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inspire me, you know! I have to say, thank you all so much!
^_________________^ There! An enormous smile, just for all my reviewers!
I've decided that letting maniacs do my disclaimer is a weird idea, so
heeeere's Marik!
Disclaimer by the spirit of the Millennium Rod, who is better than Yami
Bakura:
Authoress: Hey, wait a minute!
Marik (smirks evilly): I am better.
Authoress: Are not!
Marik: You want the disclaimer or not?
Authoress: No! Now I'm going to do the disclaimer myself! I don't own Yu-Gi-
Oh! I don't own anything in this story that's copyrighted! I don't own
Microsoft or Jell-O either, although those aren't relevant!
Marik: Bakura was right when he said you were stupid.
Authoress: Thank you. Now, on to the story!
Yugi studied the list in front of him carefully. "Hmm."
Ryou asked him, "What do we have so far?"
Yugi began to read off the items on the list: "Number One: No opportunity for any theft."
"Sorry about that," Ryou sighed.
"Number Two: No heavy objects," Yugi continued.
"Definitely," Ryou agreed.
"Number Four: No public places."
Ryou rolled his eyes. "Right."
"Number Five: No spiders." Ryou and Yugi both laughed.
"Number Six: No food with sugar." This time, both the boys grimaced. They would never think of chocolate or marshmallows fondly again.
"Number Seven: No fire," Ryou added with a pained frown. "'Kura's hair still smells like smoke."
"Number Eight: No Velcro," Yugi said with a small smile.
Ryou looked over Yugi's shoulder at the piece of paper. "Um, you know, Yugi, this pretty much limits us to sitting in an airless void."
"Right," Yugi replied cheerfully. "Should I add that to our list of possible activities?"
"Hey, wait, I know! We all like Duel Monsters, right? We could play that!" Ryou suggested brightly.
Yugi coughed embarassedly. "Um, I don't think so. Yami's been adding every spider card he can to our deck, just in case he plays Marik again."
"Oh." Ryou looked dejected for a moment.
"But we could play other games!" Yugi told him hurriedly. "We could have a game night where we play board games and different card games!"
"Yes!" Ryou answered happily. "It meets all of the requirements!"
"Thank goodness we thought of something," Yugi said with relief. "I mean, we're supposed to meet here tonight, and we had nothing planned!"
Ryou nodded. He had a sneaking suspicion, however, that their list of requirements was going to grow longer after tonight.
"So, what idiocy is planned for tonight?" The comment, of course, was from Bakura. All of them were sitting around the kitchen table of the Moto house.
"Um, we're going to have a game night!" Yugi told him.
"Duel Monsters!" Yami, Marik, and Bakura all shouted it at once. They glared at one another, realizing that they had just agreed about something.
"No, not Duel Monsters," Ryou informed them. "Board games, like Monopoly and Parcheesi!"
"Cheese?" Yami asked, confused.
"No, Par-cheez-ee," Yugi corrected, sounding it out slowly. "It's like Sorry. Remember when we played that?"
"Do you have to actually be sorry to play?" asked Bakura. "Because thieves are never sorry for anything!"
"Hey!" Ryou exclaimed. "You mean you weren't sorry when you apologized for breaking my toaster yesterday?"
"Well," said Bakura, "that's kind of like saying sorry to myself, you being my light half and all. That's allowed."
"Oookay," said Yugi, taking a deep breath. "Moving on. No, Bakura, in Sorry you don't actually have to be sorry, Parcheesi has nothing to do with cheese, and don't say anything," he added, the last directed at Marik and Malik, who feigned hurt.
"I like Monopoly," said Yami. "I have played that before."
"Whoever disagrees with the Pharaoh, raise your hand!" Marik announced. Malik immediately raised his hand. Bakura sat, looking torn between seeming to agree with Yami or seeming to agree with Marik. Finally, he told them, "I want to play whatever neither one of you wants to play!"
"This is not going well," Ryou muttered to Yugi.
"You're telling me," said Yugi.
Just then, Yugi's Grandpa walked in, bearing a tray. "Who wants sugar cookies?" he asked, smiling.
Yugi looked horrified and lunged at his grandfather. "GRANDPA, NO!" he screamed. "NOT SUGAR!"
Grandpa looked shocked. "But, Yugi, they have chocolate chips in them, your favo-"
"NO, BAKURA!" Ryou yelled, grabbing a fistful of his yami's hair. Bakura, finding that Yami and Marik's chairs blocked him from getting around the table, had decided on the simple expedient of climbing over.
"But it's chocolate!" Bakura protested. "Chocolate, Ryou! I NEED some! Ow! My hair!"
