Me: Okay ladies and gents, a little time skip here, mostly because nothing big happened that needed to be wrote about. In case some of you were wondering, Yami and Bakura are older than Yugi and Ryou, and are one grade higher than them. And as always, I do not own YGO or anything pertaining to it.

To lemerly: Lol, glad you enjoyed it, I laughed so hard at that part too! XD

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To blueeyesdarkmagic: Wow you have a long screen name XD Lol but anyway! I'm working on getting the chapters longer :P It's just I run out of things to circle around that one thought so I just end the chapter XD they are beginning to stay into the 1,000-2,000 word range ^w^ So I am improving. Theres just those few chapters that turn out to be only 800-900 words, but I'm working on them. I actually go back and revise a bunch of chapters, making them at least 500 words longer XD BUT! I am glad that you enjoyed that last chapter :) It was my favorite ^w^

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This was the original first chapter, and while I changed a few things, I didn't really change much XD Like I probably should have. So, if anything seems weird, that is why. Why are ppl complaining about the length of this story? This story contains mostly long chapters that goes to almost 3000 words... XD

The Darkest Light

Chapter 4

Feelings

Two Weeks Later

"Yami! Bakura! You two are late! Let's go!" Isis yelled up the stairs. She yelped and barely got out of the way as the two boys came running down the stairs, fully dressed and ready to go.

"Bye mom! Gotta go!" Yami yelled back as they ran out the door.

"Be careful!" Isis yelled as the boys rounded the corner on their way to school.

They weren't too worried about being late for their first class, it was gym afterall, and they had it with under classmen. They didn't mind the younger students though, they made them laugh, and looked up to them. Well, maybe not them in particular, considering how they've been late almost every day. They'd been in detention more times than the school's worst bully Ushio, and school had only just begun! "We are so late!" Yami yelled, panting as they sprinted towards the school.

"Shut up and run!" Bakura yelled back.

"You realize this is your fault right?!"

"Oh cram it! Just keep going!"

"Bakura watch out for that car!"

Bakura turned his head back around and jumped, his hands landing on the hood of the car so he could hand spring to the other side. Yami chuckled as the car stopped, causing him to have to spring over the hood as well. "You damn kids!" The driver yelled, shaking his fist at the two boys.

"Sorry!" Yami yelled back as they continued sprinting.

"I'm not" Bakura yelled back, causing Yami to chuckle.

"Why am I not surprised that Sennen and Imado are late?" The gym teacher sighed. The other students shrugged, waiting for the troublesome twosome to show up so they could start class.

"Where do you think they are?" Ryou whispered to Yugi.

"I dunno. They've been getting later and later" Yugi whispered back.

The teacher began walking towards the door a few feet away when it decided to bust open. Bakura skidded to a stop just as he was a foot from the gym teacher. Unfortunately Yami didn't notice Bakura stop, and ran into him, causing the two of them to topple over on the floor. Yami looked up and smiled sheepishly at the gym teacher "Hey teach" Yami greeted.

"Don't hey teach me Sennen. Both of you, go get changed!"

The two of them scrambled and tripped over each other to get to the changing rooms. Today they had to do an obstacle course, one that included a rock wall. Yami and Bakura were great at it though, so they weren't worried.

Two other students however were kind of scared of this rock wall. It was so high, and the rocks were spread out weird. Yugi was short, so it was sometimes hard for him to keep up with the rest of his classmates. Ryou was afraid of heights, but the teacher told him to face his fears, and climb anyway.

Yugi and Ryou weren't very muscular, they'd never been ones to really work out, nor result to violence at all for that matter. They looked up to the upper classmen like every other junior did, but they felt something different towards Yami and Bakura. It was like something was calling them, leading them towards those two. When they were scared, images of those guys would pop up in their minds. They never came, but they were the ones they counted on to save them.

None of them knew why they were attracted to each other, but instead of going and talking to them about it, they decided to ignore it and continue on like nothing was wrong.

"Okay class, since these two slackers wanted to be late" the teacher said motioning towards Yami and Bakura, who just chuckled at their teachers teasing tone. "They'll be going through the obstacle course first."

