Chione: physics should DIE! -stabs physics book-

Yami: o.O why?

Bakura: who cares, we get to stab things! -stabs Chione's text book as well-

Chione: you know, I wouldn't have taken stupid physics if I had known it was just math but with a fancier name! ARGH! -throws text into a fire-

Bakura: oOoOo, pretty colors!

Yami: o.O

Chione: -to readers- well, I'm back! I know, you're all thinking it- it's about damn time! But I didn't know what to write… honest I didn't. But, thanks to LeDiva, I got an idea! XD LET THE CRAZINESS COMMENCE! And thank you LeDiva for the wonderful idea! -blows kisses and skips off-

Yami: oh, and, Chione doesn't own Hermione Granger -nod, nod- or-or -shiver- I just can't say it!

Rebecca: -who had appeared out of nowhere- OR Tampax Tampons!

Yami: YOU SAID THE DREADED WORD! -runs away screaming-

Rebecca: -sigh- men…

"I'm not sure I can take much more of this…"

Joey sighed deeply as he, Ryou, Yugi, Yami and Bakura headed back to their apartment after lunch. It had been a week since the start of classes, and everyone was dead tired between hiding from Kaiba and doing homework.

Yugi was especially exhausted with coming up with excuses for the "mysterious" occurrences in the apartment, which were really Yami, Bakura and Kuriboh's doing. He had also found that he was thankful each of the roommates had brought their own toaster; already two were wrecked from Kuriboh trying to warm up coffee in one, and Bakura freaking out on another when the toast popped up and startled him.

"I know how you feel." Yugi said with sympathy, patting his friend's shoulder.

They finally reached the door of the apartment when Ryou looked down the hall and saw someone.

"Yami, Bakura, into my apartment!" As he said this, Ryou shoved the two yamis through the open door across from them and into Duke who had been leaving.

"Wha-?" Was all Yami, Bakura and Duke were able to say before Ryou slammed the door closed after them, smiling a bit.

Yugi gave him a wary look. "You're enjoying pushing Bakura around too much…" Ryou's only reply was a sheepish grin.

"Why did you-?" Joey began, but he saw the person that Ryou had. His eyes widened. "Serenity!"

"Joey!" Before any of them could react, Serenity had glomped her brother, which made Joey fall to the ground with the wind knocked out of him.

"S-Serenity…!" Joey stammered, trying to recapture his air. "W-what are you doing here?"

The girl frowned. "Didn't you get my message?" When he shook his head she sighed. "I told you I was coming over. I had something I wanted to tell you!"

"Why don't we go inside?" Yugi offered, prying Serenity off her brother as Ryou helped him up.

But Yugi's words made Serenity looked alarmed. "Oh, I don't kn-"

"Yes, please!" Joey cut her off. "I need to lay down…"

"Before we do," His sister interrupted, stepping between him and the door. Her speech was starting to rush together. "Joey, you're my big brother, and you love me, right?"

"Oh course." He attempted to move past her, but she negated him.

"And you want me to be happy, right?"

"Yes." Again he reached for the door handle, but Serenity grabbed his hand.

"And no matter what, you wouldn't let your own feelings stop me from being happy, right?"

Joey gave her a hard look. "Serenity, what is this all about?"

"Nothing, it's jus-"

"If it's about nothing, then let me into my apartment!"

Before she could reply Joey pushed past his sister and opened the door, going into the residence.

"Serenity, you're finally back."

Everyone stopped and stared at the young man who stood up from one of the chairs. It was none other than Valon, who smiled and waved at them.

"What's wrong, mates? Surprised to see me?"

Yugi slowly looked up at Joey, and saw his friend's eye twitch. "Joey…"

"It's about time you all got here." Kaiba droned from the kitchen table without looking up from the newspaper he read. "The Aussie was starting to get on my nerves with his "mate" and "blimy" talk…"

Joey ignored him and continued to stare at the intruder. "What… is he doing here?"

"Joey, I can explain-" Serenity began, but apparently her brother wasn't about to let her explain.

Instead, Joey launched himself across the room with surprising speed and grabbed Valon around the neck, pinning him to the ground and attempting to choke the life out of him.

