Chapter 4: Back to Reality
Scenes 1-20 had finally ended and the cast was excited. Those who did not already know the ending were itching to find out what would happen next and who would be killed next. Another popular issue was the fact that Duke's character, André, would enter very shortly. That was something people wanted to see.
After the month or so of shooting, the finished copy was finally coming together. Although the screening was meant to be a small occasion until the movie was completely finished it quickly became a monstrous event. Everyone who was a part of the project had tried to gather around the small screen it was being shown on, until finally the director was forced to play it on a larger screen in a different room. Despite the fact that they had been shooting the movie themselves, both cast and crewmembers fidgeted around in their seats, or made disgusted faces, or covered their eyes during the more gruesome parts of the movie. Once the first Act had finished playing, they were even more excited than before.
Bob Javier stood in front of his flock and demanded their attention. "Alright people, get a hold of yourselves. We're not even done yet. Now that you're all hyped, we may as well start handing out the scripts again. Too bad I don't feel like it. They're in the copy room so you can get them yourselves. What time is it?"
"It's about 1:30. Seto Kanem answered looking at his watch.
"No wonder I'm so tired. Well, I'm leaving. You guys know when the studio closes so…bye." Bob began to leave but suddenly stopped. "Oh shit I almost forgot; Seto, I need to talk to you." Bob motioned for Seto to follow him out of the room. Once the two of them had left, the cast once again buzzed with excitement.
"I feel so left out. I want to be in the next act." Tea whined pathetically.
"Oh don't cry sweetheart." Tristan said, wrapping a consoling hand around her.
"Hands off!" Tea growled.
"Now that's no way for married people to act." Joseph mocked.
"Of course it is." Ishizu and Marik said in unison. While everyone laughed, Yami looked around.
"Hey, is it just me, or is there a lot of people from Yugioh on the crew too?" Everyone looked around and noticed the crewmembers walking around, packing up to go home. It was true. They recognized many of the people, like the girl who played Dark Magician Girl was there from time to time, King's Knight, Umbra, Raphael, that silent guy was on make-up, Johnny Steps, Varon and more Yugioh characters.
"Well I'll be damned. You're right." Mai said looking around.
"Wait, wait, look!" Tea pointed out. "It's that girl…Misao from Ruroni Kenshin. See. The one doing make-up with that pierced guy."
Everyone looked at her. "Oh yeah." Duke said. "I recognize her now. She's kind'a cute."
"I know." Tristan replied. "I should go introduce myself." Tristan was about to get up but Tea slammed him back down on the couch, annoyed. "Why Tea are you jealous?" Tea just looked at him in a way that said, 'don't go to sleep tonight'. Tristan smiled at her and made a kiss gesture. Tea grabbed one of his bangs and pulled it hard. "Why Tea. I didn't think you were into that! But if you wanna play then I'm game."
Tristan rolled over on top of her so she couldn't get up. Tea screamed at him and kicked wildly into the air but Tristan seemed to enjoy it. Everyone watched as Tea screamed curses at him like 'get your heavy ass off me!' until something strange happened. Tristan kissed her and she cursed at him but then she kissed him back. As they proceeded to make out everyone fidgeted around uncomfortably.
Ryou grabbed a pointer stick the director was using, walked over to them, and began to poke them. Tristan waved the stick away as though it was a fly, never breaking the kiss, but Ryou continued to poke them. After a while, Bakura got up and joined the fun.
When Seto came back, Ryou and Bakura stopped poking but Tristan and Tea didn't seem to notice anyway. "What happened to them?" Seto asked.
"I don't know, maybe some S+M gets them in the mood." Serenity shrugged.
"Hm, I'll remember that next time. Anyway, I'm going to get the scripts. Ishizu, do you know where they are?"
"Yes." She said getting up and following him.
Once they were gone, there was still nothing to do but wait and watch Tea and Tristan. Joey looked over at Mai and grinned. "Give you any ideas?"
"Down Mr. Spade." She shook her head.
They watched growing more and more nauseous but, for some reason, unable to turn away. Tristan slipped a hand underneath her shirt and Tea let out a moan. Now, everyone was done watching. Serenity got up and tried to break them apart. "Alright, you guys are getting disgusting now."
Tristan finally broke his lip lock to look at her with a very annoyed expression on his face. "Do you mind? We're in the process of making up."
"Well neither of you is in second act so why don't you two just…get a room?" Serenity retorted. Tristan and Tea looked at each other.
"I don't want to." Tea said after a while and resumed what they had been doing. This time, the rest of them tried not to pay much attention to them.
"So Duke. I hear there's gonna be a kiss between André and Leon in the next Act. Care to fill us in?" Joey asked.
"Not really." Duke said, trying to ignore the fact that the Hainsworth twins were snickering. He hated the fact that they had been right about a kissing scene. "You two should can it."
"Why should we?" They asked in unison.
"Because if you don't I'm going to have to read this." Duke replied pulling out many sheets of paper stapled together.
"Oh that's really scary. Paper! Get it away!" Bakura commented sarcastically. Duke simply smiled and began to read an already marked page.
