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//Yami//
/Yugi/
'thoughts'
"Dialogue"
Chapter Two: Foiled Plans
Yugi adjusted his clothes before going out to meet up with Tea. The two of them were going to hang out at the mall, but it seemed as if Yami would be the one to grace his presence instead. Yugi would be there to watch how things went between them, no matter how much he felt uncomfortable with it, he'd do this for the sake of his friendship. "Alright Grandpa, I'm going to go now!" Yugi called as he headed out of the card shop doors.
"Be safe out there, Yugi!" Grandpa called, "I don't want anything strange happen again!!"
Yugi nervously laughed, "Right!!" and he dashed out the doors. 'It's not my fault trouble always seems to find ME!' Yugi inwardly sighed.
Yami chuckled, //Yugi, trouble follows US around,// Yami corrected, causing Yugi to sigh once more. /Why does it always happen a lot though?/ Yugi complained, though he couldn't help it, he had basically missed out on his high school life saving the world. "Hey, there's Tea." Yugi said, catching Yami's attention. "Hm?" Yami looked ahead, and there just a few feet away was Tea, nervously standing near the water fountain with her back turned to them, "I see her, then shall we switch?"
"Yeah."
With a bright flash of light, Yami took over. "I wonder why we're going to the malll...don't we already have enough clothing?" Yugi laughed, /Yami, girls love shopping as much as we love dueling./
Yami laughed, //I suppose that's true,// he agreed.
"Hey, Yuge!!"
"Huh?" Yami looked around before the familiar face of Joey Wheeler bounded up to him.
"What are ya doin' here? I didn't expect to see you heading this way," Joey said, looking around until his eyes landed on Tea. He made an O-shape with his mouth. "Tea wanted us to hand out before the break was over," Yami explained.
"I see..." Joey grinned like a Cheshire cat, "Way to go, Yuge!!" Joey laughed, Yami blinked, "Huh??" he inquired as Yugi palmed his face. 'Joeyyy!!!!' he wailed in embarassment.
Just then, both Yami and Yugi caught glimpse of something small flying towards him, well actually, it was flying towards...oh damn.
"Joey, duck!" Yami shouted, Joey cocked his head, "Duck? From wha--?"
The thing smacked into the side of Joey's face, "OW!!"
Joey rubbed his face once he had peeled the thing that had hit him, he cocked an eyebrow in disbelief to find out that he was hit by a DNA Surgery Trap card.
"THE HELL IS UP WITH THIS?!" Joey roared, angrily waving the card in the air.
/Who would shoot a card at Joey?/ Yugi asked, /Why would anyone do that?/ Yami was thinking the same thing.
That's abnormal..." Yami said, /Yami, look up there!!/ Yugi pointed up to a tall building. Yami narrowed his eyes as he noticed two figures sprinting away from the edge of the building, no doubt to escape recognition and trouble.
Yami sighed. There was no possible way for him to chase down the two culprits, for they could have already mixed in with the people in the building and left by the time he had gotten there. He took a glance at Joey to find him still whining a bit about the red mark shaped like a card on his cheek. It seemed like Joey was fine, except for the fact that he got assaulted by a card.
Joey sighed groaned. "Serenity is gonna think some girl slapped me with their address book again!" Joey cried. Yami blinked and stared at Joey. "When did that happen?" Yami couldn't help but to ask. "Don't... ask…" Joey said, looking like he'd die from the memory.
"Alright..." Yami said, still curious but did what Joey asked.
"Geez!! My face hurts!" Joey griped, "Actually...my whole face hurts." Yami blinked as Joey began to rub his whole face, groaning. "Hey, Joey, you okay?"
"Not really...headache starting to form..." Joey moaned, /What the heck!?/ Yugi yelled as Joey began to pulse with a bright pink light. "Joey!" Yami cried out as Joey fell to his knees, grabbing his head.
Yami took a step back from the Joey, his arms came up to shield his eyes from the blinding light. When the light had finally died down Yami hesitantly lowered his arms to see what happened…and what he saw was something he had never imagined would happen to Joey.
