Blood-chan: I heard this song today!
This chapter is dedicated to:
Kitsune-I don't remember why.
Arianna-for naming her fish Meu and Ammit
To Myself-because I like pie.
And to Katie-For having an undying love for pickles. Oh, how I loathe pickles.
Yuzuki: We don't own Phantom of the Opera, Van Helsing or The Ring. We do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, the song "Dirty Little Secrets" or Kakashi. He belongs to whoever he belongs to-and Kitsune, of course.
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CHAPTER MAY BE EXCEPTIONALLY HARMFUL TO YOUR SANITY. READ AT YOUR PARENT'S OWN RISK
Inside Out
Chapter 9: Dirty Little Secrets
:.Act One.:
"Explain please. And stop that!" Seto Kiaba said, covering his eyes from the scene before him.
"It's a bit of a long story." Meu said as she grinned and scratched her head.
"It's a long walk home." Katie said-whether she was complaining or simply stating the fact no one knew.
"TELL! TELL!" Arianna yelled, grabbing on to Meu's arm. "I'M NEEDY!"
"Ow! My circulation! I can't feel my arm!"
Ammit stared at Bakura, the two still in the science room closet. "It's scenes like this that show you how sad Ari's childhood must've been."
…
After prying Arianna away from Meu, deciding Meu's arm didn't need to be amputated, and getting Bakura and Ammit out of the closet the group began walking home.
"All right. Empty your intestines." Yami said as they reached the first light.
"Ehhh…what?" Meu asked.
"That's the Pharaoh's language for 'spill your guts'." Bakura answered.
"Oh…" Meu exclaimed, finally understanding. "Okay, should I start at the part where I met Ammit or the part before that?"
"Does the part before Ammit have any significance?" Seto asked, trying to be practical as he could considering he wasn't even from the dimension he was in.
"I don't know." Meu answered, shrugging casually.
"Just don't give us your whole life story."
"I'd like to know her whole life story!"
"Shut up, Ari."
"STOP INTERUPTING ME!" Meu yelled "slightly" agitated. Then she went on with her story. She had a strangely casual and slightly humorous tone-as if she were about to tell a joke. "Ah, yes-I remember it well. It was a bright April day and I was jut a young girl…"
"Please kill me before she starts explaining that she was hoping to be visited by the Easter Bunny." Bakura muttered. Katie kicked him in return.
"…It was the nineteenth…I was just going about my usual business…"
"Does she have a point in any of this, Ammit?"
"I had just changed into my day-clothes when the doorbell rang."
"She's getting to it."
"I went to my window and looked at who was at the door…"
Meu's tone sounded a bit more serious, though it was masked behind a casual aura. "Sometimes I still don't believe it. I was so confused. They didn't tell me what happened; they just put me in the car, drove a distance and made me stay where I was."
Meu, ahead of the group with Ammit as always, seemed to slow her pace slightly. "I didn't know why my sisters were crying. I asked them and…"
"Chris is hurt, you idiot!"
Meu looked back and smiled. "They said that to me. I learned later that my brother had been hit by a car while he was out skating. The driver wasn't drunk-just young. Young and stupid. I remember I didn't allow myself to cry until I was alone."
Meu laughed again, this time sourly. "I had to cry with my cat! How pathetic is that!" She laughed again, this time sounding more good-humored.
Meu sighed before continuing. "Anyway, when we were having the Viewing I wouldn't even go near the body. Mom was crying and holding his limp hand. I just wouldn't go anywhere near the body. I almost puked so many times. And then, at the funeral, someone came up to me and…"
"It should have been you!"
"From that moment on I vowed two things. The first was never to show anyone how I felt about what happened to me from that day forward. Next I swore the woman who killed my brother would pay and I would make sure of it."
"The next day I didn't go to school. I refused to. Then, as I was simply indulging in some Anime when no one was home I had the urge to enter my brother's room. Nothing was moved out of place…It still isn't. You would think he was coming back."
