Chapter II: Crime, Punishment and Ojamas?
Hello again, GX fans! Yes, we updated in less than a day! Thank you all for your prompt reviews and for reading. And so, a quick recap… Jaden and Jesse ate the girls' chocolates, the girls got mad and vengeance was theirs. As usual, Peach and Ani don't own the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise; they just play in it with their OCs and alternate realities! We also don't own Ouran High School Host Club! So on with the story!!
Meanwhile, the girls discussed the best course of action to take for the boys' punishment. "So what do we do with the guilty party?" Annie wondered, looking over at the two boys. She was mad at them, but wondered if they'd been punished enough. Sure she'd get mad, but she didn't stay at fevered pitch forever.
"Well, like I said, beating's out of the question. They'll just pull that look... and we did sort of beat them up already," Violet reminded, sweat-dropping and giving a sheepish grin.
"Hmmm... we could make them eat chocolate until they barf... Like people sometimes make their kids smoke a whole pack of cigarettes," Mindy suggested.
"WHAT?! That's cruel!" Jasmine yelped.
The other girls all sweat-dropped this time. "I agree with Jasmine... I don't want to make them sick... and that would cost us. I think a punishment that doesn't damage their health should be put into order," Alexis added.
"Maybe not their physical health, but what about their mental and emotional health?" Rosa asked, having been thinking. At the looks she received, she rolled her eyes. "Turbacion; embarrassment," she explained, first in her native tongue then in English.
"Embarrassment we can do... Hmmm... How about... making them wear our uniforms?" Jasmine suggested. "Or could they dye their hair?"
"How about both?" Violet offered, smirking deviously.
All the girls looked at each other... "And then... cosplay!" Mindy yelled triumphantly.
"COSPLAY?!" Jaden shrieked in horror.
"Uh... what's cosplay?" Jesse whispered questioningly to his Slifer twin.
"They're gonna make us dress up like anime characters!!!" Jaden yelped in horror. He had had the misfortune of having to cosplay in elementary school. And he'd been dressed like Cardcaptor Sakura.
Jesse's eyes widened so much that they could have fallen out of their sockets. "WHAT?!"
The pair's horror only strengthened the girls' resolve. "PERFECT!! And to make it even better... think we could get our guys to get in on this with some persuasion? They'd make a great Host Club," Violet suggested.
"Oh yes! This is perfect! And these two could be Kaoru and Hikaru!" Annie grinned, referring to the twin brothers in Ouran High School Host Club.
"I hate to say it, but I can see my brother as Tamaki," Alexis added with a wry smile.
"Oooh, Annie! Syrus would make a great Honey!" Violet squealed, hopping up and down excitedly.
"He would. And Bastion would be perfect as Kyouya," Jasmine theorized.
"I want to get Chazz in on this, too," Alexis muttered, going over the cast of the anime in her head. "Hmm... oh! I can see him as Nekozawa! He probably wouldn't mind cosplaying as such a dark guy, anyway," she said with a grin.
"Yeah... Or Ritsu Kasanoda," Mindy suggested with a smile. She knew her boyfriend might fit the character of the kindhearted child of a mob boss better.
Alexis smirked. "Mindy, you're evil when you want to be. He might even enjoy that more..."
"Yeah... He's not afraid of the light and he's a nice guy despite the rough exterior, you know?"
"Hey, sounds good to me! That could be what we do for Halloween!" Violet cheered happily.
"Yeah! Ooooh! Idea!!!" Annie whooped.
"What is it?" Rosa asked.
"Let's have those two do the punishment in stages! Monday... they dye their hair... Tuesday, they come to class in girls' uniforms. Wednesday, they're the Ouran High School Host club twins!" One could practically see the light bulb over Annie's head.
"The greatest punishment ever conceived, no doubt about it!" Violet agreed loudly, throwing her arms into the air with a manic grin.
"Jesse? We're gonna die!" Jaden whimpered, hugging his twin like a life preserver. "Sy? Help..."
"Yeah, little buddy! Can't you help us outta this?" Jesse pleaded, quivering.
Syrus's eyes widened with a look that asked, "ME?!" One glance at the group of girls made him nearly run away; there was no chance he was going to get them to change their minds. But maybe he could help his friends through this. "I won't be able to help you guys out of this, but... on Tuesday I'll dress up with you guys so that you're not so isolated!" The words came out before Syrus could fully comprehend their meaning, and he flushed lightly when the realization of his statement hit him. Oh boy. What had he just agreed to? Well... Jaden had helped him out in the past and stuck by him more times than he could count. It's only fair that he return the favor.
