Will you be my friend?

The tale of how to enemies can become friends.

Synopsis: Joey and Weevil become friends. Yugi and Co. then want nothing to do with Joe. Better than it sounds.

Enjoy, if possible.

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A warm thursday afternoon makes it's presence know in Domino, Japan. The students at Domino High were enjoying a hamburger lunch outside. Yugi and Co. eat sitting under the shade of a glorious Elm tree. Joey Wheeler notices a small, aqua haired boy, roughly their age, maby a little younger, sitting alone next to a Paupler tree. He's leaned up aginst the tree, his eyes shut in an attempt to masqueraide his huner pain. "So, Joey, what do you think?" a short, spikey haired boy says, his innocent lavender eyes trusting and deep with a love for all the world. ".............Huh?" "I told you he wasn't listening!" a girl with reddish-brown hair and sapphirre blue eyes says. "Joey's probably thinking about Mai again!" A brown haired boy says to Joe, just trying to provoke him. "...........Oh, I was thinking about............Finals?" They all laugh and Joey looks miffed. "Joey, we were talking about going to the arcade later, you wanna go?" "Yeah sure." Out of the corner of his eye, Joey sees the boy he was watching earlier faint. Nobody notices or comes to the child's aid. "..................I gotta get up and get something........you all wait here...." Joey gets up and leaves. "What do you guys think is wrong with Joey?" "Maby spring's gettin' to him...?"

The aqua haired boy, Weevil Underwood, comes to. He looks up and sees a blonde haired boy sitting in front of him holding some food. "What do you want, Wheeler? Come to flaunt food in my face--or perhaps you want to spill it on my head to impress your friends." "Nah, Nah. I brought you some food," Weevil looks at Joey like he's going to do simething. "Go on, man, I didn't poison it or anything." The green haired boy takes some of it and eats. He pauses and then begins to eat like there's no tomarrow. Joey remembers when he was like that. 'God, poor Weevil! I know that he's poor and all, but Geeze, I didn't know he was that hungry!' "Calm down, Underwood! It's just Vegemite! Nothing to get excited about!" The smaller teen notices other people looking at him. He blushes and stops eating. "Weevil...........I was wondering if you'd like to come over to my house and stay the night tonight. I'll make you some dinner, too." "Okay, what time do you want me to be over there?" Weevil says with confusion in his voice. "Around six. Oh, yah, and I live at 153 Juniper st. You know where that is?" ".......yeah........" He the small boy says. 'Why is he being so nice to me? Oh well, a place to sleep and some food to eat.'

That night at six o'clock sharp, Weevil D. Underwood arrives at the Wheeler resedence. He's carring his deck and his Duel disk. Joey opens the door. "Oh, hi Weevil!" Joey notices what the boy has with him. "Why do you have your Duel Monsters stuff with you?" "............I don't know." he says, but Joey can see it's a lie. "Well, dinner will be ready soon. Why don't you go clean up?" "Okay." The smaller teen goes into the washroom and strips off. Joey comes in, not knowing that the other boy is nude, and walks right in on him. They both scream, starteled. Joey shuts the door and leans up aginst the wall, starteled at what he'd seen. 'SCARS! My God! What's been happening to him!?' Inside the restroom, Weevil begins to panic. 'Oh shit! He saw my 'Badges of Honor'! What if he tells somebody!? God, I'm screwed!' During dinner the smaller boy stares downward as he eats, no eye contact or speech with the blonde. That night, right befoere Weevil is about to sleep, Joey comes in to talk to him. "...................Weevil, I want to talk to you........I would like to know who's been hurting you. I saw those scars and bruises..." Weevil breaks down and cries. "My Dad! He's been beating me since I was small-- When we still lived in Niigata. I ran away four weeks ago, I couldn't take it anymore..........that's the reason I had my DM stuff with me! I have nowhere else to put it! I'm HOMELESS, Joey." Joey's heart softens twards the Bug Brawler. 'That's why he cheats! He needed money to buy to think of it, I have seen him singing, dancing, and playing guitar in the park before.' "There's been times he's hurt me so bad, I've been in need of hospitilization! I wear glasses beacouse of him.....he beat me in the face so many times that it fucked up my eyes...I- I never left before because he said he'd kill me...I realised that if I don't run away, he's going to kill me anyway." "Weevil.......I want you to stay here from now on..." "Okay.......," Joey gest up and leaves. "Joey?" "What?" ".......Thanks, man...." "Okay."

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