Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Changing Makes a Difference ❯ The Date and Truth ( Chapter 2 )

Hey everybody! Yeah I got lots of reviews and it was only the first chappy! You made me very happy and that's a cool thing cuz I had a really bad and tiring day at school today. Thanks, you made me feel a lot better!

Somebody asked why I mentioned Ryou Bakura at the beginning of the fic. Sorry for making you confused. Ryou was the person Joey asked to meet Yugi at the bridge originally, not Yami. Did that clear it up? Hope so. Now on with the next chappy! Hope you like it! And don't forget to review pwease!

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Before lunch Yami took Yugi to a movie. They sat in the back and shared a bag of popcorn and had a straw for each of them in a small soda. When a few people had left the theater early the cold breeze from outside rushed over Yugi's form and caused the young teen to become easily cold.

Finding the opportunity, Yami wrapped his arms around the younger and helped keep him warm. He was surprised still how easily Yugi leant into him without hesitating and somewhat curious how Yugi fit so well and comfortable in his arms.

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After the movie Yami and Yugi headed to lunch walking side-by-side, Yami's arm still wrapped around him and offering his smaller form more warmth. Yugi was still a bit intimidated thought that the rumored slut of the school, the one that doesn't stay with anybody longer than a day, would want to be with him, the loner and quiet one of the school that doesn't have any friends.

The sophomore glanced up Yami and blushed as he saw the junior smiling back down at him. He quickly looked forward again and nearly froze in his tracks if it wasn't for Yami's around him as he noticed some of the other students of their school glaring at him like they were planning to kill him in his sleep.

Tearing his eyes away from theirs he held hesitantly onto Yami's arm, which lowered itself away from his shoulder after he stopped shaking. He closed his eyes to try and block out the stares getting from the students who obviously seemed to be upset with him for some reason.

`What did I do to make them upset?' He wondered innocently. `I didn't do anything wrong, did I?"

Surprised by the action Yami looked down at the younger and noticed the teen was now trembling slightly out of… fear? Looking up to think he quickly found out the problem while passing some few or their classmates. He stopped walking and waited until Yugi felt comfortable to open his eyes again.

Amethyst eyes blinked open as the stopping registered and looked around. Noticing that they weren't at the restaurant Yami told him they were going to

Yami smiled down at him. "Yugi, I don't want you to worry about what everybody else thinks. They're just mad because I'm hanging around with you now and they're jealous."

"I'll try." Yugi whispered and nodded also in case Yami hadn't heard his quiet answer.

"That's all I'm asking." Yami squeezed his hand for reassurance before letting the sophomore hold onto his arm again. "Now, I'm hungry. How bout you?"

"Not really."

"But you barely ate any popcorn and you didn't have breakfast either I noticed this morning."

"I don't like to eat much." Yugi answered quietly.

"Well, try to eat a little something so you don't get sick, hmm?"

"Okay."

"Thanks, Yugi. The place is just down a little further and then we can be away from the jealous bakas."

The two continued walking down the street and entered the fast food restaurant at the corner. Yami pointed to a table in the corner, furthest from the other students enjoying their weekend and watched as Yugi scooted into the booth while he walked up to the cashier.

He ordered two burgers and a chocolate shake for Yugi as a treat for putting up with the jealous and angry stares of their fellow schoolmates.

As they ate together Yami began letting his thoughts wander as he watched Yugi from the corner of his eye.

`How could Yugi trust me so easily not to hurt him when he knows who I am? Unless Joey said something really convincing to him. This better isn't exactly hard though. I can handle not having sex for a few weeks. It's giving me a small break and get my strength back.' Looking more over Yugi he noticed that the younger teen wasn't wearing just one jacket but a few more underneath that he could see the collars to. `How many is he wearing? It isn't that cold out, is it?' He wondered curiously. "Yugi?"

Yugi looked up from his shake and smiled at him the best he could with the straw still in his mouth.

Yami smiled back at him, admiring how cute the sophomore acted. Just like the innocence of child in a high school sophomore.

`It's really quite cute for him and that look really wouldn't suit other people.' "I was just wondering why you have all those jackets on. I didn't realize it was so cold out. Aren't you warm?"

Yugi shook his head quickly. "I'm not too warm. I'd rather not talk about it really. I just don't like to."

"Oh, I'm sorry then. I didn't mean to…"

"No, it's okay. You were curious and it's only natural that you would ask about it if that was the case."

`He's really smart for a sophomore.' Yami thought. `Must be from all those books I see him reading around school.' "Well, I'm still sorry I made you uncomfortable about it."

"Thank you, Yami. Not many people would let it drop so easily."

"Your welcome, Yugi."

"Yami, do you want me to pay you back when we get back to the school?"

"No, Yugi, I don't. Have a fine time and leave everything to me. I don't care much about getting paid back or not unless I really want it."

