FW: *sighs* If no one reads this fic, then all the fans of Yami's Living Puzzle are going to get confused during Una's sequel. I am kinda concerned that no one is, seeing as how no one thanks Una for suggesting a funny fic, thus making me believe no one is reading this. If you are, please, please review, EVEN IF IT IS ONE WORD I WILL BE GRATEFUL…and give you a hug and a cookie!
Mw: This is sad; we have to bribe people to read this!
Fw: They may be reading it!
Mw: Then what are we bribing them for?
Fw: A review!
Mw: *sweat drops*
Fw: A review a review! Come on people we know you're out there! Two people have already reviewed who are naught but strangers to me! This writer is on a sugar and depression rush so grant her a little pity okeeeee? Why not reviewreviewreview! If you do, I will do anything you want me to! I shall jump through hoops of fire, swim through cold and rushing water! If you want me to strip down, I'll strip down!* strips down to expose organs*
Mw: What the hell is wrong with you? *sweat drops* She never learns *rope falls down and MW pulls it, causing female writer to plummet down bottomless pit*
Fw: HAIL REVIEWER-SAN!!!!!!
Mw: We don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, but she owns Kasumi Motou and Kei Ishtar.
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Seto lay alone on his bed, staring into the space that was his ceiling. He pondered why he was so angry with himself, because he was sure it wasn't all about Kei. No, something else was bothering him and he couldn't figure out what it was. The words that Kasumi had told him ran through his head again and again, in a repeating ever-sorrowful melody of unrequited love.
"Or was it?" he pondered silently to himself, turning on his side. Every time he had ever seen Kasumi, ever since he met her in fact, they were rarely more then ten feet apart from each other. He even remembers of being attracted to her at one point. "Do I still love her?" Seto could not keep this question from running around his mind. He repeated to himself that he loved Kei, because for a strange reason, he always felt as if he had some connection with Kei, some spark, as if they knew each other from the moment they were born. Nevertheless, the deeper he thought of it, the more he considered the fact he felt the same thing around Kasumi. It was to strange, something not even he himself could prove scientifically.
"What would make me love women like this? One is a psycho bitch lady, and the other is a complete doormat….two opposite ends of the spectrum, yet so alike…Kasumi wouldn't be caught dead with her hair down and in a dress, and vice versa for Kei…yet something about them…makes them so alike, what is it?! WHAT MAKES ME LOVE THEM?!" As suddenly as Seto uttered the last word aloud, it was as if the world around him collapsed. He felt as if he were being swept away by a large wind, yet nothing seemed disturbed, and soon the room went completely black. The young laughter of small children grew ever louder, and Seto recognized one of the voices as his own, the other, of his long lost friend, and first love, Keiko.
~~I dream of rain~~
~~I dream of gardens in the desert sand~~
The first thing that came to his mind was pushing the little girl with big blue eyes and long blonde hair on the swing. Her bows were always bright and colorful, even when they became torn from climbing trees, or dampened by rain. The swing was attached to a large oak outside of Kaiba Mansion, and it was still there…
~~I wake in vain~~
~~I dream of love as time runs through my hand~~
A small, shabby tent composed of sheet and towels, houses a smiling Mokuba, who sits in Keiko's lap as Seto, reads them a story aloud. With out knowing it, Seto nears the young girl holding his little brother, and she puts Mokuba down, looks as if she is going to kiss the young boy, and then tags his hand squealing: "Your it! Se-chan is it!!!" and running at full speed around the gardens.
~~I dream of fire~~
~~Those dreams that tie two hearts that will never die~~
Seto leads Keiko to a small grove of sakura trees. She runs around catching the blossoms, saying that each one is a soul from the world, and if you keep catching them, you might find someone you know. Seto shrugs this off as Keiko being her insane little self…again. Keiko says she hopes to find her mother, and maybe Seto will find his parents, he just has to try. Seto lazily puts his hand out to catch some, but only two fall into his palm, out of hundreds, just two. "See? They never left you! Histori Ta nai yo! You just have to believe!" Keiko says, kissing him on the cheek, causing a large red blush to appear across the young boy's face.
