Angel: Ok. Yugi-tachi go to school and meet some new kids! Yah, some really kawaii girls too (my best friend White Rider/Truth Holder [he has 2 ff.net aliases] thinks Tea is cute - so do I, 4 that matter), but it's not a stupid romance-only story... quite the opposite, really! Although there is quite a bit of it... I'm still focusing on Yugi/Yami and Bakura/Kerihk.
Even though I'm using Japanese names for everyone, I'm not going to spell Yugi's name Yuugi Mutou because I prefer Yugi Muto. And I am going to have the group be in tenth grade, which is the freshman year in Japan. Technically, as this takes place a year after their adventures from the anime, they should be in eleventh, but I find the age of sixteen to old for a kid like me to write about. o.O Still, there are a couple characters that are sixteen and older, but I can't imagine having ALL the characters that old! Anyway, enjoy!
/ - Any Hikari talking to his or her Yami in his or her mind
// - Any Yami talking to his or her Hikari in his or her mind
Hikari No Yuugi
Play of Light
by Angel
Chapter Two: Shingat-ki
New School Term
The sunlight beamed down on Yugi's face. He swiped at it, half-asleep, as if wishing he could brush it away.
//Aibyou...// Yami called softly in his mind.
Yugi rolled over and pulled the covers over his head, ignoring Yami.
//Tsk, tsk,// Yami clucked.
/Five more minutes, Yami, please.../ Yugi pleaded
//Early to bed, early to rise.//
/Benjamin Franklin said that./
//::Chuckle:: You've been studying.//
Yugi groaned. /Yami.../
He opened his violet eyes and yawned. /Jeez Yami, you couldn't give me a break for once in your life?/
//In my day, we had to get up at dawn every day, even on Saturdays.//
/Urusei!/
//All right, keep sleeping. It's not my fault if you get a third late slip and a detention.//
Yugi looked at the clock and gasped. "I'M LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE!!!" he shrieked, jumping out of bed.
//Taku,// Yami sighed. Yugi sensed him shake his head.
Quick as you please, Yugi was out of his pajamas and slipping into his blue school fuku. He brushed his hair best he could, and dashed down the stairs for breakfast.
"Ojiisan?" he called, looking around the kitchen.
"I'm here," came the voice of Sugoroku Muto, Yugi's grandfather. Yugi found him eating a Nutri-Grain bar and unpacking a new shipment of Star Wars Trading Cards in the back of the store.
"Ah, you're awake, I see," Sugoroku chuckled.
"Yami's my new alarm clock," Yugi snorted.
Sugoroku smiled. "It's good to have him around, then."
"Aw, Grandpa, you're taking his side?!"
After Yugi's awesome defeat of Pegasus J. Crawford, Yugi had managed to free Sugoroku and Seto and Mokuba Kaiba from Pegasus's Millenium Eye. Just recently after Pegasus's flee from Kaiba Corp., Yami had revealed himself to a very startled Yugi. With the two now constantly corresponding with each other, Sugoroku and Yugi's friends had adapted to life with Yugi silently speaking to Yami, or Yami jumping out of the Millenium Puzzle whenever he felt like it. Yugi trusted Yami a lot now, but he still didn't know much about him. Even so, only those who had taken part in the adventures of Duelist Kingdom knew about Yami.
"Go have breakfast," Sugoroku instructed. "You'll be late. Aren't you walking with Jonouchi and the others today?"
Yugi gasped. "That's right! I promised Anzu I'd return her history notes she let me borrow! Ahhh, I'm going to be so late!" He dashed back into the kitchen for a quick breakfast.
Sugoroku shook his head and chuckled. "He's so hasty."
A while later, Yugi and his friends, Katsuya "Joey Wheeler" Jonouchi and Hiroto "Tristan Taylor" Honda were finally on their way to Domino High School for the new semester. Ryou Bakura hadn't been able to come because he said he had "family business," and Anzu "Tea Gardner" Mazaki was going to meet up with them half-way to school (in the Japanese version, only the girls and Yugi are called by their first names, excluding those from other countries like Bandit Keith Howard and Pegasus J. Crawford. So, even though they are called Jonouchi and Honda, their first names are Katsuya and Hitoro).
