A/N- I'd like to start with a sincere apology for making all of you worry like that about this fic. I know that this probably isn't a valid excuse but I haven't been able to focus as much on my Fanfictions because of the overload of school work.

Is it a good excuse? No. But it's the truth so *shrugs*

BUUUT~

I've finally gotten around to writing this thing so here is the chapter you guys have been waiting sooo long for.

Hopefully you'll like it.

Also this chapter wan't really edited that much so please beware that there are probably spelling and grammatical mistakes, i'll take a look at those when I have more time XD

Ohh and I have an important note at the bottom so please check it out :D

Disclaimer- I don't own characters or YuGiOh!

Here you go~!

Partner From Hell

Deep breaths, deep breaths, Yugi kept reminding himself, sparing frequent, quick glances to the clock, constantly calculating in his head when the period would be over. It seemed like every time he looked up, the second hand would only move slower and slower as if time was slowing down.

That stupid clock is mocking me, he thought crossly. Crossing his arms over his chest, he pouted and slouched down in his chair with a huff, glaring at the scratches on the wooden desk in front of him.

"That's like the tenth time in what, 1 minute?" a cocky and amused voice sounded. "Do you want to get away from me that badly, I mean do I really make you that uncomfortable?"

Yugi's left eye twitched. He refused to raise his head towards the direction that the voice resonated from.

"I'd take that as a yes, but honestly Yugi, that deeply offends me. Do you really hate me that much? I mean how could you hate me of all people..."

He could practically hear his teeth grinding harshly against one another as he tried to remain calm and collected.

"..I mean I am just too awesome to hate. Here let me help you count the ways, let's see. First, I have an amazing personality. Everyone loves me."

His hands were bawled into fists, nails digging into his palms, but he could barely register the pain.

"Secondly, I'm terribly attractive. It should be illegal to be as good looking as me. See you would be good looking too if maybe you grew a couple of inches..."

Crack!

Yugi looked down at his hands in surprise. There, clenched in each hand, was one half of a now broken pencil.

From the corner of his eye he could see the ever arrogant Yami peering curiously over the desk. The face of surprised soon morphed into an amused smirk and he let out a light chuckle.

"You know you really should get some anger management classes, they could be a lot of help, don't you think?" he asked sarcastically.

Groaning in frustration, he dropped his head and his forehead came in contact with the wooden desk. He began to continuously repeating the process, slamming his head down on the desk in some sort of hope that it would wake him up proving that the incidents that had happened just moments ago would have just been a bad and terrible dream.

A deep baritone chuckle made him freeze, forehead still pressed up against the wooden surface of the desk and groan.

He began to replay the incident that had just happened 5 minutes ago to make him suffer his personal hell.

Flashback

"What!" Yugi screeched, amethyst eyes wide, jaw dropped frozen in shock. On the inside however, he was in hysterics.

Yami Sennen, he repeated the name in his head.

Did he just get paired up with Yami Sennen!

Only one thought dominated his head.

No, No, No, NOOOOOO!

It couldn't be possible. It couldn't be happening. How could this be happening?

He was ignored by Yami his entire life. Why was it that the one day, the one day he wanted to stick up for himself and all those who the populars looked down upon, his life decided to do a whole 180 degree turn?

It was just that morning that he had been ignored and overseen by the popular ruler and now it was as if they were glued at the hip.

Ok so maybe he did a major jerk move at lunch by soaking Yami with a sticky, sugary beverage, but still! It was Yam's fault! He was the one who initiated it. He got back at Yami because it was his Karma. Karma was supposed to get back at Yami not at him?

Before could further analyze why the heck he was the one being punished, Mr. Harrison's voice cut through his internal musing, effectively waking him up from inner turmoil.

"Is there a problem Yugi?" he asked slowly and hesitantly in fear. Yugi looked like he would vomit any second, all colour drained from his face, eyes wide as if he was already promised to fail the project.

YES there's a problem, Yugi wanted to scream. He wanted to yell and scream and cry and do anything to inform Mr. Harrison that he DID NOT under any circumstances want to be paired up with Yami Sennen.

