Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Pools of Glass ❯ Face To Face ( Chapter 5 )

Here is chappie 5… hope you like it! Any ideas welcome!

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Face To Face
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8:00AM…

After playing Dungeon Dice Monsters all day Saturday and Sunday, Jou was exhausted. He wished he had only played on Saturday… not both days of his weekend. He stayed at Otogi's place on Saturday night, went to work at seven the next morning and came back over afterward on Sunday afternoon.

It was eleven o'clock before he got home that night. He dropped Anzu off home first before heading back to his own apartment. How he was ever going to wake up in the morning was beyond him - oh wait, he had an alarm clock, that's right. Shizuka had bought it for him for his birthday earlier in the year. Only just recently he had found use in it.

Jou walked into the school grounds on time, surprisingly, on Monday morning. Shizuka was running around with her friends in total frenzy, and he noticed all the other students acting seemingly the same way. He spotted the star-haired student from a mile away standing with Yami and talking to Anzu, Honda, Ryou, Otogi and Bell. Jou walked over and looked around, wondering what on Earth was going on.

"What's going on you guys?" Jou asked casually. "Everyone's acting so crazy…"

Anzu jumped up. "IT'S THE SCHOOL PROM!!!!" Anyone would swear she was on speed.

Jou groaned. "Oh great…"

"What's the matter Jou?" Ryou asked.

"Proms are a waste of time… all the expensive suits and hairstyling and limousines and dresses and preparation…"

"It will be fun Jou!" Yugi cried. "We're all going as a group!"

"What about partners?" Jou looked across at Bell and gave her a little smile. She grinned sheepishly back at him.

"You don't have to have a partner, Jou. We can all go as a group; it will be a lot more fun that way!" Ryou replied.

"Somebody already asked Bell to go with them though…" Otogi said quietly. Everyone else fell into silence.

Jou frowned. "You don't mean…"

Everyone looked at him gravely.

"KAIBA ASKED HER ALREADY?!" Jou shrieked.

"I'm sorry Jou…" Bell said. "I didn't really know what else to say…"

"Didn't you wanna go with me…?" Jou asked in a sentimental tone.

"I do Jou! I really do! But Kaiba said that he's already made arrangements for me to see his personal dressmaker and everything… I can't really back out now." Bell replied, taking great interest in the ground.

"Son of a bitch! He's probably planned this all year!" Jou cried.

"It doesn't mean I have to spend the whole night with him though…" Bell said.

The bell rang, urging everyone to pile into their classes. Jou stalked off to P.E followed by Honda and Otogi. Anzu, and Ryou went their separate ways, leaving Bell standing in the courtyard alone in the dusty wind, holding her folder close to her chest. Kaiba came up behind her.

"Bell…"

"Hi Kaiba."

"We've got math now."

"I know… listen Kaiba," Bell said, turning to face him. "Can we make a deal?"

"What for?" Seto asked.

"It's about the prom…"

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"Jou! Jou over here!" Ryou called from the sidelines. He was standing with Bell watching Jou play football with Honda, Otogi and some other boys from school.

Jou tossed the football back to Otogi and jogged over to them. "What up guys?"

"Bell has made a deal with Kaiba about the prom coming up, Jou!" Ryou said excitedly.

"Oh yeah?" Jou asked, a touch of hope flickered in his voice.

"Yeah…" Bell said. "He's going to take me, and we'll still enter as partners but---"

Jou growled at that.

"He's going to offer us all a ride in his limo, and he's offered to have the prom's after-party at his mansion!" Bell squealed.

"Yeah?!" Jou cried. "That's… not like him."

"She's practically got him wrapped around her little finger." Ryou said with a chuckle.

Bell grinned sheepishly. "So what do you think, Jou?"

"Sounds good to me." Jou said with a nod. "Just as long as Kaiba keeps his filthy hands off of ya." He added.

Ryou chuckled nervously. "But he will expect to be by her side most of the night, Jou."

"Yeah… but I suppose we'll have to include him since he's doing so much for the prom and all." Bell said thoughtfully.

"What date is it?" Otogi asked.

"It's in two weeks time! On August the 9th!" Anzu chirped.

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Jou and Bell went and got ice-creams after school that day down at the ice-cream parlour near the beach. They sat on the rocks devouring their ice-creams and watching the sun go down. Bell knew she'd get in trouble for not being home on time, but if it meant spending time alone with Jou, she could care less.

Jou finished off his ice-cream and brushed himself down. Bell licked the last part of her ice-cream off until there was nothing left except the stick. She threw away the stick and moved closer to Jou on the giant rock they were sitting on. Jou put his arm around her.

"You see that really bright star in the distance there." Bell said, pointing to a bright white dot against the radiant orange sunset.

"Yeah…" Jou followed her gaze.

"That's Venus, the planet that represents love. It's also the only planet that rotates counter-clockwise. Cool huh?"

