Cloe: FWEE! It's off to the 'Evil People for World Domination Convention' for me! Take care of the fic, Jenster! *walks out through front door*

Jenny: I told her not to call me that anymore…*notices readers staring at her* Whoops…umh…how to start this…

Mandy: Last chapter, there was a mistake! Cloe accidentally put part of 'Hiei and Shelbey 4ever's fic at the top instead of the bottom with the ad! Whoops…oh, here's the chart of characters again:

Yugi=Yukiri

Yami=Tiami

Joey=Andrea (or Andy)

Honda=Alisha

Ryou=Nika

Bakura=Vanessa

Malik=Namura (Get it? In BC it was Namu, but now it's Namura? Teehee!)

Jenny: Yeah! Umh…let's start off chapter…10, now, ne?

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My Immortal

By CFB

Chapter 10

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"I'm looking for room twenty-seven."

"Right this way Miss. You must be Miss Ishrat's visitor."

Anzu nodded and followed the redcap to the elevator, up two flights of stairs, over the bridge across the swimming pool, and finally to room 27. Anzu bowed to the man in thanks and knocked on the door.

Malik opened it and quickly shuffled her in.

"Were you followed?"

"No. All the boys were rushing off to please Kaiba. It's pathetic, really."

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Jenny: Sorry for the interruption, but…should Anzu and Malik be…er…more than just allies? *shudders and doesn't want cousin to be molested by Anzu* This is a poll! Please leave your opinion in your review!

Mandy: Back to the fic.

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The next day…

"Ryou! You party's starting in an hour! I'd hurry!"

Nika grumbled.

"Yeah, you would. Sissy prat…"

"I heard that!" Vanessa yelled from the kitchen where she was attempting to make macaroni. Well, more like burning herself alive with all the 'dang nabbed noodles' that wouldn't stop 'sticking to that blasted wall!'.

Nika giggled and pulled on her running shoes. She grabbed a random purse off the hall tree and stepped out into the musty old hallways of her apartment complex. She sighed and started her perilous journey to the mall on the greatest adventure, and most likely hardest mission, of her life: finding a bathing suit.

She roamed through the Speedo section and into the one-pieces.

"Hey! Nika!"

Nika turned on her heel, plastering a smile on her face. Kitsune jogged over and gaped.

"You're looking at these?! C'mon! The better ones are over here!"

Kitsune dragged Nika by the wrist over to the bikini's. She held up a cherry pink one with little blue flowers and then another one that was chick yellow and had more strings than cloth.

Nika eyed the pile of clothes in her arms warily, fearing the evil of the slutty clothes.

(a/n: lol, sorry! I have a certain loathing for stringy bikinis…)

"Go on! Try them on in there! I'll wait here and you can show them to me!"

Nika's eyes widened as Kitsune pushed her in the direction of the changing rooms.

She hesitantly stepped out a few minutes later with the pink one on. Kitsune squealed.

"That's definitely on the buying list! Go try on the next one!"

She heaved a sigh and went back to the dressing room, and hurriedly changed clothes, not even daring to look at the price tag. Kitsune gasped in awe and put that bikini on the 'buying list' as well.

"One more and we can go shopping for guys!"

"Oh boy!" Nika said, her words dripping with sarcasm. Either Kitsune ignored it, or she just didn't catch it. What a shocker.

#%#%#%

Vanessa waited for a few minutes after Nika left (she had given up on the macaroni) and then hopped up off the couch and out the door, grabbing her jacket and a cell phone she had jacked from some dude earlier that morning.

She walked out of the building casually, and promptly opened the phone book and ripped a page out of it.

"'K'…'K'…'K'…AH! Kaiba, Seto…" She mumbled to herself. She dialed the number and stuffed the page unceremoniously into her jacket pocket.

"You've reached The Kaiba's, may I help you?"

Vanessa grinned and answered, "Yes, I've got urgent news for Mr. Kaiba. He's got a meeting at two this afternoon."

"I'll get Mr. Kaiba for you."

"Thank you, ma'am."

She waited a few minutes, listening to horrible elevator music while doing so.

"This is Kaiba."

"Hi! My boss said to call you about an urgent meeting."

"Where?" Seto's demandingly cold voice rang from the other end of the line.

"Tokyo Hot Springs."

"What time?"

"Around two this afternoon outside of the sauna."

"Why there?"

"I don't know. Mr. Ryuugi just told me to tell you."

"Otogi?"

"Yes."

"Fine. Tell Otogi I'll be there."

"Yes sir. Thank you."

The line went dead without another word being uttered. Vanessa laughed softly to herself and looked through the 'R' list in the phone book.

