Millennium I
Secrets of the Puzzle
By Hikari Tsuki Chi
Chapter 13
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! or Sailor Moon. Or…anything. That's famous at least.
Note: Gomen nasai! Dad needs the computer for taxes…and I have schoolwork…and I was/am working on/finishing up a cross-stitch…and a semi brain-freeze…yeah. Anyhow, Dad still needs the computer for taxes and other things, other than schoolwork, I can only get on for a while a day. By the summer, hopefully I'll be able to update faster.
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Sailor Ra: You had sugar, didn't you? Hotaru came in Chapter 11. Sorry, but I've already decided to have Yami with Yugi and Hotaru with Hikami. And I'll try and read your stories as soon as I can.
Gomen nasai again. (bows)
Chapter 13
For there being a new enemy, there really weren't that many attacks. And they were always at night, in out-of-the-way locations, so they didn't even make the first SECTION, let alone the front page.
While Yama's and Serena's dreams had slowed to an infrequent pace, Yami's and Yugi's increased to nightly and, as it was turning out, twice at night. Relatively calm ones at the beginning of the night, and alarming ones towards the end. Serena would hear Yugi cry out and go running to his room to find the door locked. She would hear Yami comforting him.
Yugi had stopped confiding in her. The only way she knew the details of their dreams was from eavesdropping on Yugi and the others at lunch. And it made her angry that he trusted them more than her.
Yama was angry with both Yugi AND Yami. At Yami for being thickheaded, and at Yugi for listening to him.
Yugi and Yami were both sure that Serena knew more than they did, and that she was hiding something. What, they didn't know, but until she confided in them, they weren't gonna confide in her.
The Yugi-gumi, Kaiba, Hotaru, and Hikami were all caught in the middle. But they weren't all knowing. The Yugi-gumi was biased towards Yugi and Yami, though Ryou and Bakura were undecided. Hotaru and Hikami were biased towards Serena and Yama, and Kaiba was truly in the middle. He knew something was up with Serena, but Yugi (and Yami) was his rival, so there was no way he'll side with them.
Undoubtedly, things were tense. But for Serena, things would soon grow even tenser.
It was at the latest youma 'attack'. It was stronger than the others, so Millennium and Ma'at double-teamed it. Sailor Moon had a strange look on her face after they destroyed the youma. "Is something wrong?"
"That…looked EXACTLY like the first youma I ever fought as Sailor Moon. Except more powerful."
"Very observant, moon brat." A man dressed in a gray uniform appeared. He had short blonde hair.
"Jadeite? I think you're in the wrong city. Tuxedo Mask is in Tokyo." Said Moon, pointing in the general direction of Tokyo.
"What makes you think I'm after him?" he asked, smirking.
"Cuz…he caused you to fail, again, thus leading to Beryl replacing you?"
"It's not worth it to go after him just yet. If you're dead, then he loses his spirit, making him weak."
"I'm not that easy to kill."
"And what's to say I won't kill you first?" threatened Millennium, shadows beginning to swirl around her, a deadly promise.
Jadeite jeered at her. "Osiris doesn't consider you a threat."
"Excuse me!"
"Who am I to question my superiors? That's what froze me the last time."
"Cautious isn't your type."
"Is this cautious? In one week we'll meet here, for an all-out-fight. All of you against me and one other person. You win, we tell you Osiris's plan. We win…and we'll kill your family and friends. And another thing…they'll be forced to watch. All of them." Cackling, he disappeared.
At the Kame Shop…Serena sat in her room, staring blankly at her computer screen. Yama had disappeared into the Shadow Realm, muttering something about needing to blast something.
Normally, she'd be doing katas, but she was too numb. And angry. Numb at the prospect of losing everyone she had in Domino. Angry at his threat on them. Hearing knocking on the door, Serena went over and opened it. Yugi asked, "Since when do you lock your door?"
"Since when do you?"
"Why don't you talk to me anymore?"
"Why don't YOU? It's like you don't trust me anymore. It's not like I probably don't already know what it is."
"I don't want you to get hurt."
"I can get hurt by walking down the street. And you wanna know why I don't talk to you anymore? I don't know if I'm talking to you, or mou hitori no Yugi."
Yugi was taken back by her statement. "How…how did you know?"
