: Hi everyone! I want to thank you all so much for the advice, it makes me very happy to know that you all care about me so much! I will be updating slow but don't worry the chapters will come regularly! These next two chapters in my opinion will be boring because if anyone has noticed, I am following a day by day pattern with chapters, an end of a day is shown if the next day there is a scene where they are waking up. But, that's obvious to anyone so XD. I hope you like this chapter!:
Yugi sighed, standing in front of an open closet, buttoning up a blue t-shirt with small hands. He looked to the bunk beds, seeing his friends still enjoying their Saturday slumber. Didn't they remember that they promised Anzu that they would meet up today in front of the school by three? It was two in the afternoon! On the weekends the principal allowed the students off and were given permission to leave the campus, but were still required back before it got dark. Many of the students used this time to go shopping for things, today would be a busy day though. It was the weekend before Valentine's day, but Yugi didn't care about that. It was his friend's tradition to hang out every weekend, it's just Joey and Bakura never liked getting up to Anzu's early time.
"Will you two get up already?" Yugi grumbled under his breath, brushing down his shirt to fix some wrinkles. His eyes darted to his desk, catching the bright color of red on it. He narrowed his eyes as he looked at the roses in the pitcher of water, he never bothered the damn things. Bakura had said that he would change the water everyday for him, Yugi figured it was just a funny way to tease him about his royal stalker, but he didn't feel too bad. He can get plenty of revenge by simply hanging out or latching onto Malik, Bakura seemed to get mad when he had hugged him two days ago, so it worked for him.
Yugi glared as the top bunk's lump of cotton moved and simply let out a groan as a head popped out of the blanket, his white hair tangled and hanging over his face in a disorderly manner. Yugi crossed his arms, popping a blue jeaned hip and tapping a brown shoed foot in impatience. A hand reached out from the blanket and scratched the top of his head.
"Is it time?" Bakura groaned out, his voice deeper than usual. Yugi rolled his eyes, he wouldn't have woke him up if it wasn't! He walked over to the bunk, sitting on the edge of the lower bunk, his body small enough to fit under without smacking his head against the bed above him. He poked at the lump in front of him, why did Joey have to be a heavy sleeper?
"I wouldn't have woke you up if it wasn't." Yugi sighed, poking around the lump and locating the skull. He poked around on it, trying to find the two eye holes. In only a few seconds, he did.
"Hey!" Joey shot up from his laying position, the blanket flying off of his torso and a hand covering his eyes as they filled up with a sharp sting. Yugi smiled sweetly at the blond haired friend, he might have short hair but he looked like a man with natural blond curls when he woke up.
"Good morning, sleeping beauty." Yugi sung out, hopping off from the bunk and walking over to a closet, beginning to pull out clothes that he knew would fit the guys. They lived in the same dorm for a year and a half now, he would stupid if he didn't know what fit them. He heard the sound of someone landing on the floor, indicating Bakura had gotten down. About time, Yugi thought, turning around and throwing a shirt and pants at Bakura, who at the moment had his eyes closed and was scratching his messed up haired head.
Bakura opened an eye, raising a hand and catching the clothes. He didn't do it prettily, but he did it to a degree to which he didn't drop the clothing, so he felt proud of himself. He yawned and moved his head behind him, turning it to see Joey laying back down, his face buried in a pillow. Bakura swung his shirt at him and smacked his head with it, sending a loud 'Whap!' sound throughout the room.
"Get up, Aurora."
"Can you guys stop calling me a princess?..." Joey grumbled, raising himself up on his knees and scratching the back of his head. He moved his eyes to Yugi, who was looking at him in an amused expression. He yawned into a hand.
"Why shouldn't we call you one?" Yugi teased, a grin on his small face. "You were blushing a storm yesterday when you came back and when I asked what was wrong, you yelled at me and went 'Seto's a sly bastard!'" Joey narrowed his eyes as a blush crawled on his face, he looked away in a pout.
"And? He is a sly bastard." Joey mumbled, he returned his eyes to Yugi. "I was just wondering because, aren't you the one who was called a princess?" Yugi's eyes widened as he heard Bakura start laughing and felt his face become hot, he hurled Joey's clothes and smacked his amused smile dead on, hiding it from sight.
"He doesn't call me that anymore!" Yugi yelled, crossing his arms and walking to a desk. He grabbed the chair in front of it and threw it back, planting himself into it as he reached around and got a pencil and paper out. "He calls me something else now, and even though I don't like it, it's better than Princess." He began to write on the paper, thinking as he wrote out his words onto it.
