Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Kiss Me ❯ Chapter 1

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Me
By Yami Yuugi
Summary: (short story) Three years after Yami Yuugi’s departure into the afterlife, the gang continue to live life fully, only to now become adults as Anzu comes to the realization that her childhood friend has fallen for the long gone pharaoh. Now it’s up to her to knock the sense into his head of what he is truly feeling for his other half.
Warning: shounen ai, YxY, mentions of kissing between this pairing, language, humor, semi-canon towards the series.
Inspired by the songs Kiss Me, and Notice Me.
Kiss Me

The newly forming season of summer had awakened, splaying its true heat and beauty of and freedom for the youths trapped in school.

The sounds of rustling wind hovered through the air, whistling around the city as students of many ran home, screaming incoherent words of the freedom from school, or prison as many called it.

Though of course everyone loves freedom from their responsibilities such as school for a few months right?

Well this was soon to be answered as a group of fairly exotic looking teenagers passed by. A lanky teen with honey-brown eyes and shaggy blond hair smirked, jabbering away with his partner in crime; a teen with a rather large “horn” of brown hair.

“Man Tristan, this is gonna be da best summer ever. Going down to da beach, hanging with Serenity, and of course playing Duel Monsters!”

Tristan rolled his eyes as he smacked his best friend on the back. “Joey you seriously need a reality check. All you are going to do is hunt down Mai Valentine and flirt, and beg her to go to the beach so you can stare at her chest.”

Joey blushed crimson as he playfully punched his bud. “Tristan! I told ya to shut yer trap. Besides that is in my agenda along with making sure you don't taint my sis's innocence.”

The pointless chatter continued as the remainder of the group talked of their summer plans. Each of them were excited as they had just finished their final year in high school.

A young girl with short brown hair and cerulean blue eyes smiled as she walked along side of her best friend, Yuugi.

“Well I'm going to finally fulfill my dreams of going to New York. It took me four years and a lot of extra shifts at Burger World, but I leave first thing next week to achieve my dream in dancing!”

“That's great Tea! I'm so glad you finally managed to make it towards your dreams of becoming a dancer.” Yuugi, the smallest member of the group stated.

The group consisted of Yuugi, Tristan, Joey and Tea'. They had all met in their freshman year, and become exceptionally close as well as one member of their group that had departed a few years back.

Tea' sighed as she ran a hand through her soft brown hair, tossing it to the side as she gazed down at Yuugi, frowning slightly as he stared off in deep thought.

“So Yuugi, what are you doing for the summer holidays?”

A few minutes passed by as the girl awaited her childhood friend's response, only to find that he was gazing out at the flashing lights of the local arcade.

“Yuugi?”

The small boy jumped as he looked up at her, amethyst eyes sparkling in the process.

“Sorry Tea‘. Did you say something?”

“Yeah I was wondering, what are you doing for summer break?”

The smaller teen blushed scarlet as he shoved his hands in his pockets, eyes falling down towards the center of his chest. His entire form became stiff as he continued to gaze at his chest, hoping to see the one thing he had given up long ago, his millennium puzzle.

By now the group had stopped at the arcade, running into its entrance as they began to play the familiar fighting games and Duel Monsters. All except for Yuugi and Tea‘, who both sat down at a small table, drinking diet sodas.

Tea’ sipped her soda through the straw, taking in the caffeine goodness that was given out. Her eyes glazed over in thought as she began to question the small eighteen year old next to her.

“Yuugi, you're thinking about him again aren't you?”

Yuugi propped his head on his arms as he gazed at Tea. “Excuse me?”

“You're thinking of him aren't you?”

The question echoed through Yuugi's ears as he sighed heavily, kicking his feet beneath the table uncomfortably.

“Who do you mean?”

Cerulean blue eyes bore into Yuugi's own pure amethyst, both melding together as the blue irises penetrated the barriers of his soul.

“The other you,” she whispered.

The now high school graduate groaned. “I can't stop thinking about him. I mean, I know it has been three years but it's still fresh in my mind. I miss him so much, that it's depressing the hell out of me. I can't get over his departure to the afterlife.”

Tea’ placed her empty diet soda glass on the table, now smiling sadly at her friend, placing her hands upon Yuugi’s smaller ones.

“Yuugi I understand that you were a lot closer to him than we were, but, seriously it's time to let go. Your other self wouldn't want you to wallow in pity of his absence.”

The small duelist banged his head on the table in frustration as Tea' could only watch Yuugi's attempts of relief.

Her eyes softened as she thought of the boy's other self. The duo were so much alike and yet not in so many different ways. Both were confident in their dueling tactics, along with the confidence of their own abilities. Somehow no matter what way she thought of it, it always seemed that Yuugi and the other Yugi were one in the same, two peas in a pod, inseparable; almost as though they were meant for one another. Almost soul mates in a sense. But wait Yugi and his other self being soul mates? That was considered a taboo wasn’t it?

The girl shook her head, freeing her thoughts of this interesting new topic of discussion. She needed to think of something less curious. Something that involved watching Joey get his ass defeated in Duel Monsters. With a devious smirk, the brunette walked over towards Joey, drawing the over enthusiastic boy into one of his raving fits.
“I could so beat Yuge’ in a duel. You think I’m crazy now Tea’ but just wait until you see his Dark Magician fall to the mercy of my Gilford the Lightening.” Joey stated, crossing his arms in the form of his pure agonizing ways of his personality.

“We’ll see Joey. We’ll see.”

