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Welcome my crazy fans. . . I know ya'll want me to update the other fics I have up. But I **had** to have this one! Okay? Please don't be mad!
Mahina Jaz Tanzir helped me out a bit, but I did a lot of the work too!
Now before I upload the next chapter, I want five reviews! If I don't get five I ain't updating this fic anymore, which is gonna suck for all those who like it.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything!
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- - Transfer Students - - Yume Yui and Mahina Jaz Tanzir - - Chapter One: New Students - - Setting ~ Modern Day Japan - -
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Two girls sat on their knees at a Japanese-style table. They both bore bright green eyes and long blond hair that reached down to their elbows. They weren't exactly Japanese, but they had lived there ever since their parents got divorced and their father moved to Japan. They were twins, mirror images of one another on the outside. On the inside they were two different people.
Their father sat behind them proudly. His body dressed in a dull-colored kimono made for a man. His daughters each wore a kimono made especially for them. Each matching their perfect complexion.
The first of the daughters, Yume, wore her hair up in a fancy bun and had it crowned with babies breath and small cherry blossoms. Her back was slouched and her eyes narrowed in her head. Her face was void of make-up and showed the perfect features of her anger. Her fingers constantly squeezing and un-squeezing a stress ball (this was to keep her from attacking the next person who walked in the door. Let's just say she didn't want to be there.)
The second daughter, Mahina, had pulled her long hair into braided pigtails; this action had greatly confused her father. Her face was painted with skin toned make-up and was un-noticeable to people. Her back was straight and her eyes staring at the empty space on the wall. Let's just say she didn't quite know why she was where she was. (She was drawing when father had informed her earlier. We call it ADD in this country, but she was just drawing a picture of her current obsession, Kurama.) The girl looked up occasionally, starry eyed over her daydreams. (The kinds that are filled with hot men and more random things than "Alice In Wonderland")
The proud Father turned his attention to the attitudes of his daughters, concerned. He cleared his throat, "Yume, wont you smile? You want to make an approachable impression at the least."
The girl shot a sharp glare at her father before digging her nails into the stress ball. The weary man sighed and silently hoped he could encourage the headstrong Mahina to behave. Though she was more temperamental than Yume, Yume was far more stubborn when her mind was made up.
Before he could ask her how she was feeling, though, Mahina broke out of her trancelike state of mind and spoke.
"Ummm. . . Father, why are we here?"
Both Yume and their father stared incredulously at the inquiring girl.
"She must have tuned you out again. . ." Yume smirked.
"Remember that discussion we had about me setting up an Omiai?" The father began.
Mahina's mouth dropped wide open. "NANI?! That's what this is?!"
"Sen'el!" Yume shushed her twin in the Ancient tongue the girls had grown up speaking. It was an Egyptian language, never lost among some family, even after they had moved to Japan.
"You do realize, father, that you have destroyed what little pride I had left in me," Mahina grumbled.
He ignored the quirk and spoke again. "Both of you, I want to hear no foul words tonight!" He looked pointedly at Yume, "Whether it be your tongue," the gaze switched to Mahina, who had mastered many different languages, "or otherwise."
"Shit," Yume sneered.
"YUME!"
"It slipped!" Yume's eyes shifted towards the ceiling and she cursed under her breath. "Dumb ass; fucking father."
"I heard you!" Mahina said in a sing-song voice. Yume's hands clenched closer to the stress ball, which popped and spilled sand under the table.
The father looked relieved. If Mahina was teasing she must have been in an okay mood. On the other hand, there where those oh-so-inconvenient mood swings. . .
At that moment, a disgruntled male figure stalked through the door, followed by a separate figure that was about half the first persons height. Seto Kaiba and Yugi Mutou.
Seto Kaiba glared daggers at the shorter boy who had forced him onto this little escapade. 'Yugi' His mind hissed the name; there was going to be hell to pay!
The next person to walk in was a tall Egyptian man with light brown hair. He was being pushed into the room by a young woman.
"Isis!" The guy whined softly.
"No, Malik!" Isis scolded.
