Chione: I know, I know, it's been SO long since I updated. Well, get use to it because I'm in a bit of a writer's block right now. Though I'm hoping to get the next chapter done before Halloween, because it takes place on Halloween. -nod, nod-
Yami: -glares at Chione because he knows what she has planned for him- you're horrible…
Dartz: you think you have it bad? What about me! I become-
Chione: -throws a doughnut into Dartz's mouth- DON'T RUIN IT! You nincompoop.
Dartz: v.v sorry…
Chione: now, I'm responding to a review! -le gaspe- This is from Emperor K. Rool, who wrote "Pegasus isn't gay! Cecilia! Cecilia! This is still funny though. Keep writnig."
Pegasus: I know I'm not gay!
Chione: and I never said he was.
Pegasus: I'm just intuned with my sexuality.
Chione: means he's bi.
Pegasus: wait, I-
Chione: ANYWHO, time for the disclaimer! Today it'll be done by -drum roll- KAIBA!
Kaiba: -.-# no.
Chione: come on! I haven't made anything bad happen to you in the story.
Kaiba: thus far.
Chione: yeah… so, please?
Kaiba: -sigh- Chione doesn't own Yugioh, if she did, I'd quit. She also doesn't own Whitney Houston, or Slurpees, or 7-11, or Jelly Belly Beans.
Chione: OH, and in the beginning, what Pegasus does was inspired by what my Physics teacher, Mr. Christoffel, did. The thing with the chalk. You'll understand once you read it. O.o Mr. C scares me at times… he's like a character from one of my stories! And the second part, of what Pegasus does with the chalk, was inspired by my old Math teacher, Mr. Toth. Yay! Anywho, onto the chapter! And thank you Mr. C and Mr. Toth for the inspiration!
"And that's the REAL reason why women wore feathery hats way back when."
It was Current Events class, and Yugi stared at Pegasus, who stood at the front of the class (with yet another glass of whine in hand) and had just explained his wrong and sick reasonings as to why women wore large plumes in their hats during the early 1900s. Pegasus' theories are so immoral and so disgusting, that I refuse to repeat them here.
Beside Yugi, Joey was snoring softly, which he had been doing since the beginning of class. A few rows back sat Kaiba, who had a how-is-this-current-events-or-even-an-actual-lecture-for-that-matter-? look on his face. Most of the other students around Yugi had either disgusted looks on their own faces, were asleep like Joey, were completely filled with horror, were laughing their asses off, were too stunned for words, or had fled the room because they had the sudden urge to vomit. Yugi himself felt a great desire to bring up his breakfast because of the things he heard spill from Pegasus' mouth.
He looked over at the clock. There was only ten more minutes left. That was at least a good thing.
I just want this class to get over already! He thought to himself. He had plans to uphold, important plans that needed to get done as soon as possible. And as soon as class was done, he had to rush back to the apartment and get Yami. It was a surprise, but would hopefully make the former Pharaoh happy because he could finally leave the apartment building (which he hadn't done since the Slurpee incident).
"Now, let's take down some notes." Pegasus declared, putting his whine class on the podium and grabbing up some chalk. He began to scribble on the blackboard when a crack rang through the classroom. The chalk had broken.
It broke in Pegasus' fingers and fell to the ground. The professor froze in what he was doing and stared at the chalk. And stared. And stared. Many of the students wondered if he had finally fully cracked when-
"Isn't that just sad?" Pegasus asked, still staring at the chalk on the ground. "It's like 9/11."
Yugi stopped what he was doing, which was trying to awaken Joey by poking him. He stared up at his teacher. How is breaking chalk like 9/11!
"It's just so misfortunate!" Pegasus continued. He stooped down and picked up the chalk, then placed it on his podium. He stared at it mournfully. "It was taken before its time! It's so, so tragic!" A single tear rolled down Pegasus' cheek.
Everyone sat there silently. They weren't sure if they should laugh at Pegasus' reaction, or mourn with him. Or if they should call a mental hospital… They just quietly sat there, exchanging glances, unsure what to do now.
