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Ryu: Okay, that was easy. But hopefully there will be more than just one next time but we'll find out. Anyway, on with chapter two.

Chapter 2: Someone to Save Me

Ryou stirred once, then again. He opened his eyes groggily to the light of the rising sun shining through the living room window. He shot up from the couch almost instantly, realizing he'd been sleeping soundly there since 5 PM yesterday and it was now 6:45 in the AM.

"I'm gonna be late," he exclaimed, jumping up from the couch.

He ran into his room only to re-emerge a second later holding clean undergarments and a clean uniform. He ran to the bathroom and took a ten minute shower, got out and dressed, then grabbed a piece of toast and jam from the kitchen and headed for the front door.

"I'm going," he called though his mouthful, pulling his shoes on and leaving the house at 7:03 AM without waiting for his father to respond.

Bakura poked his head out of his room just as the front door closed. He wondered who had called to him and then wondered if he had even heard anyone at all. Shrugging he closed his door and went back to bed, too tired to even care.

/WALKING THROUGH DOMINO/

Ryou was still on his way to school, a bit slower than before. He'd slowed down to a walk when he'd nearly choked on the last bit of his toast. He decided he could afford to walk the rest of the way, not having to finish any homework before homeroom started. Ryouwas smart, you'd have to give him that much, and he usually finished his homework ahead of time. Sadly, as smart as he was…

"WHAA!"

…he was that clumsy.

Ryou rubbed his sore bottom before opening his eyes to catch a full view of…pink. It took a second before he noticed the navy blue sea flowing around the pink spot and realized just what he was staring at. Blushing profusely, he turned away from the sight of the pink panties under the navy blue skirt that had flared up before him in the fall.

"G-gomen n-nasai," he stuttered out, still looking away. "I didn't mean to stare, I…"

"It's okay," said a gentle voice in reply. "I… I should've been watching where I was going."

Ryou glanced over once before actually looking at whom he'd run into. He saw a slim girl with long, chestnut hair and smoky-brown eyes staring back at him. She was an inch or two shorter than Ryou and wore a navy skirt with a white and navy sailor top, a red scarf tied around the collar.

"Gomen," Ryou repeated, still blushing.

"It's okay," the girl repeated sweetly. "It wasn't your fault. I was just in such a hurry not to be late that I wasn't watching where I was going."

"Well, I was kinda spaced out too," Ryou said, trying to take on the blame.

"Why not just agree that it's both our faults?" she suggested.

"H…hai," Ryou agreed, nodding. "My name's Ryou Bakura."

"I'm Shizuka Jou-" she stopped at the sound of a bell ringing in the distance. "Oh no, I'll be late! It was nice meeting you. Ja ne, Ryou-san." And she was off; sprinting toward the school she didn't want to be late for.

Ryou just smiled and waved after her.

"Ja, Shizuka-chan," he called. He waited until she was out of site before realizing he was close to being late as well and took off in the other direction.

'Something about her seemed familiar,' his mind told him as he ran. 'Wait, what was that name, the one that got cut off?'

"I'm Shizuka Jou-" he remembered.

'Jou… I wonder… I'll have to ask him...' he decided before letting the thought slip to the back of his mind, focusing on getting to school on time.

He kept his head clear until he arrived at school a few minutes later, huffing as he tried to catch his breath. He changed into his school shoes and was heading for his homeroom when something bounced off the back of his head. Turning around in irritation he saw no one suspicious among the sea of students. Then his eyes caught a bit of brown hair pointing up from the crowd and knew exactly where the attack had come from.

Hiroto Honda was a freshman like Ryou who didn't seem to like the white-haired Brit boy very much. He was tall and tough like Jounouchi with brown hair he wore pointed in the front and had brown eyes that kept a green tint. Unlike Jou, however, he was far from gentle and caring.

Next to Honda, who was laughing quietly, a girl about Ryou's height snickered along with the boy. She had brown hair and eyes and an annoying, nagging voice that Ryou didn't like in the least. Anzu Mazaki was Honda's girlfriend and shared an equal, unexplained, disliking for the white-haired boy.

As Ryou stared at the two laughing at him, wondering if it was even worth the effort of trying to solve the mystery of their dislike, someone walking by bumped into him, causing him to stumble and fall from his place.

"Watch where I'm going why don't you," sneered a boy with long black hair and emerald eyes.

"Yes," said a dark-skinned boy with lavender eyes and cornflower hair that stuck up in every direction. "You wouldn't want to get hurt would you?"

Ryou whimpered a little and shook his head as he stared at the backsides of the two juniors walking away from him.

The black-haired boy was Otogi Ryuji. His family owned a game shop in town and had invented some dice game that was slowing becoming more popular. Otogi was slightly taller than Ryou and wore a die earring on his left ear, black eyeliner around his eyes.

