A little more time...a little less wait...
A little more heart a little less break...
Simply true, what they say A little bit goes a long way...
A little less talk...a little more do, a little more me a little less you
Baby at the end of the day, a little bit goes a long way...
AN: THIS chapter is for all those poor people who thought 9 was the end! BWA HA HA!! THAT, was the MOTHER of all cliffs...I really had you goin though...didn't I? ^_~ heh heh it was evil...and I profusely apologize.
Yami smiled. It'd been a month since he last heard from Bakura. He knew the talk had been successful. Ryou had been talking to his hikari about how much he missed his yami. It was time for some divine pharaoh intervention.
He walked in the fresh snow, the sun had peeked over the clouds and was a welcome warmth. Yami fingered his deck in his pocket. He knew the only way Seto would release the millenium ring was in a duel. A duel that Yami intended to win.
He strolled into the building. "I'm here to see Seto Kaiba." He said to the clerk. "Oh, Are you Yugi?" Yami nodded. "Take the elevator to the 14th floor please." He smiled and walked to the elevator.
Yami tapped his foot. "Corny elevator music..." He mumbled rolling his eyes. If there could have been one thing he could bring back from Egypt...it would have been the music. Elevator music was pointless. It was like the song the never ended, that Yugi had introduced him to on a paticularly long walk through the city.
"Thiiiiis is the song that neeeeever ends! Yes it goes on and on my frieeeeend. Some people started singing it not knowing what it waaaaas, and they'll continue singing it forever just because...this is the sooooong that never eeends!"
Yami flinched. "Ra...whoever invented that song should be caned.." He muttered as he cursed himself, now instead of pointless elevator music, he heard his hikari singing that song....over...and over...and over...and over...
Seto smirked as Yami stepped into his office. "Well hello, come to duel?" Yami nodded. "But I think we should raise the stakes." Seto raised an eyebrow. "Oh? To what?" Yami smirked. "If you win, I'll do anything you want for the next week. If I win, I get the millenium ring that you have stashed away." Seto got a thoughtful look, as though he were considering it. "Hmm...fine, on one condition. You remove the dark magician from your deck before we start." Yami flinched. "...Fine." Yami hated dueling without his faithful magician...but for Ryou's sake...he could manage just this once.
Yugi smiled and tugged Ryou to the shopping center. "C'mon Ryou! It'll be fun!" Ryou sighed. He had grown thinner and looked deprived of sleep...his grades had been suffering and he was in the worst depression a person could be in.
"Really Yugi...I dont think its such a good idea..." he muttered as he was yanked into a clothes store. "Oh psssht, lighten up Ryou. Yami and I have a supprise for you later." Ryou sighed. "Oh..." Yugi looked through the racks of clothes. Ryou looked at the clothes with weary eyes, eyes too old for a kid his age. "Aww...Ryou c'mon...please give this a chance? You haven't been yourself in weeks!"
Ryou sighed as Yugi picked out various shirts and pants. "Here, I want you to try them on." he said shoving the huge stack into Ryou's arms. He blinked a bit. "Me?" He said befuddled. Yugi nodded. "Of course you!" Ryou gave Yugi a confused glance before going into the changing room. It took an hour for them to go through all the outfits, before Yugi was satisfied with the clothes and paid, having Ryou change in the mall bathroom. Ryou looked at the baggy jeans and black turtle-neck he was now wearing. Yugi had even bought him new black hightops. He sighed and came out of the bathroom, having exchanged his old clothes for the new clothes.
"Its almost two, Yami said to meet him at new new soushi place." Yugi said grinning. "I bet it'll be cool! None of us have ever had soushi before....unless you've had it without telling us." Yugi said grinning and streching as they walked to the said restaurant.
Yami had arrived there about ten minutes ago, he saw them comming down the street and smiled. "Yet another victory...I really should retire while I'm still in a good season...Seto almost had me that time..." He said looking at the ring and smiling. Yami chuckled and placed the ring back in the prewrapped box. "I'll have to think Yugi's grandpa for wrapping this...I never seem to do it right...king of games...court jester of wrappign presents." he mumbled fluffing the ribbons on the gift and writing Ryou's name on the box.
"Hi Yami!" Yugi said comming in and grinning broadly. "How does Ryou look?" Yami laughed. "He looks fine Yugi." He said smirking. "Did you take him on one of your little clothing safaris?" Yugi nodded. Ryou sighed a little and forced a smile. "Thank you..." he mumbled. Yami frowned. "Well..lets sit at our table...and I'll give you your gift..." He said holding out the box. Ryou smiled a little. "You both are very nice...you shouldn't have.." Yugi patted Ryou on the back. "Of course we should have!"
