Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Insert Cool Yu-Gi-Oh! Related Title ❯ Chapter Twenty-two: Smashed Against a Bathroom Mirror ( Chapter 22 )

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No! Damned it! YuGiOh! Ain't mine! Stop freakin' reminding me!! It belongs to that genius Asian guy named Takahashi! Yeah, him! ….. I am so jealous. *sniff*

//Are the yami speaking to their hikari//
/Are the hikari speaking to their yami./
Italics are thoughts.

Chapter Twenty-two: Smashed Against a Bathroom Mirror

/Soooo… What are we gonna do?/ Ryou stole another glance at the clock. It was almost time for the bell to ring. It was almost time for lunch.

//What do you mean?// Bakura asked, seemingly not caring or paying attention.

Ryou could have sworn he heard his yami yawn. /About the others? Specifically Yami and Yugi. Thanks to you, they now know that we know who Jounouchi likes./

Bakura grinned. //Oh, yeah. That. Heh. I still say blackmail. I mean, they're gonna find out eventually right? The dumb blond dog can't hide his master forever, so, I say we get some before the veil is revealed. At least… I don't know, use the information we got in evil and immoral ways! Come on! Gods, Ryou! I'm really freakin' bored!//

Ryou deadpanned. /Your concern is… Overwhelming. Really. It is./

//Well, what?! This damned school is annoying. How can you put up with it?! By Ra! I think I'm suffocating!//

/You don't breath./ Ryou made a small snort, coupled with a `Oh, please' look. /I'm serious! We have approximately 10 minutes to figure out what we're going to do about Yami and Yugi before the bell rings! I don't want them questioning us./ Ryou sighed. /I don't think it's right for them to find out through us. Jounouchi should be the one to tell them, not us. Speaking of which…/ Ryou leaned onto one elbow. /I'd like to talk to Jounouchi myself. He must feel so alone right now. And scared. I did, anyways. Back when I was like him, and hadn't told anyone about… Well, you. I bet that's why he was so depressed yesterday, don't you think, Bakura? I want to let him know that I understand, and that I'm there for him, if he needs someone to talk to, you know? `Cause… Uh.. Bakura..?/

The spirit had manifested on top of Ryou's desk, one leg on either side with his ass firmly glued on the area were Ryou`s text book lay open. Ryou couldn't see his expression though, as it was obscured in shadow by the his long white bangs.

/What are you-?/

//So, you need to get out of class before the bell rings, huh?// Bakura sinisterly smiled suggestively.

/Uh-/

//And you want to talk to the mutt too, right?//

/Well-/

//And I, myself, require a bit of off side amusement…//

/Oh, gods! I'm not liking where this is goin-!/ "Ahh!!!"

All eyes immediately shot forward, to where Ryou's sat, as the white haired hikari seemed to scream out in the most painfully obvious, impassioned moan that any ears in his class had ever heard.

Yami immediately made his appearance. //What the-//

/-hell?!?/ the pharaoh's hikari finished for him. Bakura's hand was not where Bakura's hand should have been. /Yami?! Why is-?!/

//Close your eyes, Aibou! Close them, now!//

/But-?!/

"Ooohhh!!!" /Bakura!! What the hell are you-? Oh, god!!!/

"Bakura-san?! Is there a problem?!" the highly un-amused feral grunts from Korobayashi-san reverberated through the room as student and teacher eyes alike all remained fixed on Ryou.

"N.. Ah.. No-No!" Ryou tried his best to stay calm, but that was hard to do, considering his yami held him in a vice grip between the legs. /For the love of RA, Bakura, let me go!!!/

//Not yet, hikari. Trust me.// The tomb robber squeezed harder.

"Ahhhhh!!! Oh, gods!!! Gaaaahhh!!!!!"

All the students didn't know whether to giggle, laugh, shout demeaning slander, or simply look away in subsequent modesty. Of course, no one looked away. It wasn't everyday that the class wallflower went, seemingly, crazy with apparent lust.

"Bakura-san! You will cease this insolent disruption at once!" a little vein pulsated on Korobayashi-san's neck. "Do you understand?!"

"Ha- hai! Sen.. Seeeeehhhh- Sensei! AH!!!" Ryou couldn't hold it anymore. Bakura was kneading as well as squeezing. "Ahhhh!!!" His head flopped onto his desk, and a rather loud resonating `smack' was heard throughout the room as his forehead collided with the desktop. "STOP!!!" Bakura let go and grinned as he disappeared. Ryou lay there, with his head hidden under mountains of soft, billowy, snow white hair. He sighed as relief flooded his system, prematurely though, as he suddenly noticed the dead quiet that permeated the still air of the classroom. Not even the crickets chirped.

