Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-gi-oh, 4kids own it in America, Konami owns the anime in Japan, Takahashi Kazuki owns the manga and Shonen Jump and V Jump are the distributors. Don't sue me 'cause I only have $80 and my flute (that is falling apart since I've used it for four years). Also, I think my mom took my money.

Sorry for not updating for so long, I was quite busy with school.

DM: This chapter should be a bit longer

Chapter 14: One Problem After Another.

"In two days." Yami answered.

"Great two days in a white room, and I though I was a Dark Magician." Mahhado sighed, then he sat up abruptly, which caused him to become dizzy and fall back in bed.

"What's wrong?" Yugi asked anxiously.

"How could I be so stupid!" I left my staff back behind the building." Mahhado was very upset. "That staff was mine when I first started learning magic when I was 3 years old." (Just play along, I know about the ancient Egyptian arch)

The school probably as it so you can get it when you get back to school." Yami assured.

Three days later at Domino High-

Mahhado walked swiftly into the office. "I lost my staff during that Halloween party, would it b too much to ask for it back?" he asked nervously

The secretary disappeared into a room and came out holding Mahhado's staff. "Here, be careful though, I don't want you getting suspended for taking someone's eye out."

"Arigatogozaimasu, sensei." Mahhado gripped his staff tightly and ran out to his class, math, which he was relatively good at.

He got quite a lot of stares walking into the classroom with a staff. As we all know, Mahhado is a considerably shy person and he blushed hotly as he took his place beside Bakura.

"You need confidence building lessons priest." Bakura looked at the blushing mage and was a bit surprised. Was it just him or did Mahhado look younger? Nope he definitely looked younger. "Is something wrong? You look younger than 16 now."

Mahhado's eyes widened and he rushed out of the classroom. Bakura then found him in the bathroom, trying to cast a spell and failing. He was getting younger and younger until he looked 11 years old.

"Damn it, I am really losing my touch." Mahhado was a lot shorter and his staff was too long for him.

"What happened here?" decided to step out of hiding, causing the chibified mage to jump 20 feet in the air.

"O Bakura-kun, its just you." Mahhado calmed down after realizing that it was just Bakura. "You know that spell that I cast a month ago? It was supposed to turn me younger but since I didn't lift the spell for such a long time, it turned me like this."

"Can't you just counter the spell?" Bakura was wondering what could have gotten into the priest/magician to forget such a simple thing like that.

"It seems that since the spell I cast was pretty high-leveled spell, at my age right now, it would be near impossible for me to cast the counter-spell."

"What will you do?" Bakura was a bit worried, uncommon for him.

"The spell itself will wear off in about a week, but for me to become 21 again, well, I'm not sure." Mahhado laughed nervously.

"Well then, we've got a problem, I can't just walk back and say 'Oh Tanaka-sensei, Mahhado just shrunk five years.', it would be disastrous, plus pharaoh's in that class and he'll think I killed you." Bakura leaned against the door and rubbed his temples

"Tell them I got sick and went home." Mahhado was busy casting a spell on his clothes so they fit. He also shrunk his staff. Suddenly there was loud banging on the door.

"Tomb robber, I swear if you hurt Mahhado in any way, you'll be sent to the shadow realm, but this time you aren't coming back!" Dear Ra Pharaoh was pissed.

"Why would I save him from Kaiba if I wanted to hurt him?" Bakura opened the door. "But we've got a problem with your priest."

Yami's eyes widened when he caught sight of Mahhado. "What happened!"

"Forgive my foolishness pharaoh, for not using the spell properly, it went haywire." The chibi mage was kneeling on the floor.

"Can we discuss this somewhere else besides the bathroom?" Bakura cut in.

After they had made up a reasonable excuse, (Mahhado got sick and went home, and sent his "younger brother" to get his homework), they went outside to try and fix the problem.

"So you're saying that you might stay like this forever?"

Mahhado was literally in tears. "I don't know!"

Bakura sat down and tried his best to comfort him, for he wasn't very good at it. But when he touched his back, Mahhado's eyes widened and he moved away.

"Is something wrong with your back?" Bakura said seriously. Then it hit him. "This is the same body you had in ancient Egypt isn't it?"

Mahhado nodded. "Then take off you shirt." Bakura was wondering what exactly could have happened since the hieroglyphics were carved on his back when he was 12 so it wouldn't be on there right now.

"No!" Mahhado wanted to run but Bakura firm gripped his wrist and gently pulled of the shirt. He and Yami gasped at what they saw. There were whip marks scattered all over the mage's back.

