Haku: Okay guys, where are we now?
Fig: We're at the Image nation! You found out how to get there, Miss Placed!
Miss Placed: No, I simply asked a Bright Eyed Deer for directions. You men can never ask for directions!
Haku, Yugi, and Y. Haku: -sneak away-
Haku: Okay, now that we're away from Fig and Miss Placed, where do you guys suggest we go first?
Yugi: Ask around? See if anyone's seen Experiment number 28 I suppose...
Y. Haku: YAAAH!!!!
Haku and Yugi: -blink- What?
Y. Haku: FAN GIRLS!
Yugi: -Hides-
Haku: Wow... who woulda thought? -goes to study the fan girls more closely.-
Fan Girls: -watch Haku curiously-
Haku: Wow... walking ceiling fans... interesting. Do you guys know where we could find a friend of ours?
DISCLAIMER:
-Stares off into space for a good few minutes- ... ... ... ... ...nup, no longer any way to make this even remotely humorous. No own, no sue.
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Chapter 4.
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RECAP:
Yugi, My mission, the one that I would steal from, the most prized of his possessions no less, thought of me as a friend.
I blinked once, twice and simply stared at the tri-coloured boy in front of me. He tilted his head slightly, in a somewhat confused manner, then shrugged.
"Aww screw it. I'll give it to you Yami, this one's on the house." With that, he took a set of keys out of his back pocket and opened the glass-fronted cabinet. "Just don't tell my Grandpa, okay? He'd get mad if I knew I'd given a card away." I smiled, though he couldn't see it, for his back was turned.
"Alright then." Why was he being so NICE to me? My brain couldn't comprehend it. No one had ever treated me this way, without expecting something in return. "But I don't have anything to give you in return." I blurted out my thoughts, just in case the seemingly naïve boy did want something.
"You don't have to give me anything. Whatever gave you that idea?" He said, presenting me with the card, a proud and almost... triumphant? Look on his face. "There you go." He smiled brightly, and then, I saw a flicker of an idea pass across his face.
"You said your parents weren't in town, right?" I nodded, and he continued, "Well then, why don't you and I have a duel?"
I blinked twice. "A... duel?"
He shook slightly with suppressed laughter. "Duh, Yami, a Duel Monsters duel? That is, unless you're chicken?" He grinned at me, showing a competitive spark that I hadn't expected in the boy.
I smirked back. "You're on Yugi.' ((Haku: MUAHAHAHA! Haku's deck gets another workout!)) He laughed, and went to the door, flipping the sign from open to closed.
"Grandpa won't mind if I close up shop 3 minutes early, will he?" He put on a mock-worried expression. "Come on Yami, around the back. I HAVE to show you my house!" With that, he walked through the door that was situated behind the counter. Somewhat apprehensively, I followed.
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"Do you want something to eat?" Yugi's voice called from somewhere ahead of me, making me wonder just what was up with the petite teen. He had left me for a moment in the lounge, where I was seated at the couch, and though he'd only known me for a day, he trusted me completely.
"No thank you." I replied, still wondering how the boy could be so calm.
"Anything to drink?"
"No thank you." I repeated, still in the same polite tone. Yugi's head peeked around the doorway.
"I suppose you're going to decline even if I offer you something to breathe?"
I laughed slightly. "The air in here's fine. I think I'll live."
He smiled at me. "I'm glad to hear it. I don't want you dying on me after all. That would be hard to explain to the police."
"Are you laughing at me, Yugi Mouto?" I asked, a mock incredulous expression on my face.
"Of course not, Yami, but hows about that duel now, before I can't hold it in any longer." He replied, eyeing me curiously.
It didn't feel right, all this back and forth banter. It felt as if I had his trust and to carry out my mission would be destroying that, though I knew that the only reason I was here, and even talking to the boy was to complete my mission.
Sometimes, being a spy really sucks.
He handed me his deck, as I in turn handed him mine. We each shuffled, and cut the cards, before handing them back. My deck was slightly warm, for being in his hands, as I placed it down on my side of the table.
He had an ever-so-calm face, as he said quietly, "Would you like to go first Yami?"
I smiled at him, and placed one monster card face down, and another card behind it.
He, in turn, copied my move with his cards, smiling ever so slightly as he did so. "One monster, face down, and one card, face down."
"Copy cat." I shot at him quickly, not catching my tongue in time.
To my surprise though, he laughed. "Well, I just don't like to be the fist one to attack."
Ahh, something we had in common, and, I thought, as I plucked the Twin headed Fire dragon from my deck, something I could use to my advantage. "I'll place another card face down then, and end my turn."
The boy in front of me pouted, ever so slightly, and flipped his card. "I summon the Celtic Guardian, in attack mode!" I grinned, as he announced his attack on my first face down card, so I flipped it right-side up.
The Celtic Guardian destroyed my unknown warrior of Fiend, but seeing as it was in defence mode, I didn't loose any life-points. ((Haku: Why do I want to call them 'Hit-Points all of a sudden? Have I been playing Final Fantasy too much?)) And so, the duel continued, Yugi cutting into my life points, briefly after that attack, when he managed to play a 'Stop Defence.'
But those details are not important, for nearing the close of the duel, I asked the boy a question that had been on my mind since I first came into the game shop and saw him there.
"Yugi, how can you just trust me so easily? You don't even know me." He blinked, and looked at me, confusion written across his features.
"Err... What?"
"Well, what I mean is, what would you have done if I was like Bakura, or one of the other bullies? You can't judge by appearance." I said gently, watching the boy shift uncomfortably.
"I didn't judge you on your appearance Yami... Not at all. If I can be frank, you actually looked like a bit of a prick when I first saw you, but you seemed alright, so I said hi."
Oh. Well THAT put me in my place. "What do you mean?" I tried to interject a touch of hurt into my voice, a simple trick I had learnt years ago, but for some reason, the hurt wouldn't come. It was almost as if my body refused to be dishonest to the small boy.
"Well, Yami, I dunno really... I just saw you and thought, 'hey, he seems nice enough, and said hi." He shrugged, grinning at me. "But you aren't gonna hurt me, bash me up, or steal money from me in the near future?" He said, a touch of laughter in his voice.
"Of course not!" Was my indignant reply. Though it was only a half-truth, I found myself feeling ever so slightly guilty. Yugi played a card.
"Sorry Yami, you loose." I looked down and swore.
"Go again?"
"You're on!"
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It was some time later that the two of us heard the door to the game shop open, and a slightly old, merry voice called out, "Yugi, I'm home!"
Yugi's face lit up, as he ran into the game shop portion of the house. "Grandpa!" I stood up, slowly making my way, slightly nervously to where I could see the scene clearly. My naturally silent ways had insured I wouldn't be heard, so when the old man, (nearly as short, if not shorter than Yugi) saw me, he was rather surprised.
"Hello." He spoke in a soft, rolling voice, the type one would associate with Father Christmas. "I don't believe we've met."
My instincts were screaming at me in the back of my head when I replied, somewhat coyly, "I don't believe we have either." Yugi shot me a confused look, and I realised I must have had a locked expression on my face.
"Grandpa, this is Yami Atemu. He's a new guy in our class, and he's really good at Duel monsters. Yami, this is my Grandpa, Sugoruku Mouto." We both nodded and shook hands, coming to an agreement in that moment. We were both wary of the other, but we would have a mutual respect, until one proved that they could not be trusted. "Yami came over to have a look about the store, and we got duelling. I hope you don't mind him staying so late." Yugi nattered on, blissfully unaware of the sparks flying between his elder and I.
"I better head home now, though Yugi, I do have to sleep some time." I commented, still watching Sugoruku very carefully.
Yugi pouted. "Aww... Alright then, let's go get your deck." He led me back into the lounge, where I picked up my cards and smiled.
"Your grandfather seems... nice." I said, praying to whatever gods were out there that my voice didn't sound fake.
"Yeah, but you don't want to cross him. He can get pretty fired up when he wants to. Anyways, thanks for coming over. Are you going to come back tomorrow?" He smiled at me, handing me my cards, as he did so.
I smirked. "How about you come over my place?"
Yugi looked a bit taken aback at the abrupt request, and truth be told, I was too. I felt at such ease around the boy. "Okay, sure! I'll see you at school tomorrow, okay Yami?" He chirruped brightly.
"Looking forward to it Yugi." I replied, making my slow way down the street. "See you tomorrow."
Even though my back was turned, I still felt Sugoruku's eyes trailing me, a sense of mistrust around his being. I glared angrily, and kicked a passing rock.
What was his problem? I hadn't done anything!
Yet. Was the reply that came from the nasty voice in my head. You haven't done anything yet...
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Dagger5-
Yugi: -pokes out tongue- Does it really sound cute?
Haku: Put that back in, before I bite it off.
Yugi: -puts tongue back in his mouth- You'd really bite my tongue off?
Someoneyoudontknow- Homework is scary. -Hides from the big, menacing piles-
Y. Haku: She's gonna update as frequently as possible.
Kikoru-
Yugi: I resent that!
Haku: It's the truth though.
Yugi: What is it? Pick on Yugi week?
Saiyan Jedi-
Yugi: Put that tongue back in or I'll cut it off.
Haku: That's MY line Yugi... line thief...
Yugi: Your line is 'bite it off' mine is 'cut' It's much more hygienic that way.
Y. Haku: Hmmm... Somehow I don't think that Yami would let him pay a visit to Wacko Jacko. (No offence Michael Jackson fans.)
Spiritual Winds- -Squeals with absolute glee and glomps the Yami and Yugi kissing plushies- THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Y. Haku: look at that, she's happy.
Toothbrush- Continuing now! (Cute sig by the way!)
It'sHardToBelieve- You know, that's exactly what I wanted it to seem like! ^_^
Y. Haku: Thanks for the great compliment!
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