*Disclaimer* "Disclaim! Disclaim! Dis-" x_x "damn pokemon..... I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of it's characters.....yet.... "

Neko-Yasha formally Hikiarichan asks... er, rather, demands that I write more, heh, thats a no brainer.....

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"Hey, check that guy out!"

"Oh man, that's amazing!"

"How did he do that?"

Yami arched an eyebrow at the odd young man performing gymnastic tumbles across the mats, he had been hovering over a rack of practice swords for nearly an hour watching various people tumble, flip, twirl, cartwheel, and fall over untill he was tempted to retreat back into the Millennium puzzle untill they left.

"If it weren't for the fact that-"

"The fact that I asked you to watch and see if anybody acted like they knew I wasn't from earth, I was worried that somebody might have caught on in the past few days, but I guess I'm safe for now."

Yami floated a little closer to Yugi, keeping an eye on the various people tumbling around with an air of annoyance. It seemed to him like this was a waste of time, between the two of them, there was no way they would be caught unawares.

"Whats the matter Yami? This place not exactly where you'd be going to have some fun?"

"You know perfectly well what my idea of fun is aibou."

"Actully, I don't Yami, in fact, I don't think I really know anything about you. Besides the fact that you're an egyptian pharoh that's been dead for thousands of years. What-"

Yugi was cut short by a rough shove that sent him stumbling a few feet to the side, accompayed by a deep voice that Yami would have described as 'Insolent' at best.

" I said 'get out of my way small fry' don't your ears work?"

Yami hovered in place, arms crossed over his chest as he glared at the thug that had shoved his aibou. Tall, broad shoulders, dark hair cut short and a cocky smirk that he would love to personaly wipe off of his face described the brute perfectly.

" I guess I didn't hear you, sorry....."

Yugi brushed himself off as he walked back to where he was standing, straightening up to look the tough in the eyes. He didn't recognise him from any of the planatry security databases he had scanned, so he was probably a local punk trying to make himself look important.

" You're damn right you're sorry, now get outta my way before I decide to snap you like a toothpick."

The punk flashed Yugi a toothy grin that said he'd be happy to put word to action, puffing his chest up a bit to make himself look more imposing.

" I've got a better idea, why don't I send you to the shadow relm......"

The eye of Horus shimmered into dim light as Yami extended one hand, preparing to shift into his hosts body and teach the young punk some manners befitting one speaking to the chosen host of an egyptian pharoh when Yugi smiled oddly, leaning towards the punk.

" I've got an idea, why don't you back off, or I'll toss you around like a dog playing with a sock, hmmmm? What do you say?"

The punks mouth worked soundlessly a few times before he let out a gutteral growl, cocking back a fist as he began to lean forwards in preperation to knock the much lighter Yugi across the room.

Sadly, that blow never landed. By the time the thug had pulled back his fist, Yugi had allready moved forwards and planted his knee into the punks gut, doubling him over before he had realized what happened.

" Sorry, but not today."

Stepping onto the punks slightly bent knee, Yugi leaped up into the air and twisted, corkscrewing in the air several times before coming back down to the thugs head height, lashing out with his heel he struck said punk in the temple, sending him involentarily cartwheeling head over heels several times before landing in a heap.

Yugi landed in a crouch pressed low, his chin nearly touching the ground, his elbows out to the side as far as they could go, his knees up on either side of his head by his ears. In a single, smooth motion he stood up and glanced at the punk laying where he had landed, a frosty look on his face.

" Or any other day in this lifetime either, for that matter...."

Ignoring the startled and amazed burble of shocked chatter he turned and walked out of the gym, striding out onto a shortly clipped lawn with a ghostly spirit gliding in his wake.

" I hope that won't happen on a regular bassis aibou......"

The expression on Yami's face, however, said that he didn't mind all that much if it happened to another guy like the first, if it needed to.

" He was a weakling Yami, I took no pleasure in handing his ass to him. He wasn't even a threat to me, but he had to learn that you can't get away with picking on somebody, just because they may be smaller than you."