Jaden's face lit up and tears came down his face. "Sy... Thanks, man..."
Jesse, too, was crying with joy. "Sy, you're the best bud a guy could ask for!"
Syrus grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of his neck, glad that he could help. He was still nervous about it, though. 'Why did I pick Tuesday's?!' his mind screamed at him.
The oddly twin boys hugged the smaller teen to them. "You're the best... Sy... man," Jaden gushed.
"I don't know how we'll ever thank ya," Jesse added tearfully.
Syrus sweat-dropped; weren't they overreacting a little? "Uh... it's okay, guys... I'm glad I can help..."
And then they were aware of the girls looking at them, stars in their eyes. "Sy... honey," Annie cooed.
Syrus blushed. "Uh... what?" he squeaked, a little unnerved by their expressions.
"That is so sweet!!!" she cried happily.
His blush reddened and he looked down, embarrassed. "I just want to help... it's not all that great..."
"But... you're taking the punishment with them," she countered, eyes practically turning into hearts.
"Yeah... like I said, I want to help," he replied.
"That is so sweet," Jasmine repeated Annie's sentiment. "Now... how do we do this?"
"What do you mean?" Violet asked curiously.
"How do we get started? And who has hair dye?" the redhead asked. Jaden groaned, knowing he wasn't getting off...
"Well, we'll dye their hair tomorrow night. That way it'll be nice and bright for Monday! I have the hair dye; I use it in pranks sometimes," Violet answered simply, sending Annie a knowing grin. Oh, the fun they'd had with that one, as it had been against a certain vice-chancellor who had been a pain in their first year.
"Of course it wouldn't be fair to Jay if we dyed his hair pink and Jesse's stayed blue. That means Jesse has the pink and Jaden the blue," Alexis added with a smirk.
Jesse buried his face in his hands. "Pink... of all the colors," he moaned.
"Oh, no... no, no, no... Why?!" Jaden whimpered.
"And on Tuesday, we can make sure they get dressed in our uniforms instead of theirs," Rosa continued.
Syrus slumped slightly. "Oh, man..."
"How do we fill out the tops for them?" Mindy wondered, playing with a lock of her dark hair. "And... should they wear stuff of ours?"
"Mindy... maybe they don't need that... Besides... Sy couldn't fit into my bras," Annie pointed out and then turned beet red. "Oh crap!"
Syrus was even redder, somehow, and promptly fell over just at the thought. "Wh-What!? U-Uh... can we sk-skip that?"
"I can't believe I said that," she groaned into her hands.
"I can't believe you guys are thinking of that!" Jaden exclaimed with a horrified look.
Jesse's hands dug into his hair. "You're already makin' us dye our hair, cross-dress, AND cosplay!"
Alexis sweat-dropped. "I say them wearing the uniforms is enough, girls."
"Yeah. Enough torture," Mindy stated, realizing the joke could go too far.
Rosa sighed. "We have spare uniforms. We can take three and get them fitted for them so that they'll fit. Okay?"
"Okay," Jaden sighed, "And... I'll find a way to replace what we snacked on... It was my fault, and Jesse didn't know..."
"Hey, I'll help too. I helped eat it, so I'll help replace it!" Jesse countered seriously.
"But you didn't know!"
"Don't matter! I feel bad for eatin' what belonged to someone else."
"Figure out the technicalities later, guys... Just remember... tomorrow you have a hair appointment," Annie stated.
"Oh, great," Jaden sighed.
"At least yours ain't gonna be PINK!!" Jesse reminded, waving his arms.
"Well, my eyes'll clash with blue hair!"
Everyone was staring at Jaden in varying degrees of surprise. Especially Jesse. "YOUR EYES?! My head's gonna look like a... a... A WATAPON!!"
"Oh! I hadn't realized that! CUUUUTE!!" Violet gushed, jumping up and down.
"Oh yeah... His eyes look like Watapon's!" Annie smirked.
Jesse groaned at the realization and flailed slightly. "See?! Ya got nothin' to worry about compared to me!!" he shouted to Jaden.
"Well, I don't think it'll look good. You and Sy can pull off blue hair, but I can't!!!"
"And ya think I can pull off pink?!"
"I don't know!" the upset Slifer yelped. "And... man!!!"
"If you think Monday will be bad, you must have forgotten about Tuesday," Alexis reminded with a smirk.
Jaden and Jesse stopped yelling and looked at Alexis in horror. "Ooooh," Jaden groaned, face-palming.
