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So this chapter is pretty long compared to what I usually write. I'm
going to try to make them around this length now… I'm sorry this
took so long to update… I've been sick in bed for the past week.
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Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-gi-oh!
Warnings: YAOI! Well… Maybe just shounen-ai… Depends. xD! Swearing in this chapter, though nothing serious… Heh heh. There may be character bashing. Not so much on Anzu though. Well, kind of… . My apologies to those of you who like her. Also, I will be using the Japanese names for all the characters.
Now, on with the story!
Just a recap:
Jou smiled and sank back down into the comforting embrace of Seto's royal blue quilt.The brunette walked over to the other side of the bed. He turned off the bedside table lamp and silently got under the covers. He felt Jou shift next to him.
"No, Set' I'll move… You're going to get sick…" The blonde started to get up, most likely planning on going to one of the guest rooms.
Seto stopped him by grabbing the blonde's waist and pulling him close, "frankly Jou, I don't care."
One-Sided
By: Kubo-chan
―第2章
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―ホールの戦い ―
He fell to his knees in front of the toilet bowl and grabbed the sides for support as he emptied the contents of his stomach into it. Seeing as how he hadn't eaten since his father had kicked him out the night before, the only thing that came was bile.
Seto came in after being woken up to the sound of Jou throwing up, knelt down next to the blonde and began rubbing his back.
Jou couldn't breathe; he couldn't get a breath in between gags. Tears started to slowly run down his cheeks as the lack of air and pain in his throat became too much.
Finally, it stopped. Jou sat on the floor panting, trying to regain his normal breathing pattern. His throat was burning.
Seto wiped away Jou's tears with his thumbs and pulled the blonde teen closer into a hug, "you okay?"
"Mmm…" Jou rested his head on Seto's shoulder, enjoying the warmth coming off the other's body. He closed his eyes and fell unconscious.
Seto sighed worriedly, never had he seen his lover so sick. He picked the blonde up bridal-style, noting how light the smaller teen was, carried the slumbering blonde back into the bedroom and set him carefully on the bed, as to not wake him. Seto glanced at the clock- 6:37; time to get up.
Seto made his way down the hall to his brother's room. It may be Sunday but there was no way he was going to let Mokuba's sleeping patterns get messed up. He knocked, "Mokuba, time to get up." The sound of Mokuba's heavy quilt hitting the floor and a mattress creaking in protest announced that the younger brother was getting up.
Seto went downstairs, stopping a maid on his way to tell her about Jou's state. "Check on him every so often, you know, just to make sure he's okay." The maid nodded and smiled at the brunette CEO assuring him that she would look after 'Master Jounouchi'.
Mokuba came down around this time; hand over mouth in a silent yawn. "Morning big brother."
"Morning Mokuba…" Seto watched as his brother almost tripped over his own feet on the way to the kitchen. He shook his head, inwardly laughing at his brother's clumsiness.
They ate breakfast in silence. Well, Mokuba ate breakfast while Seto typed on his laptop. The CEO looked up when his watch beeped at exactly 7:30, "time for me to go, Mokuba."
The younger teen nodded and shoved the rest of his toast into his mouth. He jumped off his chair and hurried over to his older brother to give him a hug. Mokuba hurried off to do other things and Seto made his way back up stairs to his room to check on Jou.
The blonde was sleeping peacefully, no longer being kept awake by an upset stomach. Seto walked over and placed a kiss on the blonde's forehead. Jou opened his eyes slightly, haven woken up from the small sign of affection. "Goin' to work, Set'?"
"Yeah… Sorry Jou, I'd stay home with you but I've got a big meeting with some of my business partners today." Seto gave the other an apologetic look.
"Oh, s'okay Set'. I would have made you gone anyways." Jou yawned and closed his eyes.
"I would have liked to see you try." Seto laughed.
Jou grumbled something inaudible into the pillow and waved his hand in the general direction of Seto.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm going. Oh! Aiko," Seto addressed the maid he had spoken to earlier, "will be in to check on you every so often. Call my cell phone if you need me, okay?" The brunette turned around and exited the room, going downstairs to the front door. Mokuba was there holding out his older brother's metal briefcase for him.
Seto accepted the item with a smile and slipped on his shoes before he opened the door. He made his way to the limo, slipping inside and slamming the door. The driver took off once Seto was seated; once again becoming the cold CEO the business world expected him to be.
(A/N: This is the day before)
The bell had rung, signaling the end of school. Anzu quickly went to her locker and switched out her books before meeting with her friends at the main entrance. After 3 years of hanging out with all guys, Anzu had decided she needed some feminine company. So, in her senior year she became a cheerleader. Her best friends were no longer Yugi, Jou and the rest of the gang. Her new clique consisted of two other girls. "Reiko! Nita!" She addressed her friends as she came closer.
Nita waved back, but Reiko was staring at something with an evil glint in her eye. Anzu followed her gaze and saw Seto and Jou getting into the brunette's limo. She reached her friends and went over to Reiko. "Don't get upset," Anzu attempted to comfort her friend. "It's not like their relationship is going to last forever."
