Don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Duh… Though if I did I'd kill Téa…. Anyway, when I say Bakura in this fic, it's the Yami Bakura from the English version, and Ryou is Bakura from the English version.
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Kendra growled to herself, she was standing at the bus stop just down the street from her aunt's house with a bag of essential items to last her a week, a note telling her aunt, cousin, and yami that she would be gone for a week. Maybe then they'd realize that Kendra wouldn't take their shit. Kendra's yami, Kendarath, tenderly known as Rath (like wrath) by her hikari and friends, was currently engaged in chasing Bakura. She wouldn't be back until past the time that Kendra was normally asleep, if she came back at all. It was possible, if unlikely, that Rath could catch Bakura.
Kendra laughed to herself, her yami had been chasing Bakura almost since she'd met him. Kendra watched the bus drive up to the bus stop and Kendra suddenly realized she had absolutely no idea where she was going. Oh hell, I'll worry about that later. She thought as she stepped onto the bus.
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"Kendra?" Rath asked quietly of her hikari, "Kendra?" she asked more desperately, slowly pushing the trap-door open, "Ari said you were PMSing…." she added slowly. Looking around the room she saw it was empty with the window open. "Crap you stupid hikari," Rath muttered to herself as she picked up the note that had fluttered to the floor, "stupid, stupid aibou," she muttered as she walked back to the trap door. "Why the hell do you keep doing this to me?" she asked the air as she tramped down the hall to Ariel's bedroom.
"Rath?" Ariel asked as the dark spirit entered her room. The tall spirit held the note silently out to her aibou's cousin. Ariel rolled her eyes and didn't take the note, "so she's done it again?" she asked her cousin's yami.
Rath nodded silently with a slight smirk, "when do you think she'll come back," Arientioth, the half-dragon yami of Ariel asked.
"Sometime tonight, I'd think," Ariel said falling back into the chair she'd been sitting in when Rath had entered.
Rath shook her head, "I'm not so sure," the spirit told the two, "she seemed pissed off right before she blocked me. Really pissed off."
Ari raised her eyebrows, "Kendra's always pissed off. No offence Rath, but your hikari's got an anger management problem, she's always blowing up and doing shit like this."
Rath smiled slightly, "I'll just keep a watch out for her then, and we won't let Mari know about this," and with that the dark spirit left the room.
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Right then, Kendra was sleeping on the bus, that was her biggest problem, she could get on the bus for a five-minute ride and fall asleep. The driver was just about finished his shift, just one more round, he hadn't noticed the girl who'd already been by all the stops. Stopping the bus a man with short brown hair and ice blue eyes got on. He was wearing a navy blue trench coat over a dark green T-shirt, and had navy blue jeans, carrying a briefcase. (A/N: guess who!) Seeing the sleeping girl he was struck by the familiarity and he sat down beside her.
"Kendra?" he asked quietly, the girl's only response was to sigh and move from leaning against the window to leaning against his shoulder. "Excuse me, sir?" he asked the bus driver, who was just in front of Kendra.
"Yes?" he asked tersely, he was tired and wanted to go home to his wife's cooking.
"Could you tell me how long this girl's been on the bus?"
The driver looked over his shoulder while they were stopped to let a few more passengers on, "why, she's been on for over an hour!" he exclaimed, "Must'a slept through her stop! Do you know her?"
"Yes," the man said softly.
"You'll take her home then?" the bus driver asked, and then without waiting for the man to reply turned to the road and promptly ignored him.
The man sighed to himself and tried to wake Kendra up, all he got from her was a slight opening of eyes, a sleepy, "oh, hello Seto," and the teenager promptly fell back asleep. Seto sighed and waited for the bus to get to his stop, having no idea where Kendra lived, he couldn't take her home, but he could at least get her off the bus. He could drive her home if need be.
A seeming eternity later the bus finally stopped a block from the apartment building Seto and his brother, Mokuba, lived in. (A/N: yes, in this fic they live in an apartment, an apartment under a fake name with an unlisted phone number at the moment, to avoid hordes of fangirls *cough*Kendra*cough**cough*.) Seto woke Kendra up enough to stand, grabbed her bag and led her off the bus, gods, this girl must be wasted to sleep like this. . . . he thought as he led the teen down the street, "come on, Kendra, just a block then I can drive you home."
Kendra muttered something that Seto didn't catch and shook her head sleepily, Seto wondered why the hell he was taking care of this girl when she'd spent ever moment of her existence since they'd met chasing him. When she wasn't threatening to sic her yami on people and levitating them harshly into walls, she was actually quite cute. What? Seto demanded of himself, as he looked down on the girl leaning sleepily on her shoulder as they trudged down the street, please tell me I didn't just think that. . .
Kendra muttered something again as Seto opened the door to the apartment building, this time it sounded vaguely like 'thanks' as she walked in. The young CEO led Kendra to his apartment and un-locked the door. Mokuba's babysitter hopefully had him in bed already, but when Seto opened the door he heard the girl who was babysitting him reading his bedtime story in his room.
