Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Exfoilation of Perenial Beings ❯ Chapter Five ( Chapter 5 )

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It was dark, nighttime kind of dark. Violet eyes opened, most unwillingly.

" 'Haa?" Yugi's voice was thick and as he finally managed to make sense of what he saw; his brain took a moment to kick in. he was looking at a bed. His bed, his mind commented stupidly. And on the bed were sheets… pulled back. Yami was sleeping under those sheets, his brain added, he told his brain it should shut up and catch up because there wasn't any Yami there, so Yami was….

"Come on! Are you going to have breakfast with me?" Yami's accented voice asked him.

Yugi frowned and poked his head up to his bedside clock. "It's four thirty in the freaking morning. It's not even dawn yet!" He growled, voice gravelly and hoarse with sleep. He didn't bother moving.

"Of course not! Best part of the morning!" Yami said cheerfully.

"Kami-sama… you're… you're… a…a morning person?!?!" Yugi growled, more shocked this time.

Yami blinked, fully dressed and almost… perky. Yugi hated perky; at this time of the morning he hated anything anyway.

"Well? Are you getting up or not?"

"Nuu! I refuse to wake at such an hour!" Yugi rolled over and stuffed his face into his pillow.

"Fine, is it okay if I have breakfast anyway?"

"Ughh… Go ahead."

Yami laughed. "I'll leave my business card if you want to get together soon, or something." A wistful tone in his voice. Wistfulness at this hour was beyond Yugi's comprehension.

Yugi groaned and rolled over. Dimly he heard the bedroom door open and close and humming from outside, followed by a fridge, and followed by Yugi's brain clonking out to dreamy land again. Although his brain didn't make much sound.

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"Siiirrrr!!! Its twelve minutes to go, TWELVE!!!! Please can we have an early mark?"

"No. Now everyone sit down, David get that gum out of your mouth or I will make you pick up all the gum off the bottom of the tables in front of the class. Sarah, shut up, I can hear you."

The class fell silent.

"That's better. As I was saying. Homework, remember that ugly thing? Yes, I do remember that you have an essay for me due in today. Do we have it here?"

Looking at the teacher, well, you would have missed him. He was dressed in a blue turtle neck tank top, a belt-choker was around his neck and his pants were skin tight leather, blue. Perched across his petit nose was a pair of glasses. Most people thought he was a student. The only way to recognize him was his unusual spiky tricoloured hair.

Collectively the class drew deep breathes and brought out their essays. Motouh-sensei walked around the room, gathering the papers up, smiling at the effort into the presentation, even for the rough copies.

"Right. You may go now I suppose."

There were collective cheers before thirty something teenagers attempted to all rush out a single door. They managed, though Yugi could never figure out how.

Yugi shuffled the essays and began packing up, sliding his glasses off. He wouldn't have classes for another two or so hours, enough time to eat and maybe mark some essays.

"Motouh-sensei?" A timid voice called as silence settled over the class room.

Yugi looked up, staring into a pair of panda's eyes. He blinked and the effect of the light was ruined revealing sad brown eyes.

"Ryou. What is it? I noticed Bakura wasn't in class today, Clanne problems?"

Clanne was the word the shape shifters used when referring to their organization. Really it was a good way of protecting themselves. All a shifter had to do was appeal to the Clanne and they would gain protection while they were in Tokyo, members of the Clanne worked hard to become the biggest and strongest, all the better to rule over the other shifters. The lores and rules of the Clanne had been around far too long, the whole system was a dancing ring these days, so riddled with oaths and promises that if you pissed the wrong member off all sorts of shit could happen to you.

Ryou and his twin brother Bakura were both shape shifters, but not very powerful because of their age, they were the youngest shifters in the whole of Tokyo and all the other bears, wolves and cats knew it. Most of the time the other shifters would look out for the pair, but every now and then a bully came along and tried to 'out' the weak blood.

Recently Bakura had been showing signs of getting more powerful, had been getting in more and more fights, missing school almost once a week to recover from his injuries but his confidence was swelling. Which pissed a lot of shifters off because whatever Bakura did, Ryou would follow eventually, the idea that the two brothers could rise in power in the Clanne was not one a few of the more domineering shape shifters enjoyed to entertain.

