Disclaimer: Must I say it again? Let's see... Yugioh does not belong to me.

Author's note: Got this idea from another fanfic-er who decided that they'd have Yugi and the Pharaoh play a game with dots on a paper... this is my own variation, purely a reply fic, not based on the game as the other is, and more of a humor fic, too.

So, what do you think the Pharaoh and Yugi did when Yugi was bored in school? Honestly, I agree that they'd play some sort of game... so this will be a series of 'School games' that they play when Yugi is bored in class, and the conversations that go on between them. Hope it's enjoyable.

The start of it all...

Yugi looked around to see the opaque form of the Pharaoh sitting beside him in a stray chair. "Bored, Yugi?" he asked.

"Uh-huh," he thought back. "Are you?"

"Excessively," Pharaoh replied. "How about we play a game?"

"That could be difficult,"Yugi replied mentally. "Seeing as you can't touch anything and I can't say anything aloud or people would look at me funny."

The Pharaoh almost chuckled. "You do it for me," he said easily. "We'll play something we can draw."

"Tic-tac-toe?"

"Too short," he replied, "Something else."

"Well do you have any ideas?" Yugi asked.

"You seem to have been drawing a lot of dots on your paper," he remarked, "Let's connect them. Whoever can connect the most dots into shapes wins. You can use two different colors," he added, then made a vague gesture. "Go on."

Yugi grinned. Using two colored pens, black for him and blue for the Pharaoh, he drew triangles, squares, pentagons—among other things. The Pharaoh would point to a pattern of dots and Yugi would connect them, and then make his turn.

"Psst," Joey hissed next to him, "What are ya doing, Yug?"

"Playing a game," he whispered.

"With who?"

"Who do you think?"

"Do Pharaoh's get bored?"

"You know, he doesn't have a lot to do, Joey."

"Right," he muttered. "Where is he?"

Yugi used his turn to draw an arrow pointing to the Pharaoh, and the Pharaoh had to grin, raising his eyebrows. "Good one, Yugi."

Yugi grinned in his direction. Joey wished he didn't feel so weird at moments like this. "What did he say?"

Yugi glanced at the Pharaoh, who smiled mischievously. Yugi looked at Joey and said, straight faced, "He commented on the fact that you've been staring at a picture of Mai in your notebook for the past hour."

Joey very nearly fell out of his seat. "What?" he hissed. "What exactly did he say?"

"He said, 'Joey drools like a dog when he stares at Mai,' but he didn't think you'd like that, so he told me to edit it."

Joey boiled, his head thudding onto the desk in embarrassment. "I'm no dog…" he muttered, fighting the urge to shout. "It's not that obvious, is it?"

Yugi looked away, following the path the Pharaoh pointed to, drawing a line with the blue-inked pen. "I guess so, Joey. Then again, the Pharaoh notices pretty much everything, so maybe it was just him." When Joey peeked up at him hopefully, Yugi added, "Maybe. It was kind of obvious."

Joey's head thudded back on the desk.

Yugi stifled a laugh, while the Pharaoh outright chuckled. "Poor Joey," he grinned. "He can't control his drooling when he sees Mai."

"Puppy love," Yugi thought, and they both busted up.

"What's so funny?" Joey growled.

Yugi shook his head. "Nothing, Joey. Nothing."

"I win," said the Pharaoh suddenly. Yugi looked down, baffled. Sure enough, all the dots and possible space had been taken up by every shape imaginable.

"That can't be..." Yugi muttered, counting the shapes. It took him a minute to count them all out, but the Pharaoh was right. He had won. "Dang it!" he exclaimed softly. The bell rang. "Rematch!" he demanded loudly, drawing several students, and the teacher's, glances. He smiled sheepishly while the Pharaoh stifled a laugh.

Joey grinned. "Did the Pharaoh win?"

"Yes," Yugi said darkly.

"Maybe next time, Yugi," the Pharaoh said reassuringly. "If you want a rematch that badly."

Yugi shrugged, "We've got one more period before lunch. Might as well."

"I'm betting on the Pharaoh," Joey said as they left the classroom.

"Joey!" Yugi exclaimed. "Who's side are you on?"

"Yours, of course," he smiled. "Both of your sides!"

In the next class period, the game began again. "Don't count on winning, Yugi," the Pharaoh advised. "I've been playing games longer than you have."

"Yeah, well I'm the King of Games," Yugi replied.

The Pharaoh rolled his eyes, "Just go."

And that is the beginning of their games. Let's see what else I can come up with, hm?

-Anevay