By Shadows and Lights
by: jade_tiger
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, please don't sue me 'cause I quit my job
so I don't got any money.
Warning: This is slash, which means that it is m/m pairings. Some characters are also OOC and this is an AU. You've all been warned.
A.N. Ryou Bakura - Ryou Hunter, Yami Bakura -Bakura Kageshi, Yami Yugi - Yami Taiyou. Seto Kaiba - may be referred to as Kai; also he and Yugi are ADOPTIVE brothers, and will usually refer to each other as such.
The next day. *tiger: i know it's short, usually i have a mini paragraph here but what can i say - it IS the next day*
Chapter Eight: Group Work
Seto, Yugi and Ryou entered the classroom minutes before the bell rang and made their way to their desks. The room was, as expected, in chaos as students talked, whispered, yelled or rushed to finish their homework. Few noticed the entrance of the three and even fewer noticed the other set of trio sitting at the back of the room.
"Will you guys look at 'em all," Joey muttered, "How the hell are we supposed to find three hunters from all these humans? I mean, ya, we're the best hunters they got but for cryin' out loud you'd think he'd give us a clue. But nooo make it difficult for us, why not? Not like I can't rip his friggin' heart out without even tryin'." The blond continued to complain to his companions his caramel eyes roaming the room, until his sight landed on three figures a few desks in front of their own. "Hey, your twins have arrived." he commented knowing how much it annoyed his friends.
"Will you shut up?" snapped Bakura; his crimson tinted brown eyes seemingly glowed with an unnatural light.
"Easy Bakura, you're losing control." said the cool voice of Yami who noticed the slight change in his companion's aura. "We don't know who we're looking for, giving them a warning is not in our favour at the time being." he warned, receiving a growled response from the white haired vampire.
'Who said I don't already know who we're looking for.' thought Bakura closing his eyes and breathing deeply. He had known exactly who their target was the moment they had entered the classroom three months before, well, one of them, in any case. However, he wasn't stupid, if he was he never would have survived for as long as he had, he had already guessed that the two the young Hunter was always with was the other two of the three Lights they were searching for. This information he planned to keep to himself for the time being. 'I promised to protect you, little Light, and I will. Unfortunately they've sent out their best to hunt you down - me.' the grim thought went through his head causing his eyes to darken in determination.
Yami's attention had shifted from his brooding friend to the small violet-eyed teen who sat in the front, turned around talking animatedly to his tall silent companion. Although he showed little interest to his small look-a-like he was far from indifferent. Never in all his years had he ever seen anyone who resembled him as much as this young human, this fact intrigued the crimson eyed vampire immensely. His double was not the only one that interested him, however, the tall brunet had also caught his interest with his cold and aloof attitude with everyone but his two companions. His ice blue eyes showed nothing of his emotions, but his intelligence shone through along with his apparent protectiveness of his brother and friend. His attention shifted back to his small double when he gave a small giggle, causing the brunet to smile. 'Maybe that boy is him, but that would mean that -' Yami's train of thought was interrupted with the entrance of the teacher who immediately called attention to the class like a general to her troops.
"Alright, silence in the ranks people!" she said, "Get in your seats now, and for those of you trying to finish your homework," her smirk appeared, "There's no need I've changed my mind and have decided not to collect them." she finished causing several students to groan, and others to snicker. "Okay, with that finished I want you all to get into groups of three, and only three." she instructed eyes several girls who were already grouping of into fours. In the following minutes all that was heard was the shuffling of students.
Yugi turned and smiled at his brother, who gave a barely perceptible nod, and then turned to Ryou who sat next to Seto. Ryou smiled back and moved his chair next to Seto's desk, to show the female population of the class that they were already in a group. Unfortunately one girl did not seem to get the hint and walked towards Ryou with a smile, causing his to give a silent sigh, before he moved his chair closer to the tall young man who gave a warning frown to the girl. She quickly got the silent message and move on her shoulders slightly slumped.
