Hey what did I tell you? Bingo! that Ileana's very very bad at updating! I'm sorry!!! I'll talk at the end cuz you probably want to read the story instead of my rambling.

Disclaimer: I don't own YGO, and I don' t own any of the songs that I'm using blah blah and this applies for the rest of the story. I also do not own Norwegion Cruise Lines or the Norwegion Wind.

This chapter is for cute-Baka, ISC, Kota-77, tiger witch, Sefie Lynne tilmitt, and animefreak54.

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Since you been gone
I can breathe for the first time
I'm so movin' on, yeah yeah
Thanks to you now I get what I want
Since you been gone

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"Mutou! Evans! You've been working since nine and you're only 2/3 down the hall?!?! GET MOVING!!!" the red faced moderator yelled as he did his 12 o'clock check on deck nine of the M/S Norwegion Wind. "You have more than ten rooms left and people start arriving at 1 o'clock! We leave for Canada at four! MOVE YOUR SORRY BEHINDS!!!" He reached for his hankerchief to wipe off the beads of sweat that had popped out of his foreheadalong with the spit that had collected on his chin and continued his ritual stop down the corridor.

Mark Evans and Yugi Mutou collapsed onto the twin bed that they had previously been working on. "Jeeze, he should try cleaning thirty rooms in four hours! With one good arm! Let's see how fast how fast he can move his butt then!" Said Mark as he looked out the window at the busy Los Angeles port.

"Speaking of, how is your hand?" inquired Yugi.

"What, this?" said Mark as he lifted his injured hand. "It's just a cut that I got from yesterday's housekeeping round. I don't want to split it open again so I've been working one handed. Come on, we really have to finish these rooms!"

The boys remade the bed that they had been lying on and finished cleaning the bathroom before they quickly moved onto the next room.

...1 O'Clock...

Yugi stood at his post on the left hallway of deck nine. He stood prepared to show the guests to their room. He fiddled with his name tag, labeled Yugi Mutou, Japan, and his thoughts wandered back to another time in his life. He thought of his old friends often. At first, he had gotten mad at himself whenever he did, but eventually, he found out that it helped him heal and brought a sense of calmness.

His first two months in Los Angeles were spent washing dishes at a small downtown cafe. When he got invited to work for Norwegion Cruise Lines, he seized the chance. There was where he started to open himself up again and made friends. He felt perfectly comfortable because many of the other employees were from other countries. The long timers had welcomed them all with open arms and they were all a big family.

He also looked different from before. When first arrived in L.A, he had gotten some weird glances from random goons on the street. They probably had recognized him from all the articles written about him after Battle City. To make himself less obvious, Yugi had covered the his red streaks with blue dye. He had gained 6 inches in the past year and his eyes were now somewhat like Yami's but still had an innocent look.

Too bad Mark wasn't there. He was off helping the busboys because half of them were off on summer vacations. 'Serioiusly, you pay the cruise terminal for service but end up having to provide your own busboys so the luggage could actually get to the guests sometime before the cruise was over. What a joke!' mused Yugi.

"Excuse me?"

Yugi turned around to find an elderly couple and their luggage. So much for the busboys.

"Yes ma'am? How may I help you?" asked Yugi.

"Do you know where room 9020 is?" asked the lady.

"Yes, please follow me." Yugi started for the other end of the hallway. The man walked briskly while lugging quite a few bags of luggage. The lady, on the other hand, was hobbling along with hers.

Yugi sighed. Jeeze, the old passengers never trust the busboys. Either that or they didn't want to pay the tip.

"Here, let me help you." offered Yugi as he retraced his steps back to the lady.

She protested, "No, I'm okay I-"

Yugi kept himself from rolling his eyes. "You don't have to pay me, the company does it for you." With that, he hoisted her bags up and continued down to room 9020.

...3 O'Clock...

The P.A. crackled life. "Good afternoon and welcome to the Norwegion Wind. I am Captain Hanks and I will be your captain for this ..."

