Chapter 5 ~ Dreaming Of Palaces

Yes, well... I have a lot written but I never seem to have time to type it, like how I'm supposed to be doing my Spanish, but I decided that this was more important.... but my parents don't agree.

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Yami's eyes flashed dangerously. "It's my birthday and if I want to go to the arena and watch, I will."

"Seto is coming over, you can go after he gets here."

"You meet him, I'll go now," Yami knew that on his birthday, nobody was to say he couldn't do something.

"I won't. If you want to make him feel unwelcome, go ahead and besides, I thought you two liked each other."

"Mother, we've only known each other for 3 days and we've only met twice. I don't know anything about him and he doesn't know anything about me." Yami left.

When Seto got there he didn't see Yami anywhere. He waited for about two minutes before a slave came up and asked him to follow. Seto's temper flared.

"No, I will not follow some slave, as if I was a common person. You tell that imbecile that we are now enemies."

"But...but...but," the slave stood, staring at Seto's back as he retreated from the palace. After a moment, the slave recovered from his shock and rant o Yami, hoping he wasn't killed.

"WHAT?" Yami flew into a rage immediately and shoved the slave over the balcony into the arena below. The slave, if not dead on contact, was half eaten by a lion and trampled by the others in minutes.

"Someone send a slave after him and order him back! Arrest him! Put him in with the lions! Do something!" Yami was starting to hyperventilate.

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Seto sauntered through the streets, toward his house. He was really looking forward to seeing Jou. Even though Jou was a slave, Seto really liked h9im.

Seto pulled out Yami's birthday present and chuckled evilly. He knew that Yami would overreact to what the slave told him. If it had told him...it was probably either dead...or well, dead. Not many successfully ran away.

He walked calmly into his house. Jou was immediately at his side, ready to wait on him hand and foot.

"Jou, lets act like we're on the same status for a while. So when I say I want you to do something, you tell me no."

Jou nodded and didn't talk. Seto's father had told him not to, the accent annoyed him.

Seto sat down and motioned for Joey to the same. Jou looked around nervously before sitting on the edge of the seat. Seto slowly smiled at how cute Jou looked. Seeing Seto smile made Jou smile also.

Thunderous steps came toward Seto's house. Seto thought, 'wonder what took them so long...'

"Seto? Wha' goin' on," asked Jou in a small, somewhat accented voice.

"Hush. You are my slave again, this is important."

Seto walked calmly out to his door, waiting while Yami was carried up to him. Leave it to Yami to be a big baby on his birthday.

Joey stood behind him, peeking at the heir, not forgetting the candle wax incident easily.

"You," Yami was shaking.

"Yes?" Seto just stared, and added, enemy."

"What is your problem? You were late. What did you expect? It was about to start!"

"Like you couldn't have ordered it to wait. It is your birthday after all," Seto scoffed.

Seto pulled out the gift he had gotten for Yami.

"Jou. This is for you," Seto said as he held it out to Jou.

Yami stared, incredulous, Seto smirked, and suddenly Yami recognized the slave.

"You. Slave. Get back to the palace. Nobody gave you permission to be here."

"Ah Ah, Yami. This slave is mine, my father purchased it."

Yami sneered. So, Seto thought he was getting under my skin, eh? Well, we will see about that.

Yami turned and started to stalk off.

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Bakura was dumped unceremoniously into the water. He sputtered as he surfaced. Marik grabbed his hair and began to get all of the tangles and dirt out of it.

"Well, aren't you going to use the soap to wash?" Marik said, seeing as how Bakura had no idea what he was doing.

Bakura picked up an odd looking thing and started scrubbing very slowly. Marik rolled his eyes and told him o rub the stuff faster.

After Bakura got out, Marik tossed clothes at him.

"Time to lay down some ground rules,' Marik said. Walking into another room, "you won't go out at night. You will listen only to me. You must be near me at all times. Those should be do-able." Marik showed Bakura to a bed and told him to stay there for the night, throwing something on the bed.

As soon as Bakura was in the room, Marik had two guards pull a stone over the door, and not even light could get through. Bakura clambered onto the cozy-looking bed, but found that it was hard. The only fuzzy thing was the dead rabbit that Marik had thrown in. Bakura knew in an instant that Marik had tricked him completely.

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Well, that was an interesting chapter. Guess what. I know what's gonna happen in the end! Heh.