Akio the Dragon Master- (pats you on the head) Do not be ashamed, grasshopper. Everybody has a liking for the word "coolness"… It's just so full of awesomeness and alluringness that I want to hug it. - I'm not making any sense.
DarkAngel4u – Me dragging stuff out basically means I'm waiting for fresh ideas… Summer's coming soon, though, so I'm sure plenty of stuff will pop up in this wacky, strange device I call my "head".
Today was a half-day. This meant, basically, that either the principal wanted to go golfing, or there was a teacher conference during the last half of their regular school hours. They were all to go home right after lunch. …Well, except for Kaiba and Miho, that is.
For all of his thoughts about setting things right with Miho, Bakura just couldn't help but play a few more… harmless… pranks.
Pfffffffffffffffff.
Miho glared at him angrily. Bakura burst out laughing.
"Oh! Oh my gosh! H-ha ha ha ha ha! I almost didn't do that, but I went for it, and it was sooooo worth it! H-ha ha ha ha ha!" Bakura fell out of his seat and onto the floor, laughing. A few other scoundrels in the lunchroom were laughing at her, too, but Miho just scowled at them and they shut up, figuring she had PMS.
Miho didn't care. The bell had rung, anyway, and it was at the end of the day. The only person that had heard the sound was Kaiba…
Miho blushed and gathered up her things. Like most of the other students, she had brought her backpack with her into the cafeteria. Bakura had tried to dump sour milk on it. It was a brand new backpack, too, that her dad had actually bought her in Paris. It wasn't like she was rich or anything, it was just that her dad had won one of those "free vacation" things that you enter by slipping a tiny slip of paper into a tiny box, where the paper can easily slip out accidentally, in a gas station or Baskin Robbins.
"So, Yugi," Tea said, smiling at him, "is Yami able to hang out after school today?"
Yugi wrinkled his nose in disapproval of Tea's forwardness, a gesture which she replied to by making her smile larger and more fake-looking. He hated it when she openly used him to get to Yami. He had come to visit her again at lunch like he had promised, and Miho had spouted off about how much Tea had talked about Yami while she was gone. Once, Yugi had even stopped her, demanding, "Why would I care about that? I'm not Yami; I'm not flattered; and I'm not impressed." Miho had basically shut up after that, except to scream at Bakura and talk to Yugi about meaningless things like the weather.
Yes, they actually talked about the weather.
Yugi shook his head, glad to be able to do so. "No, Yami's grounded, he he." Yugi couldn't help adding another snicker at the end of his sentence. Tea looked at him with rounded eyes.
"Grounded? What for?"
"If I told you, I'd have to kill you…" Now it was Tea's turn to glance disapprovingly at Yugi. The two had really grown farther apart ever since Yami agreed to date Tea, even before then. It was mostly because Yugi didn't like being snubbed, and therefore had yelled at Tea a couple of times for being rude. Tea apparently became miffed because she didn't like Yugi sticking up for himself like that. The two were still very close friends though, just no as much as they had been. It had all started just before Yugi had left for Egypt.
Besides, Tea really didn't want to hear why Yami had been grounded. And, in all honesty, Yugi couldn't say it without laughing.
Tea, Yugi and Miho, accompanied by a silent Joey and Tristan, who were trying to avoid causing an argument between Yugi and Tea, (not that they fought that often; they just didn't want anything to ruin Yugi's homecoming), shuffled into the hallways along with the rest of the student body. The group was attracting a bit more attention than they were wont to receive, particularly because of Little Yugi's apparel. Since he wasn't technically "in school," and was just a guest, Yugi had come to school dressed in something other than his school uniform. This gave Joey and Tristan the idea that he wanted extra special attention from the girls. Yugi had come wearing a green sweater, which was understandable because the wind was vicious outside; however, since there was no wind inside the school, Yugi had complained about being hot until Tristan pointed out that he should take his sweat off. (Really, it had been quite cute; Yugi's eyes had lit up and he'd sported such a naïve smile that it became apparent that he seriously hadn't thought of that option himself.) So Yugi had taken his sweater off—an act which most girls in the cafeteria seemed to find fascinated. Whole conversations stopped to see Yugi take off his sweater. Tea had gotten flustered, and had yelled at the others that they were being ridiculous and that Yugi wasn't that hot. Yugi had fallen over onto the floor in an anime faint, and had hit his head on a chair leg. This nearly made him cry, however, he realized that if others saw him crying people would think he was crying because he was upset with Tea. Sure, he was upset with her, but he was above her petty jealousies.
