The time before the party ticked away as Ryou stayed against the desk. He
now had less than 40 minutes to get to that party...Seto was expecting him,
he had promised Yugi...he HAD to be there. Ryou never broke his word.
He waited more....30 minutes left now...the pounding was begining to slow and soften in volume. Ryou was starting to calm down.
25 minutes left now. The pounding had silenced. Ryou took the oppertunity to dress. He put on his cargo jeans, a black sweater and his black high-tops.
20 minutes. "...hmm..." Ryou said looking at the door. "Its so quiet....I wonder if he wore himself out?" he said wondering if he should open the door and take a peek if his yami was still there...
15 minutes left. Ryou couldn't help his curiousity, he quietly moved the desk from the door, just enough to take a small peek out of his door. His yami, was indeed waiting for him. Once again he was enraged. "RYOU!! I'M SERIOUS!" he said lunging at the door.
Ryou squeaked and quickly shoved the desk back in front of the door, breaking the handle. "Uh oh...no way out...." He said looking to his window. "The window! Of couse!" he said smiling. Bakura of course, heard that and began pounding the door with such ferocity that the door began to give away.
12 minutes until the party. The door was begining to splinter. Ryou had managed to open his window, but his room was on the second floor. "Oh no! I forgot..." he said as the door shattered and Bakura shoved the desk roughly across the room.
10 minutes left....It happened in less than a blink. Ryou looked to his left, there was a drain pipe out of his reach, by about 5 feet. Ryou jumped for the drain pipe just as Bakura reached the window. To Ryou, it was all in slow motion...the moment he jumped for that pipe he was running only on adrenaline. When he grabbed the pipe and slid down to the ground he was breathing hard and looking up at Bakura. "....that....was possibly the least intelligent thing I've ever done..." he said as he began running to the party.
Ryou stopped at the busy corner as the salters and scrapers rolled down the street. Yugi waved from the other side of the street. He was typically him, next to him stood Yami. They were both in identical black leather pants with black tank tops and their buckles. Ryou found the buckles a little amusing sometimes. Mainly because Yugi had once had to un-buckle each and every one in front of him. It took all of 5 minutes. The only reason he had, was because Ryou had wanted to time him...but who's that picky?
Ryou trotted across the street and smiled. "Well I'm here...you've managed to drag me to a social activity Yugi. Nice to see you Yami. Aren't you two cold?" Ryou said smiling. Yugi smiled and handed Ryou his ticket. "Nah, its gonna be hot once we get in there start partying!" Ryou noticed the spiked wristbands Yugi was wearing and chuckled inwardly. "Thank you Yugi..." He said taking the ticket.
Yami shook his head smiling. "You need to get out more Ryou, its the least we could offer." He said giving Ryou the ever-confident grin. Ryou smiled and bowed his head. "Thank you too...although I dont really agree with one of you sneaking in." Yugi laughed a bit. "Sneak in? never.." He said smiling with a bold glint to his eyes. Yami laughed as well. "I'm only going because Yugi insisted we go." Ryou smiled. "It seems that I'm not the only one here for that reason then..."
Ryou went inside, followed by Yugi, who was later followed by Yami who said he had simply gone outside for a breath of fresh air. The music was BLAIRING loud, teen bodies completely under-dressed for such a cold season danced and pressed against eachother to the music. There was a bar, there were snacks, and games...it was a massive coglomeration of all the teenagers in the city!
Ryou could barely believe his eyes. "Hi Ryou!" Anzu said popping a party cracker over his head, sending glitter and streamers all over him. "Uh...hi Anzu." Ryou said as he began trying to remove the glitter and streamers from his being. Yugi laughed. "looks like you're her first victim of the glitter bombs." he said laughing...laughing until another loud POP was heard, followed by an equal amount of glitter falling on him. "Anzu! Oh man! I'm covered in glitter!" Yami laughed at his hikari. "Its a good look for you." he said smirking.
Anzu giggled and gave Ryou a playful kiss on the cheek. "Well, I'll be back you guys! I have to find Jono and Honda..." She said smiling wickedly and holding up two PATICULARLY large 'glitter bombs' as Yugi had put it. Ryou chuckled. "I dont think she'll ever run out of things to explode over our heads..." he said shaking his head. Yugi chuckled. "You mean like hormones? Or maybe her girlish rants of whats right and wrong?"
