The rest of the day had gone by in a blur for Yami, he was unsure of what he was supposed to do now. He was not about to go to Terry and thank her for the needed insight. He was no longer obligated to apologize for Anzu again either. Though, some part of him was against his silence. He was her boyfriend at the time. It was only right that he apologize. He shook it off though as he headed off to pickup his younger brother from school. The sight of the smiling ball of energy easily wiped away any worries and distracted him from the hectic day. He only prayed it was over.

As they walked home, Yugi animatedly spoke about his day with Mokuba and the fact that the class found him and Seto super awesome. It was a dead tie to see whose brother was better, but Yugi insisted it was his own repeatedly in his recap. The repetition and praise gave the teenager a much needed ego boost.

Thanks Yugi, he ruffled his brothers hair as they sat on the train home and soon came up the shop that made up the front first floor of their house. "We're home," Yami called out.

"We're back!" Yugi excitedly chimed as he kicked off his shoes and ran but instantly stopped and back tracked. He had noticed how his older brother put his own shoes away so to be more like him Yugi began to be a little more tidy as well. He quickly slipped his shoes right next to wear Yami put his own and grinned at his brother before he dashed to the kitchen and found their mother who had welcomed them home from the kitchen. He sauntered after Yugi and greeted his mom with as smile before he patted his grandfather on the shoulder.

"How was school?" She asked sweetly, but before Yami could say to not talk about it Yugi had pulled out a drawing from his backpack and hopped in place as he tried to bring it to his mother's eye level.

"I drew this for you!"

"Oh why thank you Yugi, it's lovely!"

"I'm gonna go wash up and relax a bit. I had something on the way to pick up Yugi so I'm not that hungry." Yami cut in quickly as Yugi ran to show off to his grandfather who approved of the art as well.

"Oh ok sweetie, I'll leave a plate for you wrapped in the fridge in case you get hungry later OK?" She smiled at her son, able to tell something was off but she was not about to cause a fight. He was a young adult now and she had to let him come to her when he felt he needed to. She cupped his cheek in her hand and simply smiled at him warmly. It was times like these that she wished her husband was still alive. He would have been perfect for these tasks.

With a soft thank you, Yami retired to his room and plopped on to his bed after he stripped down to his underwear. The stress of today finally hit him and fatigue took over. The world slowly became black as his eyelids drooped shut and sleep took over. The next thing he knew, there was a consistent knocking at his door and he groaned in irritation.

"Atem sweetie, you're cutting it close to missing school. Yugi even left ahead of you." He heard his mother's voice call from the other side of the room. He was instantly snapped back to reality by the news of Yugi going to school alone. That was new.

"What do you mean he left without me?!" He asked hurriedly as he started to get dressed for school. "He can't go all that way alone! Why didn't you guys wake me?" He shouted as he hopped around and fumbled in to some semblance of appropriate clothing in his mind. Without a word he had ran out of the house and off in the direction of the school.

"We tried to wake you! Mokuba was waiting for him supposedly!" She shouted out after him as he ran and she sighed to herself. "Honestly, boys." She shook her head with a small smile.

"They will be what they are." Her father in-law answered with a chuckle and she sighed with a small shrug as the two went out to set up the shop for the day.

Meanwhile Atem flipped open his phone and dialed a number. He impatiently tapped his toe as he heard the ringing tone. "Pick-up dammit, you know I don't call for now reason!" He growled to himself. Thank fucking you! "Yo Seto, do you have Yugi?" He hurriedly asked as soon as he heard someone picked up.

"No, why would I?" An irritated voice answered him back.

"My mom said he went to go meet up with Mokuba. I didn't wake up in time to take him to school." He explained. "Skip the jokes and tell me, is he there with Mokuba?" He heard sigh on the other side and waited, the silence was deafening almost as he awaited good news. None came however. All he heard was Seto yelling about where his own brother was and snapped at some guards for not stopping him from leaving on his own.

"I'm going to get a search party and go look myself."

"I'll let you know if I spot 'em." Yami answered and hung up. He shoved through the crowd at the station and began his mad dash to find the missing boys. What the fuck was he thinking? He skid around the corner, noting a classmate but he was not about to stop his mission. Yugi was more important than any image he had or any bone he had to pick with someone. He came to a near crashing halt however when he heard two familiar voices not too far off. Yugi! He suddenly ran back in the direction he heard the voices and scrambled around the alleys but was stopped by the sight of none other than Terry and Jonouchi in her grasp. She ran passed him with a grin almost as she leaped through the air and Jonouchi stumbled behind her. Soon a gang of thugs was hot on their tail. What the fuck? He thought and turned to look down the alley where they came from and saw his brother and Mokuba a little dirty but safe.

