Review Responses: Trinn, I fixed Chapter 8 for you I don't know where that paragraph went it was in my saved file on my computer... Not the first freaky thing to happen with my pc though. Thanks for the heads up. Marik, I can't believe you said that. I've been trying to come up with some animal to start a quarrel with Kura-kuns. I'm shocked I didn't think of that sooner. We have rosters we lovingly call the Red Roster Gang, it's a bunch of red rosters who beat the life out of the other rosters. One of them though is this little guy and he will attack anything that moves. Cute fluffy little guy though. Mattea, if you don't mind I'm gonna kill Kat. She saw your first review and didn't mention it being you. Didn't even say 'Hey that's Mattea's rabbit's name.' Kerei, I'm starting to think you might want me UPDATE grins Sorry about the song though. But if it helps everytime there's a lull in the thought process that song plays in my head. Kinda like the music when your on hold. That one or Elbow Room or Mother Nescities... Another reason to kill my lil sis she loves the School House Rock tapes.
A/n flips through bright orange folder of Bakura's Own Body notes Okie I'm ready. Today's my 16th birthday and I'm spending it writing this for you people. I could be doing just about anything and I write a chappie for you... j/k It's my birthday but there is nothing else I could be doing.
Halloween
Suteki, Serena, and Ryou were sitting in the grass off to the side watching the show. The show being the mud monsters. When Serena had answered the phone he hadn't thought his yami, or any other yami for that matter, would be in a mud fight, ever. It had never occured to him either than he'd never shown his yami how to work a hose. So it was rather comical to watch the four mud covered teens trying to hose eachother off. Lilly didn't even try to take over the job. Instead she had grabbed a stick and was shaving mud off of her.
"How could they be sooooo childish?" Suteki asked hugging her knees. For the end of October the weather wasn't very cold in the middle of the afternoon. It was mid 50's of a day with a light breeze.
"Oh, I'm sure Lils will release the inner Kiaba in a few minutes." Serena said. She was laying on her stomach her head propped up on her fists. Ryou hugged his jacket tighter around them sheilding off the light spray that reached them.
"What's that supposed to mean? Kiaba's sorta cute in a 'one day I shall rule the world and you won't even know it' kinda way. Your sister is just... ewww." Suteki said nodding to Lilly who was bent over now trying and failing in getting the mud out of her hair.
"I mean as soon as she's cleaning up after her revenge she'll return to chasing after those fools like they're a bunch of disobedient kids." Serena clarified. "Wait, you like Kiaba? You know he's full of himself right? I mean total control freak."
"Ehh, that can always be changed once I get ahold of him." Suteki grinned.
"I wouldn't be so sure. He's a my way or the high way person." Ryou supplied only making Sutekie stare.
"You've met the genious CEO?" she asked as if the idea had never struck her that he had met Kiaba in Battle City or Duelist Kingdom.
"Yeah Kie, I've met him a few times. Just in tournements, though. It's not like we've sat down and had a conversation." he tried to remove the attention from him. "What are we doing for Halloween?" Both girls shrugged.
"There are some haunted houses and a couple a parties but nothing very exciting." Suteki yawned. "You know what guys? I'm bored. Why don't we go do something?" she stood up and streached. Suteki was taller than he was, with chestnut hair that always lay in a braid reaching her lower back, she had hazel eyes that reminded him of a cat the way she so rarely blinked and seemed to stare right through everything. There was little he could see that she had in common with Serena but he figured it was the shared past, even if Serena couldn't remeber it, that tied them.
"What are we gunna do? We went out and rode untill we were sore. We've got nuthin else to do."
"The goats. Let's go play with them." she suggested. Serena sighed and shook her head.
"You are hopeless. I suppose we could go hang out over there."
Lilly gave up on getting all the mud of her clothes and hair. So she twisted her hair up and put a pencil through it keeping it in place. Justin had loaned, unknowingly, Matt and Chris some clothes untill they could get home and change and Bakura was in the shower. So she changed and washed her hands. She only had a few days untill Halloween and her costume wasn't finished. With this in mind she drug out her sewing machine and the fabric and started hemming her costume. She'd thought long and hard about what she'd go with the little ones as and finally decided on the one thing her mother had never let her dress up as when she was a child. Or at least, at first, she come up with a time period. The anicent world. Anything where she'd be only half dressed had always been off limits.
Her costume was finished except for the hem. But she wasn't sure she liked it. I seemed far to long and flowy to be chasing after three toddlers all night. The hem took all of thirty minutes to get in to her likeing by then Bakura was out of the shower and she could hear him down stairs. She'd catch a word everynow and then that led her to believe he was trying to explain how to duel to Serena. Matt and Chris had gone home, Suteki had been driven home by Matt, Ryou rarely left Serena's side and she was with Bakura, Mom and Dad were at work, and Justin was out somewhere with Mandy. So with this in mind she went to take a shower and try on her costume.
It needed taken in a little but fit wonderfully aside from that. She had to alter quiet a bit from the actual ancient Eypytian clothing because they wore nearly transparent things. That was something she didn't even want to think about going with so she used a white fabric. She'd made it look lose but there was a slip underneath that actually hid everything from sight and made it difficult to put on. Once she'd hidden her costume and put the sewing machine away she went down stairs to watch tv.
