Tajra
Disclaimer: I do now own Yu-Gi-Oh!
Ok, this is my longest chapter...why? Because this character took me a while to come up with a good history for her. I mean, you get more later, as with the others, but I wanted to just make the mystery and wonder of this one character jump out at you all. Hope you like it.
5 days later
The taxi pulled up next to the shore side stop on the road above the beach. Mai, Serenity, Jetta, Shizaa and Téa all got out of the taxi and paid the driver before heading down to the warm beach. It was summer and warm in Domino, though the scolding sand burned at first, eventually they got used to it. They heard the sound of far off motorcycles rapidly approaching and a car peeling out. Soon enough, the girls saw the source of the noise as Marik slid his bike into the parking lot and parked, cutting the engine and hopping off, kicking the stand so it wouldn't fall and leaned against his bike waiting for his friends to catch up.
Marik removed his helmet and headband and placed them in the saddlebag, grabbing his beach bag as Bakura pulled in.
"Don't say a word." Bakura growled at the smirking Marik. He quickly repeated what Marik had done and soon they headed down to where the girls were, only to be trailed by Duke and Tristan.
"Are you guys trying to kill someone?" Tristan shouted, smacking the back of Bakura's head.
"Sorry, did we scare you?" Bakura taunted.
"You two nearly gave us a heart attack!" Duke shouted as they walked over. A bus pulled up at the same spot where the taxi had stopped, dropping off five people, two of which were their friends.
The four boys instantly recognized Migita, her pale skin and platinum blonde hair stuck out like a sore thumb in any crowd. It was the girl walking next to her that caught Marik's interest. Dark mocha skin like his, with raven black hair that even put up in a ponytail, wrapped around several times and held with a wooden pin or two still plummeted to her mid-back. She wore all white. The shirt only covered her breasts, revealing her toned stomach and gold belly ring, and the skirt, which went down to her mid-calf fluttered in the light breeze. There were gold bands on each of her biceps and gold Bengals on her wrists that made light jingling noise with every step. The tattoos on her eyes, similar to his, showed from beneath her sunglasses. Marik managed to contain himself from gawking at her figure, which was similar to that of Téa's and Mai's.
"What is so hard for men to understand what the word 'no' means?" She hissed angrily, her delicate eyebrows knitting together.
"Tajra, men can't help but be attracted to us." Migita said, rolling her eyes, though no one could tell.
"Fuckers." Tajra growled.
"That's Tajra?" Duke asked loudly.
"The one and only, got a problem with that?" Tajra said her head turning towards him.
"Let's save the introductions until the other three get here." Téa suggested. Tajra nodded. Just then, three shiny sports cars pulled into the parking lot. One Ferrari, one Lamborghini, and one Maserati. What shocked them more was who stepped out of the cars and walked over, smirking and laughing at their faces.
"Joey, where and how did you get the Maserati?" Mai asked stunned, Serenity nodded in just as much confusion.
"Company car, since I got promoted to head of security for busting the other guy." Joey said proudly.
"Congrats Joey." The guys all chuckled.
"Yugi?" Téa asked.
"I am at the same position as Mokuba in the corporate ladder." Yugi said smiling.
"We don't need to ask do we?" Jetta snickered at Seto.
"No. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out." Seto chuckled before he noticed the new and final addition.
"Hello, I take it you're Migita's roommate?" Yugi said happily. Tajra quirked an eyebrow at him and nodded. Téa sighed.
"Guys, this is Tajra. Tajra, the tallest one is Seto Kaiba, the dirty-blonde one is Joey Wheeler, the brunette is Tristan Taylor, the sand-blonde one is Marik Ishtar, the white haired one is Ryou Bakura, the black haired one is Duke Devlin, and the spikey tri-colored haired one, who keeps growing and is now taller than me by some miracle, is Yugi Moto." Téa introduced and pointed. Migita sighed again and yanked of Tajra's sunglasses.
"I know your eyes aren't sensitive to the sun." Migita snickered as Tajra shut her eyes at the sudden burst of light.
