I got a Blue-Eyes!  I got a Blue-Eyes!  YAY!  But Seiyaryu's still my all-time favorite card.

My friends and I have been making more Items, for lack of a better thing to do… so far we have the Dagger, Flamethrower, Box, Straitjacket, (since someone said we needed one) Crown, Finger Ring, Headband, Pencil, Bow, and Harp.  We obviously have too much time on our hands.

Oh, ExBobble06, in this chapter you'll find out what Yami looks like in Ryou's body.  I was having way too much fun with that.  Next chapter it's Bakura in Yugi's body.

Disclaimer:  Yu-Gi-Oh! isn't mine.  If it was, I would spend my time on more useful things, such as special features and movies…

~Notes~

"Regular talk"

/Ryou to someone/

//Bakura to someone//

\Yugi to someone\

\\Yami to someone\\

'Thoughts'

Millennium Item Mix-Up:  Chapter 2

Pharaoh of the Ring

            After the rather unfortunate escapade with the Millennium Puzzle, we find Ryou walking home.  Having had enough adventure for one day, he has decided to ditch school for once in his lifetime.  Not knowing that Bakura now lives in the Puzzle, much less that they had a huge pop quiz in math that day, he could be considered the most ignorant, if not the happiest, person in all of this story.

            Of course, the sixteen year old wasn't exactly the dumbest, either.  He had noticed that Bakura was quieter than usual, especially if his plan to get the Millennium Puzzle had failed, thanks to his aibou.  The ancient tomb robber would have been screaming by now, but maybe Ryou didn't know his yami as well as he thought he did.  So he decided to try not to talk to the spirit of the Ring, since he'd probably only be yelled at anyway.  Well, at least he'd be cursed out in a language he couldn't understand…

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            At school the next day, Ryou finally decided that the silence from Bakura had gone on long enough.  The thief hadn't even made any smart comments when Ryou got in trouble.  /Yami?  You can't still be mad about the Millennium Puzzle, can you?/

            The voice that answered belonged, not to the tomb robber, but to the King of Games.  \\You didn't know that I switched places with that thief?  No, I suppose you wouldn't know the rules.\\

            /Rules?  What rules?  I doubt this hasn't happened before, so why didn't you two switch places when the Items had the same holder before?/

            \\Well, the circumstances were slightly different then.  You see, your previous yami had put part of his soul into the Millennium Puzzle.  When they were brought together and then separated again, Bakura went into the Puzzle because of that, and since there is only room for one spirit per Item, (A/N:  Think of all the chaos if there were TWO yamis in the Ring and Rod!) I ended up in the Ring.\\
            /I think I understand.  But what'll happen to Yugi?  I'd rather I have my yami instead of him.//

            \\There are… ways… to switch us back.  But they are complicated, and we'd need the cursed tomb robber's cooperation.\\

            Ryou glanced at Yugi, a few seats away.  /He probably would, since he can use the Ring to find other Items./

            \\Yes, I daresay he would want to, but you'd better pay attention now.  The math teacher has been calling your name for several minutes now, and he looks… slightly… angry…\\

            The white-haired boy immediately snapped back into the real world, where his math teacher was indeed calling his name.  Yami was somewhat right, he did look angry, but "slightly" was an understatement.  The guy looked FURIOUS.

            "Yes, sensei?"

            "Ryou Bakura!  Daydreaming AGAIN?  First you skip class, ALONG WITH THE BIGGEST TEST OF THE YEAR, and then you have the nerve to NOT  PAY ATTENTION???"

            Ryou lowered his head.  "Gomen…"

            \\Oh, you were paying attention, all right.  You were just SO ABSORBED in quadratic equations that you didn't hear your name being called.  Oh, the joys of calculus…\\

            Ryou resisted the urge to laugh.  /Are you ALWAYS like this?/

            \\When it's about math, I am.  Why do you need to learn it?  I mean, addition and subtraction are fine, but why do you need to know the slope of a line?  WHO CARES?\\

            /I'd better listen now.  Don't want to get in trouble again…/

            For the first and probably only time in his life, Ryou had gotten detention.  As Joey had so exquisitely put it, *GASP!  SWOON!  FAINT!*  "The world will end!  Ryou skipped school and has detention!"

