(Can be seen wandering aimlessly through 'Muses R Us')
Hmmm...who to pick, who to pick...so many choices. I think you'll do. (Picks up a Mini Joey) Awww! He's so cute!
Mini Joey: (Smiles sweetly) You're not so bad yourself.
Yay! I love my little Joey! He's a miniature bundle of fun!
Mini Joey: What would you expect? I'm no Mini Seto after all.
Hehe. Don't be mean. Let's see if you can do the disclaimer.
Mini Joey: LilyBob doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh in any shape or form. Also, she must remind readers that there will be large doses of fluff, meaning shounen ai,in later chapters and some mild swearing and sexual references, but not much.
Yay! Consider yourself bought! Alright everyone, welcome to my very first Yu-Gi-Oh fic that ,'s gonna be more than one chapter long. Ain't you all proud? Well, let's get this story going!
"Blah" - Talking
'Blah' - Thinking
"BLAH"- Serenity
"BLAH"- Mai
"BLAH"- Ishizu
"BLAH"- Téa
Yu-Gi-Oh
Big Brother's Little Sister
Chapter One – The First Night
"Hi everyone! I'm Joey Wheeler…hey! What's going on here?"
The teenage boy slowly stepped into the huge Big Brother house and had his first look of the place.
The room he had entered was the joint kitchen, dining room and sitting room with blue painted walls and a creamy-coloured carpet. The kitchen was to one side and consisted of an American style fridge-freezer with an ice dispenser, two island counters to prepare food on, a gas oven with a grill, a microwave and a stainless steel sink. Next to that was a see through table, big enough to seat all ten housemates with extra room and by the door to the infamous diary room were half a dozen cup shaped chairs. It looked like the other Big Brother houses before this one, except this one had a much more stylish look about it.
The other contestants looked up from their conversations, but didn't seem too shocked to see the next person walk through Big Brother's golden front door.
Joey frowned in confusion, slinging his bag onto the floor next to the others before joining them by the large kitchen. He casually swept his long blonde hair out of his eyes and took a good look at the others.
"Hi, Joey," said the teenager next to him, shaking his hand in a friendly, but rather rough way.
The boy had a distinct air of confidence around him from the way he flashed a toothy grin at anyone paying him attention to the way he made every movement a pose for the hidden cameras that would undoubtedly be following them.
Next to him stood a taller brunette with his hair shaped into a point and a handsome face.
"Yo," he said, patting Joey on the back. "Welcome home, I guess."
He was obviously very well built, which was shown by the way his thin white shirt revealed his muscular chest hidden beneath. Like the first boy, he appeared to be rather confident, but the way he fiddled with his jacket, which had been placed on one of the kitchen's counters showed that he was either nervous at being in the Big Brother house or that he was itching to get the introductions over and done with.
Two boys who looked almost identical to each other waved at Joey. Both had spiky black hair with a maroon outline and blonde bangs. Although they looked confident enough to take on any opponent, they were shorter than the rest of the housemates.
"Hi," said the smaller of the two as he smiled brightly at the blonde before he returned to his conversation with his taller counterpart.
Next to them stood at white haired boy with a friendly face, even if he looked rather pale.
"Good to see you," he said, waving slightly timidly from across the counter.
His accent sounded very different from the others, possibly British and his clothing also looked strange too, but he almost radiated a sense of calmness that drew others to him.
The sixth boy, who was also a brunette and had his arms folded over his chest, didn't say anything. Instead, he sneered at Joey and the scruffy jeans and sleeveless shirt he was wearing, which were nothing compared to his rich looking black suit. His icy blue eyes rolled when Joey smiled at him and he gave no indication that he was happy to see the blonde. Everything about him gave him a distant, detached aura from his crisp, ironed shirt to his immaculate hair cut.
"Ignore Seto," instructed the first boy, flipping his own flawlessly styled black hair over his shoulder. "He hasn't said a word since he entered."
Almost unnoticed by Joey, three other boys stood away from the rest by the doors that led out into the garden.
"I still don't see the point in this," said one who had spiky white hair, not much unlike the British boy's, and an almost evil smirk.
The two other boys nodded in agreement, their matching purple capes that covered their shoulder shifting slightly as they did. Like the two multicoloured haired boys, and the two white haired boys, these two looked uncannily similar as well and all three had a look about them that said, 'Back off or you'll end up losing a limb'.
Their conversation was cut short when a loud voice filled the room.
"THIS IS BIG BROTHER. NO MORE HOUSEMATES ARE ENTERING THE HOUSE AND THE DOOR INTO THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE IS NOW LOCKED."
"What the hell is going on?" cried Joey, looking up at the ceiling as if trying to find the source of the voice.
Even Seto looked mildly surprised as he raised a perfectly shaped eyebrow while the three who still refused to go any nearer to the main group smirked in the corner as if they were aware that something like this was going to happen.
"I don't understand. This doesn't make any sense!" complained the brunette with the pointed hair.
"Big Brother, I don't know if you're already aware of this, but we all know each other!" exclaimed the black-haired boy.
"BIG BROTHER ALREADY KNOWS THIS," the ominous voice revealed before continuing in an oddly familiar, female voice. "DO YOU REALLY THINK WE PUT YOU IN HERE WITHOUT KNOWING THAT? WE'VE BEEN WATCHING YOU TEN VERY CAREFULLY."
