This is my first yugioh fanfic! Don't yell at me if you don't like it, but gimmee reviews!
ANYWAYS, I DO NOT OWN YUGIOH IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM!
ENJOY!
Blood littered the room. The bright crimson stained the cream colored carpet of the small living space, and its metallic smell wafted throughout the entire home. A beautiful girl lay limp on the floor, her hazel eyes locked in a state of shock and terror. She held her torso tightly, trying to stop the blood that was slowly flowing from it. It was too dark for her to see anything, but she could feel a sinister shadow looming over her.
"please," she begged. "take anything you want just go away!"
"well," a males voice growled. "the thing I want most now is your life."
The girl inhaled sharply as a thin pointed object pierced her back and out the front of her chest. Blood began to pour from her mouth and she hit the ground with a thud.
" I'll be sure to tell marik it was for the best." The voice said before spitting on the body of the girl and walking away.
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3 months earlier…..
" marik, wake up!" ishizu called at her younger brother, who was buried under a mound of covers. "He was always this way" she thought. "It was like trying to revive the dead, waking him up for school in the morning."
"COME ON GET UP!" she shouted at the unconscious boy. He still didn't stir. He just snored at her.
Marik was in his own little world when he slept or drifted off into space. He would always find himself in a little room whenever he didn't keep his mind entertained. That's where he would talk to his yami, where he would end up if his yami took over his body, and where he was when he slept. The room wasn't very fancy, just an all white room with things to sit or lay on and a tv. He hated going there. It was boring. And, at the moment, he was very bored.
"marik, your sister is calling you" malik said, glancing away from the tv he was watching.
Marik lay in a bed, the same position as his actual sleeping self. He felt the same things as his body when he was in the room, and that ment he felt just as tired.
"tell her I said five more minutes." He mumbled, rolling onto his side and putting a pillow over his head.
" I think it would be a lot smarter for you to get up now. She has a shoe in her hand."
Marik looked over at his yami, who was still glued to the tv.
"what kind?"
"high heel."
"ow! What the heck?" marik yelped as he felt something hit him in the head. He looked up and nothing was there. His yami looked a little perturbed also.
"will you wake up already? When she hits you she hits me! And I don't like being hit with cheap shoes!"
" Alright already!" marik said, pinching his arm.
" IM UP IM UP!" marik shouted at his older sibling, glaring at her and throwing a pillow at her. She ducked and it flew out of the room and broke a vase.
" your going to fix that." She said, smirking at him. "hurry up and get dressed, it's time for school. And stop by the store after school to get an alarm clock, because I'm catching a flight back to Egypt to visit a few friends."
"YOU have friends? Oh my Ra that's amazing!" He said, returning the smirk. He earned a swift slap to the head.
"I'm serious. I won't be here to wake you up every morning anymore and you need all the school you can get."
"I still don't understand why you made us move to America of all places."
"I've said it before; there was a good job opportunity! And besides, your little friend Ryou moved here too so stop complaining." Ishizu said as she glanced down at her watch. " Oh ra! If I don't go soon im going to miss my flight! Ok marik, the hair straightner is in the bathroom already hot, and the hairspray is—"
" I'm not stupid I know where it is." He said sharply, blushing a little.
" don't get testy Marik its not my fault you have difficult hair and need to use girly hair products."
" don't you have a flight to catch?"
"don't you have school to go to?"
the siblings stared at Each other for a second and went on with their business, Marik hopping out of bed and Ishizu running out the door with her luggage.
He began his long morning ritual of taming his ridiculous sandy hair and ironing his school uniform. After he finished his breakfast, he grabbed his bookbag and of course his millennium rod that never left his side.
As he neared his bus stop, which he also hated, he spotted his white haired friend.
" hey Ryou what's up—"
" DO YOU REALIZE HOW LATE YOU ARE?" he screamed at marik, who in turn smiled a little. He found it funny to make his buddy angry.
