FlameRider: I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOO sorry to have waited everyone for like…3…no 4….I think…MONTHS for this story to come out! x I VERY VERY VERY SORRY! So let me shut up and begin this Long-Not-Updated story…..!
Savior of Darkness
Chapter 2 A Familiar Face
The sun began to ride as dawn had finally come. The crisp, cold morning wind awaked the rustling trees. One by one every living thing awoke from its peaceful slumber. All oblivious of the eventful night.
Yugi yawned as he walked to school in his clean, blue uniform. It had been quite a night for Yugi as he had trouble sleeping. Most of the night he kept recalling the event over and over in his mind but he couldn't stop remembering. Especially the mysterious, dark figure.
Ding Dong Ding Dong!
The school bells rang. Yugi finally arrived and noticed he was very early. He yawned again and decided to sit down until school started.
"Ugh. I'm so tired. I couldn't sleep at all last night." Yugi thought tiredly as he rubbed his half-closed eyes.
The school was completely silent. Yugi was the only person who had arrived. His thoughts wondered around him about last night. About what happened. About the shadowy figure.
It took Yugi awhile to realize he was not alone.
"Excuse me…" a steady voice suddenly snapped Yugi from his day-dream.
Yugi, in a bit of a shock, looked up. As if anything can get any weirder in his life, he thought he was hallucinating. The person who caught his attention looked exactly like him. Black, star-shaped hair with red trims and golden, zigzag bangs. The difference was that this person had more golden, thunderbolt-like spikes on his head, seemed taller than him, and wore dark, black sunglasses (which made him look quite charismatic).
"Um…uh…er…yes?" Yugi tried to stay calm in his reply.
"I'm kind of lost. Could you show me where the school office is?" The person seem to smirk but asked in a polite manner.
"Oh, sure!" Yugi nervously stood up and started walking towards the school entrance followed by his almost-alike double. They opened the doors and entered. First, they went across the long hallway. Then, up a few stairs. Opened a few doors. Walked through another hallway. Went down a flight of stairs. And finally opened a door that led to another hallway.
"Uh-oh. I know I was here before. I can't concentrate if I get nervous. HMM! Now I forgot where the school office is!" Yugi grew mentally frustrated.
"Here it is. Arigato." Yugi turned around as he heard the look-alike's thankful tone and stared blankly at him. The double smirked again as he entered the office door. Yugi stood there dumbfounded as the office door closed with a light click.
"…What just happened?" Yugi finally spoke.
School Yard
"Yo, Ryou!" a happy, cheerful voice was heard shouting through the high-level of noise of talking students.
"Good morning, Jounochi!" The white-haired, amber-brown eyed boy, Ryou, greeted his blond headed, brown eyed, tough looking friend, Jounochi.
"Eh, where's Yugi?" Jounochi look around.
"I have no clue. He's usually here by this time and school is going to begin soon." Ryou looked at the clock tower nearing to their designated time for their classes to begin.
The entrance doors slowly opened. Jounochi and Ryou notices as the young, star-shaped haired boy carefully walks into the school yard dazed.
"Mornin', Yugi!" The blond waved frantically at his daze-looking friend. Yugi snapped out of his thoughts and greets Jounochi and Ryou as he sprints towards them with a delighted smile.
"So, what were you doing in school so early?" Ryou curiously asked.
"Uh, well, nothing really. Someone just asked where the school office was so I showed him where it was." Yugi explained.
"Who was it? Do you know?" Jounochi asked with a curious look.
"Oh! Do you know what the strangest thing was? That person look-"Yugi began.
"Hey, mornin' guys! What's up?" a brown, arrow-headed boy interrupted.
"Oh, good morning, Honda." Ryou smiled and waved.
"Um…hmm…have you seen Anzu around?" Honda looked all over the yard with his hand over his eyes as if shielding himself from the sun.
"Yes. She's over there." Ryou pointed to a group of chattering girls. One of the girls, standing in the middle, wore a pink uniform dress and a neatly done, blue bow tie tied on the collar, she had short, brunette hair, and had blue eyes. "Why do you ask?"
"Eh…no reason. I just thought she might hangout with us today." Honda scratched the back of his head out of disappointment.