"Aw c'mon teach, we're not that bad" Yami said chuckling when his teacher turned and glared at him.

"Well, I'm not that bad, Yami on the other hand..." Bakura trailed off, laughing loudly when Yami turned and narrowed his eyes at him.

"Okay you two slackers, rock wall first, then shuffle through the tires, climb the ropes to get over the wall, stay on your stomachs under the net and jump the bar to the mat at the end."

"Yeah yeah, we know what to do" Yami said waving his hand around. As they walked towards the starting line, Yami and Bakura looked at each other, a smirk crossing their faces, nodding in a silent agreement.

"Last one there buys the winner lunch?" Bakura asked holding out his hand for Yami to shake.

"You've got it" Yami chuckled shaking hands with Bakura. The two of them crouched down and waited for the whistle.

The rest of the class knew of their competitive streak, they also knew that unlike everyone else there, those two didn't use the safety harnesses for the rock wall, of course if they were to fall, it wouldn't do much other than break a bone or two, depending on how you landed, it wasn't very tall, and it went to a platform with a rope to slide down to the tires.

The whistle sounded and Yami and Bakura were up the wall. Yami was shorter than Bakura, but he also had long legs, so he was able to keep up with him. Unfortunately, for Bakura, Yami was a lot more skilled when it came to obstacles, he could hand spring over just about anything, plus, Yami was a really good parcore runner. Yami was across the tires and climbing the wall before Bakura was done with the tires. Yami jumped from the wall and rolled on the ground, staying low and crawling on his stomach under the net.

The ground was still wet from the rain they had recieved that weekend, so Yami was now covered in mud, but he didn't mind, he was still ahead. Bakura caught up when Yami stumbled from all the mud and the two of them ran towards the bar together. Bakura slid, falling on his butt, so instead of jumping over the bar, he slid under it. Yami turned and jumped over it, rolling off the mat and falling on his butt on the other side. He crawled around the mat and looked at Bakura before the two of them broke out into laughter.

The two of them were covered head to toe in mud, Yami had a spot around his right eye, and a line of mud down his left cheek, along with a patch of mud on his chin. Bakura had a spot on the left of his forehead, his nose was nothing but mud, and his cheeks had speckles on them from the mud. Bakura picked up a handful of mud and smeared it in Yami's face, Yami shook his head and splattered the mud all over Bakura, causing them to fall over in a fit of laughter once again. "Okay you two, hit the showers, and pack up your clothes, have them washed and back here tomorrow."

"Yes sir" the two of them chuckled as they stood up. The coach started the others on the obstacle course as they were walking away.

Yami suddenly froze on his way to the showers, he had a strange feeling in his stomach, someone was in trouble, or about to be in trouble. "Yami?" Bakura waved his hand in front of Yami's face, a worried expression on his face after noticing the look in Yami's eyes. It was like Yami wasn't even there anymore.

Yami turned around, he sensed danger, but it was like, it hadn't even happened yet. He looked at the rock wall, Yugi and his brother Ryou were climbing up, nothing looked out of place. A creaking sounded through the air, causing him to look up. The metal wheel holding the rope on Yugi's side was creaking, the screw had come loose. Yami's eyes widened and before anyone could question him, the screw came out and Yugi started falling. Yami ran forward as fast as he could, jumping in the air, catching Yugi, and the two of them went sliding across the ground.

Yugi had his eyes squeezed shut, trembling like a leaf and waiting for the impact. He felt arms wrap around him protectively, then he was sliding. Once they stopped moving Yugi opened his eyes and looked up to a pair of searching crimson red eyes. The eyes stopped looking around and looked down at him softening once they saw the terrified look in Yugi's eyes. A small but friendly smile went across Yami's face as he looked at Yugi, Yugi grinned back and for some odd reason the two of them started laughing. They didn't know what was so funny, but they needed the laugh. The other classmates ran over to them. "Are you two okay?" The teacher asked, holding the other students back while he checked on the two on the ground.

"I think so" Yami said standing up. He stood up and helped Yugi up, who was now, also covered in mud. "Sorry about getting you muddy" Yami told Yugi.

