Chapter 47- Graduation Day
"Yes! We're done!" Jou shouted, pumping his fist up in the air.
"I think this is the most excited that I have ever seen Jou." Yugi said.
"That's because he knows that we're all out of school." Seto said.
"Hell yeah! Not only that, but we're done with school for good!" Jou said.
"No kidding! We don't have to go back to that place now." Bakura agreed.
Atemu rolled his eyes. "Don't forget about college, Bakura." Atemu said.
Bakura shrugged. "I don't know if I'm going. All it is, is more school." Bakura said.
"They're not going to get very good jobs then." Yami said.
"Well, we've got a couple of rich boyfriends to deal with the money thing." Marik said.
"Trust me. You're still going to work." Malik said.
"Yeah. We have to work for our money, too." Ryou added.
"Well, the good thing is that we're done with school." Jou said.
"We still have graduation, Jou." Heba said.
"I know, but it's not like it's work." Jou said.
The group went to the cars.
"So, where are we going to celebrate?" Jou asked.
"How about Burger World?" Marik suggested.
"Good idea." Atemu said.
"Well, I'll have to catch up. I promised Touma and Seiji that I would pick Jun up from school for them." Yugi said.
"I'll go with him, and we'll catch up with you guys later." Yami said.
The others left to head to Burger World.
Yugi and Yami arrived at the elementary school to find that there were a lot of parents there.
"Well, I guess we're going to have to struggle to find Jun this time around." Yugi said.
The two got out of the car and walked around to find Jun.
"Is there something I can help you boys with?" a woman asked.
"I was here to pick up my cousin." Yugi answered.
"Okay." the woman said before walking off.
"What was that about?" Yami asked.
"She probably wondered what a couple of teenagers were doing here. I guess making sure that we weren't here to cause any trouble." Yugi said.
"Not all teenagers are trouble makers." Yami muttered.
"Come on. Let's go and find Jun so that we can get him home." Yugi said.
Yami nodded, and the two kept looking for Jun.
"Yugi! Yami!"
Yugi and Yami turned to see Jun running up to them.
"Hey, Jun. Are you ready to go?" Yugi asked.
"Yeah!" Jun said enthusiastically.
The two teenagers took Jun back to the car and headed for the house.
Once there, the two went inside with Jun.
"Papa! Daddy!" Jun called.
Touma and Seiji came out form the living room with Seiji holding Trina.
"Hey, Jun. Did you have a good last day of school?" Touma asked.
"I sure did." Jun said.
"Thanks for getting him." Seiji said.
"No problem. We'll be going to meet the others now." Yami said.
"Meeting the others? What are you guys doing?" Touma asked.
"Jou wants to celebrate the last day of school." Yugi answered.
"That makes sense. We'll see you when you get back." Seiji said.
Yugi and Yami then left, leaving the family together.
"Come on, Jun." Touma said.
The group went back into the living room.
Yugi and Yami walked into Burger World to find that their friends were already there.
"Hey, guys. Glad you made it." Jou said.
Yugi rolled his eyes. "Jou, we just picked up Jun and took him home. Of course we were going to come." Yugi said as they joined their friends.
"We know. So, what should we do after this?" Malik asked.
"We've done pretty much everything there is to do in this town." Jou said.
"I'm sure that we can find something interesting to do." Marik said, smirking.
"I think that we can, too." Bakura agreed.
"Something legal, I hope." Atemu said.
"You take the fun out of everything." Marik said, pouting.
"Well, I don't think that Seiji and Touma would take it too kindly if we did something illegal and ended up in jail for it. In fact, I think that they would murder all of us." Atemu said.
"No kidding." Yugi agreed.
"Okay. I'm sure that we can find something perfectly legal to do that we all enjoy." Ryou said.
"Well, I hope that we can." Seto said.
"What are we going to do for the summer?" Malik asked.
"You know, not one of us have thought about that one." Yami said.
"I think that we can figure something out, although we need to remember that we're most likely going on tour this summer. We usually do in the summertime." Yugi said.
"Point taken." Heba said.
"I think that we can find something fun to do." Ryou said.
