Chapter Four
"In my field of Paper flowers
and candy clouds of lullabyes
I lie inside myself for hours
and watch my purple clouds fly over me
don't say I'm out of touch
with this rapid chaos
your reality
I know well what lies behind my sleeping refuge
the nightmare I built my own world to escape"
Miriku waved a hand in front of Yugi's face. "Um, Yugi? Are you okay?" she asked gently. Yugi blinked, instantly erasing the sad and distant look from hisface.
"Y-Yeah. Just zoned out," he said quickly. Miriku looked at him quizzically but was interrupted before she could say anything.
"Hey shorty!" a tough looking cad called, sautntering over to the pair. "Move," he said smartly.
"Not on your insignificant life, idiot. We're playing Virtual Duel Monsters," Miriku snapped instantly. Yugi looked between her and the guy worriedly. Is she like Joey? Would she get into a fight just to duel virtually with him and some "KK Slider".
The guy laughed. "Shorty got a girl to protect him!" he hooted. A bunch of other, scrawnier looking guys stepped up behind him, laughing. Now there were five of them. Yugi gulped.
"So I'm a girl. You're a snivling idiot who probably can't tell right from left," Miriku snapped. The guy blinked, then growled.
"We'll see if you're fist's as big as your mouth is!" he said, throwing a low kick at Miriku's ankles. There was a flash in here eyes and she jumped up, dodging easily and landing behind the group.
"That didn't even make sense," Miriku cooed in a voice much unlike her own. Yugi was still just tsaring.
"Grah!" he shouted, running past his buddies and throwing a heavy punch at her. Miriku dodged fluidly to the left, grabbed the fist and twisted it behind his back. The thug let out a strangled scream.
"You do NOT mess with me OR my friends," Miriku hissed in his ear using that strange voice. The thug grunted and Miriku let him go. He stumbled backward and into his friends. They took steps backward, letting him fall onto the floor.
"Th-that girl's not human!" he murmered, scrambling up. His friends nodded quickly. The jump was matrix-style unnatural. "Let's scram!" he told his buddies,who all agreed and ran like terrified school girls fromthe Arcade. Miriku smirked.
"Wow. Miriku, that was cool," Yugi said in awe. Miriku blinked and looked at him, smirk gone.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, sure. What I just did. Yeah," she muttered, sighing. "Lemme take youhome, 'kay? I don't feel like vrtual dueling anymore..."
Yugi paused, suspicious, but nodded. He wasn't one to push her.