Jesse once more buried his face in his hands. "We're gonna die..."
The girls looked at each other. "Oh, come on... you won't die," Annie said gently.
"That's easy for you to say! It's not that bad if a girl dresses as a guy. But a guy dressin' like a girl? It's gonna be awful," Jesse countered, slumping over.
Jasmine sighed. "Guys... you realize we have a teacher who cross-dresses, don't you?"
The two boys exchanged glances, though everyone in the room seemed to sweat-drop. Then, Violet burst into a fit of giggles. "You actually straight-out called him a cross-dresser!!!"
"Well... uh... pink ruffles... and he has earrings in both ears," Jasmine reminded them, turning red.
"Not to mention if he cosplays, then who knows what else he does in his room," Alexis added with a grimace.
Everyone groaned and turned white, eyes wide. "Uh.... great... now I'm going to have nightmares again," Annie groaned, also turning green.
Alexis sweat-dropped. "Sorry."
"Can we change topic please??" Rosa asked, wincing.
"Yeah... okay... so where do we dye their hair tomorrow?" Annie wondered.
"Who has the biggest bathroom?" Violet asked, looking around at the girls.
"I think we do, Violet," Annie stated. "We can put one in each bathroom and do it that way..."
"Sy, stay with me," Jaden pleaded to his best friend.
Syrus sweat-dropped. "Uh, okay, Jay..."
"Now, who has Host Club stuff?" Jasmine asked.
Violet and Alexis raised their hands. "We'll probably need to put together the uniforms, though," Violet stated, mentally calculating what they'd need.
"Okay, then... This will be... fun," Annie stated, smiling.
"This will be torture," Jaden moaned.
"You can say that again, Jay," Jesse groaned in agreement.
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And so that night, Jaden climbed into bed, sulking. He'd been quiet all through the day and his fiancée knew that it wasn't a good sign. Alexis sighed as she climbed in beside him. "Jay..."
"Lex... I wish I didn't have to do that," he admitted, sounding upset.
She pulled him to her in a hug, kissing his cheek gently. "I know... but it'll all be over with before you know it."
He groaned, not entirely convinced. "Three days, though..."
"It could be worse," she soothed.
"How?" he asked, still sulking.
"You could have to dress-up as Dr. Crowler instead," she answered.
Jaden bolted straight up in bed, eyes bugging. He had a sudden mental picture of himself dressed as said teacher when he was dressed as Dr. Frankenfurter. "You're right!!!"
Alexis chuckled, propping herself up on an elbow as she smirked. "See? Now come on, lay back down. Tomorrow's not going to be easy for you..."
His face looked just plain horrified. "Ewww... the hair dye actually sounds better..."
She sweat-dropped and gently pushed him back down. "Don't worry, you won't have to dress-up as him. We're not that cruel..."
"Thanks, babe," he sighed, cuddling her close to him and managing to fall asleep.
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Back down at the Slifer dorm, Charles Xavier Rhodes, formerly Charles Xavier Princeton, popularly known as Chazz was getting ready for bed. 'Man... I'd hate to be in Slacker and Anderson's shoes... they are so dead,' he thought, remembering how it had been when he'd invaded Violet's room and then been found out some months later. He pulled on his red silk pajamas his mother had sent with him and was all ready to get a cup of his favorite hot chocolate before he got in bed when there was a knock at his front door. "Yeah, yeah, I'm coming," he growled, heading to answer.
Jesse Anderson was no lightweight when it came to dares; he had faced many from his brother and friends since he was a kid. But they had always been manly, "prove your strength" dares. Not embarrassing ones. This was why he was standing here, outside Chazz's door with a traumatized expression on his face. Sure, Jesse could have chosen one of his other friends for help, which might have been smarter. Maybe it was because he and Chazz had some history from North Academy. Or maybe it was because most of the other guys stayed with the very girls who would be putting him through the three-day-torture. Whatever the reason, Jesse seriously needed some guidance. And since Willow was back in Canada, it looked like The Chazz was in for a long night.
"Jesse?" Chazz asked, stunned when he opened the door. "It's late. What are you doing here?" His tone was more bewildered than frustrated. And then he caught the look. "C'mon in and talk about it," he groaned.
The expression lightened a little as the teal-haired teen smiled. "Thanks, Chazz," he replied in relief. Jesse wasted no time in making himself comfortable on the large couch in Chazz's living room.
The raven haired Rhodes got another mug and fixed his friend a mug of hot chocolate too. "So what's on your mind?" he asked, sitting down and handing the other boy a mug.
