By Shadows and Lights
by: jade_tiger
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh; I am just borrowing certain characters
for my fic. Also, as I've addressed before, I am not making money off of
this fic. Also I would like to thank those who suggested last names for
Yami and Bakura, and I am sorry that I can only use two 'cause I had a hard
time choosing, I'm very bad at making decisions. ^_^*
Warning: This fic contains slash which means, yes, the pairings, well the important ones, are male/male. So if this kind of thing is not your cup o' Joe, do not read. Otherwise ENJOY!!! Oh and some characters will act totally OOC at some points so please bear with me, they act that way for the sake of the fic.
A.N. Okay, let me explain the names, Ryou Bakura will be known as Ryou Hunter, and called Ryou. Yami Bakura will be referred to as Bakura. Yami Yugi will be called Yami. Okay? Everyone clear on that? Great now on with the fic!!
A few weeks have passed since the Shadows received their 'mission' from their mysterious host. Yugi, Seto, and Ryou are in school, well they will be ^_^*
Chapter Six: Doppelgangers or New Students?
The teacher walked into the classroom to be greeted by the numerous rumours circulating among the student. 'How is it that they manage to find out about these sort of things so quickly, but when it comes to projects and assignments, they're all like chickens that have just had their heads cut off.' she thought going to her desk and calling for silence. When the class had finally settled enough for her to be heard she looked around the room and noticed three seats were empty, 'Wonder where those three are? They better not be late again, or they'll have to get more detentions.' she thought before finally speaking. "Alright class, since news seem to travel at light speed around here, I'm sure all of you already know that we have some new students joining us." she looked around to see the faces of her student convey various emotions from excitement to boredom. "Class let me introduce you to the new addition to our little community. Gentlemen." at her statement the door opened with a slam, to reveal, not new faces, but the familiar, if slightly harried and red, faces of Yugi, Seto and Ryou. The three looked around the class and noticing the looks they were receiving walked in embarrassed silence to their seats. "Gentlemen," the teacher said with a small frown, "Detention after school." The class snickered as the three groaned.
"Way to go, Yugi." Seto whispered silently to his brother whose head was currently banging silently against his desk. "I wasn't my fault, Ryou didn't set his alarm clock." the short spike haired boy argued. "What? Why are you blaming me? I can't always be the one to wake you guys up you know, I have just as much right to sleep in as you two." Ryou argued back glaring at his friends, and housemates. "Well you always wake up first and drag the rest of us awake, can you blame us for relying on you to be our alarm clock?" asked Yugi, Seto no longer wanted to be part of the argument after catching some of the looks their classmates were throwing their way. It was common knowledge that the three lived together because they were all orphans and had inherited money from their parents and also happened to be best friends. Seto and Yugi received money from the Andersons after their deaths, and Ryou from his real parents. "Will you two stop it?" he whispered not wanting to attract the teacher's attention and add another afternoon of detention to the long list, "You guys can continue this during detention." "A good idea Mr. Kaiba, they can continue this in detention, and you can join them. And I have good news for the three of you," the teacher said suddenly, "You have the next three afternoons to continue your little debate." The class laughed as their classmates once again release pained groans. 'Damn!' the three thought together. "If you three are done I'd like to introduce our new students without further interferences." the teacher said with a glare at the trio. "Gentlemen, please come in."
'Finally.' the class thought in frustration. The door opened once again to reveal the silhouettes of the new students. Yugi, Seto and Ryou were the only ones out of the class not paying much attention to the new comers; they were too busy thinking about their week of afternoon detention for such trivial matters. "Come on in you three." said the teacher smiling at them. As the group stepped through the door a gasp was emitted by the students, catching the three detentionees' (1) attention, along with that was the sound of scraping chairs as some student turned to stare from two of the new arrivals to two of their usually tardy classmates. 'What?' Seto asked himself, looking around the class, but not at the new students, Ryou and Yugi were currently doing the same thing. Finally he focused his ice blue eyes to the new students, and like the rest emitted a small gasp of surprise. "What the hell?!" he unwisely said out loud gaining another glare form the teacher. Ryou and Yugi turned to their friend with raised eyebrows at his exclamation, it was rare for him to lose control of his tongue, and unfortunately the two had still not looked at the new students. "Mr. Kaiba I suggest you not talk for the rest of the class unless the rest of your afternoons this month is free." warned the teacher, snapping the class out of their thoughts. "Yes, ma'am." Seto said in a monotone.
