Konnichiwa minna! Midnight Mistress here, in the car on a laptop typing on the go! See how nice I am! I am going on a vacation but I thought 'My wonderful, terrific, yet don't-wanna-review-my-story readers will be mad at me if I don't write so I'll write when I'm supposed to be on vacation!'. You better see how nice I am. I didn't wanna be a mean author (like some people) and write a cliffhanger chapter and then stop writing for like a million, zillion years. So anyway, I'm using this as an excuse to get you peoples to review. ^.^ Total apology to Kaiba's girl. I said last chapter that only Kiki Jones reviewed every chapter of my story and I didn't check very well and Kaiba's girl has too. So total apology to you! In return, here's a Seto Kaiba plushie for Kaiba's girl. My gosh! I just don't wanna stop talking! Disclaimer time!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Yu-gi-oh or the characters, which are the property of Kazuki Takahashi, blah blah blah. Boring. On with the fic already!!!!
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It was 6:30 at Nirai's house. Nirai was awake and making breakfast for her little sweetie, Yugi. Of course, since she was vertically challenged and only 3 inches taller than little Yugi, she was having to stand on a stool to cook food on the stove.
" What are you making, Nirai?" Yugi said in his adorably innocent voice.
" Eggs, toast, bacon. Stuff." Nirai replied childishly. She heard a door slam upstairs and Nayru walked into the kitchen, her clothes ruffled and sweaty. She rubbed her eyes and yawned loudly.
" Hello." She said sleepily. She was about to fall asleep on the table when she heard someone else rushing down the stairs. Yami walked in. Nayru's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. He had no shirt on and his hair was ruffled from sleeping on the floor all night.
" I'm really afraid to ask, but what were you two doing last night?" Yugi asked, his face creased with fear at what the answer might be.
" It's not what you think!!!! She was tickling me and we fell asleep on the floor. I still don't know where my shirt is though." Yami rushed. Nayru quickly hid something behind her back that looked strangely like Yami's jacket. " I saw that. Fork it over." Yami accused, walking over to Nayru for his jacket. Nayru jumped up and raced away with Yami on her tail.
" NO! You look so sexy with your shirt off!!!" Nayru whined, trying to run faster.
" WHAT?!" Yami cried, almost tripping. " Now I'll get my jacket and kill you as well." He sped up until he got close enough to Nayru and jumped on her back. He sat on her back so she couldn't get away while he put his shirt and jacket on. " Actually, before I annihilate you…. I gotta get some gel for my hair." He touched the stray follicles in his spiky hair. He walked back to the kitchen to ask Nirai.
" What's up, oh-so-cute duplicate of my love?" Nirai said, not looking away from the frying pan of scrambled eggs she was cooking.
" Do you have any hair gel?"
" Sure. Only about 50 different kinds. Nayru's always wanting to keep her hair shiny and beautiful. Do you have any idea how many tubes of shiner gel it takes to get all that blue hair of hers to shine? She always insists on it shining brighter than the sun. She would make a good flashlight." Nirai giggled.
" That's nothing compared to how much he puts on. He goes swimming and his hair never flinches. It's like he laminates it." Yugi laughed.
" So? I should make you get a job to bring in more hair gel money for me. I never used to have to pay for anything! I owned everything! All the shops and shopowners! I was king or everything! Those were the good old days…" Yami sobbed.
" Go drown in hair gel, Yami!" Nayru cried furiously from the hallway.
" YOU FIRST!!!" Yami yelled back while Yugi and Nirai were trying to suppress their giggles. Nirai put bacon, eggs and toast onto three plates and served them to Yami, Yugi, and Nayru, who raced in when she saw food.
" Don't worry about your hair now, Yami-san. I spent 30 minutes making breakfast and I need a shower. You three eat all your breakfast while I shower and get out of my nightclothes. Then I'll be down to cook breakfast for everyone else. See ya!" Nirai said, bounding up the stairs to the upstairs bathroom. ' Wait a second! I forgot to get Daddy off the roof! He's gonna kill me! Wait a sec. He can't even hurt me. I had better go get that egomaniac before the neighbors see him.' Nirai thought, walking up to her room and climbing out the window. She grabbed a well-placed rope and climbed up to the roof. " Morning, Daddy." She said coldly.
" Now?" he asked.
" Now." She answered. She pulled her father up onto the roof and bit through the rope on his ankle. He simply sat there, happy to be on solid terrain.
" I trust you're sorry?" Pegasus asked.
" No. I'm not. I meant what I did and said. Every action and word. I'm a lot more powerful than you will ever be and I felt like reminding you of that. Besides, I felt you needed a little discipline. You've been doing waaaaaay too much soul-hunting. Nekos don't like that." She hissed, baring her diamond-white fangs. Her father got scared and jumped into the bedroom window and locked himself in the guest bedroom. " Men." Nirai shook her head. She got back into her room and went to the bathroom to take a shower.
