Author- Next chappy, now R&R...uh...after you read would be good. ^^;
Meaningless note- So far in the last week, I've had TONS of inspiration and have thought of TONS of plot twists and cliffhangers. I have the whole ending planned out, and I can tell you all that there is NO WAY that you'll know how this thing ends! :) But enough of the end, on to the...beginning. -.-; I've got lots of work to do...
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The Pharaoh and I had quite an adventure yesterday. Both our hikari aibous [1] had left their own bodies and were currently somewhere in the Shadow Realm. I didn't know if they were even still alive or not, and frankly, that didn't exactly put me in a good mood. Ryou-chan and I might not always get along, but I still cared about what happened to him. As in I didn't want him dead before I could kill him myself. The Pharaoh was feeling about the same way about his hikari, and I could tell, because he hadn't said one cocky, big-headed thing to me the entire time since we had the removal of our hosts.
It was good to have my own body at last, I could do anything I wanted now. I didn't have to consult my light, or have to worry about him finding something out that I didn't want him to. I could eat what I wanted, spite the Pharaoh, go wherever I wanted, anything! But there were three catches. The Pharaoh had pointed out a few good points last night, all of which were very infuriating. First of all, he said that we would need to go to that damn mortal school of Ryou and Yugi's to keep a low profile and not get our aibou's expelled. Second, he said we shouldn't do anything out of character in case people got suspicious. That one was the one that really ticked me off. I was practically the opposite of my hikari! I COULD act like him alright, I had done it many times before in Battle City and Duelist Kingdom, but the whole fun of having my own body was the availability to be MYSELF. I didn't like being a wuss!
That third catch was also frustrating. Once Yami had gone home, I was all alone in that big house of Ryou's. It was unbearably boring. I didn't have anyone to taunt, or to yell at, or to play Duel Monsters against, hell, I would do for someone to TALK to! And I didn't like to talk very much, so I hope that tells you that I was REALLY bored out of my mind. I didn't know how to work anything in the house, and I found out very quickly that I couldn't go through doors or walls anymore. It was also agitating that I was the one who had to feel all the pain that occurred. Usually, I just let my hikari take the damage or something, he doesn't dare object to it either. But without a Ryou, there was no one to take the pain that I felt when I got a paper cut on those stupid magazines mortals have when I was looking through it. I ripped up that magazine when it cut me, and without something to look at, I was once again, bored.
I was already sick of being mortal again and I hadn't even experienced one day of it! Being very angry at everything in the house at the moment, I decided to just go to sleep so I didn't have to stand being bored any longer. Sleep wasn't as easy as Ryou made it look. It took me forever to get tired and fall asleep, and it seemed as soon as I did, everything got light again. I searched Ryou's memory and found the word, 'sun'.
"Damn sun." I grumbled, pulling the covers over my head, trying to block out the light that washed the room.
I thought I had won over the sun, even though it was hot and stuffy under the covers on the bed, and I was content with my victory. Thinking I could finally get to sleep, I shut my eyes and rolled over. Then, there was a loud, hard, knocking coming from my front door. I let out a yell to help get rid of my anger.
"WHO EVER IS AT THE DOOR IS GOING TO PAY FOR THIS!" I shouted.
Another hard knock that went on longer then the first, then that accursed door bell dinged repeatedly in some order that appeared to be a song. Oh yes, they were going to pay dearly. I struggled out of the covers on the bed that were wrapped tightly around me because of all the tossing and turning I had done during the night. Growling, I sat up, and took a step forward only to trip on the covers still wrapped around my feet and fall flat on my face.
I grumbled louder and ripped the sheets off of my legs, still laying on the floor. I could only thank the gods that the Pharaoh and the Scribe weren't there to see me fall like that. Another knock, this one from my window. My heart almost stopped when I looked to see none other then the Pharaoh and the Scribe, standing right there, looking in at me with smirks on their faces.
The gods are plotting against me! I wanted to rip their heads off, but was in too much shock to get up and yell at them. The Scribe grinned sheepishly and waved somewhat nervously at me, which influenced me to jump to my feet at last and slam on the window with my hand to scare them away.
They didn't seem to notice or care, which pissed me off. The Scribe laughed and whispered something to the Pharaoh, pointing at me. Confused, I looked to see what was wrong. My face turned blood red as I finally realized I was only in my bright blue boxers. I shouted various Egyptian curses at them, mostly Cami, but both of them instead burst into hysterics. I was now red with embarrassment and anger, mostly anger now. I wasn't so much as embarrassed that they saw me without a shirt. I didn't really give a damn about that, I couldn't help it if I had a sexy chest. I was angry that they snuck up on me like that and THEN saw me.
Throwing my hands up into the air, I retreated into Ryou's closet and pulled on his stupid sweater and school uniform because that was practically the only thing in his whole collection of clothes. I was ashamed to call him my aibou. Seriously, how did I get stuck with the wimp? At least the Pharaoh's hikari had decent items of clothing that didn't make him look like a nerd. Like sweaters and buttons on everything, really who in their right mind wears those things anymore! I silently decided to burn all of Ryou's clothes later.
I heard the door bell once more when I finished dressing and swung open the front door forcefully, glaring at the Pharaoh and the Scribe again, who must have run around the side of the house to stand again at the front door. The Scribe still had a red face from laughing so hard, and I would have had to hurt him if the Pharaoh didn't start talking at the moment.
