Okay, I know this is pretty late. My parents kinda banned me from FF.net for a while and I had a bit of writer's block, but still, here's Chapter Six. First though, thanks to all my reviewers! Which means: Blue Lagoon Loon (OO Does it taste good? ^^ Here's more!), Seto Kaiba (Thankee but I already knew that a few reviews back. Well, thanks anywayz!), Sarah (^^ Yup. Seaweed. The elder Kaiba is full of secrets.), Meredith T. Tasaki (Good luck with your quest! And thanks for the praise! ^^ I'm glad you liked it!), Emerald Phoenix524 (Guess this couldn't really be qualified as soon but at least it's continued!), Shorty (Thanks for the info, I already knew but thanks anywayz! Hope you're enjoying the story!), Cranky Cathe (Thanks for the praise and I don't think I know of too many people who'd dive into a lake to eat raw seaweed (if you know what I mean)) and UK Chatte aka Silver Flure (Here's a google-dose of random-ness and complete and total insanity for you!). And as for Change of Heart the answer to your review is at the end, you'll see why. This is a really strange chapter, I'll tell you that much. Read on!

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

Warning: Major crazy impossibleness and some OOCness. This does not correspond with the TV show.



*** Chapter Six: Duo Attack! The Green-Eyed Monster and Mass Insanity ***

/Yami?/ Yugi woke up the next day to find his Yami's soul room in the Millennium Puzzle empty.

He sighed and yawned; he'd spent nearly all of last night washing the coffee out of his hair, and his Yami hadn't come home yet when he'd gone to bed. For a moment, Yugi was a little worried; what if his Yami was in trouble? Then he heard splashing sounds accompanied by Egyptian curses coming from his bathroom and smiled in relief.

***

"Ummm. Yami? What are you doing?!" a bewildered Yugi poked his head into the bathroom to see his slightly taller twin counterpart washing out his mouth with soap as though his life depended on it. Empty soap bottles and washcloths worn to rags littered the tiled floor.

"Fou fon't fwant fu fow," the tall tri-color-haired spirit grumbled through a mouthful of bubbles as he continued scrubbing himself vigorously.

"What?!"

"Th-that white-haired friend of yours. KISSED me!!!!" Yami burst out, spraying foam everywhere and causing Yugi to jump backwards to avoid being splashed.

His hikari fought down a laugh, trying to appear sympathetic, "Bakura, eh? I'm sure it wasn't that bad."

"It WAS!!" wailed the traumatized Pharaoh, still scrubbing away for all he was worth.

"Uh, Yami?" Yugi ventured carefully, taking the doorknob in hand just in case his Yami decided to mimic a fountain again, "How long have you been at this? At this rate you'll use up all the soap and cloth in the whole house."

Yami Yugi just ignored him, threw away the sodden hole-ridden rag and grabbed a clean new one. Then he resumed washing his mouth out. The smaller boy sighed and walked out into the hallway.

"Wonder what it's like to have a normal life."

He peeked into his Grandpa's room. The old man was still out on his bed like a sack of potatoes, not even snoring. Maybe Joey had overdone it a bit with the tranquilizers.

Yugi shrugged; the longer his Grandpa was out, the more time they had for coming up with a solution. Actually, they already had one, thanks to Joey. Now they just had to put it into practice.

***

"You're out of the hospital, Joey, that's good," Yugi told his blond friend as they walked towards Bakura's home with Tristan trailing along behind them. Yami Yugi was still at home scrubbing, and for some reason T'ea had volunteered to stay with him.

Suddenly, just as they walked up to Bakura's house, a gout of white-hot orange-lined flame shot out of one of the windows.

"And I'm guessin' dat's not so good," Joey muttered as they all raced to see what was happening.

They could all hear Bakura inside, apparently yelling furiously at his Yami, "WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT COOKING COFFEE ON THE STOVE AND TURNING THE FLAME TO MAX?! NOW LOOK!!! YOU'VE BURNT THE CURTAINS TO A CRISP AGAIN!!!!! AND WE WON'T BE ABLE TO HAVE COFFEE AGAIN UNTIL WE CAN FIND A NEW COFFEE POT SINCE YOU INCINERATED ANOTHER ONE!!!!!!!"

"Do we really want to know what's going on in there?" Tristan asked nobody in particular. They all looked at one another, then Yugi raised a hand to knock as the rest looked on apprehensively.