"JOEY!" Yugi and Ryou cried together, and rushed over to their friend, trying to pull him off the other man.

Serenity rushed over as well, but stayed back as Yugi and Ryou attempted to get Joey away from Valon. "Please, Joey, stop it!"

"Will you keep it down?" Kaiba asked, still not looking up from his paper. "I'm trying to read."

The trying-to-pull-Joey-off plan wasn't exactly working; Yugi and Ryou were weak. So Yugi tried another thing to bring Joey back to his senses. "Joey, you could go to jail if you kill him!"

"Or worse!" Ryou added. "You could get expelled!"

Yugi froze and gave Ryou a look. "Who the hell are you, Hermione Granger!"

"Someone… help!" Valon gasped.

"Joey, stop it!" Serenity continued to plead. When her brother wouldn't reply, she ran to the kitchen and came back with the third toaster. Before anyone else could ask what the girl was doing, she brought the toaster down onto- dundundun- Joey's head!

"AHHHH!" Joey cried, releasing Valon and clutching his own skull. He curled into a ball and continued moaning in pain.

Serenity grabbed Valon's arm and pulled him away from her temporarily insane brother. "Now will you listen?"

It was twenty minutes later that they had finally got Joey to agree to hear his sister out and not attempt to hurt Valon again. And that was only after Yugi threatened to tell Serenity how Joey really passed math all those years, and also why he always seemed to have Mrs. Hogan-the-hot-but-unhappily-married-math-teacher (Joey, you sly dog!).

"Alright, hurry up and tell me why he's-" Joey shot Valon a death glare, "-is here. Then he has to get out."

"Well, I went to this festival a few months ago." Serenity said, not meeting her brother's gaze. "And I meet Valon there. We got to talking, and then he asked me out on a date. Since then, we've been together."

"So, you came all this way to tell me you're just dating this sleaze ball?" Joey demanded. He then turned to Valon. "If you touched her in ANY inappropriate manner, I'll-"

"Joey!"

"What? I don't want this guy taking advantage of you, Serenity. And that's just what his kind does."

"He's done no such thing." Serenity said stiffly. "And I didn't come all this way to tell you I'm seeing Valon."

Yugi glanced from Serenity to Valon. They were smiling at each other. This can't be good… He gave Ryou a nod, and the other young man returned it and prepared to grab Joey if need be.

"Well, why're you here then?" Joey asked.

It seemed Serenity couldn't find a way to sugar coat it, so she just came out and said it. Not exactly the brightest move on her behalf…

"Joey, Valon and I are getting married!"

Yugi and Ryou cringed. Even Kaiba stiffened at the words. But to all those in the room's surprised, Joey didn't so much as flinch.

"Is that so?" He said calmly.

Serenity nodded her head vigorously. "Yes. The wedding's in January."

"That's nice. Lots of time to plan." Yugi frowned at Joey's words. He was talking this all too well. "But don't you think you're a bit young to get married?"

"Not at all. True love can't wait." She beamed up at Valon. "All I need is a guardian's approval, and I can get married. And mom adores Valon and gave her blessing. So, we're all set."

Joey nodded, a smile frozen on his face. "Will you excuse me for a moment?" Before anyone could answer him the blonde had gotten up and steadily walked over to his room, slowly closing the door behind him.

The others watched the door cautiously. There was an excruciatingly long silence, then-

"MOTHER FU-" The end of Joey's words were cut off as something went smashing into the wall. In an instant Yugi and Ryou were rushing over to his room and trying to calm in down.

Another twenty minutes of throwing things passed and Joey was back in the living room, though his calm façade was nowhere in site. He glared at Valon from where he sat, with Yugi and Ryou on either side of him, their hands firmly on Joey's shoulders.

"So…" Joey muttered darkly, still glaring at the Aussie beside his sister. "You're getting married."

"Yes." Serenity told him. It had been discovered that whenever Valon opened his mouth Joey would leap at him again, so Serenity talked for the both of them. "I'd really love to have at the wedding, Joey. You're my big brother, I want you to be part of my big day."

