So, since I didn't have anything to do... you know how it is when you're bored, anyway, I decided to put up chapter 2 right now! -listening after a happy "yay"- Well, at least I hope that someone will find it interesting.
Disclaimer: Yu-Gi-Oh! isn't mine
Warnings: This chapter is pretty fluffy, and this is the first time I let my fluffy side take over my writing, so...
... hope you still enjoy it!
Chapter 2
Normal POV
Atemu sighed as he looked through his wardrobe.
"Out of clothes?" Yugi put his head in through the door opening to his yami's room and grinned.
"And who do I have to thank?" The taller one of the look-alikes shook his head but smiled as he showed Yugi the shirt that was torn into two pieces. "If you hadn't insisted on fighting me for that last sandwich yesterday I wouldn't be a shirt short by now"
"Your own fault!" giggled the other. "We just have to go and buy a new one. I'll go and ask Gramps for money right away"
The two men went down to the city and begun looking in affairs, hunting the lucky shirt that would follow them home that day.
"Why does it all have to be so expensive?" Atemu wrinkled his nose as they went out from yet another store.
"That wasn't worse than the last one! Besides, remember that we found a cheap one before! But no, it didn't do for you, wrong colour or what is now was… You should become a model or something you fashion freak…-" But Yugi got interrupted by that Atemu didn't listen. "Hey, I'm talking to you!"
"Do you hear that?" But the Pharaoh didn't wait for an answer, only rushed away.
"Eeeeiiii! Keep away from me!" Atemu saw a group of dogs that surrounded a tree, and when he lifted his gaze he saw a teen girl sitting up there, and it made him smile more warmly and happier than he'd done for a long time. Just a second later Yugi arrived.
"Isn't that..?"
"PHARAOH!" a shriek was heard from the girl, but she silenced when the aggressive dogs barked once again.
"Leave her alone!" rumbled Atemu to them, and with their tales stuck between the legs they whiningly ran for their lives.
"Atemu!" The young woman with the brown hair flew down towards the man and landed hard in his lap, knocking him down on the ground there she put her arms around his neck, laughing happily.
"Mana, what are you doing here?" He had a tough time to get air and sighed in relief when she let go. When Atemu saw his friend's face he saw the most beautiful expression he'd seen, besides from Yugi's sometimes. Mana had the happiest smile she'd ever had and her glistening eyes made her look more alive than ever.
"I didn't think it would work!"
"What wouldn't work?" Yugi helped them up on their feet.
"I cast a spell over myself, hoping that it would bring me to the Pharaoh. And it did!" Mana had to fight the impulse of jumping on Atemu again, and for that he was pretty grateful. Then she started to look around. "So this is the world you entered instead of staying in Egypt."
"I guess you could say that" Atemu walked up beside her and placed his hands in his pockets.
"Whoa, what is that?" She jumped behind his back and pointed at one of the boxes on wheels that drove by. "Those have been chasing me all night!"
"Um… it's a car"
"Car?"
"Machine on wheels that can take you practically anywhere on land" Yugi tried to explain instead of his other self.
"Why not take a horse and carriage?" Mana scratched the back of her head as she followed the guys that still had not found a shirt.
"You don't travel very often like that nowadays" Yugi went towards another store and they entered it.
"Well, then what are we going to do here?" The young woman began walking around between she shelves… of men's underwear.
"Mana!" Atemu hurried to drag her away when she'd begun looking though the boxers. "I think you should go to the ladies side"
He pointed to the other side of the store and so she headed that way. Atemu sighed in relief and started looking for that shirt so that they could come home as soon as possible.
Fifteen minutes later Yugi arrived to the shelf there his aibou stood and held up a black shirt.
"Doesn't this look rather good?" Atemu said, inspecting the pair of clothing closely.
"Yes, but where is Mana?" The shorter man asked worried.
"I let her go and look on the woman's clothes instead. She's a girl after all, if you didn't notice" Atemu looked at Yugi with a glare that said 'Where else should she be?'
Yugi smacked his forehead loudly.
"Did it ever cross your mind that she's never been in this time before!"
"Oops" Atemu fell silent and then rushed away with his better self shortly after.
It didn't take long time hunting Mana down, because she had been taking some pair of clothing and now posed in them.
"Hi guys! What do you think?" She had put the jeans around her waist over her beige skirt, a bra on her head and a poncho as a mantle. "Weird clothes you have here, by the way."
"Mana…" Atemu began meanwhile Yugi didn't know where to go; (his face had now the same colour as a tomato because that he tried not to laugh). "You could at least have looked at the doll!"
