Chapter 3 Back to School

Normal POV

It was a beautiful sunny morning. The sunlight poured into Ryou's room, and when the white-haired teenager turned over on his back, his eyes popped opened from the sudden intrusion of the bright light in his face. He groaned and rubbed his eyes, looking around lazily. He noticed Malik didn't stay, and this made Ryou a little discouraged, but he had to move on. He stood up and walked to the bathroom, almost tripping on the way, and noticed how clean it was.

Malik must've cleaned it for me. He thought, smiling to himself. Ryou looked around the bathroom, admiring how nice it looked and took off his clothes just for a quick shower. He already had one last night, so he's not as dirty and such. When he put his hand on the hot water knob, he noticed his hand was wrapped up in bandages. He smiled to himself. He couldn't get any sweeter. He thought and stepped in the warm shower.

After a nice warm shower, the Brit went to his room and put his school uniform on. He picked up his book bag and tossed it over it shoulders and walked out the door.

When the white-haired teen got to the bottom of the squeaky staircase Malik bumped into him.

"Huh? Oh sorry about that." Ryou smiled.

"Hey Ryou!" Malik hugged the smaller boy and smiled and heard a weak hi from the smaller boy. "Come on, we better get moving or else we're going to be late."

Ryou nodded and together they walked out the apartment building. The two teenagers sprinted down the streets, as fast as they could to get to the Domino High School. They brushed pass a group of teenagers, a very familiar group. It was there acquaintances, Anzu Mazaki, Honda Hiroto, Jounouchi Katsuya and Yuugi Motu. Well maybe Anzu isn't Malik's friends because honestly he hated her for certain reasons.

Anzu stopped in her tracks, and knocked into Honda by Malik's rough push. "Hey!!" She shouted. "Slow down!"

Ryou grabbed Malik's arm and stumbled when he attempted to prevent him from running any father.

"Hm? What is it now?" The Egyptian raised a thin blonde eyebrow at him.

The white-haired youth tugged on his sleeve and pointed at the four teenagers running to them. "It's the gang."

Malik heaved a sigh and looked away. "Oh. Great…I was tired of keeping you all to myself." He muttered under his breath.

"What?"

Before Malik could speak the teen with the strange hair due came up to them. "Hey guys!" Honda smiled widely.

Jou gave his goofy smile. "Hey you two."

"Hey Ryou, hey Malik." Yuugi smiled up at them.

Anzu clapped her hands together. "You know you ran into me, Malik." She gave an annoyed look towards the Egyptian that stood next to Ryou.

"Sorry about that." Malik said with the faintest apology and looked away, not caring a bit what he did to her. I did it on purpose anyway.

Ryou smiled gently and said, "Yeah, he didn't mean to."

Anzu nodded indicating she understood and took out her pink cellular phone. "We got five minutes guys!" She cried out. "Come on, we're going to be late!"

"Oh crap!" Jou snapped and sprinted down the street, and the rest followed the suit.

The rushing teens got to their school just in the moment of time to get what they needed. They went to their lockers and gathered up their books and put away what they didn't need for now.

Malik turned his head to his neighbor, Ryou, and smiled. "You ready for that test today?"

"In math class?" Ryou raised an eyebrow. "Yes!" He smiled that brilliant smile.

Malik chuckled and pat his head. "Come on, Deguchi-senseican be very annoying when he's mad."

Ryou agreed and they bothwalked down the hall that led to their first class. Most of their classes were together, but they didn't mind. It was nice to have your best friend in just about all your classes. At least you have someone to talk to nonstop.

When the halls were cleared, the security guards pulled the late students to the auditorium for SWEEP; luckily Ryou and Malik weren't one of them.

Ryou watched the angry students being shoved down the hall. He turned away and took his seat. Malik sat next to Ryou, like always, and that wasn't even his assigned seat. Their teacher wasted their time giving out assign seats so he forgot all about it and let the students sit wherever their hearts desired.

Their teacher, Mr.Deguchi, walked in with his grade book. "Ohayou gozaimasu class." He greeted them with a wide smile.

"Ohayou gozaimasu Deguchi-sensei." They said lifelessly, since it was early in the morning and the majority of the students didn't want to be in school now.

"Now, I'll just take the attendance and we'll wait for the bell to ring." He looked up at the clock that hung over the door. That's going to fall, He thought. Better get that fixed.

While their teacher called out their names, they responded and continued talking to one another.

