Hello again!
Ryou: hi!
I'd like to thank InuVampireChan again, the reviews for you are just great! The last one was so funny! And I'm sorry Hopestar435 we can't kill off Rebecca in this chapter. (Everyone: Aww...) Yeah, I know. Everyone's gone out to party and they've left us hikari's at home.
Yugi: Yami's going to be so hard to deal with if comes home drunk... *Pouts*
Malik: This is my first time in an authors note isn't it?
Yeah. Sorry Malik but you're not as cute as the other two, so I keep these one's close and you're my footrest.
*Glare*
Yugi: *Thinks of distraction* Wanna do the disclaimer Malik?
Malik: Yay! Alright. Amme-chan doesn't own Yugioh or Pocahontas or anything to do with it really.
That was harsh, I bought that DVD!
Malik: You 'borrowed' it off your sister, five years ago!
*Blushes* I was going to give it back...
Ryou: Amme I never knew you were a hikari
Oh! Yeah I am! :D
Yugi: Who's your Yami?
I don't have one like you do, But I do have someone I call a yami just so we have a pair, she's the one who got me addicted to Yugioh, her name is Amyat, she's my beta and we are Co-writers of a small collection of drabbles on her fanfiction site. But we aren't together, I have a boyfriend like you boys do.
Malik: Are they your real names? Amyat and Amme?
No, but you have to call us something. Enjoy everyone!
Yugi was still smoking when he exited the other side of the forest. Mystical Elf looked up from her garden "Purinsu yūgi, why are you so hot headed?" she asked in concern and alarm, the last thing she needed was a forest fire.
Yugi looked up at her, Iru and Kuriboh keeping a decent distance from him. "Rebecca tried to seduce me again! I can't take it anymore!" he pulled his own hair and growled angrily, stomping in a circle.
Mystical Elf watched in silence then knelt before him and put her fingertips to his temples. "Stop, Purinsu yūgi, you're losing yourself" Yugi had stopped as soon as her fingers touched his skin but he was still flaming mad, his back was to the tall spirit so he could grind his teeth and make all the angry expressions he wanted. Mystical Elf rubbed very gently over his temples with her delicate fingers "Take a deep breath" she told him.
Yugi breathed. "Slower" the older spirit murmured, still massaging his pounding head. Yugi breathed again, his anger evaporating as he kept it up "Loosen your shoulders… uncross your arms… now hold a breath in, and when you breathe out imagine all the rage and fire inside you being blown out" Mystical Elf murmured to him. Winged Kuriboh and Iru crept closer and closer then Yugi breathed out and fully relaxed, opened his fire free eyes. Mystical Elf pulled back and smiled as he turned around "Feeling better young Prince?" she inquired softly, her lulling voice making the flowers sigh as well as the animals around her.
Yugi nodded and smiled up at her "Much, thank you Mystical Elf, I don't know what came over me" he opened his arms for Winged Kuriboh and Iru sat on his shoulder, they hadn't been hurt by the flames at all.
Mystical Elf chuckled "Apparently Rebecca. That girl, she'll end up in big trouble with the Creator someday you mark my words" she warned eerily, having no fondness for the girl for causing Yugi such upset over the years.
Yugi nodded "She definitely will at this rate… after all that my head hurts" he whined, touching his pounding forehead.
Mystical Elf smiled and reached into her healing garden and pulled down three golden apples "Eat one of these, they'll fill you up and cure that tender head of yours" she told him.
Yugi eagerly took one and bit into it, humming at its fantastic ripeness and lovely taste "Wow!" he gasped out before eating it all, even the core. He always did that even though others found it strange.
Mystical Elf gave three quarters to Kuriboh and the smaller piece to Iru, on account of their size it was a good breakfast for them both. She placed the final one in Yugi's shoulder satchel bag "And one for on your wanders" she smiled and kissed his forehead "Happy day Purinsu yūgi, be careful"
"I will!" Yugi called out before waving his goodbyes while jogging towards the fields of tall corn and vanishing into the tall rows. They were two meters high so it was impossible to see over them. Yugi skipped along and hummed to himself to pass the time while he searched "Ryou, Jounouchi, where might you be?" he sung softly.
Iru giggled and flew up over the corn to see if she could see them. Winged Kuriboh just bounced contentedly after Yugi, looking at all the corn he'd like to eat. Yugi looked up at Iru, shielding his eyes from the run "Can you see them?" he called up to her.
Iru looked very carefully then gasped, she shouted down to Yugi, pointing frantically to his left. Yugi dived right through the walls of corn and looked around, nope not this lane. He grinned and jumped through another wall and then another. Iru pointed again with a laugh, it was funny seeing him jumping through the plants twice as tall as him.
