oh my ra, so many reviews, thankyou everyone :D thankyou sooo much.
(a/n: I'm sorry if this chapter offends anyone at all, it is not my intention to do so)
thanks to: Mr. Towel: Thanks, Dude.
Cyrus13: thanks for the review, ducks from Mr.Pointy shall I rename Ms.Pointy, Mrs.Pointy?
Fushicho Hime: thankyou, thankyou.
dragonmaster01: dont feel sorry for Aurora, I dont. lol, anyway, thanks, you were my very first reviewer. thanks, i'm not going to leave you hanging for long...
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hoping eyes: thanks huns, yeah, girls stand up for each other, I just wish boys would stand up for me ;) lol, to anyone who understood that joke, i'm kidding.
Last time: Aurora started to cry again, backing up from the group. "I'm so, so, so sorry, I could..." she began. "Haven't ya done enough damage, ah, Rookie? Go home, go on, go home to ya mum and dad. Go bother dem with ya presence." Joey spat vilely. Aurora started to breath heavily, her breath coming in unrythmic stutters. "GO ON!" Joey roared at her, she stumbled and ran off down the road, crying constantly.
"WHAT on earth have you done now?" The old man turned to about the fifth page in the newspaper and read for a second then stood up quickly, pointing directly at Ryou. "You're a thief!"
"Not in the slightest," Suayo grinned. "Perfect, all the more easy it is going to be to get rid of you." "Get rid of me?" Suayo asked, almost worried. The ring around Bakura's neck shone for a second. "A one way trip to the Shadow Realm will cure you of your egotism."
"I may have caused too much trouble, but there is no way I am going home without a fight." She stepped up to the infomation Kiosk again. "One Adult ticket to Osaka," She drew some money from her dog walking out from her pocket, outside was a whimpering Jessy and the two Great Danes.
Yugi couldn't concentrate, his mind kept wandering. Wandering back to Ryou's dissaperance, was he ok? Where was he? Why he did he go? "MR. MUTO?! COULD YOU PLEASE TELL US WHAT IS SO INTRESTING YOU FIND IT IS MORE IMPORTENT THAN PAYING ATTENTION IN CLASS?" Ms. Tenschu bellowed in Yugi's ear. Yugi jumped slightly, knocking his maths text book to the floor. His sheet's inside his book flew out and floated slowly to the floor too.
"Yugi Muto," Ms. Tenschu slammed her thick lesson planner down hard infront of him, "Answer me. What is so intresting you feel you have the right to ignore the instructions I have been shouting at you for the last five minutes?" Yugi looked awkwardly towards to Joey, Tristan and Teá, who were both as shocked as him. "Answer me!" Ms. Tenschu proceeded. "I want to continue with this lesson, but until you give me a reasonable answer, I'm afraid you're wasting this class's Lunch." Around the class was groans, replacing the admirable grins.
"But Ms, it's unfair to blame us all for Yugi's short attention span." A black haired boy stood up, worriedly. "Sit down Mr. Kashi, I make the rules here, and if Mr Muto doesn't speak up soon, you will all be in detention for Lunch." The black haired boy sneered and sat back down in his seat. "Mr. Muto, tell me what is so intresting now!" Ms. Tenschu cried, putting her hands on her hip.
'Think of something quick.' Yugi thought, he was all out of excuses.
"Say the truth." Mouthed Teá over and over, Joey was looking worriedly at Yugi along with Tristan and Duke. "Ms. Tenschu, I have the reason why-" Teá began, standing up.
"Oh, do sit down Ms. Gardener, there are too many voices in this class already. Besides, Yugi has a tongue, he can speak for himself if he desires." Ms. Tenschu said impatiently. Yugi's heart was racing now, trying to think of an excuse. He was getting his friends into trouble by not answering, but he couldn't come up with excuses like Joey and Tristan could. Ms. Tenschu strode back up the classroom to the board. Joey slipped Yugi a note. Yugi read it quickly and grinned sheepishly as Ms. Tenschu turned to him again, waiting his answer. Joey's idea was worth a shot.
"I was, I was thinking about a girl." The class roared with laughter and banged their hands against the desks. They knew this was one of the oldest excuses ever, but Ms. Tenschu was stern, but gulliable.