"Too bad," Jonouchi said, referring to Bakura. "Probably his parents are gonna lecture him on somethin' or other. I hate it when my dad does that."
"I don't know about that, Jonouchi, Bakura told me his dad's gone on another dig in Egypt," Yugi replied. His face brightened. "There's Anzu! C'mon, let's go!
Anzu was waiting outside her apartment just down the street. "Konnichiwa," she said with a wave as her guy friends arrived next to her. "Ogenki desu ka?"
"Daijobu, Anzu-chan," Yugi responded politely.
"Yo, Anzu," Jonouchi said. Honda nodded in greeting.
"Ready to go?" asked Anzu.
Everyone nodded, and set off for the school.
"It's April, a new year," Anzu stated as they entered the school building. "There'll be a lot of new students. I heard that a bunch of kids from Okinawa transferred here and are living in those dorms down the way there." She pointed to a large white building near the college. "They came from Tôru Secondary School."
"This is a fact?" Jonouchi mumbled. Honda laughed.
Entering their homeroom classroom, Ms. Mikage's class, they each grabbed seats next to each other and became so engrossed in conversation that they didn't notice right away that Bakura had arrived, a troubled look on his pale face.
"Oi, Bakura," Yugi called when he noticed him. "Douka shita no?"
"Nothing," Bakura sighed as he took a seat behind Yugi, at the back of the classroom. "I was just thinking."
"Hey, how'd your real-life episode of 'Family Matters' go?" Jonouchi inquired.
Bakura looked at him quizzically, then he laughed. "Oh, that," he cried, embarrassed. "It was nothing."
"It's never nothing, so stop saying that," Anzu clucked.
Bakura just smiled, and removed his blue school hat from his head to reveal his mess of platinum-blonde hair. Bakura was taller than Yugi but shorter than Honda and Jonouchi, making him about Anzu's height, so when she stood up to further question him, he found himself staring right into her sapphire eyes. His own dark amber eyes twitched nervously; Anzu had a way of making her friends spill everything.
Fortunately for him, the teacher, Ms. Mikage, entered the classroom just then and announced that school was about to start, so Bakura was saved from trying to plead his case for the moment. Then, however, she left again to grab the attendance sheet she had left in the teacher's lounge, but again Bakura was saved from Tea's wrath because just then, a girl of about Yugi's size with short, rich brown hair with lightning-bolt bangs remarkably like Yugi's and lavender eyes dashed into the classroom, sweating.
Bakura started. It was the girl from his dream...! Immediately his Millennium Ring began glowing under his shirt. He had to cover his chest with his hands to shroud the light.
Yugi and his friends had noticed that many of the students from Tôru Secondary School had arrived already, four boys and two girls. One girl had bright brown eyes and long, glossy brown hair, the other possessed extremely long black hair tied in a braid and glimmering blue eyes. As for the boys, there was one with stylish dark brown hair with eyes to match, a wheat-haired boy looking much like Jonouchi with hazel eyes, a boy with unruly golden-blond hair and jewel-bright blue eyes, and another with dark blue hair and gray eyes, all dressed in the royal blue Domino High fuku (except for the girls, who were wearing their shocking-pink vests and royal blue skirts - I'm guessing from Anzu's attire in the first episode that their uniform designer just has a weird sense of humor as far as girls go, the boys' uniforms aren't so bad). When the petite lavender-eyed girl had run in with a yell of "GOOD MORNING!!!" they had begun to clap as if they knew her.
"Well done, Mikage-sensei hasn't started class yet," said the girl with the long braid. "You're safe."
"Thank goodness," the small girl sighed with relief, sinking to the floor.
"But only by a hair," came Ms. Mikage's voice as she entered the room. The small girl sweatdropped.
Ms. Mikage then decided to take roll. "When I call your name, raise your hand and say 'here'," she instructed, taking out her attendance book (note: I shall only be saying the names of the important characters).
"Bakura, Ryou."
"Here," Bakura replied quietly from the back of the room.
"Daichi, Hikaru."
The short girl who was still panting from being frightfully late managed to wheeze, "Here!"
