a/n: HERE IS WHERE IT GETS INTERESTING, SO READ IT AND REVIEW!!!!! The next chapter will be the beginning of EVERYTHING!!!
If you've read my other fics, then you already know why I haven't updated.
/Kai/.
Her eyes snapped open. /Kai./
"Who is it?" she asked aloud. Tea was asleep and it was a female voice. Was she dreaming?
/Listen to your instincts, Kai./
Sitting up, Kai looked around the room. It was morning, but only just. "W-who are you?" She listened carefully but there was no response. Maybe it was her imagination. Kai laid back down and closed her eyes, but she couldn't sleep anymore. With a sigh, she got up.
Opening the door to her room silently, she went into the living room. She had an urge to call Carlos and tell him about it. Even though it was stupid, after Gran had left, Kai used to hear a lot of things and Carlos was always there for her. He really was a great friend.
Thinking of Carlos made her remember what Tea had said about him the night before. Was he jealous of Yami? She hadn't seen any indication of it. Tea must have been saying things to annoy her. Why would he be jealous of him anyway? Yami was just a friend.
She sat down on the couch and stared at the phone. She couldn't call him. He never liked to get up earlier than ten. Kai checked her watch and moaned. Seven thirty. What would she do until her friends got up? /She/ never even got up this early usually. She could turn on the TV., if there was something decent on at this hour. All the good things came on at night. But she turned it on anyway. What else was there to do? She was in the middle of watching a soap marathon when Joey sat down next to her.
"What are you watching?" he asked.
"Days of Our Lives. It's a marathon. Probably the dumbest thing on right now," Kai replied.
"Then why are you watching it?"
"Because I don't feel like getting the remote and changing the channel."
"Oh. So, what's for breakfast?" he asked.
"I don't know. What do you want?" she asked, turning off the TV.
He hesitated for a minute. "How about I make breakfast today?"
Kai rolled her eyes. She knew it wasn't out of kindness. He just didn't want to eat burned eggs again. "Okay. Works for me. Do you know where everything is?" Joey nodded and set to work.
Kai went into her room to wake up Tea, but she was already awake.
"Oh, hi!" Tea said when Kai walked in.
"Hey," Kai said. "Joey's making breakfast now."
Tea's eyes widened. "Joey?"
Kai shrugged and laughed. "I think he got tired of my cooking. If you could call it that!"
Tea laughed and they heard the door to the boys room open. "I think Tristan's going to have a heart attack when he sees Joey in the kitchen!"
They both laughed as they heard Tristan ask Joey what on Earth he was doing.
"Come on, I'm starved," Kai said, heading for the door to her room with Tea close behind her.
Soon they were all seated at the table, eating.
"I never knew you could cook, Joey," Yami said. Joey just shrugged.
"Only some things."
"Well, he's better than me; that's for certain!" Kai said and they laughed. The rest
of breakfast was eaten in a pleasant silence.
That was all right for Yami. He was okay with this type of silence.
He wondered why Yugi hadn't tried to take back control of his body. It definitely seemed he was hiding something from Yami, and he was hiding it well. Yami didn't want to dig into Yugi's thoughts, so Yugi was pretty much safe with whatever he knew that his counterpart didn't. It was odd though.
Yami didn't mind being out and around. He was enjoying it, really. But after a few days, one would think the original owner of the body would want it back.
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Yugi was finding this all hilarious. It was amazing how smart someone can be, and then be so dense at the same time. So clueless, even of one's own thoughts. He knew exactly why he was letting Yami use his body for so long, and seeing Yami trying to figure it out cracked him up.
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The phone rang and it surprised Kai to the point of nearly falling off her chair. She grinned, embarrassed, as her friends laughed. She got up as the phone rang again.
"Hello?" she said, picking it up.
"Yo," came the voice of her friend Elaine. Kai laughed. Elaine had a way about her that all she needed to do to amuse Kai was say one word.
"What's up?" Kai asked.
"Carlos said you're hanging with some other guys," Elaine said.
