Chapter 3
Lost
Disclaimer: Kaya's mine, and I also have Evanescence's CD, "Fallen", which gets me in a very morbid mood, but that's it.
Mojobubbles: Erm.......*looks uncomfortable*
Yami: What's wrong?
Mojobubbles: Well, it's Daricio's review. Um......I really dun know how to say this........but......um, Malik is......erm......well, I'll just try to get chapter 7 out as soon as I can......but Kaya has this really weird dream, and maybe...........
Kamilah: See, she feels guilty about how dark and hopeless it seems, and we may end up revealing crucial plot points so you all don't stop reading this because it's so darn angsty.
Mojobubbles: Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping whee-
All: SHUT UP!!!!!
Mojobubbles: I love that episode!!!!!!! Malik's running around on his motorcycle and he starts randomly popping wheelies. I honestly thought he was gonna fall off for a minute there.
Kamilah: That'd be a funny Crazy Take......
Mojobubbles: And so would Malik crashing into Y. Bakura and sending him flying.....that'd be funny.
Kamilah: Or I guess he'd be Marik........
Malik: Hey, it's better than Terrance!
Mojobubbles: Oh yeah, that reminds me of something freaky. My mom and sister are reading this kid's book with a character named Terrance. I said to my mom that this was funny because the dubbers nearly named Malik Terrance. My mom said that was freaky because there's this filmmaker guy named Terrence Malick!!!! I betcha that's why they wanted to name him that.
Kamilah: Aibou has an Egypt book!
Mojobubbles: Yeah. It's called "Cat In The Mirror" and it's about this girl named Erin who has a suck-ass life, and also about a girl living in Egypt 3000 years ago named Irun. And I think Erin is Irun's reincarnation. I mean, there are so many similarities between this book and Yu-Gi-Oh that I wonder if Takahashi-san got all the reincarnation stuff from this book.
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Review responses:
Daricio: Well actually, I do write a lot of angst songfic things. And sometimes I put it in my stories, and when I do, it's pretty heavy. Mooooooving on............. WAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! YOU PUT ME ON A MAJOR GUILT TRIP!!!! Just don't lose hope.......if you remember there are more parts to come. I mean, this is a trilogy.......and it'd be kinda hard to write more if everyone's dead......plus, my friend Blue Mystic Moon Warrior/Kirstie is a rabid possessive Malik fangirl, and I've told her the ending so she wouldn't kill me for killing Malik.......*hint hint*
Ruby*Luna: THEY'RE BACK!! *waves* Hey you two! *grabs Sesshomaru's fluffy thing and tugs it* GET BACK HERE FLUFFY!!
Fluffy thing: *comes off*
Mojobubbles: *blinks*.....I could either keep this, or sell it on ebay............decisions decisions........
Blue Mystic Moon Warrior: YOU CAN'T GIVE AWAY THE ENDING UNLESS I TELL YOU TO!!!!!!
Europa: Well, Yugi's gonna talk on the phone next, and he can't talk on it if Kaya smashed it against the wall, right?
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Symbol thingies:
/blah/ hikari to yami
//blah// yami to hikari
~blah~ Kaya to either Yami or Yugi
~~blah~~ Yami to Kaya
++Yugi to Kaya++
'blah' thoughts
*~*Flashback*~* or *~*End flashback*~* Kind of self-explanatory, I guess.
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*+*+*+*+* Last time *+*+*+*+*
"They found him.....but he's dead."
Kaya's eyes widened and she stared at the phone. "What.....?" she whispered.
"Malik is dead. He jumped off the bridge," Isis repeated.
"No.....no, Malik is not dead......"
"He's dead, Kaya. He killed himself."
"NO NO NO NOOOO!!!!!!!"
Kaya dropped the phone and tore up the stairs.
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"Did she just say that Malik's dead?!" Yugi gasped, grabbing the phone and talking to Isis. Yami looked anxious as he fully emerged in a physical form.
