Yami glared at Yuna again. Yuna looked at the floor, taking deep, shaky breaths to try and calm herself down so she won't cry. She didn't mean for them to get angry, none of them did. She didn't even notice Yugi was walking toward her until she saw his shoes in her vision. She held her breath and looked at Yugi, who looked sad. She looked back down. Her eyes widened as she felt Yugi hug her. She froze slightly, and was about to hug him back when she heard a soft sound, then Yugi pulled back, holding the necklace she had in his hand, shocking her. Everyone had watched as Yugi took a couple steps back, then over to the trash where he threw out the necklace. Yuna heard the clank it made when it hit the bin, but was too shocked to watch. Tears started to form in her eyes as everything slowly caught up to her. Bakura watched with a frown, knowing that what he did just destroyed her. No one, however, noticed the faint glow the puzzle had.
—
"And take this too!" She heard from behind her. She stopped when she felt Bakura's arms around her, then a smash, and a bunch of clinks. Her eyes widened and she looked over Bakura at the now-in-pieces Puzzle.
"Oh…" She whispered. Bakura looked at her, then at the Pharaoh.
"You idiot! You know how HARD she worked for that?!" Bakura yelled in anger, but was stopped by Yuna.
"No… it's okay…" He looked over in shock, surprised at the dead voice coming from the once-happy girl. She walked down the stairs and grabbed the pieces, putting them in her bag. "It's been broken a million times…" she explained. "…what's one more…?" She grabbed her backpack and walked back upstairs, opening and closing her door. Everyone was silent, then Bakura turned to everyone with a glare that could kill puppies.
"You know, Pharaoh, I was told you were the hero in the little anime with the runt. But right now, I'm having a hard time believing that." With that, he turned and walked into Yuna's room, locking it. Everyone was silent. But they could hear the sobs coming from the girl's room.
—
The next morning, Yuna woke up at an inhumane hour, and started cooking breakfast. Bakura, who had heard her, walked over to her as she was 'in the zone'. He sighed and put a hand on her shoulder. "Why are you doing this?" he asked.
She looked up at him, then down at the eggs with a frown as she continued to scramble them. "I'm still a host…" she said. "And you guys are my guests… I'm not going to let you and Kaiba eat any disgusting food my sisters try to make."
"Tch… Well if you tell me, those assholes deserved it." Bakura grumbled, crossing his arms.
"But you and Kaiba don't… neither do my sisters…"
"They abandoned you! How long has it been since they found out?"
"…Two months…"
"And now many times have your sisters asked you what was wrong or even spared a glance at you!?"
"…"
"Exactly! They don't deserve it!"
—
"Wy haven't you tried to complete the Puzzle yet?" Yuna's eyes darkened, and Bakura started to regret asking her.
"Because… Why pick up the pieces when it'll just shatter again? There's no reason for me to do so because there's no point. The people who owned it hate me now, and it'll just keep breaking."
Bakura frowned. Like your heart? He thought, looking at the Puzzle. The presence is weaker… but I have a feeling it is not even close to happy.
—
"Hey, what's the big idea, Bakura? She's my sister and I can talk to her if I want to!"
"Oh really? When was the last time you spoke with her?"
"A couple days ago, why?" Jamie asked in confusion. Bakura's face darkened and Yuna started crying. Jamie reached out, but was slapped back by Bakura. "Wha—"
"You're even more stupid than I thought!" Bakura yelled, making everyone in the halls stop and look. "You don't even know how long it's been!" Jamie and the others (besides Yuna) stared in fear of the man as his Millennium Item started glowing. "Let me give you a hint, Jamie," he started, his voice filled with venom. Jamie's eyes slowly widened in pure horror as another being appeared next to Bakura. This figure was transparent, and looked like an older Yuna, with her eyes deep crimson and hard as stone. She spoke at the same time as Bakura, giving off an eerie sense. "The only ones to talk to Yuna within the last few days were ME and KAIBA!" He screamed in anger, making Jamie shut up and freeze. Bakura took Yuna's hand and led her away, Yuna following while trying and failing to wipe her eyes and get rid of the tears.
"…Yuna?"
—
"Hello?"
"Yuu, it's Jamie. I have a question."
"What is it?"
"When was the last time we talked to Yuna?" She asked. The line was quiet for a few moments before she spoke again.
"A couple days. Why? Is something wrong?" She could hear the worry in her sister's voice.
