Choice
By: CrystalinElf
Chapter 8: Mischief and Doubts
Ooshige was fine after her encounter with the Dark Gray, even though she passed out in
the kitchen floor and got stepped on by Minako. I've decided to exclude her from
most of my mischief, since she is so faint hearted, there is little fun to be had in her
very brief moments of terror.
Hey, I'm even being nice about her being a pathetic weakling!
Minako, however, has only begun to see the tip of the iceberg in what I'm willing to
bring to bare against her. The Dark Gray was shy, and what I have summoned since
then are… nice, Anzu like creatures. Who could possibly be afraid of the Petite
Dragon and the Petite Angel? They're disgustingly cute and cuddly, and such nice,
friendly monsters.
Ryou has spent most of this week, except school and sleeping it seems, with Rei. At her
house, not ours, so I've had most of a week all to myself, to cause mischief for
Minako. Not that I've done too much, really. Don't want to do anything that would
make it necessary for Ryou to live at Rei's, or one of his other friend's home, right?
But I've finally found a reason to justify the existence of all those cute Duel Monsters,
including the afore mentioned Petite Dragon and Petite Angel. Oh, and the Kuribo.
Minako is far easier to scare than I would have thought possible, to be afraid of
those monsters. But I've taken that as an advantage, and every other day or so I
turn a new cute monster, one that won't cause much structural damage to the
house, loose in the living room.
Ooshige just always seems to know when something is going on, and stays out of the
house at these times, but Minako isn't graced with such a supernatural sense. No, she
walks into things every single time, and the result is always the same.
She stops in place.
Her eyes get wide.
She screams.
And screams.
Then gets a broom and chases the cute monsters around the room.
Brilliant woman, right? Go around the house, chasing something that scares you. And
with a pathetic broom at that! She hasn't noticed that I always clean up after her,
or that the monsters always appear when I'm around, and she and I are alone in the house.
Pathetic isn't she?
And somehow she always manages to convince herself that what she's seen isn't real. I
suppose that's because I always act like I didn't see the monsters running before
her, and they've never once touched her. On some level she must know that this is
all my doing, since she had her computer moved to our room and told me I could do
whatever I wanted with it. Hentai, bet she expects me to look at porn doesn't she?
Or on some level of consciousness she thinks that if I'm in my room, and not
downstairs, the monsters won't appear.
Heh. How wrong she is.
Today is Saturday, and I'm particularly bored. Playing Arcanum by myself isn't quite
enough fun to negate the fact that Ryou is out with Rei again, and Minako wants me
to stay up here alone. As if that would do her any good…
As I kill yet another boring skeleton (did I mention that I hexed my game, so my
character stats are maxed, and I've just started the game?) I get an idea for my next
monster.
The 13th Grave.
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Screams of terror greeted his ears as he slowly opened the door and walked inside. He felt his
heart sink lower with dread. The sound obviously meant that Yami was up to something
again, and from the pitch of Minako's voice, he was pretty certain that Bakura hadn't
called one of the nicer monsters this time. He should video her reactions…
He stepped to the side of the doorway, slipping his shoes off, as the noise grew louder. A few
seconds later Minako was streaking past him and out the door, face twisted in her fright
and as white as could possibly be.
Ryou sighed and entered the living room to see what had upset her so, not really expecting any
big surprise. After a moment, he too stopped and stared, looking carefully around the room.
There was nothing there.
What the…
/ Yami? /
// Yes Aibou? //
/ Umm… did you summon another monster a little bit ago? Minako just ran past me, screaming in terror. /
// Of course Aibou. //
He sighed again at the nonchalant tone of his yami's voice and wondered just which monster he
had summoned.
/ Which one Yami? /
// We can talk about that later aibou. You seem upset, so I want to know what happened while
you were over at Rei's //
Ryou sighed again, louder this time, and made his way upstairs. He was surprised to find
Bakura playing a computer game, or rather, pausing a computer game so he could talk to his
Hikari. He plays computer games? I didn't think he even knew how to use the computer...
Bakura studied his light for moment for speaking. "Come on Hikari, out with it. You're leaking
annoyance and a bit of sorrow, which seems quite unlike you."
Ryou smiled slightly and shook his head. "It's nothing, really Yami."
He snatched a pillow from his bed and through it and Ryou, knocking his light backwards and
onto the other bed. "Ryou, you will tell me. If I have to draw my own conclusions you
won't like the consequences to her."
Ryou pushed himself back into a sitting position and stared unbelieving at his yami. "The
consequences to her? What would you do?"
Bakura smirked, contemplating the wealth of things he could do to Rei. "For doing anything that
might hurt my Aibou? Steal her soul, lock her in the shadow realm, unleash a monster on
her, send her to the grave yard, mind crush her, or any number of other… unpleasant, things."
Ryou shook his head, trying to push the seriousness in Bakura's tone out of his mind. "Yami,
really, she didn't do anything to hurt me."