"Isis....I'm real sorry," Yugi said softly. "You don't worry about anything. Just relax, and we'll let the others know." He hung up and gave Yami a pained look before picking up the phone again and dialing a different number.
Yami spun around and walked up the stairs to Kaya's room.
He knocked, and winced when he heard her sobbing. He gently pushed the door open.
"Yami," she whispered hoarsely, lifting her head from her arms. "Malik......he can't be dead....." She buried her head in her arms and sank to the floor, sobbing again.
Yami crouched next to her and pulled her into his arms. "Ky......" he whispered, using her old nickname.
"Why couldn't I see it!?" Kaya burst out. "What kinda best friend am I?!"
"Kaya....it was not your fault," Yami murmured, pushing her bangs out of her eyes. "You've got to believe that......."
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Yugi, Yami, and Kaya sat on the couch in Yugi's living room. Kaya had fallen asleep, with Yami's arms protectively wrapped around her. Yugi's grampa was asleep in the other room. (I vow not to completely ignore Yugi's grampa during this story!!!!) Yugi decided not to wake him up and tell him what had happened.
Yugi reached for the remote and turned on the TV. Yami jumped; even though he was pretty much used to it, that black box with the moving pictures still startled him.
It was on a news channel, and Yugi gasped when he heard and saw what they were reporting on.
(Heh......can ya guess? ^_~)
"Ishtar is reported as being 'anti-social, violent, and possibly emotionally disturbed'," the reporter guy was saying.
"How dare they spread lies like that?!?" Yugi shouted angrily, leaping up and pointing at the TV.
"His older sister, Ishtar Isis, could not be reached for questioning," the newscaster continued.
"'Questioning?'" Yugi repeated in disbelief. "How could they even /think/ of questioning Isis?!"
But the worst was yet to come.
"We have also learned that Ishtar, before jumping from the bridge, brutally murdered fellow tenth grader at Domino High, Matsu Akina," the newscaster added grimly. (Remember, in Japan its last name first, so the dead girl's name is Akina Matsu.)
The two stared at the screen, eyes wide, as the program flashed images of a dead body being loaded onto a stretcher in an ambulance.
"He......killed someone?" Yugi whispered, hardly daring to believe. They didn't know that Kaya was awake, but she didn't make a sound, just closed her eyes and willed all the pain to go away.
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She sat up, blinking in the bright sunlight. It was beautiful out; Kaya wondered why she had woken up feeling so depressed and lonely. Then she remembered - Malik was dead.
But.........who was that in the doorway?
She stood up, and her room melted away, and she and the figure were standing in a large field. (Ok, kinda obvious this is a dream sequence now, huh?) She suddenly realized who the person was.
"MALIK!"
Kaya tried to run to him, but her feet wouldn't move. Suddenly, the scene changed again, and they were in a dark place, and Kaya dropped to her knees, gasping for breath. 'Why am I in the Shadow Realm?' she thought frantically.
She looked up, and saw Malik standing over her.
"It wasn't me," he said mournfully.
"W-what, what do you mean?" Kaya managed to choke out. She coughed, and leaned over, trying to regain her breath.
"Pathetic," said the voice above her.
Kaya stopped coughing and her eyes went wide. She knew that voice.....it was hauntingly familiar. Her head snapped up, and she was shocked.
"You!"
"Me," Yami Malik said, grinning crazily.
"What did you do, you bastard?!" Kaya launched herself at him, only to have him grab her and shake her, shouting her name.
Kaya's eyes snapped open, and Yugi was holding her shoulders, his violet eyes scanning her own. She looked at the clock, and saw it was 6 in the morning.
"What happened?" Yugi asked softly.
"I, I was in my room, and Malik was there, and then we were in the Shadow Realm, and he told me it wasn't him, then he turned into his yami, and......." She buried her head in her arms. "It was so damn confusing!"
Yami entered the room. "Yami," Kaya said suddenly, her head flying out of her arms. "Could it have meant something?" Yami turned away and looked at the floor.
"Nani.......?" she asked, puzzled.
"Nothing happened, Kaya," Yami said quickly.
