Title: Love is Blind

Genre: romance, hurt/comfort

Rating: T for language, mild violence, and suggested themes

Pairings: JohanXJudai (hinted other pairings)

Summary: When Johan goes back to North Academy, he confesses to Judai just before he leaves. He then gets word at North Academy that Judai has fallen into a coma. Johan rushes to Duel Academy in hopes that Judai will awaken. Judai does, but when he awakens from his coma, he's blind! Is his blindness permanent or temporary? Can Johan cure it? And is it just blindness, or is Judai's life in jeopardy?

Me: Okay! The winner of our poll was "Love is Blind", so here it is, guys!

Lucy: Love is Blind has been removed from the poll, but if you haven't voted for another fic, this is the time to do so! So please look forward to the next winner when it is up!

Me: We hope you will all enjoy this story as much as we enjoyed writing it!

Lucy: Chapter start!

Notes: We have recently changed around the way we write stories, so italics mean thoughts in most cases. Just so that the first part doesn't confuse you. It's Johan's thoughts, the first paragraph in italics. Enjoy the story!

Chapter One: News at North

It's strange, in a way...

You get called down to the Principal's office, and everyone makes a taunting noise, increasing your worries that you're in trouble. You try to ignore it, but deep down, your heart is pounding with each step you take towards the closed doors.

You carefully open them, and ask "You wanted to see me, Sir?". The principal swivels around in their chair and will sometime's offer you a seat, but if you're smart, you'll stand. Better to make a hasty retreat then have to waste time getting out of the chair.

The principal taps on the desk with the end of his pen, a sound that echoes louder than usual. Each thump against the desk is like a hand gripping your heart. You can't help but shudder, the hairs on the back of your neck rising.

Just when you think you're getting in deep trouble, you sprout wings and fly out of there!

You rise higher and higher, becoming smaller and smaller, hearing the teacher shout after you to get back to where you were. You're free! You are no longer bound by limits!

But then, just as you are about to get out of there, you hit a spider's web, and are stuck.

You struggle and struggle, but no matter what you do, you can't ever escape. You hear a soft noise, a sudden weight jostle the web, and when you look up, you see the giant spider crawling towards you, teeth gnashing.

You scream, but no one comes to your aid.

You wished you had stayed with the principal.

Too late now...

Too late...

A loud thud echoes as a hand slams down on the Principal's desk. "Mr. Johan Andersen! Are you even listening to me?"

"H-huh?" Johan snapped back into awareness, pushing his thoughts to the back of his mind. He glanced up and saw the red face of his principal right in front of him. He laughed nervously and rubbed the back of his head. "O-of course I am, Sir. Why would you think I wasn't?" The bluenette laughed at the raised eyebrow the principal gave him.

Johan had been called out of class to come to the principal's office. His classmates had all taunted him, since Johan never got called down to the principal's office. He ignored them and made his way to the office, trying to take as much time as he needed to get there, doing anything in the halls that would prolong his meeting with the head of North Academy.

"Well," the principal sighed and put his pen on the desk.

The principal reminded Johan a lot of Duel Academy's vice chancellor, Napoleon. They had the same build, and a similar personality. However, North Academy's principal was ten times nicer than Napoleon was.

"Johan, my boy, I have some horrible news," the principal confessed. Johan felt his body go stiff.

"If this is about that test we took a few days ago, I didn't cheat! Marcy Perkins tried to make me an accomplice by trying to make me text her my answers, but I didn't do it! My phone was off!" he confessed honestly. "And I also wasn't the one whose phone rang in the middle of class! We just have similar ring tones! And I-"

"Johan, it doesn't concern any of that at all!" the principal waved his hand to cease the bluenette's rantings. He pointed the tip of the pen in Johan's direction. "But I will have some questions regarding Marcy Perkins later."

Johan gulped and nodded. He felt slightly relieved. But if he wasn't here for that stuff, why else was he here? I haven't done anything wrong. At least, not that I can think of, he thought.

"Johan, this involves a friend of yours over at Duel Academy. I think his name is... um... Judai Yugi?" the principal said.