Meu cleared her throat and got to the point. "I found this weird book-It was brown with gold writing that stated: 'Spells, Curses, and Incantations of the Ancient Celts, Indians, and Egyptians'. All the sudden wind flew through the open window and the pages flipped to a page entitled 'Summoning Spell'."
Summon anything-real or imaginary to you.
"I took the book upstairs and all the sudden the page began to glow… I looked up at the TV and I saw a man in a turban holding a strange cross."
"It is the will of the Pharaoh."
"The man came out of the TV and I knew I would never look at The Ring in the same way again. He put the cross around my neck and instructed me…"
"It is you who now bears the Sennen Ankh."
"It wasn't long after that when I started hearing things. And after years I began doing things I no longer remembered."
Arianna's eyes flashed with realization. "Oh yeah! You tried to tell me about that once!"
Meu looked at Arianna in a mock-accusing manner. "Yeah, thanks for listening, you jerk."
"That's when she went back to the spell book. But this time she did two spells. One was an incantation to reveal what's hidden-that's how we met face to face. The second spell was one to give me a body. To make a long story short I was adopted into the family."
"That's my main history of spells." Meu concluded quickly.
"Disregarding the time you summoned Sakhmet to deliver justice to the woman who killed your brother and a few other curses." Ammit added, making Meu's eye twitch.
A look of slow realization came over Yami. "Hey, if you're the spirit of the Sennen Ankh you must be…Ammit!"
"What'cha talking about? Of course she's Ammit!" Jounochi said in a confused manner.
"…How did I not notice that before?" Yami asked himself.
"Are you sure you're a great puzzle-master like the TV leads me to believe? I mean, you can't even figure out who people are!" Katie said, exasperated.
"Actually, Yugi is the one who does the puzzles." Brittany commented. She then earned a stare from the group. They were all under the impression that Brittany hated Yu-Gi-Oh and everything associated with it.
"What!" Brittany said with a blush. She left to go towards her house and abandoned the group.
"Ooh! I think little Brittany wants to go in the science room closet with the Pharaoh's little Hikari!" Ammit yelled as Yami noticed his Hikari blushing within his soul room.
"Okay. At Seven o'clock tonight were all going to get on line and IM. Agreed?" Meu asked-and after explaining to everyone what IM was and how it worked the appointment was confirmed. Katie was assigned to call Brittany and tell her.
Everyone then split up in different parts of the neighbourhood where there houses were. Meu and Ammit actually had to go through the neighbourhood to even get close to their house.
…
That night Kitsune was scanning the book she had found in Katie's backpack. Normally she would give things back but this was something that couldn't be returned. There was something very weird about the book; and it wasn't because it was written in a strange language or because it smelled of Katie's socks.
She went down the street to an Indian woman who was also a linguist. She figured it would be a good way to figure out why she was getting such a strange feeling just from holding it.
For all she knew, it was cursed. She then laughed at herself. "Yeah, cursed with the stench of Katie's socks…" she said to herself as she rang the doorbell.
…
BloodEngel says: Hello!
Yuzuki:Mysery. says: Anyone else here?
Elfgirl99-theElvenPrincess says: NEEDY!
TropicalStar.Lil'Britt says: '-' That's just sad.
LaLaNdRa says: I told you I'd call her.
BloodEngel says: You get more reliable everyday.
Elfgirl99-theElvenPrincess says: Not really. Today she lost out spell book. The one we used to bring the characters here in the first place.
LaLaNdRa says: I didn't loose it! Kitsune stole it!
Yuzuki:Mysery. says: Really? The blondie who loves the one-eyed Anime character?
TropicalStar.Lil'Britt says: There's no other explaination.
SetoKaiba says: Someone remind me the point of this
BloodEngel says: Very creative name, Kaiba. I would think the creator of the duel disk was more inspired. FYI: the point is so I can explain who Ammit is.
Yuzuki:Mysery. says: Stop talking about me a if I'm not here!
SetoKaiba says: Jounochi here! I'm usin' Rich Boy's Computer! Watch as I change his name!
BloodEngel says: Can you even do that?
