Rye: Well People keep asking when we are killing Tea off, and well as much as I'd love to do it now...
Ottawa: No!
Seto: Why the hell not? She's a bitch, she's ugly and we really need to put her out of her misery.
Ottawa: Because I said so!
Rye: Fine. We won't kill her...
Seto: Yet... The usual warnings and disclaimer.
Over the last few days Yami had been finding any and every excuse possible to see Yugi. Despite Rye's and Ottawa's warnings not to get too attached, it was far too late. Yami was walking down the street carrying some large bags filled with food and other things as Yugi carried the smallest and lightest one.
"Are you sure you don't want me to take a few bags?"
"I'm perfectly fine, Little one..." Yami assured him, being dead had advantages. Surely if he had been human this would hurt like hell, after all they did just spend a good 400 or so dollars buying food for a small get together Yugi's Grandfather was throwing for everyone entering the annual Battle Royale.
Yugi sighed, he wanted to protest and help, but Yami was stubborn and refused to let him carry any more than what he was already holding. When they got to Yugi's house, Kaiba was standing outside, talking with Rye, the woman's black hair shone like black amethyst in the sunlight, making her cream skin look deathly white. Yami sighed and called out to her.
"Where's the body!"
Rye stopped her explanation of charms to glare at Yami before she smiled and said, "With all the others... somewhere you will never find them..."
Yami laughed as he shook his head.
"Really cute... Now seriously where's Ottawa?"
"Right here... Need help?" Ottawa said, from her spot on the small wooden bench outside of the shop, a book in hand as she stayed out of the way.
"No I got it..." Yami said.
"He refused to let me help too..." Yugi informed her, though Rye knew why Yami wouldn't let Yugi help.
'Tsk, sometimes I swear he's part beast as well...' she thought, imagining Atem as a wolf or even a cat since he tended to be as PMSy like one.
"Let him be..." Rye told them. "He's as stubborn as a mule and just as thick headed as well."
"Hey!"
Rye smirked and he grumbled. Seto shook his head as the look alikes walked into the house before turning back to Rye.
"So those charms you were telling me about?"
"Ah yes... You see the ones..."
Inside the house/shop, Joey and Ryou were cleaning up and moving the furniture as well as Malik, with the help of Marik and Bakura. Yami laughed as the two Egyptians glared back at him, muttering incoherently under their breaths as he walked by with Yugi. Solomon was in the kitchen preparing the pots, pans and pulling out various cook books and setting them up around the kitchen.
"Ji-chan, were back!" Yugi called happily as he set his bag down on the table.
"Good, good. Just in time! Now then... Joseph! Please be so kind as to get Ottawa-san and Ryilia-san?" Solomon asked as the blonde nodded his head and ran outside to get the two girls.
A moment later the three were in the kitchen and Rye smiled as she looked in the bags.
"Oooh... I think we can pull this off, ne?" Rye asked showing Ottawa a few things.
The brunette began looking in the cook books as did Joey while Yugi and Yami pulled out all that was going to be used right then and there, while the rest was put away.
"What?" Solomon asked, stunned. "No, you are guests in our home, please let-"
"Sorry, Mr. Moto, but once Rye and Ottawa get it in their heads to cook up a meal; they refuse to be told otherwise. Besides, this is thanks for all the help you've been to us." Yami assured him.
"Well I've never met someone with so much knowledge of ancient Egypt, let alone five young adults." Solomon said. "And your stories, Ottawa-san, about ancient Greece are just breath taking and I love the in-depth analysis of their myths!"
"Thank you kindly... Hey, did we ever get that order for the shop?"
"Sorry. No... Ohh, the boss called and he said that our latest little project was changed last minute and we got to start from square one again..."
"WHAT!" Ottawa cried and then dropped down to sit Indian style, arms crossed and sulking like a petulant child that was denied her favourite treat. "Ani..."
"Oi, it's not Ani's fault... It's the morons he represents." Rye told her, grinning when Marik, Bakura and Yami looked pale at what she had said.
"You don't like living do you?"
"Nope, not at all!" She then cackled and walked out the house. "I'll be back in a while. I'm gonna go place that order for more supplies in so that way we can start this weekend. And Yami... You're happy ass is helping or I'm making you dress up as a girl and go shopping with me."
"Like I haven't done it before."
"I'll wax your legs and crotch this time." Rye threatened. "And make you wear a thong to."
Yami paled as Ottawa and the others laughed. Yugi giggled softly, though his cheeks got really warm. Solomon sighed and shooed everyone who wasn't cooking out of the kitchen and helped Ottawa as she began making some more traditional dishes that she knew from memory...
Yugi and Yami were watching Joey and Seto argue, Yugi watching with rapt attention as Yami watched with a distant, almost longing look on his face. Marik, who had perched himself on the window sill of the house watched the Spirit's face; he looked like he wanted to cry, though he wore his indifferent mask. Bakura growled as he pushed off the wall and grabbed Yami's head and gave him a noogie.
