Misunderstood

Saffire: We kept our promise! It's Friday and we're bringing you another chapter of our random story. ^__^

Kyoshi: Itami… Watashi no senaka ga itai desu yo. ~_~

Seto: Translation?

Saffire: I belive she said. 'Pain… My back hurts.'

Yugi: Doushite? (Why?)

Kyoshi: Shadow-kun was sitting on my hunched over back while I wrote the beginning part of this chapter. Then all I did was sit here and type for a long while after he decided to leave. @_o ::twitch:: He kept wanting to play. All he wants to do is chase old pokemon cards!!

Malik: I haven't been in the story at all. What's your pathetic excuse?

Saffire: We can't seem to figure out where to put you! O__O Any help from the readers would be most appreciated.

Jou: An' Nabiki got on ya case about me. Haha!!

Kyoshi: Jou. Shut up. I hate your accent.

Seto: Don't insult my puppy.

Saffire: I have to quickly thank the reviewers as I am leaving REALLY soon. O__O

BIG BIG thank yous to – Shinigami Sama, KaTyA, Yami Tsuki Tenshi, Amiasha, stupid kid 04, violettegal345, DemonWingedYamiYugi, Princess Strawberry

Kyoshi: ENJOY THE CHAPTER!!!!!

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It was now Friday morning. Two days had passed since the incident after school last Tuesday. Yami didn't mention it at all and Yugi seemed to be back to his normal happy self.

'Though…' Yami thought. 'He seems to be a little more quiet than before. Is this because of what happened?'

Currently they were on the bus to go to school and the sennen spirit was looking over at his Aibou who was staring out of the window like usual, listening to his CD. Yugi sensed that he was being watched and glanced up. Their eyes met and Yami guiltily shifted his gaze down to his hands cradled in his lap. He again thought to himself.

'Did whatever happen hurt you more than that? Are you hiding something?'

He continued to stare at his hands for the rest of the ride to school.

They exited the bus and Yugi flashed him a smile as he pulled the headphones off and walked to his class.

Yugi spent Study Hall doing what he usually did and that was finishing the homework that he didn't do the night before. The bell rang at 8:10 and he left for the room of Nihongo.

He sat down quietly in the front and stared at his desk. The teacher walked into the room as the bell rang and called out to the class.

"Liidaa. Douzo."

From somewhere in the back came a reply.

"Kiritsu!"

They all stood at the command.

"Rei."

"Everyone bowed to the teacher at the front and said,

"Sensei. Ohayou gozaimasu."

The students turned to the person next to them. (Yugi made sure he was not facing Yukito.)

"Minna-san. Ohayou."

A final command was given.

"Chakuseki."

They all sat down.

"I have graded your sakubuns. They were all good, but Yugi's took me the longest to grade since his was twice as long and used grammar far above that of a standard 3rd year student." She handed the paper to him. "Good job." The teacher then continued passing back the other papers.

He sat there with a smug little smirk on his face as Yukito scowled at him.

Kaoru called out to him when he entered the class. "Hey Yugi!"

"Hello." He went over to his seat and looked at Yami who was in the room before him.

/Hi Yami!/ The elder one looked up and smiled.

//Good morning?//

/Very! I got a 40/35 on my Japanese paper./

Jounouchi got to the room on time and went to his seat.

"Hey guys, guess what? There was a new student in ma Japanese class. I believe 'er name was… Nabiki. She seemed ta be kinda psycho."

"In my History class there was a new girl named Aiji. All she did was curse at her Mp3 player the whole time." He shrugged.

The English teacher hushed the class and started off with another lecture.

'Oh Joy.' Was the unanimous though in the class.

Lunchtime came around for Yugi who was waiting in line at the vending machine to buy a drink. After a few minutes he finally bought his citrus drink and walked over to Ryou's and his table.

"Hey… Ryou?" The silver haired boy was talking with two girls.

He looked over at the boy with tri colored hair. "Yugi, this is Nabiki Kuraudo and Aiji Kisaragi. They just transferred to this school."

Nabiki exclaimed. "Our fathers had to move here because of their job. They both work at the same company."

"Since they're new I thought they could sit with us."

Aiji smiled. "So Ryou. Finish telling us about your boyfriend."

The silver haired Hikari blushed.

Yugi looked over at Ryou. "So you told them about Bakura already?"

"They saw us walking in the halls together earlier."

Nabiki grinned. "Hand in hand."

They all laughed at Ryou's pink face and he soon joined in.

During the rest of lunch Ryou was pestered by the girls to explain more about his silver haired lover. Nabiki and Aiji both thought their relationship was cute! Some people in the world were more accepting about things like this. The two boys were also made to talk about their friends, including the sennen puzzle spirit.

"He looks a lot like you, though he's much taller."

He pouted.

Science was much the same as always, except Yami kept a bit of a closer eye on his Hikari, though Yugi didn't notice.

In History they had to work on some random assignment they were given, but they could work with someone if they wanted.

Bakura stalked over to where Yugi sat.

"Is there something I can help you with Bakura?"

