Changes - 4

[frannyan]

~4~

"Yeah right, like any girl would blush at *you.* Probably was embarrassed to have a loser like you drooling over her."

"I was not drooling! And she was so into me!"

"Then how come you didn't get her number?"

Yuugi sighed as he tried to ignore Honda and Jounouchi's bickering and their attempts to get him on his side. No he DIDN'T know where 'Ryou-chan' lived, and he didn't know what 'she' thought about Honda. He knew what Bakura-kun thought about Honda, or at least he thought he did, but he wasn't about to --

"Hey, Bakura! Did ya get the homework done?"

"How could he have, idiot, he's been out the past few days!"

"I asked him, not you!"

Yuugi looked up, eyes wide. Bakura had--

Much to his relief, his friend looked more or less normal. His uniform was open, which was odd, but understandable, all things considered, and his hair seemed...

Yuugi shook his head a little. It's just Bakura-kun. Boy Bakura-kun. Just act like the past two days hadn't happened while at school unless he tells you otherwise. He gave his friend a smile, walking over. "Morning, Bakura-kun! Feeling better?"

"Un," Bakura smiled nodding. "The doctor gave me the okay to come back as long as I stay out of gym class."

"Eh? What happened?" Jounouchi asked, sitting down on Yuugi's desk to look at the paler boy.

"There was something wrong with my chest," Bakura explained as he set his bag down. "It's fine now, but a little sore and bandaged up."

Yuugi nodded, marveling at how Bakura was managing to tell the truth but still make it seem like something completely different. "But you're sure you're okay to be here?" he asked, a little concerned.

Bakura nodded. "I don't want to miss too much school," he smiled. "As good as Anzu-chan's notes are, they're not the same as being in class."

Jounouchi shook his head. "I'll never understand that about you, Bakura," he commented. "Hell, if I had a real excuse? I'd be gone!"

"Which is why you get the worst grades in the class," Anzu pointed out with a smirk.

The blond scowled briefly. "Man, the teacher isn't in yet?" he commented, changing the subject.

"Sorry, that's my fault," Bakura laughed softly, looking embarrassed. "Doctor's orders because of this," he said, briefly touching the center of his chest.

"Seriously? It's bad enough they had a meeting?" Jounouchi's eyebrow rose. "And you're in school?! Jeeze, Bakura!"

"It's not that bad," the boy smiled, reassuring his friend. "The doctor was just concerned about something happening, like if someone knocked into me in the hall."

Yuugi nodded, rubbing his forehead a little. Someone bumping into Bakura-kun and finding what shouldn't be on a boy's chest...



"Man, what good is 'special treatment' from a medical note if you can't even cut in line?" Jounouchi complained as the group set down to have lunch.

"Bakura *brings* his lunch, Jounouchi," Anzu reminded with a smirk.

"Yeah but I'm his bodyguard while he's recovering right?" Jounouchi winked, lightly jabbing Bakura in the arm.

"Mou, Jounouchi!" Anzu sighed as Bakura laughed.

Yuugi smiled, poking at his lunch a bit while the usual lunch banter continued. Well, almost usual... "Honda-kun?" he asked, looking over at his friend, who seemed highly distracted.

Honda startled slightly, jostled out of whatever thoughts he had been lost in. "Something up, Yuugi?"

"Yeah, your spacing out is starting to cheap him out," Jounouchi pipped in. "You still stuck on that girl?"

Honda scowled. "Am not."

Jounouchi snorted. "Please. I KNOW you, Honda, you only get this spacy when you're thinking about a chick or my sister and you've been talking about this blond since last night!"

"She's not a blond."

"Freaky white haired chick then, whatever. Probably a dye job, right?"

Yuugi bit his lip, looking over at Bakura in worry. The boy was happily chatting with Anzu and didn't seem to have noticed the conversation at all. Honda-kun was still thinking about Ryou-chan? No, this wasn't good. What could he do, what could he-- Ah!

"Speaking of Shizuka-chan, how is she doing?" he asked casually.

He smiled and nodded as the conversation switched gears, focusing now on Honda's attraction to Shizuka, and Jounouchi's aggravation over it.

He was very happy when lunch was over.



"It's aggravating me just as much as you!"

"Then just get over it already!"

Yuugi sighed. One more day. One more day 'till the weekend. He buried his head in his arms. Why was he the only one of the three of them that was worried at all? Bakura was spending so much time with Anzu and both seemed almost oblivious to the fact that Honda was still being distracted by thoughts of Ryou-chan whenever Bakura laughed. It was the laugh that did it, he could tell. Every time at lunch when Bakura would laugh, Honda would look up and scan the lunch room and he would have to come up with something quick to distract him before he could start piecing it all together. And it wasn't like he could tell Bakura not to laugh! Or not to spend time with Anzu, as jealous as he was getting. He knew it was silly of him to be jealous anyway. He knew Bakura didn't like girls and Anzu didn't like girls either. And he knew where they were going and even got invited along, but Anzu was doing all the things with Bakura that were too girlish for Yuugi to feel comfortable with. And Bakura's chest was becoming more noticeable under his uniform...

It was a nightmare. Anzu kept telling him not to worry but he couldn't help it. He wanted Bakura to be happy. And Bakura WAS happy, when he was Ryou-chan. But going from Bakura-kun in school to Ryou-chan after school and feeling like he had to make sure Honda or Jounouchi weren't going to be anywhere near where Ryou-chan and Anzu were going to be...

"Look, you wanna see a white haired girl? Just imagine Bakura in a dress with fake boobs and makeup and THERE'S your damned mystery girl!"

Yuugi froze, eyes wide as the conversation around him froze.

Oh shit.