Guess what? New chapter! Ok, I have a good reason for this being, what, a month late? School is murder, I got so much homework, then I have practice and meets that can last forever. On weekends I try not to do anything, oh and I was trying to type on another story before declaring writer's block and starting this one. Don't worry, I'm on a demon kick right now so I'll start typing the next chapter.
Panmotto: Yes, fluff, everybody likes fluff… there are so many pairings in this fic. Most of it is just lust though, ya know?
Horsie890: Happy early birthday! And I don't live in Florida so no problem! Glad ya liked it!
BritishxCrumpet: OO What! No changing your mind! Against the rules:D Anyway, I already decided, but if you want me to add a little more Jerry Springer, love triangle, fluffy stuff, let me know. ;)
PersonageoftheUniverse: Wow, an easy request for once.
Yuka Kitsune: Oooo. New reviewer! (I think?) Anyway glad ya liked it!
Fish and Chips: Yes, the whole fluff stuff will be complicated, but nothing my master brain can't work out! (LIAR!) Anyway, why not start a sequel! That is one of the best fics I've ever read! And what about Marriage Evaluation? And not my make-out scenes! Wah!
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Nami was in a wonderful world, it was filled with ice cream, skateboards and books titled, All the Secrets of Magic Mastered in Five Seconds. She floated around in the realm filled with giant pink bubbles and sparkles drifting in and out of focus. The witch smiled a giant lazy grin and leaned back, resting on a giant cloud of cotton candy in a meadow of non-important stuffed animals.
'This is the life.' she thought, her eyes half open.
A loud screech made Nami sit up straight, looking frantically left and right. All of a sudden, an invisible hand grasped the collar of her shirt and hastily pulled her forward, not caring about her body thrashing about behind.
Another shriek sounded and Nami threw her eyes open, sitting up straight and panting slightly. She was sitting on a tree branch about ten feet up in the air, a light wind caressing her face, making her hair whirl slightly and the leaves around her rustle. The sound of rushing water came from the small stream off to her left as the water twinkled in the sunlight, the sun also peeking through the gaps in the leaves.
The same ear-spitting sound rang through the air, making the girl jump and almost slide out of the tree, rolling over and wrapping her arms around the branch, so that she was dangling upside down with her arms and legs clenched tightly limb above her.
Below her, a few chuckles were let loose and she looked down, seeing the whole gang lounging about below her. Tristan lowered his fingers from his lips, obviously the one who whistled and woke her up while most of the others smiled, Joey letting out another whistle.
Nami jerked and felt her face turn tomato red, those perverts were looking up her skirt! Her first reaction was to threaten them with her fist, and in doing so, let go of the tree limb. A squeak left her lips as the witch fell through the air, the front half of her body landing face down into something lumpy, but soft, the rest crashing down roughly afterward.
She groaned and lifted her stiff neck upwards, enough for her to see navy blue in her whole vision range. 'Oh no…' she piped in her mind. Wiggling her arms around a bit, the girl found sturdy ground and pushed her torso up more, leaning her head back even more to meet the intense crimson gaze of Yami. If her face could grow and redder, it would, as Nami blinked, trying to force herself away from the only thing she could see, those never ending scarlet pools.
"I think you broke her." Bakura's sarcastic voice rang out and the witch's grip slipped on the grass, falling straight back in the lycan's lap.
She scrambled around and bit and sat up, scuttling away from him a few feet with her hands, looking much like a crab while squeaking "Sorry" under her breath. The Motou in question pretending like he didn't notice, his face clearly showing that he didn't care, or even that he enjoyed it.
"You know, I thought the mutt slept like a rock. You're even worse than him." Seto snorted, looking at Joey out of the corner of his eye.
Nami shrugged, "That's what you get being the youngest in a house with two idiots trying to jinx each other all day."
"You witches have problems."
"At least we don't eat each other."
The vampire raised an eyebrow.
"I read it in a book once."
"What to see it first hand?" Bakura smirked and inched closer to her, his fangs bared.
"In case you happened to forget," she replied, backing away, "I'm human."
"That means you'll taste better."
The white-haired demon stood up and playfully, as playfully as he could get, pounced towards her, missing only by an inch as she swerved. The witch thoughtlessly ran towards the tree trunk, almost stepping on Yami and placing her loafers on the bark. Her fingers gripped on the natural holds as she hoisted her body back up to her tree branch, laying down on her stomach with her limbs wrapping around it.
