"blah...blah...": someone speaking
//blah...blah...//: someone thinking
~blah...bah...~: Yami speaking to hikari
-blah...blah...-: hikari speaking to Yami
blah...blah...: speaking on Msn
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Chapter 3: Yamis
When the bell rung, Hoshi quickly made her way to the front door. She was impatient to go back to the warehouse, her now current "home". After today's incidents she just wanted to slip back into the safety of a house, the same way a snail curled up in its protective shell. Peering through the front doors' windows she noticed that there were already groups of kids outside.
//No! No!// Hoshi panicked. //So many people, don't want to face them all!!//
She was terrified of the thought of walking among those students, afraid that some of them would cast her verbal insults or teasing glances on the previous incident. Yet looking at the gateway entrance leading out to the streets, she was sorely tempted to walk through the gateway of freedom. Decision set, she swung the door open and slunk against the courtyard's wall trying to make little noise and scurrying as fast as possible. In reaching the gate her heart was soaring, so glad was she at passing by unnoticed. She silently thanked any deity that was within range. Her hand reached forward, index finger stretching to nudge the iron bars aside for liberty...
"HIYA!!!" a recognizable Bronx accented voice screamed out and a heavy hand clamped onto Hoshi's shoulder.
Hoshi screamed in alarm and nearly jumped a foot high as she struggled under the hand's clutch.
"Hey! Calm down there! Just wanted to say hi," the voice said. Recognizing it Hoshi turned around to meet Joey's grinning face, higher than hers about 10 inches.
She backed up, released from his grip, "What do you want?"
Joey scratched his head, puzzled by her scared attitude, "I just wanted to say hi."
"Oh....umm...hi then..." she stammered. Her hands curled around the gate desperately wanted to push Joey away and run down the street.
"So Joey!! Are ya gonna introduce us to your new girlfriend?" a loud, obnoxious voice boomed out.
Scowling, Joey turned around. "Tristan you piece of junk, she ain't my girlfriend."
Peering over his shoulder Hoshi saw another boy, with brown hair and a long, thin piece of hair dangling over his back. She remembered him as a friend of Yugi's, but didn't quite remember his name even though Joey had just said it a few minutes ago.
//Curse short-time memory!!!// she swore. Looking behind the brown-haired boy's shoulder her breath got held in her throat.
A boy about the size of a eight year old stood cheerfully before her. His round, innocent violet eyes stood out from his sweet, naive face. Yellow bangs bent over his forehead while black spikes edged in red stuck out in the back. A buckle was fastened around his neck and his white shirt was rumpled out of the belt line.
//He truly exists.// Hoshi thought dazedly. //He truly, truly, TRULY exists!!! Oh if Em was here would she ever be squealing and fawning over him!//
"Helloooo!!!!!!" a Bronx-accented voice snatching Hoshi out of her daydreaming.
"Wha......?" she suddenly snapped her head backwards, unaware that it had actually been slowly leaning forwards.
Joey repeated, "Met the ever-oh-so-famous Yugi Mouto yet?"
Yugi blushed. "Joey stop it."
Joey steadily plowed on. "You've surely heard of Yugi Mouto, Card Duelis extraordinaire (Is that the correct spelling?), the one who defeated Maxmillion Pegasus (Not sure about the last name, PLEASE TELL ME IF IT'S CORRECT!!) at Duelist Island? The best card duelist in all of Jap....ow!" His praises got cut short by the brown-haired boy's jab towards his stomach. "Hey! What was that for?"
Brown-haired boy replied, "To make ya stop yabbing your big mouth off for once."
"Why you lil'...." a fight ensued.
Noticing Hoshi's stare of shocked surprise, Yugi placed a reassuring hand on her elbow. "Don't worry, they've got nothing personal against one another. They're just always like that."
Still staring at the boys' fight she asked, "Do they usually scratch one another during their brawls."
Yugi winced as he caught Joey's hand clawing at Tristan's arm. "No."
That was when Hoshi noticed Yugi's height only reached up above her neck. //At least I'm not that short.// she thought wryly remembering how painful it was for her to always need to look up at everyone at her previous school.
