Asuka02RedEva
Serenitymoon@lycos.com
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi Oh! or any of the characters used in this story, however, the story is mine so please do not steal.
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I was so pleased to get as many reviews as I did for chapter 1. I really hope that you enjoy chapter 2 even more. Just a quick author's note; Yami's past name has not been revealed in the manga, therefore, the whole "nameless" pharaoh bit is in place.
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A few moments passed and still Yami and Kaiba stood; each of them speechless (well, there is a first time for everything). The last glimpse either had seen were their former selves running off toward town; on their way to reak havic at the festival.
"I think we should...," began Yami, starting after them.
"...Oh, most definately...," replied Kaiba, who headed after the two boys at a fast pace.
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The two quickly arrived at the festival grounds...
Yami blinked, it was like a scene from the picture book Yuugi had in his room; some Al guy with a magic lamp.
Kaiba practically stood in shock, taking in his surroundings.
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'Acrobats, magicians, even a guy who says he can breath fire...with two kids tampering with...' Yami's thoughts were cut short as realization dawned on him.
"..K-Kaiba...I think you should..."
"Get one thing straight, Yami, I'm NOT going to start taking orders from you; so don't say what YOU think I should and should not do.," interrupted Kaiba, very smug like, brushing away dirt from the shoulders of his jacket.
"...Kaiba would you just shut up and look?"
"What did I tell you about giving orders Phar---"
Before he could finish Yami had already taken the liberty of turning Kaiba's head for him...
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The small Pharaoh in training had crawled behind a table and was curiously rummaging through odds and ends marked "highly flammable".
Another tiny figure was seen crawling as fast as his little hands and knees would allow him to go.
"What are you doing?!," he whispered quite loudly.
The would be Pharaoh held up his index finger and hushed his friend.
"Quiet, Seto. Don't be so loud, I am only seeing what this man has in his boxes behind the table. You know, what mother said about when you have something that someone else doesn't; you should share."
Seto sweatdropped, somehow thinking his friend was just a little confused about how this whole sharing thing worked.
"Seto?," asked the young prince.
"What is it?," he replied, arching an eyebrow (unfortunately, multi-tasking was not his strong point, because arching an eyebrow caused his funny little had to slide down ^.^).
"What does...," he too arched an eyebrow, his crown sliding down...he sweatdropped... "...highly fla...fam...flama..ma..."
"Flammable?," asked Seto fixing his hat and reading over his Prince's shoulder.
The young prince straightened his crown and regained his composure. "...Yes...what is flam..ma...mab...what is it?"
Seto shrugged and shook his head. "...I don't know..."
His companion merely shrugged as well in reply; figuring it couldn't be anything too important.
"Oh! I know!," whispered the prince loudly, holding up one of the glass jars in his hand and feeling rather superior that he solved this mystery first.
"What?! What?!," asked Seto getting so excited that his hat slid over his eyes. (well at least his isn't a puppy right? ...we all know what happens when puppies get excited. ^.^()...)
"It is...," he began, pointing his index finger out in front of himself (jar in his other hand), "...A name label..." He had a face like Sherlock Holmes after one of his "Elementary, my dear Watson" speeches; as his crown slid down over one eye.
Seto sat in front of his friend (his hat covering his eyes), and a sweatdrop forming.
"...A name label???"
"Do not tell me that you of all people are not aware of what a name label is," he began, arching an eye brow, "it is like the label your mother puts on your undergarments when you stay at the palace over night."
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Yami was busy trying to hide a smirk; while Kaiba was busy trying to keep his dignity...
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"...Highly flammable is not a name," whispered Seto.
"How do you know? You do not even know what flam...ma....IT means."
Seto scowled at the young prince. "Well at least I can say flammable."
The would be Pharaoh smirked. "You are eight, Seto; I am only five--you should know the meanings of words, perhaps you are a little on the slow side?"
Seto puffed out his cheeks and scrunched up his nose.
"...You know, if you do not breath, you will pass out..." stated the prince with a smirk.
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A smack was heard as the prince's lacky hit him upside the head with his hat. Unfortunately, by doing so, the jar marked "highly flammable" slipped out of the prince's hand.
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!!!!!BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!
