After a long wait I finally came up with chapter six. I'm sorry, people, it took me some time to write this one. It was particularly hard to do, because the topic isn't very easy to be worked on, especially now that I came to the part of love and its existence. I'm not really satisfied with how I did it in the end. It could have been better – at least in my mind it had seemed better.
Well, I really loved (no pun, heh) your replies to last chapter. Your opinions didn't seem to vary much, which made me think really hard. Almost everyone believes in the existence of love, many of you even wondered how one could ask such a question.
To those who I made think it maybe does not exist: Don't let yourself be influenced that much by me. (smiles) Do I have to convince you again of the opposite now? I, personally, do believe in love, even if it is not that kind of love Yugi wants.
Enjoy what I thought up for you!
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1) If you love someone, you feel romantically or sexually attracted to them, and they are very important to you. 2) Love is a very strong feeling of affection towards someone who you are romantically or sexually attracted to.
Paragraph from: PONS; English Learner's Dictionary
1) Strong feeling of affection to another living being. a) strong feeling for a closely related person, for example a family member. b) sexual, physical, erotic, emotional relationship. c) sexual intercourse. 2) (non sexual) strong positive feeling towards something. 3) Love makes blind: If you love someone you don't see weaknesses or frailties in this person anymore.
Paragraph translated from: German Dictionary
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Mrs Izumi came back to their group having a bright glint in her eyes and a broad happy grin on her lips. Yugi couldn't help but wonder what had boosted her spirits like that, but that question was answered immediately.
"The bus driver agreed to staying here a while longer today, so you have more time to make up for yesterday's missing studies." Their teacher giggled in glee and with wide, shocked eyes the class watched her glide up to the door as if walking on a big pink cloud of joy. "Follow me, children!"
With a sigh Yugi exchanged a look with Jou, who shrugged grumpily. The prospect of even more work than usual made the blonde look like a punished dog, shoulders slumped, face a mirror of dull horror. For one thing Yugi was glad, though. Now he had an excuse to show how bad he felt.
They all followed Mrs Izumi obediently until they stopped in front of the heavy wooden door to the library. The woman turned around to them and smiled. "Of course I still expect a progress report for yesterday. You did work at the hotel, didn't you?"
The rhetoric question hung in the air like a death sentence. A lot of people swallowed, staring at their feet anxiously. Just one of them appeared unfazed, being Seto Kaiba. He opened his briefcase and pulled out a neat piece of paper.
"Here is ours." He glared at Yugi and Jou, stressing the word 'ours' as he spoke.
The teacher smiled happily and took the offered report. One look was cast at her other pupils, the smile freezing a bit the moment she realised there wasn't going to come more. She quickly turned around as if determined to not let her good mood be ruined like that and swung the door open.
"Go in and work, children." She ordered. "The groups not having a report for yesterday's work will hand me in a formal excuse tomorrow – together with the progress report you should have had today."
Everyone shuffled in quickly, some muttering curses, others just hanging their heads. Yugi followed Seto and Jou closely this time to not be alone. Last time he had been alone Yami had been there and he had got the feeling of not being able to handle the situation, had felt trapped even. The others at least could protect him from doing something stupid again. Like, for example, agreeing to a relationship he didn't want.
"I expect you to get a structure done today." Kaiba said in a business-like tone. "What topics you want to work on you decide yourself, just do it properly."
With that the CEO turned around and went over to a nearby table, putting his coat and briefcase down. Yugi followed him with his eyes, wondering what had made such a self-controlled, organised and neat person forget himself like that the previous day. Even if Jou had provoked him to react like that... why did Kaiba do it? Would he have done it with every other person? Yugi doubted it. But where did such a passion come from, that it was even able to override the barriers of a person like Seto Kaiba? What feeling could have caused that? Kaiba certainly hadn't made the decision to kiss Jou. He just had done it without further thinking into it. Such a spontaneous action... it wasn't like Kaiba at all.
So, what did Jou have that was such a provocation, that stirred such a passion in him?
