KlebKat: ^.. Hey, me here to tell you that I've redone the first and second ACTS for you, so instead of SIX ACTS to tell about Shard, Kat, and me, you get 3 really long ones. Please reread this one (ACTS I & II COMBINED) 'cause it's got some new stuff in it... not a lot, but it make Yami Bakura a WHOLE lot funnier.
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KlebKat: YHEA! MY OWN DUELIST OF THE ROSES STORY!
Shard: She's slightly bumming of mine... without my permission.
Kat: Yhea but Kleb should have a good story too.
Erin: ;00; *boo-hoo* I'm not in it!
Kleb: No, but you do git ta enjoy the commentary with us.
Everyone: Oniga, enjoy!
WARNINGS!: MARY SUE TYPE DEAL! (Kleb: ^..^? *tilts head sideways* Is this a Mary Sue? Kat: *shrugs* I don't know.) OC'S (Kleb: namely us.) "this is when people are speaking in Jap and I'm too lazy to tell you that.", 'thinking in jap... you get the idea I hope.', Shadow Realming, GAY BASHING! (Erin: Or somethin' close to it.) SWEARING! (Shard: Yhea, like we care.) AND --um-- STUFF! (Kat: Oh, that really show's what we know what we're writing about. Kleb: SHUDDUP!!)
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ACT I (because I like going by acts) KASSIE BOYD
She stood in the mirror getting dressed for school. It was quite a change, going from an American public school to transferring to a Japanese high school. Ever since she moved here with her two girl friends during the summer, the whole experience seemed like a dream. Kassie Boyd, like her friends Shardai Johnson and Kat Jolly, had a wish come true.
After weeks of begging Shard's father, all three girls had taken advantage of his business life and hitched a 2nd class ride to Japan for the last week of the American East's school year.
Though none of the three girl's had never thought they could transfer for a year to Japan, they treated the experience like candy and couldn't help but taste, devour, and lust after it all. Plushies became Shard's world while Kat preferred the countless animas that lined almost every store they visiteds' shelf. Kassie, always the soft hearted and quite type, spent most of her time browsing the books, mangas, and the latest J-Pop.
Kassie pulled her long brown hair into a pony-tail at the nape of her neck and she buttoned her pink jacket. A face immediately popped in her head as she thought about her adventure during the week she spent on the 'vacation'.
'The incident', as she came to call it, happened on the second day of the girl's visit. Being American, Kassie had no clue what the majority of the characters said or even meant; so she was just picking out some books that looked cool and where, if the prices where applied in dollars instead of yen, cheap.
A careless glance away and the next thing the sun cat knew she had knocked over some dude with long white hair, warring a blue and white striped shirt, and blue jeans.
Kassie softly mewed out a quick apology, the only one she knew in Japanese, "Gomen!"
He looked up at her, chocolate eyes innocently meeting emerald green -milk chocolate and ocean blue mixed in- with a flinch as he began to rise up. He quickly looked her up and down, noticing she wore a thin, soft white sweater (despite it was summer) and blue cotton mini skirt and with a quick examination of her face, she wore huge silver hoop earrings and a black and silver cross necklace, her hair tied loosely at the nape of her neck; bits of rusted brown falling over her shoulder, telling the boy on the floor that she had absurdly long hair, to the floor long if she did not have it up in the ponytail.
He began talking to her in Japanese which only served to pinken her face as she neglected to help the stranger up.
"I'm-- I'm sorry, but-- but I don't understand." Kassie glanced away from the boy.
"Oh," came the startled voice, "you're not Japanese either?"
Kassie glanced back at the younger boy, mentally kicking herself for not realizing he was a foreigner from his looks as well as the sound of his voice, which sounded British.
"No-no, I'm an American." she stated as she stared down at his feet blushing.
"Well, hi," he offered his hand to her, secretly glad that he didn't have to bow, "my name is Bakura Ryou."
She lifted her head and gently shook his hand, "It's nice," she flushed, "nice to meet you."
"Will you be going to Domino High?"
"Hu? Oh, no! I'm just here with my friends on a little vacation for the week. It's been our dream to come to Japan once in our life time." Kassie finished with a smile.
"Yes, it is quite nice to visit but I really don't care much to live here."
"Yhea, I think I know whachew mean; it's a bit too closed in and cramped."