"Ryuugi! Heh, this is going to be soo much fun…"

%$%$%$%

Yugi reclined on the couch and sighed mournfully.

"Yami, can you make me a sandwich?"

"Get it yourself."

Yugi rolled her eyes.

"Fine…"

Tiami flipped the page in her magazine and squealed.

"I want that lipstick! Yugi, we're going shopping!"

Tiami dropped the magazine and ushered her aibou out the door and towards the mall. What she didn't expect, was to see Nika and Kitsune sucking up to a store clerk.

"Aww, please? It's only a dollar!" Kitsune whined.

The store clerk tensed and then gave up.

"Okay, but you owe me a dollar Kit."

"Thanks, Bro!"

Nika gaped at the girl as she flounced off, swinging the bags containing the bathing suits around her.

"Hey, you! Keep an eye on my sis, she's a flirt." The clerk said to Nika. Nika nodded and hurried off after her, toppling Yugi over. She helped Yugi up.

"Oops, sorry!" She said, too preoccupied to notice who she ran over.

Tiami glanced around and jumped when she saw the cosmetics.

"I found them Yukiri!"

Yugi turned crimson and slowly stepped over to where Tiami was going through all the lipsticks and lip glosses in stock.

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Kitsune suddenly slowed down in her fast walk. Nika skidded to a halt behind her. Kitsune pointed to a guy across the hall and smiled.

"Hott, ain't he?"

"Who?" Nika asked obliviously.

"Him!"

"Oh! You mean that college dude over there?"

"Yeah. C'mon, let's go talk to him."

"But Kit! He's at least five years older than us!" Nika exclaimed, grabbing Kitsune's arm, trying to stop her from going. Kitsune pulled away and went right up to the guy. Nika stared after her in disbelief before wandering off to the nearest store: Claires.

(a/n: Do ya think they have those over there? Oh well. They have 'em here! ^^;)

"Hello! May I help you?"

"Umh…" she searched for an excuse to be there, "yes, I want to get my ears pierced." Nika said uncertainly, cringing ever so slightly.

'That was stupid Ryou…oh well…'

"Okay! That'll cost 40 yen."

Nika handed the money over to the woman and sat down in the chair by the window.

"I need you to choose a pair of earrings, please, while I get the gun."

Nika's eyes widened and the woman laughed.

"I mean the ear gun to put the ring in."

"Oh…"

Nika picked a pair of sapphire earrings and told the woman. Minutes later, her left ear was red and inflamed. Soon after, her right ear was hurting like the dickens and it didn't help that Kitsune was bobbing up and down on the balls of her feet babbling about how sweet the college guy, Hiko, was.

"That's great." Nika encouraged, her face pained and her fingers massaging her ear lobes.

"You need to rub this liquid on your ears twice a day and spin the earrings every once in a while. Don't take them out for six months, okay?"

"Yeah, thanks!" Nika said, taking the bottle and the free pair of complimentary earrings that she wouldn't be able to wear for a whole six months and, hopefully, she wouldn't WANT to use them by then 'cause she'd be a guy again. Hopefully.

"Let's GO, Nika! We gotta go to my house then get ready for my party!"

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Tiami grinned happily as she skipped out of the 13th store that day. Yugi lagged behind, carrying about 5 heavy bags filled with clothes, cosmetics, and CDs.

"Tiami, I know you like to shop and all, but did you really need to buy that Nelly CD?"

Tiami turned to her wither her hands on her hips. "Of COURSE I did! I hear he's the bomb over in the Americas."

"But you don't even speak English!" Yugi complained.

"So? I can learn."

"But it's a hard language to learn!! I've tried it as a second language!!"

"Who cares? I've always wanted to learn another language. And now you can help me!" Tiami said happily, skipping off ahead.

"Ugh. You're impossible."

!*!*!*!*!*!

Seto Kaiba walked in long strides down the cement walkway towards the long structure, his briefcase banging against his knee as he went, scowling and hating the fact that Otogi had chosen this place to have a meeting.

'He's probably going to stare at everything besides what's important…which is the legal document. Perhaps he's finally decided to forget the cross dressing freak.' Seto thought to himself, a small grin flickering on and then back off his face.

(a/n: Sorry all Pegasus fans! It's Seto thinking this! Not me! (Mandy:*cough*))

Otogi smiled as Seto approached and reached out to shake his hand. Seto brushed past him and sat down at a café table. Otogi shrugged and sat down on the opposite side.

"So, you wanted to speak to me?" They both asked in unison.

"What?"

"I don't know!"