"It's a good thing that Seto's perfected his scowl Ryou, or else she would have gotten you by now." Yugi said laughing at his friend's expression of annoyance. Yugi, along with most of the class, had known that the girl had been after Ryou since he moved to the school, while Ryou had been trying his hardest to avoid her. Luckily for Ryou, after she had broken into his locker and pasted hearts all over it Seto had began warning her off of his friend, and the girl had surprisingly shown some sense and had stayed away whenever Seto was around.
"When is she going to get it through her head that I'm not interested." grumbled Ryou turning to Seto, "Thanks Kai." He gave the brunet a small smile, who gave nod in response, before they turned their attention to the teacher who had begun to talk again.
"I'm sure you're all wondering why I've asked you to get in groups of three and I'll explain everything, after you all get a number." With that she began to hand out random pieces of paper. Seto received the paper and showed the other, they had gotten 3.
"Lucky number." he said with a small smirk as the teacher began to speak once again.
"Okay now that you all have numbers, I will begin to call out the numbers and the two groups with the same number will be working together in a group project." She began to call out numbers. Finally getting to theirs, Seto raised his hand and Yugi looked around not seeing anyone else's hand up.
"Who else has number three?" the teacher asked her voice raised.
"Oh hey, that's us Miss!" exclaimed a voice the back of the room calling the entire class' attention to the trio, two of whom looked as if they couldn't care less.
"Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Taiyou, Mr. Kageshi, I suggest you all start paying attention, or I might be tempted to move you all up next to my desk." with that said she continued calling out numbers.
"Come on you guys we have to move back there since they don't seem to want to." said Yugi to the other group members gesturing to where Yami and the others sat. He stood and picked up his notebook and a pen, Ryou followed with a notebook and a mechanical pencil with an eraser, and Seto followed the two bringing a notebook pen, mechanical pencil, spare lead and an eraser.
By the time that they had reached the other three the teacher had finished calling out the numbers, since there wasn't that many students in the class, and was in the process of explaining to the class why she had grouped them.
"Okay, as I'm sure you're all curious as to why you are in these groups, allow me to explain." she began, pacing in front of the class as she spoke. "These groups are the ones that you will all be in for your next and biggest group work of the year. Each group will be required to research on a mythical or legendary creature, and will hand in to me a very, and I mean very, detailed research paper on the topic. The groups will then give a presentation to the class on their topic. Does everyone understand?" she asked before continuing again, "I will give more information to you all tomorrow but today your groups must pick a topic by the end of class or I will be assigning the topic. That's all you may talk among yourselves and just raise your hands if any of you have questions." With that said a hum began in the classroom as the groups began to think up of topic, or as in the case of most of the students gossip and talk about unrelated topics.
"So what should we do?" Yugi asked smiling as he turned to the group. No one voiced an opinion, as each member was lost in deep thought. The silence continued for another moment before Yugi tried once again to get the others to speak. "I think we should do something that is different, something that no one would think of." he said slightly louder, finally getting the group's attention.
"How about Dragons?" asked Ryou wanting to pick a topic quickly in case someone thought of the topic that had entered his mind the moment the teacher had explained the assignment.
"Good idea!" exclaimed Yugi glad that at least someone was listening, and not zoning out like some of the other students. "That'll be an easy topic and I'm sure we can find a lot of information on it." he said optimistically.
"That's probably why that group has already chosen it." a voiced interrupted, causing the two to turn to Bakura who gestured to the groups near the front of the class. This made the Lights raise their eyebrows at the white haired young man's fantastic hearing. Yami on the other hand was not as impressed.
"How can you be sure Bakura? Unless you can read lips, and I know you can't, you can't be sure now can you?" the spike haired ancient growled, "After all they are all the way across the room so you couldn't have heard them." he ground out emphasizing across, his crimson eyes giving a silent warning, which was answered with an amused smirk.
