Well, here I am at chapter two of To Life, and I'd like to explain a few things. First, Atemu and Akeifa are the Egyptian names of Yami and Yami Bakura. I know, the Shonen Jump manga is just calling him Thief Bakura, but I'm in the official Gaia Yu-Gi-Oh guild, and I know better. Second, Dark Magic Attaque will not be updated until after To Life is updated. Thank you.
So, people seem to be enjoying Dark Magic Attaque more than To Life, because of the way that the DMG is portrayed. Apparently, I wasn't the only one who had problems with the bubble-head portrayal. Which makes no sense to me- Ai is CUTE! Anyway, this chapter features the cast- including Kaiba- in bathingsuits. It was written as random fun. ENJOY!
Chapter 2: Ai's Adventure.
Otherwise known as,
The Gods Have a Twisted Sense of Humor
"Who you gonna call?"
"Ghostbusters!"
"Who you gonna call!"
"Ghostbusters!"
"Yugi..."
"Yes, Yami?"
"Why?"
"Because it's cute!"
Atemu rolled his eyes. It had been three days already, and Yugi was still teaching Ai words and phrases that had no meaning to her. And all because it was cute.
"You know, Yugi, in all our time together, you have never fawned over a girl like this before."
"Well... Ai's not like other girls, Yami. She's different. She's Ai."
"In other words, she's not really a girl."
"I didn't say that!"
"But you were thinking it."
"Well... Sort of. I feel like, since she's not human, I can just be me, and she won't think I'm weird."
"You need to have more faith in yourself, Yugi."
Yugi sighed. "I know."
"Anyway, isn't it about time you had her get dressed?"
The smaller boy nodded. "Ai," he said, "Clothes." 'Clothes' was one of the basic words Arthur had managed to teach Ai before he and Rebecca had to return to America. To Ai, it meant, "go pick out something to wear." Ai nodded and ran over to pick through the neat pile of boxes in the corner than constituted her wardrobe. Tea had made matching outfits and put them in different boxes, and Ai was learning to tell what outfit was in which box by the color of the box. Without hesitating, she picked up a deep forest green that contained her favorite outfit. Yugi nodded, and she ran into his room to change. She came out in a green, red, burgundy and beige floral skirt that swished around her ankles, a sleeveless burgundy top, and tan sandals. Yugi smiled. Tea had done a good job at picking clothes for her. "Nefer," he said, and Ai brightened. It was one of the few words that Arthur had taught them, mainly because Ai seemed to use it a lot; it meant, 'beautiful.' Employed as a complement, it was a very effective way of getting Ai to smile.
Ai was brushing her hair when the doorbell rang. Yugi ran to answer it. Joey stood, leaning casually against the wall. "Hey. You guys ready to go?"
"Almost. Ai's just finishing up. I hope."
When they walked in, Ai jumped to her feet. "Jo-ee! Jo-ee!" After her initial fear of Joey had dissipated, she had grown quite fond of him. Joey grinned.
"Hey, kid. What's up?"
Ai hugged him happily while Atemu grabbed a small duffel bag. "Are we meeting everyone else at the park?"
"Yeah, I just figured you might need some help," Joey said, fumbling to latch the bracelet Ai held out to him. Clasping it around her wrist, Joey grinned at the girl. "There, we got you all prettied up, ready to go?" Ai smiled at him eagerly, and Yugi laughed. "She knows you're saying something good by the tone of your voice."
"Cool. So, come on! What are we waiting for!"
Akeifa leaned against the gates to the park, bored out of his skull. He didn't want to be here. Bakura wouldn't even let him sabotage the rides. Stupid water park. Stupid mortals... He heard voices. His hearing capabilities were above average, and he tilted his head to the side. Yes, that was Yugi. He also heard the pharaoh and that twit Joey. Ai was with them, too, he assumed.
Ai.
Little know-nothing Ai.
Stupid, know-nothing, terribly trusting Ai.
Maybe this would be fun after all.
"We didna start the fire! It... it was always burning since the world been turning!"
"Wow, Yugi, when did you teach her that?"
"I didn't! She picked it up listening to the radio! But listen to this! Ai, who you gonna call?"
"Ghostbusters!"
Tea squealed. "That's so cute!"
Yugi beamed. "I've been working with her a lot this morning. Ai, sing with me?"
"Sing, sing!"
"The dark night sky above..."
Ai scrunched up her nose. "The dark night sky above... exists to expose our hearts as... they call out to each other... when... when..."
