If you read the story you'll know they aren't mine!
'Girl wakes up, girl tries to watch anime, and all of a sudden, anime characters fall out of the TV or computer or even out of the sky, girl tries to live with them or to get them home, then one of the characters falls in love with the girl.' Are you as tired of that cliché as I am? Well you're in luck! Here's the basic idea, with a complete 360 degree twist!
NOTE: Any sentences in Japanese that you may read in this fanfic are my really pathetic attempt at translating. I only get the words I need from an online dictionary and assemble them in a way that sounds right. So please don't flame me for that!
"I'm bored…"
"So am I…"
"Well, why don't you two get off your lazy butts and help me!"
Luffy and Usopp sat up from where they were lying on their backs on the deck of the 'Thousand Sunny'looking up at the sky and glanced at Nami, who was trying to drag a very large sack of Mandarin oranges. "Franky's doing routine maintenance, Robin locked herself in her personal library, and Sanji is busy cooking!"
"What about Chopper?" Luffy asked, scratching his chin absently.
"Well, you don't see Chopper around here, now do you?"
"Umm…no…"
"Well then help me!"
They were about to grab the sack of oranges when suddenly the sky began dimmed to an ominous blackish grey hue.
"What the…?" Usopp started to say before the 'Thousand Sunny' began to rock violently.
"What's going on?" Nami asked as she saw Franky, Robin, Sanji and Chopper race to the deck.
They all looked ahead of the ship. There were waves radiating from a single spot up ahead, the oncoming tides rocking the ship, threatening to capsize it.
"Is that a Sea King?" Robin asked frantically, as Usopp placed his goggles over his eyes. "No…it's not…it's much, much worse…"
There was a pause as the point the waves came from began to sink lower than the normal sea level, the water curving threateningly, turning into a gigantic whirlpool.
"Maelstrom!"
Franky grabbed a nearby length of rope and tossed it to his crew. "To stations, all hands to stations!" (1)
Luffy glanced at Franky with a silly grin on his face. "What's that mean?"
Franky tossed a length of rope right at Luffy's face. "It means tie yourself to something and whatever you do, don't leave the ship!"
Chopper morphed into his hybrid form and tried to steer the ship away, but it was too late. The ship had sunk too far down the maelstrom, and was sucked into the vortex.
"Are you ready for the biggest duel you will ever have in your life, mou hitori no boku?" (Mou hitori mo boku: 'The Other Me')
"I am…aibou." (Aibou: 'Partner')
There they stood, the great Pharaoh Atemu and his present-day best friend, Yuugi Mutou, about to undertake in the greatest duel of their careers…should Yuugi win, he would fulfill what all of his adventures would accumulate to and finally have rest from the escapade…at the cost of never seeing Atemu again.
The two took one deep breath, and let it out, both staring at each other.
Out in the small audience watching the duel, Jonouchi shook his fists, anxious. "I still say it ain't fair!" He muttered loudly. "After all this Atemu's gonna die…again?"
To his side, his best friend Honda patted his shoulder. "That's the way Jou…no other option."
Behind them, a little way away from the group, Anzu held her breath, her hands clenched tightly in front of her face. "Why…why does it have to end like this…?" She asked herself. "Why does he have to go?"
"Because the course of history would be affected if he didn't."
She whirled around to see Seto leaning against a nearby pillar, his icy blue eyes staring at her. "Should he stay in this time, the course of history would be affected. The Ancient Egyptian Empire would crumble prematurely, and who knows what would've been done. Atemu has his own battles to wage in his own time…he can't neglect what fate would give him…even if he had a choice."
Anzu looked away from him and looked to the duel. 'Atemu-kun…' She thought. 'I wish you didn't have to go…but…I can't make you do anything…please…just don't forget me!'
Just then, the ground began to quake, and chunks of ceiling began to fall down.
"What's going on?" Mokuba yelped with a start, dodging a large slab of rock and running ho his brother.
Atemu saw what was happening, and whirled around to see the stone carving etched into the wall.
Little by little, cracks extended directly down the middle, leaving a perfect line cutting the carving in two.
