I know this is late, but I couldn't help it. Grrrr. * glares at the
malfunctioning Document Manager * All right, peeps, I've put in Seto's
favorite food in Chapter Two, so please go back, have a look, and tell me
what you think. ^^ I actually got more reviews than I thought I did. * Is
still seriously pissed with FF.net which is now screwing with her reviews *
Anyway, time to say thanks to the reviewers! Namely Macavity (Pizza topped
with tortilla chips? Doesn't sound so bad, not much worse than Sloppy Joes
* closes her eyes * Mmmmmmm. Oh, um, anyway, I already got the idea for
Seto's fave food, just take a peek in Chapter Two!), UK Chatte aka Silver
Flure (Heh, thanks. I enjoyed writing that little thing. Anywayz, as for
your solution, same problem as with Nips': he'd just go out and buy more.),
Sincere Angel (Thanks! I will and here's the proof!), ??? (Look in Chapter
Two!), dragon swordspro (O_o Should've brought my extra shield. Thanks,
though! ^^), Evil Sugarysweetness (Anything wrong? ^^), Mystery (Thanks
^^), Shinigami-hime (Thanks! Don't worry, there's lots more to come!),
hushpuppy24 (He traded it for his dead parrot ^^ Here's more!), Jon Wells
(Heh, thanks, hope this is up to your expectations.), and Star Dazed Angel
(Ummm. Nope, they're dark brown in the TV show. Next chappy right here!).
Here's Chapter Five of 'The Problem with Grandpa'! Hope you guys enjoy
this!
Punctuation Notes:
" " - Speech ' ' - Thoughts or Italics . before an uncapitalized letter or in a spot that doesn't make sense - Three little dots *** - Double spacing instead of single
/Yugi to Yami/ //Yami to Yugi//
Warning: Major crazy impossibleness and some OOCness. This does not correspond with the TV show.
*** Chapter Five: Operation Brainstorm and the Wonders of Monopoly ***
Yugi brought his friends to his room and they scattered over the rug, the bed and the chairs. Yugi and Bakura sat on the bed, while Joey and Tristan shared the rug. T'ea was leaning back happily in a wooden chair, contemplating the room; it had changed so much since she'd seen it last.
For one thing, it held much more bizarre items; she supposed they were results of Yami and Yugi's combined efforts at inventing. It was rather funny; there was the hammer alarm clock, of course, then there was the self- dusting duster (which wouldn't dust anything except itself), and the frying pan that really fried. that is, the hands of the person trying to cook with it. Yugi usually lent the stuff to one practical joker or another.
"Any new inventions lately, Yugi?" she asked the small boy across the room. Yugi reddened slightly.
"Well, Yami's working on some sort of contraption that he 'says' will help us practice for duel monsters." he scratched his head, "Buuut, it looks more like a machine gun to me."
"A machine gun, are you serious?!" Tristan butted in.
Yugi nodded uncomfortably, then gestured to the closet, "Look for yourself."
It was Joey who leapt to his feet eagerly and dove for the closet, nearly pulling the doors off their hinges as he opened them and stuck his head inside, scanning for the so-called machine gun.
After a minute or so. "WHOA! It really is a machine gun! Too cool!"
At this Bakura frowned and went over to investigate. He shook his head.
"That's not a machine gun, Joey, it's a slingshot."
". I knew dat."
"A slingshot for duel monsters?" T'ea shook her head, "Dunno, you guys, that sounds a little far out to me."
"Yeah," Bakura returned to his spot on the bed, "I mean, what would you do, bounce cards off of your opponent's forehead or something?"
"Don't ask me," Yugi shrugged, "I'm currently working on a platform to put that thing on."
***
"Well, back to the problem at hand, does anyone have any ideas?" T'ea asked.
"Maybe you should give us some time to think first, T'ea," Bakura suggested earnestly.
"Oh, right," T'ea agreed immediately, looking embarrassed.