Yugi tore his eyes away from the brunette, who now had a book in hand and began to read, clearly ignoring his blond classmate, who told him angrily that he wasn't his boss and couldn't order him around in any way. He was confused enough with his own feelings and was not willing to analyse those of other people. Strolling over to a shelf, he forced his mind back to the culture he had to work on. The Polarians. He needed more material concerning the economy and a few statistics.
Did love exist for the Polarians?
Quickly Yugi grabbed a book from a shelf, eyes fixed on the title unseeingly. He couldn't concentrate with all those thoughts in his head. He felt like going crazy.
"Yugi, what's up?" Jou appeared at his side, an abandoned book in hand. "Ya look ill, pal."
Yugi blinked, his eyes finally focusing on the title of the book he held in hand: 'Definitions of Truth'
"Just a bit stressed." He answered, looking up at his friend. "We'll have to work all day."
"Yeah, right." Jou narrowed his eyes at Mrs Izumi who strode through the library shooing her pupils around. "Usually I would think a teacher also is happy without work. Is she even human?"
"Maybe she is a Visitor." Yugi joked with half a grin.
"That would explain a lot," laughed Jou, turning and walking back to the table with a last wave. Kaiba immediately spoke up and they could be heard insulting each other again. Yugi tilted his head to the side, watching them for a moment. They were really drawn to each other like moths to a flame, he mused. He couldn't remember a time they hadn't fought when the possibility had presented itself. Jou always went back to Kaiba, even if that promised to end up in a conflict again and again. The moth always lost to the fire, but it would never give up trying to get as near as it could. Wasn't that stupidity? Or was it a power stronger than a person's mind could ever be? Or just passion? But what was passion? Where did it come from?
Confused Yugi glanced down at the book he still held. Definitions of Truth... He blinked at the golden letters of the title. Strangely this book was old, unlike most of the others in this young library. He opened it to the first page, finding only one sentence in the middle of the page.
'Your truth is born with you.'
Before he could think the words over, a shadow fell above them, darkening the yellowed paper of the page. Yugi looked up, reflexively shutting the book. Ryou stood before him, brown eyes still holding sadness in them, just like the day before.
"Hello, Yugi... um..." Ryou bowed slightly in greeting, movements hasty, having lost their usual grace. "...did you see Bakura somewhere?"
Yugi immediately shook his head. He was worried. Ryou looked tired, shadows under his eyes. "Why are you looking for him?"
"I..." Ryou bit his lower lip, trembling hands kept at his sides firmly. "I want to break up with him... I... if what we had could be called a relationship I want it to end."
Speechless Yugi watched the white haired boy, not knowing how to answer. Finally all he could do was nod weakly, looking down.
"And... Yugi?" Ryou's hands fisted. "I need your help. I... I don't want him to ignore what I say again... he knows how to make me need him. He knows all the tricks of getting me to... submit." He spat the last word as if it was poisonous.
"How could I possibly help you?" Yugi asked anxiously, feeling the palms of his hands sweat. The book felt heavy in his grip.
"Just come with me so he can't do anything, okay?" Ryou bowed stiffly. "Please?"
Uncertainly Yugi shifted from one foot to the other. All he had to do was stand beside Ryou? He could do that, right?
"Okay." He agreed, still feeling unsure of himself.
"Really?" Surprised Ryou looked up and after having got another nod he beamed, a true smile pulling at his lips. "Thank you!"
The quick hug his classmate gave him came unexpected, but he accepted it all the same. It showed how much it meant to Ryou after all and he was happy to be able to help him, even if it wasn't much he would do. They broke apart and shared a nervous smile.
"I daresay you aren't allowed to betray me with other people, little one." A hand suddenly slid up his neck to then apply pressure and turn his head around. Before he could even gaps his lips were locked and a rough tongue touched his own. Arms slid around him, warmth encircling him wholly as he was fully pressed up against the other body.
Yugi locked eyes with Yami who hadn't closed his eyes, either, apparently watching his reaction closely.
For Yami a kiss was nothing special. This kiss was no difference. Just a tool for observation. Love didn't belong to the truth Yami was born with.
