Disclaimer- I dun own Yu-Gi-Oh! Done and done.
SIMPLY MAGIC- NO MORE, NO LESS
Chapter One- Gotta grabba some groceries!
By animematchmaker
"MANA! WAKE UP!"
A beautiful brunette Egyptian girl fidgeted around in her peaceful slumber, refusing the voice's request. The voice called out again, this time, more impatient. The girl, again, ignored the yell and twisted her body on her straw mattress.
The voice burst out for the third time and the blonde girl, lazy from her wonderful dream, flew open her eyelids. The eyelids revealed astonishing emerald eyes that were abruptly stricken with fright as a hand came to roughly brush off a giant dead spider off her head.
"SUNNY!" the girl screamed as she leapt up, her athletic legs taking her to a scrawny little boy who was stuffing himself with breakfast,
"HOW DARE YOU!"
Her mother who was weaving a straw basket sighed.
"Mana, be nice to your little brother, will you? He's younger than you," she said.
Mana growled at the scrawny boy who looked almost like her- dark hair, eyes of green…she breathed in heavily as she propped her backside on the wooden chair.
"Did you like the present I gave you?" he inquired with his mouth full. Mana furrowed her eyebrows at him.
"Mana, what did I tell you…" said her mother as if she had eyes at the back of her head.
"Don't worry mama, sister loved the spider I gave her," her brother gurgled happily. Mana grunted at him.
"You are so annoying!," she exclaimed angrily, grabbing a piece of fruit off the straw basket. As she bit into it, she noticed her brother fiddling with a strange piece of pale material. It looked strangely familiar…
"H-REY! TH-RAT'S MY BAND-RANA!" she cried out, trying to reach for it. Unfortunately, the little squirt was too quick and already snatched it away from her grasp.
"MMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEERRRRRR!!!" the young girl screamed bloody murder. Suddenly, she couldn't breathe properly- she was choking! Mana started to cough, trying to get the food out of her respiratory system.
Her mother shrieked, dropped her basket and patted Mana's back firmly. Sunny, her mischievous little brat of a brother, watched in amazement. Finally, the piece of food that was stuck in her throat flew out, saliva and all, and landed on the clean floor.
"Eww…''whispered both Mana and Sunny.
The mother frowned and faced her youngest child.
"Well…pick it up then!" she said simply. Sunny glanced at his mother, then at his sister and finally the squirming piece of saliva covered food on the floor.
"What? Pick up Mana's dirt? Never!" he shouted proudly. The mother folded her arms and tapped her foot impatiently. The young boy sighed.
"Fine, I'll pick it up with Mana's bandana."
It was his sister's turn to shriek.
"What?! No way are you picking up that with my bandana!"
"Why not? It did come out from you!" he replied with an air of intellect.
Mana grumbled and grabbed her precious belonging from her sibling's hand and walked off, into her room, leaving her mother and Sunny to figure out the disgusting dilemma.
While in her humble little sanctuary of a room, Mana fixed up her bandana and sat down on her bed. She started to think about her life. Her normal, boring life with an annoying brother and a normal mother. Sure, she loved them both but she just wished…. she just wished…
"Mana! Come here!" called her mother. Mana slowly got up, straightened her pale dress and prodded to her mother and brother who was holding his nose and scooping up the object Mana had spat out, out the door.
"Yes mother?" she said obediently. Her mother handed her the newly woven basket.
"I want you to pick up some fruit, vegetables and meat at the market," she told Mana, "Oh yes, and go with Sunny."
Both siblings stared shock at their mother.
"NO WAY AM I GOING WITH HIM/HER!" they cried out at the same time. The mother shook her head and laughed.
"Come on now, it's not so bad, now go!" said the mother, pushing both of her squealing children out the house. Sunny and Mana looked at each other and grumbled at each other.
"You better not make a fool of me at the markets!" Mana said in a warning tone. Sunny stuck out his tongue at his sister.
"Me? Never!" he said innocently taking her hand, "Shall we, sister?"
Mana looked down at her little brother clutching her tanned hand like a little child and dropped the thought immediately. She was thirteen after all! She had absolutely NO love interest in any men or boys, especially not of a forbidden and disgusting thought of her little brother Sunny as that boy…
"YUCK!"
:::At the markets:::
"…So what fruits and vegetables did mom want us to buy again?" asked Sunny as he rummaged his tanned fingers through the woven baskets of food. The shopkeeper of the stall glared at the little boy instinctively.
"Please son, stop touching those vegetables! You'll inflict diseases on them!" he scolded. Mana gasped and slightly slapped Sunny's hand.
"Stupid! You humiliated me!" she hissed, grabbing his hand and storming to another stall.
"Those things were rotten anyway, yelling at me for nothing! They probably HAVE diseases on them anyway…" grunted the young boy.
Mana ignored him and glanced at the new fruit and vegetable stand.
"Now this is more like it, sis! Look at the onions! The radishes! The garlic! Look how bright and radiant they are!" exclaimed Sunny.
"Bright and radiant?" assumed Mana, "How can vegetables be bright and radiant?"
"Tomatoes are" said Sunny.
"TOMATOES ARE NOT VEGETABLES!"
"Yes they are"
"No they're not"
"Yes they are"
"NO THEY'RE NOT!"
"THEY ARE! THEY ARE! THEY ARE!"
"THEY'RE NOT! THEY'RE NOT! THEY'RE NOT!"
By now, many villagers were gathering around, observing the arguing Egyptian brother and sister. Intensity was in their eyes as they literally kept shooting daggers at each other until one of the nearby shopkeepers got fed up and furiously dumped most of his vegetables into the large straw basket that Mana was clutching. He even dropped in two chickens and a goose! Both siblings were confused.
"Please! Just please get out of here! You're driving all my customers away! Now go! GO!" the shopkeeper raged.
"But what about the exchange sir?" said Mana. Like my little brother for instance…
"No little girl! Just go away now! Now!" the shopkeeper screamed further. Both Mana and Sunny scrambled off, scared back to their little terracotta, flat-roofed home, away from the prying public. Their mother beamed in surprise.
"That was fast!" she thought, looking at the exhausted Mana and Sunny. Then she peered at the basket…that was starting to split!
"Oh my! You two did a lot of shopping! And, wow, you even bought in live poultry!"
The three birds flew right out of the basket and ran around the house, clucking and squabbling.
"This food can last us for quite a long time!"
The two siblings didn't answer. In fact, they were so tired, they stumbled into their bedrooms, not speaking another word. The mother smiled.
"Even though they bicker a lot, they are wonderful children…I wonder how they got all that food?"
Well…how do ya like it? RR!
Next chapter…- What's happening?
(A/N) By the way, there has been an argument stating whether a tomato was a fruit or vegetable so in this case, it was both so both Mana and her brother were 'right' in their way!