Happy Endings Are So Over-Rated

Title: Happy Endings Are So Over-Rated
Author: Shuici no Baka
Pairings: YamixYugi, SetoxJou, MarikxMalik, BakuraxRyou, SetoxYamixSeto
Disclaimers: Don't own'm, dun want'm. Well.. I do, but then I'd have to share. *smirks* And I dun like to share! :P

A/N: There's an additional warnings on this chapter, and probably several chapters afterwards. Attempted suicide, depression, lots of fighting, angst galore. Yay.


yukiko: Sorry if you don't think I'm being IC with Jou. It's not that I'm trying to make him appear tough and not sensitive. I just think that he's not yet at that stage to cry, he's too pissed off, not just at Seto, but at Yami as well for hurting Yugi, who he feels is much more sensitive than himself. Don't worry, Jou will break down. I just can't see him as the type who will do it in front of other guys. Let's face it, Jou IS rather macho. Even if he is sensitive. :) I hope this has cleared up some things.

Yami: Have I told you how much I hate you yet?
SnB: Not this chapter, anyways. :}
Yugi: O.O
SnB: What's his problem?
Malik: Well, he kinda saw the warning and he's a little creeped out.
SnB: Oh. Oh well, he'll get over it.
Yugi: @.@
Yami: Huh? What warning?
Marik: That one, you twit. *Points upwards*
Yami: *reads* WHAT?! NOW what are you doing, you.. you sadist!
SnB: Teehee. That's a new one. Just writing a story, Atemu-sama. ^.^
Ryou: I think Yugi passed out....
Bakura: *snickers* What a wimp.
Ryou: *whaps Bakura* Shut up. That wasn't very nice!
Bakura: *whimpers and rubs his head*
Malik: On with the story! We're finally in this story! Yay!

Happy Endings Are So Over-Rated
Chapter 3 -- Dealing With It?

Ryou started slightly as he felt a hand shake at his shoulder. He rolled away from where he was curled up against Yugi, and blinked sleepily up at Bakura. "Baku?" His yami smirked slightly, leaning down to gently press a kiss against his hikari's lips. "It's time to wake up. I'm not sure if Yugi feels like staying home from school today, but I know you have that test today."
At the mention of the test, Ryou groaned and rested his arm over his eyes, accidently jostling Yugi, who blearily openned his eyes, before blinking owlishly at Ryou and Bakura. His lower lip trembled a bit. "I guess it really wasn't a dream then." He sighed softly, before climbing out of the bed, crawling over Ryou carefully. He quickly moved into the bathroom, closing and locking the door behind him. Ryou frowned and sat up, wrapping his arms around his legs as he looks toward Jou, who seemed to be waking up himself. Ryou knew better than to ask the proud blond if he was alright, and pretended not to hear the other boy crying in the night, when he thought everyone else was asleep. He felt so terrible for both his friends, who had been in love so deeply, like himself.
Ryou looked up at Bakura, his own wide eyes growing moist, which caused Bakura's eyebrows to lift. "What is it, little one?" Ryou sniffed, and rubbed at his eyes, trying to get his emotions back into check. "Nothing." How could he explain to Bakura that he understands where Yugi and Jou are coming from. It'd kill him if he learned that Bakura was cheating on him with another.
Yugi opened the door, running his fingers through his wild hair. "Thank you, Bakura, Ryou. But I think I should go to school with you. If I stay home, I'll just end up thinking about.. well, you know." He looked at the floor and frowned. "But, I need to run home to get changed."
Ryou smiled and nodded. "How about if I go with Jou to get him changed, and Bakura heads over to the game shop with you, Yugi, to get changed. Then we'll meet in front of school and go in together." Jou blinked owlishly. "Wha? Oh, man, I guess this means I don't get to skip class, huh?" He tried to laugh, but it came out a hoarse snort instead. Yugi smiled weakly, and moved over to hug his best friend, before whispering something quickly before taking off, with a hurried Bakura quickly following him, yelling at him to wait up for him.
Jou stared at the door looking dumbstruck, before he turned to look at Ryou, a single tear sliding down his cheek to drip off his chin. "Jou? What is it? What did Yugi say?" Ryou quickly moved over to hug the blond boy. "He said.. he said 'I'm sorry I wasn't enough for him.' Ryou.. he thinks this is all his fault!"
Ryou closed his eyes and sighed, then climbed to his feet. "Come on. I have to get changed. We'll grab something to eat on the way to school. And Jou? It's ok to cry around friends, you know. I won't think you're weak. I'd probably be a wreck like Yugi is if Bakura messed around on me." He shrugged sadly, before leaving for his own room to change. Jou stared after him for a few moments, then closed his eyes sadly as he brushed aside a few stray tears. "Why, Seto?" he whimpered softly.