"We had better get over to the High School." He said.
"I don't see what the rush is." I replied icily.
"Yami here says that we should try and keep up with our hikari's studies so they don't fall behind. I don't see what good we'll do though..." Cami said, his face turning back to it's regular color. "I don't even know what 'math' is!" He said, holding up a random book that said, 'Vocabulary' in large letters on it. And HE was the scribe...
"Why do we even have to get up this early anyway!" I snapped back at them. "You woke me up!"
"That was the general idea." Yami said.
"You slept in too late. If you didn't wake up look then we'd miss the bus. Which happened anyway let me make that known. Didn't your alarm clock go off? I'm sure Ryou has one of those, I've seen it before, and even Caitlin has one. It should have woken you up early enough. It's that little thing that has weird characters that are 'numbers' on them." Cami asked, innocently enough to get on my nerves.
"I know what an alarm clock is!" I barked.
"Then why weren't you awake!"
I paused, trying to remember what I did when that THING went off. I was still half asleep when it buzzed, so it was hard to reminisce what happened exactly, but I finally recalled the incident. "I couldn't figure out how to turn it off, and in the process, found out what hammers are good for."
I smirked, and Cami slapped his forehead. Yami started talking about school again. I didn't pay much attention to him though, that's one good thing I've learned how to do over the years. It's a very useful skill to be able to block out things you don't want to hear, and I didn't want to hear all about going to school because it wasn't my idea to go.
Here is my school for the day.
Lack of sleep + Mortal Bakura = Not happy Bakura
Not happy Bakura + School = Nobody's happy.
"Why couldn't we have just skipped going through with this?" I grunted, trying to shut that Pharaoh up, "The Scribe skipped school yesterday and nobody cared."
"And I would have today too." Cami said, glaring at Yami, "It was all Mr. Lets do this Right that woke me up this morning and dragged me over here to wake you up and drag you to school with him. I was perfectly fine just staying home from the school place yesterday! But NOOOO, Yami says we've got to go to school."
It was then that I noticed everyone was wearing a school uniform except for Cami. He was wearing a very odd combination of colors with a shirt that had English symbols on it. I mentally laughed at him, imagining his pain. I might not be a fashion expert, but I knew for a fact that those were very feminine clothes he was wearing. Because his aibou was a girl and he was a boy, it could raise some problems.
Perfect.
Yami looked at his watch, "School will start pretty soon, we'd better get going."
Cami raised an eyebrow, "You can actually read that thing?"
Yami nodded, "I have access to Yugi's memories and Yugi could read a watch, so I can too."
"Kewlness!" Cami exclaimed, blanking out a bit so I knew he was searching Caitlin's memories for any bit of interesting info.
My eye twitched slightly at mention to that strange word, "Kewlness?"
Cami beamed, "Hai! [2] It's my new word! Hey did you know that Lindsey J. kissed the football team captain?"
Yami was confused, "Who's Lindsey J.?"
He shrugged, "I dunno, but it's gossip enough for me!"
I scoffed, he was a pathetic accuse for a Yami. He was so different from the rest of us, and somehow managed to fit in every time. But I couldn't shake off the feeling that there was something not quite right about him, therefore, we didn't converse, and we pretty much always went our separate ways. I was dark and mysterious, Cami was almost always happy about something, and he couldn't keep a secret to save his life which he now had. Unfortunately, that was going to have to change in the future.
After getting lost about four times, we finally made it to the High School that Ryou, Yugi, and Caitlin attended. It was large, filled with people, and looked like the perfect place to start trouble. I was starting to like the idea of school. The hallways were large, filled with people, and also looked like a good place to start trouble, much like the outside. The classroom we were supposed to be in, was large, filled with people, and another candidate for trouble, much like the outside, and the hallways. School was starting to bore me already, and that was before the teacher even started to speak.
"Good morning class, and welcome back to your history class." He droned, dropping his books on the desk and spotting all of us still standing and inspecting the room. Putting his hands on his hips, he started to scold us about taking our seats before class started. At least, I thought he was mad at us, his voice didn't change at all. Frankly, I didn't care that much, and sat at the desk nearest me with a last glare at the teacher for drawing attention to me when I hadn't even been there for five minutes yet.
I glanced to my left and saw a group of giggling girls, whispering in a little cluster sending glimpses my way and grinning. Ugh, girls. I was uninterested back in Egypt and I am uninterested now. They always get in the way when you are trying to do useful things, like stealing, and dueling, and others of the sort. I rolled my eyes when one particularly chunky girl batted her eyes at me and blew a sort of kiss. Cami was very hurt and confused as yet another group of girls started to flirt with the Pharaoh from afar, and he was left alone. Huffing a little, he slumped into his chair muttering something that would probably earn him a ticket to the Shadow Realm to join his hikari had he been loud enough for me to hear him.
"Please take out a sheet of paper and get it ready for a pop quiz on the American Revolution. Quickly class, and I hope you studied."
Everyone took out a sheet of note paper and scratched something down with what Ryou's memory recalled as, 'Pencils.' I did my best to follow what they were doing and stay cool about it. I leaned over a bit to read off a paper that belonged to a girl sitting next to me. I copied the markings onto my own paper with a satisfied smirk. I looked to see how the Pharaoh and the Scribe were doing. Funny how something that seemed to simple could cause us so many problems. The Pharaoh was fine with the whole thing, and wrote down everything with ease, which annoyed me. Then I noticed that he too was copying his neighbor and that made me feel better. Cami was really struggling, and starting to freak out. He kept grabbing at his hair, which was considerably shorter then mine even though it was his aibou that was a girl, and he kept erasing what he wrote. HE was the scribe out of all of us too...sad.
