a/n: Arigato gozaimasu for the review. ^^ Tomomi is very happy that you enjoy this and well, I wish that Kate was here to enjoy this too. Ah, we have some technical problems so this chapter is not beta'ed. When I receive the beta'ed version I'll post it up, but for now you'll just have to read this. It probably stinks. ^^;;

DISCLAIMER: this is what I forgot to put last time. Yu-gi-oh is not mine. Miza is not mine; she belongs to digitally obsessed (Kate).

  Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.

And sweetest in the gale is heard
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea
Yet, never, in Extremity
It asked a crumb of me.
~Emily Dickinson

Chapter II:

Seto woke up to the sounds of birds chirping and a comfortable bundle of love in his strong arms. There was a knocking on the bedroom door that was far too loud for his liking. He was not a morning person by any means…

"Seto? Yugi? Time to wake up and get dressed," Ryou called. Yugi moaned and stirred a bit.

Seto gave him a little nudge. "Wake up, angel."

Yugi opened his eyes, blinked, and yawned cutely. "N'kay." Seto melted at how sweet he looked.

"We have to get dressed," Seto began as a thought hit him. "Oh, shi-" a glare from Yugi, though it looked terribly adorable, silenced him, "I mean, darn it! We slept on the bed without moving the uniforms. They're probably under the covers somewhere, all wrinkled!"

Yugi giggled, a challenge, as he dived under the covers in search of their missing uniforms. "Found them!" came his muffled voice. He resurfaced looking somewhat ruffled with two pair of rumpled uniforms, handing the larger of the two to Seto.

The Demon studied it with a look of distastes. "How… quaint," he muttered, putting it nicely.

Yugi sighed. "Don't be like that." He put on his mischievous smile. "We could always decorate it with our 'accessories'." That saying: chains, belts, buckles, spikes, collars and a variety of other items Seto had brought along.

"You have such great fashion sense. Just whom do you get it from?" Seto commented slyly, a glitter in his steel blue eyes.

"You, who else?" Yugi grinned, his big eyes shinning. Seto grinned and tackled him with kisses. Yugi laughed loudly, loving the attention as much as the kisses.

There was a loud, exasperated knocking. "Aren't you done yet?"

* * *

"Aw, man! How shitty was that?" Jounouchi grumbled as he plopped down in his seat. "We only had a one day break for the holidays!"

"Give it up Jou. Whining is not going to help," Honda sighed and sat in his seat. Despite what he had said, he had just as much contempt. Jounouchi stuck his tongue out at him and Honda laughed.

"Honda! Jounouchi! Do I have to give you two detention?" the teacher glared at them.

"No ma'am!" they both squeaked simultaneously. Yami smirked and Anzu choked back her laughter. Those two idiots.

The teacher turned her glare on Yami and Anzu. "Do you two have something to say?" Yami's face became neutral and he shook his head. Anzu flushed and mirrored his action. "Good." the teacher sighed. They so didn't pay her enough for this job and the students were getting too much for her to handle.

"Oh," she remembered suddenly, "we have three new students," her voice was tired. "I expect you all to treat them civilly. You three may come in now."

Ryou, Seto, and Yugi stepped into the room instantly.

Ryou smiled. "My name is Bakura Ryou and these are my friends Kaiba Seto," he pointed at Seto, "and Mouto Yugi," he pointed at Yugi.

Yugi offered a shy smile while Seto just glared at anyone who dared to look at Yugi for too long. 'Annoying mortals,' he thought.

The class was surprisingly silent, although they did stare. If looks could kill, most the girls and some of the boys would have been reduced to ashes from Seto's glare.

Yami studied the three people at the front with interest. They were all beautiful, but the one he found most captivating was Yugi. Yugi was extremely cute and could pass for his twin (or little brother) with the right clothes and a little adjusting. Yugi was definitely the most beautiful creature he had ever seen though that may be a little narcissistic of him.

He focused on Yugi. He had the most stunning eyes, almost un-human. He lost himself in Yugi's eyes for what seemed like an eternity and beyond. Somewhere in the middle of that time Yugi locked eyes with him and he felt his knees grow week. It was a good thing he was sitting or he would have collapsed.