She shook her head, "I should of guessed." She turned to the jeering class and silenced them. "See me after lesson so we can arrange a time for detention." The class whistled at this.
"Got yourself a girlfriend then, Yugi?" A boy asked.
"Ohhh, but he's got Ms. Tenschu now, Johnny." Another girl laughed, elbowing the boy, who seized up in laughter.
"That's quite enough of that now," Ms. Tenschu said seriously.
The rest of the lesson passed quite uneventful, except for Joey's accident with his fountian pen and spilling ink down Te's skirt. Yugi's attention was again slipping towards the end of class. He rested his head in his hands as he was lost in thought.
"Ohhh, Yugi, why you staring at Teá?" The squealy girl that had joked about Yugi liking Ms. Tenschu asked.
"It's because he likes her!" Johnny laughed. Yugi blushed seriously and replied sheepishly: "I do not like Teá, not in that way." Johnny bent double in laughter.
"It's obvious, Yugi, I've seen the way you stare at her every lesson, I don't know how you could like that chatty, miss friend-"
"Like ta finish dat sentence, Johnny? 'Coz I promise if ya do, it'll be da last one ya ever finish." The tall Blonde growled at Johnny. Johnny watched as Joey straightened himself and threatened him from the seat behind. The desk next to him was, as unusual as it was, empty.
"Where's Ryou?" Johnny asked.
"None of ya buisness, Kashi!" Joey added, his eye's glancing to Ryou's empty seat. Johnny sneered, allowing Nikoshi Harish, the girl beside him, have a comment.
"He's been accused of theft and probably bunking off. I heard that his dad never comes home, and when he does, Ryou always come to school with bruises, I bet he beats him." Teá gasped, and Joey said loudly:
"Ya better take dat back, Harish, Ryou's dad wouldn't do such a thing."
"Who does it then? Or does he do it himself?" Nikoshi turned to her friend beside her. "You know that Ryou Bakura? He self-harms." The girl gasped and got ready to pass on the message when Joey and Tristan stopped her.
"Don't even think about it, Ryou doesn't self-harm, maybe it's a coincidence he has bruises on him," Tristan said.
"And dere, look, ya have a bruise but ya don't self-harm do ya, Harish? So shut up and stop spreading rumours. Ya big mouth will get ya in trouble someday, ya stupid baka-" Joey pointed out just as Ms. Tenschu turned around.
"Mr. Wheeler! Mr. Taylor! Sit down!" The class breathed a sigh of anticipated relief when the bell rang. "Yugi Muto, Joseph Wheeler and Tristan Taylor stay where you are. You're all in detention." Joey groaned and bashed his head against the desk, Ms. Tenschu reached his desk first as the rest of the class left. "Third time this week, Joseph, it's not good enough. Three detentions in just the span of seven days. I will let you and Tristan off this time, but anymore misbehaving in my class and I'll have you here on a Sataday. Now go, don't wait for Mr. Muto, he won't be out for a long time."
"We'll still wait for ya Yug', don't worry." Joey said, flashing his best friend a thumbs up. Yugi smiled misarably back, watching as Ms. Tenschu made her way to his desk, she pulled a chair up beside his desk. For a minute he thought she was going to lecture him, but she talked about something completly off topic.
"Yugi, could you tell me where Ryou Bakura is? We've had no phone calls from his father or anything, the schools worried for his safty." Yugi looked up from his desk, where he was reading about someone or other's love intrest's.
"I don't know, Ms. Tenschu, I don't know where Ryou is," Yugi said truthfully. Ms. Tenschu nodded rather sadly.
"Well, what can I make you do for your detention then? The toilets are all clean seeing as Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Taylor cleaned them yesterday for their detentions. The floors are clean. Maybe- ah yes," She picked a piece of paper up and scribbled a note on it, handing it to Yugi, "Take this to Mr. Hirto and then when you come back I'll have all the tools ready you'll need."
"Need for what Ms?" Yugi asked, curiousity getting the better of him.
