Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Online ❯ Chapter Two ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter Two

He was on cloud nine that morning and not even Anzu's friendship rant being belted out at maximum volume at the helpless, but not totally undeserving Jounouchi would bring him down. After all Jounouchi was the one who decided to flip Anzu's skirt up in order to settle a bet with Honda on Anzu's choice of lingerie, not him.

And what exactly was the reason for his good cheer? Why waking up to see a brand new laptop sitting on the pillow next to his head addressed to him of course! Obviously Ryou's yami, everyone's favorite thief, had stolen it for him, but he couldn't fault him at all. It was the thought that counted after all.

Tucked away in his backpack was said laptop. Ryou had often wished for one of his own, especially after their school set up a section of the library for students to plug their laptops in and dial onto the net; and frankly spending every lunch period with his friends was starting to give him migraines.

Now he appreciated and liked Yuugi-tachi to no end, however one could only take so much of their endless chatter on duel monsters and well each other. They knew each other so well, could finish each other's sentences, and knew exactly what the others were thinking. To be frank, Ryou just felt out of the loop, an extra (and unsightly) appendage when he was with them.

Bakura had picked up on his growing unease around them and wholeheartedly supported his total abandonment of Yuugi-tachi - hence the laptop. Despite knowing his yami's ulterior motive Ryou was still greatly moved and touched by his yami's thoughtfulness. It was a sign that Bakura did care for him.

And so noontime found him not seated with Yuugi and the others in the cafeteria, nor did it find following behind Otogi's mob of fangirls trying to hold a decent conversation with the vain boy while attempting to be heard over the ruckus that was fangirls either. Instead it found him setting up his new laptop at a station of his own (for the lunch period anyway) in the "rich kid's corner" of the library. It was dubbed this as only the richer students of Domino High (and the nerds but everyone forgot about them) could afford to bring their own computer to school.

With a cautious and hesitant glance around him Ryou booted up his computer and set to work fiddling with his personal settings. He removed several discs from their safe storage in his backpack and placed them on the table next to his laptop in order of importance. Selecting the first disc he slipped it into the laptop's DVD/CD/CDRW drive and waited for it to load before browsing through the disc's files for the features he wanted.

First he installed his favorite set of Harry Potter desktop icons, than of course the wall paper and the screensaver had to be changed as well; both featuring his favorite potions master. He also quickly removed the computer's normal and plain pre-installed calculator replacing it with a scientific version featuring Remus Lupin. This done he quickly changed the computer's resolution from 800x600 to his preferred 1054x768 before popping out the first disc and inserting a new one. This contained many back up copies of programs he used on his personal computer, the paid for applications that he would be hard pressed to purchase again and re-install should something happen to his computer.

Programs safely installed and settings adjusted to his liking. Ryou felt it was now safe to open "My Documents" which was now entitled: "Dark Arts" and began the somewhat tedious job of browsing through yet another disc's contents; making sure that the latest and updated versions of all of his writings were contained there before copying them over into a separate folder inside. Another folder inside of this one he placed copies of his favorite stories by other authors for safe storage.

Once the computer possessed a few of his personal touches, and he felt right at home he considered getting on the internet. A glance at the Library's clock revealed he still had about twenty minutes or so of lunch left. Deciding it would be a shame to waste that time just tinkering around when he could instead contact Rin and KCG and let them know of his good luck. Leaving out exactly how he got the laptop, as he wasn't quite ready to tell people about his sometimes homicidal yami with sticky fingers. He immediately began to dial onto the internet using the school's connection. KCG and Rin would be extremely happy, once they got over their initial shock that Ryou had finally managed to get a laptop of his own now!

With that thought came unbidden the question of what BlueEyedRyuujin would say. Ryou flushed in anticipation and found himself hoping that despite what BlueEyedRyuujin had the night before about working, that he would have found the time to get online as well. He did say he was high school too right? Surely his school had a library with computers! After all what school didn't?

As luck would have it, Rin was thankfully online.