Disclaimer: I do not own YGO!
Heh, sorry for the wait. Like I said, I've been busy. I went on a retreat Friday – Sunday afternoon and the homework just keeps piling up.
Sorry for all of repostings of R&J YGO Style; clearly states no script stuff (whether it be a play or not) so I had to change the format. That fic has been updated now.
I'm trying to make these chappies nice & long for y'all. Here's No. 6!
LoneGothic: You'll find out… heh, Bakura's not gonna be too happy…
Starian Princess: Don't worry; things will get better! This story WILL have a happy ending! (if I ever get around to it LOL)
Master Ruby: Yeah, but now that I have this week off I'm going to have lots of time!
Sailor Tiamat: Bakura bit a random dude like he always does and Malik&co just happened to be there. Oh, that moan was supposed be like a moan people make when they're eating (like "ahhh" or "yummy")
DojomistressAmbyChan: Yeah… but they're vampires and I needed to use all of them (you know, Tea already saw Duke in a different part of the city). When does Duke hang around Rebecca? Hmm… I don't remember that…
Black Joey: Heh, Mokuba's fine. I just needed a way for Kaiba to join the slayers.
Summary: It's October once again in Domino City, and everyone is preparing for another Halloween, including a group of vampires who've recently settled in a graveyard. After several attacks on innocent civilians, a group of slayers get together to try to hunt down the Undead. But unknown to them, Bakura (a vampire) has fallen in love with Tea, a mortal. However, Malik and the others aren't about to let another person be murdered, and Tea's trapped in the middle of it all. Who will win, the vampires or the slayers?
Bakura x Tea
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Once in a Full Moon
By: Chi Yagami
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Chapter Six – The Truth is Revealed
"YOU!"
Malik stared dead ahead, his right arm extended out in front of him, index finger pointing directly at Bakura. Yami stared dumbly at Malik for answers, and Kaiba merely arched an eyebrow.
"Who?" he asked impatiently. Malik just inched his arm out further and his finger vibrated accusingly at the albino. Yami took a valiant step forward.
"Malik, do you know this monster?"
Bakura scoffed at this.
"I'm not Frankenstein, you nimrod."
"That man, that-that creature of the night is Tea's boyfriend!" he spat.
"Gardner's dating him? Willingly?" the CEO asked in disbelief. "You got to be kidding me."
"She doesn't know he's a vampire," Malik informed him, "but she will after I tell her!"
"Not if I stop you first," Bakura growled.
Malik chunked his steak at Bakura. Of course he missed, and Yami dropped his fries. This was REAL.
"I don't know what your deal is," the lavender-eyed boy said, "but you'd better leave my friend alone! Why are you even dating her? Never mind; I don't want to know, you sick twisted son of a–"
Malik's hands flew to his gun in an instant, but Bakura was already up in the air when he was loading it.
The shot backfired; Bakura escaped without a scratch.
Yami coughed and waved his hand in front of his face, trying to clear the smoke.
"Damn…"
Malik was sitting on the ground, gun in hand, wiping his eyes. His whole face was covered in gunpowder, and his hand was bleeding.
"Malik… you shot yourself…"
"B.stard," he muttered, standing up. "I've got to warn Tea…"
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She was sound asleep when she heard Beethoven's 5th Symphony begin to play.
"Hynh? Who's there?" she mumbled groggily, reaching around for her cell phone. "Hello…?"
"It's Malik."
"Hynh… Who?"
"Tea, GET UP!"
She out of bed like a rocket, and Malik heard the bed creak in the background.
"I'm awake."
"Good. I've got some bad news."
"What?" she asked worriedly.
"Tea, get dressed and just stay at your house. I'm on my way over. Just be calm and trust me."
"O-okay… Bye."
The phone dropped from her hand and clattered as it hit the floor. Her eyes were wide, and for once, she was scared of the fact that there might actually be such beings as vampires. She changed into some warm clothes and waited in the den for Malik to arrive.
Ten minutes later, she heard the doorbell ring. Tea peeked out the hole to find none other than Malik (although it could've been Bakura…), who looked irritated an impatient.
Opening the door, she made room for him to enter. But he didn't openly accept her invitation: he grabbed her wrist and pulled her out the door. She practically had to strangle him in order for him to wait for her to lock up the house.
"Malik," she asked confused, "what is going on–?"
He pushed her into the limo and then climbed in himself, closing the door behind him.