What..?

"AHHH!!!" the white haired hikari screamed as he looked up to see a huge, red, freakishly disgruntled face staring back at him. It belonged to non other than Korobayashi-san, the sensei from hell!

"You! DENTENTION!"

"Awwww…" Ryou groaned. /Why me!?/ Suddenly he screamed out without any warning as he felt Bakura's hands on himself once again.

"That's it!! Bakura-san! Out of my room! To the office! Now!"

"But-"

"NOW!!!"

Ryou sighed apologetically. "Hai, sensei." He gathered his notebooks and left the classroom dragging his book bag behind him. Once outside the class as he meandered down the long, quiet hallway, Bakura made his appearance again.

//See? Out of class, AND later today you can meet up with the dog in detention so you two can chitchat about boys all to ya`lls heart`s content. Man, am I a genius, or what?!//

Ryou didn't answer.

//What? What?! Oh, don't tell me you're upse- Whoa!// Bakura was rammed into the hallway wall by Ryou's thin little arm, and held there. //Uh, Ryou-?//

/Urusei!/ the white haired hikari shouted.

Bakura would have laughed at the sight, except, Ryou seemed a bit… Different. He pressed his smaller lithe body against the tomb robbers. //Um, Hikari..?//

/Gods! I want you!!/

//…. Eh?!?//

/Come on!/

//What?!?! Where?!? Here?! Now!?! Huh?!?//

Ryou dragged a very confused spirit into the nearest boys bathroom. Not that Bakura complained really. Or resisted much.

* * * * * * * * * *

/Um…. Yami?/ Yugi looked to his spirit companion for answers. /Uh, what just happened?/

The older tri color haired boy gritted his teeth and balled his fists.

That bastard! He did that on purpose to not have to deal with Yugi and me after the bell rang! To manipulate his hikari like that-!?! That jerk! Now, what the hell am I supposed to tell Yugi!? Oh! That damned tomb robber better not have affected the sweet innocent mind of my Yugi!!!

//The tomb robber escaped us.//

/But… I meant…/

The part where he grabbed Ryou and…

/Oh… OK. Never mind./ Yugi looked away. Yami was to busy being preoccupied, fuming actually, from Bakura's recent antics that he completely missed the disillusionment scraped onto Yugi's sweet, angelic face.

He won't even talk to me…

Yami suddenly felt his chest contract.

What was that?!

The ancient Pharaoh's hand drew itself over his black shirt as he quickly scanned the near vicinity with hawk like eyes.

That's… Odd. I felt… As if… For some strange reason… As though my heart… Hurt… Just now.

//Aibou?//

/Yes, Yami?/

//Did… Does your heart hurt?// Yugi's breathing stopped and even the spirit had to grimace at the horrible face his hikari made after he spoke those words. The small boy frowned as his bright violent eyes welled up in uncontainable tears that would without doubt overflow their banks at the slightest urge. His sweet lips trembled slightly and he shook his head more as reassurance to himself that his mind's ear had deceived him, instead of as an actual answer to his yami's question. //Aibo-?!//

/No! I'm fine!/ Yugi turned away again. /I'm fine. I'm../ Yami observed in horror as a thin strip of wetness broke a path down his hikari's red cheeks. /I'm fine./

Ra… What..? What is this?!?

//Aibou…?//

/I'm fine, Yami. Don't worry about me. I'm fine./ Yugi nonchalantly wiped away at the now perfectly visible tears. /I'm… Fine. I just…Have something in my eye. That's all. Just something in my eye./ Yugi smiled reassuringly, showing off pretty, pearly white teeth, and, for once, Yami failed to believe him his own hikari.

No… Yugi… You're not…

* * * * * * * * * *

"Hey, Kaiba?" Jounouchi breathed out a long relaxed sigh. He was in heaven. His back was to the ground and he could feel the soft grass bend under his weight as he lounged underneath the dancing leaves of the great, old oak. His languid eyes were off focus staring up at the large, white, fluffy clouds as they sluggishly made their way through the beautiful, crystal clear, blue sky. The wind gave a soft chill to his skin with a small frigid bite foretelling of autumn's early arrival.

"Hm?" The dark haired boy didn't bother looking up. His eyes were busy studying the contexts of his little black book.

Jounouchi sighed again and closed his eyes, relishing the tiny pinpricks of the stubbly grass. "What'cha reading?"

"Why do you care?"

"Just interested. You don't have to tell me if you don't want." Kaiba didn't answer. He simply continued reading. Jounouchi sighed again.

