Hey people. I didn't get my five reviews. *sniff, sniff*Actually, Its just my excuse for mnot updating for forever. Chances are you wan to know what comes next, not hear me ramble, right? Ok, then: on with the story!
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Help Wanted! Anyone know what Bakura or Ryou's soul rooms look like? Or should I make it up as I go?
Chapter 4- Kamui's Soul Room
Yugi was the first to wake up. He was lying on his bed, which confused him for a moment. 'How did I get here? What time is it?' He looked down and saw not his PJs, but is regular clothes. 'Well I guess that rules out it all having been a dream.' He suddenly remembered the candy store.
'uh oh.' He thought guiltily. 'I wonder how many casualties there were this time.' He spotted Yami and smiled. Yami was asleep in the chair by the desk. Quietly, he exited the room and stole downstairs.
He was slightly surprised to find Shion and Kamui sleeping downstairs. They were both curled up into small balls on either end of the couch. With how much they looked alike and how similar their positions were, it looked like someone had stuck a mirror in the middle of the couch and one was just the reflection of the other.
Kamui stretched and got up. With most closed eyelids, she walked past Yugi, apparently not seeing him, and straight into the wall.
"Ow!" She opened her eyes, completely woken up this time. "Who moved the hallway?" Blinking, she turned and saw Yugi. "Yugi?" She looked around. "This isn't my house is it?"
Yugi shook his head, trying with all his heart not to burst out laughing.
"Well that explains where the hallway went." Kamui yawned. "Where are we?"
"This is my house." Yugi explained. "Shion and Yami must've brought us here."
"Aww man." Kamui suddenly had a guilty look similar to Yugi's. "Did we cause any damage?"
"I can't remember," Yugi winced. "Do you?"
"I remember one highly freaked out manager," Kamui supplied. "We're probably banned for life."
"And the next life too," Yami added as he came down the stairs. "I called Bakura on the phone," he directed his last comment to Shion, who had just woken up. "He wasn't happy with us coming over, to say the least."
"Well this isn't going to be his day, is it?" Shion stretched. "Come on Kamui. We're going to go pay Ryou and Bakura a visit."
"Coming." Kamui picked up a candy cane that had fallen out of her pocket while she was sleeping and shoved it in her pocket before Shion could see. Yugi stifled a laugh.
The clouds were still hanging low over the sky, but it hadn't started raining yet, fortunately. The two sets of twins attracted dozens of stares as they walked. Kamui obviously hated it. "Would you like to go in your soul room for a while?" Shion finally asked as Kamui squirmed under the gaze of yet another carload of strangers.
Kamui nodded gratefully. Yami offered the same to Yugi who accepted. Making sure they were unobserved, both Hikari's suddenly vanished. Shion and Yami walked in silence for a few moments, until Shion spoke up. "Yugioh, I've been thinking. Bakura was kind of an idiot when it came to his Hikari as far as I can remember, which honestly isn't much. On the other hand, the story my hikari found in her soul room seems to say he didn't change much."
"He hasn't and he is still an idiot," Yami confirmed. "You're afraid he might agree with the fire Yami's point of view, aren't you?"
"Yeah. I don't really think he would but it's so hard to tell with such limited memories. You've known him in this life time. What do you think?"
Yami was quiet for a moment. "I honestly don't know." He said finally.
(A/N: Vote! What are people's opinions? Would he tear himself from Ryou for basically unlimited access to all the powers of the shadow realm? Don't guess what I'm going to do, just base it on his personality.)
Yugi, meanwhile, had no idea his Yami was contemplating the possible escape of the shadow realm. He was just relaxing. His soul room did wonders for his peace of mind, but he couldn't help remembering the creepy voice he had heard last time.
He nearly fell off the bed when there was a soft knock at the door. Feelign foolish for being so jumpy, he hopped off the bed and went over to the door to let Yami in. Except, when he pulled the door open, it wasn't Yami on the other side.
"Kamui?!?" he shouted.
"Hi Yugi!" She said happily, giving a little wave. "I'm trying to see if I have any more stories that'll tell us more about the other Yami and Hikari, but it's taking forever. Mind giving me a hand?"
"Um, sure, but how did you get here?" Yugi asked.
"I'm not entirely sure," she admitted. "I was in the hallway between mine and my Yami's soul room and I was wondering if there was a way to contact you. Then all of a sudden a door appeared down the hall way. Your door apparently."
"Well that's useful." Yugi smiled. "I'll be glad to help. Um, how do we get there?"
"Look," she pointed down the hallway. Sure enough, there was something he'd never seen before: two doors opposite each other farther down the hall.
Yugi went down the hall with Kamui, looking curiously at the door. The one on the same side of the hallway as his had a large silver crescent moon carved onto it with an open eye in the center. Leafy green vies crept all over the door. The opposite was similar, but different. The moon on the other was also silver, but the eye on the center was closed. Instead of vines, raindrops covered the remainder of the door.
Kamui pushed open the first door. Yugi looked in and his eyes grew wide. The room was almost as well lit as his own, but this room was bathed in the silver glow of moonlight rather than sunlight. A woven white hammock hung from the ceiling and silvery-white vines ran haphazardly over the walls. The thing that caught Yugi's gaze the most though, was the fireflies. At least, that's what he thought they were at first.
