Sorry, I got up really late. I do not own Yugioh, enjoy! [YUGI, YAMI, and ATEM]
Chapter 10
Yugi dragged himself to school, Ryou had stayed the past couple of nights, and Malik had scoffed at Yami's request and slept with Yugi anyway. With Ryou on one side, and Malik on the other, it felt sort of like home, but at the same time it really wasn't the same. He was supposed to be excited, it was his first day as a Senior, but because his mates weren't going to be there with him, he could barely hold a smile on his face.
No, no, those were bad thoughts, bad thoughts. He needed to be strong, he needed to be happy. Be happy so this wouldn't be so hard on his mates. Happy and cheerful, happy and cheerful. Positive thinking. This was his last first day, he should be excited, then why did he feel so down?
"Hey Yug' either smile, or I'm going to be forced to tickle you." Jou said. Yugi smiled a smile that didn't reach his eyes.
"Come on buddy, cheer up, you'll see them again real soon. The 10th will be here before you know it. You know what they say, time flies when you're having fun! So we're going to have lots of fun, and the 10th will get here sooner, promise." Jou said slinging an arm around his shoulders.
"I don't know Jou…" Yugi said trailing off.
"No, none of that talk. We're going to have fun to make time go faster, starting today after school!" Jou proclaimed.
"Alright, I guess I'll try it. Anything to take my mind off of them." Yugi agreed half heartedly.
"That's the spirit!" Jou said enthusiastically.
"Well, I've got study hall first period so I'll see you guys later." Yugi said waving and turning down the corner to get to the study hall room. Yugi's schedule was loaded with them. He had taken mostly advanced classes last year, which meant he only had to take honors English, Gym, Sociology, Physiology, and Physics to graduate. The rest of his classes were study halls. So Yugi's class schedule looked something like this:
A Day
Study hall
Honors English
Study hall
Physiology
Lunch
Study hall
Study hall
B Day
Study Hall
Study hall
Physics
Lunch
Gym
Sociology
Study hall
If he failed any of his five classes then he seriously needed help.
Yugi sat down in his seat and the teacher came over to hand him two schedules, Atem and Yami's. Theirs was loaded with classes, and they were identical.
A Day
Sociology
Honors English
Trigonometry
Calculus
Lunch
Study hall
Study hall
B Day
Physics
Physiology
Study hall
Lunch
Gym
Chemistry
Biology
Yugi looked both of theirs over matching them up or trying to. Finally he got up and walked up to the teachers desk to point out a problem with the papers. After all Atem and Yami had all the same classes as him last year didn't they, so wouldn't it be the same this year?
"Um, excuse me Sensei…Midori, there is a problem with the two schedules you handed me." Yugi said laying all three down next to each other so he could show her the problems.
"No there isn't. They never signed up for classes, so classes signed up for them." She said scooping up there papers and handing them back to him.
"Well, is there any way I can get this fixed?" Yugi asked.
"No, if they want a schedule change then they need to come in by next Tuesday to get it fixed themselves." She said placing her hands upon the desk and folding them.
"But they can't." Yugi argued.
"And why can't they?" she asked.
"Because they need to stay home to keep all the foreign vampires in the area in check." Yugi explained.
"Well, that's hardly my problem." She said shrugging.
"You don't like vampires do you?" Yugi asked bluntly.
"They killed my only child." She said angrily.
"I'm sorry for your loss." He said gently, before walking back to his seat.
Guys, we have a slight problem with our schedules.
What kind of problem.
Well we share all of…eight classes together, and yes that does include lunch too.
Wait what?
You heard me. I just got done talking to the teacher, and well, she was less then helpful with the situation. I'll try to get this fixed.
Okay, so how's school so far?
Boring. None of my friends are in this class with me. With as many as I have you'd think at least one would be in this one with me, but no, there aren't any.
What class is it?
Study hall.
What do you have next?
Honors English.
