Yo. I think I got writer's block, 'cause when I tried to upload Chapter
Fourteen, it said that upload was successful, but it didn't show up at all.
I'm not sure. Does anyone care to tell me what a writer's block is? @_@
No, I'm not getting off the story plot. This all leads back to the storyline eventually. It's all planned out.
Nobody from Yu-Gi-Oh is mine, and I won't deny it. I'll just cuddle with Bakhe.
Bakhe: -_- Hey, who gave you permission?
Scarabsi: =D *points to Sii*
Sii: ^^ I don't wanna date you.
Bakhe: I don't wanna date Scarabsi, either!
Sii: Tough luck. =P
Bakhe: What does that mean?
Sii: *is frustrated* Never mind.
Music in the background: ~Ko we no wen na ai, ida ida su na un~
Sii & Bakhe: o_O
Scarabsi: Was that Shuffle just playing?
Sii: It sounded like Japanese rock music.
Scarabsi: Wait here. *goes off to Ra knows where*
(crashing sounds are heard, along with "Hey!" and "Shut the hell up! Sii, Bakhe and I were saying something to the audience and you're playing a Yu- Gi-Oh theme song?!?")
Scarabsi: *comes back into room* Got it taken care of.
Sii & Bakhe: *inching away from Scarabsi*
Scarabsi: T_T Let's start the chapter already.
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Chapter Fifteen: The Date
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Sii took her mind off the date. It was after school, and she was going to show Yugi and the others her new friend! This would be fun.
She walked into the game shop. "Hi there!"
"Hi," everyone else replied.
"There's going to be some friends over that I want you to meet." Sii smiled. "They're really nice. Or, at least, Dawn was."
"What about the other one?" Tea asked curiously.
Sii shook her head. "I don't know who she is."
Everyone crashed to the floor just as Dawn opened the door and stepped in with another girl with her hair held back by two clips. They sweatdropped.
"Are you aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive?" Dawn asked, poking Bakura to test her question.
Bakura stood up, and Yami Bakura took control. "Do I look dead to you?!?!"
Dawn stared at him for a moment. He had lines under his eyes, blood trickling from his mouth, and his eyes didn't have pupils. "Yes, you look more dead now than you did a second ago."
Yami Bakura scowled away. "That hurt," he muttered, although literally, metamorphically, or sarcastically, Dawn didn't know.
"Oh, yeah." Dawn shoved her friend under of Yami Bakura's nose. "This is Gia."
Yami Bakura scowled again. "What kind of name is "Gaia"?"
"It's not "Gaia"!" Gia yelled. "It's Gia! You've got to get the right accent going!"
Yami Bakura snorted. "Gaia, Gia, makes no difference to me. They both sound the same."
"Last time I saw you, you were actually polite!" Gia half-shouted.
"L-l-last time.?" Yami Bakura asked.
""Heh hum.."" Bakura said, trying to look innocent.
"Looks like Ryou has a lot to explain when this is over." Yami Bakura muttered darkly as he allowed Bakura control again.
"O-oh y-y-yeah!" Bakura tried to pretend that he had only forgotten about meeting Gia so that he wouldn't seem suspicious. "Aren't you the person that told us about Sii?"
Gia nodded. "Naw really, took you LONG ENOUGH! Man your memory sucks!"
Bakura winced. Geez, this girl has quite a temper. "Y-you didn't have to yell."
"Sorry. She's like that." Dawn poked Gia on the shoulder. "Riiiiiiiiight?"
"Shut up."
"Make me."
Five seconds later, when Dawn was successfully nailed to a wall with her mouth duct-taped shut, and after Gia had finished dusting off her hands, she started poking the other people, who were still on the floor.
"Hey, is ANYBODY alive? Don't tell me you died, because I only just met you, and I want to get to know you before you die, otherwise I won't inherit your money," Gia half-yelled, as if trying to talk to a deaf person, but not really wanting them to hear her. That didn't really encourage them to get up, as they crashed to the ground again, and that was not really healthy because they were already on the ground.
"THAT DIDN'T LOOK TOO HEALTHY!" Gia said in her sarcastic tone. She noticed a huge amount of gold on a string shaped like a pyramid with some odd Egyptian-style eye on one side. That could probably sell for a lot of money.
She walked up to Yugi and grabbed the Puzzle. "Your neck will magically get stronger so that you feel less weight on them!" Yugi watched her lift the puzzle off.
"Um..that's kind of mine..and I'd like to have it back." Yugi muttered, with a big sweatdrop.
"This'll sell for a lot of money!" Gia told him, so greedy for the money you could almost see the money signs flashing in her eyes.
"Give it back NOW! It's MINE and you can't take my Millennium Puzzle!" Yugi tackled her and took it back. In relief, Yugi sighed and hugged the Puzzle, crying a little. "I almost lost this." He put it back around his neck.
""Ugh.what was that?"" Yami asked.
"Someone tried to steal the Puzzle again! I think she was planning to sell it!"
""What?!? I thought their hunt for the Items was over! They can no longer take it from us, we've already gathered them all!""
"I know, it doesn't make any sense to me either."
"The heck, I'm SORRY! Geez, you stay mad for a LONG time!" Gia stormed up the stairs.
"Hey, I wouldn't go up dare if I were you!" Joey warned. He was- er, a little- late. Gia stepped on a certain step that had a button in the center. A bucket of pink slime emptied out on her head.
"Who set this up?!?!" Gia demanded furiously.
Joey and Yugi looked away innocently.
"You RETARDS! I'm going to have to take a very long shower to get this stuff out, and the hot water might run out, and then it'll be cold, and I like GREEN slime, not PINK slime! PINK! IK!" Gia ranted.
"What does the color of the slime have to do with this situation?" Sii asked.
Gia paused. "I don't know." Everyone crashed to the floor again, and if they kept this up they'd end up in the hospital.
"Sii!" a voice suddenly called. Sii turned toward the voice. It was Ishitsu. "What do you want?"
"We have to get ready for your date! If we don't start now, you'll run out of time to dress up!"
Sii flushed. Not in front of everyone.