The other, dark-skinned, boy was Mariku Ishtar. His family was the descendant of some famous Egyptian family. He lived with his younger brother, Malik, who was a friend of Ryou's, his older sister Isis, who was 21 and worked at Domino Museum, and their older, adoptive brother, Rishid, a 25 year old who worked as a bodyguard to the mayor of Domino.

Mariku's mother had died during the birth of Malik and Otogi's the same, giving birth to him. The Ishtar father had died six years ago and Otogi's dad was currently institutionalized, thinking he was some kind of crazed clown. Still, not having anyone to get negative attention from didn't stop the two juniors from being bitter to everyone else. If anything, it just urged them on.

Ryou sighed as he got to his feet, wanting this morning to be over with when a tap on the shoulder caused him to jump. He turned, frustrated, to see a pair familiar lavender eyes smiling at him.

"Don't let Mariku get you down Ryou-kun," Malik advised. "He's just a jackass."

"Hai," Ryou said, smiling and feeling better.

Malik was a lot like Mariku in appearance. Same dark skin their family shared, same lavender eyes, though softer, same cornflower hair, wore down instead of up, even the same golden earrings and wristbands Mariku wore. Both even had the same petite build.

Malik turned and waved at the black car in front of the school where a smiling Rishid waved back from the driver's seat.

Rishid was a muscular man, unlike his family. He was bald save for a long black ponytail on the back of his head. He wore a black suit and tie and in his pocket he kept a pair of sunglasses that he wore over his olive eyes when working. Rishid was kind-hearted and gentle, albeit for the unnerving feature about him. The left side of his face was tattooed with a multitude of hieroglyphs. Ryou couldn't see how anyone could stand having that done to themselves, especially at the age of nineteen, but he didn't let that bias his opinion of the caring Egyptian.

"C'mon Ryou-kun, let's get to homeroom," Malik said after Rishid had driven away.

Ryou nodded and followed the Egyptian out of the entry way and down the crowded hall, Honda and Anzu both completely forgotten.

"Hey Ryou-kun," Malik spoke up part of the way through their walk. "Since it's the weekend do you want to come hang out at my place after school?"

Ryou flinched, something Malik noted Ryou always did whenever someone asked him to hang out. Ryou was frightened to leave his father alone for so long, not being sure if he'd be all right.

'I guess I could call him after school,' he thought.

"H…hai, Malik-kun," he said. "I'd like that."

'I hope I don't get in the way,' he thought to himself.

"Cool," Malik said, letting the flinch fade from thought.

They walked in silence the rest of the way to homeroom. Sliding the classroom door open they were immediately noticed by their friends.

"Ryou-kun, Malik-kun, what took so long?" Jou called across the room.

The two made their way through the rows of desks until they reached the back of the room where Jou sat with his girlfriend; Mai; Yami, and Yugi.

"Ohayo, mina," Ryou said brightly.

"You're late today Ryou-kun," Mai pointed out. "You're normally first of any of us."

"I overslept Mai-chan," Ryou said, casually sitting beside Yugi, Malik sitting on his other side, next to Mai.

Mai Kujaku was about as tall as Jou with lighter blonde hair that fell to her waist. Her eyes were a friendly purple that became rimmed in red whenever she got angry. She was the only other goth in the group, aside from the Mutou twins, although you wouldn't know from the horribly tacky Domino High uniforms.

"I hate this pink blouse, I hate this blue bow, and I hate these damned skirts, they're so short," Mai complained, trying to pull the blue skirt down to cover he finely toned thighs. "Why even make us where uniforms?"

"I like your uniform just fine," Jou said, slyly running his hand up Mai's bare leg.

"Jounouchi you pervert!" she yelled, batting the boy's hand away.

The rest of them just laughed and Mai even smirked a little, punching Jou playfully in the arm.

Ryou looked around the room as the others chuckled, searching for the rest of their group.

"Where's Nasaka-san?" he finally asked as the laughter died.

"Ryou-kun, you can drop the formalities," Yami informed him.

"She's still new," Ryou defended. "We don't really know her that well yet."

"She's not here yet," Yugi said, wanting to stop an argument from starting. He knew his brother would start one just for the fun of it. "She must still be getting used to how things work around here."

The sound of the classroom door opening drew their attention away. At the door stood a young girl with lavender hair and violet eyes. Miho Nasaka was a cute fifteen year old who was kind but quiet. She'd only lived in Domino a few weeks but had already earned the nickname 'Ribbon' from the yellow ribbon she always wore in her hair.

Behind her stood the tallest person in the class, maybe even in the school. He wore his blue school jacket buttoned up the front and carried a silver briefcase with him. He had fawn-colored hair and cerulean eyes that made him seem foreign, although no one knew. He and his younger brother had been orphans and were adopted six years ago by Gozaburo Kaiba, president of Kaiba Corporation, which, at the time, was one of the leading companies in the world for the development of military weapons and technology. Seto Kaiba had overthrown his stepfather and turned his Kaiba Corp into a toy and gaming company.

