Chapter 11: Play With Fire

Yugi woke up to find Yami gone but a note and a rose on his table. He smiled at the rose and opened the note.

My Little Angel,

I'm sorry that I left before I could kiss you good morning, but I just wanted to make sure that everything was ready to help out with the Leo problem. I'll see you later, promise.

Love you XO,

Yami

P.S.: There'll be a surprise for you at school just don't look in the most expected places. You'll see what it is.

Yugi was a little curious about the surprise could be, but had to get dressed to make it in time for school. There was only about 20 minutes left before he had to actually be in class. Throwing his uniform on hurriedly, he snatched a pop-tart from the kitchen and rushed out with his bag, running the whole way to school making it five minutes before the bell. He looked up shocked to see the substitute teacher for homeroom turned out to be Mai. She winked at him when no one was looking and continued looking over the instructions their previous teacher left her.

"Hello everyone, I'm Mai Valentine your new substitute teacher. I have the pleasure of introducing three new students to our class," she explained just as the classroom door opened. Yugi's jaw dropped as he recognized one of the three new boys who just walked in.

"Everyone I want you to meet Tristan Taylor, Duke Deviln, and last but not least Yami Atem." All of the girls in the room suddenly screamed at the good looking young men. Yami sighed and shook his head at the girls in his class but he threw a smile when he saw Yugi in the room, "I want all of you to make sure to give all of them a very warm welcome and make them feel at home. Now, if you three will please take a seat anywhere so we can begin class." Yami walked towards the empty seat next to Yugi but not before brushing his hand across his.

"This was your surprise?" Yugi asked with a blush before Yami nodded his head in response as he took his seat with a smile.

"I can keep an eye on Leo if I'm here and I get to be with you," he explained as he brushed his hand over Yugi's again, "This way I can kill two birds with one stone."

"I think Margalo would take offense to that," Yugi teased.

"Mr. Moto, Mr. Atem if you two would quiet down please. If you don't heed my warning, you two will be staying after school for detention." The class looked at her shocked that she'd give a detention to sweet, innocent Yugi. Sure, he was an outcast and they never hung around him but everyone knew that he would never hurt someone intentionally and that he was too innocent to do anything wrong. Yugi blushed and stopped as Yami shook his head with an inaudible chuckle before paying attention to the lesson at hand. When class was over, Yugi was about to gather up all of his things when Yami suddenly took all his books. Yugi looked up at him in confusion.

"I wanted to carry your books for you," Yami said with a smile and a laugh at Yugi's blush.

"So, since you're here to protect me, I'm guessing you're in all my classes."

"Damn right," he teased.

"You'll get to meet Ryou, the one Bakura likes, and see Joey again. Your cousin, Seto, usually hangs at our table for lunch just to see him." Yugi had to admit he was secretly enjoying this. He and Yami headed towards his locker, put the things he wouldn't need away while grabbing the things he would, and when Yami caught sight of Leo coming towards them, Yami swiftly wrapped an arm around Yugi's waist as he turned him around in the process. Yami then looked over his shoulder and smirked at the awe stricken and completely jealous Leo.

"Yami, could you let go, please? Everyone's looking at us," Yugi pointed out with a blush at the many stares and whispers being directed towards them as they walked towards History together.

"Why would I let go?" Yami counter asked with a smile as he gently leaned down to kiss Yugi's cheek, "Might as well let everyone know we're both taken." Yugi's blush started to flame down on his neck as well. They got to History and Yami proceeded to sit next to Yugi with Leo behind them.

Leo felt like his face was on fire and that his head was going to spin. How did that guy even get into the school? Why did he seem to be in every one of Yugi's classes? Leo gripped his pen tightly until ultimately it broke in half. He looked at his hand which was now covered completely in ink. He grinned before turning it into an 'innocent' look and tapping Yugi on the shoulder. Yugi rolled his eyes before turning around.

"Is there something you needed Leo?" he asked slightly icy. He did interrupt his conversation with Yami.

"My pen broke and I was wondering if you could spare a pen." Yugi just took the one off his desk and dropped it on Leo's.

"Keep it." Leo grinned. Now he had something of Yugi's and he'd keep it for as long as he could.

