After reading the six reviews I have gotten, it looks like most of you want the traditional puzzleshipping. However, I'm still thinking about other pairings I could do instead. I have decided one one definite pairing, which will be revealed in this chapter. Now then, I don't own Yugioh.
Before Yugi could answer his anxious childhood friend, a flash of gray and whirl bubbles tackled him.
"Ryou, get off of him!" Anzu scolded the albino haired boy.
He had innocent chestnut eyes and was pale like Yugi. His tail color was a light shade of gray.
"Sorry, Yugi," Ryou apologized. "It's just that I got freaked out by this human."
"You met a human!" Anzu and Yugi yelled in unison.
"Was the person cute?" Anzu asked.
"Male or female?" Yugi asked.
"I can't answer the first one, but it was a male," Ryou explained. "He looked just like me, only eviler!"
"Whoa, is there such thing as an evil Ryou?" Anzu asked Yugi.
"Never knew it was possible," Yugi said dumbfounded.
"Well, he was getting really close towards me, and then he jumped into the water when he saw me!" Ryou told them.
"Looks like someone has a crush on you," Anzu teased.
"Or maybe even a stalker," Yugi suggested.
Ryou turned red as a tomato. "I hope not, we could never work it out well."
"Oh yes you could," Anzu informed him. "We found Ursula's spell book."
"You mean that fat tart with the icky mole on her face?" Ryou asked.
"Yep, that's her!" Anzu answered.
"That's just a story humans made up, after hearing Kisara's story," Ryou told her. "They just changed the facts for their children's innocent minds."
"Oh hush, you don't have to be such a party pooper, you know," Anzu shot back. "Now, how about we try one of these spells."
"What spells?" a voice asked.
The three young teens looked over, to find an unhappy Sonya swimming towards them.
"Well," she asked again once she had gotten to them, "what spells?"
"Spells?" Anzu asked. "I didn't mean like magical spells, right Yugi?"
Now it was Yugi's turn to cover their butts.
"No, of course not!" he exclaimed. "This is... a collector's edition from the movie."
"Oh really?" Sonya asked unconvinced. "Is that true, Ryou?"
'Oh boy, we're in trouble,' Anzu thought knowing Ryou was a sap when it came to lying.
And Ryou did crack...bad.
"It's a spell book!" he cried from the pressure. "Anzu and Yugi were planning to turn into humans like Kisara, and I wanted to be one too so I could meet the human I ran into earlier today, because I think he is hot!"
Sonya smirked, before saying, "Thanks Ryou."
She turned her attention to the two nervous teens.
"We weren't really gonna cast a spell," Yugi told her. "We were just... thinking about it."
Sonya looked into his eyes with disappointment, but they changed to sadness.
"You two have that same longing as Kisara," she told them. "A bad mistake on all your parts."
She looked up at the surface and said, "Today is a festival to celebrate all the years of living next to the ocean. The humans will be celebrating by the sea."
The three stayed quiet.
"There will be many humans nearby, and I would advise you all to stay away from them," Sonya warned. "Unless you want to end up like Kisara!"
Sonya's eyes were locked onto Yugi's most of the time, and Yugi knew she was mostly talking to him.
"Stay out of trouble," she said swimming away. "And Yugi, come back home."
"I gotta go guys," Ryou told the other two. "Sonya's orders!"
In a flash, the merman fled.
Anzu giggled and said, "He's probably thinking about what to wear for the festival."
"Yeah, he needs to look nice for his new crush," Yugi laughed. "Are you going?"
"Wouldn't miss it for the world!" she exclaimed. "How about you?"
"Can't" Yugi replied. "I'm Sonya's brother, remember?"
"Don't worry, Yugi," she assured her friend. "I'm sure she'll let you go, if you're careful."
"Thanks Anzu," he said with a smile. "I gotta go now."
"Alright Yugi, hope to see you at the festival!" she said swimming off.
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Yugi swam over to the coral reef he and his sister lived in. It was a great place to hide away from danger. Although, there was barely any of that. Most sea creatures lived in harmony with the merpeople.
Yugi sat down on a nearby rock, and sighed.
'I wish I could go to that festival,' he thought. 'Sonya won't ever let me be near one human, never mind a crowd of them.'
Looking up, he began to daydream about the surface world.
Sonya watched from afar, and felt a pang of guilt in heart. 'He really wants to go.'
She slowly made her way towards the depressed merman.
"Yugi," she said quietly. "How badly do you want to go?"
Yugi looked her straight in the eye and replied, "More than you could ever know."
That was the answer she hoped she wouldn't receive, along with those blasted eyes.
"Just promise me you won't talk to any humans," she pleaded.
Yugi's eyes grew in size, as a large smile graced his lips. "You're really gonna let me go!"
"Yes, but you must come back right after the festival's fireworks are over," she told him.
"Fireworks?" Yugi asked tilting his head.
"You'll see when you get there," she assured him.
"Thank you!" Yugi cried happily while pulling her into a big hug.
After the hug, he bolted towards the shore.
"Boy I hope I didn't make a grave mistake," Sonya said to herself.
