Hey everyone!!!!
Yay!!! I gotta lotta reviews!!!!!! *Huggles everyone* Yay! I am now beating DVD by... two reviews!!!!!!! Yippy!!!! my fic is better than hiiiiiis!!!! ha! *Sits in a corner feeling happy*
*Comes out of corner*
Ok people! Today, (Not right off, but somewhere) I am going to take the readers into the one POV that can really answer quite a few, (What am i talking about, a little, I mean a lot!!!) of questions..... Bakura!!!!! *Has to wait for two hours to begin chappie because of all the clapping and cheering*
Ok, so now that you know that loverly detail, on with the chappie!!!
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{Shells}
Half an hour after the incident with the tins, Shells and DVD were still keeping a very close watch on the backpack and it's important contents. Whenever the car turned right, they made sure it didn't slide left. When it turned left, they made sure it didn't slide right. (Duh)
They watched over it the whole car ride back, and even thought nothing else happened, they were still glad when the van pulled up to the driveway and they were able to escape up the stairs to the girls's room.
Once there, Shells took off her pack and emptied the tins onto the floor. (very carefully). Then, she and DVD began searching the room for the missing Yugi tins. Daricio had hidden them extremely well.
While they were searching, a knock came at the door, and it opened. Mom came in. She looked around the room and frowned at the scattered tins on the floor.
"Guys?" She said disapprovingly. "Homework?" She held it out to them. "Come downstairs and do it."
Shells and DVD quickly picked up all the tins and stashed them back into Shells's backpack. "Can't we just do it up here? We'll get it done, honest!"
Mom continued to frown at them and shook her head, answering negatively. No.
They groaned, took their work, and ent down the stairs with one final glance at the room for the missing tins.
//This is going to take forever!// Shells complained, gesturing to her mountain of work. //We'll never be able to either find those missing tins OR ask anyone else!//
//Just work as fast as you can. If push comes to shove, we'll stay up late doing it after everyine goes to bed like we did last night. Whether it wakes anyone up or not.// DVD said confidentally.
//Ok, but still.// Shells said.
//I know.// DVD said, showing her his own pile of work. They both grimaced, then stuck their tongues out at their respective mountains.
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{Yugi and Daricio}
It didn't take long for Daricio to figure out how to go into her temporary physical form, and soon she was running right along beside Yugi towards the game shop, grinning. If anyone on the street noticed that she was slightly see through, they didn't say anything about it and simply cleared out of the way as they would do for any person that was running quickly down the street. (She did a very good job at making her form look solid.)
//Daricio, maybe you shouldn't do that.// Yugi warned. //What if you run into someone?//
//I won't!// Daricio said, still grinning. //This is fun!//
Yugi rolled his eyes.
//Why didn't we just do this instead of doing all that switching when we played that game?// Daricio asked. Yugi grinned.
//I forgot that we could do this.// He admitted.
They continued running down the sidewalk. Daricio, of course, had almost no idea where they were going, so she just made sure she stayed by Yugi. Yugi, however, knew exactly where he was going, and soon Daricio had spotted the game shop.
//Race?// She called. Yugi frowned, reminded slightly of Tea, and wondered once again where everyone was. Then he shook his head, as if to clear it, and answered.
"Ok!" The moment the word left his lips, Daricio was off, running as fast as she could, pulling ahead of Yugi. //Hey!// Yugi mentally shouted at Daricio. Then he struggled to catch up. Daricio looked over her shoulder at him as she ran, giggling.
Suddenly, Yugi saw someone up ahead. A certain blonde someone. //Daricio, watch out!// Yugi called, then winced as Daricio, unable to stop, ran right through Joey. They both stopped very suddenly, and then turned around to face each other.
"That was strange." Daricio commented out loud.
"Tell me bout it... What just happened?" Joey said.
"I went through you."
"Well, yeah, but why? How?" Joey asked, scratching his head and giving her a sideways look.
"It's kinda hard to explain. Let's go inside up to my room." Yugi said, catching up to them and gesturing towards the game shop. Joey and Daricio nodden and followed Yugi inside.
They all started single file up the staircase, but were stopped halfway up by Grandpa's voice.
"Where do you three think you're going?" He asked, putting his hands on his hips.
"Up to my room." Yugi said, turning around.
Grandpa shook his head. "I don't think so." He told them sternly. "Yugi is still grounded, remember?"
Yugi frowned. He had forgotten about that. "Grandpa, this is important." He said. Grandpa shook his head again.
"Tell your friends goodbye. They have to go."
Yugi sighed. "Ok. Sorry Joey. See ya." He turned to Daricio.
//Go out with Joey, and tell him to come in through the window.// He told her. She grinned and nodded slightly.
"Ok, bye Yugi." She said. She and Joey left the shop.
"Ok, Joey, come over here." She said, walking over to the wall under Yugi's window where there were vines growing up the wall.
"Why should I?" joey asked, not quite getting it.
"Because you get to climb up these vines and go into Yugi's room that way!" She told him pointing upwards to the window.
Joey looked up. "Oh." He said. He started to climb. Then he turned his head to look down at Daricio. "You coming?"
Daricio grinned. "I have my ways." She told him. She looked around to see if anyone else was watching. Nobody was, so she let her 'physical form' melt away, returning her to Yugi's soul room.
Joey stared at the spot where she had been standing, then started up towards the window again. "Interesting." He muttered to himself. "She can go through people, and disappear." Soon, he was clamboring through the window into Yugi's room. Daricio, once again back in her temporary physical form, was standing next to Yugi and Yami, who was also in a temporary phisical form.
Joey sat down in one of the chairs in the room. So did Yugi. For reasons all their own, Daricio and Yami chose to remain standing. (Although, Joey guessed that Daricio was trying to imitate Yami's errect, ram rod straight style of standing.)
"Ok," Joey started, breaking the silence in the room. "Before you three start launching yerselves into a ton of explanations, I came her cuz I wanted to tell Yugi bout the dream I had, and see if Yami had anything to say bout it." He told them, referring to Yami's liking to try and interpret dreams.
"Ok, Joey. What was your dream?" Yami asked.
"Well, first it was just a normal dream, but then I dreamed that I woke up! I wasn't in my room though. I looked around, and what did I see? I saw my Red Eyes! It was eating out of this really big bowl... Then, I heard a voice. I looked for who had spoken, and I saw these really big people! Then the Red Eyes decides to come over and attack me! One of the big people pressed something on this metal thing near me, and it glowed, and the Red Eyes disappeared!" Joey shook his head, then continued. "Then one of the big people asked me a question. They said, 'Joey, do you know anyone named Daricio?' I don't, so I told them so. Then they reached towards that metal thing again and I woke up..."