Normally Bakura and Ryou would have been safe, but over the summer holidays the head of the Clanne had been knocked down and a new, more ruthless head had stepped up. Although the new head wouldn't deliberately try to kill the members in the Clanne he wanted everyone to be strong. Bakura and Ryou were suffering because they were 'encouraged' to join in dangerous battles and training sessions. Yugi had tried appealing to the Clanne, but they would not meet with him about the problem this posed for school work because Yugi was human.

Ryou shook his head, white tassels falling away from his face to reveal a long, thin scratch mark across one check. Yugi frowned; the scratch wasn't from a shifter.

"What happened yesterday?" The teacher asked.

Ryou looked away. "There's a new vampire in town, and he wanted some of the Clanne to…" The boy frowned, searching for a word. "...be his pets. He showed up about a month ago, but he didn't bother us before yesterday, it was full moon yesterday, will be again tonight, and everyone is on edge, they all had terrible tempers. Everyone refused; we're people, not side show events or meals for corpses! But he had a whole lot of other vamps with him, they… they attacked the Clanne, a few people were killed, Motouh-sensei, and… the vampire… he got a whole lot of the shifters, knocked them up real bad, and took off. I-…" Tears were brimming in Ryou's eyes and Yugi grabbed a fist full of tissues.

"What did he look like? This vampire. Did he take Bakura?" Yugi tried his best not to sound panicked but he had trouble, there was a strong possibility that this vampire could be Setouh. The timing matched, and Setouh had shown up at the school, and left without his pound of flesh from Yugi. Did the bastard get his jollies somewhere else? Had he taken Bakura to get back at Yugi? Why hadn't Ryou come to him emidiately?

"I don't know; no one could see him properly! He was using some kind of cloaking magic. I, I got beat up, but… Bakura…" Ryou was sobbing full out now, as the boy hunched down Yugi could see a bandage over his collar bone, Ryou's jacket was still over his chair.

Yugi hushed the boy. "Ryou, I can't help if you don't tell me what happened."

Ryou hiccupped a bit more before breathing and managing to tell Yugi what had happened.

"Bakura traded himself for me, made the vamp swear to let me go if Bakura came willingly. The vamp gave his oath and they let me go. Bakura went with the vampires."

Yugi ground his teeth together his blood felt as if it were boiling. If Setouh had harmed one hair on Bakura's head he'd pay for it in blood. "Do you know where they went, Ryou?"

Ryou nodded. "The vamps said… they said if we wanted to bargain for the Clanne we would have to go to the Pits tonight… but the Clanne head, he said no one was to go, it was too risky. He forbade me from trying to rescue Bakura…"

Yugi nodded, quelling his rage at the Clanne head for saying something like that, Ryou's beast form was an albino Panda Bear, the only thing the boy was good at was looking cuddly in that form. Bakura was a Panther; again, albino, but he still held more scratch, punch, hell even roar, over Ryou.

Yugi had never been to the Pits, but it was hypothetically a hot spot night club. No one ever found bodies at the Pits, but people went missing there often enough for Yugi to know why it was a night club.

Yugi sighed, petted Ryou and spoke softly. "I'll go out there tonight, kick a few heads and bash some vamps around, hopefully get the root of the problem impaled and save people, don't worry Ryou, now, go to your next class and try to hide the wounds better."

Ryou blinked through his tears. "I'll try. I didn't even remember when I took the jacket off."

"You're in shock, you should have them looked at by a doctor."

Ryou nodded but said nothing. Yugi knew the chances of Ryou going to a doctor were nonexistent; there was a whole 'I'm a shifter and my abnormal healing rates will serve me' ego thing there.

Ryou left before Yugi, and the teacher leaned back in his seat, staring out the window and the dots of students scurrying below. He watched the crowds for around an hour in silence.

His mind reflected on the events of the previous night, yet he couldn't focus on Setouh Kaiba, all he could think about was Yami.

Yami's cool flesh.

Yami's cool lips.

Those fingers that had nearly bought him to his peak by simply entering him.

The way Yami's deep plum eyes had pulled at things lower in his gut.

The feel in his gut as he raced against Yami.

