A/N: CHAPTER TWO IS HERE! Are you all excited? Because we are… Thank you all so much for the positive reviews, it really is lovely to hear from our readers and get to know what y'all want out of the story.
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Ty: Disclaim-y-ma-bobby?
Grace: Oh, yeah… Who shall we make to it today?
Ty: Well I think Yuugi's still a little disturbed by the fact that he's a girl now…
Grace: Right... MARIK!
Marik: Grace and Ty don't own Yu-gi-oh! Still...
Chapter Two
The bell rang it's shrill chime and Yuugi knew that it would only be a matter of days before it would become incredibly annoying. She and Ryou looked at their schedules to find that their homeroom was class B-4, checking their maps, they made their way up a flight of stairs and down the hallway to meet their new classmates. As they walked in the door, they saw many familiar faces. Domino was a small town, and as such, most kids transferred straight from Domino Middle School. Waving, Ryou greeted their friend Joey, who jumped up from his seat on one of the desks at the back of the classroom.
"Yuug!" Joey cried, flinging his arm over her shoulder. Joey was quite tall, standing at 6"0 and had a blond pouffy mass of hair. He had been Yuugi's best friend in the world, ever since he'd stopped shoving her over in the sandbox back in Kindergarden.
"Hey, Joey! How was your Summer?" Ryou asked, his British accent tainting the words.
"Fine, fine. Serenity moved in with us in June..." Joey said.
"With you and your father? Is she going to be alri-"
Just then, a tall, but delicate boy, with medium length blond hair that stuck up in all directions and very deeply tanned skin interrupted them.
"Hey, I'm sorry, but I'm kind of lost. I was wondering if you could tell me if I've made it to the right room… I'm looking for B-4," he asked, timidly.
Joey, the only one not intently staring at the boy's midriff, which was on full display, responded first.
"Yeah! You've found the right place! Welcome to Freshman year at Domino High!" Joey said excitedly, his normal friendliness coming out as he tried to make the boy feel welcome.
"Those are some really… interesting… skinny jeans…" Ryou started.
"Heh, thanks. These clothes are all the rage in Egypt." the boy said.
"Ack. Sorry about how rude my friends are. We haven't even introduced ourselves! I'm Yuugi Motou," Yuugi said, whipping herself out of the trance induced by the boy's abs.
"Nice to meet you Yuugi, I'm Marik Ishtar. I've just moved here from Egypt."
"I'm Ryou"
"I'm Joey," Joey said extending his hand for Marik to shake.
Just then the door at the side of the classroom slammed open. In walked a mid-height middle-aged woman who marched over to the desk at the front of the classroom.
"I'm Mrs Fisher, and we've got a lot to get through this morning. Now, I'm assuming you all made it to Freshmen Orientation this summer so you'll be pretty familiar with how everything works around here…"
As the bell rang dismissing them from their first period, "Welcome back" session, students began to pour out into the hallway and stumble to their lockers. Malik broke off from Bakura and Yami to head to his locker. There hadn't been enough lockers by his classroom so now his stuff had to be placed on the end of a row of Freshmen lockers. He unlocked his lock and took his books out of his locker which resulted in an avalanche which destroyed any semblance of organisation which may have been there before. He slammed his locker shut in the hope his stuff would fit but he still had to punch it to get it to close, which left a dent and attracted a lot of attention from the new Freshmen.
"Malik?" came a voice from down the hallway.
Malik turned around in shock.
"MARIK?" he shouted, "What the hell are you doing here?"
"Er… I go to school here now," Marik mumbled, uncomfortable at how many people were now staring at him and Malik, "My family moved here from Egypt. I meant to tell you, but I lost your phone number in the move…"
"Yay!" Malik whispered under his breath.
"What did you say?" Marik asked, confused.
"Nothing!" Malik smirked.
"Hey, that's my sweater isn't it?"
"Er… yeah. Sorry, do you want it back?" Malik said, crossing his arms and grabbing the end of the sweater on both sides. He pulled the sweater up and over his head. He wasn't wearing anything under it, the sigh of all the females (and some of the guys too) in the hallway was audible.
Marik blushed and looked away, embarrassed. "Maybe you should keep it… At least for a while."
"Are you sure?" Malik smiled.
"Yeah… I'm sure."
Malik put back on the sweater. "Got any plans tonight?" he asked.
"I don't think so…" Malik responded.
"Awesome. I'll pick you up at 6"
The bell rang and Malik disappeared.
"I didn't say yes!" Marik shouted down the hallway.
Lunchtime couldn't have come soon enough in Yami's mind. He grabbed a try and waited in the line at the cafeteria. There she was, that strange girl he had seen this morning, she was laughing with her friends. Yami was still staring, open mouthed, when Bakura shoved his tray forward.
"Snap out of it dude - I want food."
"Yeah, because all the staring out the window in Math class really made you hungry," Yami responded.
"Oh shut up and pay for your food already," Bakura replied, "We can't all be geniuses with A+ report cards."
Before Yami could reply, Bakura added, "Where's Malik?"
The two headed to a table close to the door to wait for their friend. When they caught sight of him, he was with a group of Freshmen, his arm slung over an uncomfortable looking blond boy. To Yami's delight, with the freshman that Malik seemed to be molesting, stood the tiny tricolour haired girl.
