Not as long as some of the others, but I wanted to get the update out more than anything else, and I think I ended at a good spot. Well, good for me, not for you. Now I am trying to work on introducing things from the rest of the show, explaining Millennium Items, introducing the Yamis, bringing in a few more characters. It's going to be complete chaos by the time I'm through, but this is also one of my favorite fics to work on, because I am so obsessed with Pandora's character. She reminds me a lot of me, the temper and the attitude, but she's definitly more street smart than I am and probably thinks a little bit more! All of my reviewers are going to get an interesting surprise pretty soon, so to those of you who have religiously reviewed me, thank you so much and I will show my appreciation, trust me! Those of you who haven't sent in reviews, please do!
Disclaimer: I still don't own the fancy Blackberry-style day planner, Sam's character, Yugioh, or any Millennium Items. I own the plot of this fic, Pandora's character, and neither gets me any money!
Warnings: Language (not really bad at all!) and about enough violence to fill a thimble.
CHAPTER SIX - JUST A LITTLE ACTING
Pandora and Seto approached Ryou, and he stared at them both with a confused look on his face. He was glad that he would be able to work with his two friends, but the fact that his two friends were working with each other really bothered him. He knew there would probably be some sort of trouble, but he didn't have much of a choice other than to work with them both and hope for the best.
Seto knew that if he was going to learn anything about this mysterious girl, talking to her would be the best way to get the information that he wanted. He hadn't really wanted to pair himself up with her and depend on her for a grade, but at the same time, this was his best shot. He didn't want to admit it, but the truth was, after what Maggie had told him, he was very interested in learning something.
He was merely observing Pandora when something entered his mind. He realized that there was something surrounding her, almost a light or an aura, filled with warmth. The thought almost made him want to cry when he realized why he was so addicted to knowing more about her. She reminded him of her. Adena had never really left his mind, but she also was so far away from him he didn't often think of her. The thought that someone else had that same glowing love surrounding them that Adena had once had both hurt him and gave him inspiration. The thoughts of this girl from his past were now burned on his brain just like those eyes that Seto had seen that first night he'd met Pandora just a few nights ago.
The rest of the class handed in their assignments and the teacher was explaining the assigment. Everyone was given a topic, and they had to go in front of the class and act out a scene with their groups. Ryou was absolutly frozen stiff. He hated to present things in front of the class to begin with, but you add two bickering friends to the mix and add the topic of "Who ate my cookie" and you really have some problems. Everyone was given the same topic to start with, and one person had to pretend to be missing a cookie while holding a conversation about it with the other members of the group. You could use some of the props that were on stage and make a little scene up about it.
Three groups had gone onto the stage and made a little unrehearsed skit, but they hadn't been really creative. It was Ryou, Seto and Pandora's turn to head onto the stage, and since anything was allowed, Seto decided to be the poor victim who had lost a cookie. The whole thing seemed silly to him, but it would give him a chance to test Pandora's temper. He seemed to love trying her patience!
Pandora and Ryou pretended to have a conversation about a soap opera they'd seen and Seto walked up to them.
"Which one of you ate my cookie?! I thought I told you both to stay away from my cookies!" Seto whined, imitating his little brother when someone had eaten the last of his ice cream.
"Don't look at me!" Ryou didn't like being yelled at and was angry that Seto had taken such a tone with him, even if it was just acting.
"I didn't touch your stupid cookie! We've both been in the living room talking all day long. Maybe you were on drugs and you forgot that you ate it!"
A few students in the audience 'ooooh!'ed, surprised that someone would talk to Seto Kaiba like that, even if it was just acting!
Seto glared at Pandora, "Look you little theif, you've stolen things from me before, so why don't you just admit that you ate it and we can forget that this happened."
"Nice try," she began, "but you can't force me to admit doing something I didn't do!"
"Okay then, I guess it disappeared on its own. Maybe you just made it disappear, then. Everyone knows you're a witch, you probably just zapped it into another dimension to piss me off!"
Pandora's eye twitched. He'd hit a nerve. He was pleased with himself, but decided to back down because Pandora was now standing and her face was just inches away from his, and he was worried that they would fight again and Mr. Kuramada wouldn't be so kind to them the second time arriving that day.
"You wanna start the name calling? Alright then, we can pretend to be 5 years old. How about I call you a selfish egotistical jerk who just uses people to get what he wants?"
