Chapter 6
(Jenrya: Konnichiwa!!! I am sooo sorry I haven't uploaded!!! FORGIVE ME!!! By the way, I don't own Evangelion; Gainax and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Hideki Anno do! I also do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! or any of it's characters; Konami and Kazuki Takahashi do!)
Kaiba P.O.V
I was driving....again. Mokuba was in the back of the car, staring sadly out of the window. I turned the overhead mirror so that I'd get a better view of him. "Hey, are you ok?" I asked as nicely as I could.
"I'm fine." Mokuba said sadly. He was frowning and looked extremely sad. I frowned. I had always thought that Mokuba was a happy-go-lucky kid who was too open for his own good.
I suppose I was wrong.
Heck, it wouldn't be the first time.
Zankoku na Tenshi no Te-ZE! Ara genka me–
I glared at the car radio. Bakura had just turned on the radio to J-POP and Anime Central. I furiously pinched Bakura's leg. He winced. I looked back, seeing that Mokuba was still staring out the window. So, I mouthed to Bakura, "You idiot! I hate J-Pop! Turn that crap off!" Bakura glared at me, and mouthed, "I like this song! It's the Evangelion opening theme!" I sighed. To restrain myself from hitting Bakura to oblivion, I focused my attention on Mokuba again. He was so woeful.... I thought of what might make him feel a little more content. I sat there, thinking for at least five minutes on what my brother enjoyed, but I couldn't think of anything in particular. The idea struck me as a surprise. I thought I knew my brother at least as well as I knew the back of my hand... But considering my hand is now Bakuras... I suddenly remembered something.
"Let's go to Burger World for lunch! How about that?" I blurted out.
"OK!" Mokuba said happily. But a few moments later a thought struck him. "Wait, isn't that the place where Anzu almost got shot?" (A/N: In season one, episode 2, or the fourth Yugioh manga duel in Shonen Jump issue two, an escaped convict tried to kill Anzu.)
"Oh yeah...." I realized immediately. "Then how about the Calorie Burger near the train station?" I usually never take Mokuba out to fast food restaurants, but he seemed happy when I asked if he wanted to go to that Burger World place.
"If Seto is ok with it." Mokuba said, his tone changing from hyper to a tone of disappointment. Does his tone always change like that when he is asking me for something? Do I really always say 'no'?
"Um, ok fine." Bakura said.
And so I drove toward the 'Greasy Spoon' under the train station, thinking about myself.
Bakura's P.O.V.
We were at the fast food place in around ten minutes. Kaiba kept on referring to it as, 'The Greasy Spoon'. I dunno, maybe it's a personal joke or something. Kaiba ordered three meals, and we sat in the corner eating, although Kaiba kept poking the sandwich with his spoon and, after around ten minutes, he finally took a bite out of it. And after that bite he threw it out. I rolled my eyes at him. 'Money even affects his tastebuds...' Mokuba suddenly stood on the tables chair, and whispered something in my ear.
"Thanks Seto!" He said, moving back and smiling. I looked at him, not knowing how I should react, so my merely nodded my head. Kaiba stared at Mokuba, a questionable look on his face. But Mokuba wasn't done yet... "Hey, Bakura!" It took Kaiba a few seconds to realize he was being spoken to and looked up.
"Yes?"
Mokuba crouched under the table to sit next to Kaiba. By the way, Kaiba was sitting across from me. Mokuba whispered something in Kaiba's ear. Only noticeable to me, I saw Kaiba's face change to a look of....well, he seemed to be in very deep thought. Kaiba merely nodded to Mokuba as I did, and patted Mokuba on the head softly. But before Mokuba could go under the table to sit next to me again, Kaiba grabbed his arm. Kaiba pulled Mokuba close to him and whispered something in his ear. Mokuba sadly nodded. Kaiba whispered one last thing in Mokuba's ear before letting Mokuba leave. But Mokuba gave Kaiba an odd look before he did.
"What was that about?" I mouthed to Kaiba when Mokuba looked away.
"Tell you later." Kaiba mouthed back.
"Does he always act like this?" I continued to mouth.
