Chapter 2: That party 10 Years Ago
"Yami! Hurry or you'll be late for the party!"
"Sheesh I'm coming Anzu!" he yelled frantically at his loud friend. He ran into the living area of my apartment where a large nekonomimi stood, arms crossed and frowning indignently. If Anzu hadn't been scaring the crap out of him right now, he would have laughed at how comical she looked.
"Took you long enough, *Pharaoh*, I thought we were going to be late."
He rolled his eyes and waved a dismissive hand at her as they walked out the door and down the hallway. Once they ended their treck down the unforgiving six flights of stairs down to the garage, they hopped into Yami's car and were on their way to the costume party.
Anzu chattered on about him meeting some friend of her friend as they drove up on to the Kaiba mansion. Yami really couldn't stand it when that girl played matchmaker, the last time she hooked some white-haired guy with some other guy, they broke up within the first two days.
She walked over to her weird group of friends and began to talk about absolutely nothing with them as usual. Yami rolled his eyes for the second time that night and walked over to the snack table, more loaded with meals than snacks.
"I never could understand why Kaiba spent so much money on food." He decided against the meals and opted for a drink instead. As he reached for a cup, his hand brushed a fairly smaller hand and he muttered an apology before looking up.
*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*. *.* YUGI POV 'I can't believe I let Malik and Joey talk me into this. If I survive this I'm going to murder them.' I briskly walked through the foyer of the Kaiba mansion, avoiding others and ignoring the wolf whistles that burned through my mind into my cheeks in the form of two crimson patches on my ivory skin. I finally got to my target of the snack table and let out a sigh of relief at partially hiding myself from the hungry stares of women and even a few men. Why does everyone think I'm so freakin' adorable?
I walked to the other end of the table, eyes to the floor, in an atempt to keep my embarassment under control. I reached over the table to grab a cup when my hand brushed over one a slightly tanner than mine and I looked up to apologize.
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Yugi had lost all control of his embarressment at the regal, crimson stare of the man before him, in a pharaoh's costume no less! He couldn't complete a coherent thought let alone breath at the breathtaking specimen. He blushed an even brighter scarlet than the one he had been sporting only moments ago, causing the other to smirk knowingly. It sent a pleasant chill down his spine and he fought to keep himself in check.
Yami on the other hand, was just delighted to find such an adorable sight. This violet-eyed bunny was definitely worth coming to the party for. He couldn't help but smirk at the blush that spread across the little one's cheeks. When he noticed that their hands were still near each other, he wrapped his fingers around the delicate extrimity of the other and brought it to his lips.
"Well hello there." He mentally scalded himself for the cliched line.
"Hi." Yugi inwardly facepalmed at the terrible greeting.
"Hey Yami! Can you come help us with this?"
Yami cursed under his breath "Ok, I'll be there in a sec!" He let go of the smaller male and looked at him with a look that said 'I-have-to-go-but-I-don't-really-want-to', he definitely wanted to know this person better.
"Do you have to go?" Yugi asked, he was a bit surprised at the disapointed whine but he really wanted to got to know this guy. With a name like Yami, he must be different at the very least.
"I do, I'm sorry for this, but I really want to get to know you better, I just-"
"Yami! Hurry and get your lazy ass over here!" Yami groaned, he'd have to try to find the little bunny some other time.
"I'm coming, Takashi! Hold your damned horses!" He sighed heavily. "I'm sorry, I really have to go, but I hope I see you again."
Yugi nodded and smiled."Me too, Yami." He waved and Yami grinned before runing off to wherever.
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It had been a week and Yami had been looking everywhere for htat little bunny, with no luck. His idiotic mistake was not asking the guy for his name before leaving. So today he walked sulkingly into his the Advanced Sociology class, since he was ahead of the Regular Sociology class.
When he walked in to find a seat, there was only one at the front of the class, so he sat there. Towards the end of the lecture, Yami grew increasingly bored and decided to doodle a bit in his journal. He drew that little bunny in normal clothing, but he couldn't get the eyes right. By the time he figured it out, class was over, and students were filing out of the lecture hall. He took his time gathering his things, not wanting to be caught up in the flow of stidents and left.
On his way to his next class, he spotted a lanky blond with honey colored eyes taliking to none other than that little bunny! But before he could get to him, a rush of students flooded into the hallway, blocking his line of sight. He cursed under his breath and tried to make his way through the crowd, to no avail. He spent the rest of the day sulking.
The next day Yami met his friend Anzu for lunch, still sulking. She shot him a worried look. "Yami, you really need to stop all of this sulking! I'm pretty sure you'll see 'that little bunny' again. Just be patient, at least you know he goes to our college. My Tristan is in America right now."
Yami sighed dismally and rested his chin in his palm. He stirred his drink absently, "I know Anz , I know, but what if that's the only time I'll see him? What if he was only visiting and he realy doesn't go there? I mean seriously, what are the odds?"
Anzu sighed frustratedly and shook her head. Yami was being hopelessly negative today, was this guy really that important? Yami looked around absently and then stood abruptly, startling Anzu. "Yami! What the hell's wrong with you?!"
All he could do was point at the retreating back of that bunny. "I-! It's- th-that! Anzu! Look!"