He doesn't have to be so cold…

"It's a novel."

"Eh? A novel?" Jounouchi sat up, actually intrigued.

I wonder what kind of novels Kaiba would read?

Random blades of grass and dirt clung to the back of his white shirt and long blond hair. He had taken off his blue jacket. "About what?"

Kaiba looked up from the white pages and small black print. "Read it yourself and find out."

The blond pouted. "Well, that's no fun." He crossed his arms and rested them on his withdrawn knees. "Why don't you just tell me what it's about. That way I don't have to read it."

Kaiba snorted and grinned. "Well, like you said: that's no fun."

Jounouchi blinked a few times, and laughed. He stretched out his arms and fell back onto the grass. "Ah! Damn, Kaiba! No wonder you come here! It feels great! So much better than that stuffy cafeteria!"

Kaiba didn't reply, but his gaze did leave the confines of the black and white paper pages, and drifted up slightly, just enough to glance over the blonde's horizontally outstretched body. His white shirt had risen up again exposing a nice view of smooth and creamy, peach colored skin.

Yeah… A lot better.

Despite the annoyance he could have sworn the other boy would have been, he was delightfully surprised to find out that he rather enjoyed the mutt's company. In fact, he `very much' enjoyed the mutt's company. Of course, he wasn't about to admit that, especially not to the dog himself.

"Ow!" Jounouchi suddenly sat up.

"What?" Kaiba dropped his book and scooted towards the other boy.

"I think something bit me." The blond looked around.

"Something bit you?" he scoffed. "Well, it's your fault for floundering around in the grass like that."

"Floundering..? What the hell am I, a fish?!"

Kaiba suddenly busted out laughing. Jounouchi joined him. "No, I can very well assure you that you are not a fish."

"Of course I'm not." Jounouchi lifted up his sleeves looking for the insect bite.

"You're an inbred mongrel dog."

"Hey!" The blond called out, not really taking any offense. He lifted up his shirt, and ran a hand down his chest.

Kaiba bit his lip. "What are you doing?"

"I'm looking for the bite. I feel itchy all over now. Heh, that's the last time I go `floundering' around in the grass like that. Look at me! I'm covered in crap!" Jounouchi stood up and started brushing himself off.

Yeah… Look at you…

Kaiba scooted back to rest his back against the tree, as he had been awhile ago, and continued reading. His eyes never left the other boy though. "You missed some in your hair."

"Oh, thanks!" Jounouchi started shaking his head while running his hands through it viciously.

Kaiba had to smirk. "You actually do remind me of a dog. A golden retriever, I'd say."

Jounouchi stopped his dog like behavior and shot a glance at Kaiba. "Well, I like golden retrievers. They`re cool."

Kaiba's smirk faltered. Jounouchi didn't notice.

Yeah... I like golden retrievers, too.

Kaiba continued reading. Jounouchi just laid back down in the grass by Kaiba's side.

* * * * * * * * * *

//Whoa, Ryou! Maybe you shouldn't- // Bakura was slammed into a bathroom mirror. //On second thought, come here!// He lunged at his hikari and trapped the giggling boy in his embrace.

/I think everyone in class thinks I'm psyco now!/

//So?// the white haired spirit pulled his other self onto his knees. //Who gives a damned what they think?!//

/I do! What are you doing?!/ Ryou batted Bakura's hands away from his fly. /Not here!/

//Why the hell not?! Besides, wasn't it you that dragged me in here with promises of sweet release?!//

/What the hell are you talking about?! I never promised anything!/

//Yes you did!// Bakura reached for his hikari's fly.

/Stop that! I will not have this done in my school's bathroom! What do you think I am?! Some whore?/

Bakura laughed and instead lifted Ryou's shirt up. //Of course not! Whores get paid. I fully expect you to give it for free.//

Ryou pulled his shirt back down and giggled. /You calling me a slut then?/

Bakura laughed. //Well, that depends. What sound do sluts make?//

Ryou blinked, /Uh..?/

The tomb robber used his hikari's current distraction to pull Ryou's shirt up again and voraciously attacked his left nipple.

"Oh, gods!!! Ahhh!!! Oooh!!!" Ryou withered in Bakura's arms.

//Really? I didn't know you could mimic a slut so well, hikari. Have you been practicing?//

/Shut up!/ Ryou gasped with a huge smile lingering on his face. /But please don't stop…/

* * * * * * * * * *

Akino-san sauntered across the front of the classroom. Jounouchi and Kaiba were both seated in the far back of D-12 as usual, with the rest of the class sitting anywhere not near their location. "So, as I was saying, today is my last day subbing for Yosoro-san-"

"Aww!"

