New story from inspirations from Yugi x Bakura writers. I thought to myself that 'Yes I can do this pairing.'

It has been a few months now ever since Yami got his body. Yugi didn't mind the fact his friends were excited about it for the first few weeks, but started to notice that he was being replaced. All of them, including his so-called best friend Jou, were separating themselves from Yugi as Yami came in the picture.

Yugi felt like he was slapped by a chick that he never offended in the first place.

But was Yugi depressed? No.

Sad? No.

Lonely? No.

He didn't feel any of that, but instead, accepted the fact that they did forget about his exsistence and went on with life as it went by. If his past beatings, torture, mockery and near insanity didn't teach him anything, then he will be at fault.

He was 17 now and sure as hell he wasn't going to be a baby about it and learn from his past.

His bullying days taught him to be strong, so he wouldn't be in the same situation as before and take care of himself instead of rely on his friends or Dark.

HA. More like they relied on him. They hid behind Yugi most of the time when the world was ending and without him, Yami would be still stuck in that stupid puzzle.

He really had no interest in that puzzle in the first place, but it made his grandpa happy. He loved his grandpa dearly like no other since he's the one of only family he's got besides his sister he hasn't seen in a few years.

He kept his grades up and made friends to meet his grandfathers expectations to see him happy and have free reign on where to go next no matter how faraway, but all that was changing ever since Yami came in. His grandpa's attention is more to Yami than him now and is always going away on an excavation some where in the world expecting Yami to take care of Yugi, which he really hasn't.

Yugi still keeps his grades up and act to still get away with the teachers because teachers here in domino high gives them special perks to the 'good kids' like no detenion, lets them skip classes, or, if you are in good terms with the prinicpal, no school but still be counted here.

Yugi doesn't let a chance like this let by and takes advantage of it, while still keeping up with the class of course.

He's actually thankful for being separated from Yami since now he can have real privacy without a noisy pharaoh in the way.

Has Yugi have no shame? No.

Through the life and death exploits from the past made him learn that no matter what he did, he is still human.

And the people around.

And his friends.

And his Dark. Who has shadow magic that can send people to their deaths...

Yugi decided that he would go to school today. He would usually skip all fridays, but he woke up earlier than he would and decided it was a good day today. Getting dress in his school uniform, he went downstairs to the kitchen and saw Yami half asleep eating toast.

A 'Good morning' would be appropriate but it's not like Yami to acknowledge it anyways. So he left and out the door.

The walk to school was just the usual until someone came up to him.

"Well, well, well. Looky here boys, it's little Yugi."

He looked up to the man and recognized him.

"Hello Ushio, they let you out of Juvy so soon?" Yugi was feigning innocence.

Ushio grabbed his collar, "You little shit. You'll pay for what you did to me, it was your fault I ended up in there."

He put a fist in the air to punch Yugi in the face, but a hard stomp on Ushio's foot came first releasing Yugi.

In pain Ushio bent down only to find a knee come up hard onto his face followed by a swift kick to the stomach knocking him down along with his breath. His followers were shocked to see their boss to be knocked down by someone who they bullied for years and years.

As Ushio regained his breath he ordered, "What the fuck are you waiting for? Get him!"

In a few moments, there was a pile of people on top of Ushio beaten down as Yugi continued his walk to school.

Yugi sighed. He planned to come to school early for no particular reason, but he just wanted to. The school grounds were already filling in with students and as he walked in the gates he immediately heard the latest gossip from the girls.

"Did you heard? Anzu and Yami hooked up!"

"Nooo, I wanted to be Yami's girlfriend..."

"If he had to choose, why Anzu of all people? She's a bitch at heart."

"Girlfriend? I thought Yami was gay."

Yugi couldn't help but laugh. To think that the school girls had that impression on Yami, atleast they were smart enough that Anzu was a bitch. She's the main reason that everything went down hill on the 'friends' part.

He arrived in class with only the teacher being present in the room.

"Oh my Yugi, I didn't think you'd be here today."

Putting on a smile Yugi replied, "Well, it's the last week of school so I thought maybe it'd be nice to see everyone off before we go off on vacation."

"Thank you for caring Yugi, you're such a sweetheart." With that she went back to her papers.