"I don't understand this crap."

"Bakura, the answers are in the book."

"That doesn't mean I can find them."

Yugi sighed. To help the silver haired demon he put the page numbers next to the questions. And also which paragraph he could find the answers. Maybe he could get it then.

"Now try it."

Bakura growled slightly at the sheet but went back to his seat to work on the paper.

Yugi greeted the teacher as he walked into the Japanese room and dropped his stuff where he normally sat. Class started with the introduction that they usually did, except when they did 'Ohayou', the younger kids said 'Konnichi wa.' There were times when they forgot to do the opening when they were to busy.

In the middle of class Kimiko turned to him and showed him one of the 1st year tests she was grading from an earlier class.

"Yugi. I don't think I have ever seen a score like this. The person got 1 point right on a 268 point test!"

Yugi raised an eyebrow.

"What did they get the one point on?"

She flipped to the Hiragana chart.

"Only the 'n' is right. Nothing else. There were other places in the test where they could have put 'n' again, but they didn't. It takes talent to get that kind of score."

"I agree. Most of the test was matching and they could have put the same number on the whole page and could have been guaranteed at least a few more points."

They both shook their heads at the stupidity of the person.

"Baka na ningen." Was all Kimiko could say.

As the last bell rang many people cheered. Weekend! Haha! Happiness! Oh wait…. Only I would randomly scream out 'happiness'. Anyway…

Kaoru bid them farewell and went on his way.

Yugi met Yami at their locker and grinned to the other.

"Why are you so happy Aibou?"

"I have no homework this weekend!"

On the ride home Yugi listened to the claming voice of Hyde. Roentgen happened to be in his small collection of J-Rock CDs and he had the English version of the album. You could still hear a slight Japanese accent when Hyde sang. The short Hikari smiled gently to himself.

Yami again made dinner that night. At least he didn't burn the food anymore and the stuff he made was actually edible. That night's specialty was some foreign item called Calzones. They were like pizza pocket things, and quite good.

After dinner Sugoroku told the boys that he would have to go on a trip to another country to inspect some ancient thing or another and wouldn't be back for a week. He left the room to go pack and left the two boys in the dinning room.

Stifling a small yawn Yugi went upstairs to take a nice hot shower to relax his muscles.

'This feels so good.' He let out a sigh of pleasure as the hot water hit his tired back. Yugi just stood there reveling in the wonderful feeling for as long as he could. After a while he decided he should probably wash himself before the hot water ran out.

He walked into his room already in his PJs drying his multi-colored hair with a fluffy towel. Yugi noticed that Yami was sitting in one of his chairs reading a book. The sennen spirit looked up and smiled good-naturedly.

"You look like a cute, wet kitten."

"What?"

Yami chuckled at his expression. To Yami his Hikari DID look like a 'cute, wet kitten.' He had just gotten out of the shower and in the process of drying his hair, which was going every which way. To Yami the sight was one of the most adorable things ever.

"I guess we should both go to bed now. I'll see you in the morning."

Yami gave him one last smile and walked out of the room with his book and closed the door behind him.

Yugi continued to stare at the closed piece of wood.

'He called me a cute, wet kitten?'

He blinked a few times and blushed slightly as he thought about it.

'He thought I was cute?'

Yugi shook his head furiously.

'He wouldn't think I was cute after he found out about…' He let the thought trail off.

'He couldn't have meant it like that. He was probably making fun of me. But he… he's not like that. What could he have meant?'

Yugi sat down on his bed and threw the towel on the floor. He put his head into his hands and sighed.

'I'm reading WAY too much into a simple comment. He didn't mean anything by calling me a 'cute, wet kitten.' He's my Yami, and he would never fall for the short bisexual kid. He doesn't even know that I'm Bi. Not that I know of at least. I don't really even know what he likes. He probably would go after a beautiful busty woman. Of which I am obviously not.'

His thoughts strayed to what happened a few days ago.

'He was so nice and comforting and he didn't say anything about my show of weakness. I wonder why he was so kind.'

Yugi remembered the gentle kiss Yami placed on his forehead.

'But what about that? Does that mean anything?'

His thoughts paused for a minute.

'That couldn't have been anything more than something to help comfort me. To him I am probably a lost child, a burden that he has to deal with. That small kiss was nothing to him.'

Yugi lay down in his bed and curled into a ball under the warm sheets.

'I wish I knew… what my Yami thinks of me. Am I just the weak child he protects… or am I more?'

His thoughts carried on like that until he finally fell into sleep's gentle arms.

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Kyoshi: What'd ya think? Anyway, this is gonna be short, here's the translations –

Liidaa – katakana for leader.

Douzo – means 'go ahead.'

Kiritsu – command to stand up.

Rei – to bow

Chakuseki – to sit

Sensei – teacher

Minna-san – eneryone. Polite.

Baka na ningen – stupid human

Saffire: Remember to R&R and I have a quick request. Everyone's gonna go out and do something and I don't know where they should go. PLEASE suggest a place in a review. Till next time!!