I've been waiting for this chapter. It's so cute and yet adds some humor to it. This is one of the very few camos Yugi's mom has in the manga. I mean, this is the ONLY chapter that she ever gets a camo and it's hilarious, which is why I'm having Uka do this. Normally, I have Uka come around during random times, but this time I won't have to. This will include MAJOR PEACHSHIPPING! Review please!
Tea was at home and just got finished with her schoolwork. Tomorrow was the examination results and she wanted to make sure her grades were at least an average. Her dad expected alot out of Tea. It normally was okay for whatever grade she got, but lately, her grades were stooping down a bit. It had been for quite a while. Though, it was very obvious why that was.
No matter how hard Tea tried to stay focused, she couldn't thinking about what her and Yugi would do tomorrow. She had never fell for any other guy in her life and the guy she finally finds was right inside the person she once hated, Atem Moto. It didn't bother Tea that Yugi lived inside Atem, he always came out often when he came by the hallways. That childish smile always made Tea smile.
Love was such a complicated thing. Anyone could choose to love somebody who wasn't whom you thought he or she was. Tea promised herself that she would fall for a guy who was mature and responsible. A guy that made her smile every time she saw his face. Yugi did all of that. For Atem, Yugi was immature, because of his childish acts. Tea could see those childish ways were the very things that made her smile and she never considered those acts immature. Immaturity, to Tea, was acting like a couple of idiots, doing drugs, having sex, and going out with the wrong crowds.
There was not one day that Tea never thought about Yugi and his lovely face. She never even noticed she was writing scribbles on a blank piece of paper. She did, however, hear her father open the door to her room.
"Oh, hi dad," Tea greeted.
"Are you finished with your homework already?" Tea's father asked.
"Yeah, I finished not too long ago," Tea replied before hearing her cell phone ring a text. "Oh, that's for me!" She smiled brightly and read the text from Atem's cell phone. It was most likely from Yugi.
"hey ya XD" the text read. Tea giggled and replied to the text.
"is tht u yugi" Tea replied before closing her phone to wait for that lovely reply.
"I wonder who that was," Tea's father smirked.
"Atem," Tea replied while rolling her eyes. She hated the fact that she had to refer to Yugi as the very person that made her skin crawl. "That jerk probably needs to know what his homework assignment was, like usual."
"Hm," the dad nodded with his eyes half closed. It was as if he could tell what was going on through his daughter's head without thinking about it. "I see. Maybe you should invite him for dinner."
Tea blushed cherry red and quickly said, "it's nothing like that! He's just a friend from school that drives me absolutely insane."
"Suuuure," Tea's dad replied in a manner as if he knew his daughter was lying. "Do you need me to buy you some birth control?"
"DAD, STOP THAT!" Tea shouted as her head turned hot red. Her father was laughing his head off.
"I can see you're blushing. I know you're in love with this Atem and it seems like he loves you too by the amount of texts you're receiving. I'm just afraid he might end up raising our phone bill."
"YAH!" Tea responded with her hands grabbing her head while her dad was chuckling at the response. Tea wasn't sure how she was going to explain to her dad that Atem was not the guy she was in love with, it was Yugi. Yugi, the spirit who lived inside the asshole.
"To be honest, I'd like to meet Atem. He seems like a nice fella. Make sure you invite him to dinner sometime."
"I'm not in love with him!"
"If you say so," Tea's dead replied while rolling his eyes. Tea sighed deeply before hearing her cell phone ring a text.
It read "Ya. I love u."
She couldn't help, but smile as she replied back, "i love u 2."
At the game shop, Uka was looking for her son. She had her apron on since she was washing dishes and a ladle held in her left hand. She was looking everywhere for her missing son that seemed to be losing track of time. If he didn't hurry, he'd be late for school. So far, Atem wasn't anywhere downstairs. Uka decided to look upstairs in his room. Why he wasn't answering was beyond her.
