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Between Darkness and Light
Chapter 3 – Old Frienships Rekindle
Yugi awoke to his blaring alarm and sat up, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. He shut off the alarm and went into the bathroom. His eyes widened when he saw his short hair before he fully remembered the day before. Bakura did this for him, and he really liked it. It kept him separate from his so-called 'other half'. Yugi pushed the dye and the gel from their position on the sink into the garbage basket before he went to change his clothes.
When he finished changing, he looked into the mirror again. He could barely recognize himself in the teen he saw in the mirror. This caused a smile, 'If I don't recognize myself, perhaps my friends won't either. They might talk to me. They might….'
His thoughts came to a grinding halt. Why did he even want them to talk to him after how they had been acting. Well, Yami, Tristan, and Anzu anyway. Ryou wasn't nice to him, but he also wasn't mean like Anzu and Yami were, and Joey seemed regretful when he said anything rude. Kaiba just acted like he always had, he hated Yami too, but not nearly as much as Bakura.
Yugi slung his bag over his back and walked out of the house, locking the door behind him. With his grandfather in Egypt and Yami constantly staying over Anzu's house it felt like he lived alone.
'At least now I have a friend.' He smiled at the thought as he continued to walk. Lost in his thoughts he never heard the engine running behind him.
A hand grabbed his arm and he squeaked, trying to pull it away.
"Oh, silly me. And here I was thinking that you'd be happy to see me." Bakura said, smirking as he turned Yugi to face him.
"Bakura!" Yugi squealed smiling sheepishly, "I am happy to see you, you just surprised me. I guess I should pay more attention when I walk around."
Bakura just shrugged and tossed Yugi the extra helmet, "Get on, I'll drive you to school."
Bakura, still sitting on his motorcycle, watched as Yugi put the helmet on and then got on behind him. When he felt the smaller boy's arms around him he drove toward the school. He stopped the motorcycle where he usually did and the two of them got off.
"Bakura, I'm going to go in by myself. Meet me at lunch in the classroom like yesterday, okay?" Yugi smiled up at him. He wanted to see if anybody would notice him, and it would be harder for them to do so if Bakura wasn't nearby.
Bakura nodded and left to plot deviously of destroying the Pharaoh.
Walking through the hall Yugi saw Yami, and made a point of avoiding him. He knew that Yami would know it was him, and he didn't want to be friends with Yami anymore. Before he had talked to Bakura he hoped that Yami would change back to the way he was when they first met. Back when Yami was nice and seemed to care about him so much. Apparently Yami had done this before though, so why should this time be any different?
When he was thinking he bumped into something soft and he fell over.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Are you okay kid?" A familiar voice asked and a hand reached down.
Yugi grabbed the hand and he used it to help himself up, "Yeah, I'm okay, don't worry about it."
Yugi looked up to see who he bumped into and saw Joey Wheeler, his old best friend. His eyes clouded with sadness and he looked down.
"Wait a second. Is that you Yugi?" Joey asked, surprised.
Yugi just nodded his head, ready to cry. 'Why did I want to do this again? He's probably just going to say something mean and hurt me.'
Joey looked around and then dragged Yugi into an empty classroom, "I'm sorry about how I've been acting toward you lately. I thought you did something really terrible to Yami and that's why he was so angry with you, but I just can't really believe that you would do something like that."
Yugi shook his head, still crying, "I didn't do anything like that. I kept Yami's servants from killing Bakura and he's hated me ever since. Somehow he got the rest of you to hate me too. It's been really hard to have you all hating me for something I did that I thought was good."
Joey sighed, "I never really hated you, you were my friend before Yami ever was."
"But so was Anzu, why doesn't she want to be my friend anymore?"
"Anzu…" Joey stopped, "Well, she loves Yami. You don't want to know what they do every night, even though I'm sure you can guess. Tristan wants Yami to set him up with a girl and Ryou just doesn't like Bakura so he'd rather be friends with Yami."
Yugi sighed, "I guess you'd still rather be friends with Yami though. That way you can still be friends with Tristan. He was your friend before I was."
Joey shook his head, "He's not as good of a friend as he once was. Ever since he found out my secret our friendship hasn't been the same."
"Secret? Do I know this secret?" Yugi asked, titling his head to the side in confusion.
Joey shook his head 'no', "I don't think I want to tell you either. I thought I was safe when I told Tristan, but he won't even talk to me now. Nothing's been the same since then between us. I don't want somebody else to think I'm just weird. I'm too strange to be his friend, he can't be seen with people like me."
"People like what?"
Looking down Joey replied, "I can't tell you, if you knew you wouldn't want to be near me either. Only one other person can accept me the way I am. That's just the way it has to be I guess."
Yugi shook his head vehemently, "That can't be true. Nobody deserves only one good friend. No matter what happens, no person should feel that lonely. I would know. It's been a while and I was alone for most of that time. It hurt so badly that I could barely stand it. I don't want anybody else to feel like that. If Bakura hadn't started talking to me yesterday I'd probably still feel that way."
"It's not the same. It can't be the same."
At that moment the door burst open and Kaiba entered the room. He looked down at Joey and sighed.
"It's about time you made friends with Yugi again. I was past tired of hearing about this the day it started."
Joey pouted, "Seto, that's so mean of you. I didn't complain that much… did I?"
Kaiba nodded 'yes', "It's all you talked about and it made you mope around all the time. I should be the only one that can control your emotions."
Kaiba pecked Joey on the lips and told him that class would start soon before leaving.
"That's why I'm so different. When I told Tristan that Seto and I were together he wouldn't talk to me anymore. It's why Seto and I fight so much. We can't let anybody else, well…" he paused, "anybody that would hurt us that is. They can't find out. I guess he trusts you because he let you know about us. You won't hate me for it too, will you?"
Yugi shook his head, "I don't see why Tristan has a problem with it. If it's what makes you happy you should do it no matter what he thinks. I can tell now that you'd be miserable without Kaiba, and Tristan should have just been happy for you without being judgmental."
Joey smiled at him, "You know, I'd much rather be your friend than Yami's. Yami acts really bossy now that you aren't there anymore. He tells us all what to do and if we don't obey he feels the need to punish us by making us do something for him. You always were my nicest friend, will you still be my friend?"
"Yes, how could I say no after what I heard. Yami hurt me… in more ways than one, but I don't want him hurting anybody else." Yugi smiled and he and his friend walked to class bakura and Kaiba following behind them.
When Yugi noticed Bakura behind him he smiled, 'Just one more day and it will be Friday and I can take Bakura somewhere fun. I hope it turns out okay.'
I'm ending this update here. I'll probably skip some time so I can get to Friday sooner, unless I think of something else for them to do. I hope you like that I've made Joey and, kinda Seto, Yugi's friends. He was too alone and I couldn't see Joey being mean to him after the friendship they shared. See you in the next chapter.