Yami burst into laughter. "If she EVER heard you say that, there'd be another bomb going off in this building, and I dont think it'd be a glitter bomb." Ryou snickered. "You two...its a wonder she hasn't heard you..." he said trying, and failing miserably, to get the glitter from his hair and clothes once more.
"Its ok Ryou, they say body glitter is in...." Yugi chirped amused. "Its not gonna come off...40 gazillion showers later you'll STILL be finding it all over the place...its like its got super glue on it or something..." Yami got a flat look. "Trust him...we know." Yugi laughed. "WE know...or YOU know?" He said grinning at Yami. Yami looked at his spiked wristband as if it were a clock. "Oh...whaddya know...its time to....uh...erm...go to the bar!" he said walking off as though the question had never been asked.
Yugi laughed. "I'd better follow him, he doesn't know much yet about liquors....he might get drunk, and the last thing I need to lead back to the game shop is a drunken Yami." Ryou smiled and sat down at one of the tables set up in the large area. He was only too glad. The run had really tuckered him out. "I'll never run that far again...at least he didn't follow me..." Ryou said as he watched the lights flicker and flash from blues to greens and pinks and so on. There were fog machines and disco balls. It was really all there could be at a party.
Ryou was growing hungry as the hours ticked by. He had spend most of his time there so far, hanging with his friends and doing a little bit of chatting with a few less known friends of his, even Haga was there. It TRULY was a party of parties. He was only too glad, at the moment, to make use of the snack table. The food there was everything NON-cookable. 'Things made to make you fat and rot your teeth, yet leave you very happy you ate them.' He mused as he got some chips and a sandwich.
Yugi bumped into him in at the table, as he was grabbing his food. "Oh...Hi Ryou....hee hee...wooo." he said slightly tipsy from the drinks he had with Yami. Ryou chuckled. "You seem a little tippy Yugi, you sure you wont be as drunk as Yami when the time comes to go home?" Yugi nodded enthusiastically. "pssssshhhht.." he said over-extending the 'sh' sound. "Of coooourse not...I only had a liiittle...heh heh" he slurred slightly going into a short fit of giggles. Ryou shook his head merrily and helped Yugi to a table.
Ryou had yet to drink anything from the bar. Perhaps it was because he feared going home drunk....or maybe just drunkly going HOME. Whatever the case, he hadn't drank yet. Jono sat next to him holding a cup out to him. "C'mon Ryou, whats a teen party if you dont get even a little tipsy?" Honda plopped down on the other side of Ryou. "Yeah man, you're seriously neglecting one of the more sacred of the traditions of teenhood!"
Ryou laughed a bit and shook his head. "You mean the tradition of getting so drunk that I might... oh, walk about with a lamp shade on my head slurring 'I'm the merry old king of England!' ?" Ryou said pointing to his head and crossing his eyes to get his point further across. Honda laughed a bit. "The one and the same." he said merrily. Ryou shook his head. "Not at the moment for me guys, if I'm going to become a drunkard, I will do so LONG after you're too drunk to remember me doing it." He said laughing. "If I decide to even do it."
Jono nodded and handed the spare cup to Honda. "You dont know what you're missin' Ryou." They said getting up and merrily going back to the party. "A horrid hangover perhaps?" he said after them shaking his head and laughing. Ryou was simply too amused at the moment to drink anything that might make him forget the things he was seeing.
Yami and Yugi, were in fact so drunk, that in order to sober up they had agreed to couple dance, propped up on eachother to maintain a form of balance, until at least one of them could count to 25 without slurring or pausing to think of the next number. So, in fact they were dancing and chanting '1...2...3...uh..' and continuing up the list as time ticked by. Ryou wished he had brought a camera. It would have been quite the picture to put in his photo album. He could lable it the '1...2...3 sober dance'.
It was now quite late. 1:00, yet the party raged as though it had only just begun. No one seemed to have left. Ryou had finally agreed, after more than a little persuasion from everyone he knew, to indulge in a few drinks.
AN: In Japan, the legal drinking age is 20, but you are essentially allowed to drink once you turn 18. There are even vending machines that dole out small bottles of alcohol in various locations. Also, let it be known, that an 18 year old could purchase the liquors for underage teens and it'd still be legal. lucky people.... eh heh heh hmm slightly drunk Ryou? heh oooh break out the lamp shades he might well do that 'merry king of england' thing! lol not really ^_~
He waited more....30 minutes left now...the pounding was begining to slow and soften in volume. Ryou was starting to calm down.
