Romance is in the air, and it is a thick fog that smothers you and makes it so that you're blind to what's right in front of you. In my opinion.
Ignore the above saying, just came to my mind. Romance is in this chapter though =) Also… this isn't the Christmas special, but I think the next chapter will be. It might not be posted for a while though, so please bear with me, and MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY! (I got the iPod Touch I wanted! I will now download all sorts of Disney and Broadway songs to it.)
Chapter 21: Yugi and Anzu Make Up
A few days after Bakura could talk again, Yugi and Anzu had been arguing again.
It hadn't started out bad, Yugi had went over to Anzu's house to hang out try and talk out their problems. He had brought some board games, some DVDs and flowers to help him. And of course his new necklace that held his other half inside - he's never seen without it.
Ding dong! Anzu opened up her door to find Yugi smiling sheepishly. He handed her the flowers and held up the board games. "Can I stay over for a while?"
Anzu smiled and took the flowers, "Sure." She opened the door all the way and let Yugi in. The sun was on the other side of her house at this time, so they didn't have to worry about that.
Yugi walked into Anzu's home. She had a pretty decent house, considering she didn't have much money to furnish it. She wanted to pay her own way through college, that's why she was so happy when she had gotten a scholarship, and that's why she was so sad when she turned into a vampire. She had thought she would have to give up her scholarship, and ergo college, but then she realized that she could just go to night school. Lost of students did that so that they could have another job. Most of the kids in her class were really tired when they got to class because of this, but in a way Anzu still had it harder. She was limited as to where she could work because of the restrictions the sun put on her, unlike her classmates who didn't have that restriction. Because of this, she had to get a job at a place with no windows, or very little windows. After all, she couldn't work in a skyscraper, they had windows around the whole building for the sun to shine through! And she couldn't get a job at the mall (too many skylights) and she definitely couldn't get a job as a lifeguard, or anywhere on the beach for that matter. Oh, I suppose you want to know where she actually works. Well, she works in a movie theatre part time. She works as an usher, a janitor, or sometimes at the concession stands near the center of the building. She had told her boss that she had a skin condition where she couldn't be in the sun that long, and the boss hadn't questioned. She was a good worker, and she never complained. She also took an odd job testing the quality of shoes. Not only did she get paid for her opinion, she also got to keep all of the shoes she tested. After all, they couldn't sell the shoes since they had already been used.
Enough about Anzu's work life, I'm sure you're all bored stiff hearing about it. Instead, we'll talk about what's happening currently. Yugi took a seat on Anzu's hand-me-down blue couch and started setting up one of the board games on her hand-me-down table (almost everything in her house was a hand-me-down). Anzu sat down next to him and helped him set up a game called "Sorry."
They started playing this silly game, swapping lots of fun and laughter along with memories that last a lifetime, and then they started to talk.
"After the game, I have a new formula for you to try out," Yugi said while looking at the cards in his hand.
Anzu was quiet, and then she said quietly, "Yugi?"
"M-hm," Yugi said, he was still occupied with looking at his cards.
Anzu sighed, "I think we should take a break." Yugi looked up with his eyes wide.
"Y-you want to break up?" He sounded heartbroken.
Anzu's eyes went wide with shock, "What? No, No! Of course not! I was talking about the vampire tests!"
Yugi sigh inwardly with relief, he hadn't wanted to break up, he had wanted to make things better. He looked at Anzu. "Why?"
"Well," she began, "I just think that you're spending too much time on it. Too much work is bad for you ya know."
"I know…" Yugi looked at the cards in his hand, then he looked up at Anzu. "Do you think I won't be able to find a cure?" he said quietly.
"Well…" Anzu faltered.
Yugi bit his bottom lip, "Don't you want to be human again?"
Anzu looked down, "Well…" She couldn't speak anymore, every time Yugi asked if she wanted to be human again, she felt… she felt like Yugi didn't love her anymore… She felt like Yugi was only trying to find the cure so that she would be human again… so that he could love her again… And this thought made her want to cry her eyes out.
But of course, Yugi didn't mean this at all. He wanted to find the cure so that Anzu's life would be simpler. He noticed the stress that Anzu put on herself and he didn't want her to be stressed, he loved her, just the way she was. Vampire and all. And if you love someone, you don't want them to be anything but happy.