Joey called from the audience, cheering Pandora on. Mr. Alberich wasn't sure if this was acting or if the two were really at each other's throats, but Ryou didn't seem too upset, so he assumed that the two were only putting on a show for the class.
"You think I'm using you? What use could you possibly be for? You're just a little girl who would be living on the streets if people didn't take her in. No one really likes you because everyone thinks you're a freak and you have to steal things from me because in reality you have nothing. You're probably a little bitch to me because you want what I have and know you'll never have it!"
Pandora slapped Seto hard enough for him to know that she was serious, but she also made it look like it had just been a stage slap, so no one knew that they were in a real argument, except for Ryou, who simply sighed and wondered how long it would take for him to have to escort them back to the office.
Joey had been silenced by Mr. Alberich, who still wasn't sure if he should stop the skit that was being performed. He had told everyone that anything could go and told them to have fun, but at the same time, he still couldn't tell if this was part of the act or two teens battling it out and using acting as an excuse.
Seto didn't even think before reacting, and shoved Pandora.
"Want to try that again?!" he yelled at her.
Every student in the audience was taking notes, hoping that their improv would be this realistic and Ryou was trying to stay out of it. Pandora staggered a bit after being shoved and without any indication that she was about to fight back, she jumped at Seto and knocked him off of his feet. He landed on his back, shocked that someone had continued to fight with him after he had given them a warning, but even more amazed by the fact that a girl who was much smaller than him had knocked him down. Most of the boys he'd been in fights with hadn't laid so much as a hand on him and yet, he'd just had the air knocked from his lungs by a girl who was now pinning him down.
Ryou had to stop things before they got worse, "Oh for Ra's sake, it's only a freaking cookie!" he tried to pull Pandora off of Seto, but Seto was already planning his great escape.
He rolled himself over, causing Pandora to lose her balance and fall off of him and right into Ryou. Ryou squeaked as he fell down, trying to catch his balance, and landing with his hand on Pandora's stomach. Ryou had also landed on Seto's legs, which had thrown off the rather interesting maneuver he'd been attempting, and he tripped, falling onto Ryou, and causing the white haired boy to become crushed between the two. His hand had slipped from Pandora's stomach onto her chest, and he couldn't move with Seto on top of him.
Pandora began to laugh insanely, Ryou just blushed, and Seto was probably the only one in the room who realized what had just happened. He moved off of Ryou as quickly as he could so that his friend could move his hand, and helped Ryou to his feet. Ryou couldn't help but laugh nervously, hoping that Pandora wouldn't slap him too for what had just happened, and then something strange happened. Seto began to laugh loudly and dragged Ryou and Pandora to the front of the stage, the three of them laughing.
Mr. Alberich felt relief at the fact that the three were laughing over the improv and hadn't really been fighting.
"So, do we get our A now?" Pandora asked through tears of laughter.
Their teacher nodded and the three of them made their way back to their seats. The groups following them all tried to imitate something similar to what they had just seen, but no one could seem to do a very good job of it.
Ryou kept trying to appologize to Pandora who really didn't care about what had happened, as it was an accident, and Seto tried to figure out why he'd burst into laughter for possibly the first time since he could remember.
Class was finally over and it was time for lunch. Ryou walked between his two friends, hoping that neither of them would speak for the rest of the day and there would be no arguments, but sadly, things didn't go that way.
"I think I deserve an appology," Seto mumbled as they walked out of the auditorium.
"For what?! You started it!" Pandora defended herself.
"My ass hurts now," Seto whined.
"I know a really good way to take that pain away," Pandora smirked, making a fist and offering to hit him.
"No, you'll make up for it some other way. So, judging by your reaction, I'm assuming the rumors are true? People used to call you a witch?" this time, he was just curious.
"Seto this really isn't a good subject!" Ryou complained, trying to stop things while they were ahead.
"No, it's okay," Pandora shrugged it off, "it's a good question. Well, I was called a witch at my old schools, but I'm not. People just liked to tease me because weird things always seem to follow me around. That's why I kept getting kicked out of schools. Bad things just seem to happen to me and I don't know why. I think something weird is going to happen to me here too, so I don't expect to be here long. I was talking to that Yugi kid and I could've sworn that as soon as I looked away he got taller. I know that sounds really lame, but things like that always happen around me. Sometimes I think I'm seeing things!" she laughed.
