LefthandedFreak: Huzzo's everyone! Sorry for the longest wait ever!
Kaiba: Yeah, make us wait like that again and we might have to kill you.
LefthandedFreak: Eep! I must talk to my reviewers.
T.LeiYes, we must have our girly ways! Kaiba, come here!
Kaiba: What?
LefthandedFreak: (rips shirt off) squee!
Kaiba: AHHH!
Yami: Ha, your turn!
LefthandedFreak: Yes Jerald is quite quirky for a calculator but lets just say, he doesn't get out that much.
Jerald: I hate you all
DaggerHere's that chapter you wanted and (hands over a picture) A picture of a shirtless Yami and a leathered Yami just for you.
Yami: I don't have to know how you got the leathered one but how did you get me shirtless!
LefthandedFreak: Jerald is also (Jerald poofs and turns into-) a camera!
Yami: Great.
LefthandedFreak: Isn't it? By this afternoon, there will be millions of pictures of you shirtless throughout the Internet.
Yami: You wouldn't
LefthandedFreak: (sends image to everyone alive and a few dead people.) Oops. Hehehehe.
Yami: Must kill
DragonLady222Jerald is good at torturing people. Why'd you think Fate brought him along? Hehe. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter!
HellsEternalFlameThank You! (Glomps) Your so nicey! Here, have some chocolate! (Gives you some chocolate) Aw, heck, here take Yugi!
Yugi: First I'm being horribly betrayed in a story; next I'm giving away to reviewers. What's next, a talk show with this crazy loon? (Points to LefthandedFreak who suddenly became extremely interested in this idea) crap.
LefthandedFreak: Anyways I hope you all like this chapter! Have fun! Oh, and I apologize for the spelling errors that have occurred and, trust me, will occur. My spell checks not helping and I don't have time (literally) to re read this. Sorry.
Yugi paced around nervously.
"Don't worry. This date will run smoothly and you'll find that you like him. Who knows, maybe you'll have a lot of things in common." Fate stepped out from out of the dressing room. Yugi looked at her a bit confused.
"Dressing to impress?", he grabbed the edge of her torn a dirty dress, studying it as they stood in the kitchen. Fate giggled lightly.
"No. I'm the one who's cooking. I'm not going to wear something fancy when there's a chance that it'll get caked with food. Besides, I'm not the one on the date, remember?"
Yugi let the dress go and sighed, "Yeah, your right."
"Why don't you go on out and get some fresh air, you look like you could use some", Fate said as she nudged Yugi to the back door.
"Sure, I'll be outside" Yugi was about to leave but stopped as Fate grabbed him and placed something small on his chest." What was that?"
"A voice changer. Don't worry, I just don't want you two knowing who you guys are and he'd be able to tell who you are with your voice" Fate smiled as Yugi shrugged and headed outside. As soon at the door closed, Jerald walked in from the front and approached Fate from behind.
"Everything ready?" Fate smiled and turned around to face Jerald.
"Yeah, Yami's outside." Jerald nodded his head to the backyard. "Suppose their gonna run into each other out there."
Fate peeked out if the window, "Shh, the evenings about to start"
Yugi leaned against the rusty bars of the fence the jailed him inside this frightful evening. Or at least, that was what he believed it was going to be like. He sighed unaware of the person beside him. "This just doesn't seem right". Boy, that voice thingy sure had a way of changing his voice. He felt mature.
"You could say that again"
Yugi jumped nearly a foot as he suddenly noticed the guy next to him. He was looking at him with a strange look. "I didn't scare you, did I?" Yugi realized that the strange look was actually concern. It was hard to tell with that mask on.
"No, you just startled me, that's all"
"Aren't they one and the same?" The red headed boy inquired.
"Well, maybe they are", Yugi, answered as he thought about it. All right, so the other guy was right. Question was, who was he?
"I'm kind of hopping I don't screw tonight up. I seem to do that with everything I do."
"You can't be that bad at it. Your still living aren't you?"
"Yeah…so?" Yami asked confused.
"See. You haven't accidentally screwed yourself into death"
"I guess that's good", Yami said as he chuckled a bit.
"So, I'm guessing you're my date tonight, right?" Yugi turned to face Yami all the way.
"Yeah, I guess so." Yami starred at Yugi for a moment before holding out his hand," Um, I'm Kakei"
Yugi looked at the hand for a moment before smiling and shaking it, "I'm Kudo, nice to meet you"
"Same here" They were still shaking each other's hands when Jerald stepped outside.
