WHOOOOOOIE!

Sank yu, people who reviewed!!Saaaank yuuu!

Yes, I signed the NC-17 petition.

Yes, I DID lose it last chapter. Sorry, but I was pretty pissed.

And for lil chika, my ego swelled like a balloon. GUYS!WE HAVE A FAN!!!

Orion:Whaaaaat?

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Stardust:^_^

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Yugi ate lunch without much thought. The only thing he could think of was what had happened last night...He always figured Adrian liked him, in a friendly sort of way. But it was very obvious that it wasn't like that with Adrian.

Yami was still scraping scrambled egg remains off the frying pan, which were sticking to the pan like someone had glued them there. He started cussing under his breath, trying to keep Yugi from hearing.

Yugi heard some of it, though, and giggled. "Want me to go get you some sandpaper, Yami?" he asked. Yami muttered something.

Yugi smiled to himself and went to turn on the radio.

'And welcome back to X103(that's the rock station I listen to, so I dinnit make it up.). Up next, some KoRn, and some Nickleback...And some music from that new rock band, Akuryou. Speaking of Akuryou, they're going on tour in about three weeks, with a local band going as their opening act...'

Yugi gasped. "Yami!That's you guys!" Yami nodded, still absorbed in cleaning the dishes.

Adrian walked into the small kicthen, and Yugi back away, then ran out. "Where you goin', little Yugi?" he called, in a mocking voice. He turned and jumped when he saw Yami."O-oh...Hiya, Yami...Did I miss breakfast?Well that's okay, I'll just grab me an apple 'er something...heheh." he luaghed nervously.

Yami raised an eyebrow at him."S'matter with you?" he asked.

Adrian reached across Yami to get a knife. "Nothing. You know me, I get weird when I haven't eaten...Well, Yami, since we're going on tour, what are we going to do about little Yugi?" he asked, and got an apple. He set it on the counter and chopped it in half with the knife.

Yami blinked."Uhm...I dunno, we really can't afford to have him miss a month and a half of school...I don't want to leave him here, either..."Adrian nodded and took a bite from his apple peice.

The front door of the apartment burst open, and the smell of something being burned came in with whoever just walked through the doorway.

Brandon walked in, with a stick of burning insence in his hand. "This stuff is so cool." he said, and dropped about twenty sticks of insence on the kitchen table. "This one," he pointed to the smoking stick in his left hand, "is sopposed to be lavender." he sniffed at it. "It smells good. See, I bought lavender coz I read somewhere that it makes you lucky, or something, so..."

Yami was looking at the assorted incence sticks. "What if we set off the fire alarm with these things?" he asked, picking up a dark green one.Adrian got a pencil holder, snatched away the stick Yami had, stuck in one of the holes, and lit it with his lighter.

Yami blinked, shrugged, and decided to sit down. "Where'd you buy them?" he asked, noticing how the dusty insence was falling off the unlit sticks.The one Brandon had had an inch-long stack on ashes on it, getting ready to topple over. "Oh...um...They have a hippie shop downtown."

Adrian snorted and Yami looked at him skeptically. "A what?"

Brandon yelped when the still fairly hot ashes landed on his hand. He set it in the pencil holder. "Ehh..I forget what the place's called EXACTLY, but it has those Mardi Gra beads you hang in doorways, and alot of insence, black lights...and CD's...That reminds me, I got the CD you wanted, Adrian."

Brandon got a CD out of his pocket, and handed it to Adrian. "Oooh, cool. Thanks."

Yami looked at his two friends curiously. Adrian grinned at him. "It's Akuryou's CD." he said, and showed the cover to Yami. He nodded.

Brandon sat across from Yami, and watched the smoke float around from his insence."Hey, Yami..." he questioned, and flicked the sticks so the ashes weren't building up. Yami was playing with Adrian's lighter. "Yeah?"

Brandon looked at him. "Umm...I've got a baaaad feeling about Adrian." he said, emphasizing 'bad'.

Yami looked at him for a second. "Brandon, are you stoned?"

Neither of them spoke for a second--Brandon seemed to be considering this question. "Probably." he said, and nodded. Yami luaghed to himself.

Yugi walked into the kitchen, and sat next to Yami. "Whassat smell?" he asked. Brandon smiled at him. "It's insence." he said.

Yugi poked one of the sticks. "Oh. I thought the place was on fire." he said.

Adrian walked in. "There you are, Yugi!" Yugi got wide eyed. "Umm....Hi, Adrian...." he said. Yami noticed how Yugi had tensed up. "Are you allright, Yugi?" he asked. Adrian came over and ruffled the boy's hair. "Of course he is!Yugi, are you excited about going on tour with us?" he asked.

Yugi shrugged."Dunno."

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Yami was sitting in Brandon's car, Brandon was driving. "This place is great, Yami." he said over the loud radio.

Yugi was in the back, watching things go by in the window.He sighed.

Yami tapped his knee to the music. His mind was in other places, though...

~*Shiii-ing!Flashback.*~

Yami was standing in the kitchen, and watched Yugi run in. "Bye!" he called to the other boys outside.

A few hours ago, their parents had left to go shopping. Yami figured they'd've been back by now..."Yugi, it's getting late. Go take a bath and get into bed, okay? I'll be up once mom and dad come home." Yugi nodded and ran up the stairs.

Yami sat in the living room for forty-five minutes, before the phone rang.He picked it up and turned the volume on the TV down. "Hello?" he said, surpressing a yawn.

"Is this Yami Mutoh?"

"Yep."

The other man sighed."I'm sorry to have to tell you this..."

~*Awww....sad....*~

Brandon looked at Yami. He was spacing out."'Ey, wake up." he prodded Yami, who jumped. "What?...Are we there?" he asked.

Brandon smiled."You can be very strange at times, you know that?"

Yami frowned and turned the volume up on Brandon's radio.

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Stardust:^_^ cool beans.I lurve insence, it smells goooood.