"Now, as I've said numerous times already, let me introduce our new students. Joey Wheeler, Yami Taiyou (2), and Bakura Kageshi (3)." the teacher smiled at the new students and turned to the class, "Now I expect you all to welcome them, and to try and help them out with adjusting to this school. Got it?" The class nodded, some still stealing glances at their two classmates while looking at the new students. Seto sat, in silence, both because he did not want any more detentions and for the fact that two of the new students looked unerringly like his friends. He looked at Ryou and Yugi and noticed that the two had still not looked at the new students but were giving him strange looks. Wanting to explain, he began to gesture trying to make them look to the front of the class with, unfortunately, little success. The teacher began to speak once again and he looked back to the front. "Now, where shall the three of you sit?" she asked out loud, smiling as several girls offered seats next to themselves. "I know," she said, with a decidedly wicked smirk, "Yugi, Ryou, Seto as part of your detention, the three of you will be the guides for out new student. So naturally they can sit next to the three of you." several girls in the class sulked at her decision.
Yugi and Ryou still had not looked at the new students even though Seto had been trying to make them understand him with his gestures, and the teacher's orders only caused the two to groan once again and put their heads on their desks, Seto sighed deeply in exasperation at his friends' density. 'Maybe we should have just skipped school today. They probably didn't get enough sleep.' he thought sardonically. The class shared similar thoughts with him; they all wondered how two of the smartest students, but not the smartest that was Seto, in the class could be so clueless of their surroundings. "Gentlemen, please take your seats." said the teacher with a gesture to the three. When they were seated she began her lesson, leaving Yugi, and Ryou still in their own little world and still unaware of what everyone was so surprised about. Luckily for them it was only and hour and a half left before lunch.
Lunch came and the class rushed out to leave, with them was Seto, Ryou and Yugi, having forgotten about their charges during the teacher's 'stunning' rendition of Trench Warfare during WW1 (4). The three walked to their lockers and got what they needed and headed for the cafeteria, with Yugi and Ryou still arguing about whose fault it was they were late. "I feel like were forgetting something." said Ryou sitting down next to Seto and promptly stealing some baby carrots from the tall young man's lunch. "We have our notes for next period," said Yugi his small hands also making a beeline for his brother's lunch. "Don't even think about it." Seto threatened, he wouldn't be surprised at all if the two stole his whole lunch and ate their own, and still complain about being hungry. "Aw, come on Kai," Yugi whined giving his brother puppy dog eyes, "You let Ryou have some. Why not me?" "First off, I didn't let him have any, he punked them off of me." Seto said calmly, "Secondly, you have your own lunch, why do the two of you persist on eating mine everyday?" "'Cause you pack the best lunch." Ryou said with a grin before taking a bite out of his ham sandwich. At this the other two began their lunch, but not before Yugi stole some carrots from Seto, who just gave a small groan of exasperation.
Meanwhile in another part of the school three figures were standing in the hallway arguing. "Where the hell is the stinkin' caf?" fumed one loudly. "Will you shut up, Joey? We don't need to call attention to ourselves." said his companion. "Well, forgive me, Yami, unlike you I would rather spend my lunch time elsewhere other than in the friggin' hallways. 'Sides aren't we supposed to have guides or somethin'." the blonde shot back angrily. Their companion merely watched with amused eyes and a small smirk. "Why don't we just use the maps (5) that we were given?" he said suddenly, startling his friends from their argument. "What map?" Joey asked in confusion. "This map." Bakura said, his smile widening as he showed his companions a piece of paper. It was the map of the entire building, and right there clearly marked on it, in legible writing, was the word Cafeteria. "You," growled Yami, advancing on the still grinning, soon to be dead friend, "Are going to be so sorry." But before he could say anything else Bakura had already taken off in the direction of the cafeteria.
