What Anzu does while the teachers yack on about their boring lives. She passes a note, in purple ink, and it rather looked like Malik's handwriting. Ryou thinks it was Malik who sent him the note, not Anzu! Ryou also has a bully, and this bully was named Jounouchi Katsuya. How's Ryou going to cope with this, like when Miho bothered him. Read to find out what happens to him and the note passing! ((Warning: Jou's a jerk and YAOI)) Hints in story, I just like the curiosity.
Note Passers
By Chibi Mousie
Chapter 1 Striked Down
On a sunny warm spring morning, in the high school of Domino City was called the Domino High School. It's the finest private school a teen could dream for, well probably they wouldn't dream of it, but a parent would be more than happy to send their child to. The school was a four-story building for all ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelevth graders. In the halls their were students of ages fifth teen to nineteen years-old traveled up and down the halls. All was well with the boy trio, which was Honda, Jounouchi, and Yuugi.
"Hey Yuugi, do you think Mr.Masomi would give us another day to finish our reports?"
Yuugi looked up at Jou with doubtful look. "Well Jou, I don't know for sure...But--"
"Aw come on!" Jou said in a whiny tone. "Are you serious?!"
"Well Jou Mr.Masomi wouldn't, since he's that two-weeks-to-do-a-assignment type of guy." Yuugi said looking up at a distressed Jou.
"Aw man!" Jou kicked his locker open.
Jounouchi Katsuya is sixteen years-old student who's now advancing to the eleventh grade that is if he makes it out of the tenth grade alright. The farther he goes the more complex it will get. People have said high school goes by quickly, yes. High school isn't fun and games anymore, yes. However, it also gets exceedingly difficult. Nor there's nothing wrong with failing a class that is not a major. Jou, in his case, is bad to fail because math is a major in his choice of career.
"It's okay Jou! It's only the middle of the year." Yuugi said trying to motivate his desperate friend. "All you need is some motivation and study extra hard! Just like the tests you'll get near the end of the year."
"Yeah...well...I also need a miracle for that too." Jou groaned. "And you know how bad I do at tests like that, with all the pressure. Let alone listening!"
"It's okay, you'll get through it. Besides there isn't any big tests coming up. So just calm down!" Honda said him too was a dull like Jou. "Unlike me."
"You need as much motivation as I do." Jou glared at Honda. "So don't flatter yourself."
"Let's just get to class before the bell rings and we get detention." Yuugi warned his friends.
"Speaking of one of us, where's Anzu? Wasn't she with you?" Honda inquired looking down at a concerned Yuugi.
"Well I thought she was coming with one of you guys. She didn't come to my house and she wasn't home when I called her cell."
"Well she'll be fine, she's probably around." Jou sighed. "Can we please get to our class? I can't afford one more referral."
Yuugi nodded in agreement. "I have to go! See you guys at class!"
"Hey hey hey hey hey," Jou grabbed Yuugi's collar, "why're you going without us?"
"Well I have to go. Ms.Rossie wants to speak to me, before class starts."
"Do you know what about?" Honda inquired the running in place Yuugi.
"Nope, that's why I would like to get there as soon as possible." Yuugi said.
"The a.s.a.p conversation ehy Yug?" Jou grinned, "You go off to you're little appointment with Ms.Rossie."
"Ok! Bye!" Yuugi said and with that, he got out of Jou's grip and ran down the hall to his class.
Honda and Jou stared at Yuugi, who was half way down the hall already. The two best friends was left together to walk to their next class. They walked down the hall, passing by people, avoiding running into people, and listened to the conversation that drifted through the halls but really didn't interested them. Honda glanced up at a clock and saw they were barely late for their next class. They were still walking a quick pace; still avoiding running into people but still avoided bumping into people. Then when Jou saw one of the students, he loved to pick on who was, Ryou Bakura. He grinned, got Honda's attention, and pointed to Ryou. Honda turned his head to look at Ryou and grinned too.
"Hey Honda, you go run pass him and I'll run into him, knocking him down on purpose." Jou whispered to Honda and his grin grew from ear to ear. Honda nodded in agreement and started running. He ran pass Ryou, who was just felt a light tap on the shoulder. Ryou glanced at Honda who ran by hearing him say, "Come on Jou! Keep up slow one!" Jou started to run and pretended he wasn't paying any attention and ran into Ryou, causing him to fall back and dropping his books onto the floor. Jou noticed he knocked out the books that were in his had and had a pleased grin on his face.
Ryou looked up at the grinning blonde-haired person for a few moments and blinked slowly. He gave a confused look, but not an irritated one. He noticed that Jou knocked down all the books out of his hands, and collected them from the floor. He sighed and stood up, and was now facing Jou. Ryou was smaller then Jou, just by one inch.
"Watch where you're going you klutz!"