"Don't think I don't know what's going on." The blonde said in a low voice, ignoring his sister's comment about actually attending the ceremony.

Serenity and Valon exchanged a look. "What do you mean?"

"This asshole knocked you up!" Joey declared. "It's the only reason someone like you would just rush into a marriage!" He turned back to Valon. "I'll skin you alive, you bastard! You better sleep with one eye open!"

"Joey, he didn't get me pregnant!" Serenity cried.

"Then why're you marrying him? What? Does he need a Green Card, is that it?"

"No, he doesn't need a Green Card!"

"Did you get yourself into trouble? And marrying him's the only way out?"

"No!"

"Then what the hell is it!"

"There is no hidden reason! I love him, and he loves me! We want to be together! Is that so hard to believe?" Her face became pleading.

Joey stared at her for a long time, then said, "Yes."

Serenity stood up, angry. It was the first time Yugi had seen her in such a state. He had to say, it wasn't pretty.

"Joey, you're such a- such a-"

"Such a what?"

She glared daggers at him. "Such an ass!" She grabbed the toaster that had been sitting on the couch and threw it at him, nailing him in the face. As Joey's chair fell backwards Serenity grabbed Valon's arm and pulled him out of the apartment.

Yugi and Ryou watched her go, then looked down at Joey's unconscious form and then at each other.

"Well," Ryou mumbled. "That went swimmingly…"

"What was that all about?"

Bakura sat on top of Yami and Duke after just recently being shoved into the other apartment by his other half. He had to say, Ryou had too much fun pushing him around.

"I don't know. The must have seen someone that shouldn't see us." Yami mumbled.

"Get… OFF!"

Both former spirits looked down at Duke, who was slowly turning blue in the face. Quickly they got off of him.

"It's about time two of you got here!" A voice cried. Rebecca emerged from her room holding Kuriboh at arms' length away from her.

The brown little ball was wriggling in her hands, trying to get away. It seemed he had found where Duke had hidden the coffee, and where Rebecca's makeup was. Kuriboh had eye shadow and lipstick matted into his fur in various odd places, and there were black streaks of mascara all over him.

"You take him." She ordered, handing the critter off to Bakura.

"I don't think that's a good-" Bakura began, but Kuriboh exploded in his hands. "-idea…" Black smoke came out of his mouth as he said those words, and Kuriboh began to giggle hysterically.

"Rebecca, watch them, ok?" Duke said, ignoring the blackened Kuriboh. "I was just heading out to the library."

"I was heading out too!" Rebecca declared. "I was going to meet some friends. You stay and watch them!"

"It's not my turn!"

"It's not mine, either!"

Yami let out an aggravated sigh. "We can take care of ourselves, you know. We're not children, we can be responsible."

Duke and Rebecca just stared at him. "Right…" They said together.

"We can!" Yami insisted. "Right Bakura and Kuriboh? Bakura? Kuriboh?" He turned to the thief who had pulled scissors out of a back pocket and was now trying to cut Kuriboh's fur in random places as the monster gnawed at his arm. "GUYS!"

Bakura instinctively hid the scissors behind his back and smiled innocently as Kuriboh stiffened but didn't release the former spirit's arm.

"We'll be good!" Bakura said warmly.

"Muh cwoarse!" Kuriboh agreed, though he was still latched onto Bakura's arm.

Duke sighed. "Fine. But if we come back and this apartment's a disaster, you three will be punished!"

"Yes, sir!" The three of them cried, saluting Duke. With wary looks he and Rebecca left, leaving the others on their own.

"Wow, this is the first time we've been left on our own." Bakura mumbled. He turned to Yami. "They either trust us, or are extremely stupid."

"It's the same thing, isn't it?" Yami questioned. He then finally acknowledge Kuriboh on Bakura's arm. "Doesn't that hurt?"

"What?"

"That." He pointed to Kuriboh.

Bakura looked down, and his eyes widened. "GREAT RA! GET THIS BLOODY THING OFF ME!" He began running around the apartment, flailing his arm in an attempt to get Kuriboh off. But the creature stayed on, almost as if he had a lockjaw like a pit bull.

