Greetings to all of you,

This is my first story post. Forgive me my errors, but please point them out to me so that I can correct them. I hope you will find my story enjoyable. Let me know if you loved it or if I wasted your precious time.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! I make no profit from the following, which was done purely for my own entertainment purposes.

It was another beautiful spring morning at Domino High. The sun was raising, bathing the world in beautiful, warm colors. The soft mist made it look even more romantic. The birds were chirping their harmonic songs in dire glee. Students were laughing, being happy to see each other again, that it was the beginning of a new school year wasn't damping their happiness.

"How can they all be so happy?" a teen with tri-colored star shaped hair ask his friend in a growling voice, a cloud of doom surrounding him.

The girl with brown hair shook her head and rolled her eyes in annoyance. "Because they're happy to see their friends, like I was just a second ago." She leveled a glare at the way shorter teen, who gave her a solemn look. "For the love of-" She cut herself of and massaged her temples. "You haven't even seen him yet!" She growled in frustration, wondering why it always had to be like this after each holidays and each freaking weekend.

"Thanks for reminding me of him." the teen growled and let his gaze wander over the crowd of students. "I hope he's sick," he mumbled under his breath so that no one could hear him, of course someone did and he really started to think that this one had super-hearing.

"The only thing that makes me sick is you, little one." Ra, how he hated that confident, arrogant, egotistical baritone voice. He turned on his heels and gave the best death-glare he could muster to the one of whom people said he was his lookalike. Yuugi couldn't see why others said that. Sure they had disturbingly similar hair but that was it with the similarities, if you didn't count the pale skin.

"I'm not little you self-centered asshole." Now, normally he wasn't one to use such language but the other was getting under his skin like no other, bringing his blood to boil just by his presence.

"Yuugi!" The girl hissed, mortified like always when she heard him speak like that and to no other than Atemu "Yami" Sennen, the sexiest guy in school. Like always she was ignored by both teens.

"Do you try to look threatening?" Atemu asked with a raised eyebrow, his voice amused. "It's rather pathetic, you know."

Yuugi flushed red in anger and balled his fist, fighting the urge to hit or kick the other and that meant something since he under normal circumstances was a pacifist, hated violence. Normal meaning without Atemu anywhere near him for at least a mile. "I'm not in the mood to deal with you this early! Anzu, come let's search for the others." He turned around and Anzu, after looking back and forth between her short friend and Atemu, decided that it was indeed a better idea to follow him than to flirt with her crush and face the wrath of her short friend and to be ignored by the King of Games for several hours was not on her list.

Yami stayed for a moment longer. "I totally won that argument," he said while stretching his arms over his head an unreadable expression on his face.

"What argument?" asked him a sadistic voice.

"Let me guess, with the squirt," said a sneering voice, annoyance laced into it.

Yami rolled his eyes and shoved his hands into his pockets. "Mariku, Bakura," he acknowledged both of them, "It's non of your business." And it truly wasn't, that they knew. And who were they to interfere into his business when he stayed out of theirs?

The trio made their way to their classroom, talking about nothing in particular, having spend the whole holidays together like they always did. Sometimes Yami really questioned himself for becoming friends with the two psychopaths but he knew that it was a good thing and that he would miss their company if he ever should lose it. Yami shook his head. Did he really just thought that?

Upon reaching the classroom he found himself in a soft hug. "I missed you!" He was released and the other two received the same kind of hug.

Yami smiled softly. "Kisara. How have you been?" The girl was one of his best friends and he was sure he would have lost his sanity a long time ago if it wasn't for her and her bright personality, always seeing the good in people and any kind of situation.

Kisara smiled a warm smile at him. "Great. Shadi sends you his greetings."

"Aw, not us?" Mariku asked with the worst innocent look ever existing, making the others laugh while they took their seats.

"He wants me to let you know that you shall behave or you will suffer the consequences." Kisara said after calming down, trying and failing to imitate Shadi's emotionless and monotone voice.

Mariku just scoffed at that. "I'm behaving for over a year now." By any other person in the world his expression would equal a pout.

Bakura rolled his eyes. "Shadi's such a stiff ass, who wouldn't even know what fun is if someone presented it as a sacrifice for the gods ." On that they could all agree.

A few rooms down the corridor Yuugi was still fuming. How could he let the other win so easily? Because he couldn't stand that smirk any longer, that proud stance, that playful look in those deep crimson eyes. Deep? Hell no! What was he thinking? And who the hell had crimson eyes anyway? The devil, that is who!

"Yo, Yug'." His best friend greeted and threw him into a headlock, cutting of his way of thoughts. "How's it going?"

Yuugi smiled as good as he could, noticing the bright mood Jonouchi was in. "Just fine. How's Shizuka-chan?" The blond had spent his whole holidays with his younger sister and their mother, much to the great joy of both siblings.

"She's doing great. All her surgeries are finally done and over. Her eyes were never better!" Jonouchi got on and on about what they had done together and just how happy he was. Yuugi was glad for the distraction and he soon could forget all about his bad mood and the reason for it, being infected by the glee his best friend was radiating in waves.

The first day back in school went smoothly for Yuugi and his friends. Their new teachers started slow and mainly tested what the students had kept in mind from the previous year. The petite teen was a little embarrassed that in his case it wasn't that much, his mind had always been on Duel Monsters. He loved the game, partly due to the fact that he had met most of his friends through it. He even became friends with Seto Kaiba, Ryou Bakura and Malik Ishtar, the three who always fought about who was his archrival. The former and the later he could understand but it still was hard for him to see sweet and kind Ryou as a rival, opponent, even if he had seen it with his own eyes, faced him.

