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"Joey I'm suddenly not so sure about this…" Yugi trailed meekly. His stomach twisting nervously while they walked down the hall towards their english classroom. He couldn't distract someone to save his life. "Why do you have to do this again? Why can't you just get over it…"

"Because he's a prick! That's why. I'm not gonna get over it until we're even." Joey stated sternly. As they got closer to the room Joey stopped Yugi before he kept walking. "Alright. The door's open so that means he must be in there. You got your essay right?"

Yugi brought his backpack around, opened it, fishing around inside it, then pulled out the two page essay he'd written. "Yeah…" What he really should have said was no so he wouldn't have a way to distract him. He still didn't understand why Joey had picked him to do this, Yugi was probably the worst possible choice for something like this. He was already nervous when he woke up this morning and he could barely down his breakfast.

"Ok. Remember to have him look at it, that'll be the best distraction." Joey told him while they moved a little closer to the door.

"What if that doesn't work?" Yugi asked in a hushed worried whisper.

Joey gazed to the scared smaller boy. "Then we're screwed."

Yugi's eyes widened before turning to run.

Joey grabbed him by the arm before he could escape. "Don't be a baby! You promised me you'd do this!" Joey admitted before then shoving Yugi forward so that he was in the doorway.

Yugi stood like a deer in the head lights for a few moments before realizing that Kaiba wasn't even at his desk. Yugi stepped into the classroom to look around, seeing Kaiba standing near the back of the classroom facing a large metal cabinet. He appeared to be searching for something. Yugi glanced back at Joey who shooed him on. He gave him one last nervous look before swallowing the nerves and walking to the back of the classroom. He gripped his essay so tightly between his hands he could have ripped it in two. While he was walking he glanced back at the door to see Joey peering over the door frame at him.

When he got closer to Kaiba he made a frustrated noise. Yugi almost stopped but kept walking until he was close enough to speak out. "Uh... Mr. Kaiba…?" Yugi called weakly.

Kaiba turned to pierce Yugi with his threatening cobalt eyes. "And who are you again…? I recognize you, your in my first class aren't you?"

Yugi stared at him for a long moment before nodding. "Yeah, I'm Yugi."

"Right." he stated while crossing his arms in front of him. "What do you need?" he questioned impatiently.

Yugi gazed down at the essay in his hands. "I was wondering… If you could read my essay… to make sure it's ok."

He seemed resentful of it but then gave Yugi an annoyed expression. "Alright, let me see it."

Yugi shyly handed over his essay. When their hands brushed, Yugi for unknown reasons blushed a very light pink before quickly retreating his hand to grab onto the straps of his backpack. He hadn't even realized he had blushed he was so nervous. Yugi watched as Kaiba began reading his essay. A blank expression on his face the whole time so Yugi couldn't tell if he liked it or not. He really hoped that he did. Even though he probably didn't care about his life, hopefully there were no grammar or spelling mistakes.

While he read it Yugi glanced behind him to see Joey kneeled down by his chair, he seemed to be messing with the legs of it. Yugi then gazed back to Kaiba as he spoke.

"The first two paragraphs are fine. The only thing is a run on sentence." he stated while continuing to read.

"Oh… sometimes I have trouble knowing when to end a sentence…" he admitted a little embarrassingly.

"It's common." Kaiba said as he finished reading the first page. He switched to the second one and continued.

Yugi's nerves continued to fester inside of him. He glanced over at Joey again to see him standing now. He looked at Yugi and nodded before quickly leaving the classroom. Now that he wasn't really distracting Kaiba anymore he didn't feel as nervous but for some reason he still was.

After some time Kaiba handed the essay back to him. "Everything looks fine except the run on sentence. I'm surprised there weren't millions of spelling mistakes. Teenagers tend to be careless." He spat while walking away from Yugi back to his desk.

Yugi quickly walked after him. Suddenly feeling a strong surge of guilt go through him for distracting him so that Joey could mess with his chair. Before he had a chance to do anything else Yugi spoke again. "Could you show me where the sentence is so I can fix it?" he questioned hastily. He now stood next to him in front of his desk.

