AN: Welcome to the random chapter. In this chapter your find out Yami's secret favourite food – his one and only weakness. Also you find out that Serenity does not know how to write good love letters and Joey has a weird obsession. Like we said, this is a random chapter.
The Thief of the Card
Chapter 4
Yami was pacing up and down the living room, with a Sherlock Homes pipe in his hand trying to figure out the mystery. Yugi was sitting at a table writing something.
"Perhaps we should look at all the clues again..." Yami said to himself. He got his handy dandy notebook from his pocket and looked at the list of clues.
"What does a strand of red hair; a receipt for 10 duel monster cards; a shopping list for pink balloons, Red Eyes Black Dragon, and cheese puffs, and a date have to do with each other?"
"Well, you know that the shopping list has two important things..." Yugi started. "The shopping list has made all the robberies connected."
"And the thief must know about the millennium items." Joey added as he played a game of solitaire, and was losing badly considering the fact that all the cards were spades.
"COME ON YOU GUYS, THINK!" Grandpa yelled as he struggled to fit another box into the box filled fireplace. Yugi walked over and grabbed another box of fan mail and started reading them.
"HEY I THINK I JUST THOUGHT OF SOMETHING!" Yelled Yami just as Yugi opened another letter, but before Yami could say anything Yugi interrupted him.
"Hey Joey, I just got a letter from your sister!" Joey stared at Yugi, then turned back to his card game which somehow a queen of hearts had appeared.
"REALLY?" Tristan ran into the room grabbing the letter from Yugi's hands. "Let me see it!" Something fell out of the envelope and landed Yugi's spiky head. Joey picked it up.
"It's a picture of my sister." Joey said confused.
"Why would Serenity send you a letter and a picture?" Yami asked.
"Fan mail." Yugi shrugged.
"WHAT YA GET FAN MAIL!" Joey was outraged. Again Yugi shrugged and pointed to grandpa who was attacking a box of fan mail with a paper shredder.
"STUPID LETTERS! WHY DON'T YOU BURN?" Grandpa yelled to the letters. The letters continued to ignore him.
"Let me see that." Yami said grabbing the letter from Tristan. "It's been sent to the wrong address you idiot."
"What? Serenity doesn't like me?" Yugi cried. Yami ignored his cries and started to read the letter out loud:
Dearest Seto,
With deepest sympathy I hope that you'll find your precious cards. I have missed you greatly and I long to see you again. Would you please be nice to my brother, then perhaps he'll let us go out and we can have a wonderful romance.
Love, Serenity
P.S. Enclosed is a picture of me. Like my new haircut?
"WHAT?!? THERE IS NO WAY KAIBA'S GOING NEAR MY SISTER!" Joey was having a heart attack just from the thought.
"Nice haircut though," Tristan mumbled looking over Joey's shoulder at the picture. Yami grabbed the picture before Tristan's drool landed on Joey's hand. Noticing Grandpa's difficulties with the fire place, he grabbed 'the forbidden' matchbox from his pocket, lighted a match, and threw it into the fireplace.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I WANTED THAT MATCH!" Joey said, almost jumping into the now alight fireplace. Yami threw the box at Joey. 'That should keep him entertained for a while.' He thought to himself.
Joey caught the matchbox gleefully. He took out a match and attempted to light it. It took him 13 and a half tries.
"Fire..." He said almost as if he was in a trance. "OW!" He yelped as the flame reached his fingers. He dropped the match into the fire. Then he grabbed another match and restarted the whole process.
"Serenity has red hair..." Yami mumbled to himself. 'But Serenity doesn't know about the millennium items. It must be some one who knows Serenity perhaps and got some of her red hair.'
"STOP BEING IDIOTS AND HELP ME SOLVE THIS MYSTERY, WILL YOU?" Joey turned away from the match to look at Yami like everyone else.
"OWW!" He screamed at the flame engulfed his hand. He stuck his hand into his over sized mouth and put the box of matches into his pocket.
Just as Yami was going to say something really intelligent, while attempting to set Joey alight, his mobile rang with the theme song of the TV show Yu-Gi-Oh.
"Hello?" He took out his mobile in its new white fluffy cover. A few minutes later he set the mobile down on Yugi's head.
"Duke says that the police have found a connection with the date that they found. The date is tomorrow and the only important things happening tomorrow are, 1: The sheep shearer champion is coming to Domino and, 2: The new shipment of duel monster cards will be at the port and, 3: Britney Spears, who ever she is, is holding a concert in an hot air balloon that will be flying over Domino." Yami explained.
"OMG! NOT THE BRITNEY SPEARS! I LOVE HER!" Yugi squealed with excitement. Joey and Tristan just glared at Yugi.
"She's sooooo last year! Kylie Minogue is so much better!" Tristan said.
"What are you talking about? Avril Lavigne is the best!" Joey rebutted.
"Does it really matter who is a good singer?" Yami asked, even though he was ignored by Yugi, Joey and Tristan who were in the middle of a cat fight.
"Well, obviously the thief is going to be after the new shipment of cards." Yami said logically.
"WHAT? How do you know the thief doesn't like Britney Spears!" Grandpa yelled wondering what happened to all the boxes of letters went. He scratched his head stupidly. "The thief stole the letters!" He yelled.
"Logically speaking, the thief has gone after duel monster cards apart from Marik's Millennium rod, therefore, the thief is likely to steal the new cards." Yami said to find that he was being ignored once again. 'Being the smart one does have a disadvantage.' Yami thought as Joey began jumping on the couch singing what was supposedly Avril Lavigne's new song.
"Fine then, I'll just go eat a bowl of Tomato Sauce!" Yami said gloomily as he walked into the kitchen. He grabbed a fork and a bowl, filled it with tomato sauce and started eating it.
"YAMI!" Yugi marched into the kitchen.
"We think that the thief is going to go to the port and steal the new cards!" Yugi said.
"I already-" Yami started but was interrupted by Tristan.
"Stop eating your tomato sauce and help us solve the mystery. You are no help at all!" Yami just sighed and continued eating. 'Sometimes you have to let the idiots figure things out before you can get them to listen to you.' He said licking the bowl clean.
"I like tomato sauce..." Yami said out of the blue.
"We need to go to the port tomorrow and look for clues! Who's with me?" Grandpa yelled, skipping around the room, occasionally taking some of Yami's tomato sauce. They all looked at grandpa nervously.
"He's right." Yugi said matter-of-factly.
"I'll come!" Yelled Tristan. "I'll bring Serenity!"
"Do I have a choice?" Yami asked Yugi.
"Nope," Yugi said happily.
/I'm not going with these morons alone, Yami/
/Look who's talking.../ Yugi frowned and was just about to hit Yami over the head when Joey said something.
"I can't...I gotta go ta work." Joey said looking crestfallen.
- End of Chapter 4 -
Our reacurring word was tomato sauce, we used it 3 times in the story! – so please review!