"well, no not really. I don't really care anyhow."
" you really need to start worrying more about your education! I mean really, you have a bloody D in geography!"
" ok, so what I said that the capital of America is New York? sue me. Its not like I've been living here for very long."
" WE'VE BEEN HERE FOR 9 MONTHS!"
" well whatever! Not all of us can be feline geniuses like you ryou."
"I AM NOT A KITTY!"
" I said feline but if you prefer kitty then so be it."
" MARIK—"
" Oh look the bus is here!" Marik said, dodging a swing from ryou, who was blushing angrily.
The bus pulled up just in time, and Marik and ryou followed by a few other kids at their stop boarded the yellow vehicle.
Marik usually sat behind ryou, but he made him upset so ryou sat about 4 seats ahead of him. he sighed at his friend and laughed a little as he looked for another seat.
" uh, can I sit here?" he asked a, what looked like a girl. She had her face towards the window, so he couldn't really tell. She jumped at the sound of his voice and whipped her head around.
" oh! Sorry, you surprised me. Yeah, sure."
"….thanks…" marik said, staring at the girl. She was cute. She had long curly onyx hair and big honest brown hazel eyes. She had a slight tan and long eyelashes, with a very appealing smile. Marik felt himself blush and he sat down quickly, staring at his feet.
" so, I haven't seen you on this bus before, are you new?" marik asked the girl, who was staring at him. He shifted a little in his seat.
" yes, I moved from a town a few miles away…" she said slowly as she stared into his eyes. Marik began to blush again. " uh… is something wrong?" he asked, leaning away a little.
" n-no! sorry for staring, may I ask, is that your natural eye color?"
" yeah, what I was born with."
" they're beautiful…" she blushed a little also and looked down to brake the stare. Marik followed her eyes to the millennium rod that was poking out of his back pack.
" is that a replica of the millennium rod?" she asked, making marik look up at her in surprise.
" uhm, y-yeah. How do you know about the millennium rod?"
" my dad was an archaeologist and he studied ancient Egyptian artifacts. May I see it?" she asked, batting her eyelashes at him. Well it wouldn't hurt…
" ok, be careful with it though, its fragile."
He pulled it out of his bag, and handed it to the girl. She took it gently, as if she held it the wrong way it would explode or something. Marik didn't care if she dropped it or anything, because he's dropped it plenty of times. He just didn't want his yami bothering him about how he hates being rattled around.
" it looks so authentic…" she said, running her fingers around it slowly.
"uh…yeah, It was pretty expensive." Marik lied. It looks authentic because it is authentic.
" oh, were here. Well, thanks for letting me see your millennium rod." She said as she stood and handed it back to marik.
"sure, I'll see you around I guess." He said as he reached for his treasure. His hand brushed over hers and she jerked back, dropping her bag and the rod and blushing madly.
" oh my gosh im so sorry! I dint mean it I just—"
" relax , its fine! I drop it all the time." Marik said, trying to console her and blushing himself.
" oh… thank you" she sighed as he handed her her bag.
"My names marik by the way. Marik Ishtar."
"Marik Ishtar huh? Sounds foreign."
" it's Egyptian."
" wow! I knew you looked Egyptian! My names April Johansson."
" sounds American." Marik said, smirking at her, which made her blush deeply.
" Hey you two are you going to get off the bus or what?" the bus driver shouted at them, motioning his hand towards the door. Marik scoffed under his breath and walked off the bus, followed closely by april.
" what class do you have first?" april asked, clutching her backpack and staring at the ground as she walked.
" geography, which I might add im not very good at."
" I have geography too! Here, let me check my schedule." She said as she rifled through her neatly organized pink and brown swirled bookbag. She pulled out a crinkled sheet of paper that had all her classes on them. Marik looked over them and handed it back to her with a smirk.
" we have 3rd period together, whatever that means."
" that means I get to see you every day!" april said with a little bit of shock in her voice. She began to blush again, making marik laugh.