/...Whoa.../ Yugi gaped, /This beats ANY weird situation we've been in by a LONG SHOT./
//Yes, indeed...// Yami agreed, his eyes disbelieving.
In front of them was no longer the Joey Wheeler they knew...in place of his manliness, was a woman of dirty blonde hair, clad in Joey's baggy clothes, dazed hazel brown eyes complete with a voice boys should have lost at the start of their teens.
"What are ya starin' at Yuge?" Joey asked before realizing something. "WHY IS MY VOICE HIGH?!" Joey cried. Joey took a glance down to find that he had volume in his chest and that his clothes failed to fit him properly.
"Oh no..." Joey's (high) voice squeaked, "Oh HELL TO THE NO!!!! This isn't happening!!" He (She??) wailed, "Yuuuugeee!!! Tell me this isn't happening!!!!"
Yami wasn't sure of what to say, "It's...not happening??"
Joey then whirled on him, "WHADDYA MEAN THIS ISN'T HAPPENING?! THIS-THIS-THIS ISN'T ME!!! HOW COULD YOU SAY THIS ISN'T HAPPENING!?"
Yami recoiled in shock, "But you just...."
"WHAT?! I JUST WHAT!?"
Yami felt a tiny bit of fear grow, 'Women are scary...' he thought.
/Yami! Tea is coming!/ Yugi cried, Yami took a quick look over his shoulder to find the brunette walking towards them.
"YUGE!! I'M OVER HERE!! Help me!!" Joey wailed.
Yami started to slightly panic trying to figure out what to do. If Tea came and saw the now female Joey, she'd burst with questions! If he ran off to help Joey, Tea would be mad.
Who was more important?? His best friend who was right now suffering through a midli--excuse us, GENDER crisis? Or his friend who wasn't going through a crisis other than being blown off??
Well, Tea was his friend, so she'd understand if he ran off to help Joey right?? ...Right...dang...
Yami bowed his head, "Agh...sorry Tea," he muttered underneath his breath, "Come on Joey, let's get you home."
"HOME!?" Joey squealed, which was something Yami wasn't used to hearing, "HOW CAN I GO HOME LIKE THIS?!"
Yami winced from Joey's squeal. "Right, I meant my home," Yami corrected, then he took Joey by the arm and ran off with him (her??) before Tea got close enough to see.
"Yugi??" Tea blinked, she looked around and squinted in the sunlight, and she caught glimpse of the back head of Yugi...running the opposite direction of her with a blonde...
"GIRL!? WHA?!" Tea gasped, "He...ditched me...for another woman?!" Tea's eyes flashed and gritted her teeth, "OOH! BOYS!!" Tea fumed, "I can't believe Yugi would do this!! Damn it, he
better have a good reason!!"
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Yami could imagine Tea fuming right this instant and couldn't help but to see the image of her scolding him the next time she saw him. Hopefully she'd forget the whole thing and forgive him. "Grandpa, I'm home!" Yugi said walking into the shop, trying divert Grandpa's attention from the back door where Joey was sneaking in through. "Oh Yugi, back so soon?" Grandpa asked, surprised.
"Y-Yeah..." Yugi rubbed the back of his head, "Something came up."
"Oh? What was it?" Grandpa inquired.
"Well, I ran into J--" Yugi stopped midsentence as he saw Joey frantically gestured at him to not mention him or the incident. Grandpa raised an eyebrow, "You ran into...??"
Yugi bit his lip and said the first thing that came to his head, "I ran into a pole and tripped over an uprooted sidewalk..."
Grandpa blinked in disbelief. "Well I'm going to go upstairs and check how my head is," Yugi quickly said, running up to his room, urging Joey to get moving before Grandpa saw him or question him more about the incident.
"AH! W-wait, Yugi!" Grandpa reached out to his grandson, but the teen had already sprinted up the stairs into his room and slammed his door shut, no doubt locking it too.
Grandpa's arm slowly lowered, "Ran into a pole and TRIPPED??" he said, incredulous, "Usually Yugi isn't that clumsy..." he muttered, "Hmmm...I wonder..." Grandpa said as he walked into the front of the gameshop to help some kids out.