"What's he call ya?" Joey asked, getting up from his bed and placing on the clothes Yugi had thrown at him. A white t-shirt, green jacket, blue jeans...Yugi knows how he dresses, that's not surprising, Joey thought. After all, the pipsqueak friend of his did act like their mother at times.
"Prince." Yugi said, a disgusted tone taking over his voice as he wrote more, a cheek resting on top of his other hand's knuckles. Bakura rose an eyebrow at him.
"Doesn't that guy know that in order to make babies, you need an 'Eve' and you need an 'Adam', Not a 'Steve'? Bakura questioned, pulling on a black jacket over a gray shirt, he zipped it up and looked over himself. Okay, dark jeans with a black jacket, exactly what he liked. Yugi, you're creepy at how much you act like a mom, Bakura thought with a slight smile.
"He doesn't seem to care." Yugi stopped writing, sending a narrowed gaze at Bakura as he let out a small smirk. "And your royal doesn't seem to care either." Bakura blinked in shock as pink erupted on his face, he gritted his teeth and jerked his head around, trying to not think about it.
"My royal," Bakura spat out, his face still a bright pink. "isn't a real royal."
"But you still call him one."
"Yes."
"And you neglected to notice that you claimed him as your royal."
"You said he was my royal!"
"Didn't expect you to go along with it."
"Oh shut up pipsqueak!"
"Nope."
"I am so glad." Joey interrupted, his hands stuffed in his pockets. "That I am not the only one who argues with 'Kura." Bakura shot an angry glare the blonde's way.
"Do not call me 'Kura!"
"But Your royal calls you that."
"He is not my royal!"
"But you said he was."
"Shut up!"
"No."
"You guys seem like you're ready now." Yugi smiled, standing up and folding up the paper he had written on. He stuck it in his pocket, turning around and placing his hands behind his back in an innocent manner. His two amusing friends looked toward him, one annoyed and blushing like a maniac, and the other amused and having fun. Yugi rose a hand to the door.
"Let's go, shall we?"
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Anzu pouted, leaning against the school entrance's gate with her arms crossed. She had been waiting for half an hour here! Did Yugi forget to wake them up? No, that's impossible, Yugi never forgets. She rose her wrist, pulling back a sleeve to look at her watch, she had arrived at 2:00 and it was 2:33 now! She looked down, moving her wrist away and shuffled her feet as she waited. She was dressed comfortably for the traditional outing with her friends that day. A long sleeved pink jacket with a white skirt and white tennis shoes, underneath her jacket though was a tank top, just in case it got too hot.
"Hey, Anzu!" A high pitched male voice yelled. Anzu shot her head up and let out a sigh of relief, there they are! She straightened herself up, pushing away from the gate and smiled as her three friends walked up to her. She pouted and placed her hands on her hips.
"Geez, you guys are so slow!" Anzu complained, her voice a mocking sadness. "I've waited here for, like, ever!" The guys cringed at her fake girly voice, it was funny, but it was odd and it made them feel awkward.
"Are you hanging around the girly crowd again?" Joey asked, his tone blank from any happy emotion. Anzu glared at him, she crossed her arms.
"Are you saying I'm not girly?" She narrowed her eyes in question at her blonde friend, who now looked petrified with fright. He shook his head quickly at her question. She smiled in response and blew out another sigh.
"Being serious though..." Anzu let out an awkward chuckle. "What took you guys so long?" Yugi rolled his eyes as he made gestures at Bakura and Joey. The two glared at him as Anzu simply giggled and nodded in response as she got the message.
"Hey! Don't just blame us!" Bakura yelled at the small boy, who just smiled and shrugged as if he didn't know what he was talking about.
"Yeah!" Joey agreed. "You were taking your sweet time too!"
"But I was doing it as you two were getting dressed." Yugi smiled smugly at the two guys. "So..." He stuck out his tongue in a playful manner and began to run away from the small group, moving his legs down the sidewalk. The two boys began to yell at him as they ran after them. Anzu giggled in response before she, too, began to run after her friend.
"Honestly, what am I going to do with these boys?"
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"Very clever, Yug..."
"What? I think it was."
"Running into an ice cream parlor and then offering to treat us so we won't be mad at you for running away, but!" Joey stood up and slammed his hands on the table. "I won't fall for your bribing ways!"