"Number your paper one through twenty-five and open your books to page thirty nine. You should find the questions in there. You have until the timer goes off, starting now." He mumbled, starting what looked to be a kitchen timer on the desk.
Everyone started at once, and I opened my book. There were strange characters all over the pages, and I couldn't understand one damn word of it. It was intimidating to have everyone around you start writing while you were staring at the page with no idea what it said. Cami, who was sitting on my right side, was my only hope. I leaned over to him and put on my best evil voice.
"What do the pages say scribe?" I hissed.
He jumped from my sudden question and turned pale. Cami was not one to stay calm under pressure, and sadly, he caved in rather easily. Turning back to the book, he flipped through the book once more, whispering to himself in Egyptian and doing the best to figure this out. His best wasn't good enough though. I hissed at him again so he knew how much of a hurry I was in.
"What does it say?"
"I-I d-don't know!" He whimpered, "This is not my area of expertise! This book isn't in Egyptian at all and I c-can't read it!"
"You have to be able to understand some of it!" The Pharaoh's voice whispered from his seat behind the two of us.
"No!" Cami said, shaking his head, "I THINK this is page 39 but there isn't any way to be positive."
Scribes, never useful when you needed them to be. It was time to put my backup plan into action. I looked into Ryou's memories of History Class. In order to find a memory, you have to first break into your host's soul room and then find where their memories are hidden. His soul room was easy enough to enter, but his memories of school were under lock and key! I could enter his memories of almost everything else, but his school memories were locked away separately and I couldn't get in. He was probably afraid I would find out what 'goody goody' crap he was doing all day. It was quite a let-down, and I made a mental note to 'talk' it over with my aibou when he returned.
Cami wasn't paying attention to any of this, and I assumed he hadn't even tried to get into his aibou's memories yet. I noticed his paper was now written in completely Egyptian Hieroglyphs and I didn't have the heart to tell him that he had said both answers 8 and 15 were 'man-eating chocolate pieces'. Well, it's not that I didn't have a heart, it's that I didn't care what he got.
"Why can't you guys read! You are the 'Champion Duelists'!"
The Pharaoh cringed, I chose not to answer the question.
"I...I've memorized the cards." He said quietly, looking down at his feet in an ashamed fashion, "I know their names and what they do by their pictures."
Oh this was too much! I wasn't saying that I had also taken to memorizing what the cards in my deck did and were called in Japanese, but what else were you supposed to do in a millenium item? It was quite entertaining to hear the All Powerful Pharaoh confess that he couldn't read the Duel Monster cards. I held my laughter for another time though, because the teacher kept sending suspicious glances our way when we spoke. I guess he thought we were being 'disruptive', poor simple-minded teachers...
"I can't believe this...just my luck that the day I come back I have to do a test...and none of my friends can read!" Cami mumbled under his breath, stopping the conversation and attacking the pop quiz once more.
Having given up with trying to get anything from a stressed scribe, The Pharaoh and I both went back to trying to come up with another way to ace the test. Suddenly, I was hit with inspiration that only comes from thousands of years being a Thief and a Strategist. Writing down some fake characters, I picked up my paper and got up from my seat. Cami grabbed my hand and asked under his breath, 'What are you doing!?' I only grinned and answered, 'Watch, but don't follow my lead.'
I casually walked over to the Teacher's desk and placed my paper on the pile of papers some students before me had already turned in. I smiled and tried to act best I could like Ryou, which killed me, because I wanted to murder the teacher for making me go through with that torturous test. Then, when he was explaining what a question was asking for to a student, I grabbed the paper from the pile and slipped it into my pocket without him even noticing. I sneered at Cami, who was gaping at me with his eyes almost as big as golf balls from watching me pull something like that off, and he rushed over to me after dropping his own paper off. Yami glared at us as he looked from his neighbor's paper to his own, trying to copy the exact words in a good time. I laughed quietly at the thought of the almighty Pharaoh, the King Of Games, having to cheat on a High School pop quiz.
Just that thought was worth the whole rest of the day. We discreetly cheated at every test we were hit at that day, we watched a movie for one class, and dissected a frog in biology when Cami unexpectedly fainted. I kept as many of the frog parts as I could, they could come in handy later on. I found out why Ryou isn't always, 'happy' to go to school in the morning. It is one of the most boring, useless things I have ever experienced. I was going to have a nice little collection of teacher dolls by the time Ryou got back. Although, I couldn't turn any of them into dolls when I wanted to, because for some reason, my Ring
was almost powerless when I tried to use it. That was yet another stain on my day. The only break we got from torture was at lunch.
"So, we go to this 'school' for hours and do tons of work, and then we have to go home and do MORE work for hours? When's a guy supposed to have time to eat with that kind of schedule!?" Cami complained, looking at his notes on the back of a paper.
"Does anyone have a clue what this is?" The Pharaoh said, poking the meal in front of him with a fork.