"He's hyper today." Kaiba mouthed back. And his face grew into a smile.
Wow!! I am so cute when I smile!! (A/N: NO THIS WILL NOT BE YAOI!!)
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Again, Kaiba drove. But he accidently drove to his house. I mean, his old house. You know, the mansion?
"Hey, how'd you know where we live?" Mokuba asked suspiciously. I saw Kaiba body tense up.
"Um, it's not a difficult house to miss, I suppose...." Kaiba said, keeping his eyes far from Mokuba's. I've never seen Kaiba this nervous before!
"There you go again!" Mokuba said. Kaiba was clearly confused. He turned around to face Mokuba.
"There goes what again?" Kaiba asked.
"You're talking like my brother again! And were did your accent go, Bakura?" This time, I gasped. 'Darn!! My accent!! How could I forget about it? When we switched bodies, our verbal accents weren't kept in the right body! Which is so obvious!! Our minds were also switched!!'
"Um....um, right-o old chap! You caught me!" Kaiba said to Mokuba. I shuddered. That was a very, very bad accent.... (A/N: In the Manga and original Japanese Anime, Bakura is a forgein exchange student, but not from Britain. But since he is a forgein exchange student, I suppose he would have an accent. Even if he was born and raised in Japan, he might still have an accent! For example, if someone comes from Osaka, there dialect and accent is different from a person who lives in Toyko.)
Mokuba lifted his eyebrow. "You've been around each other verrryyyy often lately...." Mokuba squinted at Kaiba, who was sweating now. "You seem verryy different Ba-kura." Mokuba said, adding stress to the wrong syllable in my name. I sighed.
"You got us!" I said, shrugging helplessly. Kaiba, on the other hand, did not look so helpless. He looked like he would kill me. Seriously chop off my head and serve it at a sushi bar.
"What do you mean, 'I got you'?" Mokuba asked.
"We're acting like each other for a school play. I have to act like an idiot," I pointed at Kaiba, who was about to bite my finger off, "and he has to act like a genius." I pointed to myself. My head suddenly began to hurt. A lot. 'Oh no, not now, please, no...'
"Let's play a game!" A man with dark hair said. He was Kaiba's father.
"Ok!" Young Kaiba said, smiling. Mokuba nodded along with his brother.
"I'm a genius, and you two have to play dumb!" The man laughed.
"Hey, for your information, I am genius!! I rule in chess, dad, and you have never been able to be me in all your life!!" Kaiba said in defense.
"Yeah!" Mokuba said, agreeing with his brother.
"Ok, ok, I was only kidding, you know!" The man laughed.
I snapped back into reality. Both Mokuba and Kaiba were staring at me. Mokuba, however, had his mouth open.
"Why did you just black out?" Mokuba asked.
"Great timing, idiot...." Kaiba furiously rolled his eyes.
"Oh great..." I muttered, placing my head in my hands.
"Well?" Mokuba asked.
"Um, maybe you can explain this?" I asked Kaiba. He nodded.
Kaiba P.O.V.
I took a deep breath and hastily thought of an acceptable lie to tell Mokuba. The only one that popped into my head was not a proper one, and would undoubtedly trouble Mokuba, but I knew that if I told my little brother what was going on, he'd....well... In the 'Greasy Spoon', Mokuba thanked me, telling me that, 'Seto's nicer then ever!' If I told Mokuba the truth, that this whole time it was Bakura who was the great brother and not me, well...I suppose I just would not be able to live with myself.
"Your brother seems to have been blacking out frequently now." I said, biting my lip as I continued. This would not bring back good thoughts to Mokuba. Mokuba gasped.
"But the doctors said that your brain problem would be all better as long as you would sleep and take your medicine!!" Mokuba said, using childish vocabulary. Bakura clearly didn't understand what was going on. "Seto....You didn't do it again, did you?" Mokuba asked, on the fair brink of tears.
"Didn't do what again Mokuba?" Bakura asked, really not understanding what was going on. Mokuba burst into tears and ran out of the car, straight into the house. Bakura turned to me.
"What was that about?" Bakura asked, looking at me with dagger eyes. I turned my head away.
