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Every whisper
Of every waking hour I'm
Choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt lost and blinded fool
Oh no I've said too much
I set it up
That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep a view
And I don't know if I can do it
REM- Losing My religion
"The purpose of life is to fight maturity"- Dick Werthimer
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As if they were bounty hunters pursuing a bounty worth more than the number of dollars Joey would spend consuming Twinkies in his life, Yugi along with his fellow partners in crime spent exactly one hour, forty-five, minutes and twenty-three no wait twenty-four, seconds combing through the halls of Domino High searching high and low for Yugi's prized lunch box.
Unfortunately they hadn't had any luck what so ever so far.
"It's like it vanished into thin air." Bakura said adding his thoughts to the fruitless search.
"He's right" Joey admitted "We really need to get going home Yug, we'll be sure to look more tomorrow." The purple-eyed boy had to nod in agreement with his friend.
Yugi unconsciously moved his hand that had been hanging at his side to the top his deck of precious duel monster cards that had been in his back pocket. Any duelist would know this was a true sign of defeat, the school had beaten him this time, but Yugi was sure he'd win next time. He threw the walls a challenging glance to make sure they got the point. Unfortunately we'll never know because walls don't talk (Or at least not to my knowledge- you never know)
Tristin slung his coat over shoulder and tilted his head in the direction of the door that lead out of the school. "Let's get a move on then."
Just as the crew of friends was about to make their happy departure from the place that kept them prisoners five days a week, Tea tugged on Bakura's shirt sleeve and he turned around in response with a questioning look upon his face.
"Um, I just have ask Bakura something about book club, you guys go on ahead we'll catch up." She shrugged her shoulders earnestly. The spiky white haired boy raised an eyebrow suspiciously. Tea threw him a warning glance and Bakura promptly nodded to the rest of the group assuring this was fine with him.
"Okay Tea." Yugi answered with out a second thought, Tea smiled as she watched for the rest of the group to exit the halls of the school.
As the very astute Bakura knew, Tea obviously had something planned not related what book the club was currently reading in any way. He also thought that the brown-haired teenage girl's excuse was possibly one of the worst he'd ever heard in his life and knew only because that the person she told it to was Yugi, he automatically believed her. But Bakura had no choice but to find out as to what she wanted.
"Could to do me a favor?" Tea asked curious fingering a small envelope in her hand.
"Well…sure." He nodded; he wondered what the girl could possibly be planning, because he didn't think of Tea as one who could come up with a foolproof plan. True, she could make friends in the blink of an eye, heck she could even make friends with a rock, but then again who would want to be the friend of a rock?
"Could you bring this to Yugi's grandfather's shop and tell him it's for Yugi?" Tea asked hopefully and then added a "Pleaseeeee Bakura."
"Okay…" Bakura blinked "Why couldn't she have done that herself?"
"Thank you so much!" she gushed and proceeding in hugging Bakura. The brown-eyed boy wasn't used to effusive teenage girls, so he was slightly shell-shocked, seeing as how hugging wasn't something he did often.
Quickly she handed him the unmarked envelope and happily smiled as Bakura promised to do what she had instructed. She readjusted her teddy bear backpack and continued out the door to catch up with Yugi.
Bakura stood in the hallway as he watched Tea leave and took a second glance at the blank envelope.
"That's disgusting." Yami Bakura mentally informed his conscious counter being.
"So what is it?" Bakura questioned his yami.
"A…what do you call those? Love letter? Yes, I believe that's it."
Bakura scratched the top of his head "I never saw Miss. Gardeners affections towards Mr. Motou."
"You wouldn't see a baseball heading straight towards your face." His yami remarked.
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"Bakura? Is that you?" Solomon Motou said aloud as he heard the ringing of the bell that informed him someone had entered his shop.
"I have something for someone." He answered putting on what only a few clever people would recognize as an evil smirk.
"This is really, really evil!" Innocent Bakura shouted mentally to his Yami who had taken over his conscious form.
"Oh be quiet Hikari."
Yami Bakura handed Tea's envelope to Yugi's grandfather. "Its for Joey." He responded "From a 'secret person'." Solomon Motou looked confused for a moment but then smiled warmly "I'll be sure to give it to him Bakura."
