Bakura is still Ryou. *sigh* I still will try to change it.
Usual disclaimer. Check last chapter if you really need it.
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Chapter Eight: A Peek Into an Ancient Jewelry Maker's Bedroom
Sii was still sitting on the sidewalk, crying. Everyone was trying everything they could to cheer her up.
"Sii, It's all right. It's all over now. Why are you still crying?"
"Please stop. It's all right. I know you didn't mean to accuse me like you did. It's natural for my dueling opponents to hate me. It wasn't your fault."
"Please, can't we just all be friends?"
"Of course, your Yami did take me by surprise, but she was only trying to make you feel better-"
Finally, Sii looked up. But the expression she wore looked more confused than happy. "What do you mean by "Yami"?"
Yugi tried to explain. "The spirits inside Items. We usually call them "Yamis", even though that's not their names, but-"
"What spirits? What do you mean? I still don't get it."
That took everyone by surprise. "The spirit of your Necklace!" Yugi said helplessly. "Remember?"
Sii fingered her necklace. "My.my necklace is being haunted by a spirit?"
By now, everyone was staring at Sii, who wasn't crying anymore, but was still sniffling and had red eyes. Poor girl, Tea thought. She could use some friends.
"Yes, Sii, Your necklace contains the spirit of a 5000 year old Egyptian. Don't worry," Yugi added when Sii started to look horrified. "Bakura and I have one, too."
Ryou nodded. "We can show you."
Both Yugi and Ryou activated their Items. Yugi looked a lot more confidant, and his cheerful smile now looked more like a smirk. Ryou's face twisted a little, and his eyes narrowed. Both of them smiled down at her in a friendly way.
"Hello, Sii. I am the spirit of Yugi's Millennium Puzzle (the pyramid around my neck), and I have always helped him duel. My name is Yami. I am not too sure about my past, but I have been told that I was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. There's nothing too scary about us."
"So, why don't you get up now and prove to Ryou and I that you aren't afraid of me? Or the pharaoh? Come on," Yami Bakura cheered.
"Alright." Sii stood up and wiped the tears from her eyes. "But, if you aren't Ryou, then who are you?"
Yami Bakura chuckled. "I am the spirit of Ryou's Millennium Ring." He held the Ring up. "Remember this?"
"Y-y-yes."
"I used to want to collect all the Millennium Items and rule the world. But, since Yugi has collected all the main ones anyway, I have retired from that desire. I am now a spirit that comes out and goes back in, depending on the situation. If Ryou is in danger, than I take over and take the damage. And stuff like that. I don't know my real name, so just call me Yami Bakura. Five thousand years ago, in the time of the pyramids, I was a tomb robber."
"So.you're saying." Sii fingered her necklace again, nervously now. "I have a spirit like you and Yami now? And it's living inside my necklace?"
"Yes. Let her out so she can talk to you better. You seem to not know how to mind link to her yet."
"Ummm.one question.?"
"Yes?"
"Erm.how do I activate a necklace.?"
No sooner had the question escaped her lips than a very light glow escaped the teardrop charm. Yami Sii looked out to everyone. "Erm, hello.why did you ask Sii to call me out?"
Yami pointed at her necklace. "Sii wants to talk to you about something. She hasn't learned how to mind link yet."
"Alright. Thanks. I will try to speak to her. This is the first time she has been aware of what is going on while I am in control. She is pretty scared."
She stopped speaking for a while, so Yugi and Ryou came back. Tea was looking very startled. "So.you two are serious about those six Hidden Items, are you?"
Yugi nodded. "Yami needs to learn his past."
"What if we became friends with her? She looks like she's never had a real friend. I bet we could make her feel better. Plus Joey and Tristan are like court jesters. It would be nice to see a happy smile from her a bit more."
"That was my plan from the beginning. I'm not allowed to own the Hidden Items themselves. The only way to be able to "obtain" these Hidden Items is to have the holder trust me. Becoming friends is the best way to let someone trust you," Yugi explained.
"Then it is decided!" Ryou clapped his hands once. "We add a new person to our friendship group!"
By the time their little discussion was finished, Yami Sii had already told Sii all about the Millennium Items. Sii was back in control. "My life gets weirder and weirder," she mumbled.
"Hey, Sii," Yugi said cheerfully. "Want to be our friend? We figured you would need a few friends. You seem quite depressed. I have a "friendship gang". Wanna join? We could use a new "member"." Yugi winked.
