Behind the Scenes
By
Anime2000
Disclaimer: See other chapters.
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It all started like a normal day. Yami had been walking to the arcade. It was Yugi's birthday and being the wonderful big brother that he was, he had promised to be there. Yugi was already there because Mom had driven him. Yami had to finish a project that his evil science teacher had assigned to him. And while the rest of his classmates got partners, he had to do his alone because he was sick the day they were assigning partners!
Anyways, before he even got seven feet away from his house, a girl behind him shrieked, "EEK!! It's Yami!" Naturally, more girls saw him. And the rest you probably know.
Yami looked back. All the signs of adoration amazed him, but what he really wanted right now was for them to leave him alone. "This is the third time this week!" he muttered to himself. "Doesn't this happen to anyone else?"
He felt someone grab his jacket. He was pulled through a door in to a nearby store. "So, how've things been for you, Yami?" said a familiar voice.
"Bakura?" Yami asked hesitantly.
"No, it's Joey!" the white-haired boy replied, whacking him with a rolled up magazine.
"And me, of course," said Ryou. He was flipping through a Dueling magazine. "Tch, an undefeatable combo? Yeah right," he mumbled.
"So... what are you guys doing here?" asked Yami, now rubbing his head. "Aren't you supposed to be at the arcade? You did receive Yugi's invitation, right?"
"We're here for the same reason as you are," Ryou replied. "And-WHAT?" He shouted at the magazine.
"What happened?" asked Bakura. He regretted it the second he had asked.
Ryou shoved the magazine in his face yelling, "Look at this! It said we did a horrible job in that Duel in Battle City!"
"Hey! Just give it to me! Don't throw it in my face!" said Bakura, grabbing it out of his brother's hands. "No.... Why that little... How dare they?... Oh I sounded like I had a cold, eh?... It doesn't hurt when you're attacked by a hologram, stupid..." He was becoming more and more infuriated as he read on. As a result, he had ripped out the page before he was even finished with the article and was now tearing it into shreds. "THOSE...STUPID...."
"Eh... don't you think that that's enough?" Yami asked, realizing that they were receiving a few strange looks from people nearby. Bakura wasn't paying attention to him. He was too busy yelling all sorts of words that a few kids nearby shouldn't have heard.
"Oh, he won't stop until he feels better," said Ryou, folding his arms behind his head. "Which could take a while."
"And if he doesn't feel any better?"
"Well, Yami, he'll just stay like this until he does," Ryou said that slowly as if Yami was a toddler asking a question for the thousandth time.
"Okay, come on guys. I promised Yugi I'd be there at his party," Yami said, grabbing a hold of Bakura's shirt and was dragging him out of the store. Ryou shrugged and followed. The good thing was that they didn't see any more fangirls. For now anyways.
Meanwhile, things were pretty hectic in the Kaiba mansion.
"No, Mokuba!" Seto yelled, making a grab at his little brother. He missed. "Drop that!" He watched in horror while Mokuba jumped up and down on the couch with his precious miniature crystal statue of his Blue Eyes White Dragon.
"Er... Sorry?" Seto turned towards Joey who had just said that.
"You..." He said, glaring at him. "What kind of idiot ARE you?!" He yelled looking as if he would make an attempt to kill the blonde any moment.
"Look, Kaiba! I didn't know!" Joey said, backing away from the CEO. "If I knew that-"
"I specifically told you not to give him ANY candy and what did you do?! What did you do?!"
"Hey, Seto!" Mokuba said. He had stopped jumping and was now sitting quietly while watching his big brother about to kill Joey. "Aren't we supposed to be at Yugi's party?"
"We can go when you hand me that Blue Eyes," Seto said holding his hand out.
"Okay! Catch!"
"Mokuba! NO!"
CRASH
As for the girls, things aren't going too well either.
"Argh! How did traffic get this bad?" said Mai angrily as she poked her head out of the window. "HEY! Move already, will you?!" She was answered by a rude, "Shut up!" by some guy in a bus. Mai was tempted to yell back, but decided against it.
Tea sighed and took her headphones off. "Well, I told you that we shouldn't have stopped at the mall."
"It was only for a minute!" snapped Mai.
"Yeah, now add 59 more minutes to that," Tea said and then put her headphones back on. She started humming the song that she was listening to.
"This is boring," Mai said. She heard a beeping that sounded like a melody she knew, but could remember the name of. "Hey, Serenity? Isn't that your cell phone?"
"Uh huh," Serenity said, nodding. She reached into her purse and took out the cell phone. She pressed a button. "Hello! This is Serenity!" She said cheerfully. "Joey! What's up? Oh, that's bad. What was that crash? You're at Kaiba's? Hey, aren't you two doing a project together? Huh? Joey? Joey?! Are you there?! Joey!"
Tea took off her headphones again. "What happened?" she asked.
"Joey's gonna a little late."
Just then, her cell phone started beeping again. "Yes? Hi Tristan! Oh, that's bad! Uh huh...Uh huh... Okay! Seeya there!" A few seconds after she had stopped talking, it started beeping again.
Mai and Tea exchanged glances as Serenity answered her call. When she was done, she said, "First of all, Tristan's motorcycle broke down. He says he's walking so it shouldn't take too long. Then Duke called and said that he's on a bus...hold on." She looked out the window and yelled, "HI DUKE!" as loudly as she could to that bus that was mentioned from before. Mai and Tea were slightly surprised to see Duke stick his head out the window and yell hi back.
"Say Serenity?" asked Tea. "How did Duke and Tristan get your number?"
"Um...."
"Finally! We can move!" Mai exclaimed, saving Serenity from having to explain.
Yugi sighed as a big flashing 'YOU LOSE' sign appear on the screen of the game he was just playing. "Darn, that's all the money I have!" He said, frowning. "I wonder where everyone else is! And where's Yami? He promised-" Yugi stopped talking. He just realized that someone was behind him.
()R&R! No flames please!