Instead of Isis's face, he saw the white rabbit's! "IM LATE! THE QUEEN WILL BEHEAD ME!." Then Yume took out a pipe and turned into a giant caterpillar as she began to smoke!
Mahina shook the images out of her head and looked at the four people sitting in front of her. Yume gave her a confused look and then slid her own glass of sake closer to her sister.
"No don't make it worse!" Mahina yelled covering her eyes with her hand. The two men looked at Mahina for a moment and then shook their heads.
"I claim that one!" Malik yelled pointing at Yume all of a sudden.
"Damn it!" Kaiba cursed raising a clenched fist into the air. "You'll pay!"
Yume's father shook his head and placed it in his hands; it was going to be a long Omiai.
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Yume and Mahina pulled their school uniforms over their heads and ran towards the kitchen.
"First day in a new school and we're late!" Mahina yelled grabbing her book bag.
"Hey, relax!" Yume smiled. "We're seniors! They'll be understanding!"
"I hope you're right," Mahina shoved her shoes on and followed Yume out the door. They ran as quickly as their feet could carry them.
Mahina and Yume sat panting in the office. They had arrived just in time for the first bell; just in time to find out they would be escorted to their homeroom. Mahina and Yume should've known the drill, they had been to a new school for almost every grade since junior high.
"Follow me," the vice-principle smiled leading the girls off to their home rooms. She handed each one a schedule and Yume reviewed hers while she went down the halls.
"Advanced Literature and a free block," Yume whispered to herself.
"Are those the only ones you have outside of the homeroom?" Mahina asked softly.
"Hai," Yume nodded her head. "You got anything different?"
"Iie, It's all normal classes. I ain't a dork like you," Mahina teased her twin sister. The vice-principle stopped in front of a dark red door and she pushed it open. The chattering students inside sat silent and watched as the two girls walked into the room. The teacher in front of the room smiled politely and welcomed them. Yume looked back and the vice-principle was gone.
"Please introduce yourselves," the teacher smiled.
"Watashi wa Hikaru Yume," Yume bowed. "Hajime." [1]
"Watashi wa Hikaru Mahina," Mahina bowed as well. "Hajimemashita."
Yume's eyes caught the light brown hair and purple eyes of the man she had met a few nights ago at her Omiai. They made contact and Malik stood up and yelled something at her in Egyptian. (I'll translate, I'll translate)
"What the hell are you doing here!" Yume yelled at him.
"What? I go to this school! You should answer your own question!" Malik sneered.
"You vile creature!" Yume pointed at the man.
"Me, vile? I think you have it all wrong. You are nothing but a weak woman!" Malik yelled. Yume's eyes narrowed into slits and she jumped forward to attack the taunting Egyptian. Her sister's hand reached up and grabbed Yume's wrist restraining her. Yume let out a snarl and ripped away jumping forwards. She ran past Kaiba's desk, whom of which caught her around the waist and across the chest.
"Calm down! You can do this after school!" Kaiba whispered harshly into Yume's ear. She paused for a moment then gave up. "Better?" Kaiba asked in a normal voice.
Yume nodded in defeat.
"Yume! Malik! Take your seats!" The teacher yelled. Yume shot a glare at Malik and moved towards an empty seat. Mahina and Kaiba stared at each other for a few moments and then Mahina sat down at an empty desk.
Yume sat with her head on her desk and her arms hanging over the sides. She was stuck behind a silent Seto Kaiba and an annoying Katsuya Jounouchi. Occasionally Yume would look over to her sister, who was sitting between Anzu and Yugi; she was happily drawing. She let out an exasperated sigh and then caught a soft smile coming from Malik.
Yume raised an eyebrow at him.
'What are you lookin' at?' she asked him using her mind.
'What? You can talk to people through minds?'
'Yeah, yeah. Why are you looking at me funny?'
Silence.
'Fine I'll just go back to sleeping!' Yume cut off the connection, much to Malik's dismay.
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Finally the lunch bell rang and the kids piled out of the class room. Yume shuffled behind, and then her twin with her new group of 'friends'.
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Seto Kaiba sat alone eating his lunch. He paused from his meal and watched as Yume piled her tray onto the table and then sat in a seat.
