~Disclaimer...Y'know all those times you've been asked what you would do with the money if you were rich? Well, I've figured out what I would do thanks to lilhillbillie! I would buy the rights to Yugioh, proudly display in my disclaimers that I do indeed own it and then...PROVE IT!!! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Not to mention I would force some major changes into the anime. Mostly consisting of Seto/Jou, Bakura/Ryou, Yami/Yuugi, Yuugi/Jou, Bakura/Malik, Anzo/bus driven by crazed, sugar-high Bakura...etc... ^__^ I would also pay the author of Yami Bakura's Tales a handsome sum to make the fic into an OAV! *cackles maniacally*
Nika: Just wait til you see what's in store this chapter!
Pegasus: -_- Angst...
Yuugi: -_- You've got more angst don't you?
Nika: -_- How'd you know?
Alice: (is sitting on a half-naked Bakura) I told them! ^^ ... . Stop wiggling, Baku-chan! You're gonna get rope burns!
Bakura: ;-; Oh Ra help me! *whimper* (looks at audience) Y'know, you could help too!
Alice: (glares at audience)
Audience: (slowly backs away)
(Quick A/N: Don't worry! It's not the end! Unless I get even more bored of this fic... -__- But I've got some more in mind!
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Angel Eyes
Chapter Twenty One:
"A Mother's Love Withheld"
"Are you sure you'll be alright?" Seto asked for the millionth time.
Angel was curled up on the couch with a blanket draped over her body. She had the t.v. on and was watching a music channel. She rested her head on the couch arm and said languidly, "Yes. I'm fine. Just tired. Go on back to school and don't even think of skipping work on my account."
Seto looked unconvinced but after a moment studying her said, "Alright. Jou will be home right after school and so will Mokuba. You'll be alright until then?"
She just raised her hand, waved dismissively and grunted an affirmative. Seto shook his head and left the room.
*She's strong.* he thought to himself. *Stronger than most people. She can get through this. She can get through anything.*
Angel heard the door shut and groaned, rolling onto her back. She had hoped she could go back to school and everything would just be a nightmare, in the past. But it hadn't worked out that way. The one thing she had wanted since her birth was a normal life, normal friends. She had joked with Malik just a few weeks ago about how they would finish school like normal people. Then they would get normal jobs, have a normal wedding, get a normal house, have a nice, normal family together. But it wasn't to be. Malik had died and now she had no reason to stay in her 'normal' life. To the others she seemed the same girl they had known all along. But inside she was different. With the return of her memories and the rejoining of the two halves of her soul, she had changed.
For one thing, she didn't think of herself as either the ancient priestess Amunet nor as the modern girl with an attitude and possible mental problems, Pierce. Now she was just Angel. A strange combination of both. To the others she may have seemed a bit more balanced. Her problem with physical contact had completely disappeared and she hadn't smarted off to anyone in a while. But the real reason she had changed was that she knew things no seventeen year old girl should know. She had memories of a life most couldn't even imagine. And she had very vivid memories of her death. And then...there was darkness. Five thousand years of darkness before her rebirth. Her body may have been that of a seventeen year old girl. But her mind was that of an immortal woman.
She sighed to herself and sat up. *There's no reason to wait any longer.* she thought. *There's only one course left to me and I must follow it unflinchingly.*
Thowing back the blanket she stood up and headed upstairs to her bedroom. She felt her stomach roll once, but pushed back the wave of nausea. She went to her spacious closet and pulled out a large black duffel bag, then proceeded to fill it with a few changes of clothes and the necessities. After packing the bag she wrote two notes. One she addressed to Mokuba and left beside the front door for him to find when he came home. The other she left on her brother's pillow. Hopefully the first note would give her enough time to escape Seto's expansive reach. By the time Jounouchi came home and found the other she would be long gone.
Normally a teenage girl would have trouble reaching her particular destination alone. But she was no ordinary teenage girl. Slipping into the shadows she made her way as quick as lightening across the city. She had to make a few stops before she really left. Her first stop was her parent's house. Her father wasn't home, as she expected. But her mother was. She deserved to know at least.