"Okay, next question," said Yugi, who was quizzing Ryou and Seto, "What was..." however, before he could finish one of their classmates walked up to their table. "Hey guys, where's the new students?" she asked smiling widely at Ryou, who tried his best to ignore her. "Who?" asked Yugi, confused. "What do you...Oh shit." Seto said paling, "We were supposed to guide those new student around, remember?" he informed the two, who also paled as the memories of the morning returned. "Great, just what we need more afternoons of detention." Ryou groaned, not remembering an afternoon in the last couple of weeks when they were actually let out with the other students at the end of the day. "Don't worry 'bout it. We wont tell." said a voice behind him startling the white haired young man, causing him to nearly fall out of the bench whose edge he was sitting on. Luckily someone caught him on time, and instead of falling on the hard floor he fell onto a warm body, with the owner's arms were holding him close. Although Ryou was usually calm and cool around others, this position caused him to turn crimson and to try standing quickly without success, as he kept on tripping on his own feet, which were tangled with the strangers, causing him to fall once again into the warm arms. "Sorry," he mumbled in embarrassment, as Seto finally helped him stand. "It's okay." said a slightly rough voice behind him. As he was about to turn to face the new students their classmate squealed in delight, causing them all to cringe.
"Oh my gosh, you guys look so much alike! I cannot believe it; this morning I thought that maybe it was just because I wasn't wearing my glasses but now. You guys could pass as twins. Oh my gosh!" she gushed in high-pitched tones. Ryou finally turned to the new arrivals to came face to face with - himself? 'What the?' he thought his brown eyes widening as it met similar but different eyes, in a face so much like his own. "Who?" he asked in confusion looking at Seto and Yugi, only to find that Yugi had a similar expression on his face and was looking at someone behind Ryou's look alike. He turned once again to look at the other new students, and saw what caused Yugi's surprise. There standing slightly behind a tall blond guy was someone who could pass for Yugi, or at least Yugi's brother. He had the same spiked red - black hair and gold bangs as Yugi; but some gold were streaking straight up in his hair and he was slightly taller than Yugi, which wasn't saying much since Yugi wasn't that tall to begin with. "Talk about weird, huh?" the girl continued, "Are you two sure you guys aren't related? 'Cause it's either you guys have met your long lost twin brother or you've met your doppelgangers. Maybe you guys have lost family members out there, that you don't know about." she said laughing. "I'm certain that I don't have any relations to him." Ryou suddenly growled he did not enjoy being reminded about his family or lack thereof, especially by a girl who was trying to make a joke out of the fact that his family was all dead. The girl sensing his anger backed away slowly and left. "Twit." Ryou's look alike said in the silence.
"Ryou, Yugi, since you guys weren't exactly paying attention this morning," said Seto to his brother and friend, who were still looking confused, "Let me introduce you guys to the new students. Joey Wheeler, Yami Taiyou, and Bakura Kageshi." he finished gesturing to each. "Hi, nice to meet you." said both still dazed. 'And here stands two of the feared Lights.' Seto thought with a shake of his head. "Sorry about the others," he apologized to the three, "They didn't get enough sleep last night. Please sit down." he gestured to the table where Yugi still sat in silence. "I'm Seto Kaiba, by the way, and my stunned and silent companions here are my brother, Yugi Moto and our friend Ryou Hunter." he introduced both indicating who was who. "Hello." said Yami and Bakura, both with small, almost identical, smiles on their faces. "Brothers? But I thought your last name was Kaiba and his Moto?" Joey asked in confusion. "We're adopted." Yugi explained out of reflex, snapping out of his stupor. "Then why didn't the two of you get your adoptive parents' last names?" Joey asked. "Joey, shut up." Yami said elbowing the blond, after seeing Yugi and Seto close up, their eyes darkening noticeably. "All right, geez, just curious." he snapped back. "Curiosity killed the cat." Ryou said unexpectedly, his tone dangerous and his eyes hard. 'Well, well, looks like the last Hunter grew up to be strong, even on his own.' thought Bakura who remained silent as the others began to cool down and talk.
to be continued
1. I was referring to Yugi, Seto and Ryou, and I know it probably isn't a word but they got so many detentions I just couldn't resist.
2. Taiyou, is one of the last names suggested by Kelsey Bromage, who was nice enough to e-mail me a list of last name. It wasn't my first choice out of the list but the other one sounded funny to me, and when I asked my friend what she thought about that combination she laughed her head off, so I chose this one. Oh and according to Kelsey Taiyou means sun, I don't speak or know Japanese (I'm guessing this is Japanese) so I'm not sure about spelling or meaning. And lastly I would like to give Kelsey my thanks for her suggestions, which I might use for my future fics.
3. Kageshi was suggested by someone who reviewed my story unfortunately she/he did not leave a name so I can't say/write his or her name. Kageshi, according to whoever, means shadow death, which sounded cool and appropriate for Bakura. I would like to thank whoever suggested this and hope that the review or e-mail me their name to me so I can thank them properly.