Grey eyes flicked towards Anzu, "you're right. It won't."
"What exactly are you planning?!" Nita leaned forward, eager to hear her friend's scheme.
"In time, dear Nita, you can put it into action as well, and you too Anzu." Reiko winked at her friends and spun around cheerfully. Her blue mini skirt coming up slightly as she spun, showing off her slim legs.
"Where do you guys want to go today?" Anzu asked while she tugged off her uniform jacket, it was much to warm to wear the hideous pink article and the gaudy blue bow didn't help its case much. She shoved it into her school bag and then stood, slinging the bag over her shoulder. "Ah, that's much better." Anzu said as she waited for her friends to follow suit. It was approaching summer and so she, Reiko and Nita always wore a tank top under their school jackets to keep cool.
"Let's just go to the park and hang for a while. I could go for some ice cream." Nita suggested. The ice cream stand would be sure to help cool them off.
"Sounds fun," Anzu agreed. "We can work on that new routine too! Since its Saturday we don't have practice tomorrow. Don't want to fall behind."
At the mention of the new routine Reiko snapped her head over to her friends, "yeah. That does sound fun." It seems cheerleading could take her mind off of her boy troubles. "Let's all eat ice cream and do flips so we throw up!" She said this excitedly but her friends knew she was being sarcastic. No matter what was on her mind just a second before, cheerleading had the ability to make her snap back to reality and face the world with her bitchy attitude. (A/N: This is not an attack on cheerleaders)
"Oh, shut up Reiko. You know you want some." Anzu turned around and marched off towards the park, knowing her friends would follow.
Yugi and Ryou were walking to their lockers together. Seeing as how they had the same homeroom, meaning their lockers were in the same place, and they had their last class together, they might as well.
Off to the side, two seniors leaned against a pair of lockers, watching the small teens as they walked by. "That them?" The bigger one asked, his brown eyes glaring daggers at Yugi who was smiling happily while he talked with Ryou, completely oblivious that he was being targeted.
"Do you know anyone else whose hair looks like that?" The other asked. "She said that the guy's hair was three different colours and all spiky and that the guy Nita likes had long white hair! They're kind of hard to miss!"
"That's true. I mean how many people do you see with hair that weird?" The senior, known as Toshio, stood, no longer leaning on the locker for support. His friend, Yausai, followed suit and together they walked towards the two unsuspecting teens, being as unsuspicious as possible.
Yugi cried out as he was unmercifully grabbed by the back of his school jacket and thrown up against a locker. The first punch to the face came a second later, followed by another, then a punch to the gut. Ryou was pushed onto the floor, where Toshio had climbed on top of him and started punching every part of Ryou's body that he could reach, though he was concentrating on the face.
A small crowd had formed around the four teens. Yausai had followed Toshio's lead and was now on top of his victim, pounding his face in. He laughed when he noticed that the tri-coloured kid now had a bloody nose and was bleeding rather badly onto the ceramic tile.
Yami walked down the hall towards his locker. He had stayed a few extra minutes to ask a question about a math equation he just couldn't understand. Yugi had gone on ahead with Ryou to meet up with Bakura, much to Yami's disappointment. A crowd up ahead caught his attention and he jogged over to see what the fuss was about.
"Hey," Yami addressed a guy next to him as he made his way to the circle. "What's going on?"
"Oh, I don't know," the guy said. "Some seniors just started beating on these two kids."
Being as short as he was Yami couldn't see the fight, "… What do they look like?" He asked this reluctantly hoping to the gods that it wasn't his hikari and Ryou in there.
"Hm," the guy looked over at the once pharaoh. "One of them looks almost exactly like you," Yami's eyes widened, "and the other is that exchanged student from Britain. You know the one with the white hair?"
"Are you fucking kidding me?!" Yami shouted and began pushing his way through the small crowd. Getting snarls and complaints like 'Hey! Watch it!' and 'I was here first!' on his way to the center.
Yugi and Ryou were both close to passing out. Their attackers had long since gotten off them and now they were seeing who could kick them the hardest. Yami ran at Yausai, who was about to kick Yugi in the ribs again, and slammed him into a locker. He kneed his hikari's attacker in the gut, hard. Yausai went down, clutching his abdomen, trying to will away his need to throw up.
Yami then went after Toshio. The older teen had stopped kicking Ryou and was staring at Yami with a confused look on his face.
"'Kura…?" Ryou, beaten and bloody on the tiled floor, was staring at something behind Toshio, hope filling his brown orbs.
"Yeah," Bakura said dangerously, breathing on Toshio's ear. He grabbed the senior by the hair and yanked backwards, causing the teen to trip. The white haired yami side stepped the falling teen, and whacked him on the head on his way down, making him travel faster towards the floor, where he hit his head with a sickening bang. Toshio was out cold.
Bakura leant down next to Ryou as Yami went over to check on Yugi. "You okay?" Bakura asked. His voice didn't show any concern but Ryou knew he was worried.
