The next day Seto picked Yugi up, just as he said he was going to, and drove him to school. The two of them sat at the back of the room with Yugi next to the window and Seto on the other side so that Joey and Tristan couldn't sit near him. They came bursting in soon after and stomped right up to Yugi.
"Yug," growled Joey. "Why didn't you wait for us man? If your grandpa hadn't told us that you had already left then we would have been late."
"Would have been better that way," said Seto.
"What did you just say?" yelled Joey.
"I'm sorry," Seto said sarcastically, "did I stutter?"
"Why you!" yelled Joey.
"Please!" Yugi cried out as he tried in vain to put himself between the two so that they wouldn't fight. "Please don't fight you guys."
"Come on Yug," growled Joey. "We don't want to hang out with this bastard anyway."
"But," Yugi tried to protest.
"But nothing," growled Joey. "Get your ass up and come sit with us. We need help on our homework."
Seto knew exactly what that meant. That meant that they were going to copy all of Yugi's work. Well, too bad for them, because they weren't getting Yugi back anytime soon if he had anything to do with it. "Yugi's going to be sitting with me from now on," Seto said calmly. He was aware that he was practically treating Yugi the same way Tristan and Joey always did, but at least he wouldn't abuse the boy.
"Excuse me," growled Joey.
"You're excused," answered Seto. "You can leave us now."
"What!" yelled Joey. He was about to launch forward and attack Seto when the teacher came in and made him sit down in the worst seat of the house because he had been standing when she came in.
At lunch Seto accompanied Yugi to his locker and then showed him the way to the outside table that he had claimed for his own. Everyone knew it was his and nobody ever even attempted to approach it. They both sat down and Yugi took out a water bottle filled with red liquid, which Seto assumed was blood, and suck a straw in it so he could drink out its contents. As Yugi drank he looked around and something struck him. "How are you going to eat Seto? Everyone's watching us. What will they think if you bite me?"
"I'll wait until after school," answered Seto.
"But that's a long time to wait," said Yugi. He felt bad because he had no way of helping Seto get his food.
"I don't care," answered Seto. There was no way that he was going to bite Yugi in such a public place. Someone might come up with the wrong conclusion. Although, by the looks that everyone was giving him, they probably already came up with the wrong conclusion.
"Yug!" yelled Joey as he stomped up to them. "What the hell are you doing with this guy? Why aren't you eating lunch with us?"
"I-" Yugi began to say, but before he could even attempt to finish the sentence Seto answered for him.
"I already told you that Yugi would be sitting with me," he said rather smugly. Seto could tell that Joey was already missing his punching bag, which meant that the moment he got Yugi back he would beat him to a bloody pulp.
Joey growled and stepped around the table to grab Yugi's hand and pull him up from his seat. He began tugging the boy away from Seto, but before he could get very far he felt a punch connect with his face. He was shocked. No one had ever dared to hit him and get away with it. He immediately stood and motioned for Tristan, who was just a few feet away, to come over. They were going to teach Seto a lesson.
Seto saw Tristan approaching him and pulled Yugi rather roughly behind him so that the two bullies could not get to him. Yugi, who was not expecting the sudden pull fell to the ground and scraped his hand on the cement underneath him. Clenching his fist, Yugi tried his best to hide the blood from Seto, but it looked like Seto had already smelled it. Seto's pupils had narrowed hungrily and he was becoming more violent. He had been right: waiting until the end of the day was going to be too long for Seto, who was a new vampire, to wait to be able to feed himself.
"Kaiba!" Yugi gasped when he saw him throw a particularly hard punch at Joey's face that actually broke his jaw. "Kaiba stop!" he yelled again when he threw a strong kick straight into Tristan's stomach, which sent him flying in the opposite direction. "Kaiba!" Yugi yelled one more time as wrapped his hands around Joey's neck ready and willing to break it.