"You're a horrible liar," she said, smiling wryly.
"Kaya....." Yugi began. "We turned on the news last night, when you were asleep......"
"Oh, that," Kaya said quietly. "I was actually awake while you were watching that."
(Now, Yami's kinda a buttmunch. *shrugs* You'll see what I mean.)
"But why, though?" Yugi said, sighing.
"The Millennium Items," Yami said suddenly.
"What?!" Kaya gasped.
"It must have been an act, just to get the Millennium Items," he said darkly.
"Yami, what are you saying?!" Yugi gaped.
"I understand now," Yami said, nodding sagely, ignoring them. "Malik had never changed, it was just an act...."
"That's not true!!" Kaya shouted.
"But how do you know?" Yami asked seriously, his gaze meeting her own.
"Because Malik was my best friend!" She shuddered. Having to refer to him in past tense was harder than she thought it would be.
"Kaya......" Yami grabbed her arm. "You can't know for sure."
"But I had this dream, and in it-"
"But it was just a dream," Yami replied.
"SHUT UP!" Kaya screamed, completely losing it.
"Enough," Yami said quietly, grabbing her arm. "You're being ridiculous."
"/I'm/ being ridiculous?!" Kaya said, nearly hysterical. "Are you even hearing what you're saying?! You're accusing one of our friends of trying to betray us!!!!!"
"I do not believe that Malik Ishtar was ever one of our friends," Yami said evenly.
"No!" she shouted, shoving him away and running up to her room. She grabbed a backpack and began feverishly shoving clothes in it, ignoring the tears streaming down her face. Yami and Yugi had followed her.
"I'm leaving," she said, glaring daggers at the both of them, furiously wiping tears off her face. Yami grabbed her arms, trying to stop her, but she shoved him away and stumbled out of the room and down the stairs. Yugi heard something clatter on the floor and looked down.
It was Kaya's charm bracelet.
The one Malik had given her.
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(Wow.......I can't believe I made Yami that much of a jerk.....*whacks Yami over the head*
Yami: Hey, you wrote it!!)
Kaya walked on for a while, not really knowing where she was going. Deep down, she knew she'd have to go back, but just for a while she wanted to be away from it all.
"Hey kid, where ya going?"
Kaya looked up at the speaker. Somehow, her feet had taken her right past Duke's game shop.
"I guess you heard?" Kaya sighed.
"Oh, I heard alright," Duke replied, his face darkening.
"Didja see the news report?"
"I saw that too," Duke said. "Kusottare no nyusukyasuta........." he spat. (He just said, "Damn newscasters.....") (Speaking of Duke, where the heck is he?!? He's supposed to be in Battle City!!!!)
Kaya smiled wryly. "What time is it?" she asked.
"About 6:15," Duke replied.
"Do you always get up this early on school-less days?" Kaya asked, shaking her head.
"Nope," Duke replied. "Got a call from Yugi, saying you'd run out, and then that Isis chick called and said she'd seen you coming this way with that necklace......." He shrugged. "So I thought I'd wait." Then his tone became serious. "Why did you run off, Kaya?"
As soon as he said it, he wished he hadn't. She looked down at the ground, clenching her hands into fists.
"Erm, you wanna come inside?" Duke asked, looking up at the gray sky, from which a light rain was falling. Kaya nodded and trudged in, Duke following her.
He ignored the questioning looks from his employees getting ready to open the shop as he led Kaya into the back room. (*shrugs* It's that room that Duke's in after the DDM game w/ Yami.......ya'll know what I'm talking about, right?)
Duke grabbed her shoulders and pushed her onto the couch and tossed her a towel. Then he pushed a chair in front of the couch and sat down on it, and they were so close their knees were almost touching.
"Now, what happened?" Duke asked. Kaya sighed.
"I got in a huge fight with Yami," she answered.
"Ah. Go on."
"Well......" And suddenly she just started talking, words pouring out of her mouth faster than she could think them up.
