Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Trials of Life ❯ Old and New ( Chapter 2 )

Old and New

AN: Yes, this is the second chapter and yes I did start to write it before I posted the first. And does anybody have an idea for the genre because I'm stuck in that case.

Disclaimer: It's in the first chapter. Like I said I'll only have one.

This will be a yaoi, shonen-ai, gay, slash story. However you want to put it. If you don't like it, then what the hell are you doing here in the first place?

And thanks to SoulDreamer who had the only review I received before I posted this.

Finally, the stories won't normally come out this fast, I was just bored and had too much time yesterday.

Eventually…..

/…../ is Yugi to Yami

//…..// is Yami to Yugi.

~*~*~Last time~*~*~

"These are the new students. Will you please give your name and a hobby of yours?" Mrs. Miyaki said.

The red head spoke first. "My name is Jake Meitou and my hobby is collecting different types of weapons used all over the world."

Jake was followed by the boy with light brown hair, "My name is Derek Bushi and I love to learn about different forms of fighting."

Derek was followed by the blond, "My name is Jason Chisei and I like to make things."

Jason was followed by the ebony haired boy, "My name is Damien Kushin and I always work towards what ever I want."

Finally it was Selene's turn, "My name is Selene Chousen and I like any type of challenge."

It was then that Yugi realized where he recognized her.

~*~*~On with the story~*~*~

`It has to be her. They have the same name and no one else I know has that exact hair and eye color. No one. It's Selene from Siaka City.' Yugi thought as he stared at her, though no one but Selene himself seemed to notice and all she did was shoot him a small smile. It seemed that she remembered him too.

"Okay Mr. Meitou, Mr. Bushi, Mr. Chisei, Mr. Kushin, and Ms. Chousen we'll need to find you all seats." Mrs. Miyaki looked around the room for a group of seats where the new students could sit together. The she spotted a group in the back left-hand corner. "Okay then, how about you take the seats by Mr. Motou. Mr. Motou would you please….." her command trailed off as Selene started walking toward the back, earning a confused look from every body in the room except Yugi himself. Then her friends exchanged glances, shrugged, and followed after her.

"Hello Hikari." Selene said as she passed Yugi to sit in the empty desk right behind him, her friends following the whole way. As the seats were in rows of three Selene sat on the side nearest the wall with Damien to her right and Jake to his right. Behind them sat Jason and Derek with Jason right behind Jake and Derek to his left.

Yugi stiffened at the use of her nickname for him. It was what she had always called him when they'd been friends.

"Well," said Mrs. Miyaki after composing herself, " it seems that Ms. Chousen and Mr. Motou already know each other. I guess then that he can take Ms. Chousen and her friends around for a tour of the school. Mr. Motou if you can come and see me at the end of homeroom I'll give a note for your next class so you can spend the class period showing the new students around school." And then the bell rang. "Class dismissed. Have a great day everyone."

After Yugi got the note from Mrs. Miyaki he met Selene and the others outside the classroom where he promptly threw his arms around her and gave her a huge hug, to which she responded. "Selene, it's been so long. I never thought I'd ever see you again after I had to move away. I missed you so much."

"Hello to you too Hikari." Selene said smiling, once again using her nickname for the shorter boy. "Sorry I never got in touch, but things got a bit hectic after a while and I lost your new address. By the time I found it again it had been quite a while and I thought rude of me to just call up and assume you'd remember me."

"How could I ever forget, you were my best and only friend back then. I could never forget you." Yugi said, his hold on his childhood friend even tighter than before. He pulled back slightly to take a good look at his old friend. She still had the tan colored hair that was just the right tone where it was too dark to be blond but too light to be considered brown though now it reached about midway down her back and was tied into a ponytail a little below the base of her neck and her eyes were still as green as any emerald. She had a set of stud earrings in that were in the shape of a pair of ankhs and the leather choker she had on had a silver crescent moon pendent hanging from it.

"Neko," came the voice of one of the other boys present, "you know him?"

Selene pulled out of the family-like embrace and turned to face the speaker. "Yes Damien I do. This is Yugi Motou, my only friend from my old city." She said. "Yugi these are my friends. Despite the fact that they may look like punks, they are really just big softies."

Yugi turned to meet the dark sapphire eyes of Damien and for the first time fully noticed exactly what he looked like. Damien had shoulder length ebony black hair that was pulled into a ponytail at the base of his neck. He also had a stud earring in his right ear in the shape of the Eye of Horus that Yugi recognized from the times he'd seen his yami about to use his shadow powers. His eyes seemed to look straight into Yugi's soul as though testing for any type of deceit. Evidently he didn't see any as his eyes soften a second later and he smiled a little.

"Hi Yugi. As Neko just said my name is Damien. Nice to meet you."

