Bakura: why is this chapter so late?
C.A. Well err um...
Seto: I know why, you've gon over to the other side haven't you?"
C.A. : What do you mean by that?
Seto: She's been writing original fiction haven't you?
C.A.:*Sweatdrop* I have no idea what your talking about.
Seto: take a look at An and Anhai.
*An has purple hair and green eyes, Anhai is the same but has shorter blue hair*
Bakura: What did she do to you too?
Anhai: She put us in an original story as supporting cast. but she edited us first, she for got to change us back before coming here.
C.A. : Oops .*Snap fingers An and Anhai turn back to normal.*
An: And she changed my name to Ann.
Anhai: So? She's thinking of killing me off and making me a lame ghost or something!
An : Well you are a ghost anyway aren't you?
C.A. ENOUGH! *Silence* Right yes I've been trying to write something original but that's not the reason this is late, this is late cause the computer went on the fritz okay?
Everyone: *Nods*
C.A. Right lets get on to the thanks?
Thank you Sic fi fan, I guess your right about the transition chapter, I just wish they'd all hurry up and get to wales that's were the action starts and your find out why An was accused of murder. (At last.)
Penny: Angel of Darkest Dreams Hope you got my e-mail, something's wrong with mine, I'm not getting any, (Note, never let fathers mess with your e-mail address) and thank you for BOTH your reviews. (Woohoo! now I'm on NINE fav Author lists!)
C.A.: Good, Ryou will you do the Disclaimer please.
Ryou: Sure C.A. doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Or anything to do with Yu-Gi-Oh! Except her card collection, She dose own An, Anhai, Matt, and Mill, She owns the triplets Mary, Mathew, and Malcolm but you can have them if you want.
Yami Bakura: Why is Ryou and I doing all the work for this chapter?
C.A.: Because I like you to and I want to practice writing you two, it's hard getting into your head, I tried with the song flick Perfect (Shame less plug I know. Read it please!!!! And the sequel For the want of a Friend) So I'm trying again with this. Don't know if it will work though.
"Blah" = Japanese
[Blah] = English
Blah= Welsh
/Blah/ = Telepathy.
Blah = Thoughts, emphasis, un-translated welsh.
************************ = change scene.
Warnings: Mild swearing.
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The White Metals
Silver.
Chapter Seventeen: Shades Of Grey.
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Ryou sat by the lake in the park.
He held the ring in his hands. He wondered how long it would be before his Yami made an appearance again. It never took him very long to come back, and with his father home he was more worried. His Yami had threatened his father more than once, and there was Yugi had told him over the phone about the silver armlet.
He was worried for An too, even if she did have Anhai to protect her they were both inexperienced and couldn't really defend themselves.
/Yes they can./
Shit! Ryou has almost jumped right into the tree branches above him.
/Don't be such a cowered./ Bakura complained. /It's not like you weren't expecting me./
Ryou sat shock still, had his Yami just said something to him that didn't contain a threat? /What do you want?/
/Nothing just catching up on what I missed after you betrayed me once again. That nut case of a Hikari likes you. Return the feelings?/
/No./ Pain shot though Ryou's head.
/DON'T YOU LIE TO ME!/ Bakura shouted.
Ryou's hands which had been resting on his knees turned into white knuckled fists. /Fine! I like her to there a problem with that!/
Amazingly Bakura started laughing. /And to think, all I had to do to get you to develop a back bone was to threaten a girl you liked./
/I've stood up to you before./ Ryou said.
/Yeah, but you've never attacked me yourself, you've always let Yugi, or last time Anhai do it, but just now, and that time before, you stood up to me yourself. All because of An./
/Why are you being so nice?/
/Your not scared of me any more./ A statement not a question.
/So?/
/I'm impressed. I've been waiting for that since you first woke me up, now if only I could get the other items and I'll have everything I want./
/Why can't you leave them be./
/Because I have to get them all, they have to be brought together...and well...Ryou for Ra's sake their all solid gold!/ Bakura exclaimed. / And if that wasn't enough once I have all the power then you can sell them and you could have the money from selling them, you'd be rich!/
/Why would you care if I'm rich or not?/
/You just don't get it do you? I may want power and I may use any means to get that power but I'm doing it for both of us./ Bakura sighed. /Honesty, why do you keep turning down every change of true power for weak and pathetic friends./
/Those friends helped Yugi and Yami defeat Pegasus at full strength, you just waited until he was exhausted, like a scavenger a Jackal or Hyena!/ Ryou was going to add more to it's rant when he head erupted in pain again.
/Just because I like this new bold streak in you doesn't mean I'm going to take any lip!/ Bakura growled.
Ryou sighed.
/Giving up already weakling?/ Bakura asked.
Ryou didn't answer. He just wished that he would be left alone.