"Shut up. They are when you yank away the slight shade. And you know what happens." Tajra said as she opened her eyes. Marik had to refrain from gasping at the shocking color. Turquoise, deep with both green and blue, and her pupils looked remarkably snake-like.
"Those, eh, contacts?" Joey asked.
"No." Tajra replied, rolling her eyes.
"Cool." Joey chirped, again, making Tajra quirk an eyebrow.
"What?" Joey asked.
"Nothing." Tajra replied.
"Migita mentioned you lived in Egypt. When did you come to Domino?" Yugi asked curiously.
"When I was seventeen." Tajra replied. Marik could see her shoulders relax a little.
"Why so young? Did your family move here?" Yugi asked.
"I ran away." Tajra replied.
"Liar." Marik chuckled in Egyptian. Tajra's glare fixed on him.
"And how would you know?" Tajra retorted in Egyptian.
"Just a hunch." Marik replied in Egyptian. Tajra again rolled her eyes and turned back to the girls, but not before Marik caught glimpse of something on her neck.
"What's that?" Marik asked, touching the back of her neck. Instantly Tajra spun around to kick him, only for him to block it.
"Damn, she's fast." Seto chuckled. Marik and Tajra stared each other down, Marik with curiosity swirling in his lilac eyes, and Tajra with annoyance in her deep turquoise eyes.
"Fine, if you must know, it's my beginning mark." Tajra said, Marik immediately catching on while the others stayed clueless.
"You're what?" Tristan and Duke asked in unison. Tajra sighed and placed her foot back on the ground.
"Boys, you're looking at the youngest fully recognized Egyptian Sorceress." Tajra said proudly.
"I knew those eye tattoos looked familiar. They look like Mana's." Yugi said. Joey, Téa and Tristan remembered, but the others were confused and didn't bother to ask.
"What is you creature?" Marik asked, his eyes flicking back to her.
"Her what?" Joey asked.
"Every sorcerer and sorceress gains a spiritual creature that they draw their power from, something that represents who they are, how they act, and how fast they learn." Marik replied.
"Look, we don't know a lot about Egypt." Duke growled.
"I know." Marik replied before looking back to Tajra.
"Instead of telling, how about I show you." Tajra said, smirking. The smirk sent shivers down their spines. She took a few steps back and before anyone could even count to one a snake shot out of her arm directly at Marik, yet surprisingly he didn't flinch.
"Holy shit!" Joey said, jumping back.
"What kind of snake is it?" Tristan asked. The snake got into its striking pose and raised its hood, hissing viciously.
"A king cobra." Bakura gulped.
"Common right?" Yugi asked.
"No. Well, among sorcerer's, very common, but among sorceress's, maybe one every six thousand years will occur." Marik said, staring directly into the hissing snakes eyes.
"Dude, why aren't you moving?" Duke asked.
"She won't attack." Marik said calmly. Tajra glared at him, not liking his confidence.
"What makes you so sure?" Tajra hissed, sounding remarkably like the snake.
"Let's just say I know." Marik smirked.
"You're wrong." Tajra growled, allowing the snake to strike. Mostly; the moment Marik raised his hand and touched the snake's nose it stopped, and immediately calmed down, its hood retracting. Tajra also looked remarkably calm before shaking her head and commanding the snake to return to her, allowing it to seep back into her body.
"How did you do that?" Tajra asked her pupils still returning to their semi-round shape, retaining that snake-like look.
"When you were little were you told a prophecy?" Marik asked.
"I ask the questions, you answer them. Now, let's try this again, how did you do that?" Tajra hissed. Marik rolled his eyes, peeled off his shirt and turned his back to her. Tajra looked down at the scripture on his back before her eyes widened and she literally flew back, glaring at him.
"Not even going to fucking happen!" Tajra shouted in Egyptian.
"Keep telling yourself that." Marik snickered in Egyptian as she and the girls went off to their changing rooms.