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Kaiba and Yami both stood perfectly still for a moment.
"I told you s-" began Yami, only to be interrupted.
"...Shut up..." replied Kaiba, "You know, this is all YOUR fault, right?"
Yami stood next to his "I hate field trips" companion, and nearly had his mouth drop open.
"MY fault? I was standing next to YOU, so how could I be ---"
"You know what I mean!" he yelled, his patience wearing thin.
"Still, wasn't my fault, you're the one with the former self, who can't take a joke...and had to resort to violence..."
"It was a hat!" yelled Kaiba in his defense.
"...To think, you started so young..."
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Two little boys walked away from a gathering crowd; the people commenting on how the man was not a fire breather at all, and the Gods were punishing the man.
Both of their faces were covered in black residue, with only the whites of their eyes showing...
The little prince's crown fell lopsided over one of his eyes, and his lacky's hat slid down covering both of his eyes; as they walked away from the scene of the crime.
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...My, my...the Gods have a sick sense of humor...
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"Hurry now, good people! Purchase the finest silk in all the land! Why even the Pharaoh himself would buy such flawless material; nothing could mark or take away the beauty of this---" the man was cut short as he heard people commenting about the silk he was trying to sell.
"Not a mark on it?"
"What does he think? We were born just yesterday?"
"What ugly black smudges on such expensive looking material."
The man turned around to see what could possibly be wrong with the silk. His eyes grew quite large when he found black smudges in the middle of the pieces of silk.
He then blinked as two shapes appeared before his very eyes...yes, the shape of two smooshed faces imprinted on his fine silk...which proved one fact: the culprits were not very tall...one 3 1/2 feet tall at most, the other 4 foot 5".
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"We were lucky, Seto. I mean, finding those towels there to wipe our faces off.," stated the prince as he walked down the dirt path with his friend.
"...The towels were very soft, though." pondered Seto as he kept right on walking.
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Yami and Kaiba were following the small path to destruction, their former selves were creating.
"...You were one of those children that could have used ritalin." stated Kaiba as he stepped out of the way as a flock of animals ran by.
The keeper of the animals ranting about how "someone" (or a couple someones), had opened the cages.
Yami now stood on one side of the path, while Kaiba stood across from him on the other side (animals running between them).
"Oh, if I needed ritalin then you needed a brain," Yami said with a smirk, standing on his side.
Kaiba had only heard bits and pieces of Yami's comment.
"I don't give a damn about rain!"
Yami sweatdropped and then sighed. '...Well, you can't give someone a hard time about being brainless if they do not care.'
...The last of the animals ran by...
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"Those are the two who ruined my silk!," yelled the shop keeper to a nearby guard, pointing to the two boys up ahead.
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The two young boys ran just as fast as their little legs would carry them.
The fabric of Seto's tunik had gotten caught under his feet and he fell to the ground face first.
The little prince heard his fallen comrad cry out for help. He kept on running (slow motion), turning his head to see his fallen friend, then the guard...he gasped...then turned back in the direction of fleeing (and smirked). (Back to Seto, guard, gasp, and smirk).
He then ran back, grapped Seto by the hand and dragged him down the dirt path quickly (well as quickly as a five year old dragging an eight year old can go).
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The guard stopped a few feet from the two "delinquents" hiding place.
"Are you positive you saw them, Sir?" asked the guard.
"Yes! Of course I saw them, you dare assume that I am a liar?!" yelled the shopkeeper looking around, before beginning a rant.
Nearby a head popped up, watching the ranting man and the palace guard.
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'Hmm...looks like father enrolled yet another lacky...what the???'
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"Sir, I said nothing of the sort. I merely do not see the criminals, I only see a snake charmer and a few camels."
...In back of the two men...
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The little prince's eyes went wide as he found himself floating above a woven basket, the guard and the ranting man in front of him. He gasped, finding he wasn't floating...he was on a cobra...a big...cobra...
He quickly covered his mouth with both of his hands, and proceeded to kick the cobra, trying to lure it back into the woven basket.
...Too bad, not a good thought...(see the cobra wrap around him and pull him back into the basket quickly).
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The snake charmer had turned his attention back to the baskets, looking quite puzzled as to why the cobras were not rising from their baskets.