"I don't know how I could possibly have heard them, you highness, maybe it's my superb hearing." Bakura replied grinning as the elder vampire gave a silent snarl that was only seen by Joey and himself.
Joey seeing that his friends were extremely close to taking each other on right there and then thought it best to intervene and said, "Okay so dragons are out, how about werewolves? They're mythical and legendary and we could find a lot of info on them too." This took the attention off of his two friends.
"Hey, yeah." agreed Yugi, "And don't you have a book on werewolves at home Ryou?" he asked his white haired friend, who shook his head in response.
"It isn't mine Yugi," Ryou said smiling, "It's Seto's he leant it to me when I was bored and had nothing to do. It's actually very good, and I think werewolves would be a good subject to research. What do you think Kai?" he asked the tall brunet who had remained silent throughout most of the class so far.
"I think it would be an interesting topic to find out more about, Ryou." Seto answered turning to the slightly smaller young man before he once again looked down at what he was previously doing.
"So it's decided we'll do werewolves," said Joey turning to Bakura and Yami who were still glaring at each other, well Yami was glaring and Bakura was just provoking him. "See how easy that was? You two need to learn how to cooperate with each other." he said to the two crossing his arms across his chest, and closing his eyes trying to look philosophical. Bakura looked at him for a moment before he began to laugh, causing the blond to open his eyes in a glare. "What's so funny 'Kura?" he asked using the shortened version of the other's name, which he knew annoyed his friend immensely.
His use of the other's name, however, also got a reaction from Ryou, who flinched slightly at the mention of the name, feeling as if he had heard it many times before. A feeling that was like a forgotten memory trying to be remembered.
"'Kura, can you come visit again soon?" asked a soft voice, the child's face turned towards the shadows in his room. "Of course little light, I will, but you must rest now. " answered an amused voice as the young boy insisted that he wasn't tired yet as he yawned. "Yes you are, now go to sleep. I promise I'll visit you again soon, and that I'll be watching over you." the voice assured the child as the youth's brown eyes slowly closed, "Sleep well, little light." whispered the voice before the figure in the shadows disappeared.
"Ryou, you okay?" asked Yugi in concern as his friend shook his head trying to remember whether it had been a memory from long ago or the dreams of a lonely little boy longing for a companion.
"Yes, I'm fine Yugi, no need to worry." he assured the shorter young man before turning his attention to the teacher who was once again talking.
"Okay, I'm assuming that all groups have their topics." she said glaring as some groups looked at each other in worry. "I will call the groups by number and someone just say the topic." She then began to once again call the numbers and all was well, until the second group announced their chose topic - werewolves.
At this Yugi groaned and silently hoped for a miracle, unfortunately for the small teen his wish was not to be granted, as the teacher called their number and impatiently asked for their topic. As he was about to open his mouth to reply someone spoke out surprising everyone in the group including the speaker himself.
"We'll do vampires." Seto said calmly even though his mind screamed at him to take it back to choose another topic, any other topic. Unfortunately the teacher had already moved on to the next group and they were stuck with what they had. However, as luck would have it the bell rang giving the tall brunet a reprieve before having to explain why he had chosen the particular topic.
That lunch the three sat at a table together as usual but instead of the regular friendly banter there was silence between the three friends.
"I'm sorry I don't know why I said that." Seto said quietly, looking at his lunch his appetite lost. "I hadn't meant to even say anything, it just came out. Forgive me."
Yugi looked at his brother, whose expression was even colder than normal and knew why his brother had been so quiet. "It's okay Kai, we both had to face this someday. We both knew that."
Ryou also remained quiet; he too knew the reason for Seto's silence, and with the thought came the same guilt that had always accompanied it. Four years ago a vampire had entered the home of the Andersons and had killed them and taken the younger Kaiba brother, four years ago Seto Kaiba and Yugi Moto had found out the secret of the last of the Hunter in existence, and in doing so stepped into the world of shadows, never to be able to fully step into the light ever again. "I'm sorry." he said in the silence of the table, "I'm so truly sorry." sorrow resonated in the four whispered words.