The blood pounding in his ears finally began to settle as his panic slipped away and relief took its place. He ran up to them and hugged them tight. He was not worried about what happened at the moment. All that mattered was he found them. He quickly shot Seto a text about the boys and where they were located at the moment.

"You two got some serious explaining to do! For now we wait for Seto." He scolded the two, clenching his jaw to keep from cursing his life away. The two looked down apologetically before they latched on to Yami who slipped to the ground and leaned back against the building. Goddamn way to shave years off my life!

It was not long before Seto found them and he grabbed up his own brother in a tight embrace. "What the hell happened?" He demanded from Yami who stood up and dusted himself off. Fully recovered, he was able to speak more normally.

"I don't know, I was waiting for you before I asked." He said and looked at the two boys.

"W-well you both are always dropping us off and we know you're busy so we figured we'd try and go to school ourselves." Yugi explained. "You've been working late after school and you didn't even eat dinner yesterday on your night off."

"You were working late too and then were busy in a meeting. It didn't look like you would be able to drop me off this morning...so I called Yugi and we figured the two of us could manage." Mokuba spoke up finally.

"Why was Jonouchi and that girl here? Who were those guys chasing them?" Yami asked bluntly.

"They were some bullies! They wanted out lunch and whatever money we had!" Yugi puffed his cheeks in anger. "They grabbed Mokuba cause they could tell who he was and I kicked the guy in the shin!" He said proudly and Yami was unsure of how to react to that.

"They grabbed us both then and cornered us! They were totally going to wail on us when suddenly this girl called out after them and threw a rock at 'em! Next thing we knew, they forgot all about us and chased her and she grabbed Jonuochi with her."

"Do you remember what they look like?" Seto asked Yami, both unamused by this turn of events.

"Yeah, you take these two to school and I'll find out about those asswipes." He muttered to Seto and looked to Yugi. "I'mma head to my school now. Seto and Mokuba will take you to school. We'll talk about this later." He ruffled his brother's hair with the best smile he could muster at the moment. He looked up at his brother, eased by the smile and nodded his head. He ran up next to Mokuba and the two gushed to Seto about how cool the mystery girl was. Yami picked up his bag and turned down the way he had seen them run. He managed to find them trio. "So you decided to pick on my brother and his best friend, you must have death wishes." He smirked darkly as he stepped in their path. The already fatigued and ego bruised band of hoodlums looked at him and scoffed at first but froze in fear at the cold look in his eyes.

They lunged at him in hopes to overpower him, but he easily used their fatigue against them as well as his own great strength to squash them on the spot. The fight that ensued was not long and the trio that had attacked was scattered along the alley panting and beat up.

"I better not hear you shitheads messed with them again...or I'll really rearrange your screwed faces so bad your mothers would kick your asses out." He growled and walked out of the alley. A few scrapes and a bruised cheek were his valiant medals, but his mind was busy with other things to even register the pain. Terry had managed to aid him again. He hated owing people any favors, regardless of them knowing or not. He would straighten these odds out as soon as he could. This girl was crawling in to his life like some stray cat and it irked him. He knew nothing about her and wanted nothing to do with her. He already broke up with Anzu because of her, now she saved his brother from a gang of teens who could have done anything to his brother.

He looked up at the gates of his school and the voices and what could have been scenarios when silent in his head. He could already hear her mockery and superior complex of him owing her for all this. Just apologize and do what she says so long as it's reasonable. If she pulls crap, just walk away. She's a new kid. A no-body. He stepped through the threshold and headed to his classroom after he stopped by the infirmary. He stood in front of the room door, his hand hesitant to open the door it seemed when an arm shot out from behind him and slid it open. He turned to see Seto walking in to the room and taking his seat. He had sent the info of the goons to the CEO not too long ago. Yami knew Seto had handled it from there after him. He sauntered in after him and stared at Terry. She finally seemed to look up at him and he squared his shoulders. "You, me, rooftop, lunch." He said bluntly. She pointed at herself and he snorted to himself.

"Me?"

"Yeah, you. Rooftop at lunch. Alone." He had seen her stare at him owlishly, blinking in utter confusion as the classroom filled with whispers. The look was somewhat cute as his mouth twitched in to a quick smile as he turned and took his seat and the teacher was able to take control of the class once again. That should be good enough. I'll ask her if it was her and go from there. He noted Anzu was staring at him but he ignored her as he took his seat and stared out the window into the courtyard. There was a dull pain in his chest, but he figured that was from the kick one had managed. He was not going to swell on Anzu.