"Will you just shut up and eat your ice cream?" Bakura grumbled, nudging the boy in the side. Joey groaned and slumped back down in his seat, reaching for the ice cream sundae in front of him. Well, it was true. Yugi had led them all to an ice cream parlor that was located only a block away from the school and offered to treat them all. Yugi just figured this outburst from him was because Joey forgot that it was Yugi's turn to treat them to something. Each time they went out, a different person had to treat them all to a snack or lunch. Yugi chose a snack, he didn't want to end up paying for Joey's lunch bill. The kid ate like a madman when it came to food that wouldn't hurt his brain.
"So, any idea on where we're going today?" Anzu asked, striking up a conversation as she picked up a spoonful of the banana split in front of her. Yugi shrugged, taking a spoonful of the cookie dough ice cream in front of him.
"Aren't we just doing the regular thing?" Bakura questioned, nibbling on his spoon for no apparent reason. He always got the chocolate chunk ice cream, but he always enjoyed chewing on his spoon for some odd reason, he couldn't explain why. The regular thing was always to go somewhere to eat first, as they were doing now, go to a random store or to the mall, then go to the school. That's all they did, why would they change it now?
"I don't see why we wouldn't be." Yugi answered, looking at Anzu for a comment. She had asked the question, perhaps she wanted to go somewhere?
"Well, I...uh..." Anzu uttered out, her face suddenly turning pink. "I w-want to go to the grocery store real fast..." This caught Joey's attention, that was the place that sold food, no wonder he began to listen! He narrowed his eyes in confusion.
"Why?" Joey asked. "You always want to go to the mall or something." He took a bite of his ice cream, noticing how Yugi seemed to watch him to make sure he didn't talk with his mouth full. God, mama Yugi, calm down!
"I just need to..." Anzu trailed off, god why was this so hard to say? Just tell them why you want to go!
"Spit it out, Mazaki." Bakura growled at her, feeling annoyed by how she seemed to be nervous. What the hell crawled up her breeches? Anzu glared at Bakura, she hated being called her last name! She inhaled through her nose, calming herself down. Somehow, that helped her calm down her nervousness as well.
"I want to buy some chocolate, to melt and well," She paused, feeling her face burn again. "Attempt to make some chocolate of my own."Anzu couldn't help but notice the green faces on the boy's faces, she wasn't that bad at making chocolate...She was decent! She just failed a couple times before...
"I'll call the fire department." Yugi grumbled, causing Anzu to look at him in shock.
"You know I won't burn the-"
"I'll call the hospital." Joey added.
"I don't think you need-"
"I'll call the poison center." Bakura continued.
"Now that's just rude!" Anzu yelled, her face now burning because of an overwhelming embarrassment. Okay so her chocolate wasn't that great, but it never killed someone! It just...made them sick for a couple days.
"But Anzu, why do you want to start making chocolate this early anyway?" Yugi questioned, truly curious of the answer. Anzu would start making chocolate the day before because she said that no matter what, him and the others wouldn't care how it tasted. They didn't, because they'd accept it no matter what, she was their friend so of course they would, but...Making it taste nice would make it better...
"I-I'm going to try to make them taste good this year! So, I need plenty of practice!" Anzu said, taking a harsh bite of her now melting ice cream.
"Found a special someone?" Bakura teased with a grin, Anzu blushed in an unknown emotion at that. That wasn't it! They're not special in that way to her!
"O-Of course not-"
"Perhaps a certain person we know?" Yugi continued, copying the teasing grin on Bakura's face. Anzu began to move her hand in a waving motion, telling them to stop.
"N-Not really-"
"Perhaps a certain..." Joey exchanged glances with the other boys, who all grinned at one another and nodded.
"Royal?" The three asked simultaneously, the grin the same on all of them as they leaned toward Anzu in a playful manner. Anzu's face became brighter.
"S-She isn't..." Anzu denied in a small voice. "I-It isn't like that! I-I'm just..."
"Speaking of which," Yugi smiled brightly, his teasing grin gone but his teasing tone remaining. "Weren't you acting funny Friday morning?"
"Yeah, you were." Bakura added on, his grin refusing to fade like Yugi's. "You kept looking down and your face kept turning pink at random moments, did something happen on Thursday?"
"And you also," Joey restrained his desire to burst into laughter. "Did not come to lunch on Thursday." Anzu looked left and right, her left being invaded by Yugi's grin and the right being the window she wanted to jump out of.
"Y-Yes, I-I had my lunch with Mana." She crossed her arms, her heart beginning to race at the thought of the female royal. "W-Why? It's not a big deal." She looked at Joey, she narrowed her eyes. I am so not going to be the only one teased here!