Kaiba nodded before grabbing a pencil from his desk and taking Yugi's paper from him again. He put the paper on the desk then leaned over it to scan for the sentence. After a moment he underlined a very long part of Yugi's essay. "If you fix this then I guarantee you'll get an A."

"Thank you." he muttered while taking his essay from Kaiba again. "Do you mind if I just fix it now and turn it in?"

"No. Go ahead. After all it's due as soon as this class begins." he stated before picking up a large binder and walking past Yugi back to the metal cabinet.

Yugi watched as he opened it and kneeled down to place it in a secluded area of the cabinet. Something inside him said that he should tell Kaiba what Joey did, whatever it was that he did. After all it could possibly really hurt Kaiba and Joey could get in a lot of trouble. Though Joey may never forgive him for ratting him out because Kaiba was sure to confront him about it. If only there was a way Yugi could tell him without making it obvious that Joey did it. Kaiba probably already knew that Joey hated him so he would be his first guess.

When Kaiba turned and looked at him Yugi realized he had been staring at him the whole time. He blushed embarrassingly before quickly grabbing Kaiba's pencil and sitting down at the closest table. He then went to work erasing the period at the very end of his long run on sentence to correct it. In that time Kaiba had walked back to the front of his desk and was going through a few papers. While Yugi was correcting he found his eyes slowly moving away from his paper to his teacher in front of him. This happened many times before frowning to himself and focusing on the essay. He didn't know why he kept looking at him. There was just something about him, something different that drew Yugi's attention.

"This Joey Wheeler, your friends with him correct?" Kaiba all of a sudden asked. Not yet turning from the papers before him.

"Yes." Yugi replied. Wondering why he hadn't suddenly asked that.

Kaiba then moved to stand behind his chair. "He takes me for a fool doesn't he?"

Yugi had a feeling where this was going, but how could he know? He'd been talking to him the whole time. "I'm not actually sure what you mean…"Trailed Yugi.

Kaiba's eyes narrowed. "He thought he could break my chair without me knowing?" Kaiba then placed his hand on the chair and it instantly fell apart.

Yugi eyes widened slightly. He said no more, not wanting to actually admit that Joey had done it.

"I saw him sneak into my room while we spoke." he all of a sudden glared at Yugi. "And he had you distract me while he did it I'm guessing."

Yugi sunk in his chair. Feeling incredibly bad about it now. His eyes down casted towards the table top in shame.

"I believe it's only fair that both of you join me for lunch today. Since you technically didn't do anything I'll let you off and you can just have one lunch detention with me. Though your friend Joey will not be so lucky." Kaiba sighed ruggedly. "I swear teenagers… some are so stupid…" he muttered under his breath.

Yugi gazed up at him with a shame filled expression. "I'm sorry… I knew I shouldn't have helped him but… he's my best friend…" Yugi admitted.

"Just because he's your best friend doesn't mean you can help him vandalize my things. If he told you to shoot someone, would you?" Kaiba asked. Clear anger inside his voice.

Yugi shook his head.

Kaiba stared at Yugi for a long moment before walking to the door. "I'll be back in five minutes. Stay away from my desk." he growled while leaving.

Yugi sighed when he was gone. He felt so horrible about this. Now Kaiba surely hated him too, maybe there was something he could do to make it up to him. He rather be liked by his teachers then hated and Kaiba probably lost a lot of respect and trust from Yugi. Something that Yugi really tried to keep with him. He couldn't believe he had helped Joey do that, what had he been thinking? He should have said no. If Joey was mad at him then that would be ridiculous. Yugi should be mad at him for making him have lunch detention today but it was only for one day and Joey was surely going to get many more days then him. And on the second day of school.

This year was starting out interesting.

xXxXx

Just before the bell had rung for class to start Kaiba had come back with a janitor to take care of his chair and bring in a new one. While he'd been gone Yugi had placed his essay on his desk along with his pencil. He then had moved back to his seat in the very back of the classroom just as Kaiba had come in to take care of his chair. The classroom was now full of all of the other students, who as soon as they walked in turned in their essay's. Each one in their seats whispering amongst themselves while Kaiba situated himself.

