Me: Let me just make it blatantly clear…
Yami: Heeeere we go…
Me: I HATE FANFICTIONS FORMAT SYSTEM!
Yami: -cleans out ears- ouch…
Me: -sigh- I'm getting better at understanding what codes I can/'t use, so I apologize for anything that gives you a headache from my page. –bow bow-
Yami: -sigh-
Me: Now, whose turn is it for the disclaimer??
All: …
Me: …MALIK!
Malik: Why me!? I was locked underground my whole life! I-
Me: -anime flames-
Malik: …have to say, authoress owns nothing.
Me: Good boy.
Malik: -grumble-
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It was dark, cold and dank. The smell of putrid, rotting flesh filled the stale air, mixed with the metallic scent of blood and raw fear. There was only one reason one would be admitted into a hell like this…
Jikega groaned, his entire body ached - from his raw wrists that were held up in crude shackles, to the bottoms of his feet, which burned as if he had just finished walking across hot coals. Where was he? Why was he being held prisoner here…? What had he done to deserve this?
"You know very well, filth," Came a chillingly icy voice, "Think of what you've done in your past?"
Jikega tried to think, but his mind was fogged as the awful aromas filled his nostrils. His past..? He was only 17.
"Your more recent past, imbecile!" The voice hissed. "THINK of those you have hurt? Whose tears have you spilt, their salty texture your sweet elixir of life?"
Tears…? Jikega struggled to remember, his half lidded eyes foggy. Shiyu…
"Yes, that's it," the voice said sarcastically, "If you DARE hurt her pure, innocent soul…"
It was at this moment in time that Jikega's eyes snapped open, and his piercing scream bound off the walls and back at him, hitting his own ear drums. Soon, the chorusing cruel laugh combined with the blood curdling screams was enough to drive anyone mad.
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Shiyu woke up, once again, before her alarm clock went off. But this time, she noticed that she had a cold sweat across her forehead. That dream, was it caused by her sour feelings towards Jikega yesterday?
Noticing the time, the teen sighed and figured to get up and ready for school. She threw her legs over her bed, wincing as they touched the chilly floor while she walked to her bathroom.
It only took her an hour to finish showering, brushing her teeth, drying and styling her hair, put on her make up and get dressed. Still, she had lots of time until school had to start, and she didn't feel like she could much stomach breakfast, so she instead turned to her cell phone and school bags.
Opening her inbox and finding Bakura's number, she sent him a text. 'Ohai-gonzaimasu' she sent.
Texting was slower than messaging, but it was still a rather quick reply when Bakura sent back Good morning to you, too! Why up so early?
Shiyu bite her lip for a moment, but once again, decided to trust that secure feeling she had with the boy. Carefully, she told him about the dream she'd had. By the end of it all, she was eagerly awaiting his reply to see what he had said.
I'm sorry you had such a horrifying dream, I hope you day goes better…
Shiyu smiled, feeling as if Bakura really honestly cared about her wellbeing.
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The entire walk to school, Shiyu text her new friend. Noticing that none of her friends were waiting out front, she walked up to her class room and sat in her seat, pulling out her history book and studying for an upcoming test in the next few periods. Time ticked on, and soon, Hideki and Elle walked in through the door, followed by Raziel.
Elie sat next to her friend, the smile from her face falling. "I forgot about the test!" she groaned to herself.
Hideki sweat dropped, "Then pull out your book…"
Raziel sat on the other side of Shiyu, sitting backwards on a chair. "You never called me," he said.
Shiyu looked up and at her friend, feeling regret. "I'm sorry," she apologized, "I was so angry at what Jikega had said, I'd forgot…"
Raziel shrugged, "It's alright," he said, although he didn't look at her face and looked down at the tile on the ground. "I was just worried, is all."
The girl couldn't help but smile slightly at the concern her friend shared for her. For a moment, the bickering between Elie and Hideki over the younger girls studying was mute, and her dream began to creep back into memory. True, caring friends… was that what the punisher was trying to show the selfish Jikega?
Once again, the door opened and slid shut as Junoshi walked in, seeming slightly unsettled. He sat down quietly, and Hideki ignored the other girls' arguments. "What's up, Juno?" she asked her friend.
Junoshi shook his head, and at once Shiyu noticed something – Jikega was no where to be seen. "Juno…"
"I already know what you're going to ask," Junoshi said, seeming distracted, "Jikega is home, he refuses to come out of him room."
"What?" Elie blinked, "Why?"
Junoshi shrugged, "His mom said they were awoken last night by his screams…"
Shock washed over the friends, and the color must have drained from Shiyu's face as she wavered and felt a pair of strong hands on her shoulders. She turned to see Raziel, "Are you alright?"
Shiyu nodded, lost in her own thoughts. That dream, now Jikega was missing… "What else did they say?"
Junoshi didn't turn as he replied, "His deck was all over his room," he said.
"His duel monsters?" Raziel asked. Junoshi nodded.
"Ridiculous," Hideki sighed, "Kega-kun was never good at duel monsters…"
"Still," Junoshi sighed, "That's what I heard."
Shiyu squirmed; it felt like a snake had coiled itself inside of her and was writhing the life out of a poor, defenseless rodent. He's faking sick, Shiyu reassured herself, there's a history test today…Yea, that's it…
Ignoring all other logic, she tried not to focus on anything but school for the rest of the day.
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"No talking, no note passing, no fiddling with notes…" The sensei went on and on with the rules for test taking, "When I say times up, pencils down. Don't start until I tell you to. And…begin!"
Shiyu stared at her paper, trying to focus on the dates and events in front of her. The Heian period lasted for how long? But at the moment, Shiyu couldn't care less about the Heian period, or when the first treatise to Western anatomy took place. What had happened to Jikega? Sure, he was a pain in the ass, but he was still a dear friend…
Absent mindedly, Shiyu continued to scrawl down dates ahead of her. Remembering the past is my future, Shiyu told herself, I can't think about Jikega-san right now, I have to graduate…
Taking a deep breath, she began to neatly jot down a short history of Feudal Japan. A period marked by the departure of torment-like battles… a brief period of peace… Before she knew it, she was scribbling about the Genkō War. When she finished, she flipped the paper over to check how many questions she had left, Nearly finished… She thought, her heart sinking slightly. She glanced at the clock – she wasn't looking much forward to lunch.
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"GAH!" Elie groaned as she flopped down next to Shiyu, "I completely bombed that test…"
"Should have went to those cram classes," Hideki muttered as she opened her lunch box and positioned her chop sticks.
Elie sulked, "I had things to do…"
Raziel laughed as he lowered himself to sit near the girls, "I don't believe that blowing your weeks paycheck was an excuse to skip your cram classes…"
"But I told Hideki to take notes for me!" She whined.
The entire group sweat dropped, "I think she's missing the point…" Hideki sighed.
Raziel laughed and cast a quick glance over towards Shiyu-kun and Junoshi-chan. Junoshi was lying on his back, his hands behind his head and his eyes cast upward, and Shiyu was lying on her stomach, her legs kicking cutely in the air as she munched an apple. The oldest boy suppressed his smile as he watched her tuck a stray lock of hair behind her ear, the apple clutched firmly in her teeth.
Shiyu had always been a sweet girl…well; if you didn't count the moments when she and Jikega had gotten into those horrible, let's call them "disagreements". Raziel frowned slightly as he thought of that dampened period. That relationship put more strain on everyone in the group than the young girl had realized, and when she had dropped nearly 2 dress sizes, that was when Raziel and his sister decided to put it to an end.
……tiny flashback for a moment…….
"She doesn't eat when she's stressed," Elie had sighed as her, Junoshi, Hideki and her brother sat in a booth at the newest Chinese restaurant that had opened up, "And with the up-coming exams and Kega-sans mouth, I wouldn't be surprised if she could remember the last time she HAD eaten,"
"I couldn't blame her," Hideki said through her chow-mien, "I don't think I'd be able to stomach anything with him bitching in my ear drums…"
"He doesn't realize what he does," Junoshi said in his best friends defense, although after the words left his lips the look on his face was plainly questioning if he himself had realized what he just said.
"He needs to realize it," Hideki grumbled, and then slammed her first on the table causing Elie to squeak and jump. "He's 16 years old; he NEEDS to take responsibility for his OWN actions!!"
Elie nodded meekly, as if frightened that anything else would further provoke her already riled friend. Raziel said nothing for nearly the entire time, but tried to focus on the words of concern his friends were expressing. Anything to get the image of Shiyu-kun's tear streaked face out of his mind…
………end momentary flash back ending………..
"RAZIEL!!!!!"
"GAH!"
The dark haired boy had fallen over, surprised by the screeching in his ear. "WHAT!?" he screamed up at his sister.
She blinked a few times, "Come with me to get a juice…"
Raziel sighed, then hoist himself up and followed his baby-sister. He knew she was scared to death of being alone anywhere ever since they had moved – at first it was because Raziel was older and had more knowledge of languages, and when they moved here at first he had picked up Japanese much quicker than his sister, but now it was simply just habit. Not that he minded, Elie was one of his best friends, he loved her more than anyone. Whenever he needed an ear to tug, she had always been there…not that she had much of a choice, living alone with him.
Which, he wasn't too surprised when she brought up his zoning out a second ago, "You were thinking about her, huh?" she asked.
He shrugged, "I don't get why she gets so distressed over that guy," he said.
"I do," he was shocked to hear his sister say.
"El," he said calmly, "I love you, you're my baby sister…which is EXACTLY why I'm not allowing you to go after Jikega."
Elie giggled as she pressed the button on the vending machine for her grape-fruit juice, "Brother, I think YOU would go after Jikega before I would."
"Don't push it."
The girl sighed, "What I meant," she said, "Is that Shi-kun and Jikega were together a long time, and Shiyu is a very emotional person…which isn't always a good thing. She's worried about Kega-san."
Raziel shrugged, uncomfortable. "Yea, but…"
"And," Elie continued, "I'm sure she's confused. I know she's furious at him over yesterday, but also, when Junoshi came to school so worried, that rubbed off on her."
Once again, Raziel shrugged. "He just wouldn't come out of his room," he said, "You know how proud he is – maybe someone humiliated him the way he humiliated her."
"You wouldn't have to do much to accomplish that," Elie sighed. "But what did they do?"
"You heard Juno," Raziel said, "Jikega's cards were thrown around his room…Maybe someone beat him in a card game?" But who? He asked himself.
"Jikega sucked at Duel Monsters," Elie mumbled.
Raziel laughed, which was all he could do as they came back up to the group. Once again, they took their respective places, listening to what Junoshi and Hideki were talking – or more arguing – about.
"They broke up!" Hideki nearly screamed.
"That doesn't matter!" Junoshi sighed, "Iceman still-"
"Can you two please stop?" Shiyu sighed. "I have a big enough headache from that test…"
Hideki turned to her friend as Junoshi stopped mid-sentence. "Huh?" Junoshi blinked.
Shiyu smiled, although it seemed a bit strained, "It was challenging," she covered, "I can see why Ji-kun skipped it."
Raziel said nothing as he stared at the ground. She hasn't called him Ji-kun since they were together…
Elie saw the emotion flick across her brothers face. In public, he did rather well at hiding his emotion, but she knew his true feelings.
Everyone jumped slightly as a beeping filled the air, and Shiyu grinned widely as she rolled onto her back, holding her cell phone up in the air and reading whatever text she had just received. Hideki blinked, "Who's that?" she asked curiously.
"'Kura," Shiyu replied quickly and her thumbed hammered against the keys heavily.
"Oh…" Was all the brilliant teen could manage to say before the bell rang and she stood up, "I've got to go," she said, "If we're late, Sensei Choka will kill us,"
Elie grumbled, "I hate that red-headed roach…" she gathered up her things and followed her friend, "See ya later,"
"Ja," Junoshi said as he turned to Raziel, "Ready for Judo?"
Raziel shrugged, "Sure," and stood up, looking down at Shiyu as she still lay on the ground, "Need a hand?"
Shiyu turned her blue eyes to her friend, "Wha...?"
Raziel scratched the back of his head, "The bell rang…" he said, a sweat drop sliding down his temple.
"Oh!" Shiyu jumped up, "I have dance next!" she began to run in the direction of her locker, and her mood seemed significantly lighter than it did a few moments ago. "Thanks, Raziel-kun," she said with a wink and a peace sign, "Ja!"
It was all Raziel could do to hold up his hand in a feeble wave as the girl ran off in the direction of her locker, unable to think of anything to say – should I have said goodbye in English, Japanese or French?
"C'mon," Junoshi groaned as he sat up, "I don't feel like listening to Sensei Ryosuke bitch about us being late…"
"Yea," Raziel said absentmindedly, following his friend to the gym.
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Me: Well.
Yami: …
Malik: That joke's getting o-
Me: -anime flames-
Malik: …oh so…entertaining?
Me: …
Yami: It was worth a shot?
Malik: Heh…-sheepish grin-
Me: Review, the next chapter will be posted later today [hopefully and will continue in this school day [high chances.
Yami: I'm surprised you carried on with this as long as you did.
Me: ME TOO! For a spur of the moment idea, it's pretty well thought out…
Malik: -nod nod-
Yami: -whispers- you just don't want to get shank'd again…
Malik: -sarcastically- How'd you guess?
NOTES: It was brought to my attention of a small mistake I made in the first chapter…
Raziel: I AM NOT A GIRL!
Me: Of course your not –grin- Renee isn't in this story [yet
Raziel: …
Me: The first chapter says something along the lines of "Raziel was Elie's sister", but by now you know that I accidentally switched the names around, and it should be that ELIE is Raziel's sister.
Also –
Am I the only one who found the Yu-Gi-Oh! Movie ABSOLUTLEY hilarious? I mean, seriously –
-PROOF PEGUSUS IS A CHILD MOLESTOR-
Pegasus: Kaiba boy!
Seto: Don't act like we're friends. We never have been, never will be.
Pegasus: Looks like SOMEONE needs a hug!
Seto: …
-CLIP 2-
Seto: This place is old and decrepit, but so are you so I guess it's fitting.
Pegasus: Now, now…no need to get nasty! ….Yet.
Seto: ……
-CLIP 3: WIKIPEDIA-
Everyone: Oh, no! Anubis will kill us all!
Pegasus: Everyone! –tells them the secret to how to beat him-
Everyone: …how'd you know that?
Pegasus: I looked it up…
Me: Is it just me, or did everyone laugh their asses off at those parts? Also, the "Johnny Rotten" reference made by Joey XD 'kay I'm done.
R&R