"No! I get them all!" Yami exclaimed. He, like Yugi, lunged at Grandpa and the cookies, but for a far different reason.
"YAMI!" Yugi cried. "No! No more sugar!"
"You're all idiots," Malik proclaimed loudly. Everyone stopped and looked at him. Unnoticed, he and Marik had each gotten one of the cookies that had flown across the room after Yugi's initial assault on the tray. Now Malik held up his cookie, and grinned. "These are really good." Marik's mouth was too full to talk properly, but he, too grinned rather maniacally.
"ARRGGHH!" Bakura yelled, and leaped across the table, dragging poor Ryou with him. He tried to snatch Malik's cookie, but all he got for his efforts was a hard 'whack!' with the Millennium Rod. Several hard 'whacks!' actually, since Marik was hitting him, too.
Again, Yugi had managed to calm Yami down. Grandpa had fled for his life, taking the rest of the cookies with him.
"So," Yugi said glumly, "Does anyone want to play a board game?"
"I do," Yami said. "But I want a cookie." he trailed off, looking pleadingly at Yugi.
"No," Yugi said firmly.
Ryou dragged Bakura back across the table, and sat on him to stop him from moving.
"I could get you off, you know," Bakura reminded him.
"But you won't," Ryou said, with more confidence than he felt.
"Why not?" Bakura asked him with a grin.
"Because if you do, I'll go and sit by Yami."
"You wouldn't!" Bakura looked at his hikari with a horrified expression on his face.
"I would," Ryou informed him.
This, of course, made Bakura behave, although he did occasionally mutter about his so-called 'innocent' light being too good at manipulation.
Malik took about ten minutes to finish his cookie. Between mouthfuls, he told them all how delicious it was. Yami fingered his knife, Bakura's Ring glowed ominously, and Yugi was about ready to strangle the Tomb Keeper.
"All right," said Ryou, once Malik was done. "I think we should play Monopoly, since Yami was the only one who suggested a game."
Marik glared at Yami, and then at Ryou. "Just because he was Pharaoh for a few lousy years."
"Don't glare at my hikari!" Bakura said in a deadly tone.
"It's fine, Bakura," Ryou sighed.
Yugi got the Monopoly game out of the cupboard. "Okay," he said. "Now, we all have to pick our pieces."
"I want this one," Marik said, grabbing the board.
"No, I mean out of these little pieces," Yugi told him, rolling his eyes. "There's a thimble, a car, a dog, a wheelbarrow, a boot, a top hat, a man on a horse, and an iron."
"I want the car!" Malik announced.
"I get the car," Bakura snapped.
"I'm getting up," Ryou warned him. The thief looked sulky, and put his arms around his hikari to ensure that he did not move.
"I get the hat!" Yami said, taking it.
Yugi looked puzzled. "Why? I didn't know you liked hats."
"Well, I can't wear them with a haircut like this," Yami said, shrugging. "And it reminds me of a crown." he gazed dreamily into the air. Marik made a sort of gagging, hacking noise.
"I want the man on the horse," said Bakura, snatching it. "Even though the man looks like an idiot."
Marik chose the iron, for some inexplicable reason. Ryou took the dog (after explaining to the four indignant Egyptians that no, there was not a cat in the game, and no, cats were not considered to be more sacred than dogs anymore). Yugi took the wheelbarrow, judging it to be the best of the remaining options. Ryou then passed out the money, since he had volunteered to be the banker.
"Now," said Yugi, "the point of this game is to collect as many properties as possible." He pointed to the property cards. Instantly, there was a small riot as Marik, Bakura, and Yami all tried to grab as many as possible.
"Here! Yugi, here's two for you!" Yami cried, waving them around.
"I got the most! Muahahahahaha!" Bakura laughed evilly, holding up nine property cards.
A second later, all of Bakura's and Yami's cards vanished. "What the-" Bakura said, dumbfounded. Yami cursed in Egyptian. Marik looked quite smug.
"Uh-oh," said Malik, actually sounding sheepish.
"What?" asked Yugi suspiciously.
"He just banished all their properties to the Shadow Realm," Malik replied.
Yugi said something unintelligible, but it sounded like "ERKLGHF."
"What does that mean?" Yami asked him curiously.
"It means, we're done with Monopoly!" Ryou pronounced, standing up and putting the pieces away. "It violates a rule on the list, anyway, Yugi. The 'no opportunity for theft one', remember?"
Yugi said "Erklghf" again, but not as loud this time.
"We'll play something with simpler rules next," Ryou said.
