A/N: Nothing new in this chapter just a bit of a warning that there is a bit of cursing in it, just a little though. So um yeah leave a review if you get the chance and tell me what you think.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh only OCs so don't sue.

Code Thing
"Talking"
'Thinking'

Chapter 2 New Beginnings
…15 years later…

The bell rang as two teenagers both around the age of 15 ran through the school halls trying to get to class.

'Crap I'm late I'm late!' One of them, a boy named Ryo Bakura thought as he looked at his watch.

Ryo was a straight A student who always did things by the rules, no matter what. He was the sort of gentle and sensible type, but sometimes had a mild temper every once and a while.

His gentle and boyish good looks resembled those of his father Ryou Bakura; though the only differences were, that his hair though spiky and long was actually brown not white like his father's and his eyes were a dark shade of gray.

His father being an archeologist was always traveling around the world, amongst one of his stops was London. It was there that Ryou Bakura met a young British woman named Elena whom he fell in love with. Months went by and Ryo was born, but only one year later his mother passed away of a mysterious illness leaving Ryou heartbroken.

Ryou was devastated but eventually moved on with his life and continued to do what he did best, travel the world. The only problem was that he couldn't keep taking Ryo along. Ryo was a bright boy and it didn't seem fair for him to be dragged around, never staying in one location more than a few months never getting the chance to make friends like normal children, heck sometimes they were only at a location for a day or two then they were off again.

But it wasn't until Ryo was six years old that his father brought him to Domino. It was there that he was reintroduced to Yami Motuo, an old friend of his. He had seen Yami before only once when he was younger but knew from what his father told him that Yami was a good person and it was Yami that had agreed to take the boy into his home. It was then and there that Ryo met his first and best friend Yuuki Motuo who happened to be Yami's nephew. It seemed that things would never be the same for Ryo.

And today was no different, Yuuki had managed to convince him to go to the arcades with him.

Ryo was reluctant to go, but had accepted in the end. The arcades were opened early in the morning, they were 50 minutes early and Yuuki assured him that they would make it time seeing how the arcades were only a few blocks away from the school.

Unfortunately neither one of them paid attention to the time and now they were both late to school.

Anyway…

"Last time I ever take your advice on that shortcut Yuuki!" Ryo said scornfully at his best friend. He was clutching his backpack and making sure that his things didn't fall out as he ran.

Yuuki on the other hand was laughing as they ran. "Hey you wanted a shortcut you got a shortcut, besides, I needed a laugh," he said as he ran beside Ryo.

"Being chased by a pack of dogs is not funny!" Ryo shouted.

"It is when it's you," Yuuki replied between snickers. Yuuki Motuo didn't care much when he was late for class; then again he was always late to school everyday.

To Yuuki, it was more like a daily thing for him to do; he did find it amusing when the teachers were pissed off for his tardiness and lack of obedience towards the school's rules. However, he did feel a bit bad for getting his friend late to school. After all he did promise, especially after Ryo's excessive whining and complaining, that they would get to school before the bell rang, and a promise is a promise.

Right?

Like Ryo, Yuuki was dressed in his navy blue school uniform, but his was rather not up to school code. His shirt was a light gray, courtesy of unknowingly mixing a load of black clothes with his white shirt two weeks ago. He wore spiked bracelets around both his wrists, and to top things off he wore a purple bandana around the forehead.

Yuuki looked much like his father Yugi, for he too had spiky tricolored hair though his was more red, the ends were black, and his bangs weren't as long as Yugi's. He was also a bit taller in comparison to when Yugi was his age. One major difference between Yuuki and his father was that the teenager had blue eyes, just like his mother.

They were almost to their class when someone showed up and was now blocking their way to the door. Ryo ended up bumping onto some other student falling back and dropping his book bag on the floor. Its contents fell out, among them a strange golden item.

It was a sort of ring that had strange looking spikes attached to it along with a triangle in the middle. The center of the triangle had an emblem of what resembled an eye. The item itself looked chipped, but was still in good condition.

The other student, a hall monitor and surprisingly enough school bully named Thomas Omori noticed the item and bent down to it pick up. He studied the item with complete fascination, a sort of greedy look forming on his face.

Ryo simply groaned, 'Not now.'

He looked to Yuuki for support, but the teen merely shrugged and walked ahead of him waiting on the other side as Thomas spoke, "Well if it isn't Little Ryo Bakura… This yours?"

"Yeah," Ryo said hoping to avoid any confrontation, "m-my father gave it to me. May I please have it back?" he asked mustering the courage to speak up and get his ring back.

"It's quite nice, must have paid a pretty penny for this didn't you?"

"I don't know, I already told you that my father got it for me. I really need to get to class can I have it back now?"

"Oh you mean you want this? Hmm let me think about it... No" Thomas replied.

"Come on Ryo what the hell are you waiting for? We're going to be late," Yuuki said with a frown as he suddenly returned.

