Me: Enter in... The Blindshipping :) You guys seem to enjoy this story so far, and now you'll get a second chapter. Prolly won't be another update for a little bit, but now we're going to meet Joey's pals :) And let's all hope that Yami can get along with the new gang of friends :) Just so you guys all know, these guys are only like 14-15... Just so you all know...
Yami: Who me? :P
Me: Yeah you Yami :P Anyway! On to chapter 2 of Puzzled Blindness :)
Yami: And Nickey doesn't own YGO :) But we hope that you are enjoying this story along with any others that she has written :) And we promise that there are more to come :)
Me: Thank you Yami, and welcome to all the new followers and favorite-ers :) I hope I live up to everyone's expectations ^^
Puzzled Blindness
Chapter 2
Meet the Friends
(XD it's like meet the Press lol)
Yami packed up his books and was getting ready to leave the classroom when an arm was wrapped around his shoulders. "Hey there pal" Joey said.
"Joey, listen, I uh, I really need to be going..." Yami said.
"Oh c'mon, it'll only take a minute" Joey dragged him to the back of the class, where other students were standing. "These here are my buds, this is my sister Serenity, my best pals Yugi, Tristan, Ryou, Malik, Duke, and Mai."
"As nice as it is to meet you guys, I really have to go now" Yami said ducking out from under Joey's arm. He slung his bag over his shoulder and walked away, his head down.
"Is it just me, or does he seem like he's trying to avoid having friends?" Duke said.
"He acts like he's trying to avoid being hurt..." Yugi said showing sympathy for Yami.
"Huh? He does?" Joey asked confused as always.
"Yeah, he seems as though he's been hurt before" Tristan said.
"Poor guy" Mai said.
The next day Yami came in, he sat in his seat and took out his books. "Hey Yami" Joey said cheerfully.
Yami looked up at him, gave him a quick smile, then looked down at his books as if nothing had happened.
"Hey, are you okay?" Joey asked.
"Joey... Please... Just leave me alone..." Yami said quietly.
"Yami?" Joey said. "Hey man, if you're having problems, you can talk to us, we-"
"Of course he has problems. Didn't you guys hear? This kid is a freak" Ushio said coming in.
Yami closed his eyes, but kept his head down. His hands clenched into fists.
"This guy lives at home with two fags, and he's no different. Such a freak" Ushio chuckled.
Yami looked up, anger was in his eyes. "Listen here Takanada, you can talk about me, and you can call me a freak, I don't give a shit! But the first fucking time that you talk about my parents, that's when I fucking snap!" Yami growled.
"Oh, did I strike a nerve? What's the matter Sennen? Can't handle the truth about your freaky ass parents?"
Yami leapt up from his desk and punched Ushio right in the mouth. "OPEN YOUR FUCKING MOUTH AGAIN! GO AHEAD! SEE WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENS!" Yami grabbed Ushio by his shirt collar and ripped him up off the ground where he had fallen. He pulled his fist back. "Go ahead, say one more thing about my parents. See what happens" Yami growled.
"I'm sure your pops coulda gotten better" Ushio said laughing.
Yami punched his fist forward, knocking Ushio to the floor again. "MR. SENNEN! MR. TAKANADA OFFICE NOW!" Mr. Takahashi yelled as he came in.
"Hey, that ain't fair! Ushio came in here runnin his mouth to Yami, he deserved to be punched in the mouth!" Joey yelled.
Yami was shocked that someone was standing up for him. "It's okay Joey, this isn't the first time, I'm sure it won't be the last..." Yami stood up, he had his head hanging down, he walked quietly out of the room.
"Yami..." Joey said quietly.
School ended and Joey still had Yami's bag. They passed the office on their way out and caught sight of Yami. He was sitting in a chair in the office, his face in his hands, his elbows on his knees. "There he is!" Duke cheered.
"If you're planning on walking in there, I wouldn't." The group of friends turned and saw another group of kids standing there. The one that had talked had brown hair and blue eyes.
"Why not? And who are you?" Tristan asked.
"My name is Seto, this is Marik, and Bakura. We're Yami's cousins. And trust me, you don't want to go in there right now." Seto explained.
