Yugi rolled his good eye in annoyance as Ryou fussed over him like a mother hen. Sure, the left side of his face hurt and looked like hell, but it was nothing to worry over.

"What if it broke your nose? What if you go blind because of it! What if…"

"Ryou!" Yugi yelled impatiently. "I'm fine, the nurse already saw me and gave me a clean bill of health, okay?"

He watched as Ryou sighed and crossed his arms. Yugi gave a one sided grin, happy that his friend gave in, and went into the cafeteria with Ryou trailing behind him. He tried to ignore all the stares he received and all the whispers that suddenly floated around.

"Hey, Jou's over there." Ryou directed as he grabbed Yugi's sleeve and pulled him to the back of the cafeteria.

Once they got to their table, Yugi was tackled into a one armed hug by his blonde haired friend. He laughed and slowly pushed Jou back, afraid that he might hit his eye.

"So I see the rumors are true then," Jou said as he sat back down with Ryou sitting next to him.

Yugi took a seat opposite of them, just as Malik came running in. He plopped down beside Yugi without looking at anyone, apparently too distracted with his new Ipod.

"Rumors?" Yugi echoed, playing innocent.

Jou nodded slowly as he opened his bento. "Yeah, about your eye."

Yugi shrugged as he glanced over Malik's shoulder, interested in what his friend was doing. He raised his eyebrow when he saw his own face on the screen and watched as Malik screwed it up by stretching it around in different directions.

"It's nice to know you love me Mal," Yugi said with a grin as he nudged his tan friend in the arm.

Malik laughed as he turned off the device and slipped it into his pocket. He slung his arm around Yugi's shoulder and laid his head down on his extended arm.

"You are the pop in my tart!" Malik exclaimed with a toothy smile.

Jou snorted while Ryou shook his head in good humor.

"I hope that's not something you've said to one of your boyfriends," Ryou said while moving a piece of his white hair away from his face.

"Only to the ones I want to dump," Malik admitted with a chuckle.

"No wonder you were disassembling my face! You don't like me anymore!" Yugi exclaimed dramatically as he shoved Malik's head and arm off of him.

"Sorry pop tart, but you've become soggy."

Yugi hit the back of Malik's head playfully.

"Ah…excuse me…" a quiet voice from behind them interrupted.

All four heads turned to see a boy with black hair and blue eyes. Yugi might have passed him off as just any other guy until he noticed the scar under the boys right eye. It was the guy who had thrown the baseball at him.

"Oh hey, it's you," Yugi said. "What can I do for you?"

The boy looked taken aback for a second. It looked like he was trying to keep the confidence he had. Yugi waited patiently as the guy tried to gather the words he wanted to say.

"I…I wanted to apologize about your eye. I swear I didn't intend on hitting you! It was an accident and I'm not very good at baseball…" the boy stuttered nervously as he twisted his hands around.

Yugi had expected Jou to burst out in anger by now, but was glad that his loud mouth friend was being quiet. He mulled his thoughts over for a few seconds before standing. He put one of his hands on the boys shoulder and held the other one out to him.

"Hey don't sweat it. If you said it was an accident than I believe you. Besides it's not like I broke anything. My eye will heal in a bit."

The boy looked unsure for a moment, but eventually smiled. He grasped Yugi's hand and shook it. With a small nod of his head the boy turned to walk away.

"Wait," Yugi called. "What's your name?"

The boy turned his head, although his hair cast a shadow over his eyes. "Jin."

"See you around Jin." Yugi smiled as he sat back down.

He turned back around and gave a small shrug to his friends who had been quiet during the whole ordeal. They said nothing of it and continued to eat their lunch like any other day.

A/N - Sorry guys, no Yami in this chapter, but he'll be in the next one! I just kind of wanted to introduce Jou and Malik to the story. And I also wanted to show Jin apologizing to Yugi. Jin may appear later on and he may not. Depends on how the ending scene goes. Ja ne!