Hello, my name is Marie.
"Oh no attack of the Mary-Sue!" I can hear you exclaim to yourself.
NO!
It's pronounced Mah-Ree. Like the middle name.
Why am I explaining all this? I've decided to write in a diary to explain what happens as it happens, so if I ever get back home I can prove to myself that this isn't a dream. It's real. It is and did happen. I'm not insane. Well not completely insane. I think everyone needs a dose of insanity every once and a while or life would be boring.
So I guess I should start at the beginning...
I had been doing my normal routine. Wake up late in the morning. Eat something. Shower. Then after I got dressed I went back to my room and lounged around, surfing the internet. It's the summer vacation after all. And I needed a break after a year of school.
I was currently nineteen. My family was weird. There was no other way to describe them. I had twin brothers, who were two years younger than me, a mom and a dad. Just the normal American family: 2.5 kids, a dog... all that was missing was the white picket fence.
Not that I really wanted a white picket fence or something. I mostly kept to myself. I had a few good friends, but we rarely saw each other outside of school. My brothers were usually out with their friends so I didn't hang out with them. My dad worked and my mom gathered disability payments and sat around watching different television shows most of the day.
I was an odd one out.
I loved to read. I have no clue where I got it from. My dad hated reading, he always said it put him to sleep. Mom only read gossip magazines and such. And both of my brothers hated reading.
I disliked watching sports. I didn't mind playing most of them but I couldn't stand sitting around watching them.
I was a kid caught in a teenagers body essentially. I loved video games- especially Pokemon. I loved anime and manga- everything from 'InuYasha' to 'One Piece', and from 'Naruto' to 'Yu-Gi-Oh!'. I loved them all. I loved TCG games, RPG games, and everything like that.
My brothers used to like TCG games and played with me but they eventually grew up. I feel like I got stuck somewhere in between growing up and staying a kid. Don't get me wrong I was always mature for my age but I held onto games and such tightly. Even after most of my peers had switched from TCG games to make-up, from video games to teen-magazines.
I was just left somewhere behind as all of my good friends became boy obsessed and such. Sure I would find guys attractive, I was a teenage girl after all. I did have hormones. It's just I didn't pine after guys. Sure, I was all for rating guys on their hotness factor and such but when it came to actually dating I fell flat.
Why would a guy wanna date a plain girl like me anyway. I was slightly overweight, had plain brown hair, and boring hazel eyes. I wasn't exactly a good catch.
I had been sighing over the first volume of the 'Yu-Gi-Oh!' manga once more. For some reason I was really attracted to Yami-Yuugi. Even if he was a sociopath in the first few manga chapters. I had just finished reading chapter three, Hard Beat!
The antagonist of this chapter was Souzouji. He was a bully and a really terrible singer. He catches Yuugi on the bus to school and threatens him that he has to sell ten tickets to his all night solo kareoke party. When Yuugi doesn't manage to do it he forces Yuugi to listen to his horrible music. Then when Yuugi finds out Souzouji beat up Hanasaki, Yami took over and makes Souzouji play a Shadow Game with him. Then when Yami wins he makes Souzouji have to listen to his own heart beat at an extremely loud volume.
It wasn't one of my favorite chapters. I actually liked 'The Escaped Prisioner' and 'Burning Struggle To The Death'. I wasn't actually to far in the 'Yu-Gi-Oh!' manga. I mean I just started really getting into 'Yu-Gi-Oh!', I had watched the anime when I was younger and I had a few of the cards but not a lot of them. I remember having Monster Reborn and Dark Magician Girl. I don't think I had any others...
I was sighing hopelessly over the manga tracing Yami's face absently. Wishing I could've had something similar to the adventures Yuugi and his friends had. I had closed my eyes with my thought and snapped them open to look down at Yami's face. He smiled up at me from the page and I blinked. His face had been one full of cockiness and self-esteem. An expression that screamed he was proud of what he had managed. Now the expression was different. I rubbed my eyes harshly. I looked back down. The smirk was back in place.
"Okay. Looks like I need to do something else. Rest my eyes or something. I'm seeing things." I muttered to myself out loud.
I sighed laying back on my bed. Pulling a pillow up under my head and staring at my ceiling. I had painted it a light blue. My walls were almost the same shade as a green screen. I had wanted it to be emerald green but my dad had told me I needed a lighter color or it would be like a cave in my room. I had relented and bought a lighter green.
I watched the fan swirl slowly. Suddenly a new source of light was introduced, I turned towards the window. No the sun wasn't the source of the light. I turned to look around the room. My eyes found the source, and I was in total disbelief. My manga book was glowing with golden light. I scooted back away from the book and when I reached the wall I couldn't back up anymore.
Suddenly the light beamed out towards me. I yelped as the light wrapped around my right arm and right leg dragging me towards the book. I struggled kicking out trying to free my limbs from the light. I grasped the edge of my bed, and tried to pull myself away from the book. I watched my foot sink into the book. I felt like screaming as my leg sunk farther and farther into the book.
My fingers started to cramp. I felt my grip slipping. And the book continued to suck my body in.
I my fingers completely slipped and I made a desperate grab for the edge of the bed once more and only managed to grab my blank diary. I had never really had a reason to write in it before. I held onto it tightly. If it was the only thing I was going to manage to bring with me to where ever I was going then at least I had something.
