Author's Note
Heart: Another chapter down! I'm so happy to see that some of you have already favorited the story! Currently, we are working on the continuation chapters so hopefully we'll be able to get them out soon!
Evil: …. We don't own YuGiOh… Though we wish too…..
Heart: Back to work sis! We need those chapters soon!
Chapter Four: Relationships.
Yugi awoke to someone shaking her, "Yugi. Yugi, wake up!"
"What is it, Jaden?" she mumbled as she sat up, the events of yesterday still plaguing her mind.
Jaden's face became bright red, "I-I was wondering i-if I could talk to you now." he said almost sheepishly.
Yugi smiled, hiding the pain throbbing in her chest as she swung her legs over the side of the bed and gestured for him to sit down. When the boy had made himself comfortable, she turned to him, "So, what did you want to talk about?"
"U-Um... I was wondering... what a girl would like?" Jaden mumbled, blushing more than ever.
Yugi looked at him, confused, "What do you mean?"
Jaden shrugged and looked at the floor, "You know... What would you get f-for the g-girl you l-like?"
Yugi smiled, "AWWW! You like some..." Jaden quickly placed his hands over his sister's mouth, blushing redder than a tomato.
"Yes, I like someone." he hissed, "I just need some advice... You know?"
Yugi quickly nodded, "I get you, but I'm going to have to know about this girl, what are her interests, her hobbies, you know, the general stuff."
"D-Do I have to tell you?"
Yugi nodded, "If you want me to help you, I need to know who she is."
Jaden took a deep breath, "W-Well, her name is Chazz..."
"Chazz? Isn't that a guy's name?"
"Yeah, it is, but it's what her parents called her. Chazz Princeton, she's in my year. She... um... has black hair and black eyes and wears nothing but black."
"Sounds like a goth to me..."
"Yeah, that's what I thought at first, but she became my lab partner a few weeks ago, and I started to get to know her. She really likes dueling and she's really smart and she always sticks up for herself."
"She sounds pretty cool to me, so why do you need my help?" Yugi asked, not quite getting why he would need help with a girl he already knew.
"The thing is she won't talk to me. I say hi and smile and everything, but she hardly ever talks to me and when she does, it's usually an insult."
Yugi nodded, "I see, so it's like that." Yugi placed her chin in her hands as she spoke her thoughts, "Well, I'm not sure if it'll work..."
"Please! I just want to talk to her!" Jaden begged almost desperately.
Yugi smiled at her brother, "Just be you."
Jaden stared at her as if she'd gone nuts, "W-WHAT?"
Yugi looked down at Jaden and shook her head, "Listen, wouldn't you prefer for the girl you like to fall for you and not some front you put up when she's around? Think about it, let her get to know the real you, be happy, be funny, be yourself. Talk about things you like, not random things she likes that you have no knowledge about. If you don't understand something, ask her. There is no reason for you to pretend to be someone you're not when you go looking for someone to love you for who you are." Yugi waited for her brother to answer, but upon hearing nothing, she got worried, "Did that help, or..."
"Thanks, Yugi!" said Jaden as he smiled up at his blind sister, "That really helped!"
Yugi smiled, "Glad to hear it!"
Jaden quickly got up from where he had been sitting and took Yugi by surprise by hugging her, "Love you, sis!" and with that, Jaden left the room.
Yugi's simple faded along with the footsteps that echoed along the hall, "Glad I could help." she sighed as she went into the bathroom to get cleaned up for the day. About thirty minutes later, Yugi was back to doing her homework from the day before, but her mind was other places half the time that almost none of it was getting done. Over an hour later, Yugi sat back in her chair and let out a long sigh, 'This just isn't right. They should have told me about...' Yugi's thoughts were cut off by the doorbell. Listening intently, Yugi heard her father greet someone, two someones, and both voices were unfamiliar to her.
The heavy thud of feet falling on the stairs alerted Yugi that her father was on his way up. As quickly as she could, Yugi cleaned up a little, turned off her music and fixed her hair as much as she could. "Yugi!" The gruff voice came from behind the door, "You need to meet our guests, come out." it wasn't and option. Yugi walked out the door only to have her arm grabbed to be dragged down the stairs. "This is my daughter, Yugi." said Gozobouro as they entered the front entrance. "This is what we talked about last night." whispered the old man as he led her toward the two other people in the room.
Yugi bowed slightly when their walking came to a stop. "Um... Hello." she mumbled as she looked down.
"Hi." A friendly voice spoke from a person standing opposite the teen, causing her to look up sharply.
"Yugi, I would like you to meet your fiance, Duke Devlin." said Gozerburo's gruff voice, but Yugi hardly heard his tone, only the word fiance.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Yugi." came the same, cheerful voice.
"Um... same here." Yugi replied in utter confusion.
If Yugi could see, she would have gasped. The young man, no older than seventeen, who was talking with her was, by many girl's definitions, gorgeous. He was tall, had long black hair tied up in a ponytail, bottle green eyes and a smile that would make any girl swoon. Duke was also wearing a simple pair of dark blue pants and a collared white shirt with a navy blue jacket thrown loosely over top with black and white converse on his feet.
The man sitting beside him, on the other hand, was nothing pretty to look at. He was a tall man; he wore a gray, pinstriped suit with gray and balding hair, not as pleasant green eyes, and a hardened face from many years of an almost constant frown. The two men looked as different at two men could be, and yet, if anyone looked at them, you could easily see the similar characteristics.
"Yugi." barked her father, surprising her, "Would you like to show young Duke around the house while his father and I have a little chat." once again, it was not an option, but Yugi treated it like one.
