The Crimson Lotus (YAOI) - UNDER EDIT

Chapter 1 - Moving.....AGAIN!

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QueenKlick: This story is the first fanfiction that I wrote, the one that started it all. Sure, I have altered it a few times, but I feel very confident in this final product that you are about to, hopefully, enjoy. I will not claim to be an expert writer or a well-versed author, but I do have a passion of writing for myself as well as for others who have similar interests/hobbies. Here is the new and improved Chapter 1 of The Crimson Lotus (formally called Fallen Moon). I hope you all like it as much as you did when you read it the first time. Vote + Add, please? Thank you!

Chapter 1 - Moving...AGAIN! (EDITS BEING MADE!)

Yugi hates moving. Having to start over somewhere new, meeting new people, attending a new school, and making new friends when he knew it was only a matter of time before he eventually left them all behind once again and would have to do it all over again somewhere else. The whiplash his heart was experiencing from all of this was really starting to get old.

Yugi is a 15-year-old fair-skinned boy with light amethyst eyes, tri-colored hair that was styled into gravity-defying spikes with bangs that framed his gentle face. He lived with his grandfather, Solomon Muto, who was about 72 years of age and stood just about as tall as his grandson. Yugi had come to stay with him after the teen had lost his parents and young twin brother in a fire that consumed their family home five years ago. Somehow, Yugi had managed to survive the event.

Solomon owns a popular hobby shop in the heart of town, in the center of the shopping district of Tokyo, Japan and business was good. Solomon's shop was full of eager customers from the time he opened the door to the time that he closed. There were many occasions that he actually had to force people out of the doors so he could close up shop for the day. Which you think would make him want to stay, right? Oh no, not Solomon Muto! It never seemed to matter where they were. Eventually Solomon would find any sort of excuse to deem it no longer worthy of being their home. Although this location was doing well, he quickly grew tired of the crowded, busy city life. He wanted to live somewhere quiet but refused to move to the country due to the lack of probable business. So, he decided to downsize and chose to relocate to the smaller metropolitan city of Domino City, Japan, and was dragging his grandson with him.

Moving had become such a regular event in their lives, Yugi had begun to lose count of how many different places they had lived in the past year. Then again, he didn't really care. He was never there long enough to make them that memorable anyway. 'Some childhood.' He said to himself, on more than one occasion. Yugi didn't complain. He knew how much this hobby shop meant to his grandfather. He would remember the stories Solomon had told him about how it had been his dream to open a game shop to keep himself occupied during his retirement years after he put the life of being an exploratory, rambunctious archaeologist behind him for good.

Yugi had known, as Solomon got older, that it was only a matter of time before the manic, big city life of Tokyo would wear his grandfather down. But what he wasn't expecting was for that time to come as soon as it did this time. He was usually able to make it through the first two semesters at the new high school he started at that year. But once again he had expected too much of his grandpa and his ability to remain in one place.