~~And near the flames~~
~~The shadows play in the shape of the man's desire~~
Seto ponders for a bit how she would look now. Would she have cut her hair short like she so desired, stating that women that look like women could fail to run a large company when their fathers pass it on to them. He always teased her, saying he couldn't love her if she looked like a man. She would no doubt be at least 5'6, since her father was tall…"Maybe, we will meet…"
~~This desert rose~~
~~Whose shadow bears the secret promise~~
~~This desert flower~~
~~No sweet perfume that would torture you more than this~~
He remembers that she always smelled of flowers, and never the same one either. She was his little rose, through out some of his dark times with his stepfather. She always reminded him that she was there for him, as was Mokuba, no matter what her Uncle Gozaburo, as she liked to call him, did to him.
~~And now she turns~~
~~This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams~~
~~This fire burns~~
~~I realize that nothing's as it seems~~
"Is…Is this the reason I love these two women? Because combined together, they fill a hole that had been long empty with her absence? But, then why, why oh God why can't I just have the one woman I love?! Why?!"
~~I dream of rain~~
~~I dream of gardens in the desert sand~~
~~I wake in vain~~
~~I dream of love as time runs through my hand~~
He does his best to imagine how she would look. Long flowing blonde hair down to her waist, in a long flowing black dress, that would probably look like a combination of modern styles, yet flowed like dresses of times long past. Black was always her favorite color. Her blue green eyes would be contrasted with dark make-up, her long neck complemented with the finest jewels he could buy her, and the ring he had given her so long ago upon her finger, along with the necklace he had given her, with a crystal blue eyes on it. Though now it may act as more of a choker than a necklace….
~~I dream of rain~~
~~I lift my gaze to empty skies above~~
~~I close my eyes~~
~~The rare perfume is the sweet intoxication of love~~
Seto is being tormented by visions of his past love, no matter what he does; he cannot rid them from his mind. He is soon lost, drifting in and out of consciousness and his own memories.
~~I dream of rain~~
~~I dream of gardens in the desert sand~~
~~I wake in vain~~
~~I dream of love as time runs through my hand~~
A voice, a soothing, young woman's voice gently chides Seto. "You're always feeling down aren't you? What ever happened to that cheerful little boy that used to push me on the swing? Did he grow up?"
~Sweet desert rose~
~Whose shadow bears the secret promise~
Seto strained to open his eyes, but he just couldn't. The smell of white roses clung to the air and was making him very drowsy.
~This desert flower~
~No sweet perfume that would torture you more than this~
"Kei-chan?" Seto asked, softly, afraid to say it aloud, as if he did, she would disappear.
~Sweet desert rose~
~This memory of hidden hearts and souls~
In his dream like state, Seto lies on what seems to be nothing but air. Rose petals and sakura blossoms drift all around him, and he feels as if his head is cradled somewhere soft. A young woman's hand, takes his cold and icy hand into her own warm and welcoming hand. Her two hands caress his one and her voice is soothing.
"I missed you for so long…where did you go? Where did your heart go? Has it become encased in ice? Or is there still hope?" The young girl said, and Seto could feel her bring his hand to her heart.
"You are her, you're my Keiko….my sweet and insane little Keiko…" Seto was sure of this, even thought her face was shadowed.
The girl's sweet laughter rings through out the vast area. "Yes, but do not think I left, for I am closer than I appear…"
"Always with the riddles you're just like your father, I always knew insanity was hereditary."
The blonde girl twisted his arm behind his back, playfully and gently. "Insane am I?…..ok so maybe I got us in a few strange situations but we both still alive ne?"
"You had us going down a hill in an abandoned shopping cart, and that was the least insane thing you ever did." Seto said, smirking and laughing.
"You have to go, Se-chan, you need to wake up."
"I want to stay here forever, please, let me."
"Gomen-ne…but someone needs you. If you need me, just close your eyes, and I'll be there." The blonde vanished in a swirl of blossoms and petals.
~This desert flower~
~This rare perfume is the sweet intoxication of love~
Seto awoke, and was back in his dark room. His breath was short and his heart was racing. At first, he thought he was alone, until two cold blue eyes stared back at him.
"You saw her, didn't you? Seto?" asked Shadi.
"What? How-You…Is this normal?" Seto asked, giving up on asking how Shadi knew or why he was there.
