Youth of the Nation

By: Neko-chan



A/N: *does a hyper genki dance* La la la la la laaaaaaaaa~aaaAAAAAaaaAAaaaa!!! *spins around in circles and grins widely, randomly glomping readers and singing anime songs at the top of her lungs*

Yami: Iie...she had Coca-Cola, Lemon Heads, York Peppermint Patties, Sour Warheads, Sour Skittles, and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups again, didn't she??

Bakura: x.x;; How did you guess?

Yami: *points to Neko-chan* Well, to answer your question, let me ask you this: Is THAT normal???

Bakura:.........



WARNING: Will contain eventual YAOI and SHOUNEN-AI. If you don't like either of these things, then please don't read this story! I don't mean to be insulting (Bakura: *snorts* Yeah, right...), but it's not THAT hard of a concept to understand...unless you're Baka-chan...ooops, I meant BAKU-chan. (Bakura: HEY!!) ^_^ Nani, Baku-chan? (Bakura: *grumbles*) Anyway, at this moment, the main couple is Yami/Yuugi. But there will be more pairs later on in this story. And I finally decided on a second genre for this fic. It will be mostly Romance/Humor, but other elements will be mixed in. (Yes, there MIGHT be some sad stuff, but only a little TINY bit and not for long. After all, sad stuff does deepen a storyline. But remember, this fic will have NO ANGST! I've read waaaaaaay too many angst fics lately.)

DISCLAIMER: WHY MUST YOU TORMENT ME SO?! I DON'T OWN YU-GI-OH!, DANG IT!!! If I did, Yami would be wearing that leather shirt of his more often. ^_~ (Not to mention that skimpy little Pharaoh's garb...and, hai...I do realize that I'm being a hentai fangirl. Oh, well! ^_^) *cackles evilly and snaps her fingers*

Yami: *appears in his skimpy lil' Pharaoh garb and glares at Neko-chan threateningly* I hate you.

So? What else is new? You and Baku-chan have told me that plenty of times, Yami-chan.

Yami: This time, you took it too far. OBLITERA--

I wouldn't do that if I were you.

Yami: Why not?

*points to screaming stampede of fangirls that went wild in seeing Yami in his Pharaoh outfit* Ummm...that's why, Yami-chan. ^_^;;

Yami: *screams and runs away*

Awwww...dang it. And I didn't even get a chance to take a picture of him dressed like that! . Oh, well. There's always next chapter. ^_^

Lavender-Monkey-Sama-Who-Writes-Neko-chan's-Stories: *randomly pops up out of nowhere* And, once again, I own the plot! *laughs diabolically*

*mumbles* Stupid monkey... ¬.¬;;





Chapter Four

Yuugi was bored. Of course, it was a Monday morning and those were ALWAYS boring, but this time, Yuugi was more bored than usual. His homework was all done, all of his assignments were turned in (checked, double-checked, AND triple-checked just to be certain), and his teachers hadn't given his class any new work to do yet. In fact, most of the kids were finishing up on the homework that they didn't do over the weekend. (A/N: LOL! Sound familiar? I know it does for me...;_;...)

So, at this point, all Yuugi could do was sit at his desk and do one of two things: 1) Stare at the blackboard with glazed eyes; or 2) Doodle in his notebook. (And, since he wasn't THAT great of an artist, Yuugi didn't even think that number two was even an option.) So he chose to do number three. 3) Listen to the conversations going on around him. ...and that mostly consisted of listening to Bakura chew Ryou out.

"AIBOU!!! It's not THAT hard of a concept to understand!! When you're in a fight, you point to the sky behind their backs, yell 'Oh, by Ra!' and when they turn around, you kick them in the balls!!"

"But...Yami no Bakura...that isn't right! You're fighting dishonorably and you're also misleading them! It isn't fair, Yami!"

"What do you mean, 'fighting dishonorably'?! You don't even FIGHT!!!"

'Huh...I wonder if Yami knew that I was being serious when I told him that Bakura hasn't left Ryou's side since about two weeks ago.' A giggle. 'In fact, to the class, he's Ryou's "long lost cousin," right out from Egypt and staying with the family for...well, if he has his way...forever. I feel kinda sorry for Ryou, though. At least I don't have to listen to Yami tell me the high points of fighting "dishonorably." Blech...knowing him, he'd just "Obliterate!" them and be done with it. I worry about the effects his "mind crush" has on other people. I mean...it has to be called "mind crush" for a reason, right?'

It was right about then that Yuugi noticed that everyone in his class was silent. It was so silent, in fact, that a person would be able to hear a pin drop. Which did happen.

"Plink!"

Yuugi blinked and looked up towards the front of the classroom, where everyone else was looking. (Except for Bakura, of course. He was glaring, muttering, and shooting dirty glares to whoever was at the front of the classroom. Listening to Ryou's yami with half an ear, Yuugi could have almost swear that he heard Bakura mutter, "Damn Pharaoh no Baka...") But that couldn't be...could it?