Set in front of all three of us, was a tray of some kind of food they called, 'Macaroni and Cheese.' I tried it once after I bought it, spit it out, and haven't touched it since then. It was Joey, Tea, and the Tristen person's idea to buy this crap, and being hungry, I ignorantly took their advice and bought lunch with the money Joey leant us. The 'Macaroni' was a yellowish brown, chunky, and it looked like it was about three years old. The taste matched. Cami grimaced at the very sight of it as soon as the devil these mortals call 'The Lunch Lady' put it on his plate. He didn't even try it before pushing it aside. So there sat the macaroni, cold and forgotten among the other food items that we decided were 'inedible'.
Joey, Tristen, and Tea saw us and sat right down at out table. How I despised those mortals. They all had almost identical food items on their trays, and the Joey kid didn't even throw up when he swallowed a whole forkful of it.
"Hi guys!" Tea said, starting to stir her 'food' with a spoon, "How's everything going?"
"Not so good..." Cami grunted, "Mrs. Teacher said he needed to talk to me after class when I couldn't read a paragraph out of that stupid Math book. Numbers confuse me. And Mr. Teacher said he needed to see me after class when I fainted at the sight of a frog being pulled apart. Both of them scolded me, but said they'd give me one more chance or something. It wasn't my fault Bakura explained what he was doing to that frog in precise detail!"
Ah, the frog. A gory source of all that could disgust anyone of weak stomach. Frogs are one of the most useful animals on this planet, even when they are dead. I smirked at the very memory of ripping off it's skin and watching as the blood-
"Too bad, hey don't tell me you aren't going to eat that?" Tristen inquired, pointing his yellowed utensil at out plates of 'food.'
Yami was shocked, "I wouldn't eat this if it meant my life. I've seen more edible food in a garbage can."
Tristen and Joey exchanged excited looks, then simultaneously grabbed our Macaroni and started to shovel the food into their mouths. They were like human garbage disposals, pulling the plate up closer to their mouths so the food didn't have to travel as far until it was in their mouths. Yami looked a little green, and Tea giggled.
"You have got to be kidding! This is practically the only descent food they serve here!" She laughed, politely eating her own meal at a much slower pace.
I wasn't sure it Yami had told Tea, Joey, and Tristen that we had all become mortal or not, so I wasn't sure if I should act like Ryou or myself. Instead, I watched the race between Joey and Tristen eating in silence. By the time lunch was almost over, Tristen and Joey had both finished two and a half plates full of food, while Tea had only just finished her one. We still had about thirty minutes of lunch break left, so we took it upon ourselves to wander the hallways looking around until our next class.
After about twelve minutes of wandering, I decided to skip the adventure and head for an area where I could be alone with my thoughts. It hadn't been long, but easily twenty girls, and, much to my horror, one boy, had already flirted with me. I hoped that the Pharaoh and the Scribe were having as much trouble with school as I was, because it was their brilliant idea to come here in the first place. The clock struck 12:20, and I started to make my way over to the classroom Tea instructed us to go to. But I was sidetracked, when a hand reached out and grabbed a handful of my hair. MY hair.
They had no right to do that, I turned around and gave my best glare to the boy standing behind me, who was almost two times as big as I was. He had a messy patch of brown curly hair sitting on the top of his head, and his gray eyes flashed angrily at me. Two boys, who looked almost identical but younger and smaller, stood next to him, and their presence made him look even bigger then he was. His size might have intimidated many other kids, but size didn't matter to me.
He pulled my hair. And NO ONE pulls my hair and gets away with it.
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Author- ^^ There, my first chapter with mortal Bakura, Yami, and Cami. *shrug* Sorta a cliffhanger. Oh! And as you probably have noticed, I'm going to just stick with the traditional name thing going on with other fanfiction writers.
Bakura- Ryou's Yami
Yami- Yugi's Yami (yes, I know it's kind of weird to have everyone else call him Yami, but I didn't want to call him Yugi because that might get confusing. *shrug*)
Cami- Caitlin's Yami, yes, pronounced like Kami. (There was a little moment in one of my past fanfics that explained that better. Cami had already gotten attached to that name when they told him it meant God in Japanese, but he said he didn't want to be god, just Cami. So, there is the background story behind that. ^^)
Ryou, Caitlin, and Yugi- The Lights
[1] Most people don't use these two together, so I'm worried I used them in grammatical error and messed up the language somehow. But what I was aiming for, was "Light Partner"s. Hikari means Light and Aibou means Partner. Again, if I used this the wrong way I'm sorry, and just tell me and I'll fix it. Arigato!
[2] Hai- Yes
~RANDOM THOUGHT MOMENT, NOT IMPORTANT~
I was thinking, why does the name Ryou always sound a whole lot more...innocent? And who was the first person to use that system where Ryou is the good one and Bakura is the bad? Because in the one episode where Bakura's Yami turns everyone into their favorite cards, this is what he says.
Yugi's Yami- Bakura, why have you brought us to the Shadow Realm? (something like that)
Bakura's Yami- Ah, Bakura. Bakura is gone. (Note that when he says Bakura, he says it like Bah-Koo-Ra. It sounds cooler when he says it that way! ^^)
I think that's all you need. Point is, he says it like the system should be the other way around. Like HE should be the one called Ryou. This has been a random thought moment. I don't expect to do anything with this thought, if you'd like to respond with a rant or something to my random thought, then go ahead and e-mail me! ^^ I like hearing opinions.
