The School-Theater

Title: The School-Theater 9

After a long time I finally got another chapter down *cheers*
I'm really sorry, but other things always distract me so easily, and then it happens that I don’t get anything done in a chapter, but then I have five half-finished chapters lying around.
I will try to chance this and work more on this (Meaning: Someone please tie me to my chair so I can't wander around and get distracted all the time ^___^)


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9. Little accidents
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Today is a really beautiful, nice, warm day, like many others, too.
Birds are singing, threes are whispering, and the wind plays with some lonely fallen leaves…
Dogs bark at each other, a cat chase after a little mouse, the little mouse flees into a hole in the earth…
Cars hum, students scream, lazybones quickly copy the homework from the former day and innocent Hikaris stand in front of the school.
They are happily talking with each other, while their Yamis attached themselves to their backs and tried to glare the other to death.
They hug their Lights protectively and promise each other murder and slaughter and all thing terrible if the other makes so much as a wrong move.

Just the same as always.

At the same time they couldn’t get their hands off the teens in their arms and stroked and tickled them all the time, or kissed and licked every inch of skin they could reach.
Yugi as well as Ryou had to stop and push aside their wandering hands before they could caress too far down.
It wouldn’t be very good, after all, if they start their first class with a certain part of them demanding immediate attention.
Their Yamis both made an small, sad, disappointed sound, before they continue to glare darkly as if the other was the only one to blame for this lack of attention from their lighter halves.

Then Yami's hands found their way back under Yugi's shirt, and Bakura's into Ryou's pants, until the Hikaris turned bright red and removed the groping hands from their person.
A sad whimper, a dark glare, and they started all over again with their little game of scowl-at-the-Yami-and-molest-the-Hikari.

Also the same as always.

But the peacefulness of this wonderful, nice new schoolday was suddenly broken as a certain brunet girl run screeching and screaming up to the school.
But this is not that surprisingly, since there was always something wrong with her, and most people normally just ignore her.
And so it was not her shrill screaming that draw the attention of the students to her, but the state of her clothes.

She was, to say it nice, totally grime-stained and a total mess:

From head to toe covered in dust and wet soil, leaves in her hair and rips in her cloths, and a mixed pack of dogs of all kinds, colors and sizes was hot on her heals.
The animals are growling and barking at her, they jumped up at her and tugged at her clothes and her book-bag.
They created an incredible racket and made her fall down again and again, and they seem to enjoy their little game a lot.

Bakura and Yami even stopped threating each other for a moment and dragged their lighter half out of the way before Anzu could bump into them.
Both looked at each other, then at the shrieking girl, then again at each other.
They pressed Yugi and Ryou more against themselves to protect them from the seemingly rabid pack of savage beasts.
Said beats made a terrible riot.
And Anzu also adds her own share to the chaos.

But the worries of the Yamis were proven unnecessary, because, while some of the dogs came over to them, they immediately stopped growling and snarling dangerously.
Their fur smoothed down, and they looked friendly at the group of teens.
They wagged their tails happily and sat down before Ryou and Yugi so they could pet them, which they did.
Both boys stroked their heads or scratched their ears as they greeted them merrily.
As if everything was perfectly normal; nothing special…
As if Yugi and Ryou trained them to do just that…

"Yugi, be careful, they don’t look very friendly!" Yami warned with a look at some of them who were still 'playing' with Anzu.
He tried, unsuccessfully, to keep Yugi's hand away from the giant schnauzer who sat down before him.
Yugi just beamed happily up at him and nodded confidently:
"Don’t worry, Yami, he is really nice and friendly! See?!
I'm sure this is just some kind of mix-up, and they don’t really case her around!
Maybe they just have the same way as her, and are in a hurry?!
They don’t do anything; they are all good, fine, obedient, tame dogs!"

The good, fine, obedient, tame dog just sat there with his tongue out of his snout, panted and even offered his paw to Yugi to shake it.
Anzu choose this very moment to try and flee to Yami in hope that he and Bakura would save her. And maybe she would even get a date out of this mess, she would certainly deserve it! This chance would be perfect for them to finally ask her out, since they will protect her from this rabid pack of cruel monsters…

But before she could get anywhere close to them, the big dog turned around, snapped her by the skirt and yanked her down.
Growling and snarling he bites down a few times in her backpack and shook it like his favorite toy that he wants to mangle now.

Then he turned back to Yugi, tail again waggling, to get more pets from him.
His long pink tongue still hangs out from his muzzle, and he looked like he was smiling satisfied.
Anzu tried again to get over to Yami and Bakura, just to get dragged down again.
It seems like the dogs didn’t want to let her anywhere near to the Yamis or Hikaris!
How mean of them!

"Yami, you have to help me! Those terrible monsters totally ruin my beautiful new haircut!
And my nice dress, and my great make-up!
They case me since I made the first step out of my door this morning!
They ambushed me and cased after me, they pushed me into puddles and dragged me through the mud!
Yesterday bats, and today dogs!
Why do those ugly creatures hate me so very much!?"
She tried to grab and hold onto Bakura, but that really big, really mean, really savage dog was in her way yet again!

What is it with this monster?

Immediately Yami and Bakura use their fortunate chance, give their respective Hikaris a quick kiss on the cheek and made an escape while they still could.
"See you at break, Aibou!"
"Sorry, have to go, Ryou. You will be all right, right?!"
"Just hide behind the dogs if she comes too near to you, and you will be fine."
"It seems that they want to protect you two from her!"

Bakura tossed the small, white poodle at Ryou's feet an amused look.
It looks rather funny; there is this tiny, fluffy little midget of a dog, showing his small pointed teeth and growling as if he's a big, really dangerous and strong dog…

Yugi and Ryou couldn’t look so fast, and the thief and the pharaoh were gone.
Surprised Malik turned around as they left in a hurry and passed by him without a word, without any greeting, just as he joined his fellow Hikaris:
"What's wrong with them?"
Ryou and Yugi just looked at each other and shook their heads:
"Just Anzu being her usual stupid self again. They want to get away from her." they pointed at a stunned Anzu.
"Well, who wouldn’t?"
"Yami! Bakura! You forgot to take me with you! You can't just leave me behind, helplessly and all alone, with the midgets and the monsters…
Please come back to me!"

"What do you think, will she ever get it?
I mean, it should be rather obvious when they always run away from her as soon as they see her.
They don’t even take the time and effort to send her to the shadow realm like they normally do with anyone else who annoys them …"

"I will wait for you here; I know you have a plan to get those wild, bloodthirsty beasts away from me!
I trust you, you know that, do you?!"

"I think they ran away from you, because you look like you slept in a trashcan!
Or, like you life everyday in that trashcan.
And you smell like that, too!" Marik informed her with a 'friendly' smile.
Anzu starred at the insane Yami as if he was, well, insane.
What the hell is he talking about?
The two of them love her, with all their hearts, a little dust and a few stains shouldn’t matter so much to them that they run away.

Right?

Marik handed her a mirror, still smiling 'friendly' at her:
"Iiihhhh!!! I look terrible!!!!"
In her first fright she didn’t even notice that Marik had glued a picture of Frankenstein's monster on the glass.
"No wonder they always run away from you, with that face!"

Under Mariks mocking laughter she runs towards the sports hall to change clothes and shower quickly.
Luckily for her she always had different spare clothes in her locker, in case she wore a wrong dress that Yami doesn’t like, or when it gets dirty in one of the freaky accidents lately.
And she could easily use the showers in the girls-changing room; they used them after gym too, after all.
And there should be enough time before the first class starts to freshen up and then search for Bakura and Yami to tell them that she's all right.

Hopefully.

Marik began to crackle insanely and run after her a bit of the way:
"Hey, why do you want to take all the beautiful soil away!?
You will only make it worse, and that mirror image is really not so bad if you think about it! You still can go and scare little children in the ghost train!
It would be the perfect job for you! Hey, you should be glad; you are at last good at one thing! Besides annoying people to death with your stupid speeches, of course!"
You could hear Anzu grumble about 'Insane psycho Yamis without any manners' as she fled into the school.
Despite the fact that Marik really tried to be nice and comfort her…

The dogs finally lost interest after their toy run away from them, and slowly made their way back to where they originally came from.
But not before they got some pets and doggy biscuits from Ryou and Yugi, who praised them for their really good work.