"Why?" Joey asked.
"Because those two men coming down the hallway there?" Seto said pointing at two men that were walking down the hallway. They both had tri-colored hair, one was short, and his hair was combed back, like Yami's. His hair was ebony black with blue tips that lightened into blonde tips, his bangs that framed his face were blonde with blue tips, except the longer middle bang that hung down to his top lip, it was blue with a blonde tip to it, his eyes were also blue. The second had ebony hair with deep red tips, his bangs were blonde, a few of them went back into his spiked hair, he could've passed for Yami's twin, except that his red was deeper, he spiked his hair instead of combed it back, and his eyes were deeper red. "Those are Yami's parents."
"Hi Seto!" The blue eyed man said.
"Hi uncle Heba!" Seto waved.
"Seto? Were you in there when this fight happened?" The dark red eyed man asked.
"No uncle Atem, I wasn't..."
"I see..." Atem said.
"I was though!" Joey said "We all were! Yami shouldn't have gotten in trouble! He stood up for you guys because Ushio was running his mouth!"
Atem and Heba exchanged glances and looked shocked. "What are you saying?"
"Ushio told Yami that he was a freak, and that he lived with fags! Yami warned 'im not to say another thing about you guys, but Ushio wouldn't quit runnin' his mouth about you guys, and so Yami jumped up and punched Ushio right in the mouth. He deserved it if ya ask me." Joey said.
"Joey's right, Ushio should've shut his mouth, with the warning Yami gave him, it would've scared a grown man, let alone one of us" Yugi said.
"You are so freaking adorable!" Heba said. "Look Atem, he's so cute!"
Atem chuckled "Heba, we're here to tend to our son, not pinch the cheeks of adorable kids."
"Right. YAMI!" Heba yelled.
Yami sat up slowly and waited.
"GET OUT HERE RIGHT NOW!"
Yami visually sighed, before stepping out of the office. "Mr. Sennen, you can't leave the office until your parents come and sign you out" a lady in the office said.
"YOU HUSH, I WANT HIM OUT HERE SO I CAN TALK TO HIM!"
The lady in the office shut up. "Heba, you can't just talk to people like that" Atem scolded. "Jeeze, and everyone says I'm the one that's mean" he chuckled and shook his head.
"Yeah right..." Yami said rolling his eyes.
"Are you rolling your eyes at me young man?" Yami gulped "Do you want to wake up with those eyes?" Heba threatened. Yami's eyes widened and he smiled sheepishly.
"Pop Pop, have I told you how pretty you're looking today?" Yami said smiling.
"Don't try to kiss ass Yami Atem, you are in big trouble mister" Heba scolded him.
"I know" Yami sighed and dropped his head again.
"Lucky for you your friends told us what really happened" Heba said quietly.
Yami looked up shocked. "Wh-What?"
"Here bud, you forgot your bag in the classroom" Joey said holding out Yami's bag.
Yami looked at the bag like it was a snake. He slowly reached up and took it from Joey. Yami kept looking at the group of friends, as if they were going to pull guns out and shoot him if he took his eyes off them.
"So, you wanna tell us why ya got yer defences up so high?" Joey asked.
"Y-You guys don't mind that my parents are two guys?" Yami asked.
The group of friends smiled. "Yami, we don't care, we're all pretty much gays anyways. Is that why you left so fast yesterday?" Yugi asked.
"Well, yeah. No one really wants to hang out with someone with two dads."
"Yami, my grandma used to tell me something. She said, she'd rather be with someone that she loves, and be happy, than to be with someone that she didn't love and be miserable. It didn't matter what color, height, weight, or gender that they were. And that's pretty much what we all live by Yami" Yugi told him.
Yami smiled a smile and dropped his head a little. Yugi noticed his eyes well up with tears. Yugi smiled and walked over to stand in front of Yami. "Thanks" Yami whispered.
Yugi's smile widened and he wrapped his arms around Yami's neck. "You're welcome" Yugi whispered back.
Heba sobbed and turned into Atem's chest. Atem just chuckled and held onto Heba. "Sorry, he's a bit emotional today" Atem said.
