A/N: Hello everyone, Teapotgirl is back in business. I have recently become very obsessed with Yu-gi-oh, so much that I have bought the entire manga series. I loved it so much and now they are going to be releasing a movie! I cannot wait! So, I realised from reading the series that I love Yugi and Anzu as a couple, better known as peachshipping if you guys are fans of the pairing. Basically, I wanted to write a story that takes place right after the ending of the manga which will show how Yugi and Anzu get together. I've kept the original Japanese names of the characters because the Japanese names were used in the manga. Anyway, let us get on with the first chapter and be sure to review.
I don't own Yu-gi-oh.
Chapter 1: Only the Beginning
So that's it then. We came so far together and yet we had to depart just like that. It seems crazy if you think about it. You helped me when I was in trouble, supported me when I was breaking down and gave me the confidence I needed. But, most importantly, you were one of my closet friends I could ask for.
Yugi and his friends had just landed at the airport. Everyone kept quiet. They were all still upset to see the pharaoh move on to the afterlife. They walked outside the airport so that they could catch the coach that was picking them up.
"What time does the coach arrive?" asked Ryuji.
"In about 5 minutes." Sugoroku replies whilst checking his watch.
"I see."
Silence befalls on the gang again.
Not too long after, the coach arrives and everyone boards. Sugoroku hands the driver the ticket and joins Yugi at the back of the coach.
Everyone else had been dropped off by the coach, leaving Yugi and Sugoroku. The two hadn't really said much, just the little things such as what they want for dinner when they got back. "I'm proud of you Yugi," Sugoroku says.
"Hmm?" Yugi hadn't been paying attention as he was too much in thought about the loss of his friend. He turns to face his grandpa. "Why? I haven't done anything to be proud of."
"Don't be silly, you did everyone proud. You surpassed your other self and helped him to return to the place he truly belongs to."
"Was it the right thing to do though?"
"If I was in your position, I would have done the same thing."
Yugi averted his eyes from his grandpa and back to the window to resume his thinking. Sugoroku lets out a small sigh and ends the conversation.
The coach stops at the game shop letting the two off. Yugi rushes off and enters the shop. Before his mother could greet him, he runs up the stairs to his room and falls facedown onto his bed. He begins to cry and thinks back to all the times when he and his 'other self' would duel alongside each other. He remembers when his 'other self' saved him and his friends from dark Bakura when they played that role playing game. And the other time when they had to swap minds in order to defeat Pegasus. And all the duels…against Kaiba…against Marik…and the other fellow duellists.
Why did you have to go?
Morning arises, but Yugi would rather skip school today as he didn't sleep a wink last night. Yugi looks at the clock. 7:30 Am. Just as Yugi was about to pull the covers back over him, his grandpa knocks on the door. "Yugi! Hurry up and get out of bed. You don't want to be late for school now do you?"
Yugi gave out a load moan and forces himself out of bed. Looking in the mirror, he notices that his eyes have formed some lovely bags. Great… Yugi thinks to himself and he starts to get ready for school.
Yugi leaves the game shop and starts to walk to meet the others. Usually he would walk to school with Anzu, but the others wanted to talk before they started school. As he walked, he felt weird without having his Millennium puzzle. It was always close to him, but now it's …gone. Just like that. A few minutes passed and Yugi saw the others up ahead.
"Good morning Yugi," Katsuya waved to him.
"Hi, good morning," Yugi replied waving back. As he walked to them Honda noticed the bags under Yugi's eyes.
"Not much sleep either huh?" Honda pointed to Yugi's bags. Yugi just nodded and the four of them began to walk. No one was really talking so Anzu broke the silence.
"What's our first lesson?"
"Maths," Yugi states.
"Awe man! I just remembered that we have homework due in," Katsuya begins to panic, "let me see your answers Honda."
"I haven't done them either," Honda too begins to panic. "I forgot when we went to Egypt."
"Well that's just great. I don't have time for detention you know!"
"Well neither do I!" The two begin to grab each other but stop and both turn to look at Anzu.
"Don't even bother, I'm not giving you two the answers."
"Come on Anzu, we're friends aren't we?" Katsuya exclaims.
"Okay then, what about you Yugi?" Honda asks with a big grin on his face.
Yugi had been walking with his head down unaware to the other three.
"Yugi what's wrong?" Anzu asks.
