A/N: No, this does not mean this account is being used again. I just wanted to get this story off my hard-drive and make it easier to find (AKA away from my now current account.) Anyways, please enjoy the insanity and keep in mind the following:
- This was written pre-2008 so the writing style matches that.
- It was betaed at that time by an awesome lady but changes were made afterwards so any mistakes found are mine.
- Nothing has been changed from when it was first posted including the outdated author notes.
- The story will be updated weekly opposed to the original format where it was posted all at once.
Thanks for understanding. - WT
Now without further ado:
The Worst Punishment
A/N: Happy birthday Spidey! Thanks L.A! Also Spidey, Mossnose, you guys can stop making those faces. This isn't all that surprising.
Disclaimer for this chapter: Since it would take up too much space to say all the stuff I don't own, I DO own Wizard-Theif, Agape, the annoying co-worker, Agape's school (though there probably is one called that), Bakari, the teacher, random student and I might or might not own the newspaper. Not sure.
There is no way that this is happening! I am not enjoying this! Not in the least! How did I get myself into this?! / Well… This is weird… but in a good way… but this is bad… How can something so wrong seem so right?
Chapter 1
What's the worst that can happen?
The week had started out as it usually did. Wizard-Theif was refusing to get out of bed to go to work while Mossnose and Agape had to practically drag her out of bed. The rest of the Monday was the usual for Wizard-Theif; she swore more than once at a fellow worker who was constantly picking on her appearance and reputation as The London Journal's top reporter. She came home, ate, annoyed Mossnose, listened to Agape and Mossnose discuss boys, and then went to bed.
Tuesday was similar except she ended up sending the co-worker to the Shadow Realm. Usually Wizard-Theif was quite cool-headed except for when it came to people thinking/implying that she had a romantic relationship with a person named Bakura. Some way or another, her annoying co-worker had managed to find that out and made the mistake of mentioning it to Wizard-Theif. That alone wasn't enough to make Wizard-Theif explode, so the co-worker went one step farther and implied that she was sleeping with him. That sent Wizard-Theif over the edge thus causing her co-worker to take an unplanned trip to the Shadow Realm to meet the lovely Man-Eater Bug. Luckily Wizard-Theif came to her senses and undid the damage in less than ten seconds. After quickly scanning the area for witnesses, Wizard-Theif was certain that no one would ever know. She went home and suffered through Agape's and Mossnose's discussion again before going to bed.
Wednesday came and went and there still was no knowledge of the little incident with shadow magic. The co-worker didn't remember a thing and, even better, had finally stopped annoying Wizard-Theif. Mossnose and Agape had also stopped talking about guys and started discussing less annoying things like video games. All in all, the week was going just fine.
Then Thursday morning happened. At first all seemed normal. Wizard-Theif awoke with her black hair and white bangs in her face covering her black with a red tint eyes. She also noticed that she was sitting on the floor with two girls towering over her. One appeared about twenty-six or twenty-seven with elfin ears, long dark brown hair, and catlike green eyes. Her name was Mossnose. The other appeared about twenty or twenty-one with short brown hair and brown eyes. She was called Agape. It was then that Wizard-Theif was informed of the other girls' plans.
Agape had the day off from classes at Queen Elizabeth II High School due to the boiler exploding, and Mossnose had taken the day off from the animal clinic because her fellow veterinarian called in sick. Usually Wizard-Theif would have had to go to work but after some 'bargaining' she managed to get the day off. Agape and Mossnose had decided to invite Spidey and her kids over because they hadn't seen each other since Kaiba's surprise birthday party way back in October. (It was now the beginning of December.) So, Spidey came over with her twin son and daughter.
Spidey still looked pretty much the same as when Mossnose and Wizard-Theif had first met her. When her Spiderman mask wasn't on, they could see that her eyes were brown and her hair was brown with long red bangs. Her son's name was Sepiroth AKA Giglimesh. Everyone called him by his middle name for some reason. He was an exact copy of his father, Malik Ishtar, right now to his tanned skin, lavender eyes, and blonde hair, except he was smaller and cuter. The little girl's name was Natsuko, and she was an exact copy of her mother when the lady wasn't wearing her Spiderman mask. Both Natsuko and Giglimesh were five. Ever since they turned five, Wizard-Theif started calling them 'the Chibis' instead of 'the twins' because she claimed that Natsuko was an evil copy of her mother though she had no proof.