But suddenly another 'puppy' came around the corner, with a red face and clearly on the run from something.
"You have to help me, please, do something, I don’t know what to do anymore!"
Again Joey looked hectically behind him, if his pursuer was already there, right behind him, and he made the Hikaris quite nervous with that behavior, too.
"Hide me somewhere, quickly! He is after me, right behind me, and I really need your help, he can't catch me, don’t let him get me!"

Tense and worried they watched what kind of terrible human or devil came around the corner and scared their blond friend that much that Joey even came earlier to school then he absolutely had to.
And not shortly before the bell rang, like he normally did.
And really, the feared form came around the corner, slowly, deliberated.
No hurry, the prey is near, and there's no escape…
Cool eyes felt onto said 'prey', and Joey very quickly tried to hide behind Malik.
He could barely suppress a faint whimper.

"Hey puppy! What's wrong, didn’t you hear me call you?" Kaiba asked, and his finger inched unconsciously towards Joey.
"Of course I heard you, why do you think I run away?!!!" Joey growled, as he went behind Yugi to hide there after Malik decided to be mean and made a step to the side.
Joey didn’t even notice or care that Yugi was quite a bit shorter than he was, which made it a lot harder to hide behind his back.

"And I'm not a dog! And no puppy, or any other animal! So don’t call me that, you insane psycho-moneybag!" he said belated as he noticed what the other had called him yet again.
Joey tired to stare Kaiba to death, but like always it was for no use.
Kaiba just refused to die!
The CEO is simply better with glaring to others.
The only way to be ever better then him with the death-glare is if you're a Yami…
A Yami who thinks his Light is in danger.

For a moment Kaiba just blinked blankly at his growling puppy:
"I told you to just jump in und I give you a lift to the school! Are you afraid of me, that you refuse to sit in the same car as I, or what is wrong?!"
"Of course I'm not afraid of you! I just don’t trust you! Not a single little bit!"
He made another step back, just to make sure to stay out of Kaibas reach, who discreetly tried to creep nearer.

"But I never gave you a reason to doubt me!"
"Really? And what about your sudden attacks those last few days? You always try to molest me for no reason!"
"What attack? I never attacked you!"
"But you always come after me!"
"But you were also involved in that, not only I! And you never protest against it either!"
"It's kinda hard to protest if you have a tongue down your throat!"

"Too much information, guys!" Yugi, who still stood between the two squabblers, murmured and blushed.
Neither of them paid any attention to him, as they nearly crushed him between their taller bodies.

"You also didn’t say anything afterwards!"
"Only because you always run away before I can say anything!"
"I just don’t want anyone watch us, I'm not an exhibitionist like them!"
Kaiba pointed to the three Hikaris who immediately puffed up at that accusation.
But none of them could really deny it, even if it was their Yamis fault most of the time…
"But it always takes two for that." Ryou whispered halfhearted, but they ignored him just as much as Yugi.

"And how do you call all those weird faces you make at me all the times? What do you call that if not an attack!?"
"It's called smiling! Smiling!"
"Smiling my ass!"
"Really, one would think you never heard of it!"
"And you always grope my ass or rub my back whenever I walk by!"
"If I have the chance, I should take it, don’t you think so?"
"No, it’s harassment!"
"I was just kissing and groping you, that's not harassment!"
"Yes it is!"
"No, it's not!"
"It is!"

With that Joey turned around and run away while he still had the last word.
It happens rare enough as it is, Kaiba always want to have the last word and want to be right...

For a moment Kaiba only watched him go away.
"I don’t think I get it." He murmured more to himself then to the other teens, who looked at him more or less curios. "And I even tried to give him flowers as I saw him on his way to school…"
"How cute! What kind of flowers did you get him?" Yugi asked curiously.
The brunet just shrugged his shoulder as he looked back at them:
"Couldn’t care less, really. Something red, just flowers! I even picked silk-flowers, so he don’t need to take care of them, and told him not even he can damage them easily."
He looked down at the ground.
"But I think he doesn’t like them very much…"

"That’s maybe because you made it sound like you think that he's too stupid to care for real flowers. And that’s why you give him unreal flowers!"
"But I didn’t mean it that way. Silk flowers just are more practical, because you don’t have any work with them, and you can keep them a lot longer then real flowers.
You don’t need to water them, and you can shove them from one corner to the other, and it doesn’t matter to them if they have enough sun or not.
They can even stay in a dark corner without ever wilting, and if they ever get dusty you can just wash them and they look like new."

"It's not a question of practically or not in such a case! It doesn’t matter if they die after a few days. Or you can give him a pot-plant, if you really want something lasting."
Kaiba seem to think about for a moment, before he nodded and then looked around.
He found Joey standing with Honda and talking to him:
"Hey puppy! Heel! Come here!"

Yugi face-palmed: "Yes, sure, and he will immediately obey." He murmured sarcastically and shook his head at them.
Joey really turned around as he was called and yelled back:
"I would rather kiss a porcupine!"
"Well, I know that dogs like to poke their nose into anything they find, but where do you want to find a porcupine? And why?"
He leered at Joey as he stormed over:
"But if you want to kiss someone I would gladly volunteer.
Come on, be nice, puppy, and down!"

Ryou, Yugi and Malik gave the vanishing, still, or again, fighting pair funny looks:
"What do you think, should we help them a little?"
"They should really take a few moments to talk this over in peace."
"They will just start another fight, like they always do! You have to wonder if they are even able to communicate with each other without insults!
And if they don’t fight they run away or let something else distract them."

"And if we give them a hand?"

Yugi and Ryou glanced at Malik quizzically:
"And what, pre tell, do you plan to do now?"
"They are our friends; we don’t want to kill them!"
Malik shoot them sore looks:
"I never planed to do that!"
"We also don’t want to nearly kill them!"
"I also don’t plan that! Do you really think everything I do comes down to a Ra-damned bloodbath?"
Both Lights didn’t say a word, but their eyes said everything for them; and he soothingly held his hands up:

"Really, no one will get hurt, I can promise that! Don’t worry, with a little help from you two I make everything all right!
Trust me!
You do trust me, do you?"
With a convincing grin he laid an arm around the other Hikaris shoulders and led them away with him to explain his brilliant plan to them.
"Look, all you have to…"
"Wait a moment, I nearly forgot about something!" Yugi suddenly told them and run away without explaining where he goes or what he does.

"Maybe he needs to pee…" Ryou shrugged his shoulders as he looked after the other boy.
"Pity, and I had such a good plan…" Malik muttered sadly.
It may be true that sometimes, only sometimes, when he had a plan, that blood will flow.
But it's not that bad!
Peoples just should grit their teeth and don’t cry around like little babies…
And this time it should really work without any bloodshed.
At last when nothing goes wrong…
Nothing should go wrong, the plan isn't that dangerous, or complicated, or anything.
Really no reason to run away!
At last Yugi could have waited until he had explained everything…

With dropping shoulders he pouted as Ryou looked around searchingly.
Shouldn't Marik pop up from nowhere now, to comfort his distressed Hikari and threat to kill anyone who makes him sad?
Threat them with a slow, painful and bloody death?

But there was no murderous Yami who they had to hold back before he could do something stupid.
Instead Yugi came back from wherever he was, with a satisfied grin on his face and happily glittering eyes.
He patted Malik's shoulder calmingly: "Sorry, but I really had to take care of something, it couldn’t wait. But I'm finished now, don’t worry.
So now, what about that plan of yours, I would really like to hear it.
I bet its great!" he asked with a cute smile and blinked up at the taller boy, who once more noticed how hard it really is to stay mad at the smallest Light.

Immediately Malik smiled happily again and explained his plan with a big grin:
"We lock them away together and, of course, we have to take Kaiba's Laptop away.
Then they have to talk normally with each other, when they don’t have anything else to do."
"Either that, or they will try to kill each other." Ryou said doubtingly, and Yugi agreed:
"Yes, or they will make out. And then fight again."