Instead Yugi's face erupted in flames as he felt everyone's gazes drilling into him, almost as if daring him to say something bad about their leader.

His attitude suddenly turned shy as he began to fondle with the hem of his jacket.

"Ummmm n-no, sorry sir", Yugi stuttered timidly, lowering himself down to his chair. The entire class stared at him for a second longer, judging him before turning back around to face their educator.

Mr. Harrison also starred for a while longer, and then loosened his tie before continuing his explanation.

"Now as I was saying. This project is worth 40% of your final grade..."he was suddenly cut off by a swarm of collective gasps and worried whispers.

"Wait, wait," he hastily waved his arms in the air, trying to get the attention of the troubled teens. The room was bursting of loud chatter, the teens talking amongst themselves, worried about how they would manage to finish such a workload.

"If you would just listen..."

"HEY SHUT UP!"

The sudden outburst effectively shut everyone up.

Everyone, Yugi included, turned towards the direction of the windows, the source of the outburst. Yugi was shocked to see that it was indeed Yami who made the outburst. He was glaring at all of them.

"Shut up and let the man talk", he growled out in annoyance, and unsurprisingly everyone bit their lips and shifted back to Mr. Harrison. A very red faced and sweaty Mr. Harrison Yugi grimaced.

Giving out own sigh of relief, Mr. Harrison sent a thankful smile in Yami's direction, one that was not reciprocated, and continued.

"Now as I was saying before that whole outburst, you do not need to stress out about this project, it'll be done within the entire year so no need to rush."

Groans of relief swallowed up the silence of the room as once horrified expressions morphed into ones of joy and relief.

"The project will be about ancient civilizations." Mr. Harrison said with such a childish glee that it even made Yugi smile. It was no secret to him that his history teacher was a huge fan of ancient humans. He was constantly meeting up with Yugi's grandfather to converse about all the different excavations he went to.

"Each team will need to chose an ancient civilization and present it to the class.
Now here is the will each be given a topic of research at the beginning of the month. It will be your responsibility to research all about your topic and to try to teach the class this information in a creative and educational presentation at the end of that month."

He paused, gently pushing up the bridge of his glasses with his index finger, as he waited to take any questions if anyone had them.

"So want you're saying," spoke a voice from the back, not bothering to raise his hand. "You give us the topic at the beginning of the month and it's due at the end?"

"Yes that is correct," confirmed Mr. Harrison.

Rolling his eyes in an unimpressed way, Yugi lifted his pencil and began to doodle lazy squiggles in the far left corner of his paper. He didn't understand why they felt the need to reiterate every single thing that came out of their teacher's mouth like it was some amazing epiphany. Honestly Mr. Harrison had just stated that not even a minute ago and they were already staring at him in such awe.

Pondering a bit, Mr. Harrison's eyes widened a bit as he realized the implication of his words.

"Now that doesn't go to say that you can just go ahead and waste that month to dwindle and do nothing and procrastinate. There are many other components to this assignment that will keep you busy for the entire month."

Yugi scoffed at that. Mr. Harrison really shouldn't have been telling them not to procrastinate. It just like when he tells them to stop texting in class which was equivalent to telling them to stop breathing. It just couldn't be done.

Now with respiration in his head Yugi decided to indulge himself with drawing small fluffy clouds beside his mess of squiggles.

"Like what?" spoke out another voice.

Yugi rolled his eyes again. Did it really matter what it was? They would be informed once they got the rubric of the assignment Yugi thought penciling in small m shaped birds along with his cloud filled paper.

"Well... It's different for every month."

Seeing the crowd of confused faces Mr. Harrison decided to elaborate.

"Ok so for example. For the first month will be food month. You will need to actually cook or bake the cuisine of your research. Next month will be clothing, where you are expected to construct an example of the outfit, and it will continue like that for the rest of the year. Now with that cleared up any more questions?"

He did a final scan of the classroom, before smiling and setting them off to get together with their partner to decide their topics.

Yugi was so preoccupied in his corner paper art he never registered the command.

He was in the process of drawing a sun to finalize his picture when a large bang before him made him jolt and shift his hand quickly, leaving behind a dark charcoal line through the center of his picture.