"Dinner will be ready shortly so if you would please take a seat, I will serve you shortly." The two nodded at Jerald as he turned around and headed for the door. Jerald stopped at the entrance before looking back with a smile. "You can't stop shaking each others hands now. I'm pretty sure you've greeted each other enough."
Yugi blushed, embarrassed as he gently tugged his hand away from Yami's. "I guess we should get seated then."
Yami nodded and followed him to the table. He caught a glance of Jerald doing a weird movement with his hands. Huh? Pull a rope? No that wasn't it. Jerald slapped his face, grabbed a chair, and pulled it out. Oh, he wanted him to pull his chair out. Wait, no, Kudo's chair. Oops. Jerald slapped his own face as he walked back into the kitchen.
"Aphrodite and You sure know how to pick them", Jerald shook his head as he walked over to where Fate was cooking. "What's for dinner?"
"Lasagna and salad. What? You expected something extremely fancy like caviar and snails?"
"Aren't caviar and snails the same?"
Fate thought about it, "Not too sure. Maybe. Anyways, I'm almost done with this so could you serve them the salad."
"Alright", Jerald turned around before turning back around, "What salad?"
"The salad I just made". Fate continued her Lasagna masterpiece.
"No, seriously, what salad?" Fate sighed.
"Uh, seriously, the salad I just-", turning she was faced with the disturb sight of no salad. Now salad didn't just walk away. Fate frowned. And if she didn't know better, closets didn't laugh "Hades"
In a flash of what some would call glory, others would just call coming out of the closest, A figure clad in motorcycle gang clothes (AN: I know, I know, cliché) made it's way across the kitchen, bowl of salad in hand. Huffing, Jerald grabbed the bowl and made his way outside.
"Ah, come on Fate, you have to admit it was funny. I've never seen Jerald look so confused in all his life", Hades leaned extremely close to Fate, "But you hit the nail right on the head"
"Now if only I could do the same to you"
"Ouch", Hades fell back in fake pain, "That stung me right…", Hades lowered his hand to his pants. "Here"
"You are nasty"
"I'm Hades"
"That's what I hate about you, you know?" Fate shook her head as she started chopping some onions.
"Oh, you and I both know your incapable of hate, Fate. It doesn't suite you."
"That's kind of crappy too since it rhymes with hate."
"Yes but rhyming words", he grabbed her and turned her around, facing him, "And actual feeling are two different things"
"You know, I thought you were sick but now I know the truth, your disgusting" she shoved his face away with her right hand and started to turn around when she realized her other hand was stuck. But, on what? Jerald soon answered that question when he walked back in.
"Um, Fate, your hands cooked to the stove" Ah yes, she forget she left that burner on high and must have stuck her hand on it when Hades had leaned against her.
"Great, hand me a spatula", a bit confused, Jerald handed Fate a spatula and watch as she tried to pry her cooked flesh off the stove. After a few moments of frustration, Fate cursed and tossed the spatula aside. "Curses, it's stuck on tight"
"Maybe we could cancel?" Jerald suggested but Fate shook her head.
"No, I'd have to be here even longer and that would just complicate things."
Hades smirked, "You could always cut it off". Fate gave that a deep long-. All right I lied it only took five seconds.
"That's the best idea you've had in years. Quick hand me a knife", Hades didn't hesitate tossing her a long dagger. She was about to wake her hand off but was stopped by Jerald.
"No wait"
"What is it?"
"You can't just chomp off your hand"
"Why not?"
"Yeah, Why not?"
"Shut up, Hades"
"Shutting up"
"Because, everyone would certainly notice if your hand went missing. You can't just chop random body pieces off. Besides, the body might die from blood loss and do you know how hard those things are to repair?" Jerald pocked Fate in a matter of fact way.
"So, Castila chopped her breast off in the Amazon Wars and no one bothered her about it"
"That's because it helped her fight in that war, remember?"
"Yeah, so losing this hand will help me cook", Fate prepared to cut her hand off again but Jerald yanked it out of her hand.
"Come on, be reasonable", Jerald reached over and grabbed the spatula again and yanked the cooked flesh off the stove, "Don't do something drastic"
"Thanks Jerald, but, um, won't this still have to be fixed?" Fate said as she tried to make the hand work. It didn't seem to want to cooperate.