By now, the boys were in shock and were staring at the ceiling with stunned expressions on their faces, except Seto and the three boys in the corner who looked more bemused than anything else.
"Who's we?" asked the taller of the two identical boys with the multicoloured-hair, glancing at the other boys before returning his gaze to the ceiling.
"DON'T YOU RECOGNISE MY VOICE? JOEY IS MY OLDER BROTHER AFTER ALL."
Joey nearly collapsed there and then had he not grabbed the side of the kitchen counter to steady himself.
"Serenity?"
"YES AND I'M NOT ALONE."
"I'M HERE TOO," said a different, but still feminine voice. "AND YOU SHOULD KNOW ME, JOSEPH WHEELER, AFTER ALL WE'VE BEEN THROUGH. IT'S ME, MAI."
"BROTHER, I HOPE YOU AND YOUR YAMI KNOW WHO I AM, IT'S ISHIZU."
"AND DON'T FORGET ME, TÉA."
This time, Joey was leaning against the counter banging his head on it repeatedly while muttering something that sounded like, "All…girls…are…against…me!"
"But if you're not really Big Brother, why are you four doing this?" the black-haired boy asked in a hands on hips way.
"WELL, WE STRUCK UP A DEAL WITH THE PRODUCERS OF BIG BROTHER AS WE THOUGHT IT WAS NECESSARY TO PUT YOU TEN IN A HOUSE ALONE FOR A FEW WEEKS SINCE BOTH TRISTAN AND DUKE HAVE BEEN ANNOYING ME CONTINUOUSLY, KAIBA REALLY NEEDED TO GET OUT OF HIS OFFICE, YUGI AND YAMI SERIOUSLY NEEDED TO GET A ROOM, RYOU AND BAKURA NEEDED TIME TOGETHER UNDER SUPERVISION, ISHIZU NEEDED TIME AWAY FROM MALIK AND MARIK, AND JOEY…WELL, WE JUST THOUGHT STICKING HIM IN A HOUSE WITH YOU NINE WOULD BE FUN. THE PRODUCERS THOUGHT IT WOULD BE GREAT TELEVISION," explained Serenity, taking over once more. "SO, ENJOY AND DON'T DESTROY THE PLACE!"
The room fell silent, disturbed only by Joey's groans as he held his head.
"So, Big Brother's now being used for other purposes?" Tristan asked no one in particular. "Cool. I call the biggest bed!"
He ran off before anyone could stop him and disappeared through a door into their bedroom.
"I still don't understand," said Duke, taking a seat at the clear dining table. "I came onto Big Brother because for the chance to be seen in a different light by the public and now I'm just the butt of some joke. That's just brilliant!"
He got up and stalked off with his hands shoved into his leather trousers to explore the rest of the house, leaving Joey alone with Seto, Yugi and Yami. The other two Yami's had gone exploring with Malik, probably to see how difficult it would be to escape from the house.
Ryou had decided to follow them since he was the only one experienced enough to handle Bakura who would, in turn, handle Malik and Marik.
Seto didn't even bother to look at Joey. Now that he knew how he'd really been entered into the house, without him even applying in the first place, and he didn't have to introduce himself to the other housemates, he could finally get back into his usual routine of ignoring everyone instead of acting friendly, which he'd never really planned to do anyway.
Yugi and Yami didn't exactly ignore Joey, but they didn't exactly pay attention to him either. They slowly moved away from the two other boys to the round seats on the floor by the diary room and began to talk in hushed voices so that they wouldn't be heard.
"So, wanna check this place out?"
Seto turned when he realised it was him Joey was talking to and found the blonde standing over him, smiling that annoyingly happy smile. He'd obviously recovered from finding out that his sister had tricked him and appeared ready to take advantage of being in a house for the next few weeks, free to do whatever he pleased.
"I'd love to, mutt, but I have more pressing matters to attend to. Like pretending you're not here."
Smirking slightly when he heard Joey growl, he turned so that he could continue with the insults, but he found himself staring at a wall since Joey had left to fight with Tristan over the beds. He sighed and walked over to the bags to retrieve his from the bottom of the pile.
'You just can't be nice to him, can you, Kaiba?' he thought angrily, resisting the urge to hit himself since he probably had about a dozen cameras fixed on him.
"What's up?"
Seto looked up as Duke re-entered the room.
"Nothing. Anything good outside?"
"Yeah. We've got a fairly big garden with gnomes and everything, which Ryou seems to have already made friends with, and a Jacuzzi swimming pool. There's a living room at the far side of the garden where Bakura, Malik and Marik are setting up their base, and what appears to be four outdoor showers. Since I've yet to find any sign of an indoor bathroom, I guess that's where we freshen up for all the public to see," said Duke with a sly grin. "Not that I'm complaining."
Seto rolled his eyes and began to sort through his bag. If this whole thing was a big joke, at least he could get some work done while he was here.
"What you looking for?" asked Duke, hovering over Seto's shoulder out of curiosity.
"My laptop. I have some work that needs to be done."
"Well, I'm not sure about the Big Brother rules, but if I wasn't allowed my phone or CD player, I doubt you would have been allowed your laptop," Duke said with a shrug.
"I need that laptop to stay on top of my work. I explained that before I came in," explained Seto as he continued to search for his link to the business world.
