Chapter
5
A Party at the Kaiba Mansion
At exactly half past
eight the next morning a black limo pulled up in front of Kurama's
home. Yusuke and Kurama were already in the limo, lounging casually
amongst the leather interior dressed in their casual clothes, quite
out of place in the limo.
Andrea
and Hiei both got in as soon as it stopped, Hiei with a small mutter
of 'stupid ningen contraptions.' Andrea wore a dark red
halter-top, a pair of tight black jeans, and a pair of sneakers. Hiei
wore the clothes he normally wore, minus his katana. Kurama had for
the longest time kept a spare set of clothes for Hiei in his bedroom
and now it had paid off since Hiei's first set was ruined.
A
short time later the limo pulled into the driveway of a massive stone
mansion. When the limo dropped them off at the front door they were
met by a teenager who had long black hair and brown eyes. He greeted
Andrea cheerfully and introduced himself to the others as Mokuba
Kaiba.
"How have you been, Andrea?" asked Mokuba, hopping
along energetically next to the girl.
"I've been doing
great, but I hear you're doing better. Seto tells me that you damn
near aced the pre-SAT test. Keep this up and by the time you go to
college every damn college in the country will be fighting over you,"
replied Andrea.
Mokuba giggled a bit and then led them inside.
Once inside the younger Kaiba led them to a room that appeared to be
the living room. There they were introduced to Seto, Joey, Yugi,
Yami, Ryou, Bakura, Malik, and Marik.
Yami, Bakura, and Marik
all looked at Hiei, Kurama, and Yusuke warily. "Are these the ones
that your Dark Magician spoke of?" asked Yami.
"Yes, they
are, Yami,"said Andrea.
"I can't believe that you're
expecting us to trust demons. I though you were smarter then that,
Andrea," said Bakura coldly.
Yusuke started to speak but
Andrea interrupted him. "As if you're one to speak Bakura. Didn't
you once tell me that thieves should not judge others too closely?
Besides these are not normal demons; they are Reikai Tentai and can
be trusted."
"Bakura, for once, is right. Demons can't
be trusted. Besides if they were Reikai Tentei they'd have to be
older then the Pharaoh which they obviously ain't." said Marik,
leaning back casually against the couch.
Then Yugi spoke up
and asked the one question that nobody expected to hear. "What's
a demon?"
"Demon's are evil creatures who care only for
the own pleasure," answered Bakura.
"And that makes them
worse people to be friends with then you and Marik because? After all
you both tried to take over the world and damn near succeeded.
Besides your definition of demon also describes you and Marik with
one small change and I think you know what that change is, Bakura."
said Ryou, a smirk on his normally pleasant face.
Yami
chuckled and said, "Bakura, our hikaris have a point. How much more
untrustworthy can a demon be then an ancient Egyptian Tomb
Robber."
The argument ended and the party began. It was soon
decided that they would play Truth-or-Dare. That is Yugi and Ryou
pulled off the one move that even the most evil and sadistic yami
would always succumb to: the Double Puppy-Dog Look. They went to the
middle of the room and sat in a circle.
Bakura went first. He
glared at Seto Kaiba his eyes full of evil mischief. "Truth or
Dare, High Priest?"
The reply was, "Dare, Tomb
Robber."
"I dare you to kiss the Mutt."
Seto
stared at Bakura in shock for a moment. Then he walked over to "The
Mutt", who just happened to be a blonde haired, brown-eyed ningen
boy named Joey. He sat beside Joey and pulled him into a lip-bruising
kiss that blew both of their minds. Seto did not move back to his
previous seat.
"Truth or Dare, Pharaoh?" said
Seto.
Yami's response was, "Truth."
"Is it true
that Yugi has a temper?" asked Seto.
"Like you wouldn't
believe. Andrea, Truth or Dare?"
Andrea responded after a
moment's hesitation, "I'll take a dare. Do your worst
Yami."
Yami smirked and said, "I would, but Kaiba would
probably kick me out of his mansion for daring someone to do that in
front of his little brother. But I do have an idea that's almost as
good. I saw you looking at Hiei's rear end earlier. I dare you to
kiss him."
Andrea blushed and Hiei scooted away from her.