"When you began to be tormented by your feelings for two different women, you realized it all stemmed from your lack of the one you truly love. You have a connection few lovers can ever have. You can see each other, feel what the other is feeling, and even speak with each other, without actually being by each other's sides."
"You're a raving lunatic! Who are you, how did you get in this room and how do you know Keiko?!"
"I am just a messenger, here to tell you what you're going through. And now I must go. If you wish to find her, she is close yet far away. Farewell." Shadi said, his voice fading with him. Seto straight there, dumbfounded. He shakes his head and tells himself he needs to see sunlight because he is going crazy. After a quick shower, Seto puts on loose black pants, a black shirts and ((writers hold up a sign that says BA BUM BUM!!)) a black jacket. He wearily walks downstairs, pours himself some tea and begins to read a newspaper left on the counter. Some one knocks on the door, disturbing Seto's reading. He answers the door curtly, to a Chinese girl with large amber eyes, long purple hair and a Chinese dress, carrying a box with food in it.
"Nihao!! The Nekohanten would like to welcome duelists! Please take free ramen as welcome! Shampoo's ramen is best in town! Shampoo is sure you will like it Mr. Blue eyes!" said the young woman, handing Seto the ramen.
"Umm, thank you…" Seto said, making sure the door slammed in the girl's face.
"Shampoo never seen such rude man! He must be from south Japan! Humph! Shampoo no serve here till rude man is gone!" The girl mutters to herself as she pedals off. "I curse this place with insanity! Dojo no longer nice place!"
Seto still didn't feel hungry and labeled the Ramen "Masu Inu" and see if Jounouchi would actually pick it up later. He chuckled to himself. He was actually doing something somewhat entertaining. Keiko was already rubbing off on him. Was that lunatic actually right? No, impossible he thought. He sat back down, when Yami and Bakura came down fro breakfast, quarreling as usual.
"Are you saying coconuts migrate?!" Bakura yelled.
"Well, something gets them around the world!" Yami replied with.
"Why not birds?"
"A bird can not carry a five pound coconut over such a distance!"
"Then how do they get to the store?! You ARE a brain-dead pharaoh!"
Neither was prepared to see Seto Kaiba sitting in the kitchen, acting as if he had been there for the past three days.
"WHAT?!! WHAT ARE--" The two men look back and forth at the stairs and Seto in very quick moments. Then they put a few things together. Seto is currently away from the public eye, to do as he pleases. The girl he currently has his sights set on is under the same roof. They put two and two together, get five and ask:
"So, I guess we can't call you a boy anymore eh Kaiba? Taunted Yami.
Seto just rolled his eyes and told them Kei was still asleep. In HER bed.
"Your nothing but old perverts. Both of you." Seto scoffed, without even looking at the two.
"Humph. Well I am got to see a lot of action in my time!" Bakura gloated. "Even more than you, pharaoh!"
"Well at least my concubines were willing." Yami shot back.
"….BRAIN DEAD PHARAOH!"
Yami sweat dropped and the two began fighting. ((Writers sweat drop and hold up sign that says: Not this crap again!))
Seto sighed and began checking his stocks. Again, he was interrupted. No, not by the door, not by Yami and Bakura, not by any of the others, but by something crawling around in the air vents. The three men looked up at the vent the most noise was emanating from, and prepared for the worst. Before any of them could react, Yami Malik fell out of the vent and dusted himself off. Grabbing a strange bag and saying nothing, he then tries to climb out the window, only to be fried by Bakura.
"And where are you going?" Bakura asked
"And what is in the bag?" Yami added.
Seto picked up Malik and hung him upside down until the contents of the bag were strewn upon the floor. What was in there they were not prepared for.
"P...P…PANTIES??!!!!" Seto yelled in horror
"What the hell are you doing with women's panties?!!" Bakura screamed, dropping the bag as if it were soiled beyond all reason.
"I told you he was a psycho…" Yami added coolly, putting the panties back in the bag and giving it to Malik.
"Now you give these back you understand?!"
"Yes Pharaoh." Malik said with a snicker as he went out the window.
"BAKA!! You just let him off!" Bakura wailed.
"He is just going to go out and steal more, it is common sense." Seto said, taking his seat.
The room grew back to whatever was normal, Yami and Bakura becoming absorbed in an argument about women and why they wear panties of such different types and colors, when the ground began to shake. The three were startled and things began to fall down.
