TnS: ^_^ You like it? Really? Wow. And I thought I was just an insane authoress that was writing for her own amusement…^^;;
Seto: -_-' Start typing. Now.
TnS: Disclaimer!! ^_^
Seto: ::sighs:: Tenshi no Seto doesn't own Yu-gi-oh, thank the gods, or we'd all be doomed……^^;;
TnS: :P Just for that, I don't think I'll introduce you until the next chapter! :P
Seto: You don't have a choice but to bring me in, because this chapter would be pitifully short if you didn't.
TnS: ………:P!
Chapter 2: A Yami with a temper…
The golden glow intensified as the thin layer of white cloth was removed and the object was revealed to Jou. Or really, you should say, objects, because there were two of them. It was a pair of what appeared to be solid gold ankhs, about and inch by a half inch, and they bore the sennen eye where the space in the oval should have been. The center of each eye was a silvery white stone, looking to be a diamond, and Jou only caught a glimpse of them for a second before the gems flashed simultaneously and flew up from the place where they sat in the blonde's hand, and just as he wondered where in the hell they had gone, he felt a slight pang in each of his earlobes. Reaching up and touching one, he found out where the ankhs had gone. Jumping up, Jou ran to a mirror and moved his blonde locks out of the way, growling at what he saw. Each earlobe now had an ankh of solid gold with a sennen eye in it, which meant that the blonde now had pierced ears. Feeling for the earring backs, the pup meant to take them out, but never got that far, as there were no backs. The earrings didn't go all the way through, and when he tried, the amber-eyed boy couldn't remove either piece of gold jewelry. Sighing in defeat, Jou turned back to his bed, grumbling about how he was going to kill Rofaic no matter how scary she was, when he saw something that definitely wasn't there before in the middle of his room, and this made him jump almost a foot off of the ground. It was……him……standing in the center of the room, staring at his hands in wonder and flexing his fingers, as if he couldn't believe he were here. What the hell? I'm over here, and I don't have a full length mirror over there! Oh gods, I've gone insane, thought Jou as he looked at his supposed reflection. No, he's not me exactly……he's…different… thought Jou as he looked at the other Jou, who was now examining his arms and chest. That one had sun kissed skin that was more bronzed by only a few subtle shades than our favorite pup's, and his blonde hair looked slightly sun-bleached. Stepping closer to this person, his straw blonde hair swayed as he looked up at our blonde pup and amber-gold met a sparkling silver, and a voice similar to, though deeper than his own asked,
"Where am I? And who……who are you?" Jounou blinked a second at this seemingly very confused person that looked so much like himself before shaking his head and saying,
"Who are you?" The other's silver gaze seemed, slightly wary of Jou, holding amber steadily as he finally answered,
"Who are you that you look so close to me?" Blinking again, Jou said,
"I'm Katsuyaa Jounouchi, and I could ask you the same question. Where'd you come from?" the silver eyed boy absently tugged at his right ear as he said,
"I wish I knew." As the lobe moved, something caught the light, and it glinted gold and white.
"The earrings," Jou muttered. Then, he said angrily, "Dammit! Stupid Rofaic and her damn supid earrings!" Taking a deep breath, Jou thought to himself, Calm down Kasuya before you start throwing stuff again.
~I am calm; I am not going to throw anything.~
Jouno jumped and looked around, eyes landing on a confused looking chrome mirror image in the middle of the room.
{I wasn't talking to you.}
~Oh. Alright then.~
{How in the hell are we 'thought talking'?}
~I don't know, but it's pretty cool, huh?~
{Yep.}
Plopping down on his bed, Jou motioned the other to sit down next to him. He had an idea of what was going on, and he was about ready to kill Rofaic; or more specifically, Moeyasui Shimo.
"So, don't know where you're from, who you are, or what you're doing here?" asked Jou. Silver eyes were cast down, and the other blonde whispered,
"No. The last thing I remember is……" that sentence died off, and a strange look shrouded his features as he stayed quiet.