"Whatever."
Duke casually walked off to find Joey and Tristan leaving Seto alone once more.
In a heated rage, Seto threw his bag across the floor causing Yugi and Yami to look up, and a few of Seto's belongings to fall out including a hairbrush, his deck, which spread out across the floor, and oddly enough, a packet of condoms. He hastily gathered his things back together and dumped his bag back on the pile.
"Who took my laptop?" he cried, looking over at Yugi and Yami on the chairs.
Both boys shrugged, and then continued their private conversation, which seemed to have turned, quite dramatically, to the possible reasons why Seto might have brought a packet of condoms with him.
Fuming, Seto marched into the bedroom where Joey, Tristan and Duke were chatting.
"Who took my laptop?" Seto repeated, his anger increasing.
"What are you talking about?" asked Joey in confusion.
"My laptop is gone and I want to know which idiot took it!"
"Hey! There's no need to throw around insults!" exclaimed Tristan, standing up so that he could look more intimidating. "We don't know where your laptop is!"
"THIS IS LITTLE SISTER," the voice of Serenity said throughout the house followed by girlish giggling at the new name for the reality TV show that the four girls had come up with. "COULD SETO KAIBA PLEASE COME TO THE DIARY ROOM?"
Seto growled, but stormed out of the bedroom and back into the main room. He paused for a moment when he saw Yugi and Yami still talking, but sitting very close to each other on the chairs, then continued into the diary room. He pushed the flashing button on the wall and entered when the light above the door turned green. Taking a minute to take in the sight of a huge blue chair that curved up the wall, Seto sat down and faced the camera in front of him.
"What?" he asked in an angry voice.
"HELLO SETO. HOW ARE YOU DOING? DO YOU LIKE THE LITTLE SISTER HOUSE?"
"Téa! Is that you? What happened to my laptop? Where is it?"
"NO NEED TO SHOUT. YES, IT'S ME. I'M SORRY TO BE THE BEARER OF BAD NEWS, BUT WE HAVE YOUR LAPTOP."
Seto very nearly jumped up off the chair to begin his verbal assault on the camera.
"Why do you have it? I need that laptop for my work!"
"WHOA! SETO! CALM DOWN! YOUR LAPTOP IS PERFECTLY FINE AND I'M SURE YOUR COMPANY WON'T FALL TO PIECES IN A FEW SHORT WEEKS. WE'VE TAKEN IT TO PREVENT YOU FROM WORKING. LIKE SERENITY SAID, YOU NEED TO GET AWAY FROM ALL THAT FOR A WHILE. CALL IT A HOLIDAY."
With one final angry growl, Seto stood up to leave, but was stopped when Téa continued.
"HOWEVER, IF YOU ANSWER A QUESTION FOR US, WE WILL LET YOU HAVE ANOTHER ITEM THAT YOU WEREN'T ALLOWED TO BRING IN AND WE'LL ORGANISE A PARTY FOR YOU AND YOUR HOUSEMATES."
Slightly intrigued by the offer, Seto sat back down.
"Fine. Ask me a question then," he said.
"NOW, REMEMBER TO ANSWER TRUTHFULLY, SETO. WE DON'T WANT ANY LIES."
"I don't lie."
"GOOD. YOUR QUESTION IS…DO YOU HAVE CERTAIN FEELINGS FOR ANYONE IN THE HOUSE?"
Seto froze. For once, he didn't know what to do. He could tell the truth and have one of his possessions returned to him, or he could lie and leave the diary room right then with nothing. Taking a chance, he decided to answer.
"…Yes."
"AND WHO WOULD THAT BE?"
Smirking into the camera, Seto said, "I only had to answer one question. I did and I answered truthfully so I get my prize."
What sounded like an argument between two girls could be heard faintly before Téa finally replied, "ALRIGHT, SETO. YOU GET YOUR PRIZE. WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
"My cell phone," was his reply.
The whole of the diary room went black and when the lights were switched back on, Seto found his small, black cell phone sitting on his lap.
"Thank you," he said with a sarcastic smile. "Can I go now?"
"FINE, BUT DON'T THINK WE'RE NOT WATCHING YOU, SETO KAIBA. YOU CAN'T ESCAPE US AND WE WILL GET YOU TO CONFESS, SOMEWAY OR ANOTHER!"
"Sure, Mai," Seto said, before he left the diary room.
He noticed straight away that Yami was, for one, Yugi-less since Yugi had left to referee the fight that had developed between Joey, Tristan and Duke over who was going to have the biggest bed. He sat down next to the Pharaoh on one of the round chairs, but found himself struggling to stay on it as it continued to roll around beneath him.
"Want some help?" Yami asked, smiling slightly at seeing Seto squirming around.
"No, I'm fine," Seto replied with a frown as he finally managed to stay still on the chair.
"So, what did the girls want?"
Seto was about to answer when he was interrupted by the voice of Little Sister.
"THIS IS LITTLE SISTER. YOU'LL ALL BE HAPPY TO KNOW THAT SETO HAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED A TASK WE SET FOR HIM AND HAS ALLOWED YOU ALL TO HAVE A PARTY TONIGHT CELEBRATING YOUR FIRST NIGHT IN THE LITTLE SISTER HOUSE. ALSO, THE STORE ROOM IS NOW OPEN."