"So you thought the dream might have some weird meaning, but Yami wouldn't listen because of the news report, and you got mad," Duke said, trying to figure out what Kaya had just told him. "I can't blame you for getting mad, though," he added quickly.
"He just made me so mad!" Kaya said, tears filling her eyes again.
"I know," Duke said quietly, putting his hand on her shoulder, and they sat in silence for a while.
"I'm gonna call Yugi, ok?" Duke said finally, getting up.
"No!" Kaya protested. "I don't want to go back yet!"
"I know, just........they sounded really worried.....I just wanna let them know you're ok," Duke said quickly. Kaya sighed in relief and nodded. He got up and walked out of the room. Kaya slumped back in her chair.
This was /not/ how she had wanted to spend her day off from school.
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"Kaya, stop thanking me already!"
Kaya just shook her head and smiled at Bakura. She was really grateful to him, for what he had done. He had offered to let Kaya stay at his house for a few days, until she went back to Yugi's.
"Where's Bakari?" she asked. The tomb robber had been another of her friends from Egypt, and she often had joined him on his escapades.
"Soul room," Bakura replied quietly. "He's been in there since the call." Kaya nodded solemnly. Then, quite suddenly, she threw her arms around him.
"It's not fair!" she wailed. "Why did Malik have to die?!"
Bakura was really surprised. He put his arms around her and felt tears fill his eyes. They stood in that position for a while, until Kaya finally let go.
"Are you hungry?" Bakura asked, wiping his eyes. "I sure am. I could probably eat a whole red elk!"
Kaya stared at him. "Did you just say.......a red elk?" He nodded. "You watch 'Princess Mononoke' too?!"
Bakura nodded, smiling weakly. "After we saw it at Yugi's house, my yami made me go out and buy it."
Kaya smiled, glad that she had a friend like Bakura. They were all wonderful......except for Yami.
'Are you blind, big brother?' she thought sadly.
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Mojobubbles: *sighs with relief* Another two chapters completed......we gave you a really long chapter to make up for the next one which is really short.
Kamilah: The next chapter awaits......
Lost
Disclaimer: Kaya's mine, and I also have Evanescence's CD, "Fallen", which gets me in a very morbid mood, but that's it.
Mojobubbles: Erm.......*looks uncomfortable*
Yami: What's wrong?
Mojobubbles: Well, it's Daricio's review. Um......I really dun know how to say this........but......um, Malik is......erm......well, I'll just try to get chapter 7 out as soon as I can......but Kaya has this really weird dream, and maybe...........
Kamilah: See, she feels guilty about how dark and hopeless it seems, and we may end up revealing crucial plot points so you all don't stop reading this because it's so darn angsty.
Mojobubbles: Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping wheelies!!! Malik popping whee-
All: SHUT UP!!!!!
Mojobubbles: I love that episode!!!!!!! Malik's running around on his motorcycle and he starts randomly popping wheelies. I honestly thought he was gonna fall off for a minute there.
Kamilah: That'd be a funny Crazy Take......
Mojobubbles: And so would Malik crashing into Y. Bakura and sending him flying.....that'd be funny.
Kamilah: Or I guess he'd be Marik........
Malik: Hey, it's better than Terrance!
Mojobubbles: Oh yeah, that reminds me of something freaky. My mom and sister are reading this kid's book with a character named Terrance. I said to my mom that this was funny because the dubbers nearly named Malik Terrance. My mom said that was freaky because there's this filmmaker guy named Terrence Malick!!!! I betcha that's why they wanted to name him that.
Kamilah: Aibou has an Egypt book!
Mojobubbles: Yeah. It's called "Cat In The Mirror" and it's about this girl named Erin who has a suck-ass life, and also about a girl living in Egypt 3000 years ago named Irun. And I think Erin is Irun's reincarnation. I mean, there are so many similarities between this book and Yu-Gi-Oh that I wonder if Takahashi-san got all the reincarnation stuff from this book.