            Which wasn't the only problem.  Ryou's father was pretty mad about it, and Yugi had appeared at school with a nasty bruise on one cheek and had been dropping not-so-subtle hints about… something.  Now that he thought about it, they were probably about Bakura.

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            An hour after school ended, Ryou was walking home.  Detention had been spent talking to Yami, since no one else would speak to him, though everyone was more than a little surprised that goody-goody Ryou ditched class.  Actually…  Yami was the one who did most of the talking, and half of it wasn't even to Ryou.  The first half-hour had the Pharaoh muttering about the cruelties of principals and how detention should be outlawed, and the last thirty minutes had him cursing in Egyptian.  Apparently, he had gotten a splinter off one of the stone tablets in his soulroom.

            Well, it was better than Bakura.  The tomb robber would have been ranting about lost time spent in detention when he could have been taking over the world or stealing another Millennium Item.  The fact that he still only had two didn't seem to perturb him at all.

            Ryou yelped suddenly as the familiar form of Ushio Tenrio appeared in front of him.  He stumbled backwards as the school bully appeared with a sneer on his face.  Thoughts ran wildly through his mind, changing from, 'My yami will NEVER protect me!' to 'He's twice as big as I am!' to 'What does he want from me?'  He had apparently forgotten that the tomb robber was no longer his yami.  'How did Yugi ever beat this guy?'

            The grin on Ushio's face didn't disappear as he advanced on the smaller boy.  "I noticed that pendant around your neck today," he snarled.  "It looked sort of familiar… You stole it from me, didn't you?"

            Yami chose that moment to come out.  Of course, since he wasn't in Yugi, and he didn't look anything like Ryou, the effect was rather… strange…

            "Yu-Gi-Ohhhhhh!"

            The person that emerged was slightly taller than Ryou, and his jacket was open to reveal his black shirt.  The most significant difference, however, was his hair.

            The hairstyle was the same, but the colors had changed drastically from white.  The bangs had become blond, and the rest was black, tipped with red.  Yellow zig-zags ran through it.  Coupled with the slanted violet eyes, Yami looked like a weird combination between Yugi and Ryou.

            "You can have my Ring," he said, "if you win our game."  He pulled Ryou's deck out of his jacket pocket.  "Highest attack power wins."

            "I'll play your little game," the bully replied, and drew.  "I have Ooguchi!"

            In his soulroom, Ryou was in hysterics.  Ooguchi, with attack power 300,was the weakest card in his whole deck!  Anything could beat that!

            "I draw… the Dark Magician!"  Yami's favorite card was immediately in his hand.  It beat Ooguchi by 2200 attack points, and Ushio was almost instantly in the Shadow Realm.

            /How did you do that, Yami?  I don't have the Dark Magician in my deck!/

            \\With Shadow Magic, anything is possible.\\

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            Yugi was dueling Joey, and today they were playing by Battle City rules, minus the rare card requirement.

            "I sacrifice my Mammoth Graveyard and Beta the Magnet Warrior to summon… the Dark Magician!"

            "No!"  Joey yelled.  "Nooo!  Make it go away!"

            And suddenly, the spellcaster was gone.  Yugi blinked and stared at the card that had taken its place.  "Ooguchi?"

            Joey grinned.  "Cool."  One attack, and then… "I win!"  Yugi sweatdropped and stared as his best friend did a victory dance.  Still, it wasn't every day that you beat the world champ.

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I know Ushio went crazy or something after Yami "played a game" or something with him…  but I couldn't think of anyone else, so he just kinda appeared.  Maybe he just came back, but is still insane…

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Next chapter: The last!  Malik and Isis have a way to switch the two yamis back.  That is, if they will cooperate and stop arguing long enough to perform the spell!  And someone tell me why Malik has his camcorder?  Whatever happens next chapter, it's sure to be a good blackmail opportunity!