Jamie frowned and watched as Bakura and Yuna walked away, not even sparing her a glance. "I'm starting to think there is…"
—
Suddenly, they heard a loud crash and bang, followed by a few curses from a voice Yuna knew very well. Her eyes widened. "Oh you've got to be kidding me…" She ran quickly, Bakura following behind her. They turned a corner and saw a familiar tan body with sandy hair, upside-down in a pile of trash, and groaning. This sight alone, as well as Bakura's shocked-as-hell face, made Yuna laugh in a way that she hadn't done since she was ignored.
Marik looked at them annoyed. "What are you laughing at?"
—
"Yuna, what is going on!?" Yuna didn't answer, her hair covering her eyes. "Yuna, answer me!"
"Why?"
Everyone froze. They looked at Yuna, whose voice sounded broken. "…Yuna…?"
"Why should I answer you… when you never answered me?"
—
Everyone started yelling at her to answer, and other things. Finally, she snapped. "SHUT UP!" she screamed, shocking everyone into silence. "You want to know how long it's been?!" she gripped the bar next to the stairs. "You want to know?! Well I'll tell you!" Jaden, Yami, Bakura, and Marik's eyes widened as the spirit of her own Millennium Puzzle appeared beside her, angrily glaring at all of them with her arms crossed, glowing a bright gold. "It's been TWO MONTHS!" They spoke in sync. Everyone flinched. "TWO MONTHS since I last talked to ANY of you! You were all supposed to be protagonists! You were supposed to HELP people! But no!" She turned and ran up the stairs, Bakura following. A few moments later, she came out with multiple things. "I hate Yu-Gi-Oh!" She exclaimed, throwing down a bag that spilt pieces of her broken duel disk. "I hate Yu-Gi-Oh GX and 5D's!" She threw the Millennium Items down, and some people had to duck to not get hit as they smashed from the impact. "And I HATE YOU!" they yelled. Her card glowed and a bright gold colored Winged Dragon of Ra appeared, screeching when she said last thing she took out was a gold box with the eye of Horus. Jamie's eyes widened as Yuna chucked it as hard as she could. Jaden moved Jamie to the side. The box hit the ground where she was just at, making a dent and a couple cracks on the floor. But that wasn't shocking. What was shocking was when the box shattered, showing the pieces of the Puzzle.
—
"Yuna."
"…"
"Yuna!"
"…"
"Yuna, you have to come out at some point!"
"…"
Yuu sighed, rubbing her forehead. "Yuna, you can't stay in there forever!" She didn't hear a reply to that either, and decided to walk back downstairs, where all the others were waiting eagerly. When they heard her footsteps, they looked at her. She shook her head, and everyone deflated.
"I can't believe this…" Jamie whispered. Jaden rubbed her shoulder slightly, trying to comfort her. "She's my own sister and I didn't even notice how she felt…" Jamie covered her face in her hands. Yuu sighed and sat next to Yusei, giving a cold look to everyone.
"What happened? I want to know every detail about when you found out, and I want to know now." She emphasized the last word angrily, and Yami flinched. Yuu noticed and everyone looked to him.
Yami sighed and told them everything, with Jaden and Yusei putting in their two cents. Yami explained his suspicions about Yuna and that he didn't want anyone to know until he had proof. He also explained that it was his distrust that caused everyone to find out. They all explained how they went into the different rooms and saw the evidence.
"Wait, hold up." Jamie jumped in, stopping the story. "If you guys realized we were all hiding this from you, why didn't you do to us what you did to Jamie to make her like that?"
Yami looked down. "She said… that it was her idea to keep this a secret. And that you guys didn't really have a say in the matter." Yuu and Jamie's eyes widened.
"That's not right…"
"Huh?" Everyone looked to Yuu.
"That's… I was the one who came up with the idea to hide it!"
"She must have lied to keep you guys from doing the same to us…" Jamie looked down sadly. "Which means…"
"She took all the blame…" Yugi finished solemnly, tears pricking his eyes. Joey pat the boy on the back.
"After we were told that, she went up the stairs… that's when…" Ryo trailed off, looking at Yami, who was looking down in shame.