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Review responses:
Daricio: Well actually, I do write a lot of angst songfic things. And sometimes I put it in my stories, and when I do, it's pretty heavy. Mooooooving on............. WAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! YOU PUT ME ON A MAJOR GUILT TRIP!!!! Just don't lose hope.......if you remember there are more parts to come. I mean, this is a trilogy.......and it'd be kinda hard to write more if everyone's dead......plus, my friend Blue Mystic Moon Warrior/Kirstie is a rabid possessive Malik fangirl, and I've told her the ending so she wouldn't kill me for killing Malik.......*hint hint*
Ruby*Luna: THEY'RE BACK!! *waves* Hey you two! *grabs Sesshomaru's fluffy thing and tugs it* GET BACK HERE FLUFFY!!
Fluffy thing: *comes off*
Mojobubbles: *blinks*.....I could either keep this, or sell it on ebay............decisions decisions........
Blue Mystic Moon Warrior: YOU CAN'T GIVE AWAY THE ENDING UNLESS I TELL YOU TO!!!!!!
Europa: Well, Yugi's gonna talk on the phone next, and he can't talk on it if Kaya smashed it against the wall, right?
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Symbol thingies:
/blah/ hikari to yami
//blah// yami to hikari
~blah~ Kaya to either Yami or Yugi
~~blah~~ Yami to Kaya
++Yugi to Kaya++
'blah' thoughts
*~*Flashback*~* or *~*End flashback*~* Kind of self-explanatory, I guess.
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*+*+*+*+* Last time *+*+*+*+*
"They found him.....but he's dead."
Kaya's eyes widened and she stared at the phone. "What.....?" she whispered.
"Malik is dead. He jumped off the bridge," Isis repeated.
"No.....no, Malik is not dead......"
"He's dead, Kaya. He killed himself."
"NO NO NO NOOOO!!!!!!!"
Kaya dropped the phone and tore up the stairs.
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"Did she just say that Malik's dead?!" Yugi gasped, grabbing the phone and talking to Isis. Yami looked anxious as he fully emerged in a physical form.
"Isis....I'm real sorry," Yugi said softly. "You don't worry about anything. Just relax, and we'll let the others know." He hung up and gave Yami a pained look before picking up the phone again and dialing a different number.
Yami spun around and walked up the stairs to Kaya's room.
He knocked, and winced when he heard her sobbing. He gently pushed the door open.
"Yami," she whispered hoarsely, lifting her head from her arms. "Malik......he can't be dead....." She buried her head in her arms and sank to the floor, sobbing again.
Yami crouched next to her and pulled her into his arms. "Ky......" he whispered, using her old nickname.
"Why couldn't I see it!?" Kaya burst out. "What kinda best friend am I?!"
"Kaya....it was not your fault," Yami murmured, pushing her bangs out of her eyes. "You've got to believe that......."
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Yugi, Yami, and Kaya sat on the couch in Yugi's living room. Kaya had fallen asleep, with Yami's arms protectively wrapped around her. Yugi's grampa was asleep in the other room. (I vow not to completely ignore Yugi's grampa during this story!!!!) Yugi decided not to wake him up and tell him what had happened.
Yugi reached for the remote and turned on the TV. Yami jumped; even though he was pretty much used to it, that black box with the moving pictures still startled him.
It was on a news channel, and Yugi gasped when he heard and saw what they were reporting on.
(Heh......can ya guess? ^_~)
"Ishtar is reported as being 'anti-social, violent, and possibly emotionally disturbed'," the reporter guy was saying.
"How dare they spread lies like that?!?" Yugi shouted angrily, leaping up and pointing at the TV.
"His older sister, Ishtar Isis, could not be reached for questioning," the newscaster continued.
"'Questioning?'" Yugi repeated in disbelief. "How could they even /think/ of questioning Isis?!"
But the worst was yet to come.
"We have also learned that Ishtar, before jumping from the bridge, brutally murdered fellow tenth grader at Domino High, Matsu Akina," the newscaster added grimly. (Remember, in Japan its last name first, so the dead girl's name is Akina Matsu.)
