, they have been fighting for eight or nine years, and I highly doubt they will actually stop arguing for a very long time!"

"Or until we die…" Ryuji muttered. Then he had an idea, but would they agree to it? "Hey, guys? I think Megumi and Yami might be right. There IS something like a bond between them."

"… What are you getting at?" Honda motioned his to hurry up. The others were waiting for him to start talking about his idea. But they didn't know Himura-sensei and Shinomori-sensei were listening to them because they were about to ask them about the fight. (Sagara was in charge with detention.)

"Do you think Mai likes Jou by covering up her feelings by being his rival that hates him all the time?" Ryuji asked, surprising them.


-To be continued-

A/N: My hands are tired, and here I am, staying up late at two in the morning! I guess this is what you mix me with sugar and pizza…

Okay, I'm writing their Japanese names here for a reason: I do not like the dubbed, okay? I watch it, and I'm thinking, wtf…? Okay, no offence, but it makes them act like idiots.

I'm sorry, but they do.

Second of all, I decided to place the Rurouni Kenshin characters as teachers for a reason. But I'm not telling you just yet.

And there might be spoilers for the YGO series since I'm placing the new characters, so, be warned.

And… if this story confuses you, then you can tell me by reviewing me. Gomen about it! To tell you the truth, I am not that good into making stories any sense…

Read and Review!

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Glossary:

Hai: 1.(when calling roll) Here! 2.(when responding) Okay!

Itai: Oww!

Baka: Idiot

-san: this is honorific and the most polite to say somebody's name. Well, for the adults, that is.

-sensei: The term for teachers in Japanese schools

Gomen/Gomen ne: I'm sorry!

Nani: What?

Onii-san: Big brother

Doshite: Why?

Yen: the currency in Japan.

Chotto: Wait!

Bakatachi… : You morons…

Oi: Hey!

Minna: Everybody

Masaka… : I don't believe this…

Dame.: Don't.

Chikusho: In the RK series, Sano uses these as curse words.

Yare, yare… : Good grief…

Ganbare: You can do it! (Consider yourself lucky the friendship speech isn't involved with this fic…)

Yamerou: Stop this!

-sempai: addresses that one's a senior.

Niwatori-atama: apparently, Sano's nickname he was given by an apparent fox lady.

Kami-sama: God