"Umm, I don't really like being stared at." Mahhado conjured a spell that wrapped up his back.

Soon everyone (Yugi-tachi) was crowded around Mahhado.

"So this is what you looked like when you were young," Anzu was squeezing Mahhado's cheek, "Anata wa kawaii desu ne!"

"Hey Anzu, Mahhado's smaller and younger looking but he's still Mahhado, you're harassing him." Honda reminded her.

"I wish I could at least past for a 11 year old, which is how old I am but I look eight!"

"Naw, you can pass for ten, a very short ten year old." Yugi smiled. "We can enroll you into Domino elementary."

Domino Elementary-

"Why am I here?' Mahhado was talking to no one unparticular.

"Today we will have a new student, Mutou Dark. Please greet him kindly." The teacher said.

Mahhado walked in, Having done the same thing in high school made him more confident.

"Yorroshku, onegai-shimasu, minna-san. Boku wa Mutou Dark desu." Then someone burst in the classroom. (please to meet you, I'm Dark Mutou)

"Osoku natte, sumimasen. The limo got caught in the traffic and…" Mokuba trailed off as he saw "Dark" standing there. (I'm sorry to be late)

"Ma-mhnph" Mahhado had slid across the room to cover his mouth. "Boku no namae wa Dark." He whispered to Mokuba. (A/N: If you're wondering why I'm using 'boku' instead of 'ore', its because younger boys say boku and since Mahhado is younger, he uses boku.)

"You two seem to know each other." The teacher looked at Mahhado. Mahhado, always the shy one, stuttered, "H-hai."

"Then you can sit beside Mokuba, he will help you around the school." And the first class started.

"Today we will learn how to multiply double digit number. Now, can someone tell me, without using a piece of paper, what 15 times 15 is?" No one raised their hands. Most of the kids were clueless but Mahhado was spacing out and not looking at the teacher.

"Dark-san!"

That exclamation shook Mahhado out of his reverie.

"Nani?" Mahhado looked up. The same thing had happened before.

"Tell me the answer to the question I just asked." The teacher was sure that he couldn't answer it since he wasn't paying attention, or so he thought.

"225 sensei, I believe the question was 15 times 15?" Mahhado was bored out of his mind. He started twirling his shoulder length purple hair.

"Yes it was." The teacher was surprised by the "boy's" mature ness. Not only did he look like an eight year old but he also had a very quick mind.

Lunch Break-

"Mahhado-kun, why are you so small?" Mokuba asked while waiting for Kaiba to pick him up. (Japanese schools have two hour lunch breaks and classes end at 4:30pm)

"A little spell mishap. Now if you'll excuse me…"Mahhado was kind of anxious to go since he was still scared of Kaiba from the Halloween party. Sadly, the limo drove up and Kaiba stepped out.

"Mokuba, how many times do I have to tell you not to invite your friends over without my permission?" Kaiba sighed.

"N-no I w-was j-just leaving." Mahhado turned to leave, hoping that Kaiba wouldn't recognize him. (Sadly, when you're the only person in Domino City that has purple hair, its kind of hard)

"Magician, is that you?"

Mahhado froze. "H-hai."

"Hn, figure you would make a spell mistake like that." He walked over and picked up Mahhado by the collar of his uniform and threw him into the car." Get in Mokuba, I'll let you have friends over just this once."

Mokuba scrambled into the car. "Arigato, niisama!"

"Hn."

When they got to the Kaiba Mansion, Kaiba grabbed Mahhado's uniform collar and threw him in the house.

I can sue you for child abduction." Mahhado was dizzy from the 7ft throw. It was either that Kaiba had a good arm or he was severely underweight.

"Stop your whining Magician, we need to talk." Kaiba told Mokuba to go get lunch. (technically it's just taking a limo to some random fast food restaurant.)

"Magician, what happened at the Halloween party was not me." Kaiba was always very straightforward.

"Wait, I thought Bakura-" Mahhado began. Kaiba held up the Sennen rod. "You'd think that after waking up and not knowing what happened at the party would strike some curiosity. Well, what I'm saying is that that wasn't me."

"If it wasn't you then who was it?" Mahhado was still a little scared.

"How should I know! Someone took over my body or something. Besides, no matter how much I hate you, I would not risk my reputation over someone like you."

"Are you implying that you would risk your reputation if it was someone you liked?" Mahhado decided to ask.

Kaiba turned red and looked away. "No!"