Did it belong to his own? Was he supposed to be kissing a person he didn't love? But what if love didn't exist? Did it matter then?
With a glare of desperate confusion he pushed forward, tongue responding to Yami's silent demand to take part in the fight for dominance. Surprise flashed through the other's eyes, but no amusement or triumph. Wasn't that what Yami wanted? Him giving in to his need?
He brought his hands up Yami's back, heavy book still held in them, and pressed himself as close to the other as he could, trying hard to forget the words imprinted on his mind.
Sex without love. A relationship without true affection.
Ryou had done that. Had got into a relationship without boundaries. A time limited relationship. Ryou had been broken because of it.
He was going to break, too, wasn't he?
His grip on Yami relaxed, his movements slowing. Yami pulled back, a questioning look fixed on him.
What if he started to get accustomed to have Yami at his side? And then... Yami would turn and go. It was already Wednesday and they would drive back home on Friday.
There was no time at all.
"What's wrong?" Yami asked, gently pushing one stray strand of his hair to the side. Then he cast a glance at Ryou, who still stood there, pain clearly visible in his eyes. "You're all nervous. What did he say to you?"
"Nothing." Yugi replied quickly. "It's just me... I..."
Before he could say more, Yami was grabbed from behind and pushed away from him. The Visitor almost fell to the floor, barely able to stay on his feet.
"Don't dare ta touch Yug', ya bastard!!" Jou yelled, a balled fist raised. "I ain't let you do it no more!"
Yami's eyes darkened with fury. He didn't back down, nor did he even flinch. It wasn't like Jou couldn't be intimidating if he wanted to. He had lived on the street for a long enough time to know how to show superiority. Yugi had always wondered why he didn't manage that in front of Kaiba, but right now he did.
Even though, Yami wasn't impressed at all. If he was, he didn't show it.
The Visitor came back up to them, staring at Jou grimly.
"Get out of the way," he snarled, his two sharp canines showing through as he spoke.
"No." Jou crossed his arms defiantly. "I won't let ya meddle with Yugi's feelings anymore. It's your fault he doubts everything he has believed in."
"He agreed to this out of his own free will." Yami replied, growling. "I didn't do anything to force him. Now stand aside."
Jou shook his head, still standing before Yugi like a guardian. "Ya hurt him."
"I don't." Yami made to walk past Jou, but the blonde didn't let him, getting in the way. "Why would I?"
"Yugi doesn't need a person like ya." Jou seemed to have lost his uncontrolled anger, but was looking at Yami determinedly still.
"Jou, stop it." Yugi tugged at Jou's sleeve, trying to get his attention.
"No, Yug'." His friend cast a short glance above his shoulder, then looked back at Yami. "He needs to be told. I know ya would never do it." After a pause, he addressed Yami again. "Ya are wrong for Yug'. He needs something real, not that farce of a relationship ya put up. He needs something constant. Ya hurt him because he knows ya'll go away anyway."
"Jou!" Yugi cried out, tugging harder. "Don't..."
"He's right, Yugi." It was Ryou who had spoken now. His cheeks tinted red slightly as all attention was suddenly fixed on him, but went on. "Yami needs to know. This can't go on."
Yugi halted in his protest. Those words from Ryou... Ryou knew what he talked about. Ryou had experienced it. But... he felt so exposed now. Jou was telling Yami, a stranger, something concerning his deepest feelings. His most secret wishes and believes.
"Yug' needs ta be loved, Yami." Jou said as there came only silence from Yugi. "Ya don't know love, so how can ya give that ta him? Ya make him doubt its existence! So leave him alone already!"
"You're all fools." This voice, coming from behind Yami, startled them all. Ryou jumped. "All idiots."
Bakura cackled silently, seemingly enjoying the conflict he was sure to make worse. "This 'love' you talk about... it's an illusion, not more. I looked the word up and laughed my head off. Humans are so stupid, blinded by their dream worlds. It's so sad that all I can do is laugh."