RichBoy says: Apparently so.
RichBoy says: All o' us except for Rich Boy himself are listening, Meu.
BloodEngel says: Okay. Good… Ammit's going to explain while I do my History Homework.
Elfgirl99-theElvenPrincess says: But I'm NEEDY!
BloodEngel signed off at 9:15
Elfgirl99-theElvenPrincess says: Wah! You shall face my annoying wrath for this, Meu!
LaLaNdRa says: Get on with the story! I can't type forever!
TropicalStar.Lil'Britt says: Plus, I need to go to sleep.
Yuzuki:Mysery. says: You're going to sleep already! Well, anyway: My name is Ammit. My true age is 3016 but I am physically 16. If you think I look younger it's because back in Egypt they didn't stuff kids with hormones like they do today. I have an accelerated education and on my American Birth certificate I am 15. My cover story is that I was found on the streets and that my parents died in a fire. I also, apparently, have amnesia and don't remember anything before the fire. Meu's parents have guardianship over me by American Law but they don't know anything about who I am.
Yuzuki:Mysery. says: Before I was sealed in the Sennen Ankh I was born in Africa-the name of the place I'm not sure of. I lived there until age three, at which point I moved to Egypt. My parents were accused of treachery and killed. That left me an orphan. However, after that ordeal I was taken in by a Sorcerer named Mahaad and became his understudy. Not long after I came upon the study of magic, I covered for the Tomb Thief Bakura. After awhile he returned to the palace to steal gold and taunt the Pharaoh. Once again I told the guards that he went the opposite way.
Thief.of.Tombs says: After that I started wondering why she was helping me. So I asked.
Yuzuki:Mysery. says: You tried to kill me!
Thief.of.Tombs says: You liked it. Long story short we became allies.
TropicalStar.Lil'Britt says: Seems to me you became a lot more than just allies.
Elfgirl99-theElvenPrincess says: He he he.
LaLaNdRa says: Get your mind out of the gutter, Ari!
Thief.of.Tombs says: Would you prefer the term "Special friends"?
Elfgirl99-theElvenPrincess says: HAHAHAHAHHAHHA!
Yuzuki:Mysery. says: Not like that!
Almighty.and.Powerful.Pharaoh. says: Oh really? Last I heard you two were planning on getting married.
Thief.of.Tombs says: SHUTUP PHARAOH!1
Almighty.and.Powerful.Pharaoh. says: Oh, Bakura is that a blush on your face!
Yuzuki:Mysery. signed off at 9:30
TropicalStar.Lil'Britt signed off at 9:30
Elfgirl99-theElvenPrincess signed off at 9:30
LaLaNdRa signed off at 9:32
……………….. 30 minutes later……………
RichBoy says: What'd I miss?
…
The next day at school everyone was early again! Meu announced that she deserved a pie. She never did get that pie.
After the five minute bell rang Kitsune came up to them stonily and led them silently outside.
"……"
An awkward silence filled the air.
(FLASH-BACK)
The door was answered by Pratima, the Indian woman. "Why hello. What can I do for you?"
"I need you to translate something for me…" Kitsune said, flipping through the pages. Then she noticed something. The Writing.
It was in English.
Pratima looked at the book with a humorous curiosity.
Kitsune felt like such a loser she ran home.
Around two hours later she opened the book again-just to make sure she hadn't been mistaken. It was then her eyes picked up something interesting…
"Summoning Spell."
(END FLASH-BACK)
Arianna was the first to burst out laughing. Outside, Kakashi was chasing butterflies with a net.
"It wasn't supposed to work out like this." Kitsune said as she handed the book back to Katie.
"Hehehe! She screwed up more than we did!" Arianna announced obviously.
Kitsune surveyed the group. "You guys have done it too!"
"Yep! And if the spell book says the truth now that you know you'll recognize them!" Brittany chimed in with her melodic voice.
Kitsune looked at the group of people again, this time seeing them in a new light. "Oh…My…Gosh…"
Katie sighed. "That's what I said."