A/N: Okay, this one's going long.it'll be a two-parter, like bowling. I got multiple suggestions for board games, after all. Next, they shall play Scrabble! Muahahaha! Oh, and a note to Bakuraluva: Everyone says, thanks for the presents. Ryou says thanks especially for the sugar-free candy. Of course, he didn't tell 'Kura it was sugar-free! To everyone reading this, please leave a review! They help me write faster! ^_^
Yugi studied the list in front of him carefully. "Hmm."
Ryou asked him, "What do we have so far?"
Yugi began to read off the items on the list: "Number One: No opportunity for any theft."
"Sorry about that," Ryou sighed.
"Number Two: No heavy objects," Yugi continued.
"Definitely," Ryou agreed.
"Number Four: No public places."
Ryou rolled his eyes. "Right."
"Number Five: No spiders." Ryou and Yugi both laughed.
"Number Six: No food with sugar." This time, both the boys grimaced. They would never think of chocolate or marshmallows fondly again.
"Number Seven: No fire," Ryou added with a pained frown. "'Kura's hair still smells like smoke."
"Number Eight: No Velcro," Yugi said with a small smile.
Ryou looked over Yugi's shoulder at the piece of paper. "Um, you know, Yugi, this pretty much limits us to sitting in an airless void."
"Right," Yugi replied cheerfully. "Should I add that to our list of possible activities?"
"Hey, wait, I know! We all like Duel Monsters, right? We could play that!" Ryou suggested brightly.
Yugi coughed embarassedly. "Um, I don't think so. Yami's been adding every spider card he can to our deck, just in case he plays Marik again."
"Oh." Ryou looked dejected for a moment.
"But we could play other games!" Yugi told him hurriedly. "We could have a game night where we play board games and different card games!"
"Yes!" Ryou answered happily. "It meets all of the requirements!"
"Thank goodness we thought of something," Yugi said with relief. "I mean, we're supposed to meet here tonight, and we had nothing planned!"
Ryou nodded. He had a sneaking suspicion, however, that their list of requirements was going to grow longer after tonight.
"So, what idiocy is planned for tonight?" The comment, of course, was from Bakura. All of them were sitting around the kitchen table of the Moto house.
"Um, we're going to have a game night!" Yugi told him.
"Duel Monsters!" Yami, Marik, and Bakura all shouted it at once. They glared at one another, realizing that they had just agreed about something.
"No, not Duel Monsters," Ryou informed them. "Board games, like Monopoly and Parcheesi!"
"Cheese?" Yami asked, confused.
"No, Par-cheez-ee," Yugi corrected, sounding it out slowly. "It's like Sorry. Remember when we played that?"
"Do you have to actually be sorry to play?" asked Bakura. "Because thieves are never sorry for anything!"
"Hey!" Ryou exclaimed. "You mean you weren't sorry when you apologized for breaking my toaster yesterday?"
"Well," said Bakura, "that's kind of like saying sorry to myself, you being my light half and all. That's allowed."
"Oookay," said Yugi, taking a deep breath. "Moving on. No, Bakura, in Sorry you don't actually have to be sorry, Parcheesi has nothing to do with cheese, and don't say anything," he added, the last directed at Marik and Malik, who feigned hurt.
"I like Monopoly," said Yami. "I have played that before."
"Whoever disagrees with the Pharaoh, raise your hand!" Marik announced. Malik immediately raised his hand. Bakura sat, looking torn between seeming to agree with Yami or seeming to agree with Marik. Finally, he told them, "I want to play whatever neither one of you wants to play!"
"This is not going well," Ryou muttered to Yugi.
"You're telling me," said Yugi.
Just then, Yugi's Grandpa walked in, bearing a tray. "Who wants sugar cookies?" he asked, smiling.
Yugi looked horrified and lunged at his grandfather. "GRANDPA, NO!" he screamed. "NOT SUGAR!"
Grandpa looked shocked. "But, Yugi, they have chocolate chips in them, your favo-"
"NO, BAKURA!" Ryou yelled, grabbing a fistful of his yami's hair. Bakura, finding that Yami and Marik's chairs blocked him from getting around the table, had decided on the simple expedient of climbing over.
"But it's chocolate!" Bakura protested. "Chocolate, Ryou! I NEED some! Ow! My hair!"
"No! I get them all!" Yami exclaimed. He, like Yugi, lunged at Grandpa and the cookies, but for a far different reason.
"YAMI!" Yugi cried. "No! No more sugar!"
