Hikari: Happy anniversary!
Yawi: ...What's it the anniversary of?
Hikari: Well, nothing really. But today's halfway between my becoming a user, and my first fanfiction going up. Plus Easter is the day after tomorrow.
Yawi: So...it's celebrating all three?
Hikari: You got it! Disclaimer time!
Yawi: Hikari of the Moon does not own Yu-gi-oh, Yu-gi-oh! Dawn of the Duel, OR Yu-gi-oh! GX. She owns...herself, her almighty yami, the plot of this fanfiction, the nameless girl, and that weird dude pretending to be the Easter Bunny.
Bakura, Marik, and Malik were walking through the Domino Mall. They had been chased out of Ishizu and Ryou's houses, and were still banned from most of the local shops, so the mall was their only option. Okay, so it wasn't, but it was all they could think of! All the stores had banners, streamers, and balloons announcing their Easter sales, since it was that Sunday.
"So...You celebrate a hoppy-thing hiding coloured eggs?"
"No, no, Marik!" Bakura said, "We celebrate the Easter Bunny hiding coloured eggs filled with candy!" He smiled at the thought of candy.
"But how does the candy get in the eggs? I thought they had omelets in them."
"The eggs are plastic! They don't have- Wait, you think eggs have omelets in them?"
The slightly crazed yami, Marik, looked over at his hikari. "Isn't there some other thing about this Easter?"
Malik shrugged. "I'm Egyptian. I lived in a hole in the ground until I was a teenager. Do you think I know?"
"You knew riding our motorcycle in Shadi's living room would get us in trouble..." Marik stopped walking, forcing the others to stop with him.
"Marik, you bozo," Bakura snapped, "Of course you'll get in trouble doing that! If I did that-"
"We'd be wondering how you got our motorcycle!" Malik interrupted.
"And so would I, dude...So would I..." Bakura started walking again, but tripped over a little kid. "Hey, watch where you're going, runt!"
"Sorry, mister, but the Easter Bunny's here!" The child went into the little area where the costumed person was.
"Wow!" Marik said in awe, "That's one big bunny!" He turned to Malik. "Can we go see him?"
Malik threw his hands in the air, dropping Bakura back on the ground, and said, "No! We're sixteen! We are NOT going to go see the Easter Bunny!" Marik used his infamous 'do-as-I-say-or-face-my-monster's-wrath' look. "That doesn't work on me, Marik."
"Then I'll change tactics," Marik stated. He changed his look to the 'please-please-please-let-me-do-whatever-I'm-asking' look.
"Marik!"
"And that's how you ended up in line, eh?"
"Yeah," Bakura sighed, "I should've listened when I was told to pick better friends."
The girl he had been talking with smiled back. "You poor thing. It's probably bad karma. Ever done anything bad?"
"Well," Bakura thought hard and then listed them off, "I tried to kill a pharaoh, robbed a tomb, tried to take over the world, possessed at least five different people, became immortal, took out someone eye, stabbed my ex-host, sided with Marik, sided against Marik, sent the pharaoh and his little group into the past, tried to take over the world again, and stole from most every store in Domino..;" By that time, Bakura noticed the girl had already run off. "You could've let me finish first!"
Malik elbowed him, "By that time, she'd be too scared to run away!" He laughed until Bakura slapped him.
"Stop fighting, guys! Santa's ready!" Marik jumped with joy.
"...This is the Easter Bunny, stupid!" said Bakura.
"Fat red guy; tall white bunny," Malik replied,"What's the difference to Marik?"
Marik walked foreword nervously. So what if it was the Easter Bunny? Maybe he talked to Santa and Santa had told him…her…it…about how he did everything so meanly! What if Yami had told him all about the mean things he had done to him? Oh well, he'd deal with that if he did know. Bakura still had his lighter after all... He stopped once he was standing next to the Easter Bunny and smiled brightly.
"Aren't you a little old?" The bunny asked.
"I'm sixteen." Marik paused, then continued, "But, technically, I'm only six, so I don't think I am.