"I need to get my ring back," Ryo complained, Yuuki sighed.

"It's just a stupid ring, let it go. You can always get another one," the other teen replied.

"But my dad…" Ryo made a sort of puppy dog face that made Yuuki shudder.

"Okay, okay," he said as he looked at the other classmate. "Just give him the godamn ring," Yuuki told Thomas.

Thomas laughed, "Well now you really think you can tell me what to do now do you Motuo?" He took a step forward towards Yuuki, his massive form closing in on him.

Yuuki sighed knowing this was going to take a while, "Really I have no time for this."

"Then I guess you'll have to make time for it, won't you?"

Yuuki glanced from the left to the right contemplating what to do. Thomas had a great advantage over him in size and strength. Then again Ryo was there that could at least help him, and from the looks of it, it seemed that he had something in mind.

Thomas was too distracted with Yuuki that he failed to notice that Ryo had snuck up on him pushed Thomas as hard as he could, and quickly snatched the ring from his grasp before he could recover.

"Oh shit."

Blue eyes grew wide when Yuuki realized what Ryo had done. Thomas regained his balance and turned around to see that Ryo had taken off running down the halls.

Yuuki took the opportunity as Thomas tried to go after Ryo, to stick his foot in the way causing the hall monitor to trip and fall down. Immediately he ran in the same direction that Ryo had taken while Thomas growled and got back up only to chase the two teens.

"Ryo!" Yuuki called out as he joined up with him.

"This is not good, we're dead if he catches us," Ryo muttered between breaths as he ran, "Where's a teacher when you need one?"

"Get back here!"

"Fuck! Don't look now but that asshole is right behind us," Yuuki said causing Ryo to nearly trip in surprise.

"What?!" Ryo turned around and saw that Thomas was right behind them. It especially came to a shocker, when Ryo felt something grab hold of his leg and bring him down. It was Thomas who had suddenly lunged and made a grab for Ryo's leg.

"Ahh, Yuuki!" Ryo fell with a hard thud on the ground, his ring and book bag skidding across the smooth hard ground.

"I'm on it," Yuuki said as he proceeded to pin the bully; he tried to put a strangle hold on the larger teen in attempt to get Thomas to let go of his friend.

Eventually one of the teachers, an old woman named Mrs. Harata showed up and it didn't look as if she was in a good mood. "What's going on here!?" she noticed that Yuuki was still holding Thomas down, "Out of class are we Mr. Motuo? And fighting?"

In the mists of all the commotion Thomas shoved Yuuki away before he got up and pointed at the teen, "Yeah I was just monitoring the halls when I saw that Motuo and his friend here up to no good. I caught them trying to ditch class, when I apprehended them they took off running ma'am."

"No we didn't! That's a lie! I…" Yuuki tried to counter but was silenced by the teacher.

"That's enough from the both of you…" She noticed that Ryo was standing up taking deep breaths. "Mr. Bakura?"

"I'm fine," Ryo said dismissing his problems, "We were just trying to get to class and Thomas tried to steal my stuff. Yuuki was only trying to help me get it back."

Ryo showed Mrs. Harata the golden ring that Thomas tried to steal from him. She stared at the item. "That's one large piece of jewelry you have there Mr. Bakura," she said almost amused at the sight of it.

In her opinion, it didn't seem to add up that Yuuki Motuo would ever help anyone given the fact that the boy was always getting in trouble every chance he got. On the other hand she knew Ryo Bakura was a bright student and knew that the boy would never lie.

Trusting Ryo's story, she decided to let them both go. She handed Ryo his ring back. "Very well then… Get to class before I change my mind," Mrs. Harata said as she walked away.

"This isn't over." Thomas said glared at the two particularly Yuuki. He would have beaten the teen to a pulp right now but Mrs. Harata was still in the vicinity and he wouldn't dare do something stupid. Growling he left ahead of the other two.

Yuuki looked at his friend with a grin on his face. "I must say I'm impressed," he said with a thumbs up.

"Yeah," Ryo replied with a weak smile, his breathing becoming a bit uneven again, the teen rummaged through his pockets frantically, not finding what he was looking for, Ryo started perusing through his backpack. Yuuki reached into his pocket and tossed him something, "Yeah you forgot this."

Ryo stared at the object realizing that it was an inhaler for his asthma. He gasped momentarily before using the inhaler to ease his breathing. "Thanks," he said but Yuuki shrugged dismissively and headed off to class.

It was so like Yuuki. Sure he was a troublemaker at most times, but when it came to his friends there was nothing he wouldn't do. Yet Ryo wondered why everything had to end with violence when it came to Yuuki, he had been going at it for quite a while now.

He shook his head almost in amusement and headed off to class. He was still holding onto the ring, without a second thought he stuffed the ring into his backpack and entered the classroom.

Upon entering he saw that heads turned towards his direction. Turning pink at the sight of all those faces, quickly Ryo took his seat as the other students lost interest in him and retuned to paying attention to their teacher. Ryo sighed in relief, a girl who sat in front of him turned and looked at him.