The Pharaoh had hidden his face in his hand and with the other one he pointed at a female doll in the window by the shop. The eyes of Mana widened when she saw it.
"Aha… So that's how these is meant to sit." She took the bra and looked at it and repeated: "Weird"
Later that day, after that Atemu hastily had paid for the shirt and dragged Mana through the whole town to get home and she'd stopped at every new thing she saw, which really was everything, but anyway, now they finally was home at the Kame Game shop and the two young men sat down in the couch, both all exhausted.
"Ho ho ho, did you bring home a friend?" Sugoroku Mutou entered the living room and smiling he observed Mana, who ran around and stared at everything, again, but she halted in front of the old man and almost fell over him.
"Oh… whoa… Shamun Muran!" She shouted and the grandfather jumped backwards.
"Huh? Shamun? No, I'm Grandpa, Sugoroku Mutou… never have I been called anything other", he replied and chuckled slightly, still afraid that the teen girl would scare him again. "But wait a minute… why are you dressed in those Egyptian-like clothes?"
"Mana, meet Gramps, and Gramps, meet Mana from the ancient Egypt", grinned Yugi there he sat next to Atemu.
"Hello", smiled Mana. "You resembles very much of a man I knew in Egypt."
"And you of a very powerful card", Sugoroku thought out loud.
"So I've been told." She turned towards Yugi. "Dark Magician Girl you said, right? Well, she's a good friend and actually my Ka."
The teen boy nodded and then felt how the tiredness stroke over him.
"I think it's time to go to bed." Then he looked from Mana to Sugoroku to Atemu. "But where will Mana sleep?"
"She can take my bed and I a mattress." Atemu hurried to say.
"Good idea, you can sleep on the floor in my room." Yugi rose from the couch.
"Um, do you mind if the Pharaoh still sleeps in his own room, with me?" pleaded Mana and put her hands together. "It's such a long time ago I saw my friend."
"Well, alright" the boy looked a little unsure, but agreed. Atemu shone up and when he went by his hikari, he squeezed his shoulder and whispered:
"Thanks."
After helping Mana make the bed, Atemu placed the mattress next to it. Meanwhile the girl was on the toilet, (he had earlier shown her how it worked), he pulled of his tank top and pants so he was only in his boxers when he heard the door open.
"By the way…" Mana turned towards him while he turned slight red. "I don't have any clothing to sleep in."
"Oh." Atemu hurried to his wardrobe, which still was a mess because of earlier that day, and pulled out a big t-shirt. Then he hastily gave it to her. "You can borrow this."
"Thank you" the brown-haired woman smiled and immediately begun unclothing as Atemu widened his eyes. Mana saw this and looked questionably at him as she pulled the dress of. "Are you alright, Pharaoh?"
"Um, Mana…" He didn't know how to begin or what to say, just stood there dumbstruck and covering his eyes. "You know, nowadays we do not often change in front of each other. Especially not girls and boys together."
"Oh… I'm sorry!" But she couldn't help giggle. "I was just so used to it. Remember when we were very small? We didn't cover ourselves then."
"I know." Atemu got a small grin he too and sat down on his temporary bed as Mana sat down on hers. "But that was long ago. We're practically grown-ups now."
"I guess" she sighed, then ruffled his hair slightly. "But in my eyes you always will be that small little Prince who helped me get that fruit"
Without warning Atemu felt how the woman flung around his neck once again and he fell backwards, but thankfully the pillows saved his head. He was about to sit up again and get her of when he suddenly heard a faint sob and felt how his bare chest got wet by tears.
"Mana…?" He wasn't used to see her crying like this, but he laid still and just held her in his arms.
"I… oh, sorry…" She begun rising, but he stopped her and held her comforting. "I've missed you so much. Seeing you disappear that day was the toughest thing I've ever been through, though it was hard loosing Mahado too."
"But you haven't lost me, I'm here." Atemu stroke her hair and mumbled softly to her. "We always got each other no matter what."
He didn't get any reply from her this time, but realised that her breathing had been slower and she was more relaxed. With a peaceful smile he fell asleep too, with Mana lying next to him.
Yugi had opened the door quietly to say goodnight to them, but when he looked inside the two old friends were already sleeping… and next to each other on the floor! Sure, the short man was very happy for that his yami had gotten to meet Mana again, but he couldn't help feeling a bit jealous. As he closed the door and went to his bedroom he sighed deeply and thought:
"Why can't I make him that happy?"
The end... of the chapter of course, which was a bit longer than the first.
But anyway, I'm very open to your reviews and until the next chapter... have it great!