"Earthquake?" Bakura guessed.
Right after Bakura finished his fragment of a sentence, the ground by the pound outside the kitchen began to come up. Soon, a boy about sixteen and a girl in pigtails pop up out of the hole. The girl has a small pig on her head and the boy has a yellow bandana with black triangles on it. Both of them look confused and the boy states:
"Where the hell are we now?"
"We are back where we started darling, you got lost again." replied the young woman and the pig on her head gave a squeal of agreement. A black and white dog popped out next to the boy and nuzzled it's master.
"Guess I am doomed to lack direction ne?"
The two return the way they came, not caring to cover the hole they made in the yard.
"Well, that was odd and random." Jounouchi said, blinking. He was in his pajamas standing in the door to the kitchen.
"Mmmm something smells good!" he said, making his way for the bowl of ramen. "Hey, it has something written on it…." Jounouchi turns the bowl so he can see the name. "…Masu…Inu?!!! WHY YOU--YOU--hey wait, why are you up? I thought I had finally gotten to your big fat ego by taking your girlfriend and-" Jounouchi's mouth is covered by Yami's hand.
"Enough Jounouchi."
"Hmph. She loves me not you." Seto snorted.
"Oh yeah, well, well Kasumi has the hots for me not you!"
"Actually inu, it's the other way around as well. Just go back to that girl Mai, you make a good couple, she can actually keep you on a leash." he said laughing as he traveled out of the kitchen.
Seto could hear Jounouchi cursing him, and he was ignoring it. Right now he was trying to figure out how he had exactly seen Keiko.
"Ta-kun what's up?"
But that would have to wait, as Kasumi wrapped her arms around Seto and embraced him.
"Do you need anything, I'll get whatever you want, promise!" Kasumi said, her eyes sparkling as she looked up at him. Seto told her everything, and instead of telling him it was all a dream, she understood him.
"Ta-kun, we all get signs in our life at one time or another, to do something, to become someone, to change the world. Yours is to find this girl, whoever or wherever she may be. And I hope you know, I'll be right there with ya, and so will Kei, and Yuugi-tatchi! Never feel alone in anything you do, because you never are." Kasumi smiled. Seto realized that, as noble as she was, she was hurting inside, but she knew it was the right thing to let him go.
"Kasumi, I…I want you to know something…I…I love you." Seto said, taking the woman who drove him absolutely off the walls and kissing her.
Kasumi gently nuzzled Seto, but told him it isn't meant to be.
"We aren't destined for one another, and neither are you and Kei. Your destined for this girl Keiko, and you need to find her. And don't worry, if no one else wants to, I'll help, I promise." Kasumi sealed this promise with a kiss on his cheek, and he sealed his promise to protect her, and Kei and also to find Keiko, with a kiss to her hand.
The two go their separate ways, Kasumi to make breakfast and Seto to tell Kei about his vision.
Two eyes appear from the darkness, and they spell evil.
"Such a pity I need to destroy this peaceful setting. But nothing can ever stay peaceful. Prepare duelists, for trials the likes of which you have never seen before!" the voice fades out with insane laughter.
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Kasumi: Yo! Minna-san! The female writer is taking the story into her own hands! What are we going to do?! And who is this strange girl?! The finals begin, well sort of. Lets just say it's not your traditional way of card dueling…WHAT?! SOMEONE IS TAKING OVER TA-KUN'S TOURNAMENT?! Stayed tuned for the next episode of Runners High! Beginning of The Revolution! Duel Standby!
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Histori Ta nai yo - You aren't alone (quoted from Rei *Sailor Mars* of Sailor Moon)
Insert Song: Desert Rose- Sting
Nekohanten: Restaurant in the Ranma ½ universe owned by Shampoo and her Obaba, with her two younger sisters.
Young Boy, dog, and pig girl: Ryouga, his dog Checkers and Aki (his wife, I forget if that is her name XP)
Shampoo, Ryouga, Checkers, and all characters not related to YGO are property of Rumiko Takahashi.
FW: What do we have in store next? Wait and see! I am plotting things not even Una and the male writer know!
Una+MW: WHAT?!
FW: That's right, I am changing my storyline from what I told you guys! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Una: SO much for the drama, it's gonna be all comedy now.
