Faerie Ring
By OtakuChild
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Yugioh, in any way, shape, or from whatsoever.

And now...Chapter Five!
Chapter Five: Untamed Chaos
WARNING There is shonen ai and implied Yaoi in this chapter! Don't like, don't read. Hit the 'Back' button on your web browser and be done with it.

"In the still of the night, I hear the wolf howl, honey, sniffin' around your door! In the still of the night, I feel my heart beating heavy, tellin' me I gotta have more!"
In Bakura's living room, Marik was belting out "Still of the Night", by Whitesnake.
The gang had assembled in Bakura's living room, and were having a party.
Tea and and Mokuba weren't present, she had volunteered to take a watch over Mokuba, because the general theme of the party was a bit too mature for the younger Kaiba brother, and Tea didn't really get into drinking contests and big-hair bands.
Marik had a scratchy singing voice, that was rather pleasant to hear. He swayed his hips suggestively to the tune, and pulled Bakura up to the makeshift stage to sing to him, ignoring all the catcalls and hoots from his friends.
"In the shadow of night, I see the full moon rise, telling me what's in store! My heart start achin' my body start a shakin', an' I can't take no more!" he sang.
Bakura grinned maniacally, watching Marik sing and dance. He knew the song well. Marik snaked an arm around Bakura's waist from behind, and they started grinding. Marik handed Bakura the mic, and the silver-haired Yami knew what to do, and he sang, loud and clear, with Marik singing the harmony.
"Now I just wanna get close to you, and taste your love so sweet, I just wanna make love to you, and feel your body heat..." They sang.
"...In the still of the night!" They continued singing the song while everyone got up and danced. Marik took the lead on the next verse:
"In the heat of the day, I hang my head down low, an' hide my face from the sun! Thru the light of the day until the evening time I'm waiting for the night to come!"
He tossed the mic to Bakura, who took the next verse.
"In the still of the night, in the cool moonlight, I feel my heart achin' in the still of the night!"
They sang the next verse together, and Bakura snuck a wink to Ryou, who muttered and blushed, and let out an embarrassed shy squeak when Malik tackled him from behind and started to grind against him. The two danced through the song, and Malik whispered sweet nothings in Ryou's ear and held him tightly.
"In the still of the night, I hear the wolf howl, honey, sniffin' around your door! In the still of the night, I feel my heart beating heavy, tellin' me I gotta have more!"
Malik turned Ryou around, and Ryou slid his hands around Malik's waist, feeling the soft black leather pants that hung from his hips, and the soft skin around his stomach. Malik threw his head back and groaned. Ryou giggled. Malik sang the remaining verses of the song softly to Ryou, while Ryou giggled and blushed some more, and tried to hide his face in Malik's shirt, a black long-sleeved shirt that was see-through, and showed off his stomach and the gold navel ring it bared.
"Now I just wanna get close to you, an' taste your love so sweet... an' I just wanna make love to you, and feel your body heat..in the still of the night!"
Malik tipped Ryou's chin up and gazed into his eyes. "Now what are you hiding for? Hmmm? You all shy now?"
Ryou tried to break Malik's gaze...but it didn't work. "Well...uh...it's just that..."
"What?" Malik kissed Ryou's nose. "You're cute, no need to hide it..."
"Mmm...you're so sexy..." Ryou murmured, trying to change the subject.
"Yeah, so are you, when you wanna be," Malik said with a smirk. "I need to take you shopping..."
"But-" Ryou protested but was cut off with a kiss. Meanwhile, Marik had started singing "I'll Wait," by Van Halen.
Ryou made a scrunchie face. Shopping with Malik meant going to places he'd rather not be, such as Hot Topic or Frederick's of Hollywood, or that one time when Malik took them to a more...adult store, blatantly lying about their age to get in. Oh no, he wouldn't think of that now.
"Uh..." Ryou buried his face again.
"Please?"
No answer.
"Pleeeeease Ryou-love?"
Still no answer.
Malik let out a sigh, picked up Ryou, stuck out his lower lip, and gave Ryou a puppy look. "Pweeeeease?" He crooned.
Ryou grinned, and started to laugh.
"Okay!" he said.
Malik put Ryou down. "You can never resist the puppy look," Malik said.
"Oh, I could, I just don't want to."
"Yeah...sure..." Malik smirked.
Ryou checked the clock. "Shit! It's 1:30 in the morning already!"
"So it is. Let's go home, I wanna play." Malik kissed Ryou deeply, and Ryou let out a squeak when Malik snaked a hand up his shirt.
They managed to gain enough self-control to say good-night to their friends and drive home. As soon as Malik parked their car(1) they raced to the door, unlocked it, and Malik tossed Ryou over his shoulder and ran to the bedroom. Once there Malik shut and locked the door, and plopped Ryou on the bed, straddling him, and kissing him with renewed passion. Each managed to get the other's shirt off, and, well, the rest is history, and beyond this story rating.