Then the silence was shattered by a loud snore. Where it came from? Do I really need to tell you? Well, it was obviously from the nose/mouth of our beloved Joey Wheeler…
Pegasus' head snapped up at the crude noise, and he scanned the class to find the perpetrator. His one eye fell on Joey, who was practically falling out of his seat, with a snot bubble slowly growing and decreasing from his nose, and a large stream of drool falling from his mouth, down the side of his face, and onto his chest.
"Mr. Wheeler!" The professor cried, shaking his finger. "This is not a sleeping class!"
But Joey remained dead to the world, and released another loud snore, which made several other classmates giggle and/or snicker. Yugi sank lower in his seat, wishing he could disappear. A sweat drop formed on his head. This is SO embarrassing… He thought as slowly the laughter and number of pointing fingers grew.
Pegasus, on the other hand, did not seem amused. He drummed his fingers on his podium. "Mr. Wheeler, I said this is not the time to sleep. Get up! Mr. Wheeler? Mr. Wheeler!" Finally he picked up the piece of chalk and threw it across the room. His aim amazed Yugi, because the small piece of chalk hit Joey right in the middle of the forehead.
Instantly the blonde sat up, eyes wide. "The square root of lambda!"
Now the laughter erupted from all over the class, and even Yugi couldn't help but smile a bit.
"No, Mr. Wheeler." Pegasus muttered from the front. "The answer is not the square root of lambda."
Joey blinked, a bit confused. "Then is it the square root of pie?"
"Don't you mean the square root of phi, Mr. Wheeler?"
"No." Joey told him, a scowl on his face. "I mean the square root of pie." And he pulled out a pie from his bag, then cut it in two. "See?" He then swallowed the entire first half of the pie, then the second piece. Joey then turned to Yugi and smiled. "I always come prepared."
Down below, Pegasus was opening his mouth to say something more but was interrupted by the bell. He scowled at the class and said, "Fine, just go." As the students got up and gathered their things, the professor downed the last of his drink and pulled out a fresh bottle of whine from below his podium.
"Are you ready Joey?" Yugi asked as he quickly gathered his things.
"Yeah, sure." The blonde said after a long yawn. "I don't see why I have to come, though."
"Oh, it'll be fun!" As he said this, he nodded his head vigorously. Quickly he led the way out of the class and almost ran all the way to the apartment.
"Why are we here again?"
Yugi, Yami, Ryou, Bakura and Joey stood in the back of a large store, surrounded by many racks of strange outfits. Yugi, Joey and Ryou had hauled the former spirits to this place with them, without so much as an explanation, and were now looking through the assortment of funny clothing.
"We're here to buy costumes." Yugi told Yami, who had posed the previous question.
Yami raised an eyebrow and lifted a frilly sleeve from one of the dresses hanging on the rack. "What are costumes?"
"Clothes you dress up in." The other young man told him as he examined a pirate outfit. "We need them for Pegasus and Dartz's tea party. It's on Halloween, so we have to get costumes."
"And darn good ones!" Joey added as he appeared at Yugi's side. "If Kaiba's gunna be there, we can't have him recognizing you and Bakura." He then held up a harem girl outfit to his chest. "Tell me the truth; would I look good in this?"
Yugi just shook his head, but a puzzled expression was still on Yami's face. "What's "Halloween"?"
"You know what Halloween is, you dope." Yugi said with an aggravated sigh. "Remember when me and the gang would always get dressed up in funny clothes and go to a party or something like that?"
"Vaguely…" Yami muttered. "I always thought you and your friends had weird fetishes, and I would go hide in the Puzzle because I was embarrassed to even look at you…"
His counter part glared at him. "Thanks."
"Nah, it was Halloween!" Joey said, slapping Yami on the back. "Everyone dresses up. Little kids usually go around collecting candy door to door, but we older people go to fun parties. Though, I can't say I think this party will be much fun…"
"I'd rather collect the sweets…" A voice muttered. The guys turned to see Ryou and Bakura had joined them once again. Bakura had spoken, and he was currently wearing a frilly 1700's costume.
Yugi and Joey tried not to chuckle, but Yami went ahead and let out a laugh while pointing at Bakura.
"Shuttup." Bakura snapped, pulling the powder wig off his head. "It was Ryou's idea."
Ryou grinned evilly. "Yeah, it was…"
"Cut it out." Yugi ordered. "We have to get some good costumes."
Yami let out a long moan. "This is boring!"