"After the first....suicide attempt...I fell into a short coma. Very short, only a week or two, but still... Mental damage was present in my brain. I began to blackout suddenly; on completely random times. I went to the doctors and took medicine to help my blackouts. Of course, when you blacked-out just now, I would suppose that....?"
"A memory."
"How come I don't get as many as you do?" I sighed.
"It hurts." Bakura said suddenly. I stared at him.
"What hurts?"
"The memories. " Bakura stared at me. "Don't you ever just want to sit and cry?" Bakura asked me. I nodded, but then slightly shook my head.
"What happened happened. I cannot change the past. Perhaps if I still was the same person I was before Gozaburo entered my life, I would be more effected by it. I have changed greatly." I touched my heart. "Yet it still hurts to think about it."
"You burned your innocence and childhood in order to be free from the pain Kaiba. But it'll never go away. Not like this." Bakura said. I stared at him. " I was the same way. I never wanted any friends because of my Yami. But I learned that friends are the only ones that can help."
"I don't need petty material things such as friendship." I said bitterly, unhooking my seatbelt and preparing to walk out of the car, but Bakura stopped me.
"Then the pain will consume you, Kaiba."
"Believe me, it already has." I turned to face Bakura. "And it is still not done with me..." And thus I slammed the door in Bakura's face. But I gasped when I bumped into someone.
"M-Mokuba?" Didn't he go back into the house? How much had he heard? Mokuba gave me saddened look, and pointed to the car.
"I left my food from the fast food place in the car." Mokuba said. I nodded and handed it to Mokuba. Mokuba opened his mouth to say something to me, but then he immediately closed it. "Nothing."
Bakura P.O.V
I stared sadly when Kaiba bumped into Mokuba, not really caring if Mokuba heard. I would actually be happy if Mokuba heard. Maybe then Kaiba'll get some friends?
I'd gladly be his friend. I mean, we are just so similar...it's scary. His heart hurts so much.... I can compare myself so easily to him. I've wanted to kill myself, to end my life so many times in order to escape my Yami... But I never do. In Kaiba, I see a completely broken down me. I see myself, if I were to fall any deeper into my depression I would surely turn into a second Kaiba.
Who am I fooling? Everybody already knows my smile is just an act. My happy-go-lucky demeanor is just an act.
And yet... no one wants to tell themselves that their friend, good old happy Bakura, is really actually a very sad person....
But I think Kaiba needs more help now. Being CEO seems really rough. But maybe it isn't as hard as Kaiba makes it seem. Maybe Kaiba just uses his job as an excuse to hide from the rest of the world. Kaiba and his computers...Or more like Kaiba has become his computers...
Dull. Hollow. Emotionless.
Poor guy...
Kaiba P.O.V
I paused halfway down the Kaiba mansion pathway. 'I don't live here now...' I thought. So as I turned around to walk back to the car, I bumped into yet another person.
"Baku-I mean Kaiba! Hi!" I said, making my voice hyper, like his usual is.
"You can sleep over, if you want. Just call my, I mean your dad, and explain everything to him. If he's not on another dig..."
"Tell him everything?"
"Well, maybe not everything..." Bakura said, smiling.
"Stop smiling. You continue to ruin my evil demeanor, you know that?" I said bitterly. "And I'll probably have to stay over."
"Why?"
"Kaiba Corporations stocks are falling because YOU are a negligent boss." I said, glaring at Bakura. "Stocks have fallen .000003% over the last week." I said.
"How many zero's was that?" Bakura asked, rolling his eyes.
"I don't want anything bad to happen to my company, that's all. I worked extremely hard to bring it to it's current caliber." I shook my head and sighed. "If I stay in your body for any longer I will scream...."
"Oh! By the way, you have a liquor stash!" Bakura said happily. I, yet again, glared at Bakura.
"Don't go near that."
"Oh, why not? You've got some pretty old wines though...aren't they spoiled by now?"
"No, you dunce. The older a wine is the better it tastes. You have to age fine wine." I stared at Bakura. "You are officially an idiot now, do you know that?"
"Whatever. Come on, you got to go call your ol' man." Bakura said, pushing me toward the house.