Jesse gladly took it, the smile always plastered onto his face dropping slightly into a small frown. "I'm guessin' you heard what happened?" he answered with a question of his own.
"Yeah, yeah, Mindy told me... You seriously thought someone left you the chocolate?" Had Chazz not been holding a mug of hot chocolate, he would've face-palmed.
Jesse managed a sheepish grin. "Well... Jay said he found a bag of chocolate, and... I was hungry, so... I didn't really think about it much, I guess," he admitted.
The dark-haired Slifer sighed, laughing a little himself. "Guess we all have those moments... I didn't think about keeping my mouth shut..."
Jesse blinked in obvious confusion. "Huh?"
"Oh... I learned the value last school year of keeping my mouth shut. See, back then, I was trying to be the Chazzanova... We had a movie night and I said something to Annie while looking at her boobs," he groaned, remembering the incident vividly. "Violet put me through the movie screen for that..."
The Southern teen's eyes widened and he sweat-dropped. "She did?! I mean, sure, you did deserve somethin' for doin' that, but... REALLY?" Jesse couldn't believe that a girl could do that to a guy.
"Yeah... she did... But I got off easy... She went after Atticus and Bastion with her bazooka..."
"I know how they feel," Jesse muttered, shaking a little at the very recent memory of dodging potatoes.
"Well... it did bring her and Bastion together," the Slifer remembered. "But... so, what are they having you and Slacker do? Mindy for some reason couldn't tell me…"
The North Academy boy flinched when he was reminded of exactly why he came down here. "Chazz, it's horrible! I wish they'd just beaten us up like you guys!" The anguish in his tone was pretty real.
Chazz sighed inwardly. 'How do I help him through this?' he thought. "Well... I wish Violet had set a trap that gave me a new hair color... When I went into her room, the guys had to scrub me down all night!"
Jesse winced at "new hair color". "That's part of our punishment..." he muttered.
The other young man's eyes widened. "What? Are you serious?!"
"Unfortunately, yeah. But... it's the color that's the bad part," The currently teal-haired teen grimaced. "They're dyein' Jay's blue and mine... PINK!! I'll look like a Watapon, Chazz!"
Chazz looked at Jesse appraisingly. "How in the heck are they gonna pull that off? I mean... your hair is blue..." He thought a moment and continued, "Won't it turn purple?"
Jesse blinked a few times. It made sense. But then he remembered... "Chazz... what if they bleach it?!" he yelped, gripping his locks.
Chazz's face drained. "Oh, man... I don't want to think about it... And.... what color are they turning Slacker's hair?"
"I told ya, blue! Somethin' about these anime twins from some show..."
"Anime..." And then it hit him. "Oh, no... no, no, no, no, no! Not Hikaru and Kaoru!"
Jesse blinked a few times, staring at his friend. "Huh?"
"Ouran High School Host Club... Alexis watched it with the other girls the night we got back here," the other boy groaned.
"Oh. But... what's so bad about 'em?" They were just characters, weren't they?
"Yeah. It's not that they're bad... They're really weird twins, though..." Chazz wasn't sure how much he should tell Jesse.
Jesse tilted his head to the side, frowning in obvious bewilderment. "Weird??"
"Well... see... they act like they... love... each other," the Slifer groaned.
At first the Obelisk didn't quite understand what Chazz was getting at. "But... if they're brothers... then shouldn't they love each other?"
"Uh... not like that, Jesse... More like..." Chazz wracked his brains on how to explain it. "Remember Nikolai Stoyko and Jeremy Collins at North Academy?"
"Yeah..." The pair had been a very, very loving couple that could most often be found making out under the stairs or behind the dorms. Jesse's eyes widened and he nearly dropped his mug of cocoa as it hit him. "WHAT?!?! LIKE THAT?!"
"Yeah... and Hikaru and Kaoru... well, it's possible it's an act with them, though... no one's really sure... I sure wouldn't act that way with my brother, though..."
Jesse shook. "Aw, man... but the girls wanted us to cosplay as them on Wednesday... You don't think they'll want us to act like 'em, do ya?!" Now he was really freaking out over all of this. So much for getting help.
Chazz thought about it. "Nah... They might want you guys to talk at the same time and do twin things, but they won't have you go that far..."
Jesse slumped over in immense relief. "Good... at least we don't got that to worry about... but..." He grimaced again. "Tuesday, they... they're havin' us wear girls' uniforms..."
"Man, that sucks," Chazz groaned. "Hey, look... uh.... you want to stay down here tonight?"