"What was that all about? What pissed her off about your back?" Bakura asked.
"Look, there's a prophecy about us." Marik replied, indicating to him and Tajra. The boys all listened as Marik began.
"Spill." Mai growled as the girls entered the locker room.
"It's stupid." Tajra growled as she yanked off her top to reveal her reptile looking bikini top.
"If its pissing you off this much, then it's not stupid." Migita said, resting her hand on Tajra's shoulder. Tajra let out a heavy sigh.
"Fine. Ok, a day or two after I was born, December twenty-ninth, an old prophet came to my village. Most people in the village respect her, but my parents and other younger parents, being only sixteen and on their second child, didn't care about her. The woman said that my spirit creature would soon arrive, and just as she predicted, seven hours after she got there, a newly hatched cobra slithered over to me and sunk into me, becoming my creature. My parents were a little more believing. The woman went on to say that a freed tomb keeper, the tomb keeper that guards the tomb of the pharaoh who saved the world from being consumed by shadows, of my age, would claim and tame the queen of cobras. The inscriptions on Marik's back indicate that he was a tomb keeper, and it isn't every day that one sees a tomb keeper above ground." Tajra said.
"Ok, yes, Marik was a tomb keeper of pharaoh Atem, savior of the world from the shadows. What exactly does the prophecy mean?" Téa asked, since she knew mostly about what Tajra was saying.
"Taming meaning that I will no longer be single, nor will I be as aggressive and claiming meaning marriage and all the activities that go with it." Tajra said.
"Oh…uh…wow…" Migita said shyly and trying hard not to snicker. Tajra muttered something in Egyptian, causing Téa's head to ache.
"This is really getting annoying. It seems like every time someone speaks in Egyptian my head starts to hurt." Téa grumbled miserably.
"Well it makes sense, seeing as how you are the reincarnate if Queen Teanna, wife of Atem." Tajra said uninterested before noticing the silence. Her turquoise eyes flicked to the group of gawking girls.
"I'm gonna kill that fucker." Tajra said as she placed her hand on Téa's forehead.
"Ok, so let me get this straight, you're supposed to marry Tajra?" Joey asked in the men's locker room. Marik walked out of the changing room, an annoyed expression on his face.
"Yes Joey." Marik said, annoyance slipping through in his tone. The other guys walked out of their changing sections, all gawking or trying hard not to laugh at what Marik was saying. The only three that didn't look ready to bust a gut were Yugi, Seto, and Bakura.
"Guys, this is serious." Bakura said.
"Yeah, Tajra looked pretty pissed about it." Yugi said.
"And we have to hang out with her today, meaning she could take out her anger at any of us." Seto said seriously. The other three guys stopped laughing.
"Marik, please go control your future wife." Joey snickered.
"The only way I could do that would be if she were accepting of that fact and since she's not…sorry, can't help ya there." Marik said as they walked out of the locker room.
"Marik!" Téa shouted.
"What?" Marik said, actually startled.
"You sneaky little…" Téa started yelling in Egyptian, making all the guys there gawk.
"Since when did Téa know Egyptian?" Joey shouted.
"I conveniently left that little part out, now who…"Marik started before scowling and looking towards the other six girls that walked out, specifically the attractive Egyptian in a reptile patterned bikini.
"Why did you tell her?" Marik growled in Egyptian.
"Well someone had to tell her that her past life was married to pharaoh Atem!" Tajra retorted angrily in Egyptian. The two started arguing in Egyptian as Téa and Yugi blushed, now knowing the secrets of their past lives, while Bakura and Seto tried desperately not to laugh at the predicament the two love-struck adults were in. The other three were paying too much attention to the arguing Egyptians.
"So when's the weddin'?" Joey chuckled. The girls and three of the guys – Yugi, Bakura and Seto – all took a step back as Tajra stopped arguing with Marik and glared at the three chuckling boys.
"I warned you." Marik said as three boys bodies were engulfed in a turquoise light. Before they could react all three boys were thrown back to the ground and spun in the hot sand. When they finally stopped all three were groaning in pain. While Tajra was distracted Marik walked over to the three smart men.