Anzu looked at the small star-headed person, walking next to a white-haired guy and the same blond from before. She blinked and pointed with her thumb. "Is that him? You're right he is cute. Why don't you go try and cach up with him?"
"You think I can? I mean they're really far away- Damnit! They just turnt a corner!" Yami sat down and sighed. He banged his head on the table until Anzu stopped him.
Yami could not stand this! He was livid! Was this some kind of terrible joke?! All he wanted to do was get to know the guy! He couldn't even get near enough to properly introduce himself! He'd seen that bunny at the mall, the beach, and school at least twice, but noooooo! Somehow he always gets the worst luck and something stops him from talking to him. He almost cried in frustration the other day for Ra's sake!
So today he walked frustratedly into class and took one of the two seats in the back and slamed his head into his folded arms to sulk for the rest of the class, not noticing the student who sat next to him with the violet eyes.
By the end of class, Yami had sulked himself to sleep, so being the curteous student that the brightly colored eyed boy was, he decided to wake the sleeping guy. Yami raised his head abruptly and stared in disbelief at the sight before him, thwt bunny was staring right at him! He wanted to sing to the high heavens but decided against that and managed a small smile... Ok, a huge grin. "Yami?"
He laughed and hugged the smaller male "You know, I never did get your name." said Yami, pulling back to look at his little bunny.
Smiling, that bunny answered back: "Yugi, I'm Yugi Motou."
Yami chuckled "The most beautiful name in the world."he replied.
Yugi flushed a bright red, and Yami smirked, he hadn't meant to say that out loud, but it had a nice effect none the less."I'm Yami, Yami Sennen."
Yugi blinked "Wait, Sennen as in 'Sen&Co.' Sennen? Like the game company?"
Yami laughed kind of nervously "Well yeah, but that's not important. Look, I really want to get to know you better, maybe we could be friends."
Yugi nodded "Ok, well I was just going to meet a few of my friends for lunch, why don't you join us?"
Yami grinned "Sure."
So he and Yugi set out to meet Yugi's friends.
"Hey! Yugi! Oh, who's your friend?" Asked Ryou.
Yugi's cheeks tinged pink "Guys, this is Yami, the guy I told you about." Yami raised an eyebrow at this, but kept quiet.
"Oh, you mean dat 'hot pharaoh guy'?" Questioned Joey, Yugi flushed.
"Yeah, the guy you've been looking eveywhere for?" Inquired Ryou, Yugi's blush brightened.
"The guy you wouldn't stop talking about?" Asked Malik, Yugi blushed even brighter.
"Da guy you-"
"Ok, I think he get's the point!" Yugi whined, attempting to hide the blush consuming his face.
Yami chuckled lightly "Well it's nice to know that you looked for me." He and Yugi sat down in the booth with Yugi's friends.
Yugi sighed defeatedly "Yami, these are my best friends, Joey, Malik, and Ryou." Yugi said, pointing to each person as they were called.
"Hey."
"Hello."
"Hi.
"Hi there. So, would you all mind telling me anything else that Yugi told you about me."
Joey grinned "Oh he told us all kinds of stuff-"
"Joey, I think we've embarrassed Yugi enough-" Ryou cut in.
"Like how you have, and I quote 'Da most beautiful crimson eyes Joey, you should have seen them!' end quote."
"Oh god. Joey you live to embarrass me don't you?"
Joey winked and snickered "Of course! What else are friends for?"
Yami couldn't help but laugh at the two as they continued to bicker until it was time for Yugi to go back home.
"Come on Yugi, I'll walk you home." Said Yami.
Yugi nodded and stood sayimg goodbye to his friends, before following Yami out of the restraumt.
"Listen Yami, about my friend Joey-"
"No need, Yugi. I have the same problem with my friends, Marik and Bakura."
Yugi sighed "Joey just doesn't know where to draw the line! Some of the stuff he said wasn't even true!"
"Well which part was true?"
Yugi shook his head"Doesn't matter, oh, there's my house." Yugi said,pointing to the game-shop on the corner.
Yami blinked, confused before laughing "Ok, that just doesm't make sense! Your name means 'game' and you live in a game-shop."
Yugi frowned"Yeah, so. What's your point?"
"Wait, you're serious?"
Yugi huffed "Of course! Why would I lie? You know what, thanks for bringing me this far, have a goodnight Yami." Yugi started walking toward the game-shop.
Yami sighed frustratedly and trotted after the quickly disapearing teen. "Yugi, wait." The named stopped to turn around to glare at the other and it made Yami flinch a little. "Yugi I'm sorry, let me make it up to you."
Yugi crossed his arms "How?" He asked, voice dripping with venom.
"How about I take you out somewhere, anywhere you want and it doesn't even have to be in Japan."
Yugi smiled a little "Like a date?"
Yami shrugged "If you want it to be."
Yugi smirked "I do. Meet me here at 5:00 pm on Saturday."
Yami smirked back "Alright, see you Saturday."
Yugi rolled his eyes "We have Advanced Calculus 6 together."
Yami blinked "Really?"
Yugi inwardly face palmed "Yes, it's the class that we met in a few hours ago."
Yami facepalmed "Right, um I'll see you tomorrow then, Yugi."
"Until tomorrow, Yami."
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TBC