Yugi seemed to be studying him intently. He soon-Yami felt a pang of loss- turned his gaze away to Seto. Yugi tugged at Seto shirt- Yami thought this was endearing- and Seto bent down so he was face to face with Yugi. Yugi leaned in a whispered something to Seto. Seto's eyes darted to Yami and his eyes widened.

Seto glared at Yami. He looked too much like his little love for his own good. 

In an instant, Yami knew that Yugi and Seto were lovers. The taller teen had the most possessive look in his eyes Yami had ever seen. He could see why too; Yugi was very desirable.

The corners of Yami's mouth twitch into the faintest of smiles. He found it amusing that Seto was so aware of the people gazing at Yugi, yet he was oblivious to the fact that the other set of people were swooning over himself. 'Interesting couple.'

Yugi sighed when he saw Seto glare at Yami. "Seto, stop it." whispered Yugi, pleading.

Seto look at Yugi, his gaze softening.

Ryou coughed. "It would be best if you guys would act more… um… humanly. Try to blend in." he whispered.  

Yugi gaze him a questioning look while Seto gave him one of agitation.

Ryou sighed. This was harder then expected. 'What happened to this being a piece of cake? ...So much for the intelligent part.' "I'll explain later." he turned to the worn out teacher. "Um… Sensei (teacher), where are our seats?"

"Oh… um, just…" The teacher rubbed her temples as she spoke. "…pick any seat you want," she finished.

Ryou gave the teacher a pitying look. 'Poor woman.'

Seto ignored the teacher. He didn't care if the lady was 'supposedly' the head of the class, he was a full-pledge Demon and he did whatever he what whenever he wanted; right now he wanted to get his precious Yugi away from Yami. He took Yugi's hand and led him to two desks near the corner. The ones one the opposite side of the room from Yami. 'The farther I get Yugi from him, the better.' he thought grumpily.

Ryou had no choice but to follow the two. It was too dangerous to leave the two alone when they knew nothing of the Earthling's ways. 

Yami tried to suppress a growl and barley succeeded. He wanted to see Yugi, wanted him next to himself. "Possessive bastard." muttered Yami under his breath.

Seto being a Demon, of course, heard this and sent a scowl Yami's way. He called upon his deep Demonic powers and was just about to conjure up a Fireball when Ryou placed a hand on his shoulder. 

"Please act normal, Seto." he begged.

"I am acting normal!" he growled, trying his best not to brush Ryou's hand away.

"Seto, please." Yugi turned his pleading eyes on him. It worked like a charm. Seto instantly cooled down and sat down. Yugi and Ryou traded looks of relief.

Yugi looked over at Yami worriedly. He was still very nervous and a little scared of being among the mortals. The consequence of failing wasn't his cup of tea either. Having Seto blast Yami away would give Yugi a lot of trouble he didn't need right now.

Yugi studied the students. Next to Yami was a pretty brown hair girl. She was gazing at Yami with look of longing in her eyes. Yugi guessed right away that this was Anzu. Seto would have called her a pitiful brat. 

In front of Anzu was a tall boy with the weirdest haircut Yugi had ever seen. He looked tough, but gentle. Beside him was a gorgeous blonde. He looked very foreign with his blonde hair that Yugi guessed was natural. His hair reminded Yugi of a vivacious blonde hair Demon he knew back home.  

The other students in Yugi's class were plain enough.

Suddenly Yugi caught sight of something. Yami was looking straight at him. Not a normal look either. There was a look of something like hunger in his blood red eyes. The look was so intense, but Yugi couldn't look away. He flushed deeply under Yami gaze. His heartbeat quickened; he was sure the whole class could have heard it.

No. He couldn't. He had to stop this, he was Seto's.

He quickly pulled his gaze away from Yami's and studied the blackboard intently. He could feel Yami's eyes burn through his skin as he kept his eyes straight ahead.

Nothing unusual happened for the rest of the class period.