"Should we help them?" Bakura asked.
"Nah, they got themselves into trouble, the only way they'll learn is if they suffer just a bit." Seto answered.
"And while she's distracted, we should go and get in the water." Marik suggested, lightly pushing all three of them. Marik suddenly stopped; his hand flying up to his forehead and gripping it, a pained expression took to his face. Naturally, Bakura, Yugi, and Seto, along with three of the girls all grew worried and slightly scared.
"I thought we got rid of your Yami." Bakura said frightened.
"You did. But this isn't my Yami; he's long since been in the shadow realm. This is a headache caused by magic." Marik groaned, trying not to chuckle at his friend's worry. They looked to see Tajra growing more and more frustrated as Marik started to walk.
"Why won't it work?" Tajra growled, her pupils narrowing even more.
"So Tajra is trying to do to you what she did to the other three?" Yugi asked.
"Worse." Marik hissed in pain.
"And it's just becoming a migraine, nothing more. I wonder why that is?" Bakura said.
"A sorcerer or sorceress cannot harm their destined partner." Marik snickered. Tajra's glare turned deadly. Yugi could see one of the veins in Marik's' head begin to pulse.
"Let's go play a game of volleyball." Migita said as she grabbed Tajra and yanked her off to the court with the other girls, breaking her concentration and releasing Marik from her stranglehold. Marik let out a sigh of relief as his head stopped pulsing.
"Bakura, tell Migita thank you for me." Marik said. The other three men walked over.
"No fair. All you get is a migraine while we're left to be swirled in the sand and slammed down with the intensity of a sumo wrestler." Tristan growled.
"You know she was trying to kill me right?" Marik asked as they walked towards the water.
"Tajra, you gotta stop that hun." Mai said.
"Why should I? He doesn't need to be so damn arrogant." Tajra growled as they set up their teams, with Jetta being the referee.
"He's not being arrogant, he's being a guy. There is a difference." Mai chuckled. After half an hour the girls decided they were done and headed down to the water.
"Tajra, play nice with the boys." Téa reminded as they went to the water.
"Yugi, the queen arrives." Joey teased, only earning him a splash to the face. Marik snickered at Yugi's face, red and angry, and Joey's drowned rat look. Tristan and Duke started chanting the typical 'Yugi and Téa sittin' in a tree…' garbage before Bakura got a devilish smirk.
"Tristan, if I do recall, you show quite an interest towards Joey's little sister, and well, Duke, you aren't exactly hiding your interest in Shizaa all that well." Bakura snickered smirking, making both of them instantly stop their chanting and turn beat red, making Yugi, Seto and Marik all laugh. Joey was still trying to get water out of his nose while the girls waded in. Both boys grumbled and dived under water. Joey started to snicker.
"And I can't even count all the time's Joey has stuck up for Mai." Yugi added impishly. Joey dunked under the water, hiding his red face. Marik, before Bakura or Yugi could comment, dunked under the water and swam off, only to eventually be followed by the remaining three.
"Don't even think about it Tajra." Shizaa said seriously. Tajra glared at her before rolling her eyes and dunking under the water. The others followed her lead and soon enough they caught up with the men.
"Hey girls!" Joey chuckled. Most of the girls smiled as they swam over. Marik did a quick head count and only counted six. He dived under water, almost colliding with Tajra. They surfaced for air.
"Fuck." Tajra growled.
"Good try." Marik said sarcastically. It took all of Duke's willpower not to comment.
"I said play nice." Téa hissed. Tajra rolled her eyes before going under again. Marik watched making sure she didn't try anything funny. As much as he was attracted to her, he couldn't trust her, not with her constantly trying to hurt or kill him. After about ninety minutes of water play, the group of young adults decided to go on land and lay in the sun. Just as Marik expected, the moment they hit dry land was the moment his head started to throb. Marik looked at the others to see them all gawking at the girls in their bikinis; their body's slicked with water. Mai looked back at Joey and smirked.
