Gomen nasai!!! Don't hurt me, I know I've been lazy! ::Uses Shinkou as a shield to dodge flying fruits.:: Meep! Really, I'll try to be better, though that's a shaky promise… But I got an idea on March 21st through school, where most of my ideas come together. Weird places, I always feel my muses around me at school, and when I'm sleeping….is that weird? So I talk to my "muses" better than myself! Oo;; Stop staring at me. And keep away that jacket! Nuuuu!
::Hides.::
Shinkou: My god…
Shut up! ::Throws shoe at the OC muse.:: Neh. Umm….this chapter is, ok, it's just kinda weird…
"We're not going to decide my life with jellybeans, Shawn." -Cory: Boy Meets World
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'Why do I bother trying to follow?' Yami thought as his crimson hued gaze filled around the area, losing sight of both Mariku and Shinkou with a tiresome sigh. 'All it earned me was getting lost….maybe I should just- iie! I need to find if what he said was true….' The slow track of his mind came to a pause and he lowered his head to look at the grassy below, eyes widening severely.
"How did I-?!" Yami stopped his voice short, logging through his mind that he was no longer running through the streets, but in a whole different forest. "This makes no sense! How did I get here?! Dammit, HOW?!"
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Mariku knew he was alone.
Sure Shinkou had followed him out the house, but it didn't take a genius to know that the other Egyptian had chosen a different direction to flow. And Mariku had a keen idea of where Shinkou had gone, hopefully no one would be dead, yet anyway. Ryou probably would not be happy to find the brunette strangling the life from Bakura.
The yami gave a long sigh, hand combing through his hair softly as he stalked home. No one realized how stressful his mind was… He cared for Yami more than anyone could in Egypt, that anyone even bothered too…. And now….he was suffering again.
He had been fine! Perfectly fine and able to seclude his feelings behind cold and dark emotions, but when he heard of Yami's nightmares…
His feelings returned. Stalked him down and busted out of the bubble that stored them. What was he supposed to do?! Yami's in pain and Mariku was afraid of what he could slip against the other, the control would be nearly impossible.
"He's going to get hurt…demo…" His eyes dropped shut as his head lowered, body shuddering lightly in thought. "….I don't want to hurt him either…"
Mariku growled in anger to himself, finally stepping into the apartment he shared with his hikari, and speaking of the lighter half…
Malik was in NO good mood when he finally broke the binding that held him from the world, separating from his yami and glaring with rage. "What was that for?! How long have you locked me in there for- yes, sorry, my mistake, I don't have any sense of TIME in my soul room you realize!"
"Not now, Malik…" Mariku gave a scoff, waving a hand up to signal how he didn't wish to be bothered, but that didn't exactly stop the hikari like it used to.
"Doushite!? Why did you have to block out all my senses to the outside world as well?!"
"Aibou…" The tone was becoming more fierce as a headache was awakening from his forehead to the back, a free hand rubbing at the dark skin of a temple.
"Y-!"
"What are you two bickering over ?" Mariku raised his head without a clue as his eyes met his lighter half's sister.
"Isis…?"
"How good of you to remember my name, Mariku." She gave a soft smile, watching confusion dip over the yami's features. "I'll be staying with you both for a few weeks, until another museum calls for my assistance. My brother here has already approved, are you alright with it?"
Mariku stared at her calmly, eyes clung to hers until they caught sight of the Sennen Tauk that rested around her neck. "It is fine with me…..but may I talk to you, alone, for a moment?" She gave a nod and he glanced to his hikari, darkly at that. "Malik, if you mind…"
"Hn. Fine, I'll leave, better than being LOCKED in my soul room," Malik jeered, turning and moving out the door, slamming it shut behind.
"What is it that you need?"
"Have you had any….visions lately….?" He watched her eyes move to look at a wall, body shifting a bit uneasily.
"Well…"
"Isis…" he growled, stalking towards her slightly.
Her eyes snapped up at him and her posture held stiff. "It's nothing that will matter to you anyway!"
Mariku froze. "Is anything supposed to happen to Yami…?"
"How did you-"
"Isis! I need to know!" Now the spirit was frantic, lunging forward enough to grasp the girl's shoulders, staring straight into her eyes. "I have to know what's supposed to happen to him."
"He's….in danger…."
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Hushed winds blew around where the former pharaoh stood, crimson eyes gazing around through the brink of his insanity. He still had no idea how he got…in a forest, away from where he was period!