What do we have next?
Honors English.
Yami.
Right, we have to go Yugi, a meeting is starting.
Want me to make it entertaining for you?
NO!
Okay.
Yugi laughed quietly to himself, something which felt really good, considering he hadn't done it at all the past couple of days. It was a brief moment of amusement, but he enjoyed it for all it was worth. Maybe the problem he was having was he was focusing too much on being happy, instead of just letting the emotion come to him. Okay, okay, just let the emotion come to him, instead of him looking for it.
Your thought process amuses me.
Yami, this meeting needs your undivided attention.
What's the meeting about?
Don't worry about it.
Why not?
Because it doesn't concern you.
You're my mates, everything you do concerns me.
That's not the type of concern I meant and you know it.
Hey Atem, I thought this meeting required your undivided attention?
Have a nice day at school, Yugi.
I'll try my best to.
The morning flew by and before Yugi knew it, it was lunch time. He made his way to the cafeteria, and sat down at their regular table as he waited to see which of his friends he had lunch with. Kaiba and Malik sat down, but that was it. Kaiba immediately pulled out his computer, and started to type away on it. Malik debated loudly if they should pour milk on it to get his attention.
"Not now Ishtar, I'm trying to find all the vampires that are supposed to be attending this school." Kaiba said annoyed.
"What?" Yugi asked confused.
"Take a look around, do you see any blood suckers?" Kaiba asked.
"Well, now that you mention it, no. I haven't seen any all day." Yugi said glancing around. He saw Camilla sitting at a table with a bunch of Sophomore girls who he knew were blood bags like him, but not Elizabeth.
"Exactly, doesn't that seem a little odd to you? First day of school and not one shows up?" Kaiba asked glaring at him over his computer.
"I guess." Yugi said unsurely.
"Yes, well I'm going to find them." Kaiba said looking back at his computer.
"Or I could just-" Yugi started to say.
"Shh!" Kaiba cut him off.
"Okay." Yugi said looking away towards one of the white walls as he pulled out his lunch. It was a salad with spinach, carrots, radishes, and lima beans. Odd combo, but okay. There was also a pudding cup, potato chips, and a juice box. Yugi started to eat it as he opened the mind link.
Hey, you aren't by any chance holding all the vampires in Domino hostage are you?
We are not holding them hostage!
Kay, just thought I'd ask, because none of them showed up to school.
Yugi, this is a very important meeting, and you're interrupting it, again.
Okay, but do you know where any of the vampires in Domino are?
Yes, they're all here, sitting in front of us.
All of them?
Yes.
But…that's a lot of vampires.
Yes it is. What are you doing right now?
Eating lunch?
Any side effects?
Too soon to tell, but don't worry you'll be the first to know if I have any.
Alright, we'll talk later Little One, we've got to go.
Alright, until later!
"Found them!" Yugi practically sang.
"Found who?" Kaiba asked.
"The vampires." Yugi said like it was obvious.
"Well, where are they?" Kaiba asked.
"Being held hostage by their King and Queen." Yugi said at the same time he sent an image to Atem and Yami over the link. It was of Yami and Atem standing over a group of vampires that had been tied up and gagged, and they were laughing at their captives' misery. He could feel faint traces of amusement leaking through the link, as well as high amounts of annoyance.
Yami, go fix him.
No! You have to stay there! You have to protect the humans of Domino, stay Yami.
I'm more willing to listen to Yugi at the moment, Atem.
Fine, whatever!
Have a nice day!
We'll try our best to.
Yugi laughed, that was the same thing he had told them that morning. As lunch ended he started feel a little funny, but brushed it off as a mate thing. Probably from being away from them for too long. By the end of the day though, he was starting to second guess that thought, as the feeling grew stronger.