Actually, Yugi was also a little annoyed that Anzu didn't think he could find the cure, and whenever she asked him to stop for a while, he felt like she was doubting his abilities, and he wanted his girlfriend to have more faith in him.
Yugi looked back at his cards and placed a card down angrily.
Anzu looked at her cards now to take her turn, but mostly to avoid Yugi's gaze. "It's not that I don't want to be human again… but, well, being a vampire isn't so bad… I never have to sleep." She offered a small smile at Yugi, who didn't return it.
Yugi sighed, "If you want to be human again, why do you keep saying I should stop?"
"I just don't like seeing you so frustrated all the time… you know? I mean, you've been yelling at yourself more and more lately…"
Yugi inhaled and exhaled. He had been yelling at himself, but he'd also been arguing with Yami, or the Pharaoh, or the other Yugi, whatever you wanna call him.
Anyway, he was pretty sure that Anzu was talking about his arguments. He had tried to explain to her that he had two souls inside his body, but he wasn't sure she really understood this. Sometimes it felt like Anzu forgot about his other personality. And sometimes, it seemed as if Anzu liked Yami more than him. This made Yugi feel angry, but whenever he tried to talk to her about it, everything got really messed up and confused and they just started yelling at each other about practically nothing. It was really frustrating, and sometimes Yugi felt like Anzu was purposely acting like she was confused to hide the fact that she did like his other self more than him.
The very thought made him so angry that he wanted to punch something, and he hated violence!
He inhaled and exhaled to calm himself down, and then he said, "I find talking to yourself very… beneficial…"
'Beneficial? Is that all I am to you?' Yami input.
If I try explaining, we'll just start yelling again.
'How do you know? Maybe this time it'll be different.'
Yugi sighed, I don't think so. Yami frowned and left Yugi alone for now.
"I understand that you can figure things out by talking to yourself, but you've been doing it all the time."
"Well…" Yugi didn't know what to say to that, "Well… Why can't you just be more supportive of me?" Yugi finally asked, his voice raising.
"I've been nothing but supportive!" Anzu retorted, raising her voice as well.
"Oh yeah, if being supportive includes doubting me every time I say I found the cure, then yeah, you've been nothing but supportive!"
"Well, excuse me for not believing that you found the cure after countless failures!"
"All of those failures are going to help me find the real cure! Don't you understand how important every attempt is?"
"I understand, but that's not the issue!"
"Then what is the issue?"
"The issue is that you need to take a break!" Anzu finally screamed. At that point, they just began yelling back and forth, not thinking before they speak, just saying whatever anger-driven thought came to their mind. Eventually it got to the point where they couldn't hear the other person because they were yelling over them. They yelled in this heated way for quite a while, but then they both stood there panting, looking at each other, and they both sighed.
"…We need help…" Yugi said quietly.
"But therapists are too expensive… And all of our friends are too busy…"
"Well… not all of our friends…" Yugi said remembering his talk with Marik yesterday. He had said that he was so glad to be back home, but he didn't say what they had done exactly. Yugi had wanted to ask later and in person because it sounded as if a lot had happened by how relieved Marik sounded to be home. "Marik and Bakura are back from their trip…"
"They don't want to hear about our problems. Besides, they're probably exhausted."
"Then what are we supposed to do?" Yugi asked, "We can't continue screaming at each other… I don't want to do that anymore!"
Anzu looked down, "Neither do I… but…"
"Then we're leaving! Come on!" Yugi grabbed Anzu's coat and her hands and then they walked through the door and started walking towards Marik and Bakura's house while Anzu put on her jacket to block the sun.
"Ah-choo!" Marik sneezed.
"Bless you," Bakura mumbled.
"Thanks. I don't know why I sneezed…"
"You're not getting sick again are you?"
"I hope not. I hate it when I get sick."
Me too, Bakura thought before their doorbell rang. They had been sitting on the couch watching TV at this time. Well, Marik was watching TV, Bakura was reading a book. Anyway, Bakura closed his book and stood up to answer his door, finding a breathless Yugi and Anzu on the other side. They had run all the way there. Bakura blinked a couple of times. "Um… Hello, what are you guys doing here?" he asked. Not because he cared, but because he was curious.
Anzu stepped inside and Yugi followed her. Bakura closed the door after them, wishing that that whole thing about vampires having to be invited into a home was true.
