A Past and Future Pharaoh
Written By: Lady Lunar Phoenix
Original Beta: WhiteSwan
A/N: Shifted stuff to this to fill out the 4 page requirement and clean up some childish writing I had ages ago.
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"How did you… wait… Mokuba...?"
"Of course," Kaiba replied with an audible smirk.
"This isn't funny Kaiba!" Yugi replied in humiliated anguish.
"You know you make for an interesting sight running around the mall in nothing but a pair of pants and your collar. I'm sure the girls got as many pictures of that with their cell phones as Mokuba did. Even now one of them is thinking 'Lion on a Leash'," Gee Kaiba sounded smug.
"I'm never going to school again," Yugi moaned.
"There's something to be said for home schooling." Malik suggested amid cries of girls asking his name.
"Yes, but you know nothing of girls as well," Bakura pointed out while the feeling of a fish in a tank floated through his mind.
"Excuse me, do you think I 'want' to know anything about girls like these?" Malik retorted in a huff, his spark coming back now that he got a breather and a shield from the girls.
"Let Isono handle the girls, he has experience," Kaiba continued casually.
"I'm sure he does 'Lord' Kaiba," Yugi retorted sarcastically as he slowly uncurled from the stitch.
"Mokuba?"
"How 'ever' did you guess?" Yugi replied as he looked about, only to see the girls staring at him intently. The AC kicked on, giving him a chill when it finally clicked that he had just ran through a whole mall wearing nothing but a pair of leather pants and his collar. Remove the girl's from the equation and he still had a building full of strangers having seen him. Yugi was not a person known for being defeated by what could ultimately be considered trivialities, but right now a razor and some private time seemed like a great idea.
Anzu stood in the store, quietly counting to a million, since she honestly doubted she'd be calm by ten. At the moment she had two options: mentally replay the sight of Yugi being dragged through the store without his shirt, which had its merits, mainly that it was Yugi shirtless, while on the other hand she could just focus on all those fan girls chasing 'her' Yugi through the mall.
Decisions, decisions, decisions…
"How prophetic of Yugi to give me this…" Isis mused, looking at the money in her hand. When he had given her the money it was with instructions that if something should happen to him, please pay for his things… Well he wasn't coming back any time soon so off she went with Anzu in tow before the poor girl killed someone.
"Oh man poor Yugi…" Honda limped up behind Isis watching as Jounouchi rushed out to the nearest railing to watch the show.
"Indeed," Isis began when she checked herself. Nodding she turned around and motioned to him that she was going to the dressing room, since Yugi didn't have enough time to get his newly chosen shirts before running off.
Limping along, Honda joined Jounouchi outside the store while Mokuba snapped photos on his cell phone. "You guys…"
It was amusing in it's own way when the group finally reached the locked away, hapless trio inside the limo. Yugi had poked his head outside the car via the sunroof for the chance to get his shirt back, but that alone nearly got him dragged out of the car by the girls as he struggled to not remain shirtless. When Bakura stuck his head up, asking how they were going to get the gang in the Limo a cry of 'Bunny!' rose up, causing Malik to pop up to.
"Just why 'do' they call you that stupid name? Does your nose twitch? Do you thump your foot on the floor when someone scratches your ear?"
Bakura turned to face Malik before planting both hands on the teens' head and firmly shoving the Egyptian back into the limo.
"What's his name?" A few of the girls called out curious as Rashid tried to reach the limo.
"Unavailable," Malik shoved his head back up to snap at the nosy girls, though they didn't seem to take the snappish reply badly.
Bakura retrieved the long coat from Rashid and lowered it into the limo for Yugi while Malik strove to help with the next bag. A couple of the girls at the edge of the crowd noted Isis and how she appeared to be from the same nationality as the blond, so sidling up to her they began asking what his name was.
"If you want to remain part of this family, you will 'NOT' tell them!" Malik informed Isis in Egyptian.
"He's Bi-lingual!" They squealed in delight, while Malik and Anzu shared a moment to look horrified.
"We all are, it's called going to school," Anzu retorted.
"Ah that's nothing, it's just English, but Egyptian…"
"You guys are going to cause an international incident if you don't stop bothering the three of them you know… the lady here has diplomatic immunity and if you keep it up she'll be sent home for her own protection. Just in case you can't keep up with me, that means if she goes, blondie goes with her," Mokuba pointed out.
The immediately girls backed away from the limo like it was the source of the Black Plague, leaving a large ring around it and the gang kind of confused.