"What happened?" she whispered.

"Long story." Ryo replied.

Surprisingly enough the rest of the day went without any further incidents. Unless you counted the time during lunch when the bully Thomas Omori tried to finish what was started earlier today.

Despite Yuuki's warnings, which seemed more like taunts, Thomas didn't back down and assaulted the other boy. Yuuki grabbed a can of soda and struck him in the head with it, making things worse off.

Students were still talking about it even after classes ended for the day. "Did you see the look on Thomas' face when that can hit him square in the face? It was freakin' hilarious!" Jeffery Wheeler said as he and a girl walked along on their way home.

Jeffery Wheeler unzipped his blue jacket and shoved it into his backpack. The girl stared at him disapprovingly her light brown eyes staring at his violet ones.

"I wonder if Yuuki's okay though, I heard them saying that he was bleeding pretty badly when they took him away," the girl replied.

"Nah, Yuuki always gets back on his feet; that was funny though how he jumped that idiot Thomas," Jeffery said with a laugh, "too bad I didn't get to see how it went down."

Jeffery continued, "Anyway I heard that Yuuki was holding on for maybe two or three minutes 'fore teachers were even able to pull him off. Serves Thomas right for messing with Ryo did you hear?"

Samantha Taylor blushed at the sound of Ryo's name. She always had a crush on Ryo Bakura since middle school, but never dared approach the boy. She was really shy when it came to talking to Ryo.

Based on the way she acted and dressed probably no boy at her school would ever ask her out anyway. They always seemed to like the snobby girly girls, something that Sam was not.

Sam preferred pants, loose T-shirts and baseball caps rather than skirts, dresses or tank tops. She liked to hang out with her cousin Jeffery and sometimes Yuuki, jumping fences, playing video games, and other tomboyish activities that most girls would never think of doing.

"He's probably alright."

"Yeah," Sam replied.

The two of them continued walking until they noticed someone walking way ahead of them. It was Ryo who was walking all alone a couple of yards away.

"You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?" he looked at her with a bit of a demented grin, immediately he took off running towards the teen.

Sam stomped her foot, "Hold on! You know how hard it is to run with a skirt?" She said tugging down her skirt as she chased after her cousin.

Silently Jeffery inched closer to Ryo waiting for the right moment to scare the crap out of him, "BOO!"

"GYAH!" a frightened Ryo responded as he dropped his book bag once more.

"Got ya!" Jeffery laughed.

Ryo had bent down to pick his stuff as he looked up to Jeffery, "Jeffery? Jeez what was that for?"

He looked left of Jeffery and saw that someone else was standing there silently blushing at him.

Sam had a weak smile on her face, "Hey Ryo," she said meekly.

"Sam… Hi…"

"Oh you know just having a little fun," Jeffery replied as he interrupted Ryo and Sam's little moment.

"So Ryo, you seen Yuuki around?" said Jeffery as he watched Ryo pick up a few pencils and stuff them into one of the pockets.

Ryo shrugged, "Dunno. I haven't seen him around. I heard about that fiasco at lunch I wonder if he's alright."

"Come again?" Jeffery replied not really understanding what the word "fiasco" meant.

"What's that you have there?" Sam asked when she noticed the thin piece of rope sticking out of his backpack. Ryo looked at it and pulled out the ring that he had with him earlier.

"What is that? It's kinda strange looking, yet pretty." She said as Ryo handed her the item.

"Is that a necklace?" Jeffery said trying to take the ring, but ultimately failing.

"It's not a necklace, it's a pendant. My dad sent it to me for my birthday, it arrived just yesterday."

"Oh yeah your birthday?" Jeffery said as if he had just remembered, he was about to sock him but Sam pulled him away, before he could do so.

"Anyway my dad wrote that it came from Egypt, it could be a couple thousand years old, isn't it cool?" Said Ryo after Sam returned the item back to him.

"According to him, it's called the Millennium Ring."

"Millennium Ring, that's an odd name," said Sam.

"You know most parents give their kids money or even cars," said Jeffery, "though then again that pendant of our does look like it's made of gold so maybe... We can sell it yeah and split it 50-50."

Sam and Ryo looked at him with the sweat drop on the back of their heads, "You can't split it 50-50 ya idiot," said Sam contemplating whether to smack the teen upside his head.

Jeffery looked at his watch, "Crap, we're going to late we have to get home before mom kills us."

"Not to mention this skirt is killing me," Sam said.

"But I think it makes you look..." Ryo said suddenly but stopped midsentence, catching both Jeffery's and Sam's attention.

"Makes me look what?" Sam asked.

"...Cute..."

"...Really?" Sam blushed again, Ryo nodded and flashed a shy smile. Sam could help but giggle, Jeffery just stood there between them rolling his eyes at them.

"Anyway we'll see ya later," said Jeffery as he dragged a very gigglish Sam home.

To Be Continued