Yo! It's me! I am back with this ficlet!

This chapter is sort of a trail to see what you guys think so do let me know!

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! It belongs to Kazuki Takahashi.

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Chapter 1

Yugi lay in bed, staring up at the ceiling. His throat felt like it was on fire, something wasn't right. Sighing internally, Yugi closed his eyes perhaps it was a good thing that he wasn't feeling well. That way he could avoid them. A gang from school had taken to forcing him to do the school work they thought where 'beneath' them. He'd tried to tell them to leave him alone but that had ended up with a rather hard kick to the ribs. Yugi continued to doze; there wasn't much point in getting up. He wasn't feeling good and it wasn't time to get up yet. He was slipping back off to sleep when there was a loud crash, followed by a loud foreign swear word. Yugi opened his eyes, as he recognised the shout of the former Pharaoh. He thought about getting up to check on him but what he heard next stopped him. There was laughter, the laugh belonged to Grandpa.

"You plank, how did you manage that?" He heard Grandpa say, by the sounds of Grandpa was still chuckling.

Yugi couldn't hear Atem response but whatever it was made Grandpa laugh even more.

"I told you that tucking your bedsheet a tight as that was a bad idea, this was bound to happen."

A smile crossed Yugi's face, he knew what had happened. Atem had taken to tucking his bed sheet really tight so he'd obviously got stuck in the sheets and fallen out of bed. Yugi sat up, wanting to see what had happened, but when he did the whole world was spinning making him feel rather sick. As his ears roared he vaguely heard the sounds of the other two moving around outside or the door to his room open until there was a voice.

"Yugi? Are you alright?"

Yugi looked up; Grandpa was standing in the doorway a concerned look on his face. He shuffled over to you, kneeling in front of him. Yugi was desperately pale and had dark rings under his eyes. Grandpa placed an hand on Yugi's forehead and frowned.

"You've got a fever my boy, there's no way you're going to school today. You're staying in bed mister."

Yugi made no agreement; he was more than willing to stay in bed. He lay back down but kept eye contact with Grandpa.

"Is Atem alright? I heard him shout earlier."

Grandpa started to chuckle again; "He tried get out of bed, got tangled in his sheets, fell out of bed and whacked his head on his bedside table but he's fine. He'll probably have an impressive black eye but he'll be alright."

Yugi suppressed a laugh, "I told him it that was a bad idea."

"Yeah but his highness knows best."

Yugi couldn't help but laugh now. Grandpa excused himself to fetch some water; Yugi on the other curled up under the covers and closed his eyes. There wasn't much noise apart from the distant voices. His thoughts turned to the school day ahead. He had a horrible feeling that his absent would be noticed by those thugs. Who knew what they might do when they found out. Would they come round? Or, would they be ok with it? He snorted; of course they would not be ok with it. There would be a good chance that the gang would appear after school, they normally did. He heard the door open and the sound of a glass being placed on his bedside table. Yugi opened his eyes to see Atem standing beside his bed, looking at him with a cornered look on his face.

"You look awful." He said, frowning.

"Thanks Pharaoh." Yugi said, a bemused appearing on his face.

Yugi spotted blood oozing from a small wound by Atem's left eye. The skin around it was already turning purple. Yugi laughed;

"So I hear you fell out of bed this morning."

Atem seated himself on the corner of the latter's bed and let out a groan.

"Don't you start, Solomon's been teasing me all morning."

Atem didn't like calling Solomon 'Grandpa' as well they weren't related and it just felt odd.

"I did tell you that making the sheets that tight was a bad idea. You ok?"

"I'm fine. Don't worry."

Yugi frowned, "Are you really alright Atem? I don't want you to collapse at work or anything."

Atem smiled, "Kaiba has around a dozen medics at KaibaCorp so don't worry." He looked at his watch, "Speaking of Kaiba, I need to go. Sleep Yugi, I will call later to check on you."

Yugi smiled, "Stop being so protective of me Atem."

The Pharaoh just smiled before leaving the room. Yugi watched him go before his eyes fell upon the Puzzle which was lying on his desk. Atem had chosen to stay and live out his life with them but as he technically didn't belong in this world, he had no body. The puzzle was how he was being sustained; he depended on it for survival. He didn't have to keep it on him, he could potentially be seriously injured but that would be when to puzzle would step in to keep him alive on the other hand if the puzzle was destroyed then that would be the end of the Pharaoh. Since the Pharaoh was at least nineteen he didn't have to attend school, not that the Pharaoh would want to, so he started working with Kaiba. This had been slightly weird for the gang at first as, in Joey's words, Atem would spend serving Kaiba like a maid. But that was not the case; Atem was basically Kaiba's second in command which was pretty cool. Yugi closed his eyes, he was intending to take a nap. Hopefully when he awoke he would feel better.

"Dean. That punk Yugi hasn't turned up."

Dean turned round, "That arsehole what is he thinking taking the day off."

"What should we do? We need that punk." James said.

Dean didn't respond, he turned away looking out at all the other students who were flooding into the school grounds. That punk thought he would take the day off and expect them not to notice. They would have to do something about that, something to make sure that that punk never again thought he could disappear. Dean caught the eye of Joey Wheeler. They glared at each other.

"Hey, What you looking at?" Joey snapped, continuing to glare at Dean.

"I'm waiting for you to make an arse of yourself." Dean smirked.

Joey was about to retaliate when Tristan and Tea came running over to him. He glanced back at where Dean had been but he had vanished. The three of them starting walking to their class.

"Hey, did Yugi text you guys?" Tea asked.

Joey looked around, "No.. where is he? It's not like him to be late."

"Yeah, he's not coming in today. The poor guy not very well."

"We should go see him after school." Tristan said.

"Yeah and check out Atem's black eyes!"

The other two looked at her so she elaborated;

"Apparently, the Pharaoh fell out of his bed this morning and whacked his head and according to Yugi he has an impress black eye developing."

There was a pause before both boys roared with laughter; they were still chucklng when they got to their first lesson. Eventually, they calmed down and their school day began. But Joey could not help but notice that even so often the creep Dean or one of his cronies would keep glancing at them. What were they up to?

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I haven't really made a plan yet, I want to see what you're response it before I take this further. I realise that this is only chapter 1 so nothing has really happened yet but do let me know what you think! So please review!

I finish my university year in around 3 weeks so bear with me while I get my last assignments out the way but after that I'm all yours in a manner of speaking haha

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~RedRosePetal