LUKE: Okay, okay! I KNOW I've not posted any new chapters of "Blackmail" in eons. GOMEN NASAI!!! I've just been so busy, and there's the fact that my brilliant mind can't hold only one idea in it. TOO MANY IDEAS!!!!! WAH! This is a TOTALLY NEW fic, and it's just one I came up wham-bam-boom like that. WAH! *crickets chirping* Anooooooooo, where's the shonen-ai? SHOOOOOOOOOOOONEN-AAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIII? Moshi moshi? AAH! This fic isn't meant to have any shonen-ai in it. Sorry for those that like shonen-ai, but this one will have NO ROMANCE except mentions of Honda(Tristan) and Shizuka(Serenity)'s wedding. But even that's in the name of humor. Hope you like! Sorry if the paragraphing is screwed.

SUMMARY: Jonouchi is visited by four frightening spirits- in the forms of Anzu, Pegasus, Kaiba, and Honda- after eating too much chili-covered pizza. PG for language.

DISCLAIMER: Do we? NO! 'Nuff said!

Heartburn Haunting

Chapter I: I Told You So.

"Jonouchiiiiiii..."

"Jonoooooouchiiiiiiiii."

"BAKA! WAKE UP!"

"Wha-? I'm up, I'm up!" Jonouchi Katsuya rolled over in bed- more accurately, out of bed. Groaning, he held his head, but that pain was soon overshadowed by that of his stomach.

"About time, Jonouchi! I don't know how long I was waiting for you to notice."

"Notice what?"

"That you're having indigestion." What? Now Jou was confused- wait, isn't that typical?

"Wha-? Yeah, I guess you're right. But hold it- what the hell are you doing in this dump, Anzu?"

A loud, booming thundercrash shattered the silence- and Jonouchi's nerves, and Anzu- or what looked like her- began to laugh. No, not just a laugh, a LAUGH. An evil, diabolical, piss-your-pants-freaky type of maniacal cackling. "Foolish being! I am not your friend, Anzu. I am merely assuming her form!"

"Anooooooooo, why?" The- spirit, ghost, hallucination, whatever- stopped the psychotic laughter, and gave the blond a death glare.

"Because it is a form you are familiar with."

"Why not Yug'?"

"Anoo, moshi moshi, baka no baka! I needed a form that inspired some fear- minimal, you understand, don't want to underscore the other spirits." Jonouchi began to shake.

"WHAT? Sp-sp-spirits? FEAR? That's it! I'm gonna get Yug', he'll be able to wake me up. Yeah, that's it. It's just a dream! Yeah!" Suddenly, he wound up on the floor, courtesy of a large wooden mallet.

"Dream? Get real, Jonouchi. This is VERY real. And you WILL be visited by spirits, three to be exact." Jou breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay. At least there's one down!"

"Oh, sorry. I guess I didn't make it clear that I'm not one of them. There's three more BESIDES ME!" Jonouchi screamed, and clutched at Anzu- well, the apparition that looked like her-'s skirt. Mallet time! "Get your hands away from there!"

"WhatamIgonnadowhatamIgonnadowhatamIgonnado?????" He began sobbing like a child.

"Baka. Do you have any idea why I'm here?"

"Anoooooooooooooooo, to warn me about the spirits?" Mallet time!

"BAKA! Remember that damned chili-soaked pizza you ate?" Jou scratched his head, struggling to remember. "Oh, Kamisama. Of course you don't! Well, you ate a damned chili-soaked pizza. You have indigestion. You know, at the party, you were warned not to eat so much! Anzu- that is, 'I' told you so!" And the ghost was right. Jonouchi's stomach was making him feel like ralphing- not that being scared to death would help it settle. "My colleagues and I are here to warn you against situations in which you might get heartburn."

"Fine by me. So leave. I don't wanna barf on you."

"Very well. But remember, you will be visited by my associates. Don't get TOO comfy." And Jonouchi was already asleep by the end of that sentence, mumbling about doughnuts again.

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LUKE: That's obviously just the beginning. I plan on this being five chapters long. Please review, and I hate to sound like a suckup, but would you please read our other fics? Most are yaoi, and some might be offensive, but I'd really like some feedback.