"Gee, who would have guessed that you have a use after all," Jounouchi joked as he ruffled Mokuba's hair. Mokuba punched Jounouchi in the side as he sulked towards the limo. The gang followed suit, climbing into the limo with trepidation of what would happen if the limo got bum rushed with the door open. So they slipped into the limo as fast as they could, shut the sunroof and door and were off as soon as Isono got behind the wheel.
"Gee what kind of freaks do you have living in this country?" Malik asked the occupants in the car in general.
"Like you don't have any in Egypt," Jounouchi countered with a snort of amusement.
"No," Malik said sounding rather pleased with the fact.
"Then again, you live underground," Bakura pointed out as he rested his head against the wall.
"Yeah you've probably never even 'seen' a girl till you came to Domino," Mokuba pointed out from next to Yugi.
"Hey I have so! Isis is a girl!" Malik retorted feeling his feathers getting ruffled.
"No, Isis is the Egyptian version of the Virgin Mary, she's not allowed to be looked at by anyone. So no, you've never seen a girl before," Bakura returned casually from his spot.
Malik glared at Bakura before punching the guy right in the gut, which got Bakura buckled over and Isis giving a scolding 'Malik!'
"Or maybe you just looked in a mirror because you do punch like a girl," Bakura amended.
Malik was reeled in between Isis and Rashid while Yugi, who had been sitting beside Bakura blurted, "who are you and what have you done to our Ryou?!" It was like without the Puzzle something had changed in several members of the group. Bakura spoke with that same polite suffix, respectful tone, but…!
"It is just that he is near Malik, I have found that Bakura becomes less formal, indeed more course, the longer he stays around Malik. Once we have departed and Bakura has some time to himself he'll be back to his formalities," Isis assured Yugi as she held one of Maliks' arms down.
"Hey this is a good spot, it's close to Honda's place after all," Anzu's voice broke the conversation as she looked out the window at their location.
Mokuba turned and tapped on the window dividing them from Isono, waiting patiently as the window came down. "Hey Isono? You can stop around here, I think part of the group is getting off here."
The limo stopped at the corner of a block, letting off everyone, but Yugi and Mokuba, with promises to see each other again among the group. Reducing what had been a large group in the limo into a party of two.
"You think you can get through school tomorrow with your virginity in tact?" And if Mokuba didn't shut up soon there would only be one left in the limo, but he did switch to a more serious discussion. "Oh I guess I should tell you something about the project my brother has in store for you. It's a virtual reality simulated role-playing game. You play an adventurer in another world and use your deck to fight. What my brother wants for you to do is to help fine tune the game, make sure all the glitches are caught. Since my Brother and I have played the multiplayer game to death we can't be trusted to see it clearly enough. It comes with a save file, so save often because we want you to try every option to make sure all the glitches are caught."
Yugi nodded as he took in Mokuba's words, he knew what Kaiba could do with 3-D graphics on a duel disk. Now he was going to play in a game that was nothing but holograms, this sounded fun! Mokuba had grown silent, letting Yugi think of what this game would be like, when he heard the door click and saw Kaiba enter the limo. Yugi never even got a chance to greet Kaiba before the teen spoke…
"So, how are you going to repay me for the security I'm going to have to increase because of your fan club Yugi?"
From the smug smirk the elegant relaxed lean of Kaiba's long body in his seat it was clear the CEO was going for his new hobby, Yugi teasing. "So I look online and what do my inquisitive eyes see but…" Kaiba flipped open his laptop and brought it out of sleep mode. A few key clicks later and he turned it around to show a growing list of pictures that were searched up with the words 'Yugi' and 'Shirtless'. Worse of all, the numbers were still rising on the laptop while Yugi looked so stricken it was only paled by the news of his grandfather and mother.
"This is neither fair nor right," he groaned as he fell back onto his seat staring hopelessly at the ceiling.
"Though highly amusing," Kaiba noted with a smirk still plastered on his face.
Yugi half-clawed his way over to Kaiba, his fingers curled up like claws, before glaring at the CEO. "Can't you be a little more supportive?"
Kaiba chuckled as he reached up and began fingering the collar that Yugi wore, "what would you have me do, teach you how to live at the lesser end of a leash?"
Off to the side Mokuba snapped another photo on his cell phone, only to see the pair of older teens staring at him in various degrees of shock through the screen.
"What? I know there are bound to be girls who would like this pic too!" he grinned when Yugi suddenly made a mad dash to get his hands on the kid.
"I'm going to kill him."
"No, you can't kill him, he's my brother." Kaiba replied as he dropped onto the lunging Yugi's back with his knees, while reaching for Mokuba. "I'll kill him."
Yep Mokuba was going to get it…