"A date?" Joey asked. He seemed to be interested in poking into Sii's private business ever since she humiliated him about Mai. "Sii's got a date?"
Ishitsu nodded. "Tonight."
"Who is it?" Tristan asked, also interested for the heck of poking into other people's business.
"With Bakhe." Ishitsu replied.
"Shame on you, Sii. You've only just met my brother. Why, are you so impatient to get it all out that you'd ask him out?" Yami Bakura asked in a mocking tone.
"Sh-shut up!" Sii yelled rudely.
"Ah, and you're stuttering, too. You must have it bad." Yami Bakura, not to mention Joey and Tristan, started to laugh.
"I-it's not m-m-my fault I g-got into this m-mess!" Sii ran out the door, crying.
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"Yo, sis. Home already?" Malik asked as Sii zoomed by him, causing his hair to blow into his face. And you can imagine how funny that looked. But that's beside the point.
"Shut up!" Sii yelled, running into her room. Malik followed her, but had the door slammed in his face. He could hear his younger sister crying inside.
"What's wrong? Why are you so sad?" Malik asked. For once, he was worried about Sii. But maybe sometime last night, Ishitsu told him to be nicer to her. Ah, shucks, who cares right now? The point is that Malik actually cared about Sii.
"You'd laugh! Why should I t-t-tell you?!?" Sii yelled from inside. Malik felt a little hurt that Sii didn't trust him. But after what I've done to her, I guess I can't blame her for not trusting me. "C'mon, I'll help you! I'll try!" He felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Ishitsu.
"Please, Malik, Sii is not in the mood to talk to you right now. She was just insulted by her friends, and she has very fragile feelings. I'm surprised her other hasn't come out yet for reven-"
Suddenly, the door flew open and a very angry Yami Sii stood in the doorway. "Where. is. Turtle. Game. Shop. "
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Calm down, it was a misunderstanding! Don't go off killing or mind- crushing Sii's only friends!"
Sometimes Ishitsu says things at the wrong time, huh? Malik thought.
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"Oh, it's fine, I got it all planned out! I know what you'll look fancy in! Now get in the shower and wash yourself off!" Ishitsu was telling Sii. It took quite a while to convince Yami Sii not to kill Yami Bakura, Joey or Tristan.
"But Ishitsu, the bathroom door doesn't have a lock! And the shower curtain is clear! Are you sure Malik or Rishid won't come peeping in here?" Sii asked for the fiftieth time.
"Don't worry, you're too young for them, and besides, Rishid would only go in if Malik tells him to, and Malik will only go in if I tell him to. And none of them are perverts. Well, not in that sense."
"O-okay.if you really guarantee it." Sii took off the towel that was draped around her and stepped into the shower.
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"Hey, Ishitsu.?" Malik entered the room and sat in Ishitsu's bed, next to her. "What're you doing? That dress outgrew you years ago, and those are your favorite hair wraps that you only use for special occasions. Why are you taking them out?"
Ishitsu indeed had her favorite golden hair wraps on her desk and a pretty, white sleeveless gown that was a few sizes too small for her. She had started ransacking her jewelry box for some of the pretty Egyptian armlets that she and Malik liked to wear.
"I'm looking for the right outfit for Sii. She's got a date with Bakhe three hours from now." She noticed Malik's eyes widen in shock, and she was surprised he didn't have a mischievous look on his face. She sighed. She didn't want Malik to start teasing Sii about this like her friends did, so she thought for a way to get rid of him temporarily. "May you please get me some ramen? I'm kind of hungry." Malik nodded excitedly, always eager to do her a favor. He happily dashed out of the room to make the ramen.
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"Hey, sis! I got the ramen!" Malik came back into the room some time later with the hot ramen in his hand. "Sis?" There was nobody in the room.
"Oh, I'm in the closet, and I won't come back down for a while. Just put it on the bathroom counter." Ishitsu's muffled voice indeed came from the closed closet door.
Malik froze. "Isn't Sii in the shower right now?" he asked nervously.
"Oh, yeah, that. Don't worry, the steam in the shower already fogged up everything in the bathroom. It's all right."
"I-if you say so." Malik was still hesitant to go in, but as Ishitsu had told him to do so, he entered the bathroom and put the bowl of ramen on the bathroom counter. He suddenly got hit in the head by a bar of soap, so he turned around to put it back.
"You pervert!!!" Sii had just climbed out of the shower five seconds before Malik entered. She draped a towel around herself as fast as she could and chased Malik around the house, throwing random bathroom supplies at his head.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Malik chanted. "I was only dropping off Ishitsu's ramen!"
They started chasing each other in the kitchen, where Rishid just happened to be. "Master Malik, what is the matter?"
"Sii's chasing me because I dropped by the bathroom while she was taking a shower!" Malik explained while he whizzed past his brother.
"You're such a letch! I can't believe I actually felt safe here with boys around! If you weren't my brother, I'd kill you!"
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"Now, now, that was no way to behave Malik. Now say you're sorry." Ishitsu scolded Sii gently.
Sii scowled. "I'm sorry."
"It's okay. It was my fault for turning around." Malik replied, putting a bandage on his head where there was a soap bar imprint.
"Now Sii, it's really about time you took off your ridiculous ponytail. It's been a few days since your birthday." Ishitsu held out the hair wraps. "Try these on."
Sii took off her ponytail and put the gold hair wraps on. She looked a little like a miniature Ishitsu wearing a bathrobe.
"You look so cute!" Ishitsu complemented.
"Um.thanks." Sii hadn't had a complement like that in quite a while. She was glad to hear that.
"Get the dress on. I hate looking at girls in bathrobes." Malik turned around so that he couldn't watch Sii take her bathrobe off to wear the dress. Maybe people thought so, but he was most certainly not a letch.
"Now the armlets." Ishitsu helped Sii dress, as she wasn't so used to wearing something so fancy. "Okay, after the armlets, you got." she stopped when she heard Sii's expression of pain. "Sorry, did I put them on too tight?"
Sii shook her head. "It's not really that, it's just that I have stitches there that haven't been taken out for quite a while. I can bear it for one night, don't worry." she smiled. "I'm fine, don't look at me like that, Malik! I'm fine! I'll deal with it tomorrow!"
