The first four chapters have been edited of any spelling (and gender) mistakes. Thanks to all the readers once again, and good luck with your date! (Nope I don't have one, but I don't mind.)
Disclaimer: The same thing that has been going on for the first 10 chapters.
Chapter 11 - St Valentine (Outcome One)
Hikari took her time walking back home. She felt exhausted, yet happy at the same time. Was giving a chocolate that difficult and energy-draining?
She rounded a corner and passed through the park. She was just thinking of work when she heard light footsteps approaching her. Remembering what Yugi and Ryou had said, she hastened her steps home. There were only children in the park.
The footsteps quickened with her. Hikari snapped when a hand tapped her right shoulder, and whacked whoever it was in the face with full force of her school bag.
"Yami!" Hikari squeaked. Yami fell backwards, holding the side of his face where the bag had landed. Hikari hurried forwards to help him.
"What do you keep in there, an encyclopaedia?" Yami grimaced. That hurt, although he would never admit it. (Boys, you know.)
Hikari flushed. "You scared me."
"I did? Sorry. An interesting way to protect yourself, though."
"What were you doing, following me?" Hikari asked. She hoped that it was what she was thinking of...
"Er -" Yami once again hesitated at the question. Hikari tilted her head in answer, looking extraordinarily cute.
"AreeufrionSunday?"
"Excuse me? I didn't catch that."
Yami breathed deeply. He can do this. Hikari was now looking decently worried, maybe she thought he had lost it or something.
"Are - you - freeonSunday?" Yami rushed at the last three words. Hikari had heard very clearly what he was intending to tell her though. Her expression was one of utmost surprise.
"I never - I didn't hear wrongly, did I?"
Yami laughed, the tension that had filled him moments before was evaporating. He couldn't believe it was actually that easy, he made a fool of himself just by asking a simple question.
"No. No, you didn't. So what's your answer?"
It couldn't have been plainer what her answer was. Hikari looked at her shoe laces, her face burning.
"Yes." Hikari spoke to her shoes. Had she looked up, she would have seen Yami's broad smile, as well as something else - Yugi and Ryou were rounding the corner.
"Hikari? What were you doing with Yami yesterday?"
Hikari choked on her rice. They saw that?
"Me? Nothing."
"Really? Because you had your head bowed down..." Ryou didn't sound very convinced though.
"Er...Hikari...he didn't do anything indecent to you did he?" Yugi tentatively asked.
"What? No, of course not. What makes you think that?"
"You never know. What with what he's done already..." Yugi trailed off, relieved anyhow.
"Hmm? What has he done?"
"...Nothing."
But Ryou and Yugi still looked really worried. Hikari didn't notice anything, she was too absorbed in what she was going to wear on the coming Sunday.
Hikari walked up to the front of the mall at seven on Sunday. She was elegantly dressed in a white dress that reached a few inches above knee-level, and had elbow length sleeves. It was matched with brown knee-length boots, and she had her soft brown hair loose around her shoulders like every other day. The red butterfly clip was, as usual, holding up her long fringe.
She checked her watch; it was still early. Maybe Yami hadn't arrived yet -
"Eeek!" Hikari swung her handbag around when a pair of hands closed on her shoulders. And, once again, Yami was smacked in the face by a bag.
"I'm so so sorry! I didn't mean it, I really didn't! You just -"
"-scared me? Yeah, I should have gotten it the first time round."
Hikari grinned apologetically. "Let's go grab some grub!"
"Yeah. And the next time, don't bring such a hard bag..."
"The next time, don't approach me from behind," Hikari countered quickly. "My reflexes might whack you again."
They turned in at Swensens', the pair chatting away energetically.
Ryou frowned. He hadn't seen wrongly, had he?
"Ryou, this is seriously not a good idea," Yugi said again.
"What are you ranting on about? I just saw Yami and Hikari go into Swensens'!"
"...going around stalking peop - What?" Yugi stopped, his mouth open.
"Follow me!"
Yugi innocently followed Ryou to the ice-cream restaurant and sat down at a table.