Ryou blinked at Yugi as a thought crossed his mind:
"Can they make out and fight at the same time?" he wondered.
Yugi tilt his head to the side, unsure.
"I'm not sure, but knowing them, I wouldn’t really be surprised if they can…"

Shortly after that Anzu run (again) crying out of the changing room, her hands buried in her hair, and only 'covered' by a wet towel. Some random girl was nice enough to put it around her before she could run out of the shower in nothing but her skin and water.
It seems like someone had switched her shampoo with a very strong industrial-glue.
And now she has a 'small' problem with getting her hands out of her hair again.
"My hands stick to my beautiful hair, you have to help me! Please, someone has to get my Yami, I'm sure he knows what to do, he always know what to do.
Or Bakura, he is also pretty clever and always has good ideas, no matter what happens."

Yes, even now all she could think of are the two Yamis as if it’s the most important thing in the word to get together with them and somehow get into their pants.
All three Hikaris rolled their eyes at the same time as they heard her screaming through the halls.

Ryou starred disbelieving at Yugi as they looked at the 'drama' before them, as Anzu passed them, leaving a trail of water behind:
"Now tell me! You didn’t really go in there, did you?!" he hissed and pointed towards the girls shower.
Because for him it was clear as day that this was somehow Yugi's fault.
Yugi starred back at him with wide, shocked eyes:
"What? Are you nuts? Do you think I have a death wish, or what?!
They would murder me cold-blooded if I so much as stick a toe in there, even if no one is in there at that time!
And then it wouldn’t matter how nice and innocent I may look or act, they would still kill me for stepping in there!
Girly mutate to bloodthirsty monsters in such a case!
No, I gave the shampoo-bottle to a girl in the hall and told her that Anzu dropped it as she run into me a few moments before!
I jut asked her to give it back to her for me, since I'm not allowed to go in there, and I would never do something like that.
Not that I want to, but that’s not the point!"

Ryou nodded, while Malik didn’t hear them as he was busy laughing like mad and nearly rolling on the floor.
And he would never suspect that it was one of them who did this in the first place.
He was sure that one of the Yamis played a little prank at her, and most likely it was even his own Yami how caused this.
And she deserved it anyway, no matter who exactly did it…

"Well guys," Malik turned back to Ryou and Yugi as the crazy girl finally was gone to torment some other students with her screaming "Are you going to help me with our little puppy-problem or not?!"
The other two shrugged their shoulders. They weren't sure if it would make anything better, but whatever…
And Malik was right, locking them into a classroom didn’t sound very dangerous for their health.
Except if the two of them suddenly decide they preferred to bash each others heads in rather than talking.

"Sure we will help…."
"Then let's go!"

The bell for the first class had already rang some time ago.
A teacher got a hold on Anzu and dragged her to the nurse to dress her and cut her hands out of that birds nest she calls her hair.

Yami and Bakura are still busy hiding somewhere from Anzu.
Marik wasn’t anywhere in sight, probably off in some dark corner to plot his next misdeed, like always when he's alone and bored and has no one to bother and annoy, or to kiss and grope.
Kaiba had the first class free and used it to stalk Joey, who then locked himself into the bathroom and refused to come out again.
"I refuse to make a single step out there as long as that pervert is waiting to grope my ass!"

And Malik, Yugi and Ryou decided to ditch the first lesson and instead take care of Joey and Kaiba and their little 'communication problem'.
Their wellbeing is more important then some boring lesson with some boring teacher, after all.
And somehow they have to stop their silly fights so they can at last once talk like normal, partly adult human beings.
And not always screaming and insulting each other like little children whenever they aren't busy making out like bunnies…
Maybe then Kaiba wouldn’t be so uptight and grumpy all the time?!

And that was the reason why Yugi was now creping through the empty halls, always on guard if a teacher happens to run around and stop him.
It was his task to bring Kaiba to the empty class and, if possible, also get his laptop from him.
Ryou should pick out the empty class for them, and then keep watch.
Just in case that a teacher, yet again, has the great idea to split his class in two and give them separated work to do.
Or some other boring group-work stuff.
In that case they would need another room, if possible without getting caught and questioned. Ryou would warn them as soon as someone comes near, so they had enough time to run away or come up with a good explanation.

And Malik should make sure that Joey also somehow finds his way into that class, the same way Yugi takes care of Kaiba.
But for that, he had to find the CEO.
Because he quickly felt stupid for pounding at the bathroom door and promising a door that he will keep his hands to himself, that he will not smile at it, and also will not try to kiss anything.

His voice sounded honest, but his face showed that he would break that promise after 20 seconds at most…
But since Joey stubbornly stayed behind that door, it didn’t matter anyway what message his face told.
Grumbling and muttering about rebellious puppies and their lacking obedience he finally got bored and gave up on banging at the door.
Joey refused to be lured out, and with the door locked Kaiba had no why to get in.
Except maybe if he breaks it down with an axe.

For a moment, Kaiba really considered this idea, but then he shook his head
'I will not break that door down with an axe!
I'm not a Yami, I'm not so violent. And I don’t have an axe!'

And so he just walked away with a sigh.
He will just have to get him some other time; after all, Joey can't run away and avoid him the whole day…
'And then I put him on a leash, at last I wouldn’t have to run after him always.'

"And just because I gave him one or two pats on the ass…
Just cop a feel, it's not like I was molesting him… not that I would mind molesting my puppy…"
He allowed his mind to wander away for a moment, to his bed, with Joey writhing on it, and begging for him…
A grin slowly stretched over his face as he thought a little more about it.

Suddenly there was a weird prickle in the back of his neck, which startled him out of his pleasurable daydreams, and he turned around quickly.
He felt like someone was following him, but there is no one behind him!
He turned back around and walked again, and the weird feeling came back full force.
And he was sure he heard soft footsteps behind him, but as soon as he stopped they stopped as well.

'Maybe my nerves… I work too much lately, and those halls are always odd when the students are in their classes, and no one runs around and makes noise…
I must imagine it; there is no one behind me.
Maybe I really should think about a vocation sometimes…'

But all of a sudden he got a strong push from the side, as a smaller body run into him, and for a moment he simply lost balance, since he wasn’t ready for it.
He stumbled and fell through an open door beside him, nearly landing ungracefully on his ass.
He only got his footing back at the very last moment, but it was too late to do anything as he was already in the class.
He was just lucky that it apparently was unoccupied at the moment, or he would have to explain his undignified entrance.
And the brunet couldn’t even see who his attacker was, there was just a shadow vanishing around the corner.
It seems the only goal of this attack was to shove him in this empty class, noting more, as there was no other attack following.

He noticed the sudden lack of a laptop in his hand only after recovering from the first shock.
Kaiba heard the door slam close behind him, a key turning in the lock, and a shacking on the door only proved what he already guessed:
That he was locked in.
Crap!
Without his laptop!
Double-Crap!

"As soon as I find out who you are, I swear your head will be rolling, and that's a promise!" He growled furiously.
"Well, I wish you luck with that one. But don’t be surprised when Marik lets your head roll instead!"
Quickly Kaiba turned towards the familiar voice, and there sat Joey calmly on a table and dangled his feet.
The blond waved briefly and at him and carried on with his swinging, without caring that they are locked in here.
Or so it seems so to him.
Because he really didn’t mind it, as long as Kaiba stayed where he was at the moment, by the door and well out of his reach…

"What are you talking about Marik? What has that insane Psycho to do with everything?"
Kaiba was pretty sure that that shadow was too short to be Marik.
Joey only shrugged his shoulders and waved with his hand:
"Nothing, as long as you doesn’t try to do anything to Malik. And if you get too near to him, let alone hurt him…
Well, as you know Marik doesn’t mind a little bloodbath every now and then…"

He had somehow already accepted his 'captivity'; he's a little longer here than Kaiba, after all.
This way he doesn’t have a reason to waste away in his history-class, and he even had a good excuse not to be there!
And a trustworthy witness!
Because the teacher will believe Kaiba when he tells them that it really was like that, even when it just sounds like a lame excuse.

'Sorry, I couldn’t be here in time because a friend locked me just for fun into an empty class. Yeah, sure, they would instantly believe me!' Joey thought with a scowl.