They sat down and Yami handed Ryou the box. "Dont open it until we finish lunch." Ryou nodded and looked at the box. "Thank you..." He said setting it next to him.
Ryou stared at the soushi for a moment. "You're sure...they said we could eat it?" Yami laughed. "Dont yuck it until you've tried it." Yugi nodded. "It cant be bad if its SO popular." Ryou stared at them. "In Britan they didn't serve raw fish...and call it a meal." Yami laughed. "They didn't in Egypt either." Yugi turned slightly pink. "Dont look at me! I didn't start it..." he said knowing full well he was born and raised in Japan." Ryou chuckled for possibly the first time in a month.
They all picked up their respected pieces of soushi from their trays and, all at once shoved it into their mouth and chewed. Ryou wrinkled his nose, but swallowed. "I'm not...really used to eating cold fish.." Yami nodded. "Its new...but its not terrible..." Yugi nodded. "Not that bad.." Ryou nodded. "Not bad....but if I get ill because of this..I'll blame you two ok?" He said shaking his head slightly amused. Yami nodded. "Fine with me. But they say its rare to get sick from this stuff."
They finished their lunches and lead Ryou out of the building.
/Where is he going to open it Yami?/ Yugi looked at his yami.
//Wherever he wants...// he replied smirking at his hikari. Ryou carried his present and looked at them. "So...where are we going now?" he said blinking. "Where do you want to go?" Yugi grinned. "I know!! how about the museum!" Ryou blinked. "Uh...that sounds ok...I haven't been there in a while.." He said looking at the box. "I'll open this when we get there..." He mumbled knowing he wasn't multi-task coordinated, and was liable to fall if he tried to open a box while walking.
Ryou paid for his ticket and watched his friends pay for theirs. "Lets find a bench..." he said smiling. Yugi grinned. "So you can open your present?!" Ryou laughed a little. "Yes yes...I'll open it there." He said spotting one and walking over to it. "Ok.." He said sitting on it and lifting the lid. "...The....the millenium ring!" He said looking from Yugi to Yami. "H-how?!" he said bumbling to put it on. Yami grinned. "I'm not the king of games just because I'm the pharaoh." He said hugging Ryou. Yugi repeated the motion. Ryou was more than a little misty. "Thank you....I...I really mean it..you're the two best friends a person could have..." He said latching onto the closest one, which happened to be Yugi, and begining to cry on his shoulder. Not sad tears...tears of joy.
Yugi stood there for a long time.
/should I be worried?/
Yami chuckled silently. //No no...you're fine Yugi, he wont bite...he's too busy crying...//
Ryou stopped crying after a few seconds and wiped at his eyes, finally releasing Yugi. "I...I'm terribly sorry Yugi..." He said sniffling. "I..I couldn't help it really.." Yugi smiled. "I haven't drowned...no harm done." He said grinning from ear to ear.
Bakura jolted awake from his spelled slumber. "...has it been a millenia already?" He said confused. He focused his energy to appear in the museum, much too far away from Ryou. "...I-its Ryou!" He said staring. "Is it really...?" he said totally unaware of how awkward he looked standing there in the middle of winter, in a museum in his Egyptian clothes...in the DINOSAUR section.
"Hey mommy...look its an Egyptian man!" A small child piped up, before tugging on Bakura's tunic. "Hi mister, didn'tcha know you dont exist in this part of the mooseem?" Bakura smiled a little. "Shh...dont tell anyone.." He said putting a finger to his lips. The kid giggled and nodded, repeating the motion.
Yami smirked. //There he is....// He said motioning with his eyes to Yugi to look across the room at one of the entrance pillars. Sure enough there Bakura was...standing there sheepishly peeking around the pillar at them.
/This is great! Ryou will be so happy! Shouldn't we tell him?/ Yami shook his head slightly.
//Lets let them meet in their own way.//
Yugi grinned. /Is this a set-up Yami?/ Yugi said smirking at his yami. Yami nodded slightly. "Hey Ryou, Yugi and I are going to go check out the new stuff in the technology exhibit." Yami said smiling. Ryou nodded. "OK...I'll just wander around a bit...anywhere you want to meet up after a while?" Yugi shrugged. "How about the art section?" he said smiling. "Seeya Ryou!" they said walking away.