//Somehow, I have the feeling that that was a very condensed version.// Daricio said to Yugi and Yami. //Shells and DVD probably had a lot of questions to ask him.//
"Joey, I don't think that was a dream." Yami told him, looking over at Daricio.
"Huh? Whaddya mean, not a dream? It coudn'ta been real!" Joey said.
"It can, and it was." Daricio said. "I am Daricio."
Joey stared at her. "The person these guys was lookin for?" He asked. Daricio nodded. "Riiiiiiiight." he said, disbelievingly.
"It's true, Joey." Yugi said.
"Ok, so how and why is she here?" Joey asked.
Yugi sighed. "Now THAT... is a very long story." He said. "You know that article you showed me about the FWC's and the Picture Technology?"
Joey nodded. "Yeah, what about it?" He asked, reaching into his pocket for it. He stopped suddenly, and pulled out, not only the article, but another, really big something.
Everyone stared at it for a moment, before Daricio started laughing. "That... Is the biggest cheerio I have ever seen." She said between laughs. Yugi grinned and Joey continued staring at the huge piece of cereal.
"Interesting." Yami said, raising an eyebrow. "Very interesting."
Then they heard the game shop's bell ring. Someone had just walked in.
"Hello, Tristan. Tea." They heard Grandpa say.
"Hi. Can we talk to Yugi?" They heard Tea ask.
"No, I'm sorry. Yugi is still grounded. He can't have friends over right now." Grandpa said.
"Oh. Ok." Tristan said. "We'll talk to him at school tomorrow."
Yugi ran over to the window and saw Tristan and Tea walk out of the shop. She called out to them.
"Tristan! Tea! Over here!" he called. They looked up and saw him. He pointed down to the vines below his window. They nodded and ran over. They started their climb.
When they got inside, they looked around, slightly suprised at the number of people that were in the room, considering the fact that Yugi wasn't supposed to have anyone over at the moment.
"Hey, everyone." Tea said. She turned to Joey. "Did you tell him about what happened after school today?"
Joey shook his head. "No, not yet. I was savin it for you to tell."
"In other words, you forgot." Tristan said.
"Yup."
"What happened?" Daricio asked. Tristan and Tea looked at her.
"Who are you?"
"My name is Daricio." She said. Tristan raised an eybrow.
"Daricio? Hey, did you know that there are some really big people looking for you?" He asked. Daricio smiled.
"Yeah. That's my brother and sister." She told them. Even Joey looked surprised, as she hadn't told him that little fact.
"Oh." Tristan said.
"So.... What happened?" Daricio asked again.
"Well, we were walking home, when all of a sudden, we were in this really dark place. None of us could see a thing. Tea and Joey wouldn't get off of me." Tristan started.
"Get off of you? Whaddya mean? I wasn't on you! You were on me!" Joey said.
"That's not important right now! The important part was what happened!" Tea said. "Along with us, there was a Red Eyes Black Dragon!"
"It attacked us, and blew a hole through the wall. Then the roof of the place opened up and we could see that there were a ton of these metal type mountains around us." Tristan added. "We all got up, and there was a very large person! She muttered something to herself, then pressed a button, making the Red Eyes disappear. Then she pressed another button, and Joey was gone!"
Joey nodded. "I was suddenly in the street where we were before. I ran directly here. Then she ran into...I mean through me...."
"Well, all WE knew was that suddenly you were gone. Then she picked up another metal thing and pressed something on it, and then Tea was gone. Then she pressed another button on a different one, and then I was back in the street with Tea standing next to me!" Tristan said. "As far as we knew, Joey was long gone...."
"Sorry." Joey said.
Daricio had finally decided to sit down. "Someone must have accidentally hit some of the squares." she said. "and they were trying to send you guys back again."
Yami nodded. "that sounds right."
There was silence for a few moments before Tristan suddenly commented, "Joey, what is THAT?" He pointed to the overgrown cheerio that was on the floor at Joey's feet.
"A cheerio. What else?" He said, grinning. "I musta dropped it."
Tristan stared. "Uh huh." He said. Daricio grinned too.
"He got it from my sister." She said. "I think."
Joey nodded. He picked it up and set it on the table that was still set up in the middle of the room. "Shall we feast?" he asked, joking. He got several strange looks from everyone in the room.
"Yugi, come down here! I need your help with something!" Grandpa called from the bottom of the stairs.
"You guys better go." He said. Everyone nodded. Daricio and Yami returned to Yugi's soul room, and Tea, Tristan, and Joey climbed back out the window again.
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{Shells}
That night, DVD snuck out of his room and into Shells's. they closed the curtains on the window and stuffed a towel under the door so that they could turn on the light without anyone noticing. They began their search again.
After about ten minutes, they decided to just try some of the other tins instead. They only had the Mai tin and the Bakura tin left to go. Shells decided to try the Mai tin first.
She grabbed it out of the backpack and pressed the square. Mai appeared. (Standing up, still awake even though it was about 9:30 at night)
She looked around for a moment, startled. Shells was about to talk, when DVD shook his head and put a finger to his lips.
//Let's see if this works.// He said. He slid a piece of paper over to Mai and then backed away to a spot where he was less able to be seen. Shells also backed away.
Mai turned around and saw the piece of paper. "What on earth?" She said quietly. On the paper was tow sentances.
'Do you know anyone named Daricio?' was the first question. The other was, 'Just say your answer out loud.'
Mai looked confused. "Now, this is strange." She commented, looking around again. She cleared her throat. "I don't know who or where you are, but no, I have no clue who Daricio is." She waited for something to happen.
Something did. DVD reached out towards the square again. "Thanks anyway." He said softly, then he pressed it.
Shells looked at him. //That didn't take very long.// She commented.
DVD grinned. //Yeah. Let's just do the same thing for bakura, then we can look for those Yugi tins again.//
Shells frowned. //No, Bakura is different.// She said. //He's here already, remember? What if he just goes back to his own body at the hospital? A little note isn't going to cut it then. Besides, even if he does come here, we have even more questions to ask him.//
DVD's smile faded. //Oh. Right. Ok.// He pulled the Bakura tin closer to him. //Lets do this, then.// He said.
He pressed the square. It glowed for a second. Then another second. Then another. It continued glowing. it got brighter and brighter, as if it was struggling to do something, then the glowing stopped completely, and Bakura was standing there.
He looked around quickly, confusion written all over his face. "Hello?" He asked. "Anyone here?"
"We are." DVD said softly. "And we have quite a few questions for you."
Bakura looked around, then up, spotting them. The color drained out of his face.