"Normally I sit alone. . ." Kaiba trailed.
"Well not while I am around," Yume said. "I refuse to hang around with my sister and her group of 'friends'." Yume shuttered when she said the words. "They're way too happy." Yume gave a side-long glance at the group of laughing teens. Her face portrayed a different message than her words. It looked as if she was about to cry. Kaiba watched without emotion for a few moments.
"Your face doesn't show your feelings," Kaiba said finally. Yume looked up from her lunch.
"What?" She snorted, all the sadness disappeared. "I think not!"
'So you're a difficult shell to break?' Kaiba thought. 'This could prove to be a good friendship.'
"Well you look more sad than disgusted."
"And you would know?" Yume crossed her hands over her chest. Kaiba gave her a dumbfounded look.
"You're the one talking to the social outcast in this school," Kaiba stated.
"You! A social outcast?" Yume pointed and then silent laughed to herself. "Seto Kaiba, CEO of Japan's most prosperous company." Yume laughed. "I bow at your feet and worship you."
"How low?" Kaiba whispered.
"Low? LOW!" Yume looked at him puzzled. She thought about it for a moment. "Let's see. . . low how? The fact that I would rather be stuck with a genius hunk for a husband? Or low because I don't care how much money someone makes?" Yume thought aloud. She grabbed her tray and bag, which Kaiba hadn't noticed before. "Well, Kaiba-kun. This is the part where I go: 'wow, Seto Kaiba. You need to get your mind straightened out.' Then I bid you a farewell and find a good spot to take a nap in during my free period." She waved softly and disappeared into the crowd of the lunch room.
Kaiba looked dumbfounded at the spot where she used to stand.
"Did she say free period?" Kaiba blinked and then ran after her.
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Meanwhile Mahina and her group of 'friends' were eating lunch.
"So where are you guys from?" Yugi looked at Mahina.
"I was originally from Egypt," Mahina caught Malik's attention, "but our family moves around a lot. So I haven't seen the sands since I was 12."
"What about your sister? Are you two twins?" Jounouchi asked.
"Yea, I dyed my hair red. I love the color red," Mahina stroked a lock. "She's a little messed up in the head. She has a little anger problem."
"Anger?" Anzu looked at her new friend.
"Yeah, she has to see a shrink every month." Mahina placed her finger on her lips. "You'd think after two years they'd figure out what's wrong with her."
"Maybe she's lonely?" Jounouchi offered.
"Maybe," Mahina sighed. "But it won't matter much once the papers are signed. She's probably gonna be married to Malik-kun."
"Why him?"
"Something about my father and his father. I don't know," she shook her head, "I don't pay much attention."
"Yume is a social outcast!" Malik whispered to himself. Just then there was a loud laugh coming from Yume. She was standing with her bag in hand and talking loudly. She ran off leaving Kaiba stunned.
Yugi let out a laugh.
"She can't be that weird, she left Kaiba-kun stunned."
"You must admit, it's good to see some expression," Honda added to the conversation. Mahina and the rest of the group nodded and stood up. Then headed off towards class.
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Kaiba's hand tightened over the handle of his bag. The final bell had just rung and he was working up the nerve to talk to Yume. Her hands were busy packing a pad of paper back into her bag along with a small case of pencils. A strand of her hair fell over her eyes and she proceeded to place it behind her ear.
She let out a sigh and then pulled out a small deck. It looked a lot like duel monster cards.
'Duel monsters?' Kaiba asked himself.
Yume flipped through them carefully and then sighed disappointedly and walked off with her bag in tow. Yugi and his friends were walking, with Mahina in tow.
"Yume-chan!" Mahina yelled. Yume looked up distraught for a moment and hid the cards in her coat sleeve. "We're going to Yugi's! You wanna come?"
"No, go ahead," Yume said back. "I am going to take a short walk and then go home. I am not feeling well."
"Must've been the food!" Mahina laughed. "Bye!" She waved and the group headed off. Yume was going to go that way, but she turned on her heel and walked the other way. Kaiba followed her.
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Mahina's eyes browsed the game shop Yugi's grandfather owned.
