Chapter 12-
"character speaking"
'character's thoughts'
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh in any way shape or form and if you still don't believe me by now than you'll have to catch me evil laughter as I run and hide
I'd like to thank Ceara Corey for helping me with this fic
Ryou stared out his bedroom window tears streaming down his pale features. He was huddled in a corner with his knees curled up to his chest. He could hear his cell phone ringing somewhere, but he just ignored it.
'Was Bakura right?… Did Joey just pick me because he wanted to be my friend or he just felt sorry for me, like everyone else seems to?' he thought to himself as he reached for his cell phone dialing Serenity's number.
A cheerful voice greeted him. "Hey Ryou, what's up?" Serenity asked him cheerfully, the rain outside had finally stopped and it was starting to clear up outside.
"Nothing I just wanted to see what you were up to is all." Ryou said trying to hide the sadness out of his voice, but failing miserably as his voice cracked and more tears threatened to fall down his face.
Serenity could hear Ryou crying on the other end. "Ryou what's wrong, are you okay?" she asked him in concern.
He coughed a few times trying to clear his throat. "Yeah Serenity I'm fine." he tried lying to her, but he
could tell that she wasn't buying it.
"Ryou I can hear you crying something has to be wrong, tell me what happened, please?" she offered trying to find out what was troubling her friend.
"Okay but I don't want to say it over the phone, so can you come over?" Ryou asked her quietly he didn't have enough strength to get up, let alone trying to walk anywhere.
"Yeah sure no problem I'm on my way now, oh and Ryou whatever happened, it'll all be okay." she said cheerfully as she hung up and grabbed her stuff as she made her way towards Ryou's house.
'I hope you're right Serenity because right now I don't think anything will be alright.' Ryou thought to himself bitterly as he continued to stare out the window aimlessly…
Bakura had headed downstairs to watch some television the silence in his room was starting to get to him. He heard someone knocking on the door, he didn't feel like answering it but whoever it was kept knocking.
'Ugh this better not take fucking all day.' he thought angrily to himself swinging the door open, not in the mood to socialize as he saw one of Ryou and Yugi's friend standing on the front porch.
"What the bloody hell do you want?" he snapped at her impatiently.
"Ryou wanted me to come over." she explained smiling at him innocently.
He shrugged his shoulders staring up at the ceiling. "He's upstairs having a bloody pity party, which I'm sure he'd love for you to join." Bakura spat rolling his eyes at this.
"Yeah sure." Serenity muttered as she headed upstairs to Ryou's bedroom, she knocked on the door lightly before she walked inside. She found Ryou huddled in the corner with his knees pulled up to his chest.
She shut the door behind her, making him stare in the direction the noise was coming from. Once he saw that it was Serenity he smiled weakly at her, as he made a weak attempt to try and stand up.
"Ryou what happened?" she asked walking towards him and sitting beside him on the floor leaning her back against the wall.
"I need to ask you a question about your brother and I felt weird saying it over the phone." Ryou explained resting his head in his hands.
"Okay, go ahead, what about Joey did you need to talk to me about?" she asked him curiously.
"Well earlier me, Yugi, Bakura, and Joey were all at the arcade and something happened…" he started to explain closing his eyes tightly.
"You mean the rest of the gang was there hanging out with you guys?" she asked him confused resting her hand on his shoulder gently, causing him to open his eyes staring back at her.
"No it was just us four, your brother… he… he made a move on me, which is weird because Yugi told me he likes Mai." Ryou started to explain catching Serenity off guard.
"That's weird, he does like Mai… I don't get why he would do that, him and Mai are dating, they have been for a few weeks now." she said gently knowing that hearing this would probably upset him.
"I knew it, I knew it was just for pity, I mean why else would anyone really like me?" Ryou asked sadly, it hurt Serenity to see her friend upset like this.
"Do you think you know why Joey might of done something like this?" Serenity asked him curiously.
"No which is why I was wondering if you could help me find out." Ryou said quietly.
"Yeah sure, I can just give me a sec." she said rubbing his back soothingly as she pulled out her cell phone and dialed Joey's number.
Ryou walked towards the bedroom door heading out into the hallway giving her some privacy. 'Maybe now I can get at least some questions answered. What was I even thinking?' Ryou thought to himself bitterly.
((scene change/ Joey's apartment))
Joey and Mai were sitting on the sofa in the living room watching some action flick on TV. Joey walked into the kitchen hearing his cell phone going off.