"Wha?...." He took a few steps back. "Who are you?" He asked, still pale.
"My name is Shells. and this is my brother DVD." Shells said. "Nice to meet you."
"Uh... Yeah..." Bakura said, taking a few more steps backwards, staring up at them. "Nice to meet you... I think...." He took one more step backwards, but there was no more tin for him to step backwards onto. He pinwheeled for a second, then fell off the edge backwards. "Wha!! Oof!"
Shells picked up the tin and moved it out of the way. Bakura stared up at her some more from his position on the floor.
"Are you ok?" Shells asked.
"Yeah.... At least my body is... I'm not so sure about my head, right now...." Bakura replied.
Shells smiled slightly. "Ryou Bakura, we have some questions for you..." She told him.
"Ok... But just call me Bakura, ok?" He said. "I only ever got called Ryou when..." His voice trailed off. He shook his head, then continued. "What's your questions?"
"Well... First off, we're trying to find someone. Do you know anyone named Daricio?" She asked.
"Well, no, I don't think so. Sorry." Bakura said. "Any other questions?"
"Um... Yeah... Did you know that... that you are in the hospital?" DVD asked.
Bakura frowned and looked around. "Hospital? What do you mean?"
"Now right now, Bakura... And yet... Yes right now... " Shells tried to figure out how to explain. Bakura's face clouded over as he went deep into thought.
Several moments passed. Then Bakura spoke. "Can... Can I go home now?" He asked in a small voice.
Shells looked at DVD, who looked back at her.
//He looks troubled. Maybe if we talk to him later, he'll feel like telling us.// Shells told him.
//Good idea.// DVD said. He nodded to Bakura and then pressed the square on the tin. Bakura disappeared.
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{Bakura} (Yay!)
Ryou.... Nobody had ever called him Ryou since that day.... So long ago.... Bakura shook his head and sat down on his bed in his room.
//What's the matter?// The Spirit of the Ring asked evily. //Don't like remembering?//
Bakura shut his eyes tightly and did something he had never done before. //Shut up.// He told the spirit.
His ring glowed slightly for an instant, and the spirit, which Bakura had started to call his yami took on a physical form and grinned evily at him.
"I was right. You don't like remembering." He said menacingly. The ring glowed again and the room began to shift and swirl.
Bakura opened his eyes wide and sat up. "Wait, no!" he said. His yami grinned.
When the room finished swirling, Bakura could tell that they were in the shadow realm once again. His yami liked going there.
He sighed. "What now, yami?" he asked. The spirit frowned.
"Quit calling me the name of that stupid pharoah." He hissed. That was the reason Bakura liked calling him Yami.
He repeated his question. "What are you doing now?"
"Well, you obviously are slow today. Let me SHOW you...." The spirit said, grinning once again. The Shadow Realm began to shift, and Bakura could see that, even though he was still in the shadow realm, he was also in an old apartment.
"No..." He whispered. "You're going to make me relive this, aren't you..." He heard the spirit cackle, and knew that he had figured it out correctly. Not that that made being here and doing this any more reassuring.
He looked around the old apartment. It was just how he remembered it. Not that there would be any difference, as his yami had created it USING his memory.
"My old house." He said to himself. "The one I lived in by myself when my parents died." Then, he did what he had done those many years ago. Not that he wanted to. The memory was forcing him to do exactly what he had done before. He closed his eyes and concentrated. Inside his soul room.
The soul room was also how it had been before. Before he had traveled. Before the spirit had come. He looked around it, involentarily. In one corner of it, was... the link. The thin wire like thing that had changed his life forever.
He started towards it. Again, he didn't want to, but that was what he had done before, so he had to. He put his hand on the wire and started walking along it. Walking, Bakura already knew, to his new life.
He continued walking. and walking until he came to a door. He opened it, and went through. The moment he did, the door slammed itself shut. Ryou turned and tried to wrench it open, but to no avail. It was stuck. Forever.
He turned to look at his surroundings. He was now standing on a sidewalk. Other people on the street payed him no heed. He wondered why. This was obviously not someone's mind, or there wouldn't be so many people. He was in a real, honest to goodness city.
Bakura already knew that this was Domino, where he would spend the rest of his life, but he hadn't then, so he had to endure the repeating of the questions and thoughts he had had in his mind.
Bakura looked around once again, then started walking down the street. he wandered around for what seemed like ages. Even though he knew that it couldn't have been more that 10 minutes. He also knew that in the shadow realm where he really was, no time at all was passing, and when he got back home, it would be as if he hadn't been anywhere. Except that the memory would be fresh in his mind.
He continued wandering until he saw two young boys, both about the age of 12 playing outside of a game shop. Bakura knew it was Joey and Yugi. But Ryou didn't know who they were, so he just continued down the street. They spotted him and waved, but him, being the shy person that he was, just blushed, ducked his head, and continued walking, not wanting to admit that he was lost.
He finally found his way to a large building. The orphanage. he had been searching for a place like this ever since he lost his parents. He hadn't been able to find one, however, and so he had just lived in that apartment. but now he had finally found one! A place he could live!
He went in the door and up to the desk. "Excuse me." He said politely. The lady at the desk looked down at him.
"Yes?" She said, smiling sweetly.
"Uh.... My Mom and Dad are both..." He felt his throat choke up. "Dead." He said in a small voice. "And I don't have anywhere to live... Can I stay here?"
//Aww... How sweet...// His Yami whispered to him. Bakura shuddered. That hadn't happened then, mostly because he didn't even have the ring, much less his yami, at that time. But his yami was teasing him now.
//Stop this... Stop this now! I don't want to remember it all!// He said.
//Too bad.//
The lady at the desk smiled again and said, "Dear, of course you can stay here. And then, if anyone wants to adopt you, you can have a real home!"
Ryou smiled in relief. He had been afraid that they wouldn't take him in. "Thank you." he said.
//Thank you.// His Yami imitated him.
//Shut up! // Bakura said.
Ryou followed the lady into a room full of kids.
"What is your name?" The lady asked.
"I'm Ryou." He answered.
"Well, Ryou, do you have a last name?" She said.
Ryou shook his head. "Not anymore. Not since..."
"Oh. I'm sorry you feel that way." she said, taking him over to an empty bed. "Fine then, Ryou, this will be your bed. You can get to know all the other kids now." She left the room and went to write down that he was there in her little book.
Ryou sat on the bed and looked in the mirror that was attatched to the head of it. He still looked the way he always had, so why did he feel so different? Bakura knew. He knew that he was actually in a completely new body. And that his old one was still in that apartment.