Yugi breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at Joey. His friend turned girl was right now practically screaming at his reflection. "This can't be me!!" Joey cried. "No!! NOOO!! I...I've been...de-manified..." Joey slapped his hands to his face and dragged them down. Yugi sweatdropped, 'This seriously is the cherry on top of weird situations...'
"What am I going to do?!" Joey wailed, "I can't go home like this!! I can't face my mom or Serenity or ANYONE like this!!!" Joey curled into a fetal position, "If anyone sees me like this!! I'll be humilated!!" Joey gasped in dread, "Oh god, if KAIBA sees this..." she screamed, "NOOO!!! BLACKMAIL!! HUMILATION!! LOSS OF MANHOOD!! NOOOO!!!!"
Yami and Yugi paused, thinking about what Kaiba would have done. Yeah, Joey had the right to be worried.
"Joey, calm down. You can stay here for the night, I'm sure I have something that'll fit you here…" Yugi said, trying to calm the freaked out blonde.
"Yuge…look at me…LOOK AT ME! HOW CAN I CALM DOWN!?" Joey shrieked. Yugi cringed, Joey as a woman was terrifying.
"First of all, if you don't want to attract any attention to yourself, STOP. SCREAMING." Yugi said, "Second, if you can't calm down, you won't be able to think straight, meaning you won't be able to get out of this mess if you don't have a level head!"
Joey stared at Yugi with his mouth hanging wide open.
"Did you just yell at me Yuge?" Joey whimpered.
"Uhh…" Yugi didn't know how to react. Even if he did, what would it do to Joey? The boy should be used to it, seeing as how everyone yells at him for one thing or another.
"I can't believe you yelled at me Yuge! You're my best friend!" Joey wailed, throwing herself onto Yugi's bed, crying.
Yugi stared, as well as Yami. Both tri-color haired boys stared for who knew how long. /Girls can't be THAT emotional…can they?!/ Yugi asked Yami. The pharaoh helplessly shrugged, 'I don't really know how to answer that, Yugi...remember, I've been trapped in the puzzle for 5,000 years...no social contact whatsoever.' Yugi sweatdropped...again, "R-Right..." Yugi didn't know what to do...usually Joey didn't act like this...then again, Joey wasn't usually a girl.
"U-Um Joey? Joey it's okay, I-I didn't mean to yell at you," Yugi stammered.
"Really?" Joey asked, lifting his head revealing watery eyes.
"Y-Yeah," Yugi said forcing a smile on his twitching face, 'Joey'd better wash that…I'm not using a snot covered pillow.' Yugi thought.
"Okay, I'll try to calm down...but what am I going to do??" Joey sniffled, "I guess we have to come up with a name for you...a temporary girl name..." Yugi said.
Joey nodded, "R-right..oh man...where am I going to stay though? I can't just walk up to my house and expect to be let in! "Oh hey, Mom and Serenity, I'm Joey, I just got turn into a woman, can I still live here??" that'd be impossible!!"
"Well, I said you can stay here," Yugi started.
"Yugi! I can't exactly stay here either! Your grandpa would be suspicious if he isn't already!"
Yugi agreed, "Yeah, you're right…then Tristan's?"
"NOO!!" Joey raked through his hair.
"Duke??"
Joey cried, "Noo!! The both of them aren't exactly on leashes! I have enough trouble keeping them away from Serenity!"
"Okay, then we'll think about it after we figure out what you temporary girl name will be," Yugi said, tyring to calm Joey down before his voice got loud enough to break the windows and invoke attention.
"Okay..." Joey whimpered.
"Okay. So...what would you think would be a good but not obvious, name for you?" Yugi asked
"Joanna?"
"That's somewhat obvious."
"…Jackie?"
"Try to stay away from the J names," Yugi suggested.
"Serenity?"
"That's your sister's name."
"Mai?"
"That's our friend's name."
"Tea?"
"That's our friend's name…again…"
"Jounouchi??"
"...Wha??"
"It's my japanese name."
"Oh. But wouldn't that be obvious too??"
"Oh yeah. Honda?"
