Yugi's second day
AN - OMG, Sia that is such a wicked idea! I am forever in your debt! Got any more ideas like that? Rox, thanks for all your reviews, you've given me some cool ideas too and you ALWAYS review! Thanks guys!
Yugi awoke much later the next day, full of excitement for the day ahead. He sang to himself as he got up and got dressed. He skipped around the room, grateful for everything around him, his envy for Yami that he had felt the previous day had totally disappeared.
"This beats manual labour!" He said as he threw himself on the bed in a fit of fun.
"I heard you singing, so I thought I could come in!" Seto said, leaning against the doorframe with a smile playing on his face.
"Morning Seto!" Yugi said. "Time for breakfast?"
Seto laughed at the bright-eyed boy. "Not yet little one. It is the start of a new week at the palace, which means that you have a couple of things to do before breakfast. But first, come with me!"
Yugi happily followed Seto down the corridor into a room that Yugi had not been shown the day before. It was furnished with white marble and pure white, soft cloths were stacked in one corner. In the middle of the room was. What seemed to Yugi to be, a huge hole in the floor. On closer inspection Yugi found it to be a large bowl, sunken into the floor.
"Hey, what's this for Seto?" Yugi asked as Seto clapped his hands. At once a door opened and a line of servants, standing in pairs, began to walk in. All these servants were male and each carried a jug of water. The first pair poured their water into the hole, and Yugi could tell that one jug contained cold water, the other boiling hot.
The servants filed in and out until they had completely filled the hole with water. Then they all left, apart from four who stood in each corner of the room.
"Seto, what is this?" Yugi asked. Seto looked at him for a moment, before waving the guards to leave. When they had gone he turned to Yugi.
"Do you really not know what this is?" He asked.
"Is it where we wash our clothes?" Yugi asked.
"It is where we wash ourselves Yugi. It is called a bath."
"Seriously?" Yugi asked, walking up to the bath and looking down at it nervously. "So this is a bath. Well I'm glad I have finally seen one, now I can tell Joey what a bath looks like."
"You can do more than that Yugi." Seto grinned, removing Yugi's cloak. "You can tell him what it feels like!" (Damn, this is getting slightly perverted!)
"You.you want me to get in there?" Yugi stammered, his eyes wide. "But I will drown!"
"It isn't deep enough for that Yugi. And I will stay here to make sure that you don't drown." (OK, we are slipping into the realms of yaoi here; does anyone want that by the way?)
"Seto.can't I just use a wash basin like I do at home?" Yugi pleaded.
"No Yugi. The servants will get suspicious if you do. Yami normally spends half an hour in the bath."
Yugi gulped but nodded. Seto obligingly turned around whilst Yugi shed his clothing and slipped into the warm water. The servants had also added a type of bubble bath to the water, which Yugi was slightly wary of. As soon as Yugi felt the water wash over him, his fears were washed away too. The strange sensation of bubbles and water on his bare skin made him giggle.
Sensing that Yugi was now in the water, Seto turned around. "Now what was so bad about that?" Seto asked.
"It tickles!" Yugi said, blowing the bubbles around. Seto laughed and picked up the clothes strewn over the floor.
"I'll get you some different clothes Yugi. You have special clothes for what you do today." He said as he left.
Yugi contented himself blowing bubbles for a while. He slipped under the water and let his hair get wet. When he had had enough, he hauled himself out and picked up some soft cloth. He wrapped this around his waist and used another to dry his hair.
There was a knock at the door and Seto poked his head round it. "Ah, good, you are out." He said, walking over to Yugi and holding out some fresh clothes. He was surprised at how physically fit Yugi looked. He had a well-defined six-pack and his arms and chest were toned and muscular. Yugi was thin, no doubt about that, but he was also obviously fit and healthy and quite good looking with his shirt off. (OK, wide open for yaoi here!)
Seto left the room whilst Yugi changed. When he was done Seto accompanied Yugi down to breakfast. The others had already eaten so Yugi dined alone as Seto was not permitted to dine with the Prince informally.
When Yugi had finished eating he joined Seto in the corridor. "So what am I doing now?" He asked as Seto led him up some stairs into one of the highest towers of the palace. Finally Seto opened a door and shepherded Yugi inside.
"Ah, Prince Yami. Come in and sit down!" Said a wizened old man who sat at one end of the room at a desk. The desk was covered in paperwork and complicated charts.
"School." Seto said, as Yugi looked at him in confusion. "I'll be just outside if you need me!"
"Sit down, sit down." The man said as Seto left the room. Yugi sat down nervously at the desk in the centre of the room. "Now, let us start with some reading." The man said, placing a scroll in front of Yugi. "From paragraph three, section seven beginning 'The mighty Pharaoh shall one day.' Read it as though you are addressing your subjects!" The man sat at his table and rested his chin on his long fingers.
Yugi gulped as he stared down at the page in front of him. The hieroglyphics seemed to swim around on the page as he tried to focus. His eyes darted all over the page. The words made no sense to him.
"Well, carry on." The teacher said.
Yugi gulped again. "I can't." He said finally.