From the moment Spidey and her children walked in the door, the day started to go downhill. The two children played with their Auntie Agape while the adults made light conversation.
"So Kaiba finally proposed?" Spidey asked.
Mossnose showed off her diamond ring in reply while Wizard-Theif just rolled her eyes.
"So you told him about being a cat demon and he didn't explode?" Wizard-Theif asked just for the sake of conversation.
Mossnose grinned proudly. "Yup."
Spidey looked at her friend in confusion. "And he believed you?"
"Yup."
"Did Kaiba get any sort of head injury within the past week?"
"Wizard-Theif!" Spidey whacked her friend. "Behave."
Giglimesh looked over. "I thought Mom only did that to Daddy."
"What can I say, I'm special." Wizard-Theif waited for the boy to become engrossed with playing again before she asked, "Were you and Malik drunk when you named him Giglimesh?"
"I was not drunk." Spidey yelled at her. "And his name is Sepiroth Giglimesh Ishtar."
Wizard-Theif nodded. "Sure I believe you… So Malik was drunk then?"
Spidey gave Wizard-Theif the evil eye and the other girls sensed trouble. Unfortunately Wizard-Theif wasn't as observant.
"So Wizzie, played with any shadow magic lately?" Spidey asked.
Wizard-Theif made no move to suggest guilt as she answered, "That's Bakura's and Atemu's line of work."
"Wizzie-"
"My name is Wizard-Theif."
"I thought it was Masika Kepi Kanika," Agape said as she looked over innocently.
"You might want to keep out of this Agape. Things are going to get messy," Mossnose advised her.
I know for a fact that you sent one of your co-workers to the Shadow Realm," Spidey continued.
"She deserved it, and it was only for a second," Wizard-Theif justified before realizing the idiotic of the move. "Damn it," she muttered as she put her face in her palm.
"You what?"
Wizard-Theif looked up from her palm to her now startled and confused friends. "What are you so surprised about?!" Wizard-Theif demanded. "You already knew remember? Quote, 'I know for a fact that you sent one of your co-workers to the Shadow Realm,' unquote. "
Spidey looked a bit sheepish as she replied, "Actually I was just kidding around." Her sheepish look disappeared and was replaced with an evil grin. "But now that I know for a fact that you yami no gamed your co-worker you have to do a horrible task for punishment."
Wizard-Theif stared at her in horror. "WHAT? When did we make that one of the house rules?"
"At the same time that we decided that you, Atemu, Kaiba, and Bakura were to never be allowed to be alone in a room together."
Wizard-Theif frowned as she said, "But those rules were only in effect while you were living with Mossnose and me. And you are now living with Malik so those rules are done, finished, through, invalid!"
Spidey's grin widened. "And that is why Mossnose came up with some new ones."
"What?!" Wizard-Theif turned to her cat-demon friend to see the woman nodding with an evil kitty grin on her face.
"Ryou, Yugi, and Bakari helped. It's called rule number sixty five and six quarters. 'Should anyone send someone to the Shadow Realm ever again; said person will have to do a horrible, yet not immoral, task for punishment,'" the cat demon explained.
Wizard-Theif scowled. "Mossnose, you are one dog-nosed traitor." As an added note she muttered. "And to think that my own brother is partly the reason for my demise." She made a fist. "Bakari, you… will… pay. Painfully… and slowly."
"I'm going to ignore that," Mossnose said as she had only heard the first part.
"Fine." Wizard-Theif turned her attention to Spidey. "So what is my punishment?"
With an evil grin Spidey leaned over and whispered into her ear. At once Wizard-Theif's eyes widened and she started yelling. "No! The answer is no! I refuse! Read my lips, I completely, totally, absolutely refuse! There is no way in Hell you are making me go along with this!"
"You're joining the club whether you like it or not."
"Over my dead, unmoving body." Wizard-Theif didn't even see the sutras coming until it was too late.
"Come on Bakura."
The man in question looked up into the face of a younger, paler, and brown-eyed replica of himself. With a shake of his white haired head the man called Bakura, ducked back down into his book. There was no way his pretend brother was making him go along with this.