"I… Suppose so…" The white haired hikari got to his feet shakily, whipping his nose on the sleeve of his jacket, which immediately was stained crimson. "Oh, well, isn't that lovely."
He grabbed onto Bakura's arm when he almost fell and Bakura pulled him roughly to his feet, supporting him as they made their way away from the scene to get Ryou washed up.
Yami, feeling slightly more comfortable once Bakura had left, continued in his attempt to wake Yugi. He had sat him up in a sitting position and checked for any serious head wounds. Seeing none he began to gently shake him. "Yugi," the dark whined, dragging out his hikari's name. "Wake up!"
"Yami…" Yugi opened his amethyst eyes and gazed up at his dark in confusion.
Yami smiled down at his light. Now that he knew Yugi was okay he stuck one of his arms under his light's knees and the other around his shoulders and lifted the smaller teen up bridal-style.
"Waahh!" Yugi wailed as he left the ground and latched on to his Yami's neck for support.
Yami stood and looked back at Yausai who was kneeling next to a puddle of vomit. Yami smirked and walked through the opening in the crowd that was made as he approached. He took Yugi to the men's bathroom across the hall from the cafeteria. Bakura and Ryou were there already. Ryou was sitting on the floor, up against a wall for support while Bakura dabbed the blood on his face away with a damp paper towel.
Yami sat Yugi down on the floor, on the opposite end of the bathroom as to avoid Bakura, and started to do the same thing.
After they had been cleaned up and changed into their gym clothes, dark blue sweat pants with a white stripe down the side and a white t-shirt with the school logo on it, Ryou and Yugi decided that they wanted to hang out. This meant Yami and Bakura had to deal with each other for a couple hours.
Both yami's had decided to rest in their appropriate items instead of walking next to each other, so Ryou and Yugi made the trip to the park by themselves. They spotted Anzu, Reiko and Nita, stretching a little while away but didn't take the time to say 'hi'. They were only on speaking terms with Anzu now-a-days, though she always talked to Yami when she had the chance.
They settled themselves by a tree and just talked for a while. It had been a quite a long time since Ryou and Yugi had the chance to just hang out. They had both been busy with setting their Yami's up at school and the fact that their yamis insisted on going everywhere with them really didn't help because of their deep hatred for each other.
"Yugi!" Anzu was running towards the two, she was sporting her Domino high gym shorts and a plain black tank top.
"I don't think Yami wants to come out right now, Anzu." Yugi told her when he felt the apprehension coming from Yami's side of the link.
'But he's listening right?' Anzu thought, 'now's my chance to make a good impression!' The blue eyed girl bent down in front of the two boys, "Oh, that's fine," she assured. "I just wanted to know what happened to you guys! You're all beat up!"
Reiko and Nita came over too, deciding that this was their business. "Well," Yugi started. "It's nothing big; we were just pushed around a little bit." He heard his yami let out a disbelieving snort in the back of his mind. "Really, we're fine." He waved his hands in front of him as if to signify his reasoning.
By this time it was getting dark and both lights needed to get home and cook some dinner for their yamis, already they were receiving complaints. Yugi waved at his white haired friend as they went their separate ways. Yami appeared after they were out of ear shot.
"You know if you're so hungry you could have come out and gotten some ice cream." Yugi looked over and attempted a glare at his yami.
"It's more complicated than that, Yugi. You know we can't stand each other." Yami said, looking over at his light who was now wringing his hands and staring at his shoes.
"I'm sorry Yami… It's just… I wish I could hang out with Ryou without having to worry about you guys." Yugi looked up at his frowning dark and smiled, trying to convince the other that this wasn't a big deal.
"Yugi…" Yami eyed his light warily, this was obviously bothering him.
"So, what do you want to eat?" Yugi changed the subject, "we still have leftovers from last night." Yugi glanced over at his dark who was looking at him with an exasperated smile adorning his face. "What!?" Yugi laughed as his dark put an arm around his shoulders.
"What do you think happened to them?" Nita was watching Ryou and Bakura as they walked away towards their home.
Anzu was too busy staring at Yugi jealously, wishing it were she, not he, who Yami had his arm wrapped around.
"I don't know… It seems the taller guys," she referred to Yami and Bakura, "really like the little twerps, huh?"
Nita looked around, "yeah. Bakura won't show it, but you can tell he really cares for that kid Ryou."
"I know for a fact that Yami cares for Yugi." Anzu took her eyes off the pair's retreating backs to turn towards her friend, "why do you ask Reiko?"
The grey eyed girl just smiled mischievously. "This could work…" she whispered quietly, more to herself than anything. She turned back around at her friends, a wide grin on her face, "so how about that ice cream? You did promise!"
End of chapter 2! Dun dun duuunnn! Next chapter I suppose I'll get more into the main conflict. U-U;;; That is if I get enough reviews to make me feel as though this fic is worth something...
Just so you guys all know:
―第2章 ― Means "2nd Chapter"
and
―ホールの戦い ― Means "Fight in the Hall" Though Ho-ru always translates into 'hole'...
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