"No, Akino-san! Don't leave us!"

"We love you!"

"Don't go!"

Akino-san smiled as her ears were bombarded with requests to stay, pleas to not go, and several love confessions as well. "Gomen, but you all knew this was only temporary."

"Screw the system!"

"Yeah!"

"If we kidnap you, then you can stay right?!"

The pretty teacher laughed at the off handed remarks. "Please don't kidnap me," she halfway giggled. "That wouldn't be very nice."

"I'm sorry Akino-san! Please don't hate me!"

"Now look what you've done, baka! She hates you!"

"Nooo!!!"

Everyone laughed.

"God, they're idiots," Kaiba scoffed as he crossed his arms and legs.

"Oh, I don't know, Kaiba. I think it's amusing," Jounouchi grinned. "Like dinner and a show. Only without a dinner… And it`s a class instead of a show."

Kaiba snorted.

"Seriously now," Akino waived her hands. "Don't be to hard on Yosoro-san. Sure he's…" she searched for just the correct words.

"Evil incarnate?"

"The devil?"

"Kaiba?!" Everyone busted out laughing. That is until said boy narrowed his eyes and glared. Then the laughing abruptly stopped. No one likes dieing after all.

Akino smiled, "Yes, well. Be good. And listen to your teacher. And please try to graduate, ne?" Kaiba noticed Jounouchi swallow nervously as Akino's eyes drifted over to him. "And feel free to drop by unexpectedly," she winked. The class went into hoots and yells. Jounouchi knew the message was more for him than anyone else and he laughed stupidly along with the rest of the class. "Now, before the bell rings and class is dismissed, has everyone decided on what their project is going to be about?" A few nods and smacks to the back of the heads were heard as Akino went by, group by group, writing down the project ideas onto a clipboard to give to Yosoro-san.

"Hell, Kaiba, we haven't come up with a project idea yet!" Jounouchi turned to face the still annoyed looking brunette.

Kaiba turned his cold, blue eyes on Jounouchi. "So?"

"So?! What do you mean 'so'?! Kaiba, I can't afford to fail this class, I really can't!" Kaiba almost felt sorry for making Jounouchi sweat. He looked frantic. "Please tell me that you're planning on doing this project."

Kaiba smirked. "Yes, stop fretting so damned much or did you so easily forget that I'm an over achiever?"

Jounouchi sighed. "Good. You had me scared there for a second. So, what`s are project gonna be about? It needs to have something to do with science. Hm…?" Jounouchi started rubbing his chin.

Kaiba casually shrugged.

He looks so childish doing that… So… Cute?

Kaiba looked away.

Bah! What am I thinking?!

He sighed, switching his mind`s current thought trail.

I know why he's so intent on not failing.

The CEO remembered the blonde's conversation with Akino from just the other day:

"What will you do, Jou, if you get expelled? You won't be able to go to Tokyo and live with your mother and Shizuka, if you can't finish high school. That was the deal. Right?"

"Yeah, I gotta graduate or I can't go live with Shizuka. Fact is… If I don't graduate, I don't think I'll ever be able to see her. Ever again."

Kaiba pursed his lips together, imagining what it would be like if he could never see Mokuba again. He felt a distinctively inauspicious nasty taste rising in the back of his throat.

I won't let it happen. Not to my puppy…

Kaiba frowned and shook his head.

I really need to stop calling him that. I'm getting too attached. He… I mean… Hm? Why am I thinking like this?

"Hey Kaiba!?"

"Hm?" The CEO was snapped out of his trance. "What?" he asked in his more common emotionless sounding voice.

"Where were you? I've been asking you what our project's gonna be about?" the blond leaned back in his desk, exasperated. "Akino-san's about to ask us! What'll we say?!"

Just then, a sweet voice rose over the other commotion and addressed the two boys. "And last we have Kaiba and Jounouchi." Every single pair of eyes darted back to stare at the blond and brunette.

"Uh…" Jounouchi nervously looked from Akino to Kaiba and back again. "Um…"

"Our project will cover the effects of prolonged exposure that the virtual world has on the mind and body`s ability to cope with reality."

Jounouchi's eyes, as well as everyone else's sort of blinked a few times, even Akino's, and then they continued staring.

"Uh… Alright. That sounds… Very good," Akino-san smiled nervously as she wrote it down on her clipboard. "Perfect. Everyone has a project then. I highly recommend you all start working on them as soon as possible. Perhaps get together with your partners over the weekend and plan the details out. Remember, Yosoro-san does not take late grades," she accentuated by wagging her finger.