"Let me try Ryou. Bakura, you know that chicks love men who show their artistic side."
This time Bakura looked up into the face of an older, white hair in a ponytail, black with a red tint eyed replica of himself. This time Bakura's lavender eyes glared at this man before he returned to his book. He then heard the man laugh and it annoyed him.
"Come on Bakura," the man continued, "you know you wanna."
"Ryou is a big boy. He can go on his own," Bakura replied. "Or you can go, Bakari. At 5000 plus you need a girlfriend far more than I do."
"You're 5000 plus too."
"Yeah but you are twelve years older than me so you need a girl more and for me girls equal cooties."
"What about Masika?"
Bakura looked up from his book and gave Bakari a weird look. "She's your sister. Why would I, a reincarnation of someone close to her family, be interested in dating her?"
Bakari gave him a sly look. "Why wouldn't you be?"
With a frown and a roll of the eyes, Bakura ducked back into his book.
"Onii-chan," Ryou whined, "I want you to come with me. Bakari would only flirt with the girls there. If you come I know that at least I'll have one friend there."
Bakura instantly stiffened. Ryou had just played the older brother card. "I'm not your older brother Ryou. Regardless of what the law thinks, I'm the original you."
"But onii-chan…"
"Come on Bakura, you can resist it. Just don't look up. Just don't look up," Bakura thought. Suddenly, the book was ripped from his hands, and he was looking right at Ryou. He was giving Bakura the puppy dog pout. Since Bakura was never very good at the older brother thing other than being over-protective, he crumbled.
"Okay, Okay, I'll go..." He muttered as an afterthought, "Stupid puppy dog pout." Luckily Bakari and Ryou couldn't hear him over their cheering and laughing. The next thing Bakura knew, he was wearing his winter coat, and Ryou was dragging him to the car while Bakari was waving good bye with a phone in his hand. "I wonder if he's going to throw a party while we're gone... I hope not because I forgot to lock my room." With that happy thought, Bakura headed off to his doom.
"I can't believe I went along with this," Wizard-Theif muttered darkly as she laid her head on her desk in the far back corner of the classroom.
"Come on Wizard-Theif. Look on the bright side."
Wizard-Theif moved her head upwards to look at Mossnose who was sitting in front of her.
"Mossnose I know you are engaged to a genius but what is this 'bright side' you speak of? You, Agape, and Spidey ambushed me, paralyzed me with a sutra, and then dragged me into this Hellhole. You may see the 'bright side', but all I see are the flames of Hell and the darkness of evil."
"One, you aren't the only one who was forced to come here. Mokuba and I forced Seto."
"And two, we didn't drag you to a dance," Spidey cut in.
Wizard-Theif turned to Spidey who was sitting on her left side. Ren and Giglimesh were sitting beside their mother. She also noticed Malik on the other side of the chibis.
"Can I help it if I'm anti-social and a tom-boy?! And this is worse than a dance because at a dance I can annoy people."
"We could have forced you to do something worse for your punishment," Agape added.
Wizard-Theif looked to see that the girl was sitting diagonally from her. She made a noise that sounded like a cross between a laugh and a choking sound. "Worse? What could possibly be worse than this? I bet even fighting the gods unarmed would be more enjoyable than this!"
Mossnose shook her head. "It's your own fault, you know. You shouldn't have broken the house rules."
Wizard-Theif glared at her. "It was only for a second, and no one saw me!"
"Still you have to accept responsibility for your actions," Agape said.
Spidey gave Mossnose and Agape an amused look. "What responsibility?"
They laughed and Wizard-Theif put her head on her desk. For a moment she watched as her bangs fell into her face. "I wish I could yami no game myself," she thought as she waited for the club to start.
For yami no gaming her co-worker, Spidey, Mossnose and Agape had forced her to join a club with them. All the younger girls had chosen the drama club, and Wizard-Theif had no choice but to go along. Slowly her eyes started to close. She had gotten very little sleep the night before, due to the fact that she had been up writing a piece for her job. In a moment, she was asleep and gently snoring. After another moment, she was awakened by someone poking her.
