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Chapter 9 – Expect The Unexpected
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Warning: Some Ryou/Bakura, Seto/Jou, Malik/Marik, and
Honda/Otogi(only very slight hints) in this chapter.
Ah! And for this chapter I accidentally tripped over the plot that was
laying down on the ground in my soul room(you know how messy they can get)! And
then… This chapter happened! ^.^
It's a little longer than all the other chapters! But hopefully this chapter
makes up for all the times that it took me so long to update!!
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Yugi and Ryou arrived back into the
living room with the drinks just as there was another knock on the door. Yugi
handed Anzu her water, and set Jou's coke down on the coffee table, before
running over to the door. He opened it, and Malik and Marik ran inside. Mai
came in right after them.
"Hey, people!" Malik exclaimed
happily, and Marik sat down on the last open chair, with a smirk. Malik pounced
on him until he was sitting happily on Marik's lap. Everyone laughed quietly.
Mai waved to them all, and stood over between Shizuka and Anzu.
"Hey, Malik, Marik, Mai, do any of you
want some drinks?" Yugi looked over at them, and they all shook their heads.
Malik grabbed a chip from the table before Jou grabbed the whole bowl
possessively.
"So what do you guys want to do?" Yugi
asked with a laugh as he sat down beside Yami. Everyone shrugged.
"I can't stay long," Anzu said
suddenly. Shizuka nodded, too.
"Yeah, we're really busy today!"
Shizuka said happily with a smile on her face. Mai nodded along with them.
"Oh really… With what…?" Jou asked her
suspiciously.
"None of your business!" Shizuka said
with a smirk on her face. "It's a girl thing. And besides, you hate
shopping, Jounouchi." Jou made a face before turning his concentration back to
the food.
"Whatever." He muttered, and stuffed a
few more chips into his mouth.
"Oh, alright." Yugi nodded, a little
disappointed that his friends couldn't all stay over quite as long as he would
have liked.
"We'd better be off. I'm sorry we
couldn't stay longer, Yugi!" Shizuka said politely, and she, Mai, and Anzu all
left them.
"Bye!" Yugi waved them off, and the
door closed behind them with a soft 'thud.' He sighed, and went back to join
his friends in their conversation.
"Really? So when did you two
become a couple?" Jou asked, raising his eyebrows as he looked over at Ryou
curiosly.
Ryou's cheeks became tinged with a
light pink, and he didn't answer. Bakura glared at Jounouchi, and folded his
arms against his chest.
"Who said anything about a couple?"
Growled Bakura.
"Um, well, I mean – I figured that
because you were being so protective of him that…" He trailed off at the
distant looks on both Bakura and Ryou's faces. They were obviously talking
through their mind link. A few minutes later, Ryou blinked, and looked back at
Jounouchi.
"Well.. I guess we couldn't keep it a
secret forever… But please don't tell anyone else, you guys? Please?" He
pleaded with everyone, frowning sadly.
"So how did that happen, Ryou? We're
all curious, I'm sure!" Otogi said with a smile on his face. Everyone nodded.
"Um… Bakura?" Ryou turned around,
looking at Bakura with pleading eyes. Bakura closed his eyes, keeping his arms cross,
giving Ryou a look that said 'you got yourself into this, get yourself out.'
"Well?" Kaiba said, unexpectedly, his
cold blue eyes almost piercing when Ryou looked into them. Ryou sighed.
"It was all quite unexpected, really…
But Bakura was kind of angry, and he wouldn't go to bed last night. He kept me
up nearly half the night with his banging his head against the walls and
throwing stuff out the windows and such… Anyway, I finally got out of bed, and
went down to see what he was up to. And I had a talk with him-"
"You yelled at me." Bakura mumbled,
cutting Ryou off. "Continue, if you wish." Ryou sighed and shook his head.
"Alright. I was yelling at him, and we
sort of came to an understanding with each other. And I do thank my clumsiness,
because on the way back upstairs, I tripped on the stair in the middle of the
staircase, and Bakura caught me." Ryou blushed. "And… well, one thing led to
another…" He trailed off, and smiled softly.
