Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Reverse Side ❯ The next day ( Chapter 9 )

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

By: Equilla

9- The next day

Yami: 0.0

Joey: you just realised that yugi has the puzzle didn't you

Yami: *nods*
Mokuba: we are in big trouble
Equilla; yeah the climax should be coming up somtime.

Joey: 0.0

Mokuba: she don't own any yugioh characters, you know the rest.

To Yami's joy, he was able to make it to school without seein any trace of either Yugi or Ryou. He had hurried to school with a careful but fast speed, making sure that he would be able to not run into anyone he didn't want to see, and staying well off the paths that lead to Ryou and Bakura's house.

As he reached the entrance to the school he saw a familiar face sitting on the bottom of the steps that led to the front door, who seemed to be waiting for something or someone, and Yami's heart dropped down to his stomach.

Yami decided that he would have to try and walk past Malik, and hope that he would let him pass with out any problems or any extra wounds to Yami. But still as Yami started towards the steps he readied himself for a fight. As he reached the first step Malik stood up stopping Yami from going any further forward.

“What do you want Malik?” Yami asked cautiously and with a slight growl as a warning.

“I want you to take care of Yugi, you need to get that puzzle off him, Marik and me are sick of being bossed around by those two. Do you understand,” Malik growled in the pharaoh's face.

Yami looked shocked at Malik listening to what he was saying. Yugi had become some kind of monster and this guy was telling him to take care of him.

“Don't give me that surprised look,” Malik snapped at Yami, “I know your good at creeping, so you would be the only one who would be able to get to the puzzle without Yugi thinking anything was up. It was your fault for giving it to him so he wouldn't beat Bakura up again, which was a stupid thing for you to believe him in the first place.”

Yami realised what Malik meant, “Ok I'll try. I can't make any promises though.”

Malik nodded and headed back into the school, while Yami waited a minute before following the Egyptian's footsteps.

As Yami wandered towards his locker he was half surprised to see Joey and Seto conversing casually, that was until he remembered what Seto had been turned into. Taking another look at Joey he realised that Joey looked like he wanted to get away from the peace blabbering CIO, and kept glancing around for a way out. Spotting Yami, Joey found his excuse and quickly got away from Seto waving and hurriedly walking over to Yami.

“I am so glad you're here,” Joey commented patting Yami lightly on the shoulder, to Yami's relief didn't have a bruise on it, “You manage to escape from Balura and Tea, argueing about who is more of a friendship freak, or talking about friendship, and you get cornered by mr hippieboy.”

“I'm glad I could be your escape route,” Yami commented back laughing lightly.

Joey frowned for a little while before starting to laugh himself.

Suddenly the room went quiet as two smaller figures appeared in the hall, their disturbing smirks never leaving their faces. The path ahead of Ryou and Yugi was kept clear as people rushed out of the way.

Joey watched them glaring and as they were out of hearing range growled, “They are probably here to give their `reason' to the principle about why they shuoldn't be expelled and why they should be given good grades.”

Yami nodded not really paying any attention to what Joey had said as Bakura, Tea and Tristian came up to them. Bakura was looking tired and was having trouble staying awake, even though he kept a mild smile on his face.

“How did you survive last night?” Yami asked remembering where he was told Yugi and Ryou were spending the night before.

“I managed to get into the rafters,” Bakura replied with a yawn, and reappling consealer in the mirror of his locker, “luckily they are to small to be able to get up there, but I had a bit of trouble getting there, and I was worried they would use a ladder half the night.”

Joey, Tea and Tristian looked angry as they realised what the conversation between the two was about.

“They were beating you two up again, why I aughta,” Joey started.

“No Joey, you don't stand a chance while they have the items,” Yami commented quickly stopping him in his tracks.

“The only reason they probably keep us around is for their entertainment,” Bakura commented sadly, “But we don't want you guys being pulled into the problem.”

Yami looked at Bakura sadly, how on earth could this be the same tomb robber that had given him so much trouble so many times. He had never really seen a side to Bakura which was like this, and he wondered if there was any part of the original thief that was truly like this. Yami was then pulled out of his thoughts by the bell for class going off.

After class Yami was waiting outside for Mokuba to arrive a park seat away from Seto, trying to not encourage him to talk, so far to no success. After Yamu gad said goodbye to his group of friends, he watched as Bakura and Tea were chased down the street by the anti friendship speech mob who had gotten their hands on different weapons which included guns, bazookas, bomb throwes, baseball bats and planks of woods with nails in them. Joey and Tristian had followed them down the street shaking their heads sadly.

This had caused Seto to start talking about human rights, “wow, those people need to let go, its called freedom of speech. Everyone deserves the right to say what they want without being chased down the road with the most dangerous weapon known to man.”

“A piece of wood with a nail in it?” commented Yami slightly amused.

“Exactly,” came the confident answer.

This was to Yami's relief when a psychedelic limo rolled up, and Mokuba let the two into by opening the door. Once inside Mokuba put a gag into Seto's mouth to keep him quiet, but Seto was quickly off to sleep at any rate.

“How can he sleep so much, I swear he slept through all of the classes at school,” Yami commented about the snoozing CIO.

Mokuba shrugged, “he seems to do it a lot since he became a hippie, I think he is catching up on all the sleep he missed when he was a workaholic.”

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Yugi: ow yeah no school for us

Equilla: woohoo

Ryou: wait why are you partying about that
Equilla: cause I've officially now out of school