Yugi started. Hikaru? It was almost the same as "hikari." Yami sometimes called him "hikari" - it meant "light." Yami always said that Yugi was his "light side." Strange that she would have almost the same name.
"Gotoh, Tetsuya."
"I'm here," said the wheat-haired Jonouchi look-alike.
"Hada, Dajan."
"What? Oh! Here," cried the blue-haired boy, embarrased.
"Honda, Hiroto."
"Here," said Honda.
"Itsuko, Ai."
"Here," said the pretty, glossy brown-haired girl.
"Jonouchi, Katsuya."
"Dude, I am so here!" shouted Jonouchi, causing the other kids to laugh.
"Mazaki, Anzu."
"Here," said Anzu.
"Midori, Takehiko."
"Here and ready to party!" exclaimed the blond, blue-eyed boy with a punch of his fist.
"That's enough, Mr. Midori. Eh, Muto, Yugi."
Yugi jolted back in his seat. He hadn't been paying attention - the "Hikaru" girl had caught his eye. "Oh - I'm here," he said sheepishly.
"Nozaka, Miho."
A lavender-haired girl called out, "Here."
"Saito, Ryoku."
The dark brown-haired boy replied, "Check."
"Takaya, Naoko."
"Here," said the girl with the long black braid.
There was a bit more roll-calling after that, then Ms. Mikage began school.
Math was the second period of the day. But instead of walking out the door to her other classes (in japan you don't change classes, the teachers come to you), Ms. Mikage walked in front of the blackboard and clapped her hands to get everyone's attention.
"Your math sensei, Mrs. Matsumoto, has taken maternity leave," she said. Many students exchanged surprised looks. "This year we shall be having a new tenth grade arithmetic teacher. She's a student teacher who recently returned from traveling abroad. Please welcome Ms. Kamui Tsumura."
Bakura froze in his seat, an unusual look spread across his face as a young lady with long, flowing black hair and bright blue eyes waltzed into the classroom. The kids oohed.
"Whoa, is she ever pretty!"
"How old is she?"
"Ms. Tsumura, do you have a boyfriend?"
"She's beautiful!"
"Hello," said Kamui with a smile. "I'm Kamui Tsumura. I won't be here long, but I can't wait to get to know all of you."
Yugi then noticed the look on Bakura's face. He had turned very white. Yugi turned around in his seat and whispered, "Bakura-kun, you okay?"
"Huh? Yeah, sure," Bakura whispered back, not truly acknowledging Yugi.
Yugi frowned, but turned back around to face the new student teacher.
On the other side of the classroom, Naoko Takaya shifted in her seat, her face twisted into a suspicious scowl. Next to her, Hikaru Daichi asked her nearly the same thing as Yugi had Bakura. "Naoko-chan, is everything all right?"
Naoko shook her head and whispered, "Be careful. That teacher's not normal."
"Huh?" Hikaru asked quizzically. Naoko shot her a meaningful shut-up-I'll-tell-you-later look, so Hikaru snapped her head back toward Kamui.
Bakura's Millennium Ring grew fainter now, but the glow was still there, and it didn't leave until after school.
***
"I'm telling you, that teacher isn't normal," Naoko grunted after school that day. She and her friends were standing outside the school, talking about the events of their first day.
Hikaru-tachi (which included Tetsuya Gotoh, Ryoku Saito, Ai Itsuko, Dajan Hada, Takehiko Midori, one older guy of about eighteen called Kokoroe Fujishima, and his ten-year-old sister Makimura) looked doubtful. "I'm not sure about that, Naoko," Hikaru said. "I mean, I know you're really good with things from the other realms and things, but... I really like Ms. Tsumura."
"You hardly know her," retorted Tetsuya.
Hikaru shrugged. "I just... trust her. I don't know why."
Kokoroe snorted. "Gimme a break, Daichi. You trust people too easily. One of these days you'll find yourself in a trap."
"Ro, niichan!" Makimura chided.
Hikaru smiled. "OK, Ro. I'll try my best to be more cautious. But... call me Hikaru, okay?"
"Daichi..."
"I give up."
Naoko shook her head. "Just be on your guard, guys. I sense something in her."
Dajan blinked. "A Millennium Item?"