"ATEM!" Uka called before walking up the steps. "ATEM, HURRY OR YOU'LL BE LATE FOR SCHOOL!" She peeked into the door of his room and found socks scattered everywhere on the floor. Atem was sitting Indian style with his arms folded and his eyebrows furrowed. He seemed to be staring at the socks all over the floor. "Uh Atem, what in the world are you doing? Why are your socks everywhere?"
"Not now, Mom! I'm trying to concentrate!" Yugi replied. Uka was not aware of Yugi's existence, so she thought Yugi was Atem. Uka had a dumbfounded look on her face as her son showed a smirk and picked up two pairs of shocks. "This one and this one!" He turned them over and a small heart was found on both the heels of the socks. "BINGO!"
Uka was completely lost at this point. She asked grimly, "Atem... what are you doing?"
"This is a Sock-Matching Game!" Yugi replied before beginning to explain how the game worked. "You gather a bunch of identical white socks, then you mark a pair of matched ones. After that, you scatter them with the others and if you can find the matching pair, you win. It trains your intuition."
Uka whammed Yugi over the head with the ladle while saying, "Then use that intuition to improve your grades!" The pain from the ladle was giving Yugi a minor headache. The mother swore that her son can act like a child sometimes. The strange part was Atem had been having a childish faze for almost a year. Uka was pretty used to it by now. While Yugi rubbed his head, Uka asked, "besides, weren't you supposed to meet Tea this morning?"
"THAT'S RIGHT! I TOTALLY FORGOT!" Yugi gasped before grabbing his uniform coat. "Why didn't you say something?"
"Because you needed to concentrate on your sock game," Uka replied grimly while rolling her eyes. "I swear Atem, sometimes I worry about you. At least you're not on drugs anymore."
Yugi stuck out his tongue before leaving out the door. Uka chuckled while watching her son leave. Atem had changed alot since last year. He seemed to have brightened up a bit and started showing more compassion. At the same time, sometimes it seemed that he would change personalities. There were also times Uka heard Atem talking to himself. Although, those would be nothing compared to those nights in bed. Atem was having weird dreams beyond comparison. This was starting to scare her.
Uka was aware of her son's weakness for talking in his sleep. Luckily, it was only a whisper, so everyone could sleep through it, even when sharing a room with Atem. Though, lately, Atem has been having dreams that was starting to give Uka lots of worry. One night she was up going to the restroom and on her way, she heard her son talk in his sleep with one of his weird dreams, but this one was beyond weird.
"Of course I love you, Yugi," Atem whispered as Uka froze in place with widened eyes. She peeked into her son's room. Atem had his arms wrapped around himself as if he was holding something. His lips made a slight pucker and kissed the air. "Hmmm, I could kiss you and love you like this forever."
Yugi was obviously a guy name, so it wasn't a girl. Uka's eyes were widened as if she just saw a three-year-old make an accident on the floor. Uka had to brush that thought before returning to bed. If she had known of Yugi's existence and the affections that Yugi and Atem shared together, she would not not have seen this as gay affections. Uka had to keep telling herself that her son was not gay and had no gay thoughts. Dreams do tend to be weird and make people do weird things they'd never do in their lives.
Meanwhile, Yugi was running toward the school area to meet Tea. He would usually meet Tea at the bus stop where they would go to school together. Yugi was always excited to meet Tea since she was always fun to be around. Not to mention Yugi was head over heels in love with Tea. He would think about Tea everyday of the week. There was not one day Yugi never thought about Tea.
A car pulled up by the bus stop and Tea exited from the car. Yugi grinned and ran over to the girl of his dreams and hugged her tightly.
"TEA!" Yugi cried out excitedly with his arms around Tea's waist and almost picking the girl up.
"Uh hi..." Tea blushed, not wanting her father to see this.
"So... this is Atem?" Tea's dad asked, peeking his head through the car window.
"Oh no," Atem muttered with widened eyes. "At least this is the first time meeting the guy. Nice going, Yugi."
'Oh common! He seems really nice,' Yugi said happily as he grinned at the father, still holding Tea. "HIYA!"
