I'm truly sorry to have put the previous characters through such a horrible chapter. It seems I'm loosing my edge. I only hope this one is better.

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Under The Warps

Entry 09: The Reunion

("Under the Warps" is back in its final hour. Subreality is quiet now, like Sunday during church hours. But soon the stillness will die as mindless fillers and throwaway characters crowd the sidewalks and the streets. Total peace… the reality only submissive to a god. Being me.)

(The outskirts of the Kaiba mansion are calm as we near. Both iron gates are opened, stretching outward like arms for a giant hug. The cold barren frontal landscaping, consisting of a few bushes and what not, lets off a clean-cut impression.)

(When we have reached the door, which is half open, the shouts and laughter can be heard from inside. Kaiba can be clearly heard within the house calling after Jou; who we see as we enter one of the many large living rooms.)

Q: All right people calm down and take your seats. Sorry about using your house Kaiba, but it seemed fitting.

Kaiba: Keyword: seemed. I'm hoping you'll fix the havoc Yami Malik has caused, these carpets don't clean themselves.

Q: Right, but we have an interview top get to. First question: With the increasing amount of Yu-Gi-Oh! fics, what do you find most annoying?

Y. Bakura: Sappy tales of love and loss, I swear to Ra I've seen almost the same plot within all of them.

Y. Yugi: I agree with him, which is a rare occasion indeed, but the similarity between most OC stories has become… quite annoying.

Y. Malik: Pharaoh brings up a good point. Malik-sama agrees, too.

Malik: Well look at that! Our yamis agree on something.

Yugi: I never thought I'd see the day.

Jou: You're tell me, Yug'. But Mary Sues aren't the worst thing around here.

Kaiba: You have no idea.

Jou: Oh yeah, who says? Anyways I wasn't thinking like that Kaiba, I was thinking about the "trash fiction", stuff that has not plot or the fics that set us up against each other – and make us fight to the "death".

Keith: Hey, I happen to be a fan of those.

Honda: Only, 'cause no one writes about you.

Mai: Lets not start this up again, boys.

Q: I quite agree. Now that you all are hear let talk about couples? I mean all the couples.

Ryou: You just had to bring that up didn't you? (Sighs.)

Malik: No worries, Ryou here's just a bit bitter. The authors – especially the girls- have put him with everyone here. Get around don't'cha Ryou?

Y. Bakura: Shut your face Ishtar before I do it for you. We all are bitter about this.

Jou: 'Cept me!

Kaiba: That would be because your brain is too small to recognize the extent of our situation.

Jou: That's not what you said last night, koi. (Winks mockingly.)

Kaiba: Please don't do that, Mokuba's traumatized enough as it is.

Mokuba: Actually I think its funny.

Q: Funny?

Mokuba: Sure, it's not like it's real or anything… is it?

Jou: You'll just have to wait and see, squirt. Who knows, ol' Jou here might become your brother in law.

Shizuka: Very funny big bro, but I can't see you doing that. Everyone knows you like -

Jou: Not here, not now, sis! (Blushes.)

Mai: Like who, Jounouchi?

Anzu: Yeah Jou, who?

Jou: Argh! Damn this is so canon! (Still blushing.)

Kaiba: Well look like the puppy has a crush, how sickeningly sweet.

Yugi: He's not the only one Kaiba. If I remember the Egyptian Arc in the manga, you weren't the only one with a "significant other". [1]

Kaiba: That was long ago, Yugi, and she's dead now.

Mai: Kaiba and his lost love, how romantic. This hole thing is starting to sound like one of my soap operas.

Q: All right then, Pegasus you haven't said much – or for that matter anything at all. Care to enlighten us?

Pegasus: I'm sorry, this was all just to entertaining.

Q: Since we're on the couples subject, care to let us what the most unusual couple you've been placed in was?

Pegasus: Before I tell, someone might want to hold back Jounouchi, because it was his sister I was fortunate enough to be with. That and maybe the Insector Haga (weevil Underwood) fic…

Jou: What? Shizuka!? I'll get you, you…!

Shizuka: Don't worry Jou, nothing happened between us.

Jou: Nothing! Did that filthy son of a bitch lay his filthy, grimy, dirty hands on you!?

Shizuka: No, he didn't Jou. Please calm down, you making me embraced.

Mai: You heard the little lady Jou, chill it. It not like you haven't been with him.