Malik didn't look convinced. "I'll call Bakura tomorrow morning."
Sii turned to Ishitsu, who was putting black makeup around her eyes, with a confused look on her face. "What does Bakura have to do with anything?" she asked, puzzled.
"You should ask him to take off his jacket tomorrow and you'll see," was Ishitsu's reply. "There! You're set!"
"Thanks, Ishitsu." Some part of Sii's mind suddenly clicked. "Wait, can I get some metal?"
Malik opened a drawer and took a chunk of gold. "Here. We wanted to give it away anyway; there's no use of it for us."
Sii took it and nodded thanks. Holding the chunk of gold, she ran to her room and opened a small microwave. Ishitsu had installed a small microwave in every room so that they wouldn't have such a crowded kitchen. Malik, Rishid, and Ishitsu both used the microwaves to cook their food, but Sii used it for her art projects, because both Sii and Yami Sii liked making art projects.
Sii stuck the chunk of gold in the microwave and heated it up a little, enough so that it was shapeable and wouldn't burn her fingers if she wore gloves. When it was done, she took it out and pulled a butter knife from a drawer. She used the butter knife and her fingers to shape and shrink the size of the gold until all that was left was a ring that was big enough to wear on your finger. After that, she took out a piece of white cloth and sewed a tiny drawstring bag with extra long strings, so that it could also be used as a belt. On the bag, in black permanent ink, she wrote in Egyptian hieroglyphics 'Bakhe Bakura'. She stuck the gold ring in the bag, tied it, and roped it around her waist. Then she took the remaining pieces of gold and formed them into a chunk again before it cooled.
Sii returned to Ishitsu's room and handed the chunk of gold back to Malik. "Thanks." She turned to Ishitsu. "I'm going now."
"Good luck."
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Back in Bakura's apartment, Bakhe was having a hard time understanding how to put the clothes on. Thank god he was not wearing a tuxedo to the date.
"No, you put the shirt on this way," Bakura was explaining, "then you button up on the front."
Bakhe had the shirt upside-down and backwards. He took it off and put it back on so that he was able to button up the bottom of the shirt, but not the top because he was still wearing it upside-down.
"Better, but not quite- arrrgh! Just let me do it for you!" Bakura cried out in frustration. He took off Bakhe's shirt and put it on correctly for him. "Why don't you know how to dress?"
"The only kind of clothing I ever learned to wear was my old rag gown." Bakhe replied. "Now how do you work the pants.?"
Bakura sighed. "First you get the boxers on, then you put the pants on, then you put the belt on. How hard is that to figure out?"
"Can you help me with this one, too?" Bakhe was still not sure how the pants work.
"N-n-no!" Bakura turned away. "I.don't want to get near that part."
Bakhe looked confused. ".Why?" when Bakura didn't answer, he tried to put them on by himself. It took a few tries, but he managed to get the boxers and the pants on. In the right order, to Bakura's relief. But Bakhe still couldn't figure out how to use the belt.
"Whatever. Just don't wear a belt. You don't need one." Bakura tossed the belt back into the dresser.
Bakhe had an idea nagging in the back of his mind, but he wasn't sure he wanted to use it. He didn't even know where the idea came from, and he certainly didn't understand the idea very well. All of a sudden, her heard his mouth speaking on its own.
"May I use some gold?" he asked. He had no idea why he was asking this.
Yami Bakura came out and smiled. "Just wait here and I'll be back in a jiffy."
He ran out the door and came back about five minutes later with a chunk of gold in his hand. He gave it to Bakhe.
Bakhe raised an eyebrow suspiciously at the gold. "Brother.where did you get this?" he felt himself ask. "You didn't steal it, did you?" Steal? Ryou doesn't steal. He's too innocent. He'd never steal. Why'd I just ask that?
Yami Bakura chuckled. "Too many questions you shouldn't ask."
"So you did steal it. How many times have I told you not to steal? It's bad." Bakhe heard himself say. I never told Ryou not to steal. I've never told him to do anything before.
Yami Bakura frowned. "Just do what you wanted to do with the darned thing, alright?!?" he yelled at Bakhe, annoyed.
Bakhe involuntarily smirked. "All right, all right, no need to yell! Asalma Akee!" And what in the name of Ra does 'Asalma Akee' mean, anyway? Bakura wondered. I think I'm going crazy.
Yami Bakura looked even more annoyed than he already did. "You really remind me of someone, squirt. You really do."
"I wonder who that'd be," Bakhe again heard himself say.
Automatically, he took the gold and brought it over to the oven. "Thanks for the tip, Ankhisis. I'll get you a reward."
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Sii reached the park and sat down at a bench. "He's not here yet."
""Don't worry, if he doesn't show up, at least you don't have to date him.""
"Good point."
To her disappointment, Bakhe turned up at that moment. "Er.." he said as he saw the outfit Sii was wearing. "You look.really fancy tonight."
Sii wasn't expecting a compliment. "Erm.thanks. I like the way you're dressed." She actually thought he looked cute in something other than his rag gown.
"Uh.here." Bakhe handed over a box he had in his hand as fast as he could and looked away, so he wouldn't have to see the result that he predicted would be very embarrassing.
Sii opened the box. Inside were a pair of gold scarab earrings. "Wow.Bakhe.these are beautiful!"
Bakhe turned back toward Sii, surprised. "You really like them?"
Sii smiled happily. "I love them."
Bakhe blushed furious red and turned away very fast. "Uh.thanks. I made them but I don't remember how."
"You made these? They're even more beautiful than the ones in the stores!" Sii closed the box, kissed it, and stuck it in her pocket. Bakhe tried as hard as he could to forget that she kissed the box.
"Now I really wish I had pierced ears," she muttered. She untied the bag from her waist. "Oh, and this is, uh, for you." She shoved the bag in his hands. "But promise me that you will not open it until I let you, all right?" she added in a threatening way. Bakhe nodded, a scared look on his face.
Sii relaxed. "So, how about we go to Pho Hoa for dinner? I really like that place." She took out some money. "I can pay for both of us. So, can we go?"