"That's great for both of you." Honda
said truthfully, a smile on his face. He grabbed a chip from the bowl of chips
on Jou's laugh, earning him a frown from his friend.
"Hey, what do you guys want to do?"
Yugi finally asked.
"Watch a movie?" Suggested Ryou, a
smile still on his face. He looked pleased with himself.
"Sounds good to me." Honda said
quietly, and there was a murmur of agreement.
"Alright!" Yugi smiled happily, and
ran over to the television. He picked up a box, and opened it carefully. "Okay,
I have a bunch of dvds, and a few video tapes." He paused to look at them all.
"There's 'Pirates of The Caribbean,' 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,'
'The Two Towers,' 'Spaceballs' 'Back To The Future,' 'Fellowship of the Ring,'
'Star Wars'… and I even have Family Guy Season 1 and 2 on dvd." Yugi looked
back up at his friends, who were deciding.
"I like all those. Except the Harry
Potter one. I've seen it too many times, I don't want to ruin it for myself."
Ryou smiled.
"Yeah, not Harry Potter. Not now,
anyway." Jou agreed with him. "I like Spaceballs and Family Guy, those are both
hilarious!"
"Two Towers, all that violence, so
wonderful, so hilarious!" Bakura exclaimed, his arm around his hikari's neck.
"'Kura!" Ryou frowned as he leaned
back onto Bakura's shoulder.
"What? Am I not allowed to think
violence is hilarious?" He asked quietly so that only a few around him heard.
"I agree with Bakura." Marik smirked.
Malik nodded.
"I'd rather see the first one,
myself." Honda said as he wrapped his left arm around Otogi's shoulders.
"The Two Towers!" Otogi said with a
grin on his face.
"Alright, but only because so many of
you want to see it!" Yugi exclaimed with a smile on his face.
He turned on the dvd player and the
television, and put the dvd in the dvd player. He grabbed the remote control,
and went back onto the couch, where he sat down on Yami's lap, grinning. Yugi
pressed play, and everyone snuggled up to each other. Yami wrapped his arms
around Yugi, Bakura had his arms around Ryou's waist, Kaiba had Jou's hand in
his own, Marik and Malik were kissing each other while they cuddled, and Otogi
snuggled up to Honda a little after he shivered.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~In The Darkness
Of The World~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Steth hurried down the street, trying
very hard to keep his body out of the light. Luckily, his cloak covered him
enough to keep the sun away. He ran hurriedly up a driveway, and banged on the
door of a small house.
The door swung open, and a black
haired woman gestured for him to go in quickly. He did so, and sighed when he
was finally able to remove the hood off his head.
"He did not listen?" The woman asked
as she sat down on the couch. Steth sat down opposite of her, and shook his
head.
"No, Isis, and I warned him. I really
tried." He sighed.
"Then you must do this behind his
back. You must." Isis stared at him with wide eyes.
"I understand." Steth looked down at
the ground.
"Good. Because as much as I hate
making you do this, if you do not, there will be severe consequences! And the
destruction of your world and ours will only be the beginning. The entire
universe depends on you, now." She was clenching her hands into tiny fists as
she spoke.
"Yes, but not only me. Also those boys
and their darker halves. It all depends on their decisions." Steth said
truthfully, sighing to himself.
"Yes. But it's up to you to do this
now. Although it will be harder now, there are evil spirits lurking about, I
can feel the evil presence growing stronger and stronger. One of them heard you
and your father talking." Isis frowned.
"But I made sure that none were
around!" Steth sighed in defeat.
"I know you did. It could not have
been helped, even by me. And now Shadi has gotten involved. He will meet you in
less than a few hours near the gateway that separates our two worlds." Isis
stood up, a sad frown on her face.
"Alright. Is something else the
matter?" Steth asked carefully.
"No. Now off you go. Don't worry, no
evil spirits can find their way into this house." She reassure him, and led him
to the door. "Farewell, Steth."
Steth bowed to her, and left as
quickly as he had come, leaving Isis standing with her back to the door.