Bakura sat waiting in the living room. Any minute now Lilly would come down stairs and they'd be off to go trick-or-treating. Something he'd never done before. From what Serena said kids dressed up like a bunch of fairy tale creatures, good or bad, and went around with pillow cases and begged for candy. It was a complete mockery of the people who really had to beg for their things. He leaned back into the sofa and streached. Out in the barn Lady El would be munching on hay and getting ready to go to sleep. It was about 7:30, the begging started at 8, so Lilly was taking her sweet time.
"Baka! Baka! Baka!" he heard the chant barely a second before three little bodies jumped on him.
"He's my Baka sissy." Luke moaned clinging to Bakura's neck. Serena came to the rescue grabbing up Annet and colapsing into a near by arm chair.
"No, it's my Baka, Bubby." Mary laughed kissing Bakura's cheek.
"So what are you girls?" Serena asked playing with the glittery wings on Annet's back.
"I is a fairy princess." Annet said with a grin revealing a missing front tooth.
"And I'm a... What am I Annet?" Mary asked her sister as she curled down under Bakura's arm. Mary was wearing a pink and blue dress and in a Kroger bag she'd dropped on the floor seemed to be a hat and staff.
"You were... Dark Magic Barbie... Yep, yep that's what you is." Annet told her sister.
"No, Annet is a princess with fairy wings because she a whinny brat, Mary is a Dark Magician Girl, and I'm..." Luke played with a brown tail that was sewn to his costume and looked at the red foam boots that had been placed over his gym shoes. "I'm Boots." he said still studying his shoes. "Uncle Lou said the store didn't have any Dora clothes left." Bakura held back a laugh. He wasn't to clear on who Boots was but he knew that Dora was a little girl on a cartoon.
"Ohhh What are you Liwwy?" Annet asked looking over his head. Even Serena was staring.
"I'm a person from a looooooong time ago."
"Egyptshun?" Mary asked.
"Yep, and you are the cutes Magician Girl I've ever seen." Lilly said coming around to kneel next to the couch. She wore a long robe that looked like the text book version of what an Egyptian might have worn. She was definatly more discreet than the images in his head. Her hair layed thick and black and was definatly soaked in some sort of oil. So was her skin, it's usual tan was made darker by some oil that made her shine a little. She wore simple golden hoops in her ears, a wide gold necklace with a few deep blue and turquoise jewels in it, and on her arms were gold bands that nearly reached her elbows. She had lined her eyes with black liner and her cheeks were a red, for the first time since he'd met her she'd painted her nails. But she finished off the enitre outfit by wearing her red lady bugs. Lady bugs, were the name of a ugly pair of shoes that he'd seen sold in just about every garndening section of every store he'd been in. Lilly smiled slightly and looked down at her knees when she saw him staring.
"I don't like it. You look like a clown who got into Mary's clothes." Annet whinned from Serena's lap.
"See Baka? Annet is a whinny brat." Luke giggled standing up and going to take Lilly's hand. "We'll look funny together, Kay?" the little munchin asked. Lilly nodded.
"I couldn't think of a better monkey to spend the night with." Luke giggled.
"Hey Flower Child." Bakura looked up to see Father Lou standing there. "Love the costume. You're the other reason some many mothers are flipping about costumes. Either children are dressed like they should be in a half way house or in hell." he grinned. "Though, I'd not mind coming to speak to you in a either place." Lilly seemed not to notice the comment instead she sat down on the floor and started talking about Boots.
15 minutes later the three toddlers were safely strapped into car seats, the lady of the Nile was in the drivers seat and Bakura sat in the passanger seat. Gretchen laid on the floor of the mini-van. The dog was always following a Lilly's heels but hardly ever got in the car when she left. Tonight she refused to get out so they decided to take her along. A full moon was rising in the sky by the time they hit the first street in the sub-division. By the time they came to the end of the eighth Annet was piggy-backing Bakura, Gretchen was walking behind the wagon that held a nearly sleeping Mary and Luke. Lilly had tried to explain her costume so many times that now she just said Cleopatra. Bakura on the other hand was mesmerized by all the costumes. He's seen a dozen or so duel monster dragons, and magiaians. There were other's in witches' hats carrying broom sticks, and kids wearing a white sheet with two wholes cut in it for eyes. Then there were the cowboys and girls. There was one space man who had gotten mad about the amount of candy one house was giving and thrown his helmet aross the street hitting a brand new car and making the alarm go off. All the while the boy kept screaming 'To infinity and beyond.'
"You kids ready to go home?" Lilly asked giving the wagon tug to get it over the curb.
"I'm weady." Mary yawned. Luke and Annet nodded in agreement.
"I think my pony is tired." Annet said petting Bakura's head.
