Disclaimers are the same for all chapters.

Remember Yami Yugi? Yeah, there IS a character known as Yami in YGO! -gasp-

Well, what I've gathered from the series, is that Yami is a tad psycho. Just think of all the duels where in the end he could care less about the person that he was dueling. Remember that scene where Yugi has all those ugly clothes spread out on his bed, and Yami helps him accessorize? He's actually quite an interesting character.

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"This is my favorite place to shop!" Anzu exclaimed as they entered the very chic clothing store.

Word had gotten out that Jounouchi had a date with Nymphe that night, so Honda, Anzu, and Yugi had decided that they would take him shopping at their own expense. It was actually Yami, though, because Yugi claimed that Yami knew a bit more about fashion than Yugi; plus he hadn't been seen in a while. Yugi wouldn't let him play the game with everyone anyway. Everyone was in a light winter jacket, even though it wasn't as cold as it should be.

"This is a bit expensive, isn't it?" Jounouchi asked, feeling intimidated by his surroundings.

"It's a present," the girl said, "If you need a reason then we can say that it's your birthday. It's the same season!"

"This is good," Yami said, holding out a hanger. It held a black long-sleeved shirt, which zippered down the front, and had belts at the cuffs.

Anzu giggled and waved her hand in front of Yami's face, taking the hanger away from him. She placed it back on the rack and remarked, "How about something a little more conservative?" Yami shrugged at her, wondering what was wrong with the shirt.

"Follow me!" she commanded the group, grabbing onto Jou's wrist and dragging him through the store. They stopped at rack of silk shirts.

"Hmm, now what color?" she mumbled, searching through the hangers.

"Blue," the boys said in unison. She pulled out a semi-sheer blue shirt with black buttons down the front. The collar was pointed more-so than normal collared shirts.

"This is silk!" Jounouchi reminded the brunette.

"I know," she smiled, "But Nymphe is a nice girl, and you should look your best for her!" She pushed him toward the changing station, and said, "Now go try it on!"

"Hey! Ya don't have to push me!" the blonde protested. Anzu stuck her tongue out at him and shoved him into the curtained booth.

Several minor curses later, Jounouchi emerged, wearing the silk shirt, which he had buttoned up all the way. It reached just a bit passed his waist, and the bottom was cut in such a way that showed it shouldn't be tucked in.

"Wow! You look great in that Jounouchi!" she complimented. Jou blushed a bit, and studied the expressions on his friends' faces. Yami was the only one that didn't seem pleased.

With a twisted look on his face, and his eyebrows almost perpendicular to each other, Yami approached Jou slowly, stretching a single hand out in front of him. He took the top button of the shirt in between his fingers, feeling its smooth texture, then unbuttoned it, along with the button below that. A bit of the blushing boy's chest was revealed, but only just below the collarbone.

"Better," Yami remarked as he stepped back to admire Jounouchi.

"Definitely better!" Anzu squealed.

There was something about Yami that made Jou want to pull him back into the booth with him.

"Okay, stay in there Jou! We'll be right back with some more stuff!" Anzu yelled to him. In no less than ten minutes later, five pairs of pants attached to three different pairs of hands were handed to him from outside of the curtain.

"Try the jeans first, man!" Honda's voice called.

"No! The blue boot-cut corduroy's!" Anzu argued.

He scrutinized the different pairs of pants in his hands. There was a plain pair of deep blue jeans, boot-cut corduroy's in the same color, and three pairs of black pants. The choice among them was minimal; leather flares with no pockets, pleather flares with cargo pockets, or denim boot-cuts with silver zippers down the sides of the legs.

As Jou began to unzipper his own jeans to begin to try things on, he heard the curtain slide open slightly.

"Jounouchi," Yami poked his head in, narrowing his eyes, "The pair with zippers."

"You…you can't just walk in to any one of these things when someone's in them!" Jounouchi raised his voice, blushing rather noticeably.

"I know," Yami winked, "I think I came in too early." He shut the curtain after that, leaving Jounouchi to try on the pants. Sometimes Yami really made him wonder. He figured the guy was off his rocker, even though he secretly enjoyed it.

When his hormones calmed down a bit, he finally tried on the black zipper pants, and stepped out to show everyone. Yami was trying on sunglasses, since they were on sale, due to being somewhat out of season.

"Those aren't the ones I picked out!" Anzu and Honda shouted. Yami lowered his current pair of glasses and gave him a wicked look, accompanied with a thumbs up.

