I changed chapter 3 a little. I changed what was wrong with Yugi, so please go back and read the new version.
Chapter 7- Too Far
Yugi got dressed into the smart school uniform and grabbed his backpack before heading downstairs. He fund that Seto was already eating. "Where's Mokuba?" Yugi asked.
Seto sighed. "I told him to get up half an hour ago. I hope he didn't fall back asleep." Seto said.
"I didn't." a grumpy voice said.
Yugi and Seto looked to see Mokuba standing in his own school uniform, rubbing his eyes.
"Mokuba, you'd better at breakfast. We need to be laving soon." Seto said.
Yugi sat down and started to eat breakfast.
Mokuba sat down and did the same.
"I won't be going to school today, Yugi. There's some things that I need to do at the office." Seto said.
"Okay. I'll see you after school." Yugi said.
"Yugi, do you think that you'll be all right with Yami and the others? They might try to pressure you with Seto not there." Mokuba said.
"I'll be fine. They're not going to be able to." Yugi said.
"If you need anything, just call me Yugi." Seto said.
Yugi nodded. "I'll be fine." Yugi assured them.
Yami and the others had gathered together before school started.
"I wonder if Yugi's back from Egypt." Tea said.
"I still can't figure out why he went with moneybags in the first place." Joey muttered.
"Hey. There's Yugi." Kyla said.
The group looked to see Yugi walking into the school gates.
"I wonder were Seto is. He usually walks with Yugi." Tristan said.
"You know, Seto tends to skip school days to work. I wonder if maybe Seto didn't come to school today." Ryou said.
"This would be the perfect opportunity to talk to Yugi." Yami said.
"Maybe I should talk to Yugi alone." Atemu said.
"Why?" Sayora asked.
"The last time we approached Yugi as a group, he let us have it. It'll be easier if only one of us talks to him." Atemu said.
"He's right. Yugi might respond better to just one person talking to him." Tea agreed.
"All right, but you had better tell us everything he says." Yami said.
"I will. I will." Atemu promised.
At break, Yugi sat on the roof again and did his homework that he had gotten in his previous class.
"Yugi."
Yugi looked up to see Atemu standing there. "What do you want, Atemu?" Yugi asked.
"I was hoping that I could talk to you." Atemu said.
"Atemu, I have said everything that I plan to about this situation. I don't feel like reiterating myself." Yugi said.
Atemu sat down beside Yugi and said, "I know, but you never made it real clear as to why you left."
"Atemu, you don't get it. I was unhappy there, and I got sick of it. Seto offered to let me stay with him, and I accepted it." Yugi said.
"Why Seto of all people, though? You have never been real close to him." Atemu said.
"I was real close to Mokuba, though. Mokuba is a god friend, and I like living there. Isn't that enough?" Yugi asked.
"No. Not really. You haven't given us one good reason as to why you moved out." Atemu said.
"Atemu, have you ever been completely ignored by everyone you considered a friend?" Yugi asked.
Atemu frowned. "No. I can't say that I have." Atemu said.
"Then you can't understand at all." Yugi said.
"Yugi, you're not making any sense." Atemu said.
"You want the truth. Fine. The truth is that I had to get away from every person in that house!" Yugi said.
Atemu's eyes widened. "Us? Why?" Atemu asked.
"Atemu, for the few weeks before I left, not one of you paid me a bit of attention. It was as if none of you knew I existed. I was alone and felt abandoned by the people who were supposed to be my friends! It took me moving out to get you to even notice me! Then you all come at me like I'm the one that did something wrong! You didn't; even notice what you had been doing to me!" Yugi shouted.
Atemu starred at him as he realized something. He and Yami had noticed. Too late. "Yugi. I-we-I-well." Atemu didn't know what to say.
"Don't bother trying to fix this because what you all did isn't something that can be excused, so do me a favor and leave me alone. It's not like you can take back what you did, even if you wanted to." Yugi said.
"Of course we'd want to." Atemu said.
"It's too late for that. Do you really think that it's that easy to make this up to me? I'm sorry, but I can't. Please. Just leave me alone, Atemu." Yugi said.
Atemu looked sadly at Yugi. He sighed and stood up. All right, Yugi. If you really want me to leave, then I will." Atemu said. He walked to the door and then turned around. "For what it's worth, Yugi, I am sorry." Atemu said. He left the roof.
Yugi clenched his eyes shut tight. He was upset, but surprisingly, he felt a lot better. 'I kept it all pent up for so long, I guess I just fell better getting it off my chest.
At lunch, Atemu explained to everyone about his conversation with Yugi.
"You mean, part of the reason he moved in with Seto was because we were ignoring him?" Yami asked.
Atemu nodded. "That's what he told me." Atemu said.
"Man. I guess we all got so caught up in our own lives that we didn't realize that anything was wrong." Tristan said.
"Yugi must have felt so alone. He hasn't been alone in years." Tea said.
"I guess we did do something to hurt him, even if we didn't realize it." Sayora said.
