Authors Note: *hides from audience* I'm so sorry everybody. I've just been
SUPER lazy lately forgive me. *Begs on knees* But here is chapter 7 ya'll
review don't kill me!! *runs*
Chapter 7: Money Boy
*~*~*~*Yami's point of view~*~*~*~*
"...Light, gas, groceries, grandpa's medical...I don't think there's enough to pay for all of these. Oh Ra..." I can't help but sigh in total frustration of everything that has been laid upon my shoulders. Now that grandpa's sick it is my duty to up hold what he has left in my care mostly Yugi. I don't remember life being this hard as a king back in Egypt. Then again I wasn't exactly poor but being ruler certainly wasn't easy. There is so much hanging in the balance that if anything happened I will surely feel it was my fault. For one grandpa's life; I cannot bare losing him because all though he is Yugi's grandfather I see him as mine too. He treated me like a son when Yugi finally revealed the truth to him a while back, about the millennium puzzle. Surprisingly Mr. Motou took it well and everything has been well since then. And now...I just pray they go back the same way, but I wasn't about to sit here and sulk about it.
I'm doing what I do best; I'm trying to over come the odds. I once heard that Life is a game, there's more losers than winners. Personally I never saw myself as a loser and I wasn't about to now. ~Mr. Motou please get better Yugi needs you.~ I've been trying my best though taking over the shop from 9 to 5 instead of going to school, which I still feel Yugi is upset at me for. Aibou had never wanted me to drop out but he just doesn't understand what needs to be done. Sometimes I feel Aibou can't handle the sudden changes and I understand, and I' am trying to keep him focused on the only thing he needs to keep his mind on; school.
Last thing I need is for my light is to lose track trying to get a job and help when what I really what him to do is stay in school. A soft sigh passes my lips as I run a hand through my golden bangs, I know I can handle it. If I can take care of a kingdom, I can get through this. I will get another job or something really late at night after I close the shop I have to...for Yugi. I promised to protect him and take care of him to grandpa and I'm going to do just that.
"Hey Yami." A perky voice chirps from behind me jumping down the last three steps of the stairs. I couldn't help but smile slightly at my light for he was certainly happier than I have seen him in a while. Not that I was around a lot to see him, I couldn't help that I have business to attend to. "Morning Yugi. You're all smiles today, something special happening?" Yugi laughed softly a sound so beautiful it sang in my ears. "I'm going to the mall with a friend of mine. I wont be long." My smaller look alike bounces around in sheer excitement that I can't help but share.
"Oh really? Who is this friend of yours that you speak?" I ask with a tiny smile as I gather the mail and rest it to the side it can be dealt with some other day, right now I was going to catch up on the little things I had missed about my Aibou for the past month. Yugi smiles as he leans forward a glimmer of hope in his eyes that I hadn't quite seen before, and I hope it is me why he looks that way. I flick out my tongue to moisten my lips a bit awaiting his answer. "Tygris, you remember the green haired male you met?" He reminds me and I can't help but feel a pang of jealousy though I dare not show it. I simply smile and nodd. "Yes I do, he seems like a nice person." Yugi gives me another one of his smiles agreeing. "Yes he is," He straightens up a bit his tiny hands fiddling together as though he was trying to think up the right words to say to me about something.
"Is something wrong Yugi?" I couldn't help but ask my eyebrows arching inquisitively at the youth. He looks up at me with those wide amethyst eyes reaching into the inner parts of his jacket that he wore tugging out an envelope. "Here...It's my little contribution to the house. Now, now I don't want you to thinking that I'm stealing, sealing drugs or any of that crazy stuff Yami. I just...just got a job."
My eyes widen at him, as I hold the envelope halfway opening it but not entirely. "You what?" I ask loudly not realizing I had raised my voice so. "What did I tell you about focusing on school?" I question but he quickly ignores that his amethyst orbs narrowing a bit. "Listen Yami, I live here too and I want to help that's final!" He states calmly before turning around, heading to the door.
For some reason I don't chase after him like normally would have. I just stood there confused suddenly noticing changes...changes that maybe I wasn't willing to admit.
Not yet at least.