"We are now bound together as friends. This secret binds us all for eternity." The former Pharaoh said. The others sweat dropped.
"You've been hanging out with Anzu too much."
The bell rung after that and everyone went to their first period. In Art, the pictures were progressing very well. Yugi was completely finished except for the card his hand was holding. Brittany had all of it done. Elena's picture of a bronze hand on one side and an peach hand on the other hung in the corner. The teacher, Mrs. Loid was drawing a picture of her own, looking at Elena's every once in a while.
In History a boy had been carried away on a stretcher.
"It's another one." Said the paramedic. "Boredom builds up in the throat and eventually strangles them to death… " He zipped up the black body bag…
To put things simply, school was let out early that day on account of the fact that Mr. Carpenter had been sued.
"Party at my house!" Meu announced.
"Can I come?" Lindsey asked.
"But of course."
…
They all gathered at Meu's dark brown house and filed into the living room as Kitsune and Meu stuffed Kakashi into a closet. "Okay," Ammit said. "We can watch movies first or we can play games first…"
"What movies do you have?" Lindsey asked, looking over the large selection. Then she saw something and gasped. "Phantom of the Opera!"
In the end they all decided to watch Phantom of the Opera followed by one of Ammit's, Meu's and Lindsey's favorite movies-Van Helsing. During the part where everyone was watching the Brides wreak havoc "Ryou" and Ammit were in the kitchen making popcorn.
"Why can't you dress more like that?" Bakura mumbled.
"Perv."
"That I am."
After the movie marathon and forcing Katie upstairs to the bathroom to wash her feet they all sat down and decided to play a hushed game of truth-or-dare.
"Ammit; truth or dare?" Meu asked
"Dare." Ammit answered deviously.
"Very well, I dare you to…smell Katie's socks."
After Ammit did the task she passed out and "Ryou" offered to take her up to her room..
He came back soon, normal once more. "Truth or dare, Lindsey?" He asked.
"Uhmm…Truth."
A slight blush went across Ryou's face and he said: "Do you have a crush; and if so, is he in this room?"
Now it was Lindsey's turn to blush. "Yes."
Everyone thought Ryou was going to faint from happiness and from his nerves-except for Lindsey who had waves of oblivious-ness radiating off of her.
Lindsey cleared her throat. "Katie, truth or dare?"
"Truth…"
"What is your most closely guarded secret?"
Katie twitched and mumbled something under her breath.
"What?" Jounochi inquired anxiously.
Katie mumbled once more, this time louder.
"Huh?"
Once again a mumble was heard.
"For the Lord's sake speak clearly!" Yelled Seto as he lost his patience-he hadn't even wanted to play. But The Great Seto Kaiba never backs away from a challenge.
"Pickles!" Katie exclaimed. "My love for pickles! I swear I could eat pickles every day, every meal and I would be happy!" Katie then gasped-just now becoming aware what she had told. Her most closely guarded secret…HER LOVE FOR PICKLES!
Jounochi looked forlorn. "Y-You love pickles?"
Katie sniffled. "Yes. Almost as much as I love you."
Jounochi stared at Katie with stars in his eyes before hugging her. "We have something in common! I too love pickles!" The two huggled each other for awhile and Ammit came down stairs and seeing the fluff scene, passed out once more.
Just then Yami decided to continue the game. "Kaiba, I challenge you to phone Elena and reveal to her your true feelings!"
"I've got the number right here!" Arianna yelled. "And it's call not 'phone' "
"What!" Seto scowled. "I refuse to do this! This is the most ridiculous--" Arianna dialed the phone number. "Don't ignore me!"
"It's all right," Arianna stated, listening to the phone ring. "I ignore a lot of people."
Meu frowned before sighing. "I wish I was one of those people." She said dismally.
Finally, someone picked up the phone.
"Hello?"
"Hi, I was wondering if I could speak to Elena…"
"One second."
At that moment Arianna shoved the phone at Kaiba; before he could hang up he heard a familiar voice.
"Hello?"