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Meanwhile in Seto's basket...
'Oh Ra! Oh Ra! Why did it have to be snakes?! Ack! Don't touch me!'
See Seto bouncing around in the small woven basket trying to avoid the cobra....who apparently had not eaten lunch yet...
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"Dammit! We lost them! This is all---"
"...You say this is my fault one more time, Kaiba, and so help me Ra..."
Both sweatdropped overhearing the ranting man, going on about delinquents and how Egypt has a crime problem in its mitts!
"I'll handle this; if we expect to find them then we can't have you screwing things up." stated Kaiba with his arrogance shining through.
'...Should I tell him? Nope. Not after a remark like that. Let him make an ass out of himself.'
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Kaiba made his way to the two men; his posture would have shone anyone that he was a true business man.
"Excuse me, gentleman, but the children that you speak of are..." he trailed off, noticing that neither of the two men were listening. His eye began to twitch. Obviously they had no idea who they were dealing with. "ExCUSE ME, gentlemen..."
"I say the little criminals be punished severely!" yelled the shopkeeper.
"Yes Sir, I will see to it that the culprits are brought to justice." stated the guard, sweatdropping.
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Yami stayed on the sidelines, smirking away. He could see how upset being ignored was making Kaiba.
He took in a deep breath and sighed happily. Oh yes, it was a good day indeed.
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Kaiba's patience level could now be compared to that of Donald Duck's (see the little angel level rising).
"Would you two stop talking and listen to me, dammit?!"
The two men turned toward Kaiba and both looked terribly angry.
"What's going on?!" they both yelled in unison, apparently going to advance.
Kaiba knew what would follow all too well (cuz we all know that Kaiba NEVER fights...cuz it's bad...^.^). He decided it would be best to get the upperhand...it wasn't like Yami was going to help him, after all...but that was fine, he didn't need Yami. He put all of his force into a solid blow...only to watch himself go sailing past the guard and through his (the guard's), middle.
With a THUD he slid face first to the ground, as the two men ran off, after a man who had stolen from a nearby shop.
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Yami still stood on the sidelines, a camel munching next to him. He snickered quietly (the camel snickering too), watching the entire embarrassing ordeal. The ending result (being the best for Yami), was Kaiba landing in a "graceful" heap on the ground.
"Well, I told you he was a hot head."
The camel looked around briefly, sweatdropped, and went back to its meal.
Yami sighed and then sweatdropped when he saw Kaiba's face...his eyes staring right at him...
"What????" he asked innocently.
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The basket the young prince was in toppled over and onto its side. The little prince slowly crawled on his hands and knees (gasping for breath), away from the basket.
His eyes suddenly went wide and a sweatdrop formed on the side of his head as he found himself being pulled backwards...
He looked over his shoulder to find the cobra had wrapped its tail around his ankle.
He started crawling frantically, arms and legs flailing...
"Seto?! Seto?!" he whispered, obviously he was losing this battle....
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Seto's eyes were quite large (the size of sausages to be exact ^.^), and he was turning blue.
The cobra had wrapped its entire body around the small boy.
'Oh Ra! Oh Ra! I am going to die and no one will ever find my body! All they will find is a very large snake! Why didn't I listen to the priests?! Stay in the palace and study they say...but do I listen? Nooooo, I have to run off with---"
....He felt the basket whobble...
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"Seto?!" whispered the prince.
He was busy hanging onto the side of the basket for dear life. He had managed to open the lid of the basket Seto was in.
"Seto! You have to help m--" he trailed off slowly, seeing the large cobra wrapped around his friend.
He held the lid to the basket in one hand...
"...My apologies..."
With that he placed the lid back on the basket...
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Seto's eyes went as wide as they possibly could. He could not believe what had just happened.
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The little prince waitied and waited...until he saw Seto shoot up and out of the basket in an uproar.
"Well it is about time." he commented, nonchalantly, "I mean it is not as if I have more pressing matters to attend to..."
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Seto gave the prince a glare of death.
"H-How...c-could y-you?!," he stuttered, shaking his little fists out in front of him.
The prince merely sweatdropped. My goodness, wasn't Seto selfish? Only thinking of himself....when it had been HE who had been the one to free him (Seto) from the basket of doom.
