A/N: No, I'm not stupid. I KNOW India's a country! I come from it, gods!
Yami: Yippee for India.
Me: HEY!! Are you insulting my country?! *grabs Yami by tank top collar*
Yami: Eep. Who, me? No!
Me: Good boy. *drops Yami, who glares at her* What?
Yami: *mutters to self*
Me: Ahem. Disclaimer?
Yami: Right. Circe doesn't own YGO or the songs appearing in this story or India or Hindi………
Me: *covers his mouth quickly* Shush! You'll give away the story! Oh, and to Kestrel—you want me to finish SOON? This won't even be over this YEAR. (That's not saying much, though. But who knew my reviewers want to get rid of me so much? *sniffles*) And the song J and M sing is translated in the bottom. ^_^ Arigatou, Rutu! And arigatou to CrystalinElf and Rakka for being my beta-readers! ^_^ (I don't put the whole song for Callie—if you want it, email me, okay?)
Anyway, BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! I ABSOLUTELY HATE CALLING BAKURA BAKURA. So, from now on, Bakura = Ryou. And Yami Bakura = Bakura! GOT THAT?! REMEMBER! And, when Ryou told Cal his name, he said "Ryou Bakura." (Don't worry, I already know I'm stupid. Forgive me, ne?)
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"NAAAAANIIIIII?!" Every single teenager from the planet (and universe) Earth burst out in surprise. The blond cloaked man whispered something to the man holding the staff.
"I-India?" Yugi said. "Are you serious?"
"India." Joey said thoughtfully. "I didn't know that was a city."
All the other teenagers (excluding Jai, who watched, surprised) fell over anime-style.
"Baka! It's a country!" Tristan shouted angrily. Joey waved his hands in defeat.
"Okay, okay!"
"Do you all speak English?" Téa said hopefully. The staff-holder shook his head.
"No. I'm one of the few who does. My name is Genki." He smiled, and his eyes crinkled in a fatherly way. Though he only looked twenty or so, he seemed very mature. "And our body guards can speak it too. Congratulations on defeating them, by the way. May I see your armor, so as to give the guards some?" He pointed to Callie, who shrugged and gestured openly to herself naively.
Genki went up to her and lifted the hem of her leather skirt.
"PERVERT!!!!" Mai, Joey, Tristan, and Ryou all pounced on him.
"I AM NOT A PERVERT!!!!" He shot back, surprised, dropping the hem of Callie's skirt.
"What's this fight about?" Callie whispered to Téa, who gave her a comforting hug.
"Don't worry, it's okay………"
Yugi patted a confused Callie's hand. "Don't you know?"
Meanwhile, Genki had backed up his other statement on the fact that, "I was inspecting her armor! I didn't know it was her SKIRT!" He composed himself. "I don't know how you could've beat our guards wearing what you are-" He shot a glance at his 'attackers' "-that I THOUGHT IT WAS ARMOR."
"Yeah, well we're watching you buddy!" Joey threw at him.
"Indeed. I'm sorry. But will you please follow me?" They did so obediently, all watching him. Except, that is, Callie.
"Why were you so mad at him?" She pulled on Tristan's jacket. "What'd he do?"
"Hun, don't you know what a pervert is?" Mai said, hinting. Callie shook her head.
"I just called my Karaoke bar boss that, 'cause everyone else called him that." Everyone else sweatdropped. Callie was turning out very naive for a girl who kicked butt and had the immense power of Duel Monsters, and who knew what else.
"What's it mean, Ryou?" She turned to him, which made him very nervous.
~Bloody…What do I say?~ he thought.
"Um, er, well…You'll find out when you're older, Callie." He said quickly.
"But I'm as old as you! Does anyone have a dictionary?" But everyone refused to tell her. She kept at it ("I would like to know what you defended me from!"), until Téa took her aside.
"Callie, if you don't know, you should be happy. It's not a good thing to know." She smiled. "You're more pure and innocent than all of us."
Then Callie dropped the subject and they quietly walked the rest of the way to where ever Genki was taking them.
*
Genki pointed to a large shanty house. "You can stay here. Please join us for our buffet dinner tonight. You are guests."
