A/N:

::Lieh is reading last chapter::

Lieh: ::imitating Silverwater when he wants to pull Mokuba and Brightmoss apart:: ::speaking in funny voice:: Oh, must get him away from Brightmoss. Brightmoss must not associate with him. He has wonky hair. Bad role model! Bad role model!

Silverwater: ::fingers twitch:: You realize that this is your OWN CHARACTER you're dissing!

Lieh: ::blink:: Yeah...so?

Silverwater: ::fingers twitch:: Your FAVORITE character.

Lieh: So?

Silverwater: So...aargh! I give up!

Lieh: ::giggle:: ::takes out pocket calendar:: And another tick for today....

Silverwater: ::seethe::

Legolas: ::to Silverwater:: You look...familiar....

Silverwater: I should. I was based off of you.

Legolas: I see....

Willowwind: ::tapping foot:: Lieh?

Lieh: Yes?

Willowwind: Where is Yami?

Lieh: Oh, him. Nachzes is bringing him.

::Nachzes walks in, prodding a manacled Yami in front of her::

Willowwind: ::eyes narrow dangerously::

Escurcae: ::glances at Willowwind:: Maybe you should get those things off Yami before—

Willowwind: GET THOSE THINGS OFF YAMI NOW!!!

Silverwater: ::sweatdrops:: Erm, time for the disclaimer?

Legolas: Yes. We don't own Yugioh!, but we do own everything else...except for Haiiro and Ih'kauren. They're characters off of a quizilla quiz. And warnings...still a mass mary-sue, there's still a huge possibility of OOC characters...possibility of swears, courtesy of Lieh and Nachzes...er, yeah. ::odd clunking noises in background:: Roll fic!

--Finding Home

-Chapter 3 – 23 is Company???

"Please, Seto?"

"Mokuba, I've already told you, NO."

"But big brother, I want to introduce them to my friends!"

"No. I will not have people thinking that I am going soft."

"No one I want to invite over would think that, and I'm sure they wouldn't tell anybody! Please? Just a few friends?"

Seto finally snapped. "Fine! You an invite a few friends over. But, before you tell them, you have to swear them to secrecy. If they won't...."

"I know, if they won't, no telling them. Thank you!" Mokuba ran out of the room to find a phone.

--

Fifteen minutes later, the doorbell rang, and Mokuba ran to open it. He came back into the study, where Seto was sitting, followed by Yugi.

Seto's eyes narrowed dangerously. "You didn't bring your yami, did you?" he asked in a deadly quiet voice.

"No?"

"Good. Mokuba, you can take him to the backyard."

"O.K." Just then the doorbell rang. Mokuba took Yugi with him to open it, and they came back, followed by Ryou, Mai, Joey, Serenity, Octogi, and Tea.

Seto looked as though he was choking on something for a moment, then asked quietly, "Mokuba, could you stay here for a moment? Show your friends the way out."

Mokuba pointed the way to the backyard to his friends, and they left. Seto watched them leave, and waited until they were outside before blowing up at his little brother. "What did you do, invite the whole of Domino City? You said it would just be a few friends!"

"It is just a few, and they all promised!"

Seto didn't reply to this. He sat at his desk, seething, and thinking about how he seriously needed to give his brother some lessons on the definition of the word 'few'. He stood up and stormed up to his room. Mokuba shrugged, and made his way to the back door.

Meanwhile, in the backyard, Brightmoss had been introduced to everyone by Yugi, and was now introducing everyone to everyone else.

"...And this is Willowwind Adurois – she's a telepathic elf – and this is her escurcae (1), Escurcae Adurois. Then we have Nachzes-Black Rider, Lieh-White Rider's nachzes (2), and Lieh...where is Lieh, anyways?" She turned around and her eyes widened at what she saw. "Oh dear...."

Nachzes groaned.

Willowwind began hitting her head repeatedly on a nearby wall.

Escurcae broke into hysterical laughter.

Jes snorted, one hand over her mouth.

Aaron's eyes twinkled merrily.

Silverwater's lips twitched.

Flamechild smirked.

Yousei Youko blinked, then joined Willowwind in banging her head against the wall.

Mokuba giggled.

Yugi and co. stared.

Lieh-White Rider, cursing very graphically, mind you, was slowly climbing up the ivy on the side of the wall, towards a window. A very particular window.

When she reached it, she climbed onto the windowsill and stared in, her face pressed against the glass. Not for long, though. The windows flew inwards suddenly, and Lieh fell inside. There was a muffled clunk, accompanied by Lieh's yelling and Seto's muffled cursing.

"WHAT THE...mmph!"

"SETO-KUUUUUUUN!"