"Close your mouth Joey, unless you want a fly for lunch." Mai snickered, making Joey instantly snap his jaw shut. Yugi had better self-control than Joey did, though his eyes ran over Téa's body several times. The only other man that was subtle about checking out one of the girls was Seto, but that was a given, the others were just a bit too obvious, even Bakura. They lay out their towels and then plopped themselves down. Marik's head was still throbbing, yet he managed to hold conversations well with the others, despite Tajra's magic.
"Yugi, Téa, stop being awkward." Bakura teased the two, who blushed scarlet. Seto laughed at the two as the others snickered.
"Hey hotties! What's up!" a group of young men shouted. If the obvious horrible Japanese didn't give it away, then the hat that had 'USA' printed across the front or the patriotic tattoos that the men sported, gave it away that they were American tourists, and by the looks of it, they were maybe eighteen, a year older than Serenity.
"Hot damn, look at all these foreign chicks." One boy yipped while the others chuckled at their friend. The women weren't even remotely impressed nor did they care about any of their ridiculous antics. This distraction though provided headache and possessiveness in the men who rolled their eyes at the younger men.
"Hey you, darker chick, what's the cobra tattoo stand for?" One man asked, slightly perversely.
"None of your business." Tajra growled annoyed.
"Do you take cobras well? Have you had a lot of cobras? Would you like to see my cobra?" The guys asked suggestively.
"What about your friends?" another asked.
"I would rather be thrown into an active volcano than go out with you." Tajra said condescendingly. It was at this point that all the men – Marik, Yugi, Bakura, Duke, Tristan, Joey, and Seto – realized why Tajra had such a negative view of men. She was treated like this on a day-to-day basis.
"If you would like directions to a whore house, I know a few people around these parts that can help you, you sick perverts." Mai said.
"Why go looking when we've already found one." One of the men said, making all the girls turn and glare at their smiling faces, and also pulling the last straw with the other seven men. Marik, Yugi and Bakura were the first three to stand up. Tajra, being annoyed with the group of men, didn't inflict her torture on Marik.
"Look, in case you can't tell, they don't even seem remotely interested with you four nimrods." Marik hissed, his lilac eyes going dark and tone matching.
"They're disgusted with you perverts. I don't know what part of America you come from, but here we don't treat our women with such disrespect or vulgarity, especially in public." Bakura said.
"And we don't go around calling any woman a whore, or even imply that they belong to a whore house." Yugi hissed. The other four men walked over, glaring at the four men with such intensity, it seemed as though they were literally on fire.
"Eh, what do you call these guys again? Bishies right?" one of the men commented, chuckling as he looked at Bakura, Marik and Yugi, who all scowled. The man who made the comment started to laugh only to earn a punch in the face, sending him reeling back a good five feet, landing squarely on his ass. The most surprising was that it was Yugi who threw the punch. The other three men looked at the shorter man, though they were shorter by about two inches, making them five foot six, in amazement. Apparently, they overlooked the seven men's physical conditions, all of them sporting six pack, defined chests, broad shoulders and strong arms.
"Now, what was that about being a bishie, because I can fucking guarantee that I'm not an ordinary bishie, if I even count as one anymore." Yugi growled. Marik snickered at his friend and the expressions of the faces of the young teens.
(A/N) Why the sudden Yugi outburst...because it adds good humor. He's still sweet and nice and stuff, but hey, if someone offends a friend or dishonors them in any way, you'd get defensive too.
"Now go, before we actually get serious." Marik said, his voice deepening and his glare cooling. The four teens didn't need to be told twice before running like madmen.
"While we appreciate the help, it was unnecessary." Tajra said annoyed.
"We just can't fucking please you can we?" Marik snapped in Egyptian.
"And what is that supposed to mean?" Tajra retorted in Egyptian.
