I was watching the Food Network (I get very bored) and there was a show called "The Secret Life of.." hence the title of this story. Every show they had a different food and the history of it, like pizza, chocolate, and cheesecake (which I have loved ever since). So I thought, "Why not make a story about people's secret lives?" and here we are!
Jodi: Every chapter will have a different person with a different life. And the best part is you get to decide who I write about! I already have the first one, but after that, it's your choice. I have 31 people left, so if you think some on here are useless, tell me to take them off. I made a list, Good Guys and Bad Guys, which I will alternate from every chapter.
Good Guys:Yugi (my first one), Joey, Tea, Tristan, Bakura, Seto, Mokuba, Grandpa, Duke,Serenity, Rebecca, Rex & Weevil, Mai, Mako, Espa, Ishizu,and Odion
Bad Guys: Zorc, Pegasus, Bandit Keith, Marik, Rare Hunter, Strings, Dartz, Allister, Raphael, Valon, Zigfried, Leon, Noah, Gozaburo, ParaDox Brothers, Umbra & Lumis, and Arkana
I don't know if I should put Atem because this is the summer after he leaves, but if you think I should, just say it. Also, I don't own anything but the plot. (I wish I did though.) Please remember this disclamer. And now, the secret life of Yugi Muto! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Poor Yugi. He has absolutely nothing to do with the Pharaoh gone. He sits around in his room nothing nothing, now that school is over. He sighes deeply and mulls over the fact that he is completely bored. So what does he do now that he has all the time in the world? He decides to grab a notebook and teach himself to draw.
"Finally, something to do! But what to draw?" he soliloquites. He takes a good glance around his room until his eyes fell upon his deck. Yugi grabbed it, and looking through it, spots Kuriboh.
"I know! I'll draw Duel Monsters!" He thought he should start with the easiest one, the Kuriboh that had given him inspiration. He grabbed a rather dull pencil and, sticking his tongue out, started to mark the paper. After a short while, the point of his pencil snaps.
"Oh, man! Why'd it have to break now? Oh, where's my sharpener?" He frantically searched through his cabinets, his desk, and finally his backback until he found the elusive object. After he sharpened it, he went back to drawing. But the pencil snaps again.
"Who the heck invented this stupid thing! STOP BREAKING!" he screamed at the pencil.
"Who are you talking to, Yugi?" His grandfather came into the room.
"Uhh...Nobody."
"Then why were you screaming?"
"My pencil broke."
"Okay...you have a good time then." When he got out of the room, he said, "The poor kid must've gone insane after all of those final exams..." and got back to his business.
Back in his room, Yugi finds a more reliable pencil to draw with.
"No more interruptions! I need to do this right!" He got back to sketching the form of Kuriboh. After quite a bit of erasing, he looks at his final product. It looked like a giant circle with lopsided eyes and different sized arms.
"Why can't I do this right! I need to keep on trying!"
So he did. After many pieces of paper and endless erasing, he finally was able to get all the details of Kuriboh, which took him a good hour and a half.
"I wonder how Pegasus had the patience to do all of these cards. I guess it's because he had nothing better to do." So he moved on. Unfortunately, he ran out of time because he had to eat dinner, take a shower, and by then he had to get ready to sleep.
When he woke up, he had a simple breakfast and went right back to drawing in an old sketch book, which he had found neglected under his bed. He wondered how it got there, but resumed his work. He picked up the wrong pencil, the stubborn one, and looked through his deck. Yugi picked Mystical Elf and started, but was stopped by the pencil breaking again.
"Oh, great, I grabbed the wrong one. Where did I put the other one?" After ten minutes, he found it next to his trash can. It must have rolled off the desk when he was asleep, but he shook the idea away and went back to his book.
But he was concerned. The card only showed Mystical Elf partially, and he had no idea what the bottom part looked like. He decided to find out later, and resumed to try the top part of the image. Another blockade. Something about the picture wasn't right. He had all of the details right (that he could see on the card) but one. He couldn't draw Mystical Elf's 'curves'. Yugi just had no idea how to draw women.
His frusteration was interrupted by a telephone call for him. It was Tea.
"Hi, Yugi, what have you been up to? No one's heard from you since school ended. Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm perfectly fine."
"Oh, okay. I was making sure. I was a bit worried that..."
"Tea?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you know any way to see the bottom part of Mystical Elf's..."
"Yugi! You're such a pervert! What's gotten into you!"