"Perhaps. They all have a different aura around them that fits with the ki of the bearer. Among us we have four Millennium Item bearers - Hikaru, Ai, Dajan, and Takehiko. All of you feel different to me, and respond to different powers in different ways. You never know if a Millennium Item bearer is for good or bad. Look out for Ms. Tsumura. But, I'm not your mother or anything," Naoko added with a laugh, "you can do what you want."
Hikaru grinned. "Well, you've never been wrong before, Naoko-chan. We'll see how this plays out."
"Righto!" Ai laughed, punching the air.
***
Bakura waited until everyone else was out of the classroom, then he wandered up to Kamui's current classroom. It was the end of the day, and he knew he needed to talk to her - alone. He wasn't trying to be mysterious or anything - but boy, was he ever confused.
Kamui didn't even turn around when she heard the door open. "Ryou, come in."
Bakura didn't ask how she knew he was there. He stepped up to her desk.
"Kamui," he said. "You're back."
Kamui smiled. "Yes, jakutei. I'm back."
Angel: That's chapter two! Hope you liked it... as usual, r/r! It keeps me going! Cliffhanger, huh? Well, serves you right! ::Giggles:: Kidding, kidding.
Jonouchi: Hey, what's with all the Yugi/Tea junk I keep hearing about? What about ME?
Yugi: Well, it's because...
Jonouchi: Why?
Yugi: I look so much cuter with Tea than you do!
Jonouchi: ::sweatdrops::
Angel: ::wicked grin:: Don't worry, Jonouchi... I've got an "evil" plan!
Tea: ::gasps:: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Angel: YES!!!
Mokuba: Yay! It's my turn today! Boy, I love doing this!
Seto: ::horrified expression::
Jonouchi: You're weird, Mokuba.
From the Desk of Mokuba Kaiba:
Aibyou - pet
Urusei - shut up
taku - sheesh
fuku - uniform
ojiisan - grandfather
konnichiwa - hello
Ogenki desu ka? - how are you?
daijobu - I am all right
Oi - hey
Douka shita no - what's wrong?
Hikaru - sparkle or glitter
sensei - teacher
-tachi - and company
niichan - older brother
ki - aura
jakutei - little brother
A piece of kewl info - Yugi means game, and Yami means dark (according to some people on line - I'll look it up to make sure), so Yami Yugi basically means "Dark Game." Pretty cool, huh?
CHARACTER OF THE DAY:
Today's Character of the Day is Yugi Muto, age 15. Yugi is a shy, cute little kid with a heart of gold, but this doesn't matter to the numerous bullies, rivals, and bad guys that pick on him for no good reason. He lives with his grandfather, Sugoroku Muto, who owns a game shop near Yugi's school, Domino High. The whereabouts of Yugi's parents are unknown. Some say that they are dead, others debate that only one has passed away and the other works outside of town to make more money. Whichever theory is correct, it is certain that Yugi gets on all right with his grandfather. At the beginning, Yugi had no friends except for a childhood playmate, Tea Gardner. His grandfather gave him the ancient Egyptian Millennium Puzzle, a token meant for Yugi on his grandfather's deathbed. His grandfather decided to give it to Yugi early, knowing that the magic in the Puzzle may help Yugi. Yugi then did the near-impossible - he solved the Millennium Puzzle! When he finally put the last piece of the Puzzle together, Yami entered his body and became his "dark side." Whenever Yugi called upon the power of the Puzzle, he would transform into a taller, cooler guy (not to mention seriously HOT), a cross between himself and Yami. With the power of the Puzzle, Yugi embarked on his own adventure to stop Pegasus J. Crawford from collecting all seven Millennium Items and to save his grandfather who had been imprisoned in a card by Pegasus's Millennium Eye. Yugi also made friends with Tristan Taylor, Bakura Ryou, and Joey Wheeler, who is Yugi's best friend.
In persona, Yugi has a big heart and never thinks about himself, always worrying more about his friends. But because of his lack of confidence and, not to mention, size, he is a target for many meanies lurking around, which includes the double-crossing Ushou, the eliminator Panik, the snobbish duelist Weevil, and even the sometimes-friendly sometimes-not champion duelist of the world, Seto Kaiba. Through determination and belief in the "heart of the cards," Yugi tackles each obstacle in his way with the help of his friends and the Millennium Puzzle in the name of love.