"This are really rare!" Mahina smiled.
"Do you like duel monsters?" Honda looked at Mahina.
"No, I am not very good," she paused. "You should duel my sister, she used to be really good. Then when she started gathering attention she just stopped. Like she was pissed at the world. Father said the game was bad for her and then locked her in her room."
"You think something is going on between Yume-chan and your father?" Anzu looked at Mahina.
"No, it's nothing. They never fight." Mahina smiled.
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Yume sat on the middle of a bridge. It was a small foot bridge, she loved to sit and think there. Her fingers moved around the edges of the cards and she hummed softly to herself. A smile was planted on her face.
Kaiba watched with interest.
'Why wasn't she like this at school?' Kaiba looked at the half-singing Yume.
"Yume," a man smiled placing his arms on the railing of the bridge. He seemed to come from nowhere. Yume jumped and tried to hide the cards in her sleeve again.
"Otousan," she said almost breathless. Her head moved and she looked at her feet. She bowed softly.
"I see you were playing with those silly cards again," he looked at his daughter.
"They aren't silly. They are the only thing I have left. Why do you insist on locking me in my room?" She said. "I loved the thrill of dueling. It was such a rush! You're wrong." She smiled and then noticed her comments were a mistake.
A frown stretched over her father's face. He stood straight and stared right into Yume's eyes.
"What is it you said?" He looked at her.
"Nothing, I am sorry!" Yume apologized. Her face went pale and a hand came up and smacked her across the cheek. "Otousan! Please!" Yume cried. "I meant no offense. I wasn't thinking."
"I know you weren't thinking. Mahina is a better child then you'll ever be! You are worthless. Ever since then!" Yume's father yelled.
"Is that what this is about?" Yume shrieked. "We've been running from your past all this time! Is that why I've never been able to make friends, to be noticed? Because my success is making you jealous." Yume let tears flow down her face. "I may not be as strong as she was, but at least I try! Unlike you!"
That was the final straw. Yume's father pulled his arm back and swung it wildly against Yume's head, hitting her temple just right. She let out a gasp of pain and fell sideways into the lake. Her screams silent as she passed out.
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Kaiba watched as Yume was hit across the cheek. Her father was truly cruel.
'What does Yume mean by 'she'?' Kaiba thought. He watched as Yume tried to build a wall around herself with words, but it was no use. Her father ripped it apart and knocked her off the bridge and into the crystal water.
When Yume didn't come up for air Kaiba worried. He ripped off his coat and shoes as fast as he could manage, all the while running towards the bank of the river.
The cold water felt like knives against his skin, hot fire. His head ached with the sudden change and he looked around for Yume. He ran out of air.
It took him three dives to find Yume. On the fourth he held onto her wrist and pulled her up from the depths of the river; thank god it was shallow. He cradled her in his arms and swam over towards the river bank, with only his feet to help him there.
Yume's chest throbbed and she began to regain consciousness.
"Stay still," Kaiba whispered. "Be still."
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Yume's head dipped and spun in a lazy effort to control her inner ear. The liquids inside swished around and moved; the damned shit wouldn't settle.
Kaiba placed Yume onto the bank and then hosted himself fully out of the water. She sat up abruptly trying to control the rasping coughs that tore at her lungs. Kaiba handed her his handkerchief and she covered it with river water and blood. She handed it back with an apology and refused to take off her soaking coat.
All the while her head fighting to control balance.
Yume fell forward and let out a soft shriek. Kaiba, thankfully, caught her. Her hands groped lazily for solid ground, but it was all spinning.
"Here," Kaiba said rolling up his coat and placing it down. He pushed her head towards the make-shift pillow and she sat until her head calmed.
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"Where's Yume?" Mahina asked walking through the door of her house.
"She dropped by and said she was going to a friends. Don't worry, I am sure she'll be back soon enough," Mahina's father smiled.
"Oh, okay." Mahina looked for Yume's book-bag, if she had really stopped by she would've left it. When she found it missing she stared at her father, who was unusually happy. She shook it off as a reflex and moved towards the couch switching on the TV.
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^ ^ So? Did you like it? Yes, yes? Well review! Review and I'll write more!