Yugi jumped on top of Seto and pulled back hard. Even if he wasn't able to touch the ground while he had his arms wrapped around Seto's neck his strength was still powerful enough to at least make the man let go of Joey who coughed and gasped for breath. Yugi pushed his bloody hand in Seto's face as he made it seem like he was trying to catch his grip as he slipped off. He only gave Seto the chance to have a small taste of the blood before he allowed himself to fall to the ground and run back to the school where he would be able to find a private spot to feed Seto. He was relieved to see that Seto was actually following him as he turned into a deserted classroom. He waited until Seto was in the room before he closed the door and locked.
Seto only gave Yugi the chance to lock the door before he slammed him up against the wall and sunk his teeth into his neck painfully. Yugi gasped, but remained silent as Seto sucked out almost all of his life essence. Luckily he had thought to bring his backpack with him and another bag of blood rested within it where he could easily reach when Seto was done. Unfortunately, he misjudged how much blood Seto would need compared to how much he needed. He should have thought about that because Seto was almost two times his size.
"Kaiba-san," he gasped quietly. He was so weak that he could barely even talk. "Kaiba-san, you need to stop."
Seto seemed not to hear him as he continued to suck out his life force. He was just so angry and for some reason that anger was controlling him and making it so that he was much more hungry than he should have been.
"Seto," muttered quietly as he began to collapse. He no longer had the strength to hold himself up. He knew he wouldn't die from blood loss, but many vampires had slipped into comas from not having enough blood and then were never able to wake up again. That, to him, was the same thing as death. He always thought that he would die because of his horrible illness that he had when he was a child or because of a vampire hunter killing him.
Seto felt the sudden weight as Yugi collapsed beneath him and he came to his senses. "Yugi?" he asked.
Yugi could barely even open his eyes when Seto let him go. "My bag," he whispered.
Seto quickly grabbed the bag and handed it to Yugi, but Yugi was so weak that he was having trouble opening it. Seto took the backpack and opened it so that he could pull out the bag filled with blood. "Here," he said as he put the blood right in front of Yugi's face.
Yugi weakly put his hands on top of Seto's so that he could pull the bag closer to him and pierce it with his fangs. Some of the blood dripped onto both of their hands, but Seto didn't care just as long as Yugi was being fed. He couldn't afford to lose the only person who could teach him about being a vampire. At least, that's what he told himself.
When the bag was completely empty Yugi dropped it only to pull Seto's hands forward to lick the rest off of them. "Thank you," he said when the blood was completely gone.
"I should have been able to control myself better," growled Seto. He had always prided himself on his amount of self control, but for some reason he was unable to control himself when he was drinking blood and it angered him more than anything.
"You're a brand new vampire," Yugi shook his head. "You will learn to control your instincts soon."
"Fine," mumbled Seto.
"I have to say though Kaiba-san," Yugi smiled. "You have a lot more self control than some of the vampires that I have met in my time."
"You know other vampires?" asked Seto.
"I run into them from time to time," answered Yugi.
"I see," said Seto.
Suddenly the school bell rang and Yugi jumped up. "We have to get back to class." Yugi really hated to be late.
"Yea yea," Seto muttered as he followed the boy out of the room. He didn't run like the boy did, but he did walk as fast as his legs would take him. He couldn't afford any sort of tardy with all of his absences and tardies from his work.
"Oh there you are," said the teacher as they walked in just before the bell rang. "I was afraid you weren't going to make it for a moment there."
"I apologize for being late," Yugi said breathlessly.
Seto just ignored the teacher and looked up at the only two remaining seats left. One was next to the smirking Joey and the other was beside Tristan. Neither was a favorable seat for Yugi to be sitting in because both would be cruel to the boy. Even though Tristan often didn't act without Joey first saying something, he was just as bad as Joey when Joey was nowhere near him to control him. Seto had learned this once when he was watching Yugi on a day that Joey was at home sick. "I don't want to sit by either of those people," he said as he looked back at the teacher. He knew for a fact that Yugi wouldn't say anything and he needed to protect his only food source.