"Did someone say buffet?!" Joey and Tristan burst out from behind. Their stomachs growled loudly. "Hehe. We haven't eaten in a long time!"
"Joey, that was yesterday night. Aren't you ever not hungry?" Mai said complacently.
"And then we'll sing and dance." Genki said grinning. "And you are to do both."
He led them to two washrooms. There were indications of girls' and boys' on both. He waited for them to wash up (luckily, the bathrooms were exactly the same as the ones on Earth) and led them to a large dining hall. It wasn't very fancy. It was normal, like a regular dining room you might have at home, except bigger.
Much bigger.
Everyone sat at one side in this order; Joey, Mai, Yugi, Téa, Tristan, Jai, Ryou, and Callie. And………Malik?!
"Malik? What're you doing here? How'd you get in………this place?" Yugi said excitedly.
Malik, who had white hair and brown Egyptian skin, smiled. "Number one, yeah, I am Malik. Number two, I was transported here when some weird freak came up to me. I used the Millennium Rod to beat him up. Number three, who *is* this cute young Egyptian blue and black-haired girl with the long legs sitting next to me?" He grinned at the fore-mentioned, who cluelessly grinned back like a little kid at her big brother.
"That would be Callie." Ryou informed one of his best friends.
"Callista Ayamiki Rei Motou, at your service. You're Egyptian too! Cool!" Then her mouth dropped open and she glared at him. "Why did you call me cute?
"Because you are!" He gave her cheek a squeeze.
Callie growled, and swatted his hand away. "Don't you dare. Everyone calls me cute."
Malik smiled sheepishly and said something slowly in Egyptian. Callie repeated his statement and then seemingly replied happily. Everyone watched them converse excitedly in Egyptian.
"I wonder what they're saying." Joey whispered softly in Mai's ear.
"Probably on Egyptian stuff. Who knows? They could be talking about what's been happening to us so far."
Just then, the food came in. There were curries, soups and rices. The aroma of chicken, turkey, and fish wavered under their noses. Other foods were also there, like shrimp and mutton, salads and Caesar salads too, dosas and somosas, and so on.
Tristan and Joey dug in quickly, along with everyone else, though not as fast and suicidal-like.
After that, dessert came, which was equally as good. The same reaction as above happened, though not with Callie.
"No Pocky." She sighed. "Well, I didn't think they'd really have Pocky."
"Pocky? You want some Pocky?" Ryou said surprised, putting his spoon down next to his pastry piece. "I think I have some here." He started rifling through his bag. "I have some here somewhere………"
Callie watched him curiously and happily. When his hand extracted from his bag with a package of Pocky, she grinned.
"Can I have some?" Ryou stared at her eager expression. He shrugged.
"Maybe."
Callie's reaction was unpredictable. So how could he have gotten away?
Callie gave a cry and said, "YOU ARE SHARING THAT POCKY WITH ME WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, BRIT!" Then she pounced on him.
Literally.
He was so surprised when she went on top of him and they both fell out of his chair. She gave him a cute grin, which she probably didn't know WAS a cute grin, and grabbed the package of Pocky from his hand from where she was on top of him.
She politely took one—just one—and inserted it in her mouth like a cigarette. Then she got up, brushed herself off, and gave him a smile.
"Arigatou, Ryou-kun." She gave him a quick lift up with her hand. Then she sat down and happily ate her Pocky, while Jai glared at her intensely and maliciously.
Everyone stared at the naive and innocent Callie, and the very surprised, very embarrassed, blushing Ryou.
"Okaaay……….remind me of two things, Téa." Yugi mentioned to his crush.
"What?" She answered to hers.
"Never, ever, EVER get Callie mad. And to keep lots of Pocky handy."
"Gotcha."
*
Later, all the girls were taken to one chamber, and the boys to another. Many other boys and girls came with them to "get them ready," which meant new clothes to change into.
Luckily, they each had a translator. But the girls really didn't need one—Callie knew some Hindi, which is what they were speaking.
