D.S.: WOOT ANOTHER UPDATE!!!! Yay! Right? This is the second installment of The Beauty of Them. During this chapter the POV changes a lot. I don't actually make it very clear. So, use clues. K? Read and Review please!
J.S.S.: Or we'll kill you! And make you suffer many other various pains. S squared will send you all the sexts he has. (second s, and sex texts.) they are torturous.
The Beauty of Them
Chapter One
We're not that good!' Yuugi and I said at the same blushing. Jou and Malik grinned and chuckled.
"Oh, hell yes we are," Malik replied, letting out a some-what-sinister-chuckle.
"But…" Yuugi tried to make up something, an excuse, but couldn't and looked to me for help. I lowered my head, and he sighed. "Fine," Yuugi gave in.
"Alright!" One of the white haired men said, clapping his hands together. He was the tanner of the two white haired men, and maybe the same as the blonde. How strange how those two white haired people looked just like me, and how the blonde looked like Malik.
"Well then. Let's go. first though we need some names," The blonde one said, making his way to Malik and using one of his fingers to tip his chin up. Malik sneered and batted the hand away. He then cleared his voice.
"I am Malik. The other blonde one is Jou. The short one is Yuugi, and the white haired one is Ryou," Malik smirked. He's the most devious person I've ever had the semi-pleasure of meeting.
"All right then. Malik, Jou, Yuugi, and Ryou. Let's be off," The blonde one said, turning around and starting to make his ay to a brown camel.
"Wait. We need t get our other stuff from the back stage," I mindlessly babbled. Then realizing I had spoken out of turn, I clapped my hands over my mouth and lowered my head. Why do I always make mistakes?
"Oh," One of them said. "Alright! We'll wait here then," With that, Yuugi grabbed some of my cloak, dragged me to the back stage, and soon I had strapped my flute case (with the flute inside of it of course) onto my back. Malik had grabbed the leather strap that tied to each end of his drums/ bongos. He carried them over his shoulder. Jou had strapped his sitar behind his back and Yuugi has picked up a small sack with our rations. He didn't have an instrument. Then we were once again in the presence of the three.
"We figure you'll need some names to address us by," One of the said. I peered up through my bangs whilst they introduced themselves. "I am Marik. The tan 'whitey' is Akefia. The other 'whitey' is Bakura," After the short introductions we were wander around in he desert, cargo strapped to one of them camels.
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Ryou… Such a strange name. He has an interesting accent, too. I've only encountered one other person with such a strange accent, but I don't remember what he had called himself. How strange. I think I'll take up the honor of finding out more about the strange albino. Besides… how could anyone not talk to the great once-thief-king-Bakura?! Now turned general, but that's not the point.
Slowly I made my way to my innocent-look-alike. He was traveling behind his friends a few steps while they talked animatedly with each other and Marik and Bakura. He's quite the quiet one, isn't he? "Hello," I said as politely as I could, slinging my arm over his shoulder and pulling him closer to me. He immediately tensed up and lowered his head. Why does he do that?!?! I mean, there's no reason to be that shy at all!
"H-hel-hello," He timidly replied. He's just so adorable!… er. I mean. He's so childish. Yeah. The Akefia doesn't use words like adorable or… cute…
"No need to be shy now! So, tell me. How'd you all meet?" He stiffened even more at this question. What he do? Kill someone? So timid!
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Immediately after that question was launched, I knew something bad was going to happen. I could already tell Ryou was frozen. He's told us a bit of his past, but it's gruesome. Like my own. But for the beginning, I guess it was pretty bad for all four of us.
"That isn't something we talk about," Malik whispered stiffly. Even he knew that that very question was taboo amongst us.
"We want to know. And being of higher rank that you, that gives you no choice but to tell us," Marik replied sharply. I could see he wasn't used to being denied.
"W-we met on a small oasis," I was shocked. Ryou? Willing to tell his past to strangers? That was either a very good thing, or a very bad thing.
"I was first. I was owned by a man so cruel. Do you wish to see my back as proof? I couldn't stand the abuse, so I snuck out on one of his trips and found the oasis. I do not remember anything besides that," Malik started, knowing that if Ryou was okay with the topic, then it was alright.
"I came next" Jou picked up from where Malik had left off. "My older brother and I were abused by our father. I'm riddled with scars as well. I left after I had assumed he had killed my brother when he didn't come home for three days after he had done something to piss my dad off. Worthless drunk,"
"Then came myself," It was my turn. "My grandfather was murdered in the night, and since my parents were already dead or something like that, I was given to a man whom I hope burns in the deepest pits of hell. I was his little guinea pig. I'm thankful to still just be alive," Just thinking about it made a shiver of fear run up my spine. "I was thrown in the middle of the desert after he was finished with me and left me for dead. I somehow managed to find the oasis where Malik and Jou took care of me,"
"I was last," Ryou started, his voice quiet with his strange accent even he couldn't name. "I never knew my family. I grew up as a slave for a man known as Gozobaru-" Ryou was cut off when Marik let out a fierce growl.
"Never mention his name again!"
"Why?" Jou asked. We all wanted to know.
"That monster killed the Pharaoh's father and his entire court. He left before anyone could catch him and before he could kill anyone else, he took the high priests two younger brothers and left,"
"Are you talking about Seto and Mokuba?" Ryou asked, his voice louder, a smile on his face. Who were they?
"Yes!"
"Don't worry. They're fine. I was raped, beaten, whipped, and thrown in the oasis lake tied to a bunch of stones because I saved them. I let them free. I remember where they said they were going to go so they could get money and travel then back to their home. They told me to visit. They never said where they lived or that they were royalty. I couldn't let Mokuba, such a young boy die in that man's hands. He of course needed his big brother. I felt it was worth my life for two," Ryou looked so happy and peaceful while saying this. Why hasn't he brought it up before?
"Ryou? Why haven't you talked about it before?" Malik read my mind and asked for me.
"The information wouldn't have been useful in anyway, so I didn't bring it up. Sorry," He bashfully rubbed his neck. That was a good point.
The three looked shocked. This was before Bakura took another step forward. When had we halted? "Please. Do you remember the name of the town he should still be in?"
"Yes. He said they would go to the closest place available. That it was the village under the rule f Ryugi Otogi. I wondered how he knew his way around. I do hope they are okay,"
"That actually isn't far from here… we should bring them as well. Everyone would be ecstatic to see the two,"
"Ten coins Seth'll start crying," Akefia immediately challenged.
"You're on!" And the betting commenced. What a strange, yet great day.
"So, we're going to get the brothers the return home," Marik shouted and we were once again moving in a slightly more northern direction than before. I'm a little excited.
D.S.: Hoped you guys liked it. The next one will be lnger, gaurenteed. And yes. I'm going to include as many of the characters as I can manage. This does include Ryugi (Duke). Cause it'll be funny. So yeah. Review now!
J.S.S: hun. That was barely longer than the prologue.
D.S.: It was longer when written. But yeah. I suppose so. The next one will be long though, cause they're traveling and then finding the missing Kaiba brothers. YAY! and ya'll better not be pretedning to think that Jou's brother is dead. He's alive. his name is Jono XD. I'm trying to get everyone in here, cause yeah. So don't bother.
