Morrgan stood in the girls' washroom, staring absentmindedly at the mirror in front of here. Now, Morrgan wasn't a vain person; in fact she was far from it. Briefly, she threw her curly strawberry blonde hair into a ponytail, before retreating back into her thoughts.
It's Yugi… It's not Yugi. But yet it is! Argh, am I going insane? Morrgan rubbed her temples, before shaking her head and placing her hands on the edges of the bathroom sinks. Her azure eyes were cast down towards the ground, as she took a couple deep breaths.
It's okay, Morrgan. There are lots of insane people in the world… It'll be fine… right? Damn! Morrgan let out a faint groan, straitening up.
It could have just been Yugi the whole time; I mean how many people have a hairstyle like his? But it wasn't Yugi… and I know for sure that that other… person exists. How else could Yugi's voice have changed? And we have that other Yugi on tape! I'm not going insane. It's almost like they're the same people… yet not. Why am I saying? I don't even make sense to myself anymore…Morrgan plastered a wry smile on her face, before pushing herself away from the sink countertop and stepping back about three steps. She then turned, walking out of the bathroom.
I'll just ask Yugi about it later. He can't lie about this forever! And what about Anzu? She looked almost as jumpy as Yugi for a couple moments… Morrgan's thoughts were interrupting when a noxious smell hit her nose, making her recoil and back into a wall; not a moment too soon. At that moment, the doors to the 12th year classrooms swung open, occupants' spewing out into the hallway like Godzilla was chasing them. This was kind of ironic, since they were in Japan.
"Ra, what is that smell?" Morrgan demanded, clutching her own nose. She preferred using Ra to the term "god", believing it to be overrated. Of course, she herself used it sometimes, but not as much. Being the history nut she was, it was hardly surprising when she used the name of the Egyptian sun God, rather than the Christian God. Egypt was, after all, her favorite subject.
"Egh! I think someone set off a stink bomb!" A girl said as she ran by. Morrgan groaned.
That's just what I need… She noticed that many of the students were rushing to the showers, trying to get the stink out of their clothes. Morrgan snickered, counting herself lucky that she had left class when she did. This thought was followed shortly by another one.
Great, now I have to take a history class with the 11th years! Though Morrgan herself was the same age as the others, she had started school a year early. Sighing, Morrgan pushed past the throng of people until she got to her locker, quickly entering the code and swinging it open. Her locker was relatively neat, so it didn't take her long to grab her history books. Marching down the hallway, she paused at the door to the classroom. Inside, she could see some familiar faces, Kapera, Jonouchi, Honda, Yugi, and Anzu. Morrgan took a small breath, and swung open the door to the classroom. With a slight smirk, she crossed to the center of the classroom, and said: "Hey, I'm gonna learn with you guys today! Some morons set off stink bombs in mine." If the strawberry blonde had been paying attention to the classes' reactions, she would have noticed Jonouchi and Honda laughing like brainless psychopaths.
Morrgan picked out a random seat, and sat down. She waited until the teacher continued on with his lesson, before pulling something out of her pocket. It was a golden bracelet; something like Egyptian nobles would have worn thousands of years ago. Actually, this particular artifact would have, since it was the real thing; not one of those cheep tourist souvenirs. In the center of the bracelet was something Morrgan knew to be the Sennen eye. Some people called it the Eye of Ra, though they were different from each other. Morrgan stared at it for a bit longer, before slipping it onto her wrist, where it fit perfectly. One upside to her parents' insane hobbies was that they brought home interesting artifacts for Morrgan. This particular one was her favorite.
Morrgan suddenly became aware of the topic, which was indeed ancient Egypt! Suddenly, this class didn't seem so boring. Fixating her eyes on the teacher with rapt attention, Morrgan continued to listen for the remainder of the lesson. She had indeed heard of this Pharaoh, yes. Her parents had told her stories from when they had gone to Egypt themselves, looking for more genie crap. That was the one time they had brought Morrgan with them. Morrgan suddenly gasped, seeing a picture of a stone tablet in the textbook. It looked exactly like the guy who had saved her, and the guy who had been on the TV! There was no doubt in Morrgan's mind anymore. This guy existed, and he was somehow connected to Yugi.