*~*~*~*~*~*Yugi's point of view*~*~*~*~*
I hurried out the door and down the steps to Tygris' car that just drove up and on my face I knew I was smiling. I felt...very pleased with myself I think I can almost say I feel older. The dumbstruck look on my Yami's face when I left made me know that he was beginning to realize his missing out on a lot of things. And I meant a lot. "Heya Yugi!" Tygris calls to me with a bright smile and I smile back. I was so happy that I couldn't help but lean forward and peck him on the cheek. He flushed faintly at my actions but didn't say anything silently understanding what I was feeling.
We drove off to the mall getting faster there than I expected, but I wasn't disappointed. So Tygris was a pretty fast driver but I wasn't bother by it, I found him fun loving and exciting all in one. He wasn't your typical daily dose of 'Man' and yes I mean 'Man', he wasn't afraid of anything really especially not of his emotions what he felt was what he felt and nothing was going to to my lime haired friend differently.
I liked that, actually I liked a lot of things about him. I blush as I walked beside him gently holding his arm that I maybe I liked him more than I realized. Tygris looks don at me with that pearly smile of his his hand tenderly reaching up to brush back my hair. I can't help but shiver from his touch.
~Is this how I wished Yami would treat me?...~
Another heated blush reached my cheeks again and I guessed I did. But he wasn't was he? Yea, there was that moment of truth. I sighed softly.
"You want to go check out this movie?" My golden-eyed companion asks softly squeezing my hand and I nod. As I look around I notice people staring thinking that probably he and I went together. My suspicions were confirmed when we passed a group of girls one of them snorting. "All the good ones are always taken or gay..." She seemed to murmur to her friends who nodded in agreement.
Tygris and I looked at each other sharing this amused sort of look though there was a very visible blush on both of our faces. "I guess we should take that as a compliment." He said with a laugh mine joining in with his. My eyes lingered a bit longer on his alluring lips a bit longer than I expected and I think he didn't noticed because he probably too busy staring at mine.
"Yugi!" I looked up at my name being called, wondering who had dared to interrupt that perfect moment, both Tygris and I pausing mid-step pivoting towards the direction of the voice. My eyes widened as I saw Joey running towards us, Tristan not too far behind a smile on their faces. I couldn't help but have a slightly puzzled look on my face as I stared.
~ They noticed me??~
Tygris looked down to see my face as they stop before us panting a bit. "Yug, long time no see." Joey says with his usual accent, a smile that I can't help but return. They ignored me for so long that I didn't think they had even considered me as friend anymore. "Joey...um-" I knew right about then I favored a fish my mouth moving without words before Joey laughed. "Don't look so shock Yugi." They tell me before taking note of my companion who was silent as he watched. Tristan was the first to notice him, and then our hands, which were linked before arching an eyebrow. "A new friend?" He asks and I smile.
"Yes, His name is Tygris." I tell them and they're silent for a moment, until Tyrgis holds out his hand in gesture of friendship. "Nice to meet you, Tristan and Joey. Yugi has told me much about you two." He says in this sexy baritone that I shiver slightly at my cheeks flushing invisibly. At the same time I was surprised to see Tygris had remembered their names and descriptions when I talked about them but I guess he must have been paying more attention than I expected. The lime haired male smiled warmly at them and Joey being his usually friendly self shook his hand with broad smile. "Nice to meet cha." Tristan follows his example both shaking Tygris'hand and starting small chitchat. "So you guys here to shop around a bit?" Joey asks us and I shrugged.
It was uncomfortable talking as though we had just seen each other a day, as though everything was fine. When in truth everything wasn't fine, and they knew it. I'm sure both Joey and Tristan could also feel the thickening silence between us; seeing the distance that they hadn't realized was there before. I smiled. It sweet me to know they really didn't know me any more. Everything they knew was what they remembered about me, when we were friends, when we were close like my Yami and I. I had heard that friends go and come or just grow apart but I had never thought that would happen to me.
That was a long time ago, I'm not a little boy anymore, things are changing and I'am taking control of my life. Had they thought I would be little Yugi forever? Joey's blabbers turn to stutters to say something of consequence knowing he really couldn't say much at all. My eyes saw the wheels turning in his head and could all but I smell the guilt. He knew he hadn't been the so-called best friend he thought he was to me because he was too busy being best buds with Yami. I wasn't jealous, I wouldn't be jealous. That's not me. I respect his and Yami companionship but to cut me out of he picture was cold.