"Sorry to barge in like this," Yugi said, ever polite, "But… we need some help."
"With what?" Marik asked as Bakura sat next to him again.
"Tell Yugi that nothing's wrong with a little break! He's been working way too hard!"
Yugi's eyebrows scrunched together and he looked at Anzu, "Shouldn't we give them the whole story first?""What more is there to tell them?" Anzu countered.
"Hm… how about the fact that you don't believe in me?"
"For the last time -!"
"Shut up!" Bakura told them, "You're acting like children."(1)
"Yeah!" Marik agreed, "Now, what's the problem exactly?"
"Anzu wants me to stop these vampire tests."
Bakura looked at her, remembering when she had called him on the boat. He looked at Yugi, "Maybe you should take a break, take a vacation! You've been working for over a year now right?"
Yugi sighed, "Why can't you guys see I'm so close to finding it though? You're a vampire! Don't you want to be human again?"
The question stumped Bakura, he wasn't so sure if he'd want to be human again. The potion Pegasus had given him entered his mind. He wasn't even sure if he should drink it yet.
However, Anzu didn't allow Bakura to torture himself for long: "You've been "so close" to finding the cure forever! Why don't you want to take a break?"
"Because I want you to be human again!" Yugi yelled at her.
With Yugi's words, Anzu's greatest fears were confirmed. She could feel tears forming in her eyes. So it was true, Yugi didn't love her anymore… He didn't love her now that she was a vampire… And he was only trying to find a cure so that he could love her again… She bit her bottom lip and looked down so Yugi wouldn't see her tears. But even if Yugi couldn't see them, Bakura could tell that Anzu was crying, and he absolutely couldn't stand it when people started crying. He already hated it when people were sad, and then when people started crying… Bakura ground his teeth, got up, and grabbed Anzu by the hands. "Come here for a second," Bakura told her as he dragged her into his room and closed the door behind him.
Yugi stared at them, his eyes widening in realization. "Was, was she crying?" Yugi asked, angry at himself for making Anzu cry.
Anzu plopped face-down on Bakura's bed and started crying into his pillow. Bakura rubbed the back of his head. He wasn't really sure what to do now, even though he hated it when people started crying, he had no idea what to do now. He walked over and sat down next to Anzu. He stretched his hand out, hesitated for a second, and then put his hand on her shoulder. "It'll be okay…" he said, trying to be comforting, "Stop crying… You're staining the pillow."
Anzu took her face away from the pillow and wiped at her eyes. She looked at Bakura, "It's true," she said, her voice choking up, "He doesn't love me anymore. The only reason he's trying to find that stupid cure is so that I'll be human again so that things can go back to the way they were." More tears filled her eyes and she put her face back in the pillow.
Bakura's eye started twitching, he still had no idea what to say, but he wanted her to stop crying. "Listen," Bakura said, "I think this is all just a misunderstanding. I'm sure he still loves you, you should see the way he looks at you. When he's not yelling I mean," he could tell his words weren't doing much to help, "Look, Yugi just wants to find the cure so that you can have your life back, it's not because he doesn't love you anymore."
"How would you know?" Anzu said raising her head again, "Can you read his mind?"
"… No…" Bakura remembered the Millennium Eye and he wished that there was a way to tap into it's powers without putting it into your eye socket.
Anzu stifled a loud sob from escaping her mouth, "I might as well face it, it's over, I should just move on…" she buried her head again as another sob escaped her.
Bakura sighed, but still had no idea what to do.
Meanwhile Yugi was pacing the floor and hitting himself in the head. "You heartless, stupid, idiotic, jerk! How could you make Anzu cry?" he kept saying things like that.
Marik had no idea what to say, should he say, "Nah, it's all right you made her cry"? That would just be stupid, and Yugi wouldn't buy that.
"Yugi!" Marik eventually said, causing Yugi to stop his pacing and hitting himself to look at Marik, "Just calm down and let's think for a second. Why do you think Anzu wants you to take a break?"
"I don't know! Whenever I ask her, she just says it's because I've been working too hard," Yugi plopped down on the recliner.
"If all she wants is for you to take a break, you should do it! It would probably stop all your fighting."
Yugi was silent, but Marik noticed his grip tightened around the arms of the chair. Yugi shuffled his feet and sighed, "Honestly," he said quietly, "It's not her wanting me to take a break that's bothering me…"
"Then what is?"
