A/N-I'm sooo sorry about the wait! I had and still have some health, personal and academic issues…I'm moving right now too. I was suppose to leave since the 14th but, my health got in the way…I only got out of that hell-hole dubbed 'hospital' yesterday, and now that no one's looking I've decided to seek some computer/ internet/ fanfiction time…
It may be awhile before I write again-with the move etc, etc & I'm working on another fanfic so be reasonable, the plan is ;this then, that ,then this again and so on and so on…-but don't worry I'll try my very best! ^^
So on to the chappie!
The Motou Household-The living room
ATEM'S POV
As I step through the kitchen door carrying a tray laid with numerous cups of hot chocolate, I sigh.
After Abiou's little outburst I decided that it was time for some explaining, and considering the cold weather outside I thought about the warm mug of hot cocoa my precious little hikari had made for me on my 1st winter night. I smile at the memory.
We had just come back from the mall and we were freezing, my fingers, toes and nose were all so cold that I thought they'd have broken off at the slightest touch. The minute we walked thought the door, Yugi ran off saying he had something for me to try. Five minutes later, he emerged from the kitchen: carrying two mugs. I had sniffed the mug and odors surrounding it warily, eyed the liquid-dark brown contents suspiciously and then took a very cautious, if not experimental taste while the excited-and hopeful- smaller, tri-haired teen next to me stared intensely at me. A taste, all it took was one taste and I was addicted. All winter long, it was all I would drink, and well, when I discovered that the miraculous substance existed in a solid form? Let's just say I ate so much that I stayed away from it for months. Even now, the mere mention of any type of chocolate makes me nauseous…it was that bad. Yes, vomiting for 3 weeks straight seemed to have that kind of effect on my love, or rather obsession-as Grandpa Motou called it-with all things chocolaty.
However, to relieve that coldness of the chilly winter winds leaking though the front door and to relieve the tense atmosphere, I reluctantly succumbed to my fate. Maybe a little chocolate wouldn't be so bad…I hope…
As, near the coffee table I place the tray on it and seeing no available seats, I decide to be 'naughty' and do something that would shock both my friends and my bestest-as she would put it- friend cum koi [A/N: It means lover in Jap, k?]. Seizing two cups of the hot drink, I strode over to the recliner to the left of the couch were my unsuspecting love was eyeing me curiously. That's when I played bold, I pulled her up off the recliner and sat her down on my lap. Then, gave her 1 of the many Dark Magician themed mugs that belong to Yugi of course, which she barely clasped in her subdued form.
My perv, I mean eccentric and impulsive side, then drove me to finish the job of silencing Mana. So, with a smirk on my face and another of Abiou's mugs in my hands I kissed her again.
'Gods,' I thought. The first time we kissed, not ten minutes ago, was amazing! But, this time, it seems even better! I barely suppressed a moan and bit her soft, tender, juicy bottom lip, ever so slightly. I wanted to jump for joy when Mannie responded and opened her mouth for me to explore. Her mouth was so warm, so moist. I tried to memorize every millimeter! And the very taste of her, the heavenly gift to man! No, me. And after a little coaxing, she intertwined her tongue with my own; a small battle ensued, which I won, of course. After which I allowed her into my own mouth.
'Oh good RA, Mana!'
A good minute passed my remaining brain cells were sure of that. And all too soon I began to pull away to breathe. However, Mana would not let me so much as budge, far less for brake apart. And though this idea, oh what did Joseph call it, oh yes, 'turned me on,' I knew we had to break apart for air, but I soon threw that notion out the window after the little vixen did what she did. She tickled the roof of my mouth and then had the audacity to start another battle of tongues! Once she started, I couldn't even think straight. My only coherent thought was something along the lines of, 'Goodness!' or even, 'Dear Osiris!' and 'Great Ra!' was there also.
But we were yet again interrupted…and this time it wasn't my dear, old adopted grandfather. It was my favorite blue-eyed brunet, CEO. You guessed it, the infamous Seto Kaiba. Oh holy Ra, why!?! I whined to myself.