"Who would have thought that we would be the ones that drove Yugi away." Joey said.
"I can see why he turned to Seto. Seto was there for him when we were not. I think that we really need to watch we do from now own." Ryou said.
'I can't believe this. I drove my own Light away. No. I drove the love of my life away.' Yami thought dejectedly.
After school let out, Yugi walked out of the school gates and looked around. 'The limo isn't here yet. Oh, well. I guess I'll have to wait.' Yugi thought.
A moment later, the limo arrived and Yugi started to get in.
"Yugi, wait!" a voice called.
Yugi looked back to see Yami, Atemu, Joey, Tristan, Ryou, Tea, Kyla, and Sayora coming toward him. 'What do they want?' Yugi asked himself. "What is it?" Yugi asked.
"We were wanting to talk to you." Joey said.
"I have something hat I need to do. I don't have time to talk." Yugi said.
"What could you possible have to do?" Tristan asked angrily.
"Tristan!" Tea said, knowing this wouldn't help.
"You're the ones who want to talk to me, so don't get angry at me just because I have something that needs to be done." Yugi said.
"Listen. Yugi. We know what happened, and we're sorry." Yami said.
"Yeah. We didn't realize what we were doing." Joey said.
"Is that suppose to make me feel better that you didn't mean it?" Yugi asked.
"We're trying to apologize here." Joey said.
"It only took me moving out to get your attention." Yugi said.
"You shouldn't have done that in the first place." Yami stated.
"I told you to stop treating me like a child, Yami." Yugi said.
"Maybe you should stop acting like one." Yami retorted.
Atemu groaned silently. 'This is not helping.' Atemu thought.
"Yugi, we are sorry, but you didn't need to move out. You could have talked to us." Kyla said.
"Talk to you? That's a laugh. You people were always out together at the mall, at the movies, or at each other's houses. Without me! There was not ever time, not to mention not one of you gave a damn." Yugi said.
They were shocked. Yugi had never been one to curse before.
"How can you say that we didn't care?" Joey asked.
"You didn't act like it. I was hurting, and none of you noticed or cared. How am I supposed to take that? I don't know why you did all that you did, but I don't care. I moved out because six of the people doing it lived in that house. Leo and Yuesei did it, too, and I was sick of it. Seto noticed how I felt, and he felt sorry for me, so he told me that if I wanted to move in, I could. I declined at first, but changed my mind when it became clear not one of you wanted me to be around." Yugi said.
"What do you have to do in return? Sleep with him?" Tristan sneered.
Everyone gasped at that.
Tristan paled as he realized exactly what he had just said.
Yugi's amethyst eyes darkened with anger. "If you think that lowly of me, Tristan, then you don't know me at all. I am not than kind of person. Seto is a friend, nothing more. I have never felt more than friendship for him. He has been kind to me and helped me. He offered to get me out of that house before I did something I regretted." Yugi said.
"Like what?" Yami asked, feeling slightly afraid.
"You're a smart guy, Yami. You figure it out. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have other things that I need to do." Yugi said before getting into the limo and leaving.
Yami glared at Tristan. "Tristan, that remark was uncalled for." Yami growled.
"I-I know. I don't even know why I said it. I know that Yugi would never lower himself to that kind of level." Tristan said.
"Then why the heel did you say it?! You just made it even harder for us to get Yugi to see that we are very sorry." Atemu said.
"He said what?!" Heba shouted.
"You heard me. Tristan asked me if I was sleeping with Seto in return for living here. I couldn't believe that Tristan would think something like that of me." Yugi said.
"What did the others do?" Heba asked.
"They didn't say anything. I think that they were just shocked that he said that. I don't think any of them thought that, or at least not in the way they ere thinking." Yugi said.
"If I was there, I would give that boy a piece of my mind! The audacity to think that you're some, some, some whore!" Heba shouted.
"Heba, calm down before you have a heart attack. I don't think Tristan meant it. I think he just spoke before he thought, much like Joey. I just feel really sorry for Joey." Yugi said.
"Why do you feel sorry him?" Heba asked.
"Well, I know that Joey has had a crush on Seto since Duelist Kingdome, and I think that he's in love with Seto now. I know that remark had to hurt Joey as much as it hurt me." Yugi said.
"I hope one of them tells him off. You don't deserve to be talked about in such a way." Heba said.
"I'm not telling Seto or Mokuba what he said. Seto would kill him for such a remark, and if I told Mokuba, Mokuba would tell Seto, and Seto might end up in jail." Yugi said.
"Good idea. I may need to give these people a piece of my mind when I come for Christmas." Heba said.
"Are you excited about that?" Yugi asked.
"Am I ever. Mensi and Zepher have been talking a lot in secret, so I have no idea what they are up to." Heba said.
"They might be planning for all of you to have an early Christmas." Yugi said.
"Maybe. I'll talk to you later. I need to get my homework done, or Mensi will be yelling at me." Heba said.
"Okay. I'll talk to you later, Heba. Bye." Yugi said.