"Yeah. But they're not /all/ guys. There's a girl too," Kai corrected. Yami exchanged confused looks with his friends as Kai stood there, back toward them, talking on the phone.
"Yeah, Carlos mentioned her. Tea, right?"
"Yeah."
"And Joey, Tristan, Bakura, and Yugi."
"Yeah, that's right," Kai said, a bit confused. She hadn't spoken to Elaine since Yami and his friends started staying with her. Then it clicked on how she knew their names. Carlos must have told her. They were surprisingly close for brother and sister.
"Anyway, Carlos is at Randy's right now and I'm bored. You want to come over? Bring the guys too. Maybe I can snag one," Elaine laughed and so did Kai.
"Okay, what time?" Kai asked.
"How about now?"
"Sure! See you soon." With that, Kai and Elaine hung up. When Kai turned around, she found her friends were watching her.
"Who was that?" Joey asked.
"Elaine Trevino. She wants us to come over. You guys up for it?"
"Yeah, okay!" Tea said.
"Trevino. Isn't that Carlos?" Tristan asked.
"You catch on quick," Kai laughed. "Elaine is his younger sister. She's nice."
"When does she expect us?" Bakura asked.
"About now," Kai said, grinning. "Just leave the dishes. I don't want to do them anyway."
They laughed and followed Kai out the door.
"So, is Elaine anything like Carlos?" Tea asked.
"No, not really," Kai said with a chuckle. "Elaine is always early for stuff and Carlos is always late. Carlos definitely has more of an ego than Elaine."
Her friends laughed.
"And you're best friends with Carlos and not Elaine?" Tea asked. "It seems to me that Elaine would be a better choice."
"It does seem that way, doesn't it? But Carlos and I just... fit. I don't really know how else to say it," Kai explained.
"Where do they live?" Tristan asked.
"A few houses down from me. It takes about all of five minutes to get there."
A few minutes later, Kai turned into the Trevino's driveway. She didn't even have to knock on the door before Elaine answered it.
"I thought you'd /never/ get here!" she exclaimed. "Well, are you going to stand out there all day or are you going to come in?"
Elaine pulled Kai to the side as soon as she walked in the door. "I see you brought the guys," she said, eyeing them. Kai rolled her eyes. Elaine was a bit boy crazy and sometimes it got on her nerves a little. "Well, introduce me!" she exclaimed, poking Kai hard in the arm.
"Ow! Okay, okay, keep your hair on," Kai said, rubbing her upper arm and joining Tea and Bakura on the couch. Yami was leaning against the doorframe to the hallway that led to Elaine's room and Tristan was sitting in the chair while Joey explored the room.
"Elaine," Kai said. "This is Bakura, Tea, Tristan, Yugi, and the snoop is Joey." Joey looked up when he heard his name and grinned sheepishly.
"Sorry," he said.
"Not a problem," Elaine said, grinning.
"So, what -?" Kai started, but Elaine interrupted her.
"How did you start staying with Kai?" Elaine asked.
"It was late and Kai offered us a place to stay. It was really nice of her," Tea said. Kai beamed.
"That's Kai," Elaine laughed. She perched on the armrest Tristan's chair and he gave her a funny look. Kai had to swallow the laugh that was forming in her throat.
"When does Carlos usually get home?" Tea asked.
"About four," Kai and Elaine said in unison. They looked at each other and laughed.
"Kai spends about as much time with Carlos as I do!" Elaine said.
Kai looked at her watch. It was already noon. She wanted him to come home. She enjoyed hanging out with him a bit more than hanging out with Elaine. Carlos was always full of surprises. Elaine was a little more predictable. Not that it was bad. Just right now, she wanted to hang out with Carlos.
"Come on, I'll show you around the house. you haven't seen the entire place yet," Elaine said, getting up.
"Do you mind if I just chill out here? I already know the layout of your house by heart," Kai said.
"Yeah, okay," Elaine said. She left down the hall that Yami was leaning against and Kai's friends followed.
Kai sighed loudly. Elaine's house was much bigger than hers. With three stories and a basement, it would take a while for them to get back.