"And actually." Anzu leaned across the table to Joey. "Where were you on Friday?" Joey's eyes widened as Anzu just smirked. Got ya. "Were you with a certain someone as well?" Yugi and Bakura began to laugh as Joey's face turned into a bright red.
"I-I-I-" Joey stuttered out, not able to form a sentence.
"He was actually!" Yugi tried not to choke on his laughter. "He came back to the dorm all flustered and when I asked what was wrong he-" He broke off, beginning to laugh more.
"Seto's a sly bastard!" Bakura mocked in a high pitched voice. The two boys laughed more at the remembrance of the scene. Anzu began to giggle along with them, Seto's a sly bastard? What on earth did the mean looking royal do?
"But he is!" Joey yelled, feeling anger and embarrassment run throughout his body. Why did he get put in on the joke too?!
"How so?" Anzu smiled sweetly, glad the group wasn't focused on teasing her now. "What did he do?"
"He didn't do anything!" Joey said in a loud, quick voice. Which, tells everyone that it's a lie. The three rose an eyebrow at him, the two boys calming down gradually from their laughing fit.
"Okay, so maybe he did do something." Joey scratched the back of his head, his heart hammering at the memory of the lunch with the royal. "H-He kissed my hand..." Bakura began to chuckle while Yugi and Anzu simply rose an eyebrow. Big deal, they had happened to them with their royal plenty of times. Yugi stopped himself in that thought, while Anzu didn't catch what she had just thought. Atemu isn't his royal. Oh no. No. No. No. Atemu will never, ever be his royal!
"And we might've done something girly at the lunch thing..." Joey whispered, lowering his hand and taking hold of the spoon in his ice cream. "But I was kind of the one who triggered it..." Yugi rose an eyebrow.
"What was it?" Yugi asked, his humor gone because of the thought. Bakura and Anzu watched as Joey narrowed his eyes at Yugi and rose his spoon out of his ice cream, with a small pile of the dessert on top, and lifted it up to Yugi. Yugi rose an eyebrow in question.
"Say 'Ah.'" Joey whispered softly, making Yugi completely confused. He shrugged it off, closing his eyes and opening his mouth. It wasn't that odd for Joey to do that, he had done it plenty of times before. They were best friends, so it wasn't really awkward at all.
"Ah." Yugi voiced, feeling Joey place the cold desert in his mouth. He swallowed the ice cream and licked his lips as he savored the taste, Joey always had a good eye for food. Bakura's eyes widened.
"You and the Seto guy, did that?" He asked loudly with a wide grin on his face. Joey nodded, feeling embarrassed about it all. Yugi smiled smugly, feeling kind of happy to know that he wasn't the only one perused by the royals in a flirtatious manner. He'd known this for a while, but to just be reminded of it felt great. But again, he hoped this wouldn't break their group apart...
"T-T-That's not that bad." Anzu commented, feeling her face heat up again. So, they did that too? Oh good, it wasn't just her. "I-It's kind of sweet." The boys turned their eyes back to her, narrowing them accusingly.
"W-What?"
"You did it too, didn't you?" Joey asked blankly. Anzu gulped and looked away, fidgeting in her seat.
"Maybe?"
"Yugi, those two are getting laid before us." Bakura joked as he gazed over at Yugi. Yugi let out a laugh while Joey and Anzu began to stutter out words, denying the statement as much as they could.
"I know, they grow up fast don't they?" Yugi went along with it, laughing. "But how are we going to get laid?" Bakura rose an eyebrow, deciding to joke around with his friend. He looked him up and down.
"You and I do share a room you know..." Bakura whispered, narrowing his eyes and restraining his laughter. Yugi had to do the same, placing his arms on the table and narrowing his eyes as well.
"That is true..." Yugi replied, leaning over the table to Bakura.
"Hello! I share the room too!" Joey complained, standing up and slamming his hands on the table once again. Yugi shot a glare at him, sending him back into his seat with a small apology.
"You two would make a cute couple." Anzu joked with a smile. Bakura and Yugi smiled, reaching their hands out and holding each others hands.
"We do try." The two of them said with a bright smile. Anzu began to laugh while Joey reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone.
"You think if I take a picture of those two holding hands, the other two royals would get mad?" Joey asked, a blank expression on his face as he rose his phone up in a way that would like he was taking a picture, when in reality he was just checking his email. Bakura and Yugi's eyes widened instantly.
