AN: Okay so we meet Yugi, Tristan and Joey in this chapter. WARNING: Joey is going to have a VERY heavy New Yorker accent. I'm writing it out, though I know it won't be very good and spell check will hate me forever after this. Anyway, try to read it even though I'm pretty much fudging it. (like my German homework!)

Helpful hints: Th usually becomes a d. ' usually implies a single missing letter, though sometimes it could be two or a whole sound. (I've tried to keep it down to a single letter though.)

Chapter 5: Cannot Hide

Most people fought tooth and nail against moving to a new high school just before senior year, but Seto had loved the idea. He hadn't had any friends in LA and everyone there knew exactly who he was. In New York City, you could just get lost in the sea of people.

Seto let his tired eyes travel up the large exterior of his new high school. It definitely larger and grander than his last one, but he couldn't say he cared. He was too tired to give much of a damn about anything short of death. Walking into the building, Seto want to the office and signed a few last minute transfer papers before going to his homeroom. Smiling slightly to himself, Seto pulled out the schedule the school had sent him in the beginning of August.

"Homeroom is room 234 with Ms. White." Seto read quietly to himself as he navigated the halls. "First period is Level 5 Japanese with Mr. Bair. Good, at least I get to start with an easy class. Um, second period is AP Euro with Ms. Young. Then standard twelfth grade English with Mr. Benzinger. Level three Spanish with Ms. Lane, which is followed by Physics with Ms. Wharton. Advanced computer science with Mr. Gibbs and the day ends with Calculus. What a horrible day."

Looking up to check the room numbers, Seto found himself inches from another body and unable to stop.

"WOAH!" The other boy yelled as they crashed into each other and fell to the floor. The blonde rubbed his back and groaned. "'Ey! Watch where you're goin'!"

"Why don't you?!" Seto snapped, angrily. Picking himself up from the ground, he rubbed his head tiredly and mentally promised himself a long, pleasant, nap upon his return home.

"'ey, bastard! Why dontcha apologize?" The boy asked with his heavy New Yorker accent.

"Why should I?" Seto asked without turning around. He finally made it to homeroom where he found his seat, folded his arms on the desk and lay his head down to take a nap.

"Can ya believe it? 'E treated me like dirt!" A boy complained, walking into the classroom. Seto groaned and buried his face in his arms.

"It was probably just as much your fault as his, Joey." Another boy laughed.

"'E's still a bastard dough."

"Did you say sorry?" A girl asked. Seto tried to go to sleep but the voices were coming closer and getting louder.

"'ll, no, not really."

"Nice set of double standards you got there."

"Shuddup Tristan."

"Will you all please......." Seto growled, sitting up to face the three boys and the girl. The blonde boy turns to look at him and Seto recognized him as the boy from the hall. "Never mind."

"'Ey guys. Lookie 'ere! It's my friend 'rom de 'allway."

"He must be new." The tall brunette grinned.

"Yea." The shorter blonde agreed. "I've never seen him around here before. Hey! My name's Yugi Motou."

"I'm Tea Gardner!" The girl smiled. Seto stared at her.

'Tea?! Oh shit! It's her! And after all those lies you told her at the club. Oh, she'll love that.'

"Go away." Seto growled, his eyes narrowing defensively. "I don't want to talk to any of you."

"Common man!" The blond insisted. "Dat's no way to treat my friends. Now, look 'ere. My name's Joey, and diss 'ere's Tristan. Now we say ''ey!' and you say......."

"Fuck off." Seto growled, before dropping his head back down onto the table.

"Uh, I've got to go to homeroom now." Tea excused herself quickly.

"Common, Joey. He isn't worth killing." Tristan sighed as he dragged his friend out of the room.

"You should really try and be nicer to people." The short kid muttered, sitting down in front of Seto.

"What are you doing?"

"Sitting down."

"I can see that. Why are you sitting there?"

"Cause you're new. I bet you don't have any friends in town yet."

"So?"

"So, I'll be your friend. Joey's a nice guy once you get to know him."

"I don't want to 'get to know him'. I don't want to get to know any of you." Seto growled. "And for your information, I already have as many 'friends' as I need."

"If that's how you feel." Yugi shrugged before turning around and filling out the student attendance forms that Seto was busy ignoring.

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Walking out of first period, Seto made his way to his history class on the first floor. Walking in, he groaned when he saw that seats were already assigned and he was sitting next to a T. Gardner.

"Hurry up and find your seats." A teacher, presumably Ms. Young, shouted. Seto found his seat and put his backpack down next to his seat. "On your desks you will find the syllabus and other random papers you will need for this class. Read through them if you'd like or you could just wait till we get to them and we'll go through them together. All right then. We'll just go through the role before starting our first lesson. Is everyone here?"

"I'm not." A kid in the back of the class shouted, causing some of the other students to giggle.

"Yes. Yes, Mr. Garrett. I do recognize you from previous classes. In fact the only one of you I don't remember is....... Mr. Kaiba."

"I just moved here." Seto shrugged.

"Oh really? From where?"

"LA."

"Well, I'm glad you're here with us." Ms. Young smiled before returning to her lesson. Seto pulled out a piece of paper and, in a futile effort to remain awake, began listing reasons that the color blue was better than the color gray.

"Hey. New boy!" The kid behind Seto whispered, after poking him in the back with a pencil. "You're really from LA?"

"Of course I am, you idiot." Seto hissed.

"Will you two shut up?" Tea asked.

"Why don't you?" Seto asked.

"At least I'm tr-" Tea began, before a shadow fell across her desk.

"Ms. Gardner? Is there something you'd like to tell us?" Ms. Young asked.

"No."

"Then perhaps you can answer my question. In what year did William the Conquer conquer England?"

"I don't know."

"You should listen in class, as I just told you the correct answer. Please leave my class until tomorrow as you obviously don't feel the need to be here. Yes, Mr. Kaiba?"

"The answer is 1066, and you shouldn't send Gardner out since she was telling me to shut up."

"Really? Then perhaps you would like to leave?"

"As you said, I obviously don't need to be here, since I can afford to talk." Seto shrugged before grabbing his backpack and leaving the class.

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After plodding through the rest of his classes, Seto finally walked into his calculus class.

"Hey, Kaiba." Tea called as she walked in the door. "I'm glad we have another class together."

"What do you want?"

"Oh, uh, you forgot your papers in Euro and you missed the homework that's due tomorrow." Tea whispered before handing him the bunch of papers. "And I wanted to thank you for bailing me out in Euro. Not everyone would have done that for a stranger."

'But you're not a stranger to me.' Seto thought before shrugging and looking the other way.
AN: Chapter title by A-Ha.