Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Insanity

In Which Things Are Twice As Insane As They Normally Are

Japanese

Arigatou – Thank You
Chiisai Houko – Little Treasure
Hai – Yes (Formal)
Koi – Lover, Boy/Girlfriend
Nani? – What?

Kaiba Mansion

"So how did you handle your week as a girl, Kaiba?" Yugi asked, sitting down across from the CEO in the living room.

"Why do you want to know, Moto?" Seto asked.

Yugi sighed. "Yami's going crazy. He ate five of the chocolates; I, like you, only had one. I was wondering if there were any tips you could give us…?" He let his words trail off expectantly, hoping that his implicit request for help would appeal to the other man's ego. Seto gave good advice when he was in the mood; Yugi only hoped that this was one of those times.

Seto looked reflective for a moment. "Tell him you still love him," he said finally, eyes focused on some far-off point.

Surprised – no shit, since when did Seto Kaiba give out relationship advice? – Yugi sputtered, "Nani?"

Heaving a sigh, Seto said, "Despite how little physical appearance really matters in the big picture…in the small picture, it's very important. Let me ask you this: for the first week, when you were both going through this, he was pretty okay with the change, right? More worried about you than about himself?"

Yugi nodded slowly.

"And then you changed back, and he got depressed and started to avoid you?" Seto continued.

Again, Yugi nodded. "Hai," he added softly. "He's hardly talking to me at all."

"It's because he's worried you won't love him anymore," Seto revealed.

Frowning, Yugi said, "How could he feel like that? Nothing could ever get me to stop loving him – especially not something as silly and transcendental as this!"

"And he knows that," Seto reassured him. "He just needs to hear it right now because he's feeling vulnerable."

"Vulnerable?" Yugi asked in disbelief. His yami, the former Pharaoh of Egypt…vulnerable?

Seto nodded. "When you were both girls, he could sublimate his fears in taking care of you, but now that you're the one taking care of him…they're back, full force."

Thinking on the CEO's words, Yugi finally came to the conclusion that Seto was, in all probability, right. It did sound like what Yami had been going through the past week or so. "How do you know this will work, Seto?" Yugi asked softly.

Seto gave him a lopsided smile. "You yourself have commented on how alike Yami and I are, Moto."

Yugi nodded for Seto to continue.

"And since neither Mokuba nor…Mai…ate any of the chocolates…" Seto trailed off and looked away. "I just basically skipped what Yami went through the first week and started with the events of the second."

Yugi's face softened. "Oh…"

Silence reigned for a long moment.

"It wasn't all bad," Seto revealed.

"Oh?" Yugi repeated.

"I found out some rather…interesting things," Seto said almost idly.

"Like what?" Yugi inquired.

Grinning slightly, Seto said, "Did you know Mai is bisexual?"

Yugi boggled.

Home Of The Bakurae

"Aren't you at all weirded out by this?" Ryou asked tiredly. She'd been female for only a little over a week – and was hating every minute of it. While the horrors of PMS had subsided somewhat, she still felt completely drained most of the time. So it was no wonder that most afternoons – this one being no exception – found the two lovers lounging in the living room, Ryou's head pillowed on Bakura's lap as they talked, read, watched a movie, or just enjoyed each other's company.

At the moment, Ryou was poking at her new breasts and cringing at the ache said action caused. Women certainly had a right to be bitchy considering their bodies rebelled against them at every turn. And all month, not just one week out of every four. She made a face as the mounded flesh jiggled slightly as Bakura combed her fingers through her hair.

"Of course I am, hikari," Bakura said. "But being 'weirded out,' as you put it, doesn't mean dissolving into hysterics."

Glaring at her koi, Ryou said, "You'd better not be referring to me in any way, shape or form, 'Kura." Okay, so she hadn't taken her change in gender all that well. None of them had, really, and as far as she knew – aside from Malik – she was the only one that had menstruated.

If Ryou had ever been inclined to think PMS a myth – which she hadn't – her thoughts would have been proven wrong by the trials she'd endured during the past week.

Bakura smirked. "Would I do that?" she asked mock-innocently.

Ryou's eyes narrowed. "Yes," she said scathingly.

Bakura chuckled. "Well, maybe so. But at the moment, I'm not baiting you."

Ryou grumbled slightly, but subsided back into her yami's lap, enjoying the patting her head was receiving. Bakura had definitely been more affectionate since Ryou's change.

Maybe this wasn't all bad.

Now, if she could just figure out how to combat the mood swings without downing half a pound of chocolate a day…

Taylor-Nee-Wheeler House

"This sucks," Joey declared.

"What is it this time, Josephine?" Taylor demanded.

Glaring at her friend for the twist on her name, Joey said, "Bein' cooped up like dis. We can't leave da house all dat much fer fear dat someone'll see us and recognize us."