Annoyed, she raised her head to see Spidey poking her. Again, she glared at the girl who did nothing but point towards the front of the classroom. Wizard-Theif was surprised to see that some of the seats had been filled while she was asleep. Kaiba was now sitting in front of Mossnose, and they were talking. Before she figured out who was all there she realized that the teacher had entered the room. This teacher was the stereotypical drama teacher. Blonde hair, blue eyes, loud and easily excited. She wore round glasses, a sweater tied around her neck, a tan skirt and a blouse. It took Wizard-Theif another moment to realize that this teacher was talking.
"I can tell we are going to be great friends!" the teacher gushed.
Wizard-Theif fought the urge to gag and tried to pay attention to what the teacher was saying. She was planning to complain about it later.
"Now to choose who is playing what role, we are going to draw from hats," the teacher said as she moved to her desk and picked up three hats filled with fortune cookies. One hat was for boys, one for girls and one for children.
"Uh… Ma'am wouldn't it make more sense for us to audition for the parts?" one male member, who Wizard-Theif didn't know, asked.
"Oh tish tosh, this works far better for fate and destiny will choose the role that matches the inner you." With that she started walking around the room.
"I think I know how Kaiba felt when Atemu was going on about the heart of the cards," Wizard-Theif muttered to no one.
"I hope that I'm partnered with Malik," Spidey whispered. "I don't think I would like having to kiss some other guy."
"How do you know that you have to kiss anyone?" Mossnose whispered.
Wizard-Theif, on the other hand, had started making gagging sounds but stopped as soon as the teacher was within hearing distance. By the time it got to the girls in the corner there were only a few cookies left. Taking a deep breath all of them reached in at the same time and pulled out a cookie. With an equally deep breath, all the girls broke open their cookies. Wizard-Theif waited a moment before reading her fortune. She looked over at Spidey to see that the girl's reaction was better than it could have been. Spidey's face was completely blank. Wizard-Theif looked down at the girl's fortune. For some reason, it was just as blank as Spidey's face if not more so. Agape also had a blank. Wizard-Theif glanced at Mossnose. Her fortune read Bridget. Now Wizard-Theif felt a bit better since she couldn't possibly get anything worse than Mossnose. It was virtually impossible to get the female lead because that role had probably already been drawn. Feeling somewhat better Wizard-Theif looked down at her own fortune and felt all the color drain out of her face.
Spidey seemed to notice Wizard-Theif's reaction and looked over. She whispered the word on the paper and then tried to withhold her laughter.
"Odette? You... got... Odette?"
"Shut up," Wizard-Theif hissed as if she was a cobra.
"Who got Odette?" Mossnose and Agape whispered.
Before Spidey or Wizard-Theif could reply the teacher started talking again.
"Now as you can all guess, the play we are performing is The Swan Princess. Now everyone must come up and write your name beside whatever was on your paper. All blank ones over on that side board." She pointed and almost three quarters of the club walked over to the board to write their name down. The rest went up to the front board and wrote their names beside their roles. Some of the members were full of energy while others were acting like it was the end of the world. As soon as everyone was seated again the teacher read the list aloud.
"When I call out your name please stand up so that the rest of the members know who you are. Now let's see… the narrator will be Tristan Taylor."
A man with pointed brown hair and brown eyes stood up and then sat back down.
"Odette as a child will be played by Natsuko Ishtar." With some encouragement from her parents little Natsuko stood up. Many of the girls in the audience cooed at the sight of her.
"Derek as a child will be played by Sepiroth Ishtar… Are you and Natsuko Ishtar siblings?" the teacher asked Giglimesh as he stood up. He nodded and then quickly hid behind his father. Again girls cooed at the sight of the little boy.
"Ok, King William will be played by Atemu Motou." A man with tri-coloured hair stood up and then sat back down as if he was a king. Whispering filled the classroom as he did this. Atemu brushed this off as he was used to it, being the King of Games and all, not that the teacher knew it.
"Imagine that, Odette is older than her father," Spidey muttered.
"Don't make me swear in front of your children," Wizard-Theif threatened.
"Rothbart, the evil sorcerer, will be played by Yugi Motou." A shorter version of Atemu stood up and Agape muttered:
"Is it even possible for Yugi to act evil?"
"Jean-Bob will be played by Duke Devlin."
"Oh great, dice boy," Wizard-Theif muttered as the Kouga from Inuyasha look-alike stood up. She gagged as some other girls swooned.