Seiji and Touma were sitting in the living room talking.
"So, do you think that they are going to like this?" Seiji asked.
"I think that they're going to love the idea." Touma said.
"True. I think that Yami, Atemu, Marik, Bakura, and Seto are really going to love the idea." Seiji agreed.
They heard the front door open and then close a few moments later/
"Boys! Is that you?" Touma asked.
"Yes." came the chorus of replied.
"Come in here, will you?" Seiji said.
The ten walked into the living room.
"What's up?" Yugi asked.
"Sit down. We need to talk about something." Seiji said.
"We didn't do anything!" Marik, Bakura, and Malik said at the same time.
Seiji rolled his eyes. "Why do you say that every time we tell you that we have something to talk to you about?" Seiji asked.
Malik shrugged. "Just covering the basis." Malik said.
The two shook their heads.
"No one is in trouble, now sit down. There's something we want to tell you." Touma said.
The group did as they were told.
"What's going on?" Heba asked.
"Well, I figured that you know you're going on tour this summer." Touma said.
"Yeah. You never told us where it was, though." Yugi said.
"Well, you're going on a European tour." Touma said.
"EUROPEAN?!" the teenagers exclaimed.
The two nodded.
"Yeah, You're music is big in Europe, so I agreed to do a European for you guys." Touma said.
"When do we leave?" Jou asked.
"The tour starts in three weeks." Touma answered.
"I guess we get to go to Europe then!" Ryou said, rather excited.
"Yeah. We've never been to Europe before." Malik said.
"Well, I have, but I haven't been there in years." Ryou said.
"Great. We get to spend the summer without you guys." Bakura grumbled.
"Stop being so grumpy, Bakura. We haven't told you everything yet." Seiji said.
"What else is there?" Yami asked.
"You guys are going, too." Touma said.
"We are?!" Yami, Atemu, Seto, Bakura, and Marik exclaimed.
"Yes. We all are going. The concerts have been scheduled so that there are a few days that we can spend relaxing and enjoying the sights in that city." Touma said.
"So, it's a tour and vacation rolled into one." Yugi said.
"Yes." Seiji said.
"Cool! We get to go to Europe!" Yami exclaimed.
"I thought that you would like that." Seiji said.
"Just so you know, your college will start before the tour is over, so you'll have to come back a little early." Touma said.
"That doesn't matter. We'll be there with them most of the time." Yami said.
"Well, we just wanted you to know that that's how you'll be spending the summer." Touma said.
"We've got a lot to look forward to then." Yugi said.
"Thanks for letting us go, too." Atemu said.
"We figured that you guys would rather spend time with each other anyway." Seiji said.
"Yeah. I guess that answers the question of what we're going to be doing for the summer now." Bakura said.
"Just remember that we're reserving the right to send you back here at any time, so you two had better behave." Seiji said, looking right at Marik and Bakura.
"And I will force you to stay at the hotel on the days that you have free, Malik." Touma said.
"Okay. We get it. We need to stay out of trouble." Malik said.
"Good. I'm glad that you understand that, Behaving goes to all of you, though." Touma said.
"Then why single us out?" Marik demanded.
"Because you're the three that give them the most trouble." Seto answered.
"He's right about that." Yami agreed.
"Okay. I think that they get it. You can stop ragging on them now." Seiji said.
"Thank you." Bakura said.
"Go on. That's all that we had to tell you." Seiji said.
"Oh! Before I forget, the preview of the new CD is in the music room." Touma said.
"Thanks, Touma." Yugi said before the teenagers headed upstairs.
"What's this CD?" Yami asked.
"We always get a few copies of the new CD before they go on sale in stores." Yugi answered as the group walked into the music room where all the band equipment was set up. He went to the box and opened it, taking out one of the CDs.
"Wow! That's a great cover." Bakura said.
The cover of the CD was of the boys in their costumes in various places on the cover with an instrument.
"It turned out better than we thought." Ryou remarked.
"Think we can listen to one?" Bakura asked.
"You can all have one if you want. For some odd reason, they always send us twenty-five copies when we don't need them." Yugi said.