"Really? Sure! I'd love to be friends with someone as nice as you! Plus, I'm sure no one else in this town would understand my new situation. It's way too unbelievable."
"Great! Let's go to my house and we can introduce you to our friends Joey and Tristan! Both of them are a laughingstock!" Ryou suggested.
"Just be careful with your food. If you're not, it might disappear! Both of them are also gluttons!" everybody laughed at Tea's joke.
"Okay!" Sii agreed.
Ryou winked at Yugi. Yugi smiled back. "We've completed our quest," he whispered to Ryou.
Just then, the air around them disappeared. Yugi, Ryou, and Sii were falling down to who knows where. Obviously, not having done this before, Ryou and Sii panicked.
"What's going on?" Sii asked, scared. Yugi opened his mouth to answer, but instead of words, Yami tumbled out.
".....?!?! I thought he was a spirit!"" Sii's sentence ended in an echo as Yami Sii tumbled out of her mouth also.
"What's going on?"" Yami Bakura tumbled out of Ryou's mouth as he spoke, and his voice ended in an echo too.
Yami Bakura was as panicked as Ryou and Sii. ""R-ryou? I-I didn't want to come out.!""
""And neither did I. Yami, will you, being the only one that's not panicked, be able to tell us what is going on?"" Yami Sii's voice sounded a bit different than it did last time. This time, it was calm, soft, maybe even a little bit gentle. Not like the way it did last time, harsh, rough, and cold. This puzzled everybody, but as they were of course in a much scarier setting right now to worry about little things like that, they put it aside and continued to panic.
""AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"" everybody screamed.
Their screaming was interrupted by a voice.
~Ask a question. ~
This stunned everybody except Yugi and Yami, who by now were used to it.
""W-what?"" Sii asked shakily.
~Ask a question. ~
Sii looked confused, but she asked a question anyway. ""When are we going to stop falling?""
~No, not that kind of question! A question about you or your spirit's past. ~
""Ummm."" Sii looked at Yami Sii for a minute. ""My Yami doesn't remember a thing about her past, so what did she used to do as a job? Or, what was her occupation?""
They finally landed.in a dark room. Lit by only a candle. Everyone got up (because they had all fallen down) and waited for their eyes to adjust better. When they could see around them, they saw.Yami Sii. Another one. This Yami Sii was sitting on a- (was that a bed?) table-like mat, stringing a bunch of beads together. She tied the ends together and held it up proudly, whispering, "I've finished the Tauk! I can't wait to present it to the pharaoh!" and put it on her desk with a big smile on her face.
That was all they saw before they started falling again and landed.back on that sidewalk they were dueling on. All of the spirits had disappeared back inside their hosts.
Tea looked very worried now. "Hello? I've been waiting to go to somebody's house for twenty minutes and you three just stand there? It's not nice to keep a lady waiting, you know!"
Everyone jumped in surprise at her impatient voice. "Er, um, sorry! We didn't mean to hold you up!" Sii stammered apologetically.
"Heh, I'm sorry. I'm afraid I don't want to use my house for a party anymore. Is it okay if we just use that sleepover that you were planning, Tea?" Ryou asked. Having just fallen without stopping for ten minutes strait, he wasn't really in the mood to host a party.
Tea looked embarrassed now. "Well.to tell you guys the truth, I haven't really planned on what to do at the sleepover yet. I was planning on discussing it with you two, but you didn't show up. My family went to visit Venice for a month and left me with the house all alone, so I wanted to liven it up a bit."
Sii perked up. "Wait.you're throwing a party at your house and you haven't decided what to do yet?"
"Um, yeah." Tea grew even redder.
"Then that's great!" Sii was looking happier by the second. "My twelfth birthday is this week! Can you please throw a party in honor of it?"
Yugi stared at her, confused. "Can't you throw a party at your own house?"
Sii's happiness died a little. "I don't have a house. I camp out in the park forest."
Yet again, this surprised everyone. "Why don't you have a house?" Tea asked. She knew it was a rude question, but she really wanted to know.
All of Sii's happiness had disappeared. "My parents died three months ago. I've been traveling on my own since." She pointed to her ponytail. "See this?" Everyone nodded yes. "Well, he truth is, I hate wearing it, and I mean, hate wearing it. I only wear it because my parents always wanted me to wear it, and I swore to myself on their funeral that I would keep wearing it until my next birthday." She looked at this as an opportunity to change the subject. "So, can you please host a birthday party for me?"