Two hours, six duels, and three glasses of diet soda later, Yuugi sat tiredly, arms propped up on the table. His cards were strewn about in the random form of the dueling patterns. He had once again defeated his best friend in a duel, leaving him completely bored and now tired.

“Aw, Dammit! Yuge’ what da hell are you doing? What do you say about giving me another chance of beating ya?” Joey pleaded, attempting to jut his bottom lip in approval of the duel.

Yuugi’s amethyst eyes rolled in annoyance, showing off his agitation as he collected his cards together. “I’m sorry Joey, but I can’t. I’m tired and I promised Grandpa that I would unload a new shipment of Full Metal Alchemist trading cards.”

Brown eyes watered slightly as said owner of eyes frowned, pulling his own set of Duel Monsters cards into his hands. “Damn you guys actually carry those things? They are so rare and hard to find anywheres.”

Yuugi simply shrugged as he waved them off, now slowly walking towards the exit as he felt a slight pressure around his small wrist. Fear of his former bullies plagued his naïve mind. He didn’t want to live with the fear of his life on the line anymore. He wanted it to end now that he had saved the world once and for all. Silently, the boy breathed in deeply, raising his eyes towards the captor of his pale arm.

Amethyst locked onto familiar cerulean. Relief flooded through Yuugi as he blushed, tearing his gaze away from the face of his friend, falling onto that of the tiled floor.

“Tea’?”

Said female winked, affectionately patting Yuugi on top of the head.
“Yuugi, I was wondering if I could walk you home?”

“Sure If you really want to.”

Both teens strode out of the arcade, walking side by side, quietly observing the warm summer breeze that fluttered through the air. Both felt awkward, needing the serene silence of the walk as Tea began to think up more upon the subject of her purpose of accompanying Yuugi home.

The forbidden thoughts of her once childish crush upon Yuugi had long fallen through the gaps of her mind, leaving her with the thoughts of their complete devotion of friendship. She felt the need to explore the depths of Yugi and the other Yuugi’s bond, anxiously hoping to find something that would aide her friend into a hopeful sense of his life.
Thus far the thoughts of the defeat upon the Doma gang and their orichalcos soul stealing cards drifted through her mind. The thoughts of dark Yuugi losing Yuugi’s soul fell into perspective, along with the great sense of depression the once pharaoh had fallen into. Yami Yuugi’s pleadings of finding his “light”, his “’partner” “his other half”… So many different endearments given to just one person, the one person whose name translated to game, Yuugi.

A bond of complete devotion and love had formed between both light and darkness of Yuugi’s soul. Yami and Yuugi had melded into one entity, becoming what they had both wanted since the dawn of time, completeness.

The moments of Yuugi zoning out of reality flashed through the next set of flashbacks, signaling the moments of the Yuugi’s conversation through the soul rooms. Yuugi did this often, sometimes even in the middle of class and lunch hours. Yuugi had to be oblivious or naïve to have not realized the desire of his company with Yami. Pharaoh and light of the same soul held the same dense attitudes of the childish nature of concealing attraction. Yami and Yuugi were hopelessly in love.

Tea’s cerulean eyes widened in realization. The pieces of this thought all fit into the grooves of truth. Both Yuugis held a great sense of love and compassion hidden with in their hearts and souls, one that ran more than skin deep.

Tea’ sighed indefinitely as she came to the conclusion of her suspicion. She now needed to verify this with her young aspiring friend. She was going to prove once and for all that her friend held a great deal of pain with the loss of his one and only true love.

The lights of the pedestrian crossing flashed red, a hand of digital art paraded across the street sign, alerting both life-long friends of their next step of departure.

Yuugi’s amethyst eyes sparkled in the afternoon sunlight, sending vibrations of complete serenity towards passersby. The boy shifted his backpack uneasily, his nerves stood on end. The silence was beginning to crack what little sanity the boy had left from all the world saving escapades. His attention was soon pulled free from the fogged silence of the walk home, now allowing him to gaze upon his friend’s odd state of stance.

Tea’ walked silently, arms wrapped around her backpack straps, gripping them tightly as she ignored all aspects of reality. Well all until young Yuugi decided to step in.

Said boy poked his friend on the arm, trying to catch her attention. After three pokes and no response the boy began to search his mind for an alternative motive on this attempt.

Smirking to himself, Yuugi poked the girl in her side, watching as her body convulsed into a fit of complete shock and ticklish instincts. Being a guy and being a friend of over seven years really had it’s benefits.

Startled blue eyes widened to the size of dinner plates as a blush of the purest crimson crossed the agitated dancer’s face. Tea’ had been very agonized and surprised over her unusually shy friend’s action, thus causing her to jumble out her thoughts into a quirky sentence.

“Yuugi, you are madly in love with your other self!”

The small duelists eyes bulged out of their sockets, locking onto Tea’s own widened orbs. A blush covered Yuugi’s entire face, running towards the tips of his pale ears, along with the light shudder his body gave off.

“What the hell?!”

Oh yes, this was going to be a very interesting chat…..

To be continued….

Well this was intentionally supposed to be a one-shot but due to the length of this chapter as it is, I didn’t want to have a huge one shot so I have broken this down into a small chapter story. So there will be up to one or more chapters added.
Also I usually never use Tea’/Anzu as many of you know, but for the purpose of this story she is only helping Yuugi realize that he is too oblivious to the truths of his love for Yami Yuugi. So no need to worry over a Yugi/Tea’ pairing.