"Hey! Your ruining my personality!!" I said, slightly smiling.
Bakura P.O.V
After Kaiba was allowed to stay over for the night, he turned to me.
"Now I need to use the Kaiba Corporations super computer to help the stocks rise. And I need your help to start the damn thing up." Kaiba grabbed my arm and pulled me through out the house, down stairs, around corners, up stairs, down stairs, and zigzaging through doors.
"Unless we're going to your secret gold stash... why is your stupid computer so hard to find?" I said.
"Because." Kaiba pulled me down. For a minute I didn't know what I was doing, until a bright light filled my eye.
"Retina scan complete." A door opened in front of me, and I entered....
A library.
"Wow, you must really like your books–" Kaiba looked around one of the bookshelves, and pulled a particular book. Another door opened. Kaiba grabbed my hand and pushed it toward the hand scanner.
"Hand scan complete." Another dumb door opened. And then I saw the biggest computer in front of me. Kaiba turned the machine on.
"Voice confirmation." The computer said. I supposed I was supposed to say my name, so I said, "Seto Kaiba." The computer filled with many blue lights, and a female voice said, "Welcome Mr. Kaiba!"
"Oh...a woman computer ey?" I said, laughing. Kaiba threw something at me, but he missed.
"If I had a male voice....I'd be a tad bit uncomfortable, no?" Kaiba said, sitting in the chair. But the computer automatically blocked Kaiba out.
"Seto Kaiba vocal authorization needed to except new user." Kaiba glared at the computer so hard, I thought it might have blown up...
"I authorize new user, Bakura Ryou." I said, smiling from cheek to cheek. This whole process was driving Kaiba insane.
"Bakura Ryou....voice sample needed." The computer said.
"My name is Bakura Ryou." Kaiba said.
"Welcome Bakura Ryou!" Kaiba immediately yelled out, "Manual mode." The computer voice stopped as Kaiba typed and opened up windows. I decided to sit in one of the sits near Kaiba, just to see what he was doing. It looked cool. Suddenly, Kaiba turned around to face me.
"I'd appreciate privacy for the next five minutes."
"What? I can't leave!! I don't know how to get back in!" I said in my defense.
"Then turn around and put your fingers in your ears." Kaiba said bitterly. I did as he said, but his fingers pounding on the keys was still easily heard. But I strained to hear what he said, and decided to loosen my fingers from my ears...
"Stock report." Kaiba said.
"Kaiba Corp. officially back at normal stock status. Anything else you'd like to do, Mr. Ryou?"
"Yes. Open e-mails. Filter them." Kaiba said.
"Which filter sir?"
"Only people placed in Address Book."
"I'm sorry sir, a password is needed to open this file." The computer said. Kaiba turned to me.
"Those fingers better be so jammed in that you're poking your brain now." Kaiba warned. I decided to stick my fingers in harder; his passwords were his own business. After Kaiba seemed sure that I couldn't hear anything, he muttered the password. "Ok, now you can come." I sat next to Kaiba again. He browsrf through his e-mails. I read some of his e-mails. They all involved the company...except one...
Sender: DM-FanYugi04@duelmonsters.net
To: Kaiba_Seto GOTOBUTTON BM_1_ @kaibacorporation.com
Subject: Info you might need
Kaiba turned to me. "Do you think it's safe to open?" He asked. I nodded. Kaiba clicked the e-mail open.
This is Yugi Muuto. I tried calling you but I could only find Kaiba Corps'. phone number... and there were so many extensions... So, I scrolled around the Kaiba Corp. website (Which I must say, you did a nifty job with the web designing for the page. Everything was really easy to find. ^_^) Anyway, Yami had some ideas on how to fix your problem and came up with some predictions. He said that only Millennium Item power-infused (yes, he said it like that) individuals can switch souls completely like that. So, Bakura has the Ring and you had the Rod a long time back... So Yami said you still have a iddy-bitty piece of, 'Millennium Item infused power' (I am directly quoting Yami.), which is what allowed you two to switch. Plus, Yami said that don't be surprised if Bakura has more memories and stuff then you; Bakura's 'Millennium Item infused powers' are stronger then yours, so.... I guess that lets him see more. Ok, well, now that we all know how the thing started.... Yami said something, it could even be the smallest thing, caused you to switch. So it's not only the 'Millennium Item infused powers'(how many times have I typed that one phrase?) thingy. Yami suggested that you should like, retrace your steps on the day you switched. Don't leave anything out!! That'll be hard, I know... If you do that and nothing happens, Yami has another idea. But he won't tell me what it is and refuses to type it up. Oh well, whatever. OK, bye!! Hoped this helped!!
