The two lives of royalty and robbery
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! The lyrics of "Dreaming" by Scribe, "Lose Yourself" and "Sing for the moment" by Eminem. But I do own my OCs.
Chapter 3 Insults
On the day of Kori's Capture
"For greatness sake! I DON'T HAVE A CRUSH ON KAITRIK!!!" A very, very frustrated albino boy yelled at his smirking blond friend.
"Really now?!"
"Yes really! You baka of a Maliky."
The one being called Maliky put on an upset face "You're such a meanie Riko! I was just stating the obvious."
"I thought I told you not to call me by that name!!!"
"Sorry princling. I forgot your name." Malik smirks cheerfully. (AN: Is that even possible? smirks cheerfully)
'Riko' growled "You are so dead you know. I'll meet you at the torture chamber come evening." He walked off.
"Sure thing Princling Dariko, I'll be there. Oh ... and don't forget what I said about you and Kaitrik." Malik sprinted off in the opposite direction just in case he actually got the young Royal Highness really mad.
Dariko cursed under his breath all the way back to his bed chamber.
"Damn you Malik, curse you Malik."
Although at the back of his mind he couldn't help but imagine what the young girl thief would be like.
'Grr stupid mind, I have better things to think about than some girl that I happen to hear so much about.'
Dariko shook his head to clear his thoughts 'Oh great, now I'm talking to myself, I must be going insane all because of K... no what am I thinking? I can't have a crush on someone I've never seen before now or can I?'
A slight blush began to spread over his cheeks.
Dariko looked up from his scrolls as Ra could be seen on the horizon indicating the ending of yet another day in Kura Eruna, the city of thieves. He sigh standing up for a stretch before heading off to the duelling arena, otherwise known as the "Torture Chamber".
'Malik better be there or I'll really skin him alive, that little brat.'
Dariko shook his head almost disappointedly as he walked into the duelling arena seeing Malik was there already "I almost thought you didn't have the nerve to show up here again Malik." He smirked as Malik rolled his eyes.
"I'm so scared your lowness."
"I'm insulted by your childish behaviour."
"Hey! I'm proud of it princling."
"Whatever you're always all talk and no duelling."
Malik snorted "My soul monster can turn yours into dragon steak Dariko."
"Wanna try it then? Or are you scared that I will toast you in this duel."
Malik growled "Bring. It. On."
For the next couple of days there was a dramatic change in Dariko's attitude, he distanced himself from others and when they tried to talk to him, his reply was either monosyllables or in an icy tone that makes cold sweat seem heavenly. His parents, Bakura and Mai, were somewhat extremely concerned of this change but kept it to themselves. Malik had quieten as well being felt guilty for the joke that was supposed to lighten up his friend, but turned out to make him even more cold and expressionless than before.
Interlude of thoughts
'Sometimes I wish dreams would come true, that I could live my life in fantasy.
But then reality comes striking down ...
So I try to freeze the moment
Seize it, own it, hold it
Cause I consider these minutes golden'
Ra began to rise into the sky once again. Two pairs of eyes followed its rebirth.
'Sometimes I wish I can live in a fairytale ...'
Blue and violet eyes met at the beginning of yet another day.
End of Interlude
"Kori are you listening to a word I say?" Seto growled seeing the new princess wander between the realm of reality and daydreams.
"Sorry Seto, what were you saying again?" Kori asked apologetically.
A slight giggle came from the corner of the room stole both Seto and Kori's attentions. Dark Magician Girl had her hands over her mouth trying very hard not to interrupt the lesson.
"Is something wrong, Mana?" Kori asked.
"This lesson reminded me of when Mahado tried to teach me magic and I was too impatient to wait for it to end." Mana (Dark Magician Girl) replied.
"At least you didn't go to daydream land unlike a certain somebody." Seto said shaking his head. "Why did I volunteer to do this job in the first place?"
"Because I'm your best friend in the whole, wide world." Kori grinned feeling satisfied with the task of annoying Seto at least once every lesson per day.
"Yeah right Kori, not even in your dreams."
"Not in my dreams ne, how about in my nightmares?" Kori had quite an evil smirk on her face seeing Seto trying ever so hard to get a smartass comeback to her remark.
Mana started giggling again "Did the kitty rob you off your tongue Seto?"
Seto choked at hearing the word, called "rob". 'That is one heck of a bad pun Mana. Kori used to be a thief that robbed people's properties but like hell, why am I so concerned about that? She doesn't remember a thing about it at all, unless she recovered some of those memories when she keeps daydreaming away or maybe when I taught her to tap into her shadow magic ...'
Kori cleared her throat to get his attention "Anyone there?"
"What?" Seto was growling again.
"So has the lesson finished yet Seto?"
"Yeah, whatever. I can't stand another minute in here anyway."
"What about my room?"
"Nevermind." Seto said, preparing to leave.
"Oh Seto, can I go down to the city tomorrow?" Kori asked, hoping.
"Why?"
"Because I wanna. It's boring here in this palace. Wake up, lessons, lunch, lessons, duel, dinner, sleep. And that's all! I wanna go, I wanna go, I wanna go! Please Seto! I'm begging here if you haven't noticed already."
"And what will your daddy say? You know perfectly well what happened the last time you went down to the city."
"What? I was just having fun."
"How about NO!"
Kori started whining "You're such a meanie Seto. You know, we don't have to tell Yami that I'm taking a day off. Can't you keep a secret? For once? Just once, I promise."
"No!"
"Please."
"No!!"
"Pretty please."
"NO!!!"
"Fine! But I'm still going."
Mana just silently watched this rally of an argument, it happens so often that she wonders how Kori and Seto haven't tried to kill each other yet.
Meanwhile in Kura Eruna
Malik was in his room, writing! Of all the things he could be doing. He has been in there ever since lunch.
'Why am I doing this in the first place?' A part of his mind complainted.
'Because his icy-stubborn-hard-headed highness is making you feel like shit so that's why we're trying to make it up to him.' The reasoning side of the mind remarked.
'Why should we bother about him in the first place?'
'Because "he" happens to be our best friend and that it was "you" who made him turn into an ice cube in the middle of Ra boiling hot Egypt!'
'Ah, but that means you helped turn him into an ice cube too, because you are me.'
'No I'm not. You're part of Malik's mind, but I'm just the reasoning part of his mind ... Eep!!!'
'Ha! Told you so, you are still part of Malik's mind whether you like it or not.'
'Blah,blah,blah. No one's listening. No one, no one, no one. I'm not going insane! I'm not hearing or talking to any voices, I'm not, I'm not, I am!!!'
Malik slammed his head against his desk.
(AN: Now that must have hurt, bad. Self inflicted concussion! I try to do that to myself too whenever I 'm annoyed, slammed head over heels into a writer's block or just anytime I want to, but I still haven't gotten myself a concussion yet.)
Malik woke up sometime just before dinner, blinking his rather blurry vision and massive head ache away. He quickly grabbed a new roll of parchment then tore all his mixed up thoughts out of his mind and jammed them onto paper.
He didn't bother to look over his piece of work when he finished, instead he dashed over to Dariko's room holding the parchment.
Whether it was ever so fortunate or unfortunate that when Malik got there, Dariko happens to be god knows where, he dumped the parchment onto the desk hoping that the princling will read it before sprinting off to get dinner.
'This is pointless. Why am I still here?'
Dariko continued to wander aimlessly through the Shadow Realm, he has done it so often that it was almost a daily routine.
[Dariko you really should go back to the real world now, you know the others are worrying about you.] Hyozanryu said gliding through the shadows beside his master.
{I know, but why bother.}
[I wish you would cheer up a bit.]
{There's nothing to be happy about Hyozanryu.}
[There's where you're wrong my prince. To think that you're supposed to be a thief, why can't you believe in yourself that you can steal a certain somebody's heart ... O.K. maybe you're a bit young at the moment but maybe in the future you might meet her and you know what I'm trying to say.]
{Do you know how weird it sounds for a dragon to give a person such advices? Sometimes I wonder whether you're trying to get a she-dragon to like you.}
[I WAS TRYING TO CHEER YOU UP!!!]
{I know, maybe I should go back now, I really do lose track of time here.}
[Well good day, your highness.] Hyozanryu did a salute as Dariko walked out through the portal.
As usual after dinner Dariko hurried back to his room to avoid any unnecessary conversations with anyone.
'I just love these days.' He thought sarcastically.
He sat down at his desk resting his head on a pile of scrolls.
'Maybe I just need some exercise and I'll be fine again. Yes why not tomorrow, go rob a tomb. That's right and cause some chaos, good.' He slammed his head against the desk. 'I'm trying to fool myself, prolonging my growing insane mind.'
He looked around for something to do. 'What da hell is a piece of parchment filled with scribbles doing on my desk?!'
He opened it up trying to find out what it is. It reads:
Riko
Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted-One moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?
You only get one shot, don't lose your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime
SO DON'T YOU BLOODY DARE GIVE UP NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You maybe down and out now
Struggling even
Wondering what's the point
But you've got a dream
So hold onto it
You can't let it go till you've made it come true
Just don't hesitate and wait too long
Cos like a dream when you wake up its gone
You can do anything you set your mind to ...
Malik.
Dariko was shocked 'Who knew Malik could write something like this. Maybe I should go and pay him a visit.' He stood up strolling over to Malik's room.
He knocked on the closed door, a mumbled "come in" was the reply. Dariko opened the door slowly looking around to see where his friend is.
"What do you want Mr Hard-Head?!" Malik snapped.
"You're awfully happy today Maliky." Dariko said walking over to his side.
"Oh if I'm happy then you must have died from happiness ages ago."
Dariko smiled "It seems like Maliky got a few new insults while I was in the Underworld."
Mali snorted but nonetheless shocked from the smile of his friend that he hasn't seen for at least half a year. "So why are you here?"
"I wanted to say thank you Malik." Dariko gave him a brotherly hug. "Thank you for knocking some sense into my head."
Malik smiled hugging him back "Oh yeah, you're back. Who's the blond now?"
Dariko smacked him over the head, but Malik laughed it off.
Mwahahahahahahahaha and that's the end of the third chappie!
I feel so proud I finally finished it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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