Based on the first year!

GX - GX

Syrus was in a meeting with Chancelor Shepard, in his office, when it was just the two of them. Syrus was standing on the other side of the desk while Chancelor Shepard was sitting in his chair.

"Syrus, I've been taking a look at your grades and they've been better, but you still need to improve them a little bit. So what I'm suggesting is that I hook you up with a tutor."

"A tutor?" Syrus asked.

"Yes."

"Who's the tutor going to be?"

"I'll have to look into it and see who's best for the job, but for right now you can go back to class."

"Okay." Syrus said, then walked out and accidently bumped into Zane. "Oh... sorry, Zane. I wasn't watching where I was going."

"That's okay." Zane said. Then he walked right past him and down the hall, without so much as a glance back. Syrus had a smile on his face when he saw Zane, but it had disappeared. 'Why does he treat me like I'm hardly here?' Syrus thought on his way back to class. 'I always try my best to prove to him that I can be just as good, but he's never impressed... by me at least.' Syrus thought, sadly, then went into his classroom and finished the school day.

-- At the end of the school day with Zane --

Chancelor Shepard came up to Zane at his locker and started talking.

"Zane, can I see you for a minute in my office?" He asked, and Zane looked at him.

"Sure." He answered then followed Chancelor Shepard to his office.

"Zane, I had a meeting with your little brother earlier and I was wondering if it would be possible for you to... become Syrus' private tutor?"

"A tutor? But he's doing fine."

"Not from what I see." He said, then waited for Zane to respond.

'Well... it would be a good chance for me to be with Syrus alone for a while. And help him get through this year.' Zane thought with a look of seriousness on his face before he finally answered.

"Alright... I'll do it." Zane answered.

"Great."

"What time?"

"Tomorrow... after school. And any other times he needs help."

"Okay, I'll see you later then." Zane said, then he walked out of the room.

-- That night at the Slifer red dorm --

Syrus and Jaden were sitting at one of the tables in the cafeteria, eating. When all of a sudden Professer Banner came up and sat across from them.

"Hey teach!" Jaden greeted with a smile.

"Hi Professer." Syrus said with a smile also.

"Hello." Banner greeted back. "Syrus, Chancelor Shepard wanted you to stay after school tomorrow to meet your tutor."

"Oh... okay." Syrus agreed. "Do you know who this tutor is?"

"Yes, it's Zane."

"Zane?" Syrus asked as he dropped his chopsticks into his Ramen noodles and his eyes went wide.

"Hey! So you get your big brother as a tutor! Sweet! Huh, Sy?" Jaden asked.

"Yeah... sweet." Syrus said, then started thinking. 'Why would Zane want to become my tutor?' He asked himself.

-- The next morning --

Jaden woke up to the sound of someone rushing around the room so he opened his eyes to see Syrus running everywhere around the room. Syrus went to the mirror and started brushing his hair frantically.

"Sy, what's the matter with you?"

"I'm trying to look nice."

"For what? There's nothing special going on tod-" Jaden started, but stopped and started thinking. "W-wait a second. Are you trying to look good for Zane after school today?"

"What? No. He's my brother... why would I wanna look good for him?" He asked.

"Because I know how much you love him... more than a brother."

"I do not!" Syrus protested while facing Jaden, but couldn't help the blush that found it's way to his cheeks. All Jaden did was get out of bed and reach into his jacket pocket to pull out a piece of paper. The piece of paper had a poem on it about Zane and it was written by Syrus. Syrus usually kept it under his pillow, but Jaden had taken it. "Hey! Give that back!" He yelled then tried to grab it, but Jaden kept him away with his foot. Then Jaden opened up the neatly folded piece of paper and began to read the poem out loud.

"Zane, your eyes sparkle like the midnight stars. Your hair is like a beautiful teal blue ocean. I always try to find new ways to impress you, but you impress me more." Jaden read, but then Syrus finally reached him and snatched the paper away before he could read anymore.

"Jaden, don't do that again!" He said angrily, his face as red a tomato now.

"Come on, Sy. It was a joke. I do that." He said then hugged Syrus. "I promise pal... I won't do it again."

"You probably already read all of it a thousand times already so... here." Syrus said then handed the poem to him after they broke the hug.

"Aren't you going to give it to Zane?"

"Nah. He'll never like me that way." Syrus said sadly. "Besides... I have a feeling he loves Alexis. Which means he's not into guys. Even if he was he would never be interested in me."

"Because you two are brothers?"

"Because I'm not good enough for him." Syrus said, sadly. Then walked out of the room and headed towards the school.

-- After school that day --

Syrus was sitting at his desk when the door opened and Zane walked in with his bag and a couple of books. He went down to where Syrus was and smiled at him.

"Hey, Syrus. Are you ready to get some actual work done?"

"Sure. If you're ready, but one question before we start."

"Okay."

"Why did you vollenteer to be my tutor?"

"Because I wanted to." Zane said then sat down in the seat next to him.

"Yes, but why?" Syrus asked then there was a pause.

"Should we start?" Zane asked, trying to avoid the subject.

"Um... okay."

