… (hides from readers)
Yuka Kitsune: I know exactly how you feel. And the same to you! Though it's really late.
Panmotto: Why thank you! I love the whole part where Nami has a cold. I find it hilarious. And Happy Belated Holidays to you to!
Horsie890: I don't know about that. (mischievous smirk)
XChibiNekoChan: Competition between the two Inu lovers? Ladies and Gets! Grab your popcorn and wrestle for a good seat 'cause you only get to see this once in a millennium! Or at an Inuyasha convention. Either way, you don't wanna miss this catfight! And I hate it when my brother says stuff like that, thought lately I've been watching Full Metal Alchemist and he seems to like that, the whole "science" thing. Science my ass! I have enough of that with a science fair in school right now! Speaking of which… HIDE ME! But not before I take your head! (misses) And everybody loves hugs, why should Nami and Mokuba be any different, and next chapter… More Hugs! (Crowd: Yey!) And I do feel sorry for Nami, but the more hilarious things that happen to her drown it out. Happy Belated Holidays!
BritishxCrumpet: Thanks… wait… WHAT! How can you NOT notice the fluff! Am I that bad? (goes and thinks about life in corner)
Purgatory's Justice: FLAMER! Sick 'em my loyal fans! And so what if this makes Power Rangers look like Shakespeare? This makes cho mama look like Jessica Simpson! (Crowd: OOOOO!) That's right! And besides… I think I know who this is anyway… You be in for it now!
Alright, I just wanted to say, it's my birthday a week from today, and I will promise to try my hardest to get a chapter out for it. It may be short, but I still want to do it. Just don't be surprised if I say I was staying up late, eating candy and watch FMA. Stuff happens!
P.S. - Just so you guys know, this chapter and maybe the next one/few are a bit Yugi centric. Nami is going to help all of the demons with their problems. She already kinda did Joey, but she's probably going to help him again. Just for a heads up. Oh, and if you want, those centric chapters can have so much fluff it will explode into feathers, but only if you say so in your review!
Disclaimer: Alright, I'm going to try and say something funny… (strains) KELLY CLARKSON! Nope… oh well.
Joey and Tristan dragged Nami along as fast as they could down one of the sidewalks in the courtyard. Normally, she might have complained, but she was in her own little world, again, and just bobbing behind them with a dazed expression on her face.
After a swift turn around a corner, Joey and Tristan pressed themselves against a brick wall with bushes growing on top, while the rest of the gang followed and hid with them, Nami just following behind and tripping over a demon's foot, falling smack on her head.
While they were catching their breath, and hoping nobody saw what had happened to the little witch, only did Yugi notice that she was lying face down on the ground with no signs of breathing. He bent down onto his knees and gently pushed her shoulder.
"This can't be good."
That's when Bakura decided to try his approach, kicking her harshly with his foot. Her body shifted from the blow, but nothing else happened. That's when everyone started to panic, well, almost everyone. Seto and Bakura just stood back and laughed to themselves while the rest were focused on trying to help her.
Then, the witch's head popped up as she sat back on her heels. All who were crowded around her flinched and jumped back in surprise and a yell, while she held a straight face. Then, in a fluid motion, Nami brought her hands to her face and sneezed, a battle of all different winds, from different directions and strengths suddenly buzzed around them.
"Don't take this the wrong way," Mokuba started, "But does it change every time you sneeze?"
"Huh?"
Yugi spoke up, "Well, the first time, there was… an explosion. This time a gale."
"Weird, I never noticed."
Bakura turned his head towards Seto, an annoyed look upon his face, "This human is full of surprises."
"What!" The girl turned to them with a face full of shock and outrage, "Did you just say my mother births chocolate Canadian Camels!"
"No!"
"Ok, good." she scoffed, "Because joking about an endangered species is nothing to laugh about. Did you know they went down from three to one? Poor little guys, they never stood a chance…"
Mokie and Yugi glanced at each other, both with a look like 'Is she serious or just yanking our chains?' But, apparently but the way she was tearing up, she was telling the truth. Joey and Tristan shared the similar greedy looks in their eyes as crazy ideas of adventure brewed up in their minds, their own little Indiana Jones adventure to find the elusive "Chocolate Canadian Camel".