"When the two of us are apart."
"When the two of us are apart!"
Bakura gasped. Tristan stared. Joey ran into a trashcan. Tea blinked. "Yugi, how did you ever teach her that?"
Yugi shrugged. "We stayed up all night watching anime videos. Lodoss is her favorite, so I decided to teach her the song. That's all she knows, though. It took running through the opening credits about twenty times for her to get it right."
"She sings beautifully," Bakura commented.
"That's not all," Yugi said proudly. "The first time she heard it, she danced to it!"
"She can dance?"
"Yes, and it's really nice to watch her, too!"
Tea felt the pang of envy. There was so much this creature seemed able to do. True, she liked the little Duel Monster as much as the rest of them, but lately Ai was all any of the guys talked about. She was pretty, sweet, funny, and now she could even dance...
"Tea, are you alright?"
Tea looked at Atemu. "I'm fine," she said, hoping she sounded cheerful enough to convince him. Atemu studied her for a moment hesitantly. Then he nodded. "Do you think you could show Ai how to put on a bathing suit so Yugi can show her the slides? She still needs a lot of help, you know."
"Okay..."
"And Tea?"
"Yes, Atemu?"
"It's only temporary. She'll be gone before you know it, and things will go back to normal."
Tea smiled in spite of herself. "Thanks, Atemu. You always understand."
Akeifa sat at the edge of the pool, watching his idiot hikari climbing the steps up the slide. Stupid hikari. Stupid water slides. Water slides were stupid because they were so short. If they were long they could be fun. But the ride was always over too fast. And Bakura was stupid because he just was.
Well, hello.
What have we here?
Little Ai in a pretty pink bathing suit. How lovely.
She was cute; even he had to admit it. And now, seeing her in next-to-nothing, he had to admit she had a nice body. But she was still a know-nothing little airhead.
"Hey, Ai," he called in Egyptian.
Ai's head snapped up. "Hello, Akeifa! I did not see you over there!"
"Figured as much."
"I have more to ask you! Akeifa, what does the song mean!"
"Which song."
"The pretty one and Bakura called my voice beautiful!"
"Oh." Akeifa thought a moment before reciting the lyrics in his, and her, native language. Ai nodded.
"It's beautiful."
"I suppose so."
"Thank you, Akeifa!"
Akeifa grunted and turned, only to find Atemu looking at him strangely. "What."
"What did she ask you?"
"She wanted to know what the song meant, idiot. She's been coming to me for all sorts of strange translations lately." Akeifa paused. "Including the definition of one very interesting word. I must say, though, I can't imagine little Yugi saying such a thing as this was. So perhaps it was you..."
Atemu just glared at it. Akeifa grinned. "Figured as much. You know, you really should watch what you say around the little fluff-head. She's very impressionable."
"Shut up," Atemu said, and walked away.
It happened when they split into groups. Tristan, Joey, Akeifa, and Bakura thought Ai was with Atemu, Yugi, and Tea. Tea, Atemu, and Yugi thought Ai was with Joey, Tristan, and the Bakurae. So when the group joined back up two hours later, Ai was nowhere to be found...
Everyone stood talking, and no one was paying attention to her. That was okay. There was lots of other stuff she could pay attention to. Ai looked around for something else to pay attention to. There were lots of people here. Lots and lots and lots and lots...
The first thing she saw was a man holding lots of floating bubbles on strings. Ai watched him give the bubbles to a bunch of little children. She wondered how he caught the bubbles without them disappearing. Whenever she tried to catch bubbles, they disappeared. She always figured they teleported. Maybe bubbles in this world couldn't teleport. She walked over and looked at the bubbles. After a while, the man turned and walked away. That was rude, she thought. She was still looking at the bubbles.
So she followed him.
She followed him for a while before she noticed the man in the hat. He had a little cart that he was pushing around, and he gave people things on sticks from the cart. The people ate the things on sticks. She watched them eating. Sometimes the stuff on the sticks would drip and go everywhere. Ai giggled. It was funny.
After a while, Ai got bored. She decided to go back to the others. But on the way, she heard music. She figured that maybe she could investigate that, first.
When she got to the music, she found a crowd of people. Squishing in to see, Ai saw a man playing an instrument with strings on it, and a woman playing a flute, and another man pushing buttons on a funny board. The music they played was nice. She sat down to listen.
Of course, a young Duel Monster can not sit still forever. Not when there are so many new things to investigate. Eventually, Ai got bored. So she got up, and went to where the others were.