=(^._.^)= ...Retaw...
*AWW! KITTY!*
Meaningless note- So far in the last week, I've had TONS of inspiration and have thought of TONS of plot twists and cliffhangers. I have the whole ending planned out, and I can tell you all that there is NO WAY that you'll know how this thing ends! :) But enough of the end, on to the...beginning. -.-; I've got lots of work to do...
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The Pharaoh and I had quite an adventure yesterday. Both our hikari aibous [1] had left their own bodies and were currently somewhere in the Shadow Realm. I didn't know if they were even still alive or not, and frankly, that didn't exactly put me in a good mood. Ryou-chan and I might not always get along, but I still cared about what happened to him. As in I didn't want him dead before I could kill him myself. The Pharaoh was feeling about the same way about his hikari, and I could tell, because he hadn't said one cocky, big-headed thing to me the entire time since we had the removal of our hosts.
It was good to have my own body at last, I could do anything I wanted now. I didn't have to consult my light, or have to worry about him finding something out that I didn't want him to. I could eat what I wanted, spite the Pharaoh, go wherever I wanted, anything! But there were three catches. The Pharaoh had pointed out a few good points last night, all of which were very infuriating. First of all, he said that we would need to go to that damn mortal school of Ryou and Yugi's to keep a low profile and not get our aibou's expelled. Second, he said we shouldn't do anything out of character in case people got suspicious. That one was the one that really ticked me off. I was practically the opposite of my hikari! I COULD act like him alright, I had done it many times before in Battle City and Duelist Kingdom, but the whole fun of having my own body was the availability to be MYSELF. I didn't like being a wuss!
That third catch was also frustrating. Once Yami had gone home, I was all alone in that big house of Ryou's. It was unbearably boring. I didn't have anyone to taunt, or to yell at, or to play Duel Monsters against, hell, I would do for someone to TALK to! And I didn't like to talk very much, so I hope that tells you that I was REALLY bored out of my mind. I didn't know how to work anything in the house, and I found out very quickly that I couldn't go through doors or walls anymore. It was also agitating that I was the one who had to feel all the pain that occurred. Usually, I just let my hikari take the damage or something, he doesn't dare object to it either. But without a Ryou, there was no one to take the pain that I felt when I got a paper cut on those stupid magazines mortals have when I was looking through it. I ripped up that magazine when it cut me, and without something to look at, I was once again, bored.
I was already sick of being mortal again and I hadn't even experienced one day of it! Being very angry at everything in the house at the moment, I decided to just go to sleep so I didn't have to stand being bored any longer. Sleep wasn't as easy as Ryou made it look. It took me forever to get tired and fall asleep, and it seemed as soon as I did, everything got light again. I searched Ryou's memory and found the word, 'sun'.
"Damn sun." I grumbled, pulling the covers over my head, trying to block out the light that washed the room.
I thought I had won over the sun, even though it was hot and stuffy under the covers on the bed, and I was content with my victory. Thinking I could finally get to sleep, I shut my eyes and rolled over. Then, there was a loud, hard, knocking coming from my front door. I let out a yell to help get rid of my anger.
"WHO EVER IS AT THE DOOR IS GOING TO PAY FOR THIS!" I shouted.
Another hard knock that went on longer then the first, then that accursed door bell dinged repeatedly in some order that appeared to be a song. Oh yes, they were going to pay dearly. I struggled out of the covers on the bed that were wrapped tightly around me because of all the tossing and turning I had done during the night. Growling, I sat up, and took a step forward only to trip on the covers still wrapped around my feet and fall flat on my face.
I grumbled louder and ripped the sheets off of my legs, still laying on the floor. I could only thank the gods that the Pharaoh and the Scribe weren't there to see me fall like that. Another knock, this one from my window. My heart almost stopped when I looked to see none other then the Pharaoh and the Scribe, standing right there, looking in at me with smirks on their faces.
The gods are plotting against me! I wanted to rip their heads off, but was in too much shock to get up and yell at them. The Scribe grinned sheepishly and waved somewhat nervously at me, which influenced me to jump to my feet at last and slam on the window with my hand to scare them away.
They didn't seem to notice or care, which pissed me off. The Scribe laughed and whispered something to the Pharaoh, pointing at me. Confused, I looked to see what was wrong. My face turned blood red as I finally realized I was only in my bright blue boxers. I shouted various Egyptian curses at them, mostly Cami, but both of them instead burst into hysterics. I was now red with embarrassment and anger, mostly anger now. I wasn't so much as embarrassed that they saw me without a shirt. I didn't really give a damn about that, I couldn't help it if I had a sexy chest. I was angry that they snuck up on me like that and THEN saw me.
Throwing my hands up into the air, I retreated into Ryou's closet and pulled on his stupid sweater and school uniform because that was practically the only thing in his whole collection of clothes. I was ashamed to call him my aibou. Seriously, how did I get stuck with the wimp? At least the Pharaoh's hikari had decent items of clothing that didn't make him look like a nerd. Like sweaters and buttons on everything, really who in their right mind wears those things anymore! I silently decided to burn all of Ryou's clothes later.
I heard the door bell once more when I finished dressing and swung open the front door forcefully, glaring at the Pharaoh and the Scribe again, who must have run around the side of the house to stand again at the front door. The Scribe still had a red face from laughing so hard, and I would have had to hurt him if the Pharaoh didn't start talking at the moment.