"That girl!"

"She called you too?"

"Yes."

Seto regained his composure and leaned back in his chair and studied the other teen.

"So…" Otogi said, trying to start some conversation.

"Yes?"

"Umh…HOLY TOLITO!! LOOK AT THAT!" Otogi yelled, pointing behind Seto.

Seto turned around to look then quickly looked back down in embarrassment.

"It's like a herd of hott chicks!! Hey! Isn't that girl from our school? Yeah! They ALL are! They're the cheerleaders!" Otogi raved, starting to annoy Seto.

"So what??"

"Whoa! She's a new one…"

Seto looked back again out of curiosity.

"So she is. Why do you care so much? They're only girls."

Otogi blinked.

"Precisely! Besides, I've been looking for new personal cheerleaders…"

Seto folded his arms across his chest and growled, "Well, if that's all, I'll be leaving now."

"No, wait! I want to make you a deal."

Seto rolled his eyes and waited for him to announce his deal. Otogi smirked and leaned closer to whisper his proposition. Seto kinda looked surprised, but he kept his mask of ice.

"No. I'm not a sick perv like you."

He left Otogi looking dumbstruck.

'Maybe he misunderstood me. I meant I wanted him to talk to her…' Otogi thought.

"EEK!"

SPLASH

Seto and Otogi turned towards the cheerleaders. Nika was ducking under the water, hiding her skimpy suit from the CEO we all know and…love…and not to mention the guy she was trying to capture.

Seto quirked an eyebrow at her and continued on his way, leaving a pod of cheerleaders giggling like crazy at the thought that Nika might have a crush on the toughest guy in school. All besides Anzu.

"Stop laughing guys. She knows Kaiba's off limits. Not one girl has EVER been able to melt him."

"How's he off-limits?" Serenity asked.

(a/n: Yes, Serenity. Had to give her a bigger part in this fic.)

"Err…"

"Ooh, do you like him too, Anzu?" one of the girls, Hakume, asked in a squeaky voice that sounded like nails being scratched against a chalk board. No wonder they chose her to be flyer. She didn't have to talk as much.

Anzu scoffed at her, "No. But did you see what he said to that one chick who asked him to go to the prom with her?"

"I don't think you can see what he's saying…" Nika mumbled.

Anzu gave her a sharp glance and said, "Sorry. Did you see what he did to that one chick? He flattened what little ego she had in a few seconds. He didn't even say more that three words! I kinda felt sorry for her."

"Who was it?" Sarane, the second flyer, asked.

"Dunno. Never talked to her before."

"Was it that one Chumiko girl? Her locker's right next to mine!" Lilu announced, "I saw what she had in it one time. She's obsessed with Kaiba! It's crazy!"

"He's not that great," Kit said with a note of finality. "Oooh, I gotta tell you about this really cute guy who was at the mall today!!"

Nika sat back and closed her eyes for a bit and relaxed while Kit informed the rest of the squad about the dude. What was his name again? Oh yeah. Hiko.

A phone ringing awoke her from her reverie. She reached for her cell phone and answered it.

"Hello?"

"Hey, it's Vanessa."

"Oh hi. What's wrong?"

"Well…I have a plan. Is there any way you can get out of that party?"

"Umh…"

Nika looked around at her new friends, contemplating how to get away.

"Hurry! I gotta get ready if you think the plan'll work." Vanessa said.

"Okay. I'll be right there. Just relax, okay?"

Nika hung up and met the questioning gaze of Kit.

'Well, time to take a leaf out of Yugi's book.'

"My sister's sick, and my dad is out of town. I need to go early."

"Aww! What about your mom? Can't she watch her?"

"Erm…my mother's dead," she said quietly, "Look, I really gotta go."

She hopped out of the tub with amazing speed. Note I didn't say grace. She stubbed her toe on the edge, but ignored the pain and slipped her clothes back on over her bathing suit and put on her shoes.

"See you at school! Sorry I can't stay!" She called, running out of the building and all the way to her apartment.

"Finally! Okay, here's the plan. The pharaoh-ess and I are going to get that spell book."

Nika's eyes widened in absolute shock. Not only from the news but also because her toe hurt like a son-of-a-gun.

"How?" She whispered in a voice that was barely audible.

"Oh, c'mon, Ryou! Remember? I was a tomb robber! It can't be much harder, right?"

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Jenny: HAHA! I am good at cliffies, ain't I? Heheh.

Cloe: *walks in and gasps* Jenny! It took you months to get this finished!! I thought I could trust you!

Jenny: Whoopsies…well, you see what happened was…

Mandy: Let's just move on to the reviewer thankies, eh?

