CHAPTER SEVEN: ROOM CHECKS

When the nine Yu-Gi-Oh! characters had decided to buy a house, Yami had made a rule that they could do whatever they wanted to their rooms, so long as they didn't permanently damage the house. He wanted to see if his prohibition had been obeyed, so he decided to look in Téa's room first.

Téa was still out with Malik, Seto was downstairs watching television and the others had gone outside to play some sort of game.

Téa's room was covered in Pegasus posters. Although this annoyed Yami, what was far more disturbing was the bright red lipstick marks all over Pegasus' face. He also looked in the closet, which was filled with shirts that had logos such as "Angel", "Butterfly" and "Peace".

"What are you doing?" Seto stood in the doorway.

"Seeing if anyone is destroying out house," Yami said with a glare.

"Good luck," Seto replied and went over to the clock, pulling it off the wall. "This clock's dead."

Yami shrugged and walked over to Seto. "Hey, look at this."

A piece of white paper was taped over the wall where the clock had been. Yami ripped off the paper and looked inside. There was a small hollow in the wall full of letters.

Yami's eyes were glinting dangerously.

"Calm down Yami," Seto said, reaching in and pulling out the letters. The two of them sat down on Téa's bed (blue with clouds on it) and Seto began to read the letter on top of the stack.

"08/16/99 Dear Téa," he began, "I broke up with Cecilia like you told me to. She threw very hot coffee in my face. I am now covered in burns. She also put my hair through a paper shredder. Please tell me if Yami Bakura mentions anything about me. I think he wants my Millennium Eye. I wonder if he has any of my blood in his collection . but I digress. Téa, my beautiful darling, I am desolate without your company. I mourn the loss of seeing you every day, and I live in anticipation of our next meeting. Love, Max."

"Seto," Yami began, his eyes shooting little lightning sparks and roasting small objects in Téa's room.

"This is old." Seto looked at the date.

"I wonder if his hair has grown back yet?" Yami asked with a malicious smirk.

"These are all from Pegasus," Seto said, looking at the letters. "I wonder if there's a return address. Maybe we could-" Seto paused.

"Absolutely not! Well, now that we know Téa's drilled a hole in the wall, let's go look at Joey's room."

Joey's room was covered in posters of . . . Joey. Yami was partially glad of that. At least there were no posters of Seto.

After no surprises in the rooms of Joey and Tristan, Yami walked down the hall to Seto's room. "Seto," Yami said.

"I didn't do anything to it!!"

"OK, OK. I think we can skip Mokuba and Ryou, don't you?"

Seto nodded. "Bakura . . ."

"I guess we'd better check," Yami said with a sigh.

Bakura's room was very dark, because he had put pieces of wood cut to the size of the windows in the window outcroppings. He had also ripped out all the light bulbs. Several red lights periodically lit up in different parts of the room. Maniacal laughter was heard from the speakers Bakura had installed whenever someone opened the door, and once they got halfway into the room, things dropped down from the ceiling in front of them - such as four inch spiders lit up with purple lights on their legs.

"I guess Bakura has a way to turn this off," Seto muttered. "I don't have any idea how, though."

"Yeah," Yami said. He was going to walk further into the room, but a large cobweb that spanned from wall to wall dropped in front of him that was impossible to rip. He turned around and prepared to walk back, but another cobweb fell in front of him.

Seto was muttering curses.

"What," Bakura inquired from the doorway, "Are you doing in my room?"

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