"And why ever not?" The man said. "You can't or you won't? We have been through this before Yami, you must learn as your forefathers before you did."
"Um, I just need to talk to Seto quickly." Yugi said, getting up. "I forgot to tell him something important." He pulled the heavy door open and left the room before the old man could stop him. Yugi raced down the long corridor, not quite knowing where he was going.
"Yugi?" Seto materialised out of the shadows. "Where are you going, you should be in class?"
"I can't!" Yugi said, and he was amazed to find tears in his eyes. "I can't go in there?"
"You have to Yugi!" Seto urged. "Or Mr Kailua, your teacher, will get suspicious. You have to live Yami's life, remember?"
"But I can't!" Yugi wailed. "I can't go in there because I can't read!" He admitted, turning away from Seto so that he wouldn't see him crying. But Seto knew that he was.
"You.you can't read?" Seto stammered, taken aback. "But, how.why?"
"I never went to school!" Yugi said. "I had to do manual work because my grandfather, he can't work and there is no one else to look after him!" Yugi sobbed. "None of my friends ever went to school. We all began work as soon as we could. Besides we can't afford to pay for the schooling!"
"Yugi.I had no idea." Seto said awkwardly. "Look, go back to your room. I'll tell Mr Kailua that you are not feeling well."
Yugi nodded and left, dragging his feet. Seto watched him go before turning up the corridor towards the classroom. He had had no idea how hard Yugi's life was, and he knew that he still didn't know all the details about it.
Yugi cleaned his face in his room, before sitting dejectedly on the bed. After a few minutes Seto came in, holding some leather bound books, a quill for writing and some ink.
"That stuff means nothing to me." Yugi said sullenly.
"But it will when I am through with you!" Seto said, placing the books on Yugi's bed and sitting next to him. "Starting from today I will give you basic reading and writing lessons. No excuses, no complaints. We will work here until lunchtime. Now, this book is called 'The History of the Pharaohs."
They sat side by side for hours, Seto teaching Yugi patiently and Yugi learning eagerly. Even after lunch they returned to their work. By the end of the day, Yugi was already able to read short, simple passages unaided. And with help he was able to read longer ones.
When Seto left to go to bed, Yugi lay awake for ages, practising his reading by candlelight. He drifted to sleep long after midnight, draped over his book.
AN - Whoa, OK if anyone wants Yugi/Seto then review and let me know, cos I'm wide open for something to happen between them now! And what else can happen to Yami. He was mean to Serenity before, so what is Joey going to do? I'm really running out of ideas now so please tell me what everyone wants. More Romance? More angst? More humour? Please let me know.
AN - OMG, Sia that is such a wicked idea! I am forever in your debt! Got any more ideas like that? Rox, thanks for all your reviews, you've given me some cool ideas too and you ALWAYS review! Thanks guys!
Yugi awoke much later the next day, full of excitement for the day ahead. He sang to himself as he got up and got dressed. He skipped around the room, grateful for everything around him, his envy for Yami that he had felt the previous day had totally disappeared.
"This beats manual labour!" He said as he threw himself on the bed in a fit of fun.
"I heard you singing, so I thought I could come in!" Seto said, leaning against the doorframe with a smile playing on his face.
"Morning Seto!" Yugi said. "Time for breakfast?"
Seto laughed at the bright-eyed boy. "Not yet little one. It is the start of a new week at the palace, which means that you have a couple of things to do before breakfast. But first, come with me!"
Yugi happily followed Seto down the corridor into a room that Yugi had not been shown the day before. It was furnished with white marble and pure white, soft cloths were stacked in one corner. In the middle of the room was. What seemed to Yugi to be, a huge hole in the floor. On closer inspection Yugi found it to be a large bowl, sunken into the floor.
"Hey, what's this for Seto?" Yugi asked as Seto clapped his hands. At once a door opened and a line of servants, standing in pairs, began to walk in. All these servants were male and each carried a jug of water. The first pair poured their water into the hole, and Yugi could tell that one jug contained cold water, the other boiling hot.
The servants filed in and out until they had completely filled the hole with water. Then they all left, apart from four who stood in each corner of the room.
"Seto, what is this?" Yugi asked. Seto looked at him for a moment, before waving the guards to leave. When they had gone he turned to Yugi.
"Do you really not know what this is?" He asked.
"Is it where we wash our clothes?" Yugi asked.
"It is where we wash ourselves Yugi. It is called a bath."
"Seriously?" Yugi asked, walking up to the bath and looking down at it nervously. "So this is a bath. Well I'm glad I have finally seen one, now I can tell Joey what a bath looks like."
"You can do more than that Yugi." Seto grinned, removing Yugi's cloak. "You can tell him what it feels like!" (Damn, this is getting slightly perverted!)
"You.you want me to get in there?" Yugi stammered, his eyes wide. "But I will drown!"
"It isn't deep enough for that Yugi. And I will stay here to make sure that you don't drown." (OK, we are slipping into the realms of yaoi here; does anyone want that by the way?)
"Seto.can't I just use a wash basin like I do at home?" Yugi pleaded.
"No Yugi. The servants will get suspicious if you do. Yami normally spends half an hour in the bath."