He looked up to be met by a smiling Yami standing over him grasping his chair.

Crimson eyes shifted down to look at the collage of doodles that Yugi was so busy with before raising a questioning eyebrow in the artist's direction.

Sighing under his breath, Yugi said nothing instead he just gestured with a shake of his head for Yami to sit down so that they could get started.

And Yami eagerly plopped down onto his chair, elbows plopped on the desk, hands cupping his cheeks as he fluttered his eyelashes at Yugi andYugi knew it was going to be a loooong period. And from the overexcited, dumb look on Yami's face it was not going to be a pleasurable one. Not at all.

Flashback End

And that was how this situation came to be, Yugi thought, still staring bewildered at the two wooden halves of his 'used to be' pencil.

Sighing again to himself Yugi decided to quit wasting time and get down to business.

"Ok so which civilization do you want to do?" he asked, staring warily at the arrogant ass. It appeared that said ass was mocking him by tapping his index finger against his chin staring up at the ceiling with scrunched up eyes. Yugi guessed that that was supposed to be his 'thinking' pose.

After a few minutes of trivial chin tapping, he finally turned his gaze towards his partner and opened his big mouth.

"Hmm I'm not sure I remember them," eyes sparkling in amusement 'Can you remind me of them again?"

Yugi wanted no more than to throttle him across the room.

"How about this then," Yugi muttered in the midst of his annoyance. He was just aiming to pick a damned topic before the end of the period, but it seemed like the pampered idiot made it a personal objective to make things difficult for him. "I name them you tell me if you want to do them."

Yami merely nodded, feeling jittery in his seat at the burning hatred that seemed to exude off Yugi. He was having a blast.

"Seems simple enough", he chirped.

Sighing, Yugi shook his head, his blonde bangs gently brushing his forehead. He gave his first suggestion.

"Atlantis?" he asked.

"Isn't that the one that was under the sea or something?" Yami questioned, raking his head for the minimal knowledge he actually had registered during those tedious hour-long class lectures.

Yugi decided not to comment, in fear that he would say something terribly insulting.

"There are many theories about what happened to it. Many of them have to do with the entire land mass sinking down to the bottom of the sea. It would be really interesting to research all the different theories and maybe create our own..."

"That sounds like too much work," Yami groaned out, leaning over the desk in agony.

"They all involve work," Yugi deadpanned, not amused but Yami's childlike tantrum.

"Well that one involves even more," Yami snapped, not liking Yugi's tone of voice. "Next," he commanded with an arrogant wave of his hand. Yugi rolled his eyes.

"So that one's out," he continued, "what about the Mayans?"

It would be an easy enough topic; there was a lot of information that could be found on them meaning that there would be less work for the both of them. He had a feeling that the 'less work' part would appeal to Yami's ideals.

Yami seemed to ponder the topic over for a while at least that was what Yugi assumed considering Yami's face was buried on the desk. For a while Yami seemed frozen, until his head shot up, face sporting a large bright grin. Yugi felt relived. That wasn't as hard as he thought it would be. He waited for the confirmation.

"No."

Yugi gaped in confusion, did Yami just...

"No?" he reiterated to make sure he heard right.

Yami nodded his head like a bobble head doll. Yugi cursed himself for his gullible ideas.

"Ya," Yami sighed out, "I dated a girl named Maya once. That would bring back too many painful and awkward memories."

You'll feel real pain when I gorge your eyes out with this broken pencil Yugi thought murderously, already raising the jagged object.

"But you don't mind, DO YOU YUGI," he increased his volume at the last part and Yugi knew why.

Right after that phrase was uttered all heads turned to face them, half of them staring lovingly at Yami while the other half were and glaring hatefully at Yugi. He had a weird sense of Déjà vu.

So that was his plan, to make him seem like a total ass in front of everyone in the class and build him a bad reputation. Yugi clicked his tongue against his teeth.

Normally any other student would have done that, but Yugi wasn't like every other student. He refused to give in to the other's twisted fantasy of weakness.

"Of course I don't mind", he answered in a sweet tone that made him want to puke. "I wouldn't want to make you feel uncomfortable."