Raising an eyebrow, she said, "I'm a martial arts master, trained in the art of sensing ki. Did you really think that I wouldn't be able to sense the ki around the Puzzle? And when you were dueling in Battle City, you somehow gained a few inches, got a deeper voice, a slightly different hairstyle, and a huge dose of confidence? What do you think I am, an idiot?"
Yugi didn't meet her eyes. "I didn't want you to get hurt or killed."
"Yugi, I can get hurt by just walking down the street. And I can defend myself."
"Demo…why don't you talk to me anymore? Or confide in me?" Yugi had his 'soulful eyes' face on, but Serena had long since been immune to it.
"Because I don't want you to get hurt. You or Grandpa or anyone else in my life. And I can't let you in because everyday you and the world stay in the dark is one more day I can protect you and everyone else from my life."
The Puzzle flared to life as Yami took control of Yugi's body. "You can at least give him some answers."
Serena glared at him. "Listen. I've looked after Yugi far longer than you have, so why does he suddenly listen to you? Why am I suddenly locked out of his room and his life? Why is it that I have to eavesdrop on Yugi and his friends just to find why he wakes up at night screaming? What's so great about you? If it's because you were this 'King of Games', then, newsflash! Your reign ended 5,000 years ago. And if you're SO good at protecting him, where were you when we were in elementary school, when he was the target of every bully in the school? Huh?"
Yami was silent.
Serena continued. "I did. I protected him until every bully in town was afraid of me. I was there when he found out that his parents were never coming back. I DIED for him, for crying out loud, and now he doesn't trust me, based on the word of a ghost?"
"At least I've been there for him these last few months." Yami's glare was as icy as Serena's, but neither of them budged.
"Get out." She said, her eyes as cold as Kaiba's.
Turning, Yami walked out of her room. "Tell Yugi that if he wants to tell me what's been going on since he solved the Puzzle, that he better tell me without it on. Because I'll die before I'll trust you. And if you're gonna say the same thing, then that'll be a lie, since you've already died."
She waited until Yami had slammed the door before she let the tears she had been holding back slid down her face.
Regaining control of his body, Yugi also began to cry silent tears. Both of their yamis were powerless to help them, for they can only help themselves.
Five days later…Yugi, the Yugi-gumi, Kaiba, Serena, Ryou, and Hotaru were all walking to the Kame Shop. They all had a big test coming up, so they were gathering for a group study session. Or rather, as a group study session can be with Serena and Hotaru on one side of the room, Kaiba and Ryou in opposite corners, and Yugi and the Yugi-gumi on the other side of the room. That's what happened the last time they had a group study session, and that's what will happen this one. But now, things were even tenser between Yugi and Serena. Taking a shortcut through the park, they were drawn from their respective thoughts at the sound of a scream. Catching sight of an ugly group of youmas, they each took off in separate directions.
Kaiba, having no youma on his tail, stopped and ducked into a group of bushes when he heard the sound of running feet. Peering out of the bushes, he saw Serena and Hotaru come to a pause, and other girls APPEAR out of nowhere. The one with black hair resembled Hotaru, while the one with Yugi's hair colors looked like Serena. Denying in his mind what he had seen, he listened to their conversation.
"Why's Jadeite bothering?"
"Someone else in their group must've sent them, they don't look like his."
"Henshin yo!"
With that last statement, they all pulled out some sort of items, and called out various phrases.
"Silver Moon Millennium Make up!"
"Ancient Millennium Cosmic Make up!"
"Saturn Millennium Make up!"
"Ma'at Priestess Millennium Make up!"
Colored light surrounded all of them. When it dimmed, Kaiba's breath caught in his chest. There were no longer the four girls he had seen standing there moments before. There were now Sailor Senshi standing in their place.
Even someone like Kaiba, who denied the existence of magick and destiny, had heard of the Sailor Senshi. To think that Serena and Hotaru were… it took him by surprise. And he knew that the next time he saw them, he would be sure to get them alone, and confront them.
End of Chapter 13How was it? Gomen nasai again for the wait.
Next chapter: Kaiba confronts Serena and Hotaru. He's not gonna be happy when he finds out that Mokuba knew about Serena. Other things might happen, but you'll just have to see.
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