-- 2 hours later back at the Slifer dorm --

Syrus entered his dorm room to see Jaden in there with Bastion. They were looking through their cards, but when Syrus came in they looked up at him.

"Hey, Sy!" Jaden greeted. "How did your first day of tutoring go?"

"It was good. Zane helped me a lot, but..."

"But what?" Bastion asked.

"But he was trying to avoid the subject of why he wanted to become my tutor in the first place."

"That's strange." Bastion said.

"Tell me about it." Syrus replied.

"Well maybe he just wanted a way to spend more alone time with you, but doesn't want to admit it out loud." Jaden suggested.

"That not admitting things out loud sounds like Zane, but why would he want to spend more time with me?" Syrus asked.

"Maybe he loves you?" Jaden said.

"I wish."

"You do?" Bastion asked.

"Yes, but just feeling that way isn't going to change anything."

-- The next day after school with Zane and Syrus --

"So... do you have anything important coming up that you need help with?" Zane asked.

"Yes actually. You see... I've got the traps test coming up soon and I'm not sure I'm-"

"I know exactly where this is going and I would be glad to help. Now... tell me what you know about trap cards first. Then I'll just fill in the blank spots."

"Well... I know that trap cards are... uh... cards." Syrus said and Zane sweatdropped. 'Oh boy, I better explain.' Zane thought.

"Actually... a brief definition of a trap card is card that can effect a spell or monster card. Remember the card Spell Binding Circle?"

"How could I not?"

"Well what does that trap card effect?"

"The other person's monster."

"Exactly." Zane said with a smile which made Syrus smile too.

'God, I love it when he smiles. I love absolutely everything about him. He's so perfect.' Syrus thought, then his thoughts got interrupted when Zane said something else.

"Sy?" Zane asked, and Syrus realized that he had just gone silent.

"Oh, sorry."

"It's okay. Hey, don't you have that mid-term exam coming up."

"Yeah, each one of us have to show everyone how to handle a duel disk. Which is really stupid because if you don't know how to handle a duel disk then how did you even get into this school?"

"I know, but I had to do it too. Do you have your duel disk with you?"

"I always do."

"Then lets practice for that part of your exam." He said then got up and went to the front of the room. Then Syrus got out his duel disk, went down to the front of the room too, and put the duel disk on. "Take you stance." Zane said. So Syrus did what he was told and got into his starting position as if he was just about to face someone in a duel. Zane chuckled then moved closer to Syrus and placed a gentle hand on Syrus' shoulder, causing Syrus to shiver. "Relax this arm." Zane said as the hand that was resting on his shoulder moved down slowly to caress his arm. Syrus' whole body relaxed under Zane's warm and gentle touch, not just his arm. "Now make it even with your chest."

"...Huh?"

"Put your arm up a little bit so it's even with your chest." He said as he raised Syrus' arm that was holding the duel disk up a little more. "Okay, now... turn your duel disk on and summon a monster."

"Okay." He said then took out a card after turning his duel disk on and summoned 'Patriod' in attack mode.

"Wow! Nice choice." Zane said with a smile and Syrus looked at him.

"You mean it?"

"Yes." Zane said with a nod. He still had his arms around Syrus and he didn't notice, but Syrus didn't mind. In fact, he was enjoying it. He enjoyed every minute he was close to Zane even if they were hardly this close. Syrus looked up at Zane and smiled. A minute later Zane looked down and saw Syrus smiling at him. "What?"

"Nothing." Syrus said as he looked away quickly and started blushing.

"You have something on your mind?"

"No. I mean... not really."

"You sure?"

"Yeah." Syrus said. Then Zane took Syrus' chin into his hand and forced him to look into his eyes.

"Are you absolutely positive? Because with the way your blushing and acting right now I would have to disagree." Zane said with a clever smirk.

"I'm positive." Syrus said. Then Zane kneeled down so they were eye level and moved a little bit closer. That caused Syrus' blush to deepen and he tried to step back, but Zane's other strong arm was wrapped around Syrus' waist; keeping him there. "Really... I had nothing on my mind." Syrus said then Zane just leaned in more, but this time he leaned in enough so his mouth was right by his Syrus' ear.

"I know I had something on my mind." Zane whispered then he moved away just a little bit so Syrus and him were face to face with each other. They just looked at each other for a minute before Zane leaned in and captured Syrus' lips with his own.

Syrus was shocked at first, but he quickly got over the shock and melted into the kiss. He leaned into Zane, and deepened the kiss. Syrus opened his mouth when Zane's tongue begged for an entrance.

They finally broke away a couple minutes later and were both panting and flushed.

"By the way you reacted to that kiss I'd say you enjoyed it."

"Well... yeah, I really did. I've been wanting you to do that for a while now." Syrus said, still beat red, but that just made him look more cute.

"Then I'm sure you wouldn't mind if I did it again."

"Of course not, but I just want to know one thing before you do."

"What's that?"

"Do you love me?"

"Yes. Yes, I really do." Zane said with a warm smile.

"I love you too, Zane." Syrus said, and Zane's smile widened before he pressed his lips to Syrus' once more.

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