Yugi was avoiding Marik's gaze. "You know about Yami right? Inside the Millennium Puzzle? Er - inside this necklace?" He held up the necklace that Bakura had given him.
"Yeah, I know him." He's the guy who wanted to kill all vampires, how could I forget?
Yugi sighed, "I just think… sometimes it just seems like…" he sighed again, "Sometimes it seems like… she likes him more than me."
"… What?"
Yugi frowned, "I know it sounds crazy, but it seems like she smiles more when he's out… It bugs me, but how can I tell her about that? I don't think she really understands about the other me."
"So let me get this straight," Marik said, "You're annoyed because you think that Anzu likes the Pharaoh more than you?"
Yugi looked down and a very light pinkish tint came to his cheeks, "Yeah…"
Marik pondered this for a minute. So Yugi's just jealous? Is that what this is about?
Marik didn't have much time to ponder it because Bakura came out of his room and Yugi jumped up right away. "How is she?" he asked like a family member would ask a doctor about their relative in the hospital.
Bakura sighed, "Not good. She's crying a lot," he looked at Marik, "You try talking to her." Marik nodded, stood up, and walked into the bedroom.
Bakura turned to glare at Yugi. "Do you want to know why she's crying her eyes out like she's going to die?"
"Yes," Yugi said.
"She thinks you don't love her anymore!"
Yugi's jaw dropped. "W-what? Why does she think that? That's ridiculous!"
Bakura rubbed his hand through his hair, "She thinks that the only reason you're trying so hard to find the cure is so that she can be human again and so that everything can go back to the way it was. That's why she wants you to take a break," Bakura found it much easier to talk to someone who wasn't crying their eyes out.
Yugi looked down, "I didn't know that…"
"Anzu, stop crying, it's bad for you," Marik was trying to comfort Anzu who was still crying, but it was toned down a bit so that she was less hysterical.
"H-how can I stop? Y-Yugi doesn't love me anymore!"
"That's ridiculous! Of course he still loves you!" Marik told her, but did she listen? Of course not, she is a girl who's crying, you never contradict a person when they're crying because they won't believe a word you say. However, Marik did not know this, so Marik decided to try another approach. "Okay, so maybe he doesn't love you anymore," Anzu's crying got louder so Marik talked over her, "But! If, and I said, 'if,' that's true, then he's missing out."
Anzu looked at Marik, "What do you mean?"
"Well, you're a very nice girl Anzu, and pretty too."
Anzu stared at him. "… You really mean that?"
"Of course!" Marik said, only half lying. She was nice, just a little annoying at times, and he was sure she was pretty to other guys. He had never really paid attention to commercial things like looks or appearances before, he just wore whatever he thought looked cool, but never really cared what others thought of his clothes.
"Plus," Marik continued, "You're very hard working, didn't you say you want to be a professional dancer?" Anzu nodded.
"That takes a lot of work, especially since you have to work around your sun schedule. Most people wouldn't be able to do that, they'd just give up."
Anzu took all this in. She looked at Marik and smiled, "Thanks Marik, you're really nice. And… I'm sorry I kept calling you gay."
Marik waved his hand. "Don't mention it," Anzu smiled. "No really," Marik continued, "don't mention that. Ever again." Anzu started laughing and Marik just stared at her. "I was being serious…" he said, but Anzu didn't hear him. She rubbed one of her eyes, then it looked like she realized something and then her gaze hardened. "It's time I talk to Yugi and find out the truth."
Finally! Marik thought as Anzu stood up and walked through the bedroom door. She walked into the living room right up to Yugi who had been sitting in a chair and now stood up right away.
"Yugi," she said.
"Yes Anzu?" Yugi managed to say before Anzu grabbed him by the collar and kissed him. She tried to put all of her emotions into that kiss, all of her worries, all of her sorrow, and most of all, her confusion. Yugi's eyes had gone wide, the kiss was unexpected, but he quickly closed his eyes and kissed her back.
Bakura had stared at them at first, but then looked away - it made him think too much.
Marik had walked out of the bedroom to find the two quarrelers kissing and his face turned a bit red. Bakura briefly wondered why, before Anzu broke the kiss and looked Yugi in the eyes. "You still love me, right?" she asked quietly.
"O-of course!" Yugi chirped, his face red.
