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AN: ^________^ Katsuya-chan! How I love thee!

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Day Whatever This Is, Probably a Tuesday, About Half Past Dinnertime

Hey.

School is the devil. Someone should blow up the damn place. I'm fricking drowning in homework right now - it's not like we have lives or anything, no, of course not!

Interesting tidbits of the day:
1. Cafeteria chili discovered to dissolve the styrofoam bowls they serve it in.
2. Bakura fell over during science and caused the whole table to crash. He muttered something about his yami and the fact that we were slicing up dead baby pigs. Apparently we were doing it all wrong - if you want the guts to slide out easily, you use an underhand stroke, not an overhand one.
3. ...that's really sick.
4. And Kaiba threatened to sue the school for psychological damage brought on by lunch food. All the chili mysteriously disappeared after that...

Phone calls:
1. Shizuka. Movie. Chick flick. Saturday. I'm gonna die. Am thinking I am perhaps too easily manipulated by my dear sweet angel of a baby sister.
2. Honda. Homework I forgot about. Ugh.

Duels:
1. Kicked Honda's ass during lunch. Ha.
2. Dunno if this counts, but after school saw Malik being chased down by his yami, who was waving around a booster pack. Think he was yelling something about pancakes? Was odd. Noticed a distinct smell of syrup around them.

Freaky thing of the day:

So we're walking home in a big clump the way we usually do, and somehow Yugi's managed to con his yami into going out into the real world. His yami is being understandably reluctant about the whole thing, when he gets distracted. So distracted, in fact, that he lets go of Yugi's hand and pauses to look in a store window.

Now, a few months ago, this wouldn't have been anything strange. In fact, a few months ago, we would've been surprised that Yami and Yugi were holding hands. But these days... for Yami even to stray from Yugi's side for an instant is just weird.

Needless to say, Yugi Was Not Pleased about this. For such a little guy, he pulls off 'righteously pissed' remarkably well.

He stalked on for a few more paces, scowling at the world, before he snapped something mentally at his other half, judging by the way the pharaoh jumped. So Yami looks back at him, and right then Yugi glances over his shoulder and gives Yami The Look.

The Look. I didn't even know Yugi had any idea about that. I mean, I've seen Mai... she's never given me it, but there was one time...

Anyway. That was IT.

Yugi... it's kinda creepy. He knew exactly what he was doing. And here he's supposed to be the innocent one. Though I guess innocent doesn't mean naive - although he's that for sure. But Yugi... gah! Freaky! Bad thoughts! Bad thoughts! Evil evil horrible bad thoughts!

But when your best friend turns around, tilts his head, and suddenly turns himself into a creature that's practically radiating the words 'FUCK ME!' you kinda notice.

Yugioh certainly did. Got rid of his distraction real quick - he somehow in the space of a second wound up next to Yugi with his arms real tight around his waist and not a millimeter of space between them. God, and I thought he was a little too close before, when they were just holding hands! But then even with a crowbar you couldn't have pried the two apart. And it wasn't like Yugi didn't want the attention - he glared at a few gaping passerrsby himself. Kinda funny, but he can be intimidating when he wants, even if he does look real delicate. But when the both of them walk down the street, you know better. It's gotta be a yami and hikari thing - I might hate Bakura's yami, but when they're together, you can almost hear the click.

Funny - Bakura's been awful quiet lately. I mean, more than usual. Just like Yugi, really - oh no! Bad thought! Go away, bad thought! Yuck! Ergh! Scary!

...wait a minute. Yugi and his yami, Bakura and his yami... could maybe Malik...? Okay, that's way too scary to even think about, so I'm stopping that train of thought right here and now.

Stopping it right now.

Yep.

Stopped cold.

EEEWWWWW!

Kay, got that out of my system, so I ain't ever gonna think about it again.

Gah.

Shit, what was I talking about? Oh, yeah, Yugi. Huh. Yugi.

Yugi's Yugi, I guess. Same as always - if a little different, maybe a bit quieter. But he's still our Yugi - he just belongs to Yami first, I think. I think that's it. Degrees of closeness, right? Other self first, family, best friend (yours truly, of course!) and friends, and then, since it's Yugi, the whole world. His heart's plenty big enough for it. He's sorta distracted, but a new romance will do that to you. Hell, I keep forgetting how to talk when Mai smiles at me, it's the same thing, only a bit freakier. I mean, aside from the fact that they're both guys, they look practically alike. I can guess why Yami hangs on to Yugi so tight - being stuck in a puzzle for a couple millennia's gotta suck. I'll admit I'm a bit puzzled by Yugi's reaction though, cause it's not like there aren't others who'd like to take a shot at dating him. Well, maybe it's cause Yami's got that "darkly alluring broody aura of power and mystery", to quote Mai as she pointed out a passerby who had walked into a wall while gaping over at Yami.

That was pretty damn funny, not that Yami noticed. Still, the both of them sauntering around in skintight leather causes the funniest reactions whenever they go someplace "respectable". We don't really notice it, since they're our friends, but the two of them look like a matched pair of Do You Want Your Children To End Up Like This? Not to mention that buckle fetish of theirs... and the all black thing... and the hair... and the puzzle hangs on a big-ass chain, too... geez, Mom thinks I'm a thug - I should introduce them!