As quietly as he could, Seto poured a glass of water and handed it to Kendra, who drank it, and looking more awake she looked around her, then straight at Seto. Rubbing her temples she muttered softly to herself, "Fuck those damn busses, see if I ever take another fucking ride on a damn bus again."
Seto raised his eyebrows, this was Kendra, she had apparently seen him, and yet she had not glomped him. . . "Kendra?" he asked slowly and quietly, "do you want me to take you home?"
"No!" she said quickly," and Seto raised an eyebrow as he sat down with Kendra at the kitchen table. "I'm not going home, I'll sleep on the damn bus before I go back to that fucking house."
Seto raised an eyebrow, "what about your yami? Where's she?"
"Rath?" Kendra asked, "she's off chasing Bakura, least, she was when I left my house. . ."
"Uh. . . . why aren't you home?" he asked as he watched Kendra worry the glass and stare at the floor.
"Um. . . well. . . you see. . ."
"Spit it out," Seto prompted politely.
"I don't remember."
Seto felt his eyebrows raising even more, "You- you don't remember why you're on a bus at nine-fricken-o'clock at night!" he questioned almost-angrily.
"Um, no. I just remember that I'm pissed at my family. I'd've got Rath to drive me on the Corpse Rammer if I was just going somewhere on an errand or something."
"Where're you going then?" he asked wearily, just his luck to pick up Kendra when she's running away from home.
"I'm not running away from home!" she protested, reading his thoughts on his face, "I'm taking a break from my family units."
"And Rath?"
"Rath'll be fine, she'll be able to tell if I'm in trouble."
"Then why didn't she pick you up on the bus?" Seto asked with a wicked smile.
"Uh, because I'm blocking her," she admitted slowly, "can't you just accept that I'm not going home 'cause I'm fucking pissed off at my family? I'm not going home so leave me alone!"
"Seto?" Mokuba asked from his bedroom.
"Shit," Seto muttered, "yes Mokuba?" he asked louder.
"Seto!" Mokuba exclaimed and a shape hurled into the kitchen and hugged Seto around the waist, effectively pushing him off of the chair.
"What's the matter, Mokuba?" Seto asked getting to his feet.
"Téa's scaaary," Mokuba said in the way that only little kids can.
"Téa's scary?" Seto asked, sounding surprised, Kendra suppressed a snort, she'd always known that Téa was scary!
"M-hm," Mokuba said looking up at Seto, "don't make her baby-sit again, she made me watch T.V. while she talked on the telephone!"
Kendra smiled and Seto sent a quick glare at her before looking down at Mokuba, "alright Mokuba," he told his younger brother, "Téa won't come back."
"Yeay!" Mokuba exclaimed and hopped in a circle around Seto as Téa walked into the kitchen. Kendra turned quickly away and pretended to be interested with something on the refrigerator. If her aunt had noticed she was missing, like she probably had, she'd have called her friends, regardless of the hour of night, to look for her. So Téa might know that Mari didn't know where Kendra was. (A/N: Was that confusing?)
"Let me drive you home," she heard Seto say to Téa.
Then, "but Seeeto! You just got here!" which would be Mokuba.
"It's okay," Téa of course, "I can walk."
"I'm late, I'll walk you home, and Mokuba, you've got, uh, what the he-eck are you doing?" Seto paused and Kendra felt him looking at her back, "never mind, I'll drive you home Téa." Seto and Téa walked by Kendra and she sighed when they walked out the door.
"Kendra?" Mokuba asked.
"Yes Mokuba?"
"Why are you here?"
"Hm?"
"Why'd Seto bring you?"
"Um, I was asleep on the bus," Kendra explained with a blush. (A/N: don't any of you find buses sleep educing?!)
"Oh. . . ." Mokuba said knowingly, "Anyway, will you read me a story?" he questioned. (A/N: and why is Mokuba knowing on the subject that he's 'oh'ing knowingly on? It's best not to ask)
"Sure," Kendra said and Mokuba lead the way to his room. Well, Mokuba ran ahead and Kendra walked behind him. The apartment was a two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment. It consisted of a small hallway by the front door that led both into the kitchen and the living room. The couch blocked the entrance to the living room though, so you had to go through the kitchen to get out of the apartment. From the living room, you could either go onto the patio or down the hallway that had doors to the two bedrooms on the right side, two closets across the hall from the bedrooms and the bathroom at the end of the hall.
Mokuba's bedroom, the first one, was a pretty normal looking bedroom, with his bed in one corner, a TV at the foot of the bed, and a desk and bookcase along the other wall, parallel to the bed. "We were reading this," Mokuba said, handing Kendra a book titled 'Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too.'
"Hey! I've got a kitty named Tigger!" Kendra exclaimed.
"Uh," Mokuba said, just a tad bit disturbed at her exuberance.
"Yup, she's my baby."
"If you say so. Could you read my story now?"
Kendra laughed at herself and nodded, "sure, where are you?"
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When Seto came home he found Mokuba sleeping soundly against Kendra's side, the teen on the other hand, was still reading, oblivious to the fact that Mokuba was sound asleep. Despite the fact that he was snoring. Loudly.
"Kendra?" he asked quietly, the girl jumped at the sound of his voice. "Mokuba's asleep," he whispered.