"We give you space, and leave you be. We don't bug you are ask you questions that may be too personal at this point in time. We've hardly fucking talked to you all day, and when we do you give us a look that pretty much says 'eat shit and die.' And then answer or respond with this attitude that declares that you're better than us and we should fucking wallow in dirt just because we belong to the same sex category as those assholes we just ran off for you, because I can guarantee that wouldn't have listened to a damn thing you said. They would've just thought you were playing hard to get or being feisty." Marik ranted in Egyptian, earning nods from the other three men that could understand him.
"Well, maybe if their weren't men like that…" Tajra began only to be cut off.
"Not all men are like that. Have we been sexual towards any of you women at all today? Name one time." Marik challenged in Egyptian. Tajra thought for a moment, recalling when they had checked out the girls, but they hadn't approached them in a sexual manner.
"What are they saying?" Joey asked.
"It'd be too long to translate." Yugi chuckled.
"Can't name one can you?" Marik smirked, making Tajra look up at him and scowl.
"Fuck off and leave me alone!" Tajra shouted in Egyptian before turning on her heel. Marik reached out and grabbed her arm, not hard, but trying to pull her back.
"Like running off will solve your problems." Marik said in Egyptian, only for Tajra to turn around and smack him across the face. It stung for a second before Marik finally let go. The other girls stared in awe as Tajra glared him down, only for him to return the glare with twice the coolness and anger.
"Fine, go. I do nothing to you, yet you still treat me like those assholes; you opinionated little bitch, get out of my sight." Marik hissed with an aggression no one had seen in years. Tajra turned and walked off, though she felt hurt by his cold glare and even colder words. Normally, she wouldn't care if someone called her a bitch, but for some reason when he said it, in that icy tone that until now sent shivers down her spine, it struck somewhere it usually hadn't before. Marik's eyes widened once he realized what he had said and his head hung, as he cursed himself in Egyptian. Yugi, Bakura and even Seto were shocked at what he had said to her. Marik started to walk off after her before he felt a gentle hand on his shoulder. He could tell it was one of the women, the hand being too small to even belong to Yugi.
"I'll go talk to her, you guys stay here." Mai said before walking off. It took Mai a good forty minutes to even track down Tajra. And once she did, she found her in an odd position. Her knees were pulled up to her chin, her head resting on them, and her hair, still clinging together from the water, was out of its up-do and splayed out.
"Just leave me alone Marik." Tajra growled before looking up to see Mai.
"Good thing I'm not Marik then huh?" Mai chuckled as she walked over and took a seat next to the younger woman.
"Did he send you?" Tajra asked quietly, causing Mai to look at her oddly.
"No." Mai said smiling. Tajra knew she wasn't lying so she relaxed a little.
"Tajra hun, I know what it's like to be in your situation." Mai said.
"How?" Tajra asked bitterly.
"Parents never caring for you, so you had to defend yourself, even if you were thrown to the wolves hundreds of times before you just said 'screw it' and took off, or were kicked out. You grow this opinion of men as being nothing but useful for moving your things and being servants, but having no true purpose, and then all of a sudden this man comes into your life and somehow completely changes your world, making you rethink everything, even if he is annoying at first, and kinda stupid. Eventually you fall for him but don't want to admit it because you want to keep that image that's left." Mai summarized. Tajra stared at her shocked at the accuracy of the older woman's response.
"Wow. How did you know?" Tajra asked.
"Because I went through the same shit. It was at Duelist Kingdom that I met Joey, Yugi, Tristan, Téa and Bakura. And it was there that I realized I was wrong about a lot of things in my life. The blonde haired dope had me hooked, and soon I fell for him. He's changed my whole perspective, in an annoyingly courageous, stubborn, gentle way." Mai snickered.
"Wait, you mean Joey Wheeler?" Tajra asked, cocking an eyebrow.
"Yup, he and Yugi are tied for who has the biggest heart of gold. Those two men will risk anything and everything to save the ones they care about, and the risks Joey took for my mind and soul was huge." Mai said admirably.
"Mind and soul? Why were they at risk?" Tajra asked, completely confused.
