Disclaimers: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! In any way shape or form.

Rated PG for upcoming male/male scenes. If you don't like yaoi and you read it, well… that will unfortunately be your problem...

School Play

"Domino Senior High School proudly presents – a ninth grade end of year production, 'Queen Cleopatra' to be held on the night of December twenty third, highlighting the end of year celebration festival. All students are to participate. Roles will be decided by random drawing." Joey finished reading the announcement by rolling his eyes at Yugi, Tristan and Teá.

Eyes shining, hands clasped in front of her and almost bouncing on the balls of her feet in excitement, Teá gasped "Oh! Cleopatra! It's one of my favourite historical stories! The beautiful Egyptian Queen, the tragic love she had for the Roman Emperor, Marc Antony, her death by poisonous snake, oh Yugi! Yugi? Are you listening?"

"Huh?" Yugi raised his violet eyes, staring blankly in confusion for a moment before smiling shyly. A low laugh escaped from him, "Yes! Of course I'm listening." he replied.

Not completely convinced, Teá glared, which caused Yugi to wave his hands before him as he sidled away to hide behind Joey. "Ah, yeah, great story! I wonder who I'll get to be?" he added quickly.

Joey smirked as a brief vision of himself and Yugi in the lead roles lingered in his mind. Obviously thinking a similar thing, Tea's eyes turned misty. "Just think of it Yugi!" she exclaimed excitedly, "Me, as the ill-fated queen, you as the handsome Marc Antony…

'Me as the little guy sneaking away…' Yugi thought as he took advantage of Teá day dreaming to move further away.

The bell rang to signal the start of morning classes. The usual jostle of students pushing their way to their seats quickly gave way to silence as their teacher entered the classroom to take her place at her desk. Teá gave Yugi a playful swat for having left her standing alone earlier. She then settled into her seat at the desk beside him.

On the other side of Yugi, Joey rolled his eyes in sympathy.

As usual, the last one to enter the classroom was Seto Kaiba. Dignified as always, he took his seat behind Yugi. The short Duel Monster's champion listened to the tall teen's chair scrape a little and then he focused his attention on his teacher's face.

Smiling, the young woman caught Joey's paper plane without looking and then faced her class. "Today is September twenty nine, as you are all aware… Bakura!" she snapped, "Stop glaring boy and put that ring away! … We will be putting on a play for the school festival. I have chosen 'Cleopatra' since we covered Egyptian history a few months ago, as a result, Cleopatra should still be fresh in your minds." The teacher smiled at her class. "Yes Mutou, what is it?"

All eyes turned to face Yugi as he sat, hand in the air. "Um, miss? Uh, just one question? Why do we have to have a random character selection? I'm sure that no guys here want to end up wearing a dress."

Amused giggles broke out among the students as the teacher smiled indulgently at him, "Yes Mutou, we do. One, it is traditional and two," she paused to lean on her desk, eyes taking on a firm, almost sadistic gleam as her glasses flashed menacingly under the flouro lighting, "because I say so!"

The morning classes ended. Just before the students had been released for lunch, the teacher wrote out all the roles on pieces of paper, folded them and placed them all into a clean waste paper basket. "When you return, we will have the drawing. May I remind you all, "that this is a full class effort? All of you," she paused to glare at Seto, "will take part."

Yugi, with his friends, sat huddled around Joey as he giggled over a colourful comic book, "I know we are doing Cleo and Marco but it would be fun to do this one!" Joey laughed as Yugi smirked at the drawings of a little fellow wearing a winged helmet, his enormous friend with a little dog and a gray bearded druid as they made a magic strength-enhancing potion for Cleopatra's palace builders.

"Hey!" said Tristan eagerly, "Maybe we can sneak it in somewhere."

The three boys laughed at the idea but suddenly stopped as Teá huffed at them. "This is a serious play! No messing around." She said indignantly. Then one of her friends, who was walking by, noticed her and started speaking to her. The boys took advantage of Teá speaking to the girl and put their heads together once more.

"You know Joey, " giggled Yugi, "It would be fun to see you in a dress!"

Joey threw his arm around his friend's neck and laughed raucously, "Yeah! In ya dreams pal! Hey Tristan, I wouldn't mind seeing you in a mini skirt though!"

Tristan snorted, "Yeah right! Only if you wear one as well!"

Bakura strode over, holding up one finger as he spoke, "You guys can dance in frilly pink tutus for all I care! What I want to see is Seto Kaiba in a mini!"

The boys all gaped at him for a moment, their three minds sharing a single thought. The thought of the good looking, tall, lanky form of Seto Kaiba, decked out in the very short outfit befitting of a roman soldier, sword over one shoulder and gazing sourly at them, sent them all into a bout of hysterical laughter. "Oh man!" cried Joey wiping tears of laughter from his eyes, "I can just see it!"