"For once I agree with him." Bakura said with a nod as he hid behind a rack and changed into his normal clothes as two little old ladies who could still see Bakura stared in shock and with a bit of interest.
Ryou and Yugi exchanged looks. "We can't let you guys just wander around the mall. You have to stay with us." Yugi told them.
"We'll behave."
To this the former hosts just gave their yamis "Yeah, sure" looks.
"I'll take care of them!" Joey declared. "I wasn't having that much fun anyway." He draped his arms around Yami and Bakura's shoulders and began to lead them away from the other two.
"What about your costumes?" Ryou called after them.
"Pick ones out for us!" Joey replied. "Just don't make them too spastic!" And before either Ryou or Yugi could object again, Joey picked up his pace and pulled the two former spirits with him.
Joey led the way out of the large store and into the mall area. Once out there Bakura and Yami stopped and stared around in wonder.
When Joey realized the two were no longer with him he stopped. "What are you two goggling at?"
"It's so… strange." Bakura muttered. Yami slowly nodded his head.
The blonde just stared back at them. "Haven't you two been to a mall before?"
"I have." Yami said, raising his hand a bit. "But not one as big as this one."
"It is pretty large, I guess…" Joey rubbed his chin, thinking about it. Then his stomach let out a large growl which made Yami and Bakura jump away from him.
"What the bloody hell was that!" The thief demanded.
"It was my stomach. It must be lunch… Hey, you guys hungry?"
Before either of them could give an answer, Joey was taking off towards the food court.
"You to just wait here at the fountain, I'll be back in a minute." And then he was gone, lost in the crowd.
Yami and Bakura stared off at where Joey had vanished, then at each other.
"Well, now what?"
Yami gave a shrug. "We wait." He turned and sat on the ledge of the fountain, and Bakura followed. The two sat in silence, Yami looking around to see if Joey was coming back, Bakura looking at all the merchandise around them.
A couple of minutes passed and Yami let out a long sigh. How long was Joey going to take?
Something cold hit his face, and he heard splashing. "What the-?" He turned around to see Bakura laying on his stomach on the edge of the fountain and fishing things out of the pool of water. All around them, people were giving them strange glances.
"What are you doing!" Yami demanded, grabbing Bakura's shirt collar and pulling him away from the water.
The thief struggled to pull away. "Let go of me, you bloody… whatever you are!"
"Bakura, what do you think you were doing?"
"I was thirsty, so I was getting a drink."
Yami raised an eyebrow. "I don't believe that. You're not telling the truth!"
"I am!" Bakura cried, and the two glared at one another. Then the thief added, "I was getting a drink. Then I saw shiny things in the bottom of the pool. See?" He held up a coin he had fished out. He rolled it between his fingers, his eyes strangely sparkling. "OoOoOoOo, shiny…"
"Those are just hunks of metal, they have no value to them!" And with that Yami swatted the coin of out Bakura's hand and back into the fountain.
"My shiny!" The white haired young man cried, leaping for Yami's grasp and towards the water. But the other yami was quicker and grabbed Bakura round the waste and hoisted him onto his shoulder, and began walking away with a bit of difficulty.
"I will not have you embarrassing me before all these people!" Yami snapped at Bakura's complaints. "We'll have to wait for Joey elsewhere. And what have you been eating, man?"
Bakura blinked down at him. "What do you mean?"
"You're heavy! You need to loose a few pounds!"
"And it's comments like those that are the reason why so many people have eating disorders! I'll have you know that I am in tip top shape. You're just weak."
Yami ground his teeth together. "And it's comments like those that are the reason why so many people are on steroids…"
"What was that?"
"Oh, nothing."
They continued to walk through the mall, ignoring the glances they were getting. Most people weren't use to one young man carrying another young man through the mall over his shoulder.
But when they got far enough away from the fountain, Yami threw Bakura onto the ground with a great sigh of relief. Bakura, on the other hand, let out a cry of pain and rubbed his bum.
"Couldn't you be a little bit more gentle?" The thief asked. "You hurt my bloody arse." Several girls who were walking past giggled, because they took what Bakura said completely the wrong way, and they have sick, sick minds. Naughty girls, tsk tsk.
"Why should I make it easy for you when you're always rough with me?" More giggles from the Peanut Gallery. (A/N: where does that saying even come from!)