A great deal of cheering came from the bedroom and soon Joey, Tristan and Duke were running through the door into the main room, closely followed by Yugi. They all headed towards a door just to the side of the kitchen, which several years' worth of watching Big Brother on TV had taught them that this was the store room and would, therefore, be where the party food would be.
They were beaten by only seconds by Bakura and Marik who wrenched open the door and disappeared inside. What could only be described as a war cry could be heard from within the store room, then Bakura rushed back out again, ran across the room and launched himself at Seto who was still sitting on the chair.
Seto was very surprised to find himself on the floor with Bakura sitting on top of him, uncharacteristically hugging him.
"Thank you, thank you, oh good Ra, thank you!" was all anyone could understand among the mixture of Egyptian and Japanese phrases.
"Ryou!" Seto grunted, roughly pushing the spirit off of him so that he could get up and dust himself down. "Please keep your Yami under control or I may not be able to control myself!"
Ryou, who'd only just walked into the kitchen through the garden door with Malik, had no idea what had happened, but rushed over to help Bakura up anyway.
"What's gotten into you, Bakura?" he asked, trying to look angry.
"Oh, nothing," Bakura answered, still smiling, which, on him, looked very scary. "I was just giving the High Priest the proper thanks that he deserves."
He walked away from his light and headed back towards the store room.
Joey and Tristan were just about to got inside to see what had put Bakura into such a good mood when Marik rushed out, knocking them over in the process, holding a large six-pack case of alcohol.
"Look!" he cried out excitedly. "They've given us drinks!"
Suddenly, the reason why Bakura was so happy became clear to everyone else and most of them headed over to help get all the party food and also the party decorations out of the store room.
Seto, who was still rather disturbed at being hugged by Bakura, left them to it and headed for the bedroom instead, grabbing his bag on the way.
No sooner had he sat down on an empty bed, Joey, Yugi and Ryou bounded in after him, each of them wearing pointed party hats. They smiled happily at Seto and threw a pile of colourful confetti over his head.
"What do you think you're doing?" he cried, brushing the bits of paper out of his hair in annoyance.
"Just getting into the party spirit!" Yugi answered, blowing on a party horn, causing an incredibly loud and irritating noise to blast into Seto's ears.
"Yeah, come on, Kaiba. Join in for once," said Joey, passing the brunette a party hat.
Seto glanced at his bag, where his phone sat on the top, just waiting for him to call his company to check up on everything. Reluctantly, he took the hat from Joey and followed them back into the main room where everyone else had set the food out on the table and were currently putting the decorations up on the walls, except Bakura and Marik who were deciding on how much of the alcohol they could hide for later without their Hikaris noticing.
Duke and Tristan suddenly looked up from their apparently very important conversation as the others came in, making Yami and Malik laugh who'd been sticking a large banner up above them while the two taller boys held the ladders for them, therefore hearing most of what they'd been talking about.
"Having fun?" asked Yugi, glancing at Yami with a knowing look.
Yami grinned back while both Duke and Tristan nodded, looking rather sheepish.
Suddenly, music began to play in the house, which was nearly drowned out by Yugi, Joey, Duke, Tristan and Ryou's happy cries as the five boys jumped up and down, and started to dance.
Yami and Malik carefully climbed down the ladders so that they could watch the others with bemused smiles.
It wasn't long before Yugi shimmied over to Yami.
"Do you know how ridiculous you look doing that?" he asked the shorter boy with a smile to show that he didn't really mean it.
"So what? It's a party! Come on, dance with me!" Yugi begged, pouting cutely until Yami finally agreed and let Yugi drag him towards the others.
Tristan was playfully twirling Duke around and waltzing him around the room in a comical style that left Joey rolling in laughter and Ryou giggling behind his hands.
Yugi pulled Yami towards the dancing pair and tried to copy their moves, which made Joey laugh even more.
All five of them paused slightly to watch Ryou as he inched his way over to where Bakura was still standing with Marik. He faltered slightly and looked like he was going to stop and go back to where he'd previously been standing, but he frowned and continued.
Bakura turned around when he felt someone tap him on his shoulder and was surprised to see Ryou.
"What is it?" he asked, rather too impatiently.
"I…urm…wouldyoudancewithme?" Ryou asked quickly, refusing to look at Bakura directly in the eye.
Slightly shocked by Ryou's unusual request, Bakura glanced back at Marik who was grinning at his friend, then looked at Ryou and shrugged.
"Sure," he answered, turning away from Marik to follow Ryou over the where the others were dancing, casually putting an arm around his Hikari's shoulders as he did.
Ryou blushed bright red, but soon got back in the party spirit when he tried to teach Bakura how to do some of the more recent dance moves, which his Yami wasn't too familiar with.
Soon, Malik too couldn't resist the desire to dance and headed over to Joey so that the two boys could twist and turn around in a fast Samba dance that they'd been taught by Téa with Tristan, Duke, Ryou and Yugi when they'd all been bored one summer.
Yami and Bakura gave up quickly when they realised they couldn't keep up with their Hikari's and went to stand with Marik and Seto instead while the others continued.
After a while, the music died down slightly, allowing the boys to eat the party food peacefully.
Grabbing seats around the table, everyone tucked in and indulged in some small talk.
