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Our High School
Chapter 3/? -
Shadows of a Game Once Played

For -Breanna-Higurashi-
Who was the only one who reviewed the second chapter

Yuugi blinked as he came into the room that had Atemu in, and looking like he was concentrating on something.
"Nee…? What are you doing, Atemu-kun…?" Yuugi asked.
"I'm trying to defeat Zorc…" Atemu stated, not looking up from where he was, the mention to Yuugi had him alarmed and he rushed over to him. "Ah…I lost…" Atemu blinked with a sigh. Yuugi blinked in alarm, but Kyla bounded into the room, and saw them both.
"…You still at that game, Yami…?" Kyla asked, and he nodded.
"Only been a couple of years…" He told with a sigh.
Kyla sighed. "I would have given up by now…"
Atemu turned to glare at her. "I am not giving up on this stupid thing!" He exclaimed, making Kyla giggle.
"That's more like the Yami I know." With that said, she patted his head, and sat down near him, ignoring his growling at her.
"Try again…?"
Atemu groaned. "Fine, but I'm going to go kill my mother for giving me this stupid game."

Yuugi sat with a cross between alarm and curiosity as he watched Atemu play the game, and he couldn't understand the game just by watching; but it seemed a one-player game, the player against Zorc. He shivered as Jounouchi and Anzu walked in.
"What are we doing….?" Anzu asked them with a confused frown.
Both Kyla and Atemu didn't answer, but Yuugi looked to her with concern.
"He's playing a game…" Yuugi announced to them.
"I can see that…" Jounouchi stated, as they both came to stand next to Yuugi. "What's going on…?"
"His players piece his fighting against Zorc…" Yuugi commented, with that both Anzu and Jounouchi looked to him with alarm, but quickly looked to Atemu whose player piece was knocked over.
"Ah…I lost again." Atemu stated again while picking up his player piece, and seemed to stare at it as if it contained the missing piece of the puzzle for the game, or perhaps it contained the wonderments of the world.
"Aw, you'll get it one day, Yami." Kyla encouraged him, and Atemu looked to her.
"Yeah, perhaps in a thousand years…" Atemu noted.
No one said anything to him.

Yuugi looked to Jounouchi. "Where did Honda-kun go…?" He asked.
"He needed to go; he has to be home at a certain time for babysitting."
"…Poor Honda-kun…" Yuugi announced as Jounouchi looked to his watch.
"Ah, I need to go meet Shizuka-chan…"
Anzu blinked. "What time is it…?" To that Jounouchi showed her the time. "Ah…! I'm going to be late for work…!"
Before Yuugi could blink both Jounouchi and Anzu had left.
"Um…Okay…?" He asked quietly.
"Aw…" Kyla pouted to the commotion. "I need to go too…"
Yuugi blinked. "Why…?"
"I have homework…"
Yuugi blinked, and his head sided. "Huh…?"
"She is home schooled." Atemu noted to him cutting into the conversation.
"Oh…" Yuugi started now understanding, with that Kyla also left.

"Why is she home schooled…?" Yuugi asked Atemu, who shrugged.
"She learnt more when less people of her age are around…Something her relatives have in common."
Yuugi blinked, but he thought it would be safe not to ask why.
Somehow, in less than five minutes, the two look-alikes were left alone.
"So…." One started awkwardly, and the other looked to him, but before anything else could be said they both burst out into laughter.
"…Sorry…" They both apologized afterwards.
Yuugi smiled. "What were the rules for that game you were playing…?"
"Hm…A game my mother gave me. The player's piece is set on the board randomly, and sets of to face Zorc…" Atemu started and to help visualize he placed the two pieces on the board his placing at random, and then held up a deck of cards. "These cards determine Zorc's attacks and movement…" He placed those ones down, and picked up another. "And these determine the movement and attack of the player."
Yuugi nodded, and watched as Atemu drew out a card from each deck, and placed them on the field, Zorc's card was a magic one and Atemu's was a movement.
"Zorc gets to go first, and because his was a higher magic spell, so it negates my movement, so I've lost a turn."
Yuugi watched as the turns dragged on, and Atemu's piece only hit Zorc a few times while Zorc had hit him more than that. It reminded him a little too much of the Memory World.
But both were surprised when Zorc's character was the one to fall, not Atemu's.
"…I won…?" Atemu stated with a blink down to the fallen Zorc.