And he knew that it was all Malik's fault because he was the one who knocked at his bathroom door just as Kaiba finally got lost:
Malik had just followed Kaiba's voice in hope he would find Joey also around there, and really, he was lucky!
There was a puppy in the bathroom, waiting to be fetched…
"He's gone, so you can come out now! He can't do anything to you!" he called, and Joey really opened the door.
By now when he thought about it, he would have been better off if he went with his first plan to get out of this bathroom without using the door:
Jumping out of the window and dashing off.
And Kaiba could have hit the door as long as he wants to, he would have been long gone…

The bathroom is only in the first floor, that’s not such a high drop.
It's not like he would break his neck by jumping down if he's a little careful…
But no, he had to trust Malik.
He's a Hikari, after all, they are all nice and cute and only want to help, and they would never do anything mean and bad…

'Really, you'd almost think I don’t know him…' Joey thought sarcastically.
'Instead of going back to class with a bad excuse, like I should have done, I idiot have to go with Malik and let him shove me in here without any resistance.'

At first he hadn't even noticed where they were going as he told the blonde Light how Kaiba would pat his ass, make odd faces at him or kiss him unexpected.
Joey wasn’t sure why the CEO even did it, but the other kept making weird comments and shoots him lewd looks, before running off as quickly as he appeared.
Joey wasn’t sure what to think about it, and that irritated him even more.
Was Kaiba really interested in him, like that, or was it just another way to annoy the hell out of him, like always?
Maybe the whole thing is just a new way to humiliate him?

But its not like the CEO to do it like this, he preferred to insult peoples directly, to tell them personally what he thinks about them…
Then again, you should never be too sure with him, that guy can be tricky.
But it's weird that Kaiba all of a sudden tries to be nice.
Or what he thinks is nice…

And the reaction of his own body to Kaibas attention was also no help…
Except that he always enjoyed fighting with the brunet, he never gets so irritated with anyone else, only when they fought…

Joey had heard Malik laugh as he walked away from the closed door after shoving him in, and that’s why there was no doubt in his mind that Kaibas imprisonment was also somehow his fault.
None of them knew about Yugi helping him, he was so much more discrete then the louder Malik.
And they also didn’t notice Ryou, who was as silent as a little mouse on his 'guard post', and they never even guessed that the two soft-spoken Hikaris would help with any of this.

Joey just couldn’t understand why Malik would do that to them, what he plans to achieve with this.
'Maybe he's just bored again, and this time it was just our turn to be on the receiving end of his stupid pranks. That’s nothing new with Malik, he can be just as bad as his Yami if he wants to be.
He just looks more harmless.'

He was so lost in thought, he completely forgot for the moment that he was not alone in the room.
But suddenly he noticed that Kaiba didn’t stand by the door anymore to look out of the glass-window, but was slowly walking closer.
And closer.
And then even closer.

At first he just leant opposite of the blonde against one of the tables, and then he suddenly sat beside Joey at the other side of his table.
The CEO didn’t say anything the whole time, but looked at him and smiled.
It looked a bit like a wolf about to eat the clueless little sheep…
Joey grew more and more nervous under that smile, he couldn’t suppress a shudder, and slowly but surely he felt trapped.
As if the walls also move nearer to him, and not only Kaiba.

And then Kaiba slides from his side of the table near, until they sat side by side, and their tights touched lightly…
"Don’t come any near me!" Joey growled and bounced up. He stood 'threatening' before Kaiba and tried hard not to look as nervous and irritated as he felt.

Kaiba just shoot him a blank look: "And why not?"
"Because it always ends in embarrassment for me if you come near me!" Joey yelled back and stuck his finger in Kaiba's face.
"Well, I never felt embarrassed." The brunet replied bemused, his eyes crossed for a moment at the offending digit.
"That's because you always run away, you little coward! And I can always stand there alone and pay for it, when people and teacher look funny at me!" the Blonde teen pouted and sat down on another table.

"Teacher are peoples, or not?" Kaiba murmured, but Joey simply chooses to ignore him.
'I'm not talking to you!'

Not long, and Kaiba sat beside him again.
Joey stood up and got to another table.
Kaiba followed him, sat again down beside him casually and let his fingers lightly trace over Joey's thigh.
Again the blushing blonde jumped up and sat down on another table.
And Kaiba followed patiently.

'I'm going to kill you, Malik, just wait until I find you! I'm going to strangle your tanned Egyptian-neck, and not even your insane Yami will be able to protect you then!
What did I ever do to you to deserve this?' Joey thought as he sat down on his original table.
"I will not forgive you for this easily, get it?!"

"What did I do, puppy? I just want to sit here with you, together, and talk!"
"I'm not talking about you, but Malik! He spends way too much time with this insane psycho he calls his lover!" he explained.
But then he noticed just what Kaiba called him again: "And I'm no dog! That’s exactly what I'm talking about; you are always mean to everyone!
And you have a weird concept of talking."

He pointed at Kaiba's hand, which had rested innocently on his shoulder for a while, and then slowly wandered down his back to pinch his ass for a moment, before Joey furiously brushed it aside.

Kaiba had a little trouble not to laugh out loud as Joey glared angrily at him.
These brown eyes glittered lividly as he again jumped up from his seat so he could better glare into Kaibas face.
Since the brunet still sat on the table they were at eye level, and Kaiba licked delightfully over his lips.
Like so many times before when he gets angry, his puppy blushed, just the way he liked it.
And Kaiba other, more entertaining and pleasurable ways to make Joey blush came to his mind.
'And it would be my pleasure to give you a hand, my little puppy…'

"Hey, moneybags, do you even listen to me? Are you deaf or what, how often should I tell you that I'm not a damn dog?!
Let alone yours!
You have to run a whole company, and then you're too stupid to distinguish a human from a canine!?
I'm surprised you never tried to bribe or pay your business partners and employees with doggy treats!
I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if you do that, you psycho!
It seems that Malik isn't the only one who spends too much time around the Yamis-"

Calmingly Kaiba petted the blond head: "Relax, puppy. No need to get upset and jealous. Now be good and sit down, and I will give you a nice treat…" With that he petted his lap, to show him where exactly he wants him to sit down.
"The hell I will, I want out of here! Now!
Are you ill, did you catch something, or what's wrong with you all of a sudden? Did you run against a wall, hit your head, or fell down some stairs?!
Are you going to die?"
Joey run to the door and rattled at the door, in hope someone had unlocked it while they were busy…

But of course the three Hikaris were long gone and didn’t think about letting them out of the room so soon.
Instead they meet in another empty class (There seems to be a lot of them in this school… What a lucky coincidence) to make sure that everything went all right and no one got caught after they went their separated ways.

Yugi was the last one to arrive, Kaibas Laptop under his arm, which he proudly laid down on the table before them.
Malik starred with wide eyes at the black thing: "How the hell did you do that, he never gives that thing out of his hand!
I wouldn’t even be surprised if he sleeps with his beloved laptop like others with a plush toy."

"No, he doesn’t. But he has a stuffed animal, a big white dragon, to cuddle at night…"
Malik and Ryou looked at him with sparkling wide eyes before they burst out in giggles.
Yugi could only look from one to the other, since he couldn’t really understand what's so funny all of a sudden!

"And how would you know that so exactly, little Yugi?"
"Maybe from personal experience?"
"Why did you never tell us anything about it?"
"Come on, spill!"
"Yeah, we want the details!"
"Does Yami even know about it?"
"Maybe that’s the reason Yami and Kaiba don’t get along?!"
Both teens were in tears and nearly feel from their tables in their laughing fit, unable to ask any more stupid questions.

Suddenly he noticed what they meant and how someone could understand what he had said, and he instantly turned a very bright, nearly unhealthy looking red:
"No, of course not, I would never, much less with Kaiba…!
What the hell do you think of me!?
Are you insane, or what?
Mokuba once showed me a picture he made of his big brother for blackmail purposes!
He was drunk for some reason or another and hung halfway from his bed, in only his boxer shorts and a tie.
His mouth was wide open and he had his cute little cuddly toy tightly in his arms, hugging it like a toddler!" he told them irritated, and waved his arms wildly around to enforce his point.