She tried to ignore the headache she had had since she got up, but it was growing steadily worse. She wondered if her friend had any Advil. Kai got up and headed for the bathroom.
Opening the cabinet, she soon found what she was looking for. She took out two pills and put the container away. Kai then made her way to the kitchen for water to take it with.
She had just poured herself a glass and was swallowing the Advil when she heard a creak behind her. She spun around and choked when she saw Yami standing in the doorway. He laughed and asked if she was all right. Kai nodded and groaned.
"Yuck, pill taste." She took another sip of water to wash it away. "I thought Elaine was showing you guys around."
"She was. She had a ping pong table in the basement and everyone wanted to play. But since there were only four paddles and they needed one referee, I came up here. I'm not good at that game anyway," Yami said.
"Oh. Elaine has a way of being able to leave people out without feeling too bad about it," Kai said. It was one of the flaws her friend had.
"That's all right. I didn't want to play," he replied.
Then Kai had an idea. "I can show you someplace that Elaine doesn't even know about. You want to go?"
"All right," Yami said. He followed her out the back door to the edge of the woods that spread all the way to Kai's house.
"It's through here. Be careful of thorns, and stay close behind me. You could seriously get lost in here. I know, I've done it! That's how I found the place, actually. And then I got lost on my way back. But I know where I'm going now. Come on!" Kai said, starting into the trees. Yami stared at her for a minute. The trees didn't look very inviting. But he followed Kai anyway.
"Careful over here. There's a lot of thorns," Kai said after a while. Yami grabbed a vine between the thorns and lifted it up and ducked under it. He hadn't noticed the one around his ankles.
"Ow!" he cried and dropped the one he was holding. It landed on his shoulder and wouldn't let go.
Kai turned around and laughed. "I told you to be careful," she said, gently untangling him.
"Thank you," he muttered, rubbing his shoulder. He felt sort of stupid. Kai obviously knew what she was doing and he obviously didn't.
"How much further is it?" he asked after a while.
"Not much. Actually..." She pushed a large branch out of the way. "Bingo."
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a/n: Anyone who wants to know what she just showed him has to REVIEW!!! XD I'm evil. *grins evilly*
If you've read my other fics, then you already know why I haven't updated.
/Kai/.
Her eyes snapped open. /Kai./
"Who is it?" she asked aloud. Tea was asleep and it was a female voice. Was she dreaming?
/Listen to your instincts, Kai./
Sitting up, Kai looked around the room. It was morning, but only just. "W-who are you?" She listened carefully but there was no response. Maybe it was her imagination. Kai laid back down and closed her eyes, but she couldn't sleep anymore. With a sigh, she got up.
Opening the door to her room silently, she went into the living room. She had an urge to call Carlos and tell him about it. Even though it was stupid, after Gran had left, Kai used to hear a lot of things and Carlos was always there for her. He really was a great friend.
Thinking of Carlos made her remember what Tea had said about him the night before. Was he jealous of Yami? She hadn't seen any indication of it. Tea must have been saying things to annoy her. Why would he be jealous of him anyway? Yami was just a friend.
She sat down on the couch and stared at the phone. She couldn't call him. He never liked to get up earlier than ten. Kai checked her watch and moaned. Seven thirty. What would she do until her friends got up? /She/ never even got up this early usually. She could turn on the TV., if there was something decent on at this hour. All the good things came on at night. But she turned it on anyway. What else was there to do? She was in the middle of watching a soap marathon when Joey sat down next to her.
"What are you watching?" he asked.
"Days of Our Lives. It's a marathon. Probably the dumbest thing on right now," Kai replied.
"Then why are you watching it?"
"Because I don't feel like getting the remote and changing the channel."
"Oh. So, what's for breakfast?" he asked.
"I don't know. What do you want?" she asked, turning off the TV.
He hesitated for a minute. "How about I make breakfast today?"
Kai rolled her eyes. She knew it wasn't out of kindness. He just didn't want to eat burned eggs again. "Okay. Works for me. Do you know where everything is?" Joey nodded and set to work.
Kai went into her room to wake up Tea, but she was already awake.
