"Then I want you to go to the Kulou region and bring back some anyue grass...RIGHT NOW!" Mai commanded and everyone was still stunned by the queen's idea.
"Okay, no problem..."
"YUGI...!" Vivian screeched at him and he was taken back by his friend sudden burst, "Do you even know what kind of place the Kulou region is!"
Yugi awkwardly smiled, "Nope! I was just about to ask you if you had a map" He chuckled uneasily and Vivian feel like smacking him in the head.
"Stupid! The Kulou region is in the deep, deep, deepest part, of the school's forest and no one even dares to go there during the day. That's the only place anyue grass grows in and it only blooms at night! Rumours say that it's so rare you could spend the whole night searching and not find a single blossom either" Vivian explained and sighed in annoyance.
"WHAT!"
A devious smile lit up on Mai's face, "Do you want to go with him, Vivian?"
Yugi brightly turned to his friend, "That's right, if the two of us go together..."
"NUH-UH! NO WAY!" Vivian took a step back and crossed both her arms, "Sorry Yugi, I have to prepare for tomorrow's activities"
"Eh...but...aren't we friends?"
"YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN! GO FOR IT!" Vivian shoved Yugi out the door along with a map and a lantern.
Yugi sighed, "I...I guess I'll just have to risk it." Heavy dragging footsteps. "In the end...it's all Yami's fault that things turned out this way..." Yugi lowered his head in despair. "Why did he have to be so arrogant anyway!" Memories from the morning flood through him and a picture of Yami with his evil grin claiming Yugi was his toy. "DAMN IT! THAT STUPID CROW! I CAN'T BELIEVE HE TREATED ME LIKE HIS PROPERTY! Yugi yelled in frustration.
"To think I...finally started to like him a little bit lately..." Yugi bit his lip as he continued to wander through the dark forest when he realised his map disappeared. "No way, where's my map?" He looked around his surrounding feeling totally lost, "Where is this...?"
A huge group of bats flew toward Yugi's direction who ran for it. "IDIOT, IDIOT, IDIOT! IT'S ALL THAT BIG IDIOT, YAMI'S FAULT!" He was totally blaming Yami for his frustration and accidently tripped over a rock. "Oww." A pair of feet was seen in front of him. Looking up he met a girl with long brown hair with a bloodcurdling and lifeless face.
"How clumsy..." The scary girl commented and Yugi screamed and went on his knees.
"I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY! I HOPE YOU'LL RISE TO HEAVEN SOON!"
"Hey, are you serious?" A smile was seen on the girl face, "I'm not a ghost, I'm in the same grade as you…" Yugi looked back up to see a perfect clear face this time, "I'm Serenity, pleased to meet you" She held out a hand which Yugi gratefully took. "Are you new here, mister?"
"Oh, I only started here this spring." Yugi explained and he saw a frown was seen on Serenity's face as she lowered her face.
"I….don't like the girls in the female dorms…"
"Yeah…they do look pretty mean! Especially that queen" Yugi agreed.
Serenity blinked her eyes in surprised, "You've seen the queen?"
Yugi nodded his head, "Yup, that's why I'm here, to pick anyue grass…" And he suddenly gasped when he remembered something.
"What's wrong?" Serenity asked in a concerned voice.
"Her majesty told me to go to the Kulou region and pick some of that grass for her, but I've lost the map" Yugi explained in a sheepish tone, "What should I do?"
Serenity clicked her finger, "I know where the anyue grass is" She grabbed a hold of Yugi's arm and pulled him along with her, "Come with me!"
"But…but they said anyue grass isn't easy to find!" Yugi said and Serenity suddenly stopped in her track and turned around with her once intimidating face which sent shiver down Yugi's spine.
"Are you saying that you don't believe in me?" Serenity asked in an accusing voice and Yugi quickly shook his head.
"N-no…of course not…"
"I'm only telling where it is because it's you" Serenity ran up ahead and pointed to the right, "This way!"
"What exactly does she mean by that?" Yugi confusedly wondered but shrugged and followed the girl.
Meanwhile, Yami was in the tower waiting by the secret stairs leading up to the room. "There's no way he'll use the ladder…he doesn't have the patient for it" He sighed in disappointment. Anibus who was sitting by his master was fed up.
"CAW CAW!" Anibus tried to pull Yami up by his shirt.
Yami shoo it away, "WHAT! ARE YOU SAYING I SHOULD GO APOLOGISE TO HIM? NO WAY IN HELL!" Yami angrily said and he suddenly heard a panting voice coming up the stairs. He quickly sat back up and anticipation went through him, "Yugi…?"
But out popped up was Joey who was sweating like crazy, "Gees, I'm about to die of exhaustion here! Can't you just have an elevator built, Yami?" Joey sat on the floor trying to catch his breath.
"Good evening. Here this is from us." Kaiba said handing Yami a basket of food.