"Hey, I was thinking maybe you'd like to join us for dinner sometime?" Tea's father offered.
"WHAT!" Tea gasped with a red face.
"WHAT THE HELL?" Atem glared furiously.
"SURE!" Yugi agreed before letting go of Tea and running to the father. "I've never been to Tea's house before. I'd love to come over."
"Great!" the father said with a grin that made his face look weird with the mustache. "Make sure my daughter doesn't get into any trouble at school."
"Dad, I can take care of myself!" Tea glared, still feeling embarrassed.
"Okay!" Yugi grinned. "It was nice meeting you!"
"You too!" The dad replied before he drove off. Tea was relieved that her and Yugi were alone, so she could steam off about her embarrassment.
"UGH!" Tea glared in frustration while her head turned cherry red. "This is so embarrassing!"
"I really like your Dad, Tea. He's funny," Yugi chuckled.
"I'm glad you like him, I really am, but Dad thinks that you're Atem and that I'm in love with him!"
"Well, since brother and I share the same body, I have to share his name. Besides, it's not like the school is pairing us together or anything."
"I suppose, but Atem is going to fall for another girl. How is that gonna work? Dad will hate you then," Tea said as a moan slipped her nose.
"We'll work something out! Brother is trying to figure out how to settle me being with you as it is. I think I should meet your father. Who knows? Maybe he won't know we're in love," Yugi shrugged without a care in his mind. Tea smiled at this and would kiss Yugi, if they weren't in public. "Besides, it could be worse. Mom asked brother a few weeks ago if he was gay."
Tea burst out laughing at that moment as the bus pulled out to pick the kids up. Yugi and Tea sat on the seat on the bus. After Tea finished laughing, she dug into her pocket and retrieved a trinket that was heart-shaped. She gave it to Yugi was he hung it by his finger, wondering what it was. Tea chuckled at that response.
"What is it?" Yugi asked.
"A Mobil Compatibility Tester. All the girls have it. It's called 'Lovely Mate,'" Tea replied. A smile showed on her lips.
"OH HELL NO!" Atem cried before changing into his own body and looking at Tea with a hint of annoyance. "I AM NOT AND WILL NOT BE WALKING AROUND WITH THIS PIECE OF CRAP!"
"It's for Yugi! NOT YOU!" Tea glared.
"Did you forget about the 'WE SHARE THE SAME BODY' or are you oblivious to it?"
"I think you and Yugi can own different things. Just because you share a body doesn't mean you have to share EVERYTHING. I bet if Yugi put his Compatibility, it would match mine," Tea smirked as Atem rolled his eyes and pressed some buttons on the little trinket. Tea rolled her eyes and did the same with her own heart-shaped trinket she kept in her pocket. There was no sound. "I was meaning Yugi's Compatibility, NOT YOURS!"
"All it asks is for your birth date, name, and blood type!" Atem argued. "It tells nothing of if two people belonged together or not. If it was really that accurate to whom Yugi would be compatible with, it'd be me. In a sense, I suppose I could agree with it."
"I know it's not that accurate, but it's fun to try," Tea said.
"For girls, not guys!"
"At least let Yugi keep it!"
"FINE! But if you and Yugi do any of that capability crap, I'm sending both of you straight to hell!"
Atem hung the heart-shaped trinket in his shirt pocket, so it wouldn't be seen in public. The last thing he needed was people wondering why he was carrying a girly item. Atem was so tempted on taking the Lovely Mate and flushing it down the toilet just to spite the two. He was so sick of Yugi and Tea having their romance with everyone staring. It would be a matter of time before everyone considered himself and Tea an item.
Yugi was laughing at the thoughts in his brother's head. Atem was about to burst a bubble by Yugi's laughter.
'Yugi, the day me and Tea are considered the 'latest item' I am sending you straight to hell and back. Then, I'll send your bitchy girlfriend to hell as well,' Atem warned Yugi before he laughed even more. Atem sighed before taking out a notepad that looked like a BINGO card with numbers from 1-50 that were colored blue or pink.