" whats so funny?" she asked, poking her bottom lip out at him.
" it's just that you kind of remind me of my friend ryou. He blushes a lot too."
April blushed harder and continued to stare at her feet.
" well, today is block scheduling, which means today we have 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th periods." Marik explained.
" really now? In my old school we had all our classes every day."
"oh ra that's horrible!" marik blurted.
" oh…what?"
" erm, nothing." He forgot she was American.
They entered their classroom and marik took his usual seat in the back next to ryou, who was done pouting about his kitty comment. April took a seat across the aisle, about 3 seats from marik and two from ryou.
" did you see that new girl? " marik asked ryou.
Ryou rolled his eyes at him. "what about her?"
" she's friggen hot!"
" marik you've known her for about fifteen minutes, twenty tops. Do you really think you should be chasing after her?"
" what? It's not like im asking her out. I'm allowed to look after all." He said, patting his friends head and earning his palm being slapped.
" oh sorry did I make kitty jealous? Don't worry buddy she's not going to replace you."
" Thank you—HEY! IM NOT A BLOODY FRIKKEN KITTY!" he shouted, his hair springing up into their trademark look.
"calm down calm down! Your scaring the new kid with your mutant hair transformation ryou! Er, bakura!"
bakura glared at marik who was trying to hold back laughter.
"leave my bloody hikari alone. When he gets irritated I get irritated in the middle of minding my own business. It's quite bothersome."
" ok, only if you promise not to claw my eyes out. Cats can do that y'know."
Bakura glared at him and yanked him up by the collar of his shirt.
April covered her mouth with her hands and gasped. She stood up to go intervene.
Marik began to lose his smile. Ryou was weaker than him, but bakura was stronger.
" call me any sort of kitty again and I'll kill you."
" I said cat but if you prefer kitty you don't have to get hissy about it, binky boy."
Bakura cocked his fist back but stopped when he heard a malevolent laugh from marik.
"Is my hikari causing you that much grief bakura? You're really going to hit the poor child?" malik said, smiling at bakura as he set him down.
" your hikari needs to mind his manners before he gets put in his place." Bakura spat.
" oh is that a threat? Because you do know that if you trash my host then you just put me out of a perfectly good body. and I just can't let that happen." Malik growled in defense of his body. Bakura glared at him and pulled up his hikari's long uniform sleeve, malik doing the same.
" you know, we can get them kicked out of school." Malik said, cracking his knuckles anyway.
" MY hikari is smart enough that he doesn't need to worry about getting into another school. Your marik is an imbecile." Bakura said, stepping into a fighting stance.
" that wasn't very nice calling him stupid like that. Even if he does have a lower intelligence than your ryou, my marik has a lot more common sense." Malik said, also stepping into a fighting stance.
" and how can that possibly be true?"
" ask your hikari about sex. Im sure it'll be a short conversation."
" well… my hikari isn't a corrupt little beast like yours! So he wouldn't know!"
" my hikari isn't corrupt, he's a teenager. So go back into your necklace you overgrown furby."
" THAT'S IT!" bakura shouted,taking a few quick steps towards malik before he swung his fist. Malik skillfully dodged it and laughed maniacally. He stopped when he felt a pair of small hands wrapped on his arm.
" STOP IT MARIK!" april shouted, her face red with blush and a few tears sliding down her face.
" my name is malik, female. Now remove yourself. I have things to take care of." He said harshly. April squeezed his arm tighter, much to his annoyance. He brought his arm back and was about to strike her, when a shooting pain went through his head. He yelled out and dropped to the floor, clutching his head. April still clung to him, consoling who she thought was the boy she met on the bus. He continued to yell and began to breathe heavily. Then he stopped. Completely stopped. He stared at the floor, a blank and spacey look on his face.
She looked over at his friend and noticed he had the same look, and his arms had gone limp.
"what the hell malik? You were going to hit her!" marik shouted at his yami, who looked pissed off.
