Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of the characters. Please don't
sue, I've got no money. Only original things of mine are the Millennium
Bracelet/Collar, the cat and Tora.
Alright time for the codes to come out. And the winners are:
/aibou to yami/
//yami to aibou//
"speech"
'thought'
{Telepathy}
[Aibou interjecting her own thoughts during a telepathic conversation] (Ya I know the codes are going to get very confusing.)
Another note, this story takes place after Battle City. However since I have yet to see the ending of it I'm going to take a couple of assumptions. Yugi has won battle city. Marik (or is it Malik?) still has one God card, the Millennium Rod and a really bad attitude. Seto is probably not too fond of Yugi too, but I'm not sure if this is going to change. Also I might have romance in the later chapters. There is probably going to be at least one yoai pairing.
Okay on with the fic.
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Three Months Later
'Oh no you don't!' Tora thought as she raced after the gray, over- fluffed rodent in front of her. She and Aibou had gone two days without any food; this squirrel was not getting away.
The annoying fur ball was just able to keep out of the lithe felines claws. A wall of some sort loomed up in front of the two animals. Quickly the squirrel climbed up the wall and disappeared into a slit four feet off the ground. Tora hissed and followed the damned rodent, her sharp claws sinking into the damp wood. The hole itself was actually a six inch by six inch bare window cut into the wall.
Cautiously Tora crawled into the opening and almost fell out the other end. The walls were just wide enough to hold her body. Grumbling she searched directly below her, in the back of her mind she heard Aibou chuckling.
//And just what is soooo funny Aibou?//
/You. You is hunting very bad for cat./
//Well excuse me. I'm used to using bows, arrows and spears. NOT to mention that I'm suppose to be human.//
Another chuckle. /You is just grumpy got shown up by tree rat./
Tora grumbled some more. Directly beneath her was a crate. Gently she jumped down, landing with a barely audible thud. Another crate and then the floor and she looked around again. Boxes and sacks filled with gods know what were stacked willy nilly in the room. There was only one door and the window. At least the rodent had little chance of escape. Of course she might just miss it as she searched. Tora sighed; this was becoming too much work for a meal. A scrawny one at that.
Carefully she started to search the room, all of her senses perked. She thanked Ra for her new heightened awareness of the world around her. She had been startled at first by the intensity of all her senses, but she had adjusted quickly. Now if she could only get the hunting thing down she would be just as good as Aibou at being a cat.
"Fat chance at that.' She snorted softly. 'I'm just to used to using weapons, even if I was trapped in that bracelet for five thousand years.'
Something just around one of the box corners shifted. Tora froze, her ears pointed forward as she listened to the darkness. There! Another noise. Something was up ahead, shifting in place. Whatever it was, it was bigger than a squirrel or a cat. As she crept forward Tora felt Aibou become nervous. Quickly she sent a wave of calmness through the link. Her feline counter part quieted.
Tora rounded the corner to be greeted with more boxes. These ones were stacked up, but there was a space between a few of them. Quietly she padded closer as her nose was suddenly assaulted the scent of unwashed human.
'That is very odd.' Tora thought as she sat back and sneezed. The scent was very powerful.
Carefully she padded over to the space in the boxes, the musky scent getting stronger. She peeked he head around the opening and gasped. Sitting in the shadows, knees held tightly to a bare, thin chest, was a young boy. At the sound of the gasp the boy turned his head. Violet eyes met violet eyes. He had black hair tipped in red that once stood in proud spikes. Gold bangs hung limply, framing a pale face streaked with dirt and peppered with bruises. One eye was swollen shut and turning a nasty shade of blue. His thin chest was also covered with dirt and bruises and although she couldn't see them, cuts.
/Cub is hurt!/ Came the distressed cry of Aibou.
//Very hurt.// Tora's mind darkened slightly. This boy seemed to radiate innocence and someone had hurt him. On top of that he looked just like her friend from Ancient Egypt. This was not acceptable.
The boy shifted slightly. Cautiously he held out his palm, quietly calling, "here kitty. Please come."
Tora trotted forward. She butted her head up against his fingers and started purring, filling the room with the sound of a small motor. Gently fingers scratched behind her ears, then traveled down her spine. She felt herself gathered up and deposited into the youth's lap. Tora quickly tried to close off her sense of smell. The poor youth probably hadn't had a shower in a long time.
The traveling fingers kept up they're rhythmic motion. Suddenly they stopped and Tora felt something tug at the Millennium Bracelet. She snapped her eyes open and twisted to see the boy's fingers groping the magical item. Quickly she gave him a light swat. He gasped and jerked his hand away. Tora immediately felt sorry for her actions, but she couldn't risk him taking the bracelet off.
A sniffle interrupted her thoughts. Glancing up she saw tears crawling down his cheeks, leaving clean little tracks. Tora started purring again and so did Aibou, giving an odd little echo to the already loud motor.
{Please don't cry.}
"Who said that?!" Fear tainted the gently voice of the boy.
The purring stopped. {You heard that?} The youth nodded and glanced out of his little hiding place. {Look down.}
Startled he jerked his head down to the glance at the bundle of fur tucked into his lap. "You can t. . . talk?"
{Actually, I think this is a form of telepathy. But ya I guess I can talk. My name is Tora. [Aibou is here too.] What is your name?}
"Yugi. Why do you have two voices? And why are you wearing a Millennium Item? I thought they only went to people?"
Tora was startled that he knew about the existence about the items. {The other voice you heard belongs to the feline whose body I inhabit. She's taken the name of Aibou. As to why she's wearing the Millennium Bracelet, well it was apparently in the trash she was digging through and it got caught around her neck. She was in trouble and it awoke me and I came to her rescue. As to why it's even in her possession is beyond me. I hope I didn't hurt you when I swatted your hand, but I couldn't let you take the bracelet off.}
"You didn't. I was just curious. But I know that a yami has to be in contact with his or her aibou to protect them." Yugi sniffed again, tears threatening to leave more marks on his face.
{How is it you know about the items?}
"Oh, I was the one to put together the Millennium Puzzle." Yugi replied in a hesitant manner.
{WHAT?!?!} Tora leapt up and planted her forepaws on Yugi's chest. {What's going on? Why don't you have it on you?}
Yugi opened his mouth to enter when the door to the room slammed open. Two set's of violet eyes jerked to the opening of Yugi's hiding place. Quickly Tora scrambled off the boy's lap and out of the small area. Finding a much more concealed hiding place she turned and watched her friend's hiding spot. Yugi had come partially out and was getting ready to call her.
{No Yugi. I can't help you if whoever just entered knows I'm here. Please trust me. I will not leave without you.}
Yugi gulped and nodded, retreating back into the safety of the shadows. Unfortunately that safety came to a quick end as a huge wall of a man came around the corner. Without a word he bent down and literally dragged Yugi from his hiding spot.
"NO, let me GO!" Yugi struggled in the bigger man's grip, pounding on the meaty arm of his captor.
The man ignored the boy's protests and dragged him out of the room, slamming the door and cutting the sound. Throughout the entire process an angry pair of violet-green eyes watched in anger, on her forehead the eye of Anubis glowed brightly in the dying light.
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Treska: Tada! Another chapter done. Sorry it took me so long.
Yugi: Why does everyone pick on me so much. Every other story out there has me in some sort of trouble.
Tora: That's just 'cause you're so cute.
Yugi: *Sweatdrops*
Treska: *Coughs* Ah reviews would be greatly appreciated.
Alright time for the codes to come out. And the winners are:
/aibou to yami/
//yami to aibou//
"speech"
'thought'
{Telepathy}
[Aibou interjecting her own thoughts during a telepathic conversation] (Ya I know the codes are going to get very confusing.)
Another note, this story takes place after Battle City. However since I have yet to see the ending of it I'm going to take a couple of assumptions. Yugi has won battle city. Marik (or is it Malik?) still has one God card, the Millennium Rod and a really bad attitude. Seto is probably not too fond of Yugi too, but I'm not sure if this is going to change. Also I might have romance in the later chapters. There is probably going to be at least one yoai pairing.
Okay on with the fic.
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Three Months Later
'Oh no you don't!' Tora thought as she raced after the gray, over- fluffed rodent in front of her. She and Aibou had gone two days without any food; this squirrel was not getting away.
The annoying fur ball was just able to keep out of the lithe felines claws. A wall of some sort loomed up in front of the two animals. Quickly the squirrel climbed up the wall and disappeared into a slit four feet off the ground. Tora hissed and followed the damned rodent, her sharp claws sinking into the damp wood. The hole itself was actually a six inch by six inch bare window cut into the wall.
Cautiously Tora crawled into the opening and almost fell out the other end. The walls were just wide enough to hold her body. Grumbling she searched directly below her, in the back of her mind she heard Aibou chuckling.
//And just what is soooo funny Aibou?//
/You. You is hunting very bad for cat./
//Well excuse me. I'm used to using bows, arrows and spears. NOT to mention that I'm suppose to be human.//
Another chuckle. /You is just grumpy got shown up by tree rat./
Tora grumbled some more. Directly beneath her was a crate. Gently she jumped down, landing with a barely audible thud. Another crate and then the floor and she looked around again. Boxes and sacks filled with gods know what were stacked willy nilly in the room. There was only one door and the window. At least the rodent had little chance of escape. Of course she might just miss it as she searched. Tora sighed; this was becoming too much work for a meal. A scrawny one at that.
Carefully she started to search the room, all of her senses perked. She thanked Ra for her new heightened awareness of the world around her. She had been startled at first by the intensity of all her senses, but she had adjusted quickly. Now if she could only get the hunting thing down she would be just as good as Aibou at being a cat.
"Fat chance at that.' She snorted softly. 'I'm just to used to using weapons, even if I was trapped in that bracelet for five thousand years.'
Something just around one of the box corners shifted. Tora froze, her ears pointed forward as she listened to the darkness. There! Another noise. Something was up ahead, shifting in place. Whatever it was, it was bigger than a squirrel or a cat. As she crept forward Tora felt Aibou become nervous. Quickly she sent a wave of calmness through the link. Her feline counter part quieted.
Tora rounded the corner to be greeted with more boxes. These ones were stacked up, but there was a space between a few of them. Quietly she padded closer as her nose was suddenly assaulted the scent of unwashed human.
'That is very odd.' Tora thought as she sat back and sneezed. The scent was very powerful.
Carefully she padded over to the space in the boxes, the musky scent getting stronger. She peeked he head around the opening and gasped. Sitting in the shadows, knees held tightly to a bare, thin chest, was a young boy. At the sound of the gasp the boy turned his head. Violet eyes met violet eyes. He had black hair tipped in red that once stood in proud spikes. Gold bangs hung limply, framing a pale face streaked with dirt and peppered with bruises. One eye was swollen shut and turning a nasty shade of blue. His thin chest was also covered with dirt and bruises and although she couldn't see them, cuts.
/Cub is hurt!/ Came the distressed cry of Aibou.
//Very hurt.// Tora's mind darkened slightly. This boy seemed to radiate innocence and someone had hurt him. On top of that he looked just like her friend from Ancient Egypt. This was not acceptable.
The boy shifted slightly. Cautiously he held out his palm, quietly calling, "here kitty. Please come."
Tora trotted forward. She butted her head up against his fingers and started purring, filling the room with the sound of a small motor. Gently fingers scratched behind her ears, then traveled down her spine. She felt herself gathered up and deposited into the youth's lap. Tora quickly tried to close off her sense of smell. The poor youth probably hadn't had a shower in a long time.
The traveling fingers kept up they're rhythmic motion. Suddenly they stopped and Tora felt something tug at the Millennium Bracelet. She snapped her eyes open and twisted to see the boy's fingers groping the magical item. Quickly she gave him a light swat. He gasped and jerked his hand away. Tora immediately felt sorry for her actions, but she couldn't risk him taking the bracelet off.
A sniffle interrupted her thoughts. Glancing up she saw tears crawling down his cheeks, leaving clean little tracks. Tora started purring again and so did Aibou, giving an odd little echo to the already loud motor.
{Please don't cry.}
"Who said that?!" Fear tainted the gently voice of the boy.
The purring stopped. {You heard that?} The youth nodded and glanced out of his little hiding place. {Look down.}
Startled he jerked his head down to the glance at the bundle of fur tucked into his lap. "You can t. . . talk?"
{Actually, I think this is a form of telepathy. But ya I guess I can talk. My name is Tora. [Aibou is here too.] What is your name?}
"Yugi. Why do you have two voices? And why are you wearing a Millennium Item? I thought they only went to people?"
Tora was startled that he knew about the existence about the items. {The other voice you heard belongs to the feline whose body I inhabit. She's taken the name of Aibou. As to why she's wearing the Millennium Bracelet, well it was apparently in the trash she was digging through and it got caught around her neck. She was in trouble and it awoke me and I came to her rescue. As to why it's even in her possession is beyond me. I hope I didn't hurt you when I swatted your hand, but I couldn't let you take the bracelet off.}
"You didn't. I was just curious. But I know that a yami has to be in contact with his or her aibou to protect them." Yugi sniffed again, tears threatening to leave more marks on his face.
{How is it you know about the items?}
"Oh, I was the one to put together the Millennium Puzzle." Yugi replied in a hesitant manner.
{WHAT?!?!} Tora leapt up and planted her forepaws on Yugi's chest. {What's going on? Why don't you have it on you?}
Yugi opened his mouth to enter when the door to the room slammed open. Two set's of violet eyes jerked to the opening of Yugi's hiding place. Quickly Tora scrambled off the boy's lap and out of the small area. Finding a much more concealed hiding place she turned and watched her friend's hiding spot. Yugi had come partially out and was getting ready to call her.
{No Yugi. I can't help you if whoever just entered knows I'm here. Please trust me. I will not leave without you.}
Yugi gulped and nodded, retreating back into the safety of the shadows. Unfortunately that safety came to a quick end as a huge wall of a man came around the corner. Without a word he bent down and literally dragged Yugi from his hiding spot.
"NO, let me GO!" Yugi struggled in the bigger man's grip, pounding on the meaty arm of his captor.
The man ignored the boy's protests and dragged him out of the room, slamming the door and cutting the sound. Throughout the entire process an angry pair of violet-green eyes watched in anger, on her forehead the eye of Anubis glowed brightly in the dying light.
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Treska: Tada! Another chapter done. Sorry it took me so long.
Yugi: Why does everyone pick on me so much. Every other story out there has me in some sort of trouble.
Tora: That's just 'cause you're so cute.
Yugi: *Sweatdrops*
Treska: *Coughs* Ah reviews would be greatly appreciated.