When he left school, he had a sudden craving for chocolate, and Kaiba had his driver stop at the local drug store, because he was tired of Yugi going on and on about how much he wanted chocolate. Unfortunately, for Kaiba, when he came back out of the store with it, Yugi didn't want it anymore, saying the craving had passed as mysteriously as it had come. Kaiba looked like he was going to blow a fuse, but just barely restrained himself. As they were passing the park, Yugi wanted to stop there to take a walk through it. Kaiba said no at first, but Yugi immediately started to tear up, and Kaiba caved and said okay. Yugi cheered and skipped out of the limo, and down the winding sidewalk in the park. They were halfway through the park when Yugi suddenly changed directions, and started heading for a different area of Domino. Beyond confused at this point, Kaiba followed until he recognized the path as one to the Stone Palace.
"No, Yugi, it's not the 10th yet." Kaiba said grabbing him from behind.
"But, I want to see my mates." Yugi said.
"That's nice, we need to go home." Kaiba said dragging him back towards the limo.
"Oh no!" Yugi yelled.
"What? What's wrong?" Kaiba asked.
"I lost my shoe; I'm such a horrible person." Yugi said slumping to the ground and starting to cry.
"What?" Kaiba asked completely flabbergasted by Yugi's behavior.
"You see? It's sitting right over there, completely abandoned!" Yugi cried pointing.
"Malik, is this a side effect?" Kaiba asked looking at him.
"I don't know, could be. I mean I've never seen or experienced it before." Malik responded shrugging.
"My phones ringing, it's ringing." Yugi said starting cry all over again.
"Gimme that!" Kaiba said grabbing the phone out of his hand.
"My poor innocent shoe." Yugi cried.
"I don't know, he just sat down and started crying about losing his shoe which is sitting right in front of him." Kaiba growled into the phone.
"The poor thing, it just came off." Yugi said picking it up and cradling it in his arms.
"I don't know." Kaiba said rudely.
"It's okay shoe, I've got you, it's going to be okay." Yugi said petting the shoe whilst trying to comfort it. People were stopping and giving him weird looks, while Mothers were steering their kids away from him.
"Well do you have a list of all the foods he hasn't eaten yet? So why are you asking me?" Kaiba asked.
"There, there, it's okay." Yugi said rocking his shoe in his arms.
"Hey Yug', do you think maybe we can put your shoe back on now?" Jou asked approaching him. Malik was trying to get the people to walk away by telling them that Yugi forgot to take his medicine this morning. Unfortunately because a lot of people knew him to be the KOG it wasn't working very well, and they were still standing there staring openly at him.
"Do you think that'll make my shoe feel better?" Yugi asked tearing up again.
"I have a good hunch it will." Jou said smiling.
"Okay, let's try it!" Yugi said a watery smile eclipsing his face.
"Alright, I'll just take your shoe, and there, it's back on! How does it feel?" Jou asked after putting Yugi's shoe on.
"It likes that." Yugi whispered in his ear.
"Fantastic! We fixed the shoe problem Seto." Jou said looking up at the male still talking on the phone.
"That's great! How are his emotions now?" Kaiba asked.
"Who's he talking to?" Yugi asked Jou.
"I think your mates." Jou said absentmindedly.
"MINE!" Yugi screamed jumping up and tackling Kaiba to the ground.
"Yeah, well I'm not sure what I can do about-WHOA!" Kaiba easily fell to the ground, and tried to keep Yugi from grabbing the phone from him as he talked to Yami and Atem. Unfortunately he wasn't very successful.
"Hi." Yugi said cheerfully as he sat up on Kaiba the phone successfully at his ear.
"Hi Yugi." Atem said.
"What was that noise we heard just now?" Yami asked.
"Kaiba and me struggling for the phone. When can I come home?" he asked biting his lip.
"Um, the 10th, just like planned." Atem said uneasily.
"But I want to come home now." Yugi said his voice dropping in cheerfulness quickly.
"Well, it's not safe yet, so you can't." Atem said nervously.
"But…" Yugi said before he started crying, very loudly.
