:Hi everyone! In reply to some of the reviews; I did not forget mana! How could you say such a thing! She's mai babeh! XD, I'm kidding, don't worry I didn't forget her, I'll tell you why I haven't forgotten her at the end of this chapter. *ahem* I'm sorry if this isn't a good chapter, I had no idea how to go about this chapter and it might be short because of that, but I might as well type it anyway, I hope you enjoy and please review!:

"So, is your hair naturally like that?" Malik questioned with a smile as he assumed his regular position, kneeling down next to Bakura with his chin held in his hands. Bakura glared at him as he gave Yugi a rectangular looking object, what was with this royal? Not only did the guy stare at him for a long time, but he kept talking to him, didn't he realize that he didn't want to talk to him? Bakura glanced at Yugi, ignoring Malik as he watched him write down what they had found, Yugi was good at identifying objects they had dug up, and Bakura was a fast digger, which made their work in the class go by incredibly fast.

"Bakura." Malik sung out, trying to get his attention. Bakura returned his gaze to Malik, his face expressing how annoyed he was with the tanned blond.

"Yes." Bakura spoke, answering the boy's previous question he had asked, Malik hummed happily and looked up to Yugi.

"So, what did he find?" Malik questioned, finding himself interested in the class, he wondered vaguely if he could sign up for it. If he did, he might be able to see Bakura everyday! He internally swooned at the thought, craving to spend more and more time with the silver haired male. Malik couldn't believe that he was feeling this way, but now he understood how Atemu and Seto felt when they saw Yugi and the other kid, what was his name again? Malik wanted to get to know Bakura, but what could he ask? He had become friends with Seto when he voiced that he was interested in becoming a royal adviser as well, so he had taught him on the regular, and that soon led him to meeting Atemu and Mana, so they helped him as well, it was a friendship that started naturally. Malik sighed, but this relationship wouldn't start like that, he had to work for it. He waited for an answer from Yugi, wandering vaguely if Yugi considered him as a friend.

"He found a iron bar." Yugi spoke boringly, he sighed and tossed the iron bar next to Malik. "Can you bury that? We usually rebury the stuff we find for the next class." Malik nodded, grabbing the bar and forgot about Bakura for a second as he dug a hole for the bar. Bakura watched him from the corner of his eye, huh, he thought, so he can do something. Bakura just thought he only knew how to stare and open his loud mouth.

"That good?" Malik questioned, taking a inch back to allow Yugi to see if he had buried it completely or not. Yugi and Bakura both looked down at the hole, it looked as if the sand had never been touched, Bakura was vaguely impressed, the royal could probably make a good archeologist, as long as he could be gentle with artifacts and pick them out instead of just burying them.

"Yeah," Bakura responded, surprising Malik that he did. "It's fine." He reached into the sand, digging more out, he shot a glance to Malik. "Do you wanna dig? It might make this assignment go by faster." Malik's eyes widened, his face turning a shade of pink as he nodded and inched himself back near Bakura, putting his hands in the sand and gently digging to make sure he didn't accidentally miss anything. Yugi smiled as he watched this, Bakura was being nice, but he wasn't being too nice, and he was thankful for that.

"So, how long have you two known each other?" Malik asked, wanting to get a conversation going that would help him learn more about Bakura. Yugi chuckled as he scratched the back of his head.

"I honestly think it's been..." Yugi looked up at the sky in thought. "About 5 years?" Bakura stopped digging and shook his head.

"No, it's been 6, we're Memory Banks now, Yugi."

"Ah, that's right."

"Wait, you two are what?" Malik asked, did they just call themselves a computer part? He had only heard of the part because Seto was telling him about technology, but he was pretty sure that people weren't memory banks!

"Oh, you don't know, do you?" Bakura spoke, somewhat amused by Malik's lack of knowledge. "You know that this school is the most high tech one in Japan, right?" Malik nodded. "Well, at this school instead of using the normal words such as Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors, we use computer parts as our grade. 9th grade are Chips, 10th grade are Memory Banks, 11th grade are Hard Drives, and 12th grade are PC's."

