Author- Yami Mamimi-chan

Title- In 15 Days…

Chapter 2- Losing a game

Unfair. That's what life is. Cruel and unfair.

This thing could've been avoided if only I had ignored the dog and his cheerleader friends. But obviously I didn't, since it's not in my nature to ignore insults which are directed right to my face. I stepped out of my limo, and headed in the direction of the school. Too busy in my own thoughts, I didn't notice the blond and his pathetic friends until it was too late.

"So I say to the guy 'You wanna take this outside?' and he's so stupid he heads straight into me, so I swing my arm an- oh my god, I'm so sor-…oh, it's you…" the mutts hand swings in my direction, touching my left cheek as I walked in to the classroom.

"Are you so damn blind that you couldn't see that there are other people besides yourself and your worthless friends that are trying to get to their seats?" I ask in my normal cold manner. This seams to agitate him.

"Oh yeah? I'll show you blind Kaiba! You wanna take this outside?" he snarls as he waves his fist in my face.

"Jounouchi!" screams the blonde as she whacks said teen upside his head. "Don't even think about starting a fight here! You get into enough trouble as it is! Now sit down, and shut the hell up." I smirk as she does this and am about to make another wise crack when Yami interrupts me.

"How about we settle this with a little game, Kaiba? Say, arm wrestling?" he asks as he smirks.

"And why would I want to do that, pharaoh boy?"

"To have the satisfaction that you actually beat me for once?" I glare at the mutt who falls onto the floor, laughing.

"Fine." I reply, as I sit across the table form him. We both place our elbows on the table, and lock our hands; ready to start. Soon I realize that Yami is not as weak as he looks; but that's not to say that I was losing. Quite the opposite. I only needed to push his hand an inch further in order to win, but then he does something unexpected. I gasp as his foot brushes across my inner thigh, making me drop my arm. The cheerleaders start to jump up and down, and the mutt gives Yami a playful slap on the back. I get up at once and shout "You cheated!"

"And how exactly did I cheat, Kaiba?" he says, and I swear he just winked at me.

"You- you- your- Bastard!" I give him a fierce look.

"You know Kaiba, you don't need to insult Yami just because he beat you again." says the friendship girl who always hangs around with the losers. I don't even bother wasting my breath in order to talk to her. We've seemed to have attracted a crowd, who are chanting for a fight. I would have gladly complied, unfortunately though, the teacher walked into the classroom, and she didn't look very happy; but then again, she never does. She tells us all to get to our seats, and after a moment of pause, the students do as they are told. When the teacher is busy doing something remotely boring, Yami taps on my shoulder. I turn around, and give him a what-do-you-want-now look.

"You lost at our little game, Kaiba."

"Yeah, and…?"

"Oh, did I forget to mention my little catch?"

"What catch?"

"The person who loses, has to do a challenge, which the person who wins, says."

I look at him angrily. "I did not agree to that"

"Scared, are we?"

"Hmm." I grunt. "What's the challenge?"

He thinks for a minute, while I wait. Then, suddenly his eyes light up with a mischievous glint. "Your challenge is…to make the next person who walks into this room, go to the senior prom with you."

I smirk at this. "That all?"

"No." he gives me another one of those glint-y eye looks and continues. "You have to make that person fall in love with you."

I think about that for a moment. "Easy enough. And if I complete the challenge?"

"Then I'll declare you the almighty, number one sex god in front of the whole school."

"Seriously?"

"No" he thinks again. "How about you decide when you complete the challenge?"

"Whatever." I turn round to face the door, so does he. This will be so easy; I should start thinking of what to make Yami do now. Maybe make him run around the school, butt naked…no, that would be weird. Suddenly my attention returns to the door, as I see movement. I concentrate on who the person is, and to my horror, I find that it's the school cleaner looking through the door window. I look round to see Yami, who mockingly blows a kiss towards my direction. I look back, and pray to every deity I know, that will make that horrid women go away. She steps back, and then turns to walk away, and I let go of the breath I was holding; just in case she had walked through the door; in which case I would've resorted to suicide.

I turn to look at Yami's face with a victorious smirk. He doesn't look pissed, but surprised, which scares me; and I notice that he's not looking at me, but at 10 centimetres to the left of my face. I turn around again to see what's so amusing; only to experience the greatest shock of my life.

"Yes, may I help you?"

"Yeah, I'm the new transferred student."

This cannot be happening. This just cannot be happening. I've held my breath again.

"You must be Ryuuji Otogi? Very well, you may take a seat."

Then I shudder as I feel warm breath on my ear; seeing that Yami has leant forwards in order to whisper something to me.

"Well Kaiba. Since you have only 15 days, I suggest you start making your move now, don't you?" I turn around to mutter a curse, before getting up from my seat, and heading towards the new student. He looks at me in mild curiosity.

"Hi. I'm Seto Kaiba. Why don't you come and sit with me?"

"Sure, thanks"

We both head to our seats, and I could see pharaoh boy smirk as if he's having the time of his life. God, this is so stupid! Why am I even going ahead with this? I could simple say- oh wait…I already agreed, didn't I…argh! Me and my conceited mind! Why must I be so cocky?! I feel a tap on my shoulder, and turn towards the new student, Otogi.