Atem joined with Tristan, Joey, and Hanaski. They all gave game-faced glances before taking out their notepads and walking up to the results to the Aptitude Test. The grades were all ranked from the highest and lowest. The four boys furrowed their eyebrows while taking out their pins or pencils to write an X over a square with a number on it. The students stared at the four, wondering if they were reporters or critics.
Tea's eyes widened in confusion as she watched the boys write X marks on the squares shown on the notepad that was drawn like a BINGO game. Sweat was pouring on each of them as Atem showed a wide smirk.
"BINGO!" Atem shouted in joy. "I've got three!"
"Damn! I didn't complete a single line!" Joey glared in frustration.
"I got one. I guess that should mean something," Tristan shrugged with a small smile.
"I got one too," Hanaski said. He faced Joey. "I guess that means you have to buy all of us burgers."
"Eh," Joey shrugged with a casual smile. "Guess I'll have to pay my debt."
"I swear Atem, nobody can beat you at any game," Tristan smirked with a slight chuckle. "I guess we should call you Yu-Gi-Oh from now on."
"What can I say?" Atem shrugged. He folded his arms after that, being braggadocios. "It suits me."
"You boys seem pretty happy," a voice said from behind the boys. The four of them turned and gasped at the guidance councilor.
"Mr. Tsuruoka!" Hanaski gasped. Sweat was building up on him. "H... how are you today?"
"Good. While you boys were playing, did you see your scores?" Mr. Tsuruoka asked with a huge smirk on his face. He pointed his thumb toward the Aptitude Test Result Board. "Joey's is a 68%, Tristan's is a 70%, and Yugi's is a 75%. You three should be called the Idiot Masters."
"Hey! Don't treat my friends like that!" Hanaski glared up at the guidance councilor. He never liked his friends being mocked for any reason. "They may not be perfect, but they're really good friends!"
"You know, Hanaski. I could change your grade to a low one like these chums, what do ya think of them apples?" Mr. Tsuruoka asked with threat.
"Forget it, Hanaski," Atem said with a soft smile. "It's not worth it."
Hanaski nodded his head as Mr. Tsuruoka peered at Atem very closely. A smirk appeared on the guidance councilor's face. He walked closer to the teenager who looked up at him curiously. Mr. Tsuruoka picked a piece of a chain from the shirt pocket of Atem. He gasped with his face boiling hot.
"HEY! GIVE THAT BACK!" Atem shouted in anger.
"You brought a game to school? Nice decoration. Never told me you had a girlfriend," Mr. Tsuruoka smirked mockingly.
"It's not mine! It belongs to a friend of the family!" Atem lied since he couldn't use the twin brother excuse.
"A friend of the family? Sounds like a girlfriend to me."
"I'M F***IN' SINGLE THANK YOU VERY MUCH!" Atem shouted in the guidence councilor's face. "And what gives you the right to take things from students that don't belong to you?"
"As teachers, we can do whatever we want to you dropouts," Mr. Tsuruoka smirked as he held the key chained heart in front. "For an example. I can crush this thing and send you boys to hell." He dropped the key chain to the ground and was about to stomp on it and crush it before it got kicked by a quick foot. The guidance councilor had not noticed that Atem changed to Yugi, who quickly kicked the trinket away from the foot before hitting the lockers. Hanaski grabbed it before giving it back to Yugi.
"THAT'S ENOUGH! IF YOU DON'T STOP I... I'LL CALL THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS!" Hanaski threatened. The three other boys stood there blinking. Hanaski actually was threatening a teacher. Mr. Tsuruoka glared down at the small boy, who stood his ground to protect his friends. "That's right! I'll tell them exactly what you did and... and you'll get fired! How will you make money huh?"
Mr. Tsuruoka smiled before a chuckle escaped his nose. He slightly shook his head before asking, "I've never seen you like this, Hanaski. You're usually shy and timid, yet you defend for these dropouts. I thought you highly respected teachers and education."
