This is Questione di Gusti's new translation. Previous one was really... ugh, rough? And really, really bad. Hope this one'd be better,
Enjoy! (again lol)
Nani= what?
Mou Hitori no Boku= other me
Aibou= partner
The blond's big brown eyes widened so much in astonishment that they almost went out of their sockets.
The entire hall suddenly felt silent, all the eyes avaible and the not avaible too, detached themselves from whatever the object of their attention in the late twenty-seven seconds could be, to turn in desbelief to the small table where a group of friends, that everyone there in Domino knew, had its seat. The guys hairstyles were as weird as their clothes and the their eyes' color were awkward.
The new object of interest was the boy with the weirdest hairdo of them all: a halfway between a purple porcupine and a black sea-urchin, with the addition of an odd blond tuft (just to pass unnoticed) in the middle of his forehead, from wich hunged down long golden bangs.
Yugi often wondered what he had done wrong in life, but now that same question had begun to pound considerably stronger his small, cute, naïve little head.
Why hadn't he cut his tongue off yet? Or better: why hadn't he transferred to his Mou Hitori no Boku's father's grave yet? What he would do at that time for having his own sarcophagus, overlooking the pyramids, somewhere in Kings' Valley: the housing crisis wasn't a problem at all!
Not a single sound.
The poor guy was already of a shy nature and his cheeks used to get red very, very easily. All those staring eyes, staring at him, were really unbearable for his poor heart. Though, what did he say after all? Had that really been so weird? He thought his friends were more open minded...
Prevented somehow his eyes from getting out of their sockets, Jono-uchi regained a little of his composure and, approaching to his spiky haired best friend, he put his right hand on his forehead.
"Are… are you sure you're feeling good, aren't you?" the blond asked.
"Nani*?" blabbed Yugi.
"No, he does'nt have a fever" finished Jonouchi.
"What the hell do you know about that? Are you a doctor?" he was abruptly interrupted.
"While you, Honda, are actually Dt House himself, aren't you?"
"Maybe Yugi is just a little tired..." Anzu shyly tried to justify the boy.
"Yeah, you probably right: why should he say a thing so… absurd otherwise?" said Jono.
"Not more absurd than usual, you mean".
"Shut up Seto! This is serious businness!"
The brunet rolled his eyes. Sure, everything was always so serious with those guys: yami no games, the heart of the cards, ancient Egypt… yeah, sure: very seeerious businesses.
"Okay, may it be serious or not, it's definitely not my business: I don't give a damn about Yugi's preferences" and with that said, the young CEO stood up.
"Nice acting, Kaiba" Jono scolded him "A friend of yours has serious issues, needs help, and you let it go? You leave? We're going to talk later, you can be sure you're not getting away with this…" but Seto had already left, a bit embarrassed for Yugi.
"But I need no hel-" Yugi tried to protest.
"Yes indeed, Yugi. Do not worry: we are your friends and we're going to help you, it's our duty. Plus I'm sure this of yours it's just a phase. We will help you finding yourself, you'll see" Anzu said. Then she grabbed the boy's hand and stared at him piteously, like he was some sort of terminally ill kid, in an attempting to desperately cheer him up.
Yugi petrified in astonishment. He kept his silence, fearing an endless speech about the deep meaning of friendship. He had never expected his friend to get all this so seriously, to get so scandalized by a simple statement of Yugi!
He had for sure believed they would always support him. He thought they'd accept Yugi just the way he was. And to say it straight: he would never expect his sexual preferences to be so important!
"And for how much time you think… you've been… well… this way?" Jono questioned.
"I... I guess I was born... like this".
"And you never told us a word..." Honda seemed hurted and slowly shook his head.
According to such a reaction, Yugi thought he had better keep the thing hided.
"Aw, you guys are overreacting, I don't see anything wrong with that" said Otogi.
"Even if most of us actually have different tastes, you shouldn't be so shocked, not for something so banal. I also happen to have similar tastes from time to time. And, in the end, Yugi's our friend, he will ever be, regardless the sex of the people he might be in love with" he finished.
Again: not a sound.
Yugi was very undecided whether to thank Otogi for his brief speech, or to be even more worried about his friends' second, short-to-came reaction. He did well choosing the second option. Jeez, they were fickle indeed!