Even though I'm using Japanese names for everyone, I'm not going to spell Yugi's name Yuugi Mutou because I prefer Yugi Muto. And I am going to have the group be in tenth grade, which is the freshman year in Japan. Technically, as this takes place a year after their adventures from the anime, they should be in eleventh, but I find the age of sixteen to old for a kid like me to write about. o.O Still, there are a couple characters that are sixteen and older, but I can't imagine having ALL the characters that old! Anyway, enjoy!
/ - Any Hikari talking to his or her Yami in his or her mind
// - Any Yami talking to his or her Hikari in his or her mind
Hikari No Yuugi
Play of Light
by Angel
Chapter Two: Shingat-ki
New School Term
The sunlight beamed down on Yugi's face. He swiped at it, half-asleep, as if wishing he could brush it away.
//Aibyou...// Yami called softly in his mind.
Yugi rolled over and pulled the covers over his head, ignoring Yami.
//Tsk, tsk,// Yami clucked.
/Five more minutes, Yami, please.../ Yugi pleaded
//Early to bed, early to rise.//
/Benjamin Franklin said that./
//::Chuckle:: You've been studying.//
Yugi groaned. /Yami.../
He opened his violet eyes and yawned. /Jeez Yami, you couldn't give me a break for once in your life?/
//In my day, we had to get up at dawn every day, even on Saturdays.//
/Urusei!/
//All right, keep sleeping. It's not my fault if you get a third late slip and a detention.//
Yugi looked at the clock and gasped. "I'M LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE!!!" he shrieked, jumping out of bed.
//Taku,// Yami sighed. Yugi sensed him shake his head.
Quick as you please, Yugi was out of his pajamas and slipping into his blue school fuku. He brushed his hair best he could, and dashed down the stairs for breakfast.
"Ojiisan?" he called, looking around the kitchen.
"I'm here," came the voice of Sugoroku Muto, Yugi's grandfather. Yugi found him eating a Nutri-Grain bar and unpacking a new shipment of Star Wars Trading Cards in the back of the store.
"Ah, you're awake, I see," Sugoroku chuckled.
"Yami's my new alarm clock," Yugi snorted.
Sugoroku smiled. "It's good to have him around, then."
"Aw, Grandpa, you're taking his side?!"
After Yugi's awesome defeat of Pegasus J. Crawford, Yugi had managed to free Sugoroku and Seto and Mokuba Kaiba from Pegasus's Millenium Eye. Just recently after Pegasus's flee from Kaiba Corp., Yami had revealed himself to a very startled Yugi. With the two now constantly corresponding with each other, Sugoroku and Yugi's friends had adapted to life with Yugi silently speaking to Yami, or Yami jumping out of the Millenium Puzzle whenever he felt like it. Yugi trusted Yami a lot now, but he still didn't know much about him. Even so, only those who had taken part in the adventures of Duelist Kingdom knew about Yami.
"Go have breakfast," Sugoroku instructed. "You'll be late. Aren't you walking with Jonouchi and the others today?"
Yugi gasped. "That's right! I promised Anzu I'd return her history notes she let me borrow! Ahhh, I'm going to be so late!" He dashed back into the kitchen for a quick breakfast.
Sugoroku shook his head and chuckled. "He's so hasty."
A while later, Yugi and his friends, Katsuya "Joey Wheeler" Jonouchi and Hiroto "Tristan Taylor" Honda were finally on their way to Domino High School for the new semester. Ryou Bakura hadn't been able to come because he said he had "family business," and Anzu "Tea Gardner" Mazaki was going to meet up with them half-way to school (in the Japanese version, only the girls and Yugi are called by their first names, excluding those from other countries like Bandit Keith Howard and Pegasus J. Crawford. So, even though they are called Jonouchi and Honda, their first names are Katsuya and Hitoro).
"Too bad," Jonouchi said, referring to Bakura. "Probably his parents are gonna lecture him on somethin' or other. I hate it when my dad does that."