Bai-Bai!
Welcome my crazy fans. . . I know ya'll want me to update the other fics I have up. But I **had** to have this one! Okay? Please don't be mad!
Mahina Jaz Tanzir helped me out a bit, but I did a lot of the work too!
Now before I upload the next chapter, I want five reviews! If I don't get five I ain't updating this fic anymore, which is gonna suck for all those who like it.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything!
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- - Transfer Students - - Yume Yui and Mahina Jaz Tanzir - - Chapter One: New Students - - Setting ~ Modern Day Japan - -
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Two girls sat on their knees at a Japanese-style table. They both bore bright green eyes and long blond hair that reached down to their elbows. They weren't exactly Japanese, but they had lived there ever since their parents got divorced and their father moved to Japan. They were twins, mirror images of one another on the outside. On the inside they were two different people.
Their father sat behind them proudly. His body dressed in a dull-colored kimono made for a man. His daughters each wore a kimono made especially for them. Each matching their perfect complexion.
The first of the daughters, Yume, wore her hair up in a fancy bun and had it crowned with babies breath and small cherry blossoms. Her back was slouched and her eyes narrowed in her head. Her face was void of make-up and showed the perfect features of her anger. Her fingers constantly squeezing and un-squeezing a stress ball (this was to keep her from attacking the next person who walked in the door. Let's just say she didn't want to be there.)
The second daughter, Mahina, had pulled her long hair into braided pigtails; this action had greatly confused her father. Her face was painted with skin toned make-up and was un-noticeable to people. Her back was straight and her eyes staring at the empty space on the wall. Let's just say she didn't quite know why she was where she was. (She was drawing when father had informed her earlier. We call it ADD in this country, but she was just drawing a picture of her current obsession, Kurama.) The girl looked up occasionally, starry eyed over her daydreams. (The kinds that are filled with hot men and more random things than "Alice In Wonderland")
The proud Father turned his attention to the attitudes of his daughters, concerned. He cleared his throat, "Yume, wont you smile? You want to make an approachable impression at the least."
The girl shot a sharp glare at her father before digging her nails into the stress ball. The weary man sighed and silently hoped he could encourage the headstrong Mahina to behave. Though she was more temperamental than Yume, Yume was far more stubborn when her mind was made up.
Before he could ask her how she was feeling, though, Mahina broke out of her trancelike state of mind and spoke.
"Ummm. . . Father, why are we here?"
Both Yume and their father stared incredulously at the inquiring girl.
"She must have tuned you out again. . ." Yume smirked.
"Remember that discussion we had about me setting up an Omiai?" The father began.
Mahina's mouth dropped wide open. "NANI?! That's what this is?!"
"Sen'el!" Yume shushed her twin in the Ancient tongue the girls had grown up speaking. It was an Egyptian language, never lost among some family, even after they had moved to Japan.
"You do realize, father, that you have destroyed what little pride I had left in me," Mahina grumbled.
He ignored the quirk and spoke again. "Both of you, I want to hear no foul words tonight!" He looked pointedly at Yume, "Whether it be your tongue," the gaze switched to Mahina, who had mastered many different languages, "or otherwise."
"Shit," Yume sneered.
"YUME!"
"It slipped!" Yume's eyes shifted towards the ceiling and she cursed under her breath. "Dumb ass; fucking father."
"I heard you!" Mahina said in a sing-song voice. Yume's hands clenched closer to the stress ball, which popped and spilled sand under the table.
The father looked relieved. If Mahina was teasing she must have been in an okay mood. On the other hand, there where those oh-so-inconvenient mood swings. . .
At that moment, a disgruntled male figure stalked through the door, followed by a separate figure that was about half the first persons height. Seto Kaiba and Yugi Mutou.
Seto Kaiba glared daggers at the shorter boy who had forced him onto this little escapade. 'Yugi' His mind hissed the name; there was going to be hell to pay!
The next person to walk in was a tall Egyptian man with light brown hair. He was being pushed into the room by a young woman.
"Isis!" The guy whined softly.
"No, Malik!" Isis scolded.