Tea wiped away tears from the sad story, and gave a cheerful smile. "Sure!" She loved cheering people up. It was one of her hobbies. "I'll even plan it for you! You don't have to worry about a thing!" Then she took out a convenient notebook from her pocket and started scribbling things down. "Note to self: Give an exciting birthday party to Sii to make her feel welcome to our friendship group."
"Heh heh. thanks, Tea." Sii said. "I owe you some."
"No problem, Sii. Anytime."
"Um, where do you people want to go now?" Ryou asked.
"I just want to go home." Yugi announced.
Sii sighed sadly. "I really don't want to go "home" anytime soon. It's too cold."
Yugi smiled at her. "You can come back to my house. I want to review the best winning strategy with you."
Sii looked surprised. "What, my strategy's not good enough?"
"What is your strategy?" Yugi questioned.
Sii smiled innocently. "Heart of the cards."
That earned a couple more stares, but everyone let it off. "Oh, well. Then I challenge you to a duel!" Yugi challenged.
Sii playfully backed away. "Oh, no you don't. I don't feel like having my butt kicked by the king of games."
"Then can I see your deck?" Yugi made some puppy dog eyes. "Please?"
Sii laughed. "Well, usually puppy dog eyes don't work on people younger than you, but that's sweet enough to rot teeth. You can if I can see your deck, okay?"
Yugi cheered happily. "Yay! Now Yami and I can think up a strategy to kick Yami Sii's butt the next time she goes berserk and tries to beat us in a duel again!"
""Yes!"" Yami agreed. Of course, nobody except Yugi heard him.
"Oh, is that so, Yugi? Well, then, I will take no hesitation in learning your favorite strategy and the counterattack for it once I look through your deck," Yami Sii said silently. Yami Sii had taken control while keeping Sii's features, so as not to arouse any suspicion.
However, Yami Bakura, having been an expert with things like that, noticed the change. ""Ryou! Don't anger Sii!""
Ryou looked confused. "Why?"
""Would you really like to know?""
"Um, I guess not."
Tea went home and bought a few magazines along the way. She went to her room and started flipping through them, looking for something interesting that might spice up a birthday party containing teenagers. She was getting restless and was ready to give up when she came upon a page that caught her attention. "Oooooo."
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Heh, small cliffhanger! ^_^
Usual disclaimer. Check last chapter if you really need it.
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Chapter Eight: A Peek Into an Ancient Jewelry Maker's Bedroom
Sii was still sitting on the sidewalk, crying. Everyone was trying everything they could to cheer her up.
"Sii, It's all right. It's all over now. Why are you still crying?"
"Please stop. It's all right. I know you didn't mean to accuse me like you did. It's natural for my dueling opponents to hate me. It wasn't your fault."
"Please, can't we just all be friends?"
"Of course, your Yami did take me by surprise, but she was only trying to make you feel better-"
Finally, Sii looked up. But the expression she wore looked more confused than happy. "What do you mean by "Yami"?"
Yugi tried to explain. "The spirits inside Items. We usually call them "Yamis", even though that's not their names, but-"
"What spirits? What do you mean? I still don't get it."
That took everyone by surprise. "The spirit of your Necklace!" Yugi said helplessly. "Remember?"
Sii fingered her necklace. "My.my necklace is being haunted by a spirit?"
By now, everyone was staring at Sii, who wasn't crying anymore, but was still sniffling and had red eyes. Poor girl, Tea thought. She could use some friends.
"Yes, Sii, Your necklace contains the spirit of a 5000 year old Egyptian. Don't worry," Yugi added when Sii started to look horrified. "Bakura and I have one, too."
Ryou nodded. "We can show you."
Both Yugi and Ryou activated their Items. Yugi looked a lot more confidant, and his cheerful smile now looked more like a smirk. Ryou's face twisted a little, and his eyes narrowed. Both of them smiled down at her in a friendly way.
"Hello, Sii. I am the spirit of Yugi's Millennium Puzzle (the pyramid around my neck), and I have always helped him duel. My name is Yami. I am not too sure about my past, but I have been told that I was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. There's nothing too scary about us."
"So, why don't you get up now and prove to Ryou and I that you aren't afraid of me? Or the pharaoh? Come on," Yami Bakura cheered.
"Alright." Sii stood up and wiped the tears from her eyes. "But, if you aren't Ryou, then who are you?"
Yami Bakura chuckled. "I am the spirit of Ryou's Millennium Ring." He held the Ring up. "Remember this?"
