To the tenth chapter - celebrating 116 reviews that I didn't deserve, and my 15th birthday, which is today. Enjoy the fic, folks. (Gosh I wish I had some ramen. -)

Warning: Malik-OCCness, sap, shounen-ai. Just so you know. Okay. ...This chapter is stupid... I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh.

Malik stared at a picture of Yugi he had recently swiped from Joey's wallet. He was smiling in the picture, beaming because he was probably saying something obscenely offensive to Joey about his relationship with Mai at the same time as Tristan took the picture. Malik sighed. There was absolutely no denying it any longer; after hanging out with Yugi for the past few days, Malik had achieved the impossible. He was actually starting to have feelings for the boy. The short, cute, adorable blonde boy that looked incredible hot in leather pants...

Malik shook his head a little, and wiped some drool off his chin. Flipping himself over, he leaned against his pillows. It wasn't the whole 'being gay' thing that bothered him. Heck, just look at his best friends, Ryou and Bakura. They were always... Eh, let's just say they were a little too 'busy' to call him at all lately during the past couple of chapters. No, being gay was definitely not a problem. Nobody would admonish him for that. The Yugi- tachi was made of friendly, accepting people. If he was gay, he was gay, and nobody would give a rat's ass. It would be cool if they did though, then he could feed it to Esmerelda, his pet Boa Constrictor that he usually kept in the basement.

Malik sighed, and rolled over. Staring at his alarm clock, he noted that it was only 1 in the afternoon. Outside, Malik could see a clear sky outside, with a decent amount of fast-moving cumulus clouds. He could see all of this from the rectangular window above his bed, that spread from wall to wall.

Malik closed his eyes, mulling over whether or not he should take a short nap. On one hand, it would be nice. On the other hand, that wasn't something that insane pyschopaths generally do...

Malik groaned and sat up. Nope, his problem was not being gay. His problem was that he liked Yugi. And Yugi was, as far as he was concerned, the yadonushi of the Pharaoh. Yadonushi meant "lord's property," and that's what he considered Yugi to Yami.

But... but he was cute... He was adorable!! And had a cute ass. Who could not love Yugi, hm?

Malik's depressed thoughts were interrupted when the phone rang. He had a phone in his room, right on the night stand next to his bed – which was across from a sweet plasma TV. Malik decided to let the answering machine pick it up. I mean, it IS the point of this fan fiction, isn't it? So he decided to do just that.

"Hi, Malik."

Malik's eyes lit up as he heard Yugi's voice over the machine. He had to keep himself from frantically grabbing for the phone.

"Um, well, you said I could come over and play your video games sometime... how about today? Plus I need to drop off your cell phone. I picked it up when you dropped it at the park... Is that okay? What time can I come over? I guess I'll find out when you call me. Bye."

The beeping noise sounded, and Malik sighed happily and fell against the pillow. He would get to see the object of his immediate affections!! Suddenly Malik's contented smile turned into an ugly frown. Since when had he loved Yugi this much? His heart was pounding so hard, it fell like a hammer was beating itself against his chest.

"Jesus, love hurts," he swore, and then he picked up the phone to call Yugi back. "No wonder Romeo had to do all that sword fighting. I'd like to go on a killing spree, too!" His breath caught in his throat as he punched in Yugi's #. Yes, I put a number sign just to bug you, so ha ha.

"Hello?" Yugi's unsure voice was heard over the telephone. Malik had to keep himself from screaming, uh, screams, that sounded incredibly fanboyish.

"Oh, hi Yugi. I got your message." Was it just him, or could he feel Yugi blushing over the phone? He wondered. "I just wanted to tell you that you can come over now, if you want to."

"Um..." On the other side of the phone line, Yugi looked around at the mess his grandpa had made pretending to be a kitten last night. (Complete with the whole "high off catnip" scenario. Quite funny at the time, but it really did leave quite a bit of a mess.)

"I just have a few more chores to do, I'll be there around... 3?" Yugi said in a question form, always doubtful. Malik grinned cheesily. Yugi was so cute like that. He could just imagining his eyes, looking so pained – pain was good – and frightened and yet stunningly attractive at the same time.

"Sure Yugi!!" Malik crowed. Ugh, I sound like such a dork. Oh well.

Standing in Malik's doorway so obviously that he sweat dropped when his younger brother didn't notice him, Odion took in everything – the crooning tone of Malik's voice, his lovestruck gaze, and the dopey grin plastered one his face – and shook his head, smiling understandingly. This would be berrrrry interesting.

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Which was odd, because Odion didn't particularly like berries... at least not blackberries. [A/N: I love 'em!] Yick. But other than that, Odion supposed that this whole ordeal might prove very entertaining and could result in a couple of chuckles and maybe even a very few incredibly girlish giggles.

...Besides, that's what the next chapter was about.

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