And that he did, ignoring Yugi's crushed expression, Jou's anger and Yami's confusion. Only Ryou he didn't ignore, walking towards him, still grinning.
Ryou opened his mouth as if wanting to speak up, but immediately shut it again, instead letting Bakura slip an arm around him to draw them closer together.
"Hello, Ryou." Bakura took his lover's hand and kissed its back softly. "Long time no see."
Yugi averted his eyes from them, looking at Yami, feeling empty inside all of the sudden. Yami looked back at him silently.
"Sadist." Jou spat quietly, so Bakura couldn't hear it. "He doesn't know what he's talking about."
"But what if he's right?" Yugi asked, suppressing the pain now worming itself through his mind. "What if he's right...?"
"He isn't." Yami said fiercely, surprising not only Yugi. "He is just trying to confuse and hurt you. That's what he is like. Look at him, how he's treating your friend Ryou. He is a person with many faces, so don't trust what you see or hear of him."
"But maybe..." began Yugi, but was again cut off by Yami as he came up to him and embraced him. This time Jou didn't intervene, still muttering insults under his breath.
"I thought about the concept of love you told me about." Yami admitted, stroking his back to soothe his boyfriend's distress. "I think it's something so normal we Taronians didn't even give it a name."
Yugi listened intently, waiting for Yami to continue, staring at his other classmates over his shoulder.
"Isn't the affection for the family also a kind of love?" Yami asked with a bit of uncertainty. "You want to protect your family, shield them from harm's influence. You can't tell me I don't know that concept. My family is very important to me. And I can imagine... if you have someone you live with constantly – even if they are not your family – they can mean as much to you as the family does. It's something normal, Yugi, so don't doubt it."
Yugi felt warmth well up inside of him, bubbling in his stomach, tickling it. So, love did exist? Yes, of course he loved his family. He loved his grandfather more than he could tell. But it was so normal for him to care about his old man that he hadn't even thought about it while those doubts had plagued him.
But that it was Yami reminding him of that... he couldn't quite believe it.
Still...
The warmth in him died down a bit.
Still there was something Yami didn't understand... that Yami never could know...
"Did you ever have such a person?" he asked. "A person not being your family. A person you wanted to give the world to?"
"No."
"It should be a different kind of love." Yugi said quietly. "A love only you and the one you love share, binding you together with invisible force so you can never let go or forget. It's what I wanted since I first saw my parents kissing, since I saw them hold on to each other just because they could... so they felt content. I... wanted to save my first kiss for this one person. Then you came and took it and it was nothing special to you."
Yami leaned back and looked at him, not uttering one word. His eyes showed that he was deep in thought, far away, somewhere Yugi had never been.
"I don't know if maybe this is really just my wishful thinking." Yugi continued slowly, reliving what his doubts had begun with. "Maybe this kind of love is not real..."
"What about your parents?" Yami asked. "They loved each other, right?"
"They broke apart after ten years of marriage." Sighing deeply Yugi looked aside. "My father moved away. Sometimes I go visit him..."
"But your parents still felt that love." Yami inquired.
"Should real love be so breakable?" Yugi's old fear, having been buried for a long time now, surfaced again.
"I think love gets so normal you forget about it." The Visitor said. "You forget what made you love the other in the first place."
"How would you know so much about it?!" Yugi felt angry. A person like Yami, who never had been looking for nor finding someone he loved – how could he talk about love like it belonged to his life? How could he talk about it like he had been born with the truth of it?
"Sometimes it's easier to look at something difficult from the outside." Yami explained. "I'm not blinded by feelings, believes or expectations."
Yugi blinked, his anger fading as fast as it has flared up. He looked down.
"Children." A sweet voice interrupted. "I don't see you working!!"
Yugi flinched and stumbled away from Yami, who turned and glared at Mrs Izumi. The teacher smiled at him, her dark eyes glowing.
"Will you please stop distracting my pupils from working?" she asked, looking from Yami over to Bakura, who still nuzzled Ryou's cheek. Her eyes narrowed, staying fixedly on Bakura.
