A/N:

Chapter two! Enjoy it's slightly re-edited glory!

Disclaimer:

I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. It belongs to Kazuki Takahashi… and was ruined by 4Kids Entertainment…but you didn't hear that from me…

Yuugi walked down the hallway towards the cafeteria. After Science, he had parted ways with Yami so they could go to separate electives. The whole situation was confusing to Yuugi. First, Yami saves him. Then, he wanted to be friends with him. Yuugi didn't know which was more unbelievable. Here was this senior student, top in his classes, not to mention the sexiest thing since sex, and he was taking some sort of interest in him! Yuugi Mutou of all people!

Yuugi pushed open the cafeteria doors and was hit by a wall of sound. The room was packed full of picnic bench-style tables and students all wearing the school's royal blue uniform. The students, that is, not the tables. He looked around with a nervous expression on his face.

"Hey, Yuugi! Over here!" someone called out. Yuugi looked over to where the voice was coming from, the back right corner of the room, and waved at the group sitting there. He rushed over and sat down next to the boy who had called out to him. He was tall with unruly blond hair and auburn eyes. Katsuya Jounouchi was his full name, but most of his friends preferred to call him Jou.

Sitting across the table from Jou and Yuugi was a boy with long black hair tied up in a ponytail and a headband with a red and black diamond pattern on it. He had dazzling green eyes and wore one dice-shaped earring. Ryuji Otogi was his name. Aside from being a student, Otogi owned his own game franchise called Dungeon Dice Monsters.

Next to Otogi was Hiroto Honda. Standing a few inches taller than the rest of his friends, Honda was strong-looking with russet colored hair and light brown colored eyes. He was also the head of the school's beautification project.

Then there was Malik Ishtar, who sat next to Otogi. Malik had lavender colored eyes and long platinum blond hair that hung curtain-style around his face. Unlike the rest of his friends, Malik had a deep copper tan from all the summers he spent visiting his relatives in Egypt.

And, sitting next to Yuugi, was Ryou Bakura. Ryou was barely taller than Yuugi and was extremely shy. He had long white hair that reached just below his shoulders and warm chocolate colored eyes. In direct contrast to Malik's skin tone, Ryou's skin was so ghostly pale it didn't look healthy.

"Hey, guys!" Yuugi greeted them all once he had sat down, "Did you all have a good summer?"

"Definitely!" Jou replied with a goofy grin, "Me an' Shizuka went to the beach!"

"Shizuka and I." Ryou corrected exasperatedly, as if he had been doing this a lot.

Jou looked confused. "No you didn't."

"How about you, Malik?" Yuugi asked, ignoring his arguing friends.

"Same old stuff. Went to Egypt. Saw some sand," he replied with a bored expression.

"Oh. Honda? Otogi?"

"I mostly worked at my dad's garage fixin' cars. You know. Manly stuff like that." Honda said, trying to sound aloof to impress Otogi.

"I worked on publicizing Dungeon Dice Monsters all summer. Did you hear? They've been saying it was a big hit in America!" Otogi said excitedly, either not noticing or not caring about Honda's attempts to impress him.

"Really? That's great, Otogi!" Jou congratulated him. "What about your summer, Yuugi?"

Yuugi and the gang continued to talk about their summers and about Otogi's accomplishment. On the other side of the cafeteria, Yami, Bakura, and Marik were having a much angrier conversation.

"Ushio just won't quit, will he? The fucker…" Bakura grumbled, angrily biting into an apple.

"Apparently not. I'm glad I happened to be there at the right time. Poor kid…" Yami mumbled absentmindedly, staring off into space and stabbing his salad with a plastic fork carelessly.

"What's he to you, pharaoh?" Marik asked unkindly, ordering one of his fangirls to get him another soda.

"He happens to be a new friend of mine." Yami stated in a matter-of-fact tone. Marik snorted, trying to muffle his laughter. " Shut up. We're going to have to make sure Ushio gets the message this time…" he sighed and unknowingly started stabbing his salad even harder, anger building in his voice. "Picking on such an innocent kid like that. Where does that bastard get off, doing something like that?!"

Bakura suddenly grabbed Yami's wrist, saving the salad from further mutilation. "You're hurting it's feelings." he stated. They both stared at him. "What?! He's giving the salad the wrong message. It's gonna think it's unwanted and it'll commit suicide."