Ryou felt bad for her. He knew that what she'd seen with Yugi was real and that she had just witnessed the ancient spirit in his Millennium Puzzle taking over his body, but he didn't think that she would ever believe him.
"You're not seeing things. Yugi is a really weird kid. I don't like him and his band of losers. They're all a bunch of freaks."
Pandora didn't like to hear someone call someone else a freak because so many people had made that mistake about her, but she had to agree, Joey was a real jerk and Yugi was definitly an odd one. Tristan didn't seem too bad and she really liked Tea, but she didn't know them very well and decided to be careful around all of them.
"So, does this mean we're getting along?" Pandora asked Seto as they finally made it to the line they wanted to be in.
"Only because us fighting isn't worth it. You have to admit, we are evenly matched. It hardly seems worth it," Seto didn't dare admit that she'd hurt him more than he was showing.
Seto reached into his pocket to check his schedule to see if he would have time to go home and change out of his school clothes but his electronic day planner wasn't there. He opened his brief case and checked inside of it for the planner, but it wasn't there.
"This isn't funny, Pandora. Where is it?" he glared at her.
"Where is what?" she started laughing, "You know, that was just acting, there isn't really a cookie."
"I'm not talking about a damn cookie, I'm talking about my day planner. I saw how you were looking at it this morning, now where is it?"
Pandora looked hurt, "I didn't take it! Check your book bag! I don't even have pockets or a purse, so where would I hide it? Look, I'm sorry about the money over the weekend but you didn't even thank me for helping you out and I didn't mean for you to leave your things behind, I was just mad at you for the way you left. I swear, though, I didn't take anything from you!"
She realized that this was like the boy who cried wolf. She had stolen things from Seto before, so why would he want to trust her?
Seto looked her up and down and realized that she really didn't have anywhere to hide it because she was wearing a tank top, a jacket with no pockets and pants that were too tight for her to hide anything in them.
"Okay, I'm going back to the auditorium to see if I left it there, but if I find out that you've stolen something else from me, I will have you arrested and locked up for the rest of your life!" Seto glared at her.
He walked back towards the auditorium, leaving the other two standing in line.
Pandora caught a glimpse of something shiny that Ryou was removing from his pocket. She looked at him and realized he was flashing the day planner at her, then shoved it back into his pocket.
"Ooo Ryou you should give it back to him now! If he blames me for it, I'll get into so much trouble! My cousin will kick me out and I won't have anywhere to stay!"
Ryou just smirked and began walking off, pulling Pandora by the arm. She realized after about three seconds that he was not leading her towards Seto, but towards the exit of the school.
"Where are we going? Ryou, we need to go tell Seto that I didn't take his-"
"Shut up. I am not Ryou, and I am not going to go find that pathetic child so that he can have his toy back. I have a much better idea."
The sunlight nearly blinded Pandora as the boy who looked like Ryou dragged her into the parking lot.
"If you're not Ryou, then who are you?!" Pandora was afraid for Ryou and suddenly realized what Sam had tried to explain to her.
"My name is Bakura."
END OF CHAPTER SIX
Peggi: Yay! The evil and mysterious Bakura has arrived!
Bakura: I wondered when you would give me a cameo. Took you long enough.
Peggi: Oh shush! You loved the way I added you so just be quiet!
Ryou: Does that mean I'm not a main character?!
Peggi: Don't worry, Ryou, I would never take that away from you!
Seto: I wish you would take that away from me so I wouldn't have to be here.
Peggi: (glare)
And of course a special thank-you to the reviewers!
Journey Maker-Hope this update was quick enough! Poor Pandora, she's such a cool character but I feel so sorry for her! So far she's only been in school one day and so many people are causing trouble for her! Things will get better though!
Eevee- LittleKuriboh is everywhere. The infamous quote just needed to be added so I am making preparations for that! Long live LittleKuriboh! Sam will never escape. The plot bunnies demand to see more of her! The peeps are working and the bunnies are typing away at new updates!
Agent Malkere- I am glad you enjoyed your cookie! The time for the curtains to open on Yami and Bakura has arrived! We shall soon know how she will react! Yay!
TheFemalePharaoh- For once, I have a nice ending planned for both of my current Yugioh fanfics, so no worries! Occasionally I don't kill off the main characters, and this is just such a case! I'm glad you're enjoying it so far and I hope that I can keep you interested!