"I like them," Jou admitted.

"You've been staying with Yugi too long, man," Honda remarked. Yami shot an evil glare his way.

"He does look great though, Honda," Anzu said. The tallest boy shrugged as Jounouchi changed back into his normal clothes.

"We're going to go buy this stuff, and then you and I will pick out some new shoes," Anzu told Jou as he re-emerged from behind the curtain, holding his new clothing.

"What's wrong with my shoes?" the blonde asked, staring down at his black sneakers.

"You can't wear sneakers on your first date! Those pants would go horrible with them anyway!" his friend informed him, placing her hands angrily on her hips.

"What are we doing?" Honda asked her.

"You two have to get him some essentials!" she said. Anzu then leaned over and whispered the rest into Honda's ear.

"Got it," he said, motioning for Yami to follow.

Seto sifted through his deck of cards, wondering why he hadn't picked it up lately. He stopped when he found a Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and stared at it for a moment. Maybe he should bring the deck with him, just because. His thumb drifted over a small red stain in the corner of the card, reminding him of the time he had helped Yugi's friend.

At least this was one thing that they weren't involved with, for once. He clenched his teeth, and decided to put his deck away.

"Did you get everything?" Anzu asked Honda. They were standing outside of the store, watching their own breath form in front of them as they exhaled. Jou was holding a black bag which had the clothing and the black boots they just bought.

Honda held up a plastic bag as proof and declared, "Yep, got everything!"

Jounouchi snatched the bag from Honda and looked inside. The bag crinkled and rustled as he searched through its contents, pulling things out one by one and handing them to Anzu.

"Cologne?" he exclaimed, "I don't smell bad!"

"It's not to cover up anything, idiot!" Anzu chided, "A small amount of really good cologne can drive a girl crazy!"

"Hair…gel? Super extra firm hold level five?" he held out a bottle of green gel.

"That's for us," Yami stated, referring to the body that both he and Yugi shared.

"And this level one?" Jou asked, pulling out a bottle of yellow hair gel.

"That one is for you!" Honda told him.

"Breath mints?!"

"Just in case!" Anzu assured him.

"HONDA!" Jou growled, pulling said boy close by the collar of his jacket, "What are these for?" The blonde didn't bother pulling the last item out of the bag, for Anzu's sake.

Honda smirked and whispered, "You can take one. You never know if you'll need it!" He giggled a bit at the thought.

"You jerk," he muttered, "I'm not like that!" Jounouchi thought about the items for another second. "I get one but five come in a box. Just what are you planning, Honda?" Jounouchi interrogated his friend.

"Don't you have a sister, Jounouchi?" Yami asked him, doing that weird thing with his new sunglasses.

"Yugi!" Honda cried out.

"You jerk! I'll punch yer lights out if you ever think of doing that! You better not be seeing her behind my back!" Jou clenched a fist in front of Honda's face.

"No, no, no!" the boy stammered, "I haven't seen or talked to her since she went home! Honest!"

"I'll get you!" the pampered one shook Honda in his grip.

Meanwhile, Yami casually walked up to them, and reached a hand into the bag as it moved wildly about from the commotion. He pulled out one of the items and then stuck the packet in his coat pocket. This got the attention of everyone. Yami just shrugged one shoulder at them in response.

"Anzu, what's wrong?" Jou teased, "You seem like you've just seen a ghost." The brunette just stood there, mortified and speechless. It was obvious that she liked Yugi, and even more obvious that she thought the action Yami made was directed at her.

"Ignore her, girl moment," Honda said, "By the way man, I've got this awesome jacket you can borrow. Just don't wreck it! It's suede."

"Wow! These sunglasses are so cool!" Yugi said as he inspected the purchase Yami had made earlier. He was looking at everything that had been purchased a few hours ago, which was laid out on his neatly made bed.

"They were on sale," Honda said. He was spending the night to make sure that everything went smoothly, and to help Jounouchi get ready.

There were two hours left until the destined rendezvous. Jou's stomach could have won the Olympic games with all of the gymnastics that it was doing.

"Hey, Jounouchi," Honda nudged him with his elbow, "You're pretty lucky that a cool girl like Nymphe would live in Domino. Plus she's older!"

"I know! That's why I'm so nervous! So shut up already!" Jou scolded, "She probably knows a lot more about stuff than I do…"

"Maybe it's Mai!" Yugi proposed.

"Wow! That would be such a coincidence."

"They don't have the same voice, or the same attitude! And Mai doesn't work for a company!" Jou corrected them.

