Love Among Friends
Chapter 7: What's so funny?

Yami and Yugi were almost out of sight of the classroom when Yami felt a strong hand slap him on the back. Alarmed, he whirled around to face his attacker, the eye of Ra glowing brightly on his forehead. It was a boy that had been in Yugi/Yami's algebra and had therefore witnessed the entire spectacle.

Bakura, who had regained his breath and happened to be a short distance behind the trio, saw the fire in Yami's eyes and decided to see if Yami would make a fool of himself yet again today. He leaned on the wall and waited to see the fireworks.

Meanwhile, Yami had calmed down and was having a conversation with the boy. (A/N: let's just call him Quinton)
"That stunt you pulled in Algebra today was great!"Quinton was saying. "I really thought that you couldn't open the door." As if that weren't bad enough, he did an imitation of Yami's pounding on the door and demanding it to open on the nearest wall, failing to notice Yami was getting angier by the second. Quinton walked back over to Yami. Yami had his fists clenched, was cursing silently in Egyptian, and the Eye of Ra on his forehead looked as if it were on fire.

"And the look on your face was priceless!" He grinned. "By the way, nice tattoo." Quinton said, refering to the Eye of Ra.

"What tat-too?" Yami wondered. "Where is it?" he demanded, checking himself all over for it.

The boy chuckled and slapped his knee.

"What tat-too? Where is it?" Quinton mimiced, wiping happy tears from his eyes.
"See ya tommorrow, funny-man." He went off and left with his friends.

Yami had finally realized that Quinton had been talking about the eye of Ra (A/N with a little help from Yugi) That was the last straw for Yami.

//Alright man.// Yami thought in a voice completely unlike him. //You insult me, you insult my ancestors...in short, you're going down.//

He started to head toward the retreating boy, but Yugi had figured out his Yami's intent. Yugi ran in front of his dark and stood there, blocking his way with his outstretched arms.

/Please!/ Yugi pleaded. /Don't do it!/

//He dared to insult me and the powers of my Millenium Puzzle....Now he must face the wrath of the Shadow Realm...//Yami sneered. The eye of Ra on his forehead glowed so brightly, that it blinded both of them for a moment.

/No!/ Yugi shouted. /Please!/

//Why ever not?// Yami questioned arrogantly.

/because.../ Yugi stalled.

Then an idea -well two actually- dawned on him.

/One: because if you hurt Quinton, then you'll get expelled and you'll never be allowed to come to school with me ever again. Two: I'll never kiss you again./ Yugi smirked, his Yami would never be able to handle either threat. Therefore, Quinton would be saved.

Yugi's eyes searched Yami's for a response, sure of what he'd find. Finally, Yami's face softened. If he was expelled, he would not be able to protect his light, and if his aibou never gave him another of his breath taking kisses, he would just die!

/Okay, let's blow this popsicle stand (A/N: it's just a saying I heard somewhere)/ Yugi said, wanting to get out of there before somebody else tried to make Yami angry.

//What popsicle stand?// Yami demanded, looking around. //You blew it up already?! Did Bakura con you into blowing up this popsicle stand? Where is he? I'll kill him!//

Bakura had overheard their conversation and disappeared.

'You couldn't get revenge if you were dead.' Bakura thought.

/It's just an expression./ Yugi explained, sweatdropping. He slid an arm around Yami's waist. /Let's go home./

//Let's go home// he agreed, slipping an arm around Yugi's shoulders. //I have just realized that I have a strong respect for anyone who can stay in this prison that your government calls a school.//

The two then headed home without a clue of what would happen on the way...

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Okay, I need help from my readers. I'm starting to run out of ideas...tell me what you want to see in upcoming chapters and I'll do my best to make it happen.
A couple ideas that I have are to make Yami and Bakura have a fight in the Shadow Realm, have Yami try Jello for the first time (J-E-L-L-O, It's alive! lol), and uncover a secret crush that Isis has on Yami! I need ideas, so please review!