Bakhe nodded, and Sii dragged him to the diner so fast, he didn't even realize he was being dragged until he got there.
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"Hey, look! They went into the diner! How do we follow them now?" Joey whispered in a panicked way.
"Don't worry, just leave it to me." Yami Bakura whispered back. He sneaked to a high window and jumped soundlessly to the windowpane. He looked in and reported anything interesting Sii and Bakhe were doing. "Right now, I think they're just sitting there silently, but Sii seems to be holding something.possibly a gift from Bakhe?" he reported.
"They're not even kissing?" Tristan called back, disappointed.
"They each have at least one hand under the table. Maybe they're holding hands," Yami Bakura observed.
"Really?" Joey whistled.
"Wait.they're leaving. Better start hiding again." Yami Bakura jumped off the window and the three hid behind the bush again just as Sii and Bakhe came out.
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"Wow, that was delicious! It's the best food I've ever tasted!" Bakhe licked his lips.
"Isn't it? I just love eating Vietnamese noodles!" Sii was really full, because both of them had licked their bowls clean.
They reached a public garden with a swimming pool and sat down in a bench, enjoying the scenery and laughing at the people doing belly flops. After a while, though, Bakhe stopped laughing and looked to the ground, a sad look on his face.
"What's wrong?" Sii asked, concerned.
"Well, just before I came to meet you in the park, I made you the earrings.you know that, right?" Bakhe started, turning to Sii. Sii nodded.
"Well, I had to get the gold somewhere, and my brother Ryou gave it to me. The trouble is, we never had any gold. I think he stole it." Bakhe hesitated on the last sentence, because he didn't really want to admit his suspicion that his sweet brother was a thief. To his surprise, Sii didn't look that shocked. She just waved her hand a little and said, "Just let it go. He's like that sometimes."
Bakhe moved a bit closer to Sii in frustration. "That's not all that happened oddly! I don't even know how to make jewelry! I wouldn't even try to ask for gold from my brother because I know that we don't have any! And I didn't really voluntarily move or talk after I asked for the gold! I said lots of bad things I would never think about saying, especially to Ryou, and I said this odd phrase.something like Asalma Akee, and I don't even know what that means!" He hit his head with his fist. "I think I'm going crazy."
"Stop hitting your head, or you might really go crazy. It's okay if that happens, I guess. It happens to me all the time." Sii told him.
Bakhe stopped hitting his head and looked at her, surprised. "Really?"
Just then, an ugly thug came up to them. "Hey, you two look like a pretty couple. Maybe I'll split you up." He grabbed Sii's arm and took her over to the pool. He was getting ready to throw her in.
"No!" Bakhe yelled.
The thug swung and there was a splash.
Sii winced and held her breath, but she didn't get wet. She opened her eyes. She was back at the bench! Wait.where's Bakhe? "Bakhe!"
She ran toward the edge of the pool and looked down. Bakhe was sinking down fast. "No! Bakhe!"
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The thug was about to throw Sii into the pool. Bakhe looked over and panicked. "No!" he yelled.
Suddenly, the thug was holding his arm and he was thrown into the cold pool. He couldn't breathe, and he couldn't swim. He looked around, and he didn't see Sii anywhere in the pool. Well, at least you didn't get thrown in, Sii.
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"Bakhe!" Sii yelled. Without doing much thinking, she jumped into the pool and swam after him. He was about twelve feet deep by the time she reached him. Great, she thought, frustrated, I'm not strong enough to pull him back up.
An air pocket formed around Bakhe and floated to the surface. She swam after it. When they reached the surface, the bubble popped and Sii pushed Bakhe out of the pool before getting out herself.
"Bakhe." she went over to him. "Bakhe."
Bakhe didn't move. "Bakhe!" Sii slapped him. "Idiot! Wake up!"
He still didn't move. She sighed. "Fine, have it your way." She pushed down on his chest to force the water out of his lungs. On the fourth push, Sii felt a string. "Huh?"
She carried Bakhe to a more private place and unbuttoned his shirt. She found the string and pulled it out, thinking it was a stray rope or something. She pulled out the Millennium Jar.
"What's this?" She turned it around and saw the millennium symbol on the jar. "A-a-a millennium symbol?" She stared at it. "It looks just like the one on Yugi's puzzle." she rubbed it.
"Ah.!" Bakhe suddenly cried. His face was twisted in pain as the Jar glowed. When the light died down, he laid still again.
"What's wrong with you now?" Sii asked, starting to get a little annoyed. He was back to being Mr. Silent.
"Argh!" Yami Sii came out. "Okay, you better get up, now!" She slapped him.
"Huh?" Yami Sii looked around. "A new presence." She couldn't see the new presence, though. "Reveal yourself!"
Bakhe smirked, opened his eyes, and sat up. "So, I see that your ability to sense me hasn't faded." He paused to look at a certain bush, then turned his attention back to Yami Sii. ".Ankhisis."
Yami Sii looked confused. "Who's Ankhisis?"
He chuckled. "You will find out soon. Very, very soon. You see, it's someone you meet all the time, and it's someone I've been looking for during the last five thousand years."
"The last five thousand years? Wait.that means." She went over and picked up the Millennium Jar, which she had dropped. ".you're really not Bakhe, are you?"
Bakhe chortled. "Precisely right. I will reveal my true name once you have found Ankhisis. For now, you can just call me.Yami Bakhe!
In a round of laughter, Yami Bakhe disappeared and Bakhe fell to the ground again.
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Scarabsi: Hahahaha!!!
Sii: *looks up* That's not really your style. Have you been watching Yami Bakura DVDs again?
Scarabsi: *hides DVDs* No, I haven't.
Bakhe: X_X
Scarabsi: I'm adding in another mood ruiner! =)
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"Bakhe." she went over to him. "Bakhe."
She started poking him. "Are you aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive?"
Everyone crashed to the ground.
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Sii: *twitch* Why do you always make them about me?
Scarabsi: Because you're so fun to pick on!
Sii: Wah! ;_;
Yami Sii: DIE!!!