Although normally cold and cruel, Kaiba was kind to Ryou and his friends, especially his new girlfriend Miho. It was only a week ago they'd announced they were dating but the two had since become inseparable.

They crossed the room, hand in hand, and sat down next to their friends.

"Mina, ohayo," Miho said cheerfully.

"Ohayo, Ribbon-chan," Jou replied.

"Is their anything interesting going on?' Kaiba asked boredly. Truth be told, Kaiba was a genius and only attended school due to public law.

'Damned law,' he thought to himself.

"Actually," Ryou spoke up. "Something interesting happened to me this morning. I ran into someone, literally. We ran into each other on the sidewalk and fell. Then her skirt flared up and I saw…" Ryou let his voice trail off as a slight flush crossed his face in remembrance.

Both Jou and Mai broke out in hysteric laughter.

"Let me guess," Jou laughed, "You saw her panties?"

Everyone else held their breath as they stared at the blushing Brit, all waiting to hear his answer.

"H… hai," Ryou finally got out.

Jou and Mai fell out of their chairs laughing. Yami and Malik's heads both fell down to hit the table. The innocent little Yugi giggled a bit. Miho hid her flush by burying her face in Kaiba's chest, who let an evil smirk cross his face.

"It was an… an accident," the embarrassed Ryou stuttered out. "Not even that… that bid a d…deal.

"Did you at least catch the poor girl's name?" Mai asked, gasping for air.

Ryou was about to answer when he remembered something.

"Jounouchi-kun, do you have a sister?" he asked.

"Hai," Jou said, all signs of laughter vanishing from his face. "But that's a pretty random question to answer with."

"Well," Ryou explained, "I asked her name but she left before I she could finish saying it so I only heard her first name. But the part of her last name I did hear sounded like Jou so I was wondering if maybe you were related."

"What's she look like?" Jou asked tensely. Under the desk, his hands were slowly clenching and unclenching. Only one thing came before friends in Jou's mind, his little sister.

"She was a little shorter than me," Ryou remembered, "Slim, brown hair, grayish-brown eyes, a nicely developed chest." Ryou stopped and flushed again, not realizing he'd said that aloud till it was too late.

The group reacted in the same way as when he'd mentioned her panties only this time Mai didn't fall from her chair and Jou didn't even flinch.

"What was her first name?" Jou asked through clenched teeth.

Ryou shook off his embarrassment and tried to remember. "I think she said it was… Shizuka."

"Nani!" Jou yelled, jumping over the desk and grabbing Ryou by the collar, one fist raised and ready to punch his lights out, fire burning in those honey eyes. "How dare you go peeping at my little sister? I'm gonna-"

That was he got out before Kaiba, Yami, and Malik pulled the blonde off of Ryou and tried to calm him down.

"Calm down Jou-kun," Yami growled, struggling to hold his left arm.

"Everyone's watching you mongrel," Kaiba warned, holding the boy's waist.

"It was only an accident," Malik hissed, trying to restrain his right arm.

Jou took a deep breath and relaxed. But as soon as the other three boys let go of him he lunged at Ryou again, stopping this time at the feeling of a hand on his nether region and a pair of pedal soft lips against his. He sighed his frustration and anger into Mai's mouth, relaxing into the kiss, blushing at being touched in such a way with the whole class watching.

"Feeling better?" Mai asked when she drew away.

Jou gave a slight nod, his eyes saddening as Mai drew her hand away.

"Good," she whispered sweetly. "Baka!" she landed a slap on Jou's face with the sudden outburst.

"What was that for?" Jou asked bitterly, rubbing his sore cheek.

"You shouldn't get so mad at Ryou-kun over an accident," she scolded. "He can't help he's a klutz."

Everyone fell at that comment except for Ryou, a large sweatdrop forming on the back of his head.

"Kuso," Jou scoffed.

He glanced up in surprise when a pale hand came down near his face and looked up to a smiling Ryou.

"Gomen, Jou-kun," he said kindly. "I didn't mean for it to happen."

Jou sighed and smiled at the boy. "I know you didn't. Gomen, Ryou-kun." He accepted Ryou's hand and let the pale boy help him to his feet only to drop a fist on top of that white mane. "Just watch yourself."

"Hai," Ryou said, rubbing his head, trying to tell if Jou was serious or kidding.

The classroom door opened again and in walked a fair woman with brown hair and way too much make-up to be human.

"Everyone in your seats," came Anzu's nagging voice.

'Who decided to make her class rep?' Ryou wondered.

"Ohayo class," the woman said sweetly.

"Ohayo Chono-sensei," the class replied.

"Take your seats," Anzu demanded.

'Great,' Ryou thought, sitting down as Ms. Chono began to lecture. 'I have a crush on Jou's little sister.'

Ryu: There you have it, the second chapter. I made it kinda funny because things are only gonna get real… why am I tell you all this. It's more fun to make you wait. Hopefully I'll get more reviews so I'll have motivation to go on. Ja for now.