After a while, the lady came back in and, seeing that Ryou hadn't moved from the bed, went over to the bed and called for everyone's attention. "Everyone." She said when she had their attention. "This is Ryou. He is new here, so let's all be friends!"
A few of the other kids waved, but other than that, just ignored him. They were used to getting new kids in here often, so having Ryou there wasn't much different.
Ryou looked around. Mostly people were just sitting on their beds getting ignored, like he was. But there was a big group of people over in one corner. He got up to see what they were doing.
They were all watching two kids play chess. The older one was winning, but the younger one seemed to be having fun too. One kid with a camera took a picture, and in the following commotion, Ryou was pushed back away, so he couldn't see.
"Hey!" Ryou called. "I can't see!"
One kid near him gave him a glare. "Get used to it, newbie." He said. "You don't generally get to do much around here till you've been here a bit."
"Oh." Ryou said in a small voice. Bakura frowned inwardly.
//What? Don't like remembering?// his yami asked him for the second time that day.
//Stop this now. This isn't necessary.//
//Oh, but it is.... Very...// The spirit taunted him.
Ryou went back to his bed and watched the crowd. After about five minutes, it broke up and the older kid emerged victorious, holding the smaller child's hand.
"Come on, Mokuba." The older one said.
"Ok big brother." Mokuba told him. They walked over to a corner where two beds had been pushed together and away from all the others.
Ryou watched them. Bakura watched them. The spirit watched them.
//Weren't Seto and Mokuba just so cute two years ago?// the spirit said.
//Shut up.// Bakura said. Ryou lay down on the bed.
//Aw, but nothing happened here for a long time after that. Not for about a week. Let's speed things up a bit, shall we?// the spirit said. The room swirled once again, and when it stopped, Bakura was back in the room again, one week later.
He knew it was a week, not only by what the spirit had said, but because of the person who was in the room, looking over all of the kids.
It was the famous owner of KaibaCorp, Gozaburo Kaiba. He was out to adopt a son to take over the company when he was gone. His cold eyes swept over the crowd of children taking them all in and trying to decide which one would be best.
Bakura frowned, being forced to remember the anxiety he had felt. "If he picks me, i'll never have anything to worry about again!" Ryou said to himself.
Gozaburo walked slowly down the center of the room, surveying all the children. His eyes fell on Ryou who gave him a small smile. Gozaburo nodded at him, and began walking towards him.
Ryou's heart leaped. He was going to be picked! He was going to have a home! Then, Seto walked over to Gozaburo, looked him right in the eye and challenged him.
"I challenge you to a game of chess! If I win, you have to take in me and Mokuba!" He said. Gozaburo grinned and sat down at the table.
Ryou glared to Seto, who didn't see him. He was turned away, setting up the pieces. The game began, but almost as soon as it began, it seemed, it was over, and Seto was putting the game away with a big grin on his face.
He went back over to Mokuba, took him by the hand, and led him over to Gozaburo, who was still sitting in his chair, shocked that a fifteen year old had beaten him.
"Ok, lets go." Seto said, looking up at him, his face full of seriousness. Gozaburo nodded, then smiled.
"Yes, of course. You'd be perfect." He took Seto by the hand and brought him and Mokuba out of the building.
Ryou felt horrible. He would have been picked. he would have. He had almost had a home. If only that Seto guy hadn't gotten in his way. If only... Seto... He had a last name now... Seto Kaiba.... And he was just Ryou... Just Ryou.... Just Ryou.....
Bakura couldn't take it anymore. //Stop this! Stop it! Stop it now!!!!!!!!!!!// He screamed at the spirit.
//Oh, but why? We still have something to do... To remember.... Don't we?// He said evily.
//No, we don't! No!// Bakura cried. //No!//
//Yes. Let's see it now...Yes... Let's see now... how much time.... Ah... One and a half years from this point...// his Yami said.
//No...// Bakura thought, realizing what the sprit was going to show him. His own adoption, and the gift of the ring... //No, spirit... SPIRIT!!!!!!!//
It was too late. The room shifted, and Bakura sunk into another wave of sorrow.
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{End of chappie interlude: Seto Kaiba (Who else?)}
Kaiba worked long and hard and before he knew it, it was night again. He had manually turned off his AI and had actually gotten most of the report done. He saved what he had, and stretched. He got up from his chair and went into the kitchen to get himself something to eat.
He opened the refrigerator and pulled out a TV dinner. He knew he could have something besides that, but, strangely, he had developed a liking for them ever since he had gotten Mokuba one and he hadn't liked it, forcing seto to eat it instead.
He pulled off the wrapping and stuffed it in the microwave. He pressed the start button, then suddenly stiffened.
There was somebody in the room. He could feel it.
He turned around quickly. It was just Mokuba. He allowed himself to relax.
Mokuba gave the microwave a funny look, then looked up at Seto.
"Are you having another one of those TV dinners?" He asked.
"Yes, Mokuba. So?" Seto asked, sitting at the small table in the kitchen to wait for the dinner to finish cooking.
"You're weird, Seto." Mokuba said, grinning up at him and jumping into his lap.
"Yup. I know." Seto said, ruffling up Mokuba's hair.
"Speaking of weird." Said a voice from the doorway. "Aren't you two supposed to be in the nuthouse?"
Seto put Mokuba on the ground and faced the doorway to see who it was. Whoever it was stepped out of the shadows. It was just one of his security guards.
"Let us alone." Seto said.
The security guard smiled. "I don't think so. It's not good to let mentally unstable people run around."
Seto growled and lunged at him. The guard, now pinned to the wall, just kept smiling.
"Not this time, Mr. Kaiba. Let's go." He said.
Suddenly the room was filled with guards. Seto looked around quickly. They already had Mokuba, and all they needed to do now was to grab him.
"We are not mentally unstable." Seto growled as they led him away. "WE'RE NOT!!!!!!!!!"
"That's nice Mr. Kaiba. Let's go."
"YOU CAN'T MAKE ME GO BACK THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Let's go, Mr. Kaiba."
"Never!!!!!!"
"Mr. Kaiba..."
"No!"
"Seto!"
"Mokuba!"
"Let's GO, Mr. Kaiba."
"No!"
They left the Kaiba residence, with Seto kicking and screaming the whole way.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Now can you guys see why I be so mean to Seto? It's payback for what I made him do to my favorite character! (Actually, I had just been doing it for fun, but this makes for a good reason.)
I had lots of fun writing this chappie! (Not because of the Bakura abuse, though... I just liked writing it...)
So, now you must wait for my next chappie! you can go and read other fics now... It's allowed.... you're done reading mine for now.... At least until next chappie!
See ya!!!!