Scarabsi: AH!!!!!
Yami Bakura: Please review. Flames excepted.
Sii: That was random.
No, I'm not getting off the story plot. This all leads back to the storyline eventually. It's all planned out.
Nobody from Yu-Gi-Oh is mine, and I won't deny it. I'll just cuddle with Bakhe.
Bakhe: -_- Hey, who gave you permission?
Scarabsi: =D *points to Sii*
Sii: ^^ I don't wanna date you.
Bakhe: I don't wanna date Scarabsi, either!
Sii: Tough luck. =P
Bakhe: What does that mean?
Sii: *is frustrated* Never mind.
Music in the background: ~Ko we no wen na ai, ida ida su na un~
Sii & Bakhe: o_O
Scarabsi: Was that Shuffle just playing?
Sii: It sounded like Japanese rock music.
Scarabsi: Wait here. *goes off to Ra knows where*
(crashing sounds are heard, along with "Hey!" and "Shut the hell up! Sii, Bakhe and I were saying something to the audience and you're playing a Yu- Gi-Oh theme song?!?")
Scarabsi: *comes back into room* Got it taken care of.
Sii & Bakhe: *inching away from Scarabsi*
Scarabsi: T_T Let's start the chapter already.
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Chapter Fifteen: The Date
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Sii took her mind off the date. It was after school, and she was going to show Yugi and the others her new friend! This would be fun.
She walked into the game shop. "Hi there!"
"Hi," everyone else replied.
"There's going to be some friends over that I want you to meet." Sii smiled. "They're really nice. Or, at least, Dawn was."
"What about the other one?" Tea asked curiously.
Sii shook her head. "I don't know who she is."
Everyone crashed to the floor just as Dawn opened the door and stepped in with another girl with her hair held back by two clips. They sweatdropped.
"Are you aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive?" Dawn asked, poking Bakura to test her question.
Bakura stood up, and Yami Bakura took control. "Do I look dead to you?!?!"
Dawn stared at him for a moment. He had lines under his eyes, blood trickling from his mouth, and his eyes didn't have pupils. "Yes, you look more dead now than you did a second ago."
Yami Bakura scowled away. "That hurt," he muttered, although literally, metamorphically, or sarcastically, Dawn didn't know.
"Oh, yeah." Dawn shoved her friend under of Yami Bakura's nose. "This is Gia."
Yami Bakura scowled again. "What kind of name is "Gaia"?"
"It's not "Gaia"!" Gia yelled. "It's Gia! You've got to get the right accent going!"
Yami Bakura snorted. "Gaia, Gia, makes no difference to me. They both sound the same."
"Last time I saw you, you were actually polite!" Gia half-shouted.
"L-l-last time.?" Yami Bakura asked.
""Heh hum.."" Bakura said, trying to look innocent.
"Looks like Ryou has a lot to explain when this is over." Yami Bakura muttered darkly as he allowed Bakura control again.
"O-oh y-y-yeah!" Bakura tried to pretend that he had only forgotten about meeting Gia so that he wouldn't seem suspicious. "Aren't you the person that told us about Sii?"
Gia nodded. "Naw really, took you LONG ENOUGH! Man your memory sucks!"
Bakura winced. Geez, this girl has quite a temper. "Y-you didn't have to yell."
"Sorry. She's like that." Dawn poked Gia on the shoulder. "Riiiiiiiiight?"
"Shut up."
"Make me."
Five seconds later, when Dawn was successfully nailed to a wall with her mouth duct-taped shut, and after Gia had finished dusting off her hands, she started poking the other people, who were still on the floor.
"Hey, is ANYBODY alive? Don't tell me you died, because I only just met you, and I want to get to know you before you die, otherwise I won't inherit your money," Gia half-yelled, as if trying to talk to a deaf person, but not really wanting them to hear her. That didn't really encourage them to get up, as they crashed to the ground again, and that was not really healthy because they were already on the ground.
"THAT DIDN'T LOOK TOO HEALTHY!" Gia said in her sarcastic tone. She noticed a huge amount of gold on a string shaped like a pyramid with some odd Egyptian-style eye on one side. That could probably sell for a lot of money.
She walked up to Yugi and grabbed the Puzzle. "Your neck will magically get stronger so that you feel less weight on them!" Yugi watched her lift the puzzle off.
"Um..that's kind of mine..and I'd like to have it back." Yugi muttered, with a big sweatdrop.
"This'll sell for a lot of money!" Gia told him, so greedy for the money you could almost see the money signs flashing in her eyes.
"Give it back NOW! It's MINE and you can't take my Millennium Puzzle!" Yugi tackled her and took it back. In relief, Yugi sighed and hugged the Puzzle, crying a little. "I almost lost this." He put it back around his neck.
""Ugh.what was that?"" Yami asked.
"Someone tried to steal the Puzzle again! I think she was planning to sell it!"
""What?!? I thought their hunt for the Items was over! They can no longer take it from us, we've already gathered them all!""
"I know, it doesn't make any sense to me either."
"The heck, I'm SORRY! Geez, you stay mad for a LONG time!" Gia stormed up the stairs.
"Hey, I wouldn't go up dare if I were you!" Joey warned. He was- er, a little- late. Gia stepped on a certain step that had a button in the center. A bucket of pink slime emptied out on her head.
"Who set this up?!?!" Gia demanded furiously.
Joey and Yugi looked away innocently.
"You RETARDS! I'm going to have to take a very long shower to get this stuff out, and the hot water might run out, and then it'll be cold, and I like GREEN slime, not PINK slime! PINK! IK!" Gia ranted.
"What does the color of the slime have to do with this situation?" Sii asked.
Gia paused. "I don't know." Everyone crashed to the floor again, and if they kept this up they'd end up in the hospital.
"Sii!" a voice suddenly called. Sii turned toward the voice. It was Ishitsu. "What do you want?"
"We have to get ready for your date! If we don't start now, you'll run out of time to dress up!"
Sii flushed. Not in front of everyone.
"A date?" Joey asked. He seemed to be interested in poking into Sii's private business ever since she humiliated him about Mai. "Sii's got a date?"