"We said it before and we'll say it again. You have nothing to be sorry for." said Seto. "We chose our paths, Ryou, you guided us and helped us. For that we can say nothing but thank you."
"He's right Ryou, we're a team now. You shouldn't blame yourself for something that was not your fault. Mother and Father (1) as well as Mokuba would not want you to do that." Yugi said putting a comforting hand on Ryou's arm.
The rest of the period was spent in silence none really feeling like eating, but none feeling sorrow. Instead the three sat in a silence that was both comforting and familiar, a silence that spoke in volumes of deep trust and friendship that could never be broken.
Across the cafeteria a figure watched the three a small smile hovering around the lips as sharp eyes caught all expressions. 'I'm glad you are no longer alone little light, I'm glad that finally we can meet and neither of us has to be alone.' the figure's thoughts did not show on his face as he turned and exited the cafeteria disappearing through the large doors as though he had never stood there.
to be continue
1. Yugi is referring to the Andersons, since they adopted Seto, Mokuba, and himself, they refer to them as Mother and Father.
tiger: who the heck was that in the end? Seto: don't you know? you wrote it tiger: yeah i know i wrote it but it was one of those spur of the moment things Bakura: oh you mean like you working on your stories? tiger: ggrrrrr shut up! Ryou: he didn't mean it, he's just angry that he didn't have a bigger part. Yugi: and that he barely had a chance to speak to Ryou Ryou: (-'.'-) Bakura: shut your mouth you little midget! Yugi: *sniff* it's not my fault i'm short! tiger: hey! that was totally uncalled for! *smacks Bakura upside the head with a large book* i'm short too you know *sniffsniff* it's not our fault we're vertically challenged it's our genes tiger and Yugi: *begin to cry on each other's shoulders wailing* Bakura: @.@ ouch
!!please review!!
Warning: This is slash, which means that it is m/m pairings. Some characters are also OOC and this is an AU. You've all been warned.
A.N. Ryou Bakura - Ryou Hunter, Yami Bakura -Bakura Kageshi, Yami Yugi - Yami Taiyou. Seto Kaiba - may be referred to as Kai; also he and Yugi are ADOPTIVE brothers, and will usually refer to each other as such.
The next day. *tiger: i know it's short, usually i have a mini paragraph here but what can i say - it IS the next day*
Chapter Eight: Group Work
Seto, Yugi and Ryou entered the classroom minutes before the bell rang and made their way to their desks. The room was, as expected, in chaos as students talked, whispered, yelled or rushed to finish their homework. Few noticed the entrance of the three and even fewer noticed the other set of trio sitting at the back of the room.
"Will you guys look at 'em all," Joey muttered, "How the hell are we supposed to find three hunters from all these humans? I mean, ya, we're the best hunters they got but for cryin' out loud you'd think he'd give us a clue. But nooo make it difficult for us, why not? Not like I can't rip his friggin' heart out without even tryin'." The blond continued to complain to his companions his caramel eyes roaming the room, until his sight landed on three figures a few desks in front of their own. "Hey, your twins have arrived." he commented knowing how much it annoyed his friends.
"Will you shut up?" snapped Bakura; his crimson tinted brown eyes seemingly glowed with an unnatural light.
"Easy Bakura, you're losing control." said the cool voice of Yami who noticed the slight change in his companion's aura. "We don't know who we're looking for, giving them a warning is not in our favour at the time being." he warned, receiving a growled response from the white haired vampire.