"Shall we go see what's up?" Yami asked, barely containing his excitement.
The two teenagers walked over to their friend, "Malik, want to introduce us to your new friends?" Bakura sniggered.
"Oh, hey guys!" Malik said, "This is my Marik," Yami and Bakura raised their eyebrows at Malik's use of the possessive, Malik on the other hand, smiled wide, "and these are his friends, Joey, Yuugi and Ryou."
"S'up freshies?" Bakura asked, never taking his eyes off of Ryou's face. Ryou began to fidget, uncomfortable at the older boy's intense gaze.
Yuugi, unfazed by the three older boys turned back to her tray to eat, Yami took advantage of this and sat down next to her.
"I'm Yami," he introduced himself.
"I'm Yuugi," she smiled.
"Don't mind Malik, he's a bit messed up in the head…"
Yuugi laughed, which made Yami smile. Before the two could really get into a comfortable conversation, they were interrupted by Bakura tapping Yami on the shoulder, "If we don't finish eating now, there'll be no time to use the gym," Bakura stated.
"Oh gosh! Tryouts are in ten minutes!" Yuugi exclaimed.
Bakura grabbed Yami's arm and started tugging him over to their table, as he passed Malik he called, "Wrap it up Romeo, you've got to keep your midriff sexy, remember?"
Marik leaned up and gave Malik a kiss, both boys broke away with stupid smiles plastered on their faces.
"See you tonight fluffy!" Marik called turning towards Joey and the rest of his friends.
Yami, Bakura and Malik walked out of the cafeteria.
"Fluffy?" Yami and Bakura asked, bursting into laughter.
10 minutes later a very nervous Yuugi sat waiting in the bleachers at cheer tryouts. She was wearing a purple tank-top and a pair of black cycling shorts. The coach stood in front of the bleachers with two other girls in the school's cheerleading uniform, addressing the mass of girls, either new Freshmen or the cheerleaders from last year.
"Most of you have been through this before, and for you tryouts are a bit of a formality. The system is like this, you'll each have about 2 minutes to show me, Tea and Mai what you've got to give to the team. We're looking for about 8 seniors, most of whom have already been on the team, 6 juniors, 4 sophomores and only about 2 freshmen. This is only a general guide though, so if anyone really impresses us, they stand a chance of making it, regardless of how many other girls in their grade make the team. You'll be judged by me, the team captain and senior, Mai Valentine and co-captain and junior, Tea Gardener. We'll be looking for one person to be a trainee for the position of co-captain for after Mai leaves. It's unlikely this is anyone below Sophomore year."
When the coach finished saying this, she stepped back. The tall blonde girl standing to the right of the coach stepped forward. Yuugi was amazed at how pretty she was. "I'm Mai Valentine," she said, "Captain of Domino High's cheerleading team. You'll be called forward in order by your grade, I look forward to seeing what you've all got to show us."
Then Tea, a shorter girl with brown hair that fell just below her chin stepped forward and introduced herself, she asked all the girls to wait outside until they were called.
Yuugi stood up and nervously walked to the door of the gymnasium, mentally going through her routine. She was 6th on the list so she expected to have about 10 minutes to prepare herself. By the time Tea called her name she was confident that she'd make the team. Yuugi walked in the room and stood in front of the three women.
"Alright Yuugi, show us what you can do," Tea smiled.
Yuugi completed her routine flawlessly. It was a mixture of cartwheels, handsprings and even backflips. When she had finished even the couch could not close her jaw and Tea glared at her enviously.
Mai Valentine smiled and said "Thank you the squad names will be posted on the sports information board on Monday."
Yuugi left the room and then changed back into her normal school clothes, happy with how she'd done.
Yami, Bakura and Malik entered the multi-gym. Yami sat down at the bench press and Bakura set up one of the treadmills for distance. Malik grabbed the largest set of weights he could find and started to smexy up his midriff.
When the boys had finished teasing Malik about Marik, Bakura turned seriously to Yami, "Hey Yami isn't time for you to get a girlfriend?" he asked "I mean Malik's got someone."
"Yeah!" Marik added, "Tea's always wanted you to ask her out…"
"True, she has been throwing herself at you since Middle school," Bakura said.
"Tea? Are you kidding me? I couldn't make myself go out with her."
"What's so wrong with Tea?" Bakura asked.
"The fact that she's been throwing herself at me since Middle school!" Yami cried exasperated, "and, for that matter, she's a total Mai wanna-be, I mean, she joined the cheerleading squad, and then she signed up for the student council and now she wants to help out with the school paper. The girl has no originality, no personality."
"Ok, no Tea, I get it," Malik said.
"Well if you're really desperate you can always chase after freshmen like 'Malik the Great Cradle Snatcher' over there," Bakura sniggered pointing at Malik, who looked offended.
"Hey you can't talk you've been single for what, a year now?" Malik snapped.
"I'm waiting for the right person, is that a problem?"
As the two began bickering among themselves, Yami sat up from the bench press, "Children!"
"Yes mommy?" the two stopped bickering and looked at him.
"Enough."
"Yes mommy," the two laughed.
A/N: Bahaha! Nothing's happened yet… Er… right. NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE MARIK AND MALIK'S DATE XD
Grace: Yuugi? What do you think?
Yuugi: *curled up in foetal position*
Ty: I think that's a good thing…
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