"We had better get over to the High School." He said.
"I don't see what the rush is." I replied icily.
"Yami here says that we should try and keep up with our hikari's studies so they don't fall behind. I don't see what good we'll do though..." Cami said, his face turning back to it's regular color. "I don't even know what 'math' is!" He said, holding up a random book that said, 'Vocabulary' in large letters on it. And HE was the scribe...
"Why do we even have to get up this early anyway!" I snapped back at them. "You woke me up!"
"That was the general idea." Yami said.
"You slept in too late. If you didn't wake up look then we'd miss the bus. Which happened anyway let me make that known. Didn't your alarm clock go off? I'm sure Ryou has one of those, I've seen it before, and even Caitlin has one. It should have woken you up early enough. It's that little thing that has weird characters that are 'numbers' on them." Cami asked, innocently enough to get on my nerves.
"I know what an alarm clock is!" I barked.
"Then why weren't you awake!"
I paused, trying to remember what I did when that THING went off. I was still half asleep when it buzzed, so it was hard to reminisce what happened exactly, but I finally recalled the incident. "I couldn't figure out how to turn it off, and in the process, found out what hammers are good for."
I smirked, and Cami slapped his forehead. Yami started talking about school again. I didn't pay much attention to him though, that's one good thing I've learned how to do over the years. It's a very useful skill to be able to block out things you don't want to hear, and I didn't want to hear all about going to school because it wasn't my idea to go.
Here is my school for the day.
Lack of sleep + Mortal Bakura = Not happy Bakura
Not happy Bakura + School = Nobody's happy.
"Why couldn't we have just skipped going through with this?" I grunted, trying to shut that Pharaoh up, "The Scribe skipped school yesterday and nobody cared."
"And I would have today too." Cami said, glaring at Yami, "It was all Mr. Lets do this Right that woke me up this morning and dragged me over here to wake you up and drag you to school with him. I was perfectly fine just staying home from the school place yesterday! But NOOOO, Yami says we've got to go to school."
It was then that I noticed everyone was wearing a school uniform except for Cami. He was wearing a very odd combination of colors with a shirt that had English symbols on it. I mentally laughed at him, imagining his pain. I might not be a fashion expert, but I knew for a fact that those were very feminine clothes he was wearing. Because his aibou was a girl and he was a boy, it could raise some problems.
Perfect.
Yami looked at his watch, "School will start pretty soon, we'd better get going."
Cami raised an eyebrow, "You can actually read that thing?"
Yami nodded, "I have access to Yugi's memories and Yugi could read a watch, so I can too."
"Kewlness!" Cami exclaimed, blanking out a bit so I knew he was searching Caitlin's memories for any bit of interesting info.
My eye twitched slightly at mention to that strange word, "Kewlness?"
Cami beamed, "Hai! [2] It's my new word! Hey did you know that Lindsey J. kissed the football team captain?"
Yami was confused, "Who's Lindsey J.?"
He shrugged, "I dunno, but it's gossip enough for me!"
I scoffed, he was a pathetic accuse for a Yami. He was so different from the rest of us, and somehow managed to fit in every time. But I couldn't shake off the feeling that there was something not quite right about him, therefore, we didn't converse, and we pretty much always went our separate ways. I was dark and mysterious, Cami was almost always happy about something, and he couldn't keep a secret to save his life which he now had. Unfortunately, that was going to have to change in the future.
After getting lost about four times, we finally made it to the High School that Ryou, Yugi, and Caitlin attended. It was large, filled with people, and looked like the perfect place to start trouble. I was starting to like the idea of school. The hallways were large, filled with people, and also looked like a good place to start trouble, much like the outside. The classroom we were supposed to be in, was large, filled with people, and another candidate for trouble, much like the outside, and the hallways. School was starting to bore me already, and that was before the teacher even started to speak.
"Good morning class, and welcome back to your history class." He droned, dropping his books on the desk and spotting all of us still standing and inspecting the room. Putting his hands on his hips, he started to scold us about taking our seats before class started. At least, I thought he was mad at us, his voice didn't change at all. Frankly, I didn't care that much, and sat at the desk nearest me with a last glare at the teacher for drawing attention to me when I hadn't even been there for five minutes yet.
I glanced to my left and saw a group of giggling girls, whispering in a little cluster sending glimpses my way and grinning. Ugh, girls. I was uninterested back in Egypt and I am uninterested now. They always get in the way when you are trying to do useful things, like stealing, and dueling, and others of the sort. I rolled my eyes when one particularly chunky girl batted her eyes at me and blew a sort of kiss. Cami was very hurt and confused as yet another group of girls started to flirt with the Pharaoh from afar, and he was left alone. Huffing a little, he slumped into his chair muttering something that would probably earn him a ticket to the Shadow Realm to join his hikari had he been loud enough for me to hear him.
"Please take out a sheet of paper and get it ready for a pop quiz on the American Revolution. Quickly class, and I hope you studied."
Everyone took out a sheet of note paper and scratched something down with what Ryou's memory recalled as, 'Pencils.' I did my best to follow what they were doing and stay cool about it. I leaned over a bit to read off a paper that belonged to a girl sitting next to me. I copied the markings onto my own paper with a satisfied smirk. I looked to see how the Pharaoh and the Scribe were doing. Funny how something that seemed to simple could cause us so many problems. The Pharaoh was fine with the whole thing, and wrote down everything with ease, which annoyed me. Then I noticed that he too was copying his neighbor and that made me feel better. Cami was really struggling, and starting to freak out. He kept grabbing at his hair, which was considerably shorter then mine even though it was his aibou that was a girl, and he kept erasing what he wrote. HE was the scribe out of all of us too...sad.