"That's Tristan's Japanese name isn't it? Come on Joey, snap out of it and stop naming yourself and our friends," Yugi said.
"Bakura?"
Yugi palmed his face. They were getting nowhere. Yami fought hard to keep down a snicker. //If this helps, why won't you just use a common girl's name?// Yami intervened.
/Like what?/
//A name that won't confuse us or Joey?//
/That could be any name, Yami!/
Yami blinked. Was it him or was the female Joey's anxiety starting to affect poor Yugi as well?
"Aghh!!" Yugi shook his head, "This is hard..."
"Josephine."
Yugi froze, "Wha?"
"Josephine," Joey repeated, "It's my full name and also a girl's name. It wouldn't be confusing at all...for us."
"Okay, fine," Yugi agreed, happy that they finally made a little progress.
"Uh…Yuge?"
"Yes?"
"What am I going to wear?"
Yugi froze. If he asked any of his friends, he'd get strange looks and be asked why? Tea would probably go nuts.
"That's...a good point..." Yugi rubbed his temples. Joey couldn't wear the same clothes over again, and she definitely couldn't wear Yugi's, as the smaller teen was...smaller than Jo--sephine.
They were in quite the predicament.
"I guess we're going to have to shop for clothes then..." Yugi carefully said, gauging Josephine's reaction.
"Shopping!?" Joey squealed happily.
Yugi cringed. Apparently turning into a girl meant being one too, if this was going to be a female Joey, he'd appreciate the male Joey more. Maybe Serenity would be happy, having the sister she never had…though she loves Joey as much as a little sister could love her big brother already. "Yes, shopping." Yugi nodded, "Yay~!! Let's go now!!" Josephine giggled, then she hit herself, "Oh man, I gotta stop doing that..." Josephine groaned, her eyes flashed, "When I get my hands on da two bastards that did this..." Josephine clawed at the air and punched her palm. "I'm gonna make sure they never even thought about shooting that damned card!!"
Yugi's eyes lit up, "Of course!!" he shouted, startling Josephine, "Joey, do you still have that card?"
"Card? What card?" Joey asked. Yugi sighed for the nth time while Yami shook his head. Joey was still as forgetful and clueless as ever. Maybe the only thing that changed was that Joey was more emotional and liked to shop. "The DNA Surgery Trap card that smacked your face!" Yugi exclaimed, "If we can somehow find out how that card turned you into a girl, maybe it can help us turn you back!"
"Uhh…that card? Um…I think I tossed it the moment I got it off my face," Joey said. Yugi's jaw fell open, "Are you sure??" he asked, 'Please please please let the card be SOMEWHERE near!' Yugi prayed. His prayer was answered, "Oh, here it is!" Joey exclaimed, digging into his back pocket, "Why was it there?" Yugi asked, "Beats me..." Joey said, "I remember tossing it to da wind."
Yugi was relieved, maybe the gods helped them. 'Thank you Slifer, Ra and Obelisk!' Yugi inwardly cheered, Yami thought he heard three roars of acknowledgement, he smiled.
"Now what? Are ya gonna smack me in the face with this card??" Joey asked, wincing from the memory. Yugi shook his head, "No," Joey sighed in relief, "I doubt that'd do anything...I think..." Yugi said. He didn't know if the same card would reverse its effects, but to find out for sure...they'd have to track down the people who shot it in the first place.
"We have to find those two people who shot you and ask them," Yugi said, "It'd be normal for them to know how to turn you back into a male."
Joey snorted, "Yugi, what would be normal would be for me to have stayed as a male, but I see your point."
Yugi pondered, "Now…where would I go if I didn't want to get caught for turning a guy into a girl?"
"BACK TO THE CRIME SCENE!" Joey squealed, "Most criminals do that!"
Yugi sweatdropped…again. He was going to have a loooong day…
Akki: AAAAAAAAAND CUT!!
Arisu: Woot!! That was fun!
Akki: And long!! :D
Arisu: Well we did say the chapters were going to get longer. XD
Akki: Indeed.
Both: Hope you liked it!! :D Chapter 3 on it's way!
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