"But I wouldn't mind if you wanted me to."

Yami wrapped his arm around Yugi and held him closer. "Just worry about enjoying yourself. This is supposed to be fun. Now, are you having that?"

Yugi nodded.

"Are you having fun worrying over money issues and paying me back for a simple movie ticket and burger and shake?"

Yugi shook his head.

"Then don't worry about it."

Yugi nodded. "Okay, Yami."

The two then finished the rest of their meal, Yugi only eating half of his burger and shake before he couldn't eat anymore.

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As the couple walked up to the school they kept taking glances at the other and thought about why such an opposite would want to hand around with them in the first place.

It was Yugi who broke the silence. "Yami?"

"Yes, Yugi?" Yami replied, looking at the slightly shorter teen beside him.

"Are you sure you don't want me to pay you back for lunch?"

Yami laughed and took Yugi's hand as they continued walked. "I'm sure, Yugi. Don't worry about the money and just enjoy yourself. What are you supposed to be having?"

"Fun?" The smaller asked, looking up at him.

"That's right. Are you still having fun talking about paying me back?"

"No."

"Then what do you think I'm going to tell you to do?"

"Have fun and stop worrying?"

"See, you're a fast learner." Yugi blushed at the comment. `And so cute when you blush.' Yami thought. "Having fun now?" Yami squeezed the younger's hand.

"Yes, I am."

"I'm glad. I want you to have fun. You don't get it much, do you?"

Yugi shook his head horizontally. "No, I don't have any friends at the school or where I used to live. And I always helped my grandpa with his game shop for stuff to do."

"Your grandpa has a game shop?" Yami asked, interested.

"Yes, but…" Yugi's face fell at the thought. "He's gotten a bad disease and the doctors have tried everything to help cure it. He's already been in the hospital twice because of it."

"I'm sorry. What's it called?"

"Some long word, I don't remember. It's kinda hard to say." Yugi wiped a tear forming in his eyes, refusing to cry in front of Yami. "Can we not talk about this? It's kind of hard and…"

"Say no more, Yugi. We'll stop if you want."

Yugi looked down at their joined hands and gave Yami's hand a squeeze like the taller did for a few times earlier to comfort him. "Thank you."

Yami stayed quiet, thinking it was the better thing to do. Yugi was very grateful. He wanted to get control over his emotions and the thoughts that his grandfather might not survive through the disease with the doctors unable to help much more.

"Are you still enjoying yourself?" Yami asked after a little while.

Yugi smiled up at him and nodded his head enthusiastically. "I'm having the best time I can ever remember since I came to the Domino High."

"I'm glad." Yami replied back quietly. He wasn't sure why he was making sure Yugi enjoyed himself so much. It's not like it was part of the bet to make sure he was happy or comfortable around him. Just made sure he stayed with him for three weeks without having sex.

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The two students stopped on the stairs that separated their floors like they had the night before, not really sure what to say or do next since their time out hadn't actually been just a hang out together day the way they acted sometimes.

Finally, Yami thought of something. "Do you want to hang out for a while longer? We could go to your room or mine if you wanted to."

"No thanks, Yami. I'd like to, but I have some more homework to finish and I don't want to stay up too late and be tired for my classes tomorrow. I'm sorry."

"That's okay, I wouldn't want to stay up late either. Have a good night, Yugi." He waved.

"Good night, Yami. And thank you for one of the best days of my life."

"Anytime, Yugi."

Yugi waved to him and ran up the flight of stairs and disappeared around the corner.

Yami shook his head at how cute Yugi seemed to be all the time as he walked down the stairs towards his own dorm room.

`Why do I feel like I want to spend so much time with him? I just started this thing yesterday, I can't be giving in to desires already, can I? …No, I'm not. This feels different.'

Yami thought the unusual feelings until he got to his room. Opening it and stepping inside he realized that he didn't have anything to do.

Glancing at his bag by his bed he sighed and lay down. He opened it and took out his homework, working on it until he finished before his eyes drooped shut and he fell asleep.

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Yami awoke a little while later and rubbed his eyes sleepily. He looked at his clock and smirked.

`Good, I didn't miss dinner. All that homework made me worn out.'

He brushed off his clothes to get the wrinkles out from sleeping in them and turned his light off before heading down to the cafeteria.

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Sitting down at the table with the people he usually sat with when he didn't see Yugi around he was fired with questions from all directions.

"Are you really settling down with that Yugi twerp?" One boy asked to his right.

"Are you going to forget all about us?" A blonde asked from across him.

"How could you do this after our wonderful times together, Yami-kins?" A high-pitched voice screeched near his left.

"Are you sure you're making the right choice when you can do so much better with me?" A black-haired boy asked from farther down the table.

"How long are you going to stay with that loner? He's too dorky to actually want to hang around. I thought you were too good for that?" A pair of twins asked from his right.