25 minutes left now. The pounding had silenced. Ryou took the oppertunity to dress. He put on his cargo jeans, a black sweater and his black high-tops.
20 minutes. "...hmm..." Ryou said looking at the door. "Its so quiet....I wonder if he wore himself out?" he said wondering if he should open the door and take a peek if his yami was still there...
15 minutes left. Ryou couldn't help his curiousity, he quietly moved the desk from the door, just enough to take a small peek out of his door. His yami, was indeed waiting for him. Once again he was enraged. "RYOU!! I'M SERIOUS!" he said lunging at the door.
Ryou squeaked and quickly shoved the desk back in front of the door, breaking the handle. "Uh oh...no way out...." He said looking to his window. "The window! Of couse!" he said smiling. Bakura of course, heard that and began pounding the door with such ferocity that the door began to give away.
12 minutes until the party. The door was begining to splinter. Ryou had managed to open his window, but his room was on the second floor. "Oh no! I forgot..." he said as the door shattered and Bakura shoved the desk roughly across the room.
10 minutes left....It happened in less than a blink. Ryou looked to his left, there was a drain pipe out of his reach, by about 5 feet. Ryou jumped for the drain pipe just as Bakura reached the window. To Ryou, it was all in slow motion...the moment he jumped for that pipe he was running only on adrenaline. When he grabbed the pipe and slid down to the ground he was breathing hard and looking up at Bakura. "....that....was possibly the least intelligent thing I've ever done..." he said as he began running to the party.
Ryou stopped at the busy corner as the salters and scrapers rolled down the street. Yugi waved from the other side of the street. He was typically him, next to him stood Yami. They were both in identical black leather pants with black tank tops and their buckles. Ryou found the buckles a little amusing sometimes. Mainly because Yugi had once had to un-buckle each and every one in front of him. It took all of 5 minutes. The only reason he had, was because Ryou had wanted to time him...but who's that picky?
Ryou trotted across the street and smiled. "Well I'm here...you've managed to drag me to a social activity Yugi. Nice to see you Yami. Aren't you two cold?" Ryou said smiling. Yugi smiled and handed Ryou his ticket. "Nah, its gonna be hot once we get in there start partying!" Ryou noticed the spiked wristbands Yugi was wearing and chuckled inwardly. "Thank you Yugi..." He said taking the ticket.
Yami shook his head smiling. "You need to get out more Ryou, its the least we could offer." He said giving Ryou the ever-confident grin. Ryou smiled and bowed his head. "Thank you too...although I dont really agree with one of you sneaking in." Yugi laughed a bit. "Sneak in? never.." He said smiling with a bold glint to his eyes. Yami laughed as well. "I'm only going because Yugi insisted we go." Ryou smiled. "It seems that I'm not the only one here for that reason then..."
Ryou went inside, followed by Yugi, who was later followed by Yami who said he had simply gone outside for a breath of fresh air. The music was BLAIRING loud, teen bodies completely under-dressed for such a cold season danced and pressed against eachother to the music. There was a bar, there were snacks, and games...it was a massive coglomeration of all the teenagers in the city!
Ryou could barely believe his eyes. "Hi Ryou!" Anzu said popping a party cracker over his head, sending glitter and streamers all over him. "Uh...hi Anzu." Ryou said as he began trying to remove the glitter and streamers from his being. Yugi laughed. "looks like you're her first victim of the glitter bombs." he said laughing...laughing until another loud POP was heard, followed by an equal amount of glitter falling on him. "Anzu! Oh man! I'm covered in glitter!" Yami laughed at his hikari. "Its a good look for you." he said smirking.
Anzu giggled and gave Ryou a playful kiss on the cheek. "Well, I'll be back you guys! I have to find Jono and Honda..." She said smiling wickedly and holding up two PATICULARLY large 'glitter bombs' as Yugi had put it. Ryou chuckled. "I dont think she'll ever run out of things to explode over our heads..." he said shaking his head. Yugi chuckled. "You mean like hormones? Or maybe her girlish rants of whats right and wrong?"