Anzu hugged him, "Good…"
After a little bit, they were all sitting at Bakura's kitchen table and drinking tea which Bakura had been forced to make since Marik would have probably set something on fire if he tried. Bakura decided he should teach Marik how to cook later.
Anyway, Anzu and Yugi were talking. Not yelling, not arguing (heatedly anyway, there was still some petty arguing), they were just talking, solving problems. It goes without saying that Marik and Bakura were only half listening in on their conversation, in fact, they both kind of wished that the two love birds would leave right now.
Anzu had just said something that made them both laugh and made Marik and Bakura wonder, What's so funny?
"You know," Yugi said, "I was kind of jealous…" he admitted to Anzu.
Anzu looked confused, "Jealous? Of what?"
Yugi drummed his fingers against his teacup, "Well, I thought you liked the other me more." Anzu was silent, she was hopelessly confused by what Yugi had just said, and had no idea what to say to that. But Yugi took her silence to mean something else. He took it to mean that she did in fact like the other him more than him and this made him furious. He stood up quickly, so quickly in fact, that his chair tipped over. "You do like him more than me, don't you?" he said accusingly.
"I don't even know who you're talking about!" Anzu replied, hurt that Yugi could even think she loved another man.
Yugi got angry, "You know exactly who I'm talking about! You know, the other me? The more confident me? The… the…" Yugi struggled for the word he was looking for and when he couldn't find it he let out a frustrated noise, "The me you love!"
"Yugi, I don't know what you're talking about!" Anzu said, standing up as well, "If anything, you're the one who doesn't love me anymore!"
"Admit it! You wish the other me was in control of my body all the time, don't you?" At this point, their arguing just kept going back and forth, both countering the other with other facts, both angry, Anzu confused, Yugi hurt. Also at this point, Bakura's ears started ringing and he zoned out. The potion that Pegasus had given him kept swimming around in his head. "It can separate a second soul from your body." Bakura's vision swam. It seemed like most of Yugi's problems came from the fact that their was two souls inside one body. If Bakura gave him the potion… Bakura brought his hands up to his head. But what about Ryou? Bakura thought, I need that potion too…
'And yet you don't drink it,' words from his mind leaked into his mangled thoughts, 'If you wanted to drink it you would have done so already.'
Shut up! I'll take it when I'm ready!
'But someone else needs it more than you, isn't that right?' Bakura's head began to pound. Should he give the potion away? It seemed like Yugi needed it more right now… and if he was offered the potion at that moment, he wouldn't hesitate to drink it. It wasn't a probability, it was a fact. Whereas Bakura would hesitate. Bakura ground his teeth to try and make his headache go away, and then he stood up abruptly, sending his chair a few feet backwards. Everyone turned to look at him. Bakura ignored them all and walked into his bedroom and reached under his pillow and picked up the little corked potion. Bakura looked at it once more before he walked back into the kitchen. He held the potion out to Yugi. "Drink this," he said simply.
Yugi looked at it curiously, "What is it?" he asked.
"It'll separate you and the other soul in your body." Yugi's eyes went wide. He looked at the potion and then swiped it from Bakura's grasp and drank it all in one gulp. When he was done he wiped his mouth and then froze. The now-empty bottle fell from his eyes and crashed onto the floor, breaking into a million little pieces. He closed his eyes and put his hands up to his head that had started pounding. He let out a terrifying scream and fell to his knees, still clutching his throbbing head. He felt horrible, like his insides wanted to go on the outside of him and they were all pressing against his shell of a body. The pain intensified when it felt as if his insides where halfway out. Half of them were still inside his body, and the other half wasn't. Only when his other soul left him did the pain go away, and Yugi stayed kneeling, breathing heavily.
For everyone else, it was a surprising sight. It looked as if Yugi had been growing, and growing, and growing, much like a balloon being filled with air. In fact, for a minute everyone thought that Yugi was being filled with air, but then it seemed as if the Yugi balloon deflated, only it didn't fly willy-nilly through the air, it deflated and landed right next to Yugi, forming a duplicate of him. The duplicate was the first to stand, it looked around and then stared at Yugi. Then Yami held out his hand and looked at them. He wiggled his fingers, then he wiggled his toes and then a smile came across his face. He was just about to test his voice when Yugi stood up. He looked at Anzu. "Choose!" he said, "Choose right now, me, or him!" Anzu was speechless. She had always thought that Yugi's other self was just a more confident him. Actually, she had thought that he was just another personality and that her boyfriend was bipolar. She could live with that, he was still the same Yugi after all, but now she finds out that he actually had another soul living inside his body. She had no idea what to make of this, she was still shocked at seeing someone come out of Yugi. So she didn't say anything, instead just kept staring at Yami.