The friends sat in silence, thinking hard. Joey and Tristan looked like they were trying to run some sort of marathon; they had their eyes closed and sweat was pouring down their faces. T'ea simply propped her chin on a finger and stared off into nothingness.
***
"Hey, Bakura," Yugi nudged his white-haired friend.
"Yes?"
"How's your Yami these days?"
Surprisingly, Bakura's serious face broke out in a grin, "Oh, he's just fine."
Yugi stared at him.
Bakura realized an explanation was in order, "Well, you see, I threatened to suspend the coffee if ever he misbehaved."
"You got your YAMI addicted to COFFEE too?!" Yugi said incredulously.
The teen shrugged, "Oh, it wasn't that hard."
(Flashback of Yami Bakura circling the coffee pot suspiciously for weeks, then finally getting up the courage to pounce on it and take a tiny sip. Cut to scenes of the white-haired evil Bakura look-alike bouncing happily around the house with coffee pot in tow, singing, "COFFEE IS GOOD! COFFEE IS GOOD! COFFEE IS GOO-OO-OOOOD!!!" and his hikari chasing after him brandishing a piece of white paper and threatening all sorts of extremely painful paper cuts if the Yami didn't give back his coffee pot.)
***
"Hey, I know!" T'ea exclaimed a few minutes later, startling them all; Joey and Tristan grabbed each other and yelled, and Yugi's hair got even more spiky.
She winked around at them all, smiling with satisfaction, "Yugi just has to talk to his Grandpa. After all, he's already got the cute, innocent, why-oh- why-did-you-do-it sad little kid thing down perfectly."
Yugi turned blue as Joey and Tristan sniggered.
T'ea ignored this and continued talking, "And then Yugi's Grandpa wouldn't be able to bear doing it again and risking discovery again by his grandson."
Yugi was rapidly going toward purple and Bakura was patting him on the back in alarm, trying to get him back to normal. However, all he succeeded in doing was to send the smaller boy into a fit of coughing.
"A plausible plan, but let's just keep that for a last resort, okay?" Yugi pleaded, once he'd recovered.
"Well." T'ea looked around at Joey and Tristan, who wore identical evil grins revealing that they were going to buy a camcorder on the spot if she refused, and then at Yugi, desperately making the cutest face ever seen at her, and sighed, "All right."
There were loud sighs of disappointment from the two boys on the rug, accompanied by a sigh of relief from Yugi, and Bakura couldn't hold back a chuckle.
"Let Operation Brainstorm continue," Joey muttered sulkily, glaring at T'ea, who just rolled her eyes.
***
//Aibou?//
/Yes, Yami?/
//I'm aware of your predicament, and perhaps I could suggest a solution.//
/Go on./
//Drop the magazines in The Pot.//
/Not bad, but then Grandpa'd know someone found him out./
//Does that matter?//
Yugi sighed, /Yes./
His Yami grumbled a response and lapsed into silence again. Yugi sighed again and shook his head. This wasn't working. All of them had been sitting here thinking for almost an hour, and still no ideas.
"I propose we take a break," he ventured into the stagnant silence.
"I LOVE YA, BUDDY!" The next five minutes were spent prying Joey off of Yugi with tools ranging from hands to hammers to crowbars.
***
Several hours later.
Yugi, T'ea and Bakura were playing extremely chaotic Monopoly at the kitchen table, since they were making up their own rules as they went along, while Joey was sprawled out on the sofa drinking sodas and eating popcorn, watching an old romance movie with Tristan that was so old and full of tears and tragedy it was positively side-splitting.
Tristan had managed somehow to fall asleep, which Joey regarded as the deepest of insults, especially since this was his favorite movie because Donna murdered her fiancée and then ran away with the circus to meet his sister a year later in a relationship with her lover who'd jilted her at the altar. The shrill wailing of the traumatized woman was enough to drive anyone into fits of hysterical laughter.
"Ahhhh, I t'ink I sprained me brain from all dat t'inkin'," Joey mumbled, rubbing his head gingerly, but belying the woebegone expression on his face by bursting into laughter; Donna was currently trying to burn herself to death, with a death lament of about 20 minutes, during which time the fire didn't seem to affect her at all. Then, at the end, she simply went up in smoke.