His friends just laughed even more…

"Okay, Yugi, you are lucky that we believe it-"
"Because it is true!"
"- but why did he give you his laptop without a fight?"
"I just grabbed it as he was careless for a moment. And then I slammed the door close, and before he even noticed it I was gone!
And as he finally noticed it was gone it was already too late to do anything about it!" Yugi protested with a pout:
"Ryou, you locked the door after I was gone, you had the key, right?"

Still giggling Ryou patted Yugis shoulder to calm him a little:
"Come on, don’t worry. No reason to fly away here."
And he pointed at Yugi's still flattering arms, as Malik kneeled down and threw his arms around Yugi's waist:
"I have him, Ryou; you have to help me hold him down! We can't let him get away through the window!"
With a wide grin Ryou 'helped' the blond teen and also sat down on the floor to hug Yugi:
"I'm here; don’t let him take off even more. If he flies any higher we can't get him down on the ground anymore!"

Yugi stopped his arms and crossed them over his chest with a pout: "You two are really mean, you know that?"
Still laughing they finally let go of him and stood up to mess up his spiky hair.

"Come on, we know and really, really believe that you don’t have a hot sex-affair with Kaiba!"
Yugi blushed at that choose of word.
"Yeah, you know we just make a little fun, right?"
"Sure, I know that, but even if it's just a joke you should better be careful and make sure that Yami doesn’t hear you.
Because I doubt that he will care much if you really mean it or if it's just a joke.
You know how he is about people touching me without permission.
He sends first to the shadow realm and then asks questions."

Ryou and Malik ginned at that thought.
Not only Yugi's darker half is like that, all Yamis are sometimes choleric and a little ill tempered like that.
Especially if their Hikaris are concerned.
You should never get in the way of a worried, or angry, or furious, or excited Yami, if you don’t want to go on a one-way trip to the shadow realm…

The three of them decided to skip the first lesson and then just go to their respective classes as if nothing happened.
With a little luck the teachers wouldn’t say anything about it, and it seems that their Yamis also didn’t notice their absence so far.
Otherwise they would have come and checked why they weren't in their class like they are supposed to.
"Maybe they are still hiding in some dark corner and plot something."
"Or they are fighting again."
"In that case there would be explosions, and screaming and shouting, and crashing and destruction everywhere."

Finally the bell interrupts their pondering, and they made their way to their second period.
Yugi and Ryou had the same class, while Malik had to be elsewhere, all alone.
He had no friend to talk to and entertain him in the boring class, so all he could do was plot someone's demise…

But on their way to their classes Yugi and Ryou made a short stop by the class with Joey and Kaiba. Just to make sure they hadn't killed each other in their boredom, of course.
They looked through the class window in the door to watch the pair:

Joey stood by the blackboard, grabbed the sponge and threw it with a smirk at Kaiba.
The brunet dodged quickly and then tossed a packet of tissues back at him.
Yugi and Ryou could only shake their heads:
"I think they will need a little longer…"
With that they left them to stew some more, and run to their class.

Joey had caught the tissues from the air and finally hit Kaiba on the head with them as he threw them back:
"Ha! Strike! Take that, moneybags!"
But he didn’t expect was that Kaiba just grabbed a forgotten notebook and hit the laughing teen right on the head.
"So much for that, puppy." He smirked satisfied as brown eyes blinked startled and confused at him.

With a pout Joey sank down on a chair and started to kick a nearby wastebasket.
That’s not fair; Kaiba always has to have the last word!

Joey could hear silent steps behind him approaching, and so he grabbed the basked and threw it after Kaiba before he could paw him again.
With a loud clank the metal thing hit Kaiba on the head before it happily rolled away.
The brunet CEO shocks his head and saw only stars swirling around his head.
Joey used this opportunity to let a forgotten book follow the wastebasket.
And, because it is so much fun, Joey also threw the sponge, chalks and other things at Kaiba, as long as he didn’t move in his shock.
He is an easy target for the moment…

Next he threw a chair at Kaiba, who held his arching head and landed rather gracelessly with his ass on the floor.
He blinked confused up to Joey, who grabbed happily laughing all the chairs he found and then even one table after the other to throw them at the surprised CEO.

"But…But, Joey…
I'm so terrible sorry if I made you mad. Can you ever forgive me?
Pretty please?
I didn’t want to be so mean to you and always insult you, and bother you, and I sincerely regret it now…
What do I have to do to make you forgive me, o my great Lord and Master?" Kaiba whimpered with wet eyes and a sad little voice.
But Joey didn’t let that sway him; it could all be just a clever act from the brunet, after all.
He can be a cunning bastard when he wants to…

In the end Kaiba was knocked-out under a big, huge pile of furniture, namely with all that was in the room and could be moved.
Even a closet had somehow found its way from beside the blackboard onto the heavy pile.
His tongue hangs out of his mouth; his eyes are crossed and around his head circle a whole, colorful flock of loudly chirping birds.
If his head wouldn’t hurt so much at the moment, he would shove the stupid birds in a pan in the oven, completely with vegetables and sauce.

Meanwhile Joey was dancing and singing like an Indian around a fire, laughing and bouncing happily.
He didn’t really give the impression as if he wants to free Kaiba anytime soon…

"Joey…" was all he could whisper under all that weight on him.
So Joey just ignored him and sang on; that he finally won, that he's the best, how much he would like a picture of his great defeat, and that he just has to tell anyone about it…

"Hey, puppy! Are you dreaming about me, or why are you smiling so happily?!" a hand slowly stroking down his back pulled Joey suddenly out of his thoughts.
Startled he jumped from the chair and skidded hastily away as warm breath brushed softly over his ear.
With big, shocked eyes the blond teen blinked up to Kaiba, who loomed over him and looked not a bit like he had been buried under a mountain of chairs and tables a few moments ago.
'Pity, so it was just a nice daydream…' Joey thought sadly, and he promised himself for the future that he would never let his mind wander away with him like that again.
It could end rather dangerous for him, if he doesn’t keep an eye on his surroundings…

That resolution only grew stronger as long fingers stroked through his hair and, yet again, startled him out of his thoughts.

"What's wrong with you, I just want to talk with you a little!" Kaiba asked 'innocently'.
But the treacherous gleam in his eyes was anything but innocent.
For a moment Joey held a hand over his racing heart, before he glared up at the other:
"Thanks, but you talk a little too much with your hands to my liking!" he hissed and jumped up, as yet again the hand made its way in his direction.

Kaiba on the other hand liked it a lot who easy it was for him to baffle and fluster his puppy, with just a pat on his ass, or an unexpected kiss.
Or with a smile, even if his puppy that still misunderstood all the time…
'We will have to work on that. Well, whatever, everyone needs a hobby, after all.'

---

"Ah, Mister Mutou and Mister Bakura, how nice of you that you finally decide to give us the pleasure and honor us with your presence today." The math-teacher said sarcastically as they tried to sit silently and unobtrusive as possible down in their seats.
Both blushed a little: It seems that they both had forgotten that they had a double lesson math today.
That means that the teacher knew they just sneaked in at the 5-minute break, instead of being there the whole time…

Ups…

With his arms crossed over his chest he stood before the blackboard and shot the Hikaris an expectant look.
But sadly they couldn’t come up with a good excuse for being a whole hour late.
But, like always, luck was on their side, because the door opened and Anzu crept in with a gloomy face.
She tried to be very quiet, but it was useless, as everyone's eyes turned from the blushing Lights over to her.
Most had seen her performance before the classes started, and her riot shortly after that as she run out of the showers.

Her hands didn’t stick to her hair anymore and now she wears normal, clean clothes again, and not only water and a pink towel.
A bright red cap hides the damage her hair had suffered from the prank, while still no one could find out whose fault it was in the first pace.
Not that anyone really tried to.

Anzu doesn’t look very happy with the teacher, and live in general, as she sat down in her seat with a pout, and then tried to hide her face in her hands as the rest of the class started to giggle and laugh at her.
"I would it really appreciate it if take off your cap in my class."

Anzu just shock her head and murmured: "Don’t want to."