Instead of Isis's face, he saw the white rabbit's! "IM LATE! THE QUEEN WILL BEHEAD ME!." Then Yume took out a pipe and turned into a giant caterpillar as she began to smoke!
Mahina shook the images out of her head and looked at the four people sitting in front of her. Yume gave her a confused look and then slid her own glass of sake closer to her sister.
"No don't make it worse!" Mahina yelled covering her eyes with her hand. The two men looked at Mahina for a moment and then shook their heads.
"I claim that one!" Malik yelled pointing at Yume all of a sudden.
"Damn it!" Kaiba cursed raising a clenched fist into the air. "You'll pay!"
Yume's father shook his head and placed it in his hands; it was going to be a long Omiai.
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Yume and Mahina pulled their school uniforms over their heads and ran towards the kitchen.
"First day in a new school and we're late!" Mahina yelled grabbing her book bag.
"Hey, relax!" Yume smiled. "We're seniors! They'll be understanding!"
"I hope you're right," Mahina shoved her shoes on and followed Yume out the door. They ran as quickly as their feet could carry them.
Mahina and Yume sat panting in the office. They had arrived just in time for the first bell; just in time to find out they would be escorted to their homeroom. Mahina and Yume should've known the drill, they had been to a new school for almost every grade since junior high.
"Follow me," the vice-principle smiled leading the girls off to their home rooms. She handed each one a schedule and Yume reviewed hers while she went down the halls.
"Advanced Literature and a free block," Yume whispered to herself.
"Are those the only ones you have outside of the homeroom?" Mahina asked softly.
"Hai," Yume nodded her head. "You got anything different?"
"Iie, It's all normal classes. I ain't a dork like you," Mahina teased her twin sister. The vice-principle stopped in front of a dark red door and she pushed it open. The chattering students inside sat silent and watched as the two girls walked into the room. The teacher in front of the room smiled politely and welcomed them. Yume looked back and the vice-principle was gone.
"Please introduce yourselves," the teacher smiled.
"Watashi wa Hikaru Yume," Yume bowed. "Hajime." [1]
"Watashi wa Hikaru Mahina," Mahina bowed as well. "Hajimemashita."
Yume's eyes caught the light brown hair and purple eyes of the man she had met a few nights ago at her Omiai. They made contact and Malik stood up and yelled something at her in Egyptian. (I'll translate, I'll translate)
"What the hell are you doing here!" Yume yelled at him.
"What? I go to this school! You should answer your own question!" Malik sneered.
"You vile creature!" Yume pointed at the man.
"Me, vile? I think you have it all wrong. You are nothing but a weak woman!" Malik yelled. Yume's eyes narrowed into slits and she jumped forward to attack the taunting Egyptian. Her sister's hand reached up and grabbed Yume's wrist restraining her. Yume let out a snarl and ripped away jumping forwards. She ran past Kaiba's desk, whom of which caught her around the waist and across the chest.
"Calm down! You can do this after school!" Kaiba whispered harshly into Yume's ear. She paused for a moment then gave up. "Better?" Kaiba asked in a normal voice.
Yume nodded in defeat.
"Yume! Malik! Take your seats!" The teacher yelled. Yume shot a glare at Malik and moved towards an empty seat. Mahina and Kaiba stared at each other for a few moments and then Mahina sat down at an empty desk.
Yume sat with her head on her desk and her arms hanging over the sides. She was stuck behind a silent Seto Kaiba and an annoying Katsuya Jounouchi. Occasionally Yume would look over to her sister, who was sitting between Anzu and Yugi; she was happily drawing. She let out an exasperated sigh and then caught a soft smile coming from Malik.
Yume raised an eyebrow at him.
'What are you lookin' at?' she asked him using her mind.
'What? You can talk to people through minds?'
'Yeah, yeah. Why are you looking at me funny?'
Silence.
'Fine I'll just go back to sleeping!' Yume cut off the connection, much to Malik's dismay.
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Finally the lunch bell rang and the kids piled out of the class room. Yume shuffled behind, and then her twin with her new group of 'friends'.
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Seto Kaiba sat alone eating his lunch. He paused from his meal and watched as Yume piled her tray onto the table and then sat in a seat.
