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Chapter 4: Cheaters Heart Revealed.

P. Q. : OYY! Sorry for the delayed update "Cheaters Heart" fans. I had an outline to this story and misplaced it. Which is why I updated my other stuff until my 'outline' was found. But now that I've found it, I can continue with it. Yay! Thanks for being patient. O.k. I think that's all... so let's get on with it.

Disclaimer: Never owned... K. T. '96'.

Summary: Joey and Ryou have finally made it to school after having made love and whacking each other with pillows. They get there just in time for lunch. Joey isn't hungry because he pigged out on doughnuts on the way there. But Ryou is. So while he's eating lunch and chatting it up with Yugi, Joey's busy making a new special friend in the library...

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"C'mon, Joey! We're already late!" Ryou called to Joey, who had insisted on stopping at 'John's Bakery' to grab a dozen doughnuts. "I'm comin'! I'm comin'!" Joey hollered out to Ryou, who had begun pacing up and down the sidewalk where he waited. "Just let me pay for my stuff!" Ryou looked up at the sky, shook his head, and sighed. 'Well,' he thought to himself, as he waited for Joey. 'at least it stopped raining. Otherwise, we'd have to walk to school in it.' Ryou shuddered at the thought and pulled his jacket tighter around him.

It wasn't that he hated the rain, he actually liked it, as long it was outside and he was inside. He just hated having to walk in it. Especially if it were cold and windy. "Keep the change." Ryou heard Joey tell the cashier. "Hey, all right!" Ryou heard the cashier say. "A dollar! Thanks!" 'Gee,' Ryou thought, crossing his arms. 'that guy must not get paid very much to be that excited about a dollar.' "You're welcome." He heard Joey reply. Then he heard Joeys footsteps. 'Finally!' he thought, uncrossing his arms. "O.k., Ryou," said Joey, coming out of the bakery with a chocolate glazed doughnut half sticking out of his mouth. "I'm ready."

"It took you long enough." said Ryou sharply, taking off down the sidewalk. "Well," said Joey, taking another bite of doughnut, "I couldn't decide if I wanted two cream sticks, six tiger tales, or three of the jelly filled-" Then he stopped, realizing that Ryou was no longer standing in front of him. "Hey!" Joey exclaimed, looking around. "Where'd he go?" Then he saw him. He was a good 20 feet ahead of Joey and walking at a very fast pace. "Hey!" Joey yelled at him, closing the lid of the doughnut box and tucking it under his arm. "Wait up!"

Ryou wasn't sure why, maybe it was because he had gotten up at 5:30 in the morning and it had been raining, or maybe it was because he was still annoyed with Joey over the handcuffs, or because he had to wait for Joey to come out of the bakery, but he suddenly felt cranky. "Why should I?" Ryou yelled back. "You'll just make me later than I already am!" Joey swallowed a piece of doughnut and glared at him. "You are so damn impatient!" he grumbled, rushing to catch up with him. "Can't you ever think about anything besides school?"

"NO!" Ryou yelled at him. "And that's your problem!" "What?" Joey demanded. Ryou stopped running. "You're jealous because I care more about school than I do you!" Joey stopped running and glared at Ryou. "Why you little..." he said doubling his fists. "I AM NOT jealous! Take that back!" "Yes you are!" shouted Ryou. "If you had your way, I'd stay home in bed with you and wait on you hand and foot! I'd never get to school." "That's not true, you little mutant!" Joey yelled at him through clenched teeth. "Now take it back!"

NO!" Ryou yelled at him. "Because it's the truth! You don't care if I go to school or not! Or if I get bad grades and don't graduate! All you care about is yourself! You don't give a damn about me at all!" "That's not true!" Joey yelled angrily. "If I didn't friggin' care about ya, I wouldn't be datin' ya." Ryou thought about that for a moment, then said, "Oh! Don't talk to me!" and stomped off towards school. "Fine." said Joey, stomping along beside him. "I won't. Just you don't talk to me." Ryou folded his arms and looked at his feet. "Fine, I won't."

"Fine." said Joey, opening his box of doughnuts and stuffing one into his mouth. "And don't expect me to share my doughnuts with you." "Humph!" sneered Ryou. "I don't want any of your doughnuts anyway. I'm not hungry." "Fine." said Joey. "Fine." said Ryou. The two continued to nit-pick each other all the way to school.

At school...

Ringggg! Ringggg! 'Yawn!' stretched a boy with spikey, tri-colored hair and violet eyes. "Class was sooo boring today!" he told himself standing up. "I'm glad it's finally over." The boy put his papers in his backback, grabbed his books, and headed out the door to his locker. "Now I can have some lunch."

