~*I would like to give special thanks to fOX-SPIRIT AKA Y.V for allowing me to use a bit of her idea for a portion of my story. For you flamers and haters that are ready to bash me for stealing someone's idea, you're wrong! Yes, I got her permission via e-mail to let me use a little of her story. And if you're still not convinced, e-mail her. Anywho, read her hilarious story "Rishid, Where Do Babies Come From?"*~
~*Snow White pt.2*~
Serenity looked up and down the cottage for a long time hesitating to actually knock on the wooden door. Finally, she started to pound her fist on the wooden frame. "Hello? Hello anyone there?" No answer. She peeked inside the window, looking into the darkness.
Feeling daring, she twisted the doorknob surprised that it's unlocked, pushing the door open. She stepped inside, surprised at what she was seeing. The floor was messy, the dishes have been left unwashed and clothes were scattered everywhere.
"Jeez, this is no doubt the work of more than just one person." She noticed a picture frame on the wall. Taking a peek at the picture, she saw seven guys posing. "Are they related? Why can't they clean up on their own?" Then it hit her. She remembered Marik telling her a story of how his mother died right after Malik was born.
Looking around, she started to pick up the clothes on the floor. "I'm sure the guys would be shocked at what they'll find when they come home."
And so, for the next few hours, Serenity vacuumed the floor, wash the dishes, mopped the kitchen and bathroom floor, scrubbed the toilets, dusted off everything, washed the clothes and cooked. Exhausted indeed, she went up the stairs and into the one bedroom down the hall. Switching on the lights, it was a rather huge room. The room was as big as her room back in Domino City. Despite the fact that it was huge, it contained two bunk beds and three single beds. There was one drawer with four slots and one closet.
"Jeez," Serenity muttered. "The only room that's actually clean." She noticed that each of the beds had a nameplate carved in kanji. "Hey, this is kinda cool." She read the two on the first bunk bed. "Hmmm…Kaiba…Duke…" she moved onto the second bunk bed. "Joey…Tristan…wow, these people sure have weird names." She then moved onto the last three beds. "Ryou…Malik…Yugi."
Yawning, Serenity stretched out her arms. "Oh well, I'm getting tired." Kicking off her sandals, she plopped down on the three beds, dozing off.
"Well, I think we're done here for the day."
"Yeah, unlike yesterday when you caused the garage to collapse Joey." Kaiba glared at the blonde one.
"But thanks to me," Joey grinned. "I manage to put it back up, Kaiba!"
"You can't even keep two paper cups up for one second." Kaiba stuck out his tongue at Joey.
"Oh, so you want some of this huh?" Joey raised his fist at Kaiba.
"Bring it on blondie!" Kaiba punched Joey in the stomach.
And at that point, Joey and Kaiba tackled each other to the ground, punching, choking, and trying to pin each other down. Meanwhile, three other workers came rushing down the scene. A short blonde, a tall white-haired guy, and another one with light, brownish hair. The short blonde tried to restrain Joey while the white-haired boy tried to wrench Kaiba off of Joey.
"Hey Ryou," Kaiba snarled. "What gives? This isn't any of your business!"
"Let me at'em Yugi," Joey struggled against Yugi's restraint. "I smell fear coming from Mister Bippity Bop!"
"Who the hell are you calling Mr. Bippity Bop?" Kaiba also struggled against Ryou's restraint.
"Guys!" Ryou glared down at the two. "What you're doing is stupid, not to mention pointless."
"He started it!" Joey pointed a finger at Kaiba.
"Don't be putting all this on me." Kaiba's gaze had not left Joey's.
"It doesn't matter who started it." Malik stood between the two. "You two are…are…" he felt a tickle in his nose.
"Oh crap!" Kaiba's eyes widened.
"Malik's at it again!" Joey watched Malik.
"Ah…Ah…" Malik closed his eyes.
"Head for high ground!" Ryou yelled.
Yugi, Joey, Ryou and Kaiba started to run as far as they could from Malik. His sneezing isn't much of the problem but what he sneezes out. Malik has a rare, yet strange condition in when he sneezes, which is practically every time, he sneezes out either fire or cold wind. He is forced to live with that ever since childhood.
"Ah…ah…ah…CHOO!!" suddenly, a huge fireball shot out landing on a pile of leaves twenty feet away.
"Remember," Joey's eyes fixed on the flames. "Only you can prevent forest fires."
"Why are you telling us that?" Kaiba gave Joey a strange look. "Malik was the one who started the fire in the first place!"