"I do, but not when they're being bullies!" Hanaski spat as Mr. Tsuruoka raised his eyebrows. "You're supposed to be helping them, not treating them like bums that will never succeed in live! They're good people. They just need some encouragement is all. Just because their grades are bad, doesn't mean they're stupid. At least they're trying!"
"Yeah!" Tea defended with a nasty glare and crossed arms. "Maybe school isn't their best talent. Atem's good at games. As far as I'm concerned, he's never lost one game since Kaiba left."
Everyone started talking amongst themselves. Mr. Tsuruoka smirked while staring hardly at Yugi with those cold narrowed eyes. Yugi hung the heart-shaped trinket by his finger as a smile peeped on his lips.
"Let's play a game," Yugi said. Mr. Tsuruoka blinked as the trinket dangled from the young boy's fingers. "You have thirty minutes to hide this device somewhere in the school. We only have and hour to find it. If you win, you can do whatever you please to us, but if we win, you have to stop treating us like dirt."
"I accept," Mr. Tsuruoka agreed as Yugi dropped the trinket into the teacher's hand. "but if I win, you all are suspended. Including you, Hanaski!"
Hanaski gasped and made a pout as Yugi smirked and gave a nod. He and his friends waited outside the school for thirty minutes. Hanaski seemed depressed and Yugi knew it was partly his fault. He walked up to his friend's side and put a comforting arm around Hanaski's shoulders.
"We'll find the Lovely Mate key chain. We just gotta believe and never give up," Yugi said.
"But what if we never find it. I... I don't wanna get suspended. I've just started making friends here!" Hanaski pouted as Yugi gave a chuckle.
"We're getting suspended too, you know."
"I suppose."
"Just believe in yourself and never give up."
"Ok," Hanaski finally agreed before letting out a deep sigh. Yugi gave his friend a slap on the back. "Cheer up! We've got each other and as long as we have each other. Nothing's impossible!"
Hanaski lifted his head up and gave a nod. Him and Yugi entered back inside to search for the missing Lovely Mate. Yugi was sure that Mr. Tsuruoka didn't hide it outside since his shoes were clean and not filled with mud from the rain outside. This meant the key chain was inside the school building. Yugi and his friends searched high and low for the trinket, but could not find it. Things seemed desperate.
Yugi was searching through the broom closet with only fifteen minutes left on the clock. He heard Tea coming in with a moody look on her face. She was sad, because her lovely present she gave to Yugi was taken from him. Yugi smiled cheerfully and held Tea close.
"It's okay. We'll find it!" Yugi promised.
"I know, but... I feel it's my fault," Tea said honestly. She gave Yugi her Lovely Mate with a sad smile. "I hope this one helps. I know it's not the same as your other one, but..."
"Wait! My brother's information is on the one Mr. Tsuruoka took right?" Yugi asked anxiously with a cheerful smile.
"Uh yes... why?" Tea asked as Yugi rushed out the broom closet, but not before waving. "THANKS!"
Tea cocked her eyebrows. She followed Yugi through the halls and into the offices. Yugi barged into the Guidance Councilor's Office since he knew right away where the other key chain was and the fact he didn't know how to grant access to the office. Tea was behind Yugi, including Hanaski who noticed him running in the halls and decided to follow him. Yugi didn't have time to retrieve the information on how to approach the guidance councilor from his brother. He knew this guy was playing unfairly.
"YOU IDIOTS! You think you can just barge into a teacher's office without permission?" Mr. Tsuruoka yelled furiously. "Your search stays out there!"
"I knew it!" Yugi smirked with his hands casually in his pockets. "The Lovely Mate key chain is in this office."
Mr. Tsuruoka's eyes widened. Guilty sweat was pouring from his face as Yugi showed a half-smiled smirk. He was on the right track and he knew it. It was somewhere nearby the office.