Yugi didn't realize he'd made an audible moan of want as he began to get hard before someone laughing disturbed him.

"JOUNOUCHI!!!!" Yugi jumped out of his seat, before sitting back down hurriedly, lest Jou see that he was… happy. Jou was Yugi's best friend, 4'3 ft tall, blonde, reportedly 200 years old an Elf, and possessed of the annoying Elfish ability to know everything there was to know about Yugi. Jou was the ultimate empathic, without possessing the ability and very good with semi automatic machine guns.

"Yugi-kun. You've got that look about you…" The elf grinned and walked into the room, black green jacket swaying with his movements.

"Look? What 'look' Jou-kun?" Yugi squeaked, praying his cheeks weren't as hot as he thought they were.

"That look, my good friend Yugi-kun gets when he got laid."

Yugi squawked and shook his head rapidly. "You're imagining things Jou-kun! I told you coffee wasn't good for Elves!"

Jou tsked. "If I'm imagining things… why are you blushing? Why are you happy and why, oh, why are you panicked? Hmmm?"

Yugi blushed worse and looked down. "Ohh… you're good."

Jou laughed and slandered closer, jumped up on Yugi's desk and raised a blonde eyebrow as he sat Indian-style.

"So, who was it? Or should I ask what? Human? Duck? Or was it some interesting pornography I should know about?" He waggled his eyebrows with each question.

Yugi blushed deeper and deeper, more so then he had that night. "Shut up about the duck thing. I thought we weren't going to talk about that anymore?"

"Ewww, you didn't do the duck thing again did you?"

"I did not! As a matter of fact it was a vampire slayer!" Yugi retorted, a very nice shade of crimson.

Jou leaned forward more, head practically in Yugi's face. "A vamp killer? Wow, didn't know we had more then one in this city, thought they were usually hermaphrodites too? You didn't do a hermaphrodite did you????"

"Gahh! No! It was a guy, gguyyyyy, Jou-kun, not a jolly Elf like yourself."

"You sure? I hear you like them quacking…"

"One more duck comment and I'll hang you by your bells." Yugi snapped. The duck thing was a very delicate subject.

Jou clutched his heart in mock horror. "My bells!!! You won't hear a peep about you and your water logged ladies in that case."

Yugi just glared.

Jou chuckled and wiped the smile off his face. "Alright, alright, I'm listening."

Yugi coughed. "Well, it was last night, I was out riding and this other rider showed up, the new model Ninja…"

Jou gave a low whistle. "Sweet."

"And we rode for around an hour, until, and I'm not lying, a vamp biker gang showed up."

"Vampire biker gang? You're joking. They don't exist, Yugi-kun."

"Well then something not there with fangs and a bike attacked me."

Jou frowned. "This certainly isn't good. First time I've ever heard any confirmation that they might actually exist…"

Yugi nodded. "And before yesterday I would have scoffed at the idea my self. Anyway, so I used that holy chalk I bought, worked like a charm, until one of the older ones walked around the circle and grabbed me."

"Jeez, how'd you escape?"

"My knight in shinning armor was the rider of the Ninja."

"Ohh! Romanticism, Yugi-kun, of all people… from you!" Jou was laughing almost full out.

Yugi blushed. "…bully."

Jou managed to calm himself and grinned indulgently. "Was he cute?"

"… well, he had this sort of… sexy aura about him but… arg! He leaves everyone you've ever had sex with in the dust!"

"That amazing?"

"Better!"

Jou made a soft 'mm' of appreciation and sighed.

"Lucky bastard, Yugi-kun."

"Yeah…"

"What did he look like, boy?" Jounouchi poked.

Yugi blinked. "Umm… well… exactly like me."

"Nani?"

"I don't know how to explain it. He's a little taller and his eyes are a plum color, but otherwise we look so alike it's…eerie."

"Ri-ight. Anyway, I just had Ryou in art, he was sporting these utterly adorable white ears, and when the kids kept asking about them he sprouted a puffy tail. He was pretty stressed, I sent him out to calm down. Since you had him last, what kind of trauma did you put him through?" Jou asked in his teacher voice.

"Oh, that reminds me." Yugi began.

"Are you busy tonight?"

~ To be continued…

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