"Hey you guys," two other guys, one with dark and hair and the other with brown hair ran down the hill. "We saw the fire from here and wondered if you guys are all right."
"Uh…Duke, Tristan," Kaiba pointed to Malik. "There's your fire demon."
Duke and Tristan looked up at Malik who just stood there.
"Look guys," Tristan yawned. "It's already five. Let's just go home already. Our shifts are finished."
"It's about time." Kaiba mumbled getting out of the bushes. Ryou and Yugi soon followed.
"Woo Hoo!" Joey jumped up and down.
All the guys gathered around, each having either an axe, hammer o r chainsaw in hand. Forming a line, they trekked up the forest grounds.
"Hi Ho," Joey sang. "Hi Ho, it's off to home from work we go!"
"Joey will you quit singing that stupid song!" Kaiba glared at Joey. "Just because you lead the line doesn't mean you sing the son we sang back in kindergarten."
"Tristan yawned. "Give it a rest you two! Let's just go home already."
They made their way towards their cottage as the sun started to set. Suddenly, Joey stopped in his tracks. Everyone bumped into him like a domino set.
"What gives blondie?" Kaiba grabbed Joey by the neck.
"Our robbed is house…I mean, our house has been robbed!" Joey pointed to the cottage where they could see their lights were on.
"Hey Yugi," Ryou turned towards Yugi who was right behind him. "You didn't leave the lights on before we went out did you?"
Yugi shook his head as they continued walking cautiously towards their house. Joey slowly opened the door stepping inside. He then gestured the others to follow him. A surprised look washed over their faces as each and one of them took a look at the clean house.
"This isn't our house." Duke looked around.
"You twit." Joey ran his finger through the polished wooden table. "Somebody just cleaned it, that's all."
"And stole our clothes." Tristan looked down on the floor."
"Uh…Tristan," Ryou was looking out the window. "It's just being hanged on the clothesline."
Malik, Kaiba and Yugi, in the meantime, were in the kitchen.
"Heh," Kaiba chuckled. "Looks like the looter stole our dishes as well," he then opened the cupboard. "Oh, there they are."
Yugi looked over the table seeing wild flowers sticking out a vase. A smile came across his lips. He then took them out and made his way towards Malik, who was standing on a chair looking for something inside. Tugging on Malik's pants, he managed to get his attention as Yugi shoved the flowers right at him.
"Yugi you twit!" Malik jumped off the chair, backing away from Yugi. "Take those away from me. You know I can't stand flowers. Sure, they're probably pretty to look at but you know I'm allergic to them. I…I…I ah…" the tickling feeling came back to him.
"Oh jeez," Kaiba dashed towards Malik, clamping his hand over Malik's mouth. "Malik, keep your problems to yourself. What if the robber is still in this house?"
Malik managed to stop his sneeze attack, his eyes watching Kaiba remove his hand from his mouth. "Thanks." Malik smiled. Suddenly, a huge sneeze escaped and out came a huge fireball that struck the flowers in Yugi's hand.
Yugi started running around with the flaming flowers. Somehow, he managed to reach the sink, turning on the water and tossed the flowers inside.
"Yugi," Malik made his way towards Yugi. "You okay?" and all Yugi did in reply was nod.
"What's going on here?" Ryou, Duke, Joey and Tristan ran into the kitchen.
"Nothing." Malik and Kaiba replied.
Duke sniffed slightly. "Do you guys smell something burning?"
"Never mind about that." Kaiba made his way out of the kitchen. "Let's just head for our rooms."
Everyone else nodded in agreement as they followed Kaiba up the stairs. Slowly, they made their way towards the room. Cautiously, Kaiba opened the door. Suddenly, a huge scream filled the floor. There stood a young brunette wearing nothing more than blue shorts, and a black, lacy bra. A black tank top was all that's in her hand.
"Who are you?" Kaiba looked at the one standing before him.
"I should ask you the same thing." Serenity glared at the guys.
Duke's face turned red as he watched Serenity put her black top on. "I didn't see anything!"
"Don't you think it's a bit too late to declare that?" Joey glanced at Duke.
"Since you're here," Ryou smiled. "Why don't we introduce ourselves?"
"Ryou, that's the most stupidest idea I've ever heard!" Kaiba glared at Ryou.
Ryou, as usual, ignored Kaiba. "I'm Ryou, as you probably know," he then pointed to the tall blonde. "That's Joey. He has a bit of a speech problem."
"Hey wait a minute!" Joey glared at Ryou.