That answer seemed satisfactory, as Yugi glanced around. Everyone robotically turned their heads back around and continued their own person conversations.

Eyes falling back to the figure in front of him, it was Yugi's turn to smirk in victory as he observed Yami's annoyed expression. He was displeased at how Yugi managed to trick his minions, making Yugi cackle.

Two could play at that game.

He began scanning the classroom for any other ideas. He looked at all the posters of historical event plastered around the room and began spewing out random ideas that corresponded with the images.

"Ancient China?"

"No."

"Aztec?"

"No."

"Inca?"

"No."

"Toltec?"

"No."

Yugi felt a vain throb on his forehead as he glared at Yami with emotions of burning hate and detestation in his usually happy, cheery eyes. The guy was good, he'd give him that but this was just getting ridiculous.

It seemed like the tables had turned once again, much to Yugi's displeasure. Yami was arrogantly flaunting his victory. His nose was stuck high up in importance and he was exuding a vibe of superiority that Yugi had crushed for a few precious minutes.

But Yugi had one more idea and he really hoped Yami would be smart enough to choose it. He had purposely saved this option for last, guessing that Yami would only disapprove all his other suggestions with no thought to spite him.

"Well what about Egypt?"

He crossed his fingers in a silent prayer.

Egypt would be the easiest topic for Yugi. He practically grew up in an Egyptian atmosphere. His grandfather had bombarded his mind with Egyptian history before he could learn to talk. When he finally was able to talk, Yugi would always be begging to be told stories about his grandfather's excavations at bedtime. And after those were done he would be demanding his grandfather to let him stay up some extra minutes to learn the history of the fascinating ancient objects his granddad brought back. The same trinkets which were all proudly displayed in his room.

If Yami would chose this one then they would be fine.

"Hmmm well I don't know. Tell me Yugi why should we pick it?"

"Well it one of the most famous civilizations out there. Their time era was is just so fascinating, with all that they managed to accomplish. We would be able to find a lot of good materials on them. They had many interesting inventions which would be easy to talk about. The food there was also rather simple so it would be easy to bring in. Rituals which would be easy to re-enact and there are many mysteries involved with them. And their mythology is also a fascinating subject." Yugi babbled on endlessly. He was trying to include as many appealing things as he could to convince Yami, this mainly meant giving a lot of "easy to do's" and 'simple to re-enact' etc but hey it was the only thing that seemed to matter to him so Yugi had to give it a shot.

He continued to explain when he was suddenly caught off.

"Hmmm, no, doesn't seem all that interesting."

Those few words crushed Yugi's spirits. Yami had turned down all his ideas. What the heck were they going to do now? Yugi was done playing nice. He glowered at Yami menacingly. If the jerk had the nerve to reject all of Yugi's ideas then he could have a fun time coming up with his own!

"Ok then wise guy what do YOU suggest we do," hissed Yugi, emphasizing the 'you' part.

Yami merely grinned (at this point Yugi was very for punching that stupid thing right off his face) and raised a single arm high in the air.

Puzzled, Yugi stared as Mr. Harrison spotted Yami's extended arm and excitedly bounced over to their table.

"Hello boys, have you decided on a topic," his happy voice chirped as the hand that was gripping his pencil was eagerly poised on top of his clip board, just waiting to take down their choice of topic.

Yugi stayed silent in his seat, questioning eyes focused on Yami's suspiciously happy demeanour. Yami turned his face towards their teacher, but his crimson irises were situated at the corner of his eye.

"I was telling Yugi here...," he started. It was obvious that whatever he was going to say was directed at Yugi but before Yugi could place it Yami's gaze flickered back to face the standing figure looming over him. "...that Egypt would be a fascinating choice to do."

Yugi's eyes popped but Mr. Harrison seemed ignorant to it.

"Yes fascinating choice," he gushed proudly, "what led you to that decision?"

"Well you know sir," Yami began with a professional voice almost as if he was the professor educating the student, "their time era is just so fascinating, with all that they managed to accomplish. I have a feeling that we would be able to find a lot of good materials on them..."

Yugi stared, astonished, as Yami skillfully reiterated his entire explanation to Mr. Harrison.