"That's when I threw her Millennium Puzzle at her…" The sisters gasped. "Bakura shielded her, but it still broke." Yami looked at the pieces of the replica that were sprawled on the table, some pieces dented or broken. "Then she went upstairs and we hadn't seen her since…"
"This is so unfair." Jamie said, tears in her eyes. "What is she trying to do? She can't take on all this hate by herself… It's inhuman… We all should have taken the blame, not our baby sister…"
"But she still took care of us." Everyone turned to Jack, whose arms were crossed and his eyes to the ground.
"What do you mean?"
"Jamie, Yuu, can either of you cook?"
"No."
"Nope."
"Then who has been making us our breakfasts for the past couple months?" Everyone looked at each other, their faces full of guilt.
"No way…" Joey whispered.
"Even after everything we did to her…" Jaden said.
"She still treated us well and fed us…"
"And then there was the spirit…" Everyone turned to Yami with questioning looks, "I won't question that everyone had seen the Winged Dragon of Ra's spirit… but there was another spirit. Just like Yuna is the equivalent of Yugi in this world, that spirit is the equivalent of me."
"No way…"
Everyone was silent for a while, then they heard a door opening and closing, making everyone look up expectantly, only to frown when they saw Marik walking down the stairs and toward the kitchen. "Marik!" He stopped and looked over to Jamie, who had stood up. He raised an eyebrow. "How… how is she—"
"She's doing fine. Aside from, well…" He cut her off.
"W-what?"
Marik sighed and crossed his arms. "You all really f(EFF!)ed up, you know. She refuses to leave her room for any reason." Everyone looked down in guilt. Yami noticed something and frowned.
"Marik, where's the Millennium Rod?"
Marik blinked. "Oh, it's with Yuna." He turned away. "Said something about it and the Ring being her favorites." Yuu and Jamie froze, looking at each other in shock. Marik came out of the kitchen a few minutes later with some food. He noticed the two girls' shocked expressions. "What?"
"That's impossible… The Millennium Rod can't be her favorite."
"Why not?"
"Because… her favorite was the Puzzle." Yuu finished.
Marik scoffed and looked at the table with the pieces. "Oh yes, because I'd definitely love the item my favorite character smashed in my face when he said he hated me. Oh, silly me." He mocked, making Yami and Yugi looked down in shame, Yami's fists clenching. They heard the door open.
"Hey Marik! Where the hell is that food?! You're missing the best part! Melvin just appeared!" Marik looked at Yuna, whose head was poked out. Everyone was shocked.
"Yuna!" Jamie smiled, but frowned when Yuna ignored her.
"Who the f(EFF!) is Melvin?"
"If you had hurried up, you'd've known!" She exclaimed. Marik shied and walked up the stairs.
"W-wait!" Yugi exclaimed, standing. Everyone watched as he raced up the stairs. Marik walked in ad Yugi stopped at the door. "Yuna!" Yuna stopped and looked at him. She frowned darkly. Yugi panted, then looked at where the paintings of the Gods used to be, and widened his eyes when he saw nothing but the wall. "Yuna… what—"
"Go away, Yugi." She slammed the door in his face, making him flinch. He started to pound on the door.
"Yuna! Please, open the door! YUNA!" Everyone watched as Yugi tried frantically to get her attention.
—
Yuna sighed as she heard Yugi pounding and yelling her name. She rubbed her forehead. "Should I get him out?" Bakura asked.
"No…" She lowered her hand, Ra's card glowing. She stood and walked to the door, opening it and glaring at Yugi, making him flinch.
"Yuna, I…"
"Go away." Yugi looked down, then at her. He opened his mouth to speak when he saw the card glowing once again.
"Y-Yuna…."
"I said… LEAVE!" Ra's spirit appeared, its eyes bright red, roaring loudly as it flew toward Yugi, head butting the kid and sending him down the stairs.
"YUGI!" Everyone exclaimed. That's all Yuna heard before she slammed the door.
Marik blinked. "Wow… How on earth does that happen?"
"I don't know… Ever since Jamie gave me this card, I felt a connection with it…" She took the card and looked at it. "The Winged Dragon of Ra… my favorite God card…"
"Interesting…" Marik mumbled to himself. So her favorite card is Ra… Hold on… is this where the dark presence is? "Yuna, why is it your favorite?"
"Hm? Oh, well it's because of Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged. They always say "Holy Ra" and I thought it was funny. Also I love the name they made it. "Mega-Ultra Chicken"."
"Yeah, it is kind of funny…" Marik thought, then looked at them. "Oi, Fluffy."
"What?"
"Nothing, I just like calling you that."