She let herself into the house by way of the shadows under the front door. She left her bag by the door and went searching for her mother. She found her sitting on the sofa watching television with the lights off. Stepping up silently behind her she said softly, "Atsuko."
Her mother jumped in surprise and spun around. "Angelica!" she exclaimed relieved. "Don't scare me like that! How did you get in?"
Angel just shook her head. "It doesn't matter." she said and stepped forward to join her mother on the couch. She had a lot to say and if she didn't get it out now she didn't know if she'd ever be able to. So she began. "Atsuko, there's a lot I need to tell you and not much time. Please don't interrupt me until I've finished." At her mother's questioning silence she continued. "Some of the things I'm going to say are going to sound strange, but I know you'll believe me. I now know the reason you and father abandoned me as a baby. I know the reason you left me with grams. You were afraid of me. Some nights you would hear me crying in my crib and would come into check on me only to find me missing. But still you heard the crying. And when you turned on the light I would suddenly appear as if I had been there the whole time. Not only that, but strange things happened around me. Things would move on their own. Paintings would fly off the wall when I was upset. And every pet we had mysteriously died with their eyes ripped out. You called me a demon.
"It was then you met grams. We were in Egypt on vacation. I remember the night when you had me in the restaurant and she was there. I began crying and all the lights exploded. She approached you and asked if things like that happened a lot around me. And when you said yes she seemed to expect it. She told you that she had dreams of such a baby. That in those dreams she was given the baby to raise by an ancient goddess. She understood and explained to you that some children were born different. She said they were blessed with abilities by the gods. After that you became good friends with her and when it came time to leave Egypt and return home to Japan, you left me there with her. You signed over all rights to her and had her named my official grandmother. She said she could help, and she did."
Angel paused. It was evident her mother had something to say.
"How do you remember all that?" the woman asked in awe. "You weren't even a year old."
"It's because I was never really a baby." Angel explained. "Not in mind anyway. In mind, up until I was two, I was a full grown woman. Now let me continue.
"I don't fault you for what you did. You were frightened, and frightened people do desperate things. Now the time has come to tell you the truth about me. I am a five thousand year old spirit in the body of this human girl. Long ago I was called Amunet and I was a priestess of Egypt. Things happened, horrible things that led to my death. Because my soul was unable to find peace and love in that life it fled and was eventually reincarnated in the present. There are others like me. My brother, Seto Kaiba. My lover, Malik Ishtar and his sister, Isis. The pharaoh, my brother's lover, a servant in the palace. We were all reincarnated here to play out some game that went unfulfilled in that time long ago. Then there is the thief king, the boy who came here claiming to be my lover. He...was a part of the game. But now, I believe all our souls may be at peace. I found love, as brief as it was. Bakura, the pharaoh and I have put aside our differences. My brother and Jono are together again. Even the cursed pharaoh who could never know love in his previous life has someone with him.
"And now, I'm returning to Egypt. This isn't my home, nor has it ever been. I miss the desert. I miss the memories that land holds for me. Memories both of my past life and my present. Memories of my love that will never truly die. You don't have to worry about me. I may appear to be nothing but a young girl, but I can take care of myself. I have memories, experience, and I have powers. I will survive and I will be happy. As happy as possible. And I don't expect to ever return."
Silence fell over them as she finished her speech. Her mother stared at her with horrified eyes. When she finally spoke it was in a disgust. She continued to stare into her daughter's eyes and said, "Monster! You aren't my daughter!" She leapt backwards off the couch, nearly falling in her haste to get away. "Oh, I believe you!" she said in response to her daughter's look of shock and sadness. "As fantastic as your story is, your eyes tell me the truth. They're the eyes of a monster! A woman's eyes in a child's body! I was right, all those years ago! You ARE a demon! A plague on this family! What did I ever do to deserve YOU!?"