"Hey, hey, hey, how about one of us comes and sees you instead?" Yami asked immediately trying to please him.
"It's not the same!" Yugi wailed.
"Well, what do you suggest then?" Yami asked.
"You hate me!" Yugi accused face planting into Kaiba's shirt and bawling his eyes out.
"What?!" Atem shouted.
"How did you come to that conclusion?" Yami asked baffled.
"I just know it! You hate me!" Yugi cried the answer making perfect sense to him.
"Yugi, I think you're having a side effect." Atem said seriously.
"You hate me!" he continued to accuse.
"Can you tell us what you ate today?" Yami asked.
"Kaiba they hate me." Yugi told Kaiba who was patting his back from his position.
"So you've said." Kaiba said.
"You…you don't believe me." Yugi said sitting up and pointing his finger at him.
"Yugi." Atem called softly trying to get his attention.
"Of course I do Yugi! You say they hate you, well they must hate you." Kaiba said convincingly.
"Okay." Yugi nodded climbing off of him.
"Yugi, can we talk with Kaiba again please?" Yami asked calmly. That got his attention as he started to cry again.
"You don't like talking to me?" he asked through his tears.
"No, no, of course we do, it's just we need some information and you're unable to give us the answers we need right now." Atem said calmly.
"No, you only want to talk with him so you can set up your next secret date!" Yugi accused.
"What?" Yami asked confused.
"Yeah, yeah, you've been sneaking around with him behind my back! Jou, Kaiba's cheating on you with my mates!" Yugi continued in his flawed knowledge.
"Oh yeah, this is a side effect. I'm calling it a ludicrous one." Atem groaned over the line.
"Yugi, that is not true!" Kaiba yelled at him.
"Ah! Defensive! You're being defensive!" Yugi said pointing at him again.
"No, he's being too emotional. I mean they're still all over the place, we can't even pin point one of them." Yami said back.
"Well, it sounds like I'm going to have to punish my boyfriend later." Jou joked with Malik.
"Make sure it's one he doesn't soon forget." Malik said back smirking.
"Come on! You know that's not true Jou!" Kaiba said.
"I don't know, you are being awfully defensive." Jou said playing along with Yugi's, indeed, ludicrous accusation.
"Kind of like a girl when she's PMSing." Yami continued.
"Because it's not true!" Kaiba yelled.
"What are we arguing about?" Yugi asked rubbing his head.
"Oh Ra, you're right." Atem said.
"Whether or not Kaiba is cheating on me with your mates." Jou supplied.
"What? Who sai…oh." Yugi said looking down at his shoes.
"You feeling better?" Malik asked.
"So we're calling this one overly emotional." Yami said.
"Ahem, yep…sorry Atem and Yami, and the culprit is lima beans. What was I doing rocking my shoe in my arms?" Yugi apologized before frowning at the memories that he was being hit with.
"It fell off, and apparently that made you a bad person." Malik said grinning.
"Oh." Yugi grumbled putting a hand to his cheek, and then pulling it away.
"No more lima beans for you, they make you too emotional." Yami said in his ear.
"Was I crying?" Yugi asked looking at his wet hand.
"And impossible to reach through the link." Atem added.
"Yeah, a lot." Kaiba nodded.
"Sorry for the accusation, Kaiba." Yugi whispered.
"Oh it's alright Yugi, this just means I get to punish him for being unfaithful." Jou said grinning wolfishly at Kaiba. It kind of made Yugi pity him just a little bit.
"Yes, well now that you're back to normal, can we go home?" Kaiba asked.
"Sure, you still have that chocolate bar?" Yugi asked grinning.
[Time skip]
"Yes, I'm aware that you don't hate me nor that you're cheating on me." Yugi said again lazily into the phone. It was sitting on the desk on speaker as he worked on his homework. First day of school, and already he had homework. How unfair was that?