4. In History class my teacher kinda re-enacted the Trench Warfare for the class, and he kept on making machine gun noises and other sound effects, I couldn't help almost laughing, I had to bite my tongue to keep quiet, but I kept on shaking I early fell off my chair. But on a serious note, I researched on Trench Warfare and it was one of the most horrific thing of war; men on both sides of all ages, lost years of their lives living in holes in the ground, with the rotting corpses of both their friends and enemies only a few feet away. Bombs, shrapnel, bullets flying around and gas attacks every few hours along with disease-infested rats scurrying around eating the dead bodies. Many died and those who lived had to continue on with the images of those things in their minds for the rest of their lives. In the books I read those years were often described by those who lived through the war as 'living in hell on earth.'
5. Well in the school I go to in the first year (gr. 9) we get maps of the school, to help us get to class on time, unfortunately it doesn't always help.
tiger: phew! that was looong. to me anyway.
Ryou: *pout* i sounded totally out of character and like i left my brain at home or something. i feel so insulted. i better be back in character next chapter!
tiger: don't worry about it geesh. 'sides i warned you guys in the beginning. and don't tell me you didn't like this chapter, you guys finally met the Shadows.
Seto: why do i have to work with these two? *points to Ryou and Yugi* they got me a week's worth of detention, and they have the attention span of flies.
tiger: 'cause i wrote so. ^_^
Bakura: i liked it. although i must also complain that my companions are..... how do i phrase it? dimwitted? airheaded? i mean we had maps and they waste nearly half of our lunch arguing and getting lost in that stupid building!
Yami: excuse me? why are you complaining about us when you could have told us about the stupid map in the first place. instead of standing there watching us fight.
tiger: stop! *smacks both yamis upside the head* now tell me Bakura, why did you like it? Bakura: *blushes and mumbles something under his breath* 'cause.
tiger: well, come on tell me.
Bakura: *whispers in tiger's ears while looking around for eavesdroppers*
tiger: hehehe oh that's why.
Ryou: what? *has cute confused look on face*
tiger: c'mere *pulls Ryou down and whispers in his ears*
Ryou: *blushing wildly* oh oh my! hehe *smiles at Bakura* ^_^ Bakura: uummm....ahem.... -'.'-
!!please review!!
Warning: This fic contains slash which means, yes, the pairings, well the important ones, are male/male. So if this kind of thing is not your cup o' Joe, do not read. Otherwise ENJOY!!! Oh and some characters will act totally OOC at some points so please bear with me, they act that way for the sake of the fic.
A.N. Okay, let me explain the names, Ryou Bakura will be known as Ryou Hunter, and called Ryou. Yami Bakura will be referred to as Bakura. Yami Yugi will be called Yami. Okay? Everyone clear on that? Great now on with the fic!!
A few weeks have passed since the Shadows received their 'mission' from their mysterious host. Yugi, Seto, and Ryou are in school, well they will be ^_^*
Chapter Six: Doppelgangers or New Students?
The teacher walked into the classroom to be greeted by the numerous rumours circulating among the student. 'How is it that they manage to find out about these sort of things so quickly, but when it comes to projects and assignments, they're all like chickens that have just had their heads cut off.' she thought going to her desk and calling for silence. When the class had finally settled enough for her to be heard she looked around the room and noticed three seats were empty, 'Wonder where those three are? They better not be late again, or they'll have to get more detentions.' she thought before finally speaking. "Alright class, since news seem to travel at light speed around here, I'm sure all of you already know that we have some new students joining us." she looked around to see the faces of her student convey various emotions from excitement to boredom. "Class let me introduce you to the new addition to our little community. Gentlemen." at her statement the door opened with a slam, to reveal, not new faces, but the familiar, if slightly harried and red, faces of Yugi, Seto and Ryou. The three looked around the class and noticing the looks they were receiving walked in embarrassed silence to their seats. "Gentlemen," the teacher said with a small frown, "Detention after school." The class snickered as the three groaned.