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"Grandpa, I'm home." Yugi called out as he opened the game shop door. Solomon hurried into the front room, and pulled Yugi into a hug. "Yugi, are you alright? I was so worried when you didn't come home until your friend Ryou called."
Yugi tried to smile, but it failed miserably, before he nodded and slipped out of his grandfather's arms, and hurried up the stairs after assuring his grandfather that he was fine. Solomon frowned, then turned to Bakura who had slipped in after Yugi. "What happened? Yugi's never been like this since his parents disappeared."
Bakura, unsure of what to say, stared at the older man with concern. Finally, he sighed and slipped onto a stool as he started to tell Solomon what happened last night.

Yugi slowly dressed, then brushed his hair. He stared at himself in the mirror. "What's wrong with you?" he hissed at the image there. "Are you so horrible your own dark doesn't give a shit about you?" Tears started again, before he roughly turned away from the mirror, lest he throw something at it, like his fist. He paused as his eyes found a present from Bakura on his last birthday. He picked it up, and slipped it into his pocket, before he slipped down the stairs again.
Yugi kept his eyes on the floor as he stepped into the game shop. "I'm ready, Bakura. I'll see you after school, Grandpa." Yugi headed for the door, never noticing the look of anger on his grandfather's face, or the twin spots of red on his cheeks. The older man's fists clenched visibly as he strained to refrain from hitting something. "Have a good day, Yugi." He tried to chirp lightly, but it came out slightly growled.
Yugi settled into a walk next to Bakura, almost missing walking with-no, don't think about that, he told himself. He sighed, and was about to say something to Bakura, when he heard someone shout out his name. He turned to look, and his face paled as he saw Yami running toward him. "Bakura..." he whimpered slightly, before turning back around and racing toward the school.
Bakura growled deeply and planted his feet wide apart, crossing his arms across his chest. "Guess you didn't get the point last night, Pharoah. Now I really get to beat the shit out of you." he smirked at the ex-pharoah as he came to a stop before him. "Get out of my way, Bakura. I need to speak to Yugi!"
Bakura snorted. "That may be, but Yugi doesn't want to talk to you at all." Yami looked hurt, but quickly covered it up. "I don't believe you. Now, move." He started to push past Bakura, only to be stopped by a left hook slamming into his jaw. He stumbled back, rubbing at his face as he stared at Bakura in shock. "You /hit/ me!"
"Well, give the man a prize. We're not in Egypt anymore, Atemu. Get over yourself. Life doesn't center around you anymore. I personally don't give two shits about you. I'm doing this for Ryou, Yugi, and Jou. Your hikari deserves better than what you've given him, you ass." Bakura snapped.
Suddenly, a voice from behind startled both Yami and Bakura. "Hey, who started the party and didn't invite us?" Yami turned and saw Malik and his yami, Marik. Bakura smirked slightly and nodded toward Marik, before glaring at Yami. "That'd have been Atemu here, when he fucked Seto, and Yugi and Jou walked in."
Yami's shoulders slump as the words were beat into him once more, so he missed the shock that appeared on Marik and Malik's faces, before fury replaced the shock on Malik's face. Malik launched himself at Atemu, punching the proud face of the pharoah whick knocked him on his backside, before he yelped and shook his hand. "Fucking bastard!" He hissed, before he turned and dashed toward the school toward his friends.
Bakura's brow arched slightly and tilted his head toward Marik, who was watching in an odd sort of amusement. Marik looked back at Bakura and shrugged, before turning to look at the pharoah, who sits dejectedly on the ground. "Gee, pharoah," Bakura chirped, "You seem to have picked up a liking for sitting on the ground lately!" Bakura cackled, before he kicked dirt at the pharoah. "Leave Yugi alone. Don't call him, don't try to talk to him, just stay the fuck away from him. Or next time I won't stop."
Marik growled slightly. "And I'll help, you moron." He stepped around the fallen dark, and walked toward the school with Bakura to find their friends and hikaris. Yami sat there on the ground, his hands bracing against the dirt as he licked at the blood leaking from his sore lip. It wasn't anything more than he deserved. He closed his eyes, then slowly stood up, and headed for the game shop. He needed to get changed before classes started, not that he really wanted to go to class at the moment.
Yami pushed open the door, only to be met with a blinding pain as he felt a fist make contact with he face, sending him plummeting back onto the sidewalk outside. His hand lifted to clutch at his aching nose when he looked up, straight into the eyes of a fuming elder Motou. "Find somewhere else to live. You're no longer welcome here." He throws a few bags filled with Yami's clothing and slams the door closed.
Tears fell from the once proud pharoah's eyes as he quickly gathered his belongings, shocked and anguished to find the millenium puzzle inside one of the bags. He wasn't sure if it was Yugi's doing, or Solomon's, but he knew now that he had to talk to Yugi urgently.