"What's going on…?" Yami whispered out into the air around him, hearing it echo on into the forest. His mouth opened a second time, as if ready to talk, but a rustle of something near startled him to turn around. A silvery cat stared up at him, as he stood in its path. "….." The feline mewed softly, though Yami failed to notice the glimmer of burning red eyes when it scattered away quickly.
Yami turned in the direction, but the animal was gone and he fell back a step. "What…? My head….it hurts…" He gave a light groan, a slender hand laying atop his forehead as he drooped down towards a tree, his free hand running over the would and grasping hold to it. "Doushite…" Why..? What's happening to me…? Why is the world….not the color it should be….? The spirit's eyes narrowed in a way of refocusing, absolutely believing he saw the cat sitting before him again, and then realizing it was indeed there. Hissing at him, about to attack until he collapsed forward, causing a cry and surprise from the subtle being and it dashed off.
A cold sweat lay atop the feverish male, his hands digging into the dirt before he felt his mind spin away.
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"Is he ok?"
"When is he EVER ok?" Mariku growled lightly, throwing a glare at Shinkou. He passed the other, moving towards the door as he tossed a robe around his form. "I'll be back. Stay and keep Yami safe, if you don't you know I have full ability to harm you."
"Hai, he'll be fine."
Mariku gave a confirmed nod before leaving his "home" entering the streets with a face shadowed from his robe's hood. Food. The three were in severe need of it…and more bandages for that matter. But getting it was a simple task, being an expert thief it would be a piece of cake.
He swiftly moved into the market, ducking from a palace guard and moving towards a side cart, standing near it and watching russet eyes look up at him, a smirk plastered on the pale face as a cat lay curled on the table. "Unusual animal. Not often you see something of such a color. Matches your silver hair too."
"You think I didn't realize that?"
"Is it for sale?"
"Hardly."
The Egyptian cringed lightly at the rough voice, checking over the rare contents on display before snorting. "Then this spot is useless."
"Really now?" The other rose a brow, though it disappeared in the long, silvery locks of hair. Mariku grinned and rose his foot, knocking over the cart and sending the cat with a screech off its surface, scarlet eyes seething at him before hiding with a rigid hiss behind his master. The incident caused a light uproar, causing a few others to leave their carts to help the crash. Just what was needed.
"Really," Mariku chuckled a bit, disappearing in the crowd with the pale other raging curses at him, finding two carts that the owners had left to help, getting a flask, bandages and of course, various food to stuff in the robe's large pockets. "That was easy…"
Dark orbs made sure he was safe before swerving through the nation's people, escaping back into his home to where Shinkou sat at the small table.
"That was quick."
"What did you expect?" Mariku chuckled, removing the robe and emptying the contents in the pockets over the wooden surface. "Is he still asleep?"
"Yeah."
Mariku gave a nod, taking a roll of the bandages and moving towards the room he had left Yami in, looking over the other calmly. 'He's so innocent…' Mariku sighed and pulled over a chair, placing the roll on a table besides and sitting within the chair tiredly.
The other seemed to stir lightly, as if sensing his presence, but did nothing to oppose it. His trimmed form rolled over, lids still closed over his eyes while he faced towards Mariku. The thief couldn't help but lightly smile, reaching a hand out to brush away a wisp of Yami's blonde hair. He leant in, getting a look at the sleeping other's facial features. So soft, so smooth, and yet always abused with tears and blood when he staggers here, or is found by himself or Shinkou. "Someone so virtuous as you shouldn't be so scathed…" Mariku bit his tongue to keep from speaking, trailing a finger by a hair's breadth over the other's lips. "So delicate…" The Egyptian bent down as if he were to kiss the other, but than snapped from his trance towards the other and began to pull away, much to his mind's disappointment.
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Yami's hand reached out in his sleep, eyes still closed as if he were still in the memory, but it was never expected that he would come to grasp cloth. He pulled what seemed to be trying to wake him close, using his free and still shaky hand to find the form's hair, face, lips…
The hand was replaced by his own lips, pushed up against the startled figure.
The other form seemed to try and pull back, as if frightened by what was happening, but Yami held close before realizing this was real and he was no longer dreaming a memory. His eyes opened to stare at the one he beheld, only to see Mariku, sweating lightly in panic. Yami jumped back a bit, but collapsed to his back as he gaped to the other. He….I….. "G-Gomen n-nasai, Mariku!"