Bakura turned his head sideways and gave her a clueless look, "Wa-chew?"
"What?"
"Huh?" Now it was Kassie's turn to be confuzzeled.
"You said 'wa-chew', what does that mean?"
After a second or two, Kassie finally clued in, "Oh! I'm sorry! I'm from East Tennessee so I tend to say word's differently and together. I said: I know 'what you' mean."
"I think I understand, I have a friend named Joey Wheeler whose parents are from New York but he was born here in Japan. He knows some English from his parents but with the Brookline accent, it makes him hard to understand sometimes."
Kassie had heard none of it. Her mind registered 'Joey Wheeler' and blocked out the rest. "Kassie? Kassie, is everything all right? What are your staring at?"
"Ohmagosh! You're friend's with the second ranked duelist of Duelist Kingdom?!"
Bakura instantly became depressed as he watched the rusted brown head gaze into la-la land, "Yes."
//Let the bitch stand there and gawk all she wants and let's go home!// Yami Bakura screamed mentally at his Hikari.
/But, I-I just meet her, she's my friend./
//Yhea, and you mention to her that you personally know the Dog and all she wants is to meet him. Next she'll want to meet the pharaoh and his idiots and you'll be left with no friends like you are now.//
/Don't say things like that Yami, I do too have friends!/
// I don't see them here in this pansy shop with you.//
/Yami.../ Bakura's eyes drooped down into a soulless half lidded glaze, /Yami, please, let me make at least this one friend, she won't be here for more than a couple of days, she said so./
The Rabbit 'humpt', obviously not listening to his Angel's request. /We'll never see her again after this Yami./
//That's what i don't like.// Akeifa mumbled genteelly.
/Huh?/ Bakura hadn't realized it, but what he had heard was his yami's private thought about the girl before them.
"Bakura?" the soft voice dug between the mental link and Bakura felt his yami flinch and take over.
/NO! AKEIFA! PLEASE DON'T!/
As Akeifa entered the conscious world, he noticed something warm on his left shoulder.
"Bakura, are you all right?"
With a quick motion, Akeifa knocked Kassie's hand off and stared unfeelingly into her eyes, "I have to go, please don't talk to or touch me ever again." With that, the sprit turned around and left the book store.
"Ba- Bakura?" Kassie couldn't let someone hate her here, not in this place, not in her dream and she chased after him. "BAKURA, WAIT UP!"
******
/Yami... why?/ came the pitiful whisper of the Bunny.
//Because she's too much like you, all innocence and no ass kicking.//
/...yami.../
As the mental discussion continued, Akeifa didn't notice the three people behind him until one shoved him into an ally.
"HEY! WHAT THE HELL'S WITH THIS?!"
"Maybe we should ask you that question, fairy." And the second goon behind Akeifa tugged painfully on his long blond locks.
"ASSHOLES! LET GO OF ME BEFORE I SEND YOU ALL TO THE SHADOW REALM!" Akeifa declared as he used his elbow to gut check the second goon.
"What's wrong pretty boy? Is he not to your taste?" the third goon beat his fist into his left palm, gold knuckles gleamed in the light of the ally.
/They're too big for us, Yami! we can't fight them!/ With out thinking, Akeifa answered his Hikari, "Watch me."
"Oh, I think the fruit cake wants to play 'rough'!" the first goon giggled and his other two buddies chimed in.
/yaaammmiiiiii--/ the Angel pleaded desperately.
"Chill, I'm working on it!" Akeifa growled through his teeth..
"Heh, look boys, we got a crazy fag--"
"LOOK OUT BAKURA!!" came a seriously angry voice from the entrance to the ally and then a shower of rocks came cascading down on the four boys.
"OW!"
"KUSO!"
"YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT BITCH!"
"RUN BAKURA!!"
******
"Kassie!"
The voice shocked her out of the memory and she looked Shard in the face once the annoying hand stopped waving in her face, "Huh?"
"Dude, are you there today? If not, than we're gonna have one helluva time understanding what the teacher wants us to do in class."
Kassie rolled her eyes and head as she reached for her shoes under her bed, luckily not one of those futon thingies. "Oh, don't worry yerself to death over the whole thing! We gitta full week of nothing but a basic understanding of Japanese an' then an hour before and after school to learn more characters and words, also not to mention the classes on Saturday and Sunday."