"Err...okay...whatever...So, you want to have your picture taken?" Marik's eyes widened and he nodded his head rapidly.
"That'd be awesome!"
"Cool. So, hippity-hop right up here!" The Easter Bunny hopped in front of the camera, but Marik didn't move.
"Do I have to hop?" He asked. That'd be pretty babyish.
The Bunny waved him over with a paw. "Ah, come on, It'll be fun!"
Marik shrugged and hopped over to the Bunny while Malik and Bakura laughed. He looked over at them and shouted, "You're supposed to be my friends!"
"If they were your friends, they wouldn't laugh." What the Easter Bunny said next chilled the blood in their veins. "And they'd hippity-hop up here!"
Malik and Bakura struggled against Marik's grip, but failed to break free as he dragged them up next to him with the Bunny.
"Now, gimmie a big, toothy, rabbity smile!" It said loudly.
"This is too much like Barney for me." Bakura said under his breath. He reached into his pocket for his trusty lighter, clicked it on, and smiled at the camera. This taught all the little kiddies an important lesson. Fire and synthetic fur don't mix.
The fire started to spread while the picture was taken. The photographer handed the photo to Malik, and then they walked to the side and waited for it to develop. Soon after, the whole suit caught fire.
"Aaah! The pain! The rabbity pain!" Marik and Bakura slinked away, guiding Malik along with them. "Maybe if I rub my foot it'll go away!"
"The picture's done appearing!" Malik said. All three of them looked over at the photo and smirked. It had Marik with an arm around the rabbit, Malik giving bunny ears to it, Bakura smiling at the camera, and flame on the fur.
"I think this is the first of many great pictures..."
A hour or so later, Bakura, Marik, and Malik were sitting infront of Malik's sister and Ryou. Just by looking at them, you could tell they weren't pleased. Once they opened their mouths, it was obvious.
"You lit someone on fire?" Ryou screamed. "What am I going to do with you!"
"Ryou," Ishizu said, "Do not blame yourself for Bakura's bad choices. It was his own will that made him do what he did."
"This from the woman who blamed everything she did on destiny." Malik whispered to his 'partners in crime'.
Ryou glared. "I expected better from you, Malik. You're a hikari!"
"So? I'm the demon-hikari, you're the angel-hikari, and Yugi's-"
"The stupid hikari!" Bakura shouted over Malik.
"That's it!" Ryou stomped over to his yami, and snatched Bakura's lighter from his hands.
"No, not Shawn!" Bakura yelled and stood up.
"You named your lighter?" Marik said, stupefied.
"Just my favourite one," Bakura said, "I have about ten more back home."
"And until you spend some time being good, you won't get...'Shawn' back!" Ryou snapped. "We're going home now." He turned to Ishizu. "Good luck with these."
"Oh, don't worry about me..." Ishizu said back.
Malik and Marik gasped. "NO! DON'T LEAVE US WITH HER!" But Ryou had already left the room.
"I'd like to help you, guys, but...I just don't care all that badly." Bakura shrugged.
"YOU'D BETTER BE RIGHT BEHIND ME, BAKURA!" Bakura jumped at Ryou's scream, and dashed outside.
Ishizu sighed, and looked at her brother and his counterpart. "Do something like this one more time, and I'll have Shadi turn your brains into mush," she said. The boys nodded fiercely, and Ishizu walked into the kitchen.
"Next time we do something like this, let's make sure we're really far away from her." Malik said.
"Like maybe a whole ocean apart!" Marik said, jumping up, and holding out his arms as wide as he could. "That's like this far away!"
"Sure...and then maybe we'll wear some dopey outfits and scream at everyone in sight."
"Sounds like fun! I'm free Sunday!"
Malik looked up at his yami. "No you aren't, that's when Easter is!"
"What's Easter?"
Yawi: Somehow, this doesn't look done.
Hikari: That's because it's a series. I'll post a new chapter for every major holiday I can, when it comes up.
Yawi: So this'll go on for a year or more?
Hikari: Yup. ((pokes the screen)) So you guys need to review now! I'm not going away that easy!
Yawi: I wish you would…