Mariku eyed the other, a light pant in his voice as he had felt something in that cherished gesture, staring shocked at Yami before shaking his head and standing. It was nothing. It couldn't have been anything. The yami sighed as he let the thought through before waving a hand up towards the opposing spirit. "Don't worry about it. You were unconscious and Isis said that you were in danger so I came to find you…"
So I must be near his place… Yami rose his crimson gaze towards the other softly. "Can I go back to your place…? I…really don't want to return to the game shop right now…"
"I understand," Mariku hid his blush as he pulled the other up off the ground, "yeah, you can come back to my place."
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"Shinkou! I - why are you here?" Ryou opened the door, blinking at the other and stepping aside to allow him in, closing the door behind.
"I came to see your yami."
"Uh, really….um…ok…"
{Yami?}
[Yeah I heard…] There was a short glow from Ryou's ring before Bakura split from Ryou, and by Shinkou's glare to the spirit, Ryou escaped upstairs. In no way did he want to witness this.
"Why is Yami trying to stay away from me?! What did I do?!" Were his first words and Shinkou circled him a moment, before stopping and staring off into the kitchen, brows furrowed.
"Did Ryou get a cat?"
"What? No… What does that have to do with anything?!"
"Never mind, I thought I heard something." And saw something, on the same matter…
"Arg… Shinkou, I need an answer!"
"You can't have one," the Egyptian shot his gaze to the spirit who was taken aback by the responds before the brunette leant against a wall. "I, nor Mariku, will allow you anywhere near Yami. So don't bother trying unless you want pain, I'm not letting you hurt my cousin. I understand that you cannot figure what is going on, and it would be too stressful if I don't. It's better that way, until things get sorted out. Do I make myself clear?" Shinkou hissed his last words, eyes narrowing on an apprehensive spirit, watching him nod in acknowledgment.
"Hai…I understand…"
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'That was weird..' Yami stared up at the ceiling from where he lay on the couch within the apartment of the three Ishtars. He could hear Malik bickering off with his dark half in some other room, and Isis was currently standing near him. He sighed and closed his eyes. It doesn't make sense. Every memory I've had so far, has me in it the whole time…. I was asleep this time….so it really wasn't my memory. So… how did I envision it? His eyes opened again and he sat up, meeting Isis's gaze for a moment before returning it to the wall.
"Are you alright?"
"Not really."
"Can I assist you?"
"Not really."
The female sighed and sat down in a chair, staring over at Yami, obviously getting the hint that he was in no move to talk.
And that cat…. I swear I saw the same thing in the memory AND in the forest… No, that's just absurd. Yami gave a chuckle to himself as Mariku walked into the living room, cringing with an added 'eep' as a pillow roughly bounced off his head. "MALIK!!" The yami growled as the door slammed behind him, shaking his head as he stopped his walking to look at his hikari's sister and Yami.
"What was that about?"
"Your brother needs a new attitude," Mariku growled before he heard Yami asking Isis to leave.
Both pairs of eyes watched the girl leave, saying that she'd go take a walk before exiting the apartment. Yami sensed the other fidget a bit, even with his back turned, it was easily noticed. The former Pharaoh sighed and stared down at the floor before finally voicing out, the crimson gaze to the other's back. "Mariku, do you….have feelings for me?"
The spirit seemed to almost fall forward, turning to face Yami while trying to maintain his posture, but the wide eyes couldn't lie, and neither could the voice. "W-what…did you just say….?"
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Malik grumbled over his yami and sat on his bed, hearing a rustle and watching a small cat walk across the room and rub against his legs. "Where'd you come from?" Malik rubbed a hand over the narrow spot between the duo silvery ears, red eyes blinking up at the hikari. "You're kind of cute…" The boy whispered, watching the cat swiftly jump up besides him, purring loudly while its head pushed against Malik's arm. He gave a smile, lifting the cat into his lap and ignoring the claws touch against his clothing. "You're good at lightening moods…"
The hikari laid out on his back, the cat moving onto the bed and padding over by the boy's head, tail swiftly moving side to side as its eyes glinted towards the door.
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Don't give me those weird looks! Shorter chappy than normal, but at least it's up! Let's see….oh! Right! This chapter was dedicated to Tidus, considering he gave me a push into writing and an idea, though by the time I got to typing, there wasn't much of the prompt left oO;;
And the cat. Yes, the cat is weird. Yes it is silver and has red eyes. And yes, this isn't the last time you'll see the little kitty. There was only one cat in this chapter, well, only one cat in the story. Last thing, one the cat: he (it is male if you didn't catch that) is a main character XD
I said stop with the stares! Meh….I have to go work on various things before people hurt me….