Yuugi shook his head. He felt a little dizzy and banned those thoughts. It didn't matter anymore. It was in the past, all that mattered now was the present and future.

The bell gave a shrill sound, informing the students that it was time for lunch. Yuugi found himself dragged by a hungry wolf in the direction of the cafeteria.

"Jou," he whined, "slow down. You're ripping my arm of." But his friend wasn't hearing him, shouting something about meat and desserts. Honda, a very close friend to them, was hot on their heels. As soon as they reached their destination Yuugi was ditched, the other two running up to the display of food. The short teen couldn't help but shake his head. Those two were hopeless when it came down to food.

Yuugi decided to get into line and needed a few seconds to register just who was in front of him. 'Just perfect.' He thought to himself, being set to ignore the other.

"Could you just choose or is it too hard for you?" There went his plan of ignoring the other. Yuugi cursed himself inwardly for his stupidity, but he just couldn't stop himself.

Atemu didn't turned around or gave any other sign that he had heard the younger teen. For some reason, that annoyed Yuugi even more. "Have you gone deaf?" Still no reaction. "I'm talking to you, prick."

The older one than picked his lunch and shoot Yuugi a sideways glance. "You know, the way you're acting makes you look like you want my attention." There was that smug voice again that amusement in those piercing eyes that always seemed to look straight into his soul.

Yuugi blushed in anger, yes anger. Not embarrassment, he so was not embarrassed and he was not calling for the attention of the other. "You wish." He also selected a meal, noticing that it was the same as Atemu's he nearly gave it back, but that would be plain childish.

"If you say so." Yuugi wondered if it would be considered attempted murder or self-defense when he would stab the other with his knife.

"Murder." Atemu said, reaching the desserts. Yuugi could feel his left eye twitch. 'Super-hearing, mind-reading, red eyes, definitely the devil.' He thought to himself. A few months ago it still creeped him out every time Atemu seemed to answer his thoughts but now he was used to it, not knowing if this was a good or bad thing, though.

Yuugi hmpf'ed and took hold of his favorite dessert, the last one, and followed Atemu grudgingly to the counter after getting something to drink. There he noticed that the older teen hadn't chosen any of the desserts. That was strange. Yuugi knew the other loved desserts the same way he did and that they had the same taste in foods. No, he was not observing Atemu, positively not. Maybe Atemu just needed to lose weight to still fit in his tight leather pants. No, he also wasn't checking him out, absolutely not.

Someone cleared his throat. Yuugi blinked and his cheeks turned pink in embarrassment. He apologized and paid for his food, deciding it was Atemu's fault that he had zoned out like that.

"Was not." Came the answer from a few feet away.

'Stupid mind-reading.' Yuugi growled in his mind and went on his way to search for his friends.

"Burger World!" shouted two voices after Ryou's question what they all wanted to do after school.

Anzu shook her head and sighed. "You two are hopeless. Is there something else in your heads than food?"

Malik rolled his eyes. "As if."

"Hey!" Jonouchi and Honda said at the same time, feeling insulted. It only made the others laugh. In the end they went to Burger World anyway, much to the joy of the black holes that are stomachs. On the way they only had to dodge the typical smug duelists that wanted to challenge Yuugi to get his title. Yuugi wasn't minding it much, nothing could destroy his good mood after the end of school. One, no school and two, no Atemu for the rest of the day and his smirk and his burning crimson eyes. And why was he even thinking of him?! Ra, I hate him.

Yuugi blinked, wondering why the name of the Egyptian god had come to his mind. Maybe his grandfather was rubbing of too much on him. And why was it even bothering him in the first place?

The petite teen was pulled out from his musings when he and his friends reached the fast-food restaurant. They spent a few hours there, catching up with each other until it was time to go home. Of course neither Jonouchi nor Honda left with a filled stomach. Sometimes Yuugi wondered if those stomachs led into another dimension.

His grandfather greeted him warmly, already closing the shop. Together they talked about their days, preparing dinner, not that Yuugi was that hungry after again witnessing the eating manners of his two friends, it always made him feel pity for the poor foods that came into arms reach of those two black holes.

"Grandpa! It was just the first day," Yuugi whined. His grandfather Sugoroku had voiced his concern about Yuugi's education and grades. The short teen had always been one of the weakest students, maybe only Jonouchi and Honda were even worse than him.

"Yuugi, I'm just concerned. You're a sophomore now. I know how much you enjoy your games," and the old man was definitely no one that would hold it against the teen, "but you need to concentrate more on your schoolwork and future." He couldn't bring himself to point out that the way things went Yuugi would never be able to make his graduation, at least not now since it was only the first day like Yuugi had said.

The short teen sighed and gave his grandfather a small smile. "I promise I will do my best." Sugoroku nodded, already scheming a plan that would make sure of it. After that they ate their dinner with light conversation.

That night Yuugi had a weird dream about him and Ushio, one of his former bullies before disappearing, playing a strange game in the middle of the night, involving money and a knife. But the images were blurry as if he was seeing them through a veil, through fog and when he awoke he couldn't remember the dream at all. Only the feeling of something not being right plagued him.