A small frown formed on Yugi's face. Anzu Mazaki, a beautiful 15 year old teen, With short, brunette hair and eyes like the sea, she use to be Yugi's closest friend. That is until she became popular. Now they barely hangout anymore like they use to. Yugi has known her for a long time now and he cares deeply for her like a brother would for his sister.
Yugi sighed sadly as he looked away from the group. Jounochi, who noticed, felt sympathy for his dear friend. He didn't know what to say because he was afraid to say the wrong things that might sadden his little friend more. He put an arm around the young one's petit neck.
"Aaah, Yugi. It'll be okay." Jounochi said. Yugi nodded but the frown was still noticeable.
"Yeah, Yugi, cheer up. I know! Did you guys know we're going to have a new transferred student in our class? They say the student was from Egypt. Interesting huh?" Their reliable Ryou informed.
"Wow! Really? All the way from Egypt? Here in Japan? In our school?" Yugi's quick change of personality to interest questioned.
"Now dat's the Yugi I know!" Jounochi noogied Yugi's tri-colored hair.
Yugi laughed. To him, a new student meant a new friend. Yugi was so excited; he couldn't wait for school to start. You could say that making friend is his number one hobby, next to playing games, he was always ecstatic in finding someone new.
"I can't wait!"
RIiiiiiiNG!
The first bell rang, signaling for all students to be in their classrooms.
Yugi sat in his desk as his friend surrounded him in a circular form. They began to talk about the new transferred student wondering what he, or she, might look like and if the new student was friendly or not. Soon the room was filled with chattering students.
RIiiiiiiNG!
Class was about to begin. Everyone took their seats whispering to each other as a black haired, mid-age man entered the classroom.
"Good morning class." Their teacher greeted with a happy smile. "Good morning." The class replied.
"I have good news. We have a new transferred student today. He is from Egypt so please welcome him warmly." The teacher motioned the student in.
Yugi became excited and surprised. The student that came in was the same person earlier that was looking for the office. But his excitement disappeared.
Earlier before the student seem nice and polite. The feeling around him felt neutral and the way he looked was mysterious and sly-like. But now Yugi shivered as he felt the sudden change in the air as the student came in. Cold, dark, terror. All ominous feelings were emitting from the puzzling student.
"I can't put my finger on but this feeling seems…familiar to me some how." Yugi mused.
"His name is Yami and he came all the way from Egypt. We hope you'll have a good year here at our school." The teacher introduced, completely oblivious from the sudden dark change in the air. "Now where should I put you…" The teacher whispered to himself. "Ah ha! Behind Yugi. Please stand, Yugi Mutou." He asked aloud.
"M-me! Uhh…" Yugi slowly stood from his seat. He was afraid to make eye contact with the puzzling new student, Yami, so he stared at the floor as he stood. Then he quickly sat back down.
Yami coolly walked over towards his designated seat behind the young boy. He stopped for an instant as he passed Yugi. Yugi looked up. The two stared at each other for what seemed like a long time to Yugi. Then, he smirked and took his seat.
"...Yami huh? Well, the name suits him well…" Yugi mused nervously.
"Okay class, please turn to page 365…"
After school
"GAH! It's been only a day and now he's mister popularity?" Jounochi stomped his foot
"Maybe it's the looks. I mean he does seem mysterious with those sunglasses on." Ryou pointed out.
"Not you too!" Jounochi exclaimed.
"What? You like his glasses too?" Ryou asked in a silly manner.
"What? No way! It's just that I can't stand those popular girls always flirtin' with those kind of guys who are cool, quiet, and mysterious." Jounochi glared at the crowd of girls seeming to fuss around with the new student who doesn't seem to care.
"Ooo, someone is jealous." Ryou tried to hold back a laugh.
"RYOU!" Jounochi shot back.
"Hmm…well you seem very quiet , Yugi." Ryou noticed, but Yugi didn't reply.
"Hello? Earth ta Yugi, do ya copy? Ova." Jounochi called to his silent friend.
"…Huh? Wha? What's wrong?" Yugi felt shaken up as he said this.
"Were ya spacin' out?" Jounochi asked; Yugi nodded slightly, shrugged and sighed.
"What's on your mind?" Ryou sat next to Yugi.
"Nothing much." He glanced at the crowd, Anzu was there as well. "I was just wondering about the new student, Yami." Yugi sighed once more. "Something about him seems…strange."