They weren't there.
Ai looked around, puzzled. She was certain this was where she had left them. But they were nowhere to be seen. It didn't make any sense. Her friends should be right where she left them, she thought. And then she remembered how the man with the bubbles had moved. Maybe they had moved, too. She looked around again, trying to decide where they would have moved. Finally, she just took off looking.
"Come on, big brother, this way!"
Seto Kaiba sighed and followed his younger brother towards one of the bigger slides. He hated doing things like this. He had a company to run! But he also had to spend some time with Mokuba. It was part of being a brother, he supposed. He followed his sibling from slide to slide. The sun was hot on his bare back. He chose not to swim, even though he had his trunks on. Instead, he stood and watched Mokuba enjoy himself. The kid was having fun. That was enough for him.
Ai had never felt so helpless before. No matter where she looked, she couldn't find her friends! Sometimes she'd think she saw them, but it was never them. She grew more and more depressed. Where were they? Were they hurt? Were they afraid she might be hurt? Were they even worried about her at all? What would she do if they had gotten tired of her and left her here? Where would she go? Who would help her? Who would give her food? She was so hungry...
Ai began to cry.
"Damn, it's hot out."
"I know, stupid, that's why we're here."
Kaiba rolled his eyes. He'd sat down on a bench to wait for Mokuba, only to have a couple of complete idiots take refuge on the bench a few feet away. They'd started talking, and wouldn't shut up. It wouldn't be so bad, of course, had it not been the most unintelligent conversation he'd ever heard...
"So, what do we do now, man?"
"I don't know. Let's pick up some chicks or something."
Kaiba rolled his eyes. Any girl who would give these two the time of day would have to be either very stupid or very desperate...
"Dude, check that out."
"What?"
"That girl over there."
"Holy shit! Check out those knockers! You think they're real?"
"No way, man. Can't be."
"Oh, shit, she's cryin'. Think she heard us?"
"From all the way over here? Hell, no, retard!"
"Whatcha thinks wrong with her?"
"Bet someone stood her up."
"With a body like that? Hell no! They'd have to be crazy!"
"Dude, I'm going to go talk to her."
Kaiba groaned. If they said 'dude' one more time...
"Hey, baby, what's up? You're looking kinda down."
It was when the girl replied that Kaiba became suddenly more interested in the conversation. His ears heard her answer in a language he didn't know. It wasn't Japanese, or English, or French, or any other language he could identify. His ears did not know what she was saying.
But his mind did.
"Please... please help me... I cannot find them..."
"Dude, we got ourselves a foreign babe here!"
"Aw, no way man!"
"I swear it! She's talking in some freaky language!"
"Yeah, right. Hey, sweet thing!"
Again, his ears heard one thing, and his head, another.
"Please... I don't know what you're saying... Please help me, I'm lost..."
"You know, if we can't understand what she's sayin', she can't exactly tell us no, can she."
"Guess not. Too bad for her."
Kaiba turned, not liking where this was heading. He studied the foreign girl. Long, blonde hair, green eyes, attractive, he supposed, but not his type. One of the punks, a guy with jet-black hair, leaned over and held his hand out to the crying girl. "Come on, sweetheart, I'll take you someplace nice."
Seto Kaiba groaned as the girl wiped her eyes and looked up at the guy. "You know where my friends are?"
"Yeah, sure, whatever you say, babe."
"Dude, you're really going to do this?" The black-hair's friend, a blonde, looked incredulous.
"Why not? It was your idea, anyway!"
"I was joking, man!"
The black-hair shrugged. "You don't like it, tough. I'm goin' for it." He turned back to the girl. "Come on, now," his voice was sugary, "I'm not going to hurt you. You just come along with me and we'll have us a little party." The girl took his hand, and he pulled her up. "That's right... you just be a good girl now..."
"Dude, this is so fucking illegal..."
"Shut up, man, you'll scare her off..." And he began to lead the girl away.
Maybe if he hadn't been able to understand her, he would have been able to turn around. But he couldn't. Kaiba watched the retreating backs. Finally, he got up, and followed them from a distance. Mokuba could watch himself for a while.
Ai looked up at the boy holding her hand. He seemed nice enough. As they walked, he turned and started talking to her. At one point, the other boy cut in. He sounded angry. But the boy with dark hair turned and spoke to him in a sharp voice, and he was quiet. They led her away from the other people, and pointed behind a building. She ran forward, eager to see her friends...
Only to find herself facing a cold stone fence.
