Dive practice could have been better. If it weren't for the painful belly flop Yugi had accidentally done while attempting a dive, than his afternoon might have ended on a good note. But with a stinging red stomach and tingly limbs, Yugi found it hard to look on the bright side of his day.

He quickly pulled on some black jeans, his white shirt, and his black sweatshirt that had the words of "You can't beat me" plastered on the front, and then grabbed his backpack and sports bag before walking out of the changing rooms.

He swung his car keys around his finger while making his way out of the building, finally feeling relaxed now that his activities were finished. Although he had this nagging feeling in the back of his mind and couldn't help but feel like he forgot something. He glanced down at his bags and noted that he had two of them like he did every day. Maybe he forgot to grab some books from his locker that he would need for homework.

"Yugi!" a loud sultry voice called, making Yugi jump five feet in the air.

Yugi spun around with his hand covering his heart and took a deep intake of air once he realized it was Yami who had called him. The taller male hurried over to him and grinned.

"Didn't scare you too bad, did I?"

Yugi laughed like it was no big deal and shrugged. Even though his heart was still pounding against his chest he didn't want to admit that Yami had, indeed, scared the hell out of him.

"I wasn't scared," Yugi fibbed.

"Right," Yami drawled, "I could tell by the way you almost had a heart attack right then and there."

Yugi crossed his arms and pouted. His large amethyst eyes looked Yami over once, as if he was trying to decide what kind of person he was dealing with.

"Oh that? I do that all the time," Yugi joked, "When I'm happy, hungry, or tired."

Yugi could see the amusement dancing in Yami's crimson colored eyes. The taller teen seemed to be looming over him now, but Yugi was not one to be intimidated so easily.

"You should probably get that checked out. Sounds like it could infect your health or something."

Yugi laughed and shoved Yami's shoulder playfully. He was glad that Yami seemed like a person who was easy to get along with. At first he didn't know how Yami would take to him randomly waving to him at the pool and asking him to meet up after practice, but Yami didn't seem bothered by it. Yugi thought he actually saw Yami blush when he did so. It only proved that Yami had a relaxed personality which was just fine with Yugi.

"Maybe I will," Yugi mumbled thoughtfully. "Anyways, I don't want to keep you for too long."

Yami blinked for a few seconds as he realized the real reason why he had flagged Yugi down after practice. "Right, so what did you want to talk about?"

Yugi scuffed his shoe against the gravel for a second while he gathered his thoughts. Really the only reason why he wanted to talk with Yami was because he knew that Yami knew the guy (who's name he figured out was Bakura) that had told Ryou about his sensei wanting to meet with him. And Yugi was all for helping his best friend get a boyfriend.

"Well…you're friends with that Bakura guy, right?" he asked with his head cocked to the side cutely.

Yami looked taken aback by the question for a second before he pulled himself together.

"Yeah, he's one of my best mates, why?"

"It's just that," Yugi said while poking his two pointer fingers together. "I think my best friend likes him and I was wondering if Bakura is dating anyone…?"

Now Yami looked really confused. Yugi didn't blame him. If some guy that he had barely spoken to in his life had come up and asked him to help hook up his friend with one of Yugi's friends, he would be a little iffy on the whole thing too.

"Not that I…know of." Yami finally answered.

"Is he gay?"

Yami shrugged. "More or less."

"Perfect!" Yugi exclaimed. "So do you think you could help me, I don't know, get them together?"

Yami's face suddenly went red and a wistful smile played on his lips. He just stood there looking like the most peaceful person Yugi had ever seen.

"Then again," Yugi tried to hide his smile as the startled Yami snapped his attention back onto him. "If you don't want to help then I can always ask your other friend…"

"No!" Yami shouted, making Yugi raise his eyebrows in alarm. "I mean, I'd be happy to help you."

Yugi clasped his hands together and cheered. "Great! Now what times are you free after or before school? We need to come up with a plan."

"Uhm… anytime before school I'm not doing anything. But after school we have dive practice."

"I have track in the mornings, so that probably won't work out. But you could come over to my house after dive practice tomorrow." Yugi suggested.

If Yugi thought Yami was beaming before than he was sadly mistaken. Yugi swore that Yami's face was like the sun in the darkness that surrounded them.

"Yeah, that's good! I could drive you to school in the morning and then after our dive practice we can just go to your house in my car." Yami said smartly.

Yugi grinned cheekily, "Why Yami Atem, are you going green?"

"Maybe just this once."

Yugi sighed tiredly as he put his house keys into the front door lock and fiddled with it until the door opened. He dragged his bags behind him as he entered his house and smiled when he heard his brothers yelling playfully at each other.

"Guess who's home and is craving pizza!" Yugi said while dumping his bags by the door.

There was a pause in the house before three people emerged from the kitchen and came to stand in front of Yugi. One of them had shoulder length brown hair and bangs that stopped above his mixed dark blue and purple eyes. His name was Mahado. The person standing next to him was an exact replica except he had purple shoulder length hair and wasn't as tan as Mahado. His name was Dark, although Yugi liked to call him Magician. And the third person was Yugi's own flesh and blood brother, Atemu. He was older than Yugi and shared his red, black, and blonde tricolor hair, except his wild mane had a few more blonde streaks in it. His eyes were also more narrow than Yugi's, but his eye color was the same shade of amethyst.

"Hey Yugi," Atemu smiled. His head then twitched to the side repeatedly. "Wah wah, drah!"

Yugi returned Atemu's smile with one of his own. He could tell that Atemu's Tourette Syndrome was irritating him lately. It made him have many tics that he couldn't help and people didn't want to hire Atemu for a job because of it. Tourette's would make Atemu jerk, shrug, make strange sounds, and do many other things that people found weird. He had both motor and vocal tics which caused a lot of attention towards him, especially when he was out in public.

"Hey guys, what's for dinner?" Yugi asked.

"Fish, rice, and soup," Mahado listed as he reached down to give Yugi a hug.

Yugi frowned while returning the hug. "Didn't we have that last night?"

"Yeah, they're leftovers because, hep hep, Dark didn't feel like making anything." Atemu rolled his eyes towards their guardian.

"Aw you suck Magician." Yugi pouted while Dark smiled.

"No one said you had to eat it. You can just go without any dinner at all if you hate it so much."

"You can take away a man's humor, but you can't take away his food!" Yugi declared.

"That's a lie." Atemu stated. "I took away Mahado's popcorn this afternoon, wah drah wop, when he was watching a movie."

Yugi just stared at him for a second before shaking his head. "You smartass."

Atemu shrugged a few times. "Wop wah."

A/N - The words: Wah, wop, drah, and hep are the sounds that I'm using to explain how Atemu's Tourette Syndrome (his vocal tics) sound. Tourette syndrome is a condition that affects a person's central nervous system and causes tics. Tics are unwanted twitches, movements, or sounds that people make. I am not trying to make Atemu be funny in any sort of way by having him make these sounds. I'm just trying to make his condition very believable. And if you're wondering who Mahado and Dark are than you'll have to wait until the next chapter where I'll explain who they are and why they're living with Atemu and Yugi.

P.S - I know Yami's last name is Atem and Yugi's brothers name is Atemu. It's just a coincidence. Kind of like how I made Ryou's name be Ryou Bakura and Bakura be Bakura Akefia. Similar names yet totally different people.