"Oh, hi!" Tea said when Kai walked in.
"Hey," Kai said. "Joey's making breakfast now."
Tea's eyes widened. "Joey?"
Kai shrugged and laughed. "I think he got tired of my cooking. If you could call it that!"
Tea laughed and they heard the door to the boys room open. "I think Tristan's going to have a heart attack when he sees Joey in the kitchen!"
They both laughed as they heard Tristan ask Joey what on Earth he was doing.
"Come on, I'm starved," Kai said, heading for the door to her room with Tea close behind her.
Soon they were all seated at the table, eating.
"I never knew you could cook, Joey," Yami said. Joey just shrugged.
"Only some things."
"Well, he's better than me; that's for certain!" Kai said and they laughed. The rest
of breakfast was eaten in a pleasant silence.
That was all right for Yami. He was okay with this type of silence.
He wondered why Yugi hadn't tried to take back control of his body. It definitely seemed he was hiding something from Yami, and he was hiding it well. Yami didn't want to dig into Yugi's thoughts, so Yugi was pretty much safe with whatever he knew that his counterpart didn't. It was odd though.
Yami didn't mind being out and around. He was enjoying it, really. But after a few days, one would think the original owner of the body would want it back.
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Yugi was finding this all hilarious. It was amazing how smart someone can be, and then be so dense at the same time. So clueless, even of one's own thoughts. He knew exactly why he was letting Yami use his body for so long, and seeing Yami trying to figure it out cracked him up.
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The phone rang and it surprised Kai to the point of nearly falling off her chair. She grinned, embarrassed, as her friends laughed. She got up as the phone rang again.
"Hello?" she said, picking it up.
"Yo," came the voice of her friend Elaine. Kai laughed. Elaine had a way about her that all she needed to do to amuse Kai was say one word.
"What's up?" Kai asked.
"Carlos said you're hanging with some other guys," Elaine said.
"Yeah. But they're not /all/ guys. There's a girl too," Kai corrected. Yami exchanged confused looks with his friends as Kai stood there, back toward them, talking on the phone.
"Yeah, Carlos mentioned her. Tea, right?"
"Yeah."
"And Joey, Tristan, Bakura, and Yugi."
"Yeah, that's right," Kai said, a bit confused. She hadn't spoken to Elaine since Yami and his friends started staying with her. Then it clicked on how she knew their names. Carlos must have told her. They were surprisingly close for brother and sister.
"Anyway, Carlos is at Randy's right now and I'm bored. You want to come over? Bring the guys too. Maybe I can snag one," Elaine laughed and so did Kai.
"Okay, what time?" Kai asked.
"How about now?"
"Sure! See you soon." With that, Kai and Elaine hung up. When Kai turned around, she found her friends were watching her.
"Who was that?" Joey asked.
"Elaine Trevino. She wants us to come over. You guys up for it?"
"Yeah, okay!" Tea said.
"Trevino. Isn't that Carlos?" Tristan asked.
"You catch on quick," Kai laughed. "Elaine is his younger sister. She's nice."
"When does she expect us?" Bakura asked.
"About now," Kai said, grinning. "Just leave the dishes. I don't want to do them anyway."
They laughed and followed Kai out the door.
"So, is Elaine anything like Carlos?" Tea asked.
"No, not really," Kai said with a chuckle. "Elaine is always early for stuff and Carlos is always late. Carlos definitely has more of an ego than Elaine."
Her friends laughed.
"And you're best friends with Carlos and not Elaine?" Tea asked. "It seems to me that Elaine would be a better choice."
"It does seem that way, doesn't it? But Carlos and I just... fit. I don't really know how else to say it," Kai explained.
"Where do they live?" Tristan asked.
"A few houses down from me. It takes about all of five minutes to get there."
A few minutes later, Kai turned into the Trevino's driveway. She didn't even have to knock on the door before Elaine answered it.
"I thought you'd /never/ get here!" she exclaimed. "Well, are you going to stand out there all day or are you going to come in?"