"Number your paper one through twenty-five and open your books to page thirty nine. You should find the questions in there. You have until the timer goes off, starting now." He mumbled, starting what looked to be a kitchen timer on the desk.
Everyone started at once, and I opened my book. There were strange characters all over the pages, and I couldn't understand one damn word of it. It was intimidating to have everyone around you start writing while you were staring at the page with no idea what it said. Cami, who was sitting on my right side, was my only hope. I leaned over to him and put on my best evil voice.
"What do the pages say scribe?" I hissed.
He jumped from my sudden question and turned pale. Cami was not one to stay calm under pressure, and sadly, he caved in rather easily. Turning back to the book, he flipped through the book once more, whispering to himself in Egyptian and doing the best to figure this out. His best wasn't good enough though. I hissed at him again so he knew how much of a hurry I was in.
"What does it say?"
"I-I d-don't know!" He whimpered, "This is not my area of expertise! This book isn't in Egyptian at all and I c-can't read it!"
"You have to be able to understand some of it!" The Pharaoh's voice whispered from his seat behind the two of us.
"No!" Cami said, shaking his head, "I THINK this is page 39 but there isn't any way to be positive."
Scribes, never useful when you needed them to be. It was time to put my backup plan into action. I looked into Ryou's memories of History Class. In order to find a memory, you have to first break into your host's soul room and then find where their memories are hidden. His soul room was easy enough to enter, but his memories of school were under lock and key! I could enter his memories of almost everything else, but his school memories were locked away separately and I couldn't get in. He was probably afraid I would find out what 'goody goody' crap he was doing all day. It was quite a let-down, and I made a mental note to 'talk' it over with my aibou when he returned.
Cami wasn't paying attention to any of this, and I assumed he hadn't even tried to get into his aibou's memories yet. I noticed his paper was now written in completely Egyptian Hieroglyphs and I didn't have the heart to tell him that he had said both answers 8 and 15 were 'man-eating chocolate pieces'. Well, it's not that I didn't have a heart, it's that I didn't care what he got.
"Why can't you guys read! You are the 'Champion Duelists'!"
The Pharaoh cringed, I chose not to answer the question.
"I...I've memorized the cards." He said quietly, looking down at his feet in an ashamed fashion, "I know their names and what they do by their pictures."
Oh this was too much! I wasn't saying that I had also taken to memorizing what the cards in my deck did and were called in Japanese, but what else were you supposed to do in a millenium item? It was quite entertaining to hear the All Powerful Pharaoh confess that he couldn't read the Duel Monster cards. I held my laughter for another time though, because the teacher kept sending suspicious glances our way when we spoke. I guess he thought we were being 'disruptive', poor simple-minded teachers...
"I can't believe this...just my luck that the day I come back I have to do a test...and none of my friends can read!" Cami mumbled under his breath, stopping the conversation and attacking the pop quiz once more.
Having given up with trying to get anything from a stressed scribe, The Pharaoh and I both went back to trying to come up with another way to ace the test. Suddenly, I was hit with inspiration that only comes from thousands of years being a Thief and a Strategist. Writing down some fake characters, I picked up my paper and got up from my seat. Cami grabbed my hand and asked under his breath, 'What are you doing!?' I only grinned and answered, 'Watch, but don't follow my lead.'
I casually walked over to the Teacher's desk and placed my paper on the pile of papers some students before me had already turned in. I smiled and tried to act best I could like Ryou, which killed me, because I wanted to murder the teacher for making me go through with that torturous test. Then, when he was explaining what a question was asking for to a student, I grabbed the paper from the pile and slipped it into my pocket without him even noticing. I sneered at Cami, who was gaping at me with his eyes almost as big as golf balls from watching me pull something like that off, and he rushed over to me after dropping his own paper off. Yami glared at us as he looked from his neighbor's paper to his own, trying to copy the exact words in a good time. I laughed quietly at the thought of the almighty Pharaoh, the King Of Games, having to cheat on a High School pop quiz.
Just that thought was worth the whole rest of the day. We discreetly cheated at every test we were hit at that day, we watched a movie for one class, and dissected a frog in biology when Cami unexpectedly fainted. I kept as many of the frog parts as I could, they could come in handy later on. I found out why Ryou isn't always, 'happy' to go to school in the morning. It is one of the most boring, useless things I have ever experienced. I was going to have a nice little collection of teacher dolls by the time Ryou got back. Although, I couldn't turn any of them into dolls when I wanted to, because for some reason, my Ring
was almost powerless when I tried to use it. That was yet another stain on my day. The only break we got from torture was at lunch.
"So, we go to this 'school' for hours and do tons of work, and then we have to go home and do MORE work for hours? When's a guy supposed to have time to eat with that kind of schedule!?" Cami complained, looking at his notes on the back of a paper.
"Does anyone have a clue what this is?" The Pharaoh said, poking the meal in front of him with a fork.