"Grr…."
"Oh!" Yuna stood abruptly. "I know what we could watch!"
The two boys looked uncertainly at each other, then at her. "What?" They asked with unease.
"Marik Plays!" The boys deadpanned.
"Marik plays what?"
"I play what?"
"It's something by LittleKuriboh, who does YGOAS. Basically he records himself playing a video game, then does commentary on it with you and Bakura as main characters."
"I'M bloody in it, too?"
"Yup."
"Oh god no…"
"I say we watch it." Marik says.
"No one asked you."
"Watch it, Fluffy. Or shall I call you Florence?" He turns to Yuna. "There are truly a lot of options for one person."
"Why you little—"
"Anyway, guys." She said, differing their attention, "We could either watch Marik Plays Bloodlines or Marik Plays Slender: The Arrival. I personally like Bloodlines better, and there are 16 Parts up."
"What's the game about?"
"It's where you play as a vampire. In the first episode or two, I remember Marik freaking out…"
"Why?" Bakura asked, raising an eyebrow.
Yuna pointed upward and smiled. "Vampires do not have tans."
Bakura burst out laughing and Marik blushed. "Sh-shut up, Fluffly!"
"Oh!"
"What?" they said, turning to her.
"I remembered the big reason I liked Ra!"
"It's design?" Marik asked.
"It's power?" Bakura wondered.
"Nope! It's something Marik said in Bloodlines actually."
"…Oh GOD no…"
"PLEASE tell!"
"Well, Marik was trying to hack a computer, and he talked about how short the password is. And he talked about his own password." Bakura leaned in excitedly, hoping to get some dirt on Marik. Marik just looked away with an embarrassed blush. He said…"
—
"'Great PC from the sky, hear my cry! Transform thy self from off to on and give me access to my pr0n! Envelope my face with your glow so that to YouTube I can go! Unlock your files from deep within so that together we can look at funny pictures of cats! Bring me to the Desktop as I call your name, WINGED PC OF RA!' …It takes friggin' ages."
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Bakura fell off Yuna's bed, laughing like a maniac, while Marik was sitting cross-legged, a his head bent down and covered by a hand exasperatedly. Marik sighed as Yuna part his back, chuckling as well.
"I'm never going to live this down, am I?"
"Nope. But hey, it's better than Leather Pants." At that, they both looked to Yuna, who was wide-eyed, and Marik looked shocked.
"Show me!" Bakura exclaimed. Yuna got between him and the computer.
"No!"
"Why not?"
"It'll embarrass you both!"
"I don't care!"
Meanhile, Marik was on the laptop.
"Marik!"
"Hm?"
"I showed embarrassing things of you, what about Bakura?" Marik's eyes lit up and Bakura's darkened. "Look up Pharaoh's Throne. He gets beat by the Pharaoh in rap!" Marik looked it up quickly.
"Don't you DA—"
—
Yuu and Jamie stood in the kitchen, looking over what to have for dinner. They looked at each other with a frown, and sighed. "I really hope Yuna's doing alright… What we did was…"
"Awful?"
"Yeah…" Then the ground shook slightly and they heard screams and laughs, followed by loud thumping noises. Everyone went to the bottom of the stairs and looked up with confused expressions. Then, everything was summed up in one sentence, or one lyric, that they heard blaring from the room.
"Just because you have a sexy star upon your face,
You think you've got the right to command the Egyptian Race."
"Is that…?" Jamie whispered.
"Yeah…" Yuu answered with a slight nod. "They're watching Yu-Gi-Oh… But why?"
"Egyptian?" The girls looked over at Yami, who was confused.
"Yeah. There was a Parody song with you in charge. Bakura was in it too." She pointed to the room. "Those lyrics were from you to him." Then they heard laughter, and strained their ears to hear the next lyrics.
"Not for nothing but your nonsense is kind of a bore.
I was more intimidated by those guys from season 4."
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"SHUT UP, MARIK!"
"YOU SHUT UP, FLUFFY!"
Everyone sweatdropped. They turned to look at Yuu, who was begging. "Please don't destroy the house, PLEASE don't destroy the house!"
Yami looked at Yugi, both exchanging frowns, though Yami could tell Yugi was on the verge of tears. Yami sighed. This is all my fault… he thought. He looked at the girls. "Yuu. Jamie."
"Huh?" She looked over at Yami. "What is it?"