Yami toned them out the best he could, getting a headache from all the ridiculous questions. `Soon this bet will be over and I can have all the fun I want again. But… what'll happen to Yugi when he finds out?' Yami shook his head. `No! Why do I care about him so much after two days? Is he really having such an effect on me?'

He glared at the people around him, taking it as their fault for making him think such things. But then he saw Yugi out of the corner of his eyes. Getting a better look he saw the violet eyes were looking back at him sadly from the entrance to the cafeteria.

Realizing that the violet-eyed tenshi (`Where did that come from?' Yami thought) had overheard the questions and was probably waiting for the same answers the others around him wanted.

He pushed away from the people gathered and hanging off of him and stood up, walking over to Yugi.

Reaching Yugi he smiled and turned back around to glare at the others whom were all glaring back at Yugi.

"If anybody touches Yugi in any kind of negative way I'll make it my personal mission to wish you'd never been born when I find out about it."

`Why do I feel so protective over him? I can't have feelings for him already, do I? No! I don't! I refuse to believe it so soon only after two days!' Yami scolded himself. `The only explanation for it is because I don't want him to get hurt when it's not his fault. But whose… Joey's! It's Joey's fault because it's his bet and he put Yugi up to this somehow!' A smug look crossed Yami's face, feeling better at coming up with a better explanation.

Turning back to Yugi he took the smaller's hand and led him to the lonely table in the lonely corner he'd always noticed the younger teen would sit at since he ever came to the school.

"Stay here, Yugi. I'll go get us something to eat before these other hogs eat it all." Yami winked.

Yugi giggled but nodded just the same, blushing slightly at how nice Yami was treating him. He smiled gratefully after calming down, being too shy to go over and do it himself.

Yugi stared at the full plate now sitting in front of him and looked into Yami's eyes, asking if he was serious.

Yami caressed his cheek for a moment and smiled lovingly at the other without realizing what he was doing. "You're much too pale to be healthy, little one, and too skinny. I can tell even with all those coats on."

Yugi blushed. "Thanks Yami."

With Yami's gently coaxing he managed to eat a little less than half of the plate before unable to eat another bit.

"I'm sorry, Yami. I just can't."

"I understand. Come on, it's late."

Looking out the window Yugi nodded and took Yami's hand that was offered to him.

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They stopped at the usual staircase the separated at and looked back into each other's eyes.

"Goodnight, Yugi. I hope you sleep well and have a good morning as well in case I don't see you."

Yami smiled up at him and wrapped his arms around Yami's waist, hugging him closely and enjoyed the warmth the other body washed over him. He let go a second later, much to Yami's confused disappointment, before running up the stairs and waving goodbye to him.

`I don't know what it is but I've never felt like this before. Yami's so nice to me and doesn't care about what others say about me. I've have to mail grandpa and tell him about this.' Yugi thought excitedly. `Maybe it'll help him feel better too when he finds out I might've actually made a friend at last!'

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Almost smiling at the action of what the younger teen had done, Yami continued on his way down the stairs while wondering how the little teen, who didn't have and friends and was always alone and picked on by bullies, trusted him of all people, the slut of the school, so easily.

Almost smiling at the action of what the younger teen had done Yami continued on his way down, wondering how that little teen, who didn't have any friends and was always alone and picked on, trusted him so easily. Unknowingly, Yugi wasn't going to his dorm just yet.

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Yugi stopped in front of the study hall, hoping he would find Joey or somebody who might know where the blonde might be. Luckily, the junior was there and was arguing with whom else but Tristan.

He walked hesitantly up to the two and debated on whether he should interrupt or not.

Tristan noticed him though after rolling his eyes at the blonde. "What do you want, short stuff?" He asked rather rudely.

When Joey saw whom Tristan was talking about he hit the other over his head. "What your mouth, Tristan! Yugi's really nice!"

Yugi blushed and smiled at the comment, but it easily went away.

Tristan sighed and muttered `whatever' before standing and leaving.

Yugi ignored him and wrapped his arms around the taller loosely.

Joey was surprised at the action but also hugged the other teen closer to him, thinking the younger wanted comfort for something and didn't know who else to turn to; not that he minded.

"Is there something wrong? Wasn't he nice to you?" Joey asked curiously.

Yugi quickly shook his head. "Thank you, Joey. Thank you so much, you have no idea how much it means to me what you did. Yami's treated me so nice, nobody ever has like that before.'

Joey's honey-colored eyes widened considerably larger at the mention of the school slut's name, but shook his head and decided not to say anything since Yugi seemed so happy at last and didn't want to hurt the smaller by telling him it was a mistake. "I'm glad you're so happy and you're very welcome too. I want you to be careful though. You know what Yami does, right?"