He was copying him. Those were HIS words!

"...their mythology is also a fascinating topic that would be very interesting to research" Yami finished, at Yugi snapped out of his angered thoughts to see Mr. Harrison's face puffed out in pride.

"Well Yami, to be honesty I'm very surprised that those words came out of your mouth but good for you, he grinned encouragingly. "I'm sure you boys will have an amazing project and I'm really looking forward to seeing it."

And with that he quickly jotted down their topic and stalked off to another group of two girls who had their hands up.

Once he was out of ear rang, Yugi rotated his head to face Yami, his resentment clearly written all over his face.

"You really are an asshole you know that," he growled, all attempt of being nice and calm flew out the window, leaving hatred and loathing behind.

Yami snorted distastefully, it seemed like he was done keeping up his charade as well.

"Believe me that was painful for me too, I sounded like a total nerd. But I really do have to thank you, at least now he thinks I was the one that came up with the project."

The cynical look on his face mixed with the air of pride had Yugi sick to his stomach. How could anyone find this guy enjoyable to be around. He was sick just being in a 10 meter distance!

"Well considering you have no idea what you just said how do you plan on working on this project?" Yugi asked in irritation.

That irritation rose as a chuckle erupted from Yami's chest.

"Contrary to belief, I actually do know some things about Egypt and if not I have a friend who would be more than happy to help me, not for cheap of course, but happy nonetheless."

Mariku, Yugi thought, and he had to admit it was a good idea. He himself had not considered asking Malik for assistance, though it would be a good move.

Sighing and rubbing his temples Yugi could feel a headache brewing. He wanted nothing more than to have this over and done with, unfortunately he knew that wasn't possible, but hey he could dream right?

"Ok so Mr. Harrison said that food would be the first assignment. Do you have any ideas for how to do that?"

"Of course I do," Yugi had a terrible feeling he wasn't going to like the next response. "You do all the hard working stuff and I stand there and use my usual charm and grace to win him over." And he was right.

"Ohh really?" he grumbled, concocting a little plan in his head.

"Ya," was Yami's cocky response.

"And how has that been working out for ya so far, cause I'm pretty sure if you haven't won him over by now, how do expect to do it now?" he said in a sweet voice, doing an internal happy dance at Yami's scowl.

Chuckling in spite of himself, Yugi cheerfully glanced up at the clock. To his surprise, and ultimate pleasure, it indicated that it was almost time to leave.

Deciding to wrap things up he informed Yami that they would need to meet up after school to further discuss the details of their planning.

Before Yami had a chance to open his big mouth the loud screech of the bell sounded. Yugi would have never thought that he would be happy to hear that painful noise until today.

The sounds of chairs rubbing against the floor filled the room as the teens packed up their belongings and crowded around the door exiting the room.

Yugi followed their example, stuffing his own books into his bag.

"Ok so we'll meet up at the library then at 5," Yugi said, swinging his bag over his right shoulder and made a beeline toward the door. He couldn`t wait to get away from both the classroom and Yami. But he stopped when he heard Yami's voice.

"Nu-uh. We're doing this on my terms, meaning we are meeting up where I tell you to. I can't let other people think I'm willingly hanging out with you now can I," he sneered, slowly rising from his chair as if he had all the time in the world. He was stalling, Yugi knew and he frowned.
He wanted nothing more than to wipe that stupid sickeningly sweet smile off the jerks face. But he really didn't want to waste more time fighting with an incomparable idiot so begrudgingly he decided that he would have to agree to his wishes.

"So where do you wanna meet then your highness", he spat out the last words as they left a foul taste in his mouth.

Yami grinned in triumph, not feeling offended but instead he felt a sense of accomplishment. Yugi mentally rolled his eyes. Of course the idiot was prideful that Yugi was finally succumbing to his desires, he had a major complex going on in that department.

"Seto's mansion, you know where that is yes?" Yami questioned and watched as Yugi's eyebrows shot up.

"K-Kaiba's..." Yugi strayed off In shock. Kaiba's mansion. KAIBA'S MANSION!

Kaiba's mansion was the place that every student dreamed of going.

It was rumoured that the place was huge.