Next the red head came up and Yugi saw that his eyes were a very light bluish silver and sparkled with mischievousness and his red tresses were done up in small spikes. He too had an earring in his right ear, though his was in the shape of a small dagger. His smile, though, was very open and friendly. He took Yugi's hand and shook it as he said, "Hey Yugi! My name is Jake. Great to meet a friend of Sel's." And he would've said more if it wasn't for said girl pulling him away by the ear. Yugi was very grateful for this as the hand Jake had been shaking felt as though it were about to fall off. He may not have looked it with his lithe build, but Jake was very strong and Yugi had the feeling that they were all like that.

"Baka," Selene said, "if you keep shaking his hand like that it's going to fall off." And Jake looked slightly sheepish before returning to his previous grin.

Next was the boy with light colored brown hair that seemed to fall right into his face in a way that made it look completely wind-blown. His eyes sparkled and Yugi noticed that while one was a brown-green color the other was a dark scarlet. He too had an earring in his right ear, and it too was different from the others. His was in the shape of a small skull. "Hello Yugi. My name is Derek. It's great meeting you."

Finally the blond boy came up. His hair fell loosely around his shoulders and his amber eyes sparkled, like Jake's, with mischievousness. He too had and earring in his right ear and like the others it was different. His was an owl. "Hi Yugi. Like the dimwit over there said," he gestured to Jake who promptly lunged at him and was held back by Damien, "it is great to meet a friend of Sel's. After all, any friend of hers is a friend of ours." He too shook Yugi's hand, though not nearly as hard as Jake had.

"It's great to meet you all too," Yugi said. He smiled slightly at the group. "Well, I guess I need to take you on the tour," and with that they headed off.

Yugi first stopped by his foreign language class, English, to drop off the note from Mrs. Miyaki. He then took a look at each of their schedules and saw that Damien and Selene had all the same classes as him and Jason, Jake, and Derek had all but one of the four classes with him. (This'll be a complicated method that I made up my self. Homeroom starts at 8:30 ends at 8:50. First class starts at 9 and ends at 10. Second class is from 10:10 to 11:10. Third class is from 11:20 to 12:20 then lunch from 12:30 to 1:30. Fourth class from 1:40 to 2:40 and finally a study period from 2:50 to 3:30 during which they could go to any classroom to do homework. This is meant to make sure that kids actually do their homework. Also the ten minutes in between classes is so kids can stop off at their lockers and the bathroom if need be.) He took them around the whole school twice before the first class was over and then he dropped Jason, Jake, and Derek off at woodwork and led Selene and Damien to art class. Second and third, computer, periods passed without any major mishaps and then it was lunchtime.

Yugi showed the group to the cafeteria and, thinking that they'd want to eat by themselves, was about to head off to the corner table when Selene spoke to him.

"Hey Yugi, where are you going?" she asked in a slightly confused voice.

"Well, I thought you and the others might not want me to sit with you." Yugi replied simply.

Selene looked shocked for a moment before grabbing his hand and dragging him over to the table the others had found, all the while saying, "Not want you to sit with us, are you crazy? Of course we want you to sit with us, you're our friend."

As soon as they reached the small table in the right corner of the cafeteria Selene pretty much forced Yugi to sit at the table and he smiled slightly at her. As they began to eat their packed lunches, because no one knows what's in the school lunches and thus refused to eat them, Yugi look around at each of them and saw that they really did seem to want him here and unlike at the other table he wasn't ignored, quite the opposite actually. Since he was the only one who had lived in Domino for a while the others were asking him about the best places to hang out and already talking about plans for the weekend, and it was only Monday. He smiled again, but his smile dropped when he saw Jonouchi, Honda, Anzu, Ryou, Bakura, and Yami sitting at another table and laughing. Selene, sensing Yugi drop in mood, followed his gaze to see the others and then turned back to him.

"What's wrong, Hikari?" she asked, immediately getting the attention of the rest of the small table.

"It's nothing," Yugi replied, feeling distinctly uncomfortable with everybody watching him.

"Like hell it's nothing. You were looking at that other table and suddenly your mood dropped. Now again, what's wrong? Your not the type for really random mood swings unless you've turned completely upside down since I last heard from you." Selene said, not giving up in the effort to find out exactly what was bothering her smaller friend.

Yugi sighed, remembering just how well Selene had always been able to read him and just how stubborn she was when it came to finding out exactly what was bothering him. "It's just that, those guys used to be my friends but…." He paused, trying to come up with the right way to phrase it without coming across as a wimp or bursting into tears.

But his efforts were all for naught when Selene, sensing his turmoil, pulled him into a reinsuring embrace. He suddenly burst into tears and told them everything that had happened, from completing the puzzle to the finals at Battle City and his friends' recent treatment of him. The whole table listened silently as he poured out what he'd obviously been holding back for too long a time. When he finished they sat in silence for a few moments, each completely absorbed in his or her own thoughts.

TBC…..

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