Cloe: *smoke billows from ears* And YOU didn't make her finish?!?!?

Mandy: Eep!

Jenny: Thankie time!

Yami-MeKayla: Oh, thank you! I liked yours too! I got my idea from a fic by Midnight Marauder. Except in that one Yugi was born a girl…O_o;

Riellz: Yes, it many high schools it is. It's also illegal in some schools to have a job that's outside that school's community. Thank you for reviewing!

Spiritwolf112: YAY! I'm glad you're still alive! Lol! I know we haven't talked forever… (Cloe: I miss you too! WAHH!!! ;_;) I'll update When Jenny Asks sometime this millennium, so don't worry! LOL! I've actually started on the next chapter! And it's completely…well, strange. Even I was weirded out…o_o…

Liviania: Thank you! Hopefully this was a good start on the flirting part…heh…wonder what Vanessa was thinking there…

Woodelf193: Thanks! Yeah, I know. My friend does about 10 math lessons on one sheet of paper…she's a bit odd…not that saving paper's a BAD thing. Ya know what I mean? Lol. By the way, nice word. I've actually started using it…

Mooncinder: Ya know, I hadn't even wanted to see that picture in my mind…*sees pile of cookies and plushies and starts drooling* Ooh, you are a favorite…I UPDATED! *grabs booty and runs* Thanx!!!

Treana: Actually, there's going to be a poll at the end of this chapter to decide that, but first the rest gotta have their fair chance, ne? ttyl!

Short-blond-who-talks-a lot: T_T Trish, I fear for your health. But I am having fun! LOL. Thanks for reviewing newayz…I think…yeah…I can't seem to get my contacts in today…having problems with blinking right before the lens goes in…*shudders* (urgent news: CONTACTS R IN! WHOOT!)

Nutpsyco: Well, I didn't update SOON, but I updated! Thanks for the review!

Misura: THANKS SOO MUCH FOR THE IDEA! All credit goes to you! Now I just gotta figure out how they're gonna get the book…err…yeah. Eheh…any more ideas? And the next chapter is being dedicated to you because you have…enlightened me on a way to make this fic longer! YAYZERZ!

Kenshins-gurl3000: You spelled it wrong. It's Congratulations. *wink* I had wonderful holidays and I sposed ta be doing my book report right now, but I'm procrastinating again…btw, I got my contacts! I never knew I had such HUGE  eyes!! My glasses made them smaller! Shiza! See ya tomorrow!

Hiei's Gurl 247: Yeah! I love your fic! It rulez! One of these days when I can actually log in, I'll leave u a REAL review! Yay for me! I got contacts! I can't wear them at school for a few days until I'm up to five hours…tonight I'm aiming for 3 hours…*sarcastically*fun fun…

LadyBloodShedRed: LOL. You're welcome! The least I could do for a cousin, eh? I got an email saying you'd made a new fic but I haven't found the time to read it yet. Too much stuff going on. And The whole YGO crew agrees with you on what you said…except Anzu. She's a bit perturbed, but we knocked her out with a mallet, so no worries about her coming after you. Thank you for the review!

Seto-Kaiba's-fan: That he is, my friend. That he is. I kinda feel sorry for him too. *pauses for moment of silence to honor him*…oh well! On with the show!

Leon, Miko, Riniko, Mistral: Have no fear, Leon, your 'sister' is all normal. She's just got a bit of an edge like she's supposed to have in the manga. ^_^ Thank for the review! And who's the five-year-old??? Leon? Oi…I can't keep up with all those characters…lol.

Cloe: *is now restrained with a straight jacket* I'll get out of this some-*struggles*how!*struggles again and falls over on face* Owie…X_x

Mandy: POLL TIME! For the next five chapters we will be hosting a poll! For the poll, just enter which bachelor-ette you think should win Seto's heart! Or, if you think they can't do it, well…better start believin', kid. It'll happen…I think…*ahem*

Jenny:*giggles* Well, we need at least…let's see…10 reviews? You think we can make the quota of the day?

*crickets chirp*

Jenny: ALL RIGHT! GOOD SPIRIT! Ready? On the count of three we shout 'Review'! Ready?

*cricket's chirp again*

Jenny: Dang nabbed crickets…*flicks crickets away and starts counting* 1…2…3!! *waits for everyone to yell review*

Readers and Mandy: O_o; *slowly walk away*

Jenny: *face-fall* Dang. Oh wells. See ya'll next time on The Price is Right!

Mandy: *coughs very loudly*

Jenny: I mean—My Immortal! Yeah!…REVIEW!!