"Nami, I think we should get you back to your place. That way ShiShi can watch after you, seeing as we have no idea." Mai broke the silence.
"Ok…" The witch straightened out her posture and looked around, trying to peer over the others heads, "Where am I?"
"In the courtyard."
"Where?"
Yami and Mai exchanged looks, "At the Tenma School for Demons."
"Oh, cool… Where's that?"
Before any of them could answer, their mouths hanging open and catching flies, Nami fell over and landed in Yami's lap, out cold. The elder Motou squirmed uncomfortably, for if she were awake… it just would have been awkward, seeing as it already happened with Joey.
"What do we do?" the younger Kaiba asked.
"Let her breathe?" his brother remarked sarcastically.
Bakura groaned, figuring he was the only one who was capable of getting anything done, and took a firm hold onto her ankle, lifting her high into the air so that she dangled like a wind chime. The instant her body hung upside down, Nami's short little school skirt flipped and revealed her Super Mario panties, though nobody noticed the plumber.
After showing off her lingerie, the white-haired demon literally dropped her onto a wooden bench that was only a few feet off, before brushing his hands free of dust and walking away. Afterwards, everyone crowded around her once again and checked her vital signs to make sure she was still among the living.
Yugi leaned back against his palms and sighed after the group deducted that she was only sleeping, and looked up at his brother. 'Nami is sure a handful.' That's when he noticed it, or at least, thought he did. The lycan could have sworn that a flash of genuine care flashed behind his brother's crimson eyes, but he could always have been wrong.
And with impeccable timing, the young witch sat up straight in a heartbeat and let out a long and echoing sneeze, a large sapling sprouting out of the ground in the flowerbed beside them with a loud rumble. As a few ripe leaves floated to the ground, or more specifically, Nami's head, she rubbed her nose and cleared her throat before shaking them off.
The girl yawned, opening her mouth wide while stretching her arms back before noticing her friends surrounding her with awed looks upon their faced. A sweat drop materialized on her forehead as she chuckled nervously.
"You know, it's surprisingly not abnormal."
"What isn't?" a deep growl came from Bakura's throat.
"You know… the whole… sneezing thing," she tried to emphasize with her hands, "The weird stuff that keeps happening because I'm sick?"
"Oh, just the stuff when you're sick?" Tristan said sarcastically.
"Yeah, all the explosions, wind gusts, earthquakes. It's all of my magic spurting out of my body when I sneeze, creating a magical explosion."
"How do you explain the tree?"
Nami shrugged, "I don't know everything."
"Well," Mai scooted towards the human girl, "Is there anything we can do to help with your cold? A warm bath, herbs, medicine? I mean, I think we want to avoid an unnatural disaster at all costs."
Nami brought her finger to her chin, "I'm sure ShiShi knows. He's always taking care of me when I have colds. In fact, I remember his tea," her mouth started to water, "That stuff's good."
"So, if we get you some of this tea, you'll be cured?" Yami stated hopefully.
"No!"
Bakura twitched violently, "What do you mean 'no'!"
"Do you know another definition to the word 'no'? I'm sick, you can't magically cure sickness in seconds. Especially one of the most powerful sicknesses."
"'Most powerful?' Aren't you a little confused? A cold is one of the most common and weakest viruses. The only last a few hours and have more minimal symptoms compared to other viruses and diseases." Seto lectured.
The witch stared at them like they were from Pluto, before muttering to herself, "These guys are nuts."
"Either way," Yugi interrupted, "This tea will… help you get better faster?"
"Yep! And it's quite tasty!"
"So then it's decided, we go to Nami-chan's apartment and ask ShiShi-sama to… fix up some tea. Then hopefully, Nami-chan will be all better without any more weird accidents." Mokuba summed up, looking quite proud of himself.
The girl blinked, "Ok."