The girl got up and after a short chase in which Hiei half-heartedly
ran from Andrea, the fire demon was cornered. She slowly advanced on
him and when he had nowhere left to go. She wrapped both arms around
him and kissed him so gently that he almost didn't feel it. Without
realizing it Hiei deepened the kiss. A few minutes later Yami got up
and separated them. Bakura spoke up and said, "That brings back
memories."
Yusuke and Kurama who had been staring in shock
at Hiei and Andrea looked over at him quizzically. Kurama asked the
question that was on both their minds. "What do you mean by
that?"
"Only that this isn't the first time that the
Pharaoh has had to do that, "said Bakura.
"I very much
doubt that Bakura. I'm not that type of girl," said Andrea,
crossing her arms defensively over her chest.
"I think I
would know you better then that Andrea. You are the reincarnation of
the Pharaoh's little sister Adriana and let's just say I knew and
know you very well," said Bakura.
"What he means, Andrea,
is that you owned him in ancient Egypt. In fact he was a present to
you from the High Priest on your thirteenth birthday."
Andrea
blushed at that thought. Kurama and Yusuke were even more
confused.
"How come nobody told me?" asked Andrea as she
and Hiei walked to where he had been sitting, she sat in his lap.
"Then why was Bakura sealed in the Ring? I think I have a right to
know stuff like this."
"Nobody knows. One morning he was
just gone. Nobody figured out what happened to him until Ryou was
given the Ring." Said Yami.
Andrea began to ask another
question but was interrupted when Botan appeared inside the circle.
She handed Hiei a note and disappeared before anyone could summon a
monster. "Who was that?" asked Yami as Hiei read the note and
used some of his ki to burn it to ashes. The game was over.
"Your
training has been put off. Apparently Koenma wants you to do
something important. He left the details with Genkai. We are to go
there after the party."
Needless to say, the party was
pretty much over. They spent the next few hours eating, drinking, and
explaining things to confused people. They talked about everything
from the Millennium Items to Andrea's newfound position as Queen of
Fire and how that would affect her life.
Just as the party
seemed to be breaking up Kurama asked Andrea to tell the story of how
she had met these people.
"I entered a contest in which the
prize was a billion dollars for whoever could write the best Yu Yu
Hakusho lemon fanfic and I won. Seto came to America to give me my
prize. Then a few months later there was a large duelist tournement
in my hometown. He and Yugi, Yami, Ryou, Bakura, and Joey all
entered. Most likely so they could for once be in a duel where the
weight of the world wasn't riding on their shoulders. I also
entered, but I was in the amateur's division. They were in the Pro
division. I ran into Seto on the second day of the tournament. He was
talking to Yami at the time but he saw me and called my name. We
ended up talking for a while and before I knew it I had met the
entire gang and Yami was looking at my deck and giving me pointers on
how to improve it that is until he found my Dark Magician card.
Suddenly
my Dark Magician was on his knees in front of me. I looked at the
others and asked them, 'What the hell just happened?' They looked
at me in shock for a few minutes and then the Dark Magician answered
the question for them. He had said that he had come out to find out
why the Pharaoh had been staring at him. We've pretty much been
friends since then."
"That was weird," said
Mokuba.
"How did you do in the tournament?" asked
Yusuke.
"I scored first in the main tournament and second in
the, 'Winner's Cup' with a lot of help from Yami," said
Andrea
"You could have done it without me," said Yami, a
slight blush on his cheeks.
"You know as well as I do that
without your help my deck wouldn't have been strong enough for me
to get very far. Before you helped me modify my deck, it had too many
magic cards and not enough trap or monster cards. Besides, where
would I have been if you hadn't spent all that time helping me
learn the strengths of my improved deck?" asked Andrea, a wide
smile on her face.
"She
has a point, Pharaoh," said Bakura. "Her deck was
pathetic."
"Exactly how good was the first deck you put
together, Bakura? I doubt very much that it was half as good as the
one you have now. You know that that was the first deck I'd ever
tried to put together. I knew next to nothing about deck construction
at the time...." said Andrea as a distant clock chimed three
o'clock. The party broke up soon after. Kurama and Yusuke both took
the limo back to Kurama's and Andrea and Hiei got a ride on
Andrea's Red Eyes Black Dragon to Genkai's Temple.