"Way to go, Yugi." Seto whispered silently to his brother whose head was currently banging silently against his desk. "I wasn't my fault, Ryou didn't set his alarm clock." the short spike haired boy argued. "What? Why are you blaming me? I can't always be the one to wake you guys up you know, I have just as much right to sleep in as you two." Ryou argued back glaring at his friends, and housemates. "Well you always wake up first and drag the rest of us awake, can you blame us for relying on you to be our alarm clock?" asked Yugi, Seto no longer wanted to be part of the argument after catching some of the looks their classmates were throwing their way. It was common knowledge that the three lived together because they were all orphans and had inherited money from their parents and also happened to be best friends. Seto and Yugi received money from the Andersons after their deaths, and Ryou from his real parents. "Will you two stop it?" he whispered not wanting to attract the teacher's attention and add another afternoon of detention to the long list, "You guys can continue this during detention." "A good idea Mr. Kaiba, they can continue this in detention, and you can join them. And I have good news for the three of you," the teacher said suddenly, "You have the next three afternoons to continue your little debate." The class laughed as their classmates once again release pained groans. 'Damn!' the three thought together. "If you three are done I'd like to introduce our new students without further interferences." the teacher said with a glare at the trio. "Gentlemen, please come in."
'Finally.' the class thought in frustration. The door opened once again to reveal the silhouettes of the new students. Yugi, Seto and Ryou were the only ones out of the class not paying much attention to the new comers; they were too busy thinking about their week of afternoon detention for such trivial matters. "Come on in you three." said the teacher smiling at them. As the group stepped through the door a gasp was emitted by the students, catching the three detentionees' (1) attention, along with that was the sound of scraping chairs as some student turned to stare from two of the new arrivals to two of their usually tardy classmates. 'What?' Seto asked himself, looking around the class, but not at the new students, Ryou and Yugi were currently doing the same thing. Finally he focused his ice blue eyes to the new students, and like the rest emitted a small gasp of surprise. "What the hell?!" he unwisely said out loud gaining another glare form the teacher. Ryou and Yugi turned to their friend with raised eyebrows at his exclamation, it was rare for him to lose control of his tongue, and unfortunately the two had still not looked at the new students. "Mr. Kaiba I suggest you not talk for the rest of the class unless the rest of your afternoons this month is free." warned the teacher, snapping the class out of their thoughts. "Yes, ma'am." Seto said in a monotone.
"Now, as I've said numerous times already, let me introduce our new students. Joey Wheeler, Yami Taiyou (2), and Bakura Kageshi (3)." the teacher smiled at the new students and turned to the class, "Now I expect you all to welcome them, and to try and help them out with adjusting to this school. Got it?" The class nodded, some still stealing glances at their two classmates while looking at the new students. Seto sat, in silence, both because he did not want any more detentions and for the fact that two of the new students looked unerringly like his friends. He looked at Ryou and Yugi and noticed that the two had still not looked at the new students but were giving him strange looks. Wanting to explain, he began to gesture trying to make them look to the front of the class with, unfortunately, little success. The teacher began to speak once again and he looked back to the front. "Now, where shall the three of you sit?" she asked out loud, smiling as several girls offered seats next to themselves. "I know," she said, with a decidedly wicked smirk, "Yugi, Ryou, Seto as part of your detention, the three of you will be the guides for out new student. So naturally they can sit next to the three of you." several girls in the class sulked at her decision.
Yugi and Ryou still had not looked at the new students even though Seto had been trying to make them understand him with his gestures, and the teacher's orders only caused the two to groan once again and put their heads on their desks, Seto sighed deeply in exasperation at his friends' density. 'Maybe we should have just skipped school today. They probably didn't get enough sleep.' he thought sardonically. The class shared similar thoughts with him; they all wondered how two of the smartest students, but not the smartest that was Seto, in the class could be so clueless of their surroundings. "Gentlemen, please take your seats." said the teacher with a gesture to the three. When they were seated she began her lesson, leaving Yugi, and Ryou still in their own little world and still unaware of what everyone was so surprised about. Luckily for them it was only and hour and a half left before lunch.