Kaiba and I re-read the email several times. Kaiba saved the e-mail, just in case we might need it again. Then Kaiba rubbed his temples. "That's almost impossible to do... I did a lot on that day we switched..." I agreed with Kaiba.
"How am I supposed to remember what I did all the way back then?" I sighed. Kaiba muttered something darkly under his breath. He logged off the computer and then shut it down. The room suddenly became pitch black for several seconds because all of the rooms light had come from the computer, and then the lights in the room automatically turned on. "Wow... That's cool."
"I set up everything in this room...only Mokuba knows it exists." Kaiba yawned. "It's pretty late...what time is it?" Kaiba asked me.
"Um, how would I know?"
"I have a watch. Second interior pocket in the left side of my trenchcoat." Kaiba said. I opened the trenchcoat up and looked around.
"Don't see it–"
"My left stupid."
"Oh...It's 11 o' clock." I said cheerfully.
"That is awfully late...well, I suppose I'll sleep in the quest bedroom?" Kaiba asked me. I nodded. "And you'll sleep in my room. It's on the third floor, eighth door to the right from the elevator; your right, by the way." Kaiba said, getting up. He pushed me out of the room and made sure everything was turned off and silent before locking all of the doors and walking upstairs with me.
Kaiba P.O.V
I ended up escorting Bakura to my room. He truly was confused, and might have ended up sleeping in the bathroom or something of that nature without my help.
I walked over to the quest bedroom and changed my clothes. My quest bedroom is always supplied with at least four pajamas, incase there is a storm or something and one of my damn executives have to stay over. I sighed when I noticed that none of the pajamas were dark blue... the darkest one was dark green.
I despise dark green. It's an extremely 'yucky' color. Reminds me of puke or something .... I rummaged though the other few pajamas, and saw a goldenrod colored pajama.
No. The goldenrod one was definitely more of a 'pukeish' color then the dark green. I decided to wear a dull gray pajama. Either that or a red one. I slipped under the covers and tried to sleep for a little while, but it was difficult.
Why did Yugi help me? He hates me, right? Oh yes, he hates me. He just wants Bakura back in the right body. He doesn't give a damn about me, I suppose. Oh well, I really don't care. The second my soul is back in my originally body, I will detach myself from that Bakura. The only reason I'm sticking to him like some damn super-glue is because I don't want to wander to far from my life. I need my brother, my computer, my company...Mokuba...
Mokuba is beginning to realize what happened, if he didn't already figure it out...He must know me awfully well to suspect anything as ludicrous and this to be going on.
If only someone besides him understood me....Oh, hell, who cares? I have no friends, what a big deal that is!! I don't care!!
But...maybe I should try to be Bakura's friend?
I almost kicked myself for thinking that. 'Just sleep, damn it!' I closed my eyes, and soon feel asleep.
Hope tomorrow is a better day...
(Jenrya: WOW!! I wrote all this in less then a week!! *claps for myself* I know, an odd chapter...but I hope it's still good...BTW, I was reading my previous works, like Turmoil and stuff, and I was wondering...Who thinks my fanfiction skills got better? I clearly make less mistakes and stuff, but...anyway... I mean like, is the the plot and format of Switch better then my other works? Ok, well, expect the next chapter to be out very late...I only had time to do this because I have the FLU!! Heh....at least something good came out of it! ^_^ This fanfic will probably only reach 8 chapters or so...But I also need to know something else: What chapter do you want the re-switch to happen? Soon or later? I'm probably making it next chapter or something...Ja ne! Thank you for reading!! Read and review, btw!!)