"…Alright then, Bakura. If you say so…"

"Hello, students, and welcome to the back to school pep rally! Yay!" Pegasus cheered from his position in the middle of the gymnasium floor. All the students were gathered in the gym for the annual pep rally to show their school spirit. The majority of the students at Domino City High School had school spirit. A few others, however…

"Fucking pep rally…I'm fucking cheerful enough without this useless pep rally, ok!?" Marik yelled, barely being heard over the cheering crowd of spirited students. Yami and Bakura just continued to look bored.

"Ah, that was a good welcome! I feel so loved! I love you too, students!" Pegasus yelled enthusiastically to them.

The gym teacher walked up to Pegasus and whispered in his ear.

"Ah! Thank you, sir! Alright, students! Give it up for the Domino High Spirit Squad!" Pegasus ran to the side of the gym as twelve over-enthusiastic girls ran to the middle of the floor carrying blue pom-poms and one with a megaphone. They were scantily clad in tiny blue mini skirts and white tank tops with blue piping. The crowd of students went nuts. Marik, Bakura, and Yami all sighed in unison.

Hip-hop music blared out of speakers as the cheerleaders started doing a routine. They did flips, back handsprings, handstands, splits, and lifts in time to the music. At the end they all went down into splits, their ankles locking with each others and formed a big letter D. The gathered students cheered uproariously for them all.

"They're so good!" Yuugi exclaimed, turning to face Ryou, "Right?"

"Definitely!" Ryou agreed whole heartedly.

"Eh. They aren't so bad. That head cheerleader of theirs kept switching her arms and her splits were mediocre at best." Otogi said, clapping less enthusiastically than the rest.

"Huh?!" Jou looked baffled.

"Well, see her end pose she's in?" Otogi asked.

"Yeah…"

"Everyone else is facing out and she's facing in. Also, her arms are too close together."

"Uhm wow, Otogi. I would have never noticed." Yuugi said, focusing on the head cheerleader. She had azure eyes and muddy brown hair that was cut to her chin. "She looks a little thin."

Otogi snorted. "And plastic. Look at how much make-up she has on, too." he watched on with calculating eyes as the next routine started up.

"Finally! Someone else gets it!" Bakura exclaimed, leaning forward and looking over Honda's shoulder at Otogi. "I thought we were the only ones she hadn't fooled. Looks like the freshman aren't hopeless after all."

They hadn't noticed it until now, but Yami, Bakura, and Marik were sitting on the bleacher right behind Yuugi, Jou, Ryou, Honda, Otogi, and Malik.

"Oh, uhm, hello." Yuugi blinked. He looked over at the person next to Bakura. "Oh! Hey, Yami!"

Yami looked over, noticing Yuugi was in front of him. "Hey! Enjoying the pep rally?"

"Totally! The cheerleaders are really good!"

Bakura and Yami just stared at him, then Bakura burst out laughing. "Anzu? Good? Oh man, kid, you're funny! H-hey, Yami? This the kid from earlier?" he asked.

"Yes. He is, and I would appreciate it if you didn't laugh just because he doesn't know." Yami glared, silencing him immediately.

"Doesn't know what?" Yuugi asked.

"About what kind of people those cheerleaders really are. Evil, shallow, promiscuous clones."

"Oh, it can't be that bad, can it?"

"It's actually worse, kid." Bakura cut in.

While this conversation was going on, Jou, Honda, and Otogi were staring at Yuugi in shock. How in hell did he know the three gods of the school?! Ryou turned back around to watch the cheerleaders perform more routines, counting the mistakes he was now aware of. He didn't find it strange that Yuugi knew them, because Yuugi told him about the incident with Ushio in the stairwell.

Bakura jumped down a bench and sat next to Ryou. "You're that kid in my gym class, right? Ryou, right?" he asked, trying to sound casual. He had, in fact, known who Ryou was for quite some time.

"Yes and yes." Ryou answered, turning to look at Bakura in confusion. "Why?"

"Well, why not?" Bakura answered with a smile.

Marik and Malik both hadn't said a single word since their friends had stared talking. They just stared at each other in disbelief. Marik was the first to find his voice. "I thought you said you were going to school in Cairo?" he half questioned.

"Change of plans…" Malik replied, still stunned that his "friend" he met on his yearly vacation in Egypt lived in Domino and went to the same school as him.

If you blinked, you would have missed it. Quicker than Malik thought possible, Marik pulled the younger up onto the seat next to him, threw his arms around his waist, and proceeded to convey to Malik just how much he had missed him.

The cheerleaders had finished their final cheer and they ran off into the locker rooms. The crowd gave them a standing ovation. When they had quieted down somewhat, Mr. Pegasus came back to the middle of the gym and announced the school teams. He had lost the attention of a few students in particular, however.

A/N:

Goodbye, chapter two. Hello, chapter three!