"Hey sis what's up, I thought you were hangin' out with me and Mai tonight?" Joey asked her curiously as he answered on the second ring.
"Sorry Joey but I can't something came up." she said softly hoping that he wasn't too upset.
"Do I even wanna know?" Joey asked her referring to Kaiba.
"No it's not that Joey, I'm hanging out with Ryou and he had this really interesting story to tell me, though I'm sure you know all about it." Serenity said angry that her brother would do something like this to one of her friends.
"Huh, what are ya talking 'bout sis?" Joey asked her confused.
"About you and Ryou hanging out together at the arcade." Serenity said hoping that he would get what she was talking about.
"Oh so he told ya 'bout that huh?" Joey said quietly.
"Yes Joey he did, which is why I think its odd, since we all know that you are going out with Mai." Serenity said angrily.
"Oh yeah well don't be mad at me, it was Tea's idea." Joey said defensively.
"What was Tea's idea?" Serenity asked him angrily.
"All she told me was that she wanted me to make Bakura jealous by hangin' out with Ryou and she'd help me with my homework." Joey explained he could tell that his sister was pissed off at him for what he had done.
"And not only did you listen to her crazy idea, but you actually went through with it." Serenity snapped.
"I know and I don't even know why I even went through with it, it was a stupid idea to begin with." he said regretfully.
"Whatever Joey, were you even going to tell Ryou the truth?" she asked him angrily.
"Yeah I was plannin' on tellin' him tomorrow." Joey said quietly hoping that Mai wouldn't ask him what he was talking about.
"Don't bother, I will take care of it as usual." Serenity snapped as she hung up the phone turning it off.
"What was that all about sugar?" Mai asked as Joey quietly walked back into the living room.
"Nothing Ren just needed to ask me 'bout somethin that's all." he said smiling at her reassuringly as he stared back at the TV hoping that she'd let it go.
"Alright if you say so hun." she said kissing his cheek softly.
'I'll just have to wait and ask Serenity about it myself and see if she'll tell me what's going on.' Mai thought to herself as they continued to watch the movie in silence…
((scene change/Ryou's house))
Ryou noticed Serenity angrily hang up her cell phone as she walked over to him.
"So what did he say?" Ryou asked her curiously though he could tell that whatever Joey had told her had upset her greatly.
"He said that Tea had told him to act like he liked you to piss off Bakura." she said tentatively.
Ryou was quiet as he just stared at Serenity sadly.
"I'm sorry Ryou Joey will explain it all to you tomorrow." she said trying to think of something to cheer him up.
"Why I get it they wanted Bakura to slip up so Yugi would go back with Yami." Ryou explained taking Serenity by surprise.
"Do you really think he'd do that, I mean especially after all he's been through." Serenity said softly.
"I don't know I just hope that he doesn't get hurt again." Ryou said bitterly.
"I know me either, but it doesn't mean you have to be hurt either." she said softly.
"No it's okay Serenity I'm not upset really. Thanks for coming over though." he said having the urge to be left alone.
Serenity got the hint as she hugged him tightly before she headed downstairs. "Call me if you need someone to talk to okay." she offered smiling as she headed downstairs. She was about to head outside when Bakura's snide voice greeted her.
"So was the damn pity party as exciting as I thought it would be?" he asked her sarcastically seeing that she was about to leave.
Serenity just rolled her eyes at this choosing not to answer his sarcastic comment as she left heading over to Joey's apartment.
Bakura just laughed at this 'Hmm… maybe now Ryou will be wiling to help me after all.' he thought to himself as he headed upstairs to Ryou's room.
Ryou could hear Bakura walking towards his room, he wasn't in the mood to put up with his snide comments. Bakura pushed the door open not even knocking.
"What do you want, did you come here to make fun of me some more?" Ryou asked him sadly not even looking up at him.
"So I was right you were having a pity party up here and didn't invite me, how rude." Bakura muttered smirking as he sat on the edge of the bed beside Ryou.
He could tell that something had happened, Ryou remained quiet staring down at the floor sadly.
"Your friend didn't stay here very long, did you yell at her too?" Bakura asked him curiously.
"No, I was just acting that way towards you, I asked her help me with something… turns out you were right as usual." Ryou spat angrily.
"What was I right about this time?" Bakura asked him curiously.
"That no one would ever love me for who I am, they just feel sorry for me." Ryou explained sadly as he had finally looked up, his eyes filled with sadness.