Yoriko awoke to the sounds of a bed creaking. He clumsily got up, and peeked through the crack in the bedroom closet. He saw the flickering of a candle flame, and at first thought the house was on fire, but looked a little harder to be sure.
What he saw next jolted him wide awake. He grinned happily.
"SETH! SEEETH!!!"
Seth came running up to Yoriko, and almost crashed into him. "Yoriko! Are you alright? My lo-highness?" He asked, mentally kicking himself for what almost slipped out. He wondered where it came from.
"Nono! I'm fine, Seth, and stop calling me highness! Now, the reason I called you here is because we must celebrate! The humans are getting it on!"
As if on cue the two boys let out loud moans, and the bed creaked a little faster. Both faeries listened as Ryou let out small cries of passion. Seth remembered Shadel's words and shuddered.
"Oh, you took care of Mokichi and Tagan, I presume?" Yoriko asked.
"I did. Am I the only one here who thinks listening to and watching humans have sex is the slightest bit PERVERTED???"
"HUSH!!" Yoriko hissed, and clamped a hand over Seth's mouth. "The humans might hear you!"
"Miff!" Seth yanked off Yoriko's hand. "I doubt it."
Immediately they heard Ryou yell, "OH GOD! MALIK! YES! HARDER!"
Seth plugged his ears. Yoriko continued to watch.
"Fascinating," he murmured.
"Disgusting," Seth spat. "Do we have to celebrate?"
"YES!" Yoriko screeched. "Now, we still have to celebrate our moving in...so we can combine it and have a really big celebration! They'll be dancing and food and shiny objects and lots of BOOZE!"
Seth rubbed his temples. "Goody," he said sarcastically.

"So scared..."
Kuna continued to hold Lavender. "Scared of what?"
"That someone will eventually turn their back on me."
"Lavender..." Kuna tentatively stroked her hair. "There's no economy here...we have no money...and Tika, she hasn't turned on you..."
"Not yet." Lavender's voice was monotone, and distant.
"Not yet?" Kuna was shocked. "Why do you think she will?"
"They all do."
"No they don't. I didn't. Tika hasn't. If she ever planned on it she would have by now. Lavender, none of us here are out to get you. We came here to get away from that. Nobody here is conniving, nobody wants to hurt you. You're safe here. If anything..." He paused. Do I say? Is it safe? he thought.
"If what?" Lavender looked up at Kuna. Her eyes were devoid of emotion. They were blank, and empty. Kuna felt a pang. "Lavender...If anything...I...I'll protect you."
Lavender looked down. "But...why?" she asked.
Kuna steeled his nerves, and closed his eyes, his words coming out in a tiny whisper.
"Because I love you."
Lavender's head snapped back up, in total shock. "But I...how...why?"
"I'll tell you why," Kuna said. "Because you think for yourself, you don't care what others think of you, you're beautiful, and underneath that loner cloak of yours is a kind, caring, wonderful girl."
"I don't understand," Lavender said. "How can you love me, when you never see the real me?"
"I see the real you," Kuna said. "In your eyes. Your eyes say a lot about you, you know. And when we moved in...you were happier, more at ease. You actually smiled. But then you closed up again..."
"Oh, I see. I guess I was." Lavender paused for a moment. "I...this is a lot to take in, Kuna. It's going to take some time...I'm not ready to open up yet..."
"Oh, okay..." Kuna stood up. "Well...I...you heard me out, at least, I thank you for that. I promised I'd let you be, and I will." Tears of hurt brimmed in his eyes, but he hadn't expected her to return the feelings anyway. He was just about to turn and fly off when Lavender grabbed his hand.
"Kuna, look at me." It was stated like an order.
Kuna didn't move. Lavender went around to face him, and he ducked his head in an effort to hide his face.
"Look at me..." Softly spoken this time, she gently tipped his chin up to see his tear-streaked face. She saddened.
"Oh Kuna, you didn't let me finish. I said that I wasn't ready to open up to just anybody, I have to do this one person at a time."
Kuna just looked at her in puzzlement, he didn't follow very well. "I don't understand..."
"I'm starting-" Lavender gently wiped away Kuna's tears, "-with you."
And she planted a gentle kiss on Kuna's lips.