"Bakura, just calm down!" Yami cried, following after him.

"GET-IT-OFF!" Bakura ran over to the kitchen and began slamming Kuriboh against the countertop. When that failed, he grabbed a potato masher that was conveniently sitting out. He raised it up and prepared to bring it down on Kuriboh.

"No!" Yami cried grabbing his arm. "Don't hurt him!"

"He's chewing on my bloody arm!" Bakura said back. He tried to pull his other arm away from Yami while still trying to shake Kuriboh off his other one. "GET HIM THE BLOODY HELL OFF ME!"

"I will!" Yami told him. "Just don't hit him!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

They continued to struggle; Yami trying to get the potato masher away from Bakura, and Bakura trying to get both Yami and Kuriboh off of him.

"Let me hit him!"

"No! That's bad!"

As the two fought over the potato masher, it flew from Bakura's hand and straight through one of the windows. All three of them froze and stared at the broken window. "Uh-oh…" They said in unison.

"Now look what you did!" Yami cried. "If you would have just let me-"

"Don't think you can order me about!" Bakura retorted. "You're not Pharaoh any-"

"Yami tastes like chicken!"

Yami and Bakura both froze and looked down at Kuriboh. The little hairball had released Bakura and know had Yami's hand in his mouth. Both yamis were very still, until-

"AHHHHHH!" Yami took up where Bakura had let off- running around the apartment screaming. "GET IT OFF, GET IT OFF!"

"Hang on!" Bakura cried. He grabbed the fire extinguisher and chased after Yami. "I watched the veetee the other day, and a man used something like this. It's to be used in emergencies!"

"What are you waiting for, man! USE IT!"

Bakura complied. He pointed the end at Yami and pressed the clasp. White foam irrupted from the extinguisher and cover Yami and Kuriboh, as well as most of the apartment.

When the red cylinder was empty, Bakura dropped it on the ground and looked around. Yami stood very still, and Kuriboh even stiller. Both shivered a bit.

"Um… is this a bad thing?" Bakura asked, looking around.

"Yes." Yami mumbled. "We need to clean this up, before Ryou or Duke or Rebecca come back!"

Quickly they began to fix things up. After Yami and Kuriboh warmed up and dried off, the three of them did their best to mop up all the foam.

"Why don't we use this?" Kuriboh asked. He had emerged from the bathroom with Rebecca's blow drier. "I've seen Rebecca use it, it dries stuff."

"Sounds good." Yami said, taking the drier from the critter. He plugged it into the wall and began to dry the furniture.

"What do we do about the bloody window?" Bakura asked, nodding towards the shattered glass. They had already cleaned up the glass, but the window still stood for all to see.

"There wouldn't have been a broken window if you would have just given me the metal mallet!"

Bakura glared at him. "Don't try to make this my fault."

Yami's mouth fell open. "It is your fault!"

"No, it's Kuriboh's fault! He bit me!"

Kuriboh tried to cross his arms (which wasn't easy because they're so stubby). "You attempted to cut my fur!"

"Well you… you…" Bakura stopped and thought about it for a moment. "You blew up in my face!"

To this the monster shrugged. "That's just what I do."

"Stop fighting!" Yami demanded. "We have to get this place fixed up, or no one will EVER let us be on our own ever again! Now, shake and make up."

"No."

"Absolutely not."

Yami glared at them both. "Do it!"

Bakura and Kuriboh glared at one another, but slowly extended took the others hand/paw. "Sorry." They each mumbled.

But as they shook, Bakura purposely squeezed the critter's hand hard. Kuriboh squeaked, but got back by blowing up in the thief's face once more. After another round of hitting each other, Yami and sent Kuriboh into the bathroom to find more towels and Bakura to grab a blanket from the spare room.

"Why do you need this blanket?" Bakura asked as he held up the sheet of his bed.

"Drape it over the window." Yami instructed as he finished up with the blow drier. "They'll never know."

Kuriboh floated out of the bathroom, a small package in his hand. "What do you suppose this is?" He held up what was in his paw.