"He was just kidding, Nami! Come down from there!" Tristan called, the other demon muttering, "That's what you think." under his breath.
The young girl shook her head vigorously and leaned it against the bark, peeking over the edge to stare at them. Mokuba couldn't help but giggle from down below at how stubborn she was acting, much like a child, while Seto could feel his temper growing.
"Come on witch. Get down here." the vampire tried to say calmly.
She shook her head again, making the two youngest giggle; Mai was watching with a very amused expression on her face. Seto growled and stepped forward, as if to go up there and get her when his younger brother grabbed his arm, Yugi stepping forward.
"Why not?" the young Motou asked.
"He's gonna kill me!" she cried, her voice cracking.
"No he won't!" Mokuba replied, rolling his eyes.
Bakura snorted, "Who says?"
"See!" Nami whined.
"What about that magic whatchamagigger that you have?" Joey asked curiously, scratching his head.
"Oh yeah."
The demons waited for her to climb down from the tree, but nothing happened. Looking up, she was just laying there, staring back at them. A yellow butterfly floated by, flapping its brightly colored wings every once in a while and she watched it musingly.
"Well, aren't you going to come down?" Yami asked.
"Nope, I'm comfy up here."
Mai giggled and the other demons stared at her, as if she was mad. She calmed down and shrugged.
"The girl wants what she wants."
"She's in a tree." Seto said.
"Yep."
"A tree."
"Uh-huh."
"You know," Nami called, looking out into the distance, "It's really nice up here. You guys should come up, great view."
"Really-" started Mokuba
"No." Seto interrupted, "Now get down here."
"I told you, I'm comfy up here." she replied, absentmindedly picking up an acorn into her hand.
"Get down here, before I come up." Seto seethed, his hands clenched at his sides.
"…No."
Seto snarled and moved towards the tree trunk, gripping onto the bark and making Nami squeak. He hoisted himself up a bit on a foot hold in the middle of the wood, as the witch scrambled to the end of the branch to try and run. Unfortunately, the end wasn't as sturdy and couldn't support her weight, making her fall down on top of Bakura, laying face down across his lap.
At first, the albino was mad, but a perverted smirk formed on his face, but Nami wasn't paying attention. Suddenly, a strong pang of magic plucked at her heart and her eyes widened, immediately dashing to the air to watch the small acorn falling in the air about fifty feet off.
"Oh no…" the witch groaned under her breath.
She completely zoned out all of the others, the demons soon noticing. Even when Tristan walked over, pretending to trip on her skirt and shifting it so it revealed her underwear, she didn't flinch. Now, they knew something was wrong.
The acorn fell right by the stream, in a little hole carved out by the water over the years. A tiny drip from the creak splashed onto it and all in the meadow was still.
The apprentice witch felt her eyes widen even more as her magic involuntarily gushed out of her body. Yami gasped and pulled his brother behind him, Bakura pushing the human off of him and crawled hastily away as she started to glow.
Nami's body was glowing a bright lime green with a sliver of yellow in it. Her body was slowly being pulled up like a puppet on a string attached to her chest while the binder in her hair broke, making it flow all around her head.
Joey narrowed his eyes and followed the glowing school girl's gaze until he saw the same colors glimmering in the river. After a second, the few leaves of a seedling peeked out over the small hill carving the stream's valley. The strange part was, it kept growing, about an inch a second, spouting more twigs and leaves.
Mai could barely contain a scream as the green seedling grew brown bark, continuously growing. Large roots shoving through the dirt as a canopy of leaves spread out over the small river. The tree finally stopped moving when it reached about sixty feet in height, looking like a mushroom with the giant umbrella like shape branches with brightly green colored leaves.
The gang gasped wordlessly as Nami's body lowered down about a inch gently, before the glow completely disappeared and let her drop the few feet flat on her face. Yugi and Mokuba carefully peeked out from behind their brothers and cautiously stepped forward, moving over to see if she was still alive.
A vine from the tree they were originally sitting under, came out of nowhere and wrapped around the girl's waist, pulling her up, and maneuvering her so that she was sitting up with her legs straight in front of her as she stared in front of her, completely dazed.
