**Okay… well this is more or less just a filler. A bit of humor and just kind of telling you what's going on with everyone else. I wasn't very involved in this part which is why it' sonly 4 pages long lol, pitiful huh? It's just a bit of a break from Mokuba and Serenity because the next three chapter (which are written and ready to go actually) are rather intense and you don't get to see much of anyone but Serenity and I don't want you to get bored. So yah, here yah go, I hope you enjoy**
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Wanted
Yugi stood at the counter in his grandfathers' old game shop. It was a slow day, as were most days. Yugi kind of assumed that he scared the customers off. Often when they walked in he'd be talking with Yami, which to them was like he was talking to himself. A one sided conversation. Yugi loved duel monsters, he really did, but he found running the game shop rather dull. If he hadn't promised to his grandpa, shortly before he'd passed away, that he'd take care of the shop he probably would have closed it by now. Or at least updated it. Yugi flipped the page in the duel monsters magazine he was looking at. The prices of the new cards were just so expensive and duel monsters wasn't nearly as popular as it had been when he'd been younger. During Kaiba's tournament the duels had been numerous. Everyone had been dueling and those who weren't wished they were. Duels used to take place in the middle of the streets and the police would make all the vehicles find an alternate route, now the police kicked the duelers off the streets.
It was sad really, duel monsters had been Yugi's life and now, despite, the fact a tournament was being held right now, he was taking care of the store rather than dueling like he ought to be. The only one who still evolved their life around the game was Seto Kaiba, but a new duel disk hadn't come out for nearly a year until the new rich guy Rez had asked Kaiba to make him some.
Yugi sighed as he watched two young lovers walk past the front window. His thoughts wondered to Tea. How he longed to walk down the street with her, totally in love. For years he'd been trying to shake his obsession with Tea, but it wasn't working in the slightest. He didn't understand why he was so infatuated with her. Though she still didn't know after over 5 years. Yugi was too shy to make any attempt at telling her his real feelings. He had suspicions she liked someone else anyway. He wasn't sure he could face rejection, especially not now.
Yugi blinked as he saw Tea walk past his front window and enter the store. Speak of the devil, Yugi said to himself.
"Hey Tea," Yugi replied, not as cheerfully as he normally would have been.
"You doin' okay Yugi?" Tea asked, all of Yugi's friends were worried about him. His grandfather had only recently passed away. They often came and checked on him.
Yugi choked on the air in his throat as Tea brought up his grandfather. A tear formed in his eye. He bowed his head, but said nothing.
"Let me do this Yugi, you need some time alone," Yami said.
Yugi simply nodded and allowed the spirit of the millennium puzzle to take over.
"Oh!" Tea said happily as she watched Yugi grow taller and grow several extra spikes in his hair. "Yami, how goes life in the… er- in the puzzle?" she asked.
Yami blinked and laughed quietly. "It's… interesting," Yami told her.
"Well that's good. I'd just come to ask Yugi if he wanted to hang out for a bit, but I understand if he's upset. Though I cleared my schedule just for him… so I have some extra time…" Tea hinted.
"Well I suppose we ought to go do something then," Yami said.
"Oh I'm so glad you suggested that!" Tea said happily.
Yami blinked, he'd thought it had more or less been Tea's suggestion. "Uh, yes well…" Yami said, he didn't really have much to say. He walked over to the door of the shop, turned the sign to closed and opening it, allowing Tea to leave first.
"So what do you want to do?" Tea asked.
Yami shrugged, "I'm kind of hungry, why don't we go for a bit of supper," he suggested.
"Sounds like fun!" Tea shouted and went running ahead. "Where do you want to go?" she asked.
Yami frowned, "I don't know… lead the way," he said.
"Oh great!" Tea pointed to a place just up the street. "Apparently it's like the coolest place to go these days. I was going to take Yugi, but I guess we'll have to go. I hear it has great food too."
