A.J woke and looked at the alarm clock next to her. The numbers 6:35 flashed back. She almost got up when a small nudge caught her attention. Looking down at the source, A.J noted the small vampire still curled up asleep in her arms. Deciding breakfast could wait, A.J rolled back over and shut her eyes. Not going back to sleep, she listened to the rest of the family get up.
The sound of a coffee machine downstairs told her Seto was awake. A loud crash followed by yelling let A.J know Ryou, Bakura and Malik were awake. The yelling increased, Marik must have joined the party. Yelling ceased, Duke's awake. Someone falls downstairs on her level, Joey's up. Yelling starts up again, probably he crashed into Seto...again. Yelling increases, Tristan's backing up his friend-AKA awake.
'Honestly, our family should become a sitcom...'
A loud sigh on the other side of the room pulled A.J from her thoughts. Shuffling feet across the floorboards and the door opens, then closed again. A minute later, the house is quiet again. Yugi's awake and it's time to start a new day. A.J looked down and almost jumped when her chocolate brown eyes locked with sleepy looking crimson. She smiled and Yami smiled back...sorta.
'Yawning counts as smiling right?' A.J laughed at her own joke, gaining a confused look from Yami. Suddenly, a light knock on the door and Yami was under the bed. A.J sighed, hoping it was due to one of the perks of being a vampire that Yami was able to fully wake up, jump over her without crawling and dive under the bed in one fluent movement, taking less than a second to do so. She saw Mokuba looking through the door looking like a kid caught smuggling lollies.
"Is he under the bed?"
"Yep, did you figure that one out by yourself Sherlock?" Mokuba grinned, early morning A.J humour was always the best.
"Aww, I love you too A.J. Sorry Yami, it's only Mokuba. I didn't mean to scare you, honest!"
A head poked out from under the bed, and upon seeing the identity of the intruder, Yami came out looking relieved and slightly embarrassed. He waved to Mokie and Mokie waved back.
"Well, Yugi sent me up to tell you breakfast is ready."
A.J smiled, and seizing the opportunity, decided to try out Step.2 of her plan. "So... Are you ready to meet the rest of our family, Yami?"
Yami looked at her mortified, and shook his head no. A.J smiled again expecting that answer and ready to change his mind. "That's O.K Yami, Mokie and I will just run down and grab something to eat and you can stay here." A.J finally got out of bed and walked towards the door when a weight attached itself to her leg. She looked down to see Yami. 'I...think I'll go with you.'
A.J grinned. 'Works every time.' "So, who's hungry?"
Mokuba stamped his foot and growled. "I AM! I DIDN'T GET ANY BREAKFAST BECAUSE YUGI SENT ME TO GET YOU AND ALL THE GOOD FOOD IS PROBABLY GONE!" By now, Mokuba was shaking his fist as if in a riot and was turning reddish. Yami hid behind A.J but soon brought his hand over his mouth to try and hold back a giggle. Soon forgetting the idea, the Shadow Angel and the Vampire cracked up laughing. Mokuba was as about as scary as a Labrador puppy.
The three walked to the stairs. But at the top, Yami stopped walking. A.J and Mokuba, who were already half way down, turned to the vampire to see fear in his eyes. 'I'm not sure if I can...'
A.J smiled sadly and walked back up the stairs to Yami picking him up. Yami buried his small spikey head into her shoulder as she carried him down the stairs and the rest of the way to the kitchen, Mokuba by her side. In the hallway in front of the kitchen A.J stopped and Mokuba walked ahead to give whoever was eating breakfast a heads up, of course with his luck the WHOLE family was in there.
"Umm, Guys. A.J's coming down and Yami's with her." The family looked around at each other and got ready to see this new vampire. Malik went over to Marik in case said vampire tried anything funny. Ryou walked into the wall and for a minute there where two shadows talking, until Bakura walked out. Duke didn't appear to hear, or simply disregarded the announcement. Joey, Tristan and Yugi just sat there, leaving Seto to glare at the door (if looks could kill).
Out in the hallway, A.J took a deep breath before opening the door Yami still quite content in her arms. She entered the room to meet 9 pairs of glaring eyes. The 10th pair, belonging to Duke, finally looked up only to be confused by two almost identical star shaped hairdos. After looking back and forth between them, he spoke.
"There are 2 Yugi's?" The family sighed, Duke certainly wasn't the brightest. Tristan decided to clear his easily confused friends mind.
"No, the one with A.J is Yami, Yugi's freaky look-alike who just happens to be a vampire."
"Ohh." Yami looked up at the source of the voices. Everyone who hadn't seen him before held back a gasp as they saw the startling crimson eyes. Malik decided it was his turn to play 20 questions.
"What's with the red eyes?"
Kaiba rolled his eyes. "They're crimson and all vampires have them. Symbolises the fact they live of blood."
Yami angled his head like a confused puppy. 'They do?'
Kaiba looked at the vampire and nodded.
'My eyes have always been red.'
Kaiba frowned and stood up, walking over to Yami. A.J gave him a warning look that Kaiba acknowledged with the look in his own eyes. He looked down at Yami and Yami looked up at him. Their eyes locked and Kaiba saw no trace of any other colour in his eyes. Just sharp, piercing crimson. Yami noticed for the first time a small pair of blue horns on Kaiba's head.
"He earns my respect. If anyone needs me, I'll be in my room." With that, Kaiba walked off. Yami's eyes followed him and was surprised when he saw a blue dragon like tail escape from under the stretch coat.
"Now dat was weird." Yami looked back to the rest of the family. They were agreeing with Joey's statement. Kaiba had ever acted that way before, and they had been living together for the last 400 years. A.J remembered why Yami was down there and continued the introductions.
"So Yami, that was Kaiba. He's a demon. And now, it's time to meet the rest of the family." A.J nodded to the group and they started the drill. Joey put his hand up to start.
"I'm Joey. I died about 500 years ago, which makes me a ghost. AND I am self-proclaimed King of the Toilet." Yami smiled a little.
"Tristan. Werewolf. Joey's... voice of reason. Not that he listens."
"Duke Devlin. Living reflection. Anywhere you can see your reflection, I can appear."
"I'm Marik and I'm a normal human. And my friend Malik, he's the Element Fire. He is part of all fires of the world and can appear anywhere there is fire." The said Fire Element blushed.
"Ohh, you make me sound so cool."
"You are amazing." A.J rolled her eyes and Yami just looked confused. A.J continued.
"And that's Ryou." Suddenly a loud thud was heard. Everyone turned to see a rather frustrated shadow that didn't appear to belong to anyone. Now Yami was shocked.
"Sorry Ryou. Yami, the one leaning against the wall in Bakura and the one currently in the wall is Ryou. Switch you two." Bakura rolled his eyes and stood up. Yami watched as he walked over to the shadow. Yami expected him to stop but Bakura kept walking into the wall. To say Yami was surprised as two shadows appeared was an understatement. One walked back out and solified. It was a boy with long white hair and soft brown eyes. He smiled to Yami, who waved back.
"Now then, I'm Ryou and the weirdo in the wall is Bakura. We're switching shadows as you saw, we can turn from shadow to solid. But one always has to be in the wall to act as shadow."
Yami nodded but tensed as the next voice spoke.
"I'm Yugi. Fallen Angel."
Yami looked at the ground to avoid Yugi gaze. 'I-I-I'm s-sorry I b-bit you'
Yugi grinned like an idiot. "No you're not. It's a part of life, you would be dead if you hadn't bit me. And that took guts. I have been told I smell. Bad."
Yami very slowly nodded his head yes and the room burst into laughter. Ryou turned to Bakura, who was mumbling something. He then turned to Yugi.
"Bakura said you owe him 10 bucks." The room kept laughing but Yami was confused.
'Why did the boy with white hair repeat what the shadow said?'
A.J stopped laughing and looked at Yami. "Because none of us can understand him."
'I can...'
A.J smiled. "That's good. Now Ryou doesn't have to translate everything." The family looked at A.J like she was crazy but she ignored them. "Now, I believe it's time for breakfast."
The family nodded and finally got round to eating their breakfast, when Mokuba pointed out a slight problem.
"It's all gone cold!" Everyone gave evil gazes, then simultaneously grabbed their plates. It was a war to the microwave, which Mokuba won. A.J put Yami down and led him over to the table.
"So Yami, toast or cereal?"
CODH: Happy Halloween!
Yami Bakura: I love Halloween
Ryou: Only because you get sugar for scaring people
Yami Bakura: I know! Whoever invented Halloween deserves a pat on the back
CODH: You are very out of character
Yami Bakura: So what? Reader/s, follow the magical arrow to the treasure
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