Thank you very much for the reviews, you guys! I just never realized how OOC Kaiba-kun is. hahahahaha... In most stories, he's so calm, cool and collected and Jou's keeps flying off the handle. It's fun ruffling the CEO's feathers up a bit and reversing roles with Jou. I'll try keeping them in character . (try being the operative word) But I won't apologize because I'm having too much fun with this!!!
I may not be able to update as much. I have a new job and my sis-in-law just gave birth. We all have to pitch in with baby things. She's very beautiful and I'm very proud to be her aunt! -10000 megawatt smile-
Chapter 5
It was a boring Saturday night for Jou and his pet. Since everyone from his gang had work or had other plans, he was stuck doing homework. He had finished a report on Psychology and was now in the middle of trigonometry. He flopped his head on his Math notebook dejectedly.
Gah!! Math was an EVIL EVIL subject.
He peered one chocolate colored eye open when he felt minute hands shaking his exposed arm. "'Sup lil' guy?"
Chibi-Kaiba gave him a glare, then walked over to problem number 7 on his notebook. Using his toe, he encircled the third exponent from the equation.
"Hm?" Jou mumbled as he checked. "Hey! it's raised to the 5th power not the 3rd! Thanks Chibi-Kaiba!!"
He was on the last dregs of the dreaded homework when his phone rang. Grumbling, he rolled from his bed and took the call. "Yo, Jounouchi residence. M'dad's not in right now."
"Jou?" came the familiar yet slightly fretful voice of a female. "Jou can you get some of the guys to come to the 7-11 shop I work in? As in now?"
The blond frowned. The girl didn't really make outrageous requests like this. "Anzu! Is somethin' the matter?"
"... I think we're being robbed. It sort of looks like Bakura."
"HO' SHIT!! Anzu stay hidden. I'll be right there ok?" the duelist slammed the phone down on the receiver. He snatched his blue jean jacket off the wall and put it on post haste. "Chibi-Kaiba, I'll be back later ok. This is an emergency! Just please watch over the house."
The mini-brunet gave him a mock salute. He also did some complicated handsigns that Jou would later understand as "stay safe".
"Stupid crazy Tomb effin' Robber!!! I thought Ryou had him under wraps!!!" Jou was sprinting across his neighborhood. It was a good thing his apartment complex was near Anzu's work joint; which is probably why she called him first. Smart girl.
A familiar catty, green-eyed, raven-haired man blurred past him.
"Otogi!!" Jou crowed. He needed more reinforcements! Not giving the dice-obssessed boy a chance to say so much as a "hello", he grabbed his arm and dragged him to that corner 7-11, all the while explaining to him what was occuring.
The Dungeon Dice Master flipped him. "And here I thought you were just talking to yourself."
"Shut it, Dicey. Anzu needs help!"
The force of the duo's entry was so great, that the store's double doors quaked. The two young men were glancing left and right for any sign of Bakura. The blond sighed in relief as he spotted an unharmed Anzu beside the counter, with a rather dazed look on her face.
Jou skidded to a halt next to her. "Ey'? What happened? Ya ok? Where's the connivin' lil' thief?"
And as if he uttered magic words, the brown haired girl snapped out of her stupor. "Jou! Jou you wouldn't believe it!! Here he was, skulking in that corner when I caught him!! He was trying to make off with those plastic earrings. I caught him, Jou!! I put him under glass."
Both men were boggled. "Huh?"
How could you put a grown man under glass? And why would Bakura steal obviously fake jewelry? If there was anything that Jou new of that crazy Egyptian was that he always went for the big stuff.
Rolling her eyes, Anzu waved them over to the counter. There, imprisoned under a rather large drinking mug sat one brooding chibi-Bakura.
Otogi examined the sour mini-pet, who was trying to maintain dignity by stiffly rearranging the sleeve of his clothes. "Can anybody tell my why he's wearing an Ice Skating-Cindy Lou doll, Venus-cut edition dress in Royal Purple? And why the edges of it have been sheared off by scissors?"
He was met with two goggling pairs of brown eyes. "What? I'm serious."
"Uhm... I think he ran away from the l-little girl who was here earlier. She kept saying: "at least this dolly looks prettier now"." Anzu stuttered. "Oh... OH! She probably thought Bakura was a girl! Hey, so that means this little twerp's been here for quite a while."
Otogi sniffed. "He was probably scouting the general layout of the area, like all good thieves should."
The blond took a healthy step away from the emerald eyed man, an expression of complete and utter horror upon his face.
"Being in the gaming business requires that I know my rivals' lineups down to smallest detail. And besides a Cindy-Lou doll dress is worth more than your month's salary."
Jou turned to Anzu and mouthed. "He knows DOLL DRESSES??!!"
"So what are we going to do with this little criminal now?" the dancer asked, putting her hands on her hips. "In other cases, I would return something as valuable as this to their owner... but siccing Bakura, even a toy version of himself, is unusual and cruel."
"That's a no fer me, guys. One mini-pet is 'nough. Should we take it to Ryou?"
At the mention of their friend's name, something remarkable happened. Chibi-bandit Bakura cringed. And if you looked very, very closely, an unhealthy amount of blood (or whatever that red coloring stuff was) crept up to his ears.
"Did you guys just see that happen?" Anzu broke in, amazed.
Otogi reached inside his jacket, accessing what might have been a secret pocket. "Hmm." He pulled out a mini-Ryou and set him down on the counter.
The poor little chibi must have gotten dizzy during it's owner's flight, for it did a sort of squiggly dance, shuffled in circles and generally acted like a drunkard. Where gentle eyes were supposed to be, only spiralling circles were found.
Seeing his mini counterpart, chibi-Bakura banged the walls of his prison, snarling at the humans. Against better judgement, Jou set him free and the little thief rushed toward his tiny hikari. Unlike what chibi-Kaiba had done for the mini-blond, it just stood there, hawk-like eyes trained to his chibi-hikari. And there was no doubt in the humans' minds that if the gentle pet were to fall, the mini-robber would act swiftly.
Chibi-Ryou, after a few more wobbles must have felt better because he had the classic "scolding" pose. He seemed to intuitively know that his chibi-yami gave in to his sticky fingers and was telling the other off. The miniscule Bakura was not in the least bit contrite, but he let his mini-hikari do as it pleased. Deeming chibi-Bakura punished, mini-Ryou smiled up at his owner.
"Well, that settles that." The DDM owner seemed entertained. "I'm taking them both."
It was the middle of the night. The CEO was tired, cranky and starving. Reviewing his company's reports for the month had his senses crosswired. He hadn't much to eat during dinner, because some incompetent fool had done inumerable errors on the accounting. Much of his dinner time had been spent correcting his company's legal papers. There was no doubt that he was going to fire the idiot as well as his or her unfortunate manager, very, very soon.
He stood up from his desk and stretched, completely unaware that his actions woke up the chibi-blond who had been leaning on the stapler, having shut down for the night. Mini-Jou wondered why the human still kept him when it was obvious it was not wanted. But still... he could sense that the human was overworked and wasn't doing a very good job of taking care of himself.
Seeing that its owner was about to leave, mini-Jou made up its mind. Performing a running jump, he dived off the desk and clung to the brunet's belt.
Another chapter done. Guys, please don't pressure me too much into updating fast. I'm kinda having a hard time juggling schedules currently. But I'll do my very best.
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