"For cleaning the gum off the bottom of the tables. Now hurry." Yugi left his bag on the desk and walked quickly down the corridor to the principal's office. He stopped suddenly when he saw a tall, lanky looking black haired teenager. Jack Maya, the school's third worst bully to bump into. Jack pointed in Yugi's direction and Yugi, remembering he no longer had his Millennium Puzzle, turned to flee. But Jack had the collar of his shirt way before Yugi had even turned.
"Look what I got, a Shortbread!" Jack laughed, throwing Yugi to his even taller friend, who was laughing hard.
"What ya doing then, Porcupine Midget?" A Ginger haired boy laughed, shoving Yugi down. Yugi winced as he landed awkwardly on his ankle. It was if something inside him stirred, as if there was still some of his 'Other Half' in him. He stood up again, ignoring the screaming pain in his ankle. Jack sneered, he hadn't expected Yugi to stand up again so quickly, his recovery had been almost unhuman.
"Hey, ya leave him alone Ginger Nut!" A shout erupted from one end of the corridor, it was Joey, he was walking towards the two bullies.
"Why should we, Mutt?" Jack asked, knowing his comment would touch a nerve in Joey.
"'Coz no-one bullies our friend and gets away with it." Tristan agreed, joining Joey in walking slowly and dauntingly towards Jack and the Ginger haired boy. Yugi could now see fear in Jack's eye's, he was no where near as tough or daring as Joey or Tristan. He looked them up and down, then turned his eye's to Yugi.
"Don't let us see ya around here again," He glared at Yugi, "Go on, smile, tommorow will be worse."
"And we know you're not dating Gardener, Muto, you couldn't get a date even if you brought them dried in a tin."
"And as for Bakura, we're glad he's gone. He's one of 'you'." Jack said, sneering.
"Go get ya bear costume and take a long walk in da forest during hunting season, Maya, do us all a favour." Joey added, angry. Jack and 'Ginger-nut' started to walk off, but Jack turned and was about to hack up a spit for Joey when Yugi innocently put his foot out, making Jack lose balance and fly face first on to the floor.
"Oh, we're sorry, did we hurt ya?" Joey asked, trying not to laugh.
"You're dead Wheeler, and you Taylor and especially you Muto."
"Aww, Yugi, don't ya feel loved? Your special to Jack." Tristan smiled.
"And dat's a funny comment, Jack, we don't actually feel dead..." Joey replied, "Don't ya ever bully our friends or insult dem behind thier back's again." Jack and 'Ginger nut' fled around the corner. Yugi sighed heavily, folding the notes bent corners back. "What's dat, Yug'?" Joey asked, walking over to the young teenager.
"A note, for Mr Hirto," Yugi added quickly as Joey took it from him, "I don't think you should be reading that Joey!" He warned.
"Ah, there's no harm, Yug'. It's nothing big, just saying to phone ya Grandpa to let him know ya're staying behind to.... clean chewing gum off the bottom of the desks?" Joey winced, "Have a good time mate, it sounds fun." he joked.
Tristan read the note too, "Yeah, Te's waiting outside too. We saw Jack and decided to follow, that disgusting little-"
"Tristan, Joey, you'd better go. If they find you at school after hours they'll give you another detention!" Yugi cut Tristan off to warn them. "Now why would dey do dat? Dey know me and Trist love doing extra work." Joey smirked, "See ya later, Yug', don't work too hard."
"I won't." Yugi sighed, as his two friends turned from him and walked back towards the school entrance. He started walking again, his ankle still painfully annoying him. He regretted getting up again so quickly after being pushed down, but he was deep in thought about why he had done so. It wasn't like him at all, then again, since the Puzzle had gone missing he hadn't exactly been himself. He stopped and turned as he heard footsteps, Teá was hurtling towards him. She caught up with him and grabbed his sleeve, breathing heavily.
"Teá? Are you okay?" Yugi asked, worriedly. He looked up, bent double.
"Yeah, listen, I just heard that Ryou's been seen on a train to Osaka!" She gasped.
"Osaka? Why would he-"
"The Puzzle, Yugi, Bakura!" Teá managed to splutter a few words then took a deep breath, "Bakura wants the Puzzle!"