"I don't know, Maybe?" Anzu shrugged. "Take one and we can show the prince and Malik together." Joey nodded and pretended to take a picture before Bakura tried to grab the phone, breaking away from Yugi with a glare on his face.
"Don't you dare!"
"Why? You two scared that your royals will get jealous?" Joey teased, bringing up the your royal argument once again. Yugi and Bakura sent him their meanest glare.
"They are not our royals!"
"Aw look, someone's getting touchy!"
"They're also getting quite red too..."
"Give me the phone!"
"I am never buying us ice cream again..."
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"Anzu, do you need us to walk you to your dorm?" Yugi asked, walking through the school gate while carrying a small white plastic bag in his hands. After the four had finished their fun little snack, they had went to the local supermarket and shopped for a few simple things. Yugi and Bakura had gone off to buy some stuff while Joey and Anzu had went to the food aisle. Although, Yugi had said that he was going to buy something and Bakura couldn't see it, and Anzu was keen on picking out chocolate by herself. It had been awkward that day, but it had been fun.
"No, I'm fine." Anzu replied, thankful that her friends were worried about her going to her dorm alone. It was dark, but they didn't have to worry so much. She looked around, seeing students walking to their dorms. She looked back to her friends, all three of them with a bag in their hands. She too had a bag, but in hers was just chocolate to melt.
"I'll see you guys later!" Anzu said happily, waving as she walked off in the direction of the female dormitory. The three boys smiled at each other, already knowing what they were doing for the rest of the night. They walked to the dorm, exchanging greetings with other students as they walked up to their room and entered, flipping on the lights and setting their bags to the side so they could take the items out of them. Which, of course, made all of them curious of what the others would be carrying.
"Notebooks and pens?" Joey voiced as he looked at what Bakura was taking out of his bag. "Boring!" Bakura narrowed his eyes at him as he looked to see what Joey had bought.
"I see you bought food like always." Bakura chuckled as Joey nodded and smiled cheekily as he reached in and grabbed a Slim Jim, thrusting it in Bakura's direction. He took it with a smile and ripped it open, placing the top of it in his mouth before he got up to put his supplies in a drawer. He looked over at Yugi, who seemed to be hiding his bag.
"Did you buy everything that was on your list?" Bakura questioned, his mouth full of Slim Jim. Yugi sighed, annoyed with the fact he was talking with something in his mouth, but said nothing about it as he pulled out some items.
"Yes." He said quickly, placing away some notebooks and pencils he bought without moving away from his position near his desk. Yugi wouldn't dare let them see what he had bought. Bakura and Joey, however, had better ideas. The two boys rushed over to where Yugi was, taking a peek over his small shoulders. Yugi turned around, shocked by how they came up so quickly. He noticed their eyes began to widen as they saw what he had bought, his face turning a bright red as they placed the puzzle pieces together in their brain.
"You bought a glass vase for the flowers!" Joey yelled, surprise leaking into his voice as he smiled brightly as if he had found a big secret. Yugi blushed more, okay so he bought a vase! So what? The water pitcher looked tacky and he didn't like it, so he thought a vase would be good for the flowers. Despite being from the royal pervert, the rose's were pretty.
"So," Bakura sung out, a smug smirk on his face. "You do like-"
"Not in a million years!" Yugi yelled, his fists curling at his sides as he stomped past his friends and climbed up into his bed, laying down and throwing the blankets over his head.
"But Yugi! Why would you buy a pretty vase for flowers from someone you hate?"
"The flowers are pretty! It doesn't matter who they're from!"
"The first time you got them you acted as if they were poisonous."
"That was then!"
"Well, what happened now?"
"I respect nature, okay?!" Yugi snapped, jerking the blanket off his head and sitting up, breathing heavily as his heart hammered in his chest and his face burned him from the inside and out.
"If you say so..." Bakura sung out, he looked to the door and looked back to Yugi. "What're you doing in the bed anyway? Don't you know we have a rematch to do in Mortal Kombat?" Yugi tossed his anger out the window at that statement, oh, how could he forget? He smirked, jumping off the bunk bed and landing on the floor, surprising both of his friends. He didn't know why though, Yugi had always done that.
"I know, and you're going down!"
"I won't lose easily!"
"And what do I do?"
"The loser fights you, Joey."
"You say that as if I'm not good at the game!"
"Well..."
"Yugi!"
"You're not very good at it."
"Bakura!"
:Well, that was shorter than I thought, But I had removed a part I was going to put in because it seemed like it would make it too long. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and thank you all for being patient with me! I love you all! Please review!: