Ayyyyeeee-yaaaaah! -smacks head against near by table- I am so sorry it has taken me this long to upload something! I should have put up a notice on my page that I was going to be away! Bad author! Anyway, once again I am sorry for the lateness of the update, because of certain situations and things of the like I have been made to attend this stupid thing called Job Corps (if you are thinking of attending this place my personal advice is to not to. IF you have heard any horror stories about it then believe them 99% of the time they are true. For example since being there, there have been 5 drug busts, 1 whiskey related incident, and two possession of deadly weapon incidents. I have only been there for 4 months now and the amount of students sent home as a result of these incidents has taken the amount of students that were there (around 450) to just under 180) So yeah job corps rant, in conclusion the place sucks in general. End of rant on with the story!
Chapter 4
Enjoy the silence
Nuri bit her lip and tried to pay attention to the lesson, what the hell were all these numbers? Sure she knew a little bit of math ( mostly from watching over Yuugi all these years) but this? What the hell was this? She shook her head and sighed slightly this was one thing they didnt count on. How in the world did Ishizu expect them to pass High school?
Out of the corner of her eye Nuri saw the Pharaoh Atemu gawking at her, she rolled her eyes and turned her full attention to the teacher attempting to at least learn what the hell he was talking about.
~Else where~
Ishizu smiled "Great choice Solomon, now as I have said you need to stick to the story as much as possible, Atemu at the very least will look for inconsistencies in your story, little things here and there that will give it away as a lie. He is very good at that aspect of fact finding, however if you stick to it as strictly as you can then eventually he will give up trying to find out if you are lying or not. He must not know not yet."
Solomon nodded "Dont worry Ishizu, this I can do. When should I expect Nuri to start coming around?"
Nara opened her mouth "Well, there are some key things that Nuri will show Yuugi to make him believe her. Right now its up in the air. Sadly it depends on if she can keep her temper in check. This is a gamble at best."
Marik stood "She should have gotten him the message by now, we must work quickly here, its almost lunch time."
~back at the school~
Nuri felt her heart drop as the bell for lunch rang out like a shrill scream piercing the night. Slowly she stood and began walking out of the classroom, suddenly she was wrenched back by her arm, she cried out as pain shot up her arm from her wrist. Turning Nuri glared at whom she saw grabbing her.
"Can I help you?" she hissed attempting to pull her arm out of Atemu's hold.
"Gypsy?" he asked wonder in his voice
"Who?" she asked feigning ignorance, 'shit shit shit, I need to get to Yuugi' she thought panicked
"It's you! It has to be! You look exactly alike! There is no difference!" he said with conviction and grabbed the collar of her shirt
Stunned Nuri began struggling more against Atemu's hold, it was too soon for him to find out who she was, in desperation Nuri began screaming
"Let me go! Let me go!" she yelled.
"Hey you!" a familiar voice rang out
Nuri felt like she was flying as she was lifted into the air, at the same time she felt like she was being strangled as her shirt began ripping from Atemu's strong hold on her collar. She fell to the ground gasping for breath hot tears stinging her eyes and black dots appearing in her vision. Nuri coughed and heard Atemu's yell and him clattering to the floor.
"Nuri, come on Nuri talk to me," Akefia's concerned voice washed over her like a warm comforting blanket.
"Akefia." she wheezed out
Akefia sighed in relief "Thank Ra." he whispered and pulled off his jacket placing it over Nuri's mostly torn shirt. Slowly he buttoned her up and helped her stand. "Are you okay?" he asked looking her over
Nuri nodded "Besides a little neck pain yes I am fine." She looked up at the clock and her eyes got wide "Damn it!" she swore softly and looked Akefia in the eyes "Distract him, I need to get to Yuugi with out him following." she whispered
A dark look washed over Akefia's face as he slowly smiled "My pleasure Nuri. Got lots of pay back I need to cash in with this one."
Nuri smiled uneasily and bolted out of the room, quickly she found the stairs to the roof and ran up them two at a time. She burst through the door and immediately ran into someone, with the speed she had been running the two fell over, Nuri landing on top of said person.
"Today is so not my day." she groaned out in her native language accidentally. Standing up unsteadily she looked down at the person ready to apologize. Yuugi was already standing on his feet rubbing his head.
"What is your problem lady?" he growled with hatred staining his voice.
Nuri was taken a back, her eyes grew wide. "What are you talking about?" she asked softly.
"I'm talking about you!" he yelled. "Atemu and Yami obviously set this up! They knew about someone from my past! They really did a number this time, finding someone who looks exactly like her." Suddenly he turned away from her and began yelling at the sky "What did I do to deserve this huh? Anything else I could have handled but this? No not this! Never this! Dammit pharaohs! Your sick! I hate you!"