'Who said I don't already know who we're looking for.' thought Bakura closing his eyes and breathing deeply. He had known exactly who their target was the moment they had entered the classroom three months before, well, one of them, in any case. However, he wasn't stupid, if he was he never would have survived for as long as he had, he had already guessed that the two the young Hunter was always with was the other two of the three Lights they were searching for. This information he planned to keep to himself for the time being. 'I promised to protect you, little Light, and I will. Unfortunately they've sent out their best to hunt you down - me.' the grim thought went through his head causing his eyes to darken in determination.
Yami's attention had shifted from his brooding friend to the small violet-eyed teen who sat in the front, turned around talking animatedly to his tall silent companion. Although he showed little interest to his small look-a-like he was far from indifferent. Never in all his years had he ever seen anyone who resembled him as much as this young human, this fact intrigued the crimson eyed vampire immensely. His double was not the only one that interested him, however, the tall brunet had also caught his interest with his cold and aloof attitude with everyone but his two companions. His ice blue eyes showed nothing of his emotions, but his intelligence shone through along with his apparent protectiveness of his brother and friend. His attention shifted back to his small double when he gave a small giggle, causing the brunet to smile. 'Maybe that boy is him, but that would mean that -' Yami's train of thought was interrupted with the entrance of the teacher who immediately called attention to the class like a general to her troops.
"Alright, silence in the ranks people!" she said, "Get in your seats now, and for those of you trying to finish your homework," her smirk appeared, "There's no need I've changed my mind and have decided not to collect them." she finished causing several students to groan, and others to snicker. "Okay, with that finished I want you all to get into groups of three, and only three." she instructed eyes several girls who were already grouping of into fours. In the following minutes all that was heard was the shuffling of students.
Yugi turned and smiled at his brother, who gave a barely perceptible nod, and then turned to Ryou who sat next to Seto. Ryou smiled back and moved his chair next to Seto's desk, to show the female population of the class that they were already in a group. Unfortunately one girl did not seem to get the hint and walked towards Ryou with a smile, causing his to give a silent sigh, before he moved his chair closer to the tall young man who gave a warning frown to the girl. She quickly got the silent message and move on her shoulders slightly slumped.
"It's a good thing that Seto's perfected his scowl Ryou, or else she would have gotten you by now." Yugi said laughing at his friend's expression of annoyance. Yugi, along with most of the class, had known that the girl had been after Ryou since he moved to the school, while Ryou had been trying his hardest to avoid her. Luckily for Ryou, after she had broken into his locker and pasted hearts all over it Seto had began warning her off of his friend, and the girl had surprisingly shown some sense and had stayed away whenever Seto was around.
"When is she going to get it through her head that I'm not interested." grumbled Ryou turning to Seto, "Thanks Kai." He gave the brunet a small smile, who gave nod in response, before they turned their attention to the teacher who had begun to talk again.
"I'm sure you're all wondering why I've asked you to get in groups of three and I'll explain everything, after you all get a number." With that she began to hand out random pieces of paper. Seto received the paper and showed the other, they had gotten 3.
"Lucky number." he said with a small smirk as the teacher began to speak once again.
"Okay now that you all have numbers, I will begin to call out the numbers and the two groups with the same number will be working together in a group project." She began to call out numbers. Finally getting to theirs, Seto raised his hand and Yugi looked around not seeing anyone else's hand up.
"Who else has number three?" the teacher asked her voice raised.
"Oh hey, that's us Miss!" exclaimed a voice the back of the room calling the entire class' attention to the trio, two of whom looked as if they couldn't care less.
"Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Taiyou, Mr. Kageshi, I suggest you all start paying attention, or I might be tempted to move you all up next to my desk." with that said she continued calling out numbers.
"Come on you guys we have to move back there since they don't seem to want to." said Yugi to the other group members gesturing to where Yami and the others sat. He stood and picked up his notebook and a pen, Ryou followed with a notebook and a mechanical pencil with an eraser, and Seto followed the two bringing a notebook pen, mechanical pencil, spare lead and an eraser.
By the time that they had reached the other three the teacher had finished calling out the numbers, since there wasn't that many students in the class, and was in the process of explaining to the class why she had grouped them.