She strode over to him, clearing her throat to get his attention. The white haired boy ignored her. Ryou looked ashamed though, trying to shove Bakura away from him.
"This is a library." Mrs Izumi gritted out with a strained smile. "I would ask you to let my pupils study."
With a dark look Bakura finally turned his head around to her, baring one of his overly pointed teeth at her. As the woman was still not affected by that after a few seconds, he gave her his full attention. He blinked once, twice, then an evil smile appeared on his lips.
"Are you trying to give me orders, woman?" He cackled, letting go of Ryou and looking her up and down. "Not really, are you?"
"Of course, I do." Her smile only broadened and her eyes began to twinkle darkly. "Watch it, boy, I'll have you out of here in a time span of seconds."
Bakura only laughed at that, then he stretched, giving a fake yawn.
"Try me." He dared.
As an answer Mrs Izumi smiled, then said something that made everyone stare at her confusedly. Everyone but Bakura.
"What did she say?" Yugi whispered to Yami, who shrugged.
Indeed the language Mrs Izumi had chosen to speak in didn't sound the least bit familiar to any of them but Bakura. But the white haired boy now looked at her with wide eyes mutely, for once not laughing menacingly.
Mrs Izumi continued smiling as if nothing had happened.
"Now, go back to work, children!" She turned around to her pupils, happy as ever. "If I catch you making out again, you'll get detention."
The teacher strode away, the perfume she had put on today stinging in Yugi's nose like acid. He couldn't explain to himself what had happened. Bakura now looked terrified.
"Yami, let's go." He said stiffly, leaning over to quickly kiss Ryou on the cheek and walked away without another word.
Yami followed his example. Yugi felt their lips touch for only a second, then the Visitor drew back, looking at him with his beautiful red eyes.
"I'll come to your room later, darling." With a mischievous grin he waved and followed Bakura out of the library, his cloak billowing behind him. Yugi stared after him, gaping like a fish.
"Did he just call you 'darling'?!" Jou asked, disbelief showing in his voice. "Urgh, that's just... ew..."
"They are weird." Ryou mumbled, sighing.
How they were going to study now, none of the three teens knew.
To Be Continued...
Phew, I stuffed much more into this chapter than the last, I think. Heh, I hope it isn't rushed. So, Ryou showed up again (Yay!), Jou and Seto showed up (er... Yay?), Yami and Yugi showed up (Yay!!), Bakura showed up (boooh!!), Mrs Izumi showed up (shudder)... Argh, my head feels all cramped!!
Um... yes. What I wanted to tell you: I've found an interesting chatroom and I'll be there quite often in the future. I love it, really – there are great people there... mostly. I put the link into my profile. If you're interested, go look it up.
Now to the review replies! They get much too long. It bothers me, because it makes the chapters appear longer without making them really be longer. -.- Anyway...
I loved the reviews you wrote me (sighs happily)...(hugs all reviewers)...(hugs them more fiercely) Love you all!!
Kisses and roses to: Sarah Costa, yaminakathy, SoulDreamer, Pharaoh Atemu's Angel, Shan's Mousey, Hakiri-Nefertiri, Haruya, Kaworu85, YumeTakato, Silvershadowfire, muffinsnail, Anime Crazed, Yana5, xamosy, HiddenInTheNight, Rachel Dragon, xxhot-and-sexyxx, Shante Williams, Tyri Dragonite, hiakri-enzeru, Sansi, lucidscreamer, actressqh15, The 13th Jinx, Chihiro, Brigitte, Hales731, Yume no Kareta
Sarah Costa: Love is definitely not a dream, so I believe. Why would all the people on this earth search for something that is not really real? Where would the word 'love' have come from if there wasn't something like that? Love is something twisted, it shows up when we least expect it. No dream. (smiles) Thanks for the review!
yaminakathy: Right, I do think it's something like that. A person you love is someone you can share everything with. It's also a risk to share, isn't it? Thanks for the review and I don't know how I could ever dare to leave off at that point... oops, did it again!
