(A/N: Hello there readers! Here's the next chapter of Gender Bender. Oh, by the way, someone asked what happened to Atemu's real body. The truth is, it fell down a convinient plot hole. Let's just say Remie put it in storage with all his other pilfered bodies... .
Naqael doesn't own YuGiOh. She only own Remiel and this plot.))
After about a two hours arguing with Remiel about which way the school was, and about an hour in the school staring at the piece of paper she needed to fill out to become enrolled (all the while arguing with Remiel over what name should be chosen), finally, the school problem was taken care of and Atemu was listed under the name of Amaya Hinamida.
//Alright... now there's the issue of finding somewhere to stay...//
/I thought we'd already agreed you'd be sleeping on a bench./
//I never agreed to that.//
/Fine. I have an idea how you can get some money./
//... Really?//
/Yeah. Get some sexy clothes and we'll take it from there./
//Are you insinuating that I should become a whore?//
/That's exactly what I'm insinuating./
Atemu rolled her eyes, and let out an irritable breath. She really didn't want to spend the night out on a bench... especially with those rather foreboding looking clouds coming in from the distance, "Not fair," she mumbled to herself, and once again could feel Remiel's snickers through the link.
Sluggishly, she made her way to the park bench and sat down. The sun was slowly dissapearing into the cloudy horizon, the sky turning a dull pink as an after effect.
To keep herself occupied for the next few hours, she stared at the fountain. The water was littered with cherry blossom petals, but with a few less petals, it would have been pretty. At that time, though, Atemu thought that it probably would be better if someone got around to cleaning it.
Finally, the fatigue of the day got to her and she laid down in the semi-uncomfortable bench, listening to the low grumble in the distance, and making one herself in annoyance before her mind drifted into darkness.
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After a rather rude awakening from the mind-link and a long trip to the school yard, Atemu walked bleary eyed to the door of the school. Though, at the time, she had not realized the door had been there and ran face first into the glass entrance with a rather undignified, "Ra dammit all," before actually opening the door and proceeding inside.
The building was larger then she could remember, though she had mostly slept while Yuugi was at school, finding most of the topics the student and teachers discussed to be quite confusing and boring.
Once again, another random- but important- thought hit her; she had no idea what she was going to be learning about. Taking a peek at the scheduel in her hands that labeled her as something called a "sophmore", she looked at the classes; Biology, Algebra 2, Japanese Literature, and Buis. Comp. App.
...She had no idea what three out of four of those things were.
//Remiel.//
/What?/
//What the hell is Buis. Comp. App.?//
/You don't know?/
//I'm from ancient Egypt, of course I don't know!//
/Ugh... just don't worry about it. I'll give you all the answers to whatever work you have so you can seem like you actually have some intelligence, okay?/
//That works.//
(A/N: Buis. Comp. App. is short for Buisness Computer Applications. It's a class you take to pretty much learn about all the features of Microsoft office. Also, I don't know much about Japanese schooling outside Lucky Star, so I'm just going to go with the American schooling system. Sorry! ; )
After about twenty minutes of wandering and asking other students for directions to her home room, she arrived at the room- late. She sheepishly opened the door and peeked in before walking inside, nearly falling flat on her face by tripping over her own feet. A ripple of giggles sounded through the classroom.
The teacher, a younger woman with dark red hair and painted on eyebrows, looked pointedly over at Atemu, "Miss Hinamida," she scolded, "You're late, and it's your first day, too. Not a good way to start the year." she said the last sentence in a singsong voice while wagging her pointer at her.
Atemu gave a soft, "Sorry," before the teacher pointed to a seat that was free. She sat down as the teacher began discussing something about genetic diseases that Atemu couldn't understand a word of.
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After the first three classes were over, Atemu's head hurt with a fiery passion. Not only could she not find Yuugi anywhere, nothing the teachers said made any sense.
Oh, and the drooling boys that sat near her weren't much help either.
So came the last class; that computer thing. Atemu vaguely knew how to work a computer because of Yuugi's numerous hours on it whenever he couldn't leave the house.
She entered the class room to be greeted by a overweight woman (it WAS a woman, right?) with a slight five o'clock shadow on her chin, "Welcome, Miss Hinamida, you can sit over there next to Mr. Motou." she said kindly before she went off to try to quell the uproar on the other side of the classroom.
A single word went through Atemu's mind; Score.