Ryou stared at Jou as he stood up straight. He blinked slowly and looked down at his and Jou's ugly dress shoes. Jou was being extremely rude, matter a fact he was a bully to nerds and the shy and quite people. Those people were an easy target and were fun to laugh at when they do something anybody would do. "Was there such use for loathsome attitude?" was what Ryou wanted to ask Jou but was best not to. Just because Ryou ran into Jou, not even him but Jou ran into him and is to unintelligent to see it the right way. After all, he did it on purpose, just to get on his nerves. Jou is always been picking on Ryou and certain other people like the multi million air C.E.O, Seto Kaiba. Nevertheless, Seto Kaiba was the one who pick on them back. As Ryou was thinking, there was no need for such rudeness but he also had no reason to call him a 'klutz'. The true klutz around here was Jou, comparing to Ryou that is if you wanted to relate to a klutz. Ryou wasn't the type of guy who dropped priceless glass vases that was given to him to hold, nor does he always slip on banana peels and falls on his face. Sure, there were accidents now and then, but he surely wasn't a klutz.
"Aren't you going to apologize to me?" Jou inquired in a demanding manner.
Just because Jou ran into Ryou, absolutely doesn't mean he has to say sorry. It's not mandatory or anything, and after all it wasn't his fault. Jou was the one who decided to run into Ryou and knock him down, since he picked on him so much. "I don't need to say anything to you!" is what Ryou wanted to say to Jou, but he decided it was best to keep quiet before any drama happens. Now just that thought Ryou remembered the last time Jou picked on him and got in a horrible fight. However, this was a while ago; it was more like in the beginning of the year. In addition, on that day he found out that he had bad reflexes. It was just one of those bad days he experienced. Occasionally, events in one's life become clearer through the prism of experience, a phrase that simply means that things tend to become clearer as time goes on. For instance, when a person is just born, they usually have no idea what curtains are and spend a great deal of their first months wondering why Mommy and Daddy have a huge large piece of cloth over each window in the nursery. However, as the person grows older, the ideas of curtains become clearer through the prism of experience. The person will learn the word "curtains" and notice that they are actually quite handy for keeping a room dark when it is time to sleep, and for decorating and otherwise boring window area. Eventually, they will entirely accept the idea of curtains, and may even purchase some curtains of their own, or Venetian blinds, and it is all due to the prism of experience.
"Hey I'm talking to you!" Jou growled and pushed Ryou back down onto the floor, landing on his back and his head slammed against a locker. A painful groaned escaped Ryou's lips and rubbed his head. Jou grinned that horrible pleased grin and kicked Ryou's books to the side. "Nobody ignores Jounouchi Katsuya like that!" he informed, in a voice so loud and booming that it was enough to make any nobody scared all over again. He sighed and peered up at Jou and rubbed head again and got up. "Well?"
Ryou looked up at Jou and a small unpleasant frown curved on his lips.
"Well?!" is what Jou repeated to him.
Ryou sighed and looked down at the floor and said, "I-I'm s-sorry." he stuttered and Jou raised an eyebrow.
"What?" Jou bend down, holding a hand to the back of his right ear. "I can't hear you. Repeat that."
Ryou took a big gulp and said, "I'm sorry." in a louder voice and the last pleasured grin appeared on Jou's face again and quickly turned into a smirk. Ryou's eyes closed tightly as he walked up to the frighten boy.
"I thought so." Jou said and he reached down and struck Ryou across the face. Ryou fell to the floor, his face inches away from Jou's shoe. His left cheek, where Jou struck him, felt as if it was on fire. Honda laughed and applauded as if Jou had done something very brave instead of something very despicable. Jou stood up as if he was in the spotlight onstage, soaking it up as usual. He bowed down and smirked once again. "Let's go Honda." He ordered his friend and received a simple nod and they both walked away.
Ryou touched the red mark that Jou left on his cheek and tried to control the tears in his eyes. He didn't want to cry, and if he did when he walked into the classroom, Jou would most likely make fun of that too. If he skipped class, he would most likely be found out. Therefore, he just simply gathered up his book and quickly whipped off each tear that tried to run down his cheek. His eyes were red, as if he already cried. He sighed and walked up to the classroom door and opened it.
All the students were in the class, expect for the ones who skipped it just to be ignorant. The teacher, Ms.Rossie, was absent and instead Ms.Lexington walked in wearing a solid blue skirt three inches above her knees. Her blouse was white and not a speck of dirt on it. Her blonde straight hair was up in a bun with chopsticks crossing on through it. Her glasses frames were blue and her glasses were crystal clear. She gave the cutest smile a guy could automatically fall in love with. Her eyes were a bright blue and her lips were a light pink. She held a book in her arm and a song in her heart. She walked up to the front of her desk and gazed at the class that sat before her.