The shortest boy sighed at Jou's lack of…anything. He uttered in a monotone voice, "Jounouchi. No one's voice sounds the same in the game. There is a built in pitch shifter, haven't you noticed?" The blonde blinked.

"Yeah man," the brunette boy added, "And Mai would be the type to make a hot character just to get items from perverted guys."

"Uhh…sure…" Jou remarked. They could think what they wanted, because there was no way that Mai was really a man. He wished that he could blurt it out, but he remembered that promise he made.

Maybe Nymphe had something more to hide than just his gender.

"You have to get washed up! Get going!" Honda's voice commanded, interrupting his deep thoughts.

"All right already!" Jou said, leaving the room.

As he showered, he thought about everything that could possibly happen. Would Nymphe be handsome? How much older was he? He hoped that he would be attractive enough to suit Impy's taste.

If anyone from school was there, he would be ridiculed for the entire next year, possibly even beat up. If his father found out, who knows what could happen. Even worse, what if Kaiba found out? He would never hear the end of it. All of the possible taunts flew through Jou's head, making him angry.

Then again, his friends would protect him at any cost. Otogi was probably dealing with all of this already, and his boyfriend was incredibly shy and probably not even able to handle himself. Then again, the girls drooled over both Ryou and Ryuuji, so once school started again they would probably have an even larger following.

Jounouchi wondered if growing his hair long would do the trick. No way, the girls hated him. He never understood why; his skin was clear, his body was fit, so what was the problem? Probably his personality and poor grades.

He turned off the water and dried himself, before putting his clothes on. It was time to get ready.

He walked back into Yugi's room to see his friends dueling.

"Where did you get a deck from, Honda?" he asked.

"I have a lot of extra cards, so he made up a deck really quick!" Yugi explained for the other boy, "It's not that bad either."

Honda sighed, "But you're still winning." Yugi grinned victoriously. It was his turn, and he attacked Honda with his Dark Magician, making Honda lose. He let out an exhale of defeat, and the boy's put their cards away.

"Get dressed!" Honda commanded, "It's almost eleven! You still need time to get there!"

"Okay, okay already!" Jou replied.

"Where's that hair gel?" his friend asked him.

"Umm…Yugi put it in his pocket," Jou answered.

Yugi walked over to his jacket, unaware that there were things in his coat pocket. He pulled out a bottle of green gel and a bottle of yellow gel. He reached in again, feeling for the other anonymous object, wondering out loud, "What's this?" He pulled out the packet from earlier, and yelped, dropping it on his bed.

"Where did I get something like this?!" The two others started giggling to themselves as Yugi appeared to have a mental conversation.

"Hey Yugi, I have something we can watch while we wait for Jounouchi to screw up his date," Honda said, reaching in his backpack of things. Jou growled as he applied the hairgel. The tallest boy pulled out a video with two scantily dressed blondes on the cover. He waved it in front of the smaller kid's face teasingly, then quickly put it away.

"I'm not going to screw everything up, Honda!" Jou hastily replied, "And can't you guys wait for me to get back?"

"Nope," he replied, waving his index finger back and forth, "You're taken now, so you can't watch these anymore. It's the golden rule of relationships."

"Oh, you're such the gentlemen," Jou snided.

"You guys can't fight! People are sleeping!" Yugi informed them, "And it's late! You have to get going soon! Don't forget the cologne."

"Don't douse yourself in it," Honda warned. Jounouchi dabbed just a bit on his neck.

"How's that?" he asked confidently.

"Good," Honda said, picking up the suede jacket he mentioned earlier in the day. He helped Jou get into it and warned, "I'll get you if you wreck this. It's my favorite coat, and it's warm too." The chocolate suede coat fell to just below the length of the silk shirt. Honda was right, it was a very nice coat, and Jou instantly felt warm.

"Want us to walk you there?" Yugi asked politely.

"Naw, no need. Just wait up for me, okay guys?" The boys nodded.

Jou flashed them a thumbs up, and left the room.

Chapter 9 is the one that we've all been waiting for.

Aside from that, look forward to Behind the Pixels, a series of side stories that coincide with this fic. I may post the first "Chapter" tonight or tomorrow. I've decided to make side stories to explain what happens with everyone else during this winter break...story one will answer some of the questions about Otogi and Bakura. So check it out!

Thanks for the great reviews! They really bring a smile to my face ). To all of the new reviewers, I'm glad you like the story so far! Hope to see you review again.

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