"I didn't know you studied astronomy…" Jou chuckled.

"My father used to work for NASA in America, before he went into the Navy." Bell said, resting her head on Jou's shoulder.

Jou kissed the top of her head. "Bell… what would you say if I asked you to be my girlfriend?"

"Are you asking me now?"

"I sure am." Jounouchi replied, his heart pounding.

"Then I must be mad to decline your request." Bell giggled.

"Is that a yes?"

"Of course it is!"

Jou grinned and gripped Bell closer into him. "You have no idea how much balls that took me."

Bell laughed. "Why? Were you afraid I'd say no?"

"Like you wouldn't believe."

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"That's great you guys!" Yugi cried happily as Jou announced the news, hand-in-hand with Bell.

"Took you long enough." Honda said to Jou and gave him a playful punch in the arm.

"Bell, have you got your dress for the prom sorted out yet?" Anzu asked.

"Well, actually Seto wanted me to go around to his mansion after school today to meet his dressmaker.

"Is that so?" Jou asked, his protectiveness kicking in.

"Yes… and I'm going to accept his offer because I honestly don't know how my mother would be able to afford buying me a dress." Bell said with a little chuckle. "Besides, Kaiba insists on me going by his dressmaker so, it's not like I'm using him or anything."

"True… lucky girl!" Anzu cried.

"Hey, hey, hey; she's only lucky because she's with da big man on campus." Jou said proudly. Everyone sweatdropped.

Later on in the day, Jounouchi, Honda and Otogi went over to Yugi's place to get some studying done for biology. Tomorrow they would be doing a test on the anatomy of a frog which they dissected earlier in the week, and of course Jou didn't take down any notes. He was more caught up in the fun of throwing intestines at Honda.

"Hey Yug'", Jou began.

"Yeah Jou?"

"Are both you and Yami gonna go to da prom that's coming up?"

Yugi chuckled. "Of course not Jou, that would be silly. Nobody else besides you and the rest of the gang know about Yami."

Otogi looked at Honda like Jou had gone nuts. "Who is Yami?" He asked.

//Do you think he'd freak out if I introduced myself?// Yami asked Yugi through their link.

/I suppose there's no time like the present./ Yugi replied with a nervous internal giggle .

"I am Yami. I am Yugi's counterpart that dwells inside the Millennium Puzzle." Yami said with pride, emerging from the chambers of the Puzzle.

"Woah… cool Yugi!" Otogi said as he stared in awe.

Yugi blushed. "I'll tell you more about him later if you like, Otogi."

"Cool!" Otogi said as he watched Yami disappear again. "Hey guys, does Domino have music classes?" Otogi asked.

"Yeah, the school has two already-popular bands. Why's that Otogi?" Honda asked.

"Well, it's just that at my old school in Takamatsu I was in a band. I played on the drums and there were two guys on a guitar each, one lead singer and a guy on the keyboard. I was kind of wondering if you guys would like to do something like that?"

Yugi, Honda and Jou all looked at each other inquiringly. Jou was known to sing quite well, as was Ryou, Honda and Jou could both play the guitar and Yugi could play the piano quite well. It all seemed too coincidental that Otogi should mention something like this.

"That sounds like a great idea Otogi! I know how to play the piano…" Yugi chirped.

"Jou and I can play the guitar." Honda said.

"And I can play the drums… can any of you guys sing?" Otogi asked.

"Ryou can…" Jou began to blush. "And I… well I guess, I guess I can too, kinda…"

"Well it's settled then! Tomorrow at school we'll go into the performing arts department and talk to the music teacher about it." Otogi cried cheerfully.

"Sounds good to me." Honda remarked.

"Come on guys, if we want to excel in biology tomorrow then we'd better get studying." Yugi reasoned, pointing out that they had all got sidetrack.

"Yeah you're right Yug'." Jou agreed.

Meanwhile at the Kaiba Estate…

Kaiba slouched down into his leather armchair with a mug of mocha coffee in one hand, wearing a complacent smile on his face as he watched his dressmaker fuss over Bell in the middle of his living room.

"Now what colours did you have in mind, dear?" The fuchsia-haired woman asked.

"Uh… well I'm not really sure… I like black…" Bell replied quietly.

"Black would look fabulous on you dear! What about the fabric? Silk, satin, lace, mesh?"

Bell fidgeted quietly and looked over at Kaiba who wore the same smug smile that would make Jounouchi snap if he were there. "Satin I suppose…"

"Alright perfect, now I'll just get you to undress so I can take your measurements, and we'll have a look at some styles that would suit you, okay?"

Bell gaped. "Undress? Right here?" She looked across at Kaiba. He just smirked at her harder.

"Well of course dear, we won't be able to make you a dress if we don't have your measurements." The dressmaker stated. Bell groaned and glared at Kaiba.

"I'll let you ladies do your thing then." He replied casually as he moved off to the kitchen to make himself another coffee.

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