"The truth hurts, doesn't it blondie?" Kaiba chuckled. "You didn't do so well in cram school."
"Keep your mouth shut."
Ryou kept going on with the introductions. "That's Kaiba. And that's Malik, Duke, Tristan and Yugi. He doesn't talk."
"You mean he's deaf?" Serenity tilted her head to the side.
Ryou shook his head. "He's extremely shy. He rarely speaks. And even if he did, it'll probably be to either me or Joey."
"Well we know who we are." Kaiba crossed his arms over his chest before taking a glance at Serenity. "But who is she? We don't even know who she is! She ain't no Paris Hilton I tell you!"
"Oh," Serenity giggled. "My mistake. I'm Serenity."
"Serenity?" Malik made his way into the room. "You know a guy named Marik don't you?"
"Well…yes." Serenity replied. "Aren't you his brother?"
"Yeah."
"Malik-kun," Joey glanced down at Malik. "What are you talking about?"
"My brother Marik…he works at that Domino Hotel, whatever you call it."
Serenity nodded. "Yes, my father owns the hotel."
"You can't be serious!" everyone except Yugi and Kaiba started talking at once.
"She doesn't belong here with us common people." Kaiba's gaze had yet to wrench away from her. "Let's take her back home."
"Please… I don't wanna go home. If I do, she'll kill me."
"No who in the world would want to kill such a beauty as yourself?" Duke sat next to her.
"My sister Tea."
"Oh, the little witch demon eh?" Kaiba chuckled.
"Witch demon?" Serenity looked at Kaiba.
"Listen Serenity," Kaiba continued. "Your sister Tea is a little naughty girl who messes with the dark side. Of course, you and your father would never know these sort of deeds. Why, she could be in this room right now."
"Hold it Kaiba," Joey stepped in. "If the sister is a huge nutcase, then how do you know all this?"
"Trust me blondie, I've seen the sister before when I went China town with Malik's brother."
"If you let me stay, I'll wastch over your house when you're gone. I'll wash, sew, sweep, cook…"
"Cook?!?" everyone looked at Serenity.
"You know how to make Lake Tempura…" Joey fumbled with his words. "I mean Tempura Lake…"
"Shrimp Tempura!" everyone corrected him.
"Ah yes, shrimp tempura."
"Yes and I know how to make Miso soup, oden, udon, tempura sushi with raw fish…"
"Sushi?!? Woo-Hoo!!" everyone except Kaiba jumped excitedly. "She stays!"
"Well my dear Serenity," Joey smiled. "We're honored to have you join us tonight…we're…we're…"
"Pissed off as it is." Joey raised his finger in the air. "Hey wait a minute," he turned to Kaiba. "Kaiba you twit!"
"Goodnight father." Tea kissed Bakura on the forehead.
"Night dear." Bakura turned on his side, falling asleep.
Tea smiled as she left her father's chambers, making her way down the stairs and to her office where it was now empty. Taking out a key, she unlocked her drawer, taking out the purple container that contained the heart and eyes before making her way towards the bathroom, lighting up a candle.
"Mirror, mirror on the wall. Me or Serenity, who's the most prettiest of them all?"
Ishizu's image appeared on the mirror. There she was, taking a shower, most of the soap bubbles covering her entire body. She felt eyes watching her and as she turned towards Tea, she was startled. "Oh for the love of…Tea, have you joined the ranks of being the number one lesbian?"
"Shaddup and just answer my question!" Tea snapped.
"Newsflash Mazaki," Ishizu shut the curtain right in Tea's face. "Serenity's still more beautiful than you."
"You're wrong!" Tea glared at the silhouette. "Marik killed that two timing trash hag! He's brought me proof…" she held out the container.
"Is that so?" Ishizu shampooed her hair. "Well here's something you should know. Your sister's still alive, hiding in a cottage in a not so far away land. The eyes and heart of a pig is what you truly hold in hand."
"The eyes and the heart of a pig?!?" she slammed the container onto the wall. "Damn you Marik!" she then bolted out the door and took the elevator down the lobby where she saw Yami and Marik chatting away. She then turned towards Marik, making her way towards him. As she reached him, she gave him a slight push, her hand slapped across his face as hard as she could. "You jerk!"
"Marik cocked his head to the side, a smirk curling his lips. "Ah, so your little mirror friend revealed the truth after all."
"Mirror friend?" Yami quirked an eyebrow. "What does that s'posed to mean?"
All Marik did was look down at Tea. "Wouldn't you know Miss Mazaki, your boyfriend has no clue to your imaginary friend."