Elaine pulled Kai to the side as soon as she walked in the door. "I see you brought the guys," she said, eyeing them. Kai rolled her eyes. Elaine was a bit boy crazy and sometimes it got on her nerves a little. "Well, introduce me!" she exclaimed, poking Kai hard in the arm.
"Ow! Okay, okay, keep your hair on," Kai said, rubbing her upper arm and joining Tea and Bakura on the couch. Yami was leaning against the doorframe to the hallway that led to Elaine's room and Tristan was sitting in the chair while Joey explored the room.
"Elaine," Kai said. "This is Bakura, Tea, Tristan, Yugi, and the snoop is Joey." Joey looked up when he heard his name and grinned sheepishly.
"Sorry," he said.
"Not a problem," Elaine said, grinning.
"So, what -?" Kai started, but Elaine interrupted her.
"How did you start staying with Kai?" Elaine asked.
"It was late and Kai offered us a place to stay. It was really nice of her," Tea said. Kai beamed.
"That's Kai," Elaine laughed. She perched on the armrest Tristan's chair and he gave her a funny look. Kai had to swallow the laugh that was forming in her throat.
"When does Carlos usually get home?" Tea asked.
"About four," Kai and Elaine said in unison. They looked at each other and laughed.
"Kai spends about as much time with Carlos as I do!" Elaine said.
Kai looked at her watch. It was already noon. She wanted him to come home. She enjoyed hanging out with him a bit more than hanging out with Elaine. Carlos was always full of surprises. Elaine was a little more predictable. Not that it was bad. Just right now, she wanted to hang out with Carlos.
"Come on, I'll show you around the house. you haven't seen the entire place yet," Elaine said, getting up.
"Do you mind if I just chill out here? I already know the layout of your house by heart," Kai said.
"Yeah, okay," Elaine said. She left down the hall that Yami was leaning against and Kai's friends followed.
Kai sighed loudly. Elaine's house was much bigger than hers. With three stories and a basement, it would take a while for them to get back.
She tried to ignore the headache she had had since she got up, but it was growing steadily worse. She wondered if her friend had any Advil. Kai got up and headed for the bathroom.
Opening the cabinet, she soon found what she was looking for. She took out two pills and put the container away. Kai then made her way to the kitchen for water to take it with.
She had just poured herself a glass and was swallowing the Advil when she heard a creak behind her. She spun around and choked when she saw Yami standing in the doorway. He laughed and asked if she was all right. Kai nodded and groaned.
"Yuck, pill taste." She took another sip of water to wash it away. "I thought Elaine was showing you guys around."
"She was. She had a ping pong table in the basement and everyone wanted to play. But since there were only four paddles and they needed one referee, I came up here. I'm not good at that game anyway," Yami said.
"Oh. Elaine has a way of being able to leave people out without feeling too bad about it," Kai said. It was one of the flaws her friend had.
"That's all right. I didn't want to play," he replied.
Then Kai had an idea. "I can show you someplace that Elaine doesn't even know about. You want to go?"
"All right," Yami said. He followed her out the back door to the edge of the woods that spread all the way to Kai's house.
"It's through here. Be careful of thorns, and stay close behind me. You could seriously get lost in here. I know, I've done it! That's how I found the place, actually. And then I got lost on my way back. But I know where I'm going now. Come on!" Kai said, starting into the trees. Yami stared at her for a minute. The trees didn't look very inviting. But he followed Kai anyway.
"Careful over here. There's a lot of thorns," Kai said after a while. Yami grabbed a vine between the thorns and lifted it up and ducked under it. He hadn't noticed the one around his ankles.
"Ow!" he cried and dropped the one he was holding. It landed on his shoulder and wouldn't let go.
Kai turned around and laughed. "I told you to be careful," she said, gently untangling him.
"Thank you," he muttered, rubbing his shoulder. He felt sort of stupid. Kai obviously knew what she was doing and he obviously didn't.
"How much further is it?" he asked after a while.
"Not much. Actually..." She pushed a large branch out of the way. "Bingo."
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a/n: Anyone who wants to know what she just showed him has to REVIEW!!! XD I'm evil. *grins evilly*