Hikari hardly touched her banana split because she was talking to Yami. It was the same with Yami, so it was alright.
None of them noticed the two suspicious looking boys sitting at the corner.
"You look really nice," Hikari complimented, although Yami looked as same as everyday. But she thought that however he dressed, he must have at least made an effort.
"And you look lovely," Yami grinned. He's sweet-tongued, he is.
Hikari was silent for a while, then said, "I didn't expect it. I mean, I don't even know you well, I'm just a girl from the next class whom you saw perform."
Yami looked at Hikari. She was stabbing at her banana mercilessly with her fork, and didn't look up when Yami didn't reply.
"You mean I don't know you well," Yami said after awhile. He thought that most of the girls of Domino High knew him better than he knew himself.
Hikari shook her head. Then she looked up at him, and raised an eyebrow.
"You thought I was going to be easy, didn't you? I'll make it clear to you, I'm not part of your fanclub." Hikari spoke firmly, looking offended.
"Well - no -" Yami was taken aback, but he couldn't show it to Hikari. "I didn't think that! You just caught my attention on stage..."
Hikari was still bursting with questions, but she held them back. Instead she asked something more intriguing.
"You're Yugi's brother right?"
Yami nodded. "You know him?" At last he had asked the question he had been wondering since the visit to Oak 3.
"Yeah. Bumped into him. He's quite a nice guy." Hikari said smiling, not knowing what had happened to Yami and Yugi's brotherly relationship.
Yami forced a smile. "Really? You think so? You met him in school?"
"Ah, no, not in school. We met at his workplace. He was really nice." Hikari was really smiling now.
"His workplace?"
"Yeah, he works at Oak 3. Shouldn't you know?"
Yami continued his act. "Right. But how did you know him?"
"Oh, that. I got in a spot of trouble and Yugi helped me out. We didn't know each other then. He helped a mere stranger."
Yami wasn't smiling now. So Hikari had already met Yugi, and they seem like good friends. Apparently she didn't know they were on bad terms. Correction, they were on horrible terms. He didn't mention anything to Hikari though.
Over at the other table, Ryou and Yugi were eavesdropping on the pair. Yugi was fuming so bad his ice-cream was melting twice as fast.
"I'm gonna kill that son of a b-" and Yugi called Yami something that made Ryou's jaw drop; he had never heard Yugi use that kind of language before. At least, not to a person.
"Yugi, you can't blame Yami for this. Kana-chan has her own choices, and so does Ya-"
"Who cares? Kana doesn't know Yami! She doesn't know what he's done - what he's done to me!" Yugi's grip on the spoon was so tight he nearly bent it. Nearly.
"Yes, I know. You have to tell Kana - No! Not now!"
But Yugi had already had enough; he sprang out of his seat like a tightly wound spring and stormed over to the table where his dearest brother was seated.
Yami immediately looked up when he sensed a once familiar presence approach. Only there was something terribly wrong with the aura.
Terribly wrong.
Hikari looked to her right and almost fell off her seat in shock. Yugi was standing right in front of her, but he didn't look at all like the angelic Yugi she knew. He looked very furious about something.
Not now. Oh Ra please not now, Yami begged in his head. He considered using Shadow magic against him, but changed his mind.
Ryou appeared at Yugi's shoulder, but did not attempt to stop him. Rather, he too hardened at the sight of Yami.
Hikari sat stock still on the edge of her seat, looking from Yugi to Ryou, her eyes demanding a reason for interrupting them. Weren't they brothers?
Yugi icily requested Yami outside. Yami apologised to Hikari and got up, but Hikari followed suit, wanting to know what the fuss was about.
Once outside, Yugi turned to face Yami, deciding that he could no longer pretend and hide the fact that he and Yami were enemies. He looked briefly at Hikari's bewildered and lost face, then swallowed.
"Kana, I think we should be honest with you..."
"Yugi, this is none of her concern, and I really well think that it's not your business to go stalking us either." Yami spoke icily.
"Why you - you bloody drove me out of my own house! And you're not even related to me in any way!"