***

"Yami Yugi?" T'ea called timidly as she poked her head into Yugi's room. There was a loud gasp and a splash followed by an ear-shattering crash.

Slightly worried, T'ea headed to where the sounds had come from, the bathroom, "Are you okay?"

She took a step onto the tiled floor and gave a little shriek. The entire bathroom floor was covered in water, with rags swimming to and fro everywhere. A mirror lay smashed on the floor. She looked harder and discerned a faint outline behind the shower curtains.

"Hello? Yami, is that you?" Immediately the shadow shrank back.

"Stay away! Unless you want me to use Mind Crush on you, stay away, woman!" came Yami's voice, much higher than usual. There was a weird sound, then a thud as the shadow vanished downwards, "Ouch!"

T'ea giggled softly, "Bathtubs are pretty slippery, you know."

"I noticed," the former Pharaoh grumbled as he got back up after having slipped and fallen in the bathtub. He looked up straight into T'ea's huge blue eyes; she'd approached and swept the curtain aside, "Oh, Ra!"

Scrambling to back away from her, he nearly slipped again. As it happened, he lost his balance, lurched forward and they ended up literally nose to nose. Yami's eyes were now the size of dinner plates as he muttered incomprehensible words under his breath, trying to free himself from T'ea. Unfortunately she'd wrapped her arms around his neck and was now staring at him in a most suspiciously mysterious manner.

"Oh, no, no, no no no no NO," Yami tried desperately to get away but T'ea refused to let go.

"You know, Yami, I've wanted to do this ever since I first heard your voice, when you saved me from that murderer at BurgerWorld," T'ea breathed as she kissed him right on the lips.

Yami stood there frozen for a full three seconds after she finally released him, utterly speechless. T'ea, after waiting for a while, waved her hand in front of his face.

"Helloooo!" the Pharaoh never budged.

With a sigh, T'ea grabbed him and kissed him, again. At that Yami snapped very quickly out of his ice cube state. Slowly, as T'ea watched in amusement, red flooded his face until he was practically smoking at the ears.

"Yami?" she asked, trying to snap him out of his new state.

***

The door to Bakura's house suddenly burst open before a startled Yugi, Tristan and Joey, Yugi still with his fist poised to knock. Yami Bakura came tearing out, nearly bowling them all over as he dashed out the yard and down the street. The three boys stared after him in bewilderment. What in the world was going on?!

"Yugi?" Bakura's voice, now back to its gentle tone, snapped their attention back to the front door. The white-haired teen was standing there looking a bit sheepish, "Sorry about all that. Yami thinks cooking coffee on the stove is faster than using the conventional method. And then he tries to speed it up further and. well. I think you all know what happened. Would you like to come in?"

"Uh, sure," Yugi replied immediately, though Joey and Tristan looked like they had misgivings.

As he ushered them into the house, Bakura smiled apologetically, "The downstairs is a complete mess since the kitchen practically exploded. It's lucky I keep most of my stuff upstairs. Everything down here is either in pieces or black as coals. Come on, I'll show you up to my room."

They followed him into the main part of the house and all three stopped dead. It was, as Bakura had mentioned, a disaster zone. The furniture was either upended, smashed, or torn, and of course, everything was scorched black. Strangely, there seemed to be some kind of miniature metal tower at the foot of the stairs. They could all see a small blinking red light at its top.

At that moment something suddenly sped by them so fast the wind from its passing nearly knocked them over. Yami Bakura stood before the miniature tower, a fiercely protective expression on his face and a brand-new coffee pot clutched in his left hand.

He produced a rocket launcher thing from out of nowhere and leveled it at someone behind them, yelling, "Red Alert, Red Alert! The Pharaoh has infiltrated our base!"

Yugi, Joey and Tristan watched the scene in complete confusion. Bakura rolled his eyes.

"You've been playing Command and Conquer again, haven't you?" he asked his Yami, who was now giving out orders to invisible soldiers and didn't respond.

"Too much coffee and a new addiction to computer games," Bakura explained to his friends, "Oh, and Yami's at the door. And I think he's brought company."

Brought company was hardly the correct term, as Yami was standing at the entrance looking as though he was about to faint, with an adoring T'ea clinging to his arm and fluttering her eyelashes at him. He gave his hikari a desperate look before slumping down onto the floor in exhaustion. He looked like he'd run all the way from the Game Shop, T'ea, fifteen thousandth rag, bar of soap and all.

Joey and Tristan both goggled, apparently they'd lost their ability to talk, hit with the truckload of unexpected events that had just whirlwinded past them. Yugi, however, suddenly turned a violent shade of green.