'Motou, this isn't your bedroom and I suggest that you give her some air sometime this century, 'cause you two have been at it for the past two minutes and a half. And quite frankly, it's making me and Mokuba here sick.'
Of course this made Mana pull away….Ladies, gentlemen: Seto Kaiba.
'Kaiba, why are you here…'
'I'm here because little Yugi over there,' he casts a slender finger in Yugi's direction, 'called Mokuba and I saying that we had to get over here ASAP and that it was of the utter most importance.' he rolled his eyes at the words 'utter most importance.'
After throwing a quick glare and //Why!?//over the mind link at Yugi who sent a, /Sorry, but we need him here to forge Mana's papers like he did with you/ in return, I move my glare to Kaiba, intensify it and I'm about to retort an answer when Mana suddenly speaks up.
'Seth! I didn't know you were brought back, like us! Is Kisara here too?' she asks Kaiba excitedly, with her arm casually strewn over his shoulder. When exactly did she move? I have no idea.
Damn. Kaiba looks utterly, annoyed. Ra, I got to save Mana before he snaps…
'Umm, Mana,' I say as I get up and stand behind her. As I grip her shoulders, remove her hand from around Kaiba's neck and pull her away from the steaming CEO, I continue, 'That's NOT my cousin Seth, not a stretch of the imagination.'
Unfortunately, I was too late; hopefully she can defend herself, 'Hey, you there, blondie.'
Mana, looks around, utterly clueless looking for 'blondie,' and at that simple Mana-like-as I've dubbed it-gesture I decide to intervene, 'Now, Seto. Is that any way to refer to a lady?'
'He was talking to me?' whispers Mana in my ear. I nod.
He growls and responds, 'No, but I don't see any around here so there's no reason for you to worry your little, spiky head about that.'
I'm about to growl out an answer when I see Mana shaking next to me with her bangs covering her eyes, 'Oh Ra! He made her cry! For that he'll pay…'However, my thoughts were interrupted by Mana suddenly pulling herself from my grasp. 'M-Mana…' I stutter and blink, twice. This isn't a good sign…
'Leave me be Temmie, I can take care of myself, k?' she winks at me & flashes peace, to which I can't help nod and smile at. 'She's so cute…'
She continues, 'Which brings me back to you mister!' she walks up to him and points a finger at a bored Seto, 'who in the all of blessed Egypt are you to say I'm not a lady?!'
'I'm Seto Kaiba,'
'Never heard of 'em.' She shrugs.
Seto looked murderous, to say the least. Mokuba, who had been standing faithfully at his older siblings side, saw his older brother's face and asked in a small and quivering voice, 'S-Seto…' He pulled on the hem of his brother's shirt to get his attention, but Kaiba didn't answer…
'And besides,' Mana continued. Apparently, she was still talking, oh Ra she's just adding gas to the fire! 'I don't who you are; I was an Apprentice Magician of the great Pharaoh Atem's court! And after his death-or rather sacrifice-the Master Magician of good Pharaoh Seth's! Back in Egypt, such disrespect to me in the presence of the Pharaoh would be a direct insult to the Pharaoh who is by spiritual and birth right the very incarnation of Ra himself! It would be the very death of you!'To the end she grumbled just loud enough for Seto, Mokuba and me to hear, 'And it would have served you right…idiot' At her last word she folded her arms across her chest and raised her chin into the air in what could be described as nothing other than pride, or for all those who know Seto Kaiba and his infamous temper, foolishness…
Yup, the look on Seto Kaiba's face was so deadly, well it made me shiver…If anyone saw him looking like this they'd call an asylum.