Johan's heat skipped. "J-Judai Yuki," he said. The principal nodded, murmuring that that was the correct name. Johan could hear his heart pounding. Is something wrong with Judai? he found himself thinking. A cold sensation raced up his spine, the hairs on the back of his neck standing on end. "W-what happened?"

"I regret to say that, a short while after you and the other transfer students left Duel Academy, Judai Yuki had a seizure and fell terribly ill," the principal pushed a piece of messy hair behind his ear. Johan gulped, his heart pulsating. He could feel his blood running cold. Just the mere thought of Judai laying on the ground, twitching and crying out in pain as he had a seizure was too much to bear. The image wouldn't leave his mind, no matter how hard he tried to force it out.

"Judai Yuki fell into a Level 1(1) coma about a week ago."

Johan's eyes widened in horror. He couldn't breathe all of a sudden. He staggered back and used the wall for support. The principal didn't seem to notice, and kept rambling about some things that the doctors at Duel Academy were concerned about, but Johan couldn't hear any of it. His heart was racing, and he feared that it would burst through his rib cage any moment.

A Level 1 coma, Johan gulped again, eyes wide. T-that means there's a chance that Judai won't wake up!

The principal was still ranting on. "And so, because of what the doctors have found, they believe that Mr. Yuki's comatose state might not be caused by a blow to the head, but by some other means of-"

"I have to be there."

The principal paused in half sentence and glanced up at Johan. "W-what was that, Johan, my boy?" he asked.

Johan lifted his head, eyes blazing. The principal scooted back in his seat a short amount. He could feel the intensity of Johan's gaze from where he was sitting. The bluenette stood tall.

"I have to be there!" he repeated. Johan marched up and slammed his hands on the desk. "I have to go and see him! I-I don't know why, but I feel that if anyone can bring Judai out of his coma, it's me!"It was cocky, Johan knew, but he felt a deep connection to Judai. If anyone's voice could reach Judai from wherever he was in his mind, it was definitely him! Judai had already saved him from the darkness once with just his voice, so why shouldn't Johan be able to do the same?

The principal stared long and hard into Johan's eyes.

He could tell that no matter what he said, the bluenette was not going to surrender until he was on the next ship out to Duel Academy. The portly man sighed and pushed a document forward.

"I had... a feeling you would be needing this. So I kept it ready, just in case," he said.

Johan glanced down and read the blue piece of paper in front of him. It was a document written in scrawly letters, but the title was as clear as day for the young bluenette.

School Transfer Documents

"And this time," the principal handed Johan a pen. "This transfer document is for a permanent transfer."

Johan's green eyes doubled. If this was true, then that means that he would be able to transfer to Duel Academy and stay there with Judai! He wouldn't have to come back to North, at least, not right away.

Johan nodded and signed away on the papers. His mother would sign them. He couldn't go unless she did. But Johan wasn't worried that his mother wouldn't let him go. He had told her all about Judai, and she had told him that when the chance arrived, that she would be more than happy to let Johan returned to Duel Academy to be with him.

Once he was done, Johan tore out of the principal's office. The principal was going to call his mother and discuss what was to occur. Johan didn't want to have to be there when it happened. He had a lot on his mind right at the moment.

How? he thought as he rushed down the halls, narrowly escaping collisions with other students and teachers. How did something like this happen to Judai? How!

Johan stopped running and leaned up against the wall. Memories from a short while ago, when he left Duel Academy to return to North, came flooding back. The thoughts he had repressed returned. Johan bit his lower lip hard enough to draw blood.

Oh yeah...

It must have been that...

Me: All right! Chapter one is finished! (1) I don't know a lot about comas, but I read that Level 1 means no response to anything, and is a deep sleep, so Judai is in a comatose state in which he can't respond, hear, or even tell what is going on. He's reaaaaaally into his coma.

Lucy: We know it's short, but we are pleased that you all read it! The next one will explain what "that" is, so there is no need to worry! So, we will all learn what happened xD

Me: So please review nicely and we shall update soon!