"No more emo thoughts, damn it!" Bakura yelled, making the lovers stop their petty fight and look at Yami who was trying to wriggle out of Bakura's grip, but the thief was cheating.
Yami finally had it, he bent his body at an angle so he could get his leg in the right position and with a sharp thrust of his knee he hit the thief's ribs and smirked when he let go and fell over coughing.
"Ouch!"
"You should have let go sooner... besides. Rye would be pissed if you killed me... I promised her she could kill me."
"Why?" Yugi asked.
"Sick demented humour..." Ottawa said. "Yami reminds Rye of her brother."
"Really? She has a brother?" Bakura asked. "What about you?"
"Only child... Though I do have plenty of relatives. We're not close though, well... in the sense that I can trust them with certain details." Ottawa said. "The only one I can really trust is my 'twin' as Rye calls her."
"Huh... Yami?" Joey asked.
"Sorry... that's a rather touchy subject. But I can tell you that what little family I had, I only trusted my cousin and my friends." Yami said.
"Hmm... Must be nice to have extended family," Ryou said, Yugi nodding in agreement. "It's just me and my father."
"And it's only me and Ji-chan, though he's all the family I really need!" Yugi said happily.
"Hn, you can be such a child." Seto said. "Though All I have is Mokuba... speaking of which I better go pick him and Serenity up. Puppy, stay put and don't you dare sneak into the kitchen."
"I won't!" Joey defended himself.
"We'll make sure he doesn't..." Ryou asured the business man as he left before he blinked and looked around. "Hey where's Malik?"
"Here." Malik walked into the house with Tea tailing him, he wasn't too happy.
"Hey everyone- Oh! Yami! I didn't know you were here!" She ran over to him and latched onto his arm.
Malik made a strangling motion in the air as he sighed and grumbled.
"What happened?"
"Ishizu said that one of the tablets we brought back from Egypt went missing and some of the doctors looking it over ended up dead... Like they were eviscerated by a large animal..."
Ottawa went stiff; this didn't go unnoticed by Bakura and Marik, or Seto.
'Hmm... Something's strange about them... I want to know what...'
"So, where exactly are you from?" He asked Ottawa, sensing that she was the more approachable of the two.
"Oh, we're not really from anywhere, move around too much to really call any place on this world our home." She replied lightly. Seto huffed, annoyed by the vague answer.
Meanwhile Yami was unsuccessfully trying to disentangle himself from Tea. This was what Rye walked back into to see, closing her cellphone and putting it away as she stood next to Ottawa. Yami's two long-time companions exchanged a look and decided to intervene as only they knew how.
"She clings to him like mould, doesn't she?" Rye said in a voice loud enough for Tea to hear.
"Hah! More like a leech, she wants to suck him dry." Ottawa cackled in reply. Tea whipped around and favoured them with a baleful glare. "Ooh, watch out, now she thinks she's Medusa!"
"Yes, remember what happened to her though?" Rye snickered, running a finger across her neck just under her chin. Yami took advantage of Tea turning and putting her hands on her hips and wiggled away to find Yugi.
"You ugly bitches can stop talking about me right this instant." She shrieked shrilly.
"Ouch, make that a banshee." Ottawa said, rubbing her ears. "Some of us have sensitive ears, keep it down or we'll duct tape your mouth shut."
"Nah, I personally would use superglue." Rye said, wiggling a finger into her ear, getting snickers from the others as Tea got huffy.
"Yami, why do you hang out with such mean people?" Tea whined before realizing her 'dream boy' wasn't anywhere near her anymore. She spotted him on the other side of the room, whispering in Yugi's ear, making the smaller boy blush and giggle. Her face turned red with fury that Yugi had stolen her perfect boy away from her, never mind that it was in fact Yami that was actively going after Yugi.
"I would suggest you leave the two of them alone." Rye stated in a dangerously low voice as Tea made to go over to the happy couple.
"And why should I listen to a couple of rejects like you?" Tea sneered.
"You have no idea what we are capable of, girl. I would watch that wagging tongue of yours, lest you get it ripped out." Ottawa hissed. Tea gulped as she stared into blue-grey eyes like a stormy sea, dangerous and unpredictable. She decided to try and find somewhere else to stand, and perhaps someone else that would understand her woes.
"That girl is trouble." Rye whispered to her long-time partner. Ottawa nodded in agreement, and her narrowed storm-tossed sea blue-grey eyes stayed locked on Tea the rest of their time there.
"That she is... I don't like the feeling I get from her." Ottawa sighed, leaning on her friend as Rye rested her chin on her shoulder.
"We'll keep our eyes open then..."
Rye: Okay, Tea's starting to piss me off!
Marik: Kill her already.
Ottawa: It's still No!
Seto: Damn... Can't we at least make it look like an accident?
Yami: No. Ottawa won't let us.
Rye: Besides all in due time.
Ottawa: That's right! Review plz!