"Yeah, I'm sure, if you had a brain to sprain," T'ea muttered, earning a glare from the blond.
"I heard dat!"
"Yeah, yeah, and I'm going to die of fear," T'ea rolled her eyes and turned back to the game, where Bakura had just announced that whoever ended up on his property had to, in addition to paying, brew four mugs of coffee for him while standing on their head. Yugi yelped as he upended the coffee pot onto himself.
"Besides, I t'ink I just came up wit' an answer to your problem, Yug," Joey put his arms over the back of the sofa and rested his head on them, cocking his eyebrow at the black/blond/purple-haired boy lying on the floor and dripping coffee, "D'ose magazines got pictures a' hot girls, right? Well what if you replaced 'em with magazines full of pictures a' fat, ugly women wit'out not'in on but d'eir hair, eh? Worth a try?"
"But how are we going to find such magazines?" Yugi fretted, wringing out his now brown forelocks, "It's not like I can just walk into a shop and say, 'May I please have magazines with lots of pictures of fat, ugly, naked - he blushed while saying the last word - women?'."
"No problem," Bakura was blushing bright red as he spoke up, and not just because T'ea had just told them that whoever ended up on HER property had to kiss Yami Yugi (he was on Park Ave., and the entire blue block belonged to her), "Just come over to my house."
Joey looked over at him in horror, "Bakura! Don't tell me you actually read dat kinda t'ing!"
The white-haired teen grinned sheepishly, "Well, let's just say my Yami has rather odd taste when he's had too much coffee."
***
That night Joey had to be sent to the hospital with what Yugi coined 'Hystericalus Ultimatus' and to be safe from an incensed Yami Bakura, who, to let out his feelings, burned a cloth factory down and robbed seventeen banks in two hours, and Yami Yugi ran the streets of Domino City screaming for Ra to save him, pursued by a blushing Bakura, who was in turn being chased by an irate T'ea bent on seeing her rule enforced.
***
I was experiencing a bit of writer's block in this chapter . But not to worry, it shouldn't last for long, because next chapter, Joey's solution is put into motion (O_o A rhyme), what are the consequences? And did Bakura really kiss Yami in the end? Will Joey ever be able to travel alone in the streets again without looking over his shoulder for Yami Bakura's revenge? All this to come in the next chapters, please R & R! Oh, and one more thing: If anyone could tell me whether Yuichi is a male or female name, I'd appreciate it! Wait! One more thing: I might be taking a break from writing to catch up on my manga reading ^^ so I might be a little late with the next chapter. I'm also working on two more Yu-Gi-Oh fics, which I might put up sometime. So, anyway, sorry y'all!
Punctuation Notes:
" " - Speech ' ' - Thoughts or Italics . before an uncapitalized letter or in a spot that doesn't make sense - Three little dots *** - Double spacing instead of single
/Yugi to Yami/ //Yami to Yugi//
Warning: Major crazy impossibleness and some OOCness. This does not correspond with the TV show.
*** Chapter Five: Operation Brainstorm and the Wonders of Monopoly ***
Yugi brought his friends to his room and they scattered over the rug, the bed and the chairs. Yugi and Bakura sat on the bed, while Joey and Tristan shared the rug. T'ea was leaning back happily in a wooden chair, contemplating the room; it had changed so much since she'd seen it last.
For one thing, it held much more bizarre items; she supposed they were results of Yami and Yugi's combined efforts at inventing. It was rather funny; there was the hammer alarm clock, of course, then there was the self- dusting duster (which wouldn't dust anything except itself), and the frying pan that really fried. that is, the hands of the person trying to cook with it. Yugi usually lent the stuff to one practical joker or another.
"Any new inventions lately, Yugi?" she asked the small boy across the room. Yugi reddened slightly.
"Well, Yami's working on some sort of contraption that he 'says' will help us practice for duel monsters." he scratched his head, "Buuut, it looks more like a machine gun to me."