I wouldn't let Tristan slide so easy either, or any of them for a matter but I will let them be their our judge. I moved on, no sense dwelling on it. Even as my amethyst eyes let a bit of my mirth show at the situation, I didn't let it reveal all. Tygris speaks up to lighten the weight of the silence over us; I guess he never thought it could be so heavy. "Well, it was nice seeing you guys. Me and Yugi we're just going to head to the movies if you don't mind?" Tristan and Joey chuckle nervously murmuring something or another I wasn't really listening. "Good bye guys. Nice seeing you again." I say half-heartedly not really meaning it. I wanted them to know how I felt being ignored and it was their turn now. We both walked off with smiles waving a bit to them before going on our way leaving them standing in the middle of the mall with somewhat sheepish faces.
*~*~*~Yugi's POV ends*~*~*
Joey sighed as he ran a hand through his dirty blond hair, a guilty look in sandy brown eyes. Tristan shared the same look but less so as his mind seem to be focused on other things. "Tygris....you know that name sounds familiar." He said while Joey rolled his eyes. "It reminds you of tiger you idiot." The brunette glared moving to grab the other in a headlock giving him a noogie. "No man, not that! It kind of reminds me of a name I hear Teá and Mai talk about in their girly conversations." Joey grunted as he struggled passersbys looking at the two friends like they were crazy. "Grr get offa me!" Joey yelled but Tristan kept a god grip.
"Yea, I remember now it was a name of this male stripper at this club." The two froze pulling away to look at each other. Joey remembered now, remembering when Serenity showed him the silly flyer she had got while shipping with the girls downtown. "Yea, I rememba, Serenity said something about a guy named Tygris, but I don't remember what he looked like. Did he have green hair like that one?" He asked and Tristan rolled his eyes flashing him a dry look. "Joey he looked just like him!"
"But we can't be assuming that dude's a gigolo. For god's sake he's Yugi's frie-" The blond shot back before gasping both looking at one another very very wide eyed.
Chapter 7: Money Boy
*~*~*~*Yami's point of view~*~*~*~*
"...Light, gas, groceries, grandpa's medical...I don't think there's enough to pay for all of these. Oh Ra..." I can't help but sigh in total frustration of everything that has been laid upon my shoulders. Now that grandpa's sick it is my duty to up hold what he has left in my care mostly Yugi. I don't remember life being this hard as a king back in Egypt. Then again I wasn't exactly poor but being ruler certainly wasn't easy. There is so much hanging in the balance that if anything happened I will surely feel it was my fault. For one grandpa's life; I cannot bare losing him because all though he is Yugi's grandfather I see him as mine too. He treated me like a son when Yugi finally revealed the truth to him a while back, about the millennium puzzle. Surprisingly Mr. Motou took it well and everything has been well since then. And now...I just pray they go back the same way, but I wasn't about to sit here and sulk about it.
I'm doing what I do best; I'm trying to over come the odds. I once heard that Life is a game, there's more losers than winners. Personally I never saw myself as a loser and I wasn't about to now. ~Mr. Motou please get better Yugi needs you.~ I've been trying my best though taking over the shop from 9 to 5 instead of going to school, which I still feel Yugi is upset at me for. Aibou had never wanted me to drop out but he just doesn't understand what needs to be done. Sometimes I feel Aibou can't handle the sudden changes and I understand, and I' am trying to keep him focused on the only thing he needs to keep his mind on; school.
Last thing I need is for my light is to lose track trying to get a job and help when what I really what him to do is stay in school. A soft sigh passes my lips as I run a hand through my golden bangs, I know I can handle it. If I can take care of a kingdom, I can get through this. I will get another job or something really late at night after I close the shop I have to...for Yugi. I promised to protect him and take care of him to grandpa and I'm going to do just that.