--Daricio
Yay!!! I gotta lotta reviews!!!!!! *Huggles everyone* Yay! I am now beating DVD by... two reviews!!!!!!! Yippy!!!! my fic is better than hiiiiiis!!!! ha! *Sits in a corner feeling happy*
*Comes out of corner*
Ok people! Today, (Not right off, but somewhere) I am going to take the readers into the one POV that can really answer quite a few, (What am i talking about, a little, I mean a lot!!!) of questions..... Bakura!!!!! *Has to wait for two hours to begin chappie because of all the clapping and cheering*
Ok, so now that you know that loverly detail, on with the chappie!!!
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{Shells}
Half an hour after the incident with the tins, Shells and DVD were still keeping a very close watch on the backpack and it's important contents. Whenever the car turned right, they made sure it didn't slide left. When it turned left, they made sure it didn't slide right. (Duh)
They watched over it the whole car ride back, and even thought nothing else happened, they were still glad when the van pulled up to the driveway and they were able to escape up the stairs to the girls's room.
Once there, Shells took off her pack and emptied the tins onto the floor. (very carefully). Then, she and DVD began searching the room for the missing Yugi tins. Daricio had hidden them extremely well.
While they were searching, a knock came at the door, and it opened. Mom came in. She looked around the room and frowned at the scattered tins on the floor.
"Guys?" She said disapprovingly. "Homework?" She held it out to them. "Come downstairs and do it."
Shells and DVD quickly picked up all the tins and stashed them back into Shells's backpack. "Can't we just do it up here? We'll get it done, honest!"
Mom continued to frown at them and shook her head, answering negatively. No.
They groaned, took their work, and ent down the stairs with one final glance at the room for the missing tins.
//This is going to take forever!// Shells complained, gesturing to her mountain of work. //We'll never be able to either find those missing tins OR ask anyone else!//
//Just work as fast as you can. If push comes to shove, we'll stay up late doing it after everyine goes to bed like we did last night. Whether it wakes anyone up or not.// DVD said confidentally.
//Ok, but still.// Shells said.
//I know.// DVD said, showing her his own pile of work. They both grimaced, then stuck their tongues out at their respective mountains.
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{Yugi and Daricio}
It didn't take long for Daricio to figure out how to go into her temporary physical form, and soon she was running right along beside Yugi towards the game shop, grinning. If anyone on the street noticed that she was slightly see through, they didn't say anything about it and simply cleared out of the way as they would do for any person that was running quickly down the street. (She did a very good job at making her form look solid.)
//Daricio, maybe you shouldn't do that.// Yugi warned. //What if you run into someone?//
//I won't!// Daricio said, still grinning. //This is fun!//
Yugi rolled his eyes.
//Why didn't we just do this instead of doing all that switching when we played that game?// Daricio asked. Yugi grinned.
//I forgot that we could do this.// He admitted.
They continued running down the sidewalk. Daricio, of course, had almost no idea where they were going, so she just made sure she stayed by Yugi. Yugi, however, knew exactly where he was going, and soon Daricio had spotted the game shop.
//Race?// She called. Yugi frowned, reminded slightly of Tea, and wondered once again where everyone was. Then he shook his head, as if to clear it, and answered.
"Ok!" The moment the word left his lips, Daricio was off, running as fast as she could, pulling ahead of Yugi. //Hey!// Yugi mentally shouted at Daricio. Then he struggled to catch up. Daricio looked over her shoulder at him as she ran, giggling.
Suddenly, Yugi saw someone up ahead. A certain blonde someone. //Daricio, watch out!// Yugi called, then winced as Daricio, unable to stop, ran right through Joey. They both stopped very suddenly, and then turned around to face each other.
"That was strange." Daricio commented out loud.
"Tell me bout it... What just happened?" Joey said.
"I went through you."
"Well, yeah, but why? How?" Joey asked, scratching his head and giving her a sideways look.
"It's kinda hard to explain. Let's go inside up to my room." Yugi said, catching up to them and gesturing towards the game shop. Joey and Daricio nodden and followed Yugi inside.
They all started single file up the staircase, but were stopped halfway up by Grandpa's voice.
"Where do you three think you're going?" He asked, putting his hands on his hips.
"Up to my room." Yugi said, turning around.
Grandpa shook his head. "I don't think so." He told them sternly. "Yugi is still grounded, remember?"
Yugi frowned. He had forgotten about that. "Grandpa, this is important." He said. Grandpa shook his head again.
"Tell your friends goodbye. They have to go."
Yugi sighed. "Ok. Sorry Joey. See ya." He turned to Daricio.
//Go out with Joey, and tell him to come in through the window.// He told her. She grinned and nodded slightly.
"Ok, bye Yugi." She said. She and Joey left the shop.
"Ok, Joey, come over here." She said, walking over to the wall under Yugi's window where there were vines growing up the wall.
"Why should I?" joey asked, not quite getting it.
"Because you get to climb up these vines and go into Yugi's room that way!" She told him pointing upwards to the window.
Joey looked up. "Oh." He said. He started to climb. Then he turned his head to look down at Daricio. "You coming?"
Daricio grinned. "I have my ways." She told him. She looked around to see if anyone else was watching. Nobody was, so she let her 'physical form' melt away, returning her to Yugi's soul room.
Joey stared at the spot where she had been standing, then started up towards the window again. "Interesting." He muttered to himself. "She can go through people, and disappear." Soon, he was clamboring through the window into Yugi's room. Daricio, once again back in her temporary physical form, was standing next to Yugi and Yami, who was also in a temporary phisical form.
Joey sat down in one of the chairs in the room. So did Yugi. For reasons all their own, Daricio and Yami chose to remain standing. (Although, Joey guessed that Daricio was trying to imitate Yami's errect, ram rod straight style of standing.)
"Ok," Joey started, breaking the silence in the room. "Before you three start launching yerselves into a ton of explanations, I came her cuz I wanted to tell Yugi bout the dream I had, and see if Yami had anything to say bout it." He told them, referring to Yami's liking to try and interpret dreams.
"Ok, Joey. What was your dream?" Yami asked.
"Well, first it was just a normal dream, but then I dreamed that I woke up! I wasn't in my room though. I looked around, and what did I see? I saw my Red Eyes! It was eating out of this really big bowl... Then, I heard a voice. I looked for who had spoken, and I saw these really big people! Then the Red Eyes decides to come over and attack me! One of the big people pressed something on this metal thing near me, and it glowed, and the Red Eyes disappeared!" Joey shook his head, then continued. "Then one of the big people asked me a question. They said, 'Joey, do you know anyone named Daricio?' I don't, so I told them so. Then they reached towards that metal thing again and I woke up..."