Yami looked over his shoulder with just his eyes moving and he saw Leo write Yugi's name multiple times in his notebook and when he ran out of pages he just took out a new notebook which he seemed to have done automatically and didn't seem aware that he was doing so. After the bell rang, Leo dropped the first notebook he completed and Yami instantly snatched it off the floor and was lucky enough to see Leo's name written on the front. He quickly put it among his books and continued on with Yugi to their classes which, surprisingly, two of the teachers being Marik and Malik.

Lunch came and they headed for the lunch room. Yugi spotted his table a waved towards Joey, Ryou, and Serenity. They waved back and Yugi took his seat next to Joey with Yami sitting next to him.

"Yugi, Joey told me everything," Serenity said with a smile as she looked at both him and Yami, "I'm glad you found someone."

"Thanks, Serene. I want you to meet Yami."

"Oh, your boyfriend."

"Yeah?" Yami asked/said looking at Yugi who blushed.

"What-?" Yugi started asking Serenity.

"I'm not blind, Yuge."

"No, I know you're not but how did you figure he was already my boyfriend? Cos you said that Joey told you everything and he didn't know or at least not that I know of."

"I may not be blind, but my brother is a different case," she said clearly amused.

"Hey, I resent dat!"

"You mean you represent that?" Ryou slid in slyly.

"Dat too! Wait! What?!" Ryou started cracking up and almost fell out of his seat.

"Hey Yami, what happened? You don't like us anymore?" Everyone looked up to see Bakura, Tristan, and Duke heading towards them.

"Hey guys and no. Yugi already knows you so why should I do introductions?" he teased.

"You've had yet to introduce us to the rest of his friends," Tristan pointed out as he gave Serenity a smile.

"Stay away from my sis," Joey shouted moving in front of her and spreading his arms out to protect her from sight.

"What? What did I do?" Tristan said as he back away slightly.

"You didn't do anything, Tristan," Yugi reassured him, "Joey is just very protective over Serenity."

"At least she has a sibling to protect her from a guy who wants a piece of her," Ryou said when he felt Bakura placed his hand on his thigh and give it a slight squeeze, "Bakura, we've talked about public displays of affection," he said as he shoved his hand off his thigh. The whole group laughed before pulling another table over and connecting them.

"But have you guys seen any sign of Leo in his crazy state?" Yugi asked as he looked around the lunchroom worried.

"I heard him down the hall when I came here complaining that Yami shouldn't even be here. But other than that, the only other talk I've heard are about you two," Duke said with a smirk as he pointed at them.

"What do you mean?" Yugi asked with a blush while Yami looked rather amused.

"I think you know what he means," Tristan said still looking curiously at Serenity.

"You guys have just been named the school's most surprising couple," Seto said as he settled into a chair next to Joey. He leaned back so that his chair was tipped and put a hand on the back of Joey's chair so he wouldn't fall over.

"Yeah, a bunch o' kids were talkin' 'bout it in study hall. You two are now da talk o' school."

"Great," Yugi replied sarcastically before shooting his head forward landing on the table where he decided to stay.

"I did say I wanted everyone to know that we were both already taken," Yami said with a smile as he rubbed Yugi's neck.

"Glad to know your plan worked!" Yugi replied sarcastically. "Though this is a good way to get it through Leo's head," he added thoughtfully.

"Yuge, he is so hard headed, I highly doubt anything can get to him," Joey responded before he felt Kaiba's chin on his shoulder.

"I take it that there's been a development in your relationship," Yami pointed out with a smirk playing across his lips. This caused Joey to blush which became even deeper when he felt to arms wrap around his waist.

"I'm givin' him a chance but I'm not planin' on goin' too far anytime soon," Joey explained with his face a complete shade of scarlet as he tried to squirm out of Seto's hold on his waist. Seto then proceeded to pull Joey into his lap with his hold still tight on his waist.

"That's to stop you from squirming," Kaiba said before he reanalyzed their position and smirked, "But if you choose to continue to in this position," he leaned his face into Joey's neck and nibbled it suggestively, "I wouldn't mind one bit."

"Dat's it! See ya in class, Yuges!" Joey yelled as he ran out of the cafeteria closely followed by Seto Kaiba.

"Well, we'll find out what happens later," Yugi said in the silence that had ensued.

***

"Joey, what did you do that to Kiaba for?" Yugi asked when he sat next to Joey, who managed to get away from Seto, in their Literature class, "Didn't you see how hurt he looked?"