MW: Or really really crappy
FW: *hits MW with mallet* Do you always have to be so negative about me doing things with out consulting other people?!
MW: Yes.
FW: *Face vault*
Una: Stay tuned folks!
Mw: This is sad; we have to bribe people to read this!
Fw: They may be reading it!
Mw: Then what are we bribing them for?
Fw: A review!
Mw: *sweat drops*
Fw: A review a review! Come on people we know you're out there! Two people have already reviewed who are naught but strangers to me! This writer is on a sugar and depression rush so grant her a little pity okeeeee? Why not reviewreviewreview! If you do, I will do anything you want me to! I shall jump through hoops of fire, swim through cold and rushing water! If you want me to strip down, I'll strip down!* strips down to expose organs*
Mw: What the hell is wrong with you? *sweat drops* She never learns *rope falls down and MW pulls it, causing female writer to plummet down bottomless pit*
Fw: HAIL REVIEWER-SAN!!!!!!
Mw: We don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, but she owns Kasumi Motou and Kei Ishtar.
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Seto lay alone on his bed, staring into the space that was his ceiling. He pondered why he was so angry with himself, because he was sure it wasn't all about Kei. No, something else was bothering him and he couldn't figure out what it was. The words that Kasumi had told him ran through his head again and again, in a repeating ever-sorrowful melody of unrequited love.
"Or was it?" he pondered silently to himself, turning on his side. Every time he had ever seen Kasumi, ever since he met her in fact, they were rarely more then ten feet apart from each other. He even remembers of being attracted to her at one point. "Do I still love her?" Seto could not keep this question from running around his mind. He repeated to himself that he loved Kei, because for a strange reason, he always felt as if he had some connection with Kei, some spark, as if they knew each other from the moment they were born. Nevertheless, the deeper he thought of it, the more he considered the fact he felt the same thing around Kasumi. It was to strange, something not even he himself could prove scientifically.
"What would make me love women like this? One is a psycho bitch lady, and the other is a complete doormat….two opposite ends of the spectrum, yet so alike…Kasumi wouldn't be caught dead with her hair down and in a dress, and vice versa for Kei…yet something about them…makes them so alike, what is it?! WHAT MAKES ME LOVE THEM?!" As suddenly as Seto uttered the last word aloud, it was as if the world around him collapsed. He felt as if he were being swept away by a large wind, yet nothing seemed disturbed, and soon the room went completely black. The young laughter of small children grew ever louder, and Seto recognized one of the voices as his own, the other, of his long lost friend, and first love, Keiko.
~~I dream of rain~~
~~I dream of gardens in the desert sand~~
The first thing that came to his mind was pushing the little girl with big blue eyes and long blonde hair on the swing. Her bows were always bright and colorful, even when they became torn from climbing trees, or dampened by rain. The swing was attached to a large oak outside of Kaiba Mansion, and it was still there…
~~I wake in vain~~
~~I dream of love as time runs through my hand~~
A small, shabby tent composed of sheet and towels, houses a smiling Mokuba, who sits in Keiko's lap as Seto, reads them a story aloud. With out knowing it, Seto nears the young girl holding his little brother, and she puts Mokuba down, looks as if she is going to kiss the young boy, and then tags his hand squealing: "Your it! Se-chan is it!!!" and running at full speed around the gardens.
~~I dream of fire~~
~~Those dreams that tie two hearts that will never die~~
Seto leads Keiko to a small grove of sakura trees. She runs around catching the blossoms, saying that each one is a soul from the world, and if you keep catching them, you might find someone you know. Seto shrugs this off as Keiko being her insane little self…again. Keiko says she hopes to find her mother, and maybe Seto will find his parents, he just has to try. Seto lazily puts his hand out to catch some, but only two fall into his palm, out of hundreds, just two. "See? They never left you! Histori Ta nai yo! You just have to believe!" Keiko says, kissing him on the cheek, causing a large red blush to appear across the young boy's face.