"You have to go through with it,
Steth… You have to… Because if you don't…" Isis couldn't control herself
any longer. She sobbed uncontrollably into her arms. "Oh, Malik… Marik…" She
whispered between each sob, tears streaming down her face.
********************Back at Yugi's and Yami's house**********************
"That was pretty good…" The movie
ended, and Yugi stretched his arms, laughing at Jounouchi, who had not expected
to like it so much.
"Yeah, I liked it." Ryou yawned, and
leaned onto his Yami's shoulder.
"Oh, man, what time is it?" Otogi
asked suddenly.
"Um.. It's already 7 o'clock! Whoa!"
Yugi exclaimed as he checked the clock on the wall.
"Oh, crap! I have to go!" Otogi jumped
up to his feet, dragging Honda along with him. "I promised my parents that
Honda and I would go visit them for supper today!" They waved goodbye, and left
before anyone could say anything.
"Oh, man… Didn't we tell Mokuba we'd
be back at 6:45?" Jou looked at Kaiba, who's eyes grew wide, and he ran over to
the door. "Aw, man… See ya, Yug'! We'll see you later on!" Jou waved goodbye,
and ran out the door, to catch up with Kaiba.
"Aw, everyone's leaving…" Yugi's face
fell.
"I don't have to be anywhere for a
while. Isis even told us to stay here as late as possible! It was really
weird…" Malik scratched the side of his head.
"Oh, hey, you guys want to sleep
over?" Yugi asked brightly, a smile growing on his face.
"Yeah! Sure! But only if it doesn't
bother you, Yugi." Ryou said cheerfully, nearly half asleep on his Yami's
shoulder.
"It doesn't bother me at all!" Yugi
exclaimed, and turned to Malik, who nodded.
"Of course we'll stay… Well, now we
have to. You know, to keep the peace around here." Everyone burst out laughing
at what Malik said, even Malik himself, and they raced each other up the stairs
and into Yugi's room to get spare clothes.
"Where will be sleeping?" Ryou turned
suddenly to Ryou, turning his back to Bakura.
"Hmm… Good point. If you wanted, we
could all sleep in here, or in separate rooms if there's any problem with
sleeping in here." Yugi smiled, and opened his drawers and his closet, and
pulled a bunch of pajamas, shirts, and shorts for his friends.
"Alright. I don't mind if we sleep in
here." He replied softly, looking around at the ground around them. "There
should be enough room for all of us here."
"Okay, so, you can pick out of
anything here." Yugi dropped the huge pile of clothes onto his bed, and went
back to standing beside his Yami.
Ryou grabbed a pair of white pajamas
with a pattern of chibi duel monsters on them, and Bakura, rather reluctantly,
grabbed an oversized black shirt, and a pair of black shorts. He frowned as he
looked them over. Malik shook his head, and picked up an old and oversized gold
sleeveless shirt, and a pair of small black shorts. Marik took the last clothes
left on the bed, a black satin pajama top, and matching pajama bottoms. He
shrugged, and went back to Malik.
"What do you guys wanna do now?" Yugi
asked a little shyly, trying to keep the silence between them at a minimum.
All of a sudden then was an explosion
so large that they were all sent flying backwards as shards of glass and pieces
of the wall came flying towards them. The sound was deafening, and Yugi swore
that he almost heard people shouting during the explosion.
After a few minutes, the dust started
to clear a little, and Yugi sat up slowly, holding the side of his head. He
felt as though his head was on fire.
"Yugi!" Yami recovered from the shock
of the explosion, and rushed over to his hikari, a worried expression on is
face. He had been lucky, he had ducked behind the dresser as he had sensed the
danger nearby. "Aibou? Are you alright?" He pulled his Aibou onto his lap, and
examined the side of Yugi's head. There was a large piece of glass sticking
into his skin. Yugi winced as Yami tried his best to dislodge it.
Bakura opened his eyes, and sat up,
picking up pieces of rubble off of his legs and chest. He looked around, and
noticed something clinging to his waist, and it sure wasn't a piece of rubble.