Angel hung her head in sadness. "I don't know." she whispered. "I had hoped you would truly understand. I thought you were a wiser woman than this, but I see I was wrong." She stood up off the couch and looked at her mother. "I love you, Atsuko. You're the only mother I've ever know, as little of you I knew. My mother, my first mother, the pharaoh's sister, died in childbirth with Seth. I never really got to know her, but I know she was a good and kind woman. Perhaps it will take another lifetime for my world to be truly complete. I don't think I'd mind being born again. Then I could be with my love, my friends and my family. Perhaps. And now...good-bye."
With her last word whispered she seemed to simply vanish, her favorite trick. In the darkened room it wasn't hard to seem to be gone. So she heard her mother's next words.
She bowed her head and said softly to the air, "You'll be alright on your own. You've always been a survivor. You're stronger than me. So much stronger." A single tear fell from her eye to the burgundy carpet below.
Angel retraced her route, picking up her bag on her way, and left the house, never to return.
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(A/N) No author's note this time. Just know it ain't the end.
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Reine Keri: ^__^ Yep! It's sequel time for Baku-chan and our resident egyptian Angel! *gasp* Did I just give something away!? O_O (checks sign-up sheet) Yep! Everything seems to be in order! Okay, Lieutenant Reine! Here's your team! Rarin' and ready to go! (54 Kangaroos in black helmets and carrying sniper rifles salute her enthusiastically)
Rei Akita: O__O You...DON'T...wanna save ANIME!?!?!? O__O [Bakura: O_O Breath, Nika-chan! Breath!! [Nika: Don't...call...me...'chan'! *faints*
Artemis MoonClaw: What fic are you reading..? O_o How about a comment I can understand? Sorry, luv. Thanks for reading and reviewing though!
Liviania: Oh, I don't know. I'm psychic? ^^ (her team of twelve schitzo puppies nip at her heels) Thanks for reviewing!
LoveLiesBleeding: ^__^ I loved your idea! Course...I love any idea when I'm both bored of a fic AND writer's blocked! (stabs Writer's Block Demon with her Holy Pen of Truth) Yep, I said sequel! There will be one! And what ideas I have in store for it... (evil gleam in her eye) I'll read your fic...eventually... I've just been sick...and bored...and my computer died for about a week and I wasn't able to write, connect to the internet or anything else. And of course I'll review with any ideas I can come up with!
Maylia Intusha: Ooohhh...tell Bakura I want some of that cling spray! I think I can modify it...okay, I'm gonna give it to one of my bishounen who happens to be a scientist to modify. Hehehe... Just think, Tsuzuki-cling spray...Jounouchi-cling spray...Malik-cling spray... $-$ I could make a fortune!! Here, Watari!! I've got a new project for you!! ^__^ (Black Winged Angels soar down and salute Malia. Moles tunnel up and salute Maytala.) Here's your team! Waiting for your orders! ^^ We'll make anime a protected species yet!
PCU: Oh yes! I love it! (two hundred cats form ranks before her and bow their heads) Your first mission will be to cut off the food suply to the White House! Now...it's not the idea of cutting off the food that's so funny...it's what you can do with it! (imagines Bush chewing frantically on his leather belt and bursts out laughing) Oh this is so good! (grabs keys to her new car) Jump in! Let's all go to Vegas to celebrate!! (holds up a shopping bag) I've got the peanut butter, hot wax and liquid latex! You bring Bakura and ten cans of whip cream! I'll turn my money into ones when we get there! ^^
lilhillbillie: Yep! I thought you'd like that title. (considers her proposal...turns lawyer) Well, how about I give you Seto, Miroku...(rethinks that) uh...forget Miroku. He'd cause a scene by groping the interns. How about...Seto, Kurama, Malik, Kuronue, and...Yukito from CardCaptor Sakura? Sounds like a pretty good, and bishy, group for Magical Infiltration! (shifty eyes) Yeah...I know he spends a lot of time in Texas. But I have relatives there who'd attack me... They're scary! O_o So we're gonna attack when we get word he's at the White House. Hey...*psst-psst!* Why don't you take charge of that? You can have Yukito go in undercover and report back to you, who'll report back to me, when he's sure will be the opertune time to attack. ^^
Silent Angel Dark Knight: yeah, my comp has that "review pop-up" problem too. Which explains why sometimes I don't review. *passes out from lack of sleep* (Bakura creeps up and puts a bra on her head, an open condom in her hand, and a bottle of booze nearby; snickers and creeps away)
Nika: Just wait til you see what's in store this chapter!