SoulDreamer: Hey, there, loyal reviewer (grins) Ryou is still a complicate person, heh... Does he feel better now? No one knows. Here you get some cookies. Doesn't want you to starve, do I? (laughs evilly)
Pharaoh Atemu's Angel: You like where the story is going? Good, because it'll go very far into that direction. I hope you liked that chapter as well! Thanks for the review!
Shan's Mousey: I loved that quote of George Sand! Really, I loved it! It's very inspiring. If you don't mind, I would like to use it in this story... maybe. I really think about that. Also I do think love exists, even though there were times I doubted it. That's why I wrote that story, because I want to 'picture' love... I hope I didn't confuse you now. About my other stories: No, you're not being rude. I'm happy that people still are interested in them. Allure will be updated together with this chapter. Sadly I'm stuck on Through the Mirror and... I really want to continue Child of Darkness. I think I will soon, because there's still so much planned and it itches me all the time (grins) Thanks for the review!
Hakiri-Nefertiri: I don't believe in the love Yugi wants. I myself am a hopeless romantic and do believe in love, but Yugi is too idealistic about it, don't you think so? He says love has to be perfect, but in every relationship at least you once have a conflict. How can two persons fit together so perfectly that they never get to that point? Maybe I just have no idea about love, but there is this dark side to it. If you give everything to another person, what will you do if they don't give you back as much? Pain is always a part of love. One of both always gives more and receives less, just because the other person isn't able to give as much as the other needs. I'm complicated when talking about that topic, but I hope you understand what I mean. If you agree with Yugi that's good, because kissing someone should be showing them what you feel. Never let a kiss be routine. Thanks for the review, you two!
Haruya: How could you have guessed what my plan is?! Drawing you into this story and then cutting off the strings was my plan from the very beginning (cackles) But it works anyway, muahaha!! Any, yes, the story now officially is Bakura x Ryou!! Yay!!
Kaworu85: Wow, what a long review! If I had known what love can do to you... (grins) Well, I didn't want to make you doubt the existence of love with this story! I wanted to show you it does exist!! And if it comforts you, I, too, didn't ever fall in love. But if you meet the right person, it just happens. The difficult part is to find mutual love.
Both is right, the Taronians keep the emergency way to get energy and... who hates to eat?! If my body and my purse wouldn't give me some limits I would eat all day. Nothing can replace the joy of food. But imagine you wouldn't have to eat. You also wouldn't have to pay for food, which is the reason the Taronians didn't eat when they found out they didn't need to.
English is your second language? I would never have expected that, because your English is really good. If you don't mind me asking, what's you native language then? Well, for the yaoi part I'll definitely take my time. I can't just let them get in bed. It would ruin everything I built up. The main dish will have to wait, like you said.
Thanks for the long, long review. And, yes, I hate it when people don't finish their stories. The mean thing in that is, I myself have problems with that.
YumeTakato: Yay, another loyal reviewer! I don't mind your reviews being short, many are. But I can't deny I do like long ones better – which is natural, I think. The disadvantage still is that the answer to long reviews has to be long as well and takes time (grins sheepishly) So I don't mind it if some are short.
Love if more like an action than a feeling? (Thinks hard) Okay, it is also an action, it shows through action after all, but it stays something you feel and don't see. Right? (sweatdrop) I don't know... Anyway, thanks for the review!
Silvershadowfire: Yes, exactly that is Yugi's problem! He defines it narrowly and wants to get exactly that. He can't see that the way Jou and Seto are falling in love is actually still a form of love. Love is just that one thing for him, nothing more, nothing less. Thanks for the review!
muffinsnail: Faceless reader!! Ha, got you!! But I think everyone does faceless reading. You can't review everything, right? I'm glad that you think Yugi is on the right track with his views on love, but too idealistic. Because that's what I think. Also you got the meaning of Kaiba's words right. You understand me T.T I'm so happy. And yes, English is my second language – but I didn't take the French classes, just Latin. And Latin is too complicated to ever speak it... Not even my teacher can speak it fluently.
