Yugi gets Braces

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh. –
Duh.

Note: I have suffered braces (as in teeth braces, not the ones that men use to hold up their trousers) for over 2 years, and I decided it was time for someone else to have them. I am thinking about giving Jounouchi glasses at some point as well.
Have you noticed that Anime characters always have perfect (if pointy) teeth? Well, no longer… mua ha haaa….

Yugi blearily opened his eyes to see his grandpa pulling the curtains open.
He glanced at his alarm clock. It was half past six.
"Why did you wake me up so early, grandpa?" he groaned.

"You have an appointment at the orthodontists' at half seven, that's why." Surgoroku retorted.

"WHAT?" Yugi shouted, jumping out of bed in shock. "THE ORTHODONTIST!"

"Yes, you've needed braces for a while now." His grandpa replied.

Yugi didn't even notice his grandpa go out of the room; he was frozen rigid.

Yami?

Yami made a sleepy noise a little like a snore.

Yami?

Yami sighed happily, oblivious to the fact that Yugi was trying to tell him something.

WAKE UP YAMI!

Yami stayed asleep.

Yami… Kaiba wants to duel you now… Yugi said sneakily.

What? Kaiba? Now? Where's my duel disk? Where's my deck? Yami screeched.

Erm… he isn't actually here…. Before Yami could get a chance to go back to sleep again, Yugi told him about the braces.

Yami was silent for a while. Yugi could feel him thinking.

Er… what are braces? Yami asked. And what is an orthy-something?

Yugi sighed, and explained.

Yugi was sitting in an embarrassed way in the waiting room of the Orthodontist, trying to distract his grandpa and stop him ogling the nurses.

Around them were waiting lots of children. They had a horrifying variety of different braces; some were wearing metal contraptions on their heads, and you could see rows of metal when others smiled.

"Grandpa, I really want to go home." He said. "Look, I really don't need braces."

"Mouto, Yugi?" The pretty young nurse with the clipboard smiled.

Yugi gulped.

"Don't worry, there's really nothing to worry about," the nurse said, grinning again. Yugi thought she smiled like a shark, and he couldn't help noticing how she locked the doors after her. He began to sweatdrop.

"Just lie down in this chair, sonny." The orthodontist said.
Yugi fumed silently at being called "sonny". He was about to tell the doctor his real age, but the nurse forced him down into the chair.

Yugi half-expected for her to strap his arms to it.

The chair wasn't quite horizontal, and as Yugi was small, he started to slide out of the chair.

The Orthodontist frowned. "Now, stop being silly."

"I can't help it!" Yugi blushed. "I keep on falling out."

The Orthodontist sighed and raised the chair.

Yugi watched nervously out of the corner of his eye as the orthodontist began looking at a range of pointy steel implements, many of which had menacing-looking hooks on the end.

"We're just going to take a mold of your teeth, and then put on your train tracks." The Orthodontist told him.

Before Yugi was ready for it, the Orthodontist had shoved a mass of green, mint-flavoured goo into his mouth. Yugi started to choke, especially at the disgusting flavour, but it seemed to him that it was ages before the goo was taken out and he could rinse his mouth with the water beside the chair.

"Now, for the train tracks…." The Orthodontist said, sounding evil.

First he 'cleaned' Yugi's teeth. It felt as if he was drilling holes in them. Then, he put on the glue, the brackets and finally, the wire.

"Would you like any colours?" He asked Yugi pleasantly.

Gold! Tell him gold! Yami said.

Yugi ignored Yami and said no, he didn't want any colours.

Finally, the Orthodontist had finished and, after giving Yugi a set of warped little brushes and telling him how to care for his braces, the small boy was pushed out of the chair and back into the waiting room.

"How was it?" Surgoroku asked Yugi.

"Therible." Yugi said, and then looked horrified.

"I hath a lithp!" He exclaimed, outraged.

"You will, for a while." The nurse said to him. "And your teeth may be sore for a few days…"

"Sore"? That nurse didn't have any idea what she was talking about, Yugi fumed as he walked to school. His teeth were in agony, and the brackets rubbed. He thought for a moment.

What am I going to do? He wailed at Yami. People can't see that I've got braces! And I have a lisp as well!

Maybe I don't have a- lisp, or whatever you call it. Yami suggested.

We could see. Yugi said doubtfully.

Yami, now in the body, looked a little confused. What should I say?

Er… try "The rain in Span falls mainly in the plain." Yugi said.

"Th' rain in thpain fallth mainly in th' plaine." Yami said.

Oh well. Yugi said miserably, as they switched back. It was worth a try.

If it's any comfort, I will make sure that anyone who laughs at you will be sent to the Shadow Realm instantly. Yami said soothingly.

Thanks, Yami.

Yugi had reached the school gates and went in via reception. He had to fill in a form about why he was late, and then he rushed to his classroom.

"Where were you, Yugi?" Jounouchi asked. "We thought you might be ill."

"Doctor'th appointment." Yugi mumbled as quickly as he could, keeping his head down so that Jounouchi wouldn't see the flash of the metal.

"What for?" Anzu asked.

"My- er- thortneth."

"Pardon?" Anzu, obviously, couldn't understand what Yugi was saying.

"Never mind." Yugi said.

Luckily, the teachers for the first two classes didn't ask that Yugi speak other than to answer the register. He wasn't so fortunate for the next class, however.

"Now, Yugi." The teacher said. "I'd like you to read the paragraph on page nine about how frogs reproduce."

The paragraph would have been embarrassing to read out anyway, but Yugi felt his stomach drop.

"Couldn't Jounouthi do it inthtead?" He pleaded.

"No, I want you to read it." The teacher frowned.

I could send her to the Shadow Realm… Yami said temptingly.

Yugi, ignoring Yami again, managed to read out the passage, though Jounouchi seemed puzzled by Yugi's lisp.

Yugi managed to survive until lunchtime, but when he bit into his food, his teeth hurt like hell. Yugi gasped and covered his mouth.

"Are you all right, Yugi?" Anzu asked, concerned.

Yugi tried to smile without showing his teeth. The result was an odd sort of grimace that made it look like he had indigestion.

"You don't look all right to me…" Anzu said.

"Go on, Yugi. Tell us if there's something wrong." Jounouchi said encouragingly.

Yugi sighed. "I have braces."

"What?" They were shocked, but only at first.

"It isn't too bad." Jounouchi said encouragingly. "It won't be for ever!"

"We don't mind, Yugi!" Anzu said.

Yugi just smiled at them, though he stopped when he remembered the awful metal in his mouth.

Kaiba challenged Yugi to a duel during lunch break. Yugi agreed, but he got very upset at Kaiba's laughter when he said "I thummon the Dark Magithian."

Yami decided it was time for action. He was going to beat Kaiba…

Even Anzu couldn't help smiling slightly. It just wasn't something you expected to see, a miniature pharaoh with a dog collar, spiky hair and- braces.

Somehow, Yami just didn't look as intimidating as usual.

Even the effect of "The Hair" wasn't quite so apparent.

"Ath long as I belieth in the heart of the cardth, I will alwayth win!" Yami said to Kaiba, who started laughing again.

Of course, Yami did win, though Kaiba didn't look half as put-out as usual. He was considering sending him to the Shadow realm to teach him a lesson, but decided against it. It would have to wait for another day…..

Yugi: Why did it have to be me? I can't have braceth!

Yami Bakura: Ha ha ha.

Yami: Watsh it there, Bakura. Or I'll thend you to the thadow realm.

Yami Bakura: HA HA HA :rolls on floor laughing:

Yami and Yugi: It'th not funny!

Me: Ha ha ha

Yami: Don't you thtart!