Warnings; I've done this about nine times already!
Pairings: Ditto
Disclaimer; For the record... Piccolo's green, Kai's hair is blue, Bakura's mean. I don't own so you don't sue. And I don't own 'My Eyes Burn' by Matchbook Romance.
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Chapter 10; "I never knew Yugi could do that?"
"I have a faint idea." said a voice.
The group turned around to see a girl with auburn hair and brown eyes. Duke all but jumped up with hearts in his eyes.
"Hello Serentiy, I didn't know you were coming." Grandpa Mutou called.
"Neither did I really, I was on the way to Joey's then I remembered he said he'd be here. Oh, hello Seto." she smiled. Noticing the teenage CEO was there too.
"Hey." Kaiba replied. Serenity stared at him, since when had he ever said 'hey' to her, the Mutt's sister? And as cheerily as that.
"You said you might know what Yugi would be doing." said Mariah to the new stranger as everyone shuffled up to make a seat for her. Serenity snapped out of her trance.
"Serenity, this is Mariah. Mariah, Joey's sister." said Tea.
"Hi." said Serenity. "I do know what Yugi's doing, but I promised him I wouldn't tell. So what did my brother do?" she asked, sitting between Duke and Tea.
"A belly dance, would you believe." Duke snorted.
"Oh cool. Good on him. What did Yami and the others do?"
"Yami did ballet. Bakura, go figure. Yugi and Tristan haven't been up yet. They're the last two acts."
Backstage...
"Yami, I'm kinda scared, you know." mumbled Yugi, tying his shoelaces. He was wearing a torn up denim version of his uniform, and had a denim trilby tucked under his arm. (a trilby is a type of hat for those who don't know!)
"Oh Yugi, you've competed in how many tournaments?"
"Not many, you took over everytime I had to duel."
"Oh yeah." Yami cocked his head, that was before Shadi granted him a body of his own. "You'll do great out there abiou. Don't worry."
"A bit Peter Purvis, Yug?" asked Nicole then she sighed in frustration. "Sorry, I keep doing that, it's nervous."
"I am a bit. It's the first time I actually ever performed anything, besides duel monsters."
"You'll be...sorry. What was that Kenny?" she asked as Kenny let out a cry over the headset. Her face fell. "Shit! It's ok, I have an idea." She ran off to the dressing rooms.
"What is it?" asked Yugi.
"Something's wrong with your CD, Kenny can't hear the lead guitar, stupid machines, they're ancient. KAI! RAY!"
"They're making out in their dressing room and won't come out." Tristan sweatdropped.
"Oh sod it, they can kill me later." she huffed angrily, picking up Kai's guitar. "Good job Kai's a leftie. What's the name of the song Yugi?"
"Um, My Eyes Burn... by Matchbook Romance." Yugi mumbled.
"Ah, a personal fave of mine, I was playing that just this morning." Nicole grinned like a woman possessed.
"Guys, Yugi's supposed to up by now."
"On it." Nicole plugged something into Kai's guitar, threw her headset at Tristan and pulled on a black balaclava. "Let's go. Gohan."
"Way ahead of you."
"Good luck abiou." smiled Yami, kissing his light briefly on the lips. Yugi followed Nicole to centrestage, his shoes making a tap-tap-tap as he walked and jamming his hat over his crazy tricoloured hair.
"Ladies and Gents, tapping to the beat of Matchbook Romance's 'My Eyes Burn' I give you... Yugi Motou!"
Nicole played the intro and Yugi started tapping along with the drumbeat.
My eyes burn from these tears
You'd think I'd learn over these years
Good things won't last forever
So what the hell am I suppose to do
You only wanted the things I couldn't give to you
And you had it all anyway
Nicole did a jump and started spinning around, like Max did when he palyed.
Yugi was tapping his feet like his life depended on it.