Slowly the poor teacher lost his patience with this class:
At first nearly half of his students were late because they preferred to watch how stupid some people act in public.
Then two of the normally most punctual and reliable students didn’t even show up to begin with.
Then they show up in the break for the second class without a good excuse why.
And now this insolent girl, which caused all the chaos an hour ago, just walks in and plain refuses to take off her stupid cap.

'No manners, today's youth…' he thought before he stopped before her desk:
"It wasn’t a suggestion but a demand, Miss Mizaki!" he growled.
Grumbling she laid the red cap down, and you could see big, bald holes in her hair, where her hands had stuck.

The nurse had to cut her hands free before she could bathe them in some powerful solvent to get the hair off.
But even with that not all the hair got off from her palms, and some strands still stuck to her hands, much to the general amusement of the other students.

"And now a little advice from me:
In future it would be better if you wait until school is over before you go into the park to play.
It is really nice that you are so found of animals, and of course it's your own decision if you really want to play with strange dogs, even when you don’t know if they perhaps are ill or have fleas…
But you smell like dog, and you have to understand that it's neither appropriate nor pleasant.
So I think I also speak for you classmates when I ask you to do those things after school.
In the afternoon, or at the weekend.
You have all the time you want then, and you can go and shower after then, if you want."

He noticed that the students around her had moved away as much as they could because of the smell. The shower didn’t get rid of all of the strong smell, because it got cut short due to the unfortunate 'accident' with the shampoo.
She had no time to wash herself properly.

Sighing the teacher marched back to the blackboard to finally begin the second lesson.
This school was always a little weird, but lately it got worse and worse.
Strange things take place, and odd accidents happen here…
'But maybe I'm just getting old…?'

Yugi and Ryou grinned relieved at each other: They had luck, like always, and Yugi was very happy with the outcome of his little prank.
Without her funny cap her hair looked like a birds nest, and not even a whole bottle of perfume would be able to cover the dog-smell, and she will have run around like that the whole day before she could go home and shower properly.

Because for the girl it was as clear as the new day that she would never again set a foot into that cursed changing room.
Not without some kind of bodyguards at her side, at last.
'Yami and Bakura would be the best for that, with them nothing can ever again happen to me!… And surely they would jump at a chance to shower with me…
Maybe I can ask them to protect me the next time I see them, I'm sure it will be a pleasure for them. They do it all the time for their midgets, who can't take care of themselves to save their lives…
Not a bit like me, I'm independent and know what I do.
I'm pretty sure Yami and Bakura will be happy to have such a nice change, and they also can spent a lot of time with me.
And then they will fall in love with me, forget about their runts, choose me and stay the rest of their lives with me. They will love me forever and read every wish from my eyes and shower me with gifts and treasures and…'

Ryou and Yugi rolled their eyes at her dreamy face, it was not hard to guess what, or rather, about whom, she was thinking at the moment
'She didn’t learn a thing!
Time for the next plan!'

Anzu never noticed the paper appearing before her on her table, since she was busy planning her wedding with Yami and Bakura right down to every last detail.
After all, you could never know when you suddenly need such a plan, and then you should better know what you want, and be prepared for it!

----

Carefully, and as unobtrusive as possible, the plotting Hikaris crept through the halls as soon as the bell rang for the 10 o'clock break.
For a short moment they really feared that their plan wouldn’t work, since it was kind of obvious.
But then they saw Anzu's happy face as she finally unfolded her letter, and they couldn’t believe their luck:

After everything that happened yesterday with the false letter, she really fell for the same trick twice!
There was no name or signature on that letter, no clue who wrote it, just when to go where, and yet Anzu squealed loudly the she would, of course, come on time to the romantic date!
"You know, sometimes I wonder how she made it so far in school!"

Yugi nodded in agreement as they came to a lesser used part of the building.
"The question is, if she will make the rest, until graduation.
And after we are through with her, she will not have the nerves to ever go back to this school!
And I don’t even talk about learning stuff."

Ryou gave a last, questioning look to Yugi, while his small hand hovered over the red button for the fire alarm.
"Ready?"
"You know we can get in a lot of trouble for this, right?"
The white-haired Light just shrugged his shoulders:
"To say it with Kura's words: Who gives a fucking damn…?!"

Yugi pondered for a moment before he also shrugged his shoulders:
"True!" and he griped the fire hose in his hands stronger.
Then they watched the stairs and waited anxious for their victim to appear.

It wasn’t long and Anzu skipped, as clueless as ever, around the corner.
The letter, which she still was sure came from Yami and/or Bakura, was in her hand, and she hummed happily as she kissed the paper enamored.
She didn’t even notice that she wasn’t alone in the hall anymore.

And that those two weren't the two she wanted to see so badly.

Quickly Ryou hit the red button for the fire alarm and turned up the water fully.
With a mean smirk that he shared with his partner in crime, he looked more like his tomb robber then ever before.
If he could see him now Bakura would be very proud of him, and would probably drag him away to make out with him and molest him…
But since the thief wasn’t here, he couldn’t drag him away to occupy him otherwise, and so no one was there to distract him.
Or Yugi…

The other students run wildly around in the general, from the shrill ringing of the alarm caused terror.
There was disorder and panic all around, and they were pretty sure that Marik was a very happy Yami at the moment, wherever he may be.
And there was also a good chance that there will be some cell phones and wallets missing after the alarm, thanks to a certain, 'slightly' kleptomaniac Tomb robber.
Yugi was nearly sure he could hear them both laugh insanely somewhere in the distance, but with all the noise around it was probably just his imagination.

But none of the teachers or students stopped for a moment to ask where the fire was!
Or if there even is a fire in the first place!
Or why the Hikaris are grinning so evilly as Yugi aimed at the still clueless girl.
She had just enough time to stop in her tracks and stare bewildered at the teens before the cold water hit her.

The water jet was so strong, she got immediately washed back with a loud and piercing shriek.
Within a few moments Yugi set the whole hall ankle-deep under water, and the cocky Hikaris watched excited as the flood wave took Anzu quickly down the stairs and out of the main gate of the school.
Through a window they watched her lying there, gaping and fidgeting like a fish on the dry land, and she couldn’t even get a single word out in protest at the rough treatment.
She was way too shocked that Ryou and Yugi would do something so mean to her.
And what was with their uncharacteristic expressions?

'It’s a challenge! They fear me, because they know that Yami and Bakura belong to me now and they can't do a single thing about it!
They will choose me in the end and totally forget about their stupid midgets.
And now they want to prevent that and get in our way, but they will not succeed, I make sure of that!
As soon as I tell Yami and Bakura what they did to me, they will dump them on the spot and turn to me…'

Shortly after that it was clear for the rest of the school that there was really no fire, and it was once again false alarm.
With Bakura's love for red buttons and Marik's fancy for explosions, the teacher get a lot of practice in finding out if it's a false or a real alarm.
By now they don’t even need to make a test-alarm every year like every other school.
The Yamis already made sure that everyone knows what to do after so many times doing it, with all the real and fake alarms.

There was nowhere smoke, and the sprinkler system didn’t get off.
Normally it would happen automatically; you don’t need to push any button for that.
It's just safer that way, especially when certain someones always like to play with the alarm button.
The school would be under water at last once a week if the sprinkler system always goes off with the alarm bell.
And while the students run around, they didn’t flee from a certain part of the building, like they would if there was really a fire.
And not just someone playing with red buttons...
So it was just the normal chaos…

In fact, they found out so fast, Ryou and Yugi didn’t even have enough time to put the hose away and escape, as an annoyed teacher with a dripping wet, crying Anzu came up to them:

"There, they were it, it's all their fault, they flooded the school with ice water and did this to me!
You have to punish them; they did it on purpose to get rid of me, because I'm in their way! They want to take Yami and Bakura away from me, and they are jealous because they don’t have my charm and my beauty, and they stand no chance with them!

You have to punish them right here and the spot, and severe; I demand justice for the suffering they inflict on me!
I could have gotten hurt, or what if I had drown with all the stupid water, or what if I get sick, I was out in the wet mud after all, god know what kind of disease I could get from all the filth!
This is not funny, I think they even try to kill me so they can have my boyfriends all to themselves, they don’t want us to be happy and in love together!