"Ok, then all we have to do is get back to Nami's apartment? Then what are we waiting for! Nami-chan, can you stand?" Joey declared, sticking out his hand to her.
"I'm sick, not crippled."
She stood up with ease and brushed the remaining leaves and dust off of her clothes, before rubbing her nose and holding back a sneeze. The others looked weary until she assured them that it had passed.
Joey peeked out from behind the brush wall, making sure that no other students were looking their way and waved to the others. Swiftly and silently, they made their way out of their secluded haven, trying not to look suspicious. Who knows what kind of demons would use Nami's weakened state to their advantage?
Actually, they do.
"Well, well. If it isn't the nimrod gang? Still hanging out with the afternoon snack? I thought some demon with decency would put her out of her misery… Bakura."
Everyone halted, frozen in their spots as Shinji and his gang rounded the corner, the leader chewing on a toothpick between his teeth. The rest crowded around, licking their lips greedily and watching Nami's rosy cheeks, thinking that it was a blush, not fever, while her skirt flew high in the mid-morning breeze. Bakura narrowed his eyes and glared at Shinji, he wasn't going to let his reputation as the most maniacal demon at this school be ruined by some human.
That's when her fever kicked in again, raising her temperature just enough to fry her now scrambled egg-like brain enough to go a bit loopy. In response, she started giggling. It began softly, as she kept a pretty straight face, but it quickly grew to where she had to hide it behind her hand. That's when all of the demons in the area noticed.
"Nami!" Yami hissed, "What are you doing!"
It wasn't long before she couldn't take anymore. Nami clutched her stomach as she was laughing, tears building up in her eyes with a large, lopsided grin on her face.
"What's the matter, human?" Shinji snarled.
Nami looked up with a childlike smile on her face, "You're funny lookin'!"
Tristan smacked his forehead, "She did not just say that!"
"What did you say to me, human?" Shinji asked in a low, dangerous whisper.
She giggled again, "I said you're funny looking! And I guess you have a hearing problem too!"
A ripple of shock ran through the demons faces, the ones in Shinji's gang looked horrified as they dared to glance at their boss. True, the insult was small and petty, nothing permanently scarring, but definitely degrading when coming from a half-baked and crazy human.
The demon leader started to laugh, a small and deep chuckle, "Well, human, I'm feeling generous today. I'll give you a chance to apologize to me before I eat you for lunch. That way, you may at least have some comfort when going to the other side."
"I'm not going."
Shinji couldn't hide his shock, "You're what?"
"I'm not going to the other side." Nami looked up, smiling with a child-like innocence, and an aura from The Exorcist.
"Oh yeah!" the bully roared, "Well you don't have a choice!"
He pointed and a lesser demon rushed forward, fangs bared and claws ready to strike. It wasn't long, however, before the poor beast was struck down, Joey looking down at him in disgust, before throwing him back over before Shinji's feet.
The big boss didn't look impressed and nodded his head, two others dashing forward, anxious to get a piece of human flesh. In only a few seconds, they were smacked down, Seto and Yami standing over their twitching bodies.
"You twits are really starting to annoy me."
"That's our job." Tristan smirked, though inside he was trembling fiercely.
From beside Nami, Yugi's ears twitched, as most of the demonic student body gathered around them in a circle. Out of all of them, half of them agreed with Shinji's way of doing things because they thought he was the "idol demon", others followed him because they were scared, few were able to openly disagree with him a live.
The Motou and Mokuba instinctively ran and hid behind Nami, being a lifeless doll straight out of a horror film at the time, and clutched onto her skirt, ducking behind her figure. Yugi, being older, stood in front of Mokuba and protected him, and that's when he glanced at his brother.
Yami was always the stronger one, born to play the part of a ferocious demon. His crimson slit eyes, fangs and claws helped, but his pure aura was that of a demon. The air around him signified that he was nothing to be taken lightly, just like their father.
That's when the boy looked down at his hands, his skimpy little finger nails, in his mouth he felt with his tongue little bumps for fangs, and his eyes were wide and cute, definitely not intimidating demon material. Then he remember that there was something his brother had, that he had once talked to Yugi about, and with their father: courage.