/That's for sure, but umm, Tems, what exactly is the life-sized DMG trying to do? /
My abiou's sweet-but shaky- voice sliced throw my thoughts, //I have no idea Yugi. Let's just hope she knows what she's doing…Oh and by the way, she isn't a life-sized DMG//
/She isn't? /
//No, she isn't. Remember Memory World? //
/Yeah…/
//Well, do you remember my little Apprentice friend, Mana? //
/Yeah…/
//Well, abiou? //
/Well what? /
//Well, use your common sense…//
Silence passed through the link…1 minute…2 minutes…5 minutes
//Abiou…anything yet? //
/Sorry, nothing…/
//Arg! Yugi! DMG! Mana! DMG is Mana! //
/You're kidding…/
Disbelief flooded the mind-link.
//No, Yugi…I'm not 'kidding!' I don't 'kid!' Remember that. //
/Okay, geez…Besides how was I suppose to remember that? I'm sure no one else does... /
//Arg…Whatever, the point is don't call Mannie a life-sized DMG. //
/Someone's overly touchy about their new girlfriend…Wait. 'Mannie…' /
He's teasing me I just know it.
/Wow…did you figure that one out all by yourself, Pharaoh? Or did your new girlfriend help you? /
Damn. That slipped.
I'm about to show my little hikari I'm not afraid of him and set him straight, when Mana's voice-quite painfully-demolishes my eardrums, braking my concentration and therefore the link…
'Don't make me turn you into a frog!'
'Oh yeah! I'd like to see that!'
'I can pull a serpent from my hat!'
'Yeah, you and every other cheap and half-rate 'magician,' out there!'
'Who you callin' cheap and half-rate, you idiot!'
'You! And no one calls me an idiot and gets away with it, you simpleton!'
'Simpleton! Well you're a moron!'
'Infidel!'
'Retard!'
'Both of you stop it!' Tea's voice silenced the bickering, 'You're both stupid for acting like this! So just, QUIT IT!'
'Hump! 'Was the collected response to Tea's intervention from both parties. Silence reigned for a good 5 minutes until Kaiba-who just had to get the last word-spoke.
'Well, we can all, well those with brains-I guess one of you will have to explain it to the mutt later on…'
'Why ya little…' The rest was muffled because thankfully, Joey was restraint by Tristan and Mai.
Kaiba continued as always, despite the interruption, '…safely say, that I'm the smarter of the two of us.'
'Yeah well, in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king, or rather queen in this case. And I'm she.' Was all Mana said and shrugged.
'Hum, interesting…I'm impressed. Not one of these idiots, including the wanna-be Pharaoh over there,' He points a finger at me, 'is as witty as you my little thorned-stem rose…' He raised his eyebrow suggestively at Mana making her inaudibly shiver.
Wait, stop the presses…Did Seto Kaiba, the Seto Kaiba, just pay someone-and actual living, breathing person and NOT his reflection-a complement!?!
Not to mention flirt…with…Mana…HEY! Get yourself a girlfriend and leave MINE, alone!!!
'Do yourself a favor, ditch these dorks and hang out with people around the same IQ as you…'
'Like who, you?'
'Exactly, and of course Mokuba.'
Her very voice was laced with venom and sarcasm when she said this: 'Ha ha ha, that's a laugh. Do yourself a favor, Mr. Seto Kaiba and stop flirting with women far out of your league.'
The entire room was silent. And inside everyone's thoughts all resemble this: OH-MY-BLEEPING-GOD!!!!
Of course that's just a guess. Unexpectedly, Grandpa-who had retreated upstairs after Abiou's outburst- came downstairs and asked, 'So, what going on down here, children?'
Joey –who had broken out of Tristan's and Mai's grasp-sliced through the shocked silence, 'SHE DID NOT JUST SAY THAT! SHE JUST DISSED SETO KAIBA! OH, NO WAY, MAN! SHE JUST DISSED THE SETO KAIBA!'
And that was it, the final straw: with that everyone burst into hysterical laughter, all excepting Mokuba-whose face bore a darkened, angry and distressed expression-and of course, Kaiba. The strange, no…disturbing thing about this is that Kaiba looked absolutely destroyed.