"Okay, as I'm sure you're all curious as to why you are in these groups, allow me to explain." she began, pacing in front of the class as she spoke. "These groups are the ones that you will all be in for your next and biggest group work of the year. Each group will be required to research on a mythical or legendary creature, and will hand in to me a very, and I mean very, detailed research paper on the topic. The groups will then give a presentation to the class on their topic. Does everyone understand?" she asked before continuing again, "I will give more information to you all tomorrow but today your groups must pick a topic by the end of class or I will be assigning the topic. That's all you may talk among yourselves and just raise your hands if any of you have questions." With that said a hum began in the classroom as the groups began to think up of topic, or as in the case of most of the students gossip and talk about unrelated topics.
"So what should we do?" Yugi asked smiling as he turned to the group. No one voiced an opinion, as each member was lost in deep thought. The silence continued for another moment before Yugi tried once again to get the others to speak. "I think we should do something that is different, something that no one would think of." he said slightly louder, finally getting the group's attention.
"How about Dragons?" asked Ryou wanting to pick a topic quickly in case someone thought of the topic that had entered his mind the moment the teacher had explained the assignment.
"Good idea!" exclaimed Yugi glad that at least someone was listening, and not zoning out like some of the other students. "That'll be an easy topic and I'm sure we can find a lot of information on it." he said optimistically.
"That's probably why that group has already chosen it." a voiced interrupted, causing the two to turn to Bakura who gestured to the groups near the front of the class. This made the Lights raise their eyebrows at the white haired young man's fantastic hearing. Yami on the other hand was not as impressed.
"How can you be sure Bakura? Unless you can read lips, and I know you can't, you can't be sure now can you?" the spike haired ancient growled, "After all they are all the way across the room so you couldn't have heard them." he ground out emphasizing across, his crimson eyes giving a silent warning, which was answered with an amused smirk.
"I don't know how I could possibly have heard them, you highness, maybe it's my superb hearing." Bakura replied grinning as the elder vampire gave a silent snarl that was only seen by Joey and himself.
Joey seeing that his friends were extremely close to taking each other on right there and then thought it best to intervene and said, "Okay so dragons are out, how about werewolves? They're mythical and legendary and we could find a lot of info on them too." This took the attention off of his two friends.
"Hey, yeah." agreed Yugi, "And don't you have a book on werewolves at home Ryou?" he asked his white haired friend, who shook his head in response.
"It isn't mine Yugi," Ryou said smiling, "It's Seto's he leant it to me when I was bored and had nothing to do. It's actually very good, and I think werewolves would be a good subject to research. What do you think Kai?" he asked the tall brunet who had remained silent throughout most of the class so far.
"I think it would be an interesting topic to find out more about, Ryou." Seto answered turning to the slightly smaller young man before he once again looked down at what he was previously doing.
"So it's decided we'll do werewolves," said Joey turning to Bakura and Yami who were still glaring at each other, well Yami was glaring and Bakura was just provoking him. "See how easy that was? You two need to learn how to cooperate with each other." he said to the two crossing his arms across his chest, and closing his eyes trying to look philosophical. Bakura looked at him for a moment before he began to laugh, causing the blond to open his eyes in a glare. "What's so funny 'Kura?" he asked using the shortened version of the other's name, which he knew annoyed his friend immensely.
His use of the other's name, however, also got a reaction from Ryou, who flinched slightly at the mention of the name, feeling as if he had heard it many times before. A feeling that was like a forgotten memory trying to be remembered.
"'Kura, can you come visit again soon?" asked a soft voice, the child's face turned towards the shadows in his room. "Of course little light, I will, but you must rest now. " answered an amused voice as the young boy insisted that he wasn't tired yet as he yawned. "Yes you are, now go to sleep. I promise I'll visit you again soon, and that I'll be watching over you." the voice assured the child as the youth's brown eyes slowly closed, "Sleep well, little light." whispered the voice before the figure in the shadows disappeared.
