A/N: Thanks for your reviews/favourites/alerts.
As you can see, I'm trying to keep the chapter titles "Shadows" something! XD
This chapter is small, because I like cliff-hangers. Just to add that little but more tension. –Hides–
Our High School
Chapter 4/? -
Shadows of a Remembrance
For Ashfire28 and FallingNight01;
whose review made this possible.
The two look-alikes made it to see the front of the school in record time, and they were even early. But they didn't know how they managed to do it.
"Well, that was weird." Yuugi stated seeing that they got to school early.
"Too early, if you ask me..." Atemu stated, and looked like he would give in to yawn any time soon, it looked like his body had just realised the time, and relapsed from when he had gotten up. Yuugi turned to him.
"Not a morning person?" Yuugi asked him, curious.
"Not when I have to go to school." Atemu told, making Yuugi giggle. "Give me anything else, and I'll be up at dawn: School, dead to the world."
Yuugi blinked nervously at his choice of words. "...I guess not many people want to get up for school..."
Atemu chuckled. "Not many people." He echoed tiredly.
As suddenly as anything, Kyla was in front of them, making Yuugi yelp and Atemu sigh.
"Yami...!" Kyla noted, waving as if he wasn't standing in front of her.
"Hello, Kyla..." Atemu stated with a heavier sigh.
Yuugi, who had come to know Kyla, who seemed to be embossed to every time she came across Atemu to hug his breath away, wasn't doing as she normally was. Kyla was standing there, with what looked like a curious-sad expression.
"Did you dream, last night, Yami...?" She asked in a low voice.
"If I did, I can't remember it." Atemu stated looking up to the sky, as if nothing on the ground around him was more interesting anymore.
"As in, you dreamed but can't remember it." Kyla sighed. "...Anything...?" She asked a little hopeful.
"No, Kyla." Atemu sighed.
By now, Yuugi was sure he wasn't meant to be here.
"You want those memories to awaken, right? We found out the hard way what happens when we poke them." Kyla reminded him to this Atemu visibly flinched.
"Yes, thanks to you, I couldn't face seeing green lights for a week."
Now…Yuugi wasn't so sure.
Kyla sighed, and Atemu looked to her. "The memories will awaken themself, if it wants to."
Kyla huffed. "Normally when you are sleeping...!" She quickly looked to Yuugi, who backed up, not really knowing if he wanted to get involved with this argument. "Was he up early this morning...?"
Yuugi blinked, but nodded. "He was awake before I was..."
Atemu looked from Kyla to Yuugi with a frown. "Why are you bringing him into this...?"
Kyla quickly turned to glare at him. "Because you won't...!" She hissed at him.
Both look-alikes blinked, but Atemu silently groaned.
"Leave him out of this, he isn't involved." Atemu persisted.
"Like hell he isn't!" Kyla hissed back, all seemingly forgetting that Yuugi was there.
"He doesn't need to know...!" Atemu growled to her.
"The hell he doesn't!"
"Oh, yeah...? What are you going to tell him? If you have forgotten, he is right here." Atemu argued to her making her blink and turn to Yuugi. Kyla blinked again and looked slightly stunned at her lack of remembrance and how much she had said, but she watched as Atemu walked around a very confused Yuugi to grasp his upper-arm. "He doesn't need to know, Kyla." He told her once again, and pulled Yuugi into the school.
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Yuugi could not have moved by himself that was for sure. He was still trying to understand what the two were fighting over. Had it something to do with him...? Why, was Atemu opposed him knowing? Yuugi blinked, and came around to notice his surroundings they were in their classroom, which was empty being still early in the morning for people to get into class, but he had also noticed he wasn't being pulled to move anymore, and said puller was resting his head on the wall.
"Atemu-kun...?" Yuugi voiced after he walked up to him, and saw him flinch, but stop resting his head and opened his eyes to look at Yuugi.
"Yes, Little One...?"
Yuugi blinked. "Why were Kyla and you fighting...?"
Atemu sighed and seemed to rub his forehead, as if he was hoping to keep away a forming headache. "She believes that the memories that aren't mine form into my dreams, and by that I'll be able to witness them, and remember them."
Yuugi blinked. "What is wrong with that...?"
Atemu shook his head. "There is nothing wrong with it, Little One; it is what she believes in."
"So why are you fighting over it...?" Yuugi asked in confusion, watching him carefully.
"I believe that if the memories want to be present, it will be, though perhaps Kyla is right, and when I sleep the memories make themself present into makeshift dreams..."
Yuugi blinked, but noticed he was thinking, so he didn't say anything.
"The reason she was asking if I was up early was, according to what she believes, is that something in the "dream" was overly emotional and made me wake up..."
Yuugi frowned. "But how do you know...?"
"Exactly, perhaps Kyla knows more than me, because apparently I can sometimes be vocal..." Atemu blinked to the wall again, with a frown of his own. "...So, indeed she knows more than me."
"What do I have to do with all of this...?" Yuugi asked cautiously of Atemu.
"I don't believe you have a need to know, while Kyla insists you know."
Yuugi blinked. "I don't understand..."
"Neither do I, Little One." Atemu told, as he watched Yuugi's head side.
"Do you want the memories to present themselves...?"
Atemu blinked. "Perhaps, but then, would I be the same...?" He pondered aloud.
"They're not yours, though, right...?" Yuugi asked, and Atemu nodded.
"They shouldn't be."
"So wouldn't it be like watching a movie...?"
Atemu blinked, but then smiled. "I guess it would be, I hadn't thought of it like that before..." Then he frowned. "But, I do believe, I have to suffer this headache today..." Atemu stated holding his head and Yuugi looked on worriedly.
Yuugi watched worriedly as Atemu rested his head in his fist, and closed his eyes, and seemingly fell asleep; that had been over ten minutes ago. Atemu had not so much as flinched, besides the now frowning that was present, and the always present movements his breathing caused him to take. As the rest of the group were trying to figure out how Jounouchi lost to Bakura, who looked just as stunned, Atemu looked as if he was hit with an onslaught of noise, and woke as if thunder had clapped over his head loudly, and looked around alarmed as if to see if there was a reason for it, but his eyes quickly found Yuugi in widening shock, Yuugi looked overly worried, even more so when Atemu stood up, looking shaken.
"I'll be back in a second..." He stated, and to everyone but himself, he walked calmly out the classroom.
Atemu had excused himself to find a bathroom to hide in. He looked doubled over, as if in pain; with one hand gripping the wall, the other clutching his chest, but didn't look ready to give into crying, yet, with his eyes closed tightly and it seemed hard to breathe as he gripped his shirt tighter.
"...Aibou..."
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A/N: I'm lightly evil.
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