As he hurried down the crowded hall, he looked around. "Hmm," he said to himself. "I wonder where Joey and Ryou are." The boy shrugged and walked over to his locker. "Oh, well," he told himself, as he did the combination and opened his locker. "I'm sure they're here somewhere." He grabbed his lunch, shut his locker, and headed towards the cafeteria. "Maybe they're already-OOF!" The boy had ran into something big as he was rounding the corner, and fell over backwards. "I'll take what you have in that bag." said the thing the boy had ran into.

The boy looked up. "Uh-oh." he said quietly, scooting away, seeing who it was he had ran into. "This is my lunch now, little boy. If you want it back, you're going to have to pay me." 'GULP!' the boy swallowed. "Uhh, h..h..how much?" he asked. "How ever much you've got." The bully smiled down at him. The boy reach into his pants pocket. "Uhm, well, let's see..." said the boy, pulling out a handful of pennies. 'Don't do it, Yugi.' said a voice inside Yugi's head. "Huh?" Yugi asked, looking around. 'Oh, Yami.' he said through the link. 'Sometimes I forget you live in there.'

"Well," said the bully, folding his arms and glaring down at Yugi. "how much money have you got?" "Uhh..." "I see." said the bully. "Then I guess I'll just have to take...ALL OF IT!" The bully started laughing and reach for Yugi's handful of pennies. Yugi backed against the lockers, curled himself into a ball, and closed his eyes. The Millennium Puzzle glowed. The bully covered his eyes with his arm. When the light stopped glowing, there were little black vines crawling out of Yugi's lunch bag up the bullies arm. "Huh?" the bully gasped. "What-what the...? What kind of a trick is this?"

The bully took his right hand and tried pulling the vines off that were crawling towards his neck. Yugi looked up and blinked in surprise. "What kind of friggin' lunch do you eat?" he asked nervously. "Uh, green?" Yugi said with a shrug. The bully dropped the bag and took off running. Yugi watched as he disappeared into the bathroom. "What's with him?" some kid asked one of Yugi's school mates. "I don't know," the other kid replied. "it looked like he was trying to stop something from crawling on him." "I didn't see anything." said the first kid. "Yeah, I know," said the second kid. "I didn't see anything either."

Then the first kid shrugged. "Oh, well, Tony. Let's get to lunch. I'm hungry." "Yeah, Jason," replied Tony, "me too. Let's go." The two boys took off racing towards the cafeteria. Yugi looked down at the Puzzle, which literally seemed to be beaming with pride. 'Yami,' he asked through the link. 'what was that you put in my lunch bag?' Yami was silent. 'Yaaaami.' Yugi tried again. 'It was nothing Yugi.' Yami replied. 'It was something.' 'Does it matter?' Yami asked. 'Well, I guess not.' Yugi thought. 'I just wanted to know.'

Yugi stood up, put his handful of pennies back in his pants pocket, and dusted himself off. 'I guess Yugi would like to eat his lunch...' Yami thought to himself, eyeing Yugi's lunch bag from within the Puzzle. 'In which case, I should probably get rid of that shadow monster.' Yami directed his thoughts to Yugi's lunch bag. 'Shadow monster, be gone!' The shadow monster made a shrill whining sound, and then was gone. Yami then directed his thoughts to Yugi. 'It's alright now, Yugi.' he said, sensing Yugi wondering if it were safe to go near his lunch bag or not.

'The shadow monster is gone. You may eat your lunch now.' Yugi picked up his lunch bag, relieved that the shadow monster was gone. 'Thanks, Yami.' he said through the link, smiling. 'But you still haven't answered my question. What exactly was that that you put in there?' Yami was silent for a moment, then spoke, 'It was Man-Eating Plant.' 'Man-Eating Plant?' Yugi gasped. 'Yami! You wouldn't of let that plant eat that man, would you?' Yugi could hear Yami's footsteps as he paced around in the Puzzle. 'Well...' said Yami thoughtfully.

'YAMI!' Yugi exclaimed urgently. Then he heard Yami laughing. 'Of course not Yugi. I'm the good one, remember?' Yugi giggled. 'Ha, ha. Yeah. I remember.' Yugi picked up his backpack that he had dropped when he first bumped into that bully, slung it over his left shoulder, and continued on his way.