Little by little the classroom started to fill in with students taking their own seats in the class along with Jou sitting diagonal to me and Yami taking one behind me. The assignment wasn't hard to understand, unless you weren't paying attention to the lesson.

Every so often, Yugi would get a tap on the shoulder either being Jou or Yami asking the answer to a question, but will get the same answer 'I don't know' all the same. Yugi wasn't going to give them a chance to pick him off.

It was the same throughout the whole day with lunch the only eventful thing where Marik pulled a prank on the water fountain soaking Anzu who went for a drink.

Yugi was trailing behind the gang talking about what to do today.

"We should go to the arcade today!" Jou shouted.

"No, I want to go to the mall!" Anzu said.'

"Sorry guys, I want to relax today." Yami was tired from being dragged around, especially by Anzu.

"Then lets just hang out at Yami's place." Tristen said and the whole group agreed.

Yugi clenched his fist a bit when Tristen said "Yami's place". Deep inside, he still cared about them and it hurt a little hearing them say that.

Yugi may still care about them, but sure as hell won't tolerate their racket. Right now, he was sitting in his room reading a textbook for his college course he will be going to next year and the whole gang downstairs were watching movies for the weekends to come...while talking to the T.V. thinking it hears them.

It was funny at first, but got annoying when they won't stop.

Yugi sighed and took a glance at the clock. Almost 11 o'clock and sleep won't be coming anytime soon, so going out sounded like a better idea.

Yugi grabbed his wallet, keys and a black vest that complimented his black jeans and white t-shirt. He wrote a quick note on the desk just in case somebody barges into his room and headed straight for the window. Using the front door this late at night would raise an eye, so this is much easier without causing a fuss.

There was already a ladder by his window for this wasn't his first escapes.

He walked and walked as far and long as he wanted during these nights and nothing stopped him. If his Dark knew about this, he would get an earful about how the night is too dangerous for kids my age. Ironically, they're technically the same age minus 5000 years in his case, but it can't be helped if Yugi was born with looks of a child.

His mind was else where and walked into an ally, but felt a chill up his spine. He felt a presence right behind him and turned along with a full force punch only to be stopped by the stranger.

"Damn midget, can't I say 'Hi'?"

Yugi took a closer look, "Bakura?"

Bakura smirked, "The one and only. Man, what has been the pharaoh teaching you?"

Yugi pulled his hand away, "Nothing."

"That punch had a force to knock someone out midget. Dammit, you're too tall to be called midget."

Yugi raised an eyebrow.

"Chibi, you were above my waist when I last saw you, now you're just under my shoulders. There's a difference you know."

Yugi snorted, "Maybe you're just shirking."

This time Bakura raised a brow, "When did you grow a backbone?"

"Depends, when did you become nice?"

Bakura shooked his head, "Tsk, tsk, tsk. Chibi, you don't know me long enough to actually know."

"Same goes for here. What are you doing here anyways?" Yugi asked.

Bakuara shrugged, "It's night, so I terrorize people with my shadow magic. What about you? I'm pretty sure the pharaoh wouldn't let his precious hikari out of his sight."

"I snuck out."

"Do tell."

"Nahh. I'm okay."

Bakura started to chuckle, "So it is true isn't it? That you've become separated from the group."

"What do you mean?" Yugi gave a small glare.

"I've been hearing about it thoughout the schools grapevine and it's easy to tell when you're sitting alone during lunch while the others chat away in thier bubble."

Yugi gave a sigh, "Out of all the people in the world, why is it you that I have to talk about it?"

Bakura chuckled louder, "I think I like you now, seeing this side of you. Wanna hang out some time?"

"Better yet, can I crash at your place? I don't feel like walking two miles back to my house."

Evil thoughts came to mind as Bakura replied, "Sure Chibi, but I want something though."

Yugi looked up with a wary look, "What?"

Before he knew it, a kiss fell upon his lips.

Bakura pinched a sensitive spot on Yugi's side causing him to open his mouth to cry out a bit creating a chance for Bakura dig deeper into the kiss. In a few moments, Yugi couldn't help but fall into the pleasure of it and moaned. This satisfied Bakura very much and decided to break the kiss.

Yugi was being held up by Bakura's arms as he lost his strength for the moment as he panted from the lack of air.

"What the hell was that?" Yugi managed out.

Bakura cupped Yugi's cheek with a free hand, "Didn't I tell you? I like you."

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