Tea yanked Marik by his arm, leading him into the elevator as Yami looked on. She pressed the 14th floor button, watching the door close. For the first two floors, they rode in complete silence. Finally, Marik slammed his hand down the emergency stop button, the elevator coming to a screeching halt.
"Perhaps this way, we'll be able to converse without any interruptions."
"Marik Ishtar," Tea's eyes burned into his. "You are nothing more than a full-time lying snake!"
"Ah yes, I didn't kill your sister. For some odd reason, I pitied that young girl." He massaged his neck.
"How dare you stab me in the back!" Tea started to pound her fists on Marik's chest. "I'll make sure you die a sudden death!"
Marik's hand shot out, grabbing Tea by the wrist, seeing a syringe in hand. "Silent death, eh?" he yanked the syringe off her hand, squeezing the liquid out. "Child, if it were not for me, you would not be able to learn the dark powers."
"You keep making that shit up Marik and I'll…"
"You'll what?" Marik was the least intimidated. "Run to Yami? Or run to your daddy? Neither won't believe you."
"When you least suspect it Marik," Tea's voice rasped. "I will get you for this." Suddenly, a sick feeling washed over, causing her to stumble. "My stomach…"
"What's wrong?"
"I don't know. I feel sick ever since this morning."
Marik tossed Tea a small device. "Put this on your stomach."
With one hand, Tea caught the device looking it over. "What is this?"
"Must you ask so many questions?" he didn't take a second look at her. "Just do as I say."
"All right fine!" Tea placed the device on her stomach, watching the red light blinking for a few moments before a red plus sign appeared. "A plus sign?"
A soft chuckle escaped Marik's lips. "Congratulations Mazaki, you're pregnant."
"What the hell does that supposed to mean?" Tea glared at her arch nemesis, her fist clenching tightly.
"I mean exactly what I mean." Marik smirked.
"But…when…" Tea couldn't put her words together. "Wait a minute…but you used…"
Marik reached inside his coat, taking out a sewing needle. "Ah, the things that needle could do for you."
"Is this your idea of a sick joke Ishtar?"
"No joke. Just an act of proving one's worth of love." He ran his fingers through her hair.
Tea slapped Marik right in the face. "What makes you think I'll love you back? As for the kid, I'm aborting."
"You wouldn't want to do that Mazaki." Marik crossed his arms over his chest, still smirking.
"You can't stop me!"
"My poor dear. If you abort the kid, your father and your so called "boyfriend" would never live it down with the fact that the supposedly innocent Anzu Mazaki is nothing more than the biggest tramp walking Domino City."
Tea, already furious with Marik's words, attempted to punch Marik but he made a fast reaction by grabbing her arm and placing her in an arm lock.
"Shouldn't you be happy you're going to be a mother soon?" he chuckled at this thought.
Tea struggled against Marik's hold. "I wouldn't care if I was a mom then, now or in the after life! It's the one who plays the father that really counts."
"What's the matter?" Marik pushed a few buttons on the elevator and soon, it started to move again. "Wouldn't you like me to be a father to two little girls?"
"I don't think I'm having twins!"
He shook his head. "I'm referring to your unborn child and yourself." The elevator finally reached the 14th floor. Once the doors slid open, Marik shoved her out the door. Before Tea could say anything, the door closed, leaving her standing there alone.
Meanwhile at the cottage, everyone, including Serenity, gathered around the living room watching a videotape of Who's Line is It Anyway? It was 10:30 and the darkness from the sky continued to shroud the cottage. Suddenly, the phone rang. Everyone was lazy to simply get up and answer it.
"Joey, answer the phone." Kaiba nudged Joey.
"You answer it!" Joey retorted. Soon, the two started to get into an argument while the rest tried to break it up.
"Guys, have you no shame?!?" Malik stood up. "I'll…I'll…" he sneezed and a blast of cold wind shot out. "I'll answer it." He made his way towards the nightstand where the phone stood. "Hello? Oh…Marik?" his voice shook slightly, glancing up at Serenity. "Fine, just fine. Yes…no…why didn't you call when….okay you got a point there. No, I don't think you should if she's that…The sister's what?!? Are you serious? All right…all right Marik I'll tell her…" suddenly another frantic voice took over the receiver.
"Malik how's Serenity? Is she all right?"
"Who is this?"
"Oh for goodness sake Yami!" Marik's voice flowed through the background. "Give me that. Listen Malik, just tell Serenity that Tea's pregnant and insist that she not come back to Domino City just yet."
