Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh. – Duh.
Chapter 2: Jounouchi gets glasses
Thanks to YugiohChic654, for the idea of Jounouchi with glasses. ;D
Note: I have decided to give every Yugioh character some er- thingies. Well, Nevermind – you know what I mean. Yugi has braces, Jounouchi will be getting glasses in this chapter, and later on… who knows? I may even include walking sticks, hearing aids, crutches, wheelchairs… and now I've run out of ideas. Some new ones would be good.
Btw, I know Jounouchi doesn't live with his sister. At least, I don't think he does. But as far as this fanfic is concerned, she's been staying with him for a while.
"Come off it, Shizuka, I can see perfectly well." Jounouchi grumbled. "I don't need to go to the opticians'."
"It might be a good idea." His sister said, her face the picture of seriousness. "I mean, when you've done your homework recently, I couldn't help noticing that you hold your book at a really strange angle."
"Erm." Jounouchi said.
"Please?" Shizuka persisted, looking slightly hurt that Jounouchi wasn't listening to her. "For me."
"I really don't need it." Jounouchi said, turning away from his sister and facing forwards, angrily glaring at the blurs in front of him. Brother and sister were silent for a few moments.
"Jounouchi, look ou-"
Then Jounouchi walked head-first into the lamp post.
"Well, young man, from what your sister's told us, you need an eye test." The nurse at the hospital said.
"I'm fine, seriously." Jounouchi said. "That is, except for my head." Stupid interfering nurse… Hmm. She does have a good chest though. I wonder, is she wearing a bra?
"You walked into a lamp post." Don't remind me…
"I was daydreaming!" he protested.
"Come on, Jounouchi. It's only an eye test. It won't hurt." Shizuka said pleadingly. Jounouchi turned away from his sister's cute expression, which she was exploiting very well. Since her eye operation, she'd become even more persuasive than before.
"Shizuka, I don't-"
"Aw, Jounouchi-" she sniffled. Her eyes began to fill up with tears. "Why won't you ever listen to anything I say? Please, Jounouchi, take this test. You may be right- perhaps you don't need glasses or anything. But-"
"Fine, I'll go. But it will be pointless." Jounouchi grumbled.
The nurse exchanged looks with Shizuka – Jounouchi couldn't see their expressions all that well from the distance and the shadows in the room, but he supposed they were sharing exasperation at the wimpiness of boys. Well, he wasn't a wimp, even if he was a lot of other things. He'd show them…
He was taken to a small, dark room. He got annoyed. Hey! This isn't fair! How's anyone supposed to see if it's dark? Okay, she's turned the light on now.
"I would like you to tell me the letter I'm pointing to." The nurse said.
She pointed to an A.
"Er-" Jounouchi squinted at it. "B?"
C.
"F?"
H.
"D?"
P.
"Hey, they're getting smaller!"
"That's the idea. Now, this one."
Q.
"Er- it's a full stop."
"Thank you, Jounouchi. Please wait outside for a moment."
Jounouchi sat on one of the benches outside the room and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
And waited.
Finally, another nurse came along, and smiled at him. "Jounouchi, I presume? Well, please come through to receive your results."
Jounouchi was dragged into yet another room, but this one had a doctor in it. He explained to Jounouchi that he hadn't done very well in the eye test, and would certainly have to get glasses. He looked into Jounouchi's eyes, shone a light into them and showed him several cards with dots on, apparently getting some relevant information from each.
Then, in great detail and using lots of scientific words, he told Jounouchi exactly what was wrong with his eye, and that he would have to get some glasses.
Jounouchi's world crashed down around him. How could he maintain his image if he had glasses? Life was just too cruel. Glasses were the kind of thing he'd forget, or, worse, drop and break. He'd have to sit at the front of the classroom, like some kind of nerd. And, worst of all, everybody would laugh at him.
Jounouchi had wanted to skip school, but Shizuka had forced him to go, saying that he couldn't hide for ever, and they made him look more intelligent anyway.
Intelligent? That's even worse!