"My father was Egyptian and a little Hindu. And we've gone to India before, so I remember some. I'll help you translate." She gave Mai, Téa, and Jai a small smile. They all returned it, but not Jai.
"You like Ryou, don't you? Well, lay off, 'ee belongs to me." She glared directly at Callie.
"No, I don't." Callie said calmly and with enough reasonability to keep her anger down. "Who said he belonged to you anyway?"
"Hmph. Everyone else is free, take one of zem."
Callie grinned at her. "Not exactly as free as you think."
One of the girls smiled and said something. Mai could hear Joey's name, which the girl spoke happily and passionately.
"You—what?" Callie replied to her, confused.
"What'd she say? And why did she say Joey's name?" Mai inquired.
"She said—these are her own words—that 'Joey's sooo cute! And he has wonderful brown eyes, and he is so sweet and funny!'"
"She must be blind." Téa said, groaning. "How can anyone like Joey like—like that?!"
Mai smiled. "Aw, c'mon, Joey can't be that bad. She's right." She realized what she said. "I mean—"
"That counts as a CONFESSION!!!" Callie and Téa responded to her slip-up.
"You liar, you do like Joey!" Callie grinned and began to sing, and Téa joined her. "JOEY AND MAI, SITTIN' IN A—" Mai covered their mouth quickly.
"One word. One word, and I'll tell Yugi about this certain girl with a certain crush. And he'll be very surprised, WON'T HE, TÉA?!"
Téa's eyes grew wide, and she crossed her heart in an 'I-promise-not-to-say-anything-just-don't-tell-him!' gesture.
Callie smiled. "Ya got nothin' on me, Mai-san!"
Mai shrugged. "I'll definitely find something. Besides, it wouldn't be very nice to tell, would it?"
Callie's smiled disappeared, and Mai was surprised at seeing Callie looking like a cute little girl. "I don't want to be mean. I won't tell."
"Good." Mai finished putting on her sari, which was purple and white. She had gold dangly earrings.
Callie had put on a long salwar kameez, which is a long dress with pants and an extra-long shawl. It was blue and gold.
Téa had on a yellow and pink (her favorite colors) sari. And Jai had a silver long sari. They were ready.
*
The boys had on dhotis. Their shirts were mostly the same. Yugi's was white, Ryou's dark blue, Joey's green, Tristan's tan, and Malik's gold- yellow. They each had a black sash around their waist, and a turquoise band around the head.
Malik, Ryou, and Yugi were each holding/wearing their Millennium Items.
They sat around the fire, all of them, including the girls, with admirers all around them. Jai was with Ryou, of course.
There were some children sitting with Callie, playing with her hair and giving her a million little braids.
Next to Joey was the girl that had talked so much about his looks before. Her name was Ami, it turned out.
Genki was there, still holding his staff. He smiled when they arrived.
"Please, will you sing for us? Then we'll dance." But no one wanted to do either. Even Téa, who loved to dance, was nervous. Genki smiled warmly again. "I have some advice for you.
"Light intertwines with light and the dark reunites with itself." Yugi opened his mouth to ask, but Genki said, "Do not think of that now. Please sing."
Callie offered to sing. And she did. Well. Really well.
"'Koerarenai' 'IRA IRA suru'… (Don't be afraid…)"
When Callie sat down after singing, which Ryou had remembered hearing from one of his favorite animes, there was great applause. She got congratulations from everyone.
Then Genki asked Joey and Mai to dance. Everyone else was asked to get up too.
Before going up, both Joey and Mai were asked to eat these strange fruits. They tasted good, but when they talked, they realized they were speaking Hindi! And the others could understand them! They had had a different fruit, but they could still understand the Hindi! It was very odd at the same time it seemed very *stupid*.
Instruments were played-- bells, chimes, drums, and the flute. Everyone began to dance. They had no idea where they learned these dances, or songs. But it was fun.
Mai began. "Mudhu buna may jookun hay ya kaise ko pees semilay. Kubee ko see kaya jubee chedae kabee batha curae."
She gave Joey a little push, not realizing they were the only ones there, until she backed up. Then Callie, Téa, Jai, and many other village girls were behind her, dancing with her.