"Now that I've done attendance, I'll be back in a few." Which was a lie since Mr.Deguchi was always gone for a long time, and this gave them free time. If they were too loud, a security guard would come in and quiet them down. He walked out the door and closed the door behind him.

A student jumped up and slipped out the door, skipping class. Malik shook his head and turned to Ryou. "Hey there."

Ryou looked up from the book he was reading and smiled. "Hey Malik." He smiled.

"What're you reading?"

"It's a book for English." Ryou looked down at it. "Emiko-sensei wanted us to read it at home, but I couldn't...because…well you know."

Malik nodded and frowned. "Yeah…I know…" He looked away for a second, but turned his attention back to the white-haired teen. "Speaking…of yesterday…How'd they get here?"

Ryou craned his head to look at his friend. He bit his lower lip, and gave a weak shrug. "I don't know…"

The bronze skinned teen looked down at his scraped desk. He traced a finger over the engraved letters of two student's name. He looked up to Ryou and said, "We won't see them anytime soon…" he assured Ryou. He knew Ryou was scared and wantedhis best buddyto feel safe.

It wasn't easy to do that, since they're putting up with two yamis that harmed them two years ago. They thought Yami, Yuugi's yami,would keep them away forever, but theyweer mistaken. They're back and no one knew how, or why, but the two teenagersknew they were here in Domino City.

"A-Are you sure?" Ryou looked up at him, with the look of trust.

"Yes." Now all of Ryou's trust was in Malik's hands. "I'm sure." He gave a reassuring smile to the boy and the bell rung.

Everyone rushed out their classroom and met up with their friends.

Malik and Ryou walked down the hall together.

He's always with him. Anzu thought, glaring at Malik. She had feelings towards Ryou, very strong ones and she thought Malik just hung out with him to make her jealous. Why does he have to hangout with him? She clenched her fists and gritted her teeth. I honestly hate Malik. And 'hate' was a very strong word.

"Hey Anzu!" A short tri-haired color student named Yuugi waved at Anzu. Anzu remained quiet, ignoring the small boy. "Uh…Anzu?" He tilted his head to the side.

She snapped out of her thoughts. "Hm?" Anzu blinked and looked down at Yuugi. "Oh hello Yuugi." She smiled her friendly smile.

Yuugi stared at her for a moment and cleared his throat. "Well then, shouldn't we get going to our class?" He started walking down the hall and Anzu followed him, going back into her thoughts.

The first few periods of school flew byquick. It was now seventh period, lunch for some students, and there were only two more periods until school was over.

"Bakura! Matte!" Anzu called out as she ran down the hall towards the white-haired youth's direction. She spotted him out pretty quickly because he was the only one with the long white hair.

Ryou turned around, chocolate innocent eyes glistening in the light he stood under. He blinked slowly and smiled at the sight of Anzu almost tripping over another's foot. "Hey there." He looked down at Anzu, who was leaning over trying to catch her breath. His long white locks hung over his shoulders. Boy he was gorgeous, fangirls would say.

"H—Hey..." The brunette female smiled weakly. "C—Can I walk with you to lunch?"

Ryou blinked slowly and looked around, searching forhis sandy blonde-haired friend. "I supp—" He was yanked away from Anzu by the sandy-blonde haired Egyptian he was waiting for. "Oh—h-hey Malik!" Malik kept walking with Ryou pulled beside him. "M-Malik?"

Malik stopped at the doors of the lunch room and everyone brushed pass them. "What's wrong?" Ryou asked him curiously.

"Hiroshi-sensei wants us to stay after school in the library." Malik said sternly.

"W-What's wrong with that?"

"Anytime Hiroshi-sensei wants us in the library, you know he's just alone after school and just he'sgoing to make us study or asses off for the dumbest things!"

"He's just concerned about us."

Malik gnawed down on his lower lip but then released it. "Ugh… Hiroshi-sensei keeps us like around five."

"Five isn't that bad."

"It's daylight savings, and that means it gets dark earlier then normally." Ryou stared at him, not quite getting what Malik was talking about. "Last night. Remember?"

Ryou's innocent eyes filled up with fear. "Oh n-no…" He gripped on his own sleeves.

Malik pat his head and the bell rung. It's time for SWEEP. He thought but it quickly leaked out of his mind. "Don't worry I told you before, remember? We'll be okay." He put his hands over his shoulder and shook him lightly.

Ryou stared up at him, trusting him again. "Alright."

"Hey you two, come with me, you're late."

"Aaah shove that late shit up your fat ass." Malik spat, looking at the obese security guard in disgust. "We're in front of our destination, so piss off."