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Malik came dashing toward the group, almost mowing down Yugi, before he clasps the other's shoulders. "Are you ok, Yugi-kun?" He asks, ducking to look into Yugi's face. Yugi just shrugged. "I'm fine." He says miserably, before shrugging out of Malik's hold and walking away from his friends, starting toward the school. Malik frowned as he watched Yugi until he disappeared into the school, then turned to look at Ryou and Jou. "Why didn't you call us last night? We would have come over. And how are you feeling, Jou?" He frowns at Ryou, then looked over at Jou with a compassionate look.
Jou just gave a one shoulder shrug before he looked away. "As well as can be expected, I guess. I'm going to stay with Yugi for a while. I'm more worried about him than myself. He's taking this much worse than I thought he would." He frowned, before turning to look at Malik, then noticed that Bakura and Marik had walked up behind them. "He blames himself, you know. He doesn't think he was enough for Yami, so he thinks he drove Yami to Seto. That's not right, but I don't know how we're going to convince him of that."
With that, Jou turned and followed after his smaller friend, soon disappearing into the school as well. Malik leaned back against Marik, before turning to look at Bakura and Ryou. "What a mess...Why would Yami do something so dispicable? I thought he loved Yugi? What's not to love about the little runt?" Malik mumbled slightly, then just shrugged with a grin at Marik as his dark glared at him about the love comment.
Marik just snorted and slipped an arm around Malik's waist. "Atemu..I honestly don't know what he was thinking, but I do know he was used to getting everything he wanted. Maybe he was just greedy. Who knows? Let's just focus on little Yugi right now, and deal with Yami when we get the time. I've a feeling that this is going to be a long haul." The others nodded, before heading inside themselves.
Yugi made it to his homeroom class, before sitting down in his assigned seat, his head down so not to call attention to himself. He clenched his hands together before him, his mind still on the object in his pocket. He bit his lower lip as he struggled to keep his tears in check. Why did Yami have to find him now? Why couldn't he just stay with Seto? He looked perfectly happy with him last night. With that, he lost the battle against the tears, and quickly made his way out of the room, running into Jou, who caught him before he could fall down. "Hey, you ok, Yug?"
He nodded and pushed his way out of Jou's arms, and threw a comment over his shoulder. "Just have to use the bathroom. Be right back." Jou watched as Yugi hurried into the bathroom, frowning. He sighed and moved to his seat, his fingers tapping on the desk as he waited for the others.

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Yugi hurried into the bathroom, and barely made it into one of the stalls before he collapsed on one of the commodes, sobbing into his hands as the thoughts just continued to roll and boil through his mind. He shifted slightly, falling onto the floor, curling up into the far corner of the bathroom, safely locked in one of the stalls as he buries his face in his knees as he continues to cry.

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Ryou and the others made it into the homeroom just as the bell rung, and the seat themselves near Jou. Malik looked around, and asked Jou where Yugi was. "He had to use the bathroom. I think he was crying again, but I couldn't tell." Bakura ducked his head, his hand clenched around the edge of his desk, before Ryou gently touched it. "Calm down, Baku. Let's just give him a little while to calm down himself, and then I'll go get him, ok?" The others nodded, before turning to look up at the teacher who started to take rollcall.