/Guess you are, oh well I'll just have to go and get the items by myself, An's little armband thing will be useful though./ Bakura said in a light tone.
/No!/
But it was to late Bakura had thrown Ryou in his soul room and took over his body, at least this time Bakura didn't beat him.
Bakura stood up from the lake side and started to leave the park, only to come face to face with An, or was it Anhai? Strangely he couldn't tell the difference.
"Hello Bakura."
"How...oh I guess you heard our little debate." Bakura crossed his arms. "So what are you going to do about it?"
An/Anhai took hold of the ring, she didn't try to take it of him she just held it in her hands and watched the points dance with the movement.
"You calm you care for Ryou, that what, well some of what you do is for him. Your leading him to water, it's up to him to drink it, and he won't if it's bloodstained with his friends lifeblood. You think beating him until he can barely move will make him stronger? Or are you killing him by inches?"
Bakura blinked. "Which one are you?"
An/Anhai shook her head. "Why don't you use the eye to find out."
"How did you know about that!" Bakura demanded.
"My power is a weaker form of all the other items, yet they are much broader, any idea what other tricks I...might have up my sleeve?" She asked a small smile gracing her lips.
She walked away taking her jacket off completely and lay it on the ground. top was sleeveless and her arms were bare save for the bandages and black band of morning on one arm and the cast on the other. However she didn't sit on her jacket yet she walked back to Bakura and gently took hold of his ring again. Bakura frowned did she think she was getting a sociological advantage over him but taking his item in her hands when he couldn't even see her silver armband anywhere.
"How can you hide something up your sleeve when you don't even have sleeves?" Bakura asked, An/Anhai didn't see the frown or the smirk that followed it since she was watching his ring and not his face.
In side his soul room Ryou blinked. Was Bakura flirting with An or Anhai or which ever one was in control at the moment.
"Bakura, just answer the question can you or can you not tell me what I'm capable of doing?" The girl said looking up at his eyes Fire and Blood Red met Chocolate brown.
"Everything I do is for a price, if I give you information I expect something in return." Bakura warned. Trying not to get lost in the fire he could see in her eyes and could suddenly feel.
/Very well Bakura, if you won't help me./
Bakura looked at An sharply. "What the Fuck! How did you talk to me in my head!"
An/Anhai smiled and tightened her grip on his ring it started glowing and a third eye flickered weakly.
The next thing Ryou knew he was in control, and Bakura seemed to have vanished. And the girl before him was most definitely An.
An fell more than sat on her jacket seemingly exhausted. "Okay...lets not do that again."
"What did you do?"
"Anhai and I, we need to know what I might do with out meaning to Yami doesn't remember what I need to know, so we thought we'd try Bakura, when I saw he wasn't going to help us and probably hurt you again, I..." An rubbed her head. "We..."
"An?" Ryou knelt before An, she was shaking and her eyes were becoming unfocused. "What's wrong."
"Anhai..." She growled before shaking her head and smiled at Ryou. "She sent Bakura to the shadow realm."
Ryou sat down properly. "An are you okay?"
"Yeah...but I'm going to have a long talk with Anhai later. We didn't hurt you did we Wings?"
"No I'm fine...and you probably saved me from a beating." Ryou said, he didn't know what had gotten into him shouting at his yami like that.
"I don't know about that, when Anhai was reading his mind I caught a couple of his emotions, he seemed glad that you were standing up to him." An said.
"Did you 'hear' what we were talking about?" Ryou asked.
"No...I think Anhai did. Why?"
"No reason." Ryou picked up a stone and threw it across the lake, it skipped three times before it sunk into the water with a 'plop'.
"Ryou!"
Ryou looked back. "What?"
"Show me how to skip stones? Andrew tried to show me how but I never have gotten it to work before." An explained.
Ryou smiled, maybe things would be okay after all.
Nether of the lights noticed Tea and Tristan watching them.
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C.A.: Aww It didn't to work right. Oh well I have another chance later, so it's not that big a problem.
Y. Bakura : What do you mean and what was all that about me and her!
C.A.: Well, Ryou likes her.
Y. Bakura: Yeah?
C.A.: Yeah, well you and Ryou are technically the same person, there for if one of you falls in love...
Y. Bakura: Oh no....no no no no no!
Anhai: What! You can't do that to me! He gave his brother the arrow that killed me!
C.A.: But he didn't kill you himself did he? He and you were just solders on opposite sides.
Anhai: Well...When you put it like that you have a point but that doesn't mean that you can put us together!
Y. Bakura: Yeah!
An: Shut up Anhai!
Anhai: Huh? An? What's wrong?
C.A.: She can't tell you yet, but she'll do more than tell you in the next chapter.
An: And your not going to like it Anhai! Now can you lovely readers review so I shout at Anhai in the next chapter.