//Wait a minute! What am I thinking about? Previous school? I'm not gonna be in this crazy anime world long enough to think of my other school as previous? Agghh!!! I'm not making sense here...even to myself. Oh good lord, I need more self-confidence, now how did that get into my thoughts? Grrr....better stop reflecting too much or else I could do some serious damage to my brain!!!//
Heaving herself out of her brooding state she was suddenly conscious of a tugging at her sleeve.
"What?" her head snapping backwards AGAIN as she had unconsciously been leaning forwards for the second time. //Have to stop doing that.// she noted.
"What is that?" Yugi asked pointing at the bulge on her forearm.
"Oh that? It's nothing," she answered. Inwardly she struggled whether she should reveal to him about the eighth Millennium Item. Would he faint out of surprise or simply start yelling at the top of his lungs about it? Or he would he tell his yami?
//Hey! Where is his yami anyways?// she questioned. //Is it well-known right now that there are Millennium Items in the world with Egyptian souls in them? Or are they still kept a secret and known only among a chosen few?//
"Hey Yugi! Sorry if we came out late!" a cheerful female voice said. Recognizing it Hoshi turned around and her jaw dropped at the girl that had appeared. It was Tea Gardner, one of the people who had sadly seen Hoshi's outburst during gym class. Tea noticed her and flashed a grin.
"Hoshi isn't it? Nice girl power talk during p.e.," she joked. Hoshi blushed deeply. Joey and the other boy's fight halted while they still gripped at each other's clothes.
"What incident?" they asked in unison.
"Joey, your brain's so small it can only contain one fact," Tea declared. "Remember the screaming Hoshi did at sensei during p.e. today?"
"Oh yeah!" he said as enlightenment dawned upon him and he grinned goofily at Hoshi. "You were really telling the sensei off weren't you?" Hoshi's reddened face intensified a few darker shades.
"Come on guys, knock it off now," a British voice begged and Ryou appeared next to Tea. His snow-white hair nearly covered up his eyes as he blinked owlishly at Hoshi. "And Joey and Tristan, stop fighting." Joey and Tristan grumbled, but obeyed, standing up and dusting their pants off.
"Umm....yeah....I think my mom's calling me now, I've gotta go," Hoshi lamely excused herself. She backed towards the gate and was ready to dash away when the Millennium Bracelet, hidden underneath her blazer, began to glow. One of Ryou's Millennium Ring's arrows rose up and pointed at Hoshi.
"What!? Another Millennium Item?" Tristan's eyes widened. "How the heck more are there out in the world?"
~Ryou, grab the girl before she escapes.~ Ryou's yami suddenly hissed in his mind.
-Umm...why?- Ryou nervously answered back. –And how do you know whether she is?-
~Because her legs are tensing up and her eyes show of one who C LEARLY wants to get the hell out of here!!!~ Yami Bakura snapped back. ~Now grab her!!!~
-But yami....- Ryou whined.
~Never mind, I'll get her myself.~ growled Yami Bakura and before Ryou could protest Bakura took over his body.
Grabbing Hoshi's arm Yami Bakura snarled out, "Reveal your Item girl!!!"
"Hey!! Let go of me!!" Hoshi panicked and tried to fling aside the tomb raider's grasp.
"Yo, Ryou buddy, what are you doing?" Tristan asked and pulled at Bakura away, trying to release his grip on Hoshi.
"Get away from me boy," snarled Yami Bakura and pushed Tristan roughly making him fly about a five feet away. By now a small crowd of students gathered around the scene with more arriving. Luckily, the flashes from the Millennium Ring and Bracelet had diminished creating a smaller attraction to the Items.
"Ryou what's gotten into you?" Yugi asked appalled.
~Can't you see Yugi?~ His Yami's voice boomed out into his mind. ~Yami Bakura's taken over and I think I should do so too.~
-Ok Yami.- Yugi said confused. –But tell me what's happening later on.-
~Of course.~ Yami promised and they switched places. Turning to Yami Bakura, Yami demanded that he let go.
"She's got another Millennium Item!" Yami Bakura protested. "Don't you even want to know what it is?"
-HAFERTIS!!! SOME HELP HERE WOULD BE NICE!!!!- Hoshi screeched at her dark.
~Coming.~ Hafertis obediently said and surfaced out. Only the other two yamis could notice the different and they gasped at her, Yami Bakura instantly dropping his hands.
"YOU!!!" the male yamis cried out in unison.
Hafertis smirked at them and folded her arms. "Miss me boys?"
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