(Note: Make a person mad enough and you'd be surpised what they can do).
He sighed, holding onto a weak leg of a table.
"...Are you going to stop talking long enough to save me?"
Seto blinked and had an "Oh yeah!" look on his face.
"Sure, why not?"
He shrugged and proceeded to pull his friend away from the cobra...
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Kaiba marched up to Yami with looks that could kill.
"You...You knew...how...could YOU?"
Yami figured that the "Who me?" approach wouldn't get him very far...that and Kaiba had longer legs...so running wouldn't work...
Instead he merely smirked and shrugged. "It was merely common sense, Kaiba, which apparently you ---"
Kaiba fumed, brushing himself off. "...Don't even say it..."
Yami sighed, another low blow...so close, yet so far away...
"You see, we do not exist in this era, Kaiba. I knew that the moment we saw ourselves as children running down the street."
"...Fine, fine...so you are brighter than you look." shot back Kaiba, still not seeing their former selves in sight. "...But that still doesn't explain what we're doing here in the first place..."
Yami hmmm'd for a moment and then it dawned on him.
"Actually Kaiba, it makes plenty of sense," he began, "you see when we were arguing earlier today at the museum, we were comparing one another to children. Therefore, the tablet must have reacted..."
"This is NOT my idea of a vacation. Why the hell couldn't YOU have been sucked in alone??? You just are hell bent on tourchering me, aren't you?"
"...Don't flatter yourself, Kaiba..." muttered Yami under his breath.
"Well isn't this just great? How the hell are we supposed to get back?!"
Yami shrugged. "Not a clue."
Kaiba nearly fell over backwards, and opened his mouth to say something.
"There must be something that we are meant to see before we will be sent back." explained Yami.
"Whatever. Let's just go find them. The sooner we do, the sooner I can go home."
Yami rolled his eyes and followed after Kaiba.
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"Pull harder, Seto!"
"I AM pulling!"
"Almost there..."
"One more pull and I'll have you free..."
"ACK!!!!"
See two little boys roll backwards down a hill and into the Nile River....
...Floating down the stream toward the palace. Which would have been fine; if the Nile didn't have crocodiles....
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"That's it! We've looked everywhere!," yelled Kaiba in frustration, throwing his hands up in the air and almost cleaning Yami's clock.
Yami moved back quickly. He had never seen Kaiba this way and it was starting to scare him. He had remained quiet throughout the entire search, hoping to keep a quarrel with Kaiba from occuring. ...However, he had still had to listen to Kaiba "bitch bitch bitch" the entire time.
"...Kaiba ...it is getting dark out, I am pretty sure that they would have returned to the palace by now."
Kaiba sweatdropped and started off for the palace...
Yami sweatdropped as well and stopped. "...It's...this way..." he stated, pointing left.
Kaiba glared and stomped past him, now heading in the right direction.
Yami sighed and followed after Kaiba....
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A river and the entire poplulation of Egypt's crocodiles later...
The two boys slowly walked up the stairs to the palace, both looking like drowned rats...
Both had holes in their tuniks. The prince's crown was lopsided over one of his eyes. Seto's hat was flopping, as he took out a fish and tossed it into a palace fountain.
As the palace doors came into view they saw a guard waiting for them.
"What in the name of Ra have you two been up to?!" he blurted out before remembering what the Pharaoh had told him. "No time for that now, you are going to be late, young prince. You must quickly change. The guests will arrive soon. Seto go to the priest's chambers quickly, they will have your attire waiting for you."
"...Guests???" asked the prince, arching an eyebrow.
"Why of course, the dinner tonight, now hurry!"
With that the guard dragged the prince down the hall. The prince waved "bye bye" to Seto as a SMACK was heard.
Seto sweatdropped....only hearing a comment about how they put pillars in the oddest places in the palace.
The prince (@_@) was out of commission...
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Yami and Kaiba had finally made their way up the palace stairs...
Both blinked at the long line awaiting to get inside....
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That's it for now! I'll try to get chapter 3 up in a week to two. hope you liked it. sorry about any mistakes, been really hectic at home...ja ne ^.^ hoping for reviews.