The two stared at the screen, eyes wide, as the program flashed images of a dead body being loaded onto a stretcher in an ambulance.
"He......killed someone?" Yugi whispered, hardly daring to believe. They didn't know that Kaya was awake, but she didn't make a sound, just closed her eyes and willed all the pain to go away.
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She sat up, blinking in the bright sunlight. It was beautiful out; Kaya wondered why she had woken up feeling so depressed and lonely. Then she remembered - Malik was dead.
But.........who was that in the doorway?
She stood up, and her room melted away, and she and the figure were standing in a large field. (Ok, kinda obvious this is a dream sequence now, huh?) She suddenly realized who the person was.
"MALIK!"
Kaya tried to run to him, but her feet wouldn't move. Suddenly, the scene changed again, and they were in a dark place, and Kaya dropped to her knees, gasping for breath. 'Why am I in the Shadow Realm?' she thought frantically.
She looked up, and saw Malik standing over her.
"It wasn't me," he said mournfully.
"W-what, what do you mean?" Kaya managed to choke out. She coughed, and leaned over, trying to regain her breath.
"Pathetic," said the voice above her.
Kaya stopped coughing and her eyes went wide. She knew that voice.....it was hauntingly familiar. Her head snapped up, and she was shocked.
"You!"
"Me," Yami Malik said, grinning crazily.
"What did you do, you bastard?!" Kaya launched herself at him, only to have him grab her and shake her, shouting her name.
Kaya's eyes snapped open, and Yugi was holding her shoulders, his violet eyes scanning her own. She looked at the clock, and saw it was 6 in the morning.
"What happened?" Yugi asked softly.
"I, I was in my room, and Malik was there, and then we were in the Shadow Realm, and he told me it wasn't him, then he turned into his yami, and......." She buried her head in her arms. "It was so damn confusing!"
Yami entered the room. "Yami," Kaya said suddenly, her head flying out of her arms. "Could it have meant something?" Yami turned away and looked at the floor.
"Nani.......?" she asked, puzzled.
"Nothing happened, Kaya," Yami said quickly.
"You're a horrible liar," she said, smiling wryly.
"Kaya....." Yugi began. "We turned on the news last night, when you were asleep......"
"Oh, that," Kaya said quietly. "I was actually awake while you were watching that."
(Now, Yami's kinda a buttmunch. *shrugs* You'll see what I mean.)
"But why, though?" Yugi said, sighing.
"The Millennium Items," Yami said suddenly.
"What?!" Kaya gasped.
"It must have been an act, just to get the Millennium Items," he said darkly.
"Yami, what are you saying?!" Yugi gaped.
"I understand now," Yami said, nodding sagely, ignoring them. "Malik had never changed, it was just an act...."
"That's not true!!" Kaya shouted.
"But how do you know?" Yami asked seriously, his gaze meeting her own.
"Because Malik was my best friend!" She shuddered. Having to refer to him in past tense was harder than she thought it would be.
"Kaya......" Yami grabbed her arm. "You can't know for sure."
"But I had this dream, and in it-"
"But it was just a dream," Yami replied.
"SHUT UP!" Kaya screamed, completely losing it.
"Enough," Yami said quietly, grabbing her arm. "You're being ridiculous."
"/I'm/ being ridiculous?!" Kaya said, nearly hysterical. "Are you even hearing what you're saying?! You're accusing one of our friends of trying to betray us!!!!!"
"I do not believe that Malik Ishtar was ever one of our friends," Yami said evenly.
"No!" she shouted, shoving him away and running up to her room. She grabbed a backpack and began feverishly shoving clothes in it, ignoring the tears streaming down her face. Yami and Yugi had followed her.
"I'm leaving," she said, glaring daggers at the both of them, furiously wiping tears off her face. Yami grabbed her arms, trying to stop her, but she shoved him away and stumbled out of the room and down the stairs. Yugi heard something clatter on the floor and looked down.
It was Kaya's charm bracelet.
The one Malik had given her.
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(Wow.......I can't believe I made Yami that much of a jerk.....*whacks Yami over the head*
Yami: Hey, you wrote it!!)