"Oh yeah," chimed in Yugi, just barely able to talk as he gasped for breath, "lets hope that happens!"

Lunch break then ended and the boys ran back to class, still giggling hysterically over their mental image of roman legion Seto.

"Wheeler!" The teacher's voice rang out, "You're next!"

Several other students had already drawn their parts but no one had yet drawn the lead roles. Squaring his shoulders, Joey strode forward to thrust his hand into the basket. Unfolding the paper, his eyebrows drew downward, "Palace guard? Oh man…" he complained in disappointment. Ignoring Tristan's chuckle, Joey returned to his seat.

Next up was Teá. Chanting out 'Cleopatra, Cleopatra!' under her breath, she drew out her paper. "What? Servant girl? No way!" she complained bitterly

"Too bad, eh, Teá?" Remarked Joey with a happy smirk.

She threw him a single dirty look as Yugi was called up for his turn at drawing. He spent almost a minute rummaging through the papers before finally choosing one. His eyes went wide, eyebrows nearly vanishing under his golden bangs.

"Well, Yugi?" Teá asked, her curiosity overwhelming her, "What part did you get?"

"I… I drew Marc Antony."

A collective gasp went up, applause breaking out. Seto folded his arms as he sneered. "Aren't you a little short for an emperor?" Tea's frustrated, faint snarl of "Darn it!" reached Seto ears and he smirked at her.

No matter who got to play Cleopatra, it was going to look strange. Yugi was very short, even Teá loomed over him. 'Oh boy! Teá playing Cleopatra, I could handle but some other girl? Please, let Tristan draw the role of Cleopatra! I think I could handle that!' Yugi thought to himself, but unfotunately Tristan drew a guardsman's role instead.

Then, it was Seto's turn. Fixating his steely blue gaze on Yugi, he swiftly withdrew a paper. Everyone leaned in expectantly as he opened it. To everyone's surprise, he smirked at Yugi as he read out "Queen Cleopatra."

A long cry of 'argh' rang out of all the girl's throats, while the boys threw themselves about, laughing fit to burst.

Yugi, sweating buckets, tipped his head back to look up… and up. "The long and the short of it!" gasped Bakura in glee.

Seto, who was by far the tallest teen in school, glared down his nose and then smirked maliciously.

After Bakura drew the evil chancellor, the final drawings took place. With everyone now having a role, the teacher addressed them. "We have two months to prepare so all afternoon classes for today are cancelled. Scripts will be handed out before home time. Oh, stop looking so miserable Mutou! Work will start tomorrow. Now, where are my set and wardrobe people?" Teá, Joey and Tristan, along with several other people raised their hands. "Fine… Mister Wheeler! Wipe that dirty look off of your face! Now, what I require from each of you…"

Yugi no longer heard what she was saying as his mind was reeling from the impact of his and Seto's roles. 'Marc Antony was Cleopatra's" he gulped in nervousness, "lover…" Looking at Seto's stern face, Yugi wondered if he could possibly do this.

"Aibou, what's wrong?"

Yugi jumped a little as his spirit brother's voice interrupted his thoughts. Normally Yami completely ignored Yugi when the short teen was at school however sensing Yugi's troubled mind, he had stirred to find out what the trouble was. Yugi explained and then grinned as Yami's jaw dropped.

"You can't play Marc Antony! The roman's are the enemy of Egypt!" Yami paced the length of Yugi's bedroom as the little fellow gaped at him in shock. He had never seen the ancient pharaoh spirit so agitated before.

"Look, will you please calm down? Its not real, its just a school play. Besides, Cleopatra was way after your time, what's the problem?"

Yami stopped pacing to glare at his partner, "When I was Pharaoh, we knew of the roman's! True, they were only just starting to sniff around then but…"

"But nothing!" cut in Yugi in exasperation. "I have to do this! My friends and all my classmates are counting on me!"

Yami strode straight through Yugi's study desk to lean down, eyeballing the youth. "I can not allow…"

"You can't allow? Excuse me mister high and mightiness but I am going to have to do this. Hell, its bad enough having to act alongside Seto but look at this! Page fifty two says here 'Cleopatra and Marc Antony kiss', I'm going to have to kiss Seto Kaiba!"

Yami jerked up in shock, "What? Kiss? But… but…"

"But its part of the script!" Yugi said miserably, "I can tell you, it's a part that I am going to have a lot of trouble with doing!" Yugi stared up at Yami, his eyes full of desperation.

To be concluded…

The second half just needs to be typed up :-)

I just have to make a small apolgy though. In trying to post this on FFNet, Whenever I typed Teá I had no problem putting the mark above the a but whenever I tried to type Tea's if I put the mark above the a it would keep dropping the á altogether... So sorry about it sometimes being spelt slightly wrong, there was nothing I could do to correct this...