"Ohayou Gozaimasu kurasu." Ms.Lexinton greeted the class with a wide friendly smile. "Ms.Rossie couldn't make it today, so I'm the substitute for the next two weeks. Today I am giving out packets that Ms.Rossie left for you kids to do." She looked at the grade book and read the written note that Ms.Rossie left for her, "This assignment is due in three weeks. So that twenty-one days. Four hundred and forty one hours. Two hundred sixty thousand four hundred and sixty minutes. One million, five hundred and eight seven thousand and six hundred seconds."
The students stared at her strangely. They already knew that Ms.Lexinton use to be a math teacher and an English teacher at the same time. They knew this because she was a substitute for some of them in math class. Jou gazed at her, staring at her eyes for a moment, thinking he could read what she was thinking about. You know, like what they do on television. We all know that people can't read minds, and if they could, so many people would love to learn that. Don't you get curious about what people are really thinking about others, or maybe even yourself? However, if there were really people who could really do this and not just some guesses, then there would be no reason to be hiding secrets from them. Those are the gifted people and Jou was definitely not one of them.
The door opened and Ryou was behind the door with that red mark on his face. The class all turned their attention on him and some gasps were heard from the class. Ms.Lexington was one of them, she haven't seen such a mark on someone's face since the fight against two students just four years in her teaching.
"Oh you poor child!" Ms.Lexington quickly set her book down, walked up to the poor child, and took his chin in her hands. "What happened to you?" She asked stroking his red cheek, "Are you ok?"
"Y-Yes, I'm fine." Ryou said and swiftly got his head away from her hands, not to be rude or anything, it's just that he doesn't like people touching his face. He gave a weak smile and walked to his seat, which was one person away from Honda and Jou, along with his nicer friends, Anzu and Yuugi.
"I suggest you go to the nurse's office, maybe put some ice on it." Ms.Lexington suggested, trying to get Ryou to help that mark feel less painful. "Who did this to you?"
Ryou, who was staring at his desktop, quickly looked up at her. Jou turned his head to Ryou, and gave a signal "Don't to tell her or else..." and Ryou took a moment and swallowed. It felt as if something were stuck in his throat and would not go down. He sighed and said, "Oh nobody, I-I had this mark because, it happened outside school." He lied as best as he could. It was hard for him to lie, since he wasn't one of the lying type of person.
Ms.Lexington gasped and touched her lips. "Are you sure?"
"Yes Ms.Lexington, I am positive." Ryou nodded and gave a quick glance over his should to Jou and saw that awful smirk.
"Ok...if you are positive." Ms.Lexington reluctantly given up, she's not the arguing type of teacher any way. "Now class, I would like to go over the home work."
"You think he's going to rat you out?" Honda whispered to Jou, who looked confident.
"Nah." Jou shook his head. "If he does, he'll know what'll happen to him." He said punching him left hand indicating a beating would be the consequences.
Ryou leaned back in his seat and listened to Honda and Jou's conversation on how they would beat him up if he told anybody. It was just a little slap in the face, a very painful slap. In high school, nothing is tolerated. If you talk back, trip to the principal's office. If you get in a fight, or even a slap in the face, you get a trip to the principal's office. On the other hand, maybe even the vice principal's office. Either one you go to, you win a free detention, suspension, or ISS. Ryou sighed and leaned forward in his seat and looked down at him desktop again. He listened to the teacher's voice call out to students, getting answers from them, right or wrong. He took out his English packet and listened to the answers being called out and corrected.
"Now class, I don't want to take off points for calling out. Now if you're trying to test me, I do have a bad side you wish not to get on." Ms.Lexington warned the class. "Raise your hand if you know a question. Next time, no warnings. I will also take points off if you talk or don't participate." She warned again and she started to sound like Ms.Rossie.
"She sounds like Ms.Rossie." Jou whispered to Honda and he snickered.
"She sure does." Honda replied and snickered along with Jou.
Mrs. Lexington cocked an eyebrow and walked by the desks to Honda and Jou's desks. "Well Mr.Hiroto and Mr.Katsuya looks like you're having a blast down here. Is there something you would like to share with the class so we can have a laugh too?" She asked not politely, and didn't mean to have a laugh too. She was just being a little strict like their ordinary teacher Ms.Rossie.
"No Ms.Lexington, there isn't anything funny back here." Jou said innocently.
"Are you sure Mr.Katusya?"
"Yes ma'm." Jou nodded.
"Hmmm....." Ms.Lexington looked down at them suspiciously and all she saw was innocent looks on the boys' face. She turned around and walked back to the front of the classroom, which was in front of her desk.
Jou grinned and Honda did too. They both glanced at each other and raised their hand when Ms.Lexington asked for the next answer to a question, just to look good and not make them look like they weren't paying attention.