" I'm sure that if he ever manages to wake up, he'll think several times before even coming back to school, most of the people here are shorter than him allready. "

With a bone-weary sigh Yugi sat down under the first tree he came to and crossed his legs, folding his hands behind his head as he leaned back against the tree's trunk, staring up at the clear blue sky.

Several long moments passed before Yami floated down to join his hikari, sitting in a similar way as he gazed at his host.

" Is something bothering you Yugi, or are you just bored?"

" To be perfectly honest Yami, I was allmost hoping to meet a few people today.... "

" You mean make some friends. "

" Thats not what I said. "

" But thats what you ment."

" Listen Yami, a person of my age doesn't make friends, they have associates. "

" You're just making excuses now. "

" I am not-"

" You're not what? "

Yami and Yugi both sat upright at the sound of a femanine voice coming from close by, very close by infact, so close that....

" Um, did I scare you? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. "

Yugi blinked at the girl standing infront of him, she had shoulder length brown hair and a puzzled look on her face. Standing a few paces back was an equally young looking boy with blonde hair and an annoyed sort of look on his face, wearing a beaten green jacket.

" Uh? Ahhh, no..... no, I was just, thinking aloud, thats all..... "

The girl beamed a two hundered watt smile down at him while the boy behind her slapped his forehead, groaning softly to himself.

" Oh, that happens to me all the time, not enough room in my head for all my thoughts I guess. "

" Or much of anything else...... "

" Did you just say something, Joey Wheeler?! "

Forced to back up a step, Joey lifted his hands to ward off any incoming blows, one could never tell how a girl would react to an innocent comment.

" Nope, nuh-uh, not me. "

" I didn't think so...... "

Giving Joey another glare for good measure, the girl turned back to face Yugi and smiled at him again while Joey pulled out the corners of his mouth and wagged his tongue at her back.

" So! Whats your name, tall, dark and han- "

" And how'd you lay out that guy like that? I've never seen anybody do somethin' like that before! Just, whoosh, POW! "

Yugi smiled a little as the girls eyebrow began to twich, clearly, he had better speak up before Joey was turned into something resembling cafeteria brand meatloaf.

" My name is...... My name is Yugi Motou, I live with my grandfather at the turtle game shop. "

" Oh, my name's Tea Gardener, pleased to meet you Yugi. "

Joey blinked at the mention of the words 'game' and 'shop' in an instant, he was over at yugi's side, kneeling on the grass, his hands gripping Yugi's jacket like he was the only log in an ocean.

" You live at the turtle game shop with grandpa Motou?! "

Yugi gave Joey a disturbed sort of look at this intrusion of his personal space, Yami, on the other hand, was floating a little to the side and watching the goings on with a fond smile on his face.

" Uh, yeah.... isn't that what I just said? "

" You'll have to forgive Joey, you see, duel monsters is his life. "

" Oh.... that explains why he's trying to tear my coat off and eat it. "

Tea giggled as joey instantly jumped back and blushed a little, embaressed at his instant hero worship/jelousy.

" ......I wasn't gonna eat it....... "

Yugi smiled and stood up, brushing his behind off as he did.

" Tell you what, how about I buy you two lunch, and you can tell me what this school is like, deal? "

Little sparkles of light shone in Joeys eyes at the mention of the word 'food'. It was clear that he was instantly sold. Tea smiled at Yugi and nodded.

" I know this great place downtown. "

" Allright, lead on Tea. "

Yami hovered where he was, silent, as Yugi, Joey and Tea walked off, leaving the long dead pharoh to float there, alone.

" ............. At least some things never change...... "

" Slow down Joey! They won't run out of food in the next half hour! "

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Well, there you go, another chapter out of the way, seems like I'm doing a new chapter every month, and that looks like it's working out fine for now, but I'll try and post one more chapter in time for halloween. Now then, time for the part where I poke at the questions that you're all thinking about. How did Yugi manage to perform such an impossible move? Why is he worried about being caught on earth? Who was that guy everybody was watching in the beginning of the chapter?

That one I can answer, he was one of domino high's gymnastic team, obviously, those people didn't know they like to practice afterschool in the gym.... now they do.

Heh, that seems like enough today, if any of you would like me to add anything particular about Yugi's history, you'll have to ask me nicely for it. Untill then, Ja ne!