Shadow: Hi!!!!!!! I'm sooooooo happy now 'cos-

Marik: She's been eating sugar.

Shadow: Nooo, I'm happy because-

Marik: Nobody has told you to shut up recently?

Shadow: Well, that and-

Marik: You've been eating sugar.

Shadow: (wail) Stop it!!!! You're to be nice to me!!! Jade Cade said so!!! If you're naughty I'll set...ummm...I'll set...uh...SOMETHING ON YOU!!!

Marik: Wow. I'm petrified.

Shadow: (mutters) I knew I should've kept Bakura...

Marik: Aaww...poor Shadow....

Shadow: Sniff... Thankyou...

Marik: (huggles!) Tell you what, I'll answer the reviews...

Shadow: Hmmm...Okay.. but be nice! Bye! (skips off happily into the distance)

Marik: (grins evilly)

Wildfire'a Flame: Yup, the pharoah's touchy, it's a well known fact. Apart from that he's also smug, arrogant and bloody (beeeeeeeeeep!). So yeah... OooooO. Bakura and the pharoah...(smirks). There's a match made in hell.

marble angel: No, no evil beeping phones to disturb shadow while she's doing her...important (smirks again) work.

Jade Cade: Yes. Kawaii chibi eyes are soooo illegal. (Nods) The amount of times I've been suckered by Yugi and hi- umm... let's leave it at that, shall we? I'm being good, ask Shadow!!!

Krista123: You need mental help. See a doctor.

Han Futsu; Anti Normal: I'll talk to shadow about writing it...

Dark Mysteries: She updated! Be happy! Here's the address as promised:

Demonsurfer: I know that song! 'Kura taught me it!!!!! I only know the slightly different English version though. Eew. Hairball.

Wolfbane2: Uh, right. (backs away)

Faust IX: Okay. Doing so.

Titansfan545: Riiight.

BobGod: As if shadow would do something like that! (blinks shiftily)

Kitkat1978: She updated, okay?

Sirithiliel: What about me?!

Okay, that's that...ano...what am I meant to say now?! AAARGH!!!! (Jumps as piece of paper miraculously pops into view in front of him.) Oh. Right. (Reads paper.) Say....the...disclaimer... Oh. Well I knew that...

Shadow doesn't own me, Yu-gi-oh! or anything else. Leave her alone and I won't come after you. There. Done.

Oh, right. Here's the next chapter...(It's sort of a side scrolling thingy. The real story's in the next chapter. This is all written in the toaster's POV-anything in italics is the toaster's memories.)


Chapter 4: The trials of a toaster.

Being a toaster isn't easy, you know. I't's a lot harder than it sounds. It isn't all just popping up nicely browned bread. It can be as hard as going into WW3 battlegrounds, especially when you live in the Mouto household... Let me tell you why...


It was a Saturday morning, and all was still- nobody had woken up yet as it was only 8am.

Then- THUMP! THUMP-THUMP! THUMP-THUMP-THUMP!THUMP-THUMP! (Talk about baby elephants coming down the stairs...) They were awake.

"Aibou, there's no toast on the bench! There's only bread!" The one called Yami was yelling.

A voice drifted down the stairs. "That's because you put the bread in the toaster to get toast, Yami!"

"Oh..."


"You see,Yami? You've got to turn the toaster on, adjust the settings, put the bread in, pull down the handle and wait for the toast to pop up."

"And toast comes out?"

"Yes, and toast comes out."

"Cool."

The smaller youth smiled and shook his head. "Not really... It's just a toaster."

Yami smiled. "But it makes toast, Yugi! Isn't that wonderful?"

"Uh..yeah, it's...ano...great. Now I need to go. Are you sure you're going to be ok?"

There was a haughty sniff. " I can look after myself, aibou."

"Hmm...if there's any problems, you DO know how to work the telephone?"

"Yes."

"And you CAN remember my number?"

"Yuuuuuuugiiiii!" The taller teen sounded petulant.

Yugi backed off hastily. "I was just checking! 'Kay? Well; gotta go. Bye!" And the little one was gone.

From that moment, I knew I was doomed.


Well, there I was, stuck in a house with a loony. And the loony I was stuck with didn't know how to work a common, run-of-the-mill toaster till that morning. Wonderful. Was it any wonder the average number of working toaster's in the country was rapidly decreasing? Especially when you combine the toaster's with mentally-challenged weirdos with gravity-defying hair that looks like sonic the hedgehog in multicolour? At least the crazy person was busy waching t.v....until he got hungry.


Why, oh why, did he suddenly decide he was going to try out his new-found knowledge of how-to-work-a-toaster-that-hasn't-been-tested-yet? (A/N the knowledge, the toaster's been tested..)

Yami was muttering to himself. "Okay. Yugi said you adjust the settings, put the bread in and wait...There...done!"

The dumbo had forgotten to turn me on...So he waited...

And waited...

And waited...

And waited...

And waited...

And I didn't make toast. How could I if I wasn't even switched ON? It wasn't MY fault!

Finally, Yami realised something was wrong. So then he decided to pick me up and dangle me by the cord... like that would help.

When THAT didn't work he had the bright idea of jiggling me up and down.

Then, he started banging a wooden spoon of my side. What was I meant to do? Toaster's just DON'T function unless switched on. It's a rule of life. It says so in the instruction manual, guidebook, handbook, encyclopedia of toaster's, how to work a toaster and cooking for coach potatoes.

Then, the teen tried swearing at me. Absoulutely fabulous. That's REALLY going to work. I think I heard traces of english, japanese, german, french, greek and egyptian. For a vertically-challenged freak he sure was pretty linguistic.

Still, I couldn't do anything. Yami looked extremely pissed off. There was a loud bang and all I saw was darkness....


Which is how I ended up here. Still don't know where I am - probably never will. Ah, that's life. At least I'm away from the two Mutou's. This realm seems to be quiet and doesn't make any demands of me. I'm not alone here though. There's plenty of friendly inhabitants. Why, just the other day I was talking to this nice girl in blue and pink. She had long blonde hair and a blue hat and staff. She was really nice. Think she said her name was Dark Girl...or something like that. She'll probably be along later, and we'll have a nice chat. Maybe she could introduce me to the neighbours...


Marik: Toaster's lead such interesting lives don't they? Oh, well. Review people so's Shadow will write chapter 6! So..

Shadow: WAIT!!!!! (runs up)

Marik:What now?

Shadow: I need to ask the nice reviwers something!

Marik: Ask then!

Shadow: It's about umm...yaoi. Due to um....public demand I'm going to include yaoi in the fic.

Yaoi fans: Yay!!!!!!!

Marik: SO?

Shadow: I neeed to know WHO the reviewers want yaoi WITH. So here's the candidates:

Bakura x Yami

Bakura x Ryou

Yami x Yugi

Yugi x Ryou

Malik x Marik

Malik x Bakura

Marik x Bakura

Please write your vote in your review! Thanks! Sorry for the short chappie but the next one will be longer!

Marik: If they review after this crap.....