Aha! Got you now, Yugi! Morrgan thought triumphantly. There's no way you can deny it now! Morrgan glanced over at the short duel champion, who was frantically taking notes. Wow… obsessed much? Morrgan thought as she saw the thick pile of notes. This was one of her favorite subjects, but even she didn't take that many notes…
Morrgan was startled out of her reverie when the bell signifying classes' end rang. She stood up, the gold from her bracelet hitting a beam of sunlight and momentarily blinding her. She was dimly aware of Kapera and Yugi talking, and she found herself mentally grinning at the whole thing. Still, she barely registered when Kapera asked both her and Anzu a question, only about thirty seconds later. Anzu declined whatever it was, and Morrgan just didn't answer. Only when everyone else in the classroom had left, did Morrgan snap out of her trance-like thoughts.
"Yugi!" She called, walking over to him and fixing him with a sharp stare.
"H-huh?" Yugi looked startled, as if he was breaking out a trance much like Morrgan's own. No, actually it looked more like he had been in the middle of a conversation, and she had interrupted.
"Having another mental conversation?" Morrgan crossed her arms and arched her right eyebrow.
"No!" Yugi said way too quickly for it to be believable.
"And I'm the queen of Egypt," Morrgan narrowed her eyes. Yugi shuffled in his seat, looking really nervous. "I'm serious Yugi. I want to know what the crap is going on. I fail to see why your friends haven't noticed that you seem to be two different people, in fact, I fail to see how the whole WORLD fails to notice, but I HAVE noticed. And now, I want to know what's going on. I've seen the guy in the alley, and I saw him on TV. Then your voice just randomly changes and even I know that puberty doesn't account for that happening like that. And what's up with these notes?" Morrgan eyed the pile of papers on Yugi's desk. "I know the whole 'Nameless Pharaoh' thing is interesting and all or at least it is too me, but people are going to think…" Morrgan shook her head.
"You don't understand!" Yugi said, almost with a pout.
"What I don't understand is how everyone can be so ignorant to the existence of this other you!" Morrgan said, keeping her voice calm despite her growing irritation.
"…" Yugi slumped back in his seat, which made him appear even shorter.
"Yugi?"
Yugi mumbled something inaudible, and he had a look of concentration, and slight vacancy on his face. Morrgan waited, hoping her patience didn't wear out. She had seen the duel between "Yugi" and Weevil on Duelist Kingdom, and she knew if she were there, she probably would have killed Weevil at the end. It looked like "Yugi" had wanted to, too, and it was only Anzu's constant blabbering about friendship and crap that kept him from not. Though, Morrgan had secret suspicions that the REAL reason "Yugi" hadn't completely mind-crushed Weevil was because he didn't feel like hearing Anzu lecture him about it for Ra knows how long. He probably just spared the other duelist to shut her up. Morrgan would have killed them both; Weevil and Anzu. Or at least, she liked to think she would. Morrgan had never really thought about killing someone she actually knew before… except for those thugs. But then again, she hadn't really known them. She probably would have killed them if she had the chance, but unfortunately they over-powered her and she had been rescued by "Yugi", or what she liked to call the "Other Yugi," which brought her back to the subject at hand. A hand tapping her shoulder made Morrgan shake her head, and when she looked over back at Yugi she nearly yelped in surprise; for it wasn't Yugi anymore, but the other "Yugi," who seemed to be smirking at her startled expression. Morrgan quickly recovered, staring at him.
"You!" Was the first thing she said, when she finally decided to talk. "I knew it!"
"Knew what?" "Yugi" asked, his mouth twitching into a smirk, which made Morrgan want to slap him.
His voice is just as sexy as before… wait, did I just think that? Damn! "I knew you were two different people," Morrgan continued, getting her voice under control.
"Obviously, or I wouldn't be here!" The other Yugi said, obviously irritated.
Arrogant, Morrgan thought privately, but still hot… No, bad Morrgan! Stop thinking! "You have a name?" Morrgan asked, wanting to slap herself. Here she was, finally finding out the truth about the "Other Yugi" and she sounded like a complete imbecile. Not like Morrgan…
"Yami."
"Okay, Yami." Morrgan narrowed her eyes once, and gave a quick nod. "I just wanted to say thanks for the help in the alley." It was then that Yami burst out laughing.
"You interrogate my Hikari just to say thanks?"
"What of it?" Morrgan snapped. "I also wanted to know what the heck was going on. I mean, it's pretty obvious that you're not the same people, though it irks me that no once else expect me (and possibly Anzu) can see that!"