Suayo took a deep breath, looking around he tried to get up. He couldn't tell if his eyes were open or not, the darkness seeped through his vision. "Baka!" He mumbled, getting up he frowned. "So this is the Shadow Realm?" he scoffed, "Nothing." he laughed. He suddenly turned, he could hear something but he couldn't tell what it was. "Hello?" he asked. He shook his head, he was turning paraniod. He laughed to himself and sighed, without warning he took a sharp intake of breath. Suayo screamed. The pain was unbearing, and without another sound the darkness consumed his soul....
Aurora was at the front of the Kaiba mansion, ringing frantically for the ninth time on the doorbell. She tapped her foot inpatiently, "Come on!" she complained, the door swung open and a man stood there.
"Who are you?" He asked, grumpily.
"I don't have time for you, Jeeves. Get Mokuba Kaiba here please, or, let me come in..." she peeked inside the house, "Oh, and chain me to you, I don't want to get lost, it's a bit... too spacy." she muttered, brushing some white hair into place. He man sighed and led her in, to a room with a tank of fish. "Flashy," she commented, sitting down. A few minutes later, Mokuba appeared at the doorway.
"Aurora? Why are you here?" Mokuba asked, frowning.
"Look, I have no time to explain. Can you take care of a good friend of mine? She won't be much trouble and she's great fun-" Aurora started, then seeing Seto Kaiba appear behind his brother. "Afternoon, Seto." she said pleasently, "What's wrong? Work loosing it's appeal?"
"I suggest you don't make any failed attempts to insult me, Aurora, or I'll have you removed from my house." Seto growled.
"This is your house? And there was me thinking I was visiting Buckingham Palace." She grinned, "that's a compliment, Workaholic." She pointed out.
"Just get on with it!" The older Kaiba sneered.
"You want me to look after a friend?" Mokuba asked, frowning at the teenager on the sofa.
"Not any old friend, a dog I walk."
"Absolutely not!" Seto said, angrily, "I am not having a walking flea bag trashing my house up!"
"I wasn't talking about Joey." Aurora joked, Seto frowned at her and she waved off her joke. "Oh, please." She begged.
"Yeah, please, Seto. You've never let me have any pets!" Mokuba said, begging too.
"Mokuba, who do you expect to look after it? It needs feeding, lots of exercise, playing with and what if it gets hurt? It's a walking heartbreak just waiting to happen." He said, with distaste.
"Come on, we have butlers and stuff.... can't they buttle?" Mokuba asked, watching Aurora's wide grin out the corner of his eye. She was watching the discussion like a particularly intresting tennis match. Seto closed his eyes and sighed; Mokuba smirked; Aurora jumped up from the couch.
"Sorted, I have her leash, water and food bowl, food to last a week and some of her favourite toys at home, I'll just go grab them!" Aurora said, "Thankyou so much, I was worried what i was going to do with her. This is the owners phone number, they come home in two weeks. Phone them then, they'll pick her up from here."
"Hold on, she already has owners?" Mokuba's face fell, "Oh well."
"Her names Jessy."
"The mutt you brang to the Museum Exhibt?" Seto asked, disgusted, "It was very badly behaved."
"It's not an 'it' it's a Jessy, and she was excited, she's very well trained really." Aurora promised. Mokuba grinned.
"I'll help you get her stuff." Aurora thanked him and they walked to the door, passing a maid who was cleaning hard.
"You missed a spot." Aurora grinned, pointing to the top of a polished table.
Aurora passed the ticket man her ticket and handed some Porters her luggage, throwing it into their arms. Pretty glad she had chosen the train rather than coach now.
"Watch it!" she said, angerily, helping one hold her bag properly. "Now, to Kyoto!" She grinned, stepping on the train. She was sitting on a seat when she saw someone she didn't expect to. The Train started to move, her gaze was fixed on the people outside though, some people who had just noticed her.
"Hey!" Joey shouted, "Aurora!" He ran into the Train station but he was thrown back by some Porters. Yugi, Teá and Tristan caught up with him. "Where's that train going?" Joey asked, angerily, grabbing the collar of a Porters shirt.
"O-Osaka!" The man spluttered. Joey threw him from him and turned to the rest of them.
"She's gone after the Puzzle!" Yugi said suddenly. "She's going to try and get it back!"
"God, 'elp us all!" Joey muttered, watching as the Train dissapeared out of view....