Set in front of all three of us, was a tray of some kind of food they called, 'Macaroni and Cheese.' I tried it once after I bought it, spit it out, and haven't touched it since then. It was Joey, Tea, and the Tristen person's idea to buy this crap, and being hungry, I ignorantly took their advice and bought lunch with the money Joey leant us. The 'Macaroni' was a yellowish brown, chunky, and it looked like it was about three years old. The taste matched. Cami grimaced at the very sight of it as soon as the devil these mortals call 'The Lunch Lady' put it on his plate. He didn't even try it before pushing it aside. So there sat the macaroni, cold and forgotten among the other food items that we decided were 'inedible'.
Joey, Tristen, and Tea saw us and sat right down at out table. How I despised those mortals. They all had almost identical food items on their trays, and the Joey kid didn't even throw up when he swallowed a whole forkful of it.
"Hi guys!" Tea said, starting to stir her 'food' with a spoon, "How's everything going?"
"Not so good..." Cami grunted, "Mrs. Teacher said he needed to talk to me after class when I couldn't read a paragraph out of that stupid Math book. Numbers confuse me. And Mr. Teacher said he needed to see me after class when I fainted at the sight of a frog being pulled apart. Both of them scolded me, but said they'd give me one more chance or something. It wasn't my fault Bakura explained what he was doing to that frog in precise detail!"
Ah, the frog. A gory source of all that could disgust anyone of weak stomach. Frogs are one of the most useful animals on this planet, even when they are dead. I smirked at the very memory of ripping off it's skin and watching as the blood-
"Too bad, hey don't tell me you aren't going to eat that?" Tristen inquired, pointing his yellowed utensil at out plates of 'food.'
Yami was shocked, "I wouldn't eat this if it meant my life. I've seen more edible food in a garbage can."
Tristen and Joey exchanged excited looks, then simultaneously grabbed our Macaroni and started to shovel the food into their mouths. They were like human garbage disposals, pulling the plate up closer to their mouths so the food didn't have to travel as far until it was in their mouths. Yami looked a little green, and Tea giggled.
"You have got to be kidding! This is practically the only descent food they serve here!" She laughed, politely eating her own meal at a much slower pace.
I wasn't sure it Yami had told Tea, Joey, and Tristen that we had all become mortal or not, so I wasn't sure if I should act like Ryou or myself. Instead, I watched the race between Joey and Tristen eating in silence. By the time lunch was almost over, Tristen and Joey had both finished two and a half plates full of food, while Tea had only just finished her one. We still had about thirty minutes of lunch break left, so we took it upon ourselves to wander the hallways looking around until our next class.
After about twelve minutes of wandering, I decided to skip the adventure and head for an area where I could be alone with my thoughts. It hadn't been long, but easily twenty girls, and, much to my horror, one boy, had already flirted with me. I hoped that the Pharaoh and the Scribe were having as much trouble with school as I was, because it was their brilliant idea to come here in the first place. The clock struck 12:20, and I started to make my way over to the classroom Tea instructed us to go to. But I was sidetracked, when a hand reached out and grabbed a handful of my hair. MY hair.
They had no right to do that, I turned around and gave my best glare to the boy standing behind me, who was almost two times as big as I was. He had a messy patch of brown curly hair sitting on the top of his head, and his gray eyes flashed angrily at me. Two boys, who looked almost identical but younger and smaller, stood next to him, and their presence made him look even bigger then he was. His size might have intimidated many other kids, but size didn't matter to me.
He pulled my hair. And NO ONE pulls my hair and gets away with it.
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Author- ^^ There, my first chapter with mortal Bakura, Yami, and Cami. *shrug* Sorta a cliffhanger. Oh! And as you probably have noticed, I'm going to just stick with the traditional name thing going on with other fanfiction writers.
Bakura- Ryou's Yami
Yami- Yugi's Yami (yes, I know it's kind of weird to have everyone else call him Yami, but I didn't want to call him Yugi because that might get confusing. *shrug*)
Cami- Caitlin's Yami, yes, pronounced like Kami. (There was a little moment in one of my past fanfics that explained that better. Cami had already gotten attached to that name when they told him it meant God in Japanese, but he said he didn't want to be god, just Cami. So, there is the background story behind that. ^^)
Ryou, Caitlin, and Yugi- The Lights
[1] Most people don't use these two together, so I'm worried I used them in grammatical error and messed up the language somehow. But what I was aiming for, was "Light Partner"s. Hikari means Light and Aibou means Partner. Again, if I used this the wrong way I'm sorry, and just tell me and I'll fix it. Arigato!
[2] Hai- Yes
~RANDOM THOUGHT MOMENT, NOT IMPORTANT~
I was thinking, why does the name Ryou always sound a whole lot more...innocent? And who was the first person to use that system where Ryou is the good one and Bakura is the bad? Because in the one episode where Bakura's Yami turns everyone into their favorite cards, this is what he says.
Yugi's Yami- Bakura, why have you brought us to the Shadow Realm? (something like that)
Bakura's Yami- Ah, Bakura. Bakura is gone. (Note that when he says Bakura, he says it like Bah-Koo-Ra. It sounds cooler when he says it that way! ^^)
I think that's all you need. Point is, he says it like the system should be the other way around. Like HE should be the one called Ryou. This has been a random thought moment. I don't expect to do anything with this thought, if you'd like to respond with a rant or something to my random thought, then go ahead and e-mail me! ^^ I like hearing opinions.
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