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Everyone looked at him in shock. He was terrified of Bakura. You couldn't even say his name or Ryou would shudder. Whether Ryou had lost his mind or something weird was going on. More than most likely, he had lost his mind.

"Sounds good to me," Yami said, his lips curling into an amused smile. It was as if he knew something that the others didn't and I didn't want to be let in on the joke. If he was the one laughing at it, there was no way that it was something that I would want to be involved in.

"Now that everything is settled, how about you tell me what I have missed since I went to the afterlife." He seemed like he thought that there would be something astoundingly interesting that would be talked about. How interesting could their lives be when the main source of chaos and cause for anything dangerous had left? (Yes, I am talking about him.)

I left before they could bore me with stories of how they had used friendship to overcome obstacles and whatever nonsense that would obviously come up in their discussion.

Yami P.O.V.

It was wonderful to be back with Yugi and the others. I had missed them so much while I was in the afterlife. I even think that one of the main reasons that Anubis let me come back was because I was annoying the hell out of him with my constant bad mood and depression.

I couldn't help but smile when I looked at Yugi. He seemed to have changed so much while I was gone. He was taller now. It was hard to tell at first, because I had grown too. I was now the actual height I had been when I was sealed in the millennium puzzle. When I shared a body with Yugi, I was shorter. The less the transformation when I took control, the easier it was on him.

His confidence seemed to have grown too. The way he carried himself was much more self assured, but he still held the wonderful childlike personality that made him so likeable. I could tell that his puppy dog eyes were still lethal weapons that no one could resist.

"What's happened to Anzu," I asked, having noticed that she wasn't even anywhere in the school. Yugi, Jou and Honda all groaned in unison. I raised an eyebrow, curious about what would cause them to so that.

"Did she finally annoy you guys to the point that you wanted to strangle her?" Bakura asked, obviously enjoying that thought. I gave him a reproving look.

"Don't worry Yami," Yugi said. "It's true, we were about to strangle her. She literally jumped us with a new friendship speech every five minutes. We all agreed that it was important, but there wasn't any need to go to that extreme. Then she was practically stalking me! I was afraid to leave the house to get some groceries for grandpa at one point. The worst part was that she wouldn't stop going about how she thought that homosexuality was wrong! I mean…"

"Homosexuality?" the other two yamis, Bakura and Marik, and I interrupted at the same time. Big modern words like that were not familiar to us.

"That's when someone likes another person of the same gender," Yugi quickly explained.

"Oh, gay people," the three of us said at the same time.

"Why was she going on about that?" Malik asked.

"That's right, we haven't told you yet, have we Malik?" He shook his head. Yugi giggled and Jou began grinning ear to ear.

"Well then," Yugi continued. "You should ask Honda."

We all looked at Honda and found that he was blushing. I was even more confused now than I was before.

"Did you have to put me in the spotlight on me, Yug? Having all of them staring at me is kind of embarrassing." He only grinned and waited for Honda to start speaking again. "Well, I need to leave. Lunch is almost over and I promised that we could hang out before it ended. You guys just tell them."

I could have sworn that demons or something were at his heels with how fast he ran away. I had no clue what was going on, and I was really wondering why Honda's face was beet red as he ran.

"Would someone please explain what the hell is going on already?" Bakura looked ready to kill someone.

"Okay, but you won't believe it," Yugi giggled again. "Honda and Otogi are dating. Have been for several months."

Bakura, Marik, Malik and I fell over like characters in those shows that I remembered Yugi watching. I believe that it was called anime.

"How did that happen," I asked, beyond shocked. "Weren't they both going after Jou's sister, Shizuka?"

"Jou should explain. They pretty much owe it all to him." He was no longer able to control his laughter and almost choked himself trying to breath. I didn't think our reactions were that comical, so I figured that the story was funny.

"Sure. You see, it happened at Yugi's Christmas party," Jou began. "They had been arguing like crazy about would get her under the mistletoe and kiss her. Finally, Yugi made a compromise. All three of them would stand under it and they would both kiss one of her cheeks at the same time. I decided to play a prank on them, so I pulled Shizuka out of the way at the last minute. They accidentally kissed each other and almost made out in front of everyone that was there. Honda asked Otogi out about a week later."

"You should have seen him when he did. We're all amazed that he didn't faint when Otogi said "Yes". He had to lie down for a while afterward, but they've both been really happy." Yugi smile wider as he thought back to this, at one point, impossible occurrence.

"If they're happy, than what is Anzu's problem?" I couldn't fathom what could possibly be wrong with that. They were happy with their decision and, from the way Honda ran to meet up with Otogi, they really enjoyed being with each other and couldn't really stand being apart for very long.

"Don't ask me," Jou said, shaking his head in disbelief. "I don't' have a clue. The entire school knows and nobody else seems to have a problem with it."

"Where is she now?"

"She went to a school in New York. Her parents are there too. She calls me every now and then, but it still seems uncomfortable to talk to her," Yugi sighed. "I don't know how Honda can just take hearing those things from her. She makes it sound like he has some kind of illness that needs to be treated."

There was so much more that I wanted to ask, but, unfortunately, the bell rang.

The rest of the school day passed slowly. I had spent five thousand years locked in my own tomb with nothing to do but stare at the walls and I still never thought that anything was as bad as waiting for the last bell to ring that day. I experienced such splendid relief as the annoying buzz ran through the air.