"Yeah but when have you ever listened to what I say to you?" Bakura asked him playfully.
"Since now, for once what you said actually came true, I bet that makes you happy huh?" Ryou asked him bitterly.
"Not really, just because what I said came true, does mean I'd be happy about it." Bakura said taking Ryou by surprise.
"But… I thought you said I could never get anyone to like me unless they felt sorry for me?" Ryou whispered.
"I didn't think that you'd listen to that, you usually don't. But this is a good thing, I didn't like Wheeler anyways." Bakura said relieved that he wouldn't be forced to be around Joey.
"Well I did and I liked hanging out with Joey even if you two didn't get along." Ryou said as Bakura just rolled his eyes at this.
"You still can, if that's what you want." Bakura said though if Ryou still hung out with Joey, he wouldn't sure be caught dead hanging out with Joey, unless it involved teaching him where he belonged.
"No I can't they're Yugi's friends I don't belong in their little clique." Ryou said sadly.
"So what do you want?" Bakura asked him curiously.
"I already told you and I don't plan on hurting Yugi to get what I want." Ryou said sadly.
"Fine if you won't help me, than you better bit try to stop me from my plan." Bakura said grinning.
"What are you talking about, what plan?" Ryou asked him suspiciously.
"A plan that will teach the bloody damn pharaoh a lesson." Bakura explained his eyes lighting up.
"Okay now you're starting to scare me, what are you planning?" Ryou asked him nervously…
((scene change/ Yugi's p.o.v))
Once Yugi had reached the game shop the rain outside was starting to let up, but he was already soaked. 'That went as well as I thought it would.' Yugi thought sarcastically to himself as he changed out of his went clothes into some dry ones.
'Why did he act so defensive like I was trying to accuse him of something, all I wanted was some answers.' Yugi thought angrily as he headed to his bedroom taking a quick shower.
An hour later Yugi heard the door shutting downstairs as he was getting out of the shower. 'I guess Yami is back, I wonder what took him so long?' Yugi thought to himself curiously as he quickly threw on a pair of black sweat pants and a long black tank top.
Yami headed up to Yugi's room wondering if he was still there. "Hey it finally stopped raining outside." Yami said quietly not sure of what else to say.
"Yeah so what took you so long?" Yugi asked him curiously.
"Oh that… well it ended up taking longer than I thought it would." he started to explain, things were starting to get better between them and he didn't want to lie to hi, but he knew telling him the truth would only piss him off.
"That still doesn't answer my question." Yugi said calmly trying to stay calm and not raise his voice, though he was finding it hard not to.
"Fine if you must know I had to ask Joey about something." he lied though Yugi seemed to buy it.
"Ask him about what?" Yugi asked him curiously.
"Why he was leading Ryou on when he's going out with Mai." Yami explained as he had overheard Ryou and Serenity talking about it before he had left.
Yugi's eyes widened at this, obviously surprised. "Why would Joey do that?" Yugi whispered obviously shocked and at a lose for words.
"Obviously Tea had tricked him into doing this." Yami explained softly.
"Why does she seem so mad at me, I didn't do anything to her?" Yugi asked him sadly.
"I think she thinks that you didn't want to be friends with any of us anymore and you know how she is about friendships." Yami explained shuddering as he thought of one of the friendship speeches Tea had always said to them.
"Oh that makes sense, though that's being (word for when you do something even though you look down on it) of her." Yugi said bitterly as he bit down on his lower lip lost in thought.
"I know Yugi, so did you try talking to Bakura yet?" Yami asked him curiously.
Yugi frowned at this. "No not yet, I'm afraid to actually I don't know if he's still upset at me or not." Yugi explained sadly.
"Well you won't know unless you try calling him." Yami suggested smiling.
"Yeah I know, maybe I'll give it a try tomorrow right now I just want to get some sleep I'm kind of tired." Yugi explained yawning.
"Okay goodnight Yugi." Yami said smiling as he followed Yugi upstairs. He waited until he was sure that Yugi was fast asleep before he laid in the bed beside him.
Yugi reached out in his sleep wrapping his arms around Yami not even realizing that he was there.
Yami smiled at this not moving in fear of waking him up and disturbing the peacefully look on his face.
End of chapter twelve hehe I hope you all liked that chapter I figured my next fic will be a Seto Serenity fic to make up for the lack of pairing of them in this fic Anyways please read and review I promise to have a summary for the new fic in the next chapter.