Ryou lay fast asleep in Malik's arms; sweaty, sated, and content, with his head resting on Malik's chest. But Malik himself was wide awake. He too was sated, but he couldn't sleep. He tangled a hand into Ryou's soft locks of hair and thought about all the strange occurrences. He was a little ticked, because when he came back home, he felt calm and a lot more peaceful with himself than he had been. But it seemed that it had been short-lived, and now he wondered if he were hallucinating. But he couldn't be, because there was hard evidence of the bath salt incident. Even Ryou had seen it! But though it seemed strange, he did see faeries from time to time. Marik said it was because faeries loved him, for some reason. But if it was faeries, as Marik suggested, then why are they making themselves known now? Had they always been here? Even before he got the apartment?
"Why is this happening now?" he asked nobody in particular. Then a gold flash caught his eye. He glanced to see what it was, but as soon as he saw it, it disappeared. He let out a sigh, and his thoughts shifted as he felt Ryou move.
"Mal-kun?"
Ryou looked up at Malik through sleepy brown eyes. Malik smiled. Ryou looked adorable, and a light flush still tinted his pale cheeks.
"You're not alseep yet?" Ryou asked, voice post coital and a bit hoase from the night's events. "What's wrong?"
"Go to sleep," Malik said. "You're tired."
"Don't try to change the subject. It's Friday night, it's not like there's school or something. Talk to me..." Ryou snuggled into Malik once more, then rolled off and sat up next to Malik.
"Ryou, it's not important, and you're tired. I don't want to bother you with this." Malik snuggled down and rolled over in an attempt to fall asleep, but said action was a bit delayed as Ryou rolled over and straddled Malik, putting the blonde Egyptian back onto his back. Ryou leaned forward and touched his forehead to his.
"Talk. To. Me." Malik closed his eyes, the vision this close-up was a bit...odd.
"But..."
"But what? Malik...I want to help." He moved his gaze a few inches away, still facing Malik. "Don't try to push me away. I won't let you."
Malik let out a defeated sigh. He was too tired and too stressed to fight Ryou, and he didn't want to, he loved Ryou. So Ryou crawled off of him, and he sat up, rubbing his eyes.
"It's that stupid faerie thing Marik planted in my head. He says the reason all that shiny stuff was in the shoebox and the bath salt flew everywhere was because of faeries. I thought they lived in forests!"
"They do," Ryou said. "Think about it. Your backyard is practically a jungle, lots of plants, and even running streams and a pond. Plus, you do have an amazing array of shiny objects, not to mention a cabinet full of alcohol."
"But it's never happened before. I think I'm bent, Ryou." Malik rested his head on his knees, and wrapped his arms around his legs.
"You're not bent," Ryou said. "I saw the bath salt too. And that crystal you keep in the music cabinet disappeared again."
"SHIT!" Malik spat. "They must be stupid! I keep it there for a REASON!"
"I never did figure out why you keep it there." Ryou rubbed his eyes.
Malik let out an exasperated sigh. "It's there to make the sound of the stereo clearer."
"And it does this...how?"
"It absorbs any negative static." Malik let out a smirk. "It makes it 'crystal' clear. Geeet it?" He burst into peals of laugher.
"Yeah...I do..." Ryou raised an eyebrow. "I'm worried about you..."
Malik sat up. "If you think I'm crazy...well, yes, I am, but it works! It really does! I notice a difference when its not there!"
Ryou let out a sigh. "I think its faeries. Bakura and Marik do too, because we've noticed things too. The salt, and that crystal...Marik found glitter all over the counter too."
"He did?"
"He didn't want to bother you with it. He saw you scrubbing the ceiling and thought it best not to bother you. Who scrubs a ceiling anyway?"
"I do!" Malik said, in an offended tone. "Ceilings get dirty too!"
"I'll take your word for it. Anywho, I agree with Marik. Faeries love you."
"Why would they love me?" Malik raised a platinum eyebrow.
"Well," Ryou shifted a bit. "You tell me you saw them all the time in Egypt, not everyone can see them the way you do."
"Yeah, I guess you're right."
"Faeries love you because you're fun, crazy, and full of whimsy. You have innocence, a childlike innocence about you. They're drawn to that. That and the shiny objects and booze in your house." Ryou gave him a smile.
"Me? Innocent?" Malik got a goofy grin on his face.
"Well, yeah," said Ryou sheepishly. "You are innocent, in some ways, I mean, it's not like you're sheltered, but..."
Malik smiled. "Yeah, I know what you mean." He leaned in and kissed Ryou. Ryou wrapped his arms around Malik, and pulled in closer. They broke the kiss, and Ryou looked up at Malik. "Tomorrow we'll learn more about faeries, and see if that's what it is, m'kay?"
"'Kay. I'll try not to stess."
"I know." Ryou pulled Malik over to him, and Malik rested his head on Ryou's chest. Ryou ran his fingers through the blonde strands.
"I love you Malik," Ryou murmured.
"I love you too, Ryou." Malik said. Ryou gently stroked Malik's hair, and he finally fell into a restful sleep. Aiee...that took a while, due to school, and skating, and such. I'm sorry! cries Once school is out there should be no problem with me getting out the chapters and new fics and such.
(1)Even though they live apart, Malik and Ryou share a car. It's in Ryou's name, but Malik is on the insurance.
I have no idea when Chapter 6 will be up. Every time I set a deadline it doens't work. So...keep your eyes, peeled, but I don't know when it will be up. Just rest assured that I haven't forgotten about it!
We also need Cluck Cluck to come forward, the winner of the Imzadi contest!
We still have no winner for the other contest, see the fic "Sicky" for details!
I have much to do. I hope to post more soon. Ja Ne!
-OtakuChild