On closer inspection, he saw they weren't bugs, but simply tiny points of floating light. They swirled everywhere around the room, some in groups, others dancing alone. The odd thing was, sometimes one or two would fade in and out of existence.
"What are they?" Yugi asked as one circled his head.
"They're stories of course." Kamui giggled as one zipped by her. "The bright ones are the ones that really came from or touched a person's soul. There's even moer that are here that you can't see because they didn't touch a soul deep enough to shine very brightly."
"Why do some of them fade?" he asked her.
"Because stories disappear when no one cares any longer." She said simply.
"So how do you find the story you want?" he asked after a moment of silence.
"You have to focus on what you want and the story should come to you." She pouted for a moment. "Though some of them seem to be developing a stubborn streak." Yugi laughed as she mock-glared at the small particles of light. "Maybe they'll listen to you. You are the Sun Hikari after all."
Yugi squirmed, embarrassed, but agreed to try. He closed his eyes and focused his thoughts on the shadow realm and the relationship between a hikari and a yami.
"Oh, I think you've got something," he heard Kamui whisper happily. He cracked an eye open. A lone light had broken away from the others and was hovering by his left eye, waiting patiently to be acknowledged.
Kamui walked over and gently opened her hand. "Open," she requested softly as she touched it. There was a flash and it transformed into a single piece of paper. Kamui took it form the air. "It's not a story. It's like a poem," she explained after looking at it. She handed it too him. Thin, flowing writing shimmered with each line in a stanza a different color: Gold, white, silver, and blue.
Light and Dark: the two undying
Holding tight the earth below
Holding fast the bond unbreaking
See the strength between them flow
Pure sweet notes of flowing darkness
At this point the page ended. Kamui had a puzzled frown. "This is very odd. It looks like there should be more to it, but nothings on the back and there are no other pages."
Yugi shrugged. Maybe the author didn't get a chance to finish it."
"Yugi, look. It's about us and our yamis, I know it!" she said excitedly. "It's not what I was looking for exactly, but it's got to be important right?" She re-read it, committing it to memory. "Come on! Let's go tell Shion and Yugioh!" she released the paper and it shrunk one more to a tiny ball of light.
/Yami?/ Yugi called silently.
//Aibou?// Yami asked. //Are you okay? Is the voice back?//
/Calm down, Yami/ Yugi laughed. /Kamui and I found something in her soul room that may be important. Can we come out?/
//No ones here// Yami assured him. //You can come out.//
"Yami says we can come out," said both hikaris at the same time. Grinning, they both appeared beside their prospective yamis.
"So what's wrong, story-teller?" Shion asked as they appeared.
"We found a poem in my story collection." Kamuitold her.
"So? You get stories, novels, poems, songs, all kinds of thing in there."
"Just listen to this one," Kamui insisted. She recited the poem for Shion and Yami. "I think it's talking about us. The only thing is, it seemed like it was going to continue onto another stanza, but it didn't."
Shion shrugged. "We'll figure it out later. I think we're here. This is the house you said, right Yugioh?" They stopped in front of a neatly trimmed yard that led up to a small gray house.
"This is it," yami confirmed. He rapped solidly on the door. Ryou soon appeared and he smiled at them. "Hi Yugi and Yami. Hi, um…" he faltered a bit when he saw Kamui and Shion. Comprehension dawned on his face when he realized how similar they were. "I don't suppose you guys are simply twins?" he smiled.
"Nope!" Kamui grinned back at him. "I'm Kamui and this is my yami, Shion." She pointed to the smirking girl beside her.
"Guys, I'd love to invite you in, but I'm pretty sure he's about to go postal. He went outside earlier today and by the time he'd gotten home, he'd had a girl in pigtails bounce of his head, a panda run him over, a guy with dogs ears knock him over, and a giant boomerang nearly skewer him."
(A/N: I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist throwing all that in.)
As if on cue, a familiar voice sounded from inside. "Ryou! Is it that baka pharaoh? Tell him to get his butt out of here before I use it for anger management!"
Shion squeezed past her hikari and was in the house before Ryou could react. "Bakura!" she answered him in the same tone of voice. "Get your but down here! Or are you hiding from the night?"
Bakura strode in from the kitchen and raised an eyebrow. "Who the heck are you supposed to be? And what do you freakin' mean hiding form the night. I've been in darker places than your mind could imagine. I practically am the dark."
Shion tsked, shaking her head. "Conceited as ever. Actually you're the dark around the stars, but you wouldn't know that would you? Know why? 'Cause your yelling your bloody head off at me 'n' Yugioh instead of listening to us."
Bakura pause and looked over at the others. "Pharaoh, is she really insane, odr is this 'Annoy Bakura Day'?"
"Shion, meet the Tomb Robber and vice versa," yami rolled his eyes as Yugi covered a laugh. "Have a seat Bakura. This could take a while and we aren't leaving you to your self pity until you shut up and listen." Yami hesitated then turned to Ryou. "Bakura can fill you in later. Why don't you let Kamui and Yugi show you what they found?"
Ryou nodded, feeling rather left. Guilt pierced Yami, but he and Shion had to talk to Bakura alone.
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Alright! Another chapter done. Yes, I'm slow. Yes, you have to get over it. I really am sorry. Especially to my constant reviewers. You guys rock!
I've written the chapters up to 6 so far, but I still need to type them. I'll try to work on that this weekend.