"HEBA!" Nuri yelled over his ranting, this got an immediate reaction from Yuugi he turned around anger in his eyes
"Dont call me that!" he yelled. "you dont have a right to! You're not her! You cant be her!" the last part he sobbed out and fell to his knees. "Why? Why! What have I done wrong." Yuugi cried out, the soul wrenching sorrow.
Nuri's breathing hitched as she she fought the urge to cry, this wasnt how it was supposed to be, he wasnt supposed to be in this much pain. Nuri knelt down to his level and sat in front of him. "Yuugi," she said softly just to get his attention, it worked as Yuugi looked at her his eyes shinning with tears. Sighing Nuri took of her right shoe, next came off her sock. "Look Heba, I dont think Atemu or Yami would be willing to inflict this on someone just for the sake of hurting you."
Slowly Yuugi looked down and gasped, there on her ankle where two perfectly white rounded and raised marks, quickly he looked back up at her.
"Snake bit marks." he whispered in wonderment, thoughts raced through his head. He knew the way Nuri had died back then. It was something that haunted his nightmares on those nights he had cried himself to sleep.
Nuri nodded and put back on her sock and shoe. "Yeah," she whispered. "Please Heba, I only want to help you. I've watched over you for so many years hoping that you would find peace and happieness with the life you have been given, It hurt me so much to see what they were doing to you. I couldnt stand by and let that happen, Nara and I." she shook her head before continuing, "We were both so worried about you. We knew you wouldnt last much longer, how could you? You were being torn apart from the inside out. So we did something about it. Ra let us come back here to help you."
Nuri reached down and hugged the small teen to her chest this is what she wanted. This was what she was willing to die a true death over, not that Yuugi needed to know that. She wanted him happy that is all that mattered to her. And by the gods if she needed to bash in the heads of those two pharaohs she would gladly do it.
"Please Heba," she pleaded sofly. "please just let me help you"
Yuugi let out a chocked sob, this couldnt be real, and yet here she was in the flesh. His gypsy girl taken from him much too young. "Nuri." he cried out. "Nuri, youre here, youre really really here."
"Shhhh Yuugi." she coaxed "It's alright little nuur, everything will be okay." even as the words left her mouth she knew it was a lie. Eventually yes things would be okay, but for the moment everything was so not okay and for that heads would roll. Nuri stood dragging Yuugi with her. "Come now little one. Lets get back before the others think something is up, one encounter with Atemu is all I need for the week thank you very much."
Yuugi giggled and nodded a slight smile coming to his features. "Encounter? My seems like you have had a rather interesting day, and its only lunch!"
Nuri laughed "Yes, thats the way it would seem." she reached for his hand "What do you say we raise a little hell? Oh! I almost forgot, just so we keep certain people in the dark for now you must say that you and I were childhood friends that met when your grandfather took you to Egypt when he was on a dig. While there he didnt want to leave you alone so he asked my parents if you would be able to stay with us, my parents being the gracious hosts that they were, accepted immediately. Since then we havent been the best about contacting one another. Sadly tragedy hit and both my parents died quite suddenly. In their will it specified that we were to come to Japan so that your grandfather would be able to keep an eye on us and make sure that we didnt get into anything bad." Nuri chuckled "We only came to Domino yesterday and enrolled in school that next day. You didnt know we were coming till we showed up here. Hence the roof top meet and greet."
Yuugi nodded his understanding. "Right, thats a lot to process Gypsy, but I guess I can do it. Wait, Atemu knew you in the past, is he going to be suspicious?"
Nuri shrugged "The hell if I care, but for the sake of not under estimating his stupidity I say that yes he is going to be very curious. However we can not let on that we know a lick of what he is talking about. As I said, one encounter with him is all I need for the week. All I can handle really without busting his face open."
Yuugi laughed uncomfortably, "right well...we cant have that now can we?" suddenly his face fell a frown replacing the small smile he had. "What if he tries to take you away from me?" he asked in a small voice, fear coloring his tone.
Nuri snorted "Well thats just too damn bad now isnt it? He aint the Pharaoh any more kiddo, as far as I am concerned he can take his wants and words and shove them..."
"Nuri!" Yuugi chastiesed blushing. "Language!"
Nuri rolled her eyes "Yeah yeah I got it nuur. Tone down the cussing. I can promise to try."
Yuugi sighed knowing that it was the best he would get out of the Gypsy girl. As Nuri lead them off the roof and down the stairs to the main part of the school Yuugi couldn't help but wonder why the gods had sent her here. Sure they were best friends in the past but that was so long ago now. What if she had changed in a way he wasnt able to get used to? What if he had changed in a way Nuri couldn't stand? These thoughts raced through his head along with the big one. What if this really wasn't Nuri? What if he had been tricked and fell for it? Yuugi bit his lip, for now he would continue the charade of trusting her to be his friend from the past. Only time would tell if she really was.
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