Yami looked down. "I want to know how we can make it up to Yuna." The girls looked at each other with a frown. "Please…" He looked at Yugi, who was fighting back tears.
"Well…"
"We don't really get Yuna mad, but when we do, she asks us to duel her."
Yami blinked. "Really?" The girls nodded. Yami looked down in thought. "…Also, did you guys notice anything strange when she was dueling us?"
"Strange? How?" Jaden asked.
"She had a red glint in her eyes."
"That's weird…" Yuu stated.
"Hold on! I remembered before you guys came here! After I gave her my Ra card! We went to school and dueled each other in Homeroom! Her eyes had a red tint to them!" Jamie exclaimed, shocking Yuu.
"And you didn't think to tell us this BEFORE?!"
"Musta slipped my mind."
"Do you think it could be the Ra card?" Joey asked. Yusei frowned.
"I wouldn't "
"It's not." Jamie said. "When that appeared, she was even harder to duel. I actually lost against her secondary deck."
"What?! But you always win!" Yuu exclaimed.
"Hold on, what's her secondary deck?" Crow asked.
"It's the one she made herself, after completing Yugi's deck when she found Exodia. It's all Spellcasters. Like Dark Magician of Chaos and things like that."
"I… see…" Yami looked down, then back at her with wide eyes. "EXODIA?!"
The girls nodded. "She spent YEARS looking for those pieces!"
Yuu was quiet as everyone else talked, then she turned to Jamie. "Jamie."
"What's up?"
"Where did you get the God card?" Everyone turned to her and she sweat nervously.
"Uh… well…"
"Jamie…" Yuu glared.
"Some dude gave them to me!" She confessed, holding her hands up in the air. "He said to treat them with care and to give them to a powerful duelist. I split the cards so we could each have one…"
Yuu frowned. "What did he look like?"
"It was too dark to see… Uhm… he might have had blue hair… or maybe it was yellow… I—" her eyes widened. "…Yuu?"
"What?"
"He ha blue AND yellow hair…" she whispered in shock, "And there's only one person I can think of who has that hair…"
"…Paradox."
"We're screwed…"
"Hold on, if Paradox gave us the cards, he must've done something with them!"
"Wait, what about Slifer and Obelisk?" Yami asked.
"We never used them. Well, I didn't use Slifer. What about you, sis?" Jammie turned to Yuu, who shook her head and agreed, saying she felt something was wrong with it.
"Then she's the only on who used it…"
"Why did she use it and not us?" Jamie asked, collapsing onto the couch. "Why did it have to be our sister who went corrupt?"
"She was the weakest." Everyone jumped out of their skin and turned to Kaiba.
"Oh… Kaiba… Forgot you were here…" Jamie whispered, a hand on her chest to calm herself. "Wait, what did you say?"
"She's the youngest, and most vulnerable. One who will go through great length to accomplish a goal." Kaiba explained. "If Paradox intended these cards to go to the strongest duelist, you might have just something extremely bad." Jamie looked down. "But," he continued, "As long as the three God cards are not controlled by her, we'll be fine."
"We need to get the card away from her," Yuu said.
"We need to beat her in a duel."
"Hey Yuu?" She looked to Jamie. "Do you think the reason she freaked out that much was because of Ra and Paradox's help?" Yuu looked down in thought. "I mean… she threw out Yugi's deck! I know we ignored her, but she shouldn't have gone through that great a length. She cherishes the cards like her own lifeline—" Yuu and Jamie looked at each other in shock.
"Oh God no…"
"We've been saying that a lot in this chapter, haven't we?"
"Hold on…" Yami mumbled as he saw the Puzzle's eye glow.
Suddenly, there was a bright light in front of everyone, causing them to cover their eyes. When the light dimmed down, there was a very pissed off, transparent Yuna, with her jacket like Yami's.
"Yuna!" Jamie exclaimed. The girl looked at her with an angry look.
"I am not Yuna. I am the Spirit of Yuna's Millennium Puzzle, also known as Yui," the Spirit explained.
"Yui… so you are the presence I have sensed." Yami muttered.
Yui nodded. "Yes. I am very weak, as of now. My Puzzle has been broken for some time, and I was never able to come into full contact, like Yami and Yugi, with Yuna." she said regretfully.
Everyone looked at each other as she continued, "Please, I need you to help Yuna… she is in danger. And I fear we haven't got a lot of time…"