~~And near the flames~~
~~The shadows play in the shape of the man's desire~~
Seto ponders for a bit how she would look now. Would she have cut her hair short like she so desired, stating that women that look like women could fail to run a large company when their fathers pass it on to them. He always teased her, saying he couldn't love her if she looked like a man. She would no doubt be at least 5'6, since her father was tall…"Maybe, we will meet…"
~~This desert rose~~
~~Whose shadow bears the secret promise~~
~~This desert flower~~
~~No sweet perfume that would torture you more than this~~
He remembers that she always smelled of flowers, and never the same one either. She was his little rose, through out some of his dark times with his stepfather. She always reminded him that she was there for him, as was Mokuba, no matter what her Uncle Gozaburo, as she liked to call him, did to him.
~~And now she turns~~
~~This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams~~
~~This fire burns~~
~~I realize that nothing's as it seems~~
"Is…Is this the reason I love these two women? Because combined together, they fill a hole that had been long empty with her absence? But, then why, why oh God why can't I just have the one woman I love?! Why?!"
~~I dream of rain~~
~~I dream of gardens in the desert sand~~
~~I wake in vain~~
~~I dream of love as time runs through my hand~~
He does his best to imagine how she would look. Long flowing blonde hair down to her waist, in a long flowing black dress, that would probably look like a combination of modern styles, yet flowed like dresses of times long past. Black was always her favorite color. Her blue green eyes would be contrasted with dark make-up, her long neck complemented with the finest jewels he could buy her, and the ring he had given her so long ago upon her finger, along with the necklace he had given her, with a crystal blue eyes on it. Though now it may act as more of a choker than a necklace….
~~I dream of rain~~
~~I lift my gaze to empty skies above~~
~~I close my eyes~~
~~The rare perfume is the sweet intoxication of love~~
Seto is being tormented by visions of his past love, no matter what he does; he cannot rid them from his mind. He is soon lost, drifting in and out of consciousness and his own memories.
~~I dream of rain~~
~~I dream of gardens in the desert sand~~
~~I wake in vain~~
~~I dream of love as time runs through my hand~~
A voice, a soothing, young woman's voice gently chides Seto. "You're always feeling down aren't you? What ever happened to that cheerful little boy that used to push me on the swing? Did he grow up?"
~Sweet desert rose~
~Whose shadow bears the secret promise~
Seto strained to open his eyes, but he just couldn't. The smell of white roses clung to the air and was making him very drowsy.
~This desert flower~
~No sweet perfume that would torture you more than this~
"Kei-chan?" Seto asked, softly, afraid to say it aloud, as if he did, she would disappear.
~Sweet desert rose~
~This memory of hidden hearts and souls~
In his dream like state, Seto lies on what seems to be nothing but air. Rose petals and sakura blossoms drift all around him, and he feels as if his head is cradled somewhere soft. A young woman's hand, takes his cold and icy hand into her own warm and welcoming hand. Her two hands caress his one and her voice is soothing.
"I missed you for so long…where did you go? Where did your heart go? Has it become encased in ice? Or is there still hope?" The young girl said, and Seto could feel her bring his hand to her heart.
"You are her, you're my Keiko….my sweet and insane little Keiko…" Seto was sure of this, even thought her face was shadowed.
The girl's sweet laughter rings through out the vast area. "Yes, but do not think I left, for I am closer than I appear…"
"Always with the riddles you're just like your father, I always knew insanity was hereditary."
The blonde girl twisted his arm behind his back, playfully and gently. "Insane am I?…..ok so maybe I got us in a few strange situations but we both still alive ne?"
"You had us going down a hill in an abandoned shopping cart, and that was the least insane thing you ever did." Seto said, smirking and laughing.
"You have to go, Se-chan, you need to wake up."
"I want to stay here forever, please, let me."
"Gomen-ne…but someone needs you. If you need me, just close your eyes, and I'll be there." The blonde vanished in a swirl of blossoms and petals.
~This desert flower~
~This rare perfume is the sweet intoxication of love~
Seto awoke, and was back in his dark room. His breath was short and his heart was racing. At first, he thought he was alone, until two cold blue eyes stared back at him.
"You saw her, didn't you? Seto?" asked Shadi.
"What? How-You…Is this normal?" Seto asked, giving up on asking how Shadi knew or why he was there.
"When you began to be tormented by your feelings for two different women, you realized it all stemmed from your lack of the one you truly love. You have a connection few lovers can ever have. You can see each other, feel what the other is feeling, and even speak with each other, without actually being by each other's sides."
"You're a raving lunatic! Who are you, how did you get in this room and how do you know Keiko?!"