Lunch came and the class rushed out to leave, with them was Seto, Ryou and Yugi, having forgotten about their charges during the teacher's 'stunning' rendition of Trench Warfare during WW1 (4). The three walked to their lockers and got what they needed and headed for the cafeteria, with Yugi and Ryou still arguing about whose fault it was they were late. "I feel like were forgetting something." said Ryou sitting down next to Seto and promptly stealing some baby carrots from the tall young man's lunch. "We have our notes for next period," said Yugi his small hands also making a beeline for his brother's lunch. "Don't even think about it." Seto threatened, he wouldn't be surprised at all if the two stole his whole lunch and ate their own, and still complain about being hungry. "Aw, come on Kai," Yugi whined giving his brother puppy dog eyes, "You let Ryou have some. Why not me?" "First off, I didn't let him have any, he punked them off of me." Seto said calmly, "Secondly, you have your own lunch, why do the two of you persist on eating mine everyday?" "'Cause you pack the best lunch." Ryou said with a grin before taking a bite out of his ham sandwich. At this the other two began their lunch, but not before Yugi stole some carrots from Seto, who just gave a small groan of exasperation.
Meanwhile in another part of the school three figures were standing in the hallway arguing. "Where the hell is the stinkin' caf?" fumed one loudly. "Will you shut up, Joey? We don't need to call attention to ourselves." said his companion. "Well, forgive me, Yami, unlike you I would rather spend my lunch time elsewhere other than in the friggin' hallways. 'Sides aren't we supposed to have guides or somethin'." the blonde shot back angrily. Their companion merely watched with amused eyes and a small smirk. "Why don't we just use the maps (5) that we were given?" he said suddenly, startling his friends from their argument. "What map?" Joey asked in confusion. "This map." Bakura said, his smile widening as he showed his companions a piece of paper. It was the map of the entire building, and right there clearly marked on it, in legible writing, was the word Cafeteria. "You," growled Yami, advancing on the still grinning, soon to be dead friend, "Are going to be so sorry." But before he could say anything else Bakura had already taken off in the direction of the cafeteria.
"Okay, next question," said Yugi, who was quizzing Ryou and Seto, "What was..." however, before he could finish one of their classmates walked up to their table. "Hey guys, where's the new students?" she asked smiling widely at Ryou, who tried his best to ignore her. "Who?" asked Yugi, confused. "What do you...Oh shit." Seto said paling, "We were supposed to guide those new student around, remember?" he informed the two, who also paled as the memories of the morning returned. "Great, just what we need more afternoons of detention." Ryou groaned, not remembering an afternoon in the last couple of weeks when they were actually let out with the other students at the end of the day. "Don't worry 'bout it. We wont tell." said a voice behind him startling the white haired young man, causing him to nearly fall out of the bench whose edge he was sitting on. Luckily someone caught him on time, and instead of falling on the hard floor he fell onto a warm body, with the owner's arms were holding him close. Although Ryou was usually calm and cool around others, this position caused him to turn crimson and to try standing quickly without success, as he kept on tripping on his own feet, which were tangled with the strangers, causing him to fall once again into the warm arms. "Sorry," he mumbled in embarrassment, as Seto finally helped him stand. "It's okay." said a slightly rough voice behind him. As he was about to turn to face the new students their classmate squealed in delight, causing them all to cringe.
"Oh my gosh, you guys look so much alike! I cannot believe it; this morning I thought that maybe it was just because I wasn't wearing my glasses but now. You guys could pass as twins. Oh my gosh!" she gushed in high-pitched tones. Ryou finally turned to the new arrivals to came face to face with - himself? 'What the?' he thought his brown eyes widening as it met similar but different eyes, in a face so much like his own. "Who?" he asked in confusion looking at Seto and Yugi, only to find that Yugi had a similar expression on his face and was looking at someone behind Ryou's look alike. He turned once again to look at the other new students, and saw what caused Yugi's surprise. There standing slightly behind a tall blond guy was someone who could pass for Yugi, or at least Yugi's brother. He had the same spiked red - black hair and gold bangs as Yugi; but some gold were streaking straight up in his hair and he was slightly taller than Yugi, which wasn't saying much since Yugi wasn't that tall to begin with. "Talk about weird, huh?" the girl continued, "Are you two sure you guys aren't related? 'Cause it's either you guys have met your long lost twin brother or you've met your doppelgangers. Maybe you guys have lost family members out there, that you don't know about." she said laughing. "I'm certain that I don't have any relations to him." Ryou suddenly growled he did not enjoy being reminded about his family or lack thereof, especially by a girl who was trying to make a joke out of the fact that his family was all dead. The girl sensing his anger backed away slowly and left. "Twit." Ryou's look alike said in the silence.
