I continually have writer's block on To the Unknown. CURSE ME! CURSE FREAKIN ME! Anyways, I'm just gonna do the next chapter to this where Yugi solves the millennium puzzle, because I haven't even gotten to that yet! Review please!

Yugi heard the bell ring for the end of school as everyone rushed over outside to play basketball. He sighed deeply, still fidgeting his hands and being in his train of thought. He had not talked to anyone or said a word, unless Seto was around. Yugi felt more eased with his Baba nearby. Though, without him, Yugi felt alone.

Yugi reached for his bag and grabbed one of the very things that kept him on the ground. It was a golden puzzle box. It was a memento from his folks, who died long ago. He still remembered him and Seto being rejected by their other folks and sent to the orphanage before being adopted by Gozoburro and living the most horrible nightmare for his past 8 years. When alone, Yugi would try solving the puzzle.

A sigh left Yugi as he decided to try and solve the puzzle again. Though, before he could, the puzzle box was snatched away by a curtain blond teen, who was looking at it curiously.

"What is this, a puzzle?" The blond teen, Yugi guessed was Joey Wheeler, asked.

Yugi stood up on the chair of his desk and showed a glare with folded arms. From what Joey could tell, Yugi was demanding his puzzle back and not asking for it with words. He was not willing to speak one syllable. Weird kid!

"What? You want this?" Joey asked intimidatingly, waving the golden box in front of Yugi's face. Yugi put his hand forward and put out and open hand. "Then come and get it!" Joey threw the box to a brown-haired male named Tristan.

"Wow, sure didn't see that coming, did ya, short stuff?" Tristan smirked as Yugi began showing a smirk. He sensed the boys trying to outsmart him, but he was more cunning than them. "Try and get it!"

Yugi made a poker face, climbing on his desk to make it seem like he was ready to pounce on Tristan. He smirked and began throwing the puzzle box to Joey before Yugi kicked the blond with both legs and grabbed the puzzle box.

"HEY!" Joey cried out as Yugi showed a poker face and stuck out his tongue. "Oh, you think you're smart? You think you're smart?" Yugi nodded while holding a deep smirk. Joey brought out his fists as Yugi put down his puzzle, also showing two fists. "C'mon! Work it! Work it! Hit me right there!" He slapped his huge hand on his chest before Yugi made a quick move and jumped from one desk to Joey's upper chest. Joey fell over onto the other desks, then his head slid between the bar connecting to the desk and chair and the seat of it. "You little bitch!" Joey struggled to free himself, but Yugi had his hands locked down, his head stuck, and his legs unable to reach Yugi to free himself. In the end, Joey cracked up laughing. "Okay! You win! Can you let go of me now?"

Yugi helped Joey become unstuck and showed great spirit from their play fight. They shook hands, and even Tristan gave Yugi a handshake.

"You're a pretty tough kid. What's your name?" Tristan asked as Yugi scrunched his lips, not wanting to speak.

"I think his name is Yugi. Is that right?" Joey asked, not wanting to make his new friend uncomfortable. Yugi nodded. "The name's Joey Wheeler and this is Tristan." Yugi made a chuckling smile. He already knew their names. "Hey, we should hang out sometime. How about it?"

Yugi shrugged, then looked at his watch. He had to be at Kaiba Corp. at five-o-clock per day and would not waste time in being late. That was just not an option! Yugi bit his bottom lip, then nodded.

"Okay! There's an arcade nearby. We can go tomorrow if you'd like. I have work today."

"And I have to babysit my stupid cousin," Tristan said before Yugi let a chuckle escape his lips. He nodded and showed three fingers, then five while shaking his head. "Okay, so no later than five?" Yugi nodded. "Sounds good to us. By the way, why don't cha talk?"

Yugi stared down at the floor with great sorrow in his heart. Joey began feeling bad. Yugi seemed to have struggled with alot in moving to a new school, but what he didn't know was that there was more to the story.

"You don't have to say anything if you don't want to," Joey said, empathizing with Yugi. He nodded in reply and stared out in the hallway. "So... we'll see you tomorrow?" Yugi smiled and nodded before leaving out the room. He felt he spent too much time in that classroom and it was time to leave.

Yugi was relieved to finally leave the school. He did feel happy that he made new friends in one day. He decided it was fair that he made some friends while at his new school. Just the thought of him and his new friends being together made his day brighter.

After Yugi left the school building, he happened to run into an extremely tall guy. Not that he felt fearful, since he was a midget anyways, but this guy looked intimidating. From what Yugi judged by the uniform, this guy was the hall monitor Trudge Ushio. Yugi heard this guy was very scary and would make anybody's skin crawl. Though, Yugi learned to never show fear, even against the likes of these guys.

"Hello, Yugi right? My name is Trudge, the school hall monitor," Trudge introduced himself as Yugi nodded in reply. "Quiet one huh? I heard a couple of guys have been harassing you. Is this true?" Yugi shook his head, not knowing what the heck this guy was talking about. The only guys he ever met were Joey and Tristan, but they were okay guys. "Hm, I will have to investigate this. You can call me your bodyguard."

As soon as Yugi heard the word 'bodyguard,' he automatically turned alerted. His pride was not going to let this guy control his life when he could take care of himself. Yugi was the Coe President of Kaiba Corporation and would not allow any common individual be his 'bodyguard.' Yugi glared at Trudge and shook his head. Trudge smirked and began slightly laughing.