"Calm down, calm down, now let's see… Puffin will be played by Joey Wheeler." A tall blonde with brown eyes stood up and sat back down.
"Chamberlain will be played by Leon von Schroeder." A boy with maroon coloured hair in a pony tail with golden brown eyes stood up and then sat down.
"Lord Roger will be played by Seto Kaiba." The teacher gave a start at the name as if she only just then realized that the CEO was in the room. The tall brown haired, blue eyed man stood up and then sat down. Noise once again filled the room.
"Quiet down, quiet down… now… Solomon Mutou will be playing the part of Speed." An old man with gray similar to the style of Yugi's and Atemu's, stood up and then sat down.
"Bromley will be played by Malik Ishtar." The tanned man with blond hair stood up, and Giglimesh retreated back to his own seat.
"Sentai Yamaneko will be playing the part of Bridget, the old creepy hag."
Mossnose stood up and then sat down. Once she had, Wizard-Theif muttered, "That role matches you perfectly."
"Your's matches you better," Mossnose replied thus silencing Wizard-Theif for the moment.
"Ryou Bakura will be playing the part of Queen Uberta… Oh dear… it seems that the roles got mixed up. Sorry Mr. Bakura but you'll have to be a girl in the play."
Ryou smiled politely as he stood up while Wizard-Theif's mind went into worry mode. Because Ryou was in the play his brother and Bakari would come to see it thus seeing her as Odette. Then she remembered that Atemu and Kaiba were also in the play meaning they now have blackmail on her. Atemu, Kaiba and Wizard-Theif had a history of trying to annoy the hell out of each other, boys vs. girl. What was worse was that she wouldn't be able to return the favour because their roles actually matched them… somewhat. "Damn it," she thought as the white haired man sat back down.
The teacher continued again, "The rest of you, minus two, will be playing the other roles like the villagers, and will also be stage hands. Now the moment you have all been waiting for. Our female lead will be Masika Kanika playing the part of the older Odette." As if she had just heard her death sentence, Wizard-Theif stood up. She could hear snickering from farther up front but ignored it. As she sat back down she said to Mossnose and Spidey, "Don't even say it."
The teacher waited for the snickering to stop before talking again. "And our male lead will be Mr. Bakura... uh... Bakura who is playing the role of older Derek." Another man with white hair stood up and quiet laughter was heard coming from up front. It was obvious from the man's posture that he was barely stopping himself from killing the people laughing and was less than impressed about his role.
As he sat back down Spidey leaned towards Wizard-Theif. She was mildly amused to see that the lady was banging her head on the innocent desk. "It could always be worse," she offered.
"How?" Wizard-Theif whispered with a tone that was a mix of desperation and anger. "I have to kiss Bakura! The guy is like my brother who I never see or get along with!"
"I thought the two of you were on better terms now," Agape said.
Wizard-Theif glared at her. "Better doesn't mean I want to kiss him! He's like my older brother. I've known him since I was six and he was seven! And now because of you people I have to kiss him!"
"Maybe not," Mossnose said hoping to stop Wizard-Theif from exploding.
"It's The Swan Princess!" Wizard-Theif hissed angrily.
Mossnose sighed. "Okay. Don't panic."
"It could always be worse. You could have had to kiss Atemu or Kaiba or Yami Bakura," Spidey quickly said.
Wizard-Theif was silent as she lay her head down on her desk. "There is no way I'm going to live this down. As if being in a dress and wearing make-up wasn't bad enough. Now Atemu and Kaiba will start saying that I'm in love with Bakura. Ick! AH! Stupid fate, I should have known that this was going to happen. Stupid yami no game rule that I can't yami no game myself. Stupid karma for coming back to bite me. Stupid, stupid-!"
"Miss Kanika?" Wizard-Theif looked up to see all the members of the club were looking at her. She looked at the teacher.
"I prefer to be called Wizard-Theif, but yes?" she replied.
"Are you alright?"
"Let's see, I have to kiss Bakura, wear a Seth-damned dress, and wear the devil's evil spawn known as make-up. Oh! And to top it off, I was dragged into this Hell against my will. Oh yes; I'm just peachy." "Mostly."