Serenitymoon@lycos.com
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi Oh! or any of the characters used in this story, however, the story is mine so please do not steal.
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I was so pleased to get as many reviews as I did for chapter 1. I really hope that you enjoy chapter 2 even more. Just a quick author's note; Yami's past name has not been revealed in the manga, therefore, the whole "nameless" pharaoh bit is in place.
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A few moments passed and still Yami and Kaiba stood; each of them speechless (well, there is a first time for everything). The last glimpse either had seen were their former selves running off toward town; on their way to reak havic at the festival.
"I think we should...," began Yami, starting after them.
"...Oh, most definately...," replied Kaiba, who headed after the two boys at a fast pace.
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The two quickly arrived at the festival grounds...
Yami blinked, it was like a scene from the picture book Yuugi had in his room; some Al guy with a magic lamp.
Kaiba practically stood in shock, taking in his surroundings.
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'Acrobats, magicians, even a guy who says he can breath fire...with two kids tampering with...' Yami's thoughts were cut short as realization dawned on him.
"..K-Kaiba...I think you should..."
"Get one thing straight, Yami, I'm NOT going to start taking orders from you; so don't say what YOU think I should and should not do.," interrupted Kaiba, very smug like, brushing away dirt from the shoulders of his jacket.
"...Kaiba would you just shut up and look?"
"What did I tell you about giving orders Phar---"
Before he could finish Yami had already taken the liberty of turning Kaiba's head for him...
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The small Pharaoh in training had crawled behind a table and was curiously rummaging through odds and ends marked "highly flammable".
Another tiny figure was seen crawling as fast as his little hands and knees would allow him to go.
"What are you doing?!," he whispered quite loudly.
The would be Pharaoh held up his index finger and hushed his friend.
"Quiet, Seto. Don't be so loud, I am only seeing what this man has in his boxes behind the table. You know, what mother said about when you have something that someone else doesn't; you should share."
Seto sweatdropped, somehow thinking his friend was just a little confused about how this whole sharing thing worked.
"Seto?," asked the young prince.
"What is it?," he replied, arching an eyebrow (unfortunately, multi-tasking was not his strong point, because arching an eyebrow caused his funny little had to slide down ^.^).
"What does...," he too arched an eyebrow, his crown sliding down...he sweatdropped... "...highly fla...fam...flama..ma..."
"Flammable?," asked Seto fixing his hat and reading over his Prince's shoulder.
The young prince straightened his crown and regained his composure. "...Yes...what is flam..ma...mab...what is it?"
Seto shrugged and shook his head. "...I don't know..."
His companion merely shrugged as well in reply; figuring it couldn't be anything too important.
"Oh! I know!," whispered the prince loudly, holding up one of the glass jars in his hand and feeling rather superior that he solved this mystery first.
"What?! What?!," asked Seto getting so excited that his hat slid over his eyes. (well at least his isn't a puppy right? ...we all know what happens when puppies get excited. ^.^()...)
"It is...," he began, pointing his index finger out in front of himself (jar in his other hand), "...A name label..." He had a face like Sherlock Holmes after one of his "Elementary, my dear Watson" speeches; as his crown slid down over one eye.
Seto sat in front of his friend (his hat covering his eyes), and a sweatdrop forming.
"...A name label???"
"Do not tell me that you of all people are not aware of what a name label is," he began, arching an eye brow, "it is like the label your mother puts on your undergarments when you stay at the palace over night."
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Yami was busy trying to hide a smirk; while Kaiba was busy trying to keep his dignity...
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"...Highly flammable is not a name," whispered Seto.
"How do you know? You do not even know what flam...ma....IT means."
Seto scowled at the young prince. "Well at least I can say flammable."
The would be Pharaoh smirked. "You are eight, Seto; I am only five--you should know the meanings of words, perhaps you are a little on the slow side?"
Seto puffed out his cheeks and scrunched up his nose.
"...You know, if you do not breath, you will pass out..." stated the prince with a smirk.
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A smack was heard as the prince's lacky hit him upside the head with his hat. Unfortunately, by doing so, the jar marked "highly flammable" slipped out of the prince's hand.
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!!!!!BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!
