"So what do we do now?" Akito asked. They had been wandering the Shadow Realm for hours already. She had taken the jagged knife away from Tasuki. "Hey, Tasuki, why aren't you playing with a Barbie like before?"
"I remembered my sandwich." Tasuki said dreamily. "Mmmm…"
"So what can we do to get us out of this place?" Marik asked. "Now that we don't have our Items."
"Hey! Look!" Kyo took a piece of paper that was tack onto a tree. It was another construction paper with squiggles written all over. "Who reads this 'language'?"
"I do!" Inu-Yasha said. He took the note and read,"We have the golden things with eyeballs!! Come and find it!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA?!"
"IT'S THE CHILDREN FROM HELL!!!" Tasuki yelled. She took the note, poured kerosene, and set it on fire. "BURN!!!!"
Bakura clung to Akito, whimpering like a little girl. "Evil children…"
"Children?" Akito looked around. "Where?" She walked with great difficulty because Bakura was holding onto her foot. "Why is my left foot heavier than the other?" she asked.
"Newton's Law says that what goes up must come down. So that means the sky is going to fall." Inu-Yasha said.
"How did the sky get up in the first place?" Kyo asked.
"Maybe it materialized out of nowhere." Akito said.
"Or maybe the children put it up there!" Tasuki yelled.
"Why did we start talking about the sky?" Marik asked.
"Why is the sky dark and scary?" Bakura asked, his eyes large. Everyone stared at him. "What?"
"Hey! I know how to contact Yami!" Marik snapped his fingers.
(Where Yami is)
"Stupid ketchup!" Yami yelled, shaking the ketchup bottle. His Puzzle glowed.
Yami!
"What?" Yami looked at the bottle. "The bottle speaks?"
Yami! Get us out!
"I'm trying but you won't come out!" Yami slapped the bottle.
No! It's Marik!
"Say what?" He stared at the ketchup bottle, very confused. "Marik, you are a ketchup bottle?"
-_-" No! I mean, I've sent everyone to the Shadow Realm and you have to get us out! I'm speaking from the Puzzle!
"A ketchup bottle can send people to the Shadow Realm? Sweet!" Yami smiled happily. "Hey, how do you know I have the Puzzle?"
No, I mean use your Puzzle to get us out of the Shadow Realm!
"Why are there ketchup bottles in there?" he asked.
Get us out of this place or I'll whack you so many times your hair will be extra spikier!
"Ahhh!" Yami yelled. "I've been threatened by a ketchup bottle! Mind Crush!"
The ketchup bottle exploded and Yami ran, screaming like a fool.
(Back to the Shadow Realm)
"Well, that didn't work," Bakura noted.
"The ketchup bottle speaks?" Akito asked, her eyes growing wide.
"No, the way to get out is to depend on your friendships," the goddess said. Everyone turned to stare at her. "Well, it worked for me."
"Where the heck did you come from?" Tasuki asked.
"I have my sources. But that's because I have so many friends!"
"They are squirrels." Bakura said.
"So? Friendships come in many shapes and sizes!" She sighed. "That's why when times are bad, we can depend on each other that that strengthens us to find a way to overcome it. And we'll know that the friendship will never end! All you have to do is-."
Akito, Marik, Kyo, and Bakura killed her at that spot. Akito whacked her several times with the cue stick, Kyo threw some explosives at her, Marik impaled her with a dagger, and Bakura buried her with a stake shoved into her chest.
"Just in time," Bakura said breathlessly.
"Why did you shove a stake into her?" Akito asked.
"That speech drained me of my blood." he answered.
"Oh." Akito looked at the cue stick and shouted," No, you can't have any free cookies!"
"Well, if Yami can't get us out, we'll have to get the Items back," Marik said reluctantly. "From the children."
"EVIL CHILDREN!!!" Tasuki yelled, making everyone go deaf in one ear for a few seconds.
"I know how to get there!" Inu-Yasha said. "Follow the yellow brick road!" It wasn't until everyone was staring at him that he stammered," Or we can find a different way."