"Thank you very much." He said resisting the urge to laugh extremely evilly "I'll just get going now."
"Thanks for stopping by." The old man said as he held open the door for Bakura "Its always nice to see Yugi's friends."
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Seto Kaiba was bored stiff. He brought his hand up to his forehead and rubbed his skin for a minute or two, his brain was definitely in one of its "I'm-saving-my-complete-and-utter-genius-for-another-day-so-go-find-something-else-constructive-to-do." Kaiba leaned back in his rather large office chair looking around the room for something that might entertain him for at least a half an hour. His gaze stopped at his computer; maybe he could find something there or at least clean out part of his hard drive. After all there was only so much extra space he could add on before he had to actually clean it out.
Kaiba rolled his swivel chair closer to the polished wooden desk his top of the line computer was currently residing on. Absent mindedly he took his feet out of his shoes and let them rest comfortably on the rug, he was very glad at the moment he'd chosen such a comfortable rug for his office, but he reminded himself that he of course was a genius and incapable of doing anything less than perfect, the world would cry if they lost him, mostly the female population after all at least half of them were after his icy heart.
He was pleased to remember he had been named one of the sexiest men alive. Had Yugi been on that list?
"Nope, not Yugi" Kaiba reminded himself smiling, he felt as if he was currently beating his rival with flying colors, even though deep down he knew Yugi really didn't care and just well…actually Kaiba didn't even bother him (Unless he was scheming of course) Yugi would happily befriend him any day. "Hmmpp." Was a Kaiba said convincing himself he did not need "wimpy friends" and besides he thoroughly enjoyed constantly watching Yugi's reactions with his changing manners, one day he would be slightly 'nice' and the next 'utterly cold.' Kaiba laughed with utter delight.
And he could too, usually Kaiba disliked laughing evilly in public even though sometimes he did let it slip a little, just for appearances, yanno?
But here in his office the only person that could hear him were the birds outside the large glass window that was currently behind him. Or well, currently his little brother Mokuba could here his laughter, but it didn't worry him because he heard him do it since they were little all the time especially right after he beat the pants of some little kid in a game. Mokuba assumed this was normal. If he was talking to Yugi about this, he might have begged to differ.
"Mr. Kaiba!" One of his office workers opened the door abruptly and stepped into his large office, mostly signifying there was something of importance happening.
"I thought I told you NOT to enter my office with out my consent." He responded coldly.
Mokuba had hopped off his usual spot on the couch Kaiba had put in his gigantic working space exclusively for him and over to his older brother's computer screen to see what he was doing. Kaiba was pressing the computer's key bored very fast with his nimble fingers and seemed to be concentrating very hard.
"But- the office attendant tried to argue.
"I'm currently working on a VERY important project, it is imperative you do not disturb me, is that understood?"
Mokuba glanced at the screen "That's awesome Seto!" he exclaimed as soon as he caught sight of the screen.
The office attendant coughed uncomfortably and muttered his apology before closing the door.
"So Seto, working on your Tetris high score again?" his little brother responded looking at his brother's score box on the computer screen.
Kaiba smiled "One day I will be your high score Mokuba, one day."
Mokuba smiled innocently, he remembered how'd he secretly spent weeks on his high score, just to show his brother what he was really capable off. Kaiba turned to look back at his planner, which sat on his desk. When he did, he noticed a small blank white envelope on it.
"Mokuba, is this yours?" He questioned holding up the letter.
"No, I didn't put it there." His little brother responded as he watched Kaiba opened it.
"I didn't notice it there before…its sort of funny." He said somewhat interested at discovering the letter's contents. He removed the letter from the envelope, it certainly didn't look like any official documents, and his workers certainly wouldn't allow any junk mail to come to him.
"A personal letter? Who would send one of those?" His eyes began to scan the pencil scratchings on the paper that some how formed very disheveled looking letters and messy words.
For a moment he just stared at the piece of paper in disbelief, "How in the…." He was about swear but realized his little brother was in the room with him.
"What is it Seto?" Mokuba asked concernedly
Under his desk Seto Kaiba clenched his hand into a fist.
"Nothing's wrong Mokuba." He grinded his teeth "It was just a memo." Kaiba got up from his chair. "I'm going out" was all he said.