She looked at them, eyes wide. "Where... where are my friends?"
"Where are my friends?"
Kaiba looked around the side of the building cautiously as the black-haired punk laughed. "She took it hook, line, and sinker, man!"
"This isn't right..."
"Dude, stop being such a pussy! This is the score of a lifetime!"
The girl looked up at them, her eyes filling with tears once more. "Why? Why did you deceive me? My friends are not here, there is no one here! Let me go! I don't want to be here!"
"Aw, look, the little girl is scared. How cute." The punk sneered and shoved her violently. "Come on, now, be a good girl, and it won't hurt. Much."
The girl's voice was soft. "You lied to me. You do not know where my friends are. I am leaving now." But when she tried to pass the black-hair, he shoved her again.
"Sorry, sweetheart, you're not walking out of here."
"Dude, stop this! We shouldn't be doing- "
The blonde was cut off by a fist to his mouth. The black hair snarled at him. "If you don't like it, pussy, then leave. But I'm having my fun." The blonde stood and stared in disbelief a moment, and then turned and ran. He brushed right past Kaiba without even noticing him. Kaiba glared at his back. Stupid coward... He resented people like that, people to afraid to stand up for themselves. Weaklings. You had to be tough to survive. It was as simple as that.
The sound of flesh-on-flesh and a loud wail bright Kaiba back to the present. He turned as the black-haired bastard slapped the girl again. She cried out, confused and hurt.
"Please stop! I've done nothing wrong! I only want to find my friends!"
The goon smacked her again, and her head slammed the wall. She sank to her knees in a daze. Kaiba decided not to watch anymore. It was time he acted.
The goon wasn't aware of the pipe until it came crashing into the back of his head. He snarled, turning, and lunged for Kaiba, who sidestepped him. At the same time, he looped one arm around the freak's neck and threw himself over backwards, effectively smashing the bastard's head into the concrete. The creep howled, but staggered to his feet. "Son of a bitch!" He pulled a knife from his belt...
And staggered suddenly, a bolt of what appeared to be pure light striking him in the chest. Kaiba turned to see the girl standing, the iron pipe held out in front of her in one hand. She swung it, and a rainbow flash seemed to shoot from the end of it, bringing the goon to his knees. Kaiba was struck by a sudden, intense sense of déjà vu. He's seen that stance before... He pushed the thought out of his head as the girl launched another rainbow 'attack' that crumpled the black-haired bastard. Chest heaving, she lowered the pipe, and looked up at Kaiba with wide, scared eyes.
"I don't think I was supposed to do that..."
With a sigh, he shook his head, and walked away. He needed something strong to drink...
The brown-haired boy turned and started to leave. Ai frowned. She didn't want him to leave. He had helped her. She took a step after him. He didn't run, so she took another, then another. He kept walking.
And so did she.
Mokuba was munching on an oversized cookie when Kaiba got back to the bench. At the sound of his footsteps, his little brother looked up. "There you are! I was wondering where you'd gone!"
Kaiba looked at his little brother for a moment. This was his only family, he thought. If anyone ever tried to hurt this boy like that thug had tried to hurt that girl...
"Um, big brother?"
"What is it, Mokuba?"
Mokuba pointed behind Kaiba. "Who's she?"
Kaiba groaned and turned around. Sure enough, wide green eyes stared up at him. "What are you doing here," he asked icily.
The girl tilted her head to the side. She thought a moment, before speaking. "Tankyu."
"Just go away, will you?"
"Big brother, who is she?"
"Just some crazy foreigner. Don't worry about-" Kaiba was cut off by the girl.
"Do you know where my friends are?"
He rolled his eyes. "No," he said firmly, hoping she at least understood that one word. Kaiba took Mokuba by the hand and lead him off. They walked in silence a few minutes before Mokuba looked back over his shoulder. "Seto, she's still following us."
Kaiba spun on the small figure. "Listen. I don't know where your friends are. I don't speak your language. And I don't have time for this. Leave me alone!"
The girl chewed her lip a moment before looking up at him. "Can you understand me?"
"Go away."
"I'm very lost."
"I don't care."
"If I do not find my friends, they will worry about me. I do not want to make Yugi worry."
"I said..." Kaiba stopped short. Had she really said that? "Yugi... Motou?"
The girl nodded eagerly. "Yugi! Yugi!"
They'd been searching for over an hour with no sign of Ai. Yugi flopped down on a bench. "It's all my fault," he groaned. "If something happens to her, it's all my fault."