When he got there, he saw Joey and Ryou just arriving through the door on the other side. "Hey, guys!" Yugi tried to yell over the noise of the crowded cafeteria, but to no avail. 'Oh, well,' he thought. 'I guess I'll just have to make my way over to them.' Yugi pushed through the crowd saying things like, "Pardon me.", "Excuse me.", "Coming through.", until he was within earshot of Joey and Ryou. "You're the brat." he heard Ryou say to Joey. "No," said Joey. "we've been through this. You're the one that's behaving like a brat."

"Uhm, guys?" said Yugi, slightly tugging on their shirts. "What?" they both yelled, looking down. "Oh," said Ryou, realizing that it was Yugi. "sorry." "Yeah," said Joey. "sorry." Ryou glared at Joey. "No, I'm sorrier than you are." "No you're not." retorted Joey. "Am too." Ryou shot back. "No, you're not." said Joey. "Now be quiet you little ra-" "GUYS!" Yugi yelled, waving his arms at them. "Do you want to eat lunch with me?" Ryou and Joey looked at each other. "Nah, I'm not hungry." said Joey, patting his stomach.

"That's because he stuffed his face with doughnuts on the way over." Ryou smirked at Joey. "But I am." Joey gave Ryou a look. "I thought you said you weren't hungry." Ryou looked back at Joey and smiled. "I wasn't hungry when I said that. But arguing with you gave me an appetite." Ryou took Yugi by the hand. "Come on, Yugi," he said smiling and leading Yugi away from Joey. "Let's go find a table and leave Joey standing there to look dumb." "Uh, but...but..." Before Yugi could say another word, he and Ryou disappeared into the crowd.

"F..fine!" Joey yelled. "Be that way!" Joey turned to leave the cafeteria. 'I love Ryou, really I do,' Joey thought to himself, peering over his shoulder, 'but he's being such a pain today.' Then Joey felt someone bump into him. "Oomph!" said the someone. He turned around to see one of the hottest girls in school standing in front of him. She had dark auburn colored hair with red highlights that swished around her knees, hazel green eyes, and she stood about as tall as Joey. At least with heels on anyway. "Oh, sorry." said Joey. "Did I walk into you?"

The girl looked at him. "Uh, no. Actually, I walked into you, but thanks for the appology anyway." "Uh, yeah," Joey stuttered, rubbing the back of his neck. "you're welcome." "You know," said the girl, propping her books up by her waist, "you're kinda cute." "I am?" Joey asked blushing. "Yeah, you are." The girl grabbed some other girl who was just arriving for lunch. "Here lacky," she said, shoving her books into the girls arms. "hold these for me and don't lose them." Then she put an arm around Joeys. "My friend and I, are going to go someplace a little private and have some fun."

"Uh, we are?" asked Joey, playing dumb. "Yeah, we are. Let's go." And with that, she pulled Joey off in the direction of the library. 'Hmm,' Joey thought to himself happily, 'maybe today won't be so bad after all.'

In the library...

The girl took Joey all the way to the back of the library where hardly anybody went, including the librarians. "Sooo," said Joey slowly. "What kinda fun are we talking?" The girl smiled, put her hands on Joeys face, and pulled him into a deep passionate kiss. "Oh," said Joey, after the girl pulled away. "That kind of fun." "MmHmm." she smiled at him, licking her lips. 'Well,' Joey thought with a smile on his face. 'Ryou's mad at me anyway, so...why not?' Joey wrapped his arms around the girls waist and started kissing her.

The next thing he knew, the girl was on her back on one of the tables, and he was on top of her kissing her. 'Oh, well,' he thought, as his lips brushed against hers, 'it's not like Ryou's gonna know anyway. I'm not gonna tell him.' And with that, Joey continued kissing on her...

Back in the lunch room...

Ryou bit into his bologny and tunafish sandwhich that Yugi had bought for him, since he had forgotten the lunch at home he had packed and his wallet. Not that Ryou had really wanted tunafish, he would of preferred chocolate, but since neither Yugi or the cafeteria had any, he made do with the tunafish. "So," said Yugi, taking a sip of his orange juice, "what's going on with you and Joey?" "None of your business." Ryou snapped at him. "O.k. Sorry." said Yugi. "I can take a hint." Ryou put his sandwhich down.

"I'm sorry," he sighed. "it's just that, well, I got up pretty early, and it was raining, and...oh, I don't know. I guess I kinda started a fight with him because I had to stop and wait for him to buy some doughnuts." "Oh." said Yugi. "It's kinda silly, huh, Yugi?" Ryou asked. "I didn't say that." "No," said Ryou, half smiling, "but you're probably thinking that." He was right. Yugi was thinking that. "I guess I should go appologize to him, huh?" "Yeah. I think that'd be a good idea." said Yugi smiling. "Would you like me to come with you?"