"Hey, um, Kaiba? That guy in the back seat's calling you" a bit agitated, I turn around to face the former pharaoh.

"What?" he doesn't even wince at my bitter tone of voice, damn him!

"Off in your own little world, are we Kaiba? Shouldn't you be…getting to know the new student? Make him feel welcomed?"

"Whatever" I hiss back, then turn back to Otogi.

"So, what brings you to Domino?"

"Um, well, my dad sent me here because he wanted me to get my priorities right, and to get a better grasp on my life."

"Oh, and where are you from?"

"New York, America"

"So you flew all that way, just because your dad wanted you to sort out your life?" I realize that I'm not being very polite, nor tactful. But isn't this the sort of stuff you ask someone new?

"More or less"

Just then the bell rang, indicating that we should all go to our first class.

"What's your next class?" I ask Otogi. He looks through his timetable, so does Yami.

"He has religious studies!" Yami says cheerfully. "Isn't that a coincidence, Kaiba? We have that too."

I frown at Yami. He's not making this easy for me, is he? Well, whatever. I can do anything, as long as I put my mind to it, right? …Right?? Yami is now walking beside Otogi, me on the other side of him. How am I going to do this? This is practically impossible! He's not even gay! Neither am I! This is impossible!

Yami. Must. Die!

No, I'm not just saying that because I despise the former pharaoh; there's a perfect justification to that statement. I'll explain…

We've reached our religious studies class, and I sit next to Otogi, hoping that I'll get some inspiration from the lesson. To my surprise, and annoyance, Yami sits in the chair next to me. So we're sitting like: Otogi Me Yami

"What do you think you're doing?" I ask him

"Just making sure you don't cheat, Kaiba." he whispers annoyingly into my ear again.

"What do you mean by that?" I reply, unaffected.

"Well, you are loaded, are you not?"

"Hmm" I grunt, and turn to face the teacher who's made his presence know by tapping the table with a ruler. (1)

"Right class, settle down, settle down. Today we will be studying on how the young generation disrespect and disobey religion, and all the rules that are set by it."

"Oh, great. As if I don't get enough of this from my mom" said some random student, quietly.

"Let's start with a discussion first." began the teacher. "What do you all think of, sex before marriage?"

"We think it's pretty damn good, Sir" Yami called out.

"Oh, you do, do you? Well, Mr Muoto, if you seriously think that it's okay for a man and a woman to have sex without being married, then you're wrong. God forbids-"

"But Sir, who said anything about a man and a women?" I look towards Yami, who looks sadistically at the confused teacher. This is the sort of thing I should be saying! You see? I have NO tactics! And I'm meant to be a genius…

"I seemed to have missed your point, Mr Muoto. Please explain"

"Well Sir, it's not always a man and a women. It can also be a man and a man, couldn't it?"

The teacher's nostrils flared up. "Now that's where you're wrong, Mr Muoto. Homosexuality is a sin!"

"How is that, Sir?" Yami asked again.

"Because God forbids it!" Otogi puts his hand up. "Yes, Mr…?"

"Otogi. Sir, what if you've found your soulmate in life, and they just happen to be of the same sex. What happens then?"

The teacher looks frustrated beyond extremes. "Well, that would just be a deception of your brain, influenced by hormones and alcohol; which I'm aware you all take." he looks dangerously at the whole class.

"I don't drink, Sir" Otogi states.

"Oh of course you don't." he replies sarcastically. "Now, end of discussion. All of you, turn to page 152 and do exercise 2-4." Shuffles of paper fills the class, as the teacher goes to sit at his desk, and start grading papers. Yami turns around in his seat, and leans towards Otogi.

"Hey, Otogi. That was one helluva question. Don't you think so too, Kaiba?"

"…Yeah…" I would've said more, but the teacher looked as if he had something to say.

"Class, I hope you all remember that we have a trip next lesson. Have you all given your permission slips in?" he looked towards Otogi.

"Where is the trip?" Otogi asks me.

"We're going to a temple, to see monks. You should come, since it's educational." Otogi nods, then goes back to his work. The whole class is silent, as everyone is doing their work. Yami slips me a note, saying: You don't have a strategy, do you Kaiba?

I return the note with: Well, he JUST came! What do you expect me to do? Pin him down and French him??!!

He smirks as he reads this. "Perverted!" I mouth to him.

The bell rings, and students begin to pack up, and head out the door. I start to catch up to Otogi, when I stop midway, seeing him with a cheerleader.

"Hi. I'm Emily. Are you new? Because I haven't seen you around before; and believe me, I would've remembered a face like yours" Her lame attempts at flirting disgust me. But then again, I didn't do any better did I? And it looks like it's working, because Otogi laughs and heads towards the field with her. Yami catches up to me, and tuts.

"Well, you're off on a great start, aren't you Kaiba? Otogi would most definitely fall for you." he playfully pats me on the back, and heads off to find his friends.

I have 15 days to make him fall in love with me. God, help me…

(1) A substitute teacher did that once in year 3 to my class. It was so weird. Think of the poor rulers…..
Aww, poor Kaiba-kun!

What will he do to get Otogi-kun away from Emily; the cheerleader girl who has the hots for him? Leave a review, and tell me what you think….please? It might motivate me!