"I was sent to the shadow realm at Battle City." Mai said, not wanting to continue, though Tajra gave her a look to continue.
"It was Marik that sent me there. Or should I say Yami Marik." Mai said, seeing Tajra's eyes widen in shock.
"What?!" Tajra exclaimed.
"You'll have to ask him about that story. It was a bad and dark time in his life, and he wasn't the nicest or most honest guy in the world. To put it bluntly, he was more two faced than any lawyer you'll ever meet." Mai said.
"No way." Tajra said, still not believing her.
"You can see through realms and the ones that exist alongside ours that are invisible to the human eye. Look and you'll probably see him. I'll never forget those pupil-less eyes." Mai said, shuddering. Tajra quickly allowed her eyes to see multiple realms, seeing the current realm and the shadow realm that existed within it. She nearly screamed once the realm came into sight. There he stood, purple cape that went down to the sand, black muscle shirt that showed his slim arms and khaki colored jeans. His sand-blonde hair stood on end, similar to Yugi's style. It was the fact that he smirked at her cynically and walked until he was three feet from her and crouched down to her level that she saw what Mai was talking about. The veins in his face were pulsing and protruding and his eyes were wide, bloodshot and had no pupils in the lilac irises, the eye of Anubis shining brightly on his forehead.
"Be thankful I cannot enter the body of my previous vessel, nor can I touch you, because if I could, you would have me even if you didn't want to." He snickered, his echoing two-toned voice growling at her as he licked his lips. It didn't take a brain surgeon to know what he meant and that he had been watching her the whole day. Tajra, not wanting nor needing to see anymore, quickly let her vision fade back to the current realm, but not before Yami Marik reached out to try and touch her, he vanished as his hand neared her breast, making her back up into the wall.
"See what I mean." Mai said, causing Tajra to nod vigorously.
"That was pure evil. Only thing that could match that would be the lord of the shadow realm himself." Tajra said, shaken.
"I wonder what's taking them so long." Joey said as they sat around one of the fire pits on the beach.
"It takes a while for Tajra to open up and calm down." Migita said, resting her head on Bakura's shoulder, only copying what Téa was doing to Yugi.
"I can't believe I said that." Marik muttered.
"Neither can I." Duke said. They looked up to see Mai and Tajra walking back over to them, noticing that Tajra's hair was down and plummeted to her mid-thigh.
"Things went well I take it." Migita asked smiling brightly at the two who nodded. The two girls separated and took seats next to the two remaining boys. Marik opened his mouth ready to apologize, but was quickly stopped.
"To the men, I want to apologize for being such a bitch. Even after getting Jetta's detailed, uncut version of the critique, I still treated you all like how I would usually treat the men I'm stuck with half the time, be it on the bus or at work. Marik, I'm sorry I slapped you; I was mad and just wasn't thinking. Forgive me everyone?" Tajra asked in maybe the smallest, sweetest voice she had ever spoken.
"We forgive you, as long as you've changed your opinion of us." The guys said in unison.
"Yes I have. It took some thinking and a scary sight to convince me." Tajra said, as if she could sense the Yami that she was sure was standing behind Marik. Marik could see that terrified look in her eyes and got the hint.
"You saw didn't you?" Marik asked quietly. Tajra nodded and Marik let out a heavy sigh before diving into that story. Once he was done Tajra rested her head on his shoulder, a simple act to comfort him.
"Tajra, you don't have to share your story. That can wait for some other time. Right now, let's just calm down from one hell of a day." Migita snickered as she saw Tajra getting ready to open her mouth. Marik smiled and nodded, feeling an immense lift off him.
None of the couples may be dating, but the thoughts were buzzing around the small fire as they sat there, simply enjoying each others company and presence on the dark beach that was illuminated by the half-moon that shone in the calm, cloudless sky.
So, tell me what you thought. Hope you liked my characters! R&R please and thank you! I will be sticking with my schedule for my PPG fic, so it will be started on 11/9/13, so see you then!