The teacher nodded and then went back to making a schedule for rehearsals while Wizard-Theif retreated to her dream world. She was back in Ancient Egypt running from the guards of the pharaoh.
"Odette? Odette?"
"Wizard-Theif! She's talking to you!" Spidey hissed as she poked her daydreaming friend.
"Huh? Wha? What?" Wizard-Theif asked as she quickly looked around. Some of the group snickered at this display.
"I was asking for your opinion on whether we should have the meeting twice a week or once."
Trying to buy some time Wizard-Theif asked, "When are we presenting it?"
"Oh! I never thought about showing the city our play. Great idea Odette!" the teacher gushed.
"Wha…?" Wizard-Theif said quietly.
"Real smooth," Kaiba commented over his shoulder.
"Stuff it Baka-boy," Wizard-Theif said to him.
Meanwhile the teacher was ranting. "I'll have to book the theatre and then advertise this. Oh and costumes, lots of costumes. Club members let's thank Odette for coming up with this brilliant idea."
"My name is Wizard-Theif," she muttered as she leaned over her desk and covered her head with her arms.
Surprisingly almost everyone supported the idea and they were by no means mad at Wizard-Theif. Most clapped whole heartily while others shouted their thanks. Once everything was quiet again the teacher said, "So it is settled we will meet here every Monday night and every Saturday morning. I'll have the script for you all at the next meeting. I want you all here at 9:30am sharp. See you all on Saturday." With that she disappeared out the door leaving the members of the club to slowly follow.
Wizard-Theif, Agape, Mossnose, and Spidey and her family were one of the last members to leave as Wizard-Theif was having a panic attack.
"Stupid, stupid, stupid," Wizard-Theif was muttering as she banged her head on her desk.
"Wizard-Theif?" Mossnose asked but she received no answer.
"Masika?" Agape said.
"Wizzie?" Spidey tried but no reaction, not even a yell.
"So Odette, what do you think of the fact that you have to kiss Derek?" Kaiba asked as he turned around.
Wizard-Theif paused her head banging to glare at the CEO. "When I snap you are going to be the second to go," she told him.
Kaiba appeared shocked for a moment. "Second?"
"Yes because you aren't important enough to be first," Wizard-Theif said with a grin.
"It could always be worse," Ryou said as he sat down with the group.
Wizard-Theif's grin disappeared as she turned to face him. "Do enlighten me," she said dryly.
"You could have to kiss me or Zorc."
"Who is Zorc?" Agape and Spidey asked in the background.
"Zorc is Yami Bakura," Yugi explained as he and Atemu joined the group.
Meanwhile Wizard-Theif had replied to Ryou's explanation. "Point granted."
"Wizard-Theif!" Spidey yelled as she whacked the other girl. "Be nice!"
"What? I'm just agreeing with him. I'm thousands of years older than Ryou and probably thousands of years younger than Zorc."
"So what you're saying is that you'd rather kiss someone closer to your age?" Malik asked.
Wizard-Theif shook her head. "If I had any chose I wouldn't be kissing anyone."
Malik frowned. "That didn't answer my question."
Wizard-Theif appeared confused. "What question?"
"Whether you'd rather kiss someone close to your age or not."
She shrugged. "I'd rather not kiss anyone."
"You're not going to get an answer," Atemu said wisely.
Bakura came over to the group and was careful not to make eye contact with anyone but Ryou. "Come on, we have to go make sure that Bakari didn't destroy the house."
Ryou stood up and said goodbye to everyone before following his brother out of classroom. After that everyone said goodbye and went their separate ways. On the way home some very amusing conversations happened.
"So? How was it?" Bakari asked as Ryou and Bakura got into his car.
Bakura merely grunted and looked out the window at the new snow on the ground. Ryou shook his head and then told Bakari what he thought of the club. "We are meeting every Monday night and Saturday morning. Atemu, Yugi, Yugi's grandpa, Kaiba, Joey, Mossnose, Agape, Spidey, Malik and their family were there."
Bakari nodded as he drove away from the curve. "Really? That's a small group then."
"There were more but we didn't know everyone."
"Ah, anyways, so Spidey said that she was going to trick Masika into going. Did it work?"
"Unfortunately," Bakura muttered.
