(A/N: Moshi moshi, minna!! :) Since I was in such a good mood today, I decided to put up the next chapter!! The bad news is that you'll still not know what's wrong with Kerii. The good news is that something really kawaii happens at the end! :D But to know what it is, you have to read the chapter! :P

I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! but I do own Satori Kerii and Kojiha Sakiko! Enjoy!)

Shōnen-Ai High School

Chapter 12

"What do you mean 'not beating'?!" asked Yugi to a shocked Ryou. "Where's the infirmary?! We have to get someone to check on her!"

"What the hell's going on?!" Both Yugi and Ryou turned their heads back and looked up respectively only to find Bakura staring at them, frowning.

"'Kura-kun, please help us!" pleaded the smaller white-haired. "Kerii just fainted and her heart isn't beating...!"

"Put her on my back, Ryou," said Bakura all of a sudden, not letting the younger finish. "I'm the only one of the three who can possibly carry her without having any trouble, so just put her on my back!"

"H- Hai!" Yugi helped him to place Kerii on the back of the eldest, who didn't wait even 2 seconds before running off to the infirmary, Yugi and his small look-a-like following him close behind.

"Ryou? Ryou, what's wrong?" The boy was as surprised as the other two to find Sakiko sitting on a chair next to the bed on the not so big room, talking with a doctor. "Bakura, what happened to Kerii?!"

"Sakiko-san, we gotta help Kerii-chan, she fainted all of a sudden and we don't know why and Ryou says that her heart's not beating at all and...!"

"Mutou-san, calm down," said Sakiko, putting a hand on the boy's shoulder and making a sign to Bakura to put Kerii on the bed beside her chair. "Now I'm going to ask you to leave so the doctor can check on her."

"But I need to know what happened to her, Sakiko-san, onegai!" begged Yugi, tears forming on his eyes.

"Don't worry, Mutou-san, you'll be the first one to know after I check on her," said the doctor. The boy sniffled and slowly nodded, allowing Ryou and Bakura to take him out as he glanced one last time at the unconscious girl.

-

Why had the school suddenly turned into a ghost town? There was absolutely nobody and the silence of the hallway was killing him.

The youngest of the three sat on the floor with his arms and head resting on his drawn-up knees, the smaller white-haired look-a-like sat beside him and the other one pacing back and forth in front of them.

Yugi glanced at the clock for the 35th time. He couldn't help it. It had been almost two hours since Kerii was taken inside the room.

"Where is she?" His and Ryou's sights went to the side as they heard Yami's voice. The crimson-eyed was standing in the hallway with the fiercest frown Yugi had ever seen on him.

"Inside," answered Bakura, never stopping his pacing. The boy's look saddened at the expression of the taller one.

"Yami, I..." he began.

"Keep your words for later," interrupted Yami harshly. His smaller look-a-like winced and went back to the position he was before the crimson-eyed entered to the room. He sniffled, trying his best not to cry.

"He's just tense, Yugi-kun, it's not your fault," said Ryou, putting an arm around Yugi's shoulders in an effort to sooth him with his words. "Kerii-chan's nearly the only family he has left, without counting his other cousin and his parents."

"Hm?" Yugi lifted his head and looked at Ryou. "What do you mean?" The white-haired smiled kindly at him.

"I'm afraid that I'm in no place to answer that."

Time seemed to stop in a sudden moment when the three of them saw Sakiko and Yami coming out of the room. The boy was the first one to stand up.

"How is she? What happened? Is she gonna be all right?" he asked, not giving any time to answer before asking the next question.

"She just fainted because of physical stress, Mutou-san," answered Sakiko. "The doctor said that he'd keep an eye on her for today and let her leave tomorrow. The only thing she needs right now is rest."

"So the best would be to wait until tomorrow to make any questions you have for her," added Yami, never taking his eyes off Yugi's.

"Ryou, now that I see you, have you and Yugi began to think about the play?" asked the principal, totally changing the subject.

"Oh, not exactly," answered the smaller white-haired. "We did start thinking on some ideas, but it's not like we progressed much."

"Bakura, I assume you do know that you and Yami will be working with them, ne?" she questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"Hai, Kojiha," replied Bakura with a muffled voice. "C'mon, Ryou, you have to tell me what you plan to do."

