Hey again! whole lil idea freaky idea that came to me in(...what the heck?) band and i didn't want to make it that long and really really freak you out.

*Yaku*: I hate you!

Kirsta: I love you too... and be happy that nothing else happened.

*Yami*: I hate you too...

Kirsta: and why would that be?

*Yami*: you made my daughter...

Kirsta: get over it! she's a big girl

*Caleia*: Nuh-uh! *Pouts*

*Kifa*: cwan we pweeese gwet some pweach and qwiet! Swome twoddwer war twying to twake a wap!

*the others pout*

*Chyugi*: swut wup or I twell Kwista to hwurt you!

Kirsta: *surprised look* they got some high vocab for two 3 yr olds... hey wait a minute, who taught you words like 'shut up'?!

*chibis fall fast asleep suddenly*

*Annya and Serashi whistle innocently*

Kirsta: ShoRans....

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Chapter 12: Shopping: Part II: Arcade and Splash!

After another unproductive dress trying session at a little boutique, the lil group decided to stray from their mission again. Mokuba suggested going to the arcade.

This mall had a huge arcade. there were the regular games that you'd expect at the arcade as well as several virtual reality games. They walked around to see what was there, and Mai immediately pointed out the Dance Dance Revolution game. Following her line of thought, Caleia insisted that Yaku and Yami try it out. Mokuba just giggled in the background at the thought. Yaku shrugged, even though he didn't really know what he was getting into, but Yami, who was watching the people on the machine next to the one there were at, refused.

"It's stupid!" he exclaimed.

"Who cares? It's fun," Caleia protested.

"C'mon, darling, do it for the girls?" Mai urged. Yami cringed at the name.

"No!" he flat out said. Mai pouted and gave him a puppy-dog face, which didn't work either. Caleia sighed as she tried to thing of another way to provoke Yami. And idea hit her.

"Okay, then how bout this? I CHALLENGE you to play. too scared to play the game?" Caleia taunted, knowing full well that the Game King could not possibly be able to refuse a challenge.

It seemed for a few moments that they might have underestimated Yami, for he was hesitating still, but Mokuba was the one that sealed the deal by say only ten words, but pushing him over the edge.

"Well, Seto would do it, he'd never refuse a challenge," he simply said, building on Caleia's lead. It worked.

"I have never refused a challenge, and I wasn't going to start now!" Yami retorted as he stepped onto the dance pad in defiance. the others laughed and he glared at them, aware that he had made a fool of himself and had fallen for their trap, but unable to back down because of his pride.

"Well, okay then, darlings. I presume you know how to play this game," Mai stated skeptically as Yami got on the same dance pad that Yaku was on. The two yamis looked at each other.

"Umm...actually, no," Yaku replied for the both of them.

"I guessed as much," Mia replied.

"Well, first of all, Yami, you have to get on this dancepad," Mokuba said and motioned to the adjacent dancepad. Yami flushed the slightest bit as he walked over.

"Okay, now, see the arrows on the pad?" Mai asked. "The screen will show arrows running up the screen, with the outline of the arrow somewhere around the top. when the arrow gets to the outline, you have to step on the corresponding arrow on the pad."

"Sounds easy enough," Yaku commented.

"And keep in mind that there is a reason this is called Dance Dance Revolution--you're supposed to be like you're dancing," Mai clarified.

"No.. really?" Yaku said exasperatingly, giving her a sarcastic thumbs up. 'I'm not that dumb.' Caleia dug out some money and stuck it in the machine, and after a little confusion with the yami's getting the game set up, they were off, on the easiest level, of course.

Yaku had his eyes glued on the screen, intent on getting this right. But as all experienced players of this game know, you won't do that well when you're all tense. Yaku was demonstrating this perfectly. It wasn't enough that he, no matter how he tried, couldn't line the arrows up perfectly, but he was getting so frustrated that he would bounce a little every time he made a mistake, which of course made it so he did even worse by adding in extra steps. Before long he was stomping on the pad, so hard they were afraid he'd break it.

Yami, on the other hand, stood on the center circle and watched the screen, reaching out a leg occasionally to step on an arrow before quickly hopping back to his original position. When he got a little more comfortable, he began jumping for arrow to center to another arrow, with both feet, with every move.

^^^Game Over^^^ the electronic voice announced as soon as that song was over. Yami looked mortally wounded at the score and announced while Yaku looked just plain pissed and, if not for the damage cost he'd have to pay the arcade owner, would be blowing up the machine with his shadow powers.

The two unhappy yamis turned around to see the others who adorned the embarrassed-by-association look. Caleia drew her hand slowly through her hair and had the slightly wide-eyed expression saying, 'I don't know them,' on her face. Mai had her hand on her forehead and shook her head slowly. Mokuba had his head down and his hand shielding his eyes, too embarrassed to watch.

"That was not 'fun,'' Yami stated, quoting Caleia's words from earlier.

"Well, its not my fault you both suck," Caleia retorted.

"If you're so great why don't you do it?" Yaku hissed.

"Fine," Caleia said. She looked at Mai and Mokuba, waiting for one of them to volunteer to do this with her. Mokuba answered.

"I'll do it," he said as he walked onto the other dancepad. they put in some more money and started the game, and, much to Yaku's surprise and disappointment, set the level to hard without a second though.

The music blared and the game started. Caleia and Mokuba moved with ease and hit all the marks with at least a 'good' rating. They actually looked like what you're supposed to look like--two synchronized dancers.