Ryou stared. "They didn't say what time they wanted to meet there..." He said running his fingers over the millenium ring. He smiled and wiped a tear from his eye. "Maybe I can go to the Egypt section..." he said getting up and leaving.
Bakura shuffled after Ryou, staying out of sight. Ryou smiled and stopped in front of a stage. There were actors reinacting events of the ancient civilization. Ryou stood in the back of the crowd and smiled. "I wonder what it was like to live back then..." He said smiling. "Very Hot, and exceedingly lonely.." Bakura whispered in his ear and hugged him from behind. "Did you miss me Ryou?" Ryou smiled and turned around to face his yami. "Of course I did! Where have you been?!" He said hugging his yami so tightly that Bakura wheezed a bit.
"Woah...careful..." he said poking Ryou's nose. "I may still be around...but I'm not immortal..." He said grinning when Ryou sheepishly let go. "So...uh..." Bakura nodded. "I missed you..." he said kissing his hikari on the forehead. "How about...this time we start off on the proper foot?" he said in mock british accent. Ryou nodded smiling brightly. "Anything for you..."
Yugi and Yami peeked around the corner at them. "Looks like we did it Yami." Yami chuckled. "I didn't think something like that would have happened...but since it has...Bakura really has a new sense of respect for Ryou...maybe they'll be the friends they were always meant to be." Yami said smirking. Yugi chuckled and elbowed his yami. "Maybe more than that..." he said winking.
AN: wooo hoo...I think this seemed a lil jerky...but...heck it is better than leaving it at that who sad thing! I dont need people killing themselves in a bout of depression after readin my fics! Good grief...I have hardly any reviews anyway...Well, in CASE you dont know I update Daily. Usually with a new story or chapter. And YES I DO update stories daily. ^_^ well thank you dedicated readers! This is for all of you!
Ahem now for the boring bit. Yu-gi-oh is NOT mine...*sob* the plot for this fic is mine though...! dont steal it! uh..the lines from those songs...nope not mine either...its pretty obvious...but I dont need sued..*opens her wallet and a few moths fly out* ...I dont have anything left to pay my debts as it is!
Well thank you once more...Be on the look out for my newest edition Yu-gi- oh fics! Just in time for Valentines day!
A little more heart a little less break...
Simply true, what they say A little bit goes a long way...
A little less talk...a little more do, a little more me a little less you
Baby at the end of the day, a little bit goes a long way...
AN: THIS chapter is for all those poor people who thought 9 was the end! BWA HA HA!! THAT, was the MOTHER of all cliffs...I really had you goin though...didn't I? ^_~ heh heh it was evil...and I profusely apologize.
Yami smiled. It'd been a month since he last heard from Bakura. He knew the talk had been successful. Ryou had been talking to his hikari about how much he missed his yami. It was time for some divine pharaoh intervention.
He walked in the fresh snow, the sun had peeked over the clouds and was a welcome warmth. Yami fingered his deck in his pocket. He knew the only way Seto would release the millenium ring was in a duel. A duel that Yami intended to win.
He strolled into the building. "I'm here to see Seto Kaiba." He said to the clerk. "Oh, Are you Yugi?" Yami nodded. "Take the elevator to the 14th floor please." He smiled and walked to the elevator.
Yami tapped his foot. "Corny elevator music..." He mumbled rolling his eyes. If there could have been one thing he could bring back from Egypt...it would have been the music. Elevator music was pointless. It was like the song the never ended, that Yugi had introduced him to on a paticularly long walk through the city.
"Thiiiiis is the song that neeeeever ends! Yes it goes on and on my frieeeeend. Some people started singing it not knowing what it waaaaas, and they'll continue singing it forever just because...this is the sooooong that never eeends!"
Yami flinched. "Ra...whoever invented that song should be caned.." He muttered as he cursed himself, now instead of pointless elevator music, he heard his hikari singing that song....over...and over...and over...and over...
Seto smirked as Yami stepped into his office. "Well hello, come to duel?" Yami nodded. "But I think we should raise the stakes." Seto raised an eyebrow. "Oh? To what?" Yami smirked. "If you win, I'll do anything you want for the next week. If I win, I get the millenium ring that you have stashed away." Seto got a thoughtful look, as though he were considering it. "Hmm...fine, on one condition. You remove the dark magician from your deck before we start." Yami flinched. "...Fine." Yami hated dueling without his faithful magician...but for Ryou's sake...he could manage just this once.