Heh. She nearly died when she saw Mai the first time. It wasn't really a big deal, we just saw each other in the street and waved - well, I waved, Mai winked and bllew me a kiss. Shizuka started giggling at me, and so Mom looked over to see why I'd turned red, and Mai was just sauntering off into the crowd and she gave me the cutest little sultry look over her shoulder. I think it was my giddy laugh that tipped her off, but Mai's just plain gorgeous, so I can be forgiven for drooling. I guess Mom thinks Mai's too old for me or something stupid like that.

She's not. She's just about perfect.

Yeah. I can understand how Yugi feels. Most guys don't go for commitment so young, but I think it's pretty obvious that they're gonna be together forever. Maybe it's because the relationship is so new and strange, but Yugi's awfully clingy nowadays - can't stand to be without his yami touching him.

The sex must be great.

...I did not just think that.

I talked to Mai about it - not the sex, although I did happen to mention it, and she actually blushed! But she's surprisingly levelheaded about the whole thing - if not a bit weirded out.

I'm pretty weirded out myself. I mean, Yugi's my best friend, and if anyone ever hurt him I'd be first in line to do some serious ass-kicking. But then he's got his yami - and I get the creepy feeling that whoever dared to pick on him would probably be dead before I got anywhere near them. Yugioh... sometimes he scares the shit out of me. I mean, sure, he's saved our collective asses before, but anyone who can and does break people like sugar candy is worthy of respect, or at least something like it. Awed fear works - he might be more coherent and logical than either other yami, but that just makes it worse when he goes psychotic. 'Cause he's at least a little bit there - and he's still gonna make some miserable bastard suffer a fate worse than death.

And he belongs to Yugi, which makes it about a thousand times freakier. I mean, one minute you can be chatting with Yugi, the next minute you're staring down blood red eyes and all of your words freeze in your throat because you just know how easy that guy could kill you. Sure, he's shorter than me, but when you're looking at him it's like he's a thousand miles above you looking down. And it's vaguely schizophrenic - because when you're looking at one, you're looking at both. I mean, it's Yugi - and his dark side, and when the darkness is purer than black... he's got a sadistic side, that pharaoh.

Yugi, of course, doesn't understand my point of view. He'd just laugh at me if I mentioned that Yami no Yugi freaks me out a bit. Because even if he is scary as hell, the way he treats Yugi... that's the way I'd want Shizuka to be treated. She deserves to be a goddess - and that's the way Yami treats YYugi. Not to that extent - normal people need breathing room, but a hikari and yami (far as anyone can tell) go bonkers when they're separated even for a moment. (Yugi says when he got knocked out during the duel against Pegasus, his yami went completely spastic - and I can believe it, with how protective he is of Yugi. And how grabby he is. Have I mentioned that? Cause he is. Grabby, I mean. He nearly bit my head off when I happened to brush past Yugi in the game shop.) Bakura's still hanging on to his item, and his yami's a freak show.

I'm not gonna talk about Malik. Malik is nuts. His yami's worse. Why am I surrounded by scary people with split personalities?

Then again, the whole of our group isn't exactly what you would call normal. Trips to the Shadow Realm, dueling tournaments, money problems, possessions, destiny and trying to stay alive long enough to fight... yeah, I bet everybody's got that problem. No wonder teachers hate us. "Oh, sure Mrs. Hino! I really could have finished reading the section before the building collapsed, how silly of me!" At this rate, we're all gonna fail this year, even Kaiba, and he's a genius. Heh - he got busted a couple of weeks ago for having his cell on during class, answering it, and then swearing at it. He just grumbled something about Mokuba when we asked, and that was answer enough. Funny how everybody's got that one thing about them that you just don't touch or question, but I guess that works out for people who live in reality.

Sometimes it feels like reality isn't there anymore, or that it's warped into something out of a fantasy flick. Sometimes I think it must be nice to be on the outside, wrapped up in blissful ignorance, not knowing about the Shadow Realm and darkness and power and just what's really lurking in that innocent looking deck of cards.

We were all that ignorant once. Now? Hell, now Yugi's supposed to save the world. And me? I got caught up in this thing and now there's no way it's letting me go. No fucking way out, not that I really want one. We gotta stick together, all of us, cause nobody else understands... nobody else can.

Hn. No wonder.

No wonder we all hang on to each other so tight. Even that bastard Kaiba's been closer to us than usual, cause of Mokuba, naturally. Shizuka says Mokuba's adorable, even though she once threatened to wash his mouth out with soap. It's strange, though - we're all tangled up in each other's lives because of friends and siblings and lovers.

God help us if we don't survive.

Damn, when'd I get so introspective, anyhow? Must be because of all this crap... or because of Yugi's little Look. Which was creepy as hell, by the way. Breathing space, anyone? Apparently not necessary if you've got a yami.

Weird as hell. But that's life, I guess. All hail insanity! Yeah, that's us, a ship full of loonies, trying to figure out how to save the world and pass this year and fall in love and remember to eat and stay friends and keep each other real close.

Just another day in the life of your not-so-average duelist gang. Yeah. This is where we belong.

Go us!

...man, I gotta go squeegee my brain.

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