They all chuckled and giggled at Heba and Atem. "That's uncle Heba for ya" Seto said laughing.
"Mr. Sennen?" The principal said as he came out into the hallway. Heba and Atem broke apart as did Yami and Yugi. All of them turned to look at the principal. The principal cleared his throat "Um, Atem Sennen."
"That's me" Atem said walking forward.
"I just want you and your... Partner, to know that we will not tolerate violence in our school."
Atem narrowed his eyes at the face the principal made while saying partner. "Mr...?"
"Marasaki."
"Right, Mr. Marasaki, I can tell right now that you're against gays. I'm just going to tell you something right now. My son, he isn't going to stand for people calling his parents fags, or freaks. While he doesn't care what people call him, Yami will NOT stand for people insulting us. So before you go off jumping down my son's throat for defending his parents," Atem took a step closer to the principal, his eyes baring into his "I suggest you get some of your other students back in line."
"Mr. Sennen, Ushio Takanada did nothing to set off Yami." The principal stood up to Atem.
Yami's eyes widened "Uh oh" Yami whispered. Seto, Marik, and Bakura were also frozen, their eyes wide.
"What's wrong?" Yugi whispered to Yami.
"There's a few things you don't do around my father... One don't talk about his husband, Two don't talk about his son, and three NEVER stand up to him" Yami whispered back "This may get ugly..." Yami instinctively moved in front of Yugi, he knew Heba was the only one that could stop his father if he went on a rampage.
"I'm going to tell you something Mr. Marasaki, and I'm only going to tell you this once. One, don't stand up to me, unless you're ready to be knocked back down. Two, don't accuse my son of lying when I have plenty of witnesses behind me that say that he isn't lying. And when you talk about my husband, don't act like you're disgusted with it. I respect that you're straight, I suggest you respect that I'm not" Atem growled. "My son will come back in the morning, we'll handle his punishment, and you'll say nothing, do you understand that?" Mr. Marasaki nodded, his eyes were wide, he knew he had crossed the line. "Good, then I suggest you take care the little son of a... gun, that upset my son. Yami! Take your friends and go outside!"
"O-Okay dad" Yami led the larger group of friends outside. Heba stayed behind to pull Atem away from the principal.
"Yami? Is your dad going to beat the crap out of our principal?" Yugi asked.
"I dunno, but I do know that Mr. Marasaki made a mistake getting back in my dad's face..." Yami said.
"You're tellin me, no one ever gets in uncle Atem's face" Bakura said.
"He's just lucky he didn't get punched right when he did that" Seto said.
"Uncle Atem would've done it too" Marik said laughing.
Heba came walking out the door dragging Atem out. "I have a bad feeling..." Yami said looking down as his father came trudging towards him.
"Yami" Atem said as gently as a guy that was as mad as he was could.
"Yes dad?"
"Yami, look up here at me." Yami slowly looked up at Atem. "You know what you did was wrong don't you?"
It wasn't a question, and Yami knew that. Yami nodded "Yes dad."
"Yami, you've had to be transferred THREE times, when are you going to learn?" Yami looked down at the ground again. "Yami. Look at me when I'm talking to you." Yami looked back up at Atem, he had tears in his eyes. "Yami, I don't want to yell at you. I know that you're just trying to protect me and pop pop, and you're doing a good job. But Yami, there's a time to talk and a time to act. And school is NOT a place where you act."
"I know..." Yami blinked his eyes and the tears fell down his face.
Atem sighed "Yami, you know that I have to punish you. If I don't then you'll just get in trouble again."
"I know." Yami sighed and looked to his left and down at the ground.
Yugi could see how hard it was for Atem to punish Yami for standing up for them. There was so much love coming from them, even though Yami was supposed to be in trouble, Atem just couldn't do it. Heba was on the verge of tears, Yugi smiled, he couldn't believe how much love was there. They weren't freaks, he just didn't understand where anyone saw that. This family had more love in it than most straight families had.
"Straight to school, and straight home Yami. After this week, no friends over for two weeks."
Yami looked up at his father. He was shocked. "R-Really?"
Atem smiled and nodded "Really."
Yami's eyes brightened and he jumped and clung to his father. "Thank you dad."