I just changed my clothes, and now they are ruined again, and I have to change yet again, and they didn’t even see me in this dress!
What if they would have liked it, and now they can't see me in it, and what if they don’t like the other dress?
That would be terrible, a disaster, you have to do something!
I'm wet, and dirty, and my hair is a mess, and it's mean and not fair and I want them punished for doing this terrible, horrible, cruel crime to me!"

For a moment the teacher just rolled annoyed with his eyes at her screeching.
It was like this since he accidentally crossed her path at the front gate, something he utterly regrets!
'I shouldn’t have stopped to look at her. I should have just acted like I didn’t hear anything, as if I didn’t notice her, then I would now have my peace and get a coffee before my class starts…'

"Do you have anything to say to your defense?" he asked and pointed meaningful at the flood and mess around them:
It seems as if the frogs from the biology-room used this unique opportunity and somehow escaped from their cages.
Anzu's crying fit was abruptly interrupted as a few of the green skippers swam with loud croaking past them away into their freedom.
One of them even jumped in her face and, with a piercing scream, she fell backwards and landed with her ass in the water.

The teacher shoot her a quick glance and raised eyebrows in question, but then he decided that he don’t want to know what her problem is.
It seems like she has a lot of them anyway, one more or less shouldn’t matter.
He just ignored her and turned back to the two squirming boys.

"Ups?" asked Ryou and tried to look as harmless as possible, and not like he just purposely caused a panic and flooded the school for no reason.

"Sorry?" tried Yugi and quickly cast the water hose aside as if he wasn’t sure how it got in his hand.
He shoved the thing away with his foot as if hiding it behind him, but of course, it was too late for that.
After all, the teacher practically caught them in the act.
There was even still a lot of water spilling from the hose, since none of then remembered to turn it off yet.

But the poor teacher suddenly had another, much bigger, problem, beside the water, the fleeing frogs and the hysteric girl.
Yugi and Ryou looked up at him with big, wet eyes and appeared suddenly very frail und vulnerable, and oh so sad.
They looked so very, very sad!
Not at all like someone who would deliberately do anything mean to anyone!

"We though that she's on fire…" Ryou whispered unhappy and looked embarrassed down at the ground, shifting his feet and biting his lip.
Beside him glittering tears run down Yugi's soft cheeks, and he wrung his hands nervously:
"We didn’t want her to get hurt, really…"
Both sniffled a bit and sadly brushed over their eyes, but the tears just kept coming:
"We couldn’t just stand there and watch her burn, could we?!"
"And it really looked like she could die, you have to believe us! And my parents taught me that you have to help if you see someone burn or get hurt after all!"
"We didn’t want her to burn! That hurts, and it's dangerous, and you shouldn’t look away when someone needs your help, that would be mean!"
"And not very nice!"

Anzu glared angrily at the teens, then to the teacher, as she waited for him to haul them to the principal to kick them out of this school.
But the man wasn’t sure anymore what to believe:
They don’t really look like they would do something like that out of malice and just for the fun of it.
And, after all, it's better to get a little wet without a fire anywhere, than burning without someone doing anything about it…
Better safe then sorry…
But before he was forced to say something:

"The two of them tried to help you, and that’s how you thank them?!" growled a deep voice suddenly, and Yugi felt strong arms coming around his chest, and pressing him back against a familiar chest.
Warm breath brushed over his ear, as Yami leant over his shoulder and glared and growled darkly at the poor teacher.

Ryou also got support from his own darker half, as he hugged his Ryou firmly: "Next time let her burn, if that is what they all want!
You two are way too kindhearted; you always try to help anyone and his dog!
Leave her alone, it seems like no one cares if she lives or dies anyway, so why should you bother?!
Make a nice campfire, at last then she is good for something!"

Yami nodded agreeing and tried to drag Yugi away with him with a frown on his face, while he pointly ignored the teachers' stares.
"Just ignore the mean beast! She doesn’t want your help, so you don’t need to waste your time with her.
I don’t understand why she's so ungrateful, that’s really disappointing, but…"

Yami left the sentence hanging in the air like that, with a dark glare in Anzu's direction, and the girl instantly tears up with a loud wail:
"But Yami! I'm so sorry, I didn’t mean it like that, but I was never on fire!
And I know it was on purpose!
I could clearly see them grinning at me, it was clearly purpose, just to be mean to me!"

"Do you want to say my sweet Aibou is LYING?"
That got Yami blood boiling in an instant, and there was suddenly a long knife in Bakura's hand.
Of course they absolutely can’t take a joke at such accusations.
They can't just let something as serious as this simply pass without doing anything about it, that’s for sure!

Anzu immediately noticed the mistake she made.

Startled she made a quick step back, while the teacher didn’t even try to help her, but just turned around and marched away.
The youths can sort that out with each other; as long as no one got hurt in the process he's okay with it...
He wants to have as little as possible to do with this!

"But, but…" she stuttered horrified, as both Yamis concentrated their hateful glares at her alone, since the other target run away.
"They were grinning! They tried to mess up our date, I'm absolutely sure!
They don’t want us to be happy together!
It was on purpose, you just have to believe me, Yami Bakura, please, I never did anything bad!
It's all their fault!!!"

Of course such words don't help her case a bit…
"They save your sorry ass, and you don’t even thank them for it?!"
"You dare to blame them that they want to harm you?"
"Besides, we don’t have a fucking date outside of our worst and most evil nightmares!"
"Don’t dare to even think that, that’s so nasty I think I have to throw up for a year!"

Bakura and Yami got more and more worked up about the whole thing, until their Lights just grabbed them by the arm to drag and shove them away.
Even though they would have loved to watch her getting sent to the shadow realm…
As they walked away Yugi and Ryou turned briefly around to the girl and winked conspiratorial back at her, while she gasps for air.

So it is true!

'And for a moment I thought I see ghosts!'
Why is it that neither Yami nor Bakura see the true face of their 'lovely' Hikaris?
They just act harmless!
In reality they are as mean and cruel and terrible as Marik!

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In another part of the school, Kaiba and Joey are still stuck in their lonely class.
Malik didn’t show up so far, and by now they got a little nervous and impatient.
They want to get out of here; the whole thing is just ridiculous!
Out there is a fire alarm, and they stuck in here!
Well, most probably it’s just a false alarm anyway, if you take in account that Bakura, Marik and Malik are running free, but anyway!

And Joey was still running away from him, from one table to the other!
Every time he caught and groped him, Joey would always blush brightly, gasp for air for a moment in outrage.
Next he would brush the hand away, before he yelled at him again for trying to molest him.
Really, as if it was his fault that he tried!

Joey on the other side enjoyed to see the normally cool and composed Seto Kaiba so frustrated and bothered by his moving around.
By now he was only changing his seat to annoy and irritate the tall brunet.
And to get away from those groping hands!

"Would you please sit down on your sorry ass, damn it to hell?!" Kaiba growled finally as he had enough, and Joey jumped up to yell back:
"You are running after me, so stop complaining about it!"
And then Joey even has the nerve to smirk cheekily in his face!

"I will not get angry, I will not get angry, I will not-"
"Och, too bad… Why not?!" Joey pouted and then his grin grew wider, while Kaiba asked himself if it would help when he runs head first against the door.
Maybe it will open the thing?!

"You really want to drive me up a palm, right? I warn you, mutt, you don’t like me when I'm angry!"
"I don’t like you period, so what the hell! And don’t always call me a dog, I'm not one! And you belong on that tree if you can't even remember my name!"

"Joey Wheeler!" Kaiba warned him, but like always it got ignored.
Warnings were always ignored.
Why should he even warn him if he just get ignored in the end?
It is pointless.

"Wow, it seems like you already remember my name!
That’s really a great improvement for you. And tomorrow we will learn how to act like a human being."
"Oh, don’t worry, I know that already. But I will teach you proper behavior." He leered down at Joey, "and when I'm finished with you, you will happily wait at the door for me, bringing my slippers and waggling your tail!"