Yami burst into laughter. "If she EVER heard you say that, there'd be another bomb going off in this building, and I dont think it'd be a glitter bomb." Ryou snickered. "You two...its a wonder she hasn't heard you..." he said trying, and failing miserably, to get the glitter from his hair and clothes once more.
"Its ok Ryou, they say body glitter is in...." Yugi chirped amused. "Its not gonna come off...40 gazillion showers later you'll STILL be finding it all over the place...its like its got super glue on it or something..." Yami got a flat look. "Trust him...we know." Yugi laughed. "WE know...or YOU know?" He said grinning at Yami. Yami looked at his spiked wristband as if it were a clock. "Oh...whaddya know...its time to....uh...erm...go to the bar!" he said walking off as though the question had never been asked.
Yugi laughed. "I'd better follow him, he doesn't know much yet about liquors....he might get drunk, and the last thing I need to lead back to the game shop is a drunken Yami." Ryou smiled and sat down at one of the tables set up in the large area. He was only too glad. The run had really tuckered him out. "I'll never run that far again...at least he didn't follow me..." Ryou said as he watched the lights flicker and flash from blues to greens and pinks and so on. There were fog machines and disco balls. It was really all there could be at a party.
Ryou was growing hungry as the hours ticked by. He had spend most of his time there so far, hanging with his friends and doing a little bit of chatting with a few less known friends of his, even Haga was there. It TRULY was a party of parties. He was only too glad, at the moment, to make use of the snack table. The food there was everything NON-cookable. 'Things made to make you fat and rot your teeth, yet leave you very happy you ate them.' He mused as he got some chips and a sandwich.
Yugi bumped into him in at the table, as he was grabbing his food. "Oh...Hi Ryou....hee hee...wooo." he said slightly tipsy from the drinks he had with Yami. Ryou chuckled. "You seem a little tippy Yugi, you sure you wont be as drunk as Yami when the time comes to go home?" Yugi nodded enthusiastically. "pssssshhhht.." he said over-extending the 'sh' sound. "Of coooourse not...I only had a liiittle...heh heh" he slurred slightly going into a short fit of giggles. Ryou shook his head merrily and helped Yugi to a table.
Ryou had yet to drink anything from the bar. Perhaps it was because he feared going home drunk....or maybe just drunkly going HOME. Whatever the case, he hadn't drank yet. Jono sat next to him holding a cup out to him. "C'mon Ryou, whats a teen party if you dont get even a little tipsy?" Honda plopped down on the other side of Ryou. "Yeah man, you're seriously neglecting one of the more sacred of the traditions of teenhood!"
Ryou laughed a bit and shook his head. "You mean the tradition of getting so drunk that I might... oh, walk about with a lamp shade on my head slurring 'I'm the merry old king of England!' ?" Ryou said pointing to his head and crossing his eyes to get his point further across. Honda laughed a bit. "The one and the same." he said merrily. Ryou shook his head. "Not at the moment for me guys, if I'm going to become a drunkard, I will do so LONG after you're too drunk to remember me doing it." He said laughing. "If I decide to even do it."
Jono nodded and handed the spare cup to Honda. "You dont know what you're missin' Ryou." They said getting up and merrily going back to the party. "A horrid hangover perhaps?" he said after them shaking his head and laughing. Ryou was simply too amused at the moment to drink anything that might make him forget the things he was seeing.
Yami and Yugi, were in fact so drunk, that in order to sober up they had agreed to couple dance, propped up on eachother to maintain a form of balance, until at least one of them could count to 25 without slurring or pausing to think of the next number. So, in fact they were dancing and chanting '1...2...3...uh..' and continuing up the list as time ticked by. Ryou wished he had brought a camera. It would have been quite the picture to put in his photo album. He could lable it the '1...2...3 sober dance'.
It was now quite late. 1:00, yet the party raged as though it had only just begun. No one seemed to have left. Ryou had finally agreed, after more than a little persuasion from everyone he knew, to indulge in a few drinks.
AN: In Japan, the legal drinking age is 20, but you are essentially allowed to drink once you turn 18. There are even vending machines that dole out small bottles of alcohol in various locations. Also, let it be known, that an 18 year old could purchase the liquors for underage teens and it'd still be legal. lucky people.... eh heh heh hmm slightly drunk Ryou? heh oooh break out the lamp shades he might well do that 'merry king of england' thing! lol not really ^_~