Both turned quickly to the nearest window when a clap of thunder rang through and heavy rain poured down.
"Aa…" Atemu noted seeing the rain.
"You can stay here until it stops, kay, Atemu-kun…?" Yuugi asked of him, reading into him.
"It might take a little while to stop, Little One." He noted as another clap of thunder rang through, but Yuugi smiled.
"It'll give Kyla more time to do her homework, and you can stay the night if it keeps on, I would hate for you to get a cold because of me…" Yuugi said to him, and Atemu looked to him.
"As long as I'm not intruding…" He offered.
Yuugi smiled. "Nope…!"

Every time either one thought the rain would stop, it seemed to tease them with a loud clap of thunder and heavier rain, Atemu sighed as he removed his hand and watched the curtain fall back into place covering where the setting sun would be if it weren't distorted by the mean dark rain clouds, Yuugi was not back yet from telling Sugoroku that he was staying the night, because they both knew that it would be getting too late to walk home. Atemu kept the thoughts to himself that he could use the Shadows to take himself home, the only reason for it was because voicing anything about the Shadows to anyone in the group had a negative effect, as it should, and the other reason was Atemu didn't want to be unkindly and refuse Yuugi's hospitality. Atemu walked out to the hallway and over to the phone to look at it in wonder if he should call Kyla to tell her where he was, but knowing the witch she would know already his words, and would laugh at him. He didn't like her knowing the future, but it was something her ancestors could do. Atemu mentally grumbled; it all came back to ancestors these days. Was Japan doing this…? Or had he just not noticed it until now?

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Yuugi had walked up the hall and noticed Atemu, who hadn't noticed him.
"Atemu-kun…?" Yuugi started, and Atemu quickly looked to him, while Yuugi looked from him to the phone.
"You can use the phone…" Yuugi told with a frown.
"I'm wondering if Kyla will know beforehand if I call her." Atemu stated, and Yuugi blinked. "She has the slight gift of being a seer. It was how she knew your name before being told…"
Yuugi blinked again, but jumped five feet when the phone rang, making Atemu chuckle when it took Yuugi a second more to reach for the phone to answer it.
"Moshi, moshi…?" He asked the phone.
"…Yuugi-san…?" A feminine voice rang through, sounding slightly upset and scared.
"…Yes…?"
"It's Kyla…I know Atemu was staring at the phone, but is he still there…?" Her voice rang back still sounding upset and scared.
Yuugi blinked but looked to Atemu and wordlessly handed it to Atemu, who blinked again.

"Hai…? Kyla…!" Atemu started to frown. "What's wrong…?" Yuugi saw the change of look almost instantly. "What about him—He tried to do what?" Atemu nearly yelled into the phone, making Yuugi jump backwards, making Atemu quickly look to him with an expression to say he was sorry, but no later it was back to what Kyla was saying, while his fingers pinched his nose. "Is she alright…? …What are they going to do with him…? I know that, Kyla…" Atemu pressed his forehead against the nearest wall. "That won't do, Kyla, I won't do it…And neither will you, will they punish him…? …Do I need to be there…?" Atemu then looked alarmed as he came away from the wall. "Kyla, I can't leave—I know that, you know why I can't leave, and you're asking me to?" He sighed. "I know that, that too, he's doing it for attention so I will go back…You need your sleep, you know this wears you out…Don't start that again…! If I had some previous life, like you said I do, perhaps he'll handle it…!" With that Atemu closed the line and put the phone back calmly, though his expression was less than that. "She's going to be the death of me."