So take take everything and leave me scrambling
Reaching for something that wasn't there in the first place
So take take everything and leave me scrambling
Reaching for something that wasn't there in the first place
Tell me I'm wrong when I say
I can't expect you to spend forever with me
I live for that single moment
I take back everything I've said
You wore those words on your lips
As if they meant anything anyway
Sometimes I feel I could drop off the face of the earth
It seems I do more harm than good
And I don't know if it's worth me loosing sleep over this
Yugi looked at his audience, he could feel all the anxiety he had about telling Yami ebb away.
So take take everything and leave me scrambling
Reaching for something that wasn't there in the first place
So take take everything and leave me scrambling
Reaching for something that wasn't there in the first place
An instrumental allowed Yugi to crouch down, stick one leg out and some how spin on the spot (I saw someone do this in a show I went to, it looked impossible!)
The audience could see Yugi and a guitar behind him, played by a pair of bodyless arms.
Tell me I'm wrong when I say it
I can't expect you to spend forever with me
I live for that single moment
So take take everything and leave me scrambling
Reaching for something that wasn't there in the first place
So take take everything and leave me scrambling
Reaching for something that wasn't there in the first place
So take take everything and leave me scrambling
Reaching for something that wasn't there in the first place
So take take everything and leave me scrambling
Reaching for something that wasn't there in the first place...
Nicole struck the last few chords on the guitar as Yugi stopped tapping with a jump, pulling his hat off and bowing three times.
"YAY! YUGI!" Serenity cried from her seat, Yugi gave her a wink and somersaulted offstage. Nicole waited til the curtains closed, and ran off, pulling the balaclava off.
Kai and Ray were waiting for her offstage. Ray looked impressed and Kai looked annoyed, both slightly red in the face from their current make-out session.
"Kai, I'm sorry, but I didn't want to interrupt you two and Yugi needed music. Where did he go?" Ray pointed a finger, Yugi had jumped up into his dark's arms, still panting from dancing.
"I can't believe he's in high school, he's so short. Bless him. Oh Kai, here." She took out the plug from Kai's guitar and handed it back to him. "I would've borrowed Ray's but I'm left handed."
"It's ok. It's just hard to find anything for lefties around here, thats all."
"My dad once told me about a shop, back in London. It sold nothing but left handed stuff. It was like he knew every nook and cranny of the city." She smiled fondly at the memory.
"Nicole, you're spacing out." Ray said slowly.
"Am I? Sorry. Oi! Tristan, you're up!" she called, tossing the doo-dad she had in her hand up in the air, catching it and pocketing it.
Seeing Kai's curious gaze. "Oh, it's something I invented, a cordless amp, plug it into the guitar and off you go, after you programme it to fit the place's sound system frequency." (I'm making this up.)
"Cool. You and Kenny should exchange invention ideas." Ray grinned.
In the auditorium...
"Wow! Yugi can sure tap. Where did he learn that?" asked Lee.
"That spinny thing he did, I never knew Yugi could do that?"
"I think he span faster than any beyblade." Gary grinned stupidly.
"I taught him. I had learnt to tap after Joey and I got separated." Serenity replied.
"Could you teach me?" asked Duke, his eyes big and chibi like, Serenity sweatdropped.
"Down boy." Téa scolded, Duke shrank back. "I wonder what Tristan's doing?"
"He better not wreck my dice whatever it is." Duke grumbled, fiddling with his earring which was... yep, you guessed it, yet another dice.
"Dice?" asked Hiro: He, Trunks and Tala each had an eyebrow quirked up.
"He has an unhealthy obsession when it comes to dice cubes." Kaiba snorted.
Duke suddenly went into a false coughing fit, saying something like "BluecoughEyescoughcoughWhitecoughDragoncoughcoughcough."
"Pack it in. Ella acts more mature than you two." LC scowled.
"Sorry." Kaiba cleared his throat. "LC, you know you were saying about Ella feeling concoius about her hearing aids."
"Yeah?" LC said slowly.
"Well. I know now isn't really the time or place to talk about it, but if I could design some hearing aids that are smaller in size, but don't compromise their performance, would you be interested in helping, I know next to nothing about hearing aids."
"Um... can I get back to you on that one?" asked LC. Kaiba gave him a card with his details on it.
"Ladies and Gents..."
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