Pegasus: -_- Angst...
Yuugi: -_- You've got more angst don't you?
Nika: -_- How'd you know?
Alice: (is sitting on a half-naked Bakura) I told them! ^^ ... . Stop wiggling, Baku-chan! You're gonna get rope burns!
Bakura: ;-; Oh Ra help me! *whimper* (looks at audience) Y'know, you could help too!
Alice: (glares at audience)
Audience: (slowly backs away)
(Quick A/N: Don't worry! It's not the end! Unless I get even more bored of this fic... -__- But I've got some more in mind!
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Angel Eyes
Chapter Twenty One:
"A Mother's Love Withheld"
"Are you sure you'll be alright?" Seto asked for the millionth time.
Angel was curled up on the couch with a blanket draped over her body. She had the t.v. on and was watching a music channel. She rested her head on the couch arm and said languidly, "Yes. I'm fine. Just tired. Go on back to school and don't even think of skipping work on my account."
Seto looked unconvinced but after a moment studying her said, "Alright. Jou will be home right after school and so will Mokuba. You'll be alright until then?"
She just raised her hand, waved dismissively and grunted an affirmative. Seto shook his head and left the room.
*She's strong.* he thought to himself. *Stronger than most people. She can get through this. She can get through anything.*
Angel heard the door shut and groaned, rolling onto her back. She had hoped she could go back to school and everything would just be a nightmare, in the past. But it hadn't worked out that way. The one thing she had wanted since her birth was a normal life, normal friends. She had joked with Malik just a few weeks ago about how they would finish school like normal people. Then they would get normal jobs, have a normal wedding, get a normal house, have a nice, normal family together. But it wasn't to be. Malik had died and now she had no reason to stay in her 'normal' life. To the others she seemed the same girl they had known all along. But inside she was different. With the return of her memories and the rejoining of the two halves of her soul, she had changed.
For one thing, she didn't think of herself as either the ancient priestess Amunet nor as the modern girl with an attitude and possible mental problems, Pierce. Now she was just Angel. A strange combination of both. To the others she may have seemed a bit more balanced. Her problem with physical contact had completely disappeared and she hadn't smarted off to anyone in a while. But the real reason she had changed was that she knew things no seventeen year old girl should know. She had memories of a life most couldn't even imagine. And she had very vivid memories of her death. And then...there was darkness. Five thousand years of darkness before her rebirth. Her body may have been that of a seventeen year old girl. But her mind was that of an immortal woman.
She sighed to herself and sat up. *There's no reason to wait any longer.* she thought. *There's only one course left to me and I must follow it unflinchingly.*
Thowing back the blanket she stood up and headed upstairs to her bedroom. She felt her stomach roll once, but pushed back the wave of nausea. She went to her spacious closet and pulled out a large black duffel bag, then proceeded to fill it with a few changes of clothes and the necessities. After packing the bag she wrote two notes. One she addressed to Mokuba and left beside the front door for him to find when he came home. The other she left on her brother's pillow. Hopefully the first note would give her enough time to escape Seto's expansive reach. By the time Jounouchi came home and found the other she would be long gone.
Normally a teenage girl would have trouble reaching her particular destination alone. But she was no ordinary teenage girl. Slipping into the shadows she made her way as quick as lightening across the city. She had to make a few stops before she really left. Her first stop was her parent's house. Her father wasn't home, as she expected. But her mother was. She deserved to know at least.
She let herself into the house by way of the shadows under the front door. She left her bag by the door and went searching for her mother. She found her sitting on the sofa watching television with the lights off. Stepping up silently behind her she said softly, "Atsuko."