It could.

'Oh, no...' Yuugi groaned to himself as he spotted Yami at the front of the classroom, handing his homeroom teacher a note. 'Yami, WHY exactly are you HERE at MY school during the DAY when you're SUPPOSED to be watching the GAME SHOP and making MONEY to SUPPORT US?!' he thought to his darker self.

Yami, clad in his favorite buckled leather shirt and his usual leather pants ('Sometimes I worry about Yami and his fetish for leather and buckles...but, then again, I also have a buckled shirt, too...'), turned around and shot his aibou a stunning smile.

'Don't worry about it, hikari. No one comes around the Shop during the day. Remember? I was telling you about that earlier. Everyone is at school or they're at work. It's a desert during the day. Besides, you've been needing my help and you haven't told me. So the only thing left for me to do is to follow Bakura's example...as much as I detest that baka Tomb Robber...' Yami thought back, putting a couple extra watts on his smile when Yuugi continued to glare.

Yuugi's response? To hang his head and mutter about how 'his life was going to end, his school life was going to end, his SANITY was going to end, and how the world--as we know--was also going to end. And it was all going to end suddenly, destructively, and bloodily.'

"Everyone, I'd like to introduce...Yami...," the teacher trailed off and looked at Yami's name in concern. She worried if she had read it correctly. Finally determining that she had, she looked up to Yami for confirmation.

He nodded and smiled at her. "Hai. My name is Yami. It's strange, I know..." Just as suddenly, he winked at her and Bakura gagged in disgust as he saw this. "My parents were hippies."

"Oh! That makes sense. Anyway, children, I'd like introduce Yami Mutou, Yuugi's older brother. Isn't this so great? We have two new students in just as many weeks! First we had...Bakura Yami...," she trailed off. 'What strange parents these children have! The names nowadays...' She continued: "And now we have Yami Mutou!"

"I have a VERY bad feeling about this..." Yuugi muttered to himself as he pounded his head against the desk. For the past two weeks, Bakura had caused nothing but trouble for Yuugi, Ryou, their friends, and the rest of the class.

Just remembering the lecture that he had given to the history teacher for messing up on ONE small little detail on ancient Egypt made Yuugi want to whimper in fear of what Yami might do. After all, Yami had been a Pharaoh in ancient Egypt. He might not be able to remember much (if anything at all), but still remembering a little was still worse than remembering nothing at all. What if Yami and Bakura banded together against the history teacher?! Yuugi's head pounding intensified.

"Yami, please go and sit next to Yuugi, Ryou, and Bakura. I'm sure that if you and Bakura have any questions, your relatives would be able to answer your questions. So, now that that is settled, let's move on to today's lessons. Everyone have their new schedule?" A few nods, a few groans, and Yuugi's head pounding was her answer. Taking this for confirmation, the teacher nodded and pointed towards the door. "Well, second period will start in just a couple of minutes. So go and get your books and good luck for the rest of the day."

Many of the students sighed in defeat, but all picked up their book bags, their lunches, and their books and made their way slowly out of the door. The students that weren't done with their homework scrambled to finish it as fast as they possibly could.

"Yami, WHY exactly are you here?" Yuugi asked in a defeated voice as he and his yami (followed closely by Ryou and HIS yami) made their way out of the door and to their lockers. "Don't you realize that without the revenue that we're getting from the Game Shop, we would be homeless and living on the streets?"

Yami sighed and rolled his eyes, taking a couple of books from Yuugi's arms so he wouldn't be forced to carry so many. Bakura watched his and sniffed in disdain. HIS aibou didn't need his help. The only thing HIS aibou needed was to learn to stand up to bullies. That was all HIS aibou needed to learn. But HIS aibou didn't need anyone to help him carry books.

"Yes, Yuugi. I DO realize that without the Game Shop, we would be on the streets. But, like I said, no one goes to the Shop during the day. It's deserted. Besides, you need me here at your school. Why didn't you tell me that you were being picked on again?"

"Anou..." Yuugi trailed off and looked down at his feet. "I guess...I guess I just didn't want to worry you, is all. I don't want you to get hurt because of me, Yami."

Yami looked at Yuugi, his crimson eyes dark while scrutinizing his aibou. "Are you SURE that's the only reason why you didn't want to tell me, hikari?"

"...hai, Yami..."

Bakura snorted and Ryou sighed. ~You do realize that your hikari just lied to you, right, Pharaoh no Baka? And about something as important as his well-being. Ryou and Yuugi both know what we are here for and they know how important their safety is to us. They are, after all, _ours._ You must punish him, Pharaoh, for lying to you.~ Bakura thought at Yami.

It wasn't done often (After all, why WOULD they want to talk to each other??), but the yamis were able to communicate to each other telepathically, somewhat similar to how they talked with their aibous...and yet different.