Yami froze. They were related in the sense that they still had their mind link and had once shared a body. Oh yeah, they had a mind link, he had forgotten. He checked their mind link to see what Yugi was thinking, but found it weakened and it took some effort on his part to get through. Only to find a weight of some sort blocking it. And he couldn't blast his way through with shadow magic either.
Yami came back to reality to find Yugi growling at him. "Very smart, using our mind link. It's fast dissipating, as you just found out, and I'd prefer if there wasn't one."
At this, Hikari raised her thin eyebrows and said, "Huh?"
Yami hesitated. Yugi, however, burst right into speech. "He's the ancient pharaoh of Egypt come to the present, shared a body with me, to which I regret, drove me insane and outta my own house, and has shadow powers!"
Hikari could not make head or tail of it. She watched as the three fought a verbal battle, not knowing what to do.
Yugi said something to Yami but Hikari had no idea what he was talking about. However, it must have been really insulting, because Yami's arm flew up in a blur to Yugi's face.
Hikari didn't know what she was doing or thinking. She just took two steps and stepped in between Yugi and Yami.
Wham.
Hikari was sent rolling onto the pavement. By this time, a crowd had gathered to watch the commotion, and all gasped as one when the fist made contact with skin. Yami had expected to hit Yugi, not Hikari, so the attack was critical. Ryou immediately hurried over to help Hikari off the road.
Yami stood, shocked, as Hikari wiped blood off her mouth. She supported herself on Ryou, and looked at Yami with a expression in her eyes that made Yami look away. Yami would rather she had glared at him.
"No one hits me. Or my friends." Hikari's voice was cold and directed towards Yami.
The crowd watched with bated breath as she marched right up to Yami and drew back her arm.
Smack.
Yugi, along with the entire street, winced. The resounding echo of the slap travelled down the street. It sounded painful, and it was even more painful to watch. Yami's face was hit to the left as the force of Hikari's slap met with his cheek. Yami didn't look up. He was crushed. Without another word, he walked down the street, away from them.
"Kana..."
"What?"
Hikari said rudely and turned, her eyes filled with tears threatening to fall. Yugi and Ryou felt guilty, they were the ones who had interrupted their date.
"We're...sorry..."
"Is that all you can say? After what happened?"
"Kana-chan, we didn't mean it. I just wanted you to know who Yami really is - that he isn't worth it!"
"Oh really? Why did you have to choose that time to interrupt? Why-"
Yugi tried to say something, but Hikari continued on.
"Why were you even following us?" Hikari's voice rang out in hurt tones.
"That was my fault." Ryou muttered, his eyes on the ground.
"Kana, Yami isn't who he really is. He hit you! How can -"
Hikari's disappointment turned into rage. "And who caused me to be hit! How can I just stand there and watch three stupid boys fight one another while I'm just standing on the sidelines! Do you know how much of an effort I have to make just to say something now!"
Yugi and Ryou flinched as more red spots flecked her pure white dress, her lip was cut and was bleeding.
"Great. JUST GREAT!"
Salty tears mixed with her blood and dripped slowly down. Hikari Kanashimi pushed past the silent pair and through the even more stunned ring of people, knocking into Yami on purpose a little way down the street. The last thing Yami saw of her, was her tears flying with the soft silence and her sobs carried through the wind, back, back, to where darkness, hurt and betrayal lay...
JY: Long chapter huh? It was a full nine pages, plus a little to page ten! Told you that Yami's outcome would be good. If you don't believe me, wait with me till this story ends and see Yugi's version of Chapter 11 at the end, then compare and tell me. So you can't sue me now, you can only sue me when you have finished reading Yugi's version of the date. Haha...
So, what's going to happen next? Is she going to blame Yami, or Yugi and Ryou? Or if she ignores all of them completely! I really pity Hikari.
So, now it's getting all twisted and you can definitely expect more tears and anger, mostly centering around Hikari. Review and send me your ideas!
One more thing, is it still called a fringe when it's longer than shoulder-length? I mean, same length as the rest of the hair. Or is it called bangs?