As if by magic, the bell rang at exactly that second and everyone got up and leisurely filed out of class. Many of the male students stopped to bid a heartfelt farewell to 'their favorite teacher' and 'only love'. Akino-san, of course, simply laughed at the antics of D-12. She gathered her papers and made the desk ready for Yosoro's return.

Once most of the commotion was gone, along with the majority of the students, Kaiba finally stood and started towards the door. Jounouchi followed. "Hey, wait, Kaiba! That was an awesome topic! Did you see the look on everyone`s faces! Man! They are so obviously jealous! We`re gonna kick ass! But, uh, hey? Can you wait for a sec?"

The ever despondent looking dark haired boy turned and raised an eyebrow expecting a good reason why he should wait.

"I, uh.. I wanna go say bye to Akino-san, real quick," the boy spoke with many hand gestures in the woman's direction. "Can you, um, wait. I'll be done in a second. Just, uh, hold on, 'K? I'll be right back."

Kaiba crossed his arms and leaned against the classroom wall. It was his way of saying, 'Sure,' but the scowl on his face told the tale of, 'Hurry, because I'm leaving with or without you.'

Jounouchi trotted up to Akino-san and grinned, "Hey!"

"Hello, Jou-kun!" The lovely lady looked past the blond and head motioned towards the waiting CEO. "So? You two seem to be getting along. You didn't drug him did you?" she squinted her eyes in an accusing manner.

Jounouchi laughed and slightly blushed. "No, but I am kind of wondering if he took, like, a crap load of prozac this morning, or something. Heh… Or if maybe I'm just the one that's high." Akino-san looked confused. "Never mind," Jounouchi waived his hand. "I, uh, I gotta go. See ya` around, ne?"

"Jou-kun?" Akino called out.

"Hm?"

The lady winked. "Good luck."

"Uh… OoK?" the blond blinked, not really understanding what Akino-san was inferring by that statement. He took a few awkward steps back, then turned and waived. "Um. Ja!" He motioned to Kaiba that he was ready to leave. Once they were out in the hallway, Jounouchi sighed and smiled. "Ah! The weekend! Freedom at last!"

Kaiba looked as uncaring as usual. He made his way down the hall. "Aren't you forgetting detention?"

Jounouchi looked taken down a bit, but kept his smile. "Oh, yeah! I guess I did forget, huh? Heh."

"And community service," the CEO virtually spat out.

"Oh, right. Community service," the blond still smiled. "Forgot about that one, too."

Kaiba looked annoyed. He seemed to think it unjust that he should be forced into picking up after his fellow idiot schoolmates, especially when he could easily buy the school itself, shut it down, and turn it into a garbage dump, out of shear spite. Unfortunately it was illegal for him to buy a public school. He knew. He had tried. It miffed him. Mostly he was annoyed because he was forced to attend, though. Apparently, wealth and power aside, legal age requirements still bulged their ugly hindquarters. "Well, now that you've been so eloquently reminded, why the hell do you still have that aggravating smile on your face?"

Jounouchi shrugged.

`Cause you'll be there with me.

"I don't know. I guess I just feel like smiling!"

* * * * * * * * * *

Yugi finished returning his books to his backpack as Anzu and Honda made their way to his side. He was also trying with relative success to ignore his yami's unhidden looks of apprehension.

"Dude, did you see what happened to Ryou?!" Honda exclaimed waiving his arms melodramatically around in the air.

"Do you think he's alright?" Anzu added. "What happened to him?"

Yugi's eyes looked away. "Um… I don't know. Uh, we should find him, and… See if he's OK?"

"Good idea!" Anzu agreed.

"Not too hard to do," Honda crossed his arms. "In ten minutes he's gonna have to be in detention, so, we just gotta go there and he'll show up."

Yugi looked at Honda like he was a genius. "That's… That's perfect! Oh! And Jounouchi'll have to be there too!"

"Hey, that's right!" the spike haired kid replied, smacking his fist into his other hand. "And we can corner him till he tells us who his mysterious crush is!"

Anzu rolled her eyes. "Oh, you two! Honestly! Hounding poor Jounouchi like that!"

Yugi grinned as Honda and Anzu got into another debate about love, friendship, and for some odd reason, peanut better jelly... And a baseball bat.

Just you wait, Ryou. I'm gonna find out what you know!!!

Distinctly enough, though, Yugi no longer meant what Ryou knew about Jounouchi. He was a lot more preoccupied with other thoughts. All of which had to do with happiness, sadness, and a certain yami, who happened to provoke both those emotions, and incite other odd and disturbing feelings from deep within.

I'm going to find out! So help me Ra… I /have/ to find out!

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