Kaya walked on for a while, not really knowing where she was going. Deep down, she knew she'd have to go back, but just for a while she wanted to be away from it all.
"Hey kid, where ya going?"
Kaya looked up at the speaker. Somehow, her feet had taken her right past Duke's game shop.
"I guess you heard?" Kaya sighed.
"Oh, I heard alright," Duke replied, his face darkening.
"Didja see the news report?"
"I saw that too," Duke said. "Kusottare no nyusukyasuta........." he spat. (He just said, "Damn newscasters.....") (Speaking of Duke, where the heck is he?!? He's supposed to be in Battle City!!!!)
Kaya smiled wryly. "What time is it?" she asked.
"About 6:15," Duke replied.
"Do you always get up this early on school-less days?" Kaya asked, shaking her head.
"Nope," Duke replied. "Got a call from Yugi, saying you'd run out, and then that Isis chick called and said she'd seen you coming this way with that necklace......." He shrugged. "So I thought I'd wait." Then his tone became serious. "Why did you run off, Kaya?"
As soon as he said it, he wished he hadn't. She looked down at the ground, clenching her hands into fists.
"Erm, you wanna come inside?" Duke asked, looking up at the gray sky, from which a light rain was falling. Kaya nodded and trudged in, Duke following her.
He ignored the questioning looks from his employees getting ready to open the shop as he led Kaya into the back room. (*shrugs* It's that room that Duke's in after the DDM game w/ Yami.......ya'll know what I'm talking about, right?)
Duke grabbed her shoulders and pushed her onto the couch and tossed her a towel. Then he pushed a chair in front of the couch and sat down on it, and they were so close their knees were almost touching.
"Now, what happened?" Duke asked. Kaya sighed.
"I got in a huge fight with Yami," she answered.
"Ah. Go on."
"Well......" And suddenly she just started talking, words pouring out of her mouth faster than she could think them up.
"So you thought the dream might have some weird meaning, but Yami wouldn't listen because of the news report, and you got mad," Duke said, trying to figure out what Kaya had just told him. "I can't blame you for getting mad, though," he added quickly.
"He just made me so mad!" Kaya said, tears filling her eyes again.
"I know," Duke said quietly, putting his hand on her shoulder, and they sat in silence for a while.
"I'm gonna call Yugi, ok?" Duke said finally, getting up.
"No!" Kaya protested. "I don't want to go back yet!"
"I know, just........they sounded really worried.....I just wanna let them know you're ok," Duke said quickly. Kaya sighed in relief and nodded. He got up and walked out of the room. Kaya slumped back in her chair.
This was /not/ how she had wanted to spend her day off from school.
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"Kaya, stop thanking me already!"
Kaya just shook her head and smiled at Bakura. She was really grateful to him, for what he had done. He had offered to let Kaya stay at his house for a few days, until she went back to Yugi's.
"Where's Bakari?" she asked. The tomb robber had been another of her friends from Egypt, and she often had joined him on his escapades.
"Soul room," Bakura replied quietly. "He's been in there since the call." Kaya nodded solemnly. Then, quite suddenly, she threw her arms around him.
"It's not fair!" she wailed. "Why did Malik have to die?!"
Bakura was really surprised. He put his arms around her and felt tears fill his eyes. They stood in that position for a while, until Kaya finally let go.
"Are you hungry?" Bakura asked, wiping his eyes. "I sure am. I could probably eat a whole red elk!"
Kaya stared at him. "Did you just say.......a red elk?" He nodded. "You watch 'Princess Mononoke' too?!"
Bakura nodded, smiling weakly. "After we saw it at Yugi's house, my yami made me go out and buy it."
Kaya smiled, glad that she had a friend like Bakura. They were all wonderful......except for Yami.
'Are you blind, big brother?' she thought sadly.
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Mojobubbles: *sighs with relief* Another two chapters completed......we gave you a really long chapter to make up for the next one which is really short.
Kamilah: The next chapter awaits......