"I know, but I want to help him. I'm going to try and change him. I'm going to do the very best that I can to help him out of whatever it is that made him that way."

Afterwards Yugi left and the blonde heard chuckling behind him, immediately recognizing whom the laughter belonged to.

"So that's the one you set Yami with the other day? That's why you were looking for Yugi?" Malik snorted out with more laughter.

Joey turned to him with confusion in his soft brown eyes. "You don't understand, Malik. I didn't set them up. I was looking for Yugi to meet him up with Ryou since I thought those two might get along. I was setting Yami up with somebody else."

Malik stopped laughed and stared at Joey with wide eyes. "You didn't mean for that to happen?" He asked seriously.

"No. Yugi seemed so lonely so I decided to help him find somebody who'd be a good friend for him. I found Ryou and I knew it would be perfect so I went looking for him and told him to meet at the same place Yami was supposed to meet his person since they had different lunches."

"What happened with Ryou then? He's not one to say he'll go and then not show up afterwards."

"I don't know, but I'm going to go find out."

"Then who was the person you were setting Yami up with?" Malik asked as the two friends walked out of the study hall room.

"Troy Laurence. I was wondering why he gave me that glare yesterday at dinner. It must've been because Yami wasn't there and he stayed out there for a while. It was pretty cold outside."

"Wow, Joey, you're screwed! You're plan totally backfired all because Ryou didn't show up like he was supposed to."

"I know, but I'm sure Ryou had a good reason. He's not one to do stuff like that, like you said."

The duo soon found Ryou walking around with Bakura Yubiwa.

"It's scary how those two look alike just like you and Marik. Yugi and Yami are like that too, it's really freaky." Joey stated as they walked up.

The white-haired sophomore looked up as he heard a familiar voice coming from behind. He saw Joey and Malik walking towards them and he smiled and waved to them, holding onto Bakura's arm tightly.

"Hey, Ryou, what happened yesterday? You didn't meet up with Yugi like you said."

Ryou's face immediately fell and his look a like glared at them for being the ones who caused it.

"I'm sorry, Joey. I was sick last week and Sagasu-sensei, my science teacher, made me take it then. I tried to go as fast as I could without messing up too much but by the time I made it outside Yugi wasn't there so I thought he gave up on me. I tried looking for him yesterday but I couldn't find him anywhere."

"That's okay, Ryou. I was just wondering."

"Maybe some other time. I'd do it this weekend but it Bakura and mine's two-month anniversary and we wanted to spend the whole time off together."

"No, it's okay. He'll be fine for a while… I hope. He's hanging with Yami right now."

"Yami! That slut!" Bakura burst out laughing while the younger's eyes widened considerably larger.

"Never mind, it was a big misunderstanding and I don't have the heart to tell Yugi that his happiness for me setting him up with Yami was a mistake."

"I'll do it." Bakura volunteered.

Joey glowered at him. "Not on your life. We wouldn't see him for the rest of the year the way you'd tell him and it's bad enough he hides from everybody from people always hurting and picking on him all the time."

"Can you stop arguing, please?" Ryou pleaded, gripping Bakura's arm tighter.

"Of course, love. We best go to bed anyway."

Ryou nodded and he waved goodnight to his two friends before walking off to the hall down the left.

Joey sighed in defeat and shrugged. "Oh well, this bet still could work even if it's not the person I thought it was going to be."

Malik silently agreed and they separated for the dorms for bed, the buzzer for `lights out' going off and echoing around the now deserted halls.

~~

The next morning in Yami's first period he handed in his homework he did the night before with the rest of his classmates absently, thinking about what else he could do with Yugi that day besides just eating lunch and dinner with him.

He was broken from his thoughts, however, when the teacher walked over to his desk and clapped him on the back excitedly.

Glaring at his Rakishi-sensei he growled out, "What the hel… heck was that for?" He tried his best not to swear since he found out during the movie he and Yugi had watched that Yugi didn't like it very much.

The teacher smiled and held out Yami's homework assignment in his hand. "I'm so proud of you, Mr. Hitokage. You finally did your homework and it's even done correctly. I hope this positive new change is going to carry on for a very long time, a very long time indeed."

Yami stared at the teacher in disbelief, all the while thinking, `I did my homework and Yugi helped me without realizing it. And if Joey hadn't made this bet than wouldn't have had Yugi, and if I didn't have Yugi than I would've just been of shagging with somebody else. Who knew that a few days with one person could cause such a change?"

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Well there's the second chapter! That one's a bit longer than the first, I'm so proud. 11 pages! This was basically just explaining things though and showing how Yami's being effected by Yugi so easily (Who knew that was going to happen?). Hope you liked it and remember I love reviews and suggestions of what you think should happen between them. You never now if your idea might get picked and don't worry, I'll give you credit for it as well.

Idea for story by: Darkness (Changing of a Slut)