Oh, there was the occasional contented sigh from one of the girls or boys infatuated with the three Immortals. Not to mention, the murderous glare Seto cast at everything and anything with no exceptions to the teacher. She had merely asked Yugi to answer her question, when Seto gave her a piercing glare. The next thing she knew the lights were flickering on and off, doing a great mimic of a show of thunder. The girls, of course, screamed. Some the boys joined in when the flickering didn't seem to want to stop. The under-paid teacher tried to calm them down to no avail.   

Yugi half-glared (Haha, He can't do a full glare so he settled for a half one. XD) suspiciously at Seto who looked oddly satisfied. Ryou just sat there gaping at Seto. 'I'm gonna die of stress before all this is over, I know it. Oh, Lord, when did I become so cursed?' he thought.

See? Nothing strange happened at all.

Right.

* * *

It was lunch time and Ryou had packed them lunch. Seto looked disdainfully at his lunch. "What in Satan's name is this crap? I'm not eating any of this lowly human junk!"

Ryou frowned at Seto, obviously offended. "It's what regular humans eat." He stated curtly.

Yugi studied his lunch. It didn't look too bad and it had a sweet scent to it. Angels and Demons didn't need to eat. That was the reason why they stayed slim. You've never seen a fat Angel prancing around, have you? Point proven. Yugi looked up and saw Seto watching him as if asking him his opinion. Yugi grinned and shrugged. He spooned up some food and ate it. He chewed carefully, being new to this whole process, and swallowed.

"Well?" Seto asked expectantly.

"It's…. it's…." Yugi looked helplessly at Ryou.

Ryou figure that Yugi didn't know the names of the different tastes and didn't know how to place them, and was about to speak when Seto- unfortunately, he took Yugi expression the wrong way- tackled him. "Tame (You bastard)! I knew I couldn't trust you! What did you do to Yugi?!"

"Seto, no!" came the horrified voice of Yugi. "Ryou didn't do anything!"

Seto roughly pushed Ryou away from him and turned to Yugi. He knelt down and placed both hands on this shoulder. "Are you sure you're okay?" he asked tenderly.

Yugi nodded vigorously, which was- for the thousand time- adorable. "Yes, but I think you owe Ryou an apology." he gave Seto a small frown, nodding toward Ryou.

Seto did the closest thing he could to a pout, he sulked. He hated being wrong and he HATED apologizing to anyone other than Yugi. But Yugi was looking at him with his big purple eyes. He sighed. 'What Yugi wants Yugi gets.' he thought.

Seto stood and turned toward Ryou, who still looked a little shaken. He took a deep breath and said stiffly, "I was mistaken." There. He had apologized.

Ryou waited. He was obviously expecting more.     

Seto merely gave him an agitated look and turned to tend to Yugi once again.

Yugi gave Ryou a small smile of apology and Ryou smiled in return. 'At least Yugi is being civil.'     

Yami watched Yugi's group with interest. He wasn't the only one though; his whole group did. The sun was bearing down on them, but they didn't seem to notice.  Yami watched them because he couldn't take his eyes off Yugi. Anzu watched them because she had seen the way Yami looked at Yugi. Jounouchi watched because he was interested in a certain albino cutie.  Honda watched them because the rest of the group was doing it and because he found them oddly amusing.

Jounouchi was the first to speak. "Hey guys, why don't we introduce ourselves to them?" he said as he turned his eyes from Ryou.   

Honda shrugged. "Why not? They seemed nice, enough. Well, except for that one tall dude. He's a real demon." He didn't know how truthful his words were.

Anzu nodded in agreement. "I know what you mean." She turned to Yami. "Let's go introduce ourselves to them."

Yami nodded his gaze still on Yugi. Anzu stole a glance at Yugi. Part of the reason why she wanted to introduce herself to them was that she wanted to get to know the boy who was making Yami act so weird.

The four got up and made their way to Yugi and the others; Yami was in front with Anzu behind him and Honda and Jounouchi behind her. When they got to Yugi, Seto, and Ryou they stopped.