"Why yes!" a resounding slap on his shoulder almost made Yugi spit out his own soul. Jono-uchi!
"He's damn right, there's nothing wrong in you Yug'. You are different from us but this doesn't mean you really are... no, not this way, wait… er..what I mean is that you're not really different just because you've different preferences, 'cause true difference is… well...uh, not being different in that way…" Jono stuttered.
"The thing Mr Einstein Katsuya out here is trying to say, it's that for us you will always be the same Yugi as always" Honda smiled ( but only after he'd shut Jono-uchi up with a slap on his foreheadù).
"That's true, you bet it. We will always support you Yugi. No prejudices at all" Anzu stated. She was again staring at him with a poor-you-terminally-ill-guy look, smiling her fakest smile ever. Still, Yugi believed his friends seemed to have some sort of prejudices...
"But, Yugi, you're aware of what the true meaning of this statement of yours would be, aren't you? Millions of fangirls all over the world are going to cry in despair. They might even think of cutting themselves, of chasing you, yelling at you, saying it's all your fault if they had to trow away in the bin billions of poor, funny fanfictions. They might accus you of tricking them during all these years, the poor girls …" Jonouchi dramatically said.
Wait a minute! That was nonsensical at all, simply nonsensically absurd: now it was Yugi's fault? Wasn't all the embarrassment of being this way enough? What should he do more? It was just his nature, he tried to change himself but it had turned out to be useless. He wasn't like everyone else, he just couldn't. That was it. He could no longer pretend to be someone else, specially when he was with is Mou Hitori No Boku.
Obviously also the spirit was there at Burger World, he was still silent though, not a word, not even trough their mind link. And Yami was staring at him, which made Yugi feel, if possibly, even more embarrassed. He feared he had upset the spirit.
"Don't worry Aibou, you haven't offended me" he finally said, kindly smiling.
"Maybe non it that sense, but I will always be by your side, always".
Thank Godness! At least his other self understood him.
Finally that funny, pleasant lunch ended. Though, on his way to home, Yugi kept hearing those damn conformists people whispering and chatting behind his shoulders. What the...man! His sexual preferences were private stuff, how dare they talk of them like this?
He fastened his peace and finally he and Yami got home. The smaller took a breathe of relief.
"Thank Godness I have at least your support." Yugi said to his ruby-eyed friend. "Don't you feel uneasy near me now that.. you know how things really are, don't you?"
"Are you kidding? If my Aibou's happy, I'm happy too. Go find your soul mate, and if they're a good mate, the sex they actually are can go to hell!" Yami chuckled.
"Thank you Mou Hitori no Boku" Yugi said. Now he was truly relieved. Yami wasn't angry at him.
"Though, you have to agree with me that this is pretty strange..."
"Hey, you too now? I've just finished saying I'm glad you are supporting me…" Yugi complained.
"Yeah, I do, I really do, but it's truly an odd situation. Think of all the couples we know. You really stand out from the crowd..." he smirked.
"Yep. You bet it.
Marik, Bakura, Seto, Jono-uchi, Shizuka, Mai, Anzu, Miho, Honda, Otogi… all happily engaged and all happily scandalized for what I said.
But, dammit!
What's bloody wrong in being straight?!"
And it was that that hundreds, thousands, millions of bins all over the world were suddenly filled with tons of Puzzleshipping, Mobiumshipping, Rivalshipping, Kleptoshipping, Blindshipping... fanfictions. The new target of those foolish, youg witches of fangirls became Yugi's poor friends, which should make up for the lack of shippings due to the star-headed boy wthdrawal. Poor Yami, being Yugi out of the games, got shipped with every bloody thing. Because being alone seems to be the most awful crime in fanfiction's world. His new mates included Black Magician, Zork and even Kuriboh. The ancient spirit did not appreciate so much this new situation, and since then mind crush-recovered cases increased inexplicably. But he's not mad at Yugi.
The spiky haired little one, on his side, is still alone, and he's seriously thinking of marrying the Sennen Puzzle. Though he's grateful for he is no more mentioned in any sort of shabby fanfiction full of fluff-ness, in which he can do anything but blush and cry all the time. And he's also grateful to his Mou Hitori no Boku. Because, you see, in the case Yami had been wooing Yugi the whole time, after finding out his Aibou was straight, he would mind crush him for sure!