Disclaimer: There's one in chapter 1 if you haven't been reading them why do I bother to repeat myself? Anyway I don't own it.
Yami: What now?
Yami Seirei: Your first time decorating.
Yami: Ohh sounds cool!
Yugi: Um what is he going to be doing to be decorating?
Yami Seirei: Your bedroom
Yami KITG: This I gotta see!
Yami: (whining) When is Yugi going to be humiliated in one of your chapters?
Yami Seirei: Well he had plenty of that before he solved the puzzle remember?
Yami: True sorry Aibou okay I'm ready.
Yami's first time decorating…
Yami had carried on with his driving and had now passed his test. He was grateful to Yugi for that first lesson and wanted to give him something in return. He remembered that Yugi often mentioned that their bedroom could use a little redecorating and so Yami had been secretly watching late night DIY programs on TV to try and learn how to do it so he could surprise Yugi.
Yugi's grandpa was going away for a week and Yami planned to send Yugi out for the day after all a day was all he needed he was sure as they always manage to makeover those rooms in a day or even in a few hours in some cases and he was pretty sure he would be able to do the same.
What Yami had failed to realize was that those programs generally had a crew of people who were experienced in painting and decorating rather than 5000 year old ex-pharaoh's who had never so much as lifted a paintbrush.
However Yami was determined and had sneaked into town the previous day and bought the wallpaper and paint that he knew Yugi really liked. It was an Egyptian style wallpaper with hieroglyphs all over it. Yugi said he wanted that on the base half of the wall and plain paint on the top half. He had said he was going to get round to it sometime but he hadn't as yet. Well Yami was sure he could manage to do it for him. He'd sensibly spoken to the assistants in the shop and been given all the equipment he needed. He had also bought gold gloss to do the doorframes and skirting boards with even though Yugi hadn't mentioned that, Yami thought it would be a nice touch. He knew Yugi had selected the wallpaper to give Yami a little slice of Egypt in their bedroom and he loved his little Aibou for being so thoughtful.
He'd stashed all the things he'd bought in the garden shed hoping that Yugi wouldn't decide he needed something that night. He hadn't and Yami's secret was safe.
Yugi dutifully went out the following morning promising not to return until the evening. He looked at Yami suspiciously though as lately every time he had gone out some disaster or other had occurred. However he decided that there probably wasn't too much that Yami could get up to this time and so he went out without any protest.
As soon as he had gone out, Yami changed into old clothes and began to clear out the bedroom. He shoved everything into the spare room and set up the pasting table he had bought in the middle of the room.
He had been told to do any painting that needed doing before attempting to paper the walls and so he went and fetched the paint. He decided to paint the skirting boards and doorframe first. He opened the paintbrushes packet and took one out. He fetched a screwdriver and began to prise the lid off the paint pot.
It was then that things started to go wrong.
The lid suddenly flipped off and flipped over and over through the air in seemingly slow motion. Yami made a dive for the lid and would have caught it if he hadn't tripped over one of the unopened pots of paint and went sprawling across the floor.
The disgruntled former pharaoh picked himself up off the floor grumbling to himself about looking undignified when he caught sight of the paint pot lid. It was there on the floor but it had fallen paint side down.
"Typical." Yami growled and went to pick up the lid. There was now a perfect golden circle of paint on the carpet.
"Oh Ra." Yami swore. Yugi was going to be angry when he saw that. Oh well maybe he could wash it off. Yes he would try.
He went into the kitchen and fetched a cloth and bowl of water and went back up to the bedroom with it.
He preceded to scrub the patch of gold paint with the cloth what Yami didn't realize was that the gold paint was oil based and water would have no effect on it. Yami scrubbed and scrubbed but found to his horror that the patch of gold paint spread until it was quite large.
"Oh no now what can I do?" Yami muttered as he looked round the room in desperation for a solution. He went through to the other room where all the bedroom stuff was and looked round. He spotted the rug and decided to put that over the gold paint patch. With that solution decided, he went back to start painting.
He dipped his brush into the paint and began to slap it onto the doorframe.
He worked quickly and managed to do the frame and skirting boards fairly quickly. He was feeling very chuffed with himself until he looked back over his handiwork and saw what he'd done.