There were the unmistakable sounds of things breaking, and then some muffled clunks that sounded suspiciously like someone being dragged down stairs. Then Seto's yell came again.

"Could someone get a crowbar???"

Everyone ran into the house and stared. Nachzes began to mumble "Why me? Why me? Why me?", several others began giggling, and Willowwind and Yousei returned to banging their heads against the wall.

Lieh was clinging to Seto's leather-clad leg, drooling, despite the fact that Seto was shaking his leg frantically, trying to throw her off. "Well, is somebody going to help me, or are you all just going to stand there and stare?" he yelled, shaking his leg harder. "My leg is getting tired!"

Lieh mumbled something like "My Seto-kun, the bishonen is mine. The Game King-baka Pharaoh will be very jealous. Prideshipping! (3) Yaoiyaoiyaoi...wait...but this is het. Hmm...my precious...." She opened her eyes and narrowed them at Yugi, baring her teeth and snarling at him.

"Lieh," Nachzes said flatly, "get off."

Lieh glared at her.

"You're so mean, Nachzes," she whined, trying for puppy eyes.

Nachzes wasn't moved.

"Lieh. Off. Now."

"But Nachzes...."

"No!"

Lieh pouted.

Seto gave his leg one last shake and she landed on the floor with a fwump. Willowwind glared at her. Lieh giggled at her up-side-down friend and waved. Willowwind's eyes narrowed further. Lieh's face fell.

"I think," Aaron said, "it's about time you told us where we are."

Lieh rolled her eyes and crossed her arms across her chest. "I already told you!" she exclaimed in an exasperated voice. "We're in the Yugioh! realm!"

Everyone stared at her.

"What?" Flamechild asked, somewhat weakly.

"You mean that manga?" Jes asked.

Lieh nodded. Nachzes groaned and slapped her forehead. "Great," she muttered. "Just great. We're trapped in a stupid TV show/comic book that my lieh is obsessed with. Wonderful." Lieh grinned.

"Isn't it just?"

--

"I can't believe I've been reduced to this."

"Oh, cheer up, Haiiro. It could be worse.

"Excuse me? We have been sent forcibly to another realm by a no-good demon-brat and cannot return to take revenge. In the meantime, we have to hide our wings, pretend we're mortal, and get a dumb job going around selling their pathetic little products!"

"Yes, it could get worse."

"Oh, how?"

"We could be fired from this job and have to find a worse one, and we will be fired if you keep threatening to kill everyone who doesn't want them."

"How else are we supposed to sell any?"

"You could try asking instead of shoving it in their faces and demanding money."

"Like that would work."

"Do you want me to try it?"

"Go ahead, angel-boy."

"I have a name, you know."

"Oh. Really?"

"I shall ignore your pathetic attempt at sarcasm. Now, watch how you're supposed to sell them."

Ih'kauren walked up to the door and knocked. Seconds later, it swung open. "Good afternoon," he began. "I represent the Cancer Research Association. I'm selling cookies to support our program. Would you like to buy some? All proceeds go to cancer research."

About half a minute later, Ih'kauren walked back to Haiiro, grinning triumphantly, with three less boxes of cookies than before. "You see? Just be nice, and you're sure to sell some."

Haiiro stalked off to try and find another house to sell cookies at, muttering something about 'hopelessly optimistic angels'.

--

"Haiiro, let's try that place over there."

Haiiro's eyes lit up as he surveyed the mansion Ih'kauren was pointing out. "Can we rob it while we're there?"

"No."

"You have no sense of fun."

"Yes, I do!"

"No, you don't. You think that 'fun' means walking around singing hymns all day."

"That's not the only thing I think is fun!"

"What else, then? Preaching?"

"That's not it, either!"

This argument continued all the way to the mansion. As they neared it, the heard voices yelling, and some clunking noises.

Ih'kauren sweatdropped slightly. "Er, maybe this is a bad time to come here."

"No, it's fine. It sounds like fun!" Haiiro was grinning.

Ih'kauren winced. "We seriously need to work on your definition of 'fun'."

"Are we starting this again?"

"No."

"All right, then."

The voices within the house died away to a reasonable level as Haiiro and Ih'kauren walked up to the door. Haiiro knocked.

--

All talking stopped when someone knocked quickly on the door. The knocking came again a second later, and again....

Seto strode angrily over to the door, and jerked it open. Before he could even see who it was, there was a black flash by his side that almost knocked him over, and it ran full-force into the person at the door.

"HAIIRO-KOIIIIIIIIII!!!!!"

Haiiro was flat on his back with Ih'kauren pinned under him, and an over-enthusiastic Nachzes on top of him.

"What are you doing here, koi? I thought you were busy ruling Hell!"