Seto, who could have heard them from miles away, looked up at them expectantly from his seat next to Yugi. He knew they were going to introduce themselves. Ryou noticed Yami and the others too. He smiles kindly at them. "Yes?"

Jounouchi smiled crookedly. "Hey, I'm Jounouchi and this here is Yami, Anzu, and Honda." he pointed to each of them in turn. Anzu and Honda offered broad smiles while Yami remained neutral.

Seto gave them a nod of acknowledgement. "Kaiba."

Yugi gave them an apologetic look. "Sorry about Seto," he said nodding in his direction. "He's been in a bad mood since…" he trailed off, resting his eyes on Yami for a bit before concentrating on the others. "I'm Yugi, by the way."

Ryou gave the four a big smile. "Hello! I'm Ryou."

They had lunch together talking about this and that. Anzu sat next to Yami who sat near Yugi who sat next to Seto. Ryou and Jounouchi sat at the side with Honda. They basically got along. Basically.

"So Yugi, are you and Se-" Seto glared at Anzu "I mean Kaiba from the same city?" Anzu asked, smiling politely. "You seem to be very good friends."

"We're MORE than friends, girl." Seto growled.

"Seto…" Yugi frowned at him.

"Oh, um it's okay." Anzu said hastily. "No biggie."

"So are you two from the same city?" this time it was Yami who asked.

Seto refused to answer him, so Yugi did it. "Yes."

"Oh, and what city?" Honda asked.

Seto was getting impatient. "None of your damn business!" he snapped. This time, both Yugi and Ryou gave him disapproving frowns.

Jounouchi leaned over to Ryou. "He's sure in a bad mood. Is he always like that?" he whispered.

Before Ryou could answer him, Seto sneered, "So what if I'm in a bad mood, mutt? What about it?"

Jounouchi leaped up from his seat. "What did you call me?" he asked his voice dangerously low.

'Stupid human.' thought Seto. "You heard me, puppy."

Yugi sighed giving up. Seto was in one of his fits again. 'Maybe it's a Demon thing.' Yugi thought. He glanced over at Ryou helplessly and he shrugged in return.

"Why you little-"

"Jounouchi!"

Jounouchi whirled around to find his tired-now stern- looking teacher.

"S-sensei!" he squeaked in a terrified voice.

"Jounouchi, I expected better from you! Well, not really, but…" she cleared her throat. "As punishment, you get to write me a 20 page report on good manners. Due next Tuesday. Now everyone else, get back to class!"

As stated before, they basically got along. Basically. Seto didn't kill anyone yet, did he? See? They basically got along.

To be continued…

Ir0n M0usy: Thanks! And I hate Anzu too. Totally annoying if you ask me. ^^;; Well, I won't split Yugi and seto up. They're too kawaii. ^^

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Tanya: Thanks! Ne ne, isn't Yugi-chan kawaii? And Yugi would never leave Seto-kun! They're just too adorable together!!!

  Molly-chan the Anime/game fan: ^^;; Anou, what's wrong with Miza's name? And Yami: are you jealous??? *snickers* Sorry but your Aibou's all grown up now. Just kidding! I like him cute! ^^ And about 'IT', well that might come up soon.

 RyuArashi: I know what you mean! I have mixed feeling about the coupling too. But the pairings are already decided 'neeways.

KaTyA: Thanks and I agree! Yugi-chan is soooo kawaii, no?

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Kiraya: Thanks! I agree! So was this soon enough for you??

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LilPurplFlwr: Thank you so much! And thanks for the wishes! Yup, I love Y/S too! I also love Y/Y, but most of all I love Y/Y/S! Ah, if only it was meant to be…

Queen of Eternal Darkness: Thanks and is this soon enough???

AnimeFan: No need to be embarrassed since almost everyone asked the exact question. ^^;; Well, to tall you the truth, no Yugi and Seto will not split. I won't allow it. ^__^ They're just made for each other.

Impotant: The next chapter will have some LIGHT LEMON since it's my first time writing it! Please tell me if you want it or not! If not, I will edit it out!

Ja minna-san! ^^