Chapter four.
After the incident with Téa 2nd, Yugi and Ryou were extremely shaken up.
Malik and Ishtar had a hard time getting them out of the alleyway for an hour. When Yami and Bakura heard, they both gasped and Yami nearly blacked out.
"What's so awful about her?" Malik asked, confused that they could get so worked up over one girl.
"You don't know her." Yugi said, rocking back and forth, "She fed me poison and Yami's so afraid of her that he jumped out of a window to get away from her."
"She was after me for ages." Yami continued, pausing to take a de-stress pill… well five of them, "As soon as that cow discovered about me, she was following Yugi around everywhere, asking to see me."
"Téa hung round with me, Joey and Tristan for a long time. I just kept quiet about the fact I hated her guts… then I found out that Joey and Tristan hated her too." Yugi was shaky. Ryou was behind him, staring out the window. "Tristan found out that Téa had a crush on him… and he killed himself. Hanged himself with a note in his hand. It said…um…"
"I would rather die than be the victim to harassing bitches like Téa." Yami said.
"Yeah… and Téa never thought for a second it was her Tristan was talking about. She just thought it was someone else."
"Don't forget the 'friendship' speeches." Ryou added.
"Mmm. Téa was always yakking on about everyone should be friends… and that friendship would overcome all. She had no idea that the world hated her." Yugi said, with some relish.
"So, what happened to her?" Malik asked.
"Well, we were sick of her, so we planned to skip the country. I wont tell you all the details of when we were planning it, but it turned out that only Yami didn't know where we were going in the end. Anyways, we had planned to go when Téa was at her gran's, but somehow she managed to come over and catch us."
"She finally latched onto the fact we all despised her, and that Yami wouldn't go out with her if she was the last girl on earth, and so she said she'd settle for the next best thing… Yugi. So she lunged at him and started kissing him." Yugi stared shivering uncontrollably at Ryou's words. "Relax Yugi. Anyway, Bakura was going out with him back then, and he came in with a huge knife and killed her." Yugi sighed.
"I'll never forget that kiss… I'm going to be tormented for the rest of my life." Bakura suddenly laughed.
"HOW CAN YOU LAUGH?" Yugi demanded.
"Well, I was just remembering that birthday party. How old was Ryou? Six? And you and Ryou went to Téa's party 'cause your parents made you… and you came home in an ambulance!" Bakura doubled over laughing. Yugi groaned.
"She fed us bad fish. Ryou's lucky he's not dead." Ishtar looked at Ryou questioningly.
"I was allergic to that fish as well as it being off… I had to fight an allergic reaction and food poisoning."
"Oh." Ishtar said quietly. "She was bad." Yugi nodded.
"And now… we have to cope with Téa two!"
"You don't know that she'll be the same as Téa! Just because someone looks, sounds and acts like someone else, doesn't mean that they're totally the same… look at Ryou and Bakura!"
"Ryou and Bakura share the same soul, they can't possibly be exactly the same. Téa and Téa two are related. They have the same traits." Yugi snapped. Malik scowled.
"So you're just going to keep having mental breakdowns every time you see her now then are you?"
"Nope. But I am going away. You can stay if you want, but I'm leaving before she has a chance to realise who we are." Yugi got up and headed out of the room, returning with a map of the world. "Where to?" he asked Ryou.
"I want snow."
"Me too. So where?" Ryou pointed back to the North Pole.
"There." Yugi glanced back to Malik, who was glaring at him.
"Um, no. Somewhere else."
"South Pole?"
"Ok!" Yugi said. He got back up and picked up the phone, "Who wants to come?" Ryou, Yami and Ishtar put their hands up, and then Yami made Bakura.
"You wont have to skate!" he hissed.
"Aren't you coming?" Yugi asked Malik.
"I want to stay here for a while more. Until you get bored of the snow. I have some stuff to do anyways."
"Ok. If you see Téa, give her a kick for me ok?" Yugi dialled the airport and booked five tickets for the South Pole. "We're leaving in the morning." He said, before heading to his bedroom to pack.
"How come we never stay in any place really long?" Ishtar asked.
" 'Cause it's more fun to travel." Ryou answered.
First thing in the morning, Yugi was darting round all over the place. He hadn't slept all night because he was so excited. He had stayed up all night packing and revising stuff he knew about skiing. At about three, he had bounced into Ryou's room and shook him awake.
"Can we go now?" he asked. Ryou rolled his eyes.
"Where're we going again?"
"South Pole." Ryou's eyes lit up and he shot out of bed.
"Couldn't you have woken up Yami?" Ishtar whined.
"Are you kidding? Bakura's real grouchy in the morning." Yugi said smiling.
After three more hours of Yugi having to wait while Yami and Bakura packed, everyone was finally ready to go.
"You sure you won't come?" Yugi asked Malik.
"Yep. I need to stay here for a while, but at least I can trust you this time." Yugi grinned and ran to the door.
"See ya then!" he yelled, opening the door, going out and slamming it behind him.
Everyone else was still in the room. Yami rolled his eyes and ran after him, leaving Ryou, Bakura and Ishtar to carry everything.
The airport was a familiar sight for Yugi now. He ran all the way there, stopping only once at the boarding gates to the plane, and realising he needed to wait for everyone else. He sighed and got out of line to wait.
Half an hour later, Yami came up behind him.
"Ever heard of waiting?" he asked. Yugi shook his head, his whole body shaking slightly with anticipation. Yami sighed and walked towards the plane.
"Aren't you gonna wait now?"
"Nope."
"Ok." Yugi followed after him.
A full hour later, Ishtar, Ryou and Bakura boarded the plane and found Yugi and Yami.
"We had to pay for the tickets again. You had them." Ishtar snarled. Yugi grinned and looked back out of the window. Ryou sat next to him and poked him.