Yugi raises his head and balls his hand into a fist. "I've decided that in order for me to move on, without my 'other self', I need to become more confident. That's why I need to become stronger as myself. My 'other self' was able to follow his path in order to reach his goal and now it's my turn to do the same. As for my journey…it's only the beginning."
The other three remained silent for a moment but then Katsuya placed his arm around Yugi. "That's what I like to hear! Now how about we have a race to the gates from here?"
"Okay, you're on Jonouchi," Yugi said smiling but not long after Katsuya began to run, "no fair!" Yugi began to chase after him whilst Honda and Anzu just face palmed.
The four arrive at maths class and take their seats. Not long after, Bakura and Ruyji enter the classroom and walk over to them. "Morning everyone," Bakura and Ruyji greet as they make their way over to them. Just as Bakura was about to sit down Katsuya grabs him by the shoulders.
"Please tell me you have done the maths homework!"
"Yes, why?"
"Can I see your answers?"
"Sure Jonouchi," Bakura hands him over the paper and Honda rushes over to see the answers as well.
"Honestly, can't they do the work themselves, right Yugi?" Anzu asks him but notices that he was looking out of the window not paying any attention to the conversation. "Yugi…" Just as Anzu was about to get his attention, class began.
It was now lunchtime and Yugi and Katsuya were waiting for the others to join them. Well, Katsuya couldn't wait as he was already tucking into his food. Yugi was listening to his friend rambling on about how he had to redo the homework as the teacher had caught him and Honda copying the answers from Bakura.
"Tsk, there's no reason to learn maths anyway. When am I going to need algebra? It's so stupid." Yugi just nodded to his friend in response which made Katsuya raise an eyebrow. "What's up man?"
"Nothing, why?"
"You've been nothing but silent since we left the classroom. Is it to do with Atem?"
"Kind of…" Yugi trails off.
Katsuya stops eating momentarily. "So what is it then? Are you not feeling well?"
Yugi pauses for a few seconds. "That's not it. Jonouchi…did I ever tell you that Anzu liked my 'other self' more than me?"
Just as Katsuya was about to respond, Ryuji, Honda and Bakura arrive. Honda slumps down on his seat as he too has to redo the homework assignment. He then begins to chow down on his 'lunch'.
"What did you get today Honda?" asks Bakura whilst he sits down.
"Two beef burgers, fries, onion rings and some dumplings," he explains whilst he licks his fingers from the grease of the burgers.
"You greedy pig. I'm surprised you're still the same weight," Ryuji comments in disgust.
"Hey! I do work out you know. I've been getting pretty muscular lately."
"Really…"
"Yep. Check out this boys," Honda flexes his muscles, "now I'll have more of a chance with the girls."
"Ha. You're gonna show off your muscles and expect girls to just cling to you?"
"That's the idea."
"You're such an idiot."
"Speaking of girls", Katsuya buts in, "where's Anzu?"
"She told me that she had to see her teacher about an assignment or something," Bakura explains. After that, the guys eat their lunch.
Once they finished, Honda invites everyone to Burger world afterschool. Bakura explains that he can't because he has relatives visiting later and Ryuji says that he has to take care of a delivery at his game store.
"No thanks, I'm busy later on," Yugi lies, as he's really not in the mood to hang out afterwards.
"I'm free after," Katsuya says.
"But it won't be as much fun with just the two of us!" Honda whines.
"How about this then. You all know about the new theme park that opened last week? Well how about we go this Sunday," Bakura suggests.
"Count me in," Katsuya says.
"Me too," Ryuji agrees.
"I don't see why not. It's been so long since I've been to a theme park," Honda rises from his seat, "Heck yeah! Now I'm excited."
"You're such a child," Katsuya points out, "you coming too Yugi?"
Yugi snaps out of his daze since he hadn't been paying attention. "Sure, I'm free."
"I'll be sure to invite Anzu too," Bakura says. "Shall we meet at 10:30?" Everyone nods in agreement and not before too long the bell sounds for the end of lunch.
The end of school came around and Yugi was at his shoe locker. He thought of going to bed straight away once he got back since he was still sleep deprived. He took out his regular shoes from his locker and placed his uniform shoes back inside. Just as Yugi was about to leave, Katsuya patted him on the shoulder. "See ya tomorrow bud," he walks past Yugi but then stops, "how do you know that Anzu liked Atem more than you?" He asks before he walks out of the door. Yugi eyes widened, but he just shook his head and left for the game shop.