I felt myself sucked into the book. I stared up at the small rectangle of light that had probably been the entrance to where ever I was. Suddenly the rectangle folded in half and with a echoing thud closed shutting me into blackness.
I had woken up in a hospital. I had no clue where I was or what had happened.
"Oh. You're awake." A nurse stated sounding pleased.
"W-where?" I asked. My voice cracked. My throat felt dry, like I had snored the night before.
"Here. Take this." she ordered holding out a pair of small pills and a small paper cup filled with water.
I accepted the pills and downed them with the water in one gulp. Then I finished off the water.
"Where am I?" I asked.
"This is Domino City Hospital. Do you remember what happened?" she asked.
I shook my head a negative. Of course I did, but I wasn't going to tell her I got sucked into my manga book, I'd be switched from this hospital to a mental hospital instead.
Wait, did she say Domino City Hospital?
"How long have I been here?" I asked instead.
"About a week. You were unconscious. Do you have a name?" she asked.
Shit. She said Domino right? So she'd be expecting a japanese name.
"I don't know." I lied. Maybe I could do the whole amnesia patient thing... It might work for a while.
"Fine. We've been calling you Daredare (doubled form of who). I assume you've just temporarily lost your memories. There doesn't seem to be anything physically wrong with you. We'll keep you for observation for another day or so, or until you regain your memories." She stated marking something down on her clipboard.
"Um. Where's the bathroom?" I asked sheepishly.
She moved over to me and gently took out the IV and pointed to a room just a few feet away. I got up and shuffled my way to the bathroom and quickly did my business. I washed my hands then absently looked up into the mirror only to freeze in shock.
No way. No way in hell. I had lost nearly a foot in height, which was a big deal because I had only been five-foot-four in the first place. My hair had gotten longer, it was now nearly to my butt. But that wasn't really the problem. It was turquoise. My hair, my boring brown hair, was now turquoise. I whimpered. My parents were going to flip!
That's not even mentioning my eye color. Those were purple of all possible colors. I had purple eyes. My mom was going to try to steal my eyes now. She adored purple things. I think she has a problem...
My face had also narrowed quite a bit, as had the rest of my body. I looked like I had gone on an extensive diet, lost a ton of weight, then had a bunch of 'tucks', so I didn't have extra skin hanging around. I wouldn't normally mind except the fact I wasn't staring at myself in the mirror. I was staring at a stranger. I wasn't Marie Laise. I was someone completely different. And I would need to come up with a new name to fit my new look, and fast.
Hitomi. I finally decided staring at my new eyes. It fitted at least. Hitomi was a name given to daughters with especially beautiful eyes. Now for a last name...Haisai. It meant Ash Companion if I remembered correctly. It would work. I had no clue how long I would be here so I forced myself to repeat the name a few dozen times under my breath trying to memorize it. I could remember Hitomi. That was the easy part, the Haisai was going to be harder.
I fiddled with my hair, combing my fingers through it, untangling knots as I went. I disliked having my hair down, it knotted up too easily. I would be glad when I could get a hair tie.
How old was I anyway? I didn't look nineteen anymore. I looked like a younger teenager, fourteen-fifteen at the most... I shook it off, I would worry about it later. I would gradually begin to remember things as the days past. First my given name, then my age, etc... Hopefully this would work.
"Daredare, are you okay?" the nurse asked from the other side of the door.
"Yeah. Give me a sec." I said pulling my hair to the side and quickly braiding it. I didn't have anything to tie it back but at least it would be mostly out of my face.
Then I moved back into the room and back to my bed. The nurse settled me down in the bed and told me that she would be right back. She left. I yawned. Even though I just woke up, I still felt exhausted. I stretched out before laying back down.
"Here." The nurse returned with a tray of food. The bland hospital food. I sat up. The nurse put the tray down on that little table thing that they could extend over the bed. I quietly thanked her and began to eat. When I was finished she took the empty tray and left.
I sighed and leaned back in bed. There wasn't really anything I could do. I looked around for something to do. There was a television, but I was right it would only have a few boring channels... Oh well, it was better than sitting around.
I flicked the channel. The weather channel, there was going to be a rain storm next Wednesday... Oh. Saturday morning cartoons. 'Funny Bunny'? What the hell. It's got to be a rip off of Bugs Bunny. I hit the guide button, shit. There was a marathon of this cartoon. I sighed and cancelled the guide and went back to watching the cartoon. I fought a smile as the dog, Ruff Ruff McDogg, missed Funny Bunny as he dove at him. I snorted as the dog missed again. It was like Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Except the dog wasn't trying to eat Funny Bunny.
Soon I was laughing freely. I felt more childish than I had in years, and that was saying something...
"Hey, sweetie. How are you?" a different nurse peeked in the room. I grinned at her.
"I'm okay. Do you have a deck of cards?" I asked. I had a feeling the cartoons were going to run out eventually.
"Sure thing, sweetie." she left. I apparently looked younger than I thought I did.
The nurse returned and handed me a deck of cards. I thanked her and smiled.
She said it was no problem then left.
I watched cartoons and played a few dozen games of solitaire. By the time I went to sleep I had played fifty games of solitaire, winning about forty of them, and about twenty games of clock solitaire I won about ten of those. I hadn't really played it before but I knew how to play it so I went with it.
A/n: I just wanted to try a Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfic. I just got into reading the manga so I wanted to try it. :D Tell me what you think.