Yugi smiled and tugged Ryou to the shopping center. "C'mon Ryou! It'll be fun!" Ryou sighed. He had grown thinner and looked deprived of sleep...his grades had been suffering and he was in the worst depression a person could be in.
"Really Yugi...I dont think its such a good idea..." he muttered as he was yanked into a clothes store. "Oh psssht, lighten up Ryou. Yami and I have a supprise for you later." Ryou sighed. "Oh..." Yugi looked through the racks of clothes. Ryou looked at the clothes with weary eyes, eyes too old for a kid his age. "Aww...Ryou c'mon...please give this a chance? You haven't been yourself in weeks!"
Ryou sighed as Yugi picked out various shirts and pants. "Here, I want you to try them on." he said shoving the huge stack into Ryou's arms. He blinked a bit. "Me?" He said befuddled. Yugi nodded. "Of course you!" Ryou gave Yugi a confused glance before going into the changing room. It took an hour for them to go through all the outfits, before Yugi was satisfied with the clothes and paid, having Ryou change in the mall bathroom. Ryou looked at the baggy jeans and black turtle-neck he was now wearing. Yugi had even bought him new black hightops. He sighed and came out of the bathroom, having exchanged his old clothes for the new clothes.
"Its almost two, Yami said to meet him at new new soushi place." Yugi said grinning. "I bet it'll be cool! None of us have ever had soushi before....unless you've had it without telling us." Yugi said grinning and streching as they walked to the said restaurant.
Yami had arrived there about ten minutes ago, he saw them comming down the street and smiled. "Yet another victory...I really should retire while I'm still in a good season...Seto almost had me that time..." He said looking at the ring and smiling. Yami chuckled and placed the ring back in the prewrapped box. "I'll have to think Yugi's grandpa for wrapping this...I never seem to do it right...king of games...court jester of wrappign presents." he mumbled fluffing the ribbons on the gift and writing Ryou's name on the box.
"Hi Yami!" Yugi said comming in and grinning broadly. "How does Ryou look?" Yami laughed. "He looks fine Yugi." He said smirking. "Did you take him on one of your little clothing safaris?" Yugi nodded. Ryou sighed a little and forced a smile. "Thank you..." he mumbled. Yami frowned. "Well..lets sit at our table...and I'll give you your gift..." He said holding out the box. Ryou smiled a little. "You both are very nice...you shouldn't have.." Yugi patted Ryou on the back. "Of course we should have!"
They sat down and Yami handed Ryou the box. "Dont open it until we finish lunch." Ryou nodded and looked at the box. "Thank you..." He said setting it next to him.
Ryou stared at the soushi for a moment. "You're sure...they said we could eat it?" Yami laughed. "Dont yuck it until you've tried it." Yugi nodded. "It cant be bad if its SO popular." Ryou stared at them. "In Britan they didn't serve raw fish...and call it a meal." Yami laughed. "They didn't in Egypt either." Yugi turned slightly pink. "Dont look at me! I didn't start it..." he said knowing full well he was born and raised in Japan." Ryou chuckled for possibly the first time in a month.
They all picked up their respected pieces of soushi from their trays and, all at once shoved it into their mouth and chewed. Ryou wrinkled his nose, but swallowed. "I'm not...really used to eating cold fish.." Yami nodded. "Its new...but its not terrible..." Yugi nodded. "Not that bad.." Ryou nodded. "Not bad....but if I get ill because of this..I'll blame you two ok?" He said shaking his head slightly amused. Yami nodded. "Fine with me. But they say its rare to get sick from this stuff."
They finished their lunches and lead Ryou out of the building.
/Where is he going to open it Yami?/ Yugi looked at his yami.
//Wherever he wants...// he replied smirking at his hikari. Ryou carried his present and looked at them. "So...where are we going now?" he said blinking. "Where do you want to go?" Yugi grinned. "I know!! how about the museum!" Ryou blinked. "Uh...that sounds ok...I haven't been there in a while.." He said looking at the box. "I'll open this when we get there..." He mumbled knowing he wasn't multi-task coordinated, and was liable to fall if he tried to open a box while walking.