"Oh no…"
He had used too much paint and it had run and dripped down the woodwork and onto the carpet in globules of paint that were soaking and drying into the carpet. There was also drips of paint between the paint pot and the woodwork. Yami was beginning to wonder whether this was all worth it but he thought of Yugi's face when he saw the finished bedroom and that spurred him on. He should have quit while he thought about it…
Next he decided to paint the top half of the wall in readiness for papering and carefully prised the lid off the paint pot. This time it came off better and didn't fly off. Feeling pleased with himself he preceded to pour some of the paint into the tray for the roller. Putting the pot to one side, he picked up the roller and dipped it into the paint and tried to make the roller go round and cover it with paint. The roller however had other ideas. It just slipped and slid over the part of the tray meant for rolling the brush and wouldn't turn.
"Ra damn you roller!" Yami snarled at it and grabbed the roller in his hand physically turning it round and making sure it was all covered in paint. He finally managed it and began to roller it onto the wall. Up and down he went over the wall for quite a long way until he couldn't squeeze any more paint out of the roller and put some more paint on it.
In no time at all, Yami had gone round the top half of the whole room and stood back to admire his handiwork. It was not very good. The walls looked patchy and long drips of paint ran down where he had used too much paint and it had run. There were also big drips all over the floor where he had splattered paint everywhere including on himself. He was covered in it! It was all in his hair and all over his clothes and hands. He groaned. It was going to take ages to clean up. Oh well he could do it all later when he had finished the room.
He went over his painting again and when he looked at it he was pleased to see it was all solid and not patchy. Yami congratulated himself on a good job and put the lids back on the paint pots. He cleared up and then took his bucket and wallpaper paste powder and went to mix it. Following the instructions on the packet he made up the paste. He stirred the bucked but the mixture seemed much too sloppy.
"It looks too thin." He said to himself and went to get another couple of packets of paste. He poured all that in and stirred. Now the consistency was the same as described on the packet and mumbling to himself about inadequate instructions, Yami carted the bucket into the bedroom and began to unwrap the wallpaper rolls.
He turned it over and spent a happy five minutes or so reading the hieroglyphics on it. Then he spread the paper on the pasting table and picked up the pasting brush. He dipped it into his mixed paste and went to pull it out but it wouldn't budge.
"What the?" Yami exclaimed and noticed that the mixture was thick and very stiff. He tugged at the brush until it came away from the mixture with a 'schloop' sound. Yami had been tugging so hard that when it came away he fell over backwards and crashed into the wall.
"Ow." He muttered and picked himself up. "Maybe I used too much paste powder? Oh well I better mix some more."
He took the bucket out and got a bin bag. He tipped the bucket upside-down but the mixture stayed in the bucket. Then he fetched a big spoon and began to spoon the mixture out. It was so stiff by now that it was really hard work and he had to hack away at it. By the time he had emptied the bucket he was hot, sweaty and tired.
"I will definitely need a shower when I'm done." He said and tried to lift the bag with the paste in it. It promptly split and the mixture went all over the floor in the kitchen.
"Oh Ra damn it!" He said angrily and stalked out of the room too angry to try and clear it up. He would do it later he decided.
He fetched another packet of paste and made it up according to the instructions, this time sticking to them. He gave the mixture ten minutes and then stirred it and found that it was the right consistency.
"Excellent." He said feeling more positive and got his paper ready to paste. He hummed as he slapped lots of paste on the paper and picking it up he began to walk over to the wall to attach it.
Unfortunately Yami had failed to do something important and that was to cut the paper from the roll before pasting it. He trod on the paper by accident and tripped going flying and landing full length on the pasted paper. Muttering all sorts of curses in Egyptian, Yami got up and peeled the offending pasted paper from his person. He carried it over to the wall and this time managed to get it actually on to the wall. The problem was that most of the paste had come off the paper and was now all over him and as a result, the paper wouldn't stick to the wall.