Bakura and Yami went over to him and Bakura took the thing from Kuriboh. It was a small white package with green writing on it. The three of them looked at it blankly.

"Well?" Kuriboh asked.

"I'm not sure." Yami took it from the thief and squinted as he tried to read the writing. He wasn't that good with reading… "It says "Tompacks." What's that?"

"I have no bloody idea." Bakura mumbled. "Open it up."

"Why should I! It could be a trap and once I open it, it could shoot acid or poison at me!"

"That's exactly why you should be the one to open it."

Yami glared at Bakura, then returned to his attention to the package. Without a word he went over to the kitchen and placed it on the counter, then grabbed a long knife. Crouching a bit behind the counter, Yami began to cut open. Once he did all three of them hit the floor as if expecting the thing to explode.

But it didn't. Cautiously they all got up and looked at it.

"I think there's something inside." Kuriboh mumbled. He went and grabbed the salad tongs and pulled whatever was inside the package out.

It just confused them more. It seemed to be a tube of cardboard with a string and cotton inside. Bakura picked it up and examined it.

"What kind of contraption is this?" The thief asked. He sniffed it. "And what could it be used for?" He continued to turn it around before his eyes, then licked it.

Yami was a bit entranced by the thing. "Kuriboh, where exactly did you find this?"

"It was in a case, in the bathing room." The monster replied. "There are many more in the case as well."

"Bring the box here. There may be some clue as to what it is…"

Kuriboh obliged and rushed back to the bathroom. He came back with a blue box filled with little white packages. The monster handed the box over to Yami who once again squinted to read the writing on it.

"Why does English have to be so difficult?"

Bakura cuffed him lightly on the head. "Just read the bloody thing!" He had proceeded to sick the device up is nose and was opening another for his other nostril.

""Tompacks Taimpoons."" The former Pharaoh read with a largely confused look on his face. "Now what do you suppose is that?"

"Give me the box." Bakura ordered. He took the box without waiting for Yami's reply and dumped the contents onto the counter. Little white packages went everywhere, but a piece of paper fell out as well.

Kuriboh grabbed them up first. "Parchment!"

"Give it here." Yami commanded. The hairball complied and gave him the paper. "Do you think it's an explanation of what these things are and how to use them?"

"I hope so." Bakura said with a nod. "But if they're used for something other than sticking up your nose, I'll fell like a damned idiot!"

Yami and Kuriboh both gave him a look. "Why would you put them up your nose?"

"You use them to stop a runny nose!" He grabbed another of the things and proceeded to show them how to "use" them.

Yami just shook his head. "I don't think that's the reason."

"Then just read the bloody parchment!"

With a sigh Yami opened the paper and held it up for all three of them to read. The first thing they saw was a nice little diagram, illustrating that the little gizmos were used for-

"DEAR RA!" Yami cried, dropped the paper and jumping away from all the little white packages. "IS THAT WHAT THEY'RE FOR!"

Bakura looked horrified. "It must be some sort of torture!" He then realized he had two of them up his nose and one in his ear. "AHHHH!" He quickly pulled them out and ran to the bathroom to scrub his face down.

"Dear chums, it's a perfectly natural phenomenon." Kuriboh told them. He sat on the counter and was still reading through the instructions.

Yami just gaped at him. "What!"

"You see, when a girl reaches a certain age, her body changes. Every month she begins to-"

But he was cut off by the door opening. In entered Rebecca, who froze and looked around the room. It took her awhile get back to her senses, but when she did she screamed.

"WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING WITH MY THINGS!"

"We can explain!" Yami cried. "You see, we were trying to dry down the apartment after Bakura had shot this foam all over the place, and Kuriboh found this box in the bathing room, and-"

Rebecca didn't give him a chance to finish. Instead, she grabbed a conveniently place hockey stick and proceeded to chase Yami and Kuriboh around the living room, screaming curses at them all the while.

Bakura finally came out of the bathroom and saw all this happening. He remained ever so still.

"I think… I'll go hide now…" And he slunk back into the bathroom and locked the door behind him, leaving the girl to chase the other two around for a few more hours until Ryou came back and managed to get her under control.