" what does it matter? You dragged me back in this stupid room to scold me?"
" no, actually, I NEED MY BODY BACK PLEASE!" marik yelled, throwing his hands up in a dramatic what-the-heck-do-you-think- gesture.
" oh, so soon? I was having fun with your friends hikari, he's quite the handsome—"
" oh ra malik shut up! Just stop!" marik shouted, clapping his hands over his ears. " it's your fault im confused about my sexuality in the first place! Things like that!"
" well sorry my lovely little hikari but im into what im into. And that automatically means you like what I like."
" can you act like a normal person then?"
" now where would the fun be in that?" malik said, waltzing over to marik and pecking his cheek. Marik squirmed and made a face before pinching his arm back into reality.
" marik? Oh thank god your ok!" april shouted, hugging him tightly. Marik blinked his eyes a few times, feeling dizzy as he regained consciousness.
" uhn... sorry if I scared you april…" he mumbled, holding his head and holding onto april for balance. He didn't know what to tell her. Oh hey april sorry I just tried to slap the hell out of you, you see, I have an evil Egyptian yami spawned from hate that just happens to be a murderous psycho path, plus he's also making me question whether or not I like men or women, not to mention he totally ruins my hair in the process, AND my millennium rod is real and I used it to stab my father to death, which wasn't actually me it was him. That's just a few things though.
No. he couldn't tell her that. And he couldn't tell her that ryou's yami was an ancient Egyptian thief in the past life either. He just settled for the next best thing; acting like he had no clue what happened.
"what happened?" he asked stupidly. He made sure to put on a pouty face to make her think that he was really innocent in the whole thing.
" well, you and your friend were playing around when suddenly you both just had a fit and were about to fight each other! And I think you called yourself malik…" she said, looking down worriedly at her new friend.
" did I try to hurt you?" marik said seriously.
"well, not really. Not before you had a really bad headache and you I think passed out. Your friend did too, but he apologized and he's sleeping now." She said, pointing to ryou, who was dozing deeply. Probably arguing with his yami about alost getting them expelled. It was then marik realized he was in the clinic.
" whoa! How did I get here?" he shouted, sitting up suddenly.
" a few of the brawnier boys from our class carried you and your friend. I stayed but they went back to class so you'll have to thank them later." She said, smiling warmly at him, which made him blush.
he looked down and noticed he wasn't holding his millennium rod.
" where is it? Wheres my millennium—"
" here it is! I picked it up for you on the way here. It sparked when I touched it so I asked a teacher to help me put it in your bag. It sparked when she touched it too. Were not sure why though…"
"oh, thank you april you're the best." Marik said with a relieved sigh. They couldn't touch it because it wouldn't accept them. They weren't tomb keepers.
Ryou began to stir a little and april rushed over to his side.
" are you ok? You passed out too." She asked, grabbing his small pale hands in hers.
He stared into her face and blush crawled across his cheeks. The way she looked at him made his heart jump, and he couldn't get a word out. Marik chuckled in the background.
" I told you," he mouthed silently.
" is there something wrong?" she asked again, squeezing his hands.
"uh-er- um, n-no there isn't thank you." He stuttered, looking down in embarrassment.
" I was especially worried about you. Your very frail , and you passed out from standing up. Do you feel ok?" she asked, cupping his face with her hands.
Ryou blushed deeper and deeper every second she held her hands on his cheeks.
" you feel hot! Do you have a fever?"
"n-no its not that I'm just—"
" he's just blushing april, give him some room. And a little catnip. He'll be fine." Marik said, standing up and throwing his bag over his shoulder and grasping his millennium rod.
Ryou glared at him and stuck his tongue out, making both marik and April laugh.
" well, it's almost lunch time, and I have 5th period after that, so I'll see you two later." April said as she stood and smiled before leaving the clinic.
" we've been asleep for a long time…" marik said, staring at his millennium rod.