He shook Ryou's shoulders, and pulled him up, removing his light's arms from
his waist.
"Ryou?" He whispered into his ears, a
bit of worry in his voice. Ryou stirred slightly at the sound of Bakura's
voice, and a few moments later, opened his eyes. "You okay?"
Ryou nodded slowly, wincing as Bakura
ran his arm down his back. Then he shook his head.
A few feet away, Malik and Marik were
sitting up. Marik grabbed Malik's shoulder, and pulled him closer to him.
"Alright, Malik?" Malik nodded his
head, and looked around with wide eyes.
"What's going on?" Bakura demanded,
and stared straight at the back of Yami's head. Yugi looked at him, and frowned
sadly. He was just as clueless as the rest of them.
Ryou pulled himself into a sitting
position, and stared towards the wall, where the cloud of smoke was dissipating.
His jaw dropped, and his eyes widened in horror when he and all the others
noticed a shadow moving towards them, the identity of the shadow hidden by the
smoke still in the air.
"Stop!" They all heard a voice from
somewhere far away, and a lighter shadow appeared, further away from them. "You
can't do this!"
"Master grew impatient. The job was
not completed in the amount of time he specified. And now your father will
surely die." A squeaky voice replied to the first voice, with a giggle. "Don't
worry, he will find out about your conspiring with the humans. I was listening,
little one. I'm always listening. You shouldn't hold a mutiny and speak about
it in the castle. You are such a fool."
"You heard us? My father and I? Then
you understand that your 'Master' isn't as trustworthy as he seemed at
first. He betrays even those who are loyal to him!" The first voice shouted
back, fury in his voice.
"You were deceived by lies. Lies your
father probably told you when you were but a child. I've been here far longer
than you, Steth. And you are a fool to believe those lies. Too bad, if
you weren't so gullible, you might have made a fine slave for the Master." The
second voice burst into a fit of laughter.
The six boys stayed seated on the ground,
in complete shock, and tried to figure out just what exactly was going on.
"I will never be under his service,
Tsuki, and you should understand that by now." He growled.
"Whatever. Away with you. I'm on a
mission, stop annoying me." The nasty girl's voice snapped back.
"No. I can't let you harm them. Not
now, not ever, Tsuki." The lighter shadow moved closer so quickly, and emerged
from the cloud of smoke. He was a tall man with blond hair, and a good figure.
He looked down at the six of them. All of whom were speechless.
"Are you all okay?" He asked, and they
all nodded. "Good. Don't you dare move, then. Stay there."
He turned his back to them, and the
second shadow emerged. She was short compared with the man, she came up only to
his shoulders. She had dark black chin length hair, black and emotionless eyes,
and was wearing a long black body suit. The arms and legs were practically
transparent, with a pattern of black cobwebs and clouds on it. On the chest
part of her clothing was a blood red symbol. She glared at the man standing in
front of them.
"Fine then. I guess I'll have to
destroy you first." She smirked, and held her arms up into the air. A
ball of light started to form in between her hands, and she laughed
hysterically. As she was about to let it go, she froze suddenly, the light in
her hands dissolved into thin air, and she fell forwards. The man looked down,
and they all saw a small dart, in the shape of a fly, sticking out of in her
back.
"Drake!" The man exclaimed as a short
man jumped forward, a smirk on his face.
"I never liked her much. Don't worry,
no more of her kind will come any time soon. I heard that she was to report
back in one day. So we've got a day to figure this all out. Kay?" Drake said
with a slight eastern accent.
"Good. Thank you, Drake." The man
smiled, and clapped Drake on his shoulders.
"So… Steth, don't tell me that we have
to make sure they don't die?" He gestured over to Yami, Yugi, Malik,
Marik, Ryou and Bakura.
"Yep. Them. We should probably get
them to safer place than this…" He turned to face them. "Where would you most
likely not be at this moment?"
They all exchanged glances, and
sighed. It was their last hope after all… And if it meant keeping their lives,
they'd have to go there.