Bakura rested a hand on the smaller boy's shoulder. "Now, Yugi, don't be that way. We're all responsible for loosing her. But this isn't the first time this has happened, you know. Remember when we summoned her?"
"I remember... she went after that cat..."
"And she was just fine then, now, wasn't she?"
"I suppose..."
Tea looked at Yugi sadly. She felt responsible for this happening. After all, hadn't she been the one wishing Ai would go away? Ai was a magical creature. What if a wish was all it took? A page over the park's intercom system interrupted her thoughts.
"Will Yugi Motou please come to the information booth? Yugi Motou to the information booth."
Yugi was up and running before she even had time to process what she had just heard.
Yugi's heart was racing. It had to be Ai, it had to be. Please, please let her be all right. If anything had happened to her, he'd never forgive himself... He slowed as he approached the booth. A golden-haired figure sat on a bench, a figure in a pink bathing suit. "Ai!"
Ai's head snapped up. "Yugi?" She looked around, wide-eyed, and then saw him. Her eyes filled with tears. "Yugi!"
Yugi slowed, walking up to her. She stared at him, her eyes filled with tears, without rising from the bench. He reached out to ruffle her hair, but instead found himself pulling her into a tight hug. "I'm sorry, Ai," he said softly. "I lost you. Again. I guess I'm just not cut out for this."
"Yu... gi..."
"But it's okay now. I won't loose you again, I promise. I'm going to make being here worth your time."
"Yugi!"
Yugi looked up to see Tea and Akeifa running up. Behind them were Atemu and Joey. Atemu stopped, panting slightly. "We heard... the page. Is she all right?"
"She seems to be." Yugi looked down at the girl. "She seems to be..."
Duke and Tristan came jogging up, with Akeifa sauntering behind them. The Egyptian spirit walked over to Ai and looked down at her before speaking to her. Ai giggled. Atemu glanced at him suspiciously. "What did you say to her?"
"Wouldn't you like to know."
Ai, meanwhile, was looking around her anxiously. Finally, she frowned, apparently not seeing who or what she was looking for, and turned back to Yugi. "Yugi?"
Yugi looked back at her. "Yes, Ai?"
"Ai sorry..." Yugi blinked. He didn't recall teaching Ai that word. He shrugged it off. Arthur probably taught her while he was here. He had said she was giving her some basics. Ai looked up at him. "Ai sorry," she repeated. "Ai bad."
Yugi reached out and ruffled her hair. "Ai not bad," he said. "Yugi bad. Yugi sorry."
Ai reached up and hugged him. Yugi sighed. "Come on, guys. It's time to go home."
That night, Atemu couldn't sleep. Yugi got up four times to check on Ai, but that wasn't the problem. The problem was something else, something he couldn't quite put his finger on. He tossed and turned in his bed. Something was wrong with how they'd found her.
He re-played events in his mind. The group had split into teams to search for Ai. He and Joey had searched long and hard when the announcement came over the PA for Yugi to go to the information booth...
The information booth...
Ai didn't know what an information booth was. She wouldn't have been able to tell them whom to page, either, because she didn't know about public announcement systems. Someone would have had to help her. And to do that, they would have to understand her.
He glanced at the clock. It was two thirty in the morning. Well, too bad. He picked up the phone anyway.
Ringing. Akeifa looked over at the clock. Two thirty in the morning? Who the hell would be calling now? He scowled and fumbled for the phone. "All right, all right, I'm here, damn it."
"Tomb robber."
He growled. "Why the hell are you calling me at this hour?"
"To tell you to get over here. Now."
"And why the hell should I?"
"Because if you don't, I will report every theft you've committed, every act of vandalism, every disruption of the peace..."
"Disruption of the peace, hell! You're disrupting my peace!"
"I have photographs."
"I'll be right over." Akeifa hung up the phone, scowled at it, and went back to bed.
The phone rang again. He picked it up angrily. "Damn it, Atemu, I'm coming!"
"Just making sure."
Akeifa hung up the phone in disgust. Bakura looked at him sleepily from the top bunk. "Aibou? What's wrong?"
"Nothing you need to worry about. Go back to bed."
"Okay."
Atemu paced back and forth anxiously while Yugi and Ai looked up at him sleepily. "Yami, why do we need to be awake?"
"Just trust me, okay?"
"Okay... But I think Ai wants to go to sleep now."
"She can wait." There was a knock at the door. Atemu swung it open. "About time."
"Yeah, yeah." Akeifa sulked in. "Now, what the hell is it you want?"
