Malik: =_= Seto left. I have to do the disclaimer now...
Disclaimer: Megami still doesn't own Yugioh. If she did, though, you all know the series would be completely warped. Not to mention 4Kids would have to stop translating it, as she would probably kill most of them off.
Ohohoh, no one heard that part. ^^;
Thankies and reviewies~
Adelianna~ Yup! It was Rebecca. (Rebeka? Rebekah? I just call her the random brat... ^_^;) I'm glad you like Meggie's attitude, too. I'm glad another person liked Megami--It looks like she's going to have to come back soon. Goodie! And I'm gonna borrow my friend's Evanescence CD so that I can hear the song. And yes--Megami found a picture of him. I haven't decided if it was a matter of her looking up the Battle City participants or if he gave it to her on his own, but either way, she saw it.
RBMIfan~ Yeah. I think one in about eight people have it? It's something you can grow out of, and like Malik said, MVP is hereditary. The reason Malik hasn't responded to Ryou's e-mail is a-he's lazy, b- I don't know that he would respond to it as easy as he would to Yuugi's, and c- I still have to figure out exactly what Ryou said to him. I have three versions written, but I don't know which to post.
benign sadist~ Aa, I don't have a psychology degree =D Although I've certainly seen enough shrinks to maybe get one. Did I update quickly enough for you? =D
Cygna-hime~ Yeah. Hallucinations probably aren't very good for you. And tell your voice that he should come meet my yami =D She'll scare the schmutt out of him! (YamiO: urusai XP)
Jay Kamiya~ I'm glad someone else knows what it is! ^_^ I've had three
of my teachers come up to me and ask me all sorts of stuff about how I
felt and if I knew how bad it was for me and stuff... they've all got it.
O-o; It's kind of strange, having your English teacher take you aside to
check out a your heart monitor. I'm also glad that people don't mind Malik
talking about a semi-normal day. I doubt he has as exciting a social life
as fanfics make him out to have--I mean, the poor boy probably doesn't
have much to do now that his gang is gone and he isn't after the Pharaoh's
blood.
Yeek! I have 30 reviews! ^O^ That's got to be a personal best on a fic
like this! (Same with my frequent updates XD) Aa, I don't recall if I've
mentioned it yet, but this fic will contain some spoilers of the series.
^^ Not to mention there may be some conflicting information as I figure
out what the mangas I own say =D
~*Wednesday, June 25th: Tori-chan*~
I return! Huzza! I'm sure everyone missed me and my glowy happy stories!
...Not.
Actually, for once I've got a somewhat happy story to tell. I found a little bird today, one that was just floundering in the park. There weren't any trees around, so I don't think it belonged there. I don't think it belonged in the wild either, I mean this bird... it was white. I mean, stark, bleach white. White like Ryou's hair. I'm not sure what sort of bird it was, and I did not bother finding out. I named it 'Tenshi'. Angel. (Yeah, yeah, naming something gets you attached to it. Shut up.)
The bird was incredibly cute, I must admit. Little tiny beak, black eyes, and perfectly white feathers. Not to mention it fit in my hand perfectly. Maybe if I could figure out how to scan my drawings I could show you all what it looked like. At any rate.
Yesterday it was raining pretty hard. I mean, I'm talking 'close the roads, the streets are flooding' rain. Which is really nice to see--I like weather extremes. It's either got to be really scorching 'walk around in your swim trunks and find a ice cave to survive', or damn near freezing to get me happy. But no snow. That stuff confuses me. When it comes to the elements, I'm fond of rain. Not sleet. Not snow. Just rain. Check that--I like looking at snow, just I don't want to touch it. And I haven't yet.
Oh yeah, Tenshi. So today is an afterglow day. The rain's stopped, the clouds have cleared up, and it's sunny again. I kind of like afterglow days in the summer, because it'll get hot enough in the afternoon to heat up the ground and make steam rise from it. Really pretty. (Geh. Pretty... I've been talking to 'neesan too much). I originally went to Domino Park to clear my head... You see, earlier I was at Yuugi's house playing Monster World with Ryou and a little fight started...
Somehow Jyounouchi got into an argument with Honda and Yami no Bakura, the blonde dragged me in, and blamed me on Ryou's injury. Which, yes, I'll admit--I'm the reason he got hurt. I asked Yami no Bakura to help me, and Yami no Bakura took out his knife and cut Ryou's arm. I did not ask him to cut his arm up, although it did suit my purposes just fine. From there, Honda accused Jyounouchi of being unfair to my side of the story, Jyounouchi told him not to protect something like me, Yami no Bakura let Ryou have control of the body again, which confused the poor boy, and Jyounouchi decided to end everything with his fists par usual. And somehow he managed to hit Ryou.
A number of things happened there. Yami no Bakura took over again and tried to kill Jyounouchi, first off. Secondly, I tried to help him. No one had better take this wrongly, but Ryou is probably the most important person in my life next to 'neesan, and maybe Rishido. As a result, I guess I've become a sort of second overprotective yami to him, only without timeshare in his body. We probably would have succeeded in killing Jyounouchi if Pharaoh had not dragged Yami no Bakura off of him and Yuugi had not dragged me away. That boy's strong for his size! I thought he'd lift me up! Mokuba helped, but that isn't the point. I would up with both of them clinging to my arms and shoulders with no way to get back at Jyounouchi. Seto had him by the collar of his shirt, though, so I doubt any one of us could have jumped back into the fight. Honda had moved away when Ryou got hurt, so I must admit, he's the smarter of the two blockheads.
When Yuugi and Mokuba calmed me down, Anzu suggested that I should leave. Note that she did not suggest that Jyounouchi leave, oh no... I'm the one who needed to leave, because I am the trouble maker. Che.