Blah blah. Yugi walked out of room 9007 after ushering a newly wed couple to their cabins. Now he had to participate in the life boat drill that the captain was now informing the guests about. They did it every time before they set sail due to government regulations but honestly, Yugi thought that the drill was the most superfluous thing ever. If the ship ever crashed into an iceberg, which wasn't possible because it was July, everyone would probably panic and run to the first lifeboat that they saw.

Just as he was about to step out of the hallway into stairtower A, the elevator dinged and an elegantly dressed lady stepped out.

"Well hello! You must be our room steward! Well, show me to our penthouse!" said the woman.

Yugi pried his eyes off her hands, which he had previously been staring at. How did the elevator bring this lady and her rings up? She was wearing gems of every size, cut, and color! And lots of gold! It should have totally exceeded the poor lift's one ton limit.

"Yes?" she asked.

"Oh! Um...yeah...follow me" Yugi stammered.

The penthouses were the most expensive cabins on the ship. Once in her cabin, the lady started examining it. "Well well...my husband's coming shortly, he's giving the busboys careful instuctions on how to handle our luggage, but he'll want a few more pillows - the full and fluffed up ones - and I want some fresh cut flowers by the window here, and that corner of the floor might need a little more vaccuming, and..."

Yugi silently grunted. Why did the penthouse guestes always have to be the most fussy? And what's up with the whole fashionably late thing?

Poor him. Poor busboys.

...11 O'Clock that night (at sea en route to Canada)...

"OMFG my back so hurts from all those suitcases! Seriously, what do people keep in those?" moaned Mark as he stretched out on his bed. Yugi smiled as he climbed onto the bunk above.

The door opened and Andy Lin and Jesse Cornelius, their room mates, stumbled in. They immediatly flopped onto their own beds in a manner not unlike Mark's. Andy was from China and Jesse was from Ohio, they were the stewards on deck 4.

"Hey guys we have mail!" announced Jesse after settling into a comfortable position.

Mark instantly jumped up and grabbed it. "I'll read it!"

"I guess those sore arms just miraculously healed, huh?" muttered Yugi.

Ignoring his friend's comment, Mark began to read.

Dear Employees of M/S Norwegion Wind,

This is a reminder that the Norwegion Wind will not be performing its weekly cruise to Canada next week. We are pleased to host a special event that will bring us to Hawaii for an extend time of 10 days. Further details will be available later this week.

Sincerely,
Captain Hanks

"Why all the secrecy?" pondered Andrew. "They've been talking about this special event since forever, but they still don't have details?"

"And wait there's another sheet of paper!" called Mark. "It says... Yugi... We are pleased to inform you that you've been promoted to assistant waiter...starting...next week! Congrats, dude!"

"Wow...say aloha to assistant waiter and aloha to steward!" exclaimed Jesse.

"Yeah! Congrats!" chimed Andrew. "I can't believe it! Assistant waiter after only 10 months!"

"I...I can't believe it either..." stammered Yugi

But why did he feel a sense of forboding about all this?

...Later...

Yugi laid his head onto his pillow and sunk his face into its soft warmth. Assistant waiter...sigh...life on this ship was full of surprises...and plenty of hard work. Despite it all, Yugi thouroughingly enjoyed it. Here was his home, friends, and most of all, happiness.

With that, he let the hum ofengines sing him to sleep.

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Woohoo there's that chapter. Before I go I have a few things to talk about...

Once again, this will be a non yaoi or yaoi fic. I won't emphasize either so it's all up to your imagination. Guardian/best friend or lover it's your choice.

Norwegion Cruise Lines is a real cruise company and the Norwegion Wind is a very real ship!.I had sailed with the Norwegion Majesty earlier this year, which has obviously inspired me to write about a cruise. It was going to be a hotel, but I changed my mind because a.) With a 10 day cruise, I can't back off, skip events, and/or make the story shorter, and b.) If Yugi saw Yami, he couldn't run away! He is stuck on the ship unless he wants to jump overboard.

"Wow...say aloha to assistant waiter and aloha to steward!" About this sentence...aloha's supposed to mean hello and good bye...am I right?

btw what genre do you think this belongs in?

Please review! thanks, ileana