What do you know, I'm not dead. Can't work on my other stories due to massive writer's block, but in my despair, I've come up with a brand-spanking new story. Not sure about the pairings yet, but whatever. I don't own Yugioh.
A brunette haired girl named Mana watched as her mentor, Mahad, was digging around in the spell cabinet. He was checking what he needed his eager apprentice needed to buy at the store.
"You need to get more wand polish, a can of human transformation formula, and..."
"Nachos!" Mana exclaimed.
"Nachos?" he repeated. "What kind of spell requires nachos?"
She shrugged and replied, "It's my thinking food."
"In that case, get some donuts, too," he said, as his student wrote it down on paper.
"Yes master!" she said happily.
Mana was just about to go to the store when Mahad quickly added, "Get the Valkyria brand of transformation. They're having a great sale at the Domino Super Shop. Get six cans for the price of two.
She scribbled it down, and then continued on her quest for the nachos... uh magic supplies.
Mana got to the Domino Super Shop and gathered up everything just as her master had told in a shopping basket.
'It's a good thing that they have a magic section hidden in the back. Otherwise master and I would be out of luck.'
On her way to the register, she noticed a penny on the cold, hard floor. It looked lonely down there by itself.
"Sweet, a lucky penny! More good luck to come," she exclaimed bending down. When she did, a person behind her bumped right into her. The impact sent both basket to spill their contents onto the floor.
"Oh, I'm so sorry!" Mana said gathering up her stuff.
"It's all right," a baritone voice answered. "I should have watched where I was going."
Once their stuff was picked up, they went their separate ways, embarrassed.
"Master, I'm back!" Mana called shutting the door to their house. "And I have nachos!"
"What about the donuts?" questioned Mahad taking out the containments of the bags.
Mana nodded her head proudly.
"Excellent work, then," Mahad stated.
"Thank you very much, master," Mana said with a quick bow before helping him remove the items from the plastic bags.
They began to put away the wand polish and cans into the magical supplies cabinet when Mahad stopped abruptly.
"What's wrong, Master?" Mana asked noticing his puzzled expression.
"Did you try to sneak in another animal into the house?" he asked frowning.
"You know about Mr. Slithers?!" she cried in panic. "I tried to stop him from swallowing your favorite furry slippers, but it was too late!"
"A snake ate my slippers! You told me that I lost them in a game of poker ten years ago!"
"Oops," she said innocently.
"Wait, if you have a pet snake, then why did you buy cat food?" he asked.
"Cat food? I never bought cat food... oh no!" she shrieked in realization. "I bumped into some guy at the store, and he and I swapped cans!"
Mahad's eyes grew in size. "You WHAT!!!!"
"Oops, again," she said innocently.
"What did he look like?" Mahad demanded.
"He had a deep voice, spiky hair, and crimson eyes," she explained.
"Boy is he gonna get a surprise tonight," Mahad sighed.
"I'm sorry, master," Mana said with a small sniffle. "I didn't mean any harm."
"I know, Mana," he said with a sigh. "But if you ever see him again, you have to fix this. And that's an order."
With a salute, Mana answered, "Yes sir!"
Yami entered his house with a handful of groceries in his hands.
"Yugi, I'm home," he called out, shutting the door behind him.
Instantly, a white, short-haired cat ran up to him with a 'meow.'
He wasn't much of a dog person, and when he was in Egypt, he always had a cat companion. Yugi had caught his eye immediately when he first spotted the amethyst eyed kitten. It was love it first sight.
"Sorry to keep you waiting so long," Yami said setting the bags on the table. "I had to work an extra hour due to a meeting, and then I remembered we needed some shopping."
Yugi continued to rub against Yami affectionately, and voiced out his needs with a loud, 'meow!'
Yami bent down to his level and patted his head gently. "Just let me put away this stuff, alright?"
The white cat simply jumped onto the table and watched his owner go back and forth between the fridge and the bags.
After about ten minutes of putting away things, Yami picked up Yugi and carried him over to the sofa.
Big amethyst eyes looked up at him, as he pet the cat's white fur.
"Today was another dull day for me, Yugi," he explained. "Paperwork nonstop, Kaiba running in and asking for advice about Jounouchi, and Bakura stole another water dispenser, somehow."