Yuugi gave me puppy eyes. I think he's got every one of us wrapped around his finger with those. I agreed to leave. Ryou went with me for a few blocks before turning back to the party. He was pretty sympathetic about me getting in all the trouble, and he kept telling me that I shouldn't mind Anzu. Now, normally I would not mind anyone who ran about preaching friendship and stalking Pharaoh's, but she is friends with Yuugi, and therefore is a friend of Ryou's. That and she technically helped me on Air Ship, so I've got to be nice.
Ryou told me that Jyounouchi and Anzu would come around eventually. And that the only reason they were still being so distrusting of me was that I had come to them originally as a friend and then kidnaped and brainwashed them both. Which I guess, if you look at it that way, makes sense. But I never tried to kill them, and Yuugi's forgiven me. And they haven't died because of me, and Ryou's certainly forgiven me. So I guess Anzu and Jyounouchi are just weird. That or it's Ryou and Yuugi who are weird. (I'm going to go with the other two, though.)
After he left I wandered to the park and found a nice, quiet place to lay down at. It was on a hill, a little bit higher than a little brook that cut through the park with some nice trees behind it. Right near the koi garden, too. It seems really out of place in a city like Domino--a little place where all you can see is nature, and the flowers block out the smell of just about anything. Especially on an afterglow day.
Domino park is a very strange place. On one side, there is playground equipment and you can see Yuugi's house. In the middle is a miniature forest with a few creeks running through, and then on the other side is the koi garden and a bunch of greenery. And a vegetable garden. I guess it's sort of one of those romantic places that one would take their koibito. I'm not making that gender specific, because that could insinuate things. (Some people are so nit-picky!)
At any rate. I was lying there for a few hours or so, I'm not quite sure. There were a group of boys down by the koi garden waving sticks and chasing something. They were making a ruckus and kept attacking the bushes with their sticks. Well, it was loud, and annoying, and I got fed up with it after about ten seconds. I ran down to see what could possibly have possessed them to attack a bunch of plants when they could be instead attacking one another (at least that way whoever was getting attacked had a chance. I mean really--they did not need to be attacking plants!) and naturally scared a few of them off. One of the few that did not leave greatly resembled a young Kiryuu Touga from the Shojou Kakume Utena movie "Adolescence Mokushiroku," so I addressed him.
"Oi! Gaki!" I remember calling him a brat right off, don't ask me why. "What do you think you're doing to those plants?"
The boy froze and stared at me for a moment before ducking behind the bush. Seemed he was fairly shy for a squirrely git. I asked him again and he told me that his friends were chasing after a bird.
"And you wanted to kill it?" I said, or something along those lines. He shook his head and insisted that they only wanted to catch it because it was white and had no way to keep it from flying unless it got hurt. Now then, I'm not much of an animal fan--which is probably the reason I don't eat meat unless I really have to--but I told him to show me where the bird had flown off to and offered to catch it for him. As if on cue the little white feather-ball shot out of the bush right next to my head. It hit my earring with its wing! Which didn't make me too happy... but that's beyond the point. The bird got knocked off balance when it ran into my earring and floundered in the air for a few seconds--just long enough for me to catch it.
For some reason that I will never understand, I'm sure, when I grabbed it the bird stopped fluttering about. It just sat there in my hands and looked at me with its wide eyes. The chibi-Touga clapped and made a sort of 'squee' sound. I was going to give the bird to him right then but his mother came and dragged him away. So I was stuck with the bird. And I mean that quite literally--it wouldn't fly away when I opened my hands up. It sat there and nuzzled my hand for Ra's sake!
So I gave in to its cuteness and named it Tenshi and brought it home. 'Neesan was positively thrilled that I had brought home a bird instead of a snake like the last time... What? I was eight! I didn't think there was anything wrong with bringing a snake home! It looked pretty! Yeah, so it kind of tried to bite me... But at least it wasn't another King Cobra!
At any rate, I've got to be going now. Tenshi-chan is twittering around my head trying to make a nest. In my hair. OW! Damnit, I'm giving this thing to Ryou next time I see him.
That and I'm bringing him to the park.
~*
Translation & Notes~
Monster World~ Ryou's game ^_^; I don't know if it's in the season they cut out, but in the manga Yami no Bakura and Yami's shadow game is Monster World, not Magic & Wizards. It's different. Ryou's incredibly good at it. (Isn't he the master of it or something?)
Koibito~ "Lover" ^^ non-gender specific.
Shojou Kakume Utena~ Revolutionary Girl Utena.
Adolescence Mokushiroku~ Adolescence Apocalypse. The name of the Utena movie. It's positively BEAUTIFUL! Everyone should see it. Be warned though-there's shojou-ai (Girl x girl love) and nudity and I think some implied rape. It's stunning though!
Gaki~ Just like Malik says--it means brat.
King Cobra~ In the anime, when Malik was a little kid he and Rishido
were playing one night and a snake bit him, which nearly killed him (and
Rishido, as his dad beat him up for it). I'm pretty sure it was a King
Cobra. I haven't any idea if he really had a pet snake, but it seems like
something he would have done.
Warning for future chapters~ In case you haven't noticed, there has been mention of yamixomote parings and a few others. Shonen ai and shojou ai are my forte! I'm sorry! If anyone turns out to be gay, though, don't worry.. It isn't like there would be anything to make the rating go up, and it won't be anything major. The male cast of Yugioh just doesn't seem to suit their female counterparts as far as I've seen, so I hope implied shonen-ai isn't a problem. The story will most certainly not focus on it if I do bring it in!
Malik: Bah. That's just because you don't want to see us paired with any other girls.
Yes. That. Please don't flame me on it until it actually happens though! ^_^; Onegai? (Please?) R&R! Depending on people's reactions I might try to keep it out.... >_>;