"So did Joey try his revenge?" Tea whispered to Yugi.

"Yeah… and I got in trouble for it, I'm sure Kaiba will tell Joey he had lunch detention in front of everyone." Yugi whispered back.

"Wait, why are you in trouble for it?" she asked curiously.

"Because I distracted him while Joey did something to his chair to make it break." Yugi explained.

Tea glanced over to the chair Kaiba was sitting in then back to Yugi. "But the chair seems fine to me."

"He got it replaced before the bell rung." Yugi told her.

"Oh…" she suddenly frowned. "So you and Joey won't be at lunch today?"

He shook his head. "I will be tomorrow but I doubt Joey will be."

Tea gained a look of surprise. "Wow… How did he figure out that Joey did that if you were distracting him?"

"He still saw Joey somehow… I told him I was no good at distracting." Yugi admitted. He still felt ashamed of what he'd done. He really hoped that Kaiba didn't give him an F on his essay out of spite.

Tea gazed forward as Kaiba stood up from his chair. "I can't say that's a huge surprise. Mr. Kaiba seems like the kinda guy who isn't fooled very easily."

"If only Joey had realized that before that happened." Yugi stated while also gazing forward at Kaiba who was standing before the class. His arms were crossed and was glaring at about everyone. Yugi bet that what happened earlier put him in a horrible mood. They were probably going to have a ton of homework.

"I'm amazed everyone managed to turn in their essay's. I expected less than half of the class to." he stated as he began walking down one of the rows. "I'll have them all graded by tomorrow, so today we will be going to the media center because your next assignment is a book project."

Many other students groaned and sighed.

"I had planned to do something more simple today but because of an event this morning I decided to bring on a project." Kaiba instantly gazed at Joey. A glare along with it. "And if you don't find a book Wheeler, then you can come have lunch detention with me for the next week. During then you can go to the media center to look until you find one."

"What the hell! What'd I do!" he suddenly yelled in an outburst.

"You know exactly what you did. I'll tell you now that it was poorly thought out." Kaiba admitted as he was now standing next to Joey. Looking down on him.

"Damn." he muttered just loud enough to hear.

"And for that you can scrape gum from underneath this table while you're here." he said while placing his hand on the table.

Joey merely growled this time while crossing his arms in protest.

Kaiba then gazed back at Yugi. The young boy thought that he was his next target but then Kaiba abruptly turned from him to go back to his desk. Yugi feeling relived that he hadn't had that happen to him. Kaiba then picked up a stack of papers and began handing a few to each row to pass back.

"As you will eventually all see the project will be due next Tuesday which gives you a whole week and weekend. The book has to be at least over a hundred pages and an actual novel." he explained. "Presentations will start Wednesday of next week, volunteers will get fifteen extra credit points so that will help your grade if you got a D on the essay. Which I'm sure most of you will." Kaiba remarked rudely. "Presentations will last until Thursday so if you just so happen to be gone then that will be your problem because there is no way you can make it up."

After a moment Tea rose her hand silently.

"Yes?" Kaiba called at her.

"How much is this project worth?" she questioned.

"Fifty points." he replied. "Are there any more questions? No? Then go to the media center and take your things because we will not be coming back." Kaiba instructed.

Everyone got up from their seats, put their backpacks on, and began leaving the classroom. Yugi met with Joey and they walked out together.

Surprisingly he was quiet most of the walk, he didn't began talking until they were closer to the media center.

"Did you get detention too?" Joey asked. He glanced to Yugi before back forward.

"Yeah." he replied.

"Sorry bud… I didn't mean to get you in trouble too. I thought he'd let you off the hook." Joey told him.

"Well I only have lunch detention today so he did sort of give me a break." Yugi said. He was glad that he didn't have to spend the rest of the week having lunch with Kaiba.

"Then your lucky. I know this is gonna be the worst." Joey frowned to himself. "I should have listened to Yami when he said to chill out for a few days."