The guard stared at him, thelook of shock in his eyes. "How dare you!" He roared in anger. "Come with me, right this instant!" Malik was pulled away against his own will.

"Malik!!" Ryou shouted and was about to grab his friend's thin arm, but he was out of reach now.

Anzu ran down the hall, away from any security guards that might have been following her. "Bakura!!" She ran into him. "Aiiieee!!" She tripped and sentbothof them onto the floor, her on top of the British male.

People who sat at the table next to the entrance stared down at them, getting weird thoughts like they were going out or something. Some giggled and some made noises, kissy noise or sounds like 'OoOoOo!'

Ryou sat up, pushing Anzu off him gently. He stood up and helped Anzu up from the dirty floor. He dusted his pants off and then the rest of himself. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah just fine." Anzu sighed and looked away. "S-Sorry about that." She felt her cheeks heat up.

The white-haired youth smiled and told her it was alright. They both walked down the lunch room to the line to get their food.

Yes, Anzu sighed in her thoughts. I finally have a chance to be with him! She smiled and got lost in her thoughts, not for the first time today. She thought how glorious it was to sit and talk to him, knowing more and more about him, with Malik not there to "mess up" anything. She went on line, the second one there and Ryou and her took their trays and walked out. When Anzu sighed blissfully to herself someone ran into her and all her food was shoved into her or fell onto the ground. "AAAH!!" She screamed.

Ryou stopped and turned around, seeing the brunette cry out how dirty shewas now.He blinked, his chocolate colored eyes widened. He stood there with his tray in his hands and the same expression on his face. "Anzu?"

"AAAAH!!!!" Anzu screamed again. "YOU IDIOT!" She scolded then person who ran into her. "Look! Now I'm all dirty!"

"Hey who do you think you calling an idiot?" An older student walked up to the Anzu's face. She had cold blood red eyes with pale skin like Ryou's. Her hair was as red as blood with black highlights and she looked like a girl that you would definitely not want to mess with.

"I'm yelling at your little friend right over there!" Anzu growled as she glared at the smaller girl. She was nothing like the red-haired girl that was defending her. She had red eyes, but no anger or evil vibes came from her eyes. She had hair red as blood, just like her sister, with the same black highlights.

"Well that friend over there is my sister." The girl hissed. "Don't make me get my brother here to whip your scrawny ass." She threatened Anzu. "And trust me, he will hit girls."

Anzu straighten her posture and crossed her arms over her chest. "Ha! And who exactly is your brother?"

The girl pointed at a male who sat at a table alone, waiting for his sisters to go over. He wore the blue jacket with the clean white undershirt and his pants were blue. He had blood eyes just like his sisters but had jet black hair and his skin was pale like his sister as well. He had a red cloth around his head, just like his sister's hair color.

"T-That's your brother?" Anzu felt her legs tremble in fear. "Eh heh…heh…um…look I should go to the nurse--"

"Wait just a second." The younger girl said gently. "Please."

Anzu turned around and smiled nervously. "Y-Yes?"

"I'm sorry for my sister's behavior." She frowned. "Can we please be friends? If not, I could go purchase lunch for you…"

"N-No, you don't need to buy me—"

"Oh I insist." The girl said. "My name is Anya Fujishima and that's my sister Izumi." She smiled. "That is my brother Tomokazu. He's not the sweet gentle type." She whispered cautiously.

I can tell. Anzufrowned mentallythen smiled back at Anya. "I'm Anzu Mazaki."

"Hello Anzu, it's a pleasure to meet you." Anya smiled. "Please, wait over there with my sister and brother. I'll go buy you your lunch and bring you some napkins." And she was off.

Anzu blinked slowly and turned to the two red eyed students. They look so…weird. She thought as she walked over to them cautiously. Are they goths? She waved and stood there…waiting. She tapped her fingers together and looked down at Anya's brother. Scary looking ones at that!

Tomokazu's blood red eyes looked up at her, watching her as if she was his prey, waiting for a good moment to strike. He knew that his eyes sent shivers down the brunette girl's spine.

Anzu rubbed her hands together like she was standing in the cold with her school dress code. "Hmm…" She looked away. "Soo…"

Tomokazu finished his food and drank all his soda. "So what?"

"What grade are you in?" She said nervously. She needed to start a conversation since the silence was a little awkward.

"…Eleventh." He said plainly and tossed thecrunched caninto the garbage can. "…And you?" He asked with not much interest.

"Tenth." She answered promptly. "What about you…err…Izumi?"

