(A/N: Yay! Chapter 4 is done! :D -kudos, kudos- Not much to say about this chapter, except that someone people are expecting will make a small appearance! But I'm not saying who it is! :D
Kazuki Takahashi-sama is the owner of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Kerii is my OC character, and the anime (and games) of Gakuen Heaven belongs to SPRAY... I think...)
Shōnen-Ai High School
Chapter 4
Yugi looked through the window as he sat on the second seat of the bus he'd just taken. He took off his backpack and held it tightly against his chest, both of his arms wrapped around it. He couldn't believe where he was going. Just the thought of it made him smile widely as he leaned against the window.
Suddenly, the bus came to a fierce stop and Yugi was grateful that he'd put his backpack between him and the seat in front of him.
"You almost got late today, you know that?" he heard the driver ask to whoever got on the bus at that stop.
"Hai... I... know that!" The teenager gasped at hearing the passenger's voice. It sounded way too familiar. "Gomen, but you know Emiya, that son of a baka decided to lecture me this morning." It was hers, no doubt about it! Yugi looked up to see if his assumption was right.
"Kerii-chan?" The blue haired teenager blinked and turned her face at Yugi, a giant grin crossing her lips.
"Yugi-kun!" she yelled happily. "I'm so glad you got into the school!" she said walking over to Yugi's seat and taking a place beside him.
"I never thought you were a student, too!" he admitted. "Though... aren't you a bit young?" Kerii frowned.
"For your information, Yugi-kun," she began, still frowning and now pointing at herself with her thumb, "I may be a bit small in height, but I am 18!"
"You are 18?!" he asked with shock on his voice. "Wow, you definitely don't seem like it..."
"You must have some serious issues with heights and age, don't you?" she asked him.
"I- Iie, of course not!" Kerii eyed him suspiciously. "I just never thought that there could possibly be someone smaller than me but of my same age." She sighed.
"Thank my parents, Yugi. Both of them came from families with short height," she explained. "Well, at least kaa-san. Tou-san was a bit tall, and aniki was lucky to be like him." Kerii saddened at the mentioning of her older brother.
"Kerii, daijoubu?" Her head snapped up and she smiled apologetically.
"Hai, daijoubu." Yugi looked at her, not sure if she really meant it or not.
"Etto... it's cool that they don't force us to use uniforms, ne?" he said, trying to change the subject.
"That's one of the things I most like!" answered Kerii. "Oh, Yugi, you're gonna LOVE it! There are many people just like you! Not writers, but you get the idea! And we also do a theater play at the end of the year!"
The boy smiled as he noticed that the blue-haired girl had returned to normal and kept listening to her, hoping he'd enjoy his staying on the school as much as she was saying.
"Oh, and we get to live on campus! It's like that anime series... what's the name... Gakuen Heaven!"
"Oh, I've seen it!"
"It's super kawaii! I mean, I love it!"
"But if we live on campus, then why do you take the bus?" asked Yugi, not able to hold his curiosity.
"Ano... it's actually something embarrassing to talk about..." Kerii rubbed the back of her neck. "You see, my step-son-of-a-baka-father doesn't like the idea of me going to a school like the Shōnen-Ai High School. He thinks I might get affected by the environment. Anyway, I told him that there was nothing to worry about and that I'd be just fine on my own. Demo, being the baka he is, Emiya agreed only if I returned home every weekend."
Yugi thought for a moment, remembering when Kerii mentioned her stepfather when she got on the bus. He wanted to ask if her relationship with him was so bad, but he stopped himself from doing so.
It's not really my business, he thought.
After that, Kerii stayed silent, not once lifting her gaze from the floor. The boy looked at her and imitated her, his gaze staring at his feet.
Did I hurt her feelings that much?
"We're here," said the bus driver as he stopped the vehicle in front of the Shōnen-Ai High School building. The two teenagers stood up and Yugi carried his backpack above his shoulder as they both got down the bus.
"Arigatou, Ed!" she called to the driver with a smile painted on her face. Then Kerii grabbed one of Yugi's hands and grinned at him. "C'mon, Yugi-kun! We don't want you to be late on your first day!" she said, pulling said boy towards the building.