"Are you ok?" Mokuba asked, slightly touching her shoulder before jerking away, then holding on firmly.
"Acorn… fall in water… magic… couldn't… magic… Miracle Grow…" a jumble of words came from her mouth.
"I think we should get her back." Yugi said, looking from her to his brother, who nodded.
A sudden breeze picked up, blowing through the leaves of the tree, making a strange moaning sound. The demons exchanged strange and suspicious glances, but turned their attention to the witch. Bakura stepped forward and heaved her up by her skirt and hung her on his shoulder with her torso laying limply against his back while he was holding loosely onto her legs.
"Comfortable?" Seto asked sarcastically.
"Very."
"Nice view?" Joey asked, Mai pinching his ear hard.
Bakura smirked, "Very nice."
Nami twitched in her sleep.
"We better go before Sleeping Beauty wakes up."
The demons made their way back down the gravel path back through the small forest before the courtyard and looked around when they reached the stone pathways. The whole place was deserted, loud chatter coming from the cafeteria as the brilliant red sunlight made the buildings light up like neon lights. The sight was beautiful, but demons didn't like beautiful, so they just continued over to the dorms, heading to the elevator and up to her apartment.
Bakura was leading the group and turned to number 450 and placed his hand on the door knob, going to turn the handle.
"Just what do you think you're doing?"
Bakura jumped, barely noticeable, and turned around and saw the familiar black cat sitting on the railing, to where the lobby was down below. ShiShi glared at the demon, seeing his master unconscious on his shoulder.
"Can we talk about this inside ShiShi-san?" Mai pleaded, clasping her hands together, "She doesn't look so good."
"Yes, and my arm is falling asleep." Bakura scoffed, pushing the door open.
The cat hissed, muttering to himself and bounded down from the ledge, trotting into the apartment before the albino, his tail high in the air. The neko ran over to the couch and leapt onto the armrest, sitting imperially with his eyes narrowed, a light hiss coming from his mouth.
Bakura walked over and plopped the human down onto the couch, a loud bang as her head fell like a brick onto the hard armrest, a few of the people flinching from the sound. ShiShi clawed at the fabric in the couch to try and prevent himself from slicing the demon apart, limb from limb.
Instead, Mokuba quickly ran forward and sat down on his knees next to the couch, looking worriedly at the girl. He placed his hands on the edge of the cushions and glanced up at the cat before back at the witch.
"What's wrong with her?" the young vampire asked softly.
ShiShi jumped down onto her stomach and sat facing her head, sniffing around her face before sitting up straight on his hind legs with his eyes closed, looking all-knowing.
"One reason why I hate this time of the month." he sighed, "As you know, the full moon affects everything, in millions of different ways. Unfortunately for us, Nami usually has one general symptom, her magic goes out of control."
Tristan blinked, "Meaning?"
"Pretty much, whenever she touches anything, anything could happen."
"Like how that tree grew so suddenly!" Yugi exclaimed.
The guardian sighed, "Yep, things like that."
"Do you even know what happened?"
"Do I have to?"
The cat opened his yellow eyes and looked over at the clock ticking on the wall. Sadly, it only showed the numbers one through twelve and not the lunar calendar, currently displaying the time 6:54, but the cat knew that the next day would be the night of the full moon.
ShiShi swished his tail back and forth, "You guys should be going home."
"What?" Joey cried, completely shocked, "But what about her?"
"She'll be fine. Trust me."
"But-"
"Don't you demons have some homework you should be neglecting?"
All of them froze. In their backpacks was an essay due the next day, and the teacher said if they, anyone except Yugi, Mai, and Seto, failed to complete the assignment once again, then they would get detention for a month. Detention in a demon school… not pretty.
"Uhh… I don't me to be rude… I mean…"
"Go!" ShiShi shook his head, "Just go!"
When the cat blinked, dust was settling back on the floor, leaving the doorway empty. The door was lightly pushed back by the wind and bounced on the hinges, repeating for a few minutes before the neko sighed and stood up, jumping down from the couch and pushing the door closed with his head.
"Birds of a feather, flock together."
Well? How did you like that? Enough fluff? Next chapter, finally the full moon comes! Bad things happen to Nami, everyone gets grumpy, and time to feel sorry for Joey! Please review and I swear to start the next chapter right away!