"Hey Yami." A perky voice chirps from behind me jumping down the last three steps of the stairs. I couldn't help but smile slightly at my light for he was certainly happier than I have seen him in a while. Not that I was around a lot to see him, I couldn't help that I have business to attend to. "Morning Yugi. You're all smiles today, something special happening?" Yugi laughed softly a sound so beautiful it sang in my ears. "I'm going to the mall with a friend of mine. I wont be long." My smaller look alike bounces around in sheer excitement that I can't help but share.
"Oh really? Who is this friend of yours that you speak?" I ask with a tiny smile as I gather the mail and rest it to the side it can be dealt with some other day, right now I was going to catch up on the little things I had missed about my Aibou for the past month. Yugi smiles as he leans forward a glimmer of hope in his eyes that I hadn't quite seen before, and I hope it is me why he looks that way. I flick out my tongue to moisten my lips a bit awaiting his answer. "Tygris, you remember the green haired male you met?" He reminds me and I can't help but feel a pang of jealousy though I dare not show it. I simply smile and nodd. "Yes I do, he seems like a nice person." Yugi gives me another one of his smiles agreeing. "Yes he is," He straightens up a bit his tiny hands fiddling together as though he was trying to think up the right words to say to me about something.
"Is something wrong Yugi?" I couldn't help but ask my eyebrows arching inquisitively at the youth. He looks up at me with those wide amethyst eyes reaching into the inner parts of his jacket that he wore tugging out an envelope. "Here...It's my little contribution to the house. Now, now I don't want you to thinking that I'm stealing, sealing drugs or any of that crazy stuff Yami. I just...just got a job."
My eyes widen at him, as I hold the envelope halfway opening it but not entirely. "You what?" I ask loudly not realizing I had raised my voice so. "What did I tell you about focusing on school?" I question but he quickly ignores that his amethyst orbs narrowing a bit. "Listen Yami, I live here too and I want to help that's final!" He states calmly before turning around, heading to the door.
For some reason I don't chase after him like normally would have. I just stood there confused suddenly noticing changes...changes that maybe I wasn't willing to admit.
Not yet at least.
*~*~*~*~*~*Yugi's point of view*~*~*~*~*
I hurried out the door and down the steps to Tygris' car that just drove up and on my face I knew I was smiling. I felt...very pleased with myself I think I can almost say I feel older. The dumbstruck look on my Yami's face when I left made me know that he was beginning to realize his missing out on a lot of things. And I meant a lot. "Heya Yugi!" Tygris calls to me with a bright smile and I smile back. I was so happy that I couldn't help but lean forward and peck him on the cheek. He flushed faintly at my actions but didn't say anything silently understanding what I was feeling.
We drove off to the mall getting faster there than I expected, but I wasn't disappointed. So Tygris was a pretty fast driver but I wasn't bother by it, I found him fun loving and exciting all in one. He wasn't your typical daily dose of 'Man' and yes I mean 'Man', he wasn't afraid of anything really especially not of his emotions what he felt was what he felt and nothing was going to to my lime haired friend differently.
I liked that, actually I liked a lot of things about him. I blush as I walked beside him gently holding his arm that I maybe I liked him more than I realized. Tygris looks don at me with that pearly smile of his his hand tenderly reaching up to brush back my hair. I can't help but shiver from his touch.
~Is this how I wished Yami would treat me?...~
Another heated blush reached my cheeks again and I guessed I did. But he wasn't was he? Yea, there was that moment of truth. I sighed softly.
"You want to go check out this movie?" My golden-eyed companion asks softly squeezing my hand and I nod. As I look around I notice people staring thinking that probably he and I went together. My suspicions were confirmed when we passed a group of girls one of them snorting. "All the good ones are always taken or gay..." She seemed to murmur to her friends who nodded in agreement.
Tygris and I looked at each other sharing this amused sort of look though there was a very visible blush on both of our faces. "I guess we should take that as a compliment." He said with a laugh mine joining in with his. My eyes lingered a bit longer on his alluring lips a bit longer than I expected and I think he didn't noticed because he probably too busy staring at mine.
"Yugi!" I looked up at my name being called, wondering who had dared to interrupt that perfect moment, both Tygris and I pausing mid-step pivoting towards the direction of the voice. My eyes widened as I saw Joey running towards us, Tristan not too far behind a smile on their faces. I couldn't help but have a slightly puzzled look on my face as I stared.