//Somehow, I have the feeling that that was a very condensed version.// Daricio said to Yugi and Yami. //Shells and DVD probably had a lot of questions to ask him.//
"Joey, I don't think that was a dream." Yami told him, looking over at Daricio.
"Huh? Whaddya mean, not a dream? It coudn'ta been real!" Joey said.
"It can, and it was." Daricio said. "I am Daricio."
Joey stared at her. "The person these guys was lookin for?" He asked. Daricio nodded. "Riiiiiiiight." he said, disbelievingly.
"It's true, Joey." Yugi said.
"Ok, so how and why is she here?" Joey asked.
Yugi sighed. "Now THAT... is a very long story." He said. "You know that article you showed me about the FWC's and the Picture Technology?"
Joey nodded. "Yeah, what about it?" He asked, reaching into his pocket for it. He stopped suddenly, and pulled out, not only the article, but another, really big something.
Everyone stared at it for a moment, before Daricio started laughing. "That... Is the biggest cheerio I have ever seen." She said between laughs. Yugi grinned and Joey continued staring at the huge piece of cereal.
"Interesting." Yami said, raising an eyebrow. "Very interesting."
Then they heard the game shop's bell ring. Someone had just walked in.
"Hello, Tristan. Tea." They heard Grandpa say.
"Hi. Can we talk to Yugi?" They heard Tea ask.
"No, I'm sorry. Yugi is still grounded. He can't have friends over right now." Grandpa said.
"Oh. Ok." Tristan said. "We'll talk to him at school tomorrow."
Yugi ran over to the window and saw Tristan and Tea walk out of the shop. She called out to them.
"Tristan! Tea! Over here!" he called. They looked up and saw him. He pointed down to the vines below his window. They nodded and ran over. They started their climb.
When they got inside, they looked around, slightly suprised at the number of people that were in the room, considering the fact that Yugi wasn't supposed to have anyone over at the moment.
"Hey, everyone." Tea said. She turned to Joey. "Did you tell him about what happened after school today?"
Joey shook his head. "No, not yet. I was savin it for you to tell."
"In other words, you forgot." Tristan said.
"Yup."
"What happened?" Daricio asked. Tristan and Tea looked at her.
"Who are you?"
"My name is Daricio." She said. Tristan raised an eybrow.
"Daricio? Hey, did you know that there are some really big people looking for you?" He asked. Daricio smiled.
"Yeah. That's my brother and sister." She told them. Even Joey looked surprised, as she hadn't told him that little fact.
"Oh." Tristan said.
"So.... What happened?" Daricio asked again.
"Well, we were walking home, when all of a sudden, we were in this really dark place. None of us could see a thing. Tea and Joey wouldn't get off of me." Tristan started.
"Get off of you? Whaddya mean? I wasn't on you! You were on me!" Joey said.
"That's not important right now! The important part was what happened!" Tea said. "Along with us, there was a Red Eyes Black Dragon!"
"It attacked us, and blew a hole through the wall. Then the roof of the place opened up and we could see that there were a ton of these metal type mountains around us." Tristan added. "We all got up, and there was a very large person! She muttered something to herself, then pressed a button, making the Red Eyes disappear. Then she pressed another button, and Joey was gone!"
Joey nodded. "I was suddenly in the street where we were before. I ran directly here. Then she ran into...I mean through me...."
"Well, all WE knew was that suddenly you were gone. Then she picked up another metal thing and pressed something on it, and then Tea was gone. Then she pressed another button on a different one, and then I was back in the street with Tea standing next to me!" Tristan said. "As far as we knew, Joey was long gone...."
"Sorry." Joey said.
Daricio had finally decided to sit down. "Someone must have accidentally hit some of the squares." she said. "and they were trying to send you guys back again."
Yami nodded. "that sounds right."
There was silence for a few moments before Tristan suddenly commented, "Joey, what is THAT?" He pointed to the overgrown cheerio that was on the floor at Joey's feet.
"A cheerio. What else?" He said, grinning. "I musta dropped it."
Tristan stared. "Uh huh." He said. Daricio grinned too.
"He got it from my sister." She said. "I think."
Joey nodded. He picked it up and set it on the table that was still set up in the middle of the room. "Shall we feast?" he asked, joking. He got several strange looks from everyone in the room.
"Yugi, come down here! I need your help with something!" Grandpa called from the bottom of the stairs.
"You guys better go." He said. Everyone nodded. Daricio and Yami returned to Yugi's soul room, and Tea, Tristan, and Joey climbed back out the window again.
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{Shells}
That night, DVD snuck out of his room and into Shells's. they closed the curtains on the window and stuffed a towel under the door so that they could turn on the light without anyone noticing. They began their search again.
After about ten minutes, they decided to just try some of the other tins instead. They only had the Mai tin and the Bakura tin left to go. Shells decided to try the Mai tin first.
She grabbed it out of the backpack and pressed the square. Mai appeared. (Standing up, still awake even though it was about 9:30 at night)
She looked around for a moment, startled. Shells was about to talk, when DVD shook his head and put a finger to his lips.
//Let's see if this works.// He said. He slid a piece of paper over to Mai and then backed away to a spot where he was less able to be seen. Shells also backed away.
Mai turned around and saw the piece of paper. "What on earth?" She said quietly. On the paper was tow sentances.
'Do you know anyone named Daricio?' was the first question. The other was, 'Just say your answer out loud.'
Mai looked confused. "Now, this is strange." She commented, looking around again. She cleared her throat. "I don't know who or where you are, but no, I have no clue who Daricio is." She waited for something to happen.
Something did. DVD reached out towards the square again. "Thanks anyway." He said softly, then he pressed it.
Shells looked at him. //That didn't take very long.// She commented.
DVD grinned. //Yeah. Let's just do the same thing for bakura, then we can look for those Yugi tins again.//
Shells frowned. //No, Bakura is different.// She said. //He's here already, remember? What if he just goes back to his own body at the hospital? A little note isn't going to cut it then. Besides, even if he does come here, we have even more questions to ask him.//
DVD's smile faded. //Oh. Right. Ok.// He pulled the Bakura tin closer to him. //Lets do this, then.// He said.
He pressed the square. It glowed for a second. Then another second. Then another. It continued glowing. it got brighter and brighter, as if it was struggling to do something, then the glowing stopped completely, and Bakura was standing there.
He looked around quickly, confusion written all over his face. "Hello?" He asked. "Anyone here?"
"We are." DVD said softly. "And we have quite a few questions for you."
Bakura looked around, then up, spotting them. The color drained out of his face.