Yami, Atemu, Marik, Bakura, and Seto all took a copy of the CD.
"Isn't there a copy missing?" Seto asked.
"Touma probably took it. He always keeps one of the CDs so that he can compare what songs are on each CD when we're planning the next one." Yugi said.
"The CD isn't supposed to come for a few more weeks, is it?" Yami asked.
"Nope. It comes out in three weeks." Yugi answered.
"What do you do with the other CDs?" Seto asked.
"We'll usually sell them online on our website." Yugi answered.
"Which we'll be starting." Jou added.
"Well, I have to say that it's pretty amazing. We get an early copy." Marik said.
Malik rolled his eyes. "Marik, you here us play all the time." Malik reminded him.
"I know, but it's still cool that we get an early copy." Atemu said.
"Well, it doesn't really matter. We need to prepare ourselves for graduation, anyway." Heba said.
"Right. You've got to work on your valedictorian speech, Seto." Jou said.
Seto rolled his eyes. "I got that speech written down a few days ago. I'm ready." Seto said.
"You always get everything done early." Marik said.
Seto shrugged. "I'd rather do that than procrastinate like you guys do." Seto said.
~Graduation Day~
Graduation had started, and everyone was excited to graduate.
"We'll hear from the valedictorian of the school, Seto Kaiba." the principal said.
Seto stood up and walked over to the podium. "We've gone to this school for four years, and we have all worked hard to reach the point that we are at. We'll take the lessons that we have learned as we go to college or to jobs. We've earned this, and we should all be proud of ourselves." Seto said.
Everyone clapped at the short speech that Seto had made.
It was then that everyone's name was called out for them to walk up and get their diplomas.
Once everyone had their diplomas, the principal said, "Congratulations to the class of 2009!"
The students cheered and some even throw their caps up in excitement.
Yugi and the others got together.
"This is great! We are officially done with school." Bakura said.
"Yeah. We don't have to come back to this prison again." Marik added.
"Come on, guys. It's not that bad." Yugi said.
"In any case, let's get going." Atemu said.
The group walked off and soon found where Seiji and Touma were with Jun and Trina.
"Congratulations, you guys. You all earned this." Touma said.
"Yeah, even if a few of you did just barely make it." Seiji added.
"We're glad, too. It's great." Malik said.
~Three Weeks Later~
"Okay. I think that I have everything that I'm going to need packed." Yugi said
"I think that I do, too." Yami added as he sat down on their bed.
The two had moved into the same room a few weeks before.
"Say, Yugi. Are you really planning to go to college?" Yami asked.
"Yeah. I want to get a degree in music." Yugi answered.
"Why?" Yami asked.
"Well, I don't plan to be in a band forever, so I want to be able to do something else. With a degree, I could teach music in a music school or something. You know, teach a person to play an instrument or sing." Yugi said.
"Well, you'd have a lot of students given that you are all famous." Yami said.
Yugi laughed. "Heba and Ryou plan to go to college, too. We'll be taking a lot of online courses, though." Yugi said.
"Well, I think that it's great, although I'm looking more forward to the European tour than anything." Yami said.
"I know. I've never been to Europe, so it'll be interesting." Yugi said.
"I can't wait." Yami said.
The following day, the entire group got up early to get ready to leave.
"Okay. I think that we have everything that we need." Touma said.
"I know we do, Tou. Don't worry about it. I triple-checked everything for Jun, Trina, you, and me. We've got everything." Seiji said.
"Okay." Touma said.
The teenagers came downstairs carrying several suitcases each.
"Got everything?" Seiji asked.
"Yes. We went by the checklist that you gave us, and we know that we have everything, Seiji." Bakura said.
"Good. I didn't want one of you remembering last minute something that you needed." Seiji said.
"We'd better get going. We have to get to airport now." Touma said.
Knowing that he was right, the group got their luggage and went outside to put everything up in the cars before they left to head to the airport to start the European tour/vacation.
Hope you liked it. I know that Seto's speech wasn't great, but I'm not good with speeches. Also, I'm sorry, but I won't be writing about the European tour.
Next: Not sure yet.
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