Yugi's POV
For the first time since we transferred to Domino primary school, I could see respect of almost all of the school attendees, teachers and pupils,when they look at my older twin sister, and I couldn't have been happier. She deserves nothing less, but a lot more as well.
Yuna always looked after me and our grandpa, sometimes even after our parents. It's just in her character to worry about others. But her maturity often left her with no friends our age. Only Mahad and Mana accept her like that. Mana, younger than us by five months, always looks at Yuna like a big sister she never had and treats her as such. Mahad, on the other hand, looks at her as his best friend, younger sister and charge. He acts as her guardian and takes it quite seriously, which I am glad for.
But they live in Egypt, and we can't see them anymore, well not like before. They visited, but they won't be able to visit again for a while, so I thought that no one would accept Yuna. Me, people accept because I am cute. Yuna, with her fiery spirit, vit, intelligence, skills in both gaming and sports, not to mention a few other things, and her pride, not so much. They don't like her because they envy her for being who she really is.
And then, there is also THAT. Yuna will probably never tell anyone about IT.
Anyway, as I was saying, I thought no one would respect her, but much to my surprise, even on the first day that tall boy, Kaiba, has respected her. Back then, I was just too happy to wonder why he respected her without knowing her, but by the end of the week I realised that it's because he was a gamer and probably sensed the same for her. I was disappointed.
But, a month later, on the day that some bullies broke the Millennium Puzzle (Yuna's prized possession) Kaiba beat up the bullies, getting slightly hurt in the process, and gave her the puzzle piece they stole back to Yuna before the time was up. Yuna won the challenge, but ran out after Kaiba and hugged him. I saw him blush while he awkwardly returns it, and then I saw him lean into her hands as she looked over his wouns. After, they parted and he left in his limo, Yuna watching it until it was out of sight.
Yuna's POV
The next day I made lunch for school, I made three bentos: one for me, Yugi and Seto Kaiba. I am truly grateful for what he did and I decided that this is the least I could do. I hope that he likes it.
I known that I cook rather well, but he is rich and probably eats better meals then I can make, but I sometimes I wonder if it's true, seeing how slim he is. And he sometimes looks exhausted and famished.
So I am going to give him the bento as a proper thanks.
When grandpa saw me making the third one, he asked me for who it was.
"It's for the boy I told you about, the one that helped me yesterday. " I answered and he chuckles, teasing me about having a crush on him. I just glared.
Our grandpa, Solomon Mouto, was a gamer as well as an archaeologist. That is why he managed to not only find the Millennium Puzzle, which was actually an accident, but he also survived the traps in the tomb. When people asked why he did it, he answered that he was looking for the ultimate game and that he was glad that he did. Our grandpa was rather energetic for his years and when we were little he started teaching us games.
I, even only hearing the rules for the first time, was able to defeat him in chess, poker and any other game ever since he decided to teach us. Even then I was a serious gamer. I never lost.
As we left, grandpa waved us goodbye and we were soon in front of the school. I told Yugi to go to the classroom and waited.
I didn't have to wait long for the limo to arrive.
Seto's POV
As I step out of the limo I am greeted by the sight of Yuna leaning on the gate of the schoolyard, waiting for something. I wished breafly that she was waiting for me, but dismissed the thought and made my way towards the school.
When she saw me, she walked up to me and said and did something unexpected.
"Kaiba, wait a minute." When she was sure that she has my attention, she took the bento box she was holding and extended it towards me. I could only stare into her eyes, my own showing confusion and shock as she said:" I wish to properly thank you for your help yesterday, and so I decided to make you a bento. You have no idea how much it means to me. I have noticed that you sometime don't look so good, like you are tired or hungry but push the offers the other students made away for some reason I will not ask for. I only wish to, even if a little bit, I can help you so I made you this lunch bento field with many nutrition even if it is rather light and you probably eat better food anyway. I will not be offended if you don't take it. It was just my way of saying Thank you. "
I couldn't believe that she noticed the results of Gozaboro's 'training' and even more that she cared to consider the fact that I wouldn't eat a big meal anyway. Yuna is truly unique and amazing. I can see why she has many fans among teenagers as well as adults. It is rather hard to not like her at least a little.
After a moment of considering what should I do, I decided and gently took the bento, murmuring a quick thanks and felt my heart skip a beat or two when she genuinely smiled at me and walked in to the school.
I was left, with a good number of other students, to stare after her.
I was truly happy with the results of my good deed.
In the classroom, there was chaos. Every boy tried to get me to give them the bento with stupid excuses such as it being poisoned or something. The girls were even worse, trying to steal it and trow it away. I bearly managed to save it for lunch.
Now that I've opened It, I can't believe that Yuna made it. It looks better than what the cook makes back in the mansion. I noticed that everyone is in the classroom today, probably because of the rain and/or Yuna's homemade lunch that she gave me . I saw her happily eating a similar bento with her brother and decided to try it already. I took the chopsticks and took the first thing that caught my eye, and put it in my mouth. My eyes lit up. The taste was amazing! I tried another, different piece and it also had a divine taste. My taste buns were singing by the time I was half way through. I noticed a strange foreign looking bread and decided to try it after I finished with the rest. I also saw a smallish container for drinks and I tried it before the bread after finishing all else. It was sweetened milk, but I never tasted something soo good. I was sad when I drank it all. Then I turned my attention to the bread and bit into it. I wanted to cry at how delicious it was! It was also sweetened, with honey probably seeing as Yuna said that it's a healthy meal, and was both soft and crispy. I never liked sweet much, but this is officially my favourite!