"Ryou, Yugi, since you guys weren't exactly paying attention this morning," said Seto to his brother and friend, who were still looking confused, "Let me introduce you guys to the new students. Joey Wheeler, Yami Taiyou, and Bakura Kageshi." he finished gesturing to each. "Hi, nice to meet you." said both still dazed. 'And here stands two of the feared Lights.' Seto thought with a shake of his head. "Sorry about the others," he apologized to the three, "They didn't get enough sleep last night. Please sit down." he gestured to the table where Yugi still sat in silence. "I'm Seto Kaiba, by the way, and my stunned and silent companions here are my brother, Yugi Moto and our friend Ryou Hunter." he introduced both indicating who was who. "Hello." said Yami and Bakura, both with small, almost identical, smiles on their faces. "Brothers? But I thought your last name was Kaiba and his Moto?" Joey asked in confusion. "We're adopted." Yugi explained out of reflex, snapping out of his stupor. "Then why didn't the two of you get your adoptive parents' last names?" Joey asked. "Joey, shut up." Yami said elbowing the blond, after seeing Yugi and Seto close up, their eyes darkening noticeably. "All right, geez, just curious." he snapped back. "Curiosity killed the cat." Ryou said unexpectedly, his tone dangerous and his eyes hard. 'Well, well, looks like the last Hunter grew up to be strong, even on his own.' thought Bakura who remained silent as the others began to cool down and talk.
to be continued
1. I was referring to Yugi, Seto and Ryou, and I know it probably isn't a word but they got so many detentions I just couldn't resist.
2. Taiyou, is one of the last names suggested by Kelsey Bromage, who was nice enough to e-mail me a list of last name. It wasn't my first choice out of the list but the other one sounded funny to me, and when I asked my friend what she thought about that combination she laughed her head off, so I chose this one. Oh and according to Kelsey Taiyou means sun, I don't speak or know Japanese (I'm guessing this is Japanese) so I'm not sure about spelling or meaning. And lastly I would like to give Kelsey my thanks for her suggestions, which I might use for my future fics.
3. Kageshi was suggested by someone who reviewed my story unfortunately she/he did not leave a name so I can't say/write his or her name. Kageshi, according to whoever, means shadow death, which sounded cool and appropriate for Bakura. I would like to thank whoever suggested this and hope that the review or e-mail me their name to me so I can thank them properly.
4. In History class my teacher kinda re-enacted the Trench Warfare for the class, and he kept on making machine gun noises and other sound effects, I couldn't help almost laughing, I had to bite my tongue to keep quiet, but I kept on shaking I early fell off my chair. But on a serious note, I researched on Trench Warfare and it was one of the most horrific thing of war; men on both sides of all ages, lost years of their lives living in holes in the ground, with the rotting corpses of both their friends and enemies only a few feet away. Bombs, shrapnel, bullets flying around and gas attacks every few hours along with disease-infested rats scurrying around eating the dead bodies. Many died and those who lived had to continue on with the images of those things in their minds for the rest of their lives. In the books I read those years were often described by those who lived through the war as 'living in hell on earth.'
5. Well in the school I go to in the first year (gr. 9) we get maps of the school, to help us get to class on time, unfortunately it doesn't always help.
tiger: phew! that was looong. to me anyway.
Ryou: *pout* i sounded totally out of character and like i left my brain at home or something. i feel so insulted. i better be back in character next chapter!
tiger: don't worry about it geesh. 'sides i warned you guys in the beginning. and don't tell me you didn't like this chapter, you guys finally met the Shadows.
Seto: why do i have to work with these two? *points to Ryou and Yugi* they got me a week's worth of detention, and they have the attention span of flies.
tiger: 'cause i wrote so. ^_^
Bakura: i liked it. although i must also complain that my companions are..... how do i phrase it? dimwitted? airheaded? i mean we had maps and they waste nearly half of our lunch arguing and getting lost in that stupid building!
Yami: excuse me? why are you complaining about us when you could have told us about the stupid map in the first place. instead of standing there watching us fight.
tiger: stop! *smacks both yamis upside the head* now tell me Bakura, why did you like it? Bakura: *blushes and mumbles something under his breath* 'cause.
tiger: well, come on tell me.
Bakura: *whispers in tiger's ears while looking around for eavesdroppers*
tiger: hehehe oh that's why.
Ryou: what? *has cute confused look on face*
tiger: c'mere *pulls Ryou down and whispers in his ears*
Ryou: *blushing wildly* oh oh my! hehe *smiles at Bakura* ^_^ Bakura: uummm....ahem.... -'.'-
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