"Why do you think the girls thought you and I needed some time together under supervision?" Ryou asked Bakura curiously as he delicately picked up a piece pizza with his fingers and took a small bite.
"Maybe they thought he'd try to get rid of you if you were alone together," Marik suggested with a smirk, before he received a quick slap across the back of his head from Malik.
"I wouldn't put it past him," Yami whispered to Yugi who giggled uncertainly.
Ryou looked over at Bakura who was sitting opposite him at the table and was stunned to see a hint of guilt in his eyes although he was forcing a grin after what Marik had said.
That topic of conversation ended quickly, allowing Joey to be easily heard from the other end of the table.
"So, Kaiba, what did the girls want when they called you to the diary room? Did you get your computer back?"
At first, it looked like Seto was just going to continue ignoring everyone, but after he gulped down his mouthful of salad; he glared at the blonde and answered, "It's none of your business and no."
"Oh, come on, Kaiba. What they said couldn't have been that bad," Joey said, not really caring about the angry look that was permanently fixed on Seto's face. "Although, you did look rather flushed when you left."
"I got asked a question. I answered it correctly, so they gave me my cell phone back to let me call my company and threw this sorry excuse for a party. That's all."
"Hey! I have a company to run too! How come I don't get my cell phone?" asked Duke furiously.
He pushed back his chair and stormed off towards the diary room with Tristan in tow, trying to calm down the raven-haired boy.
"Well?"
Seto turned his attention away from Duke and Tristan, and back to Joey when the blonde began talking again.
"Well what?" he asked.
"Well, what was the question they asked you?" Joey persisted, a grin appearing on his face.
"I told you, it's none of your business!"
By now, the rest of the boys at the table were listening closely to the developing argument; most of them, mainly Bakura, Malik and Marik, betting on how long it would take for someone to start an actual fight. The odds were that Seto would probably hit Joey first, but Bakura complained that Joey was known for his unpredictable temper.
"It is our business if you're going to be staying in here with us. We have a right to know!"
"Just shut up, okay mutt? Is that so hard for you to do?" Seto cried, reaching the end of his patience for the annoying blonde before he stomped off to the bedroom.
A silence followed his sudden departure as Joey looked at each of the faces of his remaining friends with a look of confusion and shame at having upset Seto.
"HELLO BOYS. WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU?"
"What the hell is the deal?" yelled Duke angrily, flopping down on the blue chair and glaring at the camera.
Tristan pushed Duke to the side slightly and sat down next to him.
"WHAT'S WRONG?"
"Mai! Why is it that Seto-I've-got-a-huge-stick-up-my-arse-Kaiba is allowed to have his cell phone in the house and I'm not? I need to keep track of my company too! He's not the only company owner in the house!"
"Duke, calm down," Tristan said soothingly.
"No, I will not calm down! It's not fai…"
Duke's ranting was cut off when Tristan slapped the angry teen's cheek. Neither of them said anything for a while as Duke tentatively touched the red mark Tristan had left across his face.
"Sorry," Tristan mumbled.
"No, it's ok. I needed that," answered Duke with a small smile.
A disgruntled cough forced them to look back at the camera, and then Mai started speaking again.
"DUKE, WE UNDERSTAND YOUR PAIN, HUN. YOU'RE PHONE IS OBVIOUSLY IMPORTANT TO YOU, SO WE'LL GIVE IT TO YOU…"
Duke's face broke out in a huge smile and he started to jump up and down on the chair happily, unknowingly making Tristan nearly fall off.
"…IF…"
"Oh, I hate ifs," said Tristan as he grabbed hold of Duke's shoulders to make him stop bouncing.
"…IF YOU DO A TASK FOR US."
"Bring on any task," answered Duke confidently. "We can take it!"
"Hey, hey, hey! Who said anything about we?" asked Tristan.
"SORRY, TRISTAN, BUT THIS IS GONNA BE A JOINT CHALLENGE. BOTH YOU AND DUKE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING FOR OUR AMUSEMENT AND THEREFORE THE VIEWERS' AMUSEMENT."
Before Tristan could complain anymore about having to take part in the task, Duke nodded vigorously and said, "Fine! We'll both do it!"
"Duke!"
"GOOD. WE WERE HOPING YOU'D SAY THAT. YOUR TASK IS TO GET EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE TO PLAY SOME PARTY GAMES OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. THE GAMES THAT MUST BE INCLUDED WILL BE FOUND ON A PIECE OF PAPER THAT IS NOW IN THE STORE ROOM ALONG WITH SOME SUPPLIES THAT WE THOUGHT WOULD BE USEFUL."
"And how is getting us all to play games gonna amuse you and the millions of people watching us?" asked Tristan, raising an eyebrow as he tried to stop Duke running out of the diary room to find the items.
"WE…HAVE OUR REASONS. DUKE, IF YOU AND TRISTAN COMPLETE THE TASK TO OUR SATISFACTION, WE'LL CALL YOU TO THE DIARY ROOM IN A WEEK'S TIME AND YOU'LL GET YOUR PHONE BACK."
"Yes! Oh, thank you, thank you!" Duke cried, actually kissing the lens of the camera before he dragged Tristan back into the main room.
The others that were still sitting at the table looked up out of curiosity at the two boys who rushed straight towards to store room.
"Hey! What's going on?" asked Joey.