"N-Nachzes?" Haiiro coughed, astounded. "What happened? Why are you here? Did Kirune-ra send you here too?"

"No. Lieh made Jes mess up on a transport spell and sent us here. Wherever 'here' is," she muttered. "She keeps saying we're in the Yugioh! realm, but that's not even real!"

Haiiro blinked.

Ih'kauren wheezed.

Nachzes took the hint and stood, followed by Haiiro, and then a very winded Ih'kauren. "When were you sent here?" Nachzes asked as Haiiro and Ih'kauren dusted themselves off and attempted to regain their breath.

"About two weeks ago. You?"

"Just yesterday afternoon."

"Well, it looks as though you've been having some luck here. Living in a big, fancy place like this."

"Er, not exactly in, Haiiro-koi. More like in the backyard of."

"You mean they've been mistreating you?" Haiiro's blood-red eyes glinted dangerously.

"No, it's all right. So, what have you been doing all this time?"

"Me and angel-boy have been walking around selling stuff to support this dumb project thing."

"I think it's an honourable cause," Ih'kauren chipped in, "and you were the one who picked where we worked, Haiiro!"

"I thought they would be doing some sort of research to see how they could give people cancer, not how to cure it!"

Ih'kauren rolled his eyes. "Honestly, Haiiro, sometimes I think spending all that time in Hell has fried your brains."

Haiiro ignored this, and turned back to Nachzes. "You wouldn't believe the trouble I've been having with him," he remarked. "Why, just a little while ago, he tried to modify the definition of 'fun'!"

Ih'kauren didn't reply, which was probably a good thing, because his reply probably wouldn't have been very angel-like. Haiiro realized that he wasn't going to get an argument out of this, and quit trying.

"Come in here, and meet my lieh." Nachzes beckoned to Haiiro and Ih'kauren. They walked through the door after Nachzes, only to see Lieh clinging to Seto's leg...again.

"Lieh, let go of Seto. Now."

"But Nachzes...."

"Lieh, NOW."

"Fine!" Lieh let go of Seto, pouting. She brightened slightly, however, when she saw the bishonen beside Nachzes, and another one behind the first.

"Lieh, this is Haiiro."

"Hi!" Lieh grinned, drooling slightly. "Who's that back there?"

"Oh, you mean angel-boy? He's my tag-along."

"I still have a name."

"Really?"

The angel rolled his eyes, then turned back to Lieh. "I'm Ih'kauren."

Back in the rest of the group, Yousei was drooling, swaying, and in general doing a very good job of imitating Lieh when she saw Seto. Willowwind was watching Ih'kauren with slight interest, and Escurcae looked very much as though she wished it weren't beneath her dignity to join Yousei.

Mokuba was watching the newcomers, grinning. "Seto, could...."

"NO."

"But Seto, there's so many people staying here already! It won't make much difference!"

"Mokuba, I said no, and that's final."

Mokuba decided to use his last resort, and tried again while it was in effect. "Pleeeeease?"

Seto was struggling against his little brother's 'last resort': his puppy eyes. "But Mokuba, we already have so many...."

"Pleeeeeeeeease?" Mokuba added a little sniff, just for good measure.

"N-n-n...fine!" ::A/N: Oh, the wonders of puppy eyes...;)::

"Thank you! You're the nicest, kindest—"

"Enough!" Seto stormed up the stairs.

Two minutes later, Haiiro and Ih'kauren left to quit their jobs. They were back within an hour, Haiiro grinning triumphantly, and Ih'kauren looking horrified.

"We didn't have to quit!" Haiiro grinned wider.

"Why not?" Nachzes asked.

"Cause we were already fired! Apparently several people phoned in with accusations of blackmail. I can't imagine why...."

Ih'kauren was on the verge of glaring daggers at Haiiro.

"Why's Ih'kauren all mad?" Lieh asked.

"Oh, angel-boy's just upset that I messed up his perfect record."

Yugi looked at his watch. "Well, it's about time I was going," he told Mokuba, and the rest nodded. "Nice meeting you all," he called back over his shoulder as he left.

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(1) - escurcae is my language's word for dark. It just happens to be my yami's name, like Yami and yami.

(2) – nachzes is Nachzes' word for dark/black, so...yes. Same concept as above. Also, lieh is her word for light, but it's also Lieh's name.

(3) – You do NOT want to know.

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Nachzes: ::looking over chapter:: Heehee, Haiiro sandwich! Yum yum!

Willowwind: ::sigh:: Chapter length is going down...oh well. Oh, and look, we didn't need Yami yet, after all!

Nachzes: ::eyes widen:: DIE!!!

::Nachzes chases Willowwind out::

::various clunking noises ensue::

Escurcae: ::sweatdrops::

Lieh: Review! ::grins::