~What exactly is she singing?!!~ Joey thought.
"Radha kaise sae na jalae? Radha kaise sae na jalae? Aguthon mun may lagae, Radha kaise sae na jalae? Radha kaise sae na jalae?"
Then Joey backed up, and Yugi, Tristan, Bakura, Malik, and the village guys came dancing behind him.
"Mudhu bun may kan layka kees seeko pees semilay. Mun may tho Radha kayhe prem a kalay pool a keelay. Keise leea Radha jelae?" Then all the boys made a "Hey!" sound. "Keise leea Radha jelae? Hey! Kano sum jas son jay. Hey! Keise leea Radha jelae?"
All of 'em: "Keise leea Radha jalae?!" Then everyone stood in a circle, clapping, like those clapping games elementary school girls play.
"Oh, Gopi a tharay, janthay hay Radha. Peera cue usako bees a wasa adha." Joey sang and danced. "Oh, Gopi a tharay, janthay hay Radha. Peera cue usako bees a wasa adha."
Mai did the same. "Kana gee tho sadha ither aoh thara na hee. Radha pare chore ikoo pare apaka mar near hee?" She put her hand up and pointed to Joey, from where she sat on the floor.
Joey sang back in response, dancing around the standing up duelist. "Gopi a nee ja nay hay, Radha tho mun kee rani hay. Gopi a nee ja nay hay, Radha tho mun kee rani hay."
He ran away to another spot in their circle. "Sanjay ra karae, jum na kee ray, Radha, Radha he cana pookalae!" He pretended to call her.
"Oy,oy. Oy, oy. Pao kai ha rejuda lay coy ka akay kalay." Mai put her arms around Joey's neck, but pushed him away aggressively.
"Radha kaise na jalae? Radha kaise na jalae? Aguthon mun may lagae, Radha kaise sae na jalae? Radha kaise sae na jalae?"
Mai danced in the middle while the other girls danced in a circle around her. "Nadanae, Nadanae, Nadanae a thena ho. Nadanae, Nadanae, Nadanae a thena ho! Nadanae, Nadanae, Nadanae a thena ho. Nadanae, Nadanae, Nadanae a thena ho!"
Joey watched her singing and dancing, smiling to himself. Everyone danced to the sounds of the drums and bells while he watched her.
~Cool. She's jealous. FOR ME.~
"Muna maehay Radha co, Kana jo masai ee." Mai turned around and looked seriously at Joey. "Thoo kana ka hay co, usa nema thayay-" She was interrupted with a shout from Callie.
All eyes turned on the girl, who was squirming and shouting. "Stop! Stop!" Suddenly, she stood up, and her necklace rose up from where it lay on her chest. It glowed with a bright light.
And someone suddenly appeared next to her. Callie groaned and went to her knees, placing her hand on her head.
It was a tanned lady with a long thin scar from her right cheek to her neck with long white hair with blood-red tips. She was wearing a garment that looked like a one-piece dark purple bathing suit with a small ruffle skirt (think sailor moon) and a long black cape. She was holding a long white staff in her left hand.
Her cold, dark orange eyes were shaped like Yami's or Bakura's or Marik's eyes. And Yugi came to the conclusion that she was—
"A yami. Callie's yami." Yugi knew it wasn't coming from him. It was Yami talking. And then, Yami appeared beside him, in human form. This was a shock for everyone else, as they hadn't seen hikari and yami next to each other.
This surprised Yugi, of course, but the expression on his yami's face surprised him much more.
The Pharaoh's face was one of confusion, amazement, and………love?
He began to speak. "How did--?"
"Shut up." The woman's voice came out sounding cold, unhappy, and angry. She swished her hair back. "My Pharaoh."
Everyone saw Yami swallow. "Amaya."
"Liar." The women, called Amaya supposedly, whispered. Then again, "Liar."
"Amaya, what do you—"
"LIAR!" The women struck down her staff. It struck the thin air, and wind swirled around them. She let out some kind of magic, which aimed at Yami. He fell over backward.
"Yami, who is she?" Yugi asked as he helped him up.
Yami gritted his teeth, and said, "An old friend."