For once in his life The Great Seto Kaiba felt his cheeks become red. "Hey." he said, trying to hold back the stutter. Meu giggled in the background and excitedly grabbed onto Malik's arm-something he didn't seem to have a problem with.
"Seto?"
"Yeah…Have you ever played truth-or-dare?"
"Oh…" Elena said, disappointment weaving into her tone.
"So, uh…I dare you to tell me whether or not you believe in a long distance relationship…" Seto said, allowing the charm he had used in so many business deals to leak through.
"As a matter of fact I do."
The happiness that could be detected in Elena's voice was so heartrending it was disgusting.
"All right! All right! I've seen enough fluff for the day!" Ammit cried from the stairway. That's when her eyes rested on the ever-so-cute scene of Ryou and Lindsey snuggled up on the couch together, sharing the same blanket. The two had fallen asleep while watching Lion King.(it's in the credits-I don't own it.)
"Can you feel the love tonight?"
"You know, this is really going to disturb me if I ever go into the closet with Bakura again."
"Yeah, I think maybe I should perform another Embodiment Spell…" Meu replied.
Soon everyone but Brittany had gone home-well, actually Ammit and Bakura were outside on the doorstep keeping all of the characters waiting.
Brittany sighed as she stared outside at the dark, rainy street.
"Penny for your thoughts?" Meu offered. Oddly enough she held out a nickel. Brittany brought this to her attention.
"Oh! I'd better not waste that; I could make Johnny dance with this!" Ammit entered the door then, her hair matted with water.
"Say Britt?" Ammit asked. "Something's been bothering me…"
Brittany stared at the tanned girl, confused.
"Did you fall for little Yugi before or after you did the spell?"
Meu rolled her eyes, "Oh yeah, Ammit, just bluntly ask! At least I was subtle!" Meu then ran up the stairs exclaiming something about Bob being in the cookie jar.
"I dare you to tell him." Ammit said as Brittany's mother arrived and the doorbell was heard.
"I dare you to figure out what's wrong with Meu. Malik complains to me about her behavior every period I see him-And I see him quite a bit."
Ammit nodded and headed to her room, which was just across Meu's. "I know just where to start." Ammit couldn't recall a day when she had wanted school to come more.
…
The next morning Yami heard the birds singing their tempting song-one that made someone want to go back to sleep. It sounded like music of Faeries. Or possibly Motzart. You never know.
Tiredly he got up and…
"OW! That's my hair!"
"…Yugi…" Yami stared at himself; then Yugi; then himself again. They were both solid.
Meanwhile in Bakura and Ryou's room: Ryou woke up and realized something strange. First, there was something glomping him. And it wasn't a FanGirl.
"Umm…Bakura…" Ryou shifted under the warm weight of his other half as he wondered why the Bob neither of them were transparent. After his Yami didn't awake he tried desperately to wriggle free from Bakura's embracing arms. After around an entire second and one half Ryou realized that his Yami was much too strong.
He decided to attempt to wake the slumbering darkness up with words once more. "…Bakura…"
"Ammit…? Ammit, I don't like pickles." Bakura mumbled in his sleep. "What're you doing with Katie's socks? Hey; don't put those there!"
Ryou noted that Bakura was tightening his grip and got really freaked out when Bakura started snuggling him. When he also began stroking Ryou's hair that was straw that broke the camel's back.
"BAKURA, THERE ARE FANGIRLS AFTER YOU!"
Bakura then awoke, swinging his head back and forth before observing his and Ryou's current position. Quickly, he jumped up and tangled himself up in the sheets in the process. In the end he was lying in a heap of covers on the floor, his arm and left eye twitching.
"We never speak of this again, Hikari. We never speak of this again…"
And, for the sake of them both, they never did.
As those who thought the images that were inspired by that little predicament were kawaii-Myself among them-while we were sitting around and smiling stupidly Kaiba and Jounochi were at the kitchen table arguing…
"Look; even if Yugi were inhabited by the spirit of an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh there's no way that they could ever split in half! As for your other friend-he is just messed up!" The Great Seto Kaiba stated in exasperation.