Her mother jumped in surprise and spun around. "Angelica!" she exclaimed relieved. "Don't scare me like that! How did you get in?"
Angel just shook her head. "It doesn't matter." she said and stepped forward to join her mother on the couch. She had a lot to say and if she didn't get it out now she didn't know if she'd ever be able to. So she began. "Atsuko, there's a lot I need to tell you and not much time. Please don't interrupt me until I've finished." At her mother's questioning silence she continued. "Some of the things I'm going to say are going to sound strange, but I know you'll believe me. I now know the reason you and father abandoned me as a baby. I know the reason you left me with grams. You were afraid of me. Some nights you would hear me crying in my crib and would come into check on me only to find me missing. But still you heard the crying. And when you turned on the light I would suddenly appear as if I had been there the whole time. Not only that, but strange things happened around me. Things would move on their own. Paintings would fly off the wall when I was upset. And every pet we had mysteriously died with their eyes ripped out. You called me a demon.
"It was then you met grams. We were in Egypt on vacation. I remember the night when you had me in the restaurant and she was there. I began crying and all the lights exploded. She approached you and asked if things like that happened a lot around me. And when you said yes she seemed to expect it. She told you that she had dreams of such a baby. That in those dreams she was given the baby to raise by an ancient goddess. She understood and explained to you that some children were born different. She said they were blessed with abilities by the gods. After that you became good friends with her and when it came time to leave Egypt and return home to Japan, you left me there with her. You signed over all rights to her and had her named my official grandmother. She said she could help, and she did."
Angel paused. It was evident her mother had something to say.
"How do you remember all that?" the woman asked in awe. "You weren't even a year old."
"It's because I was never really a baby." Angel explained. "Not in mind anyway. In mind, up until I was two, I was a full grown woman. Now let me continue.
"I don't fault you for what you did. You were frightened, and frightened people do desperate things. Now the time has come to tell you the truth about me. I am a five thousand year old spirit in the body of this human girl. Long ago I was called Amunet and I was a priestess of Egypt. Things happened, horrible things that led to my death. Because my soul was unable to find peace and love in that life it fled and was eventually reincarnated in the present. There are others like me. My brother, Seto Kaiba. My lover, Malik Ishtar and his sister, Isis. The pharaoh, my brother's lover, a servant in the palace. We were all reincarnated here to play out some game that went unfulfilled in that time long ago. Then there is the thief king, the boy who came here claiming to be my lover. He...was a part of the game. But now, I believe all our souls may be at peace. I found love, as brief as it was. Bakura, the pharaoh and I have put aside our differences. My brother and Jono are together again. Even the cursed pharaoh who could never know love in his previous life has someone with him.
"And now, I'm returning to Egypt. This isn't my home, nor has it ever been. I miss the desert. I miss the memories that land holds for me. Memories both of my past life and my present. Memories of my love that will never truly die. You don't have to worry about me. I may appear to be nothing but a young girl, but I can take care of myself. I have memories, experience, and I have powers. I will survive and I will be happy. As happy as possible. And I don't expect to ever return."
Silence fell over them as she finished her speech. Her mother stared at her with horrified eyes. When she finally spoke it was in a disgust. She continued to stare into her daughter's eyes and said, "Monster! You aren't my daughter!" She leapt backwards off the couch, nearly falling in her haste to get away. "Oh, I believe you!" she said in response to her daughter's look of shock and sadness. "As fantastic as your story is, your eyes tell me the truth. They're the eyes of a monster! A woman's eyes in a child's body! I was right, all those years ago! You ARE a demon! A plague on this family! What did I ever do to deserve YOU!?"
Angel hung her head in sadness. "I don't know." she whispered. "I had hoped you would truly understand. I thought you were a wiser woman than this, but I see I was wrong." She stood up off the couch and looked at her mother. "I love you, Atsuko. You're the only mother I've ever know, as little of you I knew. My mother, my first mother, the pharaoh's sister, died in childbirth with Seth. I never really got to know her, but I know she was a good and kind woman. Perhaps it will take another lifetime for my world to be truly complete. I don't think I'd mind being born again. Then I could be with my love, my friends and my family. Perhaps. And now...good-bye."