"I can't believe your face isn't even red from panting!" Joey cried out while he wiped the sweats of his face with his jumper.
"Because I'm a snow boy."
"What are you guys even doing here?" Yami asked and Kaiba explained the whole story.
"So what we're trying to say is that Yugi's staying at the female dorms, and you don't need to worry about him." Kaiba finished his story and took a gulped of his drink.
Yami with his hand under his chin was in deep thought, "Okay…if he's there then it's fine…"
"Oh, the female dorms…" Joey dreamily sighed and Kaiba shook his head with a smile.
"Even if a moron like you wanted to sneak in, the nasty queen there wouldn't let you."
Joey suddenly gets angry, "IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! THIS WOULDN'T HAPPENED IF YOU WERE NICER TO YUGI!"
Yami raised his eyebrow, "I'm nice to him all of the time"
"But..you shouldn't see him as your property…" Kaiba said while munching on a cookie.
"What's wrong with me saying that when he DOES belong to me?" Yami immediate replied which made the others sighed with his response. Yami's face begins to soften, "He…Yugi is something very precious to me." His friend watched him with their speechless face.
"Hey, why do you like Yugi so much anyway?" Joey questioned.
"You said you met for the first time when you were three, right?" Kaiba added and a grin was shown on Yami's face.
"Wanna hear about it huh?" Yami asked in excited voice,
"You must really want to tell it to us, don't you?" Kaiba asked and Yami laughed.
"At that time, I…." He was cut off by the continuous ringing from the phone by his bedside.
"President, we've run into a bit of a crisis outside of dorm three." Tristan explained while uneasily watching the fight in front of him.
"Take care of it yourselves" Yami replied in a bored voice and Tristan wanted to strangle him through the phone.
"IF I COULD HAVE TAKEN CARE OF IT MYSELF, DO YOU THINK I WOULD HAVE CALLED YOU!" Yami hanged up the phone and walked toward the window.
"I guess I'll have to…" Wings sprouted from his back.
"Let's go to the female dorms tomorrow to pick up Yugi!" Joey exclaimed in an excited tone.
Soft flaps were heard from Yami's wing; he turned around with a smile, "All right..." And he took off.
"You just really wanted to go to the female dorm for yourself, didn't you?" Kaiba asked with amusement and Joey sighed happily.
"Because if we go with the student council president, she might let us in"
"But speaking of which, I'm really surprised that Yami loves Yugi that much." Kaiba looked out the window and he could see his friend's beautiful black wings, "I'd really like to know what happened to them when they were three."
"AH!" Joey shouted which shocked Kaiba.
"What's wrong?"
Joey smacked his head and groaned, "I should have asked him to give me a ride down! Now I have to climb down the stairs again…."
"I heard this is a pretty rare plant, but I was able to get so many, it's all thanks to you Serenity!" Yugi happily picked the grasses.
"We should head back!" Serenity called out to Yugi who had a whole bunch of anyue grasses in his arm.
"Okay." Yugi got up and followed his friend with a bright smile, he turned around to the field of flowers again to see nothing, "Huh?"
"YUGI…!"
"Oh, coming!" Yugi ran after Serenity, "How weird…that place was covered in blooming anyue grass just moments ago…" Yugi wondered, "Maybe because it was dark and I couldn't see that well…" Yugi decided that this was the conclusion and dropped it.
"I'M BACK!" Yugi exclaimed and all the females in the dorm were shocked. Mai placed her cup back on the tray which was held by another girl. Vivian was surprised to see her friend returned with a whole bunch of grass. "I HAVE THE ANYUE GRASS!" Serenity stood behind Yugi with her hands behind her back.
"No way…is he serious?" Girls started to gossip about how the boy managed to find the grasses.
"What kind of method did he use to get the grass?" Vivian curious wondered.
"MAYBE IT'S A FAKE!" Someone shouted and Mai took one and sniffed.
"Your majesty…."
"It's real…" Mai said and Yugi nervously scratched his head.
"Sorry did I pull too much because there was a field of it…"
Mai gave Yugi a stern look, "Let me ask you, where did you get this from!"
"Oh…I lost my map halfway and got lost…" Yugi chuckled and pointed to his friend, "But Serenity said that she knew a place filled with anyue grass, right Serenity?"
Chattering and mumbles were thrown back and forth, "Who is she? Is she someone from our dorm?" Mai was apparently speechless.
"Who are you?" Mai asked in command and Serenity smirked.
"There's actually a 'queen' who doesn't know who I am? What a joke!" Serenity mocked and Mai's eyes widen.
Yugi turned toward his friend, "Serenity…?"
"Come on, Yugi!" She grabbed Yugi's arm and pulled him out of the room, "Come and play with me!"
"Who exactly is this girl who calls herself Serenity?" Yugi wondered.
Monkey Girl: Well here is another chapter xD and to s2Teennovelist thanks for pointing out the mistake =D