'What makes a human fight against loosing odds?' Lord Motou asked his sons, 'He knows that he cannot win, but he is willing to die trying to protect his family.'
"Watch out!"
"Mokuba! Yugi! Nami!"
"Yugi!" Yami cried.
Things seemed to move in slow motion, a slippery demon had managed to bypass the elders and headed straight for the trio, in mid-leap while pulling his arm back to strike. Mokuba had fallen backwards to try and avoid the attack, but the witch, being almost no more than a shell at the moment, stood fast and showed no fear in her blank eyes.
He had only a second to act, only one chance… and he took it. With his fox like reflexes, Yugi formed his hand into a fist and swung his arm like a club, hitting the demon right in the head just before he was going to take a big bite out of the girl. The beast fell to the ground panting with some bleed leaking out from his skull , as Yugi breathed in and out deeply, looking at his fist.
Shinji stood shocked for a second before flushing with anger, "Why you brat! That's it! Kill them all!"
All of his little pets dashed forward, spit dribbling down their chins as they roared and clawed at each other to draw first blood. For no reason it seems, the stopped just before reaching the gang, eyes wide and staring, but not moving any further.
"What's the matter with you!" their leader roared, "Kill them! Murder them all!"
Still, none of them moved as Seto glanced behind him to see what they were looking at, and gulped nervously. Nami was standing, but with her eyes slightly closed and nose scrunched, opening her mouth wide. All of her friends knew what was happening, responding appropriately by running away far to the sides, the other demons just remained where they were, thinking she was going to cast magic on them and used what is known as "The Rattle Snake Method". This is simply, if you move, you die.
Mai calmly walked up behind Nami, speaking in a hushed voice, "Nami… are you ok?"
Mokuba ran past Mai and lightly slapped away the hand that was going to comfort the witch and yelled, hopefully loud enough so she could hear, "Let it all out!"
As commanded, Nami sneezed, not bothering to try and cover it, a giant wave of liquid crashing into the demons in front of her, washing them away and leaving them soaking wet in a pile before Shinji's feet. Most other demons around them backed away and cringed at the sight, not quite sure what the liquid was they were lying in.
The demon bully growled, "Looks like I'll have to take care of you myself!"
He stepped over his mangled comrades and rolled up his sleeves, a deep growl coming from his throat. Shinji walked towards Nami straight and forwardly, though she, once again, didn't seem to notice, too busy rubbing her nose, and sniffling.
Both Mokuba and Yugi saw this, and noticed that she was working up another sneeze. Nodding to each other, they ran behind Mai and pushed her forward, the breeze making her flowing blonde hair hit the witch's face, the little soft bristles gently caressing her nose.
Immediately afterwards, they two pulled the temptress so fast that all three fell to the ground, and they covered their heads with their hands. Just as Shinji was about to make contact, the sneeze triggered a giant explosion and he was flown back in a giant blast of flames. Nami covered her mouth and coughed a bit into her hands, as her demon adversary was rolling around on the ground trying to put the fire out.
Once Shinji was out of immediate danger, he struggled to his feet, a few ashes of his former clothes and body falling to the ground. He said nothing before he turned tail and ran, clutching his wounds as his gang followed him. It wasn't soon after that the rest of the crowd dispersed, not wanting to be caught at the seen if, and when, teachers arrived.
Joey, sensing the danger, nodded to the others and they headed towards the dorms, going all the way up to Nami's apartment and opened the door. Inside, ShiShi was laying down and reading a dusty old book with weird markings inside, in a presumably different language.
The cat glanced up at them, "Have a good day?"
Yeah, so I hope you liked it. I swear I'm going to start on the next chapter. And I even have an extra day off to work on it. But you know how things happen. And to tell you guys a little secret. I have an idea for an FMA fic. It came to me last night and its really hard fighting it so I don't write anything. I'll hold out for you guys! But in return, I demand reviews! Plenty of them! And everyone's left shoe!