Yugi stuck his tongue out at her "Just because you can fly" he scolded. He paused… That's an idea…
Yugi stopped running and bowed his head, the tattoos on his legs glowed and with a soft sigh of the earth the Earth Element Bird appeared. It appeared to be made out of leaves and soil, its eye a rock and its talons made of stone. Yugi smiled up at it and touched its head, the bird bowing its noble head to allow the young Prince to touch its beak and plumage.
Yugi smiled "Thank you for coming" the bird hummed lowly. Yugi laughed "I can't find my friends, could you take me to them?"
The Earth Bird bowed so Yugi could climb on its back. Yugi smiled widely "Thank you" and he jumped on. "Hurry up Kuriboh! You'll be left behind" Winged Kuriboh squeaked in alarm and jumped onto Yugi in a weird piggy back. Iru laughed at the sight then flew after them as the Earth Bird took flight.
Earth Bird wasn't a high flyer like the Air Bird but it knew the earth and where things and people were, plus its heavy wing beats didn't disturb the plants it passed by at all. Yugi gasped as he saw Ryou and Jounouchi sitting towards the opposite side of the huge cornfield "Ryou! Jounouchi! Up here!"
The two looked up and Ryou jumped up and waved happily. "Yugi!"
Jounouchi stayed sitting on his rock and smirked "Hey pal!"
Yugi slid off the Earth Bird and smiled at it "Goodbye and thanks again" the Earth Bird appeared to melt back into its element and soon it was only Iru and Kuriboh with three humans at the edge of their farming place.
Yugi smiled "I didn't keep you waiting did I?"
Ryou smiled kindly "Not that long at all"
Jounouchi snickered "Ryou, ya a bad lair, sorry Yugi but you kept us waiting most of the morning"
Yugi scratched the back of his head nervously and laughed slightly "Sorry. I had Rebecca trouble…"
Jounouchi and Ryou shivered "Say no more" Jounouchi said with a face "That slut's gonna get it bad one day. I feel sorry for ya, man. Tough girl to have following ya around like an obsessed… I'm not sure what"
Ryou chuckled "She's evil let's leave it at that. So… um, Yugi?" Ryou rubbed an elbow nervously.
Yugi smiled up at him "What is it Ryou? Tell me, I won't tell anyone else"
"Me neither" Jounouchi added kicking his feet back and munching on a freshly picked corn, sharing his breakfast with Kuriboh when he began begging. "One moment fuzz ball" the blond jumped up and pulled down the corn, picking four ripe cobs "Here, let's eat!"
"Kuri!" Kuriboh agreed readily and the two munched away.
Ryou smiled fondly "Him and his bottomless stomach…" Yugi giggled nervously too, knowing Kuriboh was the same.
Ryou sat cross-legged on the ground and looked at his hands. "Ryou?" Yugi knelt next to him.
Ryou took a breath "Do you know the inner hearts Yugi?"
Yugi nodded "The spiritual heart, the beating heart and the heart you give away" he listed swiftly.
Ryou's cheeks warmed quickly. "I… I think… remember when I told you what happened on the ship?" he spoke quickly and kept his eyes on his slender fingers, playing anxiously with a pebble.
Yugi nodded "I remember"
Ryou sighed "Bakura… one of the bronze men… he protected me, Yugi… he seemed to really care for me" his cheeks heated, he put a hand on his heart "Feel here" he caught Yugi's wrist and placed it over his heart.
Most people would have thought this touching rather strange, but these people had no problems hugging a person in their village that they didn't know very well, they were all one people. Yugi's eyes widened slightly when he felt Ryou's fast beating heart. "Its racing" Yugi said surprised.
Ryou nodded "Every time I think of Bakura and how nice he was, my heart jumps around more than… a Hyper Harpy"
Yugi chuckled slightly. Jounouchi looked down at his littler friends and said "So you like this guy or something?"
Ryou's cheeks flamed. Yugi and Jounouchi at once became concerned for his health, any more and he'd start a nose bleed or a fever.
Ryou shook his head "I don't know how I feel… I'd like to think he was doing more than taking pity on me. But… he's the enemy" he curled his arms around his knees "It's wrong"
Yugi put an arm around his shoulder as Iru stroked Ryou's other arm. "Love is never wrong Ryou, that's one of the first lessons we ever learnt as children. Why are you betraying that lesson now?"