Jou: Yeah, whatever. At least I wasn't locked in his dungeon.

Kaiba: I resent that, mutt.

Pegasus: As do I. It would have been ten times worse if I had locked them in a bedroom.

Q: Okay, lets stop there. We haven't herd from you Anzu; care to share anything we haven't brought up?

Anzu: I've been in more bashing stories than anyone here but I still can't say I dislike fanfiction; it's the only place we've ever known. It's like a home.

Keith: I was thinking "hellhole".

Anzu: Well, whatever it is, we can't ignore it but we can't really accept the ideas.

Jou: Anzu's right, we just gotta live 'cause there's no way outa here.

Kaiba: There has to be. And when I find it, it's adios Subreality.

Yugi: Kaiba, you of all people should know there's no way out of here.

Kaiba: Simple deduction; there's always a back door.

Y. Malik: A back door to what Kaiba-san? A back door to nothing, I have been there… and Malik-sama does not like it.

Y. Bakura: It seems our psychotic friend here thinks the Subreality is divide into two "rooms". The plot line and the trash can…

Q: If I may interject, we need to bring in a few more characters into this fray. I wasn't planning on inviting them, but then what the heck. Honda could you please get the door.

(Silently the remaining guests watch as Honda near the doorway. The brunette teen reaches slowly, opening the door a crack. Unfortunately the suspense is broken as a hand pushed the door open and countless Yu-Gi-Oh! characters spill in. Kaiba groans loudly.)

Jou: Ryuzaki? Haga? What the hell?

Ryuzaki (Rex Raptor): Quite gawking Jounouchi, we were invited.

Kaiba: You brought these moronic lunatics into my mansion.

Q: No worries, Kaiba. I'm an author, but that's not the point. Our newly arrived guests have some things to talk about. So tell us guys and gals, what do you think of fanfiction?

Miho: It's not like we can say much, we hardly ever appear in fics.

(Miho crossed her arms and send a smile toward Ryou, causing Honda – who is behind Ryou- to flush red and look away.)

Ryuzaki: Atleast you aren't bashed 24/7 or stuck with Haga.

Haga (Weevil Underwood): I don't see anything wrong with being around me.

Ryuzaki: You wouldn't would you?

Pegasus: I feel your pain. It seems people take great pleasure in torturing us.

Keith: Well I don't find it pleasurable.

Kaiba:  I don't either, considering this is my mansion you're all standing in.

Y. Bakura: My, my, someone seems touchy about his possessions..

Kaiba: Cram it tomb robber, now will you all please leave before this gets drastic.

Honda: Hey Jou? You thinking what I'm thinking?

Jou: Yup. It's pillow fight time!

(As it has been said: all good things must come to an end. But if the story were to never end, what would become of the characters? If the words stopped flowing, yet never announced the concluding sentence? What would happen then?)

(The plain truth is that the fic was never completed, it was left… hanging. Its world steady in the balance, the characters free to do as they please, until the words began to flow. If they ever did. This, my friends, is why I can never write "the end.")

(Hm. It seems I've forgotten Kaiba's carpet…)

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[1] Major spoiler here! In the manga, Priest Seito (who is reincarnated into Seto Kaiba) has strong feelings for a girl named Kisara – who hosts the Blue Eyes White Dragon. Unfortunately she dies. During battle ship Seto Kaiba sees his past-self sacrificing her in a flashback. (Whether it was his choice or not, I'm not sure another priest was pressuring him into sacrificing her in the manga.)

If you'd like to know more, you could check out this site (just delete the spaces):

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Anzu was the reincarnation of Yami's queen? I haven't heard that one. I have, however heard that she was his adviser/friend, but I have no proof to speak of. As far as I've gone into the into the manga (battle 313) I haven't see her anywhere, which makes me wonder if she even had an ancient Egyptian past. Well, I can't say for sure, like is said before.

(To Mokuna-Kageyo)

A/N:

Frankly this fic ended pathetically. Don't try to tell me otherwise, I know I could have done better but I had another plot running rampid through my head and I couldn't concentrate fully. I also think the amount of characters (five or more) throws me off. But that doesn't matter. As your esteems authoress I just want to thank you guys for supporting me to the end and I hope the actual end wasn't to painful (it was for me #_#). Anyway, I'm thankful for your support and comments. I love you guys!

Fictionally Yours,

Kaitourei