Tristan pulled away from Duke to face Joey while Duke continued into the store room.
"We have to do something for the greater good of this household," said Tristan wisely, crossing his arms and nodding his head in a wise way. "Duke has been given a chance to get his phone back, but only if we perform a task for the girls."
"Which would be?" Yugi questioned, glancing over at the open door of the store room where everyone could hear Duke laughing at something.
"It's time for a game, guys!" Tristan answered with a smile.
There was a pause, then Duke bounded out of the door, his arms weighed down with what looked like a fair few bottles of different drinks, a pack of playing cards, a writing pad and a pack of pens, a set of small glasses as well as some bigger ones, a can of whipped cream, what appeared to be a bag of cherries and several other items.
"And what makes you think we want to play this 'game'?" asked Bakura while Marik nodded beside him.
"Because if you don't Duke over here will be moaning and complaining all tomorrow to you about not being able to use his phone," said Tristan, frowning when the two Yami's didn't look impressed.
"And also because most of the games on the list are drinking games," continued Duke as he scanned the sheet of paper that had the suggested games on it.
This attracted Bakura and Marik's attention as well as the other boys'.
"Well, I have to say, it didn't take long before the girls started the drinking games, did it?" asked Yami, although he didn't appear too upset at the prospect of playing the games.
"That's true," Yugi answered.
Joey slowly got up and walked out of the room saying something about, 'Going to get stupid Kaiba'. Pushing the bedroom door open, he poked his head in and looked around for Seto.
The grumpy brunette was sitting on the bed furthest away from the door shouting things into his cell phone with a scowl on his face. When he saw Joey, his expression flickered almost unnoticeably to something softer, and then went back to the angry frown.
"Just sort it out, ok? I don't want to have to worry about my company going down the drain while I take part in this stupid competition…yes…yes…fine. Goodbye."
Seto quickly snapped his phone closed and threw it onto his pillow before he finally looked up at Joey.
"What do you want, mutt?" he practically snarled.
"Do you really think this competition is stupid?" asked Joey, ignoring Seto's rude attitude.
"Well, let's think, or maybe not. It would be a bit of strain on you," Seto answered, smirking once more. "I'm stuck in a house with a bunch of idiots and psychotic maniacs, I have to take part in stupid challenges to win money I don't need and some complete moron has just told me that my company is being run into the ground by other complete morons because I'm not there to tell them what to do, so no, mutt, this competition isn't stupid at all."
Joey cocked his head to one side and gazed at Seto curiously, which, unfortunately, made him look even more like a puppy than usual.
"What are you staring at?"
Brought out his daze by Seto's words, Joey shook his head as if trying to get rid of the thoughts clouding his mind and smiled.
"Nothing. I was just wondering, how exactly did you get on a reality show like this if you hate it so much?"
"I don't know, but I get the feeling those four girls are behind it. I wouldn't even have come if Mokuba hadn't insisted I needed to get away and be with other people."
"I kinda agree, Kaiba. Being cooped up in that office of yours for endless hours after school can't be that good for ya," replied Joey, finally deciding to sit down next to the brunette.
Seto looked at Joey for a moment, then sighed and stared at the floor.
"I…suppose, but if I don't work I'll never truly prove that I'm capable of taking care of Kaiba Corp," Seto said, his angry temper disappearing slowly.
He stiffened slightly, and then relaxed when he felt Joey put a hand on his shoulder.
"And who are you trying to prove yourself to? Gozaburo?" Joey continued.
Seto nodded slightly.
"Are you sure it's not you you're trying to prove yourself to?" asked Joey, squeezing Seto's shoulder gently.
Something suddenly snapped inside Seto when he heard this, and as Joey stood up to head back into the main room, Seto rose too and grabbed the front of the blonde's shirt.
"What gives you the right to judge me like that?" he yelled, his icy blue eyes flashing angrily.
Joey didn't answer right away. He just let Seto stare at him while he dangled a few inches above the floor in the brunette's strong grip.
"I'm sorry, Kaiba. I was just trying to help," said Joey. "But it looks like you don't need any. Yugi and Téa were always going on at me about trying to help others and all that, but I guess that sort of thing is wasted on you."
Slowly, Seto lowered Joey to the ground, the anger in his eyes fading fast as he watched Joey.
Both stood still for a moment before Joey walked over to the door and grabbed the door handle. He looked back briefly, not daring to look Seto directly in his eyes in case either of them did something they'd regret later.
"We're going to play a game if you're interested. But if you'd rather stay in here, then fine."
It only took Seto a moment to make up his mind and he soon found himself following Joey out of the bedroom and towards the others who'd decided it would be easier to use the living room instead of the main room for the game.
"Good to see you're in the partying mood, Kaiba," said Duke happily as Joey and Seto sat down on the soft chairs as far away from each other as possible.
Seto replied with a vague sound of acknowledgement, and then remained quiet while Yugi and Ryou sorted out the props they'd been given for the game.
When everyone was finally seated in a large circle, the order ended up being Yami, Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Duke, Seto, Ryou, Malik, Bakura and Marik.
"What's the first game we have to play?" asked Malik as he moved the bottles of alcohol out of Bakura and Marik's reach.
Tristan took the list from Duke and gave it a look over.
