Here it is! Like I said, it's short.

Arise Ye Heroes and Tormentors

Chapter 3

"Shizuka!" came Ryuuji's whining voice from a distance away. "You rented the Lion King again!"

"Yeah, so?" Shizuka's pathetic excuse for a retort was saturated in her usual obnoxious tone. She was coaxing him, daring him to say something to really upset her. The corners of her mouth yielded to a dark idea growing within her mind and curled into a wicked grin. She quickly covered by shooting him an innocent look and began to weave her tapestry of pseudo-placating innocence. "Everyone loves the movie, right guys?" The group murmured lackadaisically. No one wanted to anger Shizuka. Jonouchi, being his usual tactless self however, waved his hand passively. His actions did not go unnoticed by Shizuka, who stared daggers at him. He made quick to remedy his mistake. "Besides, Simba and Nala as little cubs, sooooooo cute!" The fan girl sighed deeply. She was quickly joined by a vivacious Rebecca Hawkins. The two of them stared off into space for a time, images of kitty love dancing around their heads. They two of them began to babble incoherently, completely unaware that Ryuuji had taken the film and started it. Swahili lyrics broke them both from their daydreams.

"Hey!" they grumbled in unison. Five seconds soon found them plopped indolently in front of the television, their eyes wide with a wonder that even seeing the same film twenty times in a row could not quench. Scene after scene brought emotion after emotion to them. Ryuuji, Malik, Ryou, and their respective hikari's left the room when the two girls started crying during the love scene. They returned to see Shizuka and Rebecca singing along to Timone's drag song.

"How did they ever figure out what that meerkat is saying?" Malik wondered out loud.

"Simple," answered Ryou, "they went and searched for the film script online. You know that they've read the whole thing twice now, right?" Ryuuji said he had to go to the bathroom.

Simba gave his final roar and the film ended. Jonouchi looked to see Rebecca and his sister asleep on the floor.

"I suppose I should take Shizuka home," Jonouchi said getting up.

"Nonsense," Grandpa Motou replied either not catching the rhetorical nature of the question or not caring. "They're already asleep, let them stay where they are."

"Besides," Yami added, "after what I saw over there, you and Shizuka aren't going to be staying there. At least not for awhile."

"But, it's my home," Jonouchi countered. "I have to stay there; it's where I live."

"Not anymore it isn't. Jou," Honda said in what he hoped was a comforting tone, "the man has abused you for as long as I can remember. We all know that you hate him. I think it's pretty safe to say that he holds no fatherly affection for you, either. It's time to let go." Jonouchi sighed. Honda's words weighed heavily on his mind. Deep down, he knew that his friend was right. His father had long since beat any shred of reciprocal adoration out of him. There was none left.

"I don't have anywhere else to stay," he pointed out.

"You're staying with me, Mutt." Kaiba's abrupt statement made Jonouchi jump. He had been quiet for the whole conversation. Jonouchi really didn't like the idea of staying at Kaiba's house. He already hated the man, the last thing he wanted to do was live with him.

"No," Jonouchi replied, "I don't know if that's such a good idea…"

"You're staying with me, Mutt," Kaiba repeated. "You'll be safe there. Your father doesn't know where the mansion is and if he figured that out I've got security. You're staying with me." Kaiba wasn't offering. He was ordering. Jonouchi wasn't sure that he liked being ordered around, but he knew that Kaiba was right. It was too dangerous for himself and the gang if he stayed at the game shop. He couldn't afford to place people in jeopardy; it violated his ethics.

He sighed. "What are we going to do about Shizuka? I mean, if she can't stay at home…"

"I think I can take care of that," offered Grandpa Motou. "We'll use psychology!" He was terribly excited. "She'll stay here. Your father will expect that we'll expect him to think that she's here. Since he'll expect that we'll want to keep him away from her, he'll expect that we'll have sent her somewhere where we won't expect him to go. I suspect that he'll expect us to send her to Honda's place because of what we expect him to expect, so that's where he'll go." Grandpa Motou felt brilliant.

"So what do we do when he comes to my place expecting to find Shizuka and then doesn't," asked Honda. Grandpa Motou thought for a moment. Everyone could see his brain ticking beneath his gray hair.

"Aha! I've got it! Yami can protect her," he said beaming. Yami muttered an incomprehensible statement. "It's settled then; Shizuka will stay here under Yami's protection." Grandpa Motou nodded reassuringly to himself. Jonouchi was going to stay with the very man who had made it his life's work to torture him.

'Great,' he thought, 'this is going to be just great.'

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