Surprise, Surprise

"Come on Yami, I don't got all night!" Yugi crossed his arms over his chest.

"Can't you just wait Yugi?" Yami was struggling hard to fight the urge to strangle Yugi. "I'm just refilling my cup of coffee so I can at least finish this story and hopefully to get myself to sleep."

Suddenly, the sound of the doorbell sounded off throughout the house. Quirking an eyebrow, Yami wondered who would be knocking on their door at this hour, seeing it was 1:30 in the morning. He then turned towards Yugi. "Yugi, I'll be right okay."

"Hey wait a minute..." Yugi started to protest.

"Just let me answer the door Yugi. You know it's not nice to leave people outside." he then got up and made his way down the stairs and to the door. Opening it, he was startled and surprised to see Malik standing outside in his nightgown. "Malik?!? What in the world are you doing here at this hour?!? Shouldn't you be at home?"

"Well..." Malik scratched his head. "Rishid didn't want me around when his girlfriends came along so he told me to come here."

"Say what?" Yami was startled. But then he remembered. Rishid had started his own escort service despite Ishizu's zero tolerance on prostitution. Rishid, you must be laughing are you? Yami fumed in his mind. Sending this evil boy to my house when I already have my own problems to deal with.

"Hey Malik," Yugi called out from his bedroom. "Is that you?"

"Yes!" Malik shouted back.

"Come on up," Yugi shouted out. "Yami was just telling me bedtime stories!"

You wouldn't dare! Yami was obviously not liking this one bit.

"Okay!" And before Yami could stop Malik, Malik, whirled past Yami, racing up the stairs and into Yugi's room.

"This is going to be hell." Yami muttered to himself as he went into the kitchen. He took out two cups, filling them with water. He then took out a pack of instant coffee, taking it upstairs with him. Setting it down on the dresser, he then handed the cups of water to both Malik and Yugi, both who are sitting on the same bed.

"I want soda!" Yugi pouted.

"Me too." Malik looked up at Yami like a little kid.

"No." Yami's face seemed serious. "You drink those cups down right now! Besides, soda is not good for you before going to sleep. Too much caffeine."

"But coffee has caffeine in it." Malik shot Yami a dirty look.

"Yeah." Yugi gave his dark side a look of suspicion.

"I need the coffee to stay up so I can put you to sleep." Yami took out the fairy tale book. "Now, you want me to continue with Beauty and the Beast or not?"

"You better do something different." Yugi drank his water. "Because the way you tell it was so familiar. And when you left, it hit me! You're just telling me what happened in that damn Disney movie!"

"That is cold." Malik glanced at Yugi. "Don't worry Yugi, I can call up Yami no Marik so he can make sure the pharaoh is going to tell the story different."

"Not on your life you won't." Yami sneered at Malik. "For your information, your dark side is skipping town trying to avoid paying the $100 he owed Bakura after the bet on the Super Bowl." he then opened the book. "I'm just telling the story like it is written in the book."

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To Be Continued. Anyone have ideas on the next chap, feel free to suggest it.