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Kaiba and Yami both stood perfectly still for a moment.
"I told you s-" began Yami, only to be interrupted.
"...Shut up..." replied Kaiba, "You know, this is all YOUR fault, right?"
Yami stood next to his "I hate field trips" companion, and nearly had his mouth drop open.
"MY fault? I was standing next to YOU, so how could I be ---"
"You know what I mean!" he yelled, his patience wearing thin.
"Still, wasn't my fault, you're the one with the former self, who can't take a joke...and had to resort to violence..."
"It was a hat!" yelled Kaiba in his defense.
"...To think, you started so young..."
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Two little boys walked away from a gathering crowd; the people commenting on how the man was not a fire breather at all, and the Gods were punishing the man.
Both of their faces were covered in black residue, with only the whites of their eyes showing...
The little prince's crown fell lopsided over one of his eyes, and his lacky's hat slid down covering both of his eyes; as they walked away from the scene of the crime.
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...My, my...the Gods have a sick sense of humor...
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"Hurry now, good people! Purchase the finest silk in all the land! Why even the Pharaoh himself would buy such flawless material; nothing could mark or take away the beauty of this---" the man was cut short as he heard people commenting about the silk he was trying to sell.
"Not a mark on it?"
"What does he think? We were born just yesterday?"
"What ugly black smudges on such expensive looking material."
The man turned around to see what could possibly be wrong with the silk. His eyes grew quite large when he found black smudges in the middle of the pieces of silk.
He then blinked as two shapes appeared before his very eyes...yes, the shape of two smooshed faces imprinted on his fine silk...which proved one fact: the culprits were not very tall...one 3 1/2 feet tall at most, the other 4 foot 5".
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"We were lucky, Seto. I mean, finding those towels there to wipe our faces off.," stated the prince as he walked down the dirt path with his friend.
"...The towels were very soft, though." pondered Seto as he kept right on walking.
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Yami and Kaiba were following the small path to destruction, their former selves were creating.
"...You were one of those children that could have used ritalin." stated Kaiba as he stepped out of the way as a flock of animals ran by.
The keeper of the animals ranting about how "someone" (or a couple someones), had opened the cages.
Yami now stood on one side of the path, while Kaiba stood across from him on the other side (animals running between them).
"Oh, if I needed ritalin then you needed a brain," Yami said with a smirk, standing on his side.
Kaiba had only heard bits and pieces of Yami's comment.
"I don't give a damn about rain!"
Yami sweatdropped and then sighed. '...Well, you can't give someone a hard time about being brainless if they do not care.'
...The last of the animals ran by...
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"Those are the two who ruined my silk!," yelled the shop keeper to a nearby guard, pointing to the two boys up ahead.
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The two young boys ran just as fast as their little legs would carry them.
The fabric of Seto's tunik had gotten caught under his feet and he fell to the ground face first.
The little prince heard his fallen comrad cry out for help. He kept on running (slow motion), turning his head to see his fallen friend, then the guard...he gasped...then turned back in the direction of fleeing (and smirked). (Back to Seto, guard, gasp, and smirk).
He then ran back, grapped Seto by the hand and dragged him down the dirt path quickly (well as quickly as a five year old dragging an eight year old can go).
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The guard stopped a few feet from the two "delinquents" hiding place.
"Are you positive you saw them, Sir?" asked the guard.
"Yes! Of course I saw them, you dare assume that I am a liar?!" yelled the shopkeeper looking around, before beginning a rant.
Nearby a head popped up, watching the ranting man and the palace guard.
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'Hmm...looks like father enrolled yet another lacky...what the???'
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"Sir, I said nothing of the sort. I merely do not see the criminals, I only see a snake charmer and a few camels."
...In back of the two men...
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The little prince's eyes went wide as he found himself floating above a woven basket, the guard and the ranting man in front of him. He gasped, finding he wasn't floating...he was on a cobra...a big...cobra...
He quickly covered his mouth with both of his hands, and proceeded to kick the cobra, trying to lure it back into the woven basket.
...Too bad, not a good thought...(see the cobra wrap around him and pull him back into the basket quickly).
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The snake charmer had turned his attention back to the baskets, looking quite puzzled as to why the cobras were not rising from their baskets.