"Tenth." Izumi glared at Anzu. "I was left back for my record, Tomokazu was too."

"R-Record?"

"From jail and school." Izumi growled. "They said I was crazy, Tomokazu spent most of the eleventh grade in jail, so he obviously didn't go to school for a while. He came back at the beginning of the new year to redo eleventh grade."

Anzu wanted to ask why she and her brother went to jail, but knew better. She laced her fingers with her own and kept her eyes downcast.

"You want to know why we went to jail, don't you."

"Uh…uh…n-no."

"Of course you do." Izumi snapped. "Well I'll tell you."

Anzu's eyes widened.

"To start of with Tomokazu, he had been doing very naughty things." The red-haired girl looked back her brother and smirked. "He's gone on a rampage because Takamori-sensei and Kiyoko-sensei were fed up with him and his nasty attitude." She looked at Anzu. "He's even murdered someone." She whispered, but at a tone Anzu could hear.

Anzu's eyes widen in fear and frowned. "H-How interesting."

"Yesss indeed it is." She hissed like a snake. "Well, it was accused murder, but he did kill."

"Tomokazu…?" Anzu looked at him with fear.

Tomokazu smirked malevolency. "Of course."

"But nobody knows that." Izumi chuckled in her throat. "I? I went to jail for strangling a teacher and the psychiatrist, bringing them to near death." She closed her blood red eyes. "Bakas." She muttered. "Mortals are so complicated."

Anzu blinked, but didn't catch that quite clearly. "Desu anata fushi?" (Are you immortal?)

Izumi turned to her and laughed. "Oh me? No." She lied. "Desu anata?" (Are you?)

"Iie!" Anzu squeaked. "I mean…I'm not."

The red-haired girl laughed. "Okay."

"Here Anzu!" Anya smiled, holding out the tray with extra tissues. "Gomen for earlier."

"It's okay." Anzu smiled. "Arigatou Anya."

"Itashimashite." (You're welcome)

"But it wasn't necessary for you to buy me lunch."

"Oh but I had too." Anya frowned. "It was my fault being in your way."

"Oh…" The brunette rubbed her arm. "I'm sorry for calling you an idiot."

Anya laughed and it subsided quickly. "That's quite alright. Izumi's sorry for being such a abazureon'na."

Izumi raised a thin eyebrow at her younger sister. "Yeah sure I am." She rolled her eyes.

"Okay, so…I guess you want to go to your friends now."

Anzu blinked and smiled warmly. "Yes, I thank you for the lunch." She took the lunch out of Anya's hands. "Ja." And she walked away from them

"She's so weird." Tomokazu muttered.

"Yeah, sure is an ugly one." Izumi muttered.

"Hey!" Anya glared at her siblings. "She's not weird, and she's not ugly!"

"Oh shut up Anya you baka."

Anya sunk in her seat. "Gomen Tomokazu."

Anzu walked over to the lonely Ryou. "M-May I sit with you?" She asked a bit nervous at first.

"Of course."

The female brunette pulled out chair and sat down across the table from him. "You're here alone. Where's Malik?" She knew what happen to Malik, he was taken to the principal's office.

"He was taken to the principal's office because he was giving the security guard an attitude." Ryou sighed pushing the peas around with his plastic fork. He missed him.

"Oh…" Anzu flashed a smile. When Ryou looked up, she was frowning. "I can't imagine him like that."

The white-haired British transfer student blinked and sighed again. "Well…he is like this…but I haven't seen such attitude recently."

Anzu laughed in her mind, she was so happy right now, she didn't think about how Ryou felt. "That's strange." She looked down at her tray and began to eat and so did Ryou.

Ryou's POV

Lunch was awfully long and boring, especially for me. Anzu had talked so much, and I just couldn't control myself so I dozed off. I sighed as I walked down the hall to the main office to look for Malik. When I stepped in I spotted Malik walking out of the principal's office with an upset expression.

"M-Malik?" I was pulled out of the office. "M-Malik what's wrong?!"

Malik turned to me and smiled. Oh how I adore his smiles, they brought me such joy and a carefree feelings. "Nothing, it's nothing. Come on, we got to get to English now."

I nodded in agreement and walked down the hall with him.

"So how was your lunch?"

"Boring." I couldn't lie to Malik and it wasn't even one of my best qualities.

"Hm? Why?" The blonde turned his head to me.

"It was Anzu." I rubbed my arm. I do this because I'm uneasy or something, it's a nervous habit Malik tells me. "She was just…very boring."

Malik smiled and laughed.