" yeah…" ryou said, also gazing at his millennium ring. "these guys are causing us a lot of problems lately. Most of which are during school."
" I think they find it funny to torture us like this." He said, shaking his millennium rod around.
" stop it you fool you're making me dizzy!" marik heard in the back of his mind. He laughed before putting it safely back in his bag.
" anyway, that girl was beautiful. The one you called april." Ryou said, blushing as he thought about her.
" how dare you cheat on me ryou!" marik teased.
" oh be quiet! Your so stupid." Ryou said, blushing and throwing a pillow at him.
" heh, come on buddy lets go to lunch. Maybe you'll see your Girlfriend."
" shhhh! She's not my bloody girlfriend!" ryou protested, blushing even more.
" I know, she could never be as hot as me." Marik teased again.
" AND YOUR NOT EITHER!" ryou shouted, making marik laugh again
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the rest of the day went by quickly, and by 3:15 it was time to go home.
Marik swung his arms casually as he walked home, ryou holding on to a bag of chips.
He was going over to marik's to help him study for an upcoming geography test.
" so what's the capital of… this is an easy one; Georgia?" ryou asked.
" who's Georgia?" marik asked honestly.
Ryou stumbled and choked on his chip.
" WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHO?"
" oh! That's a state? Uh… Nebraska."
Ryou stopped in his tracks and stared at his hopeful looking friend.
" yes. Nebraska is the capital of Georgia." Ryou said, pinching the bridge of his nose. If he says he tutored him no one can say he didn't at least try to help.
As they rounded the corner to the last few streets before the got to marik's house, ryou heard a familiar voice.
" hey! Marik! Ryou! Wait up!" april called, her dark hair bouncing as she ran to catch up with them. Ryou began to automatically blush like he had no control over his bodily functions, Which in turn made marik laugh.
"Phew! I thought I wasn't gonna be able to see you guys before the day was over!" she huffed, leaning against the closest person, who happened to be ryou. She clung to his thin torso and huffed, trying to catch her breath.
" uh, s-so do you live in this direction?" ryou asked, trying to keep his voice from sounding too excited. Marik looked on in envy.
" yeah, over there by a little white house with a red door."
" hey that's my house!" marik shouted. Ha, now who's going to be jealous?
Ryou shot him a quick glare and then looked back at april, who was now staring into his eyes. He blushed again.
" well, we should all get together one day and have a little party!" she said.
" y-yeah, a party." Ryou stuttered as she released him.
" sounds cool!" marik said, happy that it would be his house the cute girl was going to.
" well boys, I have to go now. See ya!" she said, dashing off ahead of them.
Ryou stood there In the same position then looked over at marik, who was still watching april run off.
" marik?" he said.
"huh? What?" he replied, still watching april.
" would you be mad if—"
" no."
" I didn't say anything!"
" yeah I still wouldn't be mad though. If you like her ask her out."
" b-b-but wait! Don't you like her?" he asked, shocked at his friends reply.
" yeah, but I get a funny feeling about her. You can have this one bud." He said, smiling cheekily at his friend and giving him a thumbs up. Ryou blushed and tears welledup in his eyes.
" you're the best friend ever marik!" he shouted as he glomped him and cried into his shirt. Marik looked surprised (as anyone would be) and smiled at him. He patted his head as he cried into his shirt and they continued to walk home, with mariks arm around ryous shoulder.
" see ya later kitty cat!" marik called as he walked in his house.
Ryou stood there as he closed the door and walked down the side walk to his own house.
" I'm not a kitty…" he mumbled, blushing a little.
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Ryou tossed his bag on his bed, flopping down on it with a sigh. He couldn't be falling in love with april could he? He didnt want to. He could see how much marik liked her too.
" why does this kind of stuff have to be so bloody complicated?" he said aloud as he pulled off his shirt to take a shower. He let the warm water run through his hair. Then suddenly he felt dizzy and he slipped down the side of the shower. He closed his eyes and was in his yami's realm.