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(( Mondai Senshi ))
Woop, I did better this time, honest!! I didn't even take a week!! dance of victory Anyways, this is kinda just to show you I'm not gonna let myself die again. Not until the last chapter or two, anyways... Oo;
Disclaimer: None of the characters in this fic belong to me, and no profit is being made in writing this story.
Ryou woke, again, blinking in the sunlight now pouring through his window. It was far too early to be as clearly awake as he was. After an hour of trying to get some more rest, he couldn't think why he was awake already, or what was different, even, about this morning compared to the last few months, maybe even a year, of his life.
Ryou found himself laying with his arms crossed under his head, wiggling his toes out of boredom. After a long while of this, he pulled himself out of his bed and walked to his closet. As he slid the doors open, his eyes fell upon his Monster World game set. He pulled out his board and, walking into the living room, began to set it up. After he reconstructed the board in his usual design, Ryou returned to his closet, and came back with a box of metallic figurines. He placed the box on the table and slowly started to look at them all.
Yuugi awoke that morning to yelling and shouting. He was barely conscious enough to realize that it was the spirits arguing at the foot of his bed, and did not care to resolve their issues at that hour. It took a great deal of effort to sit up, and when Yuugi had finally managed this much, he muttered to the two, "Quiet down, you'll wake everyone up." At that point, the fact that Yuugi was now only half asleep registered in the mind of Yami Yuugi, who lost interest in whatever it was he and Bakura were arguing about. He turned, instead, towards his hikari, and answered, puzzled, "But aibou, nobody else can hear our quarrel."
By then, Yuugi had managed to push himself off of his bed, and had just started towards the stairs, the two millenium items clenched tightly in his fist. He muttered, again, "Oh, right," and continued down the hall, gripping the handrails carefully as he descended the flight of stairs and, placing the millenium items on the game shop's front counter, headed outside.
As Ryou pulled a small monster figurine out of the box on the table, he only had time to take in the basic shape of the simple artwork before his eyes fell upon a wine-red and white cloth. He quickly began to uncover it, placing characters of all different types on the table near him. When he pulled out the cloth, he could already tell that something was delicately wrapped inside of it, and, as he began to unroll the fabric, he recognized it at once as the cloak his father had sent from Egypt around the same time as the Millenium Ring, and he began to wonder how it had gotten there.
But this thought quickly vanished from his mind as the figurine inside caught his breath. Not only was he unsure of how it, too, had found its way into his collection, but he also had certainly never expected to look upon his own face within his collection of Monster World items.
As he walked down the street, Yuugi had an uneasy feeling in his stomach quite unrelated to his not having eaten breakfast, which only seemed to make the former feel worse. The spirit of the pharoah began to walk beside him. "Are we going now, then?"
Yuugi nodded, still slightly drowzy but completely awake. "I wanna get ta the restaurant in time to meet Jonouchi and Honda, still, and see Anzu."
Yami Yuugi simply nodded and vanished, while Yuugi felt a sudden short, but very distinct, squirm in his stomach. He was sure Bakura was laughing.
Ryou was suddenly startled by a knock at the door. He quickly bundled the cloth around the simple figurine of himself and placed it back within the box, then shoved others on top of it and heaved the box back onto the floor beside the table. He then quickly leapt to his feet to reach the door. As he pulles it open, he stared into the face of Yuugi who was, despite himself, grinning.
"G'morning, Bakura!" He spoke in his usual carefree voice.
Ryou forced himself to grin. "Yeah, it's a good morning, alright."
Yuugi shifted uneasily. "D'you think I could come in and talk to you?" Upon Ryou's confusion, Yuugi added, "About the ghost, you know?"
Ryou's confusion changes to uneasiness, but he nodded and thanked Yuugi politely as he asked him to come in.
Yuugi's eyes quickly fell upon the Monster World board, and his uneasy grin was replaced with a smile. "I haven't seen this in ages!"
Ryou followed Yuugi back towards the table. "Yeah, I found it, erm - In my closet."
Yuugi, who was now kneeling and admiring the game board, turned his wide eyes to Ryou with a slight look of concern. He jumped, suddenly, as Bakura snarled from his vantage point, standing behind Yuugi. "Can we please just get this over with?"
"Eh- Right, c'mon, Bakura." Yuugi climbed to his feet and, grabbing his wrist, led Ryou into his own bedroom.
Yeah, the beginning of the next chapter may be fun. Honestly, I have to wonder what's going through Ryou-chan's head right now... XD