"You see, the problem you two had was that you were too tense. You have to feel the music and move with the beat," Caleia told Yami and Yaku without missing a beat. "you're pretty good, kid," she complimented Mokuba next.

"Thanks. Seto bought me one of these for my birthday cuz I wanted one. I've kept it in my room to play with," Mokuba answered, also never missing a beat.

"Ahh--" Caleia answered in comprehension.

"How the heck can you carry on a conversation and still not screw up!" Yaku exclaimed, annoyed, as he waited for either one of them to screw up so he'd be able to have a comeback statement.

"This isn't a hard song," Mokuba answered simply. "it gets a lot harder."

"Yeah," Celia supported. The song finished and the electronic voice came over the speakers again to announce their 'good job' and started loading the next song.

It loaded and a very fast-tempo song started playing. "Damn!" Caleia said sarcastically. "This'll be fun."

It was just that. The fast music and steps made it hard not to trip over yourself, which both almost did more than once, but they managed to get back on step quickly. From the viewpoint of Mai and the two yamis, the game looked just plain cool.

~~Game Over~~ the voice announced finally at the end of the song. Mokuba had beaten Caleia by a little, but both had surpassed the he-score, adding their names as 1st and 2nd on the list.

"Whoa! That was fun!" Mokuba exclaimed as he gave Caleia a hi-five--well, a low five for her, anyway. Yami and Yaku looked at them wide-eyes and gaping. Caleia eyed them playfully.

"So, boys, ready to try again?"

"My pleasure," Yaku said. Yami just nodded his head. they got back onto their respective dance pads and Caleia put some more money in the machine. It started up again, and being the smart-asses they are, Yaku and Yami decided to set the level to moderate instead of very easy. Caleia didn't say anything and instead, just looked over to Mai and Mokuba. The three of them exchanged a look that clearly said, 'Oh my god/Ra--dumb yamis, dumb yamis.'

Luckily, the first song was fairly slow, and, after about 50 reminders to loosen up, the two finally got the hand of it about midway through the song.

"Good job, c'mon, keep it up!" Caleia cheered. (*cringe* too much like Tea) The song finished and showed a decent score for both of them before loading another song-- Wild Drive (Japanese 3rd Yu-Gi-Oh! Opening, really fast paced.) Caleia eyes Mai and Mokuba again--they were all thinking the same thing--'uh-oh.'

It didn't go that bad--at first--; the two were able to manage to keep up--then came a moderately complicated footwork section. Yami got about four steps in before his feet crossed each other and he fell off the pad and flat on his face on the floor.

"Ow..." he said matter-of-factly as he rolled onto his back.

"Are you okay, daddy?" Caleia said in a little kid voice as she rushed to his side. Yami turned his face to face his 'lil girl' and nodded. Yaku burst out laughing.

"Awwww, poor Pharaoh!" he mocked. Yami glared at him.

"Fuck off, damn tomb robber," he retorted as he sat up. Yaku snickered. That move, however, had some bad side effects, as it had taken away form the tomb robber-s attention. The lapse in concentration caused Yaku's feet to tangle and him to trip over himself. Very unfortunately for him, he fell towards the bar that separated the two dancepads and hit his head on it, effectively knocking him out.

"Yaku!!" Caleia cried as she went over to check on the unconscious yami. "He's out cold," she announced, then added, "dumbass." Mai, Mokuba, and Yami looked at her, surprised, then laughed.

"Well, he it," Caleia defended. "He knew he sucked at this and he still took his attention away. Serves him right.

"Agreed, but now what do we do with him?" Mai asked.

"Drag him out," Yami replied, then added, "And I guess we should try to wake him." ***********************************************************************

No, THAT'S NOT THE END OF THIS CHAPTER, it should be, but I'm hyper right now and I feel like posting up more so I'm not gonna start a new chappie but continue this cuz the next parts too short.

*Yaku*: I hate you. I DO NOT act that way.

Kirsta: Oh and by the way, Yaku is outta character (as he would probably just blow the guy up or kill him) but I thought it was funny, and freaky enough to keep...lol

*Yaku*: I hate you.

Kirsta: Love ya too!

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"C'mon, Yaku, get up," Caleia coaxed. The white-haired boy was beginning to regain consciousness and was lying on the side of the fountain.

"I don't wanna go to school, Mommy," Yaku mumbled. Caleia gave Yami, who stood next to her, a puzzled look.

"Yaku, get up," she said again in a commanding voice. Yaku stirred more, then opened on eye.

"Oh, it's only you," he mumbled and rolled onto his side facing away from the former princess.

"Yaku, don't make me hurt you," Caleia threatened.

"What are you going to do to me?" Yaku taunted back. Then he opened his eyes and saw that he was on the edge of the fountain, precariously close to the edge by the water, I might add. "Oh shi----"

*SPLASH*

In one quick motion, Caleia had pushed Yaku into the fountain, effectively waking him up completely as well as soaking the rest of his body that wasn't affected by having to jump in earlier.

Yaku surfaced, his hair plastered down and clothes dripping wet, and cursed at Caleia in their native tongue.

"Watch your mouth," Yami snapped. Yaku, for once, actually shut up, a first. Yami looked at him, surprised. Yaku got out and flicked some water at Caleia, then excused himself to go to the bathroom, presumably to stand under the hand dryer for a while.

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*Chibis*: Gwo Caweia!

*Yaku glares at them.*

*eveyrone else laughs*

hehehehehehehehehehehe *SPLASH* i like that... the next chappie'll be really short and i know exactly what'll happen.

*Yaku*: so do it *groans* I hate you.

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