"If I didn't make it rough, it wouldn't be as much fun for me, or as satisfying for you when you finally get the job done." And yet more laughing.
"I suppose. But sometimes you ride me so hard, and test my limits so much, it's not even worth it."
By now the girls that were eavesdropping were laughing so hard, it was kind of hard to ignore them, and the two former spirits finally realized it was them they were laughing at. So they turned to the group of girls with death glares on their faces.
"Do you mind!" They cried together.
The girls all got scared looks on their faces, and took off through the mall. Once they were gone from view, the two yamis looked at one another.
"What was that all about?" Yami wondered.
"I don't know. But look at that place!" Bakura was pointing to a CD store. Before Yami could object, the thief was running towards it. With a sigh, Yami followed.
Bakura went over to a sample player and began to look over it closely. "What kind of contraption is this?"
"I've seen those before." Yami said, pointing to the headphones. "You wear them over your ears."
The thief nodded quickly and placed the headphones on his head. "Now what?"
"I don't know…" The former Pharaoh stared at the box hanging on the wall, and noticed the buttons. He pressed one, which was Stop, so nothing happened. He pressed the next one, Play, and the CD in the sample player began to spin.
Both yamis jumped when the disc began to spin, but then they leaned closer to watch it, mesmerized.
And then the music began to blare. And I mean really, REALLY loud, because the pervious user had turned the volume up all the way. Bakura cringed in pain as Whitney Houston was screaming in his ears. With a bit of difficulty, he pulled the headphones off, and then attacked the sample player.
"Bakura!" Yami tried to grab the thief, but already he had the sample player in his hands, and with freakish strength pulled the player off the wall, threw it to the ground, and began to stomp on it.
"Well…" Yami muttered when Bakura had stepped away from the severely broken sample player and spat on it. "That was interesting…"
"What kind of magic was that?" Bakura asked. "Or was it more of Yugi's "tekmologeh"?"
"I'm not sure. But whatever it is, I think it's an assassination gizmo." The two exchanged looks. "Let's get away from here." Yami added.
Bakura nodded, and the two quickly moved towards the front of the store and left, running to a store on the other side of the mall; a candy store.
"This stuff smells wonderful!" Bakura said, happily. He opened a jar full of suckers and popped on into his mouth.
"It's better than that store where we got the Ice Sugar." Yami agreed, thinking back to 7-11 and Slurpees.
The white haired young man shrugged. "I like that other place better. There were books with women wearing hardly anything, or nothing at all!"
Yami gave him a look. "Why didn't you tell me- Wait, no! Bakura, you are a horrible, horrible person for looking at those!" But he also made a mental note to find his way back to that store and find those books…
The two ventured through the candy store, stuffing their faces, pockets and arms full of candy and sweets. When they could hold no more, they decided it was best to return to the fountain and wait for Joey.
But before they could make it through the door of the candy store, the store clerk cried out and forced them to stop.
"You need to pay for all of that!"
The yamis exchanged looks. "What do you mean?"
"This isn't free." The clerk told them matter-of-factly. "You have to pay for everything, or I'll call Security."
"Pay with what?"
"Money, of course!"
Again the looked at one another. "What's money?"
"Coins!"
"I'm sorry." Yami said sheepishly. "We're, um, new to this place and we don't have any of this "money". Let me go find my-"
"No money, no candy." The clerk said, trying to grab some of the sweets that Bakura held.
"No!" The thief cried, jumping back. His tone went low. "It's mine!"
"Fine." The young man went back behind the counter. "I'm calling Security." He told them, then picked up a phone.
Yami's eyes widened. "Yugi once told me Security is like the Palace Guards. They'll behead us!"
"I'll be damned if I get beheaded, or stolen from!" Bakura nearly growled. "I'll take care of this…"
"Well, glad we got this done."
Ryou and Yugi were leaving the big store with their bags of costumes. They smiled, happy to have that task over and done with. Now they just needed to find the others.
As if on cue, Joey ran up, huffing and puffin, and his eyes wide and frightened.
"Joey, what's wrong!" Yugi cried.
"I- I- lost- t-them." The blonde told them between gasps of air.
"You lost-?" Ryou began, then stopped in mid sentence. "You lost them! You lost Bakura and Yami! How could you do that!"