"I need you to talk to Ai."
"Figured as much. Some pharaoh, can't even-"
"Just shut up and listen to me."
"You're not a morning person, are you."
"I said shut up. Now, we recovered Ai at the information booth, right? What I want you to find out is how she got there. Understood? Who did she talked to, who helped her, anything." Akeifa just stood there. "What the hell are you waiting for?"
The former tomb robber grinned. "You told me to shut up."
"Just talk to Ai, damn it!"
Akeifa flopped down on a stray pillow. "Hey, kid."
"Hello, Akeifa." Ai yawned. "Why is Atemu yelling?"
"Because he's an asshole."
Ai giggled. "That's not very nice."
"Yeah, well, tough. Okay, here's the deal. I need to know who took you to the place where Yugi found you."
"Who took me there?"
"Yes. Did anyone talk to you?"
Ai shifted uncomfortably. "There was this man... I thought he was a nice man, but then he tried to hurt me... I didn't know why... and that's when the other one came. He's the one that helped me. He distracted the bad man, and I... I attacked the bad man. I know I'm not supposed to... Mister Arthur said so... but he was going to stab the other man with a dagger..."
Akeifa raised an eyebrow. "So you attacked the bad man. Then what?"
"The other man turned and walked away. But I didn't want to be alone anymore, so I followed him. He walked up to this little boy, about Yugi's size, and the boy pointed at me, and he turned and looked at me. I think he wanted me to go away. I didn't want to go away. I kept trying to talk to him." She paused thoughtfully. "He understood me, Akeifa, I'm sure of it. When I asked if he would help me, he said no. I know what no is, and he wouldn't have said it if he didn't understand me."
"Makes sense."
"And then I told him how worried everyone would be. And I said Yugi's name. And when I said Yugi's name, he got all weird. He grabbed me by the hand and took me to that place. And then Yugi came. But when I went to thank him, he and the little boy were gone."
Akeifa had a little voice whispering to him now, one he scarcely dared to believe. He studied Ai. "Tell me, what did the man who helped you look like?"
"Well… he had brown hair... and he was very tall... but what I noticed most were his eyes. He had eyes like lapis in the morning, very cold and blue. They were pretty eyes, but not the kind of eyes you want to get very close to..."
Akeifa threw back his head and laughed. The gods had quite the sense of humor these days! And what a twisted sense of humor it was! Wait until Yugi learned that it was none other than his arch nemesis that had saved his precious little pet!
Atemu was looking at him angrily. "Well? Spit it out! What happened?"
"Kaiba..."
"What about him?"
"Some punk attacked her... And Kaiba saved her ass and took her to the information booth!"
Atemu's eyes narrowed. "That's not funny, Akeifa."
"Too bad! I asked her for a description of her 'rescuer' and she described him perfectly! Even described Mokuba a bit! You owe Seto Kaiba your Duel Monster's life!"
Yugi, meanwhile, was trying to calm Ai, who was very unhappy. She seemed to think Akeifa was laughing at her, not some bizarre twist of fate. He reached out and patted her hair. In response, she latched onto his arm, and would. Not. Let. Go.
"Ai, that hurts."
Ai mumbled a reply. Yugi tried to shake her off.
"Ai, please let go."
Another mumble, and Atemu glanced at her. "Ai, come over here, okay?" He held out his arms to indicate his meaning.
Ai unlatched from Yugi, instead attaching herself to Atemu's waist and resting her head in his lap. Atemu blinked. "Not what I had in mind," he commented, and then, "Shut up, tomb robber. She doesn't like the way you're laughing."
"Ooh, this is too good! Of all the people in this damned city, Seto Kaiba! Of all people!"
"She might not have been describing him."
"She had to be! She nailed him dead on!"
Yugi, meanwhile, ran to his room. He came back holding a book. "There is one sure way to tell," he said, holding it up. "Last years school yearbook!" Yugi flipped it open until he found the page for his class. He held it up to Ai. She looked at it, puzzled, and then her eyes lit up. She pointed to Kaiba's picture, exclaiming loudly.
Yugi and Atemu didn't have to ask for a translation of what Ai was saying. Akeifa's manic laughter said quite enough.
"Damn it all," Atemu muttered. Ai looked up at him.
"Damn... damn it all!"
Yugi groaned. "Yameee!"
"It's not my fault! She has no idea what she's saying! And Akeifa, ENOUGH! I'm about two seconds away from Mind Crushing you..."
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