Previously! On Yu-Gi-Oh!
A very short episode in deed, as Bakura and Ryou fight for their rights, Ryou not being able to do so well in this. The 'gang' was unable to get in any answers from the thief what-so-ever and headed home...
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It was midnight and Yugi was silently asleep in his bed, Atemu was in the guest room sitting on the edge of his bed thinking of anything that might help answer any 'riddles' to this mystery. Even though the Pharaoh should have been sleeping, he was to use to staying up through the nights from when he was just a spirit inside the Millennium Puzzle, wondering the hallways of the labyrinth within. No drowsiness was visible in his expression, he looked wide awake and his mind was working quickly.
Back in Yugi's room, Yugi was twisting and turning in his bed, probably dreaming. Small beads pf sweat fell from his forehead as he finally laid still for a few minutes, covers halfway over his body and the rest falling against the floor. He breathed slowly, in and out, as the sound of the silent night continued to fill the room.
Marik had left hours ago, gone home after learning all that was able to be told and made sure that they did all they could to help Ryou. He had left and fell asleep in his own bed at home with scared thoughts of what might happen.
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"Ryou? Are you awake Ryou?" No reply to the questioning whisper in the dark of the home that had not way to long ago had something mysterious happen within its walls. A collision, a fusion. Fusing two completely different personalities into one. Bakura lifted his arm and slightly poked the other half of himself, Ryou, in the little piece of forehead he had. "Damnit Ryou, I want some coffee." Bakura sighed and then carefully used the couch he was sitting on to help him up to where he was standing. He was getting use to walking around on one foot, but it was still odd to do.
He hopped a bit as he started off towards the kitchen, then slowly went into a steady walk as he reached the part of the floor that turned from carpet to tile. He got out a mug and everything else he needed and started making some coffee, he didn't feel like sleeping. Ryou on the other hand, he slept quietly even at the moving of the other side of him. His arm dangled at his side and his foot dragged across the floor as Bakura walked back to the couch and sat down. Bakura drank his coffee and stared into the darkness surrounding the house. He took another sip of coffee as he sighed a bit and slunk more into the couch.
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Yugi gasped and sat up quickly, waking from a horrid dream. He rubbed his head as he realized this and at first almost started to talk to Atemu but then realized that he wasn't there, as he usually did throughout the past nights of the year. Sliding out of his bed, his bare feet touched the floor and he quickly and quietly walked towards his door. He opened the door and then walked down the hallway towards the guest room, and then stopped. He put his ear to the door and heard slow breathing of a sleeping person and as he opened the door a crack, it was confirmed that Atemu was sleeping.
The Millennium Puzzle was lying on a desk in the corner of the room along with Atemu's two belts laid across the desk beside it, his jacket placed on the head of the chair in front of the desk. Yugi stared at the puzzle as he stood in the doorway, remembering when he used to wear the puzzle. Then, he tiptoed towards the desk and slowly picked the Puzzle up from it's resting place. Once the golden object hanging from it's silver chain was in his hands he walked out into the hallway and then placed it around his neck. Smiling, he walked back to his room and he crawled back into his bed as the low glimmer of light protruding from the Puzzle went unnoticed.
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The eyelid belonging to Ryou began to slowly open as he awakened from his sleep. Looking as far over at Bakura as he could he noticed that he was asleep... but then he realized that not only was he asleep, but a mug of coffee was lying in his hand, spilling all over the couch. "BAKURA YOU- YOU IDIOT!" Ryou tried to stand up but ended up falling back into the couch. Trying once again, using the couch for support he was able to lift himself... but was unable to move, not having as much practice at moving around on one foot as Bakura had had. So, once again he just fell back onto the couch, this time on his own will. "Wake up, Bakura!" Ryou jabbed Bakura in the face trying to wake him.
"Uuuuh." Bakura swiped the jabbing finger from his forehead. "Bakura, WAKE UP!"
"I'm awaaake."
"GET UP!"
"Whyyy?"
"Because you're an idiot, and spilt coffee all over my couch!"
"Eh, who cares.." Bakura snorted a little as he began drifting back into sleep.
"I CARE! It's MY couch!"
"Stop yelling." Bakura opened his eye and then got up, Ryou walking with him this time. "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to the bathroom."
Ryou coughed ,"Uh, what?"
"I'm going. To the. BATHROOM."
"For what!?"
"TO PISS!"
"I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU IN THE BATHROOM!" Ryou tried to move away, but as usual, that was impossible.
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Yugi woke up at around seven in the morning, yawning and slowly climbing out of bed. He didn't notice at all that he was still wearing the Millennium Puzzle. He walked over to the guest room and opened the door to find that Atemu wasn't in there, so he walked down the stairs. "Hey Gramps! Where's Atemu?"
"Hm? The Pharaoh? I don't know Yugi, haven't seen 'em all morning."
"Well, he had to of come down stairs at one point, he's not up stairs."
"I just woke up, so maybe he came down here really early." Yugi looked a little puzzled, he really doubted that the Pharaoh would get up so early, but then he heard a voice behind him. "I'm right here Yugi."
Yugi turned around to see the Pharaoh leaning against the wall beside him,"Oh! There you are Atemu! Where have you been?" Atemu began to speak but was interrupted by Yugi,"You look... pale. Are you okay?" Then Grandpa started speaking, leaving Atemu silently waiting again. "Who are you talking to Yugi?"
"I'm... talking to Atemu, Grandpa..." Yugi looked even more puzzled towards his grandfather, couldn't he see Atemu?
"No, Yugi. He can't." Yugi turned around and gasped. "You can read my mind?" He stared shockingly. "I am in your mind, once again."
That's when Yugi realized what was going on, why Grandpa couldn't see him... then he remembered the Puzzle hanging around his neck and he looked at it surprisingly then up at Atemu again with a 'Oh my gosh, I'm sorry!' kind of look. He removed the Puzzle from his neck and handed it to Atemu,"Take it back, take it back!"
"That won't do us any good Yugi, I'm already here... and I'm thinking it won't be that easy to get us out of this mess.
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Bakura ran out of the bathroom and sat down on the couch, trying to cross his arms once again," I. Am NEVER. Going to the bathroom. AGAIN."
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