"That's a little..." Malik trailed off with an awkward chuckle, this school was weird as hell! What kind of school names their students after computer parts?

"It's weird," Yugi said, already knowing what Malik was going to say. "But it's interesting, the headmaster said it was this way because it's like they're building a computer, taking us from being a tiny chip to being a high tech computer." He smiled sweetly, it was a good speech that the headmaster would tell them at the beginning when he introduced the new Freshmen/Chips, him and his friends had been skeptical about the school being normal, but once you got around the messed up schedule, the weird classes, how it looked, and everything else they did, it was as normal as you could get.

"It's better then going to a boring high school," Bakura grumbled. "We could be stuck in a class right now, doing boring stuff like algebra or something." He scrunched his face up in disgust, he hated math. Malik wanted to hug him, he looked so cute with his face like that, he looked like a cat who didn't want their food! He let out a small squeal, causing Bakura to look at him, confused as can be, Yugi ignored him and gestured for an item.

"Find anything?" He asked, getting impatient. They had to have found ten items by the end of class, but they had only found four, they were never going to get done at this rate.

"No, how many more do we need?" Bakura asked, knowing that they needed to find ten.

"Six..."

"You have got to be kidding me." Bakura groaned, digging faster and looking in the sand for more items, had he picked a bad spot?! Malik noticed his pace, frowning at it, it was only six items they had to find...He moved his eyes back to the ground and narrowed his eyes as he cracked his knuckles.

"Alright." Malik whispered to himself. He closed his eyes, his face tilted toward the sand, his hands in front of him. He opened his eyes, let out a war cry, and began to dig like a mad man, throwing sand everywhere, causing clouds of it to form behind him. Yugi let out a small yell as he jumped out of his stool to avoid the incoming sand, Bakura's eyes widened.

"You idiot! Don-" Bakura began to cough and took a step back away from the digging maniac, he wasn't surprised when he heard some people stop talking, Malik was making a lot of noise and causing a lot of sand to explode in the air. Bakura and Yugi yelled at him to stop, only to be drowned out by his rapid yelling, what the hell was he doing, he's trying to dig for items, not kill a person!

"Goddammit Malik, stop!" Bakura yelled in his loudest voice, causing everything, and everyone, to freeze, people stood and looked at him, their eyes wide at his sudden outburst, Yugi stood there with a hand over his eyes, making sure that no sand got in them, and Malik just knelt there, sand falling around him as if it was coming from the sky. His hands were dusted with sand, and his outfit had a layer of sand coating it. Bakura growled, marching toward Malik with his hands curled into fists.

"What the hell were you-" He stopped in mid sentence, getting cut off as he found a handful of sand covered items shoved in his face. Malik was holding the items, a bright friendly smile on his face, he gestured at Bakura to take them. Bakura looked at him confused for a moment, gently taking the items out of his hands, Yugi watched him as he counted the items.

"There's..." Bakura whispered, amazed at what he was seeing. Malik placed his hands behind his back, letting out a small giggle.

"See?" Malik spoke, grabbing Bakura's attention. "I did something good." Bakura's eyes widened, his face turning a slight pink as he viewed how Malik was standing, his eyes closed with a bright smile on his face, his face a bright pink but dusted with sand, Bakura couldn't help it...

He burst out in a fit of laughter.

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"Wow, I've never seen Bakura laugh like that before!" Anzu observed, amazed by how the royal could make their coldest friend laugh, she looked behind herself to look at Atemu, she rolled her eyes.

"Will you stop your brooding over there?" Anzu snapped, Atemu was on the ground, hugging his knees to his chest. The two of them had watched Malik bond with both Yugi and Bakura, Atemu had been shocked to find that Yugi was having fun with Malik, his princess was having fun with his friend...Atemu looked to her, his eyes saddened.