Atem chuckled and Heba joined in on the group hug. Heba had tears running down his face. "Heba, is there something wrong with you today?"
Heba's head snapped up "WHY? DOES IT LOOK LIKE SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH ME?"
Atem's eyes widened and he looked scared for his life. "No no, not at all" he said smiling sheepishly. Yami started laughing between the two. "Do you find something funny?" Atem asked looking down at his son.
"Uh... nope. I think pop pop looks pretty today" Yami said grinning.
"Kiss ass" Atem said, looking at his son with narrowed eyes.
Yugi couldn't help but giggle. "And what are you giggling at?" Yami asked breaking free from his parents' embrace.
"Nothing, you guys are just funny" Yugi said giggling.
"I'll show you funny" Yami said jumping and glomping Yugi in a hug.
Yugi giggled and hugged Yami back.
"Atem? Are you seeing what I'm seeing?" Heba whispered to his husband.
"Oh I'm seeing it" Atem whispered back.
"I don't think either of them are aware of it yet" Heba whispered.
"Let's let this one go, and see how it plays out" Atem turned to his husband and smiled.
"You know, we started out a lot like them" Heba whispered standing on his toes to kiss his husband on the nose.
Atem chuckled "Heba, stay out of it." Atem leaned in just inches from kissing Heba "I guess I'm going to have to keep you distracted until those two are able to find out their feelings for themselves."
"I guess so" Heba smirked before kissing Atem on the lips.
"Ewww, you guys! Don't do that here!" Yami scolded his parents.
"Aww, look Heba, Yami feels left out" Atem said.
"Well, I guess we'll just have to give him some loves too" Heba said grinning.
"No! No, dad, no! Stay over there! Stop walking towards me! Don't look at me like that!" Yami hid behind Yugi.
"Wait! I have a solution that doesn't involve me being in the middle" Yugi said smiling.
Yami sighed in relief "Thank goodness."
Yugi turned on his heel to face Yami. He placed a quick kiss on Yami's right cheek before he turned and walked towards the group of friends. Yami blushed a bright pink, placing his hand over his cheek. Yugi giggled from where he was standing "Now you guys can get him" he yelled over to Heba and Atem.
"Wha-" Yami was cut off when his dad picked him up in a hug and his pop pop started kissing his left cheek, letting Yami savor that right cheek. "AHHH, NO POP POP NO!" Yami started laughing and turning his head to try to shake Heba off him. "Pop Pop! Stop it!" Heba stopped what he was doing and smiled at Yami. "No more pop pop!"
"Okay, no more." Heba said. Atem put Yami down and ruffled his hair.
"Daaaad" Yami whined, straightening his hair back down.
Atem chuckled. "Let's go home now. Your pop pop and I have dinner reservations tonight, and I expect you to behave and not tear up the house while we're gone."
"Dad, I never tear up the house, I'm always there by myself when you guys leave."
"Are your friends not coming over?" Atem asked looking confused.
"I-I dunno" Yami turned towards his friends.
"Heck yeah we'll come over, sounds like fun!" Joey said.
Yugi smiled "We'll be glad to come and be entertainment while your parents are gone."
"Good" Atem said.
"Uncle Atem, if you don't mind, I've called us all a limo" Seto said.
"You always were a business man Seto" Atem clapped his nephew on the shoulder.
"Thank you uncle Atem."
The limo pulled up out front and they all climbed inside. "Wow Seto, your dad sure is beginning to spoil you" Atem chuckled.
Seto laughed "Yeah, he does that a lot now."
"How are Karim and Cynder, Seto?" Heba asked.
"They're doing good uncle Heba, dad is trying to develop something new for the company, and mom has been really busy."
"How about little Mokuba?"
"He's good too."
"Marik? Bakura? You two have been quiet, how are you guys?"
"We're good" they both said.
"Good."
"Heba... Why-" Atem began but stopped when Heba turned a glare on him. "I-I mean... I love you..." Atem said grinning.
"I love you too" Heba said smiling.
The kids all started laughing, Atem laughed sheepishly, and Heba just smiled.
Me: And there's the end to chapter two :)
Yugi: Remember to R&R :)