"Only a girl would think of games like this. Truth or Dare, Spin the Bottle, Seven Minutes in Heaven, seriously, we have to teach them some better games than these, and it looks like we only have to play on game per night."
"Truth or Dare doesn't sound too bad," Yugi admitted with a shrug from in between Yami and Joey.
"What would you know? You're just as bad as those girls when it comes to having fun," said Marik, smiling toothily.
"Well, you pick a game then!" Yami growled, wrapping an arm around Yugi protectively.
Tristan tossed the list over and the others waited patiently for the Yami to pick a game.
"What's 'I Have Never'?"
In was Tristan, Duke and Joey's turn to grin.
"Oh, that's a good game," answered Joey.
While Duke and Tristan set up five shots glasses in front of everyone and started to pour in some of the weaker alcohol since it was their first game, Joey explained the rules.
"Here's how it goes, going around the circle, each person has to reveal something they've never done, for example, 'I have never broken a bone' or, if we want to have some real fun, 'I have never had sex'. Anyone who has done this must sling back a shot. After going around the circle several times, the person with the most shots left wins. Simple, no?"
All eyes were suddenly on Joey.
"You've never had sex?" asked Yami.
Blushing, Joey glared at Yami and replied, "I didn't say that! I said 'for example'!"
Once Tristan and Duke had finished, Marik decided to go first since it was his idea to play the game in the first place.
"Ok, I have…never kissed a woman that wasn't a relative."
Yugi, Joey and Tristan drank one of their shots and to most people's surprise, so did Ryou.
"Ryou! Who did you kiss?" asked Bakura in a slight rage.
"A girl I met once when I went with my father on a trip to Rome. We kept running into each other and on the last night we got together for a proper date and I kissed her. The next day, we both went our separate ways and we never saw each again."
Yugi, Joey, Tristan and Duke did the classic 'awww' at the end of Ryou's story, which was ruined when Malik and Marik started laughing.
Seto and Yami remained indifferent, but no one seemed to notice Bakura scowl next to the two Egyptian boys.
"Of course, that night was also the night when I first realised I was gay," Ryou finished, his head bowed down so low that only his white hair could be seen.
Bakura was the only one who seemed happy to hear this since the others all wore shocked expressions at having heard Ryou confess something like that so openly.
"You really do learn something new everyday," said Joey.
"Well, who did you three kiss?" asked Ryou, looking up suddenly.
If he had to tell his story, so did they.
"Téa," answered Yugi, squirming uncomfortably in Yami's arms. "But she kissed me first."
"Miho," said Tristan with a sheepish shrug. "When I had a crush on her, I once caught her all alone in a classroom and kissed her. She then slapped me and said she thought I was scum."
He glared to his left when he heard Duke stifle a laugh.
"And what about you, mutt?" asked Seto, almost too curiously.
"Mai, just to see what it was like," he replied. "She's pretty good, but I later realised that she wasn't really my type. And if you call me a mutt one more time, Kaiba, I've shove that cell phone of yours right up your…"
"Ok, ok! It's your turn, Yami," said Yugi quickly, glancing briefly at both Joey and Seto who looked like they were going to attack the other.
Yami paused thoughtfully for a moment, and then finally admitted, "I have never learnt how to swim."
To his surprise, everyone drank one of their shots.
"Looks like you're the only one who can't swim, Yami," said Seto, taking some satisfaction out of his opponent's weakness.
"Hmmm, looks like we have some good blackmailing information, Bakura," Marik whispered to his friend.
"And now we have an excuse for trying to drown him if we ever go swimming," replied Bakura, wearing an identical grin to Marik's.
Their fun was interrupted when Malik leaned past Bakura and said, "No plotting other people's deaths until we're out of this house. I don't want to have to send you two back to the psychiatrist again."
Both Yami's growled, and then turned their attention back to the game.
"I have never…had a sibling," Yugi said.
Joey, Kaiba, Tristan, Ryou and Malik drank a shot.
"Wait! Tristan, Ididn't knowyou had a sibling," confessed Duke.
"Yeah, I have a sister. She's much older than us," replied Tristan. "Well, most of us," he added after receiving annoyed looks from Yami and Bakura.
"My turn!" cried Joey.
Taking his time, he looked all around the room in an attempt to think of something.
"Don't strain yourself," said Seto with a small grin.
"I've never had sex," he admitted before sticking his tongue out at Seto.
"So, it wasn't an example after all," said Yami, grinning when Joey blushed again.
The blonde was quite shocked when everyone except himself and Seto downed another drink.
"Man, I need to get laid," he said, jokingly.
"That you do, Joe. That you do," Tristan replied, slapping Joey on the back in a friendly way.
"Well, who did you do it with? They must have been pretty desperate."
Tristan froze and nervously rubbed the back of his neck.
"Urm…it's my turn, isn't it?" he mumbled.
"No! I wanna know!"
"Just let it go," Duke said, his voice much angrier than usual, which shut Joey up straight away.
"Ok, I've never used handcuffs during sex," Tristan declared, glad the topic had moved away from his sex life.
He grinned when Marik, Malik, Yami and Yugi all drank, but was surprised when Duke did too.
"When?"Tristan demanded, rather forcefully.
Duke shrugged and said, "I've had some pretty interesting experiences in my time, none of which I'm about to share."