Shard covered her face with her hands, "Dear, god, don't remind me."
"But this will be actually cool and stuff and learning a second lang-- THUNK! --OWWW!" Kassie rubbed the back of her head as she pulled her shoes out from under the bed.
"Dude, you ok?" Shard asked as she sat on Kassie's bed in front of her best friend and grabbed a pink cat pillow.
"Yhea, I gist broke my cranium... or is that the top of the head?"
"Are you asking me? You're the super genius."
"I'm not a super genius!" Kassie shot back as if it had been an insult.
"Anyone who can do a shit load of formulas on a five page calculus problem and get the right answer the first try is Super Man-- no, Einstein."
"Shard, a rocket scientist and a gerbil can git tha right answer even if it was a ten page calculus problem." Kassie finished with a wave of her index finger.
"It's not my fault that the test was too hard..." Shard whined.
"That was an Algebra I test where you scored a twenty out of a hundred."
"Don't be so mean!" the red dragon pouted further.
"You scored lower than Serena*!"
"DON'T RUB IT IN!!"
"Kassie-chan, Shardy-chan, let's go, I got Kat-chan. I go get Joey-kun too." Yugi Moto said in broken English as he stood out side of the sun cat's bed room with Bakura.
"Ok, Yugi, we'll be right down." Kassie said with a smile and a nod. Bakura translated it and Yugi shook his head and smiled as well and disappeared down the stairs with Bakura.
"Isn't he just sooo cute?" Shard giggled.
"Yhea, if we're not gooshing over him then we're looking at beshouins and yaoi."
Both girls then giggled and ran down the stairs to meet the Bunny and the Hedgehog.
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"So you meet her in the book store?" Yugi Moto asked his friend Bakura.
"Hai, she bumped into me by accident and then helped me fight off those mean men I told you about."
"It's kind of cool to know some nice Americans instead of Pegasus and Bandit Keith. Too bad my English isn't all that great."
"That's okay, Yugi, you got me to translate for you." Bakura smiled cutely and turned with Yugi to Kassie and Shard who came barreling down the stairs.
"Are you guy's ready?"
"Yhea, I'd git sooo lost in this place; even the 'Labyrinth' was nothing like this." Kassie stated, ready to use her book-of-useless-facts again as Yugi and Bakura gave her a curious look. "Maryville High was known as the 'Labyrinth' because it had so many twist and turns; those poor people from other schools couldn't find their way around and we actually had our own minotar for the heck of it!"
//"she likes to assert the fact that she's smart, doesn't she?"//
/"please, yami, leave her alone."/
//"well, i could pick on the loud mouth or the bimbo..."//
/"YAMI!"//
//"but i'm bored!"//
"Bakura, I think Kassie asked you a question." Yugi chimed in between the mental link.
"Hu? Oh, did you say something Kassie?"
"I asked if you're into Duel Monsters; I figured you where because of Joey and Yugi but I'm not sure."
//"ahhh, now this is what i'm talking about!"//
/'oh, yami...'/ the bunny sighed.
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"Did you see where that fagot went to?" The second goon asked the others.
"No; once that bitch showed up he took off as fast as he could!" the third goon griped.
"Then why are we still here?" the first goon barked, "Let's find them and finish them off!" He shoved between the others, "You two go after the pansy, I'll get the whore!" And with the plan, the men took off after Bakura and Kassie.
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//"why... did she... help me?"// Evil Bakura gasped in the mind link, fatigued from running so hard and long.
/"because she wanted too, i guess."/
//"don't give me... that shit! only weaklings put... themselves before others!"//
/"......"/
//"yhea, i thought so."//
/"tenshi."/
Akeifa stopped dead in his tracks, to catch his breath and to saver the feeling of adrenaline gushing through his veins, something which he had not felt in over 5,000 years. //"what the hell... are you talking about?"//
/"tenshi. i once read that 'CASSIE' meant 'GOD'S PROPHET'. it also means 'PURITY' in some other origins... over all means 'ANGEL'*... i think."/
//"get your head out of your ass Light! she's nothing more than a bit..."//
A shrill scream broke the thought as Akeifa took a step forward.
