OUTTAKE #1: SEEING FANFICTION (AKA: YET ANOTHER BREAKING OF THE FOURTH WALL)

Welcome, fans of The YuGiOh Project as well as newbies. This fic is a series of ideas that never made it into The YuGiOh Project, but I still thought were postable. (Is that even a word? Too bad, I'm making it one!) You don't have to read The YuGiOh Project to read this, but I suggest you do.

For the lazies out there, here's a quick recap. I'm Night, and I kidnapped the cast of YuGiOh and held them hostage in my house for a month so I could observe what happened and turn it into a story for my creative writing class. Maya is my friend in real life, who appears in the fic and helps with the insanity. The cast is the cast, who are here against their will.

Got it? Good. This idea was actually given to me in a review back in chapter 12 by an anonymous reviewer named Lynne. I'm sorry it never made it into the story, but I hope this makes up for it!

DISCLAIMER: I still don't own! LEAVE ME ALONE, DANGIT!

ON WITH THE OUTTAKES!


The next morning, Night was awake before anyone else. By the time the others had dragged themselves out of bed, Night was fed, dressed, and sitting in front of the computer typing something.

Téa looked over from the breakfast table at Night, who had a look of concentration on her face. She turned to Maya.

"What's she doing?"

Maya looked up. "Oh, she's just working on her fanfics."

Serenity, who was sitting on Maya's other side, joined in the conversation. "What's a fanfic?"

"A fanfic is a story that people write about movies, books, or TV shows, like yours." Maya explained. "Me and Night both write them."

"Oh." Serenity nodded. "Do you read them to each other when you're done?"

"Yeah, but we also post them on this website, Fanfiction .net. We can post our stories and read other people's."

"Wait, you mean more people write fanfics?" Mai asked, overhearing.

"Oh, yeah! A ton, actually. Come on, we'll show you." Maya led the girls over to Night. The boys exchanged curious glances before joining them.

"Night, these guys want to see Fanfiction." Maya said, reaching her friend.

Night looked up and grinned. "Of course! It'll be fun, we can read the stories people wrote about you!"

Téa looked at the screen worriedly. "Um… maybe that's not such a good-"

"Okay, there are a few different types of fanfics," Night continued, completely ignoring Téa. "There are one-shots, which are just short little snapshots, and then there are multi-chapter fics, that can get really long and tell an ongoing story."

"And, what are these stories about?" Malik asked, curious. "I mean, I know they're about us, but what do they have us doing?"

"Well, each story is different, but a lot of them are about different ships." Night explained.

"Ships? As in boats?" Serenity asked, confused.

Night laughed. "No. 'Ship' is short for 'relationship'. When people write stories about different ships, they're writing stories about different people in the show dating each other."

"Huh?" Yugi looked at her, confused. "But none of us end up with anyone in the show. How do they know?"

"They don't." Night responded. "They just write about who they'd like to see together."

"Oh." Yugi nodded, understanding. Yami looked upset, though.

"Don't we get any say in it?"

"Nope!" Night grinned brightly.

"So, what are some of the 'ships'?" Téa asked curiously.

"Well, being one of the only girl main characters, you're in a lot of them." Night grinned at Téa, who paled. "People pair you up with Yami, Yugi, Duke, even Kaiba."

Everyone's reactions were, in Night's opinion, quite hilarious. Téa turned bright red, the yamis, Joey, Tristan, and Mokuba started laughing their heads off, and Kaiba seemed to be in shock. Maya stood there, slightly bored; this wasn't news to her.

"But, why? Téa asked, eyes wide.

Night shrugged. "Different authors like different people together. It's up to them who they want to pair together."

"So, what are some other ships?" Joey asked, still laughing. This was the funniest thing he'd heard in days.

"Well there's you and Mai…" Joey grinned. " and of course, Tristan with Serenity and Duke with Serenity." Joey's smile immediately disappeared.

"Them? With my sister?"

Night nodded. "Yup! But, your show is a bit different than other shows. You've probably noticed that there's only about seven or eight girls in the entire series, right?"

Everyone nodded, except for Kaiba, who was still in shock. Mokuba looked at him worriedly.

"Well, that's a really small number compared to the amount of guys on the show." Night continued. "So, a lot of the pairings for your show are yaoi."

"What's 'yaoi'?" Yami asked.

"Gay pairings." Maya stated matter-of-factly. Everyone's jaws dropped, and Night and Maya burst into hysterical laughter.


Yes, I know this cuts off. That's because it was going to be a chapter, before I realized that it would be hard to end without some people getting together, and I didn't want to put the shippings that I like into the story, only to upset some of my readers that liked different ships. So, it shall remain incomplete!

I know this isn't as funny as you're used to, but don't worry! I'll be putting the next one up soon, and it'll have the insane craziness that you all know and love! See you then!