By Rhapsody and Sky-Pirate-Tat
Yu-Gi-Oh! belongs to Kazuki Takahashi.
"Too bad Honda, Anzu, and Joun can't come with us."
"Uh huh…" Yami said, not paying attention to his Light.
"Ehh… Yami?"
Li'l Yugi waved his hand in front of Yami's face but nothing happened. Yami still had that dopey grin on his face.
In a way I'm kinda sad. I mean…Kikai doesn't love him at all and here he is with his head in the sky thinking about her. This is starting to sound like that romance story I read where the hero did anything he could to save this one lady and she left him for dead.
His thoughts were interrupted when Joun and Honda charged in. They were wearing dark eye liner, trying to copy the slanted cat eyes that were 'in' for the Yami's.
"Ohhhhhkay!" Joun smirked, "we're going to that convention."
"You don't have a Yami or a Millennium Item though."
The blonde held up a dirty old sock that had the weird eye thing on it. Obviously it was drawn on the sock with permanent marker. "Behold the Millennium Sock! With the ability to make any soul within a mile's radius to quiver at its stench."
Next was Honda who held up a lava lamp; it too had the eye design. "And gaze in wonder at the Millennium Lava Lamp, which does absolutely nothing at all! But looks really cool anyway!"
A sweatdropping Yugi crawled VERY far away.
WITH RYOU AND KIKAI…
"Why do you like teasing him?" Ryou asked his cousin; they were walking to the convention.
"It's amusing."
"But what if he finds out!? You're going to hurt him!"
Kikai's steps came to a halt and darkly she said, "I don't care if I end up hurting him. He's done the same to me so many times I can't count."
"What do you mean?"
Kikai looked away from Ryou. For the first time that he could remember she had a sad, serious sort of look on her face.
"I loved him. In Egypt."
"WHAT?"
Ryou was stunned.
"I still do…" she said, half to herself. "But he was a player."
"Of Duel Monsters?"
Now Ryou was confused. What was so bad about playing Duel Monsters?
Kikai whacked him on the head.
"No, you fool, a player… of girls. I remember…"
The lines all began to blur and we cut to flashback…
It was a beautiful summer day in ancient Egypt. The sands were quiet and the sky was an unforgettable blue. The pharaoh was holding a party.
Kikai had spent hours preparing for the pharaoh's birthday bash. She wanted to look perfect for him… the man she loved.
She went up to the palace early, wanting to see the boy before all of his other guests arrived. And there she discovered him…
With Isis. He was holding her close to him, whispering sweet nothings in her ears as she giggled and blushed innocently. Kikai disbelievingly burst into the room.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" she demanded of Yami.
He looked up with surprise in his face. He obviously hadn't expected to be caught.
"Kikai…" he began weakly, but she stormed from the room in her towering anger.
"I never spoke to him again," she finished softly. "Until now. He doesn't even remember who I am! So I'm returning a bad favor…"
Ryou had no idea what to say.
WITH YAMI AND YUGI…
Yugi and Yami were walking down the street side by side, one ethereal and not quite there, his head in the clouds, the other in deep thought.
"Yami, why do you like Kikai so much?" Yugi finally asked.
Yami considered it for a moment, and then he smiled. "I don't know… I feel like I've fallen in love again. I think I must have known her in Egypt… Yes, I remember now…"
The edges blurred again and we enter Yami's flashback.
"You're so nice to me, Kikai…"
"But everyone is nice to you, my Pharaoh."
"Please, call me Yami. And it's not the same, Kikai… Everyone else is nice because they think they have to be… And it just doesn't seem like that with you."
"It's because…" But here the girl paused.
"What is it?" He gently took her chin and raised her eyes to meet his. "Please tell me."
She blushed visibly. "It's because… I love you, Yami."
Yami sighed dreamily. Poor Yugi's thoughts were going a mile a minute.
/If she used to love him… then what happened? Did Yami do something he forgot? Or has she changed over these thousands of years???
/I've got a headache. /
"We're here!" Joun announced as they approached the large building. He still held the Millennium Sock proudly, and Honda carried his Lamp.
I wonder if they'll actually let those two in… Yugi thought, and sweatdropped. Then Yami entered his body and he was pushed to the back of his own mind, now just a spectator in what he figured would probably end up as a Millennium Soap Opera.