"I don't know about that, Jonouchi, Bakura told me his dad's gone on another dig in Egypt," Yugi replied. His face brightened. "There's Anzu! C'mon, let's go!
Anzu was waiting outside her apartment just down the street. "Konnichiwa," she said with a wave as her guy friends arrived next to her. "Ogenki desu ka?"
"Daijobu, Anzu-chan," Yugi responded politely.
"Yo, Anzu," Jonouchi said. Honda nodded in greeting.
"Ready to go?" asked Anzu.
Everyone nodded, and set off for the school.
"It's April, a new year," Anzu stated as they entered the school building. "There'll be a lot of new students. I heard that a bunch of kids from Okinawa transferred here and are living in those dorms down the way there." She pointed to a large white building near the college. "They came from Tôru Secondary School."
"This is a fact?" Jonouchi mumbled. Honda laughed.
Entering their homeroom classroom, Ms. Mikage's class, they each grabbed seats next to each other and became so engrossed in conversation that they didn't notice right away that Bakura had arrived, a troubled look on his pale face.
"Oi, Bakura," Yugi called when he noticed him. "Douka shita no?"
"Nothing," Bakura sighed as he took a seat behind Yugi, at the back of the classroom. "I was just thinking."
"Hey, how'd your real-life episode of 'Family Matters' go?" Jonouchi inquired.
Bakura looked at him quizzically, then he laughed. "Oh, that," he cried, embarrassed. "It was nothing."
"It's never nothing, so stop saying that," Anzu clucked.
Bakura just smiled, and removed his blue school hat from his head to reveal his mess of platinum-blonde hair. Bakura was taller than Yugi but shorter than Honda and Jonouchi, making him about Anzu's height, so when she stood up to further question him, he found himself staring right into her sapphire eyes. His own dark amber eyes twitched nervously; Anzu had a way of making her friends spill everything.
Fortunately for him, the teacher, Ms. Mikage, entered the classroom just then and announced that school was about to start, so Bakura was saved from trying to plead his case for the moment. Then, however, she left again to grab the attendance sheet she had left in the teacher's lounge, but again Bakura was saved from Tea's wrath because just then, a girl of about Yugi's size with short, rich brown hair with lightning-bolt bangs remarkably like Yugi's and lavender eyes dashed into the classroom, sweating.
Bakura started. It was the girl from his dream...! Immediately his Millennium Ring began glowing under his shirt. He had to cover his chest with his hands to shroud the light.
Yugi and his friends had noticed that many of the students from Tôru Secondary School had arrived already, four boys and two girls. One girl had bright brown eyes and long, glossy brown hair, the other possessed extremely long black hair tied in a braid and glimmering blue eyes. As for the boys, there was one with stylish dark brown hair with eyes to match, a wheat-haired boy looking much like Jonouchi with hazel eyes, a boy with unruly golden-blond hair and jewel-bright blue eyes, and another with dark blue hair and gray eyes, all dressed in the royal blue Domino High fuku (except for the girls, who were wearing their shocking-pink vests and royal blue skirts - I'm guessing from Anzu's attire in the first episode that their uniform designer just has a weird sense of humor as far as girls go, the boys' uniforms aren't so bad). When the petite lavender-eyed girl had run in with a yell of "GOOD MORNING!!!" they had begun to clap as if they knew her.
"Well done, Mikage-sensei hasn't started class yet," said the girl with the long braid. "You're safe."
"Thank goodness," the small girl sighed with relief, sinking to the floor.
"But only by a hair," came Ms. Mikage's voice as she entered the room. The small girl sweatdropped.
Ms. Mikage then decided to take roll. "When I call your name, raise your hand and say 'here'," she instructed, taking out her attendance book (note: I shall only be saying the names of the important characters).
"Bakura, Ryou."
"Here," Bakura replied quietly from the back of the room.
"Daichi, Hikaru."
The short girl who was still panting from being frightfully late managed to wheeze, "Here!"
Yugi started. Hikaru? It was almost the same as "hikari." Yami sometimes called him "hikari" - it meant "light." Yami always said that Yugi was his "light side." Strange that she would have almost the same name.
"Gotoh, Tetsuya."