"Yeah but it won't take so long."
Hades coughed to make his presence known, "Um, what everyone still noticed a burnt up hand?"
Fate eyes nearly popped out," That's two smart things in one night! Someone get me a camera, Hades is gaining the brain cells he lost!"
"Charming as ever Fate"
"I try"
"Well, no actually, cause I have a plan", Jerald smiled.
"So, what do you like to do in your spare time?"
Yugi was shoved out of his thoughts by Kakei's question. "Oh, nothing much, I like playing games a lot"
"Really, I do too"
"Oh, um, cool", Yugi went back to dreamland.
"You miss him don't you?". Yugi nearly jumped out of his skin and peered right back at Kakei, but he was busy looking off somewhere. If he didn't say it, who did? The voices sounded awfully similar. Shaking his head, he turned back to what he was thinking about.
"It'll only hurt more if you think about it. Love is such a fickle thing as that". Great, obviously Yugi was extremely readable to this Kakei.
"Have you ever fallen in love?" Yugi asked, turning to face Kakei. Kakei turned and looked at him before answering.
"No, I haven't. I don't even know what it is". Yami peered at Kudo before turning back around.
"Well, it's not too great. There's a lot of hurt involved, and pain. Especially if the person you love doesn't love you…." Kudo fell silent for a moment before continuing, "but, then again, there are the good times. Like all the good times you can have with the one you love. Not sex, but more like what you can learn from your partner after awhile. You could really get attached. It feels so good"
Yami looked over at Kudo. Strange, he looked like he hadn't said a word.
"Has that ever happened to you? Loving someone who didn't love you in return?"
Yugi was shocked. How did he know? "Yeah, I have. I wasn't too sure what the feeling was at first but after awhile, I started getting attached to him and, well…", Yugi's smile faded, "I sort of figured it out on my own that he didn't feel the same". Yugi shook his head before looking away again.
"But if you could feel that way again, I would be happy. Because even though you go through terrible pain, you would also go through extreme joy. I would love to love someone who loved me back, though, because then, I would know what true happiness was". Yami looked over at Kudo and smiled.
"I would love to love someone too, you know"
"Would you now?"
"Yes" Yugi studied Kakei before smiling himself.
"You, there's something about you that, I don't know, seems familiar" Yugi shook his head; "Maybe that's just me". Yugi jumped out of his seat as a cat jumped off a trashcan, sending it crashing to the ground. He nearly fell to the ground before Kakei caught him.
"Maybe that's your heart"
Hades glared at Fate from the shadows as he watched her stirring feelings from the second floor. "You know, I hate when you do that"
Fate ignored him for a moment before she turned her head facing him. "You hate me when I do what?'
"Mess with peoples feeling like that"
"I'm not messing"
"Yes you are Fate. Your messing with people's feeling, with their thoughts, and with their hearts.", Hades tried to stay calm.
"I'm not messing with anything, I'm just showing them feeling they've had hidden from each other for a long time"
"It's still not right!"
"Look, if you have a problem with it, take it up with Aphrodite and the big man, ok?"
Hades strolled across the room and grabbed Fate, shaking her. "Don't you ever feel regret for what you do? Don't you ever feel like you betrayed them?" he looked into her eyes for any sign at all that this was sinking in. He couldn't make out a blasted thing. He shoved her away from him, "You have no feeling what so ever"
It was Fate's turn to yell, "Of course I don't have any feelings, I wasn't given any! Do you think I chose to be this way? That I wanted to be some emotionless shell that can only repeat what others do?" she stared with what she hopped was anger but Hades just shook his head.
"Yes. Yeah, I do", he glanced back at Fate before heading down the stairs. Fate waited until she didn't hear his footsteps before she slid down the wall. What had that meant?
Peering out the window Fate smiled as she watched Yugi and Yami talking to each other, holding each others hands to their own oblivion. This night had worked out just as planned. They looked so happy. Fate let her face fall into an emotionless phase as she looked into the glasses reflection. Why couldn't she feel like that?
Why?
LefthandedFreak: YAY! One chapter done. So I sort of lied about having four chapters up. I had to go out and get a job, sorry. But I will update shortly, don't you worry about that.
Joey: She updated!
LefthandedFreak: And now that my OWN computer has the Internet back, I'm going to be able to catch up with the all story's I left unread. Yay! So until next time, read and review!