"Why should I?" He whispered, feeling like a sick puppy. Anzu thought he looked like a complete fool sitting there, and he called himself a prince! She began to rethink her feelings for him, could she think of dating this guy? She could, but his personalty is just...weird...

"Malik obviously isn't interested in Yugi."

"What about Yugi to Malik?"

"Yugi doesn't seem interested in him either, I've never known Yugi to be gay."

"That makes me feel worse..." Atemu grumbled, his cheeks and lips puffed out in a childlike pout, did she forget that he was trying to make Yugi like him? Not only that, but he was trying to figure out for sure that Yugi was a male, he was good at tricking him, so why couldn't he trick a lot of people for a while. It couldn't be that hard to hide your gender, could it?

"Well, Yugi's never shown any interest in anyone." Anzu lied, Yugi showed interest in her, but she never felt anything but friendship toward him. She watched Yugi, seeing him question what Malik did to Bakura and if he broke his brain. She narrowed her eyes, he looked like he was having fun, he was smiling, the smile lighting up the whole area with a kind of happiness that only Yugi could experience, Anzu had to admit, Yugi was cute...

"Then, you are not aware of his sexuality?"

"Nope."

"Good."

"Yeah, are you done now?" Anzu snapped, placing her hands on her hips as she couldn't help but notice that Atemu hadn't moved from his fetal position. He mumbled out a maybe that made Anzu groan loudly at the prince.

"Come on!" Anzu hollered, walking over to the prince and grabbed his arm, tugging him up from his position. "I told you, you're going to go in there and get to know him!"

"But I'm..." Atemu broke off, feeling his face heat up in shame. Anzu narrowed her eyes at him.

"You're?"

"I-I'm..."

"Spit it out!"

"I'm shy!" He cried out, Anzu's face froze, her eyes widened and disbelieving. He's...shy? She blinked at him, there was no way he was shy, not if he could kiss Yugi's hand in front of over one thousand teenagers. She tugged his arm.

"No you're not," She hissed, about to smack the royal in front of her. "Get on the other side of that damn wall." Atemu looked at her in fear as she began to pull him to the wall, he pulled back.

"No! I'm shy! I'm nervous! I'm-"

"A stubborn royal! Now come on!"

The two were having a tug of war, Anzu tugging on one arm of Atemu, and Atemu tugging with his whole body trying to get away from her. Anzu's face scrunched up in pressure as she tried to drag the prince, god this guy was strong! Atemu wouldn't mind talking to Yugi at all, but to be forced to go see him again in front of other people when Yugi obviously didn't like him that much? He didn't want to get slapped again!

"I've had enough!" Anzu cried out, finally using all of her strength...

and successfully threw Atemu to the other side of the wall.

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Yugi stood up from his stool, brushing off his pants from the sand and smiled, proud of Malik for getting the final six items and proud of Bakura for laughing for longer than 3 minutes. Malik was asking more questions about Bakura's personal life, Bakura was very unwilling to answer and tried to shy away from him, backing up slowly, only making Malik come closer to him. Yugi giggled at the scene.

"I'm going to head off to my next class, there's only 10 minutes left of this one and I don't want to be late." Yugi told his two friends, Malik voiced an 'Okay' while Bakura voiced a 'Don't you dare leave me here!'. Yugi waved, leaving the lovestruck boy and the angered but obviously amused boy, and headed to the wall...Only to find his body smacked by something and thrown to the ground. Yugi let out a yell as this happened, landing on the ground with a loud thump. Anzu peeked her head out at the edge of the wall and grimaced at the sight.

"That...wasn't supposed to happen..."

:Nice job Anzu, just nice job...I applaud you. slow claps* Now, to what I meant at the beginning, right after this chapter is posted I will post a poll on who Mana will end up with, there are only 3 choices, one being nobody and the other two you will see. The poll will end AFTER I post chapter 9! I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, please review and have a good day!: