[[…]] Bakura
[…] Ryou
||…|| Airen
|…| Uni
… Mai to Mina
… Mina to Mai
Ch.9 Switching Soul Rooms?! The fun Begins! (Bakura: NOOOOO!!!!!)"No way," Bakura was backing up from Airen with disbelief, almost in tears, "NO WAY!!!" Airen slapped herself on the forehead.
"If you think I'm very happy about being reincarnated into a boy, then you are HELL wrong!"
"B-But h-hey," Joey said, half giggling, "that explains why Ryou's so girlish!"
"Hey!" Ryou protested.
"It's ahem, well not impossible for you um, well…to be reincarnated into the opposite gender!" explained Yami who was desperately trying to restrain from laughing his own head off, "besides," he continued, "it's rather fu-I mean interesting."
"I've been reincarnated into a girl!!! I'VE BEEN REINCARNATED INTO A GIRL!!!!! My reputation…it…it's done for!" Bakura sobbed on the floor. Airen patted him gently. (Mai: O_O I have never seen Bakura cry! Oh but it's such a cute sight! A/N: *bows evilly*)
"I know how you feel Bakura…" she said more to herself than her brother.
On the other hand, Uni cocked an eyebrow and muttered 'cool'.
Ryou was staring at his sister with disbelief, "Uni! He's going influence you with violence, insanity and evil!!!"
"Oh come on bro," she replied, "he already has anyway. Besides…if you've noticed, I am more like a boy and you're more like a girl." Ryou's eyes widened, "not trying to be offensive, but really."
"Don't tell me you're actually HAPPY about being the reincarnation of an evil tomb robber-guy!"
"And you like being the reincarnation of a female tomb robber?" Ryou didn't answer.
"Does that mean Bakura and Airen have to switch soul rooms?" said Yugi.
"No way!" both protested.
"But things might not work out if you two don't switch back to the items your souls belong to," suggested Yugi, "at least give it a try."
"Yeah!" sang Joey and Tristan. The siblings glared at them but nodded reluctantly.
And so they did.
Bakura's Soul Room~
Airen stepped into her brother's soul room and gasped.
"Huh?" Ryou blinked, puzzled.
"This is…wow!"
"Wow…yes?"
"My, my," Airen continued, "my dear little Bakura has certainly come a long way to becoming a true man!" she held her hands together dreamily.
"Being a true man…?"
||No dolls or toys in his soul room! Not even a mirror!||
Ryou stared at her, "Dolls? Huh? How'd you do that?"
"Do what?"
"Talk to me through my mental link with Bakura!"
"Well I am your Yami now so…"
[[What the hell, sis??]]
|Hey what's going on Airen? How come I can hear Bakura mentally!? |
[[I AM your yami now!]]
[Uh…huh? Uni?]
|Bro?!|
[[What is this?! A four way phone line?! ]]
||OK Attention! State your names! Every one of you!||
[[Bakura, DUH sis!!]]
|Uni over here!|
[I'm Ryou]
||And I'm Airen||
|Ahem, so anyone know why we can all hear each other through our mental links?|
[I must say, this is very interesting]
[[Interesting, my ass!]]
||Bakura! When did you start talking like that!||
|Does this mean we'll be able to all hear each other's thoughts and feelings from now on?!?!?!|
||I think you're right Uni…and occasionally each other's…memories too…||
[[Say WHAAAAAT???]]
|D-Does that mean they'll…they'll…|
Uni gulped in Airen's old soul room and blushed.
[Oooh! Know your secret crush Uni?]
|HEY!!|
||Now, now calm down you all. There must be a reason why we can somehow connect together all four at once.||
|I'm gonna kill you before you say anything Ryou!!!|
[Tooooo bad Uni!]
[[All right, whose idea was it to switch soul rooms again???]]
[I think it was Yugi]
[[ok then I'll kill him right now]]
||WAIT!!!!! STOP IT!!! ALL OF YOU!!!|| all stops
||Thank you, now back on topic. First of all the normal function of the mental link is for us to talk to our Yami's, and our Yami's only, or vice versa. Do you all agree?||
[Yes. And the problem is we can all somehow talk to each other when you and Bakura switched soul rooms?]
||Exactly. When I switched soul rooms with my brother, I was expecting it would be only you, Ryou who can be the only one to hear my thoughts from then on, since you're my hikari now||
|But for some reason I can still hear your voice through our mental link, right Airen?|
||Mm-hmm||
[Then I wonder…ah!]
[[What's wrong?]]
[I-It's Shadi!] all turns back to reality
"The four of you have been gone for some time now," Shadi explained as he took away the Millennium Ankh from Ryou's forehead.
"How long?" asked Ryou as Airen materialized beside him, as did Bakura. Shadi nodded towards their beds.
"Long enough for people to think you two needed to go to the hospital." Both siblings looked down and found themselves each lying on a hospital bed.
"Aiya…" Joey chimed in by Ryou's bed, "you two have been out for at least an hour or two."
"People were staring!" Téa interrupted, "and we couldn't wake you guys up!"
"Mental talks do take up a lot of time," Yami stated, "believe me, Yugi and I are experts."
"So what were the four of you doing?" inquired Yugi.
"Trying to figure out why the four of us can all hear each other's thoughts," Bakura retorted unhappily.
"The four of you can what?!"
Uni was blushing with anger while Ryou grinned evilly at her. Airen stood beside Ryou and seemed to smiling about something. Bakura was twitching his eyes at Airen in an uncomfortable way…
"Guess the four of your secrets are quite open to each other now," Serenity shrugged, "but that's good isn't it?" she looked at Joey, "right Joey?"
"Yeah," he answered slyly, "you four can help each other out," he winked.
"Tell us, Shadi," Bakura demanded, "why is this happening??"
"You and Ryou have established a connection while you resided within the millennium ring, and your sister did the same with Uni," Shadi began, "that connection will stay with you two until the death of the item's possessor. But then, you suddenly switched soul rooms with your sister, beginning another connection with her hikari."
"So the connection comes to stay," said Mai. Shadi nodded.
"I'm afraid there is nothing I can do to help you four break that connection," apologized Shadi, "but you can mentally block your thoughts from each other. However, if you should ever let your mental barriers down, the thoughts will leak through."
Something you've done quite a lot lately Mai
Oh, hush Mina
With that said, Shadi disappeared from the hospital room.
~~~~~~~~~~~~1am, at the hotel that night~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bakura rubbed his eyes sleepily as he materialized beside Ryou. He had heard a noise in the dark and came out to make sure everything was all right. But when he went up to the balcony, he saw Airen sitting on the railing.
"Still up so late Bakura?"
"Yeah," he answered, "how bout you?" Airen chuckled.
"Couldn't sleep."
"How come?"
"You know what I was thinking earlier when I saw you soul room?"
"No…why?"
"I remembered…when you were still young," she smiled warmly, "we used to watch the stars together at night, remember? When we weren't busy robbing the pharaoh's tombs." Bakura sweat dropped.
"Can we forget about that, please??"
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*rubs hands evilly* now how shall I do away with Bakura's cute little past? *grins*
Yami Bakura: Nooo!!! Please!! I beg of you! I'll even do your laundry! PLEEEASE!!
Airen: *giggle* Bakura had such an amazing past!
Please R&R~!!!