"You're all idiots," Malik proclaimed loudly. Everyone stopped and looked at him. Unnoticed, he and Marik had each gotten one of the cookies that had flown across the room after Yugi's initial assault on the tray. Now Malik held up his cookie, and grinned. "These are really good." Marik's mouth was too full to talk properly, but he, too grinned rather maniacally.
"ARRGGHH!" Bakura yelled, and leaped across the table, dragging poor Ryou with him. He tried to snatch Malik's cookie, but all he got for his efforts was a hard 'whack!' with the Millennium Rod. Several hard 'whacks!' actually, since Marik was hitting him, too.
Again, Yugi had managed to calm Yami down. Grandpa had fled for his life, taking the rest of the cookies with him.
"So," Yugi said glumly, "Does anyone want to play a board game?"
"I do," Yami said. "But I want a cookie." he trailed off, looking pleadingly at Yugi.
"No," Yugi said firmly.
Ryou dragged Bakura back across the table, and sat on him to stop him from moving.
"I could get you off, you know," Bakura reminded him.
"But you won't," Ryou said, with more confidence than he felt.
"Why not?" Bakura asked him with a grin.
"Because if you do, I'll go and sit by Yami."
"You wouldn't!" Bakura looked at his hikari with a horrified expression on his face.
"I would," Ryou informed him.
This, of course, made Bakura behave, although he did occasionally mutter about his so-called 'innocent' light being too good at manipulation.
Malik took about ten minutes to finish his cookie. Between mouthfuls, he told them all how delicious it was. Yami fingered his knife, Bakura's Ring glowed ominously, and Yugi was about ready to strangle the Tomb Keeper.
"All right," said Ryou, once Malik was done. "I think we should play Monopoly, since Yami was the only one who suggested a game."
Marik glared at Yami, and then at Ryou. "Just because he was Pharaoh for a few lousy years."
"Don't glare at my hikari!" Bakura said in a deadly tone.
"It's fine, Bakura," Ryou sighed.
Yugi got the Monopoly game out of the cupboard. "Okay," he said. "Now, we all have to pick our pieces."
"I want this one," Marik said, grabbing the board.
"No, I mean out of these little pieces," Yugi told him, rolling his eyes. "There's a thimble, a car, a dog, a wheelbarrow, a boot, a top hat, a man on a horse, and an iron."
"I want the car!" Malik announced.
"I get the car," Bakura snapped.
"I'm getting up," Ryou warned him. The thief looked sulky, and put his arms around his hikari to ensure that he did not move.
"I get the hat!" Yami said, taking it.
Yugi looked puzzled. "Why? I didn't know you liked hats."
"Well, I can't wear them with a haircut like this," Yami said, shrugging. "And it reminds me of a crown." he gazed dreamily into the air. Marik made a sort of gagging, hacking noise.
"I want the man on the horse," said Bakura, snatching it. "Even though the man looks like an idiot."
Marik chose the iron, for some inexplicable reason. Ryou took the dog (after explaining to the four indignant Egyptians that no, there was not a cat in the game, and no, cats were not considered to be more sacred than dogs anymore). Yugi took the wheelbarrow, judging it to be the best of the remaining options. Ryou then passed out the money, since he had volunteered to be the banker.
"Now," said Yugi, "the point of this game is to collect as many properties as possible." He pointed to the property cards. Instantly, there was a small riot as Marik, Bakura, and Yami all tried to grab as many as possible.
"Here! Yugi, here's two for you!" Yami cried, waving them around.
"I got the most! Muahahahahaha!" Bakura laughed evilly, holding up nine property cards.
A second later, all of Bakura's and Yami's cards vanished. "What the-" Bakura said, dumbfounded. Yami cursed in Egyptian. Marik looked quite smug.
"Uh-oh," said Malik, actually sounding sheepish.
"What?" asked Yugi suspiciously.
"He just banished all their properties to the Shadow Realm," Malik replied.
Yugi said something unintelligible, but it sounded like "ERKLGHF."
"What does that mean?" Yami asked him curiously.
"It means, we're done with Monopoly!" Ryou pronounced, standing up and putting the pieces away. "It violates a rule on the list, anyway, Yugi. The 'no opportunity for theft one', remember?"
Yugi said "Erklghf" again, but not as loud this time.
"We'll play something with simpler rules next," Ryou said.
A/N: Okay, this one's going long.it'll be a two-parter, like bowling. I got multiple suggestions for board games, after all. Next, they shall play Scrabble! Muahahaha! Oh, and a note to Bakuraluva: Everyone says, thanks for the presents. Ryou says thanks especially for the sugar-free candy. Of course, he didn't tell 'Kura it was sugar-free! To everyone reading this, please leave a review! They help me write faster! ^_^