"I'm sorry Kaiba-san," the woman said apologetically. "You arrived late so you are going to have to take whatever seat is still available."
"That's fine," Yugi said nervously as he too looked at the only remaining seat.
"No that's not fine," said Seto. "Either you get me a seat next to Yugi or I will do everything in my power to get you fired." He was aware that he wasn't helping the rumor that was probably being spread around that he was dating Yugi, but he refused to allow Yugi to sit next to those bastards.
"Kaiba-san!" Yugi gasped. "You shouldn't threaten her job like that. She's only being fair to the other students. I'm sure none of them want to sit next to Joey or Tristan either." Immediately after these words had left Yugi's lips he gasped and covered his mouth with his hands. He couldn't believe that he had just insulted people. He always tried very hard not to insult anyone and he had just insulted the only two people that had noticed him when he had entered into the school. He already felt bad enough that he was starting to ignore them in favor of staying with Seto, but now he felt completely horrible. "I'm sorry I said that," he said shakily as he stared down at his feet. "It was an awful thing for me to say and I should never have said it. I am really sorry."
"You shouldn't be sorry for telling the truth," growled Seto. "If that's the case you can just moved either Joey to sit next to Tristan or Tristan to sit next Joey. I don't care what you do. Just get it done so that Yugi and I can sit down and we can start this class before you get fired for not doing your job."
Yugi said nothing this time. He knew that no matter what he said Seto would not back down and would probably act on the threats that he was given if something wasn't done. He did, however, look over at the worried teacher with a look of pity. The poor woman was trying so hard to figure out what she was going to do. It would be unfair if she moved any of the other students who had come to class on time, but she also didn't want to lose her job.
"Joey," she said nervously. "Could you move to sit next to Tristan."
"What!?" yelled Joey. "You're actually going to do what this bastard is telling you!? Well I ain't moving."
"You heard the teacher," said Seto. "Move or I'll get you kicked out of the school."
"I ain't movin," Joey said stubbornly.
"Fine," said Seto as he turned to leave the room. "Consider yourself expelled." He had just reached the door when there was a loud sound of someone moving their chair back. Seto turned around to see Tristan standing up to move and sit next to Joey. "It looks like your little sidekick saved you this time," he said with a smirk.
Joey only growled as Tristan sat next to him. This had not been part of his plan. He had wanted Yugi to suffer for abandoning the both of them and now he was beginning to realize that the only way for him to do that was to somehow get Yugi away from Seto. He was determined that he would figure it out sooner or later.
Seto continued to smirk as he led Yugi to their seats. He was so proud of himself that he almost didn't even notice as he pulled the chair farthest away from Joey and Tristan out for Yugi to sit in. Yugi sat in it obediently and Seto moved to his own seat. Only then did he realize that the gesture that had been meant to tell Yugi to sit in that seat was probably going to be taken the wrong way. He looked around and saw that everyone was staring at them and Yugi had his head down in embarrassment. Seto just assumed that was because Yugi didn't like everyone staring at him.
"Well," he growled at the teacher. "Are you going to start the class or not."
The teacher jumped and immediately rushed to her desk where she picked up some papers only to drop them all over the floor. "Hold on a second," she said nervously. "I will pass out your worksheets. They will be both your classwork and your homework."
Seto could see that Yugi was about to stand to help the teacher, but he didn't want the boy to be anywhere out of his reach so he grabbed Yugi and tugged him back into his chair. Yugi looked at him nervously only to look back down at his desk.
So guys...it's saturday again and that means that i can post the next chapter. i hope you like this one as well.
i have the next chapter written already so the same rules apply. i'll update in a week unless i get 5 reviews before then
by the way...i think i forgot to mention that i accept any review (that means flames) and that i don't own any of the Yugioh characters.
that is all