Tristan shrugged. "Yugi invited us over this weekend to watch movies."

Blowing out a breath of frustration that ruffled her messy blonde hair, Joey said, "Yeah, I know. But it's so boring around here." Well…not entirely boring. I like spending time with you, of course. Did even before I fell in love with you.

"We could play a game," Tristan offered.

Joey perked up at that. "Anything but Duel Monsters," she clarified. "I've had enough of dat lately ta last me fer a good, long while."

"Sure, Joe," Tristan agreed. You know I'd do anything for you. Would even before I fell in love with you.

The Kame Game Shop

"Yami?" Yugi called as he entered the shop through the employee entrance.

"In the storeroom, aibou," came Yami's husky alto.

Turning down the hall, Yugi quickly came to the storeroom door. He could see Yami inside, standing on a stool as she sorted through boxes of Duel Monsters card packs.

"Looking for new cards?" Yugi asked.

Yami shook her head and plucked three unopened boxes from the top of the crate she'd been rummaging through. "No, but I noticed the display up front was almost out of the holographic foils and wanted to get some more."

Frowning slightly, Yugi asked, "And you had to go through the whole crate to find them?"

Yami shrugged and headed up the stairs, Yugi in her wake. "You know we combined the remnants of several different crates into one since they were all almost empty, aibou. I didn't want to open a new crate unless I was sure there weren't any other boxes."

Yugi nodded in acceptance. "So what do you want to do once we get the cards set out?" he asked as they entered the store.

"I thought I might close the store early and take a nap, actually," Yami said sheepishly, setting the boxes down on the counter. Ripping open the top of the first box, she continued, "For some reason, I've been more tired than usual since this whole thing started."

The stress of all that worrying you've been doing, I would assume, Yugi thought but did not say. Now that he was looking for it, he saw how rigid Yami was, holding herself so tensely, as if she could keep her anxieties away by sheer will alone.

"That sounds like a good plan," Yugi said instead, helping his lover set the other two boxes out. "I'll watch the store; you go take a nap and I'll wake you for dinner."

"Thanks, aibou," Yami said, giving him a quick hug.

"No problem, koi," Yugi replied, inwardly smiling at the blush the endearment provoked. Yes, Yami, I still love and want you. And if I have my way, by this time tomorrow, you won't doubt that. "See you in a few hours, Yami," he said, his voice not betraying his thoughts.

"A-all right," Yami said haltingly, before turning to walk up the stairs.

Once he was sure his other was out of hearing range, Yugi said, "Now…to plot. Operation: Seduce Yami is a go."

When the sun was just starting to think about setting, Yugi removed the ramen he'd cooked from the stove, pouring it into two bowls. After waiting for it to cool somewhat, he carried it upstairs to his and Yami's shared bedroom. Juggling the tray holding two bowls and two cups of tea, he carefully opened the door, trying not to wake his lover up. He placed the tray on his desk and turned towards the bed.

Yami, like always, had shunned the bedcovers. Her Egyptian heritage caused her to be warmer than most people, and the summer heat was too stifling for her to add anything extra on top of herself during her slumber.

Including excess clothing. Right now she was wearing a tank top and a pair of boxers – his, Yugi noticed. Since she was smaller as a girl, Yami had had to borrow quite a few of Yugi's clothes those first few days before Malik had shown up. The Egyptian hikari had donated the few 'female' clothes he had to them, since he himself would (hopefully) never have a need for them again.

Creeping up over the bed, Yugi positioned himself over his aibou. He waited with bated breath, counting down silently until the moment he would make his move…

And struck.

Fingers skating up his lover's ribs, Yugi smirked as Yami came awake in a flurry of tickle-induced spasms, laughter, and half-awake gasps for breath. He continued to skate his fingers down her sides for another minute or two, then stopped to allow her to catch her breath.

"Yugi, what was that…for?" Yami demanded once she'd gotten most of her breath back.

"I felt like it," Yugi said guilelessly. Straddling his aibou, he rubbed against her teasingly, leaning down to capture her lips. She tensed slightly as Yugi deepened the oral embrace, her lips remaining rigid for the first few seconds. Little by little she relaxed, Yugi's hand on her neck massaging some of the stiffness out of her. When he finally pulled back, Yami was looking up at him with an amazement-skewed smile on her face.

When Yami finally caught her breath, she asked, "And what was that for?" rather breathlessly.

"Oh," he said teasingly. "I've never kissed a girl before. Just wanted to know what it was like."

Yami mock-scowled. "You've never done a lot of things with a girl before, hikari," she growled pointedly.

"Well, then I have a lot to catch up on, don't I?" he said, before bending back to resume his previous activities.

Lunch could wait. They could always reheat it. That's what microwaves were for.