They took the children home and helped get them tucked in to bed. Bakura ended up reading a bed time story to Luke, before he was allowed to leave. The carseats were unhooked and put in Lou's car and the bags of candy were hidden. The way home was quiet. 700WLW was on the radio talking about ghost incounters, and the moon hung full in the sky. They passed one house that was covered in toilet paper. Lilly shook her head and muttered something about poor Ms. Lewis. They pulled in the drive and hit something. Gretchen was bouncing around the back seat now like the balls in a lottery machine.
"What was that?" Lilly asked looking at him. Her cheeks had faded and eyeliner was slightly smeared around the edges. He shook his head.
"I don't know." she sighed her green eyes rolled up to stare at the moon.
"They're may not be werewolves but that moon has some funky effects on things." she said turning off the van and sliding out. Bakura followed suit letting Gretz out with him. Sitting infront of the van was a small cage. He picked it up and the door flung open. Out of it shot a warm ball covered in feathers. His face was beat with wings. By the time they'd both recovered from their shock the bird was already out of sight but Gretz had chased after the critter. "Shut don't kill it." Lilly called after her dog. He stuck the cage in a barn while she pulled the van in a little further. Then they retreated inside.
"How was you night Stinky?" Mr. H asked looking up from his paper. Mr. Halse was one of those dads who isn't around half as much as he'd like but when he is there's just this look his kids give him that screams everything his time with them means. He had a ruff look. He always looked like he hadn't had time to shave the last couple of days, nearly every pair of jeans the man owned had a rip or tear in them and he always wore a flanal button up shirt. Even in the middle of summer when the days reach the upper 90's.
"Pretty good, Popa." she said working the arm bands off her arms.
"How 'bout you son? The girls didn't run ya ragged did they?" he winked. This was his joking. Bakura shook his head.
"No, the girls weren't a problem at all, even Lilly behaved herself." Mr. Halse laughed.
"Good." Lilly slugged him as soon as she had put down her bands.
"I'm gonna go to bed, Daddy. You should too Kura-kins, we've got school in the morning." she said giving her father a quick hug and kiss. She tugged at a lock of his hair when she walked by. "If you could have been any thing tonight what would you have been?" she asked. He shrugged.
"To keep with your theme, a tomb robber." She smiled.
"Then good night my tomb robber." she was gone before he could say any more.
"She's got you wipped boy. Don't fret to much about it though. She'll get her way one way or another and when she's done with you she'll set you off." her father shook his head. It was obvious he trusted Bakura. The thing that got Bakura was the man barely knew him. Or maybe he just knew his daughter could handle herself without his help. Either way it was too late to think about it and he did have school tommorrow.
Her hand fit in his just perfectly. Her green eyes were unmatched and his own muddy eyes held an intelligence he betrayed. Her heart beat only to see what tomorrow would bring, his beat to make sure the pharaoh paid for his deeds. The differences that lay between them were discarded. Neither one wanted to end up with their fathers again so both ran. Together or apart they would always run but togther they felt safer, even if it was more dangerous.
Her hand sought his out without a sound. He shook his head and ran his finger tips along her arm causing goose bumps to rise. She smiled and nodded. They never spoke unless they had to when in a tomb. She did it out of respect he did it out of fear. She stuffed a jewel incrested necklace in her sack. Norfret tugged at a lock of his hair when she went by.
"Be swift my king." she mouthed. Her lips were painted the same color as blood. They matched her finger nails perfectly. He slid a few more items of value in his sack before he decided it was time to leave. As always when they have completed a job and were about to flee he wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her close enough for her sweet smell to fill his lungs and her to read his lips.
"It is time we leave my Nile woman." He let his fingers trail up her back and entwine in her rich brown hair. She took his hand and led the way out of the inner chamber to the exisit. They slid out into the darkness of the night knowing somewhere beyond their sight Seth battled and soon the sun would rise again. They traveled untill the sun tinged the sky a light pink. "We will rest here, no one is following us I'm sure." he said gruffly. Norfret nodded and dropped delicately to the ground. She moved in such a way as to not cause any more pain in her leg. He knew it had pained her since it was engraved with the mark of a greater evil and would continue todo so until she passed on. "Want me to do anything?" he asked softer than before.
"No, I couldn't ask the King of Thieves to do anything more for me." When she spoke his title she did so as if it a the sweetest taste and she didn't want it to end.
"But he wants to do more for you." he said sitting down next to her. He wrapped his arm around her shoulder pulling her close to him. She rested her head on his shoulder and he let his check press against the top of her head.
"Then all I ask is that he doesn't leave me, ever."
"Then he won't leave your side unless he is cut away by the sword of Seth." he could feel her tense in his grip. She hated the thought of the gods coming. He knew she didn't like to steel. Until her flight from her father's home she had lived an honest life and would have settled to marry any man who asked as long as he cared for her and let her do things her own way. When HE had gotten a hold of her though something died inside and she was now willing todo what she had to to stay with her sole companion in life.
"Good. I think I will sleep now." and she did. She slid into a deep sleep and didn't notice when he let her go. She didn't realize he had gotten up and walked off. She didn't hear the fight. She didn't wake untill he lay in a bloody heap and two men took hold of her and started dragging her back to the city. Before she was to far though he lifted his head.
"I won't let you go my Lady of the Nile." he called barely above a whisper.