"Wha?...." He took a few steps back. "Who are you?" He asked, still pale.
"My name is Shells. and this is my brother DVD." Shells said. "Nice to meet you."
"Uh... Yeah..." Bakura said, taking a few more steps backwards, staring up at them. "Nice to meet you... I think...." He took one more step backwards, but there was no more tin for him to step backwards onto. He pinwheeled for a second, then fell off the edge backwards. "Wha!! Oof!"
Shells picked up the tin and moved it out of the way. Bakura stared up at her some more from his position on the floor.
"Are you ok?" Shells asked.
"Yeah.... At least my body is... I'm not so sure about my head, right now...." Bakura replied.
Shells smiled slightly. "Ryou Bakura, we have some questions for you..." She told him.
"Ok... But just call me Bakura, ok?" He said. "I only ever got called Ryou when..." His voice trailed off. He shook his head, then continued. "What's your questions?"
"Well... First off, we're trying to find someone. Do you know anyone named Daricio?" She asked.
"Well, no, I don't think so. Sorry." Bakura said. "Any other questions?"
"Um... Yeah... Did you know that... that you are in the hospital?" DVD asked.
Bakura frowned and looked around. "Hospital? What do you mean?"
"Now right now, Bakura... And yet... Yes right now... " Shells tried to figure out how to explain. Bakura's face clouded over as he went deep into thought.
Several moments passed. Then Bakura spoke. "Can... Can I go home now?" He asked in a small voice.
Shells looked at DVD, who looked back at her.
//He looks troubled. Maybe if we talk to him later, he'll feel like telling us.// Shells told him.
//Good idea.// DVD said. He nodded to Bakura and then pressed the square on the tin. Bakura disappeared.
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{Bakura} (Yay!)
Ryou.... Nobody had ever called him Ryou since that day.... So long ago.... Bakura shook his head and sat down on his bed in his room.
//What's the matter?// The Spirit of the Ring asked evily. //Don't like remembering?//
Bakura shut his eyes tightly and did something he had never done before. //Shut up.// He told the spirit.
His ring glowed slightly for an instant, and the spirit, which Bakura had started to call his yami took on a physical form and grinned evily at him.
"I was right. You don't like remembering." He said menacingly. The ring glowed again and the room began to shift and swirl.
Bakura opened his eyes wide and sat up. "Wait, no!" he said. His yami grinned.
When the room finished swirling, Bakura could tell that they were in the shadow realm once again. His yami liked going there.
He sighed. "What now, yami?" he asked. The spirit frowned.
"Quit calling me the name of that stupid pharoah." He hissed. That was the reason Bakura liked calling him Yami.
He repeated his question. "What are you doing now?"
"Well, you obviously are slow today. Let me SHOW you...." The spirit said, grinning once again. The Shadow Realm began to shift, and Bakura could see that, even though he was still in the shadow realm, he was also in an old apartment.
"No..." He whispered. "You're going to make me relive this, aren't you..." He heard the spirit cackle, and knew that he had figured it out correctly. Not that that made being here and doing this any more reassuring.
He looked around the old apartment. It was just how he remembered it. Not that there would be any difference, as his yami had created it USING his memory.
"My old house." He said to himself. "The one I lived in by myself when my parents died." Then, he did what he had done those many years ago. Not that he wanted to. The memory was forcing him to do exactly what he had done before. He closed his eyes and concentrated. Inside his soul room.
The soul room was also how it had been before. Before he had traveled. Before the spirit had come. He looked around it, involentarily. In one corner of it, was... the link. The thin wire like thing that had changed his life forever.
He started towards it. Again, he didn't want to, but that was what he had done before, so he had to. He put his hand on the wire and started walking along it. Walking, Bakura already knew, to his new life.
He continued walking. and walking until he came to a door. He opened it, and went through. The moment he did, the door slammed itself shut. Ryou turned and tried to wrench it open, but to no avail. It was stuck. Forever.
He turned to look at his surroundings. He was now standing on a sidewalk. Other people on the street payed him no heed. He wondered why. This was obviously not someone's mind, or there wouldn't be so many people. He was in a real, honest to goodness city.
Bakura already knew that this was Domino, where he would spend the rest of his life, but he hadn't then, so he had to endure the repeating of the questions and thoughts he had had in his mind.
Bakura looked around once again, then started walking down the street. he wandered around for what seemed like ages. Even though he knew that it couldn't have been more that 10 minutes. He also knew that in the shadow realm where he really was, no time at all was passing, and when he got back home, it would be as if he hadn't been anywhere. Except that the memory would be fresh in his mind.
He continued wandering until he saw two young boys, both about the age of 12 playing outside of a game shop. Bakura knew it was Joey and Yugi. But Ryou didn't know who they were, so he just continued down the street. They spotted him and waved, but him, being the shy person that he was, just blushed, ducked his head, and continued walking, not wanting to admit that he was lost.
He finally found his way to a large building. The orphanage. he had been searching for a place like this ever since he lost his parents. He hadn't been able to find one, however, and so he had just lived in that apartment. but now he had finally found one! A place he could live!
He went in the door and up to the desk. "Excuse me." He said politely. The lady at the desk looked down at him.
"Yes?" She said, smiling sweetly.
"Uh.... My Mom and Dad are both..." He felt his throat choke up. "Dead." He said in a small voice. "And I don't have anywhere to live... Can I stay here?"
//Aww... How sweet...// His Yami whispered to him. Bakura shuddered. That hadn't happened then, mostly because he didn't even have the ring, much less his yami, at that time. But his yami was teasing him now.
//Stop this... Stop this now! I don't want to remember it all!// He said.
//Too bad.//
The lady at the desk smiled again and said, "Dear, of course you can stay here. And then, if anyone wants to adopt you, you can have a real home!"
Ryou smiled in relief. He had been afraid that they wouldn't take him in. "Thank you." he said.
//Thank you.// His Yami imitated him.
//Shut up! // Bakura said.
Ryou followed the lady into a room full of kids.
"What is your name?" The lady asked.
"I'm Ryou." He answered.
"Well, Ryou, do you have a last name?" She said.
Ryou shook his head. "Not anymore. Not since..."
"Oh. I'm sorry you feel that way." she said, taking him over to an empty bed. "Fine then, Ryou, this will be your bed. You can get to know all the other kids now." She left the room and went to write down that he was there in her little book.
Ryou sat on the bed and looked in the mirror that was attatched to the head of it. He still looked the way he always had, so why did he feel so different? Bakura knew. He knew that he was actually in a completely new body. And that his old one was still in that apartment.