Ishitsu nodded. "Tonight."
"Who is it?" Tristan asked, also interested for the heck of poking into other people's business.
"With Bakhe." Ishitsu replied.
"Shame on you, Sii. You've only just met my brother. Why, are you so impatient to get it all out that you'd ask him out?" Yami Bakura asked in a mocking tone.
"Sh-shut up!" Sii yelled rudely.
"Ah, and you're stuttering, too. You must have it bad." Yami Bakura, not to mention Joey and Tristan, started to laugh.
"I-it's not m-m-my fault I g-got into this m-mess!" Sii ran out the door, crying.
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"Yo, sis. Home already?" Malik asked as Sii zoomed by him, causing his hair to blow into his face. And you can imagine how funny that looked. But that's beside the point.
"Shut up!" Sii yelled, running into her room. Malik followed her, but had the door slammed in his face. He could hear his younger sister crying inside.
"What's wrong? Why are you so sad?" Malik asked. For once, he was worried about Sii. But maybe sometime last night, Ishitsu told him to be nicer to her. Ah, shucks, who cares right now? The point is that Malik actually cared about Sii.
"You'd laugh! Why should I t-t-tell you?!?" Sii yelled from inside. Malik felt a little hurt that Sii didn't trust him. But after what I've done to her, I guess I can't blame her for not trusting me. "C'mon, I'll help you! I'll try!" He felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Ishitsu.
"Please, Malik, Sii is not in the mood to talk to you right now. She was just insulted by her friends, and she has very fragile feelings. I'm surprised her other hasn't come out yet for reven-"
Suddenly, the door flew open and a very angry Yami Sii stood in the doorway. "Where. is. Turtle. Game. Shop. "
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Calm down, it was a misunderstanding! Don't go off killing or mind- crushing Sii's only friends!"
Sometimes Ishitsu says things at the wrong time, huh? Malik thought.
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"Oh, it's fine, I got it all planned out! I know what you'll look fancy in! Now get in the shower and wash yourself off!" Ishitsu was telling Sii. It took quite a while to convince Yami Sii not to kill Yami Bakura, Joey or Tristan.
"But Ishitsu, the bathroom door doesn't have a lock! And the shower curtain is clear! Are you sure Malik or Rishid won't come peeping in here?" Sii asked for the fiftieth time.
"Don't worry, you're too young for them, and besides, Rishid would only go in if Malik tells him to, and Malik will only go in if I tell him to. And none of them are perverts. Well, not in that sense."
"O-okay.if you really guarantee it." Sii took off the towel that was draped around her and stepped into the shower.
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"Hey, Ishitsu.?" Malik entered the room and sat in Ishitsu's bed, next to her. "What're you doing? That dress outgrew you years ago, and those are your favorite hair wraps that you only use for special occasions. Why are you taking them out?"
Ishitsu indeed had her favorite golden hair wraps on her desk and a pretty, white sleeveless gown that was a few sizes too small for her. She had started ransacking her jewelry box for some of the pretty Egyptian armlets that she and Malik liked to wear.
"I'm looking for the right outfit for Sii. She's got a date with Bakhe three hours from now." She noticed Malik's eyes widen in shock, and she was surprised he didn't have a mischievous look on his face. She sighed. She didn't want Malik to start teasing Sii about this like her friends did, so she thought for a way to get rid of him temporarily. "May you please get me some ramen? I'm kind of hungry." Malik nodded excitedly, always eager to do her a favor. He happily dashed out of the room to make the ramen.
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"Hey, sis! I got the ramen!" Malik came back into the room some time later with the hot ramen in his hand. "Sis?" There was nobody in the room.
"Oh, I'm in the closet, and I won't come back down for a while. Just put it on the bathroom counter." Ishitsu's muffled voice indeed came from the closed closet door.
Malik froze. "Isn't Sii in the shower right now?" he asked nervously.
"Oh, yeah, that. Don't worry, the steam in the shower already fogged up everything in the bathroom. It's all right."
"I-if you say so." Malik was still hesitant to go in, but as Ishitsu had told him to do so, he entered the bathroom and put the bowl of ramen on the bathroom counter. He suddenly got hit in the head by a bar of soap, so he turned around to put it back.
"You pervert!!!" Sii had just climbed out of the shower five seconds before Malik entered. She draped a towel around herself as fast as she could and chased Malik around the house, throwing random bathroom supplies at his head.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Malik chanted. "I was only dropping off Ishitsu's ramen!"
They started chasing each other in the kitchen, where Rishid just happened to be. "Master Malik, what is the matter?"
"Sii's chasing me because I dropped by the bathroom while she was taking a shower!" Malik explained while he whizzed past his brother.
"You're such a letch! I can't believe I actually felt safe here with boys around! If you weren't my brother, I'd kill you!"
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"Now, now, that was no way to behave Malik. Now say you're sorry." Ishitsu scolded Sii gently.
Sii scowled. "I'm sorry."
"It's okay. It was my fault for turning around." Malik replied, putting a bandage on his head where there was a soap bar imprint.
"Now Sii, it's really about time you took off your ridiculous ponytail. It's been a few days since your birthday." Ishitsu held out the hair wraps. "Try these on."
Sii took off her ponytail and put the gold hair wraps on. She looked a little like a miniature Ishitsu wearing a bathrobe.
"You look so cute!" Ishitsu complemented.
"Um.thanks." Sii hadn't had a complement like that in quite a while. She was glad to hear that.
"Get the dress on. I hate looking at girls in bathrobes." Malik turned around so that he couldn't watch Sii take her bathrobe off to wear the dress. Maybe people thought so, but he was most certainly not a letch.
"Now the armlets." Ishitsu helped Sii dress, as she wasn't so used to wearing something so fancy. "Okay, after the armlets, you got." she stopped when she heard Sii's expression of pain. "Sorry, did I put them on too tight?"
Sii shook her head. "It's not really that, it's just that I have stitches there that haven't been taken out for quite a while. I can bear it for one night, don't worry." she smiled. "I'm fine, don't look at me like that, Malik! I'm fine! I'll deal with it tomorrow!"