"You owe me three hundred quid." Yugi took out his wallet.
"Here you go." He said, handing over three-one hundred pound notes.
"Thanks." Ryou said, smiling and putting the money in his pocket.
"I'll never get used to that." Bakura said. Ryou and Yugi frowned.
"What?"
"You two! You're both filthy rich and I'll never get used to it! You just go like ' oh you owe me three hundred quid' and you just fork it over!" Yugi shrugged and watched as they took off out of the window.
The trip was surprisingly short for Yugi, probably because he was totally absorbed in what Ryou was saying all the way through the trip. He was explaining about the more difficult things to do in skiing. Yugi still had a broken arm, but it was almost healed (AN/ I know that's a short time… but what the hell!) so Yugi only had to spend a day or two inside, then no one could stop him hitting the hills again!
About an hour before they were due to land, Yugi's phone rang. Yugi took out the smallest phone Ryou had ever seen.
"Hi Kaiba." He said.
"How'd you know it was me?"
"Sheesh Kaiba! I'd think a guy like you would know! I've got you're number in memory."
"Oh. Anyway… where the hell are you?"
"Why?"
"I need a break. Where are you?"
"South Pole."
"Ok. I'll be there in two hours." And Kaiba put the phone down. Yugi scowled.
"Kaiba's coming." Yami shuddered.
"Great. Now I have to stomach him for ages."
"Just keep thinking 'At least it's not Téa.'"
"Oh yeah! Ok he can come." Yami said, smiling.
Yugi went into the toilets to change into his 'cherry' clothes a quarter of an hour before the plane landed.
He immediately flew headfirst into a snow pile once off the plane.
"Bury me!" he yelled at Ryou. Ryou shrugged and put gloves on to start burying him.
"Oh," he said, pausing and taking out the three hundred quid from Yugi. "Buy some nice cabins." He gave the money to Yami and walked over to Yugi.
Yami paid for two rooms, one for himself and Bakura, and one for Yugi, Ryou and Ishtar.
"Why'd you do that?" Bakura asked.
"To piss Ishtar off." Yami answered, grinning. He seemed to have found his fun side since he had been going out with Bakura.
Half an hour later, Ishtar and Ryou were still burying Yugi, and Yami was trying to get Bakura to ski.
"You wont fall."
"Are you kidding? Yugi broke his arm!"
"It's better now!" Bakura snorted and left to find his cabin.
After a lot of help, Yugi got up from the snow and found his cabin with Ryou, while Ishtar pigged out on the restaurant food.
The cabins were a lot better than the ones in the north. They had deluxe king-sized double beds with canopies, and comfort was obviously something they had as much as possible. Yugi headed for the nearest bed and threw himself on it. Not knowing how bouncy the beds were, he hit the canopy and fell back on the floor. Ryou burst out laughing.
"I shouldn't have done that." Yugi moaned, rubbing his head.
"It's terrific here isn't it? It's even better 'cause we're hiding from Téa. It's just like old times!" Yugi suddenly gasped and Ryou nearly shot through the roof.
"What?!"
"I just thought of something!" Yugi said, his eyes wide and questioning, "Why is Kaiba coming over here when he could go anywhere in the world?" Ryou: -___-;;
"We weren't talking about that. It just shows how much focus you have."
"Can we ski now?" Ryou sighed.
"You can't ski because of your arm."
"You have them as well!"
"I mean it's broken."
"Then fix it, or take it to a repairman… what're we talking about?"
"I really don't think you should have eaten that plane food."
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Kaiba stepped off his personal helicopter and looked around the snow-covered wonderland.
"This place sucks." He muttered. He instantly saw Yami's flaming hair and walked up to him. Yami turned around.
"Hello Kaiba. I hope you know I'm only stomaching you because I have someone I hate more than you now." Kaiba looked astonished.
"Really? Who?"
"Téa two." Even Kaiba shivered at the name.
"That freak accident of nature? I thought you said Bakura killed her?"
"He did, but she had a look-alike cousin. They even have the same name. She's in LA right now though." Kaiba nodded.
"Where's your pint-sized ex-time share?"
"excuse me?"
"Yugi. And those two freaky looking blondes? And his ex-time share?" he pointed over to Bakura, who scowled.
Yugi and Ryou are examining their quarters, Ishtar is probably still stuffing his face, and Malik stayed in LA."
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"And I like ice cream and snow and skiing and chocolate and snow and skiing and horror movies and snow and skiing and…" and the list went on. Ryou was getting tired of hearing the never-ending list of things a sugar high Yugi liked. "And I love Malik and snow and skiing and you and snow and skiing and…"
"What?" Yugi stopped and looked at Ryou, who was sitting in a chair in the corner.
"Huh?"
"What did you just say?" Yugi cleared his throat.
"I love Malik and snow and skiing and you and snow and skiing." He stopped again and grinned, then he passed out and fell backwards off the bed. Ryou sat there, eyes wide, wondering whether to take Yugi seriously or not. But even if he was serious about the loving him thing, he was with Malik now.
"It's weird." Ryou said to himself, "The two people I've had crushes on are Yugi and Malik, and neither of them seemed to like me. And Ishtar was the one who chose me, but I've never truly admitted to him… how little he really means to me…"
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Ok, to clear a few things up on the last bit, Yugi was sugar high from the plane food and said he loved Ryou, and at that moment, Ryou realised his feelings for Yugi ran much deeper than the ones for Ishtar, and even his feelings for Malik, who now criticizes everything he does. Now he has to make up his mind who he's gonna go with- his truest love Yugi, who already has Malik, or Ishtar, who means the least to him, but seemingly loves him the most?
You decide! Review me your preference, and I'll take it from there.
