Buddyshipping in Rome Ch.1

  Jonouchi bounced up and down in his seat at school. He was counting down the seconds until class was over so he could go to lunch. He had some major beans to spill to his friends!

  The bell rang.

  "Okay class, I'll see you-" The teacher started.

  Jonouchi and the rest of the class sprang out of his chair and started gathering his things.

  "…tomorrow." By the time she finished the class was gone. She sighed.

  "Yugi!" Jonouchi yelled, running to catch up with his friend.

  "Slow down!" Yugi yelled shielding himself, just in case.

  Jonouchi skidded loudly and stopped inches away from Yugi's personal space.

  Yugi sighed in relief. "Now what is so important?"

  Jonouchi grabbed his friends arm and started pulling him outside.

  "Jonouchi! Stop it! You know I hate that!"

  "Sorry Yuge, this is important."

  Minutes later, Jonouchi, Anzu, Honda, and Yugi met at their usual lunch table outside. A few conversations later, Jonouchi had to tell.

  "Hey guys! I have and announcement!"

  All his friends turned to look at him.

  "…I'm going to Italy!"

  All his friend's faces lit up with joy and excitement.

  "That's amazing, Jonouchi! But how can you afford to go all by yourself?" Anzu asked, getting a little worried.

  "I won an all expenses paid trip to fly there, first class!"

  "Wow!" all his friends said.

  "That ain't all! I can take one of you's wit me!"  

  "Which one of us are you taking?" Anzu asked.

  "After a long time to think about it, I decided to take… Honda!"

  Honda's eyed grew large, "Me?"

  "Yeah, you!"

  Anzu and Yugi applauded out of happiness for their friends.

  Anzu couldn't help but be a bit jealous, though.

  "So when are you two going?"

  "Friday morning."

  "That's four days from now!"

  "Yep. I haven't even started packing…"

  "Jonouchi!" Anzu yelled.

  "What?"

…

  Jonouchi and Honda pulled up at the airport on Honda's motorcycle at about 4:00 am. They had both been too excited to sleep, so they decided to head out early.

  Once they got their passes approved, they had to wait about an hour before boarding. So much for 'early'.

  "Honda! Jonouchi!" they heard a voice call.

  Turning around, they saw Yugi and Anzu, waving.  

  "Hey!" Honda and Jonouchi both called, running over to greet them.

  "How the hell did you get here?!? You have school in about four hours, you should be sleeping!" Jonouchi asked, still smiling.

  "We HAD to come se you! How long 'til you have to board?"
  
  "About 40 minutes now."

They spent their last 40 minutes together until their flight, flight 7, was called.

  Anzu made their final goodbye all teary. They'd only be gone for a month!

  "Bye!" Anzu and Yugi yelled.
   
  With that and a wave they were on the plane.

…
  Jonouchi watched the sky around the plane change. Out of the 15 hours it'd take to get there, they had killed about thirteen. It was now about 8:00 p.m.

  Honda was fast asleep next to him.

  "What to do for 2 hours…" Jonouchi thought.

  Then he felt a bump.

  The kid behind him was awake and kicking his seat.

  "Kid, couldja stop that?"

  It stopped for a second, but then continued.

  "KID, what the hell, I said STOP!"

  He stopped again. Then started again.

  Jonouchi reached behind him and grabbed the kid's leg. "STOP IT!"

  He withdrew his leg and stopped permanently.

  Jonouchi decided that some sleep wouldn't hurt him.

…

  "Jonouchi."
  Jonouchi ignored the call and continued to sleep.

  "Jonouchi!"

  He groaned and turned his head.

  "JONOUCHI!"

  "What?!?"

  Honda stared at him and pointed out the window.

  Jonouchi's eyes widened at the beauty under him.

  "We're here."

  An hour later, they got off the plane, luggage in hand.

  "Whoa! Look Honda!"

  Jonouchi pointed to the wondrous beauty that went on for miles. Hills, towers, temples, cathedrals, it was all like one huge museum!

  "Rome rocks." Honda stated, marveling at the scenery in front of him.

  "You don't gotta say that twice."

  "So Jou, you never mentioned where we were going to stay."

  "One of the best hotels in Rome. It's like this beauty times, like, five."

  "Whoa."

  "Dude, I know.

  "We have to take a bus at this stop over here?" Honda pointed to a sign that read, fermata dell'autobus.

  "How do you know that's a bus stop?"

  "I know italian."

  "Since when? I didn't know that!"

  "There's a lot you don't know about me, Jou."

  They got on the next bus.