"No! I'm trying to draw her, but I can't get the curves right and..."
"Yugi, if you can't respect a woman when I'm around, then I guess I should go!"
"That's not what I meant!"
"I know, I'm just kidding, Yugi. Gosh, you took that seriously."
"Hehehe...I knew you were kidding...Anyway, can you help me?"
"Hmm...why not try summoning her with your duel disk?"
"Okay, that's a great idea! Bye!" Yugi hung up and quickly went to grab his duel disk.
"What's gotten into him?" Tea said to herself.
"Finished! And just in time for lunch!" He had pride in the fact he could draw well. Mystical Elf helped him a bit with the curves, though. He sped through lunch to get back to his hobby and picked out more cards. By the end of the day, he was able to do a more detailed Man-Eater Bug, but it had bitten Yugi's arm after he was finished. The next day, he couldn't draw because of his injury to his writing arm. Instead, he went to the park with Joey and Tristan.
"So you started to draw? Interesting," Tristan said, impressed.
"Yeah, but nobody's going to believe how you got those cuts," Joey pointed out.
"Well, I don't mind. I haven't gotten out of the house in two days and it was getting stuffy."
"So what have you drawn?" Tristan asked.
"Just a Kuriboh, Mystical Elf, and you know about Man-Eater Bug."
"That's not a lot," Joey said.
"Well, it's hard because I never draw anything. But I got the hang of the idea now."
"Then when are you going to get to the level fours and the strong dudes?" Tristan wondered.
"When I'm through with a few more. I'm going to try Beaver Warrior, Giant Soldier of Stone, and Red-Archery Girl before I do monsters like Curse of Dragon."
"I have an idea, Yugi!" Joey exclaimed. "Here, borrow my Red-Eyes Black Dragon. When you're done with him, just give him back. It would be cool if you could draw him."
"Alright, great!"
After a tiring day at the park, Yugi returned home.
After a week, he completed the ones he had said he would do. Although he found controversy with Red-Archery Girl, his experience helped him with the hard parts. He was working on Curse of Dragon the next day. But it was too big to summon in his room. So he had to go outside. Seto Kaiba saw what he was doing from his office.
"What is that lunatic doing with that monster?" He squinted his eyes to see his sketch book. "Yep, he's a new level of crazy." Seto went back to what he was doing.
After that dilemma was solved, he went back inside.
"Enough for today. I think that one guy got scared when he walked by and saw Curse of Dragon. So I'll draw Red-Eyes tomorrow."
It took him two full days to master the extensive details of Red-Eyes and a lot of complaints from the neighborhood arose. He ignored it, but got a visit from Mokuba.
"What exactly are you doing? My brother saw you, and he wants you to stop."
"Why! I'm trying to draw some Duel Monsters and that was the only way!"
"Well, then draw smaller ones!"
"But then how am I supposed to draw the Egyptian god cards?"
"I don't know. I guess you're going to have to find another hobby. I'm really sorry."
Yugi sighed with disbelief. What would be his final drawing? He slept on it and got an idea. He woke up and skipped breakfast that day. He wanted to use all the time he could get. He summoned three monsters and made them pose. He did one at a time, over a period of three days, and his greatest creation was complete:
His Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl, and Magician of Black Chaos were together in the same picture. Dark Magician and Black Chaos were back-to-back with their arms crossed, each holding their staffs, while Dark Magician Girl was sitting with her legs crossed in front of them with her staff leaning on her shoulders. He showed his monsters the picture and Dark Magician Girl insisted Yugi to draw her winking one eye. So he did.
He marveled at how great the picture came out and decided to copy it (with a scanner, not re-drawing it) and send it to Pegasus himself. He replied to Yugi, saying:
"Dear Yugi-boy,
Your drawing is spectacular! It reminds me of, well, me! I would have never thought of drawing a group of monsters, but only you could have thought of this trio! Keep it up!"
So he changed his mind and kept on drawing until the end of the summer,against all of the complaints. He even did a few Magic and Trap cards to give his collection a little variety. He couldn't do the god cards, however; they would destroy the city. When he got back to school, everyone asked him what he did over his vacation.
Yugi replied, "Well, it all started with a stupid pencil..."
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------And, that's the first chapter of The Secret Life of...! Next chapter, we'll see what your choice does on their days off! How did you guys like the concept? Remember, you gotta pick a bad guy! Well, R&R, people!