"Hey, if Kaiba really does want me then he's gotta learn da hard way that I want some respect from him and that I'm not some random toy he plays with for mere pleasure! It's a little thing called tough love and I'm stickin' to it!" Joey nearly shouted in frustration as he got out his notebook.

"Joey, I don't think Kaiba does it just because he wants to. I think he does it because he feels he has to," Yugi responded after he got ready for class.

"What do ya mean?"

"Well, you're obviously a very important person to Kaiba so he tries to do what he thinks he has to do in order to keep you as a main part of his life and there's a strong possibility that he acts like a …."

"A rich over sexed pervert," Joey filled in.

"That is a very strong statement," Yugi said before mumbling, "Accurate but strong. But he may act that way because his need to have you in his life is possibly telling his sexual drive that if he goes far enough with you or as far as you'll allow him to go without over reacting then you'll want to stay with him and never leave him for anyone else."

"Why can't he just trust me? Is there something about me that says I'm unfaithful to people who I'm close to?" Joey sighed as Yami came in and took the seat.

"My cousin has a tendency to not trust people, especially those he loves, with never leaving him. He's going out of his way to make sure you never have a reason to leave him," Yami explained before landing a kiss on Yugi's cheek causing him to blush.

"The more he does, the more I want to run," Joey responded before the other students came in. Leo just happened to have been in the same class and he sat behind Yugi and watched him carefully. The tables sat three and Joey was squished between Yami and Yugi. Yami looked over his shoulder at Leo and turned to Joey.

"Hey Joe, would you mind if I switched seats with you?" Joey saw Kaiba coming into the classroom and instantly sat in the seat next Yami which could only be confirmed that he heard the question. Joey looked at Yami with wide eyes until Yami tilted his head towards Leo and Joey instantly went into a state of conflicting thoughts until he sighed and stood up.

"You owe me," Joey said as he switched seats with Yami as he slid his stuff from where Yami sat to in front of himself. Once Yami sat down, he placed a gentle hand on Yugi's back.

"Don't look behind you, Yugi. Just watch the lesson and, when need be, only pay attention to me, okay?" he whispered into Yugi's ear causing him to shiver in pleasure.

"As if I could focus on anything else," he whispered in return before his usual teacher came in. Yami smirked. This was going to be fun.

***

The rest of the day involved Yami sitting next to Yugi in all of his classes, Yugi blushing constantly whenever Yami got the chance to show any sign of affection associated with relationships, people staring at them as they passed by them in the halls, and Leo glaring at Yami every time he came into his line of vision, as well as a little incident in chemistry class. Needless to say, Yugi was glad that the day was over and that he and Yami were going over to Yugi's house to do their homework together and have dinner with his family.

"Are you okay, angel? You seem kind of tense," Yami observed after they got into his Mercedes.

"I'm not used to people looking at me the way they did when I was with you but other than that everything is just fine," Yugi said with a sigh as he got into the passenger seat.

"I admit that it was a fracture on my part but," Yami claimed with a smile before leaning into Yugi's neck and giving it a gentle kiss, "I must also admit that I enjoyed every moment of it."

"I did too," Yugi admitted much to Yami's delight.

"I'm glad. I never want to repeat doing something that you never would enjoy," Yami announced as he started up his car and drove off towards the Game Shop. They both sat in a comfortable silence with Yami driving one-handed, his other holding Yugi's left. Yami pulled into the drive and walked in with Yugi into the shop past his Grandpa at the counter.

"Yami and I will be doing our homework just upstairs, Grandpa," Yugi informed him as they climbed the staircase into the living room. Yami informed Grandpa about his plan along with Yugi's mother and the good old man supported it all the way.

"I'll bring up your snacks," he called back.

"Thanks, Gramps," he yelled before he disappeared off the top most step and into his room. Yami was lounged comfortably on Yugi's bed with his backpack opened right next to him. Yugi walked over to the desk to do his homework when he felt a tug on his bag and he fell into Yami's lap as Yami proceeded to lay Yugi's head on his chest and leaned his head to kiss Yugi's ear a little.

"We said we'd do our homework together," he whispered.

"We will. Just give me a minute," he pleaded.

"A minute as in '60 seconds' minute or a minute as in 'back in an hour' minute," Yami chuckled as he moved his head towards Yugi's neck and nibbled it a little. They both jumped at the knock on the door. Yugi scrambled away and opened the door for Grandpa who set the snacks on the desk and left closing the door behind him. They both blinked then grinned.