"A machine gun, are you serious?!" Tristan butted in.
Yugi nodded uncomfortably, then gestured to the closet, "Look for yourself."
It was Joey who leapt to his feet eagerly and dove for the closet, nearly pulling the doors off their hinges as he opened them and stuck his head inside, scanning for the so-called machine gun.
After a minute or so. "WHOA! It really is a machine gun! Too cool!"
At this Bakura frowned and went over to investigate. He shook his head.
"That's not a machine gun, Joey, it's a slingshot."
". I knew dat."
"A slingshot for duel monsters?" T'ea shook her head, "Dunno, you guys, that sounds a little far out to me."
"Yeah," Bakura returned to his spot on the bed, "I mean, what would you do, bounce cards off of your opponent's forehead or something?"
"Don't ask me," Yugi shrugged, "I'm currently working on a platform to put that thing on."
***
"Well, back to the problem at hand, does anyone have any ideas?" T'ea asked.
"Maybe you should give us some time to think first, T'ea," Bakura suggested earnestly.
"Oh, right," T'ea agreed immediately, looking embarrassed.
The friends sat in silence, thinking hard. Joey and Tristan looked like they were trying to run some sort of marathon; they had their eyes closed and sweat was pouring down their faces. T'ea simply propped her chin on a finger and stared off into nothingness.
***
"Hey, Bakura," Yugi nudged his white-haired friend.
"Yes?"
"How's your Yami these days?"
Surprisingly, Bakura's serious face broke out in a grin, "Oh, he's just fine."
Yugi stared at him.
Bakura realized an explanation was in order, "Well, you see, I threatened to suspend the coffee if ever he misbehaved."
"You got your YAMI addicted to COFFEE too?!" Yugi said incredulously.
The teen shrugged, "Oh, it wasn't that hard."
(Flashback of Yami Bakura circling the coffee pot suspiciously for weeks, then finally getting up the courage to pounce on it and take a tiny sip. Cut to scenes of the white-haired evil Bakura look-alike bouncing happily around the house with coffee pot in tow, singing, "COFFEE IS GOOD! COFFEE IS GOOD! COFFEE IS GOO-OO-OOOOD!!!" and his hikari chasing after him brandishing a piece of white paper and threatening all sorts of extremely painful paper cuts if the Yami didn't give back his coffee pot.)
***
"Hey, I know!" T'ea exclaimed a few minutes later, startling them all; Joey and Tristan grabbed each other and yelled, and Yugi's hair got even more spiky.
She winked around at them all, smiling with satisfaction, "Yugi just has to talk to his Grandpa. After all, he's already got the cute, innocent, why-oh- why-did-you-do-it sad little kid thing down perfectly."
Yugi turned blue as Joey and Tristan sniggered.
T'ea ignored this and continued talking, "And then Yugi's Grandpa wouldn't be able to bear doing it again and risking discovery again by his grandson."
Yugi was rapidly going toward purple and Bakura was patting him on the back in alarm, trying to get him back to normal. However, all he succeeded in doing was to send the smaller boy into a fit of coughing.
"A plausible plan, but let's just keep that for a last resort, okay?" Yugi pleaded, once he'd recovered.
"Well." T'ea looked around at Joey and Tristan, who wore identical evil grins revealing that they were going to buy a camcorder on the spot if she refused, and then at Yugi, desperately making the cutest face ever seen at her, and sighed, "All right."
There were loud sighs of disappointment from the two boys on the rug, accompanied by a sigh of relief from Yugi, and Bakura couldn't hold back a chuckle.
"Let Operation Brainstorm continue," Joey muttered sulkily, glaring at T'ea, who just rolled her eyes.
***
//Aibou?//
/Yes, Yami?/
//I'm aware of your predicament, and perhaps I could suggest a solution.//
/Go on./
//Drop the magazines in The Pot.//
/Not bad, but then Grandpa'd know someone found him out./
//Does that matter?//
Yugi sighed, /Yes./
His Yami grumbled a response and lapsed into silence again. Yugi sighed again and shook his head. This wasn't working. All of them had been sitting here thinking for almost an hour, and still no ideas.
