(A/N: Woot! I finished next chapter sooner than I thought! It was hard to write it, actually, I couldn't get to the limit and had to add more stuff, like in the end, that may totally suck... Anyway, I also did it because I won't be working on the fanfic from Saturday until Wednesday, probably.

The reason is because my birthday's on Saturday -YAY!! I'LL BE 14!!- and I don't have school until Wednesday -holidays-, so I'll take the chance to work on ANOTHER fanfic -don't know if Fallen Light or Codename, Wolf 4831, check my profile for details- and the most probable thing is that I won't have next chapter up in a while... so ENJOY!! :D)

Shōnen-Ai High School

Chapter 8

"I believe that you said you'd answer my questions if I helped you. I did as I say and I expect the same from you!"

"That does not concern you." Yugi nearly winced at the angry tone on her voice. "I highly recommend you to stick only to your business, Yugi, because, believe me..." She looked at him with half-closed eyes. "You really don't wanna see me angry." Before he could even blink, the blue-haired girl was already walking away.

"What in the world was that?!" whispered Yugi to himself. "I didn't know Kerii could get that angry!" No matter what, he'd find out the reason for her behavior, though he still was looking for the reason to Yami's the first time they met. But the girl was like the best female friend he'd ever had, it worried him. Maybe it's a good idea to ask Yami-san... he thought as he ran towards the courtyard.

-

He didn't know why he'd gone there. From all the places, why would Yami be in the courtyard? Well, there he was when Yugi wanted to get some explanations from him, huh? He had nothing to lose.

It seemed like the crimson-eyed would appear where the boy wanted him to whenever he wanted him to. Clearing his expectations, the taller one was sitting like the first time they'd met under the same tree.

"Yami-san?" Yami turned his head around when he heard his name, waving at the boy.

"Hey, kid," he greeted. 'Kid'? Does having a nickname meant something good? "What is it?"

"You aren't looking for Kerii anymore?"

"Eh, let her have some more time of life," he said mockingly. "The more I looked for her, the sadder I felt for trying to kill her, so I'll stop today. Though, if she does that again, there won't be a second chance..." Yugi swallowed as if he was listening to a very cool horror story. "Anyway, is that what you wanted to ask me?"

"Etto..." Yugi got nervous. How was he going to ask him about Kerii's brother? He probably wouldn't say anything about the subject.

"Something the matter?" He might as well try.

"Does Kerii-chan have a—how do you call it—dark side?" The older one raised an eyebrow, making Yugi believe he had seen through his lie.

"Why do you ask?"

"B- Because, she's always like so hyper and childish that I wonder if she's got an angry side, one that would kill you with only a glance." Yami blinked.

"I've not seen her like that since the last time the family gathered," he answered. "Did you say something that would get her angry?"

"I- Iie!" replied Yugi. "Just curious, arigatou!" Without giving Yami a chance to say 'you're welcome', Yugi ran as fast as his legs could back to the school building.

-

"Okay, so I find Kerii and in any case she wants to talk with me... one, I'll ask her to forgive me; two, I'll plead her to tell me why she got all worked up; three, problem solved! Now, in the case she doesn't forgive me... one, prepare my will! And most importantly... I gotta stop talking to myself!"

The boy was now leaning against one of the hallway's windows, looking at the ceiling and praying no one else was listening to him as he talked to himself.

"ATEMU YAMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" The boy didn't have time to think or realize what had happened before he found himself on the floor.

"Nani ko—?!" He stood up when the voice that had just yelled became clear on his mind. "Kerii-chan?" Yugi looked through the window he'd been lying against and saw the girl standing in front of her relative, whose body was halfway still on the floor.

"What's your problem, Satori Kerii?!" asked Yami, fury boiling in his blood. "Geez, you totally ruined the sketch I was drawing!" He sighed. "Now I'll have to do it again," he said, scratching with his pen the now ruined sketch on his blank-paged notebook.

"It's not like it was something worth repeating." Yugi winced. When had Kerii been so... not her to anyone?

"Looks like someone woke up with the wrong foot today."

"Did you mention something about aniki to Yugi?!" The male's fury left his eyes while the fury in Kerii's increased.

"I didn't—"

"DON'T lie to me!" Yugi gasped as he saw tears forming on his friend's eyes. "Not even one small detail?! Nothing at all?!"

"I just said 'her brother would' and that's it, Kerii, you know I'd never do something like that!" said Yami in his defense.

"Then why does he know?" she asked, calmer now, then again angry. "He didn't notice the first time I mentioned him on the bus!"

"It slipped out on accident and I didn't know that the kid was such a good listener!" Kerii's head turned up and she covered her eyes with one of her hands, sniffling and with tears streaming down her cheeks.

What in the world? wondered Yugi.

"Kerii, what happened?" asked Yami. The girl exhaled deeply.

"He asked me who my aniki was." The taller relative held back a gasp and suddenly pulled his cousin into an embrace. "Gomen ne, Kerii," he said, hugging her tighter. Kerii sniffled and returned the hug. "Demo..."

"Hm?"

". . . I think you should tell him." The blue-haired girl broke the embrace and looked up at her cousin.

"You think so?" she asked. Yami nodded at her.

"He's a good guy, I can see that." Yugi smiled to himself, and as if Kerii had seen him, she smiled slightly, too.

"Yeah, he seems like a good guy." Sniff.

"At least he should know the truth, don't you think so, cous' cous'?" The girl chuckled and wiped her eyes, sniffling again. She looked down, the small smile still on her face.

"You're right," she finally said. "I'll explain him everything."

"That's the spirit!"

"Arigatou, Yami-kun!" Kerii gave her relative a quick kiss on the cheek and ran towards the building. Yugi quickly got away from the window to avoid being seen and left to the only safe place he could think of: his new room.

-

"Yugi?" The girl knocked on the dorm's door. "Yugi-kun, are you there?"

"Oh, come in, Kerii-chan!" said the boy from the other side. Kerii opened the door and saw him sitting on his bed with his legs crossed and a notebook and pen on his hands.

"W- What are you writing?" she asked a bit nervous.

"Just checking some details from this story I began few days ago," he answered as he bit the end of his pen.

"Oh, I see." Kerii stood there for a few seconds before sitting down at the edge of the mattress. "Gomenasai, Yugi."

"Eh?" Yugi looked up at her. "Why?"

"I was mean to you without any reason at all," she answered. "At least because of a reason you still don't know."

"Am I supposed to know this reason, Kerii?" The girl nodded.

"I think you should. It's... complicated, but if I tell you everything, you'll understand." At this point, Yugi's mind had formed thousands of questions he wanted to ask, but he waited until it was safe to do so.

"This will take a while, won't it?"

"Hai," said Kerii as the boy put his notebook and pen down on the bed.

"You can start now, you have my complete attention." With a small sigh, the blue-haired girl turned her head to the ceiling.

"I don't know how to start..."

"What if you just start at the beginning?" She let out a chuckle.

"I guess it would be the best," she mocked.

"I'm listening," said Yugi in a supportive tone. Turning her head down, Kerii began.

"My aniki..." Then she looked at Yugi. ". . . he's dead."

(A/N: OMG!! I know, crappy ending, but it's... what, 11:40? My brain's tired and it's not working right, so please forgive me... and my brain XD Anyway, like I said, next chapter won't be up in a while so I left this one earlier! Enjoy it and review! I might change my mind if I get reviews!! :P

DISCLAIMER! I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! because it's property of Kazuki Takahashi, but he doesn't own Kerii because she's my OC and you know the rest...)