"That thing's a door?" Marik exclaimed, taking cover under a fallen pillar.
When the cracks reached the bottom of the carving, the rumbling stopped.
"What was that all about…?" Jou asked as he was looking around to see everyone come into view from their hiding spots.
Then again, the ground began to rumble even more violently than before as the crack in the carving zipped along the floor and came to a stop at the foot of the only exit of the room – a stairwell.
In a flash, the floor began to move from a flat surface, gaining slope.
"The entire floor is a trapdoor!" Seto yelled out. "Everybody grab on!"
Even with their best efforts, the floor gave way too fast, and the smooth sides of the two flaps of the 'trapdoor' were too much.
Everyone in the hallway at the time fell, one by one, into the dark abyss of the hole that awaited them.
The ticking of the clock…
The scratching of the pencil against the rough paper…
Even the beat of his own heart…
…was telling him he was dead bored.
He looked up from his work, turned his large black swivel chair a complete one-eighty degrees to look out at the beautiful city landscape. The sky was already very dim, the moon the only light high in the sky. From the window, he looked at the clock over his door and shook his head when he saw the time.
"Ten fourty-five." He said, letting out a sigh as he went around his office picking up some documents and folders to bring home with him.
As he locked his office for the night, someone came running up to him.
"You're working late too?" he asked, tipping the hat he was wearing over to him.
"Yeah." The first man replied, pushing up his oval-rimmed glasses.
The second gave him a wide smile. "You still blocked, huh Kazu?"
'Kazu' nodded a little.
"Don't worry about it…" He patted 'Kazu' on the back. "I get blocked all the time!"
"Yeah, I remember…the longest time you've been blocked is around 30 seconds." 'Kazu' replied, laughing heartily, swiping the man's straw hat from his head.
"Hey!" He tried to grab it from Kazu's grasp, but he fell short.
"Come and get it, Goro!"
The two men laughed together, 'Kazu' handed 'Goro' back his straw hat.
As they walked, 'Goro' pointed to a lock of hair on Kazu's head. "You're brave, Kazu-kun."
"Why'd you say that?"
"No one I know would dye their hair."
'Kazu' pulled on the stray lock of golden yellow hair that was styled into a lightning bolt and smiled. "I thought it would help me get rid of the block…and it did…for a while."
"Hey, that's the same reason why I got this hat!"
Just then, a thud came from an empty office they passed by.
"What's that…?" Goro asked.
Then someone shouted out at the top of his lungs.
"Gomu gomu no Fuusen!"
The two looked at each other. "Gomu Gomu no Fuusen?" They asked.
After the yell, a 'plop' sound was heard like something heavy landed on a rubber cushion.
Six more plops later, eight voices, two of them female, were all asking each other 'Where are we?' in Japanese.
"You don't think…?" Goro asked.
Then, another thud was heard.
One of the voices in there seemed to gawk at something.
"Omae-da dare da?" (Who the hell are you?)
Then, a new voice, one that sounded deep, tough and stern, replied.
"Kiisama de iriyou noujanai!" (You don't need to know!) (2)
Several more thuds sounded off, and it sounded like it was a mini-war in the room.
The two couldn't take it anymore and thrust open the doors.
"Nani…kore…?" The two men asked at the same time. (What in the world…?)
One person from the left side and one person from the right walked up to the two men.
As the two came into the light from the hallway, the one on the left turned out to be Luffy and the one on the right Atemu.
"Who are you and where are we?" They both asked.
They looked to each other, and 'Goro' was the first to speak.
"Boku wa…Oda Eiichiro."
Luffy nodded and pointed at the hat on Eiichiro's head. "That's my hat."
While the two were talking, Atemu looked to 'Kazu' and asked in a stern voice. "Omae no namae-wa?" (Your name is…)
Kazu pushed up his glasses again, and straightened out his tie, which had the Millennium Symbol on it.
"Takahashi Kazuki."
(1) I got this from Pirates of the Caribbean 3.
(2) Guess who?
Well there goes my try on the cliche'. Got any suggestions on anime I could put in? Open ears here! XP
DarkSytheQueen, over and out!