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"OHGOD!" Kassie had ended up in another ally... that ENDED in what else but a dead end?
"BOSS! I GOT ONE!" the third goon yelled loudly, which Kassie guessed was for the other two if they were somewhere near by.
"...bad,bad,bad,bad,bad,bad,bad,bad,bad,bad..." she whispered to herself, backing against the cement wall.
"Common, babe," the goon sauntered closer to Kassie. He reached in to the back of his pants and pulled out a knife, some type of hunting knife, but that was all she knew, "don't you want a little foreigner in you?" he chuckled to himself at the corny joke, understanding quickly that she probably didn't speak a lick of Japanese since she was blurting out what could only be the same language as the fagot's.
'Damnit! Shit! What the hell do I do now?'
"Kassie?" a perfect genteel voice graced the air, causing the goon to whip around.
"Yaro*!"
"KASSIE, GET DOWN, NOW!" Bakura screamed at her. Instally, Kassie ducked behind a trash can, curling up in a ball with her hands protecting her head and eye's squeezed shut.
"What are you going to do, fairy? I don't like putting my dick in other people's asses."
"You dare trifle with me? YOU FOOL!" Akeifa lifted one hand, a powerful light radiating from his chest.
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Kassie could not move. If the fear she felt had not been enough to keep her petrified, then she would have noticed Akeifa's wondering gaze a long her ass... more happening in his mind then he would ever let HER have. She just wasn't worth it.
/"YAMI!"/
//"well, what am i supposed to think after 5,000 years?! epically after she's being the bitch she is; offering her ass up in the air to whoever wants it! and must i make note that the mini skirt inches up just so?!"//
/"well, you got a good point, the baby blue thong is a nice touch..."/ Bakura could fell his yami's ear to ear satanic smile, making him shiver. /"GOOD GOD, YAMI, CAN YOU BE ANY MORE PERVERTED AND RUDE?! LEAVE KASSIE ALONE!"/
Akeifa's head unconsciously snapped up, eyes wide with amazement, "Since when do you have a back bone?"
"ba-bakura? is that you? izzit safe?" Kassie asked in a small voice.
"Hu?" came the half interested answer. //"i think i'll let you take over light."//
/"WHAT? NOW? AFTER THAT!?"/ but Kassie replied softly as Evil Bakura forced his Light to replace him.
"I'm sorry, Bakura. I know I should be stronger but I... i git sooo scared of little stuff; you know?"
"Ummm, No, that's ok, Kassie. Really, it is!"
"no, it's not... not like I am Bakura."
"How about we go for some ice-cream? I know this great 'Kay's' down town. My treat?"
As she listened to his proposal, she noticed something odd, "Hey, wherezzzat dude?"
" 'Where-zzzzz-at'? Oh! um..." Bakura reached in his back pocket and pulled out a little, blue cell phone with fluffy white clouds printed on its cover, "I just held this up and he clued in that I had called the police and he ran for it."
Her eyes met his, "Then shouldn't we wait here instead of gallivanting off for food?"
'Uh-Oh! Didn't think of that!' Bakura quickly fallowed up with an excuse, "The police aren't going to find any trace of them, for a small island, Japan is huge and they could have been after me because I mention Joey to you... they probably were people he defeated in 'Battle City' or 'Duelist Kingdom' that knew I was his friend."
"But wouldn't that be all the mor--"
Bakura didn't let here finish the sentence as he grabbed her by the hand and led her down to the closest ice-cream store.
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Kleb: Well, How's that for a Mary Sue?
Kat: I don't think that's qualified as a Mary Sue.
Kleb: Why not?
Shard: No one instally fell in love with you.
Kleb: Then whadda bout the part with Evil Bakura?!
Erin: *re-reads said part* It only mentions an ambiguous point that could mean he's developed a crush on you already or he really cares about Ryou having a real friend or not.
Kat: Kleb, are you trying to write a Mary Sue?
Kleb: NO! but I am using me mostly to further the plot because I don't know what Shard's got planed. If Shard will let me, I want to incorporate her story into mine, since I wanted to have me, Kat, and Shard write our own parts in the story line... obviously that's not happening.
Shard: Well, please review and we'll see what's up later.
Evil Bakura: Mmmm, beef.
Erin: 00 Where'd he come from??!
Kleb: I ain't gotta clue.