Pure Snow...Blood and Beauty Divine (Yu-Gi-Oh Fanfiction)

Chapter 9: Confessions

The next morning, Yami woke to the sound of both his phone and his alarm blaring at max volume, scaring the living daylights out of him. He thought he was about to have a heart attack. Yami answered his phone. "Yami?"

"Who else could it be? How weird is it when you call me and my alarm goes off at the same time?" Yami sighed, too tired to put up with anything at the moment.

"Pretty weird." Joey responded. "Speaking of which, why haven't you been talking to us recently?"

Yami rolled his eyes. "I've just been busy lately. I thought I told you guys that already."

"Yeah, you did, but..."

"But...?" Yami waited for Joey to continue.

"Look, I'm just making absolutely sure. Are you sure nothing's on your mind?"

"I'm fine, Joey. Don't worry so much!" Yami insisted. "Look, you can talk to me when we see each other at school, 'kay? Bye!"

"Yami, wait-" Yami hung up him before he could get another word in.

On Joey's end, the blonde stared at the cell in rage. "Damn it." He turned to Mai, Duke, Tristan, and Téa. "No luck. He hung up on me."

He climbed in behind Mai. "Let's go."

Seto waited by the gates of Domino High in hopes of finding the recently secretive Yami. After getting the truth out of Mokuba, there were a few things that needed to be explained to him. Especially the fact that Yami was hiding his own gender from his friends.

His brother then demanded, "Don't lie to us, then. Tell us everything you know."

Mokuba shuffled his feet as he remained in Marik's grasp. Malik and Ryou exchanged worried looks and Yugi swallowed hard. "Well?" Marik growled impatiently.

Seto's eyes lit up in realization. "Wait..." He leaned forward a little to look into his brother's blue eyes. "Were you four running for woods earlier?" he asked curiously, his eyes flitting between the boys. The teens in question tensed. Malik tried to get them out of this.

"Yeah, right. Why would we be around here anyway?" Malik began his lie. "We happened to be passing through the woods on a whim. Whatever went on here, we have nothing to do with it."

Mokuba silently prayed. This situation is bad enough as it is. "I'm pretty sure Kaiba asked you not to lie." Marik said plainly, causing them to shiver.

"You're not in trouble, Mokuba. I just need to know, okay?" the brunette said calmly. True, it's wrong to spy on people, but if Mokuba's got something about Yami that they need to know, he's going to get the answer one way or another.

The raven-haired male sighed in defeat. "Alright, alright, I'll tell the truth." He looked at the others, waiting to see if they were ready to listen. "We were spying on Yami."

An outraged burst from the blonde was enough to make him flinch. "You guys snuck in here?! I thought you guys knew better!" Joey demanded before Mai smacked him at the back of his head.

"How about giving them a chance to explain themselves before screeching at them, Joey?" the buxom blonde suggested coldly. Joey just rubbed his head in slight pain.

Malik, Ryou, and Yugi exchanged rather worried looks as Mokuba continued, "You guys wanted to know why Yami was being so secretive as of late, so we did the work for you." He looked at the group half-expecting them to be clawing their eyes put or something.