Joey turned first pale, then brightly red, as he suddenly saw himself sitting at Kaiba's feet, with a leather dog collar around his neck and on a matching leash.
Waggling a bushy blond tail and with a newspaper in his mouth…
Kaiba scratching his equally blond ears and telling him what a good and obedient dog he is.
Joey yipping happily and licking his hands before rolling over on his back to let Kaiba rub his belly…

"The hell I will do that! At most I would bite your stupid ass! If anything!"
Kaiba just nodded and scratched his ear for a moment, before Joey pushed the offending hand away with a low growl.
"Of course you will, puppy, of course."
"I mean it! I shove the newspaper up you ass!"
Again Kaiba nodded, and said with the same, doubtful voice:
"Sure you do…"

And the fact that he irritated Joey even more with that voice was not his intention.
Not at all.
And the earth is as flat as a pancake…

And Joey knows that the other did that on purpose, but sometimes it's just so damn hart not to get upset when he uses that tone.
And he didn’t even take Joey's threat seriously!
"The only reason I don’t really burry you under a heap of desks is because they a bit too heavy to throw! And I don’t want to clean up afterwards!"

The brunet CEO just looked at him strangely, because he didn’t have a clue what the other was talking about…
But their little friendly discussion was suddenly interrupted by a quiet click.

*Click*

Both turned at the same time around to the door.
"Free?" Joey asked cautiously, as if he couldn’t quite believe it.
"Not sure." Kaiba whispered back, just as cautious as the blond.
They didn’t dare to talk too loud, for they feared that the one on the other side would change their mind and just lock them in again if they realized who exactly was in that class…

But they had luck for a change, and the door stayed open as they stuck their heads out.
The janitor shoots them weird looks as they crept cautiously out, as if expecting a trap.
Which they did.
After all, they just spent two hours in there, thanks to Malik and his odd sense of humor.
It also would be no surprise if he had help from his insane half.
And you can never be too careful and suspicious if the two of them are involved!

But there was no trap, nothing happened to them, and they were still alive, sane and unhurt after making a few steps through the door.
And there were no psychos anywhere in sight.
The sky didn’t came crashing down on their heads.
No monsters tried to eat them.
No hole in the ground to drop them down to hell.
No daggers, swords or other weapon aiming for them.
But there was still water ankle-deep in the hall, and the janitor was busy mopping the mess away.
(And we wish him luck with that, since no one turned the water off so far *g*)

'He will not get very far with a bucket and swab if one of the Yamis is responsible for this…' Joey thought pessimistic, before Kaiba stormed past him with an angry growl.

"Malik Ishtar!" Kaiba bellowed as he spotted the blond Hikari before them in the hall.
Said teen turned towards them with wide eyes and an innocent smile as he heard his name called.
Curious he tilts his head to the side: "Yeah, that’s my name!"
For a moment Joey couldn’t bite the laughter back: "Yes, slowly he learns our names.
Guess what, he already knows mine, too.
He even said it, all on his own, just a few minutes ago!" he told him proudly as if he had taught him to do that.

And just like always he stubbornly ignored Kaiba's cold glare, much to his frustration and disappointment.
The CEO shook his head and simply turned back to the real problem: Malik.
"What did you do this for?"
"I didn’t do it, I'm innocent!"
"Sure, that would be a first!"
"But I really didn’t do anything!"
"Of course you did, I'm sure of that!"
"Not true, I wasn’t even anywhere nearby!"
"I saw you, so don’t even try to deny it!"
"But I have an alibi."
"And what would that be?!"
"I was somewhere else, did something else, and, and, and you can't prove anything!"
"I don’t need to prove anything, it was your fault, and that’s for sure!"

By now, Malik and Kaiba stood opposite each other and glared challenging at the other.
Suddenly Malik tilt his head to the side and blinked confused: "Ähhh… What is it that I did or didn’t do?!"
"Don’t act stupider then you are, Blondie, you know exactly what I'm talking about!"

"If my Hikari says that it's not his fault, then it isn't his fault!
And if you don’t believe him I will bite you!" Marik cut in suddenly.
None of the teens had noticed the Yami sneaking up to them until he hugged Malik possessively from behind and growled at Kaiba with bared teeth.
He never likes it when people yell at his poor little Hikari-Pretty…
It always makes his fingers twitching with the urge to send to the shadow realm…
Or to gut something and splatter pretty blood everywhere…

'No thanks, I don’t really need rabies at the moment…'
The CEO thought to himself and made a step back with a snarl, while Malik smirked happily at him.
He either ignored or didn’t notice the brooding mood of his darker half, whose eyes suddenly glittered insanely.
"We both know that it was you who locked us in, no matter what your nutcase thinks.
You're not innocent!" With that Kaiba turned around.
For him, this discussion is useless and, with that, over.
"Oh, and I want my laptop back!"

Behind him he heard Malik giggling madly, and he shocks his head at the sound:
How could that Yami really believe that his Hikari is innocent?
Surely he's not that insane that he doesn’t notice that.
After all, everyone knows that Malik can be just as insane as Marik at times…
Innocent is really something else…

"Maybe found its way into your locker somehow, you should look there…" Malik called after him before Marik dragged him the other way.
Kaiba just grumbled: "Without bite marks, I hope!" but he didn’t get an answer.
Just around the corner the insane duo met Ryou and Yugi, who had two rather upset Yamis clinging tightly to them.

Before one of the blonds could say anything about their mood, Bakura hissed:
"Imagine, Ryou and Yugi thought the bitch was on fire, because of the alarm, and her weird red cap, and they tried to extinguish her!"
"And then Anzu had nothing better to do then to run to a teacher and whine about it!
Because they tried to save her life!" Yami, just as angry as Bakura took over the tale, before Bakura again carried on:
"That’s happen if you want to help someone! That’s why I never even try it; it's just a waste of time and effort! And you only get yelled on for it!"
Yugi and Ryou didn’t say anything to that, but just shared a secret smile.
Somehow it's really sweet, how they always defend them, and always just thought the best of them, no matter what happens and what everyone else says.

'Then again, they surly wouldn’t protest if we ever get rid of her permanently…' Yugi thought and hugged Yami lovingly and nuzzled his neck.
The former pharaoh blinked for a moment down at him in surprise, but then just shrugged and held him tighter without questioning his sudden cuddle-mood.
Yugi-cuddling is always good.
And it always made him feel better and improved his mood a lot.

"Don’t worry, Aibou, just forget all the mean things she said to you. It's not important, and I'm here now… "Calmingly he stroked over the soft, dark spikes, "Don’t take her words to heart." He squeezed Yugi more to his chest, who gladly endured it.

Meanwhile Malik looked around. He just noticed that a certain someone was suspicious silent the whole time.
"Hey, where is Joey?"
"Why, was he here?" Ryou asked. He was a bit curious if and how their plan had worked.
And what they did for two hours, all alone in a locked room.
There are a lot of things you can do, after all…
"Yes, but I'm not sure if it worked. They were fighting as I saw them before, just like always.
At last, Joey was laughing, and Kaiba glared at him.
It seems that nothing really changed..."
"Well, somehow that was to be expected."
"I think we should rather worry about them if they ever stop fighting and complaining…"

Marik laid his chin on Malik's shoulder and listened intently:
"So you really locked them in?"
"We did it for their own good!" Malik defended his plan, which earned them weird glances from the other two Yamis.
"We?"
Ryou and Yugi blushed a little.

"We just though it would be good for them if they can talk with each other without Joey running away, or Kaiba playing with his Laptop.
You know, like normal and reasonable people, not like two gamecocks."
Marik though back at what he just saw of them:
"Well, I think it did not work…"
Malik just shrugged his shoulders:
"It was worth a try…"

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TBC:
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Sorry that it took me so long to get this chapter on the way, but other thing, stories and ideas kept getting in my way.
And as soon as I finally started working on this again, I somehow lost my train of thought!
I don’t know why, I just couldn’t remember where exactly I wanted to go and what I planned to do with Kaiba and Joey locked into their empty class…

I think maybe you can tell that, but I just don’t know how to change it.
And as I reached 30 pages with this chapter I decided again to cut everything in two parts.
So again, the rehearsal later in the afternoon will get its own chapter.
Otherwise it would be just too damn long to read it in one goes.
At first I didn’t know what to write, and then it is too much, too long…
I'm not very good at keeping things short…
The next chapter will follow soon (Hopefully…)