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Darkness Before Dawn	By : SangoHuntress1977 Category: Yu-Gi-Oh > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 3356 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: YuGiOh and the characters thereof are the sole domain of Kazuki Takahashi and all rightsholders. I'm only borrowing them for entertainment purposes and am deriving no profit.

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Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Domino University
After splitting off from Jou, Yugi made his way cautiously into Building A by means of a side door that he had chanced upon yesterday, in a bid to avoid anymore bullies. This wing of the school was very sparsely populated, to say the least.
As he passed by one of the only two bathrooms in this wing, he heard the sound of heartbroken sobbing coming from within. Cautiously, he pushed the door open and walked in, only to stop and stare at the sight before him: Slumped over in the darkened corner behind the last stall was Atem, whole body shaking as he sobbed his heart out.
Never in a million years would Yugi have expected to see someone with a reputation like Atem’s huddled in the corner of a bathroom, crying as though his entire world had crumbled to pieces. What was going on here?
“Atem?” Yugi called softly.
At the sound of Yugi’s voice, Atem’s head snapped up, revealing bloodshot eyes and a tearstained face.
Yugi took a step closer.
“You OK?”
Atem jumped to his feet and locked himself in the nearest stall.
‘What the hell?’ thought Yugi.
“Atem. It’s Yugi,” Yugi called through the stall door. “Remember? You saved me from two bullies and we played Duel Monsters yesterday.”
A few muffled sobs.
“L-leave me alone,” Atem’s voice sounded through the door.
“I will, if that’s what you want. But first, I just wanted to say sorry for pumping you about the circle yesterday. I should’ve let it go when you said no,” said Yugi softly.
A few more sobs, followed by some sniffles.
Yugi sighed and turned away.
“I’ll go,” he said softly.
A click followed by a squeak as the stall door swung open.
Yugi turned around and looked into Atem’s tear dampened face. Before he could say anything, Atem spoke in a shaky voice.
“I apologize for s-snapping at you yesterday,” he stuttered.
“Atem?” Yugi said.
With a sniffle, Atem continued.
“I enjoyed our duels and would like to duel you again soon. Not in a circle or a tournament; just as we did yesterday,” he continued, voice steadying as he went along.
“Me too. How about at lunch?” offered Yugi, extending his hand.
Atem appeared to flinch at the proffered hand for a second before recovering himself and taking it.
“I’d like that very much,” he sniffled, watery smile gracing his features.
“OK! I’ll bury you!” Yugi teased gently.
A stronger smile lit Atem’s features just a bit as his hand absently squeezed Yugi’s.
“We shall see, shan’t we?” he teased back. “For now though, we must get to class.”
“Wanna sit next to me?” Yugi asked hopefully.
“Yes,” Atem responded happily, again squeezing Yugi’s hand.
“Why dontcha blow your nose and splash some water on your face?” Yugi suggested. “If any of those upperclass bullies see that you’ve been crying, they’ll be merciless.”
“Hn! An excellent idea,” Atem returned, releasing Yugi’s hand and approaching the sink.
Yugi and Atem exited the bathroom and went to class, Yugi with a song in his heart. If anyone stared or whispered about Yami walking with someone, neither tricolor noticed.
They sat through the class, listening, taking notes and every now and then, exchanging smiles. At the end of class as they gathered their papers, Yugi was surprised by Atem’s voice.
“Yugi, would you be my partner?”
Yugi looked into the Egyptian’s face and saw just a tiny bit of hope brightening his eyes.
“I’d love to!” he responded with a big, bright-eyed smile. “See you at the oak tree for lunch? We can go over our notes.”
Atem’s eyes lit.
“Yes!” was all he said.
After their morning classes, Yugi and Atem met each other at the oak tree and sat down to eat and look at their respective notes. Soon, they fell into discussing the arcana of psychology over some jambon beurre, which Yugi found himself eating slowly and savoring, instead of just cramming into his mouth. Much to his surprise, he actually found himself getting lost in their shared subject of study.
“So, these archetypes are things that everyone remembers from this huge collective subconscious?” he asked.
“According to Jung’s theory, all humans are born with these primal subconscious memories inherited from their ancestors. They’re represented as images: the warrior king, the dragon, the knight,” Atem explained.
“Wow! Cool!” squealed Yugi, writing down the information as though it were holy scriptures from the gods themselves.
Maybe psychology wasn’t so boring and stupid after all.
Yugi and Atem looked at the 12 Archetypes in Atem’s text book.
“You are definitely The Innocent,” smirked Atem.
“Well, you’re definitely The Warrior,” returned Yugi.
Atem frowned and looked down at his hands with a sigh.
“I don’t see much of The Warrior in myself,” he said softly.
“I do,” declared Yugi.
This made Atem look into the bright pools of violet that stared so trustingly at him.
“Do you?” he asked.
“Yup. And I bet you will too someday,” said Yugi enthusiastically.
“Hn. You think so?” Atem replied with a half smile.
“Yup. It’ll happen when you least expect it,” said Yugi.
“Hmmm. We shall see, shan’t we?” said Atem. “Now, onto Soul Types…”
After homework, Yugi and Atem dueled again with the same results as yesterday. As they put away their cards, they exchanged smiles again.
“You’re just too awesome,” Yugi gushed.
“Your skills force me to be at the top of my game,” Atem purred, a warm smile spreading across his lips.
Yugi returned his smile. How he loved seeing Atem like this, so open and natural, instead of withdrawn and angry.
The magic of the moment was shattered as Atem’s watch beeped.
“My next class is in five minutes. I must go,” he said regretfully.
“See you in class tomorrow?” Yugi asked impulsively.
“Yes, you will,” Atem responded in that warm, silky voice that made Yugi’s legs turn to jelly.
Yugi’s face broke out in a smile, which Atem returned as he stood up to go.
Yugi pulled out his phone to email Jou, only to realize that he had some missed messages.
W4rDoG: hey yuge we etn 2gthr or wt
cmon @ lst txt me baq
lemme gs ur etn w yami thts cool
‘Oh, no! How could I have been so thoughtless?!’ Yugi screamed mentally as he hastily tapped out an apologetic email.
That evening…
Jou and Yugi sat on the couch, only partially watching TV.
“Jou, I’m so sorry about not meeting you for lunch,” Yugi said dismally around a mouthful of Shrimp Doritos.
“’s cool. I figured ya ran into Yami,” grinned Jou as he swigged some Jolt Cola.
“Atem, Jou,” corrected Yugi with a wrinkled nose.
“So, ya really dig ’m, eh?” Jou asked.
“Kinda, yeah. It’s like, once I got to talking with him, all the anger just disappeared and there was this real cool guy under it. He knows all about psychology. We sat together for class and then he asked me to be his partner for work,” Yugi gushed.
“Maybe ya could bring ’m by here t’ do homework one day ‘n me ‘n him could duel aftah,” Jou suggested.
“That’s a cool idea. But lemme wait till just the right time to ask him,” said Yugi.
“No pro’lm,” answered Jou as he shoved four Doritos into his mouth.
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