TO DECEIVE IS TO BELIEVE
By Starflower Sakura

DISCLAIMER: I said it a couple trillion times and I'll say it again. I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh!

To readers/reviewers: Wow! I can't believe people actually liked this story! I'm so happy! I usually am if I'm updating a story. I'm also very sorry for the long wait. I haven't been on for a while, and since it's summer people would think that I'll have more time to type, but it seems that I'm busier than ever. The only time I can type is late at night, but I won't be typing for very long since I'll be heading off to bed soon. I'll try to type fast so I can post it up sooner.

To Deceive Is To Believe
Chapter 2 - Mere Acquaintances

Fluffy white clouds sailed on the azure ocean above as Yugi walked slowly to school, not noticing anything that was going on. He was thinking how well or how bad this day would go and his daydreaming took him away from reality for a while. He entered the school grounds and took a huge gulp of air as he looked around at everybody who didn't even notice him.

"Yugi-kun! Come here!" Ryou whispered from behind a tree.

"Ryou-kun? Malik-kun? Nani?"

"Haven't you noticed?" Malik asked.

"Noticed what?"

"That all three of us got followed to school," Ryou answered.

"Followed?!"

"Not so loud!"

"By who?"

Ryou frowned slightly and looked over at a group of people standing together. Yugi looked over at where Ryou and Malik were looking at. He spied three people walking slowly towards that group, deep in their conversations and each looking smug. He recognized two of them. Ryusaki Bakura and Ishiyama Marik. He had bad experiences with those two during his younger years in elementary school. The last one, though, he had seen around but never paid any attention to. That person's spiky tri-colored hair was so much like his own that he was surprised that he had never noticed it before. That was the only similarity he could see from where he was standing, but he doubted that he was anything like him. Suddenly a nervous feeling swept over him and he felt it from Ryou and Malik as well for the three people that they were mindlessly staring at, turned their heads and stared back.

"We better get away from here and get to class. I don't want any trouble," Ryou announced.

"I'm not scared of them. If they want trouble, they'll get trouble," Malik growled.

Ryou and Yugi sighed as they dragged Malik off towards the classroom before he actually did what he was planning to.

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"Did you notice them looking at us?" Bakura asked.

"But of course! Anybody with eyes could see that they were..." striking a lovesick fan look, "... idolizing, and worshipping us!" Marik answered.

"Um..." Yami cut in, "Actually, it seemed that Ishtar was more on the side of carefully planning out our slow and painful deaths."

Marik glared at Yami, who just shrugged. Hey, it was the truth, so what can you say?

"Maybe they noticed that we were following them?" Yami asked, nonchalantly.

Bakura rolled his eyes, "Yea, right, like that little pipsqueak could notice me following him."

"Hmm, Ishtar did seem to look suspicious though. I can tell that he isn't a very trusting person."

"So? At least yours actually has a chance of winning because of the way he defends himself. That Moto kid was like he was in some other world or something. If I stepped right in front of him, he would've crashed right into me without having a clue about what happened!"

Bakura and Marik snickered while Yami just let out an exasperated sigh. They heard the bell ring proclaiming that it was the beginning of school. They looked at each other and was pondering vigilantly on ditching for they day, but they all decided against it. If they were to learn more about those boys they would have to stay in school. They shuddered at the thought.

"Hey, I wonder where our group is?"

"They either probably did what we are going to do and went to class, or they ditched... again."

They could never really predict what each of their group members would do or say. Mainly, they didn't have a clue about where everyone was. They looked towards the school building and slowly, extremely slowly, trudged in and into their first period class. They had each other and some other people of their group in their first period class. They saw Seto, leaning back in his chair with a stern look in his expression, unaware of all the longing glances that girls were sending him.

"Seems that Mai skipped, ne?"

The rest nodded as they made their way towards the young CEO. They picked seats that were close to each other and sat down. They scanned their classroom wondering what they had missed while ditching yesterday and the day before yesterday and the day before that. To their surprise (and to the reader's expectation) they spotted the three people that they were supposed to befriend.

"Wanna give them a greeting?" Bakura asked, grinning.

"Sure, don't see why not!" Marik answered.

"I couldn't have said it better myself," Yami announced.

They all got up and made their way to the far end of the room. The picked out the best seats that was closest to the person that they were supposed to work on.

"Hello," Marik greeted.

Malik, who the greeting was directed at, turned his head away and mumbled a 'hello.' People were extremely startled that Marik would actually waste his time on some nobody. Shocking them even more was that Bakura and Yami did the same except to two other people. Some girls glared at the three "lucky" boys that got their love interest's attention. What made their blood boil even more was that all three of them asked the three boy's to call them by their first names.

"Ryusaki..." Ryou stopped when Bakura frowned at him. "I mean, Bakura-san, what business do you want with me?"

Bakura feigned his shock and answered, "Why, I only wanted to become friends with you."

Ryou nodded. Often, he would trust the person, for after all, he was extremely nice and trusting, but when that person stalked you from your home to school... that's a whole different situation. Yami and Marik weren't having that much luck with Malik and Yugi either.

"So what's your next class?" Marik asked Malik.

"Algebra," was his one worded answer.

"Um... how long have you been friends with Ishtar?" Yami asked Yugi.

"Two years."

They both waited for them to say something more, but they got nothing else. So that's how it went; Yami, Bakura, and Marik asked questions while Yugi, Ryou, and Malik gave them a one to two worded answer.

"This is going nowhere."

The other two nodded. They stayed in the seats that they were sitting in, and turned to face the front of the classroom as did Yugi-tachi. What they weren't expecting was that it seemed the classroom was going to go up in flames in any second. They swore they saw sparks of fire from fellow female classmates' hair. They didn't know what happened, nor did they want to know. Class soon started, and the sensei raised an eyebrow at his steaming classroom but decided not to question unless his classroom actually did show a sign of catching on fire.

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"Do you two want to eat lunch with me?" Ryou asked, smiling.

"Sure!" Yugi exclaimed cheerfully.

"Of course," Malik grinned.

The classroom was already empty, leaving only the three of them in it. Their sensei had left to get her lunch and was coming back shortly. Chatting away, the three walked towards the doorway, only to be blocked by what looked look a hundred zillion, fuming girls.

"May we pass?" Yugi asked quietly.

The leader of this whole pack of angry females spoke up, "Only if you answer us a few questions."

"And what would those questions be?" Malik asked, quite annoyed.

"Why did Yami-sama, Bakura-sama, and Marik-sama talk to you in first period?!"

"Okay, I recognize some of these girls from our first period class, but I'm way too sure that we didn't have this many girls."

"Well, are you going to answer us or not?!" somebody yelled.

Ryou stepped up, smiled, and replied, "Nothing to worry about, we're just mere acquaintances."

To be continued...

Wow! I haven't updated in so long! Err... not much plot there, but please tell me what you think and if you have a suggestions on what I should put in the story put it in the review. Don't take it personally if I don't take in your suggestion for I might have other plans in mind and it might not work out. It depends on how much I like your suggestion so I would consider every single one. Thank you for reading, and again I hope you enjoyed this chapter.

- Starflower Sakura