I saw the expectation on every students face, waiting for my reaction to the meal. I just stood up and walked over to the Mouto twins and placed the bento box on the table, then said:" Yuna, thank you for the lunch. It was one of the best meals that I have ever tried. "
Yugi smiled to himself, revealed for some reason, and then I saw it again. Yuna genuinely smiled up at me, her beautiful crimson eyes shining, and said:" Then I shall make you one tomorrow as well. "She declared and the class just gaped at us. I was sure I will start blushing soon so I just nodded and went back to my seat.
Yuna's POV
The bento became a habit, and every day I made three bentos in the morning. It became a routine, making the bentos, going to school, waiting for the limo, giving the bento to Kaiba and then he gives it back, empty, with a compliment and a mumbled "thanks". It went on for two weeks, every day. Until IT happened and I didn't come to school for three days...
Yugi's POV
Everything was going great, and Yuna and Kaiba might even become friends but suddenly the dreaded IT happened. The one of the main reasons why Yuna doesn't have many friends our age, the secret of her success...
The dreams of the past... not our past, ... but the past of the world!
It is her gift and her curse.
Seto's POV
The bentos really did me good. I felt much healthier then before and I could only thank Yuna for it.
Today we were getting a new music teacher, the last one having quite her job, saying we were monsters. I heard that it's some compositor that wishes to give us all the feeling that music provides.
"I am Taro Matsuki and I will be your new music teacher. Today we will get acquainted with each other and I will play something for you, and anyone else who knows how to play the piano can also play something for us all" said Taro excitedly. For some reason I couldn't think formally of him. He was pretty tall, but obviously very young. He had dark brown hair and gentle eyes somewhere between pale blue and gray.
I know how to play the piano, another one of Gozaboro's lessons, but I only knew four songs. I have learned to play so Gozaboro can say that his heir is truly a genius. It's for his bragging rights. So I decided to raise my hand and show off in front of my rival. I bet she can't do that.
I was surprised to see Yugi's hand in the air as well. Well, I guess he has a secret about himself as well, but for some reason, I don't think it will be him playing.
Taro was very happy to see that six of us knew how to play so he decided to play first, some beautiful sonata he composed for his loved one and everyone was clapping their hands when he finished. He was talented.
The other students who have raised their hands went on and played pieces of some songs, and not even correctly. There were many mistakes and both I and Taro flinched at every mistake. I saw out of the corner of my eye that Yuna did, too.
When it was my turn, I made sure to look Yuna in the eye, before closing mine and playing the piano perfectly, practiced to perfection trough the lessons Gozaboro got me. When I finished, the class was all happily clapping and the teacher even stood up to shake my hand. But non of them materd and so I looked in Yuna's direction only to see Yugi dragging her down the steps to the 'stage'.The music room was like an amfiteather.
When they arrived in front of us, Yuna tried to tell Yugi something, but he just said that she knew how to play any song, both classic and modern day music. Many sneered at his declaration, but Taro was interested and asked her to play something for everyone. She finally gave in and sat down at the piano, for a moment just thinking what she should play.
I listened carefully.
She decided on Beetoven's 'For Elesa' and played it to perfection. It was amazing! She could even play the piano! I suddenly noticed that her eyes glazed over. It has happened before a couple of times. First was when we were in art class and the teacher was calling her, but she didn't answer until she finishes the unbelievably realistic and well detailed pencil drawing of the setting sun behind the Tokyo Tower with whole of Tokyo in wiev just before the teacher slammed the ruler on her desk. The second time was when she was putting the Millennium Puzzle back together. The very thought of it makes my blood boil!
Yuna switched songs to the one Taro played and then to some song that had him gawking at her. I recognised it was a catchy pop song of som girl bend, the Mermaid Princesses, I think.
After she finished that song, her eyes looked like there was no life in their dephts and I started getting worried. Yugi seems to have noticed as well, but she started playing again and he told the teacher to wait. The song she was playing now sounded exotic, old, even ancient and free. I have an image of a falcon flying in the open sky for a moment, and then it disappeared. The song wasn't complicated, but still sounded a lot better than even Bach's work. It had this Egyptian tone to it...
However, Yuna soon stopped playing and the class all started clapping loudly, new respect in their eyes. The loud sound broke Yuna out of her trance like state and she had a horrified expression before falling to the floor.
The clapping stopped as soon as we all saw what happened and Yugi, Taro and I immediately ran to her side. Taro checked her pulse and, revealed that she is breading, sighed but told us to call an ambulance.
"That won't be necessary. My limo is outside, we can take her to the hospital with it because no one will dare stop us if we go faster than allowed. Come! " I said and started leading them to where the black car was waiting for me. Roland looked shocked to see the girl that hugged me some time ago unconscious and immediately started the engine while Fugata helped us put her in a comfortable position in the back seat.
When we got to the hospital, they ushered Yuna in and about an hour later a doctor came. Yugi was sitting with his grandpa, who had arrived twenty minutes after they took Yuna, looking guilty while Mr. Mouto talked to him. Mr. Taro was leaning on the wall, looking like he was blaming himself for what happened. I was sitting in a chair, with my legs crossed, laptop on my lap, Roland on my right and Fugata on my left, working on the design of a new ship if you can call it a ship. As soon as the doctor stopped walking we all stood up and listed to what he says.
"She is unconscious, we know that much for sure. What we don't know if she is in a coma or not. Her body is asleep but her brain is in overdrive, as if she was working on a difficult task. We don't have any idea how that is possible. " he finished.
"So in other words, you don't know what is going on with her, right? "I asked icily and the man takes a step back from the glare I'm sending his way.
"She'll be fine. It has happened before, and she just needs to sleep it off. We'll be taking her home now. " said Mr. Mouto and I gaped at him as he took the sign papers and left to take Yuna home. I gave a final look then glared and left for the mansion.
I'm still worried about Yuna!