" It's true. He could have done that. But now that Yami Bakura had his own body, there was only one thing on his mind. He silently walked down the hallway, stopping at the door where the moonlight was filtering through. Not a sound was made as he opened the door. Inside the moonlit bedroom lay the most beautiful boy he had ever seen. His fair skin looked blue in the light and his untamed hair peacefully framed his angelic, sleeping face.
"As though a signal had alerted him, Bakura lazily opened his chocolate brown eyes. Can this be real? The boy thought to himself.
'Tonight is our night Ryou.' Yami Bakura said, almost like he was reading the boy's thoughts. As he walked closer to the bed, he undressed. Bakura gaped at the former spirit's magnificent form. This was more than he could have imagined.
"Now fully naked, Yami Bakura crawled on top of him, caressing the half naked Bakura lying petrified under his sheets. He leaned in and licked Bakura's lips, enjoying their eagerness to comply. It soon escalated into the kiss the both of them had been waiting years to experience.
Yami Bakura hastily tossed the sheets from the bed. His excitement caused chills down Bakura's spine. 'Please,' Bakura whispered, getting into position, 'be gentle. I'm new at this.'
Duke looked up for only a second to see the horrified look on their faces before continuing the torture.
"Bakura cried out in joy as he received his former Yami. 'Oh my!' he moaned over and over. They could now express their passion separately, but their bodies were becoming one once more. Hungrily they—"
"Stop! For the love of God please stop!" Bakura screamed covering his ears.
"But I haven't gotten to the good stuff yet." Duke complained, flipping the pages to something worse. A huge grin spread across his face as he read aloud this one part.
"He couldn't take anymore, he was going to burst, but Bakura was still crying out for him. 'Harder! Harder! Do it harder!' Bakura cried.
'I can't! I'm coming now!'
'Oh my! Oh my! Oh—"
"My ears are bleeding!" Ryou screamed.
Duke simply flipped through more pages before his eyes lit up. "If you think that's bad, then you guys probably haven't seen this." Duke held up a hand drawn picture of the two of them. Both of them were completely nude, but it looked like Ryou was supposed to be bleeding to death and somehow having an orgasm while Bakura was lapping up the blood. It was some kind of cross between homicide and S+M, but all it did to Ryou and Bakura was make them feel very sick.
"I want my mother." Ryou whimpered, transfixed on the picture.
"Who the hell would draw something like that? And the story?" Bakura held on to his brother tightly, trying to calm him.
"Fans." Serenity answered.
"That's…like… incest!" Bakura still looked stunned.
"Why would fans want me to die?" Ryou seemed to be lost within his own thoughts, looking still horrified at the picture.
"You're a sick man Duke! A sick, sick, man!" Bakura said angrily, holding onto his brother tighter as he rocked back and forth.
"Look at it, it's like a big puddle of blood." Ryou whimpered.
"Well you can't make fun of me anymore." Duke said, calmly placing the picture and story back in his bag.
"I mean, is the sight of me bleeding to death really something I'd get off on?" Ryou asked the people around him in a panicked tone.
"So where'd you get that?" Marik asked.
"Internet fanfiction, fanart." Duke said.
"And how would they know what I looked like naked!" Bakura half whispered in horror. No one else seemed to be listening to him.
"That's why I don't look on the Internet much." Mai added. "Once, I typed my name in a search engine and you know what came up? Maybe a bio, a picture and nothing but porn! Just porn!"
"Really?" Joseph asked, looking excited. Mai seemed unimpressed.
"Could you imagine if all of this was just a fanfiction?" Yami asked.
"Nah!" Duke waved the question away. "If this were a fanfic, someone would be making out by now." Their attention all seemed to turn to Tristan and Tea who were still conducting their business on the couch. "Okay, strike that."
"If this were a fanfic, there would be some kind of huge plot twist or danger or affair that would come up." Serenity said.
"Hmm." Mai grinned in a mischievous sort of way. "You know, the copy room is pretty close to here. What's holding up Seto and Ishizu?"
"Yeah, Seto asked her to show him where the scripts are but he knows Bob always puts them in the copy room." Joey added.
"Romance is in the air. Maybe they're back there, right now, breaking her wedding vows." Duke snickered. However, he was abruptly stopped by Marik's sharp look of ire. "Just kidding. Bad joke."
As is usually the case, Seto and Ishizu entered the room at that exact moment. The room was silent as they entered. Suspicious looks were cast around. There was a slight tension in the air as Seto and Ishizu passed out the scripts.
"Is everything alright?" Ishizu questioned.
"Oh yeah, everything's fine." Yami answered, opening up his script. As Seto took to sitting down, Joey noticed something.
"Yo buddy. Your fly's open."
Seto looked down at his pants in confusion and noticed his undone zipper. "Oh, sorry about that." He hastily zipped up his pants. Once he looked back at the group, everyone was silent again. "Are you guys sure that everything is okay?" When no one answered, he looked over at Ishizu who looked just as puzzled as he was. "Okay fine. Act 2, Scene 1."