"I'm here," said the wheat-haired Jonouchi look-alike.
"Hada, Dajan."
"What? Oh! Here," cried the blue-haired boy, embarrased.
"Honda, Hiroto."
"Here," said Honda.
"Itsuko, Ai."
"Here," said the pretty, glossy brown-haired girl.
"Jonouchi, Katsuya."
"Dude, I am so here!" shouted Jonouchi, causing the other kids to laugh.
"Mazaki, Anzu."
"Here," said Anzu.
"Midori, Takehiko."
"Here and ready to party!" exclaimed the blond, blue-eyed boy with a punch of his fist.
"That's enough, Mr. Midori. Eh, Muto, Yugi."
Yugi jolted back in his seat. He hadn't been paying attention - the "Hikaru" girl had caught his eye. "Oh - I'm here," he said sheepishly.
"Nozaka, Miho."
A lavender-haired girl called out, "Here."
"Saito, Ryoku."
The dark brown-haired boy replied, "Check."
"Takaya, Naoko."
"Here," said the girl with the long black braid.
There was a bit more roll-calling after that, then Ms. Mikage began school.
Math was the second period of the day. But instead of walking out the door to her other classes (in japan you don't change classes, the teachers come to you), Ms. Mikage walked in front of the blackboard and clapped her hands to get everyone's attention.
"Your math sensei, Mrs. Matsumoto, has taken maternity leave," she said. Many students exchanged surprised looks. "This year we shall be having a new tenth grade arithmetic teacher. She's a student teacher who recently returned from traveling abroad. Please welcome Ms. Kamui Tsumura."
Bakura froze in his seat, an unusual look spread across his face as a young lady with long, flowing black hair and bright blue eyes waltzed into the classroom. The kids oohed.
"Whoa, is she ever pretty!"
"How old is she?"
"Ms. Tsumura, do you have a boyfriend?"
"She's beautiful!"
"Hello," said Kamui with a smile. "I'm Kamui Tsumura. I won't be here long, but I can't wait to get to know all of you."
Yugi then noticed the look on Bakura's face. He had turned very white. Yugi turned around in his seat and whispered, "Bakura-kun, you okay?"
"Huh? Yeah, sure," Bakura whispered back, not truly acknowledging Yugi.
Yugi frowned, but turned back around to face the new student teacher.
On the other side of the classroom, Naoko Takaya shifted in her seat, her face twisted into a suspicious scowl. Next to her, Hikaru Daichi asked her nearly the same thing as Yugi had Bakura. "Naoko-chan, is everything all right?"
Naoko shook her head and whispered, "Be careful. That teacher's not normal."
"Huh?" Hikaru asked quizzically. Naoko shot her a meaningful shut-up-I'll-tell-you-later look, so Hikaru snapped her head back toward Kamui.
Bakura's Millennium Ring grew fainter now, but the glow was still there, and it didn't leave until after school.
***
"I'm telling you, that teacher isn't normal," Naoko grunted after school that day. She and her friends were standing outside the school, talking about the events of their first day.
Hikaru-tachi (which included Tetsuya Gotoh, Ryoku Saito, Ai Itsuko, Dajan Hada, Takehiko Midori, one older guy of about eighteen called Kokoroe Fujishima, and his ten-year-old sister Makimura) looked doubtful. "I'm not sure about that, Naoko," Hikaru said. "I mean, I know you're really good with things from the other realms and things, but... I really like Ms. Tsumura."
"You hardly know her," retorted Tetsuya.
Hikaru shrugged. "I just... trust her. I don't know why."
Kokoroe snorted. "Gimme a break, Daichi. You trust people too easily. One of these days you'll find yourself in a trap."
"Ro, niichan!" Makimura chided.
Hikaru smiled. "OK, Ro. I'll try my best to be more cautious. But... call me Hikaru, okay?"
"Daichi..."
"I give up."
Naoko shook her head. "Just be on your guard, guys. I sense something in her."
Dajan blinked. "A Millennium Item?"