"Normally I sit alone. . ." Kaiba trailed.
"Well not while I am around," Yume said. "I refuse to hang around with my sister and her group of 'friends'." Yume shuttered when she said the words. "They're way too happy." Yume gave a side-long glance at the group of laughing teens. Her face portrayed a different message than her words. It looked as if she was about to cry. Kaiba watched without emotion for a few moments.
"Your face doesn't show your feelings," Kaiba said finally. Yume looked up from her lunch.
"What?" She snorted, all the sadness disappeared. "I think not!"
'So you're a difficult shell to break?' Kaiba thought. 'This could prove to be a good friendship.'
"Well you look more sad than disgusted."
"And you would know?" Yume crossed her hands over her chest. Kaiba gave her a dumbfounded look.
"You're the one talking to the social outcast in this school," Kaiba stated.
"You! A social outcast?" Yume pointed and then silent laughed to herself. "Seto Kaiba, CEO of Japan's most prosperous company." Yume laughed. "I bow at your feet and worship you."
"How low?" Kaiba whispered.
"Low? LOW!" Yume looked at him puzzled. She thought about it for a moment. "Let's see. . . low how? The fact that I would rather be stuck with a genius hunk for a husband? Or low because I don't care how much money someone makes?" Yume thought aloud. She grabbed her tray and bag, which Kaiba hadn't noticed before. "Well, Kaiba-kun. This is the part where I go: 'wow, Seto Kaiba. You need to get your mind straightened out.' Then I bid you a farewell and find a good spot to take a nap in during my free period." She waved softly and disappeared into the crowd of the lunch room.
Kaiba looked dumbfounded at the spot where she used to stand.
"Did she say free period?" Kaiba blinked and then ran after her.
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Meanwhile Mahina and her group of 'friends' were eating lunch.
"So where are you guys from?" Yugi looked at Mahina.
"I was originally from Egypt," Mahina caught Malik's attention, "but our family moves around a lot. So I haven't seen the sands since I was 12."
"What about your sister? Are you two twins?" Jounouchi asked.
"Yea, I dyed my hair red. I love the color red," Mahina stroked a lock. "She's a little messed up in the head. She has a little anger problem."
"Anger?" Anzu looked at her new friend.
"Yeah, she has to see a shrink every month." Mahina placed her finger on her lips. "You'd think after two years they'd figure out what's wrong with her."
"Maybe she's lonely?" Jounouchi offered.
"Maybe," Mahina sighed. "But it won't matter much once the papers are signed. She's probably gonna be married to Malik-kun."
"Why him?"
"Something about my father and his father. I don't know," she shook her head, "I don't pay much attention."
"Yume is a social outcast!" Malik whispered to himself. Just then there was a loud laugh coming from Yume. She was standing with her bag in hand and talking loudly. She ran off leaving Kaiba stunned.
Yugi let out a laugh.
"She can't be that weird, she left Kaiba-kun stunned."
"You must admit, it's good to see some expression," Honda added to the conversation. Mahina and the rest of the group nodded and stood up. Then headed off towards class.
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Kaiba's hand tightened over the handle of his bag. The final bell had just rung and he was working up the nerve to talk to Yume. Her hands were busy packing a pad of paper back into her bag along with a small case of pencils. A strand of her hair fell over her eyes and she proceeded to place it behind her ear.
She let out a sigh and then pulled out a small deck. It looked a lot like duel monster cards.
'Duel monsters?' Kaiba asked himself.
Yume flipped through them carefully and then sighed disappointedly and walked off with her bag in tow. Yugi and his friends were walking, with Mahina in tow.
"Yume-chan!" Mahina yelled. Yume looked up distraught for a moment and hid the cards in her coat sleeve. "We're going to Yugi's! You wanna come?"
"No, go ahead," Yume said back. "I am going to take a short walk and then go home. I am not feeling well."
"Must've been the food!" Mahina laughed. "Bye!" She waved and the group headed off. Yume was going to go that way, but she turned on her heel and walked the other way. Kaiba followed her.