Anime Crazed: Ryou is quite a sad case in this story, isn't he? But well, if there weren't any problems there would be no point in writing a story. Jou and Kaiba... they are, well... how do I express it... quite just acting out what they feel at the moment without thinking. It really is funny to write them. Thank you for the review!
Yana5: Yugi really shouldn't give up. The problem is, there's no time to get to like him at all. Oh, how I like it complicated (sighs) Thanks for the review!
xamosy: It's not so clear that Kaiba believes in love. I'd rather say he doesn't – at least he doesn't have a clear opinion like Yugi. What he meant was not really focused on 'love', but on Yugi's behaviour towards it. Yugi was doubting the thing he most believed in just because he didn't have evidence. Kaiba wanted to say: 'It's really sad that you abandoned your believes the second you realised you can't prove them.'. But yes, you're right when you say Kaiba thinks he is weak because of it. In Kaiba's eyes that is a frailty of the mind. Real strength is, when nobody is able to blind you with words. Thanks for the review!
HiddenInTheNight: Seto x Jou is good? Good, because you'll get more soon (laughs)
Rachel Dragon: Yes, the thing about the Incubi is right, but that's not what I based the Taronians on. I was just inspired by them. I don't want male pregnancy anyway. But they feed off sex, that much is correct. It would be horrible, though, if they didn't have any protection... now you got me to have a picture of Yami with a lot of little kids with tri-coloured hair around him in my head... (tries not to scream). That was mean!!
So you absolutely agree with Kaiba? Okay, you're free to do that. I do, too. (grins) Letting everything drop is weak – and there wasn't even anyone wanting to convince Yugi or anything. He just let the doubts get to him. Anyway, love does exist to you? What I found interesting was the thing about the unconditional love you mentioned; sex for pleasure as long as both agree about it. Yes, I do think that it's okay. I mean, why not?! Yugi wouldn't agree, but that by the way. Of course you should live together with the person you want to marry before you do! That's essential! That's also why I think that people who say 'No sex before marriage' are wrong. How do you learn to know that person if you don't get near enough to actually do?
No, I didn't watch that film Kinsey, but I'm very interested. What exactly is that? It sounds great, maybe I'll make the effort to get that film.
So, you noticed Yugi wasn't really able to comfort Ryou? Some people just don't know how to do that, they get insecure and then sometimes make it even worse. Yesterday I saw a girl I know from school crying. I didn't know how to approach her, I really wanted to ask her what was wrong. But I too got insecure, so I kept sitting and watching her. Today I feel bad about it, because that's just what most people are doing. Staring, but not helping. It's wrong. Well, not I babble. Thanks for the review!
xxhot-and-sexyxx: I scared you because I didn't update? How much did I scare you this time?! Thank you for the review (grins)
Shante Williams: There were two reviews to the same chapter with the same content. Was that a mistake? (smiles) I'm glad I could make your day. You reviewers make mine! Yay! Thanks for the review(s)!
Tyri Dragonite: I'm sorry it took me longer than planned. Here you are, the next chapter!
hiaki enzeru: I decide if love exists? O.O Help!! How can I? Again, I'm sorry it took me longer -.- Sometimes it's hard to keep the work flowing. Thanks for the review.
Sansi: The mega-review-of-doom! Du übertriffst dich jedes Mal aufs Neue, weißt du das eigentlich? (glomps Sansi) I LOVE YOU!!
Meistens habe ich keine Probleme damit, andere Leute zu trösten. Aber das bezieht sich dann nur auf Leute, die ich wirklich gut kenne. Wenn ich jemanden nicht gut kenne, stehe ich auch da und weiß nicht, was ich tun soll. Es ist grausam. Eben deshalb fiel mir das Gespräch zwischen Ryou und Yugi gar nicht so schwer. Jaa... und an wen denkt der gute Yugi in solchen Situationen... an Yami!! Yeah, right... feelings are developing (slooowly) (sighs) Allerdings kann ich mir Joey auch nicht als die tröstende Person vorstellen, oder was denkst du?