"Stubborn one aren't ya? As I said, your life will be easier with me..." Trudge said before...

"NO!" Yugi shouted as everyone froze and stared at the midget student who said his first word to someone for the first time, not including Seto Kaiba. "I DON'T WANT YOU AS MY F***ING BODYGUARD! JUST BECAUSE I'M SHORT, DOESNT' MEAN I CAN TAKE CARE OF MY OWN DAMN ASS! NOW F*** OFF!"

With that Yugi ran away as fast as he could from Trudge, slightly noticing Joey and Tristan cursing at the big guy. It didn't matter to Yugi, he just wanted to get away from this place as fast as he could. Why wouldn't Trudge just leave him alone? Yugi's had enough on his plate already as it is! He lost his Baba, he lost his childhood, and now he's being harassed by some nobody who doesn't give a crap about him!

Yugi hid behind a dumpster crying, not wanting anyone to see him. He had been having this stressful pain inside him for far too long. Yugi just wanted this pain to go away! He kept wishing, 'I WISH BABA WERE HERE!' knowing he was gone and would never come back. 'Why did you take him away, Gozoburro? I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!'

"Hey Yuge," Joey called out, finding his friend. Yugi wiped his hears before feeling Joey's embrace, which warmed his heart. He felt his own tears rolling on his new friend's shoulder. "It's okay. Trudge won't bother you anymore."

"You okay?" Tristan asked as Yugi shook his head while holding onto his legs. Tristan sat by Yugi's side, so the three sat together in that one little spot behind the dumpster for at least fifteen minutes. Yugi felt safe and secure, knowing these two would always be his friends. They were like what Baba used to be, someone who was always there for him when he was hurt the most.

Yugi finally got up and Joey asked, "So, you want us to take you home?" Yugi shook his head.

"Thank you," Yugi said before waving goodbye. His friends smiled, knowing that their new friend was starting to come around.

Yugi walked over by a pay phone to call a limo over to pick him up. He waited for a while before a limo pulled up and he entered inside. The limo driver drove him down the road while Yugi continually stared at the tented window. A sigh escaped him and watched the cars and buildings pass by. Finally, the limo stopped at the mansion where it dropped off Yugi to his home.

Yugi walked inside the mansion, then set his book bag on the huge couch before plopping himself on it to lie down. Hobson walked over to the young boy with a vanilla milkshake with colorful sprinkles and a cherry on top.

"Welcome home, Master Moto. I have your milkshake, your favorite!" Hobson greeted Yugi.

"Thank you, Hobson," Yugi thanked his butler before taking the milkshake and drinking it. He needed this junk food to keep the stress down. "Where's Seto?"

"I believe he's busy upstairs. He does not wish to be bothered."

"Thank you. Just tell him I'm home."

"Very well, Master Moto."

Yugi drank his milkshake until it was finished, then laid down on the couch staring at the ceiling. He sighed in boredom, so he got out his puzzle and began putting it together. Solving the puzzle usually made Yugi's spirits lift up and go into a challenge. Yugi noticed Seto coming down the stairs and eyed his brother, who was solving the puzzle, yet again.

"Still solving that damn thing? You're never gonna finish it!" Seto smirked as Yugi shrugged.

"You never know," Yugi muttered.

"I hear you never talk at all."

"It doesn't really matter. Nobody gives a crap and the only one that does is Trudge, son of a bitch thinking I need a bodyguard."

"HA! I've been your bodyguard almost your whole life and even I know it takes more than just that worthless tough guy to be considered your bodyguard. That guy can't even do Allgabra!"

Hobson arrived with a tray of two coffee cups with a pitcher of coffee in the middle. He said, "coffee sir?"

"Thank you, Hobson," Seto thanked before Hobson set the tray on the glass coffee table. "Are you still depressed about what happened to our step dad?"

"I don't give a crap! I hate him!"

"I know you're lying," Seto glared. He knew his Spikey way too much.

"Why does it matter to you? We're not brothers anymore!" Yugi shouted before turning himself with his back facing Seto. Tears began leaking down Yugi's cheeks. "I'm sorry."

Seto felt a huge lump on this throat, which made him embrace Yugi in a warm hug. Yugi let the pain of everything he suffered, because of Gozoburro, fall onto Seto's shoulder. It just wasn't fair! Why did Gozoburro take their happy life away from them? Yugi never knew this, but Seto was thinking this as well. They both hated their step father for what he did to them. Money, but no happiness. Where can you find true happiness if not through money and power?

Yugi and Seto parted from their hug and Yugi continued trying to finish his puzzle. Seto would make several eye glances at Yugi doing his puzzle-solving work. It seemed the puzzle was starting to become one. Yugi kept letting his tears fall as he kept putting the pieces in place, knowing where they would all fit. Yugi felt excitement build that he was finally gonna solve the millennium puzzle.

Yugi picked up the last piece from the puzzle box and stared at his almost completed puzzle in awe.

"Looks like you're almost done," Seto said with a small smile. Yugi nodded, then put the last piece in the slot.

All of a sudden, Yugi noticed his puzzle began to glow. Seto gasped as he watched his brother scream at the top of his lungs and some freaky glowing third eye appear on his forehead. Yugi had solved the puzzle and unleashed something beyond their understanding. He unleashed the Shadow Games!