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Yugi rubbed at his face, before leaning his head against the wall. "I'm so sorry, Jou..." he whispered to himself hoarsely. His hand slips into his pocket, and he pulls out the gift that Bakura had given him. It was a beautifully decorated switchblade, one that Bakura jokingly warned him to be careful or he'd end up cutting himself with. Yami had been angry at Bakura, but Yugi had liked it and had thanked the thief with a hug and a kiss to the pale cheek. /I'm sorry, Yami./
He opened the blade, carefully running his thumb on the blade, then sucking on the slight cut. Throughout the whole procedure, his eyes watched emotionlessly. It was almost as if there was no one home. He set the blade in his lap and carefully rolled up his sleeves. He couldn't live without Yami... or with the guilt that he wasn't enough for his own soulmate. /I'm so sorry.../ Tears started again down his cheeks as he picked up the blade once more and touched the tip to just above his wrist..

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Yami had picked up his bags, and deposited them behind the game shop. He didn't really care about his clothing, but he tucked the puzzle into his school bag. Even if the others wouldn't let him talk to Yugi, he just had to get in touch with him somehow. He had to apologize to his little hikari. It hurt him terribly to know his love was in pain because of him.
Turning towards the school, Yami wasn't really looking forward to the stares and glares, but at least this way, he'd be able to see Yugi from a distance.
/I'm sorry, Yami./
Yami blinked and nearly stumbled as he heard Yugi's voice through their bond, and the profound sadness that accompanied the message. //What? No, Yugi, it's my fault, please, I'm the one that's sorry. Can you ever forgive me?//
/I'm so sorry./ His eyes widened as he realized that he wasn't getting through to Yugi, then gasped as he felt the total dispair, and then pain. "No.... NO!" He took off running toward the school, not caring about the people he knocked over.

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Yami dashed into homeroom, disrupting the class. The teacher glared at him, but he ignored her, before he grabbed Ryou and bodily lifted him from his seat. "Where's Yugi?!" Bakura jumped up and leaped at Yami, knocking him off balance, letting go of Ryou. Bakura started to punch the pharoah in the solar plex. Yami grunted with each blow, until he could kick out one of Bakura's legs. "Please!" he weazed out. "Please, where is he? He keeps sending me 'I'm sorry'. Something's wrong with him!"
Ryou paled, before he jumped up from the ground where he fell when Yami dropped him, and dashed out of the classroom, followed closely by the others. Ryou shoved the bathroom door opened, then called out for Yugi. Hearing no reply, he began to search the bathroom.
The teacher began to lecture Yami and Bakura about fighting in school when she heard a blood curdling scream coming from the bathroom. She rushed out the door and into the boys' bathroom, skidding to a halt when she saw Ryou Bakura holding a bleeding Yugi Motou in his arms. He looks up at the teacher, tears in his eyes. "Please, get help!" She pressed a hand to her lips before turning and running out of the room again, rushing to the office to call the paramedics.
Yami had stumbled in after the teacher, and fell to his knees beside Ryou and Yugi. He tore off his shirt and started to wrap his hikari's wrists. "Oh Ra, Yugi.. why?" He's almost blinded by his tears as the others watched with a mixture of anger and compassion. It was obvious that Yami still loved Yugi, but why had Yugi tried to kill himself.
As soon as Yami had Yugi's wrists wrapped, he tried to reach up to touch Yugi's face, only to have his hand slapped away. He looked up at a fuming Ryou. "Haven't you done enough already?" Yami looked stricken, before Marik and Bakura physically picked him up and dragged him out of the room just as the paramedics rushed in with a stretcher. They took Yugi from Ryou's arms, and wasted no time other than dragging Ryou with them to answer any questions they needed on the way to the hospital. Ryou looked back at Malik. "Call Motou-san and tell him to come to the hospital as soon as possible, Malik." And with that, Ryou and Yugi were swept away.

TBC

Yami: *shakes* What have you done?!
Yugi: *groggily rubs his eyes* Wha' happened?
SnB: You tried to kill yourself. Very messy.
Yugi: O.O
Ryou: Ew! Why did I have to find him! Look at me! I'm a mess!
Bakura: *looks at Ryou* You know, blood never comes out of fabric..
Yami: *passes out* *thud*
Marik: *cackles* What a twit. Anyways, review SnB so he'll keep writing! I want my own chance to beat on the twit. }:)
Malik: I.. I got to punch the pharoah?
Marik: Yeah, completely unfair. I wanted to hit him!
Malik: *snickers* Well, you know what they say. Beauty before age. *dashes off*
Marik: HEY! *chases after* Review now! Or I'll have to do something drastic, like shave all of Malik's hair off!
Malik: EEP!