Yuugi couldn't stop blinking at him.
"Sorry, Little One. But my father tried to do something again." Atemu voiced to him.
This didn't help Yuugi, in fact; it made it worse.
"What did he try to do…?" He asked while blinking.
Atemu sighed. "He was caught trying to enter into one of the Pharaoh's tombs, when he's been told to stay away from them because of what happened last time."
Yuugi blinked. "What happened last time…?"
"He nearly died after he carelessly plundered his way in…" Atemu said straight, and Yuugi blinked.
"But this time, after being dragged back, he got in a rage with my mother, and he nearly killed her because of it."

Yuugi blinked. "Is she alright?"
"She will be. Got to hand it to him, trying to get in that tomb, though..." Atemu stated with a thoughtful look, and Yuugi blinked.
"Huh?" He asked confused of him. "Didn't he try before though?"
"Yeah, different tomb...But trying to get into that one..."
"Which one did he try to get into...?" Yuugi asked as his head turning to one side.
"The Nameless one..." Atemu stated and Yuugi nearly fell over.
"He what...?" Yuugi nearly yelled, making Atemu look to him with a frown, silently questioning why Yuugi was yelling.
"He didn't succeed the first time, he won't succeed the second time, not if everyone else has a say in it. They're a bit sore about that one..." Atemu stated and walked down the hall with Yuugi staring wide eyed at him, until he caught up with him.
"Why...?" Yuugi asked.
"If you still believe in Gods that is..." Atemu stated looking to Yuugi with a wink towards him Atemu then started looking for Sugoroku, leaving Yuugi behind to try and keep up, mentally, emotionally and physically.

"Sugoroku-san...?" Atemu started as soon as he found him, and the older man turned to him.
"Ah, there you are, boys...!" He said happily seeing both Atemu, who blinked, and Yuugi, who looked as if he had just run a mental marathon. "The storm is still holding up, you can stay the night Atemu-kun, I won't mind."
Atemu nodded his head in his thanks. "Thank you, Sugoroku-san..."
"Call me Jii-san, or you die." Sugoroku said darkly, making the two blink, but he soon burst out laughing.
"...Hai...Jii-san..." Atemu said rather nervously to him, making the old man still laugh.

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Yuugi blinked tiredly, and tried to get some sleep out of his eyes, but quickly turned to where Atemu had taken residency in his room, to find the bedding packed neatly, and the boy nowhere in sight, Yuugi blinked slowly, then his brain caught up and he jumped out of bed and ran out of his room, only to yelp as he was dragged into the kitchen by his grandfather.
"Atemu-kun is quiet strange." Sugoroku stated, making Yuugi blink.
"What makes you say that...?" Yuugi asked nervously.
"The fact that he looks like the Pharaoh, or acts like the Pharaoh, you choose." He stated, making Yuugi groan.
"It's too early in the morning for this."
"What's too early...?" His voice called making Yuugi yelp, and turn around.
"When did you get there...!"
"Just a second ago..." Atemu started slowly blinking once.
"Oh." Yuugi calmed down, as Sugoroku tried to keep his own laughter in.

"What's wrong...?" Yuugi asked as Atemu sat himself down at the table, knowing by now if he didn't make himself at home, Sugoroku would get mad; he had even crossed one leg over the other to prove it.
"I can't win at that game again..." Atemu said while he blew out a sigh in frustration.
Both Yuugi and Sugoroku blinked.
"You can't...?" Yuugi asked, and Atemu shook his head.
"What game...?" Sugoroku blinked curiously. Atemu looked to Yuugi who nodded and ran out the room. He came back with the board and laid it on the table and gave the rest of the needed stuff for the game to Atemu, who set it up.
"My mother gave me this game." Atemu told Sugoroku had looked as interested as Yuugi did.
"I haven't seen this game before!" Sugoroku announced to them both, making Yuugi laugh.
"But if we play it now, we're gonna be late!"
In a second later, both were out the door and running down the road.

A/N: I'm quite serious. If I don't get five more reviews, I'm not continuing.