He moped all the way to school. Admittedly, he could see properly, but it was poor compensation for the torture he was going to suffer at the hands of his classmates…
Well, of course he'd punch them before they got far, but still. They'd probably laugh at him behind his back.
He'd been hoping that nobody would notice, but Yugi and the others spotted the glasses immediately.
"Jounouchi, is this some kind of joke?" Honda asked, trying not to laugh.
Glumly, Jounouchi shook his head.
"I can't believe it!" Honda exclaimed, attempting valiantly to keep a straight face, and failing.
Jounouchi gave him a dirty look.
"Never mind, Jounouthi." Yugi lisped anxiously. "They don't look that bad, ath all."
"Don't bother trying to console me," Jounouchi said. "I know they look awful. I'll never be able to live it down…"
Fortunately, nobody mentioned Jounouchi's glasses. Well, not in front of him at least. He heard whispers behind his back all the time, and when he turned round everyone would fall silent and stare out of the window, only to whisper again as soon as he turned back to face the front.
He glanced briefly around the room, trying to count the number of people with glasses. He counted two; both of them were certified nerds, though wearing glasses didn't seem to bother them in the least. They had even chosen especially thick glasses to accentuate their nerdiness, even though Jounouchi knew that there had been thousands of other less nerdy types.
He left the lesson in a hopeless mood, and realised that it was lunch. Someone was bound to comment on his glasses then.
The whispering continued, through the lunch queue, as he sat down at the table with Yugi and the others… he couldn't escape it. A couple of girls giggled and pointed at him in an obvious way.
He began to eat his lunch, trying to ignore them, when the most humiliating thing happened to him.
A group of geeky boys came up to Jounouchi and asked to share the table. Before he could say anything, the others had moved over to make room for the nerds. To his horror, Jounouchi found himself surrounded by these boffins, all of whom wore glasses.
"You know, the lipid content in that processed food far exceeds the advisable daily intake?" One of them said to Jounouchi, apparently under the impression that he would understand what was being said.
"Er…" Jounouchi said, intelligently.
They continued in this way for quite some time. Anzu and Bakura were the only ones who had even a faint idea what the nerds were talking about. At last, Jounouchi had heard enough.
"Look." He said. The nerds fell silent and looked at him expectantly, as if he was about to come out with some impressive scientific theory.
"Just because you're clever," he began, "doesn't mean you have to talk like that. We know you're more intelligent than the rest of us; we don't need it rubbed in."
They gaped at him.
"Making glasses doesn't make you clever," Jounouchi went on, beginning to get into his stride. "Just like wearing braces doesn't make you some kind of freakish weirdo."
Nearly everyone in the lunch hall was listening now; some of the girls had even stopped giggling.
"Even though I have glasses now, I'm no different to how I was. I'll still fight someone for what I believe in. My IQ hasn't suddenly gone up. Some people may be different to you, but that doesn't mean you should exclude them."
Some of the nerds started to clap. Jounouchi realised that everyone was listening to him and sat down quickly, embarrassed. Unexpectedly, Anzu threw her arms around him, her eyes filled with emotional tears.
"Oh, Jounouchi! That was the most sensitive thing I've ever heard you say!" she sniffed. "I couldn't have put it better! You've spoken out for anyone who's ever felt like an outcast!"
"I have?" Jounouchi sounded horrified.
"Sometimes you really surprise me!" Anzu continued, beaming.
"You never know, Jounouchi," Honda grinned. "Maybe one of these days you and Anzu will be making joint friend speeches."
"I wouldn't go that far." Jounouchi muttered.
Things weren't as bad afterwards, however. People acted as normal around him, although strange weird students kept on coming up to him and thanking him for saying that they should fit in. Jounouchi wasn't sure whether to be pleased or not.
All the same, school wasn't as bad as he'd thought it would be. When he went home, he had to admit to Shizuka that it hadn't been a complete faliure, and that there were some advantages to having glasses.
He just didn't tell her that the advantage he liked best was being able to look down girl's tops properly again.
Ah well. Finished, at last. Maybe Yugi will be happy now he isn't the only one with weird medical needs...
Please review, and give me inspiration!