"Of course, father." And with that, the young man by the name of Duke and Yugi walked down the hall toward the main house.
The two teens walked in silence except for Yugi showing Duke the rooms or other things. After a while, the tour was done and the two of them stood in the hallway awkwardly. "Um..." began Duke, hoping to break the silence and hopefully get a conversation going with his fiancé."Do you have anything you want to do?" he asked, still not sure how to go about this sudden meeting.
Yugi looked up to where the voice originated and smiled, "You're the guest, are you not?"
Duke laughed, "Yes, but I don't think it's appropriate to just walk around, doing as I please just because I'm a guest."
Yugi nodded, still unsure of what she should be doing. Yugi was starting to get nervous, and in getting nervous, she did the one thing that comforted her, she started singing, or rather, humming. The tune of "Concrete Angel" by Martina McBride almost instantly passed her lips before she could even notice. For just under a minute, Yugi hummed along to an unheard song as she started rocking her head slightly.
"I take it you like music." said Duke with an unseen smile, taking Yugi off guard.
Yugi's face turned a bright shade of red and instantly stopped humming, "U-Umm... you could say that... You do know of my... ah... disability, right?" The older teen gave a slight mumble signifying a yes. "Ever since I... I lost my sight, I've been addicted to music. It's one of the very few things that keep me sane to tell you the truth."
Duke stared at the girl, not knowing what to say, he had never thought she would share something so personal with him after knowing him for little more than an hour. Unknown to Duke, Yugi's arms were having the same tickly sensation that she commonly got and frowned, "Now, there's no need for you to stare at me, is there?"
Duke blinked, "How did you... never mind." he said, dropping the subject. "Do you play any instruments?... Oh.. Ah.. Ignore me." he said a little too quickly. 'I'm such an idiot!' he yelled in his mind, 'Of course she can't! She's blind.'
"Yeah, a few." said Yugi, completely unfazed by the question.
"Huh?"
"I know piano, guitar, a little flute and my singing isn't too bad, that's about it."
"But, how? You're blind."
Yugi smiled, "Just because I'm blind doesn't mean I can't learn. You know, it's true what they say, your other senses do get better when you lose one. I had really good hearing since I was born, but it only got stronger when I lost my sight, so I taught myself music 'cause every music teacher I went to say the same thing you just said."
Duke stared at his bride-to-be. "OK. I believe you. But I'm going to have to see this for myself."
Yugi smiled, "Suit yourself. Follow me." Yugi lead Duke down the hall back toward the stairs and down them. Yugi showed her fiancé toward the small library that was off the main sitting room where the voices of both fathers could be heard. After entering the library, Yugi quickly shut the door while explaining to Duke that she didn't want to disrupt the two men in the other room. After she had closed the door, she walked to the back of the library to another door, one that Duke had not been previously shown, a music room.
The small room was nothing but glass, as if it was built of the house long after it had been built, the floor as a beautiful gray and white marble while the only wall that connected this room to the rest of the house was also painted white. The room's main point was a large white grand piano sitting in the middle while along some of the walls were music stands and amps as well as three guitars hanging from hooks on the non-windowed wall.
"Pull up a seat." Yugi said as she gestured to the white leather love seat that was pressed up against the nearest glass wall. Duke walked over to the seat and got comfortable as Yugi walked over to the piano and fingered the keys gently as to not make any noise. "What song would you like me to play?" she asked as she sat down before the piano.
"I don't mind, the one you were humming would work fine." Yugi nodded and started to feel around for the keys she needed, "But before you start," started Duke, causing Yugi to look up sharply, "would you like to take off your glasses?"
Yugi smiled, and without a word, started to play the song, playing once through the chorus before starting on the actual song. Duke sat on the couch as the notes played through the room, filling it with the beautiful piano. He was a little hurt that she hadn't taken off the glasses like he had asked, but in the end, it didn't matter. Duke looked up and he saw Yugi, but he was surprised at what she was doing. She was leaning over the piano as if in a trance, and then a new sound filled the room, playing along with the piano, was her voice, hitting the notes that had him hanging on to her every word.
"She walks to school with the lunch she packed
Nobody knows what she's holding back
Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday
She hides the bruises with the linen and lace, oh
The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask
It's hard to see the pain behind the mask
Bearing the burden of a secret storm
Sometimes she wishes she was never born
Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place
Where she's loved concrete angel
Somebody cries in the middle of the night
The neighbors hear but they turn out the light
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate
When morning comes it will be too late
Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place
Where she's loved concrete angel
A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot
Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place
Where she's loved concrete angel"
The sound of piano slowly died out, leaving the room once again in silence, that is until Duke spoke up. "Wow! That was amazing!" he stated as he started clapping, and with the echo in the room, it sounded like a thousand people.
Yugi blushed scarlet as she stood up from the piano, "It wasn't that good."
Duke shook his head, "Are you kidding me, of course it was! You must be the best musician I know!"
Yugi smiled up at the young man, "Thank you." Not long after, the two parents came in the room to find them chatting away on the love seat, not even noticing they had company. After an ear full from both parents for ignoring them, Duke and his father left the house, promising to be back soon. Yugi smiled and waved as the car drove off, only turning inside when she knew they had turned the corner. 'I think I'm going to like him.' she stated in her head as she walked up stairs to her bedroom to finish the home work that had once again been left until last minute. "Not again." she moaned as she sat down at her laptop to get to work, unknowing of the fact that thousands of people were staring at her in awe as she sang in the deserted classroom of Domino High.