Malik didn't look convinced. "I'll call Bakura tomorrow morning."
Sii turned to Ishitsu, who was putting black makeup around her eyes, with a confused look on her face. "What does Bakura have to do with anything?" she asked, puzzled.
"You should ask him to take off his jacket tomorrow and you'll see," was Ishitsu's reply. "There! You're set!"
"Thanks, Ishitsu." Some part of Sii's mind suddenly clicked. "Wait, can I get some metal?"
Malik opened a drawer and took a chunk of gold. "Here. We wanted to give it away anyway; there's no use of it for us."
Sii took it and nodded thanks. Holding the chunk of gold, she ran to her room and opened a small microwave. Ishitsu had installed a small microwave in every room so that they wouldn't have such a crowded kitchen. Malik, Rishid, and Ishitsu both used the microwaves to cook their food, but Sii used it for her art projects, because both Sii and Yami Sii liked making art projects.
Sii stuck the chunk of gold in the microwave and heated it up a little, enough so that it was shapeable and wouldn't burn her fingers if she wore gloves. When it was done, she took it out and pulled a butter knife from a drawer. She used the butter knife and her fingers to shape and shrink the size of the gold until all that was left was a ring that was big enough to wear on your finger. After that, she took out a piece of white cloth and sewed a tiny drawstring bag with extra long strings, so that it could also be used as a belt. On the bag, in black permanent ink, she wrote in Egyptian hieroglyphics 'Bakhe Bakura'. She stuck the gold ring in the bag, tied it, and roped it around her waist. Then she took the remaining pieces of gold and formed them into a chunk again before it cooled.
Sii returned to Ishitsu's room and handed the chunk of gold back to Malik. "Thanks." She turned to Ishitsu. "I'm going now."
"Good luck."
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Back in Bakura's apartment, Bakhe was having a hard time understanding how to put the clothes on. Thank god he was not wearing a tuxedo to the date.
"No, you put the shirt on this way," Bakura was explaining, "then you button up on the front."
Bakhe had the shirt upside-down and backwards. He took it off and put it back on so that he was able to button up the bottom of the shirt, but not the top because he was still wearing it upside-down.
"Better, but not quite- arrrgh! Just let me do it for you!" Bakura cried out in frustration. He took off Bakhe's shirt and put it on correctly for him. "Why don't you know how to dress?"
"The only kind of clothing I ever learned to wear was my old rag gown." Bakhe replied. "Now how do you work the pants.?"
Bakura sighed. "First you get the boxers on, then you put the pants on, then you put the belt on. How hard is that to figure out?"
"Can you help me with this one, too?" Bakhe was still not sure how the pants work.
"N-n-no!" Bakura turned away. "I.don't want to get near that part."
Bakhe looked confused. ".Why?" when Bakura didn't answer, he tried to put them on by himself. It took a few tries, but he managed to get the boxers and the pants on. In the right order, to Bakura's relief. But Bakhe still couldn't figure out how to use the belt.
"Whatever. Just don't wear a belt. You don't need one." Bakura tossed the belt back into the dresser.
Bakhe had an idea nagging in the back of his mind, but he wasn't sure he wanted to use it. He didn't even know where the idea came from, and he certainly didn't understand the idea very well. All of a sudden, her heard his mouth speaking on its own.
"May I use some gold?" he asked. He had no idea why he was asking this.
Yami Bakura came out and smiled. "Just wait here and I'll be back in a jiffy."
He ran out the door and came back about five minutes later with a chunk of gold in his hand. He gave it to Bakhe.
Bakhe raised an eyebrow suspiciously at the gold. "Brother.where did you get this?" he felt himself ask. "You didn't steal it, did you?" Steal? Ryou doesn't steal. He's too innocent. He'd never steal. Why'd I just ask that?
Yami Bakura chuckled. "Too many questions you shouldn't ask."
"So you did steal it. How many times have I told you not to steal? It's bad." Bakhe heard himself say. I never told Ryou not to steal. I've never told him to do anything before.
Yami Bakura frowned. "Just do what you wanted to do with the darned thing, alright?!?" he yelled at Bakhe, annoyed.
Bakhe involuntarily smirked. "All right, all right, no need to yell! Asalma Akee!" And what in the name of Ra does 'Asalma Akee' mean, anyway? Bakura wondered. I think I'm going crazy.
Yami Bakura looked even more annoyed than he already did. "You really remind me of someone, squirt. You really do."
"I wonder who that'd be," Bakhe again heard himself say.
Automatically, he took the gold and brought it over to the oven. "Thanks for the tip, Ankhisis. I'll get you a reward."
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Sii reached the park and sat down at a bench. "He's not here yet."
""Don't worry, if he doesn't show up, at least you don't have to date him.""
"Good point."
To her disappointment, Bakhe turned up at that moment. "Er.." he said as he saw the outfit Sii was wearing. "You look.really fancy tonight."
Sii wasn't expecting a compliment. "Erm.thanks. I like the way you're dressed." She actually thought he looked cute in something other than his rag gown.
"Uh.here." Bakhe handed over a box he had in his hand as fast as he could and looked away, so he wouldn't have to see the result that he predicted would be very embarrassing.
Sii opened the box. Inside were a pair of gold scarab earrings. "Wow.Bakhe.these are beautiful!"
Bakhe turned back toward Sii, surprised. "You really like them?"
Sii smiled happily. "I love them."
Bakhe blushed furious red and turned away very fast. "Uh.thanks. I made them but I don't remember how."
"You made these? They're even more beautiful than the ones in the stores!" Sii closed the box, kissed it, and stuck it in her pocket. Bakhe tried as hard as he could to forget that she kissed the box.
"Now I really wish I had pierced ears," she muttered. She untied the bag from her waist. "Oh, and this is, uh, for you." She shoved the bag in his hands. "But promise me that you will not open it until I let you, all right?" she added in a threatening way. Bakhe nodded, a scared look on his face.
Sii relaxed. "So, how about we go to Pho Hoa for dinner? I really like that place." She took out some money. "I can pay for both of us. So, can we go?"