"Yush, 'Kura-kun!" said Ryou excitedly as he turned towards Bakura, dragging his arm through the hallway. Yugi smiled when he noticed that Bakura didn't argue with Ryou about his name.

"Sorry that I have to leave," began Sakiko as she stepped aside, "but I still have a lot of things to do. It was nice meeting with you again, Mutou-san."

"I say the same, Sakiko-san," replied Yugi as the elder walked away. All of a sudden, he felt a growing tension between himself and Yami, just like the first time they'd seen each other on the Art Club's room. This time, however, he felt even worse.

"Let's go." The boy blinked at Yami's words.

"Huh?"

"It's getting late already," said the crimson-eyed, glancing briefly at the clock on the wall. Yugi did the same, realizing Yami was right. It was almost 8 o'clock. "I think we should go back to the dorms—"

"Mateh," interrupted the boy. "First... I have to call jii-chan, he must be worried that I haven't called or anything." Yami sighed hesitantly.

"Yush, just do it quickly." The smaller nodded.

-

After calling his grandfather and letting him know that he was going to sleep on campus for most of his staying, Yugi took his time to go back to his dorm.

What if Yami was angry with him? What if he thought that what happened to Kerii was his fault? He didn't even want to think what the older's reaction might be. When he finally got to the room, he thought twice before doing any movement.

Will he even speak to me? he wondered.

"Are you just gonna stand there?" Yugi looked up and saw Yami gazing down at him. He didn't even hear when the taller one opened the door. He stared at the floor again before shaking his head, entering the room as Yami moved aside. "I didn't think you'd last so much," said the crimson-eyes as he closed the door and sat on his bed. Yugi did the same and climbed into his own bed. He took out his notebook from his backpack and read whatever story he had written on it.

God did he hate silence. No matter how hard he tried to focus; no matter how many times he read it, the sentence didn't stay in his mind after he'd passed to the next one. His mind didn't allow him to stop wondering the strange change of Yami's mood. He turned to the crimson-eyed, who was resting his back against the wall beside his bed, deeply inside the sketch he was drawing.

Why do I say to him? he thought. I really don't wanna have any problems with him, and even less since we're roommates.

"Gomen ne." Yugi held back a gasp at the moment he heard Yami talking. "I'm not angry at you, you know." He smiled, still looking at his sketch. "It's only that I got a bit worried when I heard that Kerii was on the infirmary. I didn't mean to act so cruel to you."

"I- It doesn't matter," said Yugi, blushing slightly. "I understand that you were worried."

"Demo..." This time, when Yugi glanced at Yami, Yami was staring back at him, the smile never leaving his face. "I appreciate that you waited that long outside to know her condition. That would've really meant a lot for her."

"W- Well," began the boy, looking away, "she's my friend, I also got worried." He heard the taller one chuckle before going back to his reading.

"So," said Yami, "I noticed that you and Ryou haven't had any idea for the play."

"We just found out that we were going to write it today, Yami-san!" replied Yugi, blushing again. "I'd like to say that we're better than that, but stories aren't made in one day!" The taller one laughed.

"That's why I like sketches more than writings," he said. "Sketches are easy to make while stories last according to the ideas of the author."

"I'm sorry that not everyone has the talent of a professional sketcher!" muffled the boy.

"Oh?" Yami raised an eyebrow. "You like my sketches that much to call me a professional?" His question made Yugi blush more than it should.

"Oi, my first day was really exhausting, so I'll go to sleep right now," he stated, trying his best to change the subject. He lied his head down on the pillow and turned off the small lamp on the table beside his bed, pulling a sheet over him. "Oyasumi, Yami-san," he muffled, still wanting to sound angry.

"Oyasumi, kid," said Yami back. Yugi sighed and gave up. It was impossible for him to be angry at the crimson-eyed... no matter how hard he tried.

(A/N: Aww!! Tell me that that wasn't kawaii!! Of courshe it was!! :D I had to make this scene to fill the chapter, because I suddenly got short of ideas and that ish NOT good for me! Anyway, review, minna! Make sure to do so if you liked this chapter! Cuz I sure did! :D)