"Ryou, you okay?" asked Yugi in concern as his friend shook his head trying to remember whether it had been a memory from long ago or the dreams of a lonely little boy longing for a companion.
"Yes, I'm fine Yugi, no need to worry." he assured the shorter young man before turning his attention to the teacher who was once again talking.
"Okay, I'm assuming that all groups have their topics." she said glaring as some groups looked at each other in worry. "I will call the groups by number and someone just say the topic." She then began to once again call the numbers and all was well, until the second group announced their chose topic - werewolves.
At this Yugi groaned and silently hoped for a miracle, unfortunately for the small teen his wish was not to be granted, as the teacher called their number and impatiently asked for their topic. As he was about to open his mouth to reply someone spoke out surprising everyone in the group including the speaker himself.
"We'll do vampires." Seto said calmly even though his mind screamed at him to take it back to choose another topic, any other topic. Unfortunately the teacher had already moved on to the next group and they were stuck with what they had. However, as luck would have it the bell rang giving the tall brunet a reprieve before having to explain why he had chosen the particular topic.
That lunch the three sat at a table together as usual but instead of the regular friendly banter there was silence between the three friends.
"I'm sorry I don't know why I said that." Seto said quietly, looking at his lunch his appetite lost. "I hadn't meant to even say anything, it just came out. Forgive me."
Yugi looked at his brother, whose expression was even colder than normal and knew why his brother had been so quiet. "It's okay Kai, we both had to face this someday. We both knew that."
Ryou also remained quiet; he too knew the reason for Seto's silence, and with the thought came the same guilt that had always accompanied it. Four years ago a vampire had entered the home of the Andersons and had killed them and taken the younger Kaiba brother, four years ago Seto Kaiba and Yugi Moto had found out the secret of the last of the Hunter in existence, and in doing so stepped into the world of shadows, never to be able to fully step into the light ever again. "I'm sorry." he said in the silence of the table, "I'm so truly sorry." sorrow resonated in the four whispered words.
"We said it before and we'll say it again. You have nothing to be sorry for." said Seto. "We chose our paths, Ryou, you guided us and helped us. For that we can say nothing but thank you."
"He's right Ryou, we're a team now. You shouldn't blame yourself for something that was not your fault. Mother and Father (1) as well as Mokuba would not want you to do that." Yugi said putting a comforting hand on Ryou's arm.
The rest of the period was spent in silence none really feeling like eating, but none feeling sorrow. Instead the three sat in a silence that was both comforting and familiar, a silence that spoke in volumes of deep trust and friendship that could never be broken.
Across the cafeteria a figure watched the three a small smile hovering around the lips as sharp eyes caught all expressions. 'I'm glad you are no longer alone little light, I'm glad that finally we can meet and neither of us has to be alone.' the figure's thoughts did not show on his face as he turned and exited the cafeteria disappearing through the large doors as though he had never stood there.
to be continue
1. Yugi is referring to the Andersons, since they adopted Seto, Mokuba, and himself, they refer to them as Mother and Father.
tiger: who the heck was that in the end? Seto: don't you know? you wrote it tiger: yeah i know i wrote it but it was one of those spur of the moment things Bakura: oh you mean like you working on your stories? tiger: ggrrrrr shut up! Ryou: he didn't mean it, he's just angry that he didn't have a bigger part. Yugi: and that he barely had a chance to speak to Ryou Ryou: (-'.'-) Bakura: shut your mouth you little midget! Yugi: *sniff* it's not my fault i'm short! tiger: hey! that was totally uncalled for! *smacks Bakura upside the head with a large book* i'm short too you know *sniffsniff* it's not our fault we're vertically challenged it's our genes tiger and Yugi: *begin to cry on each other's shoulders wailing* Bakura: @.@ ouch
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