"Don't be sorry, you saved me. I could've easily been hurt from that fall." Yugi wrapped his arms around Yami's middle "Thank you."

Yami smiled and put his arms around Yugi "You're welcome."

"Okay, you guys go get cleaned u- Ryou?! What happened to you?" The teacher asked turning and noticing Ryou covered in mud as well.

"I fell on my bum trying to get over there" Ryou said in his adorable british accent.

The teacher facepalmed and sent the four boys to get cleaned up. It wasn't until Yami walked forward that he noticed how bad his leg hurt and fell to the ground wincing. "Yami!" Yugi turned and faced Yami as he fell.

"I'm okay" He winced and looked at his leg, on the outside of his right leg was a cut that was bleeding everywhere. "Must've hit a rock" he hissed as he stood up and started limping towards the showers. A trail of blood followed along behind Yami as he limped towards the showers, wincing every time he put pressure on his right leg. He sat on a bench inside the changing rooms to take a break from his leg. It was so weird that it didn't hurt when it happened, but now it was burning, of course it was a lot more than just a mere scratch, but it hadn't gone to the bone or anything, just deep enough to bleed everywhere.

Yami's eyes widened a little when a small hand came down in front of his face. He looked up to see Yugi standing there with a smile. "C'mon, we should really get that washed off before it gets infected." Yami smiled and put his hand up, his fingertips grazed Yugi's palm before he grabbed Yugi's lower arm, pulling himself up.

"Thanks" Yami said smiling.

"Don't thank me yet. I have a feeling you're not gonna be thanking me when it's time to clean that leg."

Yami sighed and his face dropped "Yeah. Probably not."

Yugi giggled and helped Yami limp towards the shower, once he was sure Yami was okay he walked away, giving Yami his privacy, but not before he lectured Yami about making sure to clean his leg.

Yami winced as he washed his leg "Damn" he cursed under his breath. He used his hand to wipe away the mud that surrounded the wound, he grimaced when he saw just how big and deep the cut really was.

Once he was cleaned up, Yami stood and limped towards the changing room, a towel wrapped around his waist, his hair slicked back as always, and water droplets still on his chest from the shower. He sat back down on the bench, breathing slowly to calm himself down. "That looks really bad." Yami turned towards Yugi who was walking towards him with a first aid kit.

"Nah. Not as bad as it looks. It'll be okay, at least I don't need stitches."

"Well, you're a lot braver than I am" Yugi sighed as he kneeled down beside Yami to take care of his leg. Yugi took out a disinfectant spray "This may sting a little bit" Yugi warned.

"Alright, go ahead" Yami said grimacing and hissing in pain as Yugi sprayed it on the cut.

"Sorry" Yugi said wincing as he watched the disinfectant bubble a little.

"It's okay. Just stings is all." Yami attempted a smile but was cut short when pain shot through his leg.

Yugi put the disinfectant spray away and put an ointment on the cut. "This is probably going to scar."

"Yeah, probably" Yami shrugged "Won't be my first scar, sure the heck won't be my last."

Yugi giggled and pulled out a wrap of gauze. He clipped it after winding it around Yami's leg and put the rest in the first aid kit. "There you go" Yugi said cheerfully.

"Thanks."

Yugi started laughing "At least you won't have to get your leg cut off from the infection."

Yami smiled sheepishly and scratched the back of his head "Way to look at the positives Yugi."

"Ya know. You don't look at the positives you'll drown in the negatives" Yugi said, noticing a sad look in Yami's eyes, it was like he was just painting on that smile. It wasn't real. "Are you okay?"

"Huh?" Yami shook his head to clear his thoughts "Oh, yeah I'm fine. Sorry, spaced out there."

Yugi smiled sadly at Yami "Well, I should uh, let you get dressed. Class ends in ten minutes."

"Yeah. Thanks again." Yugi walked away allowing Yami to dry off and get dressed. Yami was definantly not looking forward to the rest of the school day.

Me: Okay, theres the end of the 4th chapter. I'm sorry if this story isn't captivating so far, BUT! It will get better. I'm just experimenting right now :) Until next time! *waves* Goodbye! :)