"Gomen, if this offends you, but exactly HOW old?" Callie muttered in his direction, getting up slowly. Téa went over to help her up.
"Let's just say she's one of the few things I remember from Egypt." Callie raised her eyebrows.
"Ah, that is old. What exactly does she mean by, 'liar', Yami-chan?" Yami blinked for a second at Callie's term of affection, then at her remark on being old, which he wasn't exactly sure how to take.
"Do you remember the riddle Genki told us?" Tristan interrupted. Joey nodded.
"Light intertwines with light and the dark reunites with itself. Do you think it had to do with that girl?" He said, gesturing to Amaya.
She raised an eyebrow, and said, "Excuse me, I'm in the room, you know. Would you please shut up? I am TRYING to get revenge here." She rolled her eyes and Yugi could practically hear her gum crack to add to her sarcasm. Though she obviously didn't have any gum. *
" 'Dark reunites with itself' must mean Yami and er, Miss Amaya." Ryou put in, choosing to ignore Amaya.
"Would you SHUT UP?!" Amaya swiveled around at him, and pointed her staff at Ryou. Callie instinctively put her hand out in front of Ryou.
Her fingertips grazed the Millenium Ring. And the same thing happened again. Callie and Ryou seemed to disappear into themselves, and stopped moving. Everyone looked at them in shock, including the village people behind them.
Amaya looked away from them, and directed her attention to Yami.
"I will duel you. But I think we should move from here." She looked at he people behind everyone, who were all staring at each of them in disbelief, and gave her staff a twirl, when Téa had a sudden thought.
~Did they teach baton whirling in ancient Egypt or something?~ She opened her mouth to say something.
But she never got to. They all ended up in a place where they hadn't been for a long time: The Shadow Realm.
***
Me: Ooooh…..Kawaii.
Yami: Don't you mean cool or something like that?
Me: No.
Yami: Oh. Ah. I'll be going now right?
Me: Yup! Bai-bai. Yes, all you peeps out there, I am letting Yami leave. BAKURA is taking his place. *looks about* He'll be here later. I'm sorry about the delay. I swear I had no intention of taking so long. I know, another cliffhanger. I'll update SOONER this time. ^^
The song Callie sung is the new theme song for the Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh! Translations were in parentheses.
The song Mai and Joey sang is from the movie Lagaan, which is a very good Hindi movie, and you should go see it to get this song! Here is the translation. Once again, Arigatou, Rutu!
If Krishna met a lady in the Madhuvan forest,
Sometimes smiled, sometimes teased, sometimes even talked,
How could Radha not be jealous?(2)
Fire burns in her mind and heart
How could Radha not be jealous?(2 times)
Even if Krishna met a lady in secret in the forest,
The flowers of Radha's love played in his mind
Why should Radha be jealous?(2)
Without thinking or understanding
Why should Radha be jealous?(2)
(music plays)
Ohhh! Gopis are only stars, the moon is Radha.
So why is she so half-hearted?
(repeat last two lines)
Krishna's mind is always hither and thither
So how can poor Radha believe in herself?
Gopis come and go
But Radha is the queen of the mind
(repeat last two lines)
Afternoon and evening, on thye banks of the Yamuna River, "Radha, Radha!" calls Krishna
If someone garlands Krishna with their entwined arms
How could Radha not be jealous?(2)
Fire burns in her mind and heart
How could Radha not be jealous?(2)
(music plays)
If Radha is enshrined in Krishna's heart,
Why doesn't he then tell her so?
Love has its own language, its own expressions
To let the eyes speak is Krishna's wish
Those eyes of Krishna
Have stole the peace from many Gopis' hearts
She meets his eyes and is lost in love
Even if she is the fairest of damsels
If love for Krishna ripens in a gopi's heart,
Why should Radha be jealous, Radha be jealous, Radha be jealous?
How can Radha not be jealous?
Why should Radha be jealous?
How can she not be?
Why should she be jealous, why should she?
How can she not be?
Why should she be, why should she?
(music plays)
How can Radha not be jealous, how can Radha not be jealous, how can Radha not be jealous ?