Yami began to get more and more annoyed with it and began to desperately hold it onto the wall hoping it would stick but it wouldn't so Yami put more paste on it and tried to get it on the wall again but what he hadn't noticed was that the paper which was still attached to the roll, had wrapped round his legs and as he turned to walk away from the wall again the paper he'd just stuck on the wall came off and the paper round his legs tripped him up. Down he went again and this time he was so angry that he rolled round on the floor in a rage getting more and more tangled up in the paper until eventually when he had bumped into the paste bucket, which tipped all over him plastering the paper to him.
In no time at all Yami had become a sort of mummified failed DIYer who discovered that inside his wallpaper prison he could hardly move and he had no means of escape. He did the only thing he could and opened the mind link.
"YUGI HELP MEEEEEE!" he screamed to his Aibou and Yugi who happened to be drinking a nice cool glass of lemonade at the time promptly leapt three feet into the air and spat his mouthful of lemonade all over Jounouchi.
"Jou! Yami is in trouble, I have to help him." Yugi panicked running out the door and down the road with Jou in hot persuit.
"Hold on Yami I'm coming." Yugi cried feeling extremely worried as he sped towards the Kame Game shop.
Nothing could have prepared him for the carnage he found. He walked through the back door into the kitchen and found the mass of stiff drying paste all over the floor.
"Oh what has he been doing?" Yugi groaned while Jou looked on in horror.
They made their way through to the lounge and found everything in order.
"Well nothing here." Yugi said and spoke to Yami through the link 'mou hitori no boku where are you?' and the answer came 'In the bedroom.'
Yugi led the way to the bedroom and his mouth fell open when he saw the paint mess on the floor and walls where the paint had dripped down. Eventually when he had taken everything in, his gaze settled on a paper covered mummified lump on the floor, which was struggling feebly against its bonds.
"Jou help me get all this off him." Yugi said urgently while Jou fought the urge to laugh very loudly at Yami's predicament.
Yugi fetched a pair of scissors and cut the offending wallpaper from Yami who looked up at his Aibou with a very sheepish look on his face (A.N. If you can imagine Yami looking sheepish that would be so cute!)
"I'm sorry Aibou." He said meekly, "It was supposed to be a surprise for you to say thanks for giving me a driving lesson."
"Oh Yami what am I going to do with you?" Yugi wondered out loud and Jou looked at the walls.
"Well Yami hasn't done a bad paint job on the walls so maybe we can finish the room?" He said and Yugi nodded.
"Yes with three of us it shouldn't take too long, come on Yami we'll show you how to paper properly and by the way I love this paper I'm so pleased you remembered." He grinned giving his dark a hug and a kiss.
As the sun set on Domino City, Yami, Yugi and Jou set their pasting brushes down having hung the last piece of paper on the walls and the boarder which had Egyptian drawings on it. They folded their arms and admired their handiwork.
"Perfect." Yugi said and the three of them packed away the things and sank to the floor exhausted.
"Well you're welcome to stay the night Jou." Yugi said and Jou nodded.
"Thanks Yugi, I'll fix us something to eat."
"You don't have to Jou we can get pizza."
"Really it's okay, I have to make dinners for my dad a lot of the time, at least you guys will appreciate it." Jou said looking sad for a moment.
Yugi gave his best friend a hug and Jou vanished into the kitchen, which had been cleaned of the goop from earlier.
The following day they moved all the furniture back into the bedroom and Jou went home laughing to himself about the 'mummified' former pharaoh.
"Yami?" Yugi said as they sat on their bed.
"Yes Aibou?"
"Promise me one thing."
"Of course."
"Next time just say thanks."
Owari for the decorating story.
Yami: You just had to mummify me again didn't you?
Yami Seirei: Well at least you were alive this time to enjoy it.
Yami: Whaddaya mean enjoy it? I could hardly breathe!
Yami Seirei: Oop sorry Yami
Jou: hee hee you looked so funny Yami
Yami: Oh that's it make fun of the ancient pharaoh!
Yami KITG: Leave him alone you lot!
Yami Seirei: Oop my scary yami is on the warpath quick hide!
Yami KITG: (whips out a frying pan and goes on the warpath) come out come out whever you are hikari.
Yami Seirei: (Throws rabid tumbleweed at her yami) mwahahaha.
Yami KITG: HELP!
Jou: Please review!