Yugi's eyes closed in contentment as he purred.
"Anzu was flirting with me again, too," Yami continued. "But I don't think I feel that connected yet. I don't feel like I really have any true friends to be honest."
Yugi looked up at him again, and began to lick his master's hand with his rough tongue in hopes of cheering him up.
"Except for you, Yugi," he said with a smile. "I can tell you anything, and you're always there to cheer me up. Ever since you were a kitten there was something about you. I wish there were more people in the world like you."
The only sound in the whole house was the cat's purrs. "Which is why, for now, I'm content just being with you."
At that moment Yugi jumped off of his lap, and grabbed a toy ball off the ground. The strange thing about the white cat was that he loved to play fetch and would bring Yami the ball in hopes of cheering him up, or if he was in a playful mood.
"You and your silly games," Yami chuckled throwing the ball across the room. "It just reminds me why I named you Yugi in the first place."
Yugi simply trotted back to Yami with the ball in his mouth, and demanded more.
After about six more throws, Yugi raced over to the kitchen and meowed loudly.
With a smile, Yami got up and picked up Yugi's bowl. "Guess it's dinner time, huh?"
Yugi rubbed against him and meowed some more.
Yami whistled a random tune, as he put in the dry cat food and mixed it with a can of wet food.
'That's weird,' he thought. 'It doesn't smell as bad as it usually does. Maybe I'm finally use to the smell or something.'
After he prepared the meal and put it on the floor, Yugi began to wolf it down.
He stopped midway and licked his lips. Sniffing the bowl, he decided it was safe to eat and continued.
'He never stops to sniff it,' Yami thought. 'How strange.'
After Yugi finished up the meal, he ran over to his ball again, and began to chase it around the room.
'Still a kitten at heart,' Yami mused to himself. 'Wish I had some of that childish spirit in me.'
Stomach growling, Yami decided to heat up some of yesterday's dinner.
'Pasta with shrimp,' he thought getting it out. 'It's not that bad. Makes a good substitute for meatballs.'
Yami ate his food quietly and let the white, fuzzy ball of fur entertain him.
After washing his plate, Yami proceeded up the stairs.
Yugi, with the ball in his mouth, followed.
"I thinks it time for us to go to bed soon, Yugi," he advised the cat. "There's nothing left to do, but then again, nothing to look forward to tomorrow, either."
The cat dropped the ball onto the floor and followed his owner into the bathroom.
Yami turned on the sink, and with that, Yugi jumped up on the sink.
"You know, most cats hate water," he told his feline companion.
Yugi just stared intently at the sink, and waited for the game to begin.
Yami turned the pressure down, until it was a thin line of water going down smoothly. Yugi then began to poke it with his paw a couple of times, then stick his head completely under it.
Yami just brushed his teeth and turned the water off when he was done.
Yugi gracefully lept onto the bed beside Yami.
"Man I wish you were a human sometimes, Yugi," he said as the cat curled up next to his chest. "It would be great to hear what you'd have to say for once, instead of just me talking all the time."
Yugi slowly began to shut his ametyst eyes and purred quietly in contentment.
Yami continued to stroke his white, soft back and whispered, "You'd probably make life more exciting as a person, too."
He closed his eyes and fell into a dream filled sleep.
When the morning light shone through his window, Yami groaned.
'Five more minutes,' he thought.
His alarm clock went off two seconds later, and Yami lazily turned it off. "Stupid morning."
He opened his eyes halfway and felt something move against him.
"It's time to get up, Yugi," he informed the cat.
"Why?" a soft voice asked.
"Because—what?!"
Yami directed his full attention to the source of the voice, and let out a terrified yell.
Jumping out of bed quickly, he eyed the alert, naked boy still on his bed.
"Who are you?!" he demanded.
Wide amethyst eyes directed their gaze at Yami, and the boy tilted his head to one side.
Yami gasped and cried out, "YUGI?!"
I don't know if this is necessarily the most original story, but I love kitties, and I thought this would be a fun story to write. That, and I have a kitty who inspired me to write this. I've been working on it since November, I think. I don't get that much time to write it up, though, but I do whenever I get the chance. So, what do you all think? Want me to continue?