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Chapter 1 : Ryou Bakura
"Something comes now, I can feel it, and I feel as if a big change is coming."
The school bell rang, signaling that break was coming to an end. On the roof, a girl stood,looking out to the city. She was a small girl with light brown hair pulled back into a ponytail, her hazel eyes hidden behind glasses.
She like all the other girls in the school wore a short blue pleated skirt, and a white button up shirt, a blue bowtie hung limply from her collar. Since the weather was warm, most girls didn't bother with their pink school jacket.
But upon hearing the bell she gave a soft sigh. The breeze blew gently through her hair and she adjusted her white uniform shirt and bow tie,
She stood up properly and stretched her arms. It was time to head to class.
As the girl walked down the stairs and back into the building, she heard a buzz coming from the female students. Curiously she stopped a girl she knew from her class
"Yuki, what's going on?" she asked.
"oh, there's a new trasnfer student Kim." she said, her brown eyes lighting up with excitement, "It's a guy too, and from what the other girls are saying, he's pretty cute."
"ah I see." the girl called Kim said nodding in understanding. Just a few months prior, CEO of Kaibacorp, Seto Kaiba, had come to the school. And most of the girls had gone a little crazy. It was a little bit of a shock that Kaiba had asked Kim's friend Yugi Muto to hang out, Kim-along with her other friends- met him and she had liked him ok, until his little DEATH game two weeks ago.
She shook her head, the games Kaiba had forced her and her friends to play still gave her nightmares. Kaiba had proved he was an excellent gamer, but he was just a little on the psychopath side. At least in her opinion. Yugi had explained that Kaiba was just filled with anger and jelousy but he made sure that Kaiba would learn his lesson.
Anyway, Kim knew just how excited the girls could get when there was a new boy in their class. Especially if he was attractive.
Shaking her head at the girls, she headed off to her class.
"Kim!" she heard someone call out, slowly she turned only to nearly be knocked down by a boy with scruffy blonde hair
"J-Jounouchi..." she greeted weakly, glad that he had wrapped his arm around her shoulders so she didn't fall completely. Ever since DEATH her friend had been a little more confident and energetic. .
"how are you today?" he asked her and she squrimed against him
"I'd be fine if you let me go."
"Ah right," he released her and she adjusted her school uniform
"hey Kim" a female voice called and she smiled over at the rest of her friends coming up to her and Jounouchi. One was a girl with short brown hair and clear blue eyes, she like herself hadn't bothered putting on her uniform jacket. There was also a rather short boy with spiky hair and blonde bangs, his violet eyes held a shy kindness in them, and lastly a tall boy with brown hair and brown eyes. Each boy wore their blue uniform pants and a white buttoned up shirt, but left their blue jackets off.
"Good morning Anzu, Yugi, Honda." she greeted.
The friends exchanged words whilst heading to class and sat in their seats.
Soon enough the final bell rang throughout the school and the class quieted down as their teacher walked into the classroom. Behind him, a boy with long snowy white hair followed him.
"Class, we have a new student joining us today."
The boy gave a soft smile towards the rest of the students, his eyes held the same kind shyness that Yugi's had.
"I'm Ryou Bakura. It's nice to meet you all." he said. The boys voice was soft laced with a British accent. A few of the girls murmured amongst themselves and Kim glanced at the boy
"Well the rumors were true, he is pretty handsome"
"Now where should we have you sit-ah there, by Jounouchi." the teacher motioned towards where Jounouchi was sitting
"that's me, over here!" Jounouchi exclaimed a little excitedly. The boy made his way over to the blonde and he sat down. Kim actually sat beside Jounouchi and got a better look at the new student. He had very fair skin and there was a rosy color to his cheeks.
"Hi, it's nice to meet you." Bakura told Jounouchi,
"yeah you too, let's be friends." Jounouchi said, to which Bakura simply smiled back.
The teacher hushed the students and began their lesson.
"And that concludes today's lesson," the teacher closed his book and the students finished their writing before closing their books and waiting for a much anticipated break. Jounouchi used that moment to introduce Bakura to his group
"this is Yugi, Anzu, Honda, and Kim" he pointed to each friend and Ryou would simply smile at them politely.
"Where are you from Bakura?" Anzu asked kindly
"Lately I've just been homeschooled, my father travels a lot." Bakura said,
"ah I see, my father is away a lot too." Yugi said nodding to him in understanding, "I live with my grandfather, he runs a game shop."
"oh you live in a gameshop?" the whitenette asked, his interest piqued,
"yes, do you like games Bakura?"
"yes very much." he said smiling, "I enjoy board games and tabletops" he smiled a little shyly, his brown eyes sparkling with excitement.
"Tabletops?" Kim finally voiced and he looked at her, blinking in surprise.
"yeah..."
"I like those too." she assured him and his smile widened
"then have you heard of monster world!"
"yeah! Me and my family play it all the time."
"whoa slow down Kim, what's monster world?" Jounouchi asked,
"oh, it's a role playing game." she began "There are adventurer's and a Dark Master. The Dark Master tries to stop the adventurers and the adventurers try to destroy the dark master, whoever accomplishes that first wins."