"I propose we take a break," he ventured into the stagnant silence.
"I LOVE YA, BUDDY!" The next five minutes were spent prying Joey off of Yugi with tools ranging from hands to hammers to crowbars.
***
Several hours later.
Yugi, T'ea and Bakura were playing extremely chaotic Monopoly at the kitchen table, since they were making up their own rules as they went along, while Joey was sprawled out on the sofa drinking sodas and eating popcorn, watching an old romance movie with Tristan that was so old and full of tears and tragedy it was positively side-splitting.
Tristan had managed somehow to fall asleep, which Joey regarded as the deepest of insults, especially since this was his favorite movie because Donna murdered her fiancée and then ran away with the circus to meet his sister a year later in a relationship with her lover who'd jilted her at the altar. The shrill wailing of the traumatized woman was enough to drive anyone into fits of hysterical laughter.
"Ahhhh, I t'ink I sprained me brain from all dat t'inkin'," Joey mumbled, rubbing his head gingerly, but belying the woebegone expression on his face by bursting into laughter; Donna was currently trying to burn herself to death, with a death lament of about 20 minutes, during which time the fire didn't seem to affect her at all. Then, at the end, she simply went up in smoke.
"Yeah, I'm sure, if you had a brain to sprain," T'ea muttered, earning a glare from the blond.
"I heard dat!"
"Yeah, yeah, and I'm going to die of fear," T'ea rolled her eyes and turned back to the game, where Bakura had just announced that whoever ended up on his property had to, in addition to paying, brew four mugs of coffee for him while standing on their head. Yugi yelped as he upended the coffee pot onto himself.
"Besides, I t'ink I just came up wit' an answer to your problem, Yug," Joey put his arms over the back of the sofa and rested his head on them, cocking his eyebrow at the black/blond/purple-haired boy lying on the floor and dripping coffee, "D'ose magazines got pictures a' hot girls, right? Well what if you replaced 'em with magazines full of pictures a' fat, ugly women wit'out not'in on but d'eir hair, eh? Worth a try?"
"But how are we going to find such magazines?" Yugi fretted, wringing out his now brown forelocks, "It's not like I can just walk into a shop and say, 'May I please have magazines with lots of pictures of fat, ugly, naked - he blushed while saying the last word - women?'."
"No problem," Bakura was blushing bright red as he spoke up, and not just because T'ea had just told them that whoever ended up on HER property had to kiss Yami Yugi (he was on Park Ave., and the entire blue block belonged to her), "Just come over to my house."
Joey looked over at him in horror, "Bakura! Don't tell me you actually read dat kinda t'ing!"
The white-haired teen grinned sheepishly, "Well, let's just say my Yami has rather odd taste when he's had too much coffee."
***
That night Joey had to be sent to the hospital with what Yugi coined 'Hystericalus Ultimatus' and to be safe from an incensed Yami Bakura, who, to let out his feelings, burned a cloth factory down and robbed seventeen banks in two hours, and Yami Yugi ran the streets of Domino City screaming for Ra to save him, pursued by a blushing Bakura, who was in turn being chased by an irate T'ea bent on seeing her rule enforced.
***
I was experiencing a bit of writer's block in this chapter . But not to worry, it shouldn't last for long, because next chapter, Joey's solution is put into motion (O_o A rhyme), what are the consequences? And did Bakura really kiss Yami in the end? Will Joey ever be able to travel alone in the streets again without looking over his shoulder for Yami Bakura's revenge? All this to come in the next chapters, please R & R! Oh, and one more thing: If anyone could tell me whether Yuichi is a male or female name, I'd appreciate it! Wait! One more thing: I might be taking a break from writing to catch up on my manga reading ^^ so I might be a little late with the next chapter. I'm also working on two more Yu-Gi-Oh fics, which I might put up sometime. So, anyway, sorry y'all!