Then, the unexpected happened. And it stopped our laughter completely. Seto Kaiba ran out of the room with TEARS streaming down his face! UNBELIEVEABLE! Everyone, repent! It's the end of the world! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Well, well, Seto Kaiba has emotions, through it is very strange that he'd be so, so…fragile…Mana was just standing her ground after all. I mean she and Seth had fights like this all the time…It's frightening, actually. But before I can ponder this properly, Mana runs of behind him shouting after him, 'Wait! Seth! I mean Seto! I'M SORRY! Wait up…' The rest of those sentences were lost to Mana's distance from us. Mokuba was also about to run after the crying teen, but I grabbed him by the forearm.
Confused-as always-Joey asked, 'Hey…Since when does rich boy have feelin's 'n,' err, since when is he such a wus? And could someone please tell me why in da worl' dat DMG ran afta him afta she dissed 'em? '
Mokuba turned to us with tears cascading down his face, 'You guys just don't understand! Seto is going through so much pain on the inside! But no one ever cares, except for me! Why don't you just give us a break! 'Cause there's a lot of things you wouldn't EVER understand!' He tried to wrench his arm for my grasp but I gripped harder. This day was getting really strange and someone's going to give me answers! By hook, or by crook!
'Then make us understand, Ra-Damn-It!
He sighed, 'Fine but Seto's going to kill me if he finds out I told you…'
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With Mana and Seto… [A/N-Wow that even sounds wrong…sorry Seto/Seth fans and fangirls alike. Or fanboys as the case maybe…XP]
MANA'S POV
'…HEY! YOU THERE! BRUNNET! OI! BLUE EYES! I'M SORRY! '
I had been running after him for the past couple minutes and he still hadn't answered or even stopped. Arg! This is getting nowhere!
I stop and catch my breath so I can concentrate better. Within seconds a small, brownish-red book appears in my hand. This is my spellbook. My Master gave it to me by when was an apprentice and I still use it sometimes, like now for instance, when I can't remember a spell. Fortunately, that doesn't happen often.
Let's see Sumonning Spell, no. Knives of a 1000 deaths, nope. Umm, Frog Spell…hey! I could have used this earlier when I was fighting with Seto! Which reminds me, spell. Dancing Fever, River Snakes, Infinite Light and its sister, Ultimate Darkness…Ah! The Counter-speed Spell…this spell will make your opponents speed the opposite of what it is presently…and since he's at a pretty fast pace right now, he'll be pretty slow after! I'm so smart!
I take a breath and relax, and then I concentrate on the incantation…
'In times such as this,
With Darkened foes and mist…
The chase begun,
But weak, I can't run…
Dark Shadows,
I call thee, Mystic fellows…
Hear my call,
Reverse my toil, bring their downfall!
The speed of a cheetah,
The turtle, its lack thereof…
Counter his speed,
Give him none, this I need…
Reverse the tides,
Brake through the lies! '
From my hand a small pinkish ball is formed, it's outlined in blue. However, don't be fooled, I'm a Master Magician, even a small, neat ball of magic such as this is EXTREMELY POWERFULL…Yes, within a matter of 3 years after Atem's and Master 'Mahaddie's' deaths-2 of which were spent mostly grieving-I surpassed my Master and all the Magicians before me, and I know there wasn't a magician as powerful after me, so…yeah. I smirk as I aim, but as I'm about to throw the ball, it vanishes and I suddenly feel very weak! But before I get a chance question any of it, the ball reappears! Weird…was all I thought before I fire and…hit my target! Unfortunately, what I hadn't access is that he was actually getting tired and therefore slowing down…so when I hit him with that spell he took of…Dang!
Next time: At the Kame Game Shop-Living room
Mokuba reveals some very interesting things about Seto Kaiba, Mana finds and comforts Seto and you finally get to find out why and how Mana came back!
Also, Mana discovers the miracle of marshmallows and takes a sip of that peculiar 'hot chocolate,' as Temmie called it!
All this and much more…Stay Tunned!
PS- If you wanna know what exactly happened to me whilst I wasn't on fanfiction Pm me, k? ^.~
Sayonara!