"Look, Ammit and Meu have done it; so why can't it happen to Yugi and Ryou." The lovable inu argued back.
At this very point the two pairs of Yami and Hikari walked into the kitchen. They all had their own bodies.
Once again, The Great Seto Kaiba was proven wrong.
At school that day, Ammit and Meu were unusually a whole twenty minutes early. Meu walked abnormally slowly before going and poking a short boy from their English class. Why? A) because he's short and poking short people in very enjoyable. B) It's fun!
Ammit knew she was going on a serious hunch and could be quite wrong in the entire accusation. But if it got Meu out of her stupor of love for the boy Ammit had fittingly nicknamed "The Humungous Fungus Among Us!" or "Fungus" for short.
She walked swiftly down the stairs to her First Period. It was also the First Period of Tim-the boy she expected to be a wizard.
She walked in a cat-like manner down the hall to find the boy, Tim, verbalizing with "Fungus"!
Oddly enough, they were playing Duel Monsters.
"Alright Tiny Tim! It's your move!" Dave shouted in a dramatic stupidity.
"Very well then…Get ready to be beaten!" Tim set down his hand-revealing all five pieces of Exodia, The Forbidden One. "Exodia-Obliderate!" he yelled as David groaned.
"You always do that to me. Oh well. At least I have a girlfriend…" Dave said, smiling proudly.
"Heh heh. You wouldn't even have her if it wasn't for me."
That was all the proof Ammit needed. Next on the list was cornering the Wizard. That turned out to be an easy task, for Dave left for his locker just after loosing.
Ammit made sure the teacher was no where in sight, then made her move.
Upstairs, Meu had actually woken up and the boy from English had run away. Meu yawned and went downstairs to the cafeteria where they were serving cinnamon rolls. There she met up with Kitsune. The two of them both got in the line.
"Say, is Kakashi still in your closet?" Kitsune asked.
"Yeah, I'll have to remember to feed him when I get home."
"WHAT! OH, MY POOR 'KASHI!" Kitsune yelled. Everyone stared.
Then their attention was taken away when a motorcycle burst through the wall; a guy with blonde hair and a big sword(don't be thinking something nasty) was riding on it. "Rufus Shinra! I-" He then cut himself off and looked around. "Sorry." He said, "Wrong floor." He then rode his bike up the stairs and into the main office…
Then, al of the sudden the story was paused an BloodEngel rushed into the frame. "The above was a Final Fantasy Seven joke. I do not own any Final Fantasy game. I do have some at home though." Then the tape was fast-forwarded as Meu and Kitsune ate food and a huge battle went on in the main office, resulting in the blowing-up of half the school. Bob the Builder was then called to rebuild it all.
Following BloodEngel's explanation of how she does not own Bob the Builder and doesn't even know what the crap it is the story was resumed.
Ammit and the Wizard were outside.
Once again, Ammit had thrown the boy onto the sidewalk. Small bruises and bleeding cuts were beginning to form.
"Look, Wizard, I a good magician never reveals his secrets but let' play fair-you'll tell me exactly what you did to Meu and I'll take some pity on you." Ammit threw a kick to the small boy's side.
"All right. All right. I did a love spell. It's just a simple one; all you need is a simple healing spell that' especially focused."
Ammit sighed, disappointed that the fun was already over. Beating up short people sure does help you burn calories.
In the end, she decided to keep her promise and take pity on little Tim.
She would only keep him in him small shadow dome for a few hours. He was claustrophobic after all so playing on his fear, though only shortly, was quite effective.
The next to take a trip to the Shadow Realm would be Dave.
But why act alone when there was a Grave Guardian willing to help you?
Indeed today would be fun…
Yuzuki: We have one thing to say about this chapter…
BloodEngel: "Can you say FLUFF!"
Yuzuki: Perhaps someday "Fluff" will become a genre… Either way-next is Act Two of Dirty Little Secrets! Why two acts! Because it would be waaaay too long if there weren't and Ari will rename her fish if we don't.