"I am just a messenger, here to tell you what you're going through. And now I must go. If you wish to find her, she is close yet far away. Farewell." Shadi said, his voice fading with him. Seto straight there, dumbfounded. He shakes his head and tells himself he needs to see sunlight because he is going crazy. After a quick shower, Seto puts on loose black pants, a black shirts and ((writers hold up a sign that says BA BUM BUM!!)) a black jacket. He wearily walks downstairs, pours himself some tea and begins to read a newspaper left on the counter. Some one knocks on the door, disturbing Seto's reading. He answers the door curtly, to a Chinese girl with large amber eyes, long purple hair and a Chinese dress, carrying a box with food in it.
"Nihao!! The Nekohanten would like to welcome duelists! Please take free ramen as welcome! Shampoo's ramen is best in town! Shampoo is sure you will like it Mr. Blue eyes!" said the young woman, handing Seto the ramen.
"Umm, thank you…" Seto said, making sure the door slammed in the girl's face.
"Shampoo never seen such rude man! He must be from south Japan! Humph! Shampoo no serve here till rude man is gone!" The girl mutters to herself as she pedals off. "I curse this place with insanity! Dojo no longer nice place!"
Seto still didn't feel hungry and labeled the Ramen "Masu Inu" and see if Jounouchi would actually pick it up later. He chuckled to himself. He was actually doing something somewhat entertaining. Keiko was already rubbing off on him. Was that lunatic actually right? No, impossible he thought. He sat back down, when Yami and Bakura came down fro breakfast, quarreling as usual.
"Are you saying coconuts migrate?!" Bakura yelled.
"Well, something gets them around the world!" Yami replied with.
"Why not birds?"
"A bird can not carry a five pound coconut over such a distance!"
"Then how do they get to the store?! You ARE a brain-dead pharaoh!"
Neither was prepared to see Seto Kaiba sitting in the kitchen, acting as if he had been there for the past three days.
"WHAT?!! WHAT ARE--" The two men look back and forth at the stairs and Seto in very quick moments. Then they put a few things together. Seto is currently away from the public eye, to do as he pleases. The girl he currently has his sights set on is under the same roof. They put two and two together, get five and ask:
"So, I guess we can't call you a boy anymore eh Kaiba? Taunted Yami.
Seto just rolled his eyes and told them Kei was still asleep. In HER bed.
"Your nothing but old perverts. Both of you." Seto scoffed, without even looking at the two.
"Humph. Well I am got to see a lot of action in my time!" Bakura gloated. "Even more than you, pharaoh!"
"Well at least my concubines were willing." Yami shot back.
"….BRAIN DEAD PHARAOH!"
Yami sweat dropped and the two began fighting. ((Writers sweat drop and hold up sign that says: Not this crap again!))
Seto sighed and began checking his stocks. Again, he was interrupted. No, not by the door, not by Yami and Bakura, not by any of the others, but by something crawling around in the air vents. The three men looked up at the vent the most noise was emanating from, and prepared for the worst. Before any of them could react, Yami Malik fell out of the vent and dusted himself off. Grabbing a strange bag and saying nothing, he then tries to climb out the window, only to be fried by Bakura.
"And where are you going?" Bakura asked
"And what is in the bag?" Yami added.
Seto picked up Malik and hung him upside down until the contents of the bag were strewn upon the floor. What was in there they were not prepared for.
"P...P…PANTIES??!!!!" Seto yelled in horror
"What the hell are you doing with women's panties?!!" Bakura screamed, dropping the bag as if it were soiled beyond all reason.
"I told you he was a psycho…" Yami added coolly, putting the panties back in the bag and giving it to Malik.
"Now you give these back you understand?!"
"Yes Pharaoh." Malik said with a snicker as he went out the window.
"BAKA!! You just let him off!" Bakura wailed.
"He is just going to go out and steal more, it is common sense." Seto said, taking his seat.
The room grew back to whatever was normal, Yami and Bakura becoming absorbed in an argument about women and why they wear panties of such different types and colors, when the ground began to shake. The three were startled and things began to fall down.
"Earthquake?" Bakura guessed.