Underneath his sweater, Yugi was wearing his black muscle shirt and dark blue pants along with a black belt. The Millennium Puzzle dangled around neck, catching the light and glaring it off of its lubricious surface. But all of this paled in comparison with Yugi's smile. Yugi was positively beaming at Joey and Tristan; he was thrilled to be back home to his buds, homeys, pals, whatever; his group. They were the people he liked being with. Now, if only she were a part of this group. Joey and Tristan also got the feeling that, as Yugi spouted on and on about visiting the Pyramids and some jokes he and his new friend had played on Yami, Joey and Tristan got the feeling that there was something more that he wanted to tell them that Tea was preventing him from saying.
"Yugi," Tea said finally, "I'm sorry."
Yugi blinked at her cutely, owlishly. "Sorry for what, Tea?"
Tea's ears burned. "Um… for asking you about Yami so much… and for saying bad things about you to those girls…"
"What girls?"
Tea sweat dropped. "You didn't see the girls?"
"When?"
"She means when the sweater was on your head," Joey pointed out, relaxing a whole lot. He hated it when Tea and Yugi fought; it made him think that maybe Yugi would start fighting with him, next. He didn't know how much Yugi looked up to and wanted to be him. Besides, as Yugi smiled at Joey that way, it made Joey realize that Yugi had, on his travels, found a solution that could resolve any fights he had with Tea about Yami, ever.
"Oh," Yugi said dumbly. "I see. But Tea, how would I have been able to see anything with the sweater on my head?"
Tristan pulled his jacket up over his head, and pulled his arms up through it halfway. He flapped his limbs. "Sweater-man!" he declared. Tea, Joey, and Yugi all laughed.
"Hey, where's Miho?" Yugi asked suddenly. "Did she just leave? That's so mean."
"She wends shamelessly," Tristan said with a cheeky grin, as he pulled Joey back. Yugi noticed this but didn't say anything.
"Idiots," he murmured.
"Hm?" Tea, well, hmed.
"I said I'm sorry for arguing with you lately Tea." Yugi sighed. "I really felt like such a bad friend when Yami and Yugi left for Egypt… and what we fought over was so stupid…"
"Yeah," Tea agreed. "It was stupid. But I'm the one who should be apologizing. I've been a horrible friend to you, especially when you consider that I've known you longer than most of the others in our friendship circle. What kind of precedent am I setting?"
Yugi sniggered. "Yes, Tea: You are everybody's role model!" Yugi couldn't help laughing at this.
Tea smiled, taking the jape in good tact, while looking around. "Sure… whatever you say…"
"I'm sorry."
"Nah, that's alright. I guess I have been pretty rude to you, favoring Yami over you and all."
Yugi sweat dropped. "But you're… you're dating him! You're supposed to favor him!"
Tea laughed weakly. "Yeah, I guess so, but… I don't know…" Tea paused for a bit, and then added quietly, "we've both been really mean to each other, don't you think?"
"We must have, because we've even scared Tristan and Joey off," Yugi noted light-heartedly.
Tea laughed again. "So we're cool?"
"Yeah, we're 'cool,' or however you say." Yugi scrunched up his face. "Hey Tea?"
"Yeah?"
"Uhm, this may sound stupid, but… what were we fighting about?"
Tea sweat dropped. "I don't know."
"Ah. Gotcha."
"So what is Yami grounded for?" Tea asked. Yugi smiled shyly.
"Well… he he he… it's too funny. You'll have to ask him yourself. The way he explains it is sooo hilarious…" Yugi chuckled a bit in remembrance, just to prove his point, "and I'm not sure he wants me telling you anyway."
"Please tell me?"
Tea pleaded, bringing out the puppy eyes and clasping her hands together. It wasn't really all that cute to other people, but Yugi had had a crush on her for a number of years, so he thought it was, sort of. The petite dueling champion sighed in defeat. "Okay…"
"Well?"
Yugi licked his dry lips before saying, a bit too loudly:
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"He told somebody's mom she was hot," Yugi explained. Tea's eyes bugged out. "Funny, isn't it?"