Ryou paid for his ticket and watched his friends pay for theirs. "Lets find a bench..." he said smiling. Yugi grinned. "So you can open your present?!" Ryou laughed a little. "Yes yes...I'll open it there." He said spotting one and walking over to it. "Ok.." He said sitting on it and lifting the lid. "...The....the millenium ring!" He said looking from Yugi to Yami. "H-how?!" he said bumbling to put it on. Yami grinned. "I'm not the king of games just because I'm the pharaoh." He said hugging Ryou. Yugi repeated the motion. Ryou was more than a little misty. "Thank you....I...I really mean it..you're the two best friends a person could have..." He said latching onto the closest one, which happened to be Yugi, and begining to cry on his shoulder. Not sad tears...tears of joy.
Yugi stood there for a long time.
/should I be worried?/
Yami chuckled silently. //No no...you're fine Yugi, he wont bite...he's too busy crying...//
Ryou stopped crying after a few seconds and wiped at his eyes, finally releasing Yugi. "I...I'm terribly sorry Yugi..." He said sniffling. "I..I couldn't help it really.." Yugi smiled. "I haven't drowned...no harm done." He said grinning from ear to ear.
Bakura jolted awake from his spelled slumber. "...has it been a millenia already?" He said confused. He focused his energy to appear in the museum, much too far away from Ryou. "...I-its Ryou!" He said staring. "Is it really...?" he said totally unaware of how awkward he looked standing there in the middle of winter, in a museum in his Egyptian clothes...in the DINOSAUR section.
"Hey mommy...look its an Egyptian man!" A small child piped up, before tugging on Bakura's tunic. "Hi mister, didn'tcha know you dont exist in this part of the mooseem?" Bakura smiled a little. "Shh...dont tell anyone.." He said putting a finger to his lips. The kid giggled and nodded, repeating the motion.
Yami smirked. //There he is....// He said motioning with his eyes to Yugi to look across the room at one of the entrance pillars. Sure enough there Bakura was...standing there sheepishly peeking around the pillar at them.
/This is great! Ryou will be so happy! Shouldn't we tell him?/ Yami shook his head slightly.
//Lets let them meet in their own way.//
Yugi grinned. /Is this a set-up Yami?/ Yugi said smirking at his yami. Yami nodded slightly. "Hey Ryou, Yugi and I are going to go check out the new stuff in the technology exhibit." Yami said smiling. Ryou nodded. "OK...I'll just wander around a bit...anywhere you want to meet up after a while?" Yugi shrugged. "How about the art section?" he said smiling. "Seeya Ryou!" they said walking away.
Ryou stared. "They didn't say what time they wanted to meet there..." He said running his fingers over the millenium ring. He smiled and wiped a tear from his eye. "Maybe I can go to the Egypt section..." he said getting up and leaving.
Bakura shuffled after Ryou, staying out of sight. Ryou smiled and stopped in front of a stage. There were actors reinacting events of the ancient civilization. Ryou stood in the back of the crowd and smiled. "I wonder what it was like to live back then..." He said smiling. "Very Hot, and exceedingly lonely.." Bakura whispered in his ear and hugged him from behind. "Did you miss me Ryou?" Ryou smiled and turned around to face his yami. "Of course I did! Where have you been?!" He said hugging his yami so tightly that Bakura wheezed a bit.
"Woah...careful..." he said poking Ryou's nose. "I may still be around...but I'm not immortal..." He said grinning when Ryou sheepishly let go. "So...uh..." Bakura nodded. "I missed you..." he said kissing his hikari on the forehead. "How about...this time we start off on the proper foot?" he said in mock british accent. Ryou nodded smiling brightly. "Anything for you..."
Yugi and Yami peeked around the corner at them. "Looks like we did it Yami." Yami chuckled. "I didn't think something like that would have happened...but since it has...Bakura really has a new sense of respect for Ryou...maybe they'll be the friends they were always meant to be." Yami said smirking. Yugi chuckled and elbowed his yami. "Maybe more than that..." he said winking.
AN: wooo hoo...I think this seemed a lil jerky...but...heck it is better than leaving it at that who sad thing! I dont need people killing themselves in a bout of depression after readin my fics! Good grief...I have hardly any reviews anyway...Well, in CASE you dont know I update Daily. Usually with a new story or chapter. And YES I DO update stories daily. ^_^ well thank you dedicated readers! This is for all of you!
Ahem now for the boring bit. Yu-gi-oh is NOT mine...*sob* the plot for this fic is mine though...! dont steal it! uh..the lines from those songs...nope not mine either...its pretty obvious...but I dont need sued..*opens her wallet and a few moths fly out* ...I dont have anything left to pay my debts as it is!
Well thank you once more...Be on the look out for my newest edition Yu-gi- oh fics! Just in time for Valentines day!