Yugi took this to mean she chose him.
He could feel hot angry tears brimming his eyes. "I get it," he said quietly, "Whatever, I'm leaving." He fast walked out the door, and once he was outside he ran. Anzu finally got her voice back and she called out, "Wait! Yugi!" but Yugi did not stop or even turn to look, he just kept running. Anzu Ran after him and Yami just stood there, wondering what the heck had just happened.
Anzu caught up to Yugi no problem thanks to her vampire speed, and she grabbed him by his sleeve. "Let go of me!" Yugi yelled at her, to upset to be polite, but not angry enough to call her bad names.
"Yugi!' Anzu called desperately as Yugi thrashed his arm around to try and make her let go. "I choose you!" Yugi stopped thrashing about and looked at Anzu. As he stared into her eyes, it started to rain, and he knew that Anzu was telling the truth. And if she wasn't, why would she run out here after him? Yugi's mouth curved up into a smile as it started raining more heavily, the thick gray and black clouds blocking the sun from reaching Anzu.
"… You really choose me?" Yugi asked. He had to be sure.
She smiled, "Shut up and kiss me." Yugi smiled, stood on his toes and kissed her in the rain. The kiss was sweet, the rain making it even more so, as if the rain was washing away all their doubts and all their worries so that they could start fresh and new.
Bakura had followed them out and was now leaning his back against a tree with his arms crossed and the bottom one foot touching the bark of the tree looking at the scene. He found himself smiling.
Soon Marik caught up to where they all were with Yami trailing behind. Marik walked right up to Bakura, panting just a little bit. Bakura looked at Marik, and thought that he would spend his kiss right now, it seemed like the perfect time, but he wanted to save it. He wanted to save it for after he gave Marik his Christmas present because he was sure Marik would like it. And if he liked the present, he might - might - kiss him back. Maybe.
Eventually, Yugi and Anzu broke the kiss, and then they just stood there grinning at each other, and then they hugged. And this is when Yami showed up. He smiled at the sight. "Good for you Yugi!" he called, causing Yugi's face to turn pink and laugh. He broke from the hug and walked up to Yami. " Thanks, but I have a question."
"What is it?" Yami asked, thinking it was a little weird to be talking to Yugi outside of his mind.
"You told me earlier that I should move on and break up with Anzu, but now, it seems like you wanted us to stop fighting too…"
Yami sighed, "Yes, I know. You see, I was just, well, I was like a protective older brother. I didn't want you to get hurt, so I figured if you separated yourself from the cause of the pain that it'd be better for you," he sighed and looked Yugi in the eyes, "But I realize now that you need to face your problems without me. I couldn't protect you forever. Even more so, now that we're separate."
Yugi smiled, "Thanks, but I can take care of myself."
Yami chuckled, "I know that now… and now, I must leave."
"… What?" Yugi asked.
"I want to explore this world, see how the time's have changed in other parts of the world. I want to go to America and see all the tourist attraction, I want to go to France and see that pointy tower -"
"You mean the Eiffel Tower?"
"Yes, that, and I want to go to Egypt and see how my homeland has changed."
"But… How will you get there?"
Yami shrugged, "I'll hitch a ride."
"But that's dangerous!" Anzu rejected. She had been listening in on the conversation.
Marik and Bakura looked at each other, then Marik said, "You can take our boat."
Yami looked at them, "Seriously?"
"But it's dangerous to pilot a boat by yourself!" Yugi dejected yet another idea.
"He could sell it for money," Bakura offered.
"I couldn't just take your boat like that," Yami said.
Bakura shrugged, "It's not like we need it."
"Besides, we're probably not going to travel on it anymore," Marik added.
Yami smiled, "Okay, if you're sure about this."
"We're sure," the two boat owners said in unison.
"Hold on a minute!" Yugi said, "You can't just decide this right now!"
"Why not?" Yami, Marik, and Bakura challenged.