It was painful, though, when we all went our separate ways to go home. I wanted to talk to everyone, but I knew that they needed to go about their lives.

"How are the shop and your grandfather doing?" I asked as Yugi and I walked to his house.

"They're well."

"That's good." Then a thought popped into my head. "Are the others gay too?"

"Well, Shizuka is going out with Mai. Don't tell Jou though. Shizuka and Mai want to tell him themselves the next time that they come to visit." I blinked a few times. I always thought that Mai liked Jou. I was being thrown through a lot of loops that day.

"What about the others?"

"Ryou told us that he is when we were trying to help Honda relax before he asked Otogi out. Honda was terrified that people might find the fact that he was gay disgusting so Ryou told him to make him feel more normal and not as alone." I could easily imagine that. Ryou was always such a nice person and a very good friend. "Jou is gay too, I think. I've caught him staring at guys before and I swear that he ogles at Kaiba sometimes without thinking."

Another anime fall.

"You think that Jou likes Kaiba!" I swear my eyes must have been three sizes larger than normal.

"As I said, I've seen him staring at Kaiba and, lately, it seems that he starts fights with him just to get his attention. I think that Kaiba's insults are really starting to hurt him too. Other people calling him those names does not bother him at all."

Taking all that Yugi told me into account, I thought about this strange possibility. I also thought back to earlier at lunch. He seemed different than before. His soul seemed calmer, which was good, but his heart had also changed and his gaze did turn to Kaiba a lot when we sitting talking.

"I think that you may be right Yugi."

"It's terrible though. I don't think that Kaiba feels the same way. I really don't want Jou to get hurt." His eyes were beginning to tear up with his concern.

"Don't worry," I reassured. Just as I had noticed a change in Jou's heart, I had noticed a change in Kaiba's too. "They're both changing, and once they realize that for themselves, I believe that it will turn out for the best and they will be happy."

"Thank you," Yugi said, hugging me and digging his head into my shoulder. "By the way, I really missed you and I'm really happy that you're back."

"Me too," I said, returning the embrace and running my hand through his hair. I could feel him nuzzle into the crook of my neck.

Breaking apart, we continued walking to the game shop. It was such a relief to see it again as we approached its door, the warm feeling of finally being home after so long swept through me.

"Grandpa, I'm home," Yugi called out since his grandfather wasn't in the front. "I brought someone with me. You'll never guess who!"

I gave him a small reproving look, but couldn't stay dissatisfied with him when he looked so cute giggling as his grandfather began venturing through the house to get to us.

"Is it Ryou," he asked. "It's been a while since he came to visit."

"Nope." I couldn't help chuckling quietly as Yugi giggled to himself again. "Not even close."

"Then who?" he asked and then, finally made it through to where he could see us. He dropped the box he was carrying and stared at me in shock and awe.

"Hello, Soguroku," I said pleasantly, trying not to laugh. "It's nice to see you again."

Seto POV

I was in my limo with Mokuba on the way to my business, Kaiba Corp. Again, I was on my laptop, working out some bugs in the new software I was designing for my duel disks.

"Hey, brother, look! It's Honda and Otogi!" he called out suddenly. I looked up briefly and saw that they were, indeed right outside the limo.

They were going into a local café and holding hands. I could see them laughing at something one of them said and they looked as though they were having the time of their lives.

"Disgusting," I said going back to my work. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Mokuba sticking his tongue out at me.

"If you're talking about them being gay then you're a hypocrite." I sighed and looked up at him to respond. So what if I was gay? I owned the largest gaming company in the world and millions (at the least) used the other inventions I had come out with to make their everyday lives easier. If the public didn't like it, too bad for them.

"I wasn't referring to their sexuality. I was talking about how they are walking around as if they don't have a care in the world and are the only people in it."

"You know, you'll probably be just like them when you find the right guy." Then his face when from somber to amused. "Speaking of which, have you confessed to Jou yet?"

"Stop being ridiculous Mokuba." I seriously couldn't figure out why he seemed so determined to get me with Jou lately. It was absurd.

At last, the limo came to a stop in front of my office building. I waited for the driver to open the door and walked into the building.

As I walked through to get to the elevator on my way to my private office I was greeted respectfully with a bow by all of the employees I passed. I knew that most of them wanted something from me, but they knew that there was mo way in hell that I allowed anything to be an opening for them to get it. I was universally feared and respected.

"Good afternoon Mr. Kaiba," my secretary greeted me at the elevator.

"What's on the agenda today?" she glanced at her clip board and began reading everything off to me.

"A Brazilian gaming company has sent a request for a contract, some new ideas for games have come in, and a report on the construction progress of the new Kaiba Land Park has arrived." I nodded and proceeded into my office where the documents were waiting for me on my desk.

A few hours later, I was finally done with all of the annoying paperwork and tested out the modifications to the software I was working on. I was leaving to go home to my mansion, my thoughts centered around Mokuba. I needed to make sure he got his homework done, had eaten and gotten to bed at a halfway decent time.

I was mere feet from my limo when I got a strange feeling. I wasn't sure what it could possibly mean, so I just brushed it off. That's when I noticed that the man standing next to my limo wasn't my usual driver.

"Who are…?" my question was never finished. As soon as I went to speak, I felt something pierce the skin on my neck and the entire world went dark.