Bakari gave Ryou a confused look in the mirror so Ryou explained. "We picked roles today and-"
"Oh! I got ya. Bakura got a role he didn't really like and you got something that had to do with… wait, hang on… yelling at people."
"We are doing The Swan Princess. I'm the queen-"
"It's a shame that Bakura didn't get that role. I think he might have enjoyed it."
Bakura glared at Bakari from his place behind the driver before looking back to the window. "You mean you would enjoy it."
Bakari thoughtfully nodded. "I suppose that it's for the better that you aren't the queen, Bakura. You would need a hell of a lot of make-up to pass as a girl. It would be even worse if you still had that scar. Guess it was a good thing that when you were restored to life your body didn't look the exact same as it did 5000 years ago. So as you were saying Ryou?"
"And Bakura is-"
"Wait let me guess, Bakura got… Prince what's-his-face."
"Derek."
"That's not so bad. So he has to kiss some girl. It's not the end of the world."
Bakura looked away from the window and glared at the oldest in the car again. "You're not the one who has to kiss your sister."
Bakari gave Bakura a weird look in the mirror. "You have a sister?"
Bakura groaned. "Masika, you moron. I have to kiss Masika, your sister."
"What?" Bakari asked as he accidentally hit the brakes. Once he got the car under control again Bakari turned to Bakura. "Okay let me get this straight you have to kiss Masika?"
"For the last Ra-damned time, yes!"
Bakari grinned. "I'm glad that you seem so happy about it, but isn't that a bit soon?"
Ryou gave Bakari a weird look. "What do you mean?"
"Well, couples never kiss on their first dates, right?"
Bakura glared daggers at Bakari. "What… was… that?"
"Calm down, calm down. I was just kidding; but if you think about it Bakura, this might be a blessing in disguise."
"Maybe on your planet," Bakura muttered as he looked out the window again. Ryou fell asleep soon after that and since Bakura wasn't in a talking mood, the rest of the ride was quiet.
Spidey had gone home with Malik and their kids so Mossnose and Agape had to deal with the after effects of the club alone. Mossnose sighed. She was driving but every so often she would take her eyes from the road and look into the backseat at Wizard-Theif. The girl was silent and glaring out the window at the poor innocent snow. She obviously blamed Mossnose, Agape and Spidey for her doomed fate. Mossnose sighed again. "Wizard-Theif we know you are upset but just think of this as..."
"As an adventure," Agape said from shotgun in an attempt to help Mossnose out.
Wizard-Theif scoffed and said, "Easy for you to say. You don't have to kiss Bakura."
"Oh! I do believe that Wizard-Theif has a crush," Mossnose said excitedly.
"What… the… hell are you on?"
"Filling in for Spidey."
"Oh Ra no!" Wizard-Theif's face was that of pure terror.
"You don't want to kiss Bakura because you like someone else," Mossnose explained.
Wizard-Theif frowned. "You suck at pretending to be Spidey."
"I was being me there."
Wizard-Theif's face changed to one of surprise and confusion. "Oh… Who are you and what have you done with Mossnose?"
"I was kidding," Mossnose said with a shake of her head. "Sheesh."
"Was that Spidey or Mossnose talking there?"
"A bit of both."
"Oh…"
"Another reason why you don't want to kiss Bakura is because you secretly like him and are worried that after the play he'll reject you if you tell him."
"That's the Spidey/Mossnose I want to kill," Wizard-Theif said. "And just for the record, I like Bakura as a brother not as a lover."
Agape got a confused look on her face. "What about the drea-"
"You bring that up and you die," Wizard-Theif said as she leaned against the window.
"Well… at least Bakura is sort of hot right?" Agape said in an attempt to cheer Wizard-Theif up. Let's just say it failed… horribly… pathetically.
"Agape, Bakura is not hot. He isn't even remotely handsome."
"Fan girls seem to think so," Mossnose pointed out.
"Yeah but they're fan girls. What do they know?"
"So you find him cute then."
"Not even. Now, please stop filling in for Spidey and just let me sleep." Surprisingly both girls complied, allowing Wizard-Theif stare out the window. She noticed that it had started to snow again. "I don't care. Punishment or not, nothing can be worse than this. Next meeting I'm quitting." Within seconds she was asleep again.
A/N: That was the first chapter. So what do you think so far? Please review before moving on to the next chapter.
-Wt