"We're just making sure, because you seemed pretty convinced earlier." Atem said.
"Yes, but I've told you three times already I don't believe my drug induced words." Yugi said as he paused on an English question of what he hoped to gain from this class the most.
"So what are you doing right now?" Yami asked.
"Homework." Yugi said bluntly.
"But you've only had one day of school." Atem said like he was trying to wrap his head around the fact that he had homework already.
"Yeah, I know. Hey listen, I've got a question." Yugi said putting his pencil down.
"Yeah?" Yami asked.
"What are we going to do this weekend about food?" Yugi asked leaning back in his chair.
"Well, I imagine that you're going to be eating at Kaiba's aren't you?" Atem asked confused.
"No, no, no I meant how am I supposed to feed you guys this weekend?" Yugi clarified.
"Oh, that." Yami said.
"Yeah, that." Yugi said.
"Actually, we aren't planning on eating this week." Atem said.
"Excuse me? Uh, no. You need to be at your best, and you can only be at your best if you keep up with your meals, and don't skip any. So I'll ask you again, how am I feeding you this weekend?" Yugi immediately shot down their idea.
"Yugi, there is no way we can feed this weekend. You would either have to come here, or we would have to go to you. Neither is happening, so we're skipping our feeding this weekend." Atem said firmly.
"No there is a way, we're just not thinking of it." Yugi said folding his hands and placing his chin on them.
"Yugi, there are no other ways of feeding." Yami said. Yugi could practically hear his eyes rolling over the suddenly grinned; he had a solution to their problem.
"Yes there is, and you did it before you knew me. In fact a lot of vampires still do it. However, I'm not sure if you're going to like my idea." Yugi said lying his head down on the desk right next the phone.
"What is this idea, Yugi?" Yami asked warily.
"Well, Isis comes over here, she takes my blood, and then transports it back to you guys where you drink it out of bags." Yugi said making swirl patterns with his finger on the desk.
"It's better than going hungry." Yami reasoned, but he sounded more like he was trying to reason with Atem than Yugi.
"I don't know, Yugi." Atem sighed.
"Tell you what? You make me a bowl of that delicious soup you always give me after a feeding and have Isis bring it with her. We'll call it an even trade." Yugi said bargaining away his blood. It was actually kind of amusing to him. Five months ago he would have jumped at a chance to starve them, now however he made sure they never went hungry. Atem chuckled.
"Alright, deal." He said.
"Hey, as fun as it is hearing your actual voices, it's nearly midnight, and I'm tired." Yugi said looking above him at the clock on the wall.
"Okay, and you've stayed up to two before." Atem said.
"Only during finals or when I fall behind on school work." Yugi said as he put on a pair of pale blue pajamas.
"What are you wearing to bed?" Yami asked.
"Pajamas." Yugi said simply, grabbing the phone and Koneko, and placing both in bed with him. Malik was sleeping in his own room, and Ryou had gone back home.
"Yeah, but which ones?" Yami asked seductively.
"Not the purple lingerie." Yugi said as he lay his head down on his pillow, put Koneko on the right one, and the phone next to her. Koneko still wouldn't sleep on the pillow; she preferred to sleep on the bed.
"Aww, but they would look incredibly sexy on you." Yami whined.
"Yeah, but who do I have to impress with them here?" Yugi asked back.
"Who says you need to wear them to impress anyone?" Yami retaliated. Yugi rolled his eyes.
"Good night, Yami." Yugi said turning off his phone.
Do your thing Atem.
My thing?
Yeah that thing you do most every night.
Oh, you mean this? Go to sleep, Yugi.
Yeah, that's it. Night 'Tem and 'Ami.
Good night, Yugi.
Alright, the italics at the beginning of the last chapter were Atem's and Yami's memory. Right, that's all the questions there were, so thank you everyone who reviewed Guest and User alike. Also, thanks to everyone who are/have following/favorited this story. Please review. Midnight ;p