She happily trotted over to Yuugi and sat down at the computer next to him. They exchanged soft greetings before Atemu turned to face the computer.
"Please log into your computers." the teacher ordered while scribbling something on the dry-erase board near the window, "Remember, if you've forgotten your username and password, it's on your schedule."
Atemu looked at the paper, and blinked. How exactly did she get these words into the computer?
The boy sitting on her other side stared at her, "Log in, dummy. Don't you know how to use a computer?"
"I've never used one in my life." she answered honestly.
"What are you? A Mormon?"
"You mean 'Amish', Hotaru." the teacher interjected absentmindedly.
Atemu just rolled her eyes, "No, but I'm sure I can figure out how to work this thing." she said confidently.
//How do I work this thing?//
/I thought you were going to figure it out yourself?/
//Screw that!//
Remiel rushed through the directions and Atemu punched in the "magic words". Once fully logged into her account, Atemu smirked, "See." she remarked proudly.
"Wow, and that only took half the class period." the boy named Hotaru sarcastically replied.
Atemu gave him a pointed look, "Tell me; do you like your balls?"
Hotaru stared at her, "Uh... yeah." he said incredulously, raising an eyebrow.
"Then if you want to keep them, I suggest you shut up."
There was a ripple of laughter through the class while one kid said, "I do believe you were just sufficiently owned by a GIRL, Hotaru." earning several glares from the females (including Anzu) who were in the class.
The rest of the class period, Atemu spent in silence while the rest of the class buzzed about, giggling about the latest gossip or gawking over how much electric cow prods costed. She would occasionally steal glances over at Yuugi, who was participating in the cow prod discussion.
"Duuuude... this one guy attacked a baby with one those things!" Honda suddenly exclaimed.
"Who did what now?" Jou asked, suddenly racing over to look over Honda's shoulder at the article on the screen.
"Sit down, Jounouchi." the teacher commanded, but it went unheard.
"Damn, that's one sick mofo." Jou commented, "Did the baby die?"
"Watch your mouth," the teacher ordered once again
"Class is over, please be dismissed," the teacher heaved a sigh, relieved to be rid of the demons known as her students. Of course, some students lingered a bit longer to talk to "the new girl".
"So, what's your name?" Anzu asked as she, Yuugi, Jou, and Honda gathered around Atemu.
"At-" Atemu managed to stop herself just in time, "Amaya. Hinamida Amaya."
"My name's Mazaki Anzu. Pleased to meet you." Anzu smiled, "This is Honda Hiroto," she said, gesturing to Honda, "Thi-" she began, only to be interupted by Jou.
"Yeah, and my name's Jounouchi Katsuya, but you can call me 'Sexy Beast'." he grinned stupidly.
Anzu put her face in her hand and shook her head, "Just ignore him and call him Jou,"
"And we met yesterday, I'm Motou Yuugi." Yuugi greeted in his usual cheerful tone.
"Waaaaaait," Jou said, "I knew you looked familiar! You're the girl from the alleyway!" he commented.
"Yeah, she's also the one who walked into the school door this morning," a dark haired boy with sharp green eyes snickered from behind Atemu. Atemu recognized him as Otogi.
Yuugi tried to keep himself from giggling behind the safety of his hand. Atemu gave defeated look over to him, "It's alright; whatever pride I had left has diminished completely by now. You may laugh." Atemu commented blandly, sighing softly.
Anzu, the only one in complete control of herself, rolled her eyes for the umpteenth time that day (you would too if you had the real Bevis and Butthead as best friends), "C'mon; walk with me, talk with me." she said, grabbing Atemu's hand and dragging her off into the crowded hallway.
They traveled through the crowd of children standing around, thus, effectively making road blocks. After some time of bobbing and weaving through the crowded hallway, Anzu led her into the cafeteria. All the lunch tables had been cleared away and now there was plenty of room. Various children were standing about chatting excitedly, making their plans for the weekend since it was already Wednesday, and Friday would be there before they realized it. Anzu stopped in a empty space and turned to face Atemu.
"I'm going to make you my new project." Anzu declared cheerfully.
Atemu only stared, "... What?"
(A/N: I'm going to stop there for now. I hope you enjoyed. Eeergh, my writing style annoys me. -sigh- I'll be starting some of my new projects also, and maybe updating Guardian, which I have neglected to do for... oh, god, how long now? xP
Please review if you can! I love to get them, as most writers do. c: )
