Star Crossed Lovers
Chapter 2 Faces from the Past"Give who my seat Joey?" a voice from behind Kagome asked.
She turned around to the newcomer, for her, but stopped in shock.
'It can't be! No….it's not possible! Do the gods hate me that much that they would torment me like this?' Her thoughts were passing a mile a minute that she didn't register the conversation around her.
"Hey Yug you're back! Hey look we got a new student. Name's Kagome. She wanted your seat but Tea went 'oh no you didn't on her.' Joey teased while moving his head side to side and throwing a look to an amused Tristan and a seething Tea.
"Joey I did not! Bakura, do you think I overdid it?"
The white haired boy, Bakura looked sheepish.
"Sorry Tea, I'm staying out of this," he said with a light blush.
Yugi looked on his friends' bickering with mild amusement
"Well anyway it's nice to meet you Kago…," he said looking down but stopped when he looked at her face.
She looked at him with her mouth slightly open, as if she wanted to say something yet couldn't find the words. What got him though were her eyes. They were impossibly wide and held a pained shock that had Yugi taken aback. She was looking at him yet not.
'WH-What's wrong?' he thought as he took an unconscious step back.
"Hey Yug, you ok?" Joey asked confused before looking at Kagome, his face shifting into panic.
"Whoa hey Kagome, you ok? You look like you seen a ghost."
'Why? Why does he look so much like him? Is it like me and Kikyo? Is he his reincarnation? But why is he here? Of all places on Earth, WHY HERE?' Kagome thought going into almost full panic mode. She wanted to run and find the nearest corner and hide.
"Kagome!"
'Huh? Whose calling my name?'
"Kagome!"
'Is someone shaking me?'
"KAGOME!"
Kagome snapped out of her haze and looked around confused. Everyone was looking at her with a mixture of curious, confused, and downright worried expressions on their faces. She noticed though that the teacher, for some odd reason, had no expression on her face and was staring back at her blankly. She over to Joey, who looked the most worried, borderline panicked out of all of them.
"Jeez, hey you ok? You were staring at Yugi like you seen a ghost or something?"
"Yugi…"
"Yea?" a small, nervous voice answered.
She looked over at the boy that plagued her thoughts just a few moments ago. He looked almost terrified, staring at her nervously waiting for her to say something. This revelation caused her to turn a deep scarlet with embarrassment and shame.
"Oh my god I'm…I'm so sorry I didn't mean to frighten you all…I-You just…look so much like someone I used to know and I guess it really took me by surprise," she stammered out, trying to hide her eyes and messing with her ring nervously, not noticing the deeply confused looked that crossed Yugi's face.
'Oh great. Just the way I wanted to start here. Now they're gonna think I'm a freak or something.'
'Someone she knows? No one looks like me; maybe my dad and grandpa. They only person who really looks like me was…..but… that's impossible! Oh man, look how embarrassed she is. Ok Yugi, just act like nothing's wrong and everyone will hopefully everyone will move on.'
He put his hand on her shoulder and smiled when she looked up at him.
'Ok be normal…' "It's ok no big deal. So I look like someone you know huh? I've never meet anyone who looked a whole lot like me. Wonder what they're like." He gave her a big smile that let her know what he was doing and she smiled back, a light blush gracing her cheeks and earning her a look from Tea. Most of Yugi's friends looked at him confused as he sat down. 'Why was he acting so cool about this?' They wondered.
The rest of the class of the class looked on before giving their attention to the teacher who called them back to their seats. Class proceeded on like nothing had happened and everyone was given a break ten minutes before class ended. Everyone separated and Yugi and his group went to seat next to the windows. Joey, Tea, Bakura, and Tristan were talking amongst themselves while Yugi read one of his grandpa's journals from his excavations.
"Um…Yugi?"
Yugi looked up to Kagome who was pulling her chair up to sit in front of him. As nervous as she looked it was nothing to how she looked before and it gave him a chance to really look at her.
'Wow she's pretty. I don't think I've met anyone with that shade of blue in their eyes before.'
He shook his head with a blush and looked at her as she sat down.
"Um…well, thank you! For not making a big deal out of what happened earlier. You could have but you didn't and I really appreciate it," Kagome uttered with a shy smile and a blush.
"Oh," Yugi said with a blush and smile matching hers. "No problem. It must be hard enough starting a new school; didn't want to make it any harder for you."
Kagome looked at him curiously for a moment, which increased his blush, before smiling softly, increasing it even more. She pulled her chair around to the right of him and looked to inspect what he was reading.