Nayru had finished breakfast and agreed to do the dishes since Yami kissed her. She was still strawberry-red and had finished the dishes and had gone to the store to buy some more lip gloss for her and some hair gel for Yami since they didn't have the kind he liked. She was searching for the yummiest looking flavor of lip gloss when she spotted some sapphire rhinestones. They weren't a sticky tattoo, just separate rhinestones with a sticky backing. She thought for a second and dumped them into her basket along with some lime-flavored lip gloss. She found the hair gel as well and purchased her items and left. On the bench outside the store, she sat down and started putting on some of the sapphire rhinestones. She put the first on her left upper shoulder, another on the back of her left hand, yet another on her right shoulder and her right hand. She took the fifth one and placed it on her forehead. The moment she placed it, she couldn't see. A strange light inside her head was blinding her. It was kind of like when a camera flash blinds you. After a few seconds, her vision cleared up. She felt her aching forehead. The thing was, there was something on her forehead. It was sharp enough to prick her finger and make it bleed. She immediately knew what it was but prayed hard that it wasn't what she thought it was. She pulled out her pocket mirror, almost daring not to glance at her reflection, and looked reluctantly. It was just as she feared. There was a 8-inch horn protruding from her forehead. It was that of a unicorn and clear as glass. She tried to scratch it to test its hardness. It scratched her nail. Solid diamond.
' GREAT! JUST GREAT!! How am I going to hide this thing all the way home?!' she thought frantically. She quickly tore a piece of her sleeve off and draped it over the horn. She broke into an all out sprint home. She had walked to the store since it was only 4 blocks from her house. She had to run fast to keep anyone from seeing the cloth floating
in front of her forehead. She raced through the door and raced into the guest bedroom. She found Yami sitting on the bed and jumped on top of him and immediately began crying. "
Yami, you've to help me! Please! I don't know what to do!!" she cried.
" Whoa, whoa, whoa! What is it? What's the matter?!" Yami cried, pulling her up by her shoulders and holding her up so that she was staring straight into his eyes. Her tears began to dry. She always did love his eyes.
" I-I-I…" she just kept stammering. She figured the best way was simply to show him. She got off of him and pulled off the cloth. Yami fell off the bed and backed against the wall.
" Wha-what are you?!" Yami stammered in fear.
" I have a feeling I'm the newest member of my sister's freak club." Nayru groaned.
" I'm reeeeeeeally don't wanna know how that happened. But I know you wanna tell me anyway." Yami sighed, inviting Nayru up onto the bed with him to comfort her.
" I was at the store, buying your hair gel and my lip gloss and I saw these pretty rhinestones. I bought them and put them on." She began. She quickly lifted her sleeve so he could see the rhinestones on her shoulders. " Them when I put the one on my forehead, this thing showed up. Watch this." She finished. She quickly pulled out her pocket mirror and scratched the lens of it with her horn. The lens was easily deeply scratched yet the horn remained unharmed.
" A diamond horn. If I were that greedy, I'd say we could get a lot of money off of that. Of course, it's attached to your forehead and if anyone sees it, well, they'll probably take you in as a research subject. Then it's not long before they find out about Bakura and myself and your sister and her friends. Man, we're just a big group of abnormal people, aren't we?" Yami reflected.
" I think the proper word…. is freaks." Nayru pouted.
" Oh. Don't you hate the way the world treats people who aren't exactly normal?" Yami asked, leaning back in a reflective way.
" The world needs to ask itself what normal is. People look at others like us and only classify normal as being people who don't look like us. They never take to mind that to us, normal is a whole different thing. There really is no normal for us, is there?" Nayru said, lying down on Yami's lap.
" You know what we ought to do?"
" What?"
" We should enroll in a school."
" Why? I've never been to school before."
" How? We're required by law to go to school."
" Most people don't know I exist."
" And that is how?"
" I'm not registered on any papers, I have no birth certificate, no one who I don't already know knows that I am here."
" Cool."
" We ought to get enroll in a school and give this pathetic planet a new definition for the word 'normal'." Nayru announced, standing proudly on the bed.
" YEAH!" Yami cried, standing up with her. She purposely tripped and fell on top of him onto the bed. She giggled before they settled into a kiss.
" I love you, Yami." Nayru said, pulling away from their kiss.
" I love you too, Nayru." Yami cooed. He heard someone coming and pushed Nayru off the bed just as Kiyami came in followed by Bakura.
" Yami, I'm hungry! Can you cook? I tried to teach Bakura-kun to cook but he burned the water he was boiling." Kiyami whined.
" I.. can't really cook. I've never really tried." Yami said embarrassed.
" Well, now's the time for you to learn!" Kiyami cried. She grabbed Yami by the arm and pulled him out of the room, completely ignoring Nayru.
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Kind of a cliffhangery place to stop. Gomen ne! I might not update for a while since I'm thinking of writing a Final Fantasy 7 / Yu-gi-oh fic. For those of you who don't know what Final Fantasy is, you need to get out more. -.- So just bare with me here! Thanx to my reviewers: Kaiba's girl, Kiki Jones, Kirby, Angel Reaper, Lanae, and all you other people who I forgot to mention. Sorry! Sorry, sorry, sorry!