Yugi nodded.

"How did he even find out? I know you didn't tell him." Joey asked.

Yugi was glad that he was trusted enough by Joey not to flat out tell Kaiba who did it. "Mr. Kaiba said that he saw you do it even though he was talking to me… I don't know how…"

"Maybe he's got a sixth sense." Joked the dirty blonde.

Yugi chuckled lightly. "Yeah, maybe."

When they reached the media center they began browsing the books. Making sure to avoid anything to do with romance which Tea was already standing at with a group of other girls. Yugi never read very much. He didn't know what would be a good book to read, but that was always what was the most fun about picking out a book. He found himself skimming all of the titles, anything funny Joey would point out and laugh at.

Eventually Joey managed to find a book about some kind of mythical war. He went to go check it out while Yugi continued to search. There were so many books upon all of the grey shelf's but none caught his eye. Nothing looked interesting enough to read. He had about thirty more minutes to find a book so there wasn't really a rush but he felt a little anxious when everyone else was finding a book and he wasn't. He hated being the last at things, even finding a book. Yugi began pulling out books to look at the covers, he'd open some and read the first page and often just put it back.

"Can't find a book?"

Yugi instantly turned seeing Kaiba standing behind him with a slight annoyed expression. One Yugi often saw him wear. "Y-Yeah…" Why had he stuttered? Was he nervous?

"Hmm…" Kaiba stood next to Yugi. Gazing at all of the books. After some time he pulled one from the top shelf where Yugi couldn't reach and brought it down. "I read this when I was in college, it was alright… maybe you'll like it." he stated while handing the book to Yugi.

Yugi looked over the book. The title was "Running From Shadow's." Yugi had never heard of it but it sounded interesting. "Thanks." he said while hugging the book to his chest and gazing downwards. "And about earlier… I really am sorry… If there's anything I could do to make up for it… because I feel really bad about it…"

When Kaiba was silent for a long moment Yugi gazed up at him. He seemed to be debating something mentally before glaring.

"Just don't turn into your friend over there." Kaiba stated while gesturing to Joey who had fallen asleep in his book.

Yugi nodded then walked away to go check out the book and so that he could frown without Kaiba seeing it. Why had he looked like he was going to say something else? What would it have been? Yugi sighed as he reached the check out desk. Two minutes later he was sitting next to Joey who he'd woken up and had opened his book to begin reading. Though he found himself staring at Kaiba more than the pages in the book. He didn't know why but he couldn't help but gaze at him.

When he got too frustrated with it he shook his head and glued his eyes to his book. He rose his elbows on the table to hold up his book and read it so that he could no longer see Kaiba beyond the book.

"Hey Yuge, you ok?" Joey suddenly asked. He had probably been watching Yugi the whole time.

Yugi glanced to him and nodded. "Fine. Why do you ask?"

Joey shrugged slightly. "I dunno, you just seemed like you were trying to swat at a bug by how fast you brought up your book."

Yugi laughed and rolled his eyes. "There's no bug. I just got uncomfortable how I was reading."

"Ah." he then leaned forward to look at the cover of Yugi's book. "What kind of book did you get?"

"Uh… I don't really know exactly what it's about yet. Mr. Kaiba picked it out for me because I couldn't find one." Yugi told him.

"Wow, he helped you? I never would have thought…" he said while then going back to read his book or skim it.

Yugi went back to reading his book also. After everyone had found a book things got quiet which made it much easier to read. Still with even the most concentration in the world Yugi could no longer fight the urge. He brought his book down slightly to look over it at Kaiba who appeared to be writing something down from a large binder filled with all kinds of different papers. Why did he keep wanting to look at him? Yugi didn't understand it but when Kaiba suddenly looked up at him Yugi quickly brought the book back in front of his face. Luckily the book was large enough to hide the red blush on his face.

Why was he blushing now? This was beginning to frustrate the small boy. What was going on with him? Was he getting sick or something? Finding out these questions would be almost impossible. Who he knew he needed to talk to was Atem. He could help him with what ever problem he may be having, or about to have.