Tea and Yami walked to the restaurant and entered the building. It was incredibly crowded and there was a 45 minutes wait for a table. But Yami and Tea waited anyway, they didn't have much of anything else to do. They sat on the bench just outside of the place called 'The Hangout', how original. They tried to avoid the subject of Yugi's grandpa though because they knew Yugi could hear them. Tea found that rather aggravating because she liked Yami, but she knew Yugi liked her so she didn't dare say anything to Yami while Yugi was listening, especially not since his grandpa just passed away. But they talked about other things, like the weather, and Serenity's duel, and how angry Joey would be if anything really went on between Serenity and Mokuba. Joey had been particularly happy when he'd found out Serenity was angry with Mokuba. He really had nothing against Mokuba, except that he was dating his sister, which made Joey totally against him. Although according to Serenity it hadn't been officialized yet and he hadn't come right out and asked her to be his girlfriend and that things just seemed to be leaning that way. They came up with rather funny situations in which Mokuba tried to get Serenity to stop being upset with him. Then they finally got to go and eat supper, which was good because by then Yami could hear his stomach growling. At the table they talked about Joey and Mai, and where they thought that was going, then they talked about the tournament and the new millionaire, Rezonukin. Yami already had 2 star chips, 1 moon chips, 1 diamond chips and 1 heart chip. All he needed now was a star chip, 1 moon, 2 squares, and a diamond. They also talked about how Duel Monsters was dying and how Dungeon Dice monster was rising. Yami found it to be a rather difficult stage, because he didn't know what else he'd do if Yugi quit playing duel monsters. Not that it really mattered because they were no longer dueling to save the world, or to save is grandpa.
After they had eaten and were fully fed they headed out of the still rather crowded restaurant only to find the sun was setting.
"So what do you want to do now?" Yami asked.
"Let's go dancing!" Tea suggested enthusiastically.
"Well… you can dance and I'll watch," Yami suggested.
"Oh come on, it's fun. We'll go to that new club, The Tavern or something like that," Tea grabbed his arm and began dragging him down the street.
Yami followed, though he wasn't nearly as enthusiastic as she was about it. He squinted as they entered The Tavern. The bright lights that were flashing on and off hurt his eyes and he had technical difficulties not running into people on the off part of the flash. He found it rather amusing how everyone looked like robots, being in one place and then another every time it flicked. Tea was having a blast though. Twirling and bending, and moving this foot and then that. One rather short girl, perhaps 4 feet tall came over to Yami and tried to get him to dance with her. He tried to decline nicely, though he had troubles getting her to leave him alone. Apparently he was a major babe, whatever that was.
"Ack!" Yami shouted as he found himself wedge in between two rather large, female buttocks'. Tea quickly saved him, though only from the butts. She then dragged him on the dance floor and began moving her feet much to quickly for Yami to follow.
"Come on Yami!" Tea shouted over the loud music. "Dance with me!" Tea grabbed Yami's arms and began moving them in a less than dignified manner. Yami tried to wedge himself free, though he couldn't seem to do so, so he just gave in and began moving his feet.
"Left, right, right, left," Yami mumbled as he tried to make himself look as if he knew what he was doing. "Left, right, right, left, left," Yami said a little faster as he was beginning to get the hang of it. Though that didn't last long. Just as Yami was kind of getting into it the millennium puzzle made a surprise attack on him and whacked him right in the face. Yami fell over, clutching his face. "Oh that was harsh," He mumbled as Tea helped him to him feet, stifling her giggles. Tea took him over to the bar where they both sat. Tea ordered them both drinks. Yami sipped it and then spit it out all over the counter. "What is this crap?" he exclaimed.
"Er', it's beer and clam juice…" Tea exclaimed.
"It's horrible!" Yami said, licking the sleeve of his jacket trying to get the horrible taste off of his tongue.
"Well…" Tea said thoughtfully. "Try this," she said ordering him a different drink.
Yami was hesitant to try it, but he did anyway. It wasn't that good either. Though it definitely had an invitation from him mouth after the last one. Tea watched as Yami pretty much chugged the entire thing. Then he ordered another, and drank it too, only slightly slower. Tea watched him, her eyes wide and mouth slightly open until he finally turned to her, a huge grin on his face.
"That was fun," he said, his voice slightly slurred. "Let's dance," he suggested.
"Uhhh," was all Tea managed to get out before Yami grabbed her hand and dragged her back onto the dance floors. Tea was having a blast and was rather disappointed when the alcohol wore off. It didn't take long at all, apparently Yami was an experienced drunk in the past and he'd just drank his alcohol a little fast. That's when Tea went and found herself someone else fun to dance with. Some tall guy with spiky brown hair who was just a little touchy for her taste, but she was having fun none the less.
At least she was until she tried to leave and he wouldn't let her. "Let's go Tea, my head's starting to hurt from all this music," Yami complained.
"That alcohol couldn't be part of the problem could it?" Tea smirked.
"Whatever," Yami said. "Let's just go."
"Sure," Tea agreed. "Hey buddy," she said to the guy she was dancing with. "I'm going now, maybe I'll meet up with you another time." Tea turned to leave but he wrapped his arms around her waist. She struggled to get away but to no avail. Finally Yami came over and suggested he let her go.
The guy swung one hand at him, Yami narrowly avoided it and quickly shouted, "Mind Crush!" It had seemed like a good idea at the time.
"Hey!" some other dude shouted. "What did you do to him?" he demanded as they watched him twitch on the floor.
"Er-, well," Yami tried to explain.
"Someone call the cops! Don't let those two leave!" some girl shouted.
"Uh-oh, we had better get out of here Yami," Tea said grabbing his arm, but they were blocked by several people.
"Could you move please?" Yami asked. The entire crowd laughed at him, and didn't move. "Shall I mind crush them too?" he asked Tea.
Tea shook her head and whispered something in his ear. Suddenly they both dropped to their knees and crawled between the peoples' legs, then made a mad dash for the door. The cops had just pulled up in front of the building, light flashing and sirens blaring.
"Quick!" Tea shouted pulling Yami into the alley. They jumped into the nearest dumpster and hid.
"This is a very undignified place for a pharaoh," Yami said pulling an orange peel out of his hair.
"Well you could go to jail instead," Tea suggested.
"I was just saying," Yami said, pouting slightly.
They hid in the rather foul smelling dumpster until they heard the cops drive off. Yami constantly noted how undignified it was though, and Tea was having technical difficulties not laughing. She was thoroughly surprised that the cops didn't find them during their search of the alley. They quickly ran to the large park just down the street, and walked, talking about nothing important until Tea decided she needed to tell Yami the truth.
"Yami," Tea said seriously.
"What is it Tea?" Yami asked worriedly.
"There's something I've been meaning to tell you for some time now," Tea replied.
"Oh?" Yami asked.
Inside the millennium puzzle Yugi was listening attentively. She couldn't be telling him… could she? Yugi thought as Tea said that it was something very important and that she didn't want him to laugh.
"No, of course I won't Tea," Yami said sincerely.
"Well… you stink," Tea finally said.
Yami blinked and burst out laughing, though Yugi just sighed.
"You said you wouldn't laughed!" Tea said between giggles.
Yami was able to stop laughing long enough to tell her that she didn't smell to swell either.
"Swell?" Tea demanded. "What kind of a word is swell? You'd think you'd have been in the 21st century long enough to not say swell anymore Yami."
"Old habits die hard," he said simply.
They continued to walk, talking and laughing happily until they came to the huge double fountains.
"Oh let's go swimming!" Tea said enthusiastically.
"It specifically says no swimming though," Yami pointed out.
"So what, you just mentally damaged someone and you're worried about listening to a sign?" Tea demanded.
"Yes well, that didn't involve getting wet," Yami said sticking his finger in the cold water and immediately withdrawing it.
"Oh don't be such a wimp," Tea said taking her vest and belt off and stepping into the fountain.
"I can't believe I'm doing this…" Yami mumbled taking off all his belts and buckles and earrings and most important of all, his puzzle. He couldn't let that get wrecked. Yami stepped into the cold fountain and waddled slowly over to Tea and squeaked. "It's cold."
Tea laughed so hard she fell over. That snapped her out of it and she stood up and splashed water at the now laughing Yami. "I'm not the one suffering from major shrinkage," she shouted.
"Hey now, that's outta line!" Yami shouted, splashing back.
This continued for some time, and eventually Tea managed to wrestle Yami into the water so he was completely immerged. She laughed so hard when he came up and his spikes were all droopy.
"Oh look at the nice young couple, they look like they are having so much fun. It would be so nice to be young again these days," some nice old lady said as her and her husband waddled by.
"Young holligans! Can't you see the sign that says no swimming?" he demanded.
"Can't you see the sign that says go away?" Tea shouted at him.
"That's no way to treat your elders!" the man shouted.
Yami took the opportunity to look over at his stuff. The puzzle was gone! "Oh no!" he shouted.
"What is it dear?" the old lady asked.
"My best friend! I've lost my best friend!" Yami shouted frantically.
"What does he look like?" she asked. "Maybe we've seen him."
"He's gold! And he's got one great big eye!" Yami described the puzzle.
The old lady gave him a confused look and shook her head. "I'm afraid I've never seen anyone by that description."
"Oh no, oh no, oh no," Yami chanted and then dove into the fountain. The salt water stung his eyes badly as he searched for the millennium puzzle. But apparently the water was a lot dirtier than it look from above because all he could see where little tiny parasites and dirt. "Tea help!" Yami screamed when he had come up for air. He quickly dove back down again and began searching with his hands. He found a thing chain but when he brought it up he realized it belonged to some girls underwear. "Eww," he said throwing them back in across the fountain. The next chain he found was handcuffs… "Er- whatever," he mumbled before throwing them away again. Before he dove this time he saw bubbles come up only a few inches away from him. "Yugi?" Yami asked diving down to the spot. Sure enough, he'd found the millennium puzzle. Yugi immediately took his body back and started coughing.
"Oh that's harsh," Yugi said standing up. Tea ran over and hugged him, it was a nice feeling.
"Oh you're okay!" she shouted happily. "I thought you'd drown!"
"Well, I was drowning actually," Yugi said, then he quickly looked down at the sopping puzzle and popped out the corner piece and drained the water from inside. "Sorry about that Yami," he mumbled before replacing the piece and putting it back around his neck.
"Let's go home…" Tea suggested. "Oh and make sure you're careful when you let Yami out, he's a wanted criminal," Tea warned.
Yugi simply nodded and began making the long trudge home in his sopping wet clothes.
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**Okay… I edited this myself… lol can you tell?? I was too impatient to get my editor person to do it an di wanted to update because I REALLY like the next three chapter… lol, and I think you will too. Or is it… next four chapters… I know three are done and 4 is started at least. Yah, now here's the deal, I am going to put the next chapter up now, just because this one is so short but you have to review on both, not just the next one. Just because it makes me feel better, if you don't then I'll never update two chapters at a time again and I'll make all those who care wait like two weeks despite that fact I have the next chapter done and everything. I know that right now it doesn't seem like much of a threat but I think that by thte next chapter it will, it heats up pretty good, especially at the end of chapter 7, but most of chapter 6 is action full… oh wait… it's the next chapter that's action full lol. And just for all you Seto/Serenity fans, that's what it's about. All Seto/Serenity but if you don't review on this chapter too then I won't write anymore of them… well I will eventually but I'll avoid it at all costs. Lol, I'm a big meany, I'm sorry but reviews are just so addicting. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed and PLEASE review, even if you didn't really like it lol, just review and say "well I didn't really like this chapter, but the rest is pretty good!" or something lol. I don't mind, reviews are just so addicting.**