Mokuba blinked in confusion "Maybe he's found a shop with some rare card." He thought as he watched his older brother exit the room and waited a few minutes as Mokuba saw his brother leave the building through the giant glass windows that were fortunate enough to be in his working area. "Seto ought to turn on the heat in here, he lets it get so cold." Mokuba said to no one in particular. Then he remembered his brother's jacket fetish, no wonder Kaiba never liked to turn on the heat. It only made sense after all.
What Kaiba wanted to know was 'How.' How in Dante's seven hells that, that letter got there in the first place, and who the hell it was from…because who ever it was, was going to pay. Big time. But Kaiba already had an idea; he'd seen this writing before, oh yes, many times in fact. He had a feeling Yugi Motou was responsible for sending him a letter that promised him a certain brush with death.
What he didn't know was why. Yugi would never write such a thing, thinking he, a little weakling, could possibly take him, Seto Kaiba, down. This wasn't Yugi usual way of tactics, but Kaiba knew it was him, after all who else would know to call him "The Pharaoh's Rival?" (Unless anyone could picture Isis going on a psycho-murdering rage 0.o)
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Joey whimpered. He never knew Yugi could be in such a fowl mood when he dueled that afternoon and he was especially merciless today in their typical after school duel.
"That combo was a little over kill Yug." He commented. "I mean did you really need to have 5,000 some odd attack points to kill my little monsters?"
Yugi looked up and him and blinked. "Oh, sorry…I guess…"
"This isn't still about your lunch box is it?" Joey asked raising an eyebrow, he was detecting Yugi was somewhat distracted (Even though he gave Joey a very thorough beat down)
"Maybbeee." Was all Yugi said and began absent-mindedly shuffling his cards, yet again.
"Good afternoon." A cheery old man's voice greeted them.
"Hey Grandpa." Yugi said blankly acknowledging his presence.
"Joey, I've got something for you, someone dropped it off earlier." He said, Joey's eyes lit up like a small child's receiving something at Christmas. Yugi's blonde friend was probably expecting a duel monster's card as Solomon handed him a small white and blank envelope. Only Solomon Motou was smarter than most people took him for, sure he could play a good game of duel monsters but when Bakura had said the blank envelope had been sent from a "special someone" the old man had a pretty good idea about what was written on the piece of paper Joey held firmly in his hand.
Joey tore at the envelope wildly and brought out the piece of white paper, not knowing what was on it, he eagerly read it aloud.
"I'm sorry I can't tell you in person, but I can't keep my feelings to myself any longer." Joey raised and eyebrow and wondered if it was a mistake to start reading the note aloud. Yugi looked mildly interested at Joey as if to say with his curious facial expression that he would like it very much if he continued reading.
"Well if it gets his mind off that damn lunch box." Joey mentally reasoned.
So the blonde-haired boy continued: "I just want to say, how my feeling for you as the friend have changed, I love you- (Joey blinked confusedly after he said "I love you" aloud but then quickly continued on) more than you could ever know. I can only hope you might feel the same way. I can't tell you who I am, but just know someday I will have the courage to tell you in person. I want you to know how I feel about you, how you are the most wonderful person in my eyes-
Joey had to stop there, this sort of mushy romance stuff was almost…almost….appealing? This was when Joey realized (as he exclaimed loudly)
"I have a secret admirer!"
Yugi blinked in confusion… "Who has a crush on …Joey?!"
Joey began excitedly explaining to no one particular in the room about who 'she' might be, and then went on to further explain that the person who had written this had to be someone he knew, or at least they claimed to be a friend of his.
"I wonder who she is." Joey added with a thoughtful expression on his face.
"Maybe, she is a he."
Joey stood stone solid for a moment. "What if Yugi is RIGHT?"
Joey shook his head "No, it couldn't be, I'm not like that."
Solomon stood there the entire time chuckling at the two boys' reaction to the letter.
"You mean gay?" Yugi said finishing his friend's sentence.
"Yes! Well I mean I'm not…" Joey trailed off, he felt sure he was digging himself in a deeper hole already. "Anyway…." Joey laughed and then continued on "I can't wait to tell everyone about this."
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. – Japanese Proverb