"Ishtar residence," Tea heard a sharp voice to her right command to the driver. She turned to see Yami and Seto Kaiba sitting in the vehicle, too.
'What the heck is going on? They're creeping me out so much it makes me think they're the vampires!'
"Umm, you guys, what's going on here?" she questioned them.
"Tea, we have some really, really bad news," Malik said, patting her knee in a comforting way. Yami nodded.
"Earlier tonight, we were at the mall eating. We decided to leave and go walking until we could think of something to do. We were close to the park when we saw him. He had blood dripping down his face, and we could see his fangs clearly. Bakura had been sucking a dude's blood out! Bakura is a vampire!"
"You guys are nuts!" Tea groaned in annoyance. "I'm sick and tired of y'all trying to convince me that vampires are real!"
"Do you want proof?" Malik asked sarcastically. "Here's your proof."
He gestured over to a man laying down on the seat across from them; she hadn't noticed this guy before. Malik reached out and turned the guy so that she could see his neck.
Two small holes were there, dried blood crusted around them.
She suddenly felt sick to her stomach.
"Tea, are you okay?" Yami asked. "Your face is turning green…"
"I think we need a paper bag," Malik mumbled quietly. Kaiba scooted away from her.
"Oh no! I just had the carpet done! Don't even think–"
Tea clutched her stomach hard but she couldn't contain herself.
"–about… it…"
The ham sandwich she'd had for lunch was now sitting in Seto Kaiba's lap.
"Oops… hehehe… sorry…"
"TEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
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Bakura watched as Malik dragged her into the limo and then drove away. There was nothing he could do now. That guy named Kaiba supposedly, too, had a gun, and he would be outnumbered 3 to 1 (or 4 if Tea was on their side). He sighed and flew back to the graveyard.
The other three were already there: Marik was chewing on a long piece of grass, Duke was asleep, and Mai was sitting on the comforter looking up at the ceiling.
"I'm back," he announced.
"Well?"
"Well what?"
"Where's your food?" Marik asked. "Where's the person you bit? Why aren't they with you! We can't newbies wandering around! They'll blow our cover!"
"Sh!t," he mumbled to himself. "I left him on the ground… But he wouldn't be a vampire yet; I didn't even get to finish him off."
"Why not?"
"Your nosy brother and his gang of slayers saw me!" he yelled. "Malik knew who I was because I'm dating his friend, Tea–"
"Tea? That b!tch," he spat. "Why the hell are you dating her?"
"You know her?"
"Only from school… She was voted Miss Friendship 5 years in a row. That woman was always trying to get Malik and me to become her friends… Wait, did you say that she was his friend!"
"Yep. He was so concerned about her that he went on the first date."
"And you didn't tell me this WHY!"
"At the time I didn't think it was important," he said softly. "I intended on biting her…"
"Well, you should have! None of this would've happened if you had just bitten her like you were supposed to!"
"And maybe if you had chosen a different side of the city, Malik would've never seen you!"
They were both silent. Mai and Duke could only watch as their two friends argued.
"So now Tea, Malik, Kaiba, and this other guy with freaky hair are piled in a car heading who knows where, and we're about to be exploited," Bakura said. "And there's a half-alive man lying around somewhere… Can it get any worse?"
"It will… trust me, it will… but right now I need to pay a visit to my old neighborhood," Marik said, that crazy look back in his eyes.
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"For the millionth time, Kaiba, I'm sorry I threw up on you."
"Whatever…"
Malik decided it was time to get back on topic.
"Tea, this guy was on the ground next to Bakura, proving that he's a vampire," Malik said slowly. "You have to accept the truth."
"No… it can't be!" she cried out, shaking her head.
'No way… I French-kissed that guy! He even kissed my neck; he could've bitten me!'
"Why didn't he bite me?"
"I don't know… but I think that we should all stay together from now on."
Yami nodded. Kaiba merely mumbled something incoherent, and Tea gave a slight OK.
"Do you still have that cross necklace I gave you? Why aren't you wearing it? Put it on!" he said.
The limo entered Malik's neighborhood. Everything was dark and deserted. Yami could sense that something was wrong…
"Do y'all feel that? Like something is wrong…?"
"No… but I hate riding with wimps that do," Kaiba replied.
However, Tea could feel it too. It was that same kind of feeling that she got in the pit of her stomach whenever she was around Bakura.
Suddenly, the car jerked forward and stopped hard on the brakes.