"Why do I get the feeling you need to control yourself?" Yugi smirked at Yami. Yami grinned at Yugi's mischief. He was sweet, but could sometimes be a troublemaker when he wanted to.

"I only allow myself control when I feel that it's needed. Now," he expressed as he sat up on the bed and patted his lap, "Let's get through our homework so we can actually have time for each other, hm?" He raised his eyebrow and chuckled when Yugi instantly blushed.

"I bet you couldn't go an hour, let alone a day without me."

"That is not a bet I'm willing to try," Yami said confirming Yugi's suspicion. Yugi blushed but smiled none the less because for once he found someone he was willing to spend the rest of his life with who would stay with him but wouldn't constantly hover and cling. He sat on Yami's lap and started his homework with him and soon after he yawned tiredly and blinked a couple times to stay awake so that he would eventually get up to let Yami go home.

"You can go to sleep, angel. I don't think everyone would mind if I stayed here one more night," Yami whispered gently as he stroked Yugi's head which caused him to become even drowsier.

"But…you…need…home," he mumbled before falling asleep against Yami. Yami blinked then smiled softly moving Yugi so still against him was actually laying on the bed.

"I'm not about to leave you, my love. I'll always be at your side to protect, love, and care for you. That's why I want to ask your mother and grandfather something very important so I can make sure Leo never comes near you outside of school again," he whispered as he leaned his head on Yugi's and held him closer. He sighed before drifting to sleep as well.

***

A little while later, Yugi was still asleep but Yami was awake, sitting up on Yugi's bed next to him, and talking to his staff on his cell.

"What did you guys find out?" he asked seriously as he stroked Yugi's hair.

"It was a little hard to find out anything in my department because a certain someone kept trying to lure me away during lunch to the back of the school to perform some very inappropriate acts," Marik explained with an aggravated tone to his voice.

"Let me talk to Malik," Yami said with a little frustration in his voice. He heard the muffle call for Malik and heard the phone being passed.

"Yes?"

"I thought we were clear that you wouldn't mix business with pleasure. Especially when it concerns my Yugi's safety," he reminded him while keeping his anger under control as he continued to stroke his little love's hair.

"Sorry boss!"

"I'd hope so," he said trying to keep his voice low to not wake up his love.

"Well, in my section, he fell asleep during my class. Along side from muttering Yugi's name repeatedly, I heard him moan a couple of times, so you probably see where this is going." Yami shivered in disgust at the implication.

"Get the others and past the phone around. I want to see what they found out and, hopefully, form a solid plan of action." There was shuffling as people were being called into the room and the phone passed around.

"Boss?"

"Ah, Bakura. Do you have any news for me?"

"Apparently, Leo isn't only very apt in baseball but is very good at photography. I saw a few shots of Yugi inside of his locker once I got into the school files and found his locker combo. They were everywhere. I swear it was like wallpaper for his locker."

"It probably was. If he's as good as you say, he could have made it himself," he added in agreement. He then heard a conversation through the phone.

"Mai wants to talk to you. Okay! Okay! Don't push!" Bakura yelled from the other side of the phone.

"Mai, would you learn some fucking manners already?" he asked rubbing the bridge of his nose.

"Hey, I just wanted to tell you what I found out when he was in my class. I gave them a quiz on the chapter they read last night and after he finished I saw him immediately pull out a notebook and started to write something. I got suspicious so I got up and started to walk around as if I was looking at the other students quizzes before I took a quick look at his notebook. He was writing down some sort of list and some of the things on that list were handcuffs, a hotel room key, liquid Benadryl, and you don't want to know what else," Mai recalled with a tone of disgust in her voice.

"Sometimes almost like something you would do," he replied dryly.

"Ha ha! Don't make me laugh," she said bitterly. Yami smirked.

"You just did."

"Keep talking. Just remember that the list is meant for what he'll do to Yugi if we're not careful."

"Mai, I know, but I'm already making extra precautions for him. Tell everyone good night." He hung up before she could reply. He looked down at his angel, his love and kissed his forehead. "You will be safe Yugi, even if I have to give up my own safety in the process."

Dee Bunny: What is Yami's plan that he wants to run by Yugi's family? How is it going to help with the Leo problem? Stay tuned and please R&R.