"Whoohoo! I'm so excited!" Honda, Bakura and Katsuya were walking together towards the theme park. It seems that Honda was just…a little too excited.
"Calm down dude, it's just a theme park. It's not like we're going to meet girls or something," Katsuya states.
"Nope, but there will be girls there! And I'll be ready 'cuz I have my new secret weapon."
Katsuya just face palms at Honda's stupidity whilst Bakura sweat drops. The time was now 10:27, and the three had arrived at the theme park. Standing by the ticket booth was Yugi and Ryuji. Before they joined the two, Bakura noticed that Yugi hasn't been himself lately. Katsuya just explains that it will take him some time to adjust without his 'other self'. Bakura just nods and the three join Yugi and Ryuji. Noticing that Anzu wasn't here, Katsyua asks, "So, where's Anzu?"
"She'll be here any minute now," Ryuji replies and not too long after speaking, Anzu arrives at the ticket booth panting.
"Sorry I took so long," she gasps out.
"You're not late, it's bang on 10:30."
"Oh, good."
"Anzu! You're a girl, tell me are you impressed?" Honda asks as he flexes his arms to show off his muscles.
"Impressed by what? Your pose?" The other boys snigger and Honda tells them to shut up.
"Not the pose, my muscles, pretty cool huh?"
"You're not going to get anywhere with girls if all you do is show them off, idiot."
"Oh come on!" Honda relaxes his arms.
"Girls care more about the guy than just their muscles you know."
"Better luck next time 'chick magnet," Ryuji mocks.
"Shut up."
Bakura pays for the tickets and they head inside. He explains that the tickets are on him as he invited everyone. The place is even bigger than they imagined. The park was separated into three areas. One containing all the rollercoasters, another which offered a variety of rides, such as the water slide, and the third area which consisted of arcade games.
"What should we do first?" Ryuji asks.
"Let's go on the biggest rollercoaster!" Honda suggests enthusiastically.
"You'd better not throw up, since you eat like a horse," Katsuya jokes.
"There's no way I'll throw up besides, I only had 5 pancakes this morning." Everyone else just sweat drops. They then enter the area containing all of the rollercoasters. Bakura points out that the largest roller coaster is called shockwave and Honda immediately dashes towards the named ride.
After the gang had been on a series of rides, they all decide to go and eat. "This theme park is so much fun! Thank you for inviting us Bakura," Anzu smiles.
"No problem. I'm glad you're all enjoying yourselves."
"Here's your order sir," the waitress hands Honda over his oversized meal.
"So what's it this time piggy?" Katsuya mocks him whilst pulling his nose up to imitate a pig's snout.
"Shut your face Jonouchi. But if you insist, I ordered the yard long hotdog with extra chillies, extra onions and spicy sauce.
"Holy cow! It's huge!" Ryugi's mouth dropped as Honda undid the wrapped paper.
"Oh boy, this looks so good!" Honda then tucks into his hotdog.
"I'll go order our drinks" Yugi says has he stands up.
"I'll help you," Anzu offers as she follows Yugi.
Whilst the four were tucking into their food, Honda thought of an idea and a smirk rose to his face. "Hey. Let's get those two to ride the Ferris wheel together."
"Why?" Bakura asked confused.
"It seems Yugi needs a bit of help in putting a move on Anzu."
"But they're friends. Why would Yugi need to make a move on her?" Bakura was still completely oblivious to the fact that Yugi likes Anzu.
"They're friends now, but with a little help from us they won't be for much longer."
"Am I missing something here?"
"Didn't you know? Yugi likes Anzu in 'that' way," Katsuya clarifies.
"Since when? I never knew this! Did you Ryuji?"
"Yeah. Katsuya told me not long after I met you guys."
"Now I just feel stupid."
"Don't worry about it. Now you know."
"So let's get them two onto the Ferris wheel," Honda repeats.
Katsyua thought about it for a moment. He wasn't too sure whether they should be pushing Yugi into a situation that he's not ready for. Then again…
"Okay let's do it," Katsuya agrees. Ryuji and Bakura also nod in agreement. Before they started to discuss how they were going to get the two on the Ferris wheel, Yugi and Anzu had returned with the drinks.
"So what have you guys been talking about?" Anzu asks as she passes out the drinks.
"About how Honda has a small 'stick'" Katsuya begins to laugh.
"Bastard," Honda mutters under his breath.