"Yugi, are you all right?" Bakura inquired, looking at his small friend with concern. Yugi didn't respond; his hair was beginning to look a little green-tinged.

"Earth ta Yug!" Joey finally snapped out of his attitude of frozen astonishment, waving his hand in front of the tri-color-haired boy's face, looking a bit concerned as Yugi's hair began to turn green around the ends.

"Attack of the Green-eyed Monster!" Yami Bakura shrieked, throwing his rocket launcher into the air so that it landed on Joey's head ("Muhahahahaha! Now you taste my revenge!") to point an accusing finger at Yugi, and then proceeding to dive behind his 'guard tower' (for that was what it was), his hands held over his head.

"Sorry, Yugi," Bakura muttered before picking up the rocket launcher and conking his now completely green friend on the head with it. In an instant Yugi turned back to his normal color and collapsed in a heap on the floor.

"What did you do to him?" Tristan asked instantly as Joey accidentally trod on Yugi's face in an attempt to strangle Bakura.

"Green is not a healthy color for the skin," Bakura informed him nonchalantly, side-stepping Joey and going to try to extract his Yami from behind the 'guard tower'.

Joey knelt down beside Yugi to try to wake him while Tristan went to the choking heap that was Yami Yugi, who was receiving some unwanted attentions from the brown-haired girl lying on top of him.

***

Bakura managed to lure his Yami out into the open after a lengthy bout of wheedling concerning 16 mugs of coffee and jalapeno peppers. When Yugi woke up, saw his Yami and T'ea in a heap on the floor, and started turning green all over again, Tristan, who'd been trying in vain to untangle the pair, finally settled for dumping them both into the closet near the entrance and locking them in. At this Yugi started going purple so Joey had no choice but to knock him out with the rocket launcher again.

Finally, when everything had calmed down once more, Yami Bakura was happily gulping down cup after cup of coffee as well as a basket of jalapeno peppers in the kitchen, and Yugi had been shot with a tranquilizer dart (courtesy of the Joey - "Always ready for anyt'ing."), Bakura finally led the two moderately sane people in the place, surprisingly being Joey and Tristan, up to his room to collect the magazines he'd promised to supply for their plan.

"Well, here they are," Bakura said after having dug through the mountain of bottle caps, dried broccoli stems, ox skulls, fossilized coffee beans, brown paper airplanes and one very weird sarcophagus that turned out to contain an actual Egyptian mummy, and which had nearly scared all of them to death, that was, according to him, his Yami's side of the room. His own side was so neat and orderly that it looked like there were two different worlds contained within the small bedroom.

His companions took one look at the magazines the white-haired teen was holding out to them and started screaming. Tristan joined the league of the insane and jumped out the window, while Joey proved himself to have an extraordinary hold to sanity and managed to calm down enough to tell Bakura that the magazines were perfect for their purposes and to plant them at Yugi's ASAP before bolting after Tristan.

Bakura shook his head as Joey screamed, "I AM THE FLYING PENGUIN!!!!!!" before landing with a thud on top of Tristan in the bushes beneath his window.

"I wonder why they were so scared of a bunch of magazines," he shrugged, and, without glancing at the magazines, headed to Yugi's house to plant them, ignoring what sounded like a dying cat in the closet near the entrance.

***

* Reads what she wrote * O_O I am putting the poor Yugi duo through quite a lot now, aren't I? * Evil laughter * All thanks to the mighty authoress powers! So, will the gang ever get back in their right minds again? How will Grandpa react to the new magazines and will Yami Yugi ever get out of that closet alive?! All in due time in the future chapters! And also, thanks to Change of Heart for reviewing, and I made Bakura kiss Yami Yugi anyway, since I wrote it before I read your review, but you couldn't exactly count it as yaoi now, could you? (Yami Yugi: I certainly hope not! * still trying to scrub his mouth clean *) Also, T'ea did kiss Yami Yugi, so I guess that evens it out, even though she didn't kill Bakura for it. I wrote that part also before I read your review, weird, no? Well, moving on, what of this chapter, then? What do you guys think? Review, please! I love reviews! Everyone who reviews this chapter gets a mug of possibly poisonous coffee and a year's supply of jalapeno peppers, courtesy of Yami Bakura (Yami Bakura: * Bow * * Bow *), and everyone else who reviewed gets a kiss from or a voodoo doll of a character of their choice!