{You can't remember anything, can you?}
~N-no……nothing……~
Yep, just as Jou suspected. This kid had been sealed inside these earrings, and when they had affixed themselves to his ears, his spirit had been freed. That meant that Jou had a 5,000 year old spirit on his hands, and had just acquired what would probably be called a Yami……
"Ok, here's the scoop. I'm thinkin' that you're a spirit from these earrings that just attached themselves to me, and you're probably around 5,000 years old, and probably were me in a past life." Blonde eyebrows raised to the hair line as silvery eyes looked at him skeptically and said,
"You sound as if this is not a new occurrence for you." Jou smiled at the irony and said to the Egyptian,
"Yeah, well, I've dealt with it 3 times already, and so hey, nothing that surprises me too much."
"Three times? Were they also spirits from 5,000 years ago?"
"Yeah, they were Yami, Bakura, and Mariku [1]……"
~ Next day ~
They had pretty well what was going to have to happen. The 'twin' would stay in his soul room until Jou gave him the ok, and then, he could look around this world and try to figure out what the hell was going on. It wasn't so bad in the beginning either. Well, at least for the first few hours in the morning, where Jou was riddled with questions about anything and everything that was out there. Then, he got to school……
Putting his books away, Jou was explaining to the spirit what 'school' was again, and wasn't really paying attention to where he was walking; just aimlessly wandering in the general direction of homeroom. This proved to be bad, because inevitably, the blonde ended up slamming directly into someone as he rounded the corner. Stumbling back, attempting and succeeding at regaining his balance, he heard a voice sneer,
"Why don't you watch where you're going mutt?" Amber eyes snapping up, Jou glared darkly at the CEO of Kaiba corp. and growled,
"Don't have time for ya today moneybags, so just move outta my way." Stepping to the side of Kaiba, the brunette moved to block his way and said,
"You ran into me mutt. You owe me an apology, and I'm not moving until I hear it." Growling low in his throat in a warning way, head lowering so that his blonde fringe shaded his face, the blonde said,
"I'm warning you Kaiba, get out of my way." The brunette chuckled at this and crossed his arms, saying,
"Oh, the pup's grown a spine has he? Too bad. I'm not moving." Fists clenching and unclenching, Jou's forever checked temper was slipping. He had never, ever lost his temper before, but now he was finding it hard to hold in rein.
"Last chance Kaiba. Back. Off." His eyes had narrowed, and he was so angry, he didn't notice that his voice had dropped almost an octave, and his vision had tainted silver…
"Apologize to your master mutt, and I'll gladly step aside." Came the reply. That did it. Three strikes, and the 17 year old was out. Jou's head snapped up, and Kaiba stopped smirking as he saw the strange look in the blonde's eyes. No, not strange look, strange color. The amber that the CEO was so used to had given way to a glowing chrome, completely devoid of anything but that sparking, crackling color. It was raw energy, and it cracked and popped like electricity. Then, the blonde reached up and took hold of Kaiba's right arm with his left hand and gripped it hard. Hard enough to make our favorite tight ass' eye twitch from the pain as he was shoved effortlessly aside and almost across the vacant hallway and into the opposite wall. By the time the ice-eyed boy regained his balance however, Jouno was halfway down the hall and entering his homeroom. Blinking for a second, Kaiba shook his head and walked down the hall to his homeroom, deciding to disregard that incident as the late nighter he had pulled the day previous developing his new game and his lack of coffee that morning……
Meanwhile, Jou, who had felt the slight change of energy and had almost lost his temper, had no idea what was going on.
{What was that?}
~Hmmm? What? Who was that? He was a real jerk. I didn't get a good look at him though…
{Kaiba, and believe me, you don't wanna get any kind of a look at him. I try to stay away from moneybags as much as I can.}
~Moneybags?~
{He's rich.}
~Oooh. Right.~………
Making it through the day without too many mishaps, Jou was still bummed that Honda was sick, and he still hadn't any idea where Mai was. The lunch bell was now ringing, and Jou was now a pup with a mission; he was going to find Rofaic and ask her what the hell she did. Going straight outside to look for her, he didn't even get a lunch as he was searching, not wanting to chance missing her. Now, if I were a deranged psychopath, where would I be when I had some free-time, thought Jou as he remembered that she didn't eat lunch.