"N... no! It's somewhere where you can't find it! Somewhere else!" Mr. Tsuruoka lied.
"I've been asking myself where I would hide something if I were a teacher," Yugi said, starting to the point he was getting. "first, it would be a teacher's only place, that way a student can't get to it." Tea and Hanaski who were behind Yugi rose two eyebrows. Trying to figure out where Yugi was getting at. "Therefore. The safest place would be on your own self!"
"You can't lay a hand on a teacher!" Mr. Tsuruoka glared with threat. "I'll expell you for it. YOU HAVE TO PROVE IT'S ON ME WITHOUT TOUCHING ME!"
Yugi smirked as he got out Tea's Lovely Mate. Mr. Tsuruoka gasped as Yugi smirked, "this one belongs to Tea. She's letting me borrow it for a while."
"What are you gonna do with another one of those game things?"
"It's not a game. It's a Mobil Compatibility Tester, you put in information about yourself and this tester indicates if you and that person were meant to be together. If the compatibilities match up, it sends a signal. Of coarse, there's a slight chance if I match up my own information on here, it can match the same information of my cousin's," Yugi explained as he pressed in his information. He could not remember much of his past, but he did remember enough to know his birthdate, name, and blood type, from magicians of the past probably. Tea closed her eyes and hoped to hear the beeping sound and that maybe, just maybe, Atem was right about this trinket.
BE-BEEP! BE-BEEP! BE-BEEP!
Right away everyone was staring at Mr. Tsuruoka's head where the beeping sound was coming from. Yugi changed into Atem and he snatched the hair piece on Mr. Tsuruoka from his head. There, at the bottom of the hair piece, was the beeping trinket. Atem smirked as he stared at the bawled headed teacher. He couldn't help but chuckle in good humor.
"Pa... please... don't tell anyone! Please!" Mr. Tsuruoka begged and pleaded.
"I won't if you promise not to treat us like dogs again!" Atem promised.
"Fine! Fine! I promise!"
"And with five seconds left to spare," Hanaski said with a bright smile.
"I believe this is yours," Atem said, giving Tea her key chain back before she nodded. "Thank you."
"Your welcome," Tea nodded before Atem left out the teacher's office.
"I guess you were right. Our compatibilities did match," Yugi chuckled.
'You know what that means right?' Atem asked smirkingly.
"What?" Yugi wondered as him and Atem found themselves on the roof where nobody could see them. Atem brought his arms around Yugi's waist with his chin on his brother's shoulder.
"We were meant to be together," Atem smirked in both a teasing matter and a meaningful matter. Yugi made a humming noise as he brought his little heart-shaped trinket up to his face. There was something written on the back of the device. It read, "This wonderful device will find you the person you were made for, the person that you dream about all your life, the person whom you can share your thoughts and feelings, and someone to love. Lovely Mate is an ingenious device made to find the one person you desire most in your heart."
"Huh... I guess we do match," Yugi realized. There was a pause for one second before the boys gawked up laughing. The device was originally made to find a person whoever has this can fall in love with. Although, instead of Yugi matching up to the love of his life, it matched up to his brother. The person whom Yugi was made for, dreamed about almost his whole life not counting the 3000 year period of being alone, shared this thoughts and feelings, and to love. Atem was also someone Yugi desired most in his heart. The only problem was, it wasn't romantic love.
"Yugi, remember this, romantic is nothing that can be tested on compatibility. It's tested on both love and commitment. You must be committed to that person to know if you're compatible," Atem told Yugi as he nodded.
"I'm committed to be with Tea forever," Yugi said as Atem chuckled while rolling his eyes. "But you know... I want this kind of love. I want you to hold me and love me always."
"I shall always love you, Yugi," Atem promised before placing a kiss on Yugi's left cheek. "We were made for each other and we've already proven that."
Yugi rolled his eyes as Atem chuckled at the statement. Yeah... they indeed were made for each other. Though, one thing did wonder to Yugi.
"Atem, does Mom think we're gay?" Yugi asked curiously.