Yugi gulped but nodded. Seto obligingly turned around whilst Yugi shed his clothing and slipped into the warm water. The servants had also added a type of bubble bath to the water, which Yugi was slightly wary of. As soon as Yugi felt the water wash over him, his fears were washed away too. The strange sensation of bubbles and water on his bare skin made him giggle.
Sensing that Yugi was now in the water, Seto turned around. "Now what was so bad about that?" Seto asked.
"It tickles!" Yugi said, blowing the bubbles around. Seto laughed and picked up the clothes strewn over the floor.
"I'll get you some different clothes Yugi. You have special clothes for what you do today." He said as he left.
Yugi contented himself blowing bubbles for a while. He slipped under the water and let his hair get wet. When he had had enough, he hauled himself out and picked up some soft cloth. He wrapped this around his waist and used another to dry his hair.
There was a knock at the door and Seto poked his head round it. "Ah, good, you are out." He said, walking over to Yugi and holding out some fresh clothes. He was surprised at how physically fit Yugi looked. He had a well-defined six-pack and his arms and chest were toned and muscular. Yugi was thin, no doubt about that, but he was also obviously fit and healthy and quite good looking with his shirt off. (OK, wide open for yaoi here!)
Seto left the room whilst Yugi changed. When he was done Seto accompanied Yugi down to breakfast. The others had already eaten so Yugi dined alone as Seto was not permitted to dine with the Prince informally.
When Yugi had finished eating he joined Seto in the corridor. "So what am I doing now?" He asked as Seto led him up some stairs into one of the highest towers of the palace. Finally Seto opened a door and shepherded Yugi inside.
"Ah, Prince Yami. Come in and sit down!" Said a wizened old man who sat at one end of the room at a desk. The desk was covered in paperwork and complicated charts.
"School." Seto said, as Yugi looked at him in confusion. "I'll be just outside if you need me!"
"Sit down, sit down." The man said as Seto left the room. Yugi sat down nervously at the desk in the centre of the room. "Now, let us start with some reading." The man said, placing a scroll in front of Yugi. "From paragraph three, section seven beginning 'The mighty Pharaoh shall one day.' Read it as though you are addressing your subjects!" The man sat at his table and rested his chin on his long fingers.
Yugi gulped as he stared down at the page in front of him. The hieroglyphics seemed to swim around on the page as he tried to focus. His eyes darted all over the page. The words made no sense to him.
"Well, carry on." The teacher said.
Yugi gulped again. "I can't." He said finally.
"And why ever not?" The man said. "You can't or you won't? We have been through this before Yami, you must learn as your forefathers before you did."
"Um, I just need to talk to Seto quickly." Yugi said, getting up. "I forgot to tell him something important." He pulled the heavy door open and left the room before the old man could stop him. Yugi raced down the long corridor, not quite knowing where he was going.
"Yugi?" Seto materialised out of the shadows. "Where are you going, you should be in class?"
"I can't!" Yugi said, and he was amazed to find tears in his eyes. "I can't go in there?"
"You have to Yugi!" Seto urged. "Or Mr Kailua, your teacher, will get suspicious. You have to live Yami's life, remember?"
"But I can't!" Yugi wailed. "I can't go in there because I can't read!" He admitted, turning away from Seto so that he wouldn't see him crying. But Seto knew that he was.
"You.you can't read?" Seto stammered, taken aback. "But, how.why?"
"I never went to school!" Yugi said. "I had to do manual work because my grandfather, he can't work and there is no one else to look after him!" Yugi sobbed. "None of my friends ever went to school. We all began work as soon as we could. Besides we can't afford to pay for the schooling!"
"Yugi.I had no idea." Seto said awkwardly. "Look, go back to your room. I'll tell Mr Kailua that you are not feeling well."
Yugi nodded and left, dragging his feet. Seto watched him go before turning up the corridor towards the classroom. He had had no idea how hard Yugi's life was, and he knew that he still didn't know all the details about it.
Yugi cleaned his face in his room, before sitting dejectedly on the bed. After a few minutes Seto came in, holding some leather bound books, a quill for writing and some ink.
"That stuff means nothing to me." Yugi said sullenly.
"But it will when I am through with you!" Seto said, placing the books on Yugi's bed and sitting next to him. "Starting from today I will give you basic reading and writing lessons. No excuses, no complaints. We will work here until lunchtime. Now, this book is called 'The History of the Pharaohs."
They sat side by side for hours, Seto teaching Yugi patiently and Yugi learning eagerly. Even after lunch they returned to their work. By the end of the day, Yugi was already able to read short, simple passages unaided. And with help he was able to read longer ones.
When Seto left to go to bed, Yugi lay awake for ages, practising his reading by candlelight. He drifted to sleep long after midnight, draped over his book.
AN - Whoa, OK if anyone wants Yugi/Seto then review and let me know, cos I'm wide open for something to happen between them now! And what else can happen to Yami. He was mean to Serenity before, so what is Joey going to do? I'm really running out of ideas now so please tell me what everyone wants. More Romance? More angst? More humour? Please let me know.