"Then what's bothering you Aibou?" He asked, moving from his spot in front of the computer
to sit by his Hikari.
Ryou sighed mentally. He's persistent… "Nothing much Yami… Rei just likes to duel. Well,
she likes to duel a lot, really. We duel several times every evening, and she always takes it
so seriously, more so than Yami Yugi, and it isn't all that fun. And she always wins."
The last was said in a bare whisper, but Bakura had no problem picking up what his hikari said.
"Every time?" he asked, studying Ryou's profile.
"Every time. And she gloats, even though she doesn't mean to."
"Hnn…"
He could tell his Yami found the situation at least a bit amusing and smiled a bit. Dueling made
Rei happy, so he would continue to duel her, even if he continued to lose. "As I said, it's
nothing really. And she is very good at dueling, so I'm getting some great practice and my
skills are improving."
"But it still bothers you." Bakura stated, contemplating his hikari's small dilemma. Well, not as
bad as I feared.
"Yeah, it still bothers me some. She's kinda bossy when she wants to duel, or when she wants
to watch certain anime series." Her dueling intensity and her choice of anime is so conflicting…
Bakura lifted a dignified eyebrow, imitating the Pharaoh when he was questioning his aibou.
"So what does she like to watch?"
"Pita Ten." Ryou stated the answer as colorlessly as he could, considering the cuteness of the
twenty-six episode series. "And she likes to watch the entire series at once."
"You're girlfriend is weird Ryou," he said, shaking his head. The sheer incongruity of the girls
behavior was astounding. She protected Ryou from bullies as well as Bakura himself now did,
she dueled with an intense passion for the game, and she chose to watch Pita Ten?
Of course, she did seem soft spoken, polite, and cloyingly sweet when she was at their home.
Guess Ryou really brings out her soft side most of the time. He shook his head again
and fixed Ryou with a stern look.
"Aibou, if you don't want to duel with her every evening, tell her so. The same goes for the
shows you two watch together. If she still insists on dueling, invite her to more activities
where the rest of your friends are. Jounouchi can always use someone knew to kick his
ass besides Kaiba, Yugi, and the damned Pharaoh."
"Demo…" Ryou said, looking uncertain.
"But what Aibou? Afraid she'll like one of your friends better than you if she hangs with them?"
Bakura grinned as his aibou stared guiltily down at the ground, silently confirming his guess.
Still, he no longer enjoyed seeing his hikari down, so he placed a gentle arm around his
shoulders and gave Ryou a small hug. "Looks like I'll have to help you build up some
self-confidence aibou. If she falls for one of them instead of you Ryou, then she isn't really worth
your time."
He ruffled Ryou's hair slightly, messing it up. "Besides Ryou, they're your friends, the people
least likely to do something they knew would hurt you."
Ryou mustered up a watery smile and nodded, "You're right, my friends wouldn't hurt me."
"So you'll invite her next time?" he asked, smiling encouragingly.
Ryou's smile brightened into a more genuine one and he nodded. "Yes, I will."
Bakura grinned now and patted Ryou on the back. "Good! Now, want me to go with you?"
"Only if you don't cause trouble!" Ryou said, looking away from Bakura so his yami couldn't see his grin.
"Why you!" Bakura grabbed a pillow and whacked him with it lightly. "Of course I won't cause trouble."
He paused for a moment, considering.
Then, "Define 'causing trouble'".
"Yami!" Ryou tried to glare Bakura, and failing miserably he grabbed a matching pillow and
proceeded to hit him with it, taking up the challenge of a pillow fight, his transient fears and
annoyances forgotten.
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Crys: Thank you for reading, and I'm sorry it took a bit of awhile to get out. *bows in apology*
Rakka: Erm, yes, Rei was kinda, but not entirely, based on the character from Callie/Mikey's
charater 'Callie' in their story 'The New Adventure'.
Crys: yes yes, I didn't ask permission first, so I didn't make her entirely like Callie. But since
they didn't seem to mind, I added more personality to her. Hehe
Rakka: we do not own Pita Ten, and we actually like the series.
Crys: I know it was suggested that Bakura fall for another yami, but I was thinking…
Rakka: You're in a mean mood aren't you Crys?
Crys: What? I was only thinking of making his fall for Ryou, and possibly making Rei fall for
Bakura. That's not mean. After all, Master Wren for Lady Lark, and hid his love behind a
fatherly mask, so why couldn't Bakura hide his love by acting brotherly and protective?
Rakka: *mutters* I shouldn't have let her read that book… especially after she had so much sugar…
Crys: *giggles softly to herself* 'The Lark and the Wren' is a lovely book! My idea is valid! It is, it is!!!
Rakka: *Clamps a hand over Crys' mouth and smiles faintly at the readers* Thanks for reading,
please review. I may make a guest appearance later, but no promises. Now, it's 1:17 am
and Crystalin should be getting to bed. Thanks again!