He was saved from any more questioning when Mokuba came in the front door. "I'm back and it's nice to see that you haven't killed each other."

After the meal of pizza and soda, which Mahhado would not touch, after saying that the soda burned his tongue and the pizza was too oily, it was time to get back to school.

On the way out, Mahhado called to Kaiba, "Don't worry, I'm sure Yami-sama like you back." Which made the ice prince with no emotion whatsoever choke on his soda. But before he could retort, they were gone.

Back at the elementary, P.E-

"Ok class, today we will be doing gymnastics." The teacher said. The majority of the class groaned but there was a corner of a smirk tugging at Mahhado's lips. This didn't escape the teacher though. (A/N: If you watched the duel against Paradox than you'll know why he likes gymnastics)

"But of course, do you have a mat?" The teacher pointed

Mahhado tucked in his shirt and took a running start. Cart-wheel, flip, no-handed back-flip, flip and an aerial. Everyone was gaping at Mahhado.

"Well, I guess if you're all going to stand there like statues…" Mahhado folded his arms and stared at them. Mokuba was the first to break out of the trance.

"Where did you learn to do that?"

"Practice don't try it at home.'

After P.E, it was Mahhado's favorite class, history. Why? Because he could sleep through it and know everything.

25 minutes later-

"Psst! Dark-kun!" Mokuba whispered. Mahhado awoke from the doze and surprised everyone by not saying the usual "Huh?" but by answering the question just asked.

"The French revolution started in July 1789."(Its true!) Mahhado yawned. "King Louis XVI was executed with his wife Marie Antoinette, after that, France became a constitutional monarchy."

"How-" The teacher was amazed and kind of angry. "Just because I look asleep doesn't mean I am." Truthfully, Mahhado was asleep.

"I will have to call your parents. In our school you don't talk back to a teacher." Mahhado groaned, what was Yami going to think? The spell's full effects were taking place. Since he had an attitude much like Yami's when he was younger, it would be the same. It wasn't until he was 12 that he cracked from the priest carving hieroglyphics on his back. Usually, the only person he would stutter to was Yami, his father, and the priest.

After school in the teacher's office-

The teacher called the phone listed in the school records.

"Hello, Kame Game Shop, how may I help you?" The teacher raised her eyebrows at Mahhado.

"May I speak to the parent or guardian of Mutou Dark?"

"He got in trouble already? Oh well, no matter call 674-8574, he should be out of school by now."

"Ok thank you." The teacher hung up and dialed another phone number, soon after Yami and Yugi ran into the office breathing heavily. They saw Mahhado huddled in a corner with his head in his hands

"Dark-san?" Yugi asked after they had regained their breath.

Mahhado snapped his head up. When he saw Yami and Yugi, he went in front of them, knelt down, and started crying. "Gomenasai, Yugi-sama Yami-sama. I didn't mean to cause so much trouble."

"Calm down Dark, we don't even know what you did and we won't hurt you like he (the high priest) did." Yami said soothingly.

"Demo…" Mahhado was still kneeling on the ground tears rolling down his pale cheeks. (but…)

"Demo jyanai, now would you please tell me what you did?" Yami was trying to get the young mage to talk. After a few unsuccessful attempts, he went to the teacher.

"Sumi-sensei, what did he do?" Yami said as calmly as he could.

"Children have to learn not to talk back to there elders."

Yami sighed. This was a stupid reason to get Mahhado in trouble. "Dark, just say sorry." But Mahhado just knelt there staring at the floor. Yami was at wits end until an idea hit him. "Aibou, call the tomb robber here."

Yugi raised his eyebrows but complied. After a few moments someone answered.

"If its Ryou again I'm hanging up." Came the grouchy voice.

"Bakura-kun! It's me, Yugi. We need you at Domino Elementary. Dark muted out and isn't talking."

"And you think I can help? Fine, I'll be there in five minutes." –click-

Indeed, five minutes later, Bakura walked in the office. When he saw Mahhado kneeling there, he went over and tried to get him to move. He wouldn't budge.

"Ra damn it get up!" Bakura finally gave up and just picked up Mahhado bridal style. This motion shook Him out of his trance.

"Bakura!" for some reason, Mahhado was comforted by his presence. "I missed you." He gave Bakura a tight squeezed and turned to apologize to the teacher. She was apparently satisfied with his apology as she let them go.

While walking home, Mahhado realized something. "Anou, Bakura-kun, you can put me down now. Bakura and Mahhado both turned red.

"Uh, yeah." Bakura put Mahhado down and the four of them walked hoe in silence.

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