Kendra looked down at Mokuba's head, "hmpf," she snorted, "falling asleep in the middle of a story," she told Seto as she laid Mokuba down gently and covered him up.
Seto looked askew at the teenage girl who was acting like she had always been staying in his house. He shook his head, thinking what the hell… Kendra walked out of the room, softly closing the door and confronting Seto, who was suddenly aware of how skinny the hallway was.
The sound of a motorcycle roaring to a stop made Kendra's head snap around, as if she could see where the motorcycle and rider were, "hide me!" she squeaked. "It's Rath!"
"Why are you worried? She doesn't know where I live."
"She does knows where you live," the teen replied spookily. "And she knows what you're doing this summer…"
"Right..." but whatever else he was going to say was cut off by....
"Yo Kendra! You in there? Bonsoiiiiiir!(A/N: say it like wazzup!{A/N: evil word....*shudders*}anyways...)" the nauseous loud voice that could only belong to Ariel's yami called from the porch.
"How'd they get up there?" Seto exclaimed.
"You don't wanna know. Anyway, I'm going to go hide," Kendra said calmly as she entered the Seto's room.
"But-" Seto protested before the banging began on the glass doors of the porch. Opening the curtains Seto found Ari floating above the porch, poking the glass. Seto screamed. And proceeded to run around looking for a hiding spot.
He went to his room first but he hadn't even touched the handle when Kendra's voice came from within, "taken!"
Mokuba's room was next and Seto had the handle halfway turned when Mokuba chimed out, "taken!"
Next he went to Closet #1, only to hear, "taken!" called out by an odd male voice.
"Sorry Frodo!" Seto called as he went to the second closet, before it hit him. "Waiiiiit...." he trailed off as he started to slide Closet #2 open before he heard two familiar male voices come from within.
"Taken!"
"Get lost!"
"Wait a minute," Seto said slowly, yanking the door open, "Mutt! Shark-head! What the hell are you doing in my closet?" he demanded loudly.
There was a pause before Seto figured out his own answer, "At least get a real room guys."
"No! No! It's not like that!" Joey protested.
"Yeah, we have Ryou with us," Tristan added.
"Oh, I really needed to know that guys…" Seto said closing the door.
"No wait! We're just hiding from our worst nightmares!"
"What? A food shortage?"
"No, the other nightmares!"
"What other nightmares?"
"You idiot! Fangirls!"
"Well, you have nothing to worry about Tristan. And don't forget you're in my closet Mutt!"
Tristan pouted as Joey growled at Seto. "You even sound like a dog!" Seto said as he laughed. That is, before he heard two other voices from his porch.
"Come on Seto, let us in!"
"Yes, let us in Cuddle-Bunny!"
Seto screamed as he jumped into his closet and slammed the door. "Shut the fuck up," he told the laughing blonde…
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The journey there…
"Okay Rath, you're sure you know where you're going?"
"I told you," the dark spirit told the short girl with blue-and-yellow bangs, "I put a tracer spell on her!"
"I'll never understand you ancient Egyptian spell-casters. . . ."
"Spell-forgers, Ariel, FORGERS! But I suppose you could call us spell-casters since we 'test' the spells...."
"Right. Speaking of forging," Ariel said as she glanced at a white-haired boy passing them on the sidewalk.
"No Ariel, down girl! No boy chasing today! We're on a strict mission!"
"And what's that?" demanded the short girl.
"To retrieve the Corpse Rammer!"
"Aboo?" said Arientioth. "But I thought we were going to get Kendra, Brain!" before adding "narf!"
"Yes, well still...." Rath was cut off as Ari suddenly pointed down the street.
"Hottie at 12:34!"
Rath rolled her eyes as she walked into the garage on their left, nearly causing an accident as she walked blindly out into traffic. Ariel, now noticing she was free, got around to tackling a certain white-haired, British chap. "Ryou!" she cried. Ryou turned around and only had time to widen his eyes before the flying terror landed on him, sending him crashing to the sidewalk. Ariel had her arms around his waist and was rubbing her head on his chest, as Ryou screamed bloody murder.
Bakura appeared from the One Ring (A/N: er… I mean the Millenium Ring), "what the hell is it now? Have you gotten yourself mugged again?" Then he beheld the fangirl, "Oh. Shit. Where there's one there's always another… Take cover!" he yelled as the revving of a motorcycle could be heard. He dived. Into a wall. "Okay, who's the ass who put that apartment there?" he demanded whilst rubbing his nose. The motorcycle noises got louder as Bakura exclaimed loudly, "Shiiiit!" Seemingly ignoring his hikari on the ground, still screaming bloody murder, after several pauses for breath.
Suddenly there was a loud wump like the sound of raw meat being hit with a....
Motorcycle.
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Authoress's Notes:
Kendra; Yeah! End of the first part. You may have noticed that it went from tres serious to somewhat not-serious. That is because my cousin Koolsnowball came over and she decided that she had to help with my story. Most of the funny parts are her ideas. *sighs* and here this was going to be a nice, short, one part fic… The blame lies solely upon your head Ariel! Incase you wanted to know she showed up right after Mokuba had gone to bed…
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