~ They noticed me??~
Tygris looked down to see my face as they stop before us panting a bit. "Yug, long time no see." Joey says with his usual accent, a smile that I can't help but return. They ignored me for so long that I didn't think they had even considered me as friend anymore. "Joey...um-" I knew right about then I favored a fish my mouth moving without words before Joey laughed. "Don't look so shock Yugi." They tell me before taking note of my companion who was silent as he watched. Tristan was the first to notice him, and then our hands, which were linked before arching an eyebrow. "A new friend?" He asks and I smile.
"Yes, His name is Tygris." I tell them and they're silent for a moment, until Tyrgis holds out his hand in gesture of friendship. "Nice to meet you, Tristan and Joey. Yugi has told me much about you two." He says in this sexy baritone that I shiver slightly at my cheeks flushing invisibly. At the same time I was surprised to see Tygris had remembered their names and descriptions when I talked about them but I guess he must have been paying more attention than I expected. The lime haired male smiled warmly at them and Joey being his usually friendly self shook his hand with broad smile. "Nice to meet cha." Tristan follows his example both shaking Tygris'hand and starting small chitchat. "So you guys here to shop around a bit?" Joey asks us and I shrugged.
It was uncomfortable talking as though we had just seen each other a day, as though everything was fine. When in truth everything wasn't fine, and they knew it. I'm sure both Joey and Tristan could also feel the thickening silence between us; seeing the distance that they hadn't realized was there before. I smiled. It sweet me to know they really didn't know me any more. Everything they knew was what they remembered about me, when we were friends, when we were close like my Yami and I. I had heard that friends go and come or just grow apart but I had never thought that would happen to me.
That was a long time ago, I'm not a little boy anymore, things are changing and I'am taking control of my life. Had they thought I would be little Yugi forever? Joey's blabbers turn to stutters to say something of consequence knowing he really couldn't say much at all. My eyes saw the wheels turning in his head and could all but I smell the guilt. He knew he hadn't been the so-called best friend he thought he was to me because he was too busy being best buds with Yami. I wasn't jealous, I wouldn't be jealous. That's not me. I respect his and Yami companionship but to cut me out of he picture was cold.
I wouldn't let Tristan slide so easy either, or any of them for a matter but I will let them be their our judge. I moved on, no sense dwelling on it. Even as my amethyst eyes let a bit of my mirth show at the situation, I didn't let it reveal all. Tygris speaks up to lighten the weight of the silence over us; I guess he never thought it could be so heavy. "Well, it was nice seeing you guys. Me and Yugi we're just going to head to the movies if you don't mind?" Tristan and Joey chuckle nervously murmuring something or another I wasn't really listening. "Good bye guys. Nice seeing you again." I say half-heartedly not really meaning it. I wanted them to know how I felt being ignored and it was their turn now. We both walked off with smiles waving a bit to them before going on our way leaving them standing in the middle of the mall with somewhat sheepish faces.
*~*~*~Yugi's POV ends*~*~*
Joey sighed as he ran a hand through his dirty blond hair, a guilty look in sandy brown eyes. Tristan shared the same look but less so as his mind seem to be focused on other things. "Tygris....you know that name sounds familiar." He said while Joey rolled his eyes. "It reminds you of tiger you idiot." The brunette glared moving to grab the other in a headlock giving him a noogie. "No man, not that! It kind of reminds me of a name I hear Teá and Mai talk about in their girly conversations." Joey grunted as he struggled passersbys looking at the two friends like they were crazy. "Grr get offa me!" Joey yelled but Tristan kept a god grip.
"Yea, I remember now it was a name of this male stripper at this club." The two froze pulling away to look at each other. Joey remembered now, remembering when Serenity showed him the silly flyer she had got while shipping with the girls downtown. "Yea, I rememba, Serenity said something about a guy named Tygris, but I don't remember what he looked like. Did he have green hair like that one?" He asked and Tristan rolled his eyes flashing him a dry look. "Joey he looked just like him!"
"But we can't be assuming that dude's a gigolo. For god's sake he's Yugi's frie-" The blond shot back before gasping both looking at one another very very wide eyed.