"Yah. When he first came in, I felt a chill in the classroom. I'm still feelin' it every time I look at him. Yikes." Jounochi shuddered looking towards the direction where the new student was. The crowd of girls suddenly became bigger as well as the noise level. "Girls…" Jounochi snorted.
"I felt the same way but it was more like a cool feeling." Ryou smiled.
"Should I tell them about last night?" Yugi questioned himself. "Umm…guys-"he began.
"So! Where are you gonna sleep tonight?" Jounochi interrupted.
"Umm…well…" Yugi looked at Ryou. Ryou gave a friendly nod. He was happy to have Yugi over especially since he lived alone for a long time in an apartment when he first came into Japan. It was also good for Yugi too since his grandpa past away recently. Even though he could stay at his game shop, Yugi was scared living all by himself. But he still maintains the store after school.
Suddenly, a loud growl was heard. Yugi and Ryou looked around confused by the sound and where it was coming from.
"Oops. Heh. Dat was my stomach." Jounochi scratched his head out of embarrassment. Yugi and Ryou laughed. "Wha? I can't help it if I get really hungry. Ima growin' boy." Jounochi grinned.
"Then let's go to Burger World then." Ryou suggested.
"You guys go ahead. I have to go check the shop for a while." Yugi waved his hand in a good-bye manner.
"Alright, see ya, Yugi!" Jounochi winked.
"I'll see you tonight." Ryou reminded.
"Bye!" and with that, Yugi happily headed towards the direction of the Kame Game Shop.
Kame Game Shop
The sky was bright blue as Yugi left for the store. By the time he got there, the blue sky had turned slightly dark blue as the sun began to descend from above the skies.
Yugi had just arrived as he unlocked the door to the shop. He stayed there for two hours or so as he took care of the store and managed to finish his homework. After that, he decided to close the shop and head for Ryou's place.
By then the sky had already turned dark blue. The setting sun had over colored some of the dark blue shade with a tint of orange-red. The mixed color also made the sky a dark, light purple shade as well, making the sky seem like a painting made real.
Yugi with his stuff all packed up and ready for the night, locked the store and headed to his friend's place. He began to walk but was suddenly stopped by a rustling sound coming from the trees.
He looked behind him and seem to wait. At that instant, something plopped right in front of him. Yugi, too shocked to say anything, just stood there stun. The thing seem to stand up right and looked at him. Yugi, wanting to scream out of surprise, still stood still. He finally reacted and spoke in a calm, nervous, frighten voice.
"…YAMI!..." Yami smirked to the young one's response. Yugi, back to his senses, finally spoke, "Umm…what are you doing here?" Yami still had his black shades on; Yugi couldn't tell at all if he was looking at him or something else. "I don't really know. I got tired of the people there at school. Some of them even followed me so I concealed myself among the trees until they gave up. Heh, a surprise it was that you lived here." He explained in a deep, cool, voice, "Where are you off to?" he added. "I'm going to my friend's house now for the night." Yugi said happily.
"Why not at your own place?"
"Because…he invited me." Yugi tried to avoid the fact that he was alone now. Yami wasn't quite convinced but nodded anyway.
"…How about I take you out somewhere before you go?" Yami proposed. Yugi began to protest but he interrupted, "Don't worry, it's my way of saying Thank-You for leading me to the office. Not to mention a tour of the whole school." Yami recalled of the shy, nervous boy. "Umm…sure…how about Burger World?" Yugi suggested. "Anywhere." Yami smiled.
Yugi noticed the smile. He smiled back and they walked to the restaurant. It was strange, earlier that Yami, the new student, seem to be neutral, then all of a sudden cold and serious, and now…nice and warm. This student is quite a puzzle, and Yugi just loves solving puzzles.
This would be his biggest puzzle yet.
FlameRider: Yes, yes, YES! I'm FINALLY done with chapter 2 and after fer so long! I think this chap was a bit boring, but I hope it'll get more exciting! Summer's coming up so GOOD NEWS! I'll have MORE time on me stories. As soon as me dad buys me that laptop he promised! And I'm sorry to have taken so long. Graduation this June. And thank you fer all the reviews! I feel more encouraged now! I LOVE YOU ALL!