Das mit Seto und Jou sollte schnell gehen. War so beabsichtigt, gerade weil sie sich eigentlich andauernd nur streiten. Zum Glück ist Yugi nicht erblindet. Knapp davongekommen. Das mit dem ‚Gegensätze ziehen sich an' gefällt mir ganz gut... allerdings gibt es dazu auch einen Gegensatz: ‚Gleich und Gleich gesellt sich gern' Mal sehen, wie ich das einfließen lassen kann. Thanks!!
O.O Ich und Wissenschaftlerin? Da hätte ich Physik und Chemie aber nicht abwählen dürfen, glaube ich... aber eine lustige Idee allemal.
Liebe ist keine Träumerei! Das glaube ich persönlich nicht. Also glaube ruhig mit ruhigem Gewissen daran, denn es glauben noch viele (grins) Was das mit den drei Pärchen angeht: Es ist schwierig! Ich hatte noch nie drei verschiedene Pairings in einer einzigen Geschichte, die so wichtig waren. Man kann viel zu viel einbauen!
Zu Sims: Bei meinen hat noch keiner geheiratet... wie geht das?!?! Ich spiele schon ziemlich lange, aber das habe ich noch nicht geschafft... um... dafür hast du noch kein Baby!!
Zu Sims 2: Auf er Seite gab es glaube ich nur einen Ryou, sonst habe ich noch keinen Yu-Gi-Oh!-Charakter entdeckt. Aber ich hab das Spiel eh in zwei Jahren noch nicht (sighs). Allerdings ist das noch tausendmal besser als das erste. Man hat sogar ein Wochenende (heißt: Zeit, mal was anderes zu machen, yay!), außerdem können die Sims sogar älter werden, also von Kindern zu Teenagern, zu Erwachsenen und dann zu alten Leuten. Ziemlich cool!
Jetzt aber Schluss hier! Ich hoffe, du guckst auch brav die neuen Folgen!!
lucidscreamer: I'd be happy about having you betaing my story! If you want to, I could send the next chapter to you before I post it. It's really annoying to have problems with the tenses (my advanced English teacher also says I have problems with that). Tell me if you're willing to be beta still (grins happily). And thanks for the correction of 'flight of stairs'. I'm glad you do tell me what's wrong. Thanks for the review!
actressqh15: That's the problem in this. There is no time. You see the end of the week coming and think it can't work out. And how could it possibly? But that's what I always do, putting problems under your noses, which can't be solved. But don't worry. It all will come to a good end. And who says the story ends after the week is over? (winks) Thanks for the review.
The 13th Jinx: Not this story rules, you do! Here you get more to read! I should hurry to write more (looks at the quote)... I should write before I die!! (starts typing)
Chihiro: Yugi gives up what he believed in because he never really doubted it. Sometimes there are things you accept for what they are – but then when you start to think them over you're suddenly not so sure they are right anymore. Didn't you ever experience that? It can happen so fast, from one moment to the other. I think it can even happen to Yugi. About his age: Yugi is seventeen in my story.
So you don't think one can find their love in High school?
Brigitte: I don't think Kaiba wanted to imply that, if he did, than unconsciously so, because he isn't in love with Jou, yet. Yet!! Yay! Thanks for the review!
Hales731: Right, love is a very young concept. Even more right: Lust is not love and lust should never be disguised as love.
It's very interesting what you say about the outer appearance and love. To think that you have to be beautiful to be loved or able to love if ridiculous – though it's still common here in Germany as well. That's why I made Yugi average. He doesn't have any special trait in looks or something in my story.
Ryou has a very sad part in the story, being the one who hadn't the luck of getting Yami. Bakura is mean and he does what he wants. He also isn't very good with showing feelings. Ryou feels like having lost him before he even got to know him, because he knows he is going to leave him anyway. And having given away his virginity to such a person hurts. Of course he regrets that. I'm happy you liked the scene. Thanks for the review!!
Yume no Kareta: Really? There was no AU-story you liked before this? I know a lot of AU-stories I like. (grins) Anyway, here is the update, I hope you like it! Thanks for the review!