Yami Atem quickly threw off his black tight pants and school blazer to switch them out with his black Speedo swim suit which had red flames traveling up both sides of them. He grabbed his swim cap and goggles in one hand and made for the door which was covered in water from some kid who had thought it would be funny to ruin the gray paint which was chipping anyways.
Ignoring some of the shouts for him to "wait up", Yami made his way out of the changing rooms and into the large indoor pool which was already being used for practice. The air felt warm and smelt like chlorine like it always did, but Yami actually found it to be quite relaxing. The water was his zone.
There was two things Yami loved about swim practice. For one thing he got to have that thrilling feeling he loved when he was doing a dive off the high dive. The second thing was that he got to see Yugi Mutou. Yugi had been his crush since sophomore year.
Now Yami had never really had a conversation with Yugi before. The slightly shorter teen was always either surrounded by his friends, practicing with his coaches, or being stalked by girls. And when Yugi wasn't doing any of those things, it was Yami who was with his friends or being attacked by the females.
Their schedules didn't really work out that well which caused Yami to only look at Yugi from afar at dive practice. But even when they were in the same room for about and hour or so, they were on different sides of the room, and that made a big difference.
"Hey, pick up a pizza for my Grandpa while your down there. Fine, please? Thanks Jou, I'll call you later!" Yami's ears perked at the sound of the familiar voice and turned to see Yugi walking through the door, obviously having been talking to his friend.
He watched as Yugi took off the thin cotton shirt he was wearing over his swim wear and nearly moaned at the sight of a shirtless Yugi, complete with a black Speedo bathing suit that stopped at his mid thigh.
Despite Yugi's height he was actually quite fit. His legs were smooth and lithe, yet muscled from his years of running. His arms were just the right size for his body and he could see they were toned from some form of exercise, probably from push ups. His chest and stomach were delectable all on their own. Although his abs weren't as defined as Yami's you could definitely see small outlines of the muscle that laid underneath his alabaster skin.
"Yugi stop standing around and stretch. I want you doing a 5333D today." Yugi's coach, Mazaki, called from the other side of the pool.
Yugi was about to go stretch with the other guys on his team, but instead, stopped and turned. His eye locked with Yami's and Yami froze at being caught, but he didn't dare turn his attention away while Yugi held his gaze.
A few more seconds passed before a small grin slowly appeared on Yugi's face and he waved. Yami, slowly and unsurely, waved back with his right hand.
Yugi quickly glanced at his coach before mouthing "I need to talk to you" to Yami who was way too shocked to even nod. He watched his love interest give him a quick smile before he turned around and walked off towards the rest of the other teenagers stretching.
Yami suddenly couldn't wait for dive practice to be over.
A/N - It's short, I know. But it seemed like a pretty good place to pause for a bit, eh? Anyways I thought it would be nice to have Yami being the one to crush on Yugi since people usually write Yugi with the obvious crush for Yami. But Yugi can be pretty oblivious…so hopefully Yami can give some obvious hints to him.