With her last word whispered she seemed to simply vanish, her favorite trick. In the darkened room it wasn't hard to seem to be gone. So she heard her mother's next words.
She bowed her head and said softly to the air, "You'll be alright on your own. You've always been a survivor. You're stronger than me. So much stronger." A single tear fell from her eye to the burgundy carpet below.
Angel retraced her route, picking up her bag on her way, and left the house, never to return.
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(A/N) No author's note this time. Just know it ain't the end.
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Reine Keri: ^__^ Yep! It's sequel time for Baku-chan and our resident egyptian Angel! *gasp* Did I just give something away!? O_O (checks sign-up sheet) Yep! Everything seems to be in order! Okay, Lieutenant Reine! Here's your team! Rarin' and ready to go! (54 Kangaroos in black helmets and carrying sniper rifles salute her enthusiastically)
Rei Akita: O__O You...DON'T...wanna save ANIME!?!?!? O__O [Bakura: O_O Breath, Nika-chan! Breath!! [Nika: Don't...call...me...'chan'! *faints*
Artemis MoonClaw: What fic are you reading..? O_o How about a comment I can understand? Sorry, luv. Thanks for reading and reviewing though!
Liviania: Oh, I don't know. I'm psychic? ^^ (her team of twelve schitzo puppies nip at her heels) Thanks for reviewing!
LoveLiesBleeding: ^__^ I loved your idea! Course...I love any idea when I'm both bored of a fic AND writer's blocked! (stabs Writer's Block Demon with her Holy Pen of Truth) Yep, I said sequel! There will be one! And what ideas I have in store for it... (evil gleam in her eye) I'll read your fic...eventually... I've just been sick...and bored...and my computer died for about a week and I wasn't able to write, connect to the internet or anything else. And of course I'll review with any ideas I can come up with!
Maylia Intusha: Ooohhh...tell Bakura I want some of that cling spray! I think I can modify it...okay, I'm gonna give it to one of my bishounen who happens to be a scientist to modify. Hehehe... Just think, Tsuzuki-cling spray...Jounouchi-cling spray...Malik-cling spray... $-$ I could make a fortune!! Here, Watari!! I've got a new project for you!! ^__^ (Black Winged Angels soar down and salute Malia. Moles tunnel up and salute Maytala.) Here's your team! Waiting for your orders! ^^ We'll make anime a protected species yet!
PCU: Oh yes! I love it! (two hundred cats form ranks before her and bow their heads) Your first mission will be to cut off the food suply to the White House! Now...it's not the idea of cutting off the food that's so funny...it's what you can do with it! (imagines Bush chewing frantically on his leather belt and bursts out laughing) Oh this is so good! (grabs keys to her new car) Jump in! Let's all go to Vegas to celebrate!! (holds up a shopping bag) I've got the peanut butter, hot wax and liquid latex! You bring Bakura and ten cans of whip cream! I'll turn my money into ones when we get there! ^^
lilhillbillie: Yep! I thought you'd like that title. (considers her proposal...turns lawyer) Well, how about I give you Seto, Miroku...(rethinks that) uh...forget Miroku. He'd cause a scene by groping the interns. How about...Seto, Kurama, Malik, Kuronue, and...Yukito from CardCaptor Sakura? Sounds like a pretty good, and bishy, group for Magical Infiltration! (shifty eyes) Yeah...I know he spends a lot of time in Texas. But I have relatives there who'd attack me... They're scary! O_o So we're gonna attack when we get word he's at the White House. Hey...*psst-psst!* Why don't you take charge of that? You can have Yukito go in undercover and report back to you, who'll report back to me, when he's sure will be the opertune time to attack. ^^
Silent Angel Dark Knight: yeah, my comp has that "review pop-up" problem too. Which explains why sometimes I don't review. *passes out from lack of sleep* (Bakura creeps up and puts a bra on her head, an open condom in her hand, and a bottle of booze nearby; snickers and creeps away)