So far, Bakura was pretty upset with the game. He's only had two drinks and things were going too slow for his liking.
"Oh, come on. I thought this game was fun and would involve a lot of alcohol. I'm neither drunk or having fun!"
"Whatever, Bakura, it's my turn now," said Duke. "I have never given a hickey to a partner below the neck."
Bakura sighed with relief when he drank another shot along with Yami, Yugi, Marik, Malik and Tristan.
Now, Yugi, Malik and Tristan were out having drunk all five of their drinks, leaving only Yami, Joey, Duke, Seto, Ryou, Marik and Bakura left and it was Seto's turn.
"I have never…shared my bed with someone," he said, not caring that the others looked at him in a weird way.
"Damn you, Kaiba! I'm out!" cried Marik as he downed his last drink. "But seriously, with a body like yours, I'm surprised by that."
Malik slapped his Yami's arm quite viciously at that last comment while a light red blush grazed Seto's cheeks, much to Joey's amusement.
"What?" Marik asked Malik, rubbing his sore arm. "I was only telling the truth."
Yami, Ryou, Bakura and Duke also drank a shot, leaving only Yami, Bakura, Joey, Seto and Duke in the game.
"Urm…I have never been a real loving relationship," said Ryou, glancing at Bakura for a moment.
Only Yami and Duke drank to that, causing them to also leave the game.
"Finally," cried Bakura. "It's my turn!"
"Bakura, do you realise you can't drink on your own turn?" asked Ryou, smiling slightly.
Pausing for a moment, Bakura suddenly hit the arms of the chair he was sitting in with his fists.
"Damn! Ok, fine. I have never liked brunettes! Happy now?"
To a lot of people's shock, Joey took a drink.
"Awww, it's nice to know you still like me, Joe," said Tristan playfully.
Joey shook his head in dismay, and then said, "I have never had a thing for a blond."
It was his turn to smirk when Seto drunk another shot, but he yelled out in pain when something struck the side of his head.
"Bakura!"
Bakura grinned and looked around the circle.
"What?" he asked, faking an innocent tone as he took his shoe back from Joey. "It slipped and anyway, it's his own fault for wasting his turn."
"I have never had a thing for a brunette," Seto said, taking great satisfaction out of the look on Joey's face when he took another drink and also left the game.
"I'm bored, can we stop now?" Bakura asked, before drinking his last two shots, savouring every last drop.
"I guess. It is late after all and we did everything we were told to," answered Tristan as he stood up and began to collect all the glasses.
Everyone followed suit and headed back into the main room, leaving the game things in the corner of the living room for tomorrow night.
Tristan was just putting the glasses into the sink when the voice of Little Sister filled the room once more.
"THIS IS LITTLE SISTER," Serenity said, almost too cheerfully. "HOUSEMATES HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED TONIGHT'S TASK AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO WATCHING MORE GAMES DURING THE NEXT WEEK. BEFORE YOU ALL HEAD FOR THE BEDROOM, THE STORE ROOM IS OPEN FOR THE LAST TIME TODAY AND INSIDE YOU'LL ALL FIND YOUR SUITCASES. GOODNIGHT."
This news we greeted by an unenthusiastic cheer and soon, all of the boys were wearily wheeling their suitcases into the bedroom.
Since Seto, Joey, Tristan and Duke had already chosen their beds earlier and weren't about to move for anyone, the others picked the empty beds and began to change.
"I suppose it's a good thing there aren't actually any girls in the house," Yugi piped up as he pulled his pyjamas shirt over his head.
"And why's that?" asked Joey who was already in bed.
"It means we don't have to put up with girls cluttering the bedroom with make up and hair straighteners," he giggled.
Duke and Malik laughed nervously with the others while Duke secretly hid his make up bag under his bed and Malik did the same to his straighteners.
It didn't take long for everyone to get comfortable and as soon as Tristan turned out the lights, since the switch was next to his bed, there was a silence as they all tried to get to sleep.
Suddenly, someone sat upright in bed and cried out, "Wait! None of us brushed our teeth!"
The sound of several pillows coming in contact with Ryou's head was the last sound heard that night before everyone fell in a deep sleep.
Dear God! How long was that chapter? Twenty two pages on Word! I totally rule!
Mini Joey: (Sitting on the counter of Muses R Us having his price checked) I'm so proud of you!
Yay! (Hugs Mini Joey) You really are the cutest!
Muses R Us Worker: Urm...just so you know, there's a special deal today where if you buy one Yu-Gi-Oh muse you get a second for free.
F...f...free? Yay! Free muse! (Runs off to pick another muse)
Mini Joey: (Looks at the worker who happens to be female) Hi there!
Muses R Us Worker: Sorry, I don't date the muses.
Mini Joey: Hey, I'm gay so don't worry.
Muses R Us Worker: Good.
I picked one! (Runs back over with a Mini Tristan under her arm) I want this one!
Mini Tristan: Cool! (High-fives Mini Joey)
Muses R Us Worker: Ok. Your bill comes to $10.
Wow. The prices here are so reasonable. Well, guys let's go home. (Leaves with Mini Joey sitting on her left shoulder and Mini Tristan sitting on her right...and they all lived happily ever after. Awwww!)
Hehe. Now that I have my muses all I have to say is read and review! It'll make Mini Joey and Tristan even cuter, I promise!