"What is the matter?" Kaiba asked the driver irritably.
The driver just screamed and they heard the breaking of glass, and then a small sound you'd hear if a mouse died. The driver was dead.
All four of them gasped as Marik climbed into the back of limo smirking. His eyes raked over Yami, Kaiba, Malik, and Tea.
"Well, well, well… I should've known it was Yami that Bakura was talking about," he snickered.
"Huh?" Tea managed to ask, still in the shock of seeing Marik.
"That's right," he replied, "We're vampires."
"There's your proof," Yami muttered. She shot him a glare.
"Marik, get out of here," Malik hissed. "Take you and your group of vampires and get out of here!"
"But the party's just begun," he said smirking at Tea. "I hear you're dating my friend Bakura."
"Was," Yami spat, "but after we told her, she didn't want anything to do with him anymore!"
She hung her head; she hadn't exactly said that…
"I knew it," Marik growled. "Bakura should've listened to me, but no, he had to go with his instincts. But I was right: in the end, they're all the same."
Kaiba pulled out his gun and pointed it directly at Marik's forehead. Marik only smirked and looked around. He noticed the guy lying on the seat.
'Must be the fool that Bakura bit…'
His eyes slid from the man onto Malik. He seemed a bit scared, but he was preparing to pull out his gun if Marik tried anything suspicious. Next to him, Yami was staring off into space, like he had some better to be thinking about. The CEO still had his gun pointed dead straight at Marik, and Tea was backing into the car seat as far as she could.
'The fools… they've forgotten that vampires can move at hyper speed. ……but then, why did Bakura spend all of the time flying to her house? I'll deal with him later. For now…'
Before Kaiba could even pull the trigger, Marik had snatched up Tea and retreated to his spot near the front seat.
Yami snapped out of his daze, and Malik pulled out his gun. Kaiba was so startled that he shot a hole through the car roof.
"Now, now," Marik said in a lecturing-voice, "I wouldn't behave like that if I were you. Or the girl gets it."
Tea looked terribly frightened. The fact that she could feel Marik's breath on her neck was keeping her from screaming. She could also feel him tightening his grip on her.
"Let her go," Malik demanded. He merely chuckled.
"I think not. Besides, I want to know why Bakura likes her enough to keep her alive."
Me too, Tea thought.
"I never noticed it before," Marik said in a way too husky way, "but you do have that kind of body that makes guys have wet dreams."
Tea's cheeks flamed, and Yami's jaw dropped. Malik frowned. He didn't like how his brother was toying with Tea, trying to scare her even more.
"Oh and what nice ears you have," Marik purred, licking her left ear. Her whole body froze up and she felt sick and disgusted.
"You b.stard!" Malik shouted. He was about to fire his gun but Marik yanked a fistful of Tea's hair upward, causing her head to lift up.
"See," he said triumphantly, "I could bite her in the blink of an eye."
He licked her neck several times.
Kaiba had had enough. Nobody deserved to suffer like that, not even annoying, probably-likely-to-never-leave-him-alone-after-this Tea. Kaiba pressed a small button in the car, causing all the lights to turn on, and he turned on Malik's flashlight.
All of the light was too bright for Marik. With a hateful look, he threw Tea onto the floor and fled from the car.
"GET BACK HERE WITH MY DRIVER AND THAT OTHER MAN!" Kaiba yelled, getting out of the car and shaking his fist at figure flying away.
Yami got out of the car and ran over to Kaiba, trying to shut him up before somebody came outside.
Malik dropped his gun and fell to the floor, hugging Tea.
"You're okay now; he's gone," he reassured her. "I'm sorry that had to happen."
She choked back sobs and looked up at her friend.
"It's not your fault," she sniffed. "I should've been more aware of Bakura. It all makes perfect sense: him only coming around at night, always having to be in dark places, not wanting to talk about his family…"
"Shush," he replied quietly. "We're going back to my house, and we'll figure out something from there."
He helped her out of the car. Malik took the flashlight and tried to figure out where in his neighborhood they were. They were going to have to walk back to his house.
"Gardner," Kaiba said, "get over here."
"Huh?" she said, still crying. Kaiba knelt down in front her, his back to her.
"Get on," he commanded.
"Uh…"
Tea climbed onto Kaiba's back and he hoisted her up, piggy-back-style.
Yami was surprised at how nice Kaiba was being.