"Oi, Kerii-chan, slow down, would you?!" Kerii only laughed.
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"Kerii, I think I'm already pretty late," said Yugi when he noticed no one in the hallways.
"I actually think we got on time..." she looked at the clock on the wall. "Yeah, we're 10 minutes before."
"Oh, boy," whined the male teenager.
"Demo, that gives us more time to get you installed on your room!"
"That scares me..."
"Nani? Don't worry, I'm sure you'll get a roommate!"
"I'm scared because of the fact that you will be showing me around."
"Eh! Yugi-kun, you're being a meanie again!"
"Gomen ne, but is the truth!"
"Oi, oi, don't be such a chicken! It's not like I'm going to get you killed or something!" Yugi opened his mouth to speak. "No comments," she interrupted before Yugi could talk.
"Don't you think that it'd be better if you helped me by getting my schedule?" he asked her.
"You don't need it at all!"
"Nani?" Yugi stopped behind Kerii. "What do you mean 'I don't need it at all'?" Kerii also stopped and turned back to him.
"That's also one of the best parts!" she exclaimed. "You see, the first day you come in, your only work is to get to know your way around and every class, club, and club leader."
"Is that the best part?" questioned the boy.
"Oi, don't interrupt me!" He shut his mouth. "The best part is that after you know almost everything, you decide which class to take and when to take it!" Yugi's mouth opened widely in shock. "What I mean is that, for example, if you wanna take half a day art and half the day literature, you can do so! And the next day can be one hour of music, one hour of this, one of that, and so on!"
The boy stared at her in disbelief.
"You've got to be totally kidding me!" he yelled, his voice filled with excitement.
"As much as I'd love to kid you, it's true!"
"That's so sukoii!"
"I know, right?" Kerii turned to the clock. "Well, I'll tell the principal that you already arrived. Then I'll help you to get installed. See you later, Yugi-kun!" She waved as she turned around and ran off.
Yugi sighed. Now he'd have to find any room on his own before the rest of the students saw him and thought he was a really big idiot. Not even knowing where he was going, he just began to walk, hoping to find a room soon.
I should've asked Kerii to take me somewhere before she left... he thought. To his luck, soon enough he found a room with the label of "Art Club" on the door. Curiosity filling his insides, he turned around to make sure no one was watching and opened the door, getting inside the room, closing it when he was in. He gasped as he saw all the paintings there were.
"Sukoii!" he whispered to himself. With a childish grin across his face, Yugi got closer to them as if he was a kid that was spending his first time on a zoo. Then, looking to the right, he felt himself breathless.
There, at the corner of the room, was a mere sketch; a big one; of two persons... no, two male teenagers, with their foreheads pressed together, one hand of each intertwined with the other's while the other hand of one of them was on the other one's cheek. This last one was blushing, but smiling gently as was his lover, and their faces were close enough for them to kiss each other at any moment.
Yugi had never seen such expression of emotions in a single sketch in his entire life. Then he wondered, why was such a beautiful creation abandoned at the corner of the room? It deserved to be at the center of the room, nothing less! With his imagination flowing wildly, the teenager mentally narrated the story he imagined behind the sketch.
He was so handsome... I couldn't compare his beauty with anything in this world. It just wasn't possible. "My love," he said suddenly, his hand caressing my cheek, "I don't care what you say, but without you, my life has no meaning." He then pressed our foreheads together and intertwined his free hand with one of mine. "But... you're so beautiful..." I said. "My beauty is only product of having you in my life." I couldn't help the blood going up to my cheeks as he gave me the smile I most liked to see, and I gently returned it.
"I take that you like my sketch, don't you?" Yugi gasped slightly. That was not Kerii's voice. "So, aren't you going to answer?" He turned his head around, afraid of whom he would find. "C'mon, I'm waiting." The stranger's eyes pierced through him and he thought his breath was going to leave him again.
(A/N: I'm guessing you already know who it is, ne? If you don't, come on, take a guess! :D If you liked this chapter, or know who it is, or just for the heck of it, review, minna-san!! n.n)