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Meanwhile in Seto's basket...
'Oh Ra! Oh Ra! Why did it have to be snakes?! Ack! Don't touch me!'
See Seto bouncing around in the small woven basket trying to avoid the cobra....who apparently had not eaten lunch yet...
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"Dammit! We lost them! This is all---"
"...You say this is my fault one more time, Kaiba, and so help me Ra..."
Both sweatdropped overhearing the ranting man, going on about delinquents and how Egypt has a crime problem in its mitts!
"I'll handle this; if we expect to find them then we can't have you screwing things up." stated Kaiba with his arrogance shining through.
'...Should I tell him? Nope. Not after a remark like that. Let him make an ass out of himself.'
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Kaiba made his way to the two men; his posture would have shone anyone that he was a true business man.
"Excuse me, gentleman, but the children that you speak of are..." he trailed off, noticing that neither of the two men were listening. His eye began to twitch. Obviously they had no idea who they were dealing with. "ExCUSE ME, gentlemen..."
"I say the little criminals be punished severely!" yelled the shopkeeper.
"Yes Sir, I will see to it that the culprits are brought to justice." stated the guard, sweatdropping.
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Yami stayed on the sidelines, smirking away. He could see how upset being ignored was making Kaiba.
He took in a deep breath and sighed happily. Oh yes, it was a good day indeed.
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Kaiba's patience level could now be compared to that of Donald Duck's (see the little angel level rising).
"Would you two stop talking and listen to me, dammit?!"
The two men turned toward Kaiba and both looked terribly angry.
"What's going on?!" they both yelled in unison, apparently going to advance.
Kaiba knew what would follow all too well (cuz we all know that Kaiba NEVER fights...cuz it's bad...^.^). He decided it would be best to get the upperhand...it wasn't like Yami was going to help him, after all...but that was fine, he didn't need Yami. He put all of his force into a solid blow...only to watch himself go sailing past the guard and through his (the guard's), middle.
With a THUD he slid face first to the ground, as the two men ran off, after a man who had stolen from a nearby shop.
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Yami still stood on the sidelines, a camel munching next to him. He snickered quietly (the camel snickering too), watching the entire embarrassing ordeal. The ending result (being the best for Yami), was Kaiba landing in a "graceful" heap on the ground.
"Well, I told you he was a hot head."
The camel looked around briefly, sweatdropped, and went back to its meal.
Yami sighed and then sweatdropped when he saw Kaiba's face...his eyes staring right at him...
"What????" he asked innocently.
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The basket the young prince was in toppled over and onto its side. The little prince slowly crawled on his hands and knees (gasping for breath), away from the basket.
His eyes suddenly went wide and a sweatdrop formed on the side of his head as he found himself being pulled backwards...
He looked over his shoulder to find the cobra had wrapped its tail around his ankle.
He started crawling frantically, arms and legs flailing...
"Seto?! Seto?!" he whispered, obviously he was losing this battle....
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Seto's eyes were quite large (the size of sausages to be exact ^.^), and he was turning blue.
The cobra had wrapped its entire body around the small boy.
'Oh Ra! Oh Ra! I am going to die and no one will ever find my body! All they will find is a very large snake! Why didn't I listen to the priests?! Stay in the palace and study they say...but do I listen? Nooooo, I have to run off with---"
....He felt the basket whobble...
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"Seto?!" whispered the prince.
He was busy hanging onto the side of the basket for dear life. He had managed to open the lid of the basket Seto was in.
"Seto! You have to help m--" he trailed off slowly, seeing the large cobra wrapped around his friend.
He held the lid to the basket in one hand...
"...My apologies..."
With that he placed the lid back on the basket...
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Seto's eyes went as wide as they possibly could. He could not believe what had just happened.
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The little prince waitied and waited...until he saw Seto shoot up and out of the basket in an uproar.
"Well it is about time." he commented, nonchalantly, "I mean it is not as if I have more pressing matters to attend to..."
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Seto gave the prince a glare of death.
"H-How...c-could y-you?!," he stuttered, shaking his little fists out in front of him.
The prince merely sweatdropped. My goodness, wasn't Seto selfish? Only thinking of himself....when it had been HE who had been the one to free him (Seto) from the basket of doom.