Not just 'mansion huge', but 'huge-huge', or better yet, gigantic.

Kaiba was the CEO of an international multimillion dollar technical company, of course his mansion would be full of high tech gadgets and gizmos. Needless to say Yugi was very surprised, and quite frankly suspicious. Everyone knew that Kaiba was rolling in cash but it was also rumored that Yami wasn't that far behind. Yugi vaguely remembered That Yami's family was also in charge of a top company the name escaping his thoughts. That however wasn't the issue Yugi decided as he glances at Yami.

"Why Kaiba's mansion I heard you had your own, why mooch off your cousin?" Yugi voiced out in his confusion.

This seemed to trigger some hurtful memories, Yugi discovered as he saw Yami`s face scrunch up as he turned away from Yugi's eyes to stare at the desk as if it was the most fascinating object in the room. The air of confidence and superiority that once hung around him was blown away only to be replaced by one of sadness and misery.

Yami moved his shoulders; Yugi guessed that it was a shrug.

"I'm staying there so we might as well do it there," he said in a surprisingly quiet tone.

Yugi was about to ask what Yami meant, but when it dawned on him that that would be considered an act of caring and compassion he hastily bit his tongue. It was none of his business where Yami was staying, or who he was staying with.
But that didn't mean that this side of Yami didn't creep him out. He had to do something to get him back to normal.

"Ok, you know what, fine! We'll do it your way. You big baby", he muttered the last part under his breath.

Yami's head jolted to face the other teen in the room.

Like a freshly lit match, his attitude of confidence and superiority was once again burning brightly.

"What was that!" he inquired and Yugi unconsciously. No matter how much he hated the guy, it was fun getting him riled up.

"Nothing, nothing at all," Yugi hurriedly answered with a small satisfied smirk. Spinning on his heel, he continued his march towards the door. Once he finally reached his destination, he curled his fingers around the knob, grasping it tightly. He turned to face Yami. "Well, see ya", and with that said he walked out the door, smirk seemingly permanently stitched on his face.

I just wanted to tell you guys that I'm sorry about making you worry about this fic. And I have some points that I want to say so hopefully you are actually reading this :P

First, I've started a new short little story on Fanfiction, it's called I'm No Damsel In Distress and I really hope you'll take the time to read it. It's a Bronzeshipping fic so if you like the way I write Bronzeshipping you'll really like it :) especially considering I've been majorly craving more Bronzeshipping XD

Second, considering all the reviews I've been getting –which you have no idea how much I love you guys for :D- I wanted to do one of those fan writing challenges thingies.

You see my friend is now doing a prompt writing challenge for one of her major fandoms, and she's been forcing me to try some of my own, only problem I got no idea D:

So I decided that I would get help from my dear beloved readers :DD That's you .

I decided that my 100th reviewer, will be able to request a fic from me to write XD

So here's how this will work. You review and I will message you if you are my 100 reviewer. I will ask you if you want to request a fic or not. You will be able to message me within 1 day, considering time differences and what not :P if you want one or if you don't I'll go to the next person.

If you do want it all you have to do is reply with a yes (a no if you don't want it) and I'll give you another day to figure out what kind of request you would like to make.

Now here is what your request should be like:

1. Request one pairing and yes one of them must be in the fanfics, meaning Puzzleshipping, Bronzeshipping, Tendershipping, and Puppyshipping.

2. You give me a prompt to write for, by doing that you also have to give me a sentence that I have to incorporate in the can be any random little thing that either pops into your mind or heck, even a full idea that you want to read but have never wanted to write XD I'll take either.

3. This will be a oneshot type of thing, especially considering I must practice how to do those so please try do not expect more. I may write a sequel for it if I like the idea well enough but just warning you in advance.

4. You guys know I take long to update, you've experienced it firsthand. So I please don't expect your fics to be done within 1 week :( Especially considering my exams are coming up and whatnot. I promise to get to your idea but I don't want it rushed or anything.

So please take the time to review! You never know if the person before you rejects the idea so you might be chosen XD Even if it's not you please leave a review. These are the things that keep me inspired to write, trust me they mean alot so please keep them coming ;D

Until next time ~!