"I turned around for only a second. But when I looked again, they were gone!"
Ryou nodded his head, but Yugi frowned. "You left them to go to the food court, didn't you?"
"Yes…" Joey said, shamefaced. "I told them to wait for me at the fountain, but when I came back they were gone!"
"We have to find them!" Ryou cried. "Who knows what they'll do! They might hurt someone, or hurt each other, or-" He stopped and was staring at something coming towards them.
"Ryou, this is no time to be in shock!" Yugi told him. "We have to go out and-" But Ryou grabbed Yugi's head and forced him to look at what he was looking at. Joey shrugged and followed their gazes as well.
Coming towards them, perfectly fine, were Yami and Bakura. And they had all their pockets, shirts, and their arms stuffed full of candy.
"Where… did you get that?" Yugi asked as soon as they two former spirits were before them.
"A store."
"What store?"
"The candy store."
Yugi sighed. "That REALLY clears it up."
"How did you pay for all that?" Ryou questioned.
"We didn't."
"So you stole it."
"No."
"Yes, you didn't pay for it, so you stole it."
"It's the clerk bloody fault!" Bakura snapped. "He wasn't there. If he had been there like he was suppose to, we wouldn't have taken it."
"The store clerk was gone?"
"Well, what did I just bloody say?"
Ryou sighed. "Even if the clerk's gone, you shouldn't just take the stuff."
"No, no." Joey interrupted. "It's teaching the cashier a lesson. They should be on duty at all times, not running off and leaving the store unguarded. So, I say we go back there and teach the cashier some more lessons. By taking more candy!"
He then marched off, followed by Yami and Bakura. Yugi and Ryou sighed, but followed them. Why was it always them?
They got to the store and saw that it was, indeed, empty of any working personnel. Or anyone else for that matter. Joey almost dove right into the candy, and the yamis gathered up more sweets than they already had.
"Well, we might as well enjoy it." Ryou offered to a scowling Yugi. When the short young man didn't reply, Ryou ran off to the Jelly Belly Beans and got as many as he could carry.
"This is wrong you guys." Yugi muttered. "We shouldn't be doing this."
"Lighten up, Yug." Joey told him, shoving a candy apple into Yugi's mouth (and surprisingly the whole thing fit!). "I want to see how much money is in the cash register!" And with that the blonde ran back behind the counter.
But before he could get to the register, he tripped on something and fell.
"God damn!" Joey cried, sitting up and rubbing his nose. "What the hell did I-?" But he stopped, staring at what he had tripped on. It was a guy, in a smock that matched the surroundings of the candy store.
"Oh my god!" The blonde squealed, jumping up.
"Joey, did you squeal?" Yugi asked stunned.
"Yes, I did." He frowned at his friend. "But that's beside the matter, because I just found the store clerk, and he's dead!"
"What!" Yugi and Ryou ran over to the counter and looked at the dead clerk as well.
Ryou spun around to his counter part. "Bakura, you said the store was empty!"
"It is." A smile crept over the thief's lips. "Now."
"You killed the cashier!"
"I did no such thing! He just fell… Conveniently onto my dagger…"
Ryou's jaw was nearly on the floor. "I thought I took all your daggers away!"
Again Bakura smiled. "You can never take away all my daggers. I have one EVERYWHERE."
"Ew, I touched a dead guy! I touched a dead guy!" Joey was hopping from one foot to the other, shaking his hands. "That's so gross, I need to wash myself." And he ran off and jumped into a nearby fountain, only to be attacked by giant koi fish.
"We need to get out of here." Yugi muttered. "Before someone else comes in."
"And get rid of the store security footage!" Ryou added.
Quickly, while Joey was distracting people in the mall because he was being attacked by the koi fish, Ryou and Yugi went into the store's back to find and destroy the security footage, and Yami and Bakura stuffed the clerk's dead body at the bottom of a bin of licorice.
"Ok, we're done." Yugi mumbled as he stuffed the broken security footage into his shopping bag and Bakura stuffed the money from the register into his candyfilled pockets.
"Let's get home!" Ryou added.
The four left the candy shop, grabbed/saved Joey from the koi pond, and raced back to the apartment as quickly as their legs could carry them.