Wandering around outside, he didn't see her, and so, he went inside, walking the halls with a sheet of paper he folded in half to look like a pass so he didn't get into trouble. Coming across the library, he went in on a whim and surprisingly found what he was looking for. Rofaic was sitting at a table in the back glaring at a sheet of paper that seemed to have Spanish on it. Rounding the table, Jou said to her,
"Rofaic, we gotta talk." At first, the blonde thought she was ignoring him, but then, she looked up at him and said,
"Es no mi dificil. Tu eres un pregunta? Esta es muy malo para tu.[2]" He blinked at her and thought about that for a second. He was a little slow at Spanish. When he had a pretty good grasp that it meant something like 'it's not my problem', he said,
"It is your problem; you're the one that freekin' gave me these earrings, and you're the one who's going to explain it!" She looked at him in confusion, and as she opened her mouth to say something, a violet flash suddenly went off, and a mismatched glare now challenged the blonde, and a strangely doubled voice came from her lips as she said,
"You're right, I did give them to you; they belonged to you 5 millenia ago, and I thought you might like them back. I trust you've met Kasiya."
"Kat-who? You mean the guy from the ankh-earrings? Yeah. I met him." Jou said, and excitedly, the spirit said to him,
{She knows my name!! It's…Kasiya. Hmmmm. I guess I like that name…It kind of sounds like your name.}
~Yeah, you're right. Probably because I'm probably you reincarnated.~
"You already know all you need to; Kasiya is who you were in Egypt, Kasiya knows how to travel in and out of the soul room, and you seem to get along. You need no more information from me." said Moeyasui Shimo as she stood and began to walk away with the Spanish worksheet from the table.
"Wait! But, how did you-? I mean, these earrings aren't millennium items…?"
"No, they aren't. They were forged for the same purpose that my item - my flute - was; to seal Kasiya inside a small corner of the shadow realm where nothing could harm him, and make it difficult for anyone but their own flesh and blood to release him." With that, she walked out of the library, and left a confused blonde to scramble as the bell rang, signaling the end of lunch…
…The rest of the day had been uneventful, and now, our favorite pup was packing up his book bag as it was time to leave. Slamming his locker, he walked down the stairs and out the main doors, intent on finding somewhere where he could let Kasiya out so that he could start showing him around. Jogging to get to the park quickly, he again wasn't paying attention to where he was going (A/N: That's going to get him into trouble one of these times.) and again, he collided into someone, though this time so hard, that he fell backwards and onto the ground. (A/N: I take back the last note; it looks like he just did…^_^;;;).
"Watch where you're going, stupid mutt. Don't you know about the leash law?" Growling, something inside of Jou snapped, and immediately, his amber eyes grayed to silver, and he growled audibly as he stood, looking up at the CEO with a glare that could melt an ice cube. Kaiba had gone one step too far this time………
TBC……
TnS: Oh no! What's gonna happen to Seto-kun!!
Seto: Nothing. I can take him.
TnS: He has a Yami, with powers and a really bad temper…
Seto: So? I have a Yami too, right?
TnS: You have an item yes…but I don't know about an item. Does anyone know if Seto-kun has a Yami?
Seto: R'n'R ¬_¬
Footnotes:
1 - in the Japanese version, 'Marik' is 'Mariku', because in Japanese, the r and l sounds are interchangeable, and so 'Marik' sounds the same as 'Malik'…^^;; Please don't tell me it's not; I'm pretty sure that's how it really is…¬_¬
2 - and here's my shotty Spanish coming out to say hi. Actually, these sentences say "That isn't my problem. You have a question? That's too bad for you." Please don't flame me! I'm only in Spanish II… ^^;;