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/…/ Hikari to Yami

/…italics…/ Yami to Hikari

Note:

Some allusions to an early chapter in the manga are made, it basically consists of a bully taking away the space of yugi´s class on a school fair, so he and his friends can have their barbecue there. The next night, Yami takes over and solves the problem his way…while Yugi still doesn´t know everyone´s favorite Pharaoh is actually residing in his new pendant.

In this story they know each other well enough, though.

Yesterday At Domino High

by Taranea

Chapter 1: NO Pyramid-shaped Jewellery!

"No arguments. Lose that pyramid now."

"But, but…"

Yugi was standing in front of the Physical Education teacher and was very unhappy.

/What is troubling you, Aibou? We would still be linked, you know./

/It´s just…today we have class with those jerks from senior class D. You know, those bullies? They really hate us since that school festival…/

Yami shifted uneasily in his soul room. Yes, he did know them, quite well, in fact. Over a year ago, one of them had beat up Yugi seriously badly and then the spirit had challenged him to a game the next night…that was before his Hikari had been aware of him and Yami wasn´t exactly keen on Yugi finding out to what exactly he had been up to then. Even the police didn´t just how and why exactly Goro Inogashira had been blown up and if the Pharaoh had any say in the matter it would stay that way.

/Yes, I think I know who you´re talking about./

Yami phrased his words carefully and tried very hard to keep all thoughts of an unusally big grill and a few of its uses in, say, a sort of ice hockey game with explosives, to himself.

/I can´t have class with them all alone! I would be killed! Besides, there´s still Bakura in my class as well and you don´t know what he´s up to…/

Yugi let these thoughts float in the air for awhile and felt the presence of his other self stiffen.

/Tomb Robber…/

Yami growled.

"Yugi Muto? Are you having trouble understanding me? I hope my accent´s not that bad, is it?"

"What? No!"

The petite duelist immediately snapped back to the here and now. The American teacher (one of the reasons why they had been doing a lot of foreign sports during the last few months. Yugi was seriously considering asking Bakura to send him to the Shadow Realm before he had to play in another match of Basketball ever again) seemed to become annoyed now.

"I repeat it once again. No jewellery, especially if it can be used as a lethal weapon. I mean, you could be cracking skulls with that thing, you know? Take it to the changing room right now. "

The star-haired boy was now of the brink of panic.

/Yami! Do something!/

/Aibou…/

/How about I spend the lesson in the puzzle and you can enjoy PE?/

/And having to search for a lost hikari in my soul room again? No, thanks./

/That only happened that one time!/

That wasn´t strictly true. Yugi quite liked retreating to the golden pyramid. You lost all sense of time (after all, how else could the Pharaoh have spend several millenia without going completely insane out of boredom? But then again, if you looked at Bakura, maybe the millenium ring didn´t quite work that way…) and besides, it was so much fun poking around on Yami´s side…the only problem being, when you didn´t know how long you had already been there and your other self was back from some duel early, you could get into real trouble, especially when you thought of how ancient Egyptians had treated invaders back then…

"Alright. I think you think that´s funny."

Clearly, the foreigner´s patience was running out.

"No!" Yugi practically wailed.

/Yami, please!/

/What am I supposed to do? Mind Crush the teacher?//

/Anything! Just don´t leave me here on my own!/

/Yugi…/

The Pharao gave the mental equivalent of a sigh.

/You know…/

Yugi thought frantically.

/You know, if my bones aren´t completely crushed by the time this lesson is over I could think of going to Jii-chan and persuade him to give me instead of my pocket money some new Duel Monster Cards…/

/…/

/…/

/...That´s blackmail./

/…I think Industrial Illusions have even released a new edition yesterday…/

/Oh, by Ra, alright./

Yugi could feel how Yami overtook his body. Not a second too late, since the teacher looked close to screaming. Now he stared wide-eyed into Yami´s crimson orbs.

"What the…you teenagers do seem to have quick growth spurts these days, I´m sure…"

"Forgive me."

"What?"

The eye on Yami´s forehead flashed briefly and Yugi could hear his other self murmur some words. Then the American became all dreamy-eyed for a few seconds before looking determined once again.

/Yami, what did you…?/

"Well, I think that´s settled, then."

The teacher looked at him over the brink of his glasses.

"I´m glad you became reasonable in the end. And that we understand each other, your necklace, if you can call this paperweight that way, is to remain in your locker during sport. If we were swimming, you´d probably drown, for heaven´s sake. Now go to the others."

He turned away.

/Just erased the puzzle from his memory. He won´t see it anymore, even if you dangled it in front of his eyes./

/Thanks…/

/ That will cost you at least 7 packets, you know that. //

Yugi, who was back in control, went over to his friends, slightly wary of some of the not-at-all-friendly (or even worse, the way-too-friendly) glances some of the students of the other class shot him and the puzzle. He also saw Ryou standing at one of the windows of the gym, the ring quite clearly outlined beneath his shirt. He wondered briefly what the white-haired boy could have done that he was allowed his pendant, too. But being aware of the rather persuasive nature of the other´s yami, Yugi suddenly preferred, he didn´t. The teacher also seemed to intentionally avoid looking into the direction of the albino, and, when doing so, to twitch. Yugi thought of showing the American some RPG-dice just to see whether he would scream…

/Yami! Stop that! That wasn´t me thinking, that was you and it was mean!/

/Sorry, Aibou. But he DID call the Puzzle a "Paperweight". You´re never any fun…/

/..I seriously think the fans of our anime should see your real face some day./

To be continued...

Sooo, if you read this, you obviously managed to go through the whole story without falling asleep and waking up with the half a keyboard printed into your cheek.

You might have noticed that English is not my first language, but I still wanted to try. If anything sounds awkward or stupid, please tell me. (but please don´t go like "actually, it´s da whole story, ya know…")

Next chapter, more characters and actually some PLOT! Gasp!

And now….REVIEW PLEASE! (Ja, damit meine ich DICH, Cc....) (If you do, there´s free toothbrushes for everyone! What? Well, since everyone else offers cookies it seemed reasonable…)