"Perhaps. They all have a different aura around them that fits with the ki of the bearer. Among us we have four Millennium Item bearers - Hikaru, Ai, Dajan, and Takehiko. All of you feel different to me, and respond to different powers in different ways. You never know if a Millennium Item bearer is for good or bad. Look out for Ms. Tsumura. But, I'm not your mother or anything," Naoko added with a laugh, "you can do what you want."
Hikaru grinned. "Well, you've never been wrong before, Naoko-chan. We'll see how this plays out."
"Righto!" Ai laughed, punching the air.
***
Bakura waited until everyone else was out of the classroom, then he wandered up to Kamui's current classroom. It was the end of the day, and he knew he needed to talk to her - alone. He wasn't trying to be mysterious or anything - but boy, was he ever confused.
Kamui didn't even turn around when she heard the door open. "Ryou, come in."
Bakura didn't ask how she knew he was there. He stepped up to her desk.
"Kamui," he said. "You're back."
Kamui smiled. "Yes, jakutei. I'm back."
Angel: That's chapter two! Hope you liked it... as usual, r/r! It keeps me going! Cliffhanger, huh? Well, serves you right! ::Giggles:: Kidding, kidding.
Jonouchi: Hey, what's with all the Yugi/Tea junk I keep hearing about? What about ME?
Yugi: Well, it's because...
Jonouchi: Why?
Yugi: I look so much cuter with Tea than you do!
Jonouchi: ::sweatdrops::
Angel: ::wicked grin:: Don't worry, Jonouchi... I've got an "evil" plan!
Tea: ::gasps:: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Angel: YES!!!
Mokuba: Yay! It's my turn today! Boy, I love doing this!
Seto: ::horrified expression::
Jonouchi: You're weird, Mokuba.
From the Desk of Mokuba Kaiba:
Aibyou - pet
Urusei - shut up
taku - sheesh
fuku - uniform
ojiisan - grandfather
konnichiwa - hello
Ogenki desu ka? - how are you?
daijobu - I am all right
Oi - hey
Douka shita no - what's wrong?
Hikaru - sparkle or glitter
sensei - teacher
-tachi - and company
niichan - older brother
ki - aura
jakutei - little brother
A piece of kewl info - Yugi means game, and Yami means dark (according to some people on line - I'll look it up to make sure), so Yami Yugi basically means "Dark Game." Pretty cool, huh?
CHARACTER OF THE DAY:
Today's Character of the Day is Yugi Muto, age 15. Yugi is a shy, cute little kid with a heart of gold, but this doesn't matter to the numerous bullies, rivals, and bad guys that pick on him for no good reason. He lives with his grandfather, Sugoroku Muto, who owns a game shop near Yugi's school, Domino High. The whereabouts of Yugi's parents are unknown. Some say that they are dead, others debate that only one has passed away and the other works outside of town to make more money. Whichever theory is correct, it is certain that Yugi gets on all right with his grandfather. At the beginning, Yugi had no friends except for a childhood playmate, Tea Gardner. His grandfather gave him the ancient Egyptian Millennium Puzzle, a token meant for Yugi on his grandfather's deathbed. His grandfather decided to give it to Yugi early, knowing that the magic in the Puzzle may help Yugi. Yugi then did the near-impossible - he solved the Millennium Puzzle! When he finally put the last piece of the Puzzle together, Yami entered his body and became his "dark side." Whenever Yugi called upon the power of the Puzzle, he would transform into a taller, cooler guy (not to mention seriously HOT), a cross between himself and Yami. With the power of the Puzzle, Yugi embarked on his own adventure to stop Pegasus J. Crawford from collecting all seven Millennium Items and to save his grandfather who had been imprisoned in a card by Pegasus's Millennium Eye. Yugi also made friends with Tristan Taylor, Bakura Ryou, and Joey Wheeler, who is Yugi's best friend.
In persona, Yugi has a big heart and never thinks about himself, always worrying more about his friends. But because of his lack of confidence and, not to mention, size, he is a target for many meanies lurking around, which includes the double-crossing Ushou, the eliminator Panik, the snobbish duelist Weevil, and even the sometimes-friendly sometimes-not champion duelist of the world, Seto Kaiba. Through determination and belief in the "heart of the cards," Yugi tackles each obstacle in his way with the help of his friends and the Millennium Puzzle in the name of love.