"No, really?" Bakura said sarcastically. He took out his deck and summoned Earthbound Spirit. "Take us to the children so we can get out of here!" he commanded.
Akito went ohhhh and snatched another card from Bakura's deck. "Change of Heart!" she summoned the half angel and half vampire girl. "Make me a sandwich!"
"Me too!' Tasuki added.
Bakura watched in horror as the magic card prepared two sandwiches. One had a lot of meat and the other was something a vegetarian would eat. O_O
After giving the card back to Bakura, Akito and Tasuki sat down, eating the sandwiches. "Yum!" ^_^
"Why didn't I get one?" Marik said mournfully. He was given a glare from Bakura and decided to shut up.
"We'll wait for them to finish," Inu-Yasha said, sitting down with his arms crossed like in the anime. Marik saw this and sat next to him, the same style. Kyo curled on Inu-Yasha's head, whimpering at the Earthbound Spirit. Bakura sighed irritably, summoned back the monster, and sat next to the tree and fell asleep.
(Where Yami is)
"I'm telling you sir! The ketchup bottle speaks! It said it sent people to the Shadow Realm and it said that if I don't get it out, it will make my hair spikier!" Yami ranted to the brown haired policeman. "I'm telling you the truth! Marik is a ketchup bottle!"
The policeman looked at him at the verge of laughing his ass off. "Ketchup bottles? Shadow Realm? Look like you watch too many cartoons."
"That's the point! It will send people to the Shadow Realm! Why won't anyone believe me?" Yami cried. He was being tied to a straitjacket (that was somehow identical to Akito's) and the attendants were having a hard time because his hair kept getting in the way. His Puzzle lay on the ground, forgotten.
(Back to the Shadow Realm)
"All done!" Akito said, throwing the wrapper at a random spot. She looked at the groups that were underneath the tree. Kyo was chewing on Inu-Yasha's ears and he was trying to pull her off with great difficulty. Bakura's head had rolled onto Marik's shoulder and Marik had fallen asleep too with his head on Bakura's.
"Oh! Yaoi!" Tasuki took out a camera and snapped the picture. It was one of those Polaroid cameras that develop the picture at once. She handed the picture to Akito who quickly slipped it into her pocket.
Akito went to Bakura, looked at him for a few seconds before sitting on him. "Hey! I've got something that you want!" she yelled, waking both of them up.
Marik hissed and jerked off Bakura who swore bloody hell and slapped Marik across the face. Then he turned to Akito who was smiling like a maniac.
"What is it?" he said. Akito showed him the picture, still smiling. Bakura screamed and looked at Marik, then back to Akito, then back to Marik, and finally at the picture. "How did you get this?"
"I did!" Tasuki said, showing him the camera. "And I've got a lot of files of that so don't bother destroying it."
"What do you want?" Bakura asked in a low voice to Akito. She smiled and said," You have to let me step on your foot."
"Say what?" he asked.
"Or else I'll post this picture in the Internet." she said, her eyes narrowed to look like his.
"Fine." Bakura stuck out his foot. Akito stepped on it, hard. He yelped and jumped around, tripped over a root, and his face landed between Marik's legs.
Tasuki snapped the picture. "Got it!" ^_^
"Get the hell off me!" Marik shoved Bakura off and tried not to blush.
Kyo and Inu-Yasha stared at them before turning away at the image. "Oh, the images," Kyo muttered.
Akito took the picture from Tasuki and smiled again. Bakura kept struggling to hold onto something but Marik was the closest thing nearby and his hand kept grabbing Marik's shirt.
"Got that too!" Tasuki said. Marik hissed at Bakura and took several steps away. "Let's never speak of this again," he said and was about to leave when Akito yelled," Marik, that's a -"
SMACK! Just his luck, he walked into a tree. "Owwww."
"Let's go get the Items back, okay?" Bakura walked past Marik and everyone followed.
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I had to add that scene in. This isn't a yaoi story, just slight hints and a lot of pictures to take!