Right after Bakura finished his fragment of a sentence, the ground by the pound outside the kitchen began to come up. Soon, a boy about sixteen and a girl in pigtails pop up out of the hole. The girl has a small pig on her head and the boy has a yellow bandana with black triangles on it. Both of them look confused and the boy states:
"Where the hell are we now?"
"We are back where we started darling, you got lost again." replied the young woman and the pig on her head gave a squeal of agreement. A black and white dog popped out next to the boy and nuzzled it's master.
"Guess I am doomed to lack direction ne?"
The two return the way they came, not caring to cover the hole they made in the yard.
"Well, that was odd and random." Jounouchi said, blinking. He was in his pajamas standing in the door to the kitchen.
"Mmmm something smells good!" he said, making his way for the bowl of ramen. "Hey, it has something written on it…." Jounouchi turns the bowl so he can see the name. "…Masu…Inu?!!! WHY YOU--YOU--hey wait, why are you up? I thought I had finally gotten to your big fat ego by taking your girlfriend and-" Jounouchi's mouth is covered by Yami's hand.
"Enough Jounouchi."
"Hmph. She loves me not you." Seto snorted.
"Oh yeah, well, well Kasumi has the hots for me not you!"
"Actually inu, it's the other way around as well. Just go back to that girl Mai, you make a good couple, she can actually keep you on a leash." he said laughing as he traveled out of the kitchen.
Seto could hear Jounouchi cursing him, and he was ignoring it. Right now he was trying to figure out how he had exactly seen Keiko.
"Ta-kun what's up?"
But that would have to wait, as Kasumi wrapped her arms around Seto and embraced him.
"Do you need anything, I'll get whatever you want, promise!" Kasumi said, her eyes sparkling as she looked up at him. Seto told her everything, and instead of telling him it was all a dream, she understood him.
"Ta-kun, we all get signs in our life at one time or another, to do something, to become someone, to change the world. Yours is to find this girl, whoever or wherever she may be. And I hope you know, I'll be right there with ya, and so will Kei, and Yuugi-tatchi! Never feel alone in anything you do, because you never are." Kasumi smiled. Seto realized that, as noble as she was, she was hurting inside, but she knew it was the right thing to let him go.
"Kasumi, I…I want you to know something…I…I love you." Seto said, taking the woman who drove him absolutely off the walls and kissing her.
Kasumi gently nuzzled Seto, but told him it isn't meant to be.
"We aren't destined for one another, and neither are you and Kei. Your destined for this girl Keiko, and you need to find her. And don't worry, if no one else wants to, I'll help, I promise." Kasumi sealed this promise with a kiss on his cheek, and he sealed his promise to protect her, and Kei and also to find Keiko, with a kiss to her hand.
The two go their separate ways, Kasumi to make breakfast and Seto to tell Kei about his vision.
Two eyes appear from the darkness, and they spell evil.
"Such a pity I need to destroy this peaceful setting. But nothing can ever stay peaceful. Prepare duelists, for trials the likes of which you have never seen before!" the voice fades out with insane laughter.
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Kasumi: Yo! Minna-san! The female writer is taking the story into her own hands! What are we going to do?! And who is this strange girl?! The finals begin, well sort of. Lets just say it's not your traditional way of card dueling…WHAT?! SOMEONE IS TAKING OVER TA-KUN'S TOURNAMENT?! Stayed tuned for the next episode of Runners High! Beginning of The Revolution! Duel Standby!
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Histori Ta nai yo - You aren't alone (quoted from Rei *Sailor Mars* of Sailor Moon)
Insert Song: Desert Rose- Sting
Nekohanten: Restaurant in the Ranma ½ universe owned by Shampoo and her Obaba, with her two younger sisters.
Young Boy, dog, and pig girl: Ryouga, his dog Checkers and Aki (his wife, I forget if that is her name XP)
Shampoo, Ryouga, Checkers, and all characters not related to YGO are property of Rumiko Takahashi.
FW: What do we have in store next? Wait and see! I am plotting things not even Una and the male writer know!
Una+MW: WHAT?!
FW: That's right, I am changing my storyline from what I told you guys! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Una: SO much for the drama, it's gonna be all comedy now.
MW: Or really really crappy
FW: *hits MW with mallet* Do you always have to be so negative about me doing things with out consulting other people?!
MW: Yes.
FW: *Face vault*
Una: Stay tuned folks!