~Yes, I DO realize that, Tomb Robber no Bakamono. But I know that Yuugi only lies because he cares about me and he truly doesn't want to see me hurt. Why do you think that Ryou hates to call you when he's in trouble?~

~Because he knows that I will beat him for it.~

~I always knew that you were dumb, Tomb Robber, but not THIS dumb.~

~What do you mean by THAT?!~

~Stop asking me questions, Tomb Robber, and start asking yourself those same questions. It might take you a couple millennia, but I'm sure you'll still be able to _eventually_ find the answers...Bakura.~

After that, Bakura fell silent, lost in his own thoughts. Even Ryou, who was able to usually read Bakura extremely well, couldn't tell what his yami was thinking. 'Do I even want to?' he asked himself while looking at Bakura out of the corner of his eyes. The answer scared him a bit: Yes, he did.

Yami finally broke the silence by looking at his hikari and asking, "So, Yuugi, what's our second period class? Government, Economics, Humanities, Ancient History? Nani?"

Ryou and Yuugi exchanged a glance and winced. Their 'cousin' and 'older brother' wouldn't be liking the class that they had next. World Literature.

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"What the hell is this?!" Bakura growled as he stared at his textbook. He knew hieroglyphics (enough of them, anyway...), and he was just beginning to learn English and Japanese. Now he was presented with THIS?! ...what was this, anyway?

Ryou winced while Yuugi plugged his ears. Yami just stared blankly at the book. For one of the VERY few times, Yami agreed wholeheartedly with Bakura. What WAS this???

"This, Bakura, is World Literature. In World Literature, we study a lot of the world's literature...even the really old ones written in Old, Middle, and New English. What you are looking at right now is Beowulf. Next chapter we'll be doing Chaucer, Shakespeare, Eliot, Frost, Confucious, and a _lot_ more authors. Next week we'll also be doing "Eternity."* It's a short story, and it's a fast read. Who knows? You might like it."

Yami and Bakura shared a glance. "What's for next period?" Yami asked cautiously while Bakura poked his textbook as if it might bite. (He could have sworn that it almost did, but he was able to move his finger out of the way in time!!)

It was time for Yuugi and Ryou to share a glance. Yuugi answered this time. "Next period is Chemistry and then Calculus."

"What's that?" Bakura and Yami asked at the same instant. They threw each other dirty looks, but then returned their attention to their aibous.

"Just...stuff," Ryou answered.

"Yeah...stuff," Yuugi added. The quickly looked at each other; and, though the two hikaris weren't able to communicate telepathically, their look said it all: 'I think we're in trouble. MAJOR trouble.'

After all, the Chemistry Lab had Bunsen Burners. Bunsen Burners had fire. Chemistry had chemicals. And, if mixed correctly (or by sheer dumb luck), those afore mentioned chemicals could become explosive.

And...they had Bakura with them.

Needless to say, they were all going to die.



A/N: * "Eternity"--::shameless self-plug:: Anyway, this fic was my VERY FIRST fluffy fic and my very first Yu-Gi-Oh! shounen-ai fic. I'm _very_ proud of it. If you have time, I recommend that you go and read it! Everyone who has read it has loved it. So I guess that that is a good sign, ne? ^_^

LOL! Anyways, I just wondered if anyone got my little joke. (Probably not, but oh, well! ^_^;;) If you read Bakura's name in the traditional Japanese way (in my fic I have it Bakura Yami, so just switch the last name and the first name around) and add a 'no' to it, it'll read: Yami no Bakura. Darkness of Bakura. ... *waits for people's reactions* ... Eh, at least I found it funny. I bet LOTS of people found it funny! ^_____^

Bakura: You were also on a sugar rush when you wrote this, baka. AND typing this chapter out after one a.m. on a Sunday night. You are SUCH an imbecile and a baka.

Don't 'baka' me, you baka!

~*and the two fight it out...again*~

Yami: Anou... Anyway, Neko-chan hopes you enjoyed this chapter and if you want her to continue, please review! She loves reading what everyone has to say about her story and she's really proud that this is her first chapter fic that deals with yaoi.and shounen-ai AND is also getting such great reviews. She's kinda busy right now *glances over at the fistfight*, but I know that she wants me to mention how much she loves each and every one of you! Without you, she would have never updated this fic and left it at chapter one. (She's lazy like that...) So see you in chapter five! Ja ne! ^_~

~~~~Oh, and if the first person who could give me Yami's "Mind Crush/Obliterate" attack in Japanese, I'd be VERY grateful to him/her. So grateful, in fact, that I might let them chose a FLUFFY moment for later on in the fic. (Just no lemons or limes, please! I don't think I'm quite yet ready for those. ^_^;;...)



Translations:

ja ne: "See ya later!"

hentai: disgusting, perverted, etc.

no: 'of'

anou: 'ummmm' or 'errrrrr'

bakamono: stupid, dumb, idiot (just another form of 'baka')