After a while, the lady came back in and, seeing that Ryou hadn't moved from the bed, went over to the bed and called for everyone's attention. "Everyone." She said when she had their attention. "This is Ryou. He is new here, so let's all be friends!"
A few of the other kids waved, but other than that, just ignored him. They were used to getting new kids in here often, so having Ryou there wasn't much different.
Ryou looked around. Mostly people were just sitting on their beds getting ignored, like he was. But there was a big group of people over in one corner. He got up to see what they were doing.
They were all watching two kids play chess. The older one was winning, but the younger one seemed to be having fun too. One kid with a camera took a picture, and in the following commotion, Ryou was pushed back away, so he couldn't see.
"Hey!" Ryou called. "I can't see!"
One kid near him gave him a glare. "Get used to it, newbie." He said. "You don't generally get to do much around here till you've been here a bit."
"Oh." Ryou said in a small voice. Bakura frowned inwardly.
//What? Don't like remembering?// his yami asked him for the second time that day.
//Stop this now. This isn't necessary.//
//Oh, but it is.... Very...// The spirit taunted him.
Ryou went back to his bed and watched the crowd. After about five minutes, it broke up and the older kid emerged victorious, holding the smaller child's hand.
"Come on, Mokuba." The older one said.
"Ok big brother." Mokuba told him. They walked over to a corner where two beds had been pushed together and away from all the others.
Ryou watched them. Bakura watched them. The spirit watched them.
//Weren't Seto and Mokuba just so cute two years ago?// the spirit said.
//Shut up.// Bakura said. Ryou lay down on the bed.
//Aw, but nothing happened here for a long time after that. Not for about a week. Let's speed things up a bit, shall we?// the spirit said. The room swirled once again, and when it stopped, Bakura was back in the room again, one week later.
He knew it was a week, not only by what the spirit had said, but because of the person who was in the room, looking over all of the kids.
It was the famous owner of KaibaCorp, Gozaburo Kaiba. He was out to adopt a son to take over the company when he was gone. His cold eyes swept over the crowd of children taking them all in and trying to decide which one would be best.
Bakura frowned, being forced to remember the anxiety he had felt. "If he picks me, i'll never have anything to worry about again!" Ryou said to himself.
Gozaburo walked slowly down the center of the room, surveying all the children. His eyes fell on Ryou who gave him a small smile. Gozaburo nodded at him, and began walking towards him.
Ryou's heart leaped. He was going to be picked! He was going to have a home! Then, Seto walked over to Gozaburo, looked him right in the eye and challenged him.
"I challenge you to a game of chess! If I win, you have to take in me and Mokuba!" He said. Gozaburo grinned and sat down at the table.
Ryou glared to Seto, who didn't see him. He was turned away, setting up the pieces. The game began, but almost as soon as it began, it seemed, it was over, and Seto was putting the game away with a big grin on his face.
He went back over to Mokuba, took him by the hand, and led him over to Gozaburo, who was still sitting in his chair, shocked that a fifteen year old had beaten him.
"Ok, lets go." Seto said, looking up at him, his face full of seriousness. Gozaburo nodded, then smiled.
"Yes, of course. You'd be perfect." He took Seto by the hand and brought him and Mokuba out of the building.
Ryou felt horrible. He would have been picked. he would have. He had almost had a home. If only that Seto guy hadn't gotten in his way. If only... Seto... He had a last name now... Seto Kaiba.... And he was just Ryou... Just Ryou.... Just Ryou.....
Bakura couldn't take it anymore. //Stop this! Stop it! Stop it now!!!!!!!!!!!// He screamed at the spirit.
//Oh, but why? We still have something to do... To remember.... Don't we?// He said evily.
//No, we don't! No!// Bakura cried. //No!//
//Yes. Let's see it now...Yes... Let's see now... how much time.... Ah... One and a half years from this point...// his Yami said.
//No...// Bakura thought, realizing what the sprit was going to show him. His own adoption, and the gift of the ring... //No, spirit... SPIRIT!!!!!!!//
It was too late. The room shifted, and Bakura sunk into another wave of sorrow.
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{End of chappie interlude: Seto Kaiba (Who else?)}
Kaiba worked long and hard and before he knew it, it was night again. He had manually turned off his AI and had actually gotten most of the report done. He saved what he had, and stretched. He got up from his chair and went into the kitchen to get himself something to eat.
He opened the refrigerator and pulled out a TV dinner. He knew he could have something besides that, but, strangely, he had developed a liking for them ever since he had gotten Mokuba one and he hadn't liked it, forcing seto to eat it instead.
He pulled off the wrapping and stuffed it in the microwave. He pressed the start button, then suddenly stiffened.
There was somebody in the room. He could feel it.
He turned around quickly. It was just Mokuba. He allowed himself to relax.
Mokuba gave the microwave a funny look, then looked up at Seto.
"Are you having another one of those TV dinners?" He asked.
"Yes, Mokuba. So?" Seto asked, sitting at the small table in the kitchen to wait for the dinner to finish cooking.
"You're weird, Seto." Mokuba said, grinning up at him and jumping into his lap.
"Yup. I know." Seto said, ruffling up Mokuba's hair.
"Speaking of weird." Said a voice from the doorway. "Aren't you two supposed to be in the nuthouse?"
Seto put Mokuba on the ground and faced the doorway to see who it was. Whoever it was stepped out of the shadows. It was just one of his security guards.
"Let us alone." Seto said.
The security guard smiled. "I don't think so. It's not good to let mentally unstable people run around."
Seto growled and lunged at him. The guard, now pinned to the wall, just kept smiling.
"Not this time, Mr. Kaiba. Let's go." He said.
Suddenly the room was filled with guards. Seto looked around quickly. They already had Mokuba, and all they needed to do now was to grab him.
"We are not mentally unstable." Seto growled as they led him away. "WE'RE NOT!!!!!!!!!"
"That's nice Mr. Kaiba. Let's go."
"YOU CAN'T MAKE ME GO BACK THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Let's go, Mr. Kaiba."
"Never!!!!!!"
"Mr. Kaiba..."
"No!"
"Seto!"
"Mokuba!"
"Let's GO, Mr. Kaiba."
"No!"
They left the Kaiba residence, with Seto kicking and screaming the whole way.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Now can you guys see why I be so mean to Seto? It's payback for what I made him do to my favorite character! (Actually, I had just been doing it for fun, but this makes for a good reason.)
I had lots of fun writing this chappie! (Not because of the Bakura abuse, though... I just liked writing it...)
So, now you must wait for my next chappie! you can go and read other fics now... It's allowed.... you're done reading mine for now.... At least until next chappie!
See ya!!!!
--Daricio