"Uh, no, that's o.k. Yugi." said Ryou, standing up. "Thanks for lunch." "You're welcome, Ryou. Anytime." "Thanks Yugi." Ryou grabbed his jacket and headed towards the door. "Later!" Yugi hollered after him. "Yep." Ryou hollered back on his way out. 'Yami,' Yugi said through the link. 'I'm glad you and I don't fight over silly things like that.' 'Me too, Yugi.' said Yami, coming out of the Puzzle and giving Yugi a hug. "Me too." Yugi snuggled into Yami's warm embrace. 'I love you Yami.' he said through the link.

'I love you too, Yugi,' Yami lifted Yugi's chin up with his finger, leaned down, and kissed him on his forehead. 'very much.' Yugi closed his eyes and sighed. 'Yep.' he thought happily to himself. 'I've got me a good one...' Yugi could feel Yami's warm eyes looking down at him. '...and I'm keeping him...'

Meanwhile...

Ryou had tracked Joey down to the library. 'O.k.' Ryou told himself, taking a deep breath. 'I can do this. All I have to do is march in there, see if Joey's in there or not, and if he is, appologize to him. Yeah, I can do that.' Ryou took another deep breath. 'O.k.' he told himself, putting his hands on the library doors. 'Here I go.' Ryou pushed the doors opened and entered. 'Hmmm,' he thought, looking around. 'I wonder if anyone is in here, it seems pretty quiet.' Then he thought he heard giggling. 'Hmm,' he thought, 'that sounded like a girl.'

Ryou followed the sound all the way to the back of the library. As he got closer, the sound got slightly louder. 'Uhmm, maybe I shouldn't interupt.' He thought backing away. 'I mean, whoever that girl is, she sounds like she's enjoying herself. Maybe I'll come back later.' Ryou turned and started walking away, until he heard, "Oh, Joey!" That stopped him. "'Oh, Joey!'?" he whispered. There was only one Joey that attended school at Domino High that he knew of, and that Joey, was Joey Wheeler. Ryou walked over to a shelf and removed some books so he could peek through.

But what he saw next shocked him. He gasped and covered his mouth. "N...no." he whispered to himself, shaking his head. Ryou couldn't believe what he was seeing. There was the man he loved, half dressed, on top of some girl, who was also half dressed, making out. "No, Joey." Ryou said quietly, tears streaming out of his emerald green eyes. "No." Ryou wanted to scream and pull Joey off of her and say, "NO! You love me, and only me! Not her! Me! You don't need anyone else Joey! All you need is me! I'm the one who loves you!"

But he couldn't bring himself to do that. So instead, he whiped away as many tears as he could, and took off running. But the faster he whiped them away, the faster more would pour out. 'I can't believe Joey would do this to me!' he sobbed running down the hall. 'I mean, I know we had a fight earlier, but I didn't mean any of it. He didn't have to go and cheat on me, damn it!' Meanwhile, Yugi had been coming down the hall from the other end. "Hey," he told himself. "here comes Ryou. I wonder if he found Joey."

Yugi waited until he was sure Ryou was close enough to hear him. "Hey, Ryou," said Yugi, "how'd it..." But Ryou ran right past him as if he weren't even there. "...go?" he finished. "I guess it didn't." said Yugi sighing. "He and Joey must've had another fight. Maybe I should go find Joey and talk to him." Yugi watched Ryou run out of the school exit and went to find Joey.

Ryou meanwhile, ran all the way back home crying. He didn't stop until he got to his room. Once there, he dropped everything he was carrying on the floor, and tossed himself down onto his bed, sobbing. "How?" he wondered, trying to dry his eyes. "How could Joey cheat on me like this? Is he that angry with me? Why, Joey? Why?" Ryou burried his face in his arms, and spent the rest of the afternoon sobbing.

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P. Q. : I know this chapter was somewhat long, but I hope it makes up for the delayed update. I actually had a difficult time getting this one started, but I went for a walk and it totally jogged my mind. Hopefully, chapter 5 won't take me so long. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, especially since it took me all day to type, retype, and re'retype it. (Not being able to think can be a very bad thing! Grrrr!) R&R and let me know, please. Thanks.

Also, I've recently updated "Ryku's", in case anyone wants to check them out. There are now 4 chapters to that instead of 2. Chap 5 of that one will be added soon.

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