"Get back here Bakura!" Miho scowled at him. Bakura paid her no heed, instead adjusting the volume on his headphones. The song, White America, blasted his eardrums to a nigh-painful level, but it was worth it to avoid the cussing out that Miho was giving him right now.

"…and that's why you're such a jerk!" she ended her lecture. She kicked some dirt at him, made a hmph! noise, and marched back over to her friends. Bakura just rolled his eyes and headed back to the boys' locker room with the others. Tristan gave him a disdainful look.

"You could try to be a little nicer to girls, you know," he said. Tristan was really the only person Joey had that could be considered a "friend". Then again, Tristan did owe him for the time Bakura had saved his hide during Duelist Kingdom, when Tristan had nearly fallen off of a tower in Pegasus's castle. But even Tristan wouldn't join him in casual conversation. The only person who would ever dare to do that… well, he wasn't around right now, so Bakura could do whatever he want and take whatever he desired without being nagged on.

"A typical mortal point of view," Bakura responded. Tristan opened his mouth to say something, but just then Joey threw himself on his back.

"Piggyback ride!" Joey squealed. Tristan fell straight to the ground, flat on his face. He stood up super-quick, in anime fashion.

"What didya do that for?" Tristan yelled. A few of the guys snickered. One new guy looked really confused.

"Are they gay?" he asked Bakura. Bakura looked at him out of the corner of his eye. He looked pretty non-descript; a bowl-cut, dark eyes, obviously Asian face.

"Yeah," Bakura told him. "Yes they are."

"Are they really?" Wasn't this guy leaving? "I didn't know that they'd allow those sorts of people at school."

"Oh yeah. Yeah, they do, apparently, 'cos these two dummies are still here." Bakura snorted at Joey and Tristan, which called their attention to him. (They had been wrestling on the ground in very awkward positions.)

"Hey! Bakura! What did you say about us!" Joey shouted.

"Yeah, fess up, 'Kura," Tristan said softly. Bakura cackled and stalked away. The new kid looked at Joey and Tristan, confused, and then jogged after Bakura.