"Great! So…whatcha reading?" she said, attempting to make small talk.
Yugi blushed at her closeness but answered, "Oh it's one of my grandpa's journals. He used to be an explorer and this is of his journey through a Pharaoh's tomb in Egypt."
'My other half's tomb,' he thought with a fond, yet sad smile.
He slightly jumped though when Kagome shot him a shocked look.
"Egypt?" she asked.
"Yea."
"As in Ancient Egypt?"
"Uh huh."
Kagome looked from him to the journal.
'I wonder,' she thought. 'If it's his...'
She looked back at Yugi with a smile and scooted a little closer, making the boy's blush even more obvious. "Can I look at it with you? Ancient Egypt really fascinates me."
Yugi looked at her in shocked excitement.
"Really?"
"Oh yea for sure! It's one of my favorite subjects."
"What is?"
Kagome and Yugi looked up to curious face of Joey, Tristan, and Bakura, as well as the jealous face of Tea.
"Say what you got there Yug?" Joey said grabbing his friend into a headlock, making Kagome reposition herself to more of the right side of Yugi's desk. She watched on with soft amusement as Joey and Tristan teased Yugi with Bakura smiling next to them and Tea scolding them. Her eyes though went to Yugi's face.
'So much like him…he must be his reincarnation. There's no other explanation.'
She propped her head up on her left hand and continued to stare, earning a look from Tea that turned into a squeal which got the groups attention.
"OH MY GOD Kagome what a beautiful ring! Who gave it to you it's so pretty!" Tea exclaimed, reaching out and grabbing Kagome's head before she could snatch it away. To her embarrassment, this got the rest of the group's attention to her left hand.
Tristan let out a whistle. "Whoo what a ring! That must have cost a fortune. So who's the lucky guy," he said with a wink, making Kagome flush.
"Wow Kagome that is nice. It looks like an engagement ring," Yugi said impressed.
"It's not an engagement ring!" Kagome exclaimed a little louder than intended, trying to get their attention off her most precious thing, but only earning more sly glances and grins.
"Oh Yeah?" Joey teased getting closer, taking her hand, and grinning. "Then why you blushing so hard?"
Kagome turned even redder and took back her hand in a huff, sending a mock glare his way after, which only increased his grin. She looked down at her ring and her eyes softened.
"It was a gift—"
"From a guy?" interjected Tristan.
"Yes from a guy! He gave it to me. Apparently it was his mother's wedding ring."
"HA! So it is an engagement ring!" Joey interceded before being elbowed in the gut by Tea before she looked back at her, gesturing her to continue.
"It was but it wasn't. He told me he would give this ring to the woman he thought of marrying but never flat out asked me. He… told me he loved me…called me his sun, moon, and stars…" Kagome's voice got quiet as a fond and loving smile formed on her lips as she slipped into her own little memory world, earning her a curious look from Yugi.
"…we didn't know each other long but I always felt so comfortable around him. Like it could tell him anything and he'd listen. He was so loving and caring, when he wasn't doing something perverted…" she trailed off with a light chuckle at a memory.
"So what happened?" Tea asked.
The smile slowly left Kagome's face and her eyes filled with sadness, which didn't go unnoticed by the group.
"It wasn't meant to be," she said in a low voice. "Fate separated us in a way that I could never see him again. Hear his voice or wake up to him already awake, staring at me with those soft, loving eyes of his. Because of that, this ring is my most precious possession. I can't imagine being without it."
Tears started to form in her eyes and threatened to fall before a hand fell on her shoulder, breaking her out of her haze to her left to a smiling Yugi.
"I'm sorry that happened," he said softly.
Kagome looked at him a bit shocked at his kind words and also at herself. She barely knew these people and she was telling them so much…or rather telling Yugi so much. She hadn't even told her mother what the ring meant to her.
"And who knows," he continued. "Fate works in mysterious ways. Maybe you will meet him someday."
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Their gaze was broken as the bell for class to end went off and the student gathered their things and exited to classroom.
"So what's your next class Kagome?" Yugi asked.
Kagome silently handed him her schedule.
"Hey look at that! We have all but two classes together! We don't have the next one or the one right after lunch, but the rest we do. Come on, I'll show you where your next class is."
Kagome followed him silently, thinking to herself.
'I must be out of my mind…but I can't…I don't want to not be around him. He's so much like him that I can't bear to not be around him. God I must be a masochist,' Kagome thought with a deep sweat drop as she followed after Yugi.