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Mahina's eyes browsed the game shop Yugi's grandfather owned.
"This are really rare!" Mahina smiled.
"Do you like duel monsters?" Honda looked at Mahina.
"No, I am not very good," she paused. "You should duel my sister, she used to be really good. Then when she started gathering attention she just stopped. Like she was pissed at the world. Father said the game was bad for her and then locked her in her room."
"You think something is going on between Yume-chan and your father?" Anzu looked at Mahina.
"No, it's nothing. They never fight." Mahina smiled.
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Yume sat on the middle of a bridge. It was a small foot bridge, she loved to sit and think there. Her fingers moved around the edges of the cards and she hummed softly to herself. A smile was planted on her face.
Kaiba watched with interest.
'Why wasn't she like this at school?' Kaiba looked at the half-singing Yume.
"Yume," a man smiled placing his arms on the railing of the bridge. He seemed to come from nowhere. Yume jumped and tried to hide the cards in her sleeve again.
"Otousan," she said almost breathless. Her head moved and she looked at her feet. She bowed softly.
"I see you were playing with those silly cards again," he looked at his daughter.
"They aren't silly. They are the only thing I have left. Why do you insist on locking me in my room?" She said. "I loved the thrill of dueling. It was such a rush! You're wrong." She smiled and then noticed her comments were a mistake.
A frown stretched over her father's face. He stood straight and stared right into Yume's eyes.
"What is it you said?" He looked at her.
"Nothing, I am sorry!" Yume apologized. Her face went pale and a hand came up and smacked her across the cheek. "Otousan! Please!" Yume cried. "I meant no offense. I wasn't thinking."
"I know you weren't thinking. Mahina is a better child then you'll ever be! You are worthless. Ever since then!" Yume's father yelled.
"Is that what this is about?" Yume shrieked. "We've been running from your past all this time! Is that why I've never been able to make friends, to be noticed? Because my success is making you jealous." Yume let tears flow down her face. "I may not be as strong as she was, but at least I try! Unlike you!"
That was the final straw. Yume's father pulled his arm back and swung it wildly against Yume's head, hitting her temple just right. She let out a gasp of pain and fell sideways into the lake. Her screams silent as she passed out.
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Kaiba watched as Yume was hit across the cheek. Her father was truly cruel.
'What does Yume mean by 'she'?' Kaiba thought. He watched as Yume tried to build a wall around herself with words, but it was no use. Her father ripped it apart and knocked her off the bridge and into the crystal water.
When Yume didn't come up for air Kaiba worried. He ripped off his coat and shoes as fast as he could manage, all the while running towards the bank of the river.
The cold water felt like knives against his skin, hot fire. His head ached with the sudden change and he looked around for Yume. He ran out of air.
It took him three dives to find Yume. On the fourth he held onto her wrist and pulled her up from the depths of the river; thank god it was shallow. He cradled her in his arms and swam over towards the river bank, with only his feet to help him there.
Yume's chest throbbed and she began to regain consciousness.
"Stay still," Kaiba whispered. "Be still."
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Yume's head dipped and spun in a lazy effort to control her inner ear. The liquids inside swished around and moved; the damned shit wouldn't settle.
Kaiba placed Yume onto the bank and then hosted himself fully out of the water. She sat up abruptly trying to control the rasping coughs that tore at her lungs. Kaiba handed her his handkerchief and she covered it with river water and blood. She handed it back with an apology and refused to take off her soaking coat.
All the while her head fighting to control balance.
Yume fell forward and let out a soft shriek. Kaiba, thankfully, caught her. Her hands groped lazily for solid ground, but it was all spinning.
"Here," Kaiba said rolling up his coat and placing it down. He pushed her head towards the make-shift pillow and she sat until her head calmed.
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"Where's Yume?" Mahina asked walking through the door of her house.
"She dropped by and said she was going to a friends. Don't worry, I am sure she'll be back soon enough," Mahina's father smiled.
"Oh, okay." Mahina looked for Yume's book-bag, if she had really stopped by she would've left it. When she found it missing she stared at her father, who was unusually happy. She shook it off as a reflex and moved towards the couch switching on the TV.
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