A half an hour later, they found
themselves staring up at the Kaiba mansion. The man, Steth, smiled warmly, and
urged them to knock on the door. Yugi sighed, and took a deep breath before
holding up his hand, and knocking hard on the huge white front door of the
Kaiba mansion.
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Sorry, this chapter was kind of odd and incomplete… But I kept getting reviews
while I was writing, and they made me SO SO SO SO SO SO VERY happy!!! And then
I decided to make it longer, considering I almost stopped the story after the
scene with Isis Ishtar and Steth! ^___________________^
*jumps up and down on a big huge bed while eating little heart candies*
Aw! I need to share these, there are too many!
*gives every single reviewer a big bag of candies*
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*squeals with excitement and happiness* : )
Thank you for forgiving me! I didn't mean to not answer to your reviews, but I
was so busy with my exam! It turns out I only got an 80 on that exam,
and an 80 in the class O_O I would've liked a higher mark, but, well… ^___^
I'll stick with the 80 for now!
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***************(I think I may have replied to some of these already, but we'll
see ^_^)
Dagger5: I know! Me too! And Yami and Yugi are always cute together, so
no matter what they do, as long as it's them together, it's always kawaii! ^_^
Yeah, Yami going Christmas shopping would be hilarious! ^.^ I hope you had fun
shopping!
Mimiheart: ^_^ Thanks! Yeah, I was in the Christmas mood. I just
couldn't help myself. Yeah, I didn't have the heart to kill off such a kind and
loved character! Yep, bouncy, that's for sure! I think he got into the sugar!
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^.^ That's a fun word to use, especially when you're in a giddy mood. I use it
when I'm hyper, I say "Splendid, splendid, splendid!" A million times over as
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hyserically* I know! The idea for that popped into my mind while I was staring
blankly at the computer screen.. Then I burst out laughing, and everyone looked
at my suspiciously, but I couldn't keep from laughing!
^_^ I hope you had a happy holiday time, too! ^.^ Thankies for reviewing!
-_-' I know, we do it too often, don't we? Uh oh… *hides* This chapter was a
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depressing! But I did well on mine, and I'm happy and relieved about that!
Yeah! Poor Ryou… But he'll get better, you'll see! I'm so cruel, for torturing
them all almost every single chapter! O_O Heh, heh! Yeah, Bakura is such a
pyro! He's kool, too, though! ^_^ And Yay! I hope you had a merry Christmas,
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know, and they're so cute together! Well, you'll soon find out who the 'Master'
is! Hopefully the next chapter will reveal him! If not the next chapter, maybe
the one after that. But it'll come soon, I promise! ^__^ Thank you! Well, I
tried my best for the lemon, but it just wasn't as great as all the other ones
I've read! But thank you! ^.^ -^__^-
*blushes* Thanks! ^-^ And I feel way better now, thank you. And I'm not really
sure about my friend anymore, she hasn't been around in a long time… Aw! Well,
I'm glad that he won't really do it! ^_^ Well, here's another chapter! And I'm
sorry for not replying to your review any sooner! ^.^ Thanks for reviewing,
though, I LOVE REVIEWS! XD
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the long wait again! I'm trying not to take so much time for writing them, but
it's just that I started a full semester in school, with hardly any spares at
all! But I'm trying to write a bit each night so that I can post up the chapter
as soon as possible. Hopefully the next chapter will be up in at least four
days or so! Yeah, I hate waking up… So tiring! I'm so tired now, too… My first
full week of school since January 22nd! ^.^ Anyway, I hope you
enjoyed this chapter! Thanks for the review!!!!!!! ^________^
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There'll be even more of them in the next chapter! ^-^ Thanks for
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something in there that was cute! And well… Yeah, but still! Leather pants, heh
heh! Yeah, I love them all as couples, I just had to make them into couples for
this story! ^_^ I hope you don't hate me for taking so long to update.. -_-'
;_; But I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Thanks so much for reviewing!
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shouldn't have barged in like that
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Anyway, next chapter will hopefully be coming really soon… I'd better start on
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