Bakhe nodded, and Sii dragged him to the diner so fast, he didn't even realize he was being dragged until he got there.
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"Hey, look! They went into the diner! How do we follow them now?" Joey whispered in a panicked way.
"Don't worry, just leave it to me." Yami Bakura whispered back. He sneaked to a high window and jumped soundlessly to the windowpane. He looked in and reported anything interesting Sii and Bakhe were doing. "Right now, I think they're just sitting there silently, but Sii seems to be holding something.possibly a gift from Bakhe?" he reported.
"They're not even kissing?" Tristan called back, disappointed.
"They each have at least one hand under the table. Maybe they're holding hands," Yami Bakura observed.
"Really?" Joey whistled.
"Wait.they're leaving. Better start hiding again." Yami Bakura jumped off the window and the three hid behind the bush again just as Sii and Bakhe came out.
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"Wow, that was delicious! It's the best food I've ever tasted!" Bakhe licked his lips.
"Isn't it? I just love eating Vietnamese noodles!" Sii was really full, because both of them had licked their bowls clean.
They reached a public garden with a swimming pool and sat down in a bench, enjoying the scenery and laughing at the people doing belly flops. After a while, though, Bakhe stopped laughing and looked to the ground, a sad look on his face.
"What's wrong?" Sii asked, concerned.
"Well, just before I came to meet you in the park, I made you the earrings.you know that, right?" Bakhe started, turning to Sii. Sii nodded.
"Well, I had to get the gold somewhere, and my brother Ryou gave it to me. The trouble is, we never had any gold. I think he stole it." Bakhe hesitated on the last sentence, because he didn't really want to admit his suspicion that his sweet brother was a thief. To his surprise, Sii didn't look that shocked. She just waved her hand a little and said, "Just let it go. He's like that sometimes."
Bakhe moved a bit closer to Sii in frustration. "That's not all that happened oddly! I don't even know how to make jewelry! I wouldn't even try to ask for gold from my brother because I know that we don't have any! And I didn't really voluntarily move or talk after I asked for the gold! I said lots of bad things I would never think about saying, especially to Ryou, and I said this odd phrase.something like Asalma Akee, and I don't even know what that means!" He hit his head with his fist. "I think I'm going crazy."
"Stop hitting your head, or you might really go crazy. It's okay if that happens, I guess. It happens to me all the time." Sii told him.
Bakhe stopped hitting his head and looked at her, surprised. "Really?"
Just then, an ugly thug came up to them. "Hey, you two look like a pretty couple. Maybe I'll split you up." He grabbed Sii's arm and took her over to the pool. He was getting ready to throw her in.
"No!" Bakhe yelled.
The thug swung and there was a splash.
Sii winced and held her breath, but she didn't get wet. She opened her eyes. She was back at the bench! Wait.where's Bakhe? "Bakhe!"
She ran toward the edge of the pool and looked down. Bakhe was sinking down fast. "No! Bakhe!"
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The thug was about to throw Sii into the pool. Bakhe looked over and panicked. "No!" he yelled.
Suddenly, the thug was holding his arm and he was thrown into the cold pool. He couldn't breathe, and he couldn't swim. He looked around, and he didn't see Sii anywhere in the pool. Well, at least you didn't get thrown in, Sii.
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"Bakhe!" Sii yelled. Without doing much thinking, she jumped into the pool and swam after him. He was about twelve feet deep by the time she reached him. Great, she thought, frustrated, I'm not strong enough to pull him back up.
An air pocket formed around Bakhe and floated to the surface. She swam after it. When they reached the surface, the bubble popped and Sii pushed Bakhe out of the pool before getting out herself.
"Bakhe." she went over to him. "Bakhe."
Bakhe didn't move. "Bakhe!" Sii slapped him. "Idiot! Wake up!"
He still didn't move. She sighed. "Fine, have it your way." She pushed down on his chest to force the water out of his lungs. On the fourth push, Sii felt a string. "Huh?"
She carried Bakhe to a more private place and unbuttoned his shirt. She found the string and pulled it out, thinking it was a stray rope or something. She pulled out the Millennium Jar.
"What's this?" She turned it around and saw the millennium symbol on the jar. "A-a-a millennium symbol?" She stared at it. "It looks just like the one on Yugi's puzzle." she rubbed it.
"Ah.!" Bakhe suddenly cried. His face was twisted in pain as the Jar glowed. When the light died down, he laid still again.
"What's wrong with you now?" Sii asked, starting to get a little annoyed. He was back to being Mr. Silent.
"Argh!" Yami Sii came out. "Okay, you better get up, now!" She slapped him.
"Huh?" Yami Sii looked around. "A new presence." She couldn't see the new presence, though. "Reveal yourself!"
Bakhe smirked, opened his eyes, and sat up. "So, I see that your ability to sense me hasn't faded." He paused to look at a certain bush, then turned his attention back to Yami Sii. ".Ankhisis."
Yami Sii looked confused. "Who's Ankhisis?"
He chuckled. "You will find out soon. Very, very soon. You see, it's someone you meet all the time, and it's someone I've been looking for during the last five thousand years."
"The last five thousand years? Wait.that means." She went over and picked up the Millennium Jar, which she had dropped. ".you're really not Bakhe, are you?"
Bakhe chortled. "Precisely right. I will reveal my true name once you have found Ankhisis. For now, you can just call me.Yami Bakhe!
In a round of laughter, Yami Bakhe disappeared and Bakhe fell to the ground again.
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Scarabsi: Hahahaha!!!
Sii: *looks up* That's not really your style. Have you been watching Yami Bakura DVDs again?
Scarabsi: *hides DVDs* No, I haven't.
Bakhe: X_X
Scarabsi: I'm adding in another mood ruiner! =)
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"Bakhe." she went over to him. "Bakhe."
She started poking him. "Are you aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive?"
Everyone crashed to the ground.
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Sii: *twitch* Why do you always make them about me?
Scarabsi: Because you're so fun to pick on!
Sii: Wah! ;_;
Yami Sii: DIE!!!
Scarabsi: AH!!!!!
Yami Bakura: Please review. Flames excepted.
Sii: That was random.