That's when she noticed a golden box Yugi left behind. "Hmm, what's the millennium puzzle doing down here?"
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Yugi swam as fast as he could towards the shore.
He popped his head out of the water slowly, and noticed a lone figure on the dock. The big party was a mile or two away from him.
What really surprised Yugi, was that the human looked a lot like him.
He hid behind a nearby rock, and watched as someone approached his look alike.
'It's Jou!' Yugi thought excitedly. 'Is he this strange person's friend?'
"Hey bud, why you hangin' round here?" the blond asked.
The spiky haired man looked at his friend, and said, "Just admiring the ocean, I suppose."
"Yeah, it is pretty cool," Jou replied thinking about Yugi and the others. "Still thinking about dat girl?"
"Yeah," Yami said not taking his eyes off the sea. "How could I forget someone who saved me?"
"How long ago was dat accident again?" Jou teased.
"Sure I was only four when it happened, but that voice..." Yami drifted off.
Yugi tilted his head in puzzlement. 'Who saved him?'
Jou looked out to sea, and noticed Yugi's spiky hair.
'Oh man, dis is where we usually hang out,' he panicked. 'I hope he doesn't do anything crazy, like swim over here.'
Yugi looked over to Jou and smiled. He looked back at the spiky haired one to ask if he was dangerous.
Jou shook his head, but regretted doing so, once Yugi started to come over.
Jou was frantic and waved his hands around to try and scare off Yugi, but it didn't work.
Right before Yugi was near them, Jou began to throw rocks into the water.
His aim wasn't too bad, because each time, it went in front of Yugi causing him to stop, or it hit him.
'Sorry buddy,' he thought, 'but it's for your own good.'
His friend watched him throw rock near a particular spot, and looked closely at what he was hitting.
As he began to lean over to see, he noticed a murky figure that looked... human.
"What the...?" he whispered to himself.
Leaning in too closely, he fell heads first into the sea.
"Yami!" Jou called.
The water below was pretty deep, and Jou knew that the temperature couldn't be that great either.
Yugi noticed the human wasn't much of a swimmer and knew he had to help out.
He wrapped his arm around the other's waist, and used his tail as a propeller to get them moving fast.
They quickly broke to the surface, and the male in Yugi's arms began to cough up water.
"Bring Yami onto the shore," Jou commanded Yugi.
'Yami,' Yugi thought to himself. 'It means darkness, right?'
Once on shore, Yugi began to examine Yami more closely. In fact, his face was only inches away from his look alike's face.
Yami groaned a bit after coughing up more water.
His eyes open to reveal a rare crimson color.
He was startled to find huge, amethyst eyes staring at him in curiosity.
Yami quickly backed up from the strange boy.
Jou knew that this was Yami's first encounter with a merman, obviously.
"Jou," he said quietly, thinking that Yugi wouldn't understand, "is that a mermaid?"
"Merman," a timid voice corrected.
Yami's eyes grew in size as the aquatic creature gave him a small, shy smile.
"Yami, dis is Yugi," Jou introduced. "Yugi, dis is Yami."
"You know him?" Yami asked examining the boy. "Why does he look like me?"
Yugi and Jou both shrugged. "I got no clue, about dat."
Yami finally got himself up off of the sand and walked towards Yugi. "Thank you for saving me."
Yugi just smiled at him warmly.
"Hey Yami, can we keep dis whole merman thing a secret?" Jou asked his friend. "I wouldn't want my little buddy to turn into some creepy science experiment."
Yami looked into Yugi's, now fearful, eyes.
'Oops, I forgot that he might tell on me,' Yugi though in fright. 'I hope he's a good secret keeper like Jounouchi.'
"Yeah, I'll keep it a secret," Yami replied. "After all, you guys are the beauties of the sea. Not beauties of the lab tank."
Yugi blushed at the compliment.
"So, why'd ya come here to the festival, Yug?" Jou asked his friend.
"Friends want to see human world," Yugi explained the best he could..
"There are more of you?" Yami asked in disbelief.
Yugi just nodded his head, and looked out into the ocean, and back at the two guys.
"Bye Yug!" Jou said knowing what that look meant.
Yugi quickly slipped into the safety of the water and began to swim off.
Before he dove under to look for his friend, he waved his hand to say good-bye.
"Wow," Yami said, "a real merman."
"If ya want, I'll introduce you to the others tomorrow," Jou offered.
"Yeah, that would be nice," Yami replied. "Hey, why couldn't he speak so good?"
"He's not exactly human, man," Jou told him. "I only get ta see him once every two weeks."
"Oh, makes sense," Yami remarked.
"C'mon, we gotta get ya outa those wet clothes," Jou said.
"Yeah let's go.
Yami looked into the ocean one last time, before following his friend.
Well, what do you guys think? I thought Ryou and Bakura are a good pair. I'm still a little fuzzy on who Anzu and Yugi should be with. So, I'm still open to suggestions, and hopefully by tomorrow, you'll know the final pairing. I guarantee that it will be revealed next chapter. Until then, bye-bye:-)