Yami's crimson eyes narrowed slightly. "If you must know, I reside inside the puzzle."
"The Millennium Puzzle?" Morrgan inquired which earned her a surprised look from Yami, his eyes still narrowed.
"Yes…"
Morrgan uncrossed her arms, and the gold bracelet she was wearing glinted in the sun. Something sparked in Yami's eyes for a moment, but only for a moment.
Morrgan looked over to the picture of the stone tablet in Yugi's open textbook, to staring back at Yami. The likelihood of the two was astonishing! Yami looked slightly ticked, though, so she decided not to say something stupid, like: "Hey, are you that nameless Pharaoh who defeated the rising evil 3000 years ago?" Please. That was about as likely as her parents actually finding a genie lamp…
"Morrgan?" Morrgan was snapped out of her thoughts-once again-by someone speaking.
"What?" Morrgan snapped, a frown creasing her brow.
"You always this snappy?" Yami growled.
"You always this arrogant?" Morrgan shot back, eyes narrowing to the same point as Yami's. "I wouldn't even be surprised if you really WERE that Pharaoh!" She pointed to the picture sharply. "It would explain your attitude!"
"At least I'm-"Morrgan cut him off as she held up her hand. She was well aware that Yami was clutching the handles on his chair so tightly his knuckles were whitening, and Morrgan had been grasping onto her bracelet with such force it left a painful imprint.
"Look, I just wanted to say thanks. That's it, that's all." Morrgan got up, grabbing her back and swinging it over her shoulder as she moved towards the classroom door.
"Morrgan?" Morrgan looked back to see Yugi, the real Yugi, sitting at his desk again.
"What?"
"You won't tell, will you?" Yugi looked worried, and his violet eyes were wide and pleading.
Morrgan paused for a moment, before shaking her head full of wavy strawberry blonde hair and saying: "I promise I won't."
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Morrgan stepped outside the school building, looking for a familiar face. Spotting Kapera, she headed over to the girl she had past dubbed Cinnamon Girl.
Besides the 'conversation' with Yami, Morrgan's day had been pretty good… save the stink bomb. At least some good had come out of that, as school had ended up being closed for the next week. She still didn't know who had set off the bomb, but she DID know who she thought it was: Honda and Jonouchi.
Morrgan's thoughts drifted to Yami again. Arrogant, annoying, presuming, sexy… No! I banish you! Morrgan mentally jabbed those last thoughts from her mind, trying to banish all thoughts of Yami's evident sexiness from her mind. Needless to say she was failing miserably.
"Kapera?" Morrgan called out once to the girl. "Kapera?" A second time, though this time she noticed that the girls mouth was hanging open and she was drooling.
??? Was all Morrgan thought as she called the girls name a third time.
"Key, Kapera. You okay? You look kind of… Possessed."
"I'm fine." Morrgan watched as Kapera blushed, obviously just figuring out that she had been resembling a zombie.
"You sure?" Morrgan asked, looking skeptic.
"Yes. I was thinking."
"Really." Morrgan looked faintly amused.
"Yes!" Kapera replied again.
"Sure, sure." Morrgan couldn't help herself. She laughed, sitting down beside the other girl before asking: "What happened with the game?"
"The girls were losing until Jonouchi and Honda got in trouble for the stink bombs."
"I knew it was them!" Morrgan's expression darkened. I swear to Ra I'll kill them… she thought to herself, though she was sure that Kapera could tell from her voice and facial expressions. "You know, they were all in my classes, too. Ugh, morons, they probably planned that, I hope they got the hell chewed out of them…" Morrgan was cut off from her fuming as Kapera chuckled.
"What's so funny?" Morrgan shot Kapera a look of perplexity.
"Nothing! I need to get home, good-bye!" Morrgan continued to stare after the girl, looking baffled as Kapera stood up, and pranced away.
Watching her go, Morrgan finally stood up herself. She brushed of her clothing, and picked up her bag again. Trying to push all thoughts of Yami out of her mind, she, too, left the school grounds.
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Cheyenne: Whoo! Sorry for the delay, guys D: And I'm also sorry for the weak ending. Hope you all enjoyed it anyways! I shall say the disclaimer myself, since Yami is sulking in said Millennium Puzzle, and Morrgan is probably thinking about how sexy Yami is without admitting this to herself. I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh ^^