Ryou put his head in his knees "I'm so confused…"
Yugi patted his back "Me too…" he sighed "I wasn't completely truthful with you yesterday… I… I spent the day with one of those bronze men as well"
Jounouchi spluttered "What!" bits of corn flying in his shock, Ryou looking amazed too.
Yugi flinched slightly "I'm sorry, but I was so worried you wouldn't understand. When we first met, he was the one who hurt me with that magical seal-"
"What! I'll kill da bastard!" Jounouchi raged.
Yugi put his hands up "Jounouchi no! I was following him, he reacted as any of us would, he was just defending himself from something he wasn't sure was a threat or not. He made me better" he added to redeem Atem in Jounouchi's eyes.
Jounouchi still looked uncertain. Ryou let out a breath "Was he sorry?"
Yugi nodded "Very sorry. I showed him how we see things… I… I felt drawn to him, I didn't want to leave when I heard the drums…" he looked down sadly "I'm confused too, Ryou… I wish I knew my own feelings. Half of me says I should be afraid and it's a good thing that I'm never likely to see him again, but another part of me cries at that and wants the opposite"
Ryou smiled and held Yugi's wrist, the one around his shoulders "At least I know I'm not alone"
Jounouchi sat with them and offered some corn. Yugi put his and Ryou's into his satchel when Ryou shook his head. Jounouchi smiled at his pals and said "So… what now?"
Yugi looked down sadly "Grandpa's getting ready for war, we need to keep out of trouble"
Jounouchi and Ryou bit their lips "War? Really?" Ryou whimpered, he was too gentle to be caught up in violent things like that.
Jounouchi looked worried too "Let's just hope that da freaky men leave before we bring out da drums"
Yugi nodded, the sunshine not helping the chill the boys were feeling. Suddenly there was a rustling in the bushes. The boys looked over their shoulders, back slightly into the corn field. "What's that?" Ryou whispered.
Iru gripped her staff and fell into a stance before the three boys and a curious Winged Kuriboh. "Kuri?" he asked.
The tall crops moved as three figures stumbled out. Yugi, Jounouchi, Ryou and the spirits let out a gasp. It was Atem, Bakura and Seto. Iru shrieked and prepared to shoot them with her staff but Winged Kuriboh clamped his paws around her to keep her silenced.
Jounouchi jumped up, scared with one hand on his hunting knife "It's them! I'll go get-"
Yugi clamped a hand over Jounouchi's mouth, Ryou too. He looked at Atem in alarm. The teen in question looked overjoyed to see him. Yugi hissed at them "What are you doing here?" Ryou and Jounouchi let out surprised noised behind Yugi's silencing hands. Yugi was talking a different language! The bronze people's language!
Atem smiled and took a step forwards "I had to see you again"
Yugi felt his heart jump slightly, he smiled a bit then all three of the pale boys cringed at a voice that came through the crops. "Yugi-koi! Where are you my love?"
"Rebecca!" Yugi went pale and looked at his friends "I'll explain later, just run!" he darted forwards and grabbed Atem's wrist, he mentally switched to the language the crimson eyed teen would understand "Quickly, follow me! All of you!" he said, worry in his voice.
Atem was pulled forwards as Yugi ran towards the trees, Yugi grabbed the pale white haired teen's hand as he ran past them, Atem assumed him to be Bakura's friend Ryou as he did have a resemblance to his bronze friend.
Seto and Bakura followed quickly as Atem began to move, Jounouchi snapped out of his shock and ran alongside his pale friends as well, Winged Kuriboh flew after them with a struggling Iru still clamped tightly in his paws.
Back in the corn field Rebecca looked around the place they'd been sitting moments before. She pouted and sighed "He's such a player… Yugi-koi! I'm coming to get you!" she giggled, lustily and hunted around in the crops for the rest of the day.
LOL I wrote this four months ago and she's still looking.
Yugi: *Laughs* at least I'm safe for a few more days.
Ryou: *dazed look* that must be a very large cornfield...
Malik: Ha! She's chasing her tail, that's what she's doing... Amme? I have a question.
Yeah?
Malik: I've seen the end of Pocahontas... Yami, or Atem, doesn't end up leaving Yugi does he?
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Hey! That's a spoiler! I'm not telling you!
Yugi: *Extra-large-teary-sad-sparkely-puppy-eyes-of-doom*
WAI! Yugi, don't give me the face! Please! (Beware the puppy eyes! They are a destructive weapon! mass destruction by cuteness!)
Yugi: *Gives the face*
NOOOOOOOOOO! Alright I'll tell you! But all you readers can bug off! This is for the hikari's only! Well Yugi, at then end Atem-