"the neatest thing about Monster world is that its a board of interconnecting blocks, you can buy more to expand it and make forests, mountains, rivers, all of that." Yugi said
"that sounds like a lot of fun." Jounouchi said and Anzu nodded in agreement
"we should play it together sometime." she said to them and Bakura hesitated before looking away
"y-yeah..." he agreed halfheartedly, suddenly, as if to change the subject he looked at Yugi, "By the way Yugi, there's something I've been meaning to ask you. That pendant you're wearing…"
"Oh this? This is the millennium puzzle it was found in an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh's tomb," Yugi said holding it.
"Wow, may I take a closer look?"
"Sure." Yugi agreed, Ryou's hands inched towards Yugi's chest
"You know I also have…" it was then Ryou took hold of the millennium puzzle, Kim saw his eyes widen and he froze, she heard his breath hitch as if he had been punched in the chest and his hand rose over to where his heart was.
"What's wrong Bakura?" Yugi asked, also noticing, Bakura smiled at him
"I-it's nothing Yugi." He replied. Kim frowned thoughtfully.
"Bakura, perhaps you should see a nurse." She suggested but he merely shook his head
"No, I'll be fine." he insisted,
Kim would've protested some more, however before she could they were interrupted as three girls came towards the group.
"Hey Jounouchi, don't hog Bakura all to yourself."
"what?" he asked looking indignant, the girls gave him no chance to defend himself and each grabbed Bakura, shoving him away from Jounouchi and out of the classroom.
"come on Bakura, we'll show you the school," one girl said excitedly, tugging the boys arm.
"We've even started a fanclub for you." the other said excitedly, making Bakura look a little uncomfortable with that thought in mind.
"hey Kim, why don't you come with us!" the third girl asked,
normally Kim would have brushed the girls off and politely declined, however she did feel a little bad for Bakura and figured he might enjoy the tour of the school a little more if he was with someone who was at least talking to him before being attacked by rabid school girls.
"Alright." she muttered before standing and joining the three girls.
The group walked down the halls, the girls showing Bakura where everything was and Kim trailed silently behind,
Ryou was a little grateful that she had come with, he was very uncomfortable with girls, and although he only knew Kim for a few minutes, the thought of her enjoying Monster World and talking to him a little bit did relax him, and he got a more friendly vibe from her; albeit a little distant, but she still seemed nice enough.
"Hey you there!" a rough voice called. Kim's dread deepened. "You can't be strutting through the halls with girls flocking all over you."
"Uh oh, Karita!" a girl exclaimed.
"You're the new guy aren't you?" Karita said with a sneer, "I heard you had trouble at your last school." He said smugly, Bakura refused to look afraid or blush, "But here we have rules, for example this hair," the gym teacher's big hand grabbed a fistful of Bakura's white locks "boys aren't allowed to have hair this long!"
the girls squeaked and squealed for the big teacher to leave Bakura alone.
"Tomorrow I want you to have a crew cut understand?" Karita growled. Bakura merely gave him a look but before he could say anything, Kim grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the gym teachers strong grip.
"cut him some slack." she said to the teacher frowning, Karita had a reputation for being quite rude to students,
"bwa ha, you had to be protected by a girl" Karita taunted before leaving them "cut your hair and I'll treat you like a student of this school." he said and disappeared behind a corner
"oh he's awful." the girls sighed "you don't pay any attention to him Bakura."
he only nodded vaguely "um, excuse me, but I need to be alone."
with that said he fled to the boys bathroom, unbuttoning his school jacket
"my chest...why does it hurt?" he whispered not expecting an answer.
That's why, when he heard a faint laugh, it took him by surprise.
The laugh was high pitched, and cold, causing shivers to run down his spine.
Bakura looked around before shaking his head, "I thought I heard someone." he mumbled and splashed some cold water on his face, as he was wiping his face he thought back to Yugi's pendant.
"Yugi's pendant..." he reached down his shirt and pulled out a pendant that he was wearing, the pendant was a circle with a pyramid in the middle. On the pyramid held a mystical looking eye as well as pointers dangling from it. "It looks so simmilar to mine." he finished his thought, the gold glinted in the bathroom light.
"oh, there he is!" Yugi began to run after the new boy, who was about to exit the school gate. "Bakura!" Yugi called,
the boy turned and blinked at the sight of Yugi and his friends running towards him."
"Yugi..." he greeted.
"So...me and the others were talking and we would like to play monster world with you at your place if it's alright with you." Yugi said somewhat shyly but bravely with his kind smile.
"Eh?" Bakura asked surprised.
"Yes, it sounds like a fun evening." Kim added. Bakura looked at the group in shock before he adverted his eyes away from the group,
"I-I would really like to play with you but…Karita's right." Bakura muttered sadly. "You see I did have a lot of friends for a while and we played a lot but weird things started to happen. They would all end up in comas-they're still in the hospital-and it kept happening and people avoided me. That's why I keep moving and transferring. I live alone in an apartment away from my father." Bakura said sadly, "I made a vow not to get too close to anyone! I'm sorry." Bakura finished and then he darted off.
"People kept slipping into a coma because of a game?" Kim asked, "that can't really happen can it?"
"I guess if its a high stress enviornment. I've heard of it happening in poker tournaments." Jounouchi said shrugging.
"I don't think Monster World would really cause that high of stress though." Kim said shaking her head. Little did she know how very wrong she could be.
evening had fallen and the school had long been closed down, however, a shadowed figure walked away from it, holding a miniature as he chuckled cruelly to himself.
"I've sealed your soul into this figurine. from now on, you'll play as a living piece in My world."
And that was chapter two, I hope this version is better than the older one.
Until next time
~DSSM