"Yeah. If she were to go back now, the sister will kill her."
"All right, I'll call some other time." There was a click on the other end.
"Malik-kun," Serenity looked at Malik. "Was that your brother?"
"Uh…well…" Malik looked at the rest only to now notice that the volume for the TV has been turned down and everyone was staring at him. "Oh…you see Serenity…Marik just called about your sister…" he sneezed and another cold wind blew right past them.
"Malik you dumb cluck!" Joey wrapped his arms around himself, shivering.
"That's what happens when you don't want to see the doctor." Kaiba sneered.
Malik cleared his nose, blowing into a tissue. "Serenity, your sister Tea is pregnant.
"Hmph," Kaiba sneered. "Women, nothing but prostitutes, no matter where you go."
"Kaiba quit being a nimwad!" Duke stood up, stepping over Tristan, who was lying on the floor struggling to stay awake. He made his way towards Serenity, sitting on her lap "Serenity's not a whore!" he blushed as he adjusted himself on her lap, blushing.
"If Tea's pregnant," Serenity started to get up. "I must go to her."
"Serenity," Joey stood up. "You can't go."
"Besides," Malik took out another tissue. "Marik said you shouldn't go back to Domino City yet."
"Ryou felt his boxers being tugged. Looking down, he was relived to see it was just Yugi instead of Tristan. Giving a fake smile, he ruffled Yugi's hair. "What is it Yugi?"
Yugi tiptoed leaning towards Ryou, whispering something in his ear.
"What?!?" Ryou stepped back. "Yugi, you can't be serious! No way! I am not going to ask the lady such things! Nonononononono!"
"What is it?" Joey looked at the two.
'Yugi," Ryou crossed his arms over his chest. "I will not. I refuse to." Yugi made a face at Ryou.
"What does Yugi want?" Serenity smiled. "Maybe I could help."
"You could tell me Yugi." Joey pulled Yugi towards him. "So out with it."
Yugi tiptoed and whispered something in Joey's ear. Taken back, Joey stepped away from Yugi. "You can't be serious. Of all things…" he then took in a deep breath, looking up at Serenity. "Serenity, Yugi wants to know where…" he shuddered at this. "Babies come from."
"What?" The rest looked at Yugi strangely.
"Where do babies come from?" Serenity tilted her head to the side.
"Yugi how stupid can you get?" Kaiba glared at Yugi.
Ryou shook his head sadly. "We try to explain it to him many times but he never gets it. All he knows is that involves boys and girls."
"Well," Serenity scratched her head. Damn private all-girls school she fumed in her thoughts. Her all girls private school only taught of the human anatomy. Her father didn't have any time to explain it to her. Which that leaves to Tea… She remembered when she was twelve and Tea was fifteen. Tea left behind a book of the mating process when it comes to humans. She then noticed Yugi shuffling his duel monster cards. "Yugi, can I borrow your cards?"
Looking up at Serenity, Yugi then handed her his cards. Serenity looked over the cards before taking three. "You might want to sit down for this."
Soon, the guys gathered around. Serenity looked at the three girls. "Well, let me just use the Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl." She showed the two cards and started to make them move. "They go out together, have a little date and when they feel like it, well…" she tried to find the right words to say. "They make out! They have sex! That's how babies are born."
Yugi whispered something in Ryou's ear. Ryou was shocked and scooted away from Yugi. "Yugi, no! I will not ask that! No Never!"
"What is it?" Serenity looked at Ryou.
Ryou sighed. "Yugi wants to know how two people have sex."
"Oh…well…" Serenity showed t hem the polymerization card. "It's like their bodies entwine with one another." She definitely wasn't in the mood to explain how the sperm gets through the egg.
Yugi whispered something in Ryou's ear. Once again, Ryou was mortified. "No Yugi, it can't work with two guys or two girls!"
Suddenly, the bells from the clock sounded off. Looking up, it was already 11:30. Serenity yawned, stretching her arms. "I feel a bit tired."
"We should get to sleep anyway." Malik looked down at Tristan who was knocked out.
"Why don't you sleep in our room while we sleep down here?" Joey insisted.
Kaiba sneered at Serenity, obviously not liking the idea of having a woman in the house.
"Are you sure about that?" Serenity looked down at the rest.
"Yes…" Joey smiled. "We wouldn't mind sleeping down here in a…a…uh…' once again, Joey had a problem with his words.
"In a horse's class…" said Kaiba.
"In a horse's class…horse's ass…no!!" Joey balled up his fists. "We'll be fine here Serenity."
~*To be continued*~