Yugi sweat dropped, "B-because! We should talk about this rationally!"
"How about we discuss this tomorrow?" Anzu put in, "And somewhere drier."
All the young adults agreed that this was a good idea, and they all went back to their respective homes. Yugi, Yami, and Anzu still talking about the boat thing despite their decision to discuss it later, and Bakura turned to Marik and asked, "Why did you blush when you saw Yugi and Anzu kissing?"
Marik's face flushed again, and he said, "No reason."
Bakura raised one of his eyebrows. Now he was even more curious. What is Marik thinking? Bakura's eyes widened in realization, and he smirked, "Did it make you think of our future kiss?" he whispered in Marik's ear.
Marik's face turned even redder, Bakura had been right on the mark.
Bakura laughed loudly and when he was done he whispered into Marik's ear: "You're so cute when you blush Marik."
Marik's face turned an impossible shade of red and he looked at Bakura and said, "Race you!" and took off. Bakura laughed before running, deciding he would let Marik win this one.
Sooooo, who thought that Bakura was going to use the potion for himself? =) I had it planned that Bakura would give Yugi the potion since Pegasus gave it to him, so don't think I did that just to be unexpected 'cause I planned it. I have something else planned for Bakura and Ryou's separation.
(1): This is what I had originally typed before I declared it stupid:
"Shut up!" Bakura told them, "You're acting like children."
"Yeah!" Marik agreed, "only Bakura and I can act like children." Bakura glared at Marik who smirked. "Besides," Marik said turning back to the arguing couple, "Arguing solves nothing. Haven't you learned that from Bakura and I?"
Bakura rolled his eyes, "You've been too carefree since we got back."
"You almost died. I think I have the right to be a little carefree."
Yugi and Anzu stared at them, "Wait," Anzu said, "Bakura almost died?"
"Almost died. Almost," Bakura clarified.
"No way!" Yugi said, "How?"
"… That's a long story…"
"We have time."
"Yes, but I don't want to tell you, so you can just forget about it.
I don't know why I like sharing these with you guys… I'm just weird like that.
~~~{REVIEW REPLIES!}~~~
Bec: Lol, did you actually think I would make Bakura die? I love that guy! … And Marik… and Ryou… ^_^" It's hard for me to pick my favorite… And, I don't know, I just love making people think one thing is going to happen and then completely twisting it around, I just LOVE that XD I do actually plan! But some things happen as I write, like I had no intention of inserting Pegasus' wife into the whole mess when I went over it in my head, in fact, in my head this story went way differently…
And yes, Bakura finally admitted his feelings ^^ I just hope I can keep him in character while adding the right amount of angst and frustration.
And I'm pretty sure hammerspace happens all the time in every story, especially videogames and Pokemon XD
I'm glad you think my writing's good! And I've noticed my redundancy errors… but I'm too lazy to take the chapter down, fix them, and then post it again… it takes too long… ^_^" I try to be as descriptive as possible, and I always ask, "What would the reader want to know?" This helps. A lot.
Also, Pegasus just waited till it was about midnight and then decided "The moon's up!" XD I can see him doing that… XD
That's What Cheese Said: Lol, um… what does "FFFFF" and "FFfffFFffFffFfFfFfF" mean? And while I'm on it… what does "~~~" mean? Lol, I've been wondering for a while… I'm sorry I made you cry. Again. XD But I had to do that. To add suspense XD And to put twists in the story (I love doing that). I almost thought about making "true love's kiss" as the thing that had made Bakura live, then I thought that was too cliché. And yes. 'Kura-kitty FINALLY loves Marik! ^^
And I can tell you spaz out about Ryou, based on your story and reviews =) Sorry about the cliff hanger, but I felt like it belonged… And why are you scared of what 'Kura got Marik? It's nothing bad… Actually… now I'm curios, what do you think Bakura is going to get Marik?
Also… I like the "So deep into the closet, he's in Narnia" line, can I use that maybe? Later on? I just burst out laughing and laughed for, like, 20 minutes when I read that and I'm like "I want to use that! I want to use that! It's hilarious!" (I started cracking up so I'm going to go take a break, BRB.)
Okay back, and yes, I couldn't decide who should win, and I wanted to do both, so I made them tie ^^ It's my story, I can do what I want with it…
Can't wait for your spaz attack! XD