"Y-y-yes."
"I used to want to collect all the Millennium Items and rule the world. But, since Yugi has collected all the main ones anyway, I have retired from that desire. I am now a spirit that comes out and goes back in, depending on the situation. If Ryou is in danger, than I take over and take the damage. And stuff like that. I don't know my real name, so just call me Yami Bakura. Five thousand years ago, in the time of the pyramids, I was a tomb robber."
"So.you're saying." Sii fingered her necklace again, nervously now. "I have a spirit like you and Yami now? And it's living inside my necklace?"
"Yes. Let her out so she can talk to you better. You seem to not know how to mind link to her yet."
"Ummm.one question.?"
"Yes?"
"Erm.how do I activate a necklace.?"
No sooner had the question escaped her lips than a very light glow escaped the teardrop charm. Yami Sii looked out to everyone. "Erm, hello.why did you ask Sii to call me out?"
Yami pointed at her necklace. "Sii wants to talk to you about something. She hasn't learned how to mind link yet."
"Alright. Thanks. I will try to speak to her. This is the first time she has been aware of what is going on while I am in control. She is pretty scared."
She stopped speaking for a while, so Yugi and Ryou came back. Tea was looking very startled. "So.you two are serious about those six Hidden Items, are you?"
Yugi nodded. "Yami needs to learn his past."
"What if we became friends with her? She looks like she's never had a real friend. I bet we could make her feel better. Plus Joey and Tristan are like court jesters. It would be nice to see a happy smile from her a bit more."
"That was my plan from the beginning. I'm not allowed to own the Hidden Items themselves. The only way to be able to "obtain" these Hidden Items is to have the holder trust me. Becoming friends is the best way to let someone trust you," Yugi explained.
"Then it is decided!" Ryou clapped his hands once. "We add a new person to our friendship group!"
By the time their little discussion was finished, Yami Sii had already told Sii all about the Millennium Items. Sii was back in control. "My life gets weirder and weirder," she mumbled.
"Hey, Sii," Yugi said cheerfully. "Want to be our friend? We figured you would need a few friends. You seem quite depressed. I have a "friendship gang". Wanna join? We could use a new "member"." Yugi winked.
"Really? Sure! I'd love to be friends with someone as nice as you! Plus, I'm sure no one else in this town would understand my new situation. It's way too unbelievable."
"Great! Let's go to my house and we can introduce you to our friends Joey and Tristan! Both of them are a laughingstock!" Ryou suggested.
"Just be careful with your food. If you're not, it might disappear! Both of them are also gluttons!" everybody laughed at Tea's joke.
"Okay!" Sii agreed.
Ryou winked at Yugi. Yugi smiled back. "We've completed our quest," he whispered to Ryou.
Just then, the air around them disappeared. Yugi, Ryou, and Sii were falling down to who knows where. Obviously, not having done this before, Ryou and Sii panicked.
"What's going on?" Sii asked, scared. Yugi opened his mouth to answer, but instead of words, Yami tumbled out.
".....?!?! I thought he was a spirit!"" Sii's sentence ended in an echo as Yami Sii tumbled out of her mouth also.
"What's going on?"" Yami Bakura tumbled out of Ryou's mouth as he spoke, and his voice ended in an echo too.
Yami Bakura was as panicked as Ryou and Sii. ""R-ryou? I-I didn't want to come out.!""
""And neither did I. Yami, will you, being the only one that's not panicked, be able to tell us what is going on?"" Yami Sii's voice sounded a bit different than it did last time. This time, it was calm, soft, maybe even a little bit gentle. Not like the way it did last time, harsh, rough, and cold. This puzzled everybody, but as they were of course in a much scarier setting right now to worry about little things like that, they put it aside and continued to panic.
""AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"" everybody screamed.
Their screaming was interrupted by a voice.
~Ask a question. ~
This stunned everybody except Yugi and Yami, who by now were used to it.
""W-what?"" Sii asked shakily.
~Ask a question. ~
Sii looked confused, but she asked a question anyway. ""When are we going to stop falling?""
~No, not that kind of question! A question about you or your spirit's past. ~
""Ummm."" Sii looked at Yami Sii for a minute. ""My Yami doesn't remember a thing about her past, so what did she used to do as a job? Or, what was her occupation?""