(Note: Make a person mad enough and you'd be surpised what they can do).
He sighed, holding onto a weak leg of a table.
"...Are you going to stop talking long enough to save me?"
Seto blinked and had an "Oh yeah!" look on his face.
"Sure, why not?"
He shrugged and proceeded to pull his friend away from the cobra...
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Kaiba marched up to Yami with looks that could kill.
"You...You knew...how...could YOU?"
Yami figured that the "Who me?" approach wouldn't get him very far...that and Kaiba had longer legs...so running wouldn't work...
Instead he merely smirked and shrugged. "It was merely common sense, Kaiba, which apparently you ---"
Kaiba fumed, brushing himself off. "...Don't even say it..."
Yami sighed, another low blow...so close, yet so far away...
"You see, we do not exist in this era, Kaiba. I knew that the moment we saw ourselves as children running down the street."
"...Fine, fine...so you are brighter than you look." shot back Kaiba, still not seeing their former selves in sight. "...But that still doesn't explain what we're doing here in the first place..."
Yami hmmm'd for a moment and then it dawned on him.
"Actually Kaiba, it makes plenty of sense," he began, "you see when we were arguing earlier today at the museum, we were comparing one another to children. Therefore, the tablet must have reacted..."
"This is NOT my idea of a vacation. Why the hell couldn't YOU have been sucked in alone??? You just are hell bent on tourchering me, aren't you?"
"...Don't flatter yourself, Kaiba..." muttered Yami under his breath.
"Well isn't this just great? How the hell are we supposed to get back?!"
Yami shrugged. "Not a clue."
Kaiba nearly fell over backwards, and opened his mouth to say something.
"There must be something that we are meant to see before we will be sent back." explained Yami.
"Whatever. Let's just go find them. The sooner we do, the sooner I can go home."
Yami rolled his eyes and followed after Kaiba.
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"Pull harder, Seto!"
"I AM pulling!"
"Almost there..."
"One more pull and I'll have you free..."
"ACK!!!!"
See two little boys roll backwards down a hill and into the Nile River....
...Floating down the stream toward the palace. Which would have been fine; if the Nile didn't have crocodiles....
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"That's it! We've looked everywhere!," yelled Kaiba in frustration, throwing his hands up in the air and almost cleaning Yami's clock.
Yami moved back quickly. He had never seen Kaiba this way and it was starting to scare him. He had remained quiet throughout the entire search, hoping to keep a quarrel with Kaiba from occuring. ...However, he had still had to listen to Kaiba "bitch bitch bitch" the entire time.
"...Kaiba ...it is getting dark out, I am pretty sure that they would have returned to the palace by now."
Kaiba sweatdropped and started off for the palace...
Yami sweatdropped as well and stopped. "...It's...this way..." he stated, pointing left.
Kaiba glared and stomped past him, now heading in the right direction.
Yami sighed and followed after Kaiba....
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A river and the entire poplulation of Egypt's crocodiles later...
The two boys slowly walked up the stairs to the palace, both looking like drowned rats...
Both had holes in their tuniks. The prince's crown was lopsided over one of his eyes. Seto's hat was flopping, as he took out a fish and tossed it into a palace fountain.
As the palace doors came into view they saw a guard waiting for them.
"What in the name of Ra have you two been up to?!" he blurted out before remembering what the Pharaoh had told him. "No time for that now, you are going to be late, young prince. You must quickly change. The guests will arrive soon. Seto go to the priest's chambers quickly, they will have your attire waiting for you."
"...Guests???" asked the prince, arching an eyebrow.
"Why of course, the dinner tonight, now hurry!"
With that the guard dragged the prince down the hall. The prince waved "bye bye" to Seto as a SMACK was heard.
Seto sweatdropped....only hearing a comment about how they put pillars in the oddest places in the palace.
The prince (@_@) was out of commission...
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Yami and Kaiba had finally made their way up the palace stairs...
Both blinked at the long line awaiting to get inside....
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That's it for now! I'll try to get chapter 3 up in a week to two. hope you liked it. sorry about any mistakes, been really hectic at home...ja ne ^.^ hoping for reviews.