"Bye." Heba replied.
The two hung up.
Yugi leaned back and sighed. "I know Seto's going to find out somehow." Yugi said.
"You said what to him?!" Leo shouted.
Everyone jumped at the volume of Leo's voice.
"Are you crazy?! Do you want to lose Yugi's friendship forever?! That remark probably set us about five steps back from learning what's going on! Not that we were making any progress before!" Leo continued.
Yuesei grabbed Leo by the arm and said, "Leo please clam down. Scaring him is not going to change what he said. The damage is already done."
Leo took a deep breath and sat down. "Why did you say that, Tristan? You should know that Yugi is not that kind of a person. He is nothing like that." Leo said.
"I know. I'm sorry I said it. I don't know. I guess I just said the first thing I could think of, and it was that. I know I messed up." Tristan said.
"I can't believe you said that. And in front of me. You know how I feel about Seto." Joey said.
"I know, Joey, and I'm really sorry. I didn't mean it." Tristan said.
"Did you find anything else out, Atemu?" Yuesei asked.
"No. I told you everything I found out." Atemu said.
Leo sighed. "I guess we start over. And Tristan, I suggest that you try and apologize to Yugi. That might help us a little." Leo said.
Tristan nodded.
"What do we do in the meantime?" Tea asked.
"For now, keep our distance. Yugi's not going to be too happy with any of us for awhile." Leo said.
"Yugi, why the hell did Tristan say that we were sleeping together?!" Seto yelled into the house.
Yugi jumped from his place on the couch and went tumbling right to the floor.
Mokuba's eyes widened at that statement.
Seto stormed into the room and looked at Yugi. "Why did Tristan Taylor say that we were sleeping together?" Seto demanded.
"How did you find out?" Yugi asked.
"My limo driver. What was that all about?" Seto asked.
"They were onto me about living here. I told Atemu about how they were ignoring me, and he told everyone else. We got into another fight. Tristan asked me of I was sleeping with you to repay you for letting me live here." Yugi said.
"That's it. I'm going to kill him." Seto said.
"Seto, please don't. Tristan said it in the heat of the moment. I don't think he meant it. Please let me deal with this." Yugi pleased.
"All right, but I am going to make sure that those rumors are squashed at school." Seto said, storming out.
Mokuba looked over at Yugi. "Is that why you were upset when you got me from school?" Mokuba asked.
Yugi nodded. "It made me upset. I know Tristan didn't mean it, but he made it sound like I jump into bed with every person I meet. It hurt that he thought that lowly of me if he meant it." Yugi said.
"I hope Seto doesn't get his hands on him, or Tristan is dead." Mokuba said.
"I know. I'm going to deal with it tomorrow, and hope that I can put this behind me." Yugi said.
"I can't believe that Tristan would say something ;like that." Mokuba said.
"I couldn't, either. In any case, I think that I am going to lay down. This has been a really bad day." Yugi said, getting up and heading upstairs to lay down.
"Atemu, do you think Tristan might have been right?" Yami asked.
"About Yugi and Seto sleeping together? No. The way Yugi reacted, he was insulted. He couldn't believe that Tristan had said that. I think Yugi was telling the truth when he siad that there was nothing going on between him and Seto. I think they are just friends." Atemu said.
"I wanted to kill Tristan for what he said. That was really uncalled for and below the belt. He had no right to say that." Yami said.
"No, he didn't, and Tristan is really sorry, but he's the one who caused this." Atemu said.
"I hope he does apologize to Yugi so that maybe we can get back on trying to find out what is going on." Yami said.
"Tristan has to be sorry, and I think we'd better dispel any rumors that were caused. Anyone who heard that is going to spread it around school." Atemu said.
"We're all going to do that." Yami agreed.
"Let's just hope that Yugi will forgive him." Atemu said.
Seto and Yugi walked into the school gates.
Tristan walked up to them.
"What do you want, Tristan? Haven't you caused enough trouble?" Seto demanded.
"Yugi, can I talk to you? Alone?" Tristan asked.
"It's okay, Seto." Yugi said.
Seto nodded and walked on.
"Yugi, about yesterday. I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have said that." Tristan said.
"Did you mean it?" Yugi asked.
"No. I was angry and wanted to say something that would hurt you. I went too far, and I'm sorry." Tristan said.
"Well, you did hurt me. Seto and I are nothing more than friends, and that's all that w will ever be. I'd appreciate it if you made sure any rumors about me and Seto were stopped, too." Yugi said.
"I will, and I'm really sorry." Tristan said.
"I know. Just don't cross that line again." Yugi said before walking off.
"What did he say?' Seto asked.
"He apologized and said he stop the rumors." Yugi said.
"Good. I don't want to have to deal with this again." Seto said.
Yugi smiled. "You won't." Yugi siad.
True to his word, Tristan made sure all the rumors were stopped, much to Yugi and Seto's relief.
Sorry to anyone who likes Tristan, but I needed someone to do something stupid.
The Ishtars show up in the next chapter.
R&R.