They finally landed.in a dark room. Lit by only a candle. Everyone got up (because they had all fallen down) and waited for their eyes to adjust better. When they could see around them, they saw.Yami Sii. Another one. This Yami Sii was sitting on a- (was that a bed?) table-like mat, stringing a bunch of beads together. She tied the ends together and held it up proudly, whispering, "I've finished the Tauk! I can't wait to present it to the pharaoh!" and put it on her desk with a big smile on her face.
That was all they saw before they started falling again and landed.back on that sidewalk they were dueling on. All of the spirits had disappeared back inside their hosts.
Tea looked very worried now. "Hello? I've been waiting to go to somebody's house for twenty minutes and you three just stand there? It's not nice to keep a lady waiting, you know!"
Everyone jumped in surprise at her impatient voice. "Er, um, sorry! We didn't mean to hold you up!" Sii stammered apologetically.
"Heh, I'm sorry. I'm afraid I don't want to use my house for a party anymore. Is it okay if we just use that sleepover that you were planning, Tea?" Ryou asked. Having just fallen without stopping for ten minutes strait, he wasn't really in the mood to host a party.
Tea looked embarrassed now. "Well.to tell you guys the truth, I haven't really planned on what to do at the sleepover yet. I was planning on discussing it with you two, but you didn't show up. My family went to visit Venice for a month and left me with the house all alone, so I wanted to liven it up a bit."
Sii perked up. "Wait.you're throwing a party at your house and you haven't decided what to do yet?"
"Um, yeah." Tea grew even redder.
"Then that's great!" Sii was looking happier by the second. "My twelfth birthday is this week! Can you please throw a party in honor of it?"
Yugi stared at her, confused. "Can't you throw a party at your own house?"
Sii's happiness died a little. "I don't have a house. I camp out in the park forest."
Yet again, this surprised everyone. "Why don't you have a house?" Tea asked. She knew it was a rude question, but she really wanted to know.
All of Sii's happiness had disappeared. "My parents died three months ago. I've been traveling on my own since." She pointed to her ponytail. "See this?" Everyone nodded yes. "Well, he truth is, I hate wearing it, and I mean, hate wearing it. I only wear it because my parents always wanted me to wear it, and I swore to myself on their funeral that I would keep wearing it until my next birthday." She looked at this as an opportunity to change the subject. "So, can you please host a birthday party for me?"
Tea wiped away tears from the sad story, and gave a cheerful smile. "Sure!" She loved cheering people up. It was one of her hobbies. "I'll even plan it for you! You don't have to worry about a thing!" Then she took out a convenient notebook from her pocket and started scribbling things down. "Note to self: Give an exciting birthday party to Sii to make her feel welcome to our friendship group."
"Heh heh. thanks, Tea." Sii said. "I owe you some."
"No problem, Sii. Anytime."
"Um, where do you people want to go now?" Ryou asked.
"I just want to go home." Yugi announced.
Sii sighed sadly. "I really don't want to go "home" anytime soon. It's too cold."
Yugi smiled at her. "You can come back to my house. I want to review the best winning strategy with you."
Sii looked surprised. "What, my strategy's not good enough?"
"What is your strategy?" Yugi questioned.
Sii smiled innocently. "Heart of the cards."
That earned a couple more stares, but everyone let it off. "Oh, well. Then I challenge you to a duel!" Yugi challenged.
Sii playfully backed away. "Oh, no you don't. I don't feel like having my butt kicked by the king of games."
"Then can I see your deck?" Yugi made some puppy dog eyes. "Please?"
Sii laughed. "Well, usually puppy dog eyes don't work on people younger than you, but that's sweet enough to rot teeth. You can if I can see your deck, okay?"
Yugi cheered happily. "Yay! Now Yami and I can think up a strategy to kick Yami Sii's butt the next time she goes berserk and tries to beat us in a duel again!"
""Yes!"" Yami agreed. Of course, nobody except Yugi heard him.
"Oh, is that so, Yugi? Well, then, I will take no hesitation in learning your favorite strategy and the counterattack for it once I look through your deck," Yami Sii said silently. Yami Sii had taken control while keeping Sii's features, so as not to arouse any suspicion.
However, Yami Bakura, having been an expert with things like that, noticed the change. ""Ryou! Don't anger Sii!""
Ryou looked confused. "Why?"
""Would you really like to know?""
"Um, I guess not."
Tea went home and bought a few magazines along the way. She went to her room and started flipping through them, looking for something interesting that might spice up a birthday party containing teenagers. She was getting restless and was ready to give up when she came upon a page that caught her attention. "Oooooo."
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Heh, small cliffhanger! ^_^