"The sooner we get back to Ishtar's house, the sooner I can make sure Mokuba is okay. I don't want this weeping girl to slow us down."
She was pretty sure he was being nice just the same.
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Mokuba sat in Kaiba's lap, Yami was in an armchair next to them, and Tea was resting next to Malik on the couch. Isis was standing behind Yami. After Tea had told her what happened, she finally gave in.
"Okay, here's what we know so far: Bakura, Marik, some woman, and maybe others are vampires. Bakura seems to like Tea, and Marik doesn't like that idea. And they can only come around at night."
"So we should all stay in one place," Kaiba said, "because we are the only ones who seem to know about them."
"Right," Yami agreed. "Um… so where are we going to stay?"
"Um, our house isn't very big," Isis offered, "but…"
"How about our place, Seto?" Mokuba asked.
"I guess…"
"Okay, that's settled. After school, we'll all meet at the front of the building and go straight home."
"Tomorrow night I have the talent show," Tea said.
"Can't you cancel? You don't have a song anyway, right?" Yami asked.
"She does," Malik said slowly. "You told Bakura to come, right? Well, he'll probably show up. I have the perfect song for you to sing."
"What?" Kaiba asked.
"I made it up," he replied. "But it fits the situation perfectly."
"And we all have to go," Isis said. "We have to protect Tea."
"I guess," Kaiba replied when they all looked at him. "Mokuba wanted to go anyway."
"YIPPEE!" Mokuba cheered.
They all laughed.
But Tea still couldn't stop worrying about what Bakura would do if he showed up.
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"You're still going!" Mai asked in rage. "That girl is nothing but trouble! You heard Marik: she doesn't want anything to do with you anymore!"
"I know… but I can still watch from the shadows."
"Then I'm going with you," Duke said. "I'll make sure he doesn't do anything crazy."
Marik stared at his friend. He felt a little sorry for Bakura, but he should've known that Tea wouldn't accept him… just as his own family hadn't accepted him.
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Tea peered out into the audience from behind the curtain. They were sitting in the front row, all-alert if a vampire showed up.
Her stomach was calm at the moment, but Tea had an awful feeling that he would show up and attack her or something…
Joey and Tristan finished their act. They had been telling jokes and acting like doofs. Some girl who was introducing the acts went up to the microphone.
"Thank you, Joey and Tristan. Give them a round of applause, will ya? Great job guys," she said.
"Next up we have Tea Gardner, signing… uh, some song!"
Tea stepped up to the mike, a bubble forming in her throat. She swallowed and looked around uneasily. No sign on him. Her eyes darted upwards. Nothing.
'So far so good…'
"Um, this is just a song my friend came up with on the spur of the moment. It's a Halloween song, so… enjoy!"
Bakura and Duke were thirty minutes late. The finally reached the school and snuck in through the basement. The entered the auditorium just as the music started. Duke pointed to Tea, who was up on the stage.
Just as the music began, Tea felt that horrible pit in her stomach form. HE was here. But she knew she had to sing. Otherwise, Malik would know something was wrong, and she didn't want the whole school freaking out and finding a vampire in the audience or something.
'Here goes nothing…'
"There is something very funny going on here
Yeah, there is something very strange going down
I've got this real uneasy feeling in my stomach most of the time
And it usually gets worse when you're around"
Bakura froze; she couldn't be talking about him, could she? He and Duke were in a back corner of the auditorium, but now it felt like the spotlight was on him.
She knew he was here, but she couldn't stop singing. It felt like she had to get all of this out.
'I hope he doesn't jump out of the shadows and attack me.'
"I think she's talking about you," Duke whispered.
"No duh."
'And that's Marik who's crazy, not me.'
'I resent that… I've always liked the colors black and red… She's gonna wish she never invited me here…'
Bakura was starting to get very angry. He whispered something to Duke, who nodded.
"I think she needs to learn when to shut her mouth," Duke snickered, noticing Bakura's rage.
As the music faded away, Tea left the stage. She went backstage and got her CD. Then she turned the corner to go out into the audience.
But Bakura blocked her path.
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Finally finished the chappie! Next one will uh… haven't figured out exactly what's going to happen, but Bakura and Tea will have a little chat…
I am trying to update sooner, and since Thanksgiving week is here, there are two things you can be sure of: 1. I will have more free time because we have the week off, 2. I will probably not finish this ficcie before Thursday (--U).
Please review! Sayonara!