Jesse looked up at Chazz in obvious surprise. "Huh? Really?"
"Yeah... just crash here for tonight... You'll need it for when those girls get hold of you..."
"You're right... thanks, Chazz. You're a real pal." Jesse grinned; it was probably the first time Chazz had been this nice to him.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah... get some pajamas before I change my mind," the other boy growled with a return of his previous acerbity.
Jesse sweat-dropped; that didn't last very long. "Uh, okay!" He quickly got up to go change.
After Jesse had gotten his pajamas on and headed to bed, Chazz shut the door to his bedroom and made a call on his PDA. "Hello, Atty? It's Chazz..."
"Bro? What's up?" Atticus, also a third-year, but an Obelisk Blue asked, having just been about to hit the hay.
"Big bro... Jesse's down here... Did Jasmine tell you what happened?"
"No... well, I know about the chocolate having been theirs, but she didn't tell me what they plan to do about it..."
And so Chazz told him. "I think some of it's a little unfair, and you know... I never thought I'd say this..." He groaned softly. "I think... we need to do something..."
Atticus blinked, wondering if he'd heard right. "Really? You do?"
"Yeah," Chazz groaned. "I'm not used to this...What's wrong with me?!!" He had a strange feeling that somewhere, somehow, someone was laughing at his emotional confusion.
Atty sweat-dropped. "Uh, bro... maybe you're just starting to lighten up enough that you want to help people... like, put their well-being before yours. You know?"
"It's just... not normal for me, you know? But... I still want to do something... Bro, do you know anything about..." Chazz shivered in slight disgust. "Cross-dressing?" He then face-palmed.
"Cross-dressing?! Chazz, what-?!" It was pretty obvious that Atticus Lee Rhodes was shocked.
"Well, remember what I said about the Tuesday punishment?"
"Yeah... Wait, bro, are you thinking of doing what I think you're thinking of doing?"
Chazz groaned again. "Yes, bro..."
Atticus's eyes were wide. His little brother was actually going to do something nice for Jaden and Jesse! "Wow... bro, that... that's so NICE of you!" he said with a broad grin.
"Well, I'm not doing it alone... And... You'd look good in a dress!" Chazz suddenly grinned wickedly. "Bro... let's do this together..."
"What!?" Atticus yelped. He was about to tell his brother to forget about dragging him into this, but then decided against it. For some reason it sounded like a funny idea to him, and his own grin became wicked. "Hey, you're right... we'll turn this punishment into a joke!"
"The girls'll love that," the youngest Rhodes smirked, knowing the girls wouldn't like this one bit.
"Come over tomorrow, bro. I know just how to handle this," the elder stated confidently.
"You got it..." And so began a plan that the girls couldn't have anticipated.
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The next afternoon, Jaden and Jesse came up to Annie, Sy, Violet and Bastion's suite, looking as if they were mounting the figurative gallows. "Jesse, somehow we'll get through this, man," Jaden reassured his twin, squeezing his hand.
Jesse squeezed back, but groaned. "I hope you're right, Jay..."
"I'm gonna miss my hair... Wonder how long it'll last..."
"Hopefully not too long. I don't know how long I can go lookin' like a Watapon, Jay."
"I'll be here with you, man," the brown-haired Slifer reassured his friend. And then they were at the door. Jaden knocked on the door. "Hello?"
The door opened to reveal Violet with a very large grin on her face. She was wearing gloves and held a bottle of blue hair dye in her hand. "There you two are! We were starting to think you'd run away and we'd have to track you down!" It was hard for the boys to tell if she was joking or serious.
Annie, too, was standing using her crutches and dressed in a white hairdresser's coat and wearing rubber gloves. "Gentlemen... when we're done, you shall look fabulous!"
"OOOOOH!" Jaden groaned in agony.
Jesse hid behind Jaden without hesitation, then sweat-dropped. "Uh... you wanna go first?"
"You both are going at the same time. There's two bathrooms, remember?" Alexis stated with a smirk. She was dressed like the other girls and held a pink bottle of hair dye.
"Aw, great," Jaden moaned softly.
"Jaden, it's temporary hair dye... Don't worry, it'll be fine by Friday at the latest," Annie smiled kindly.
"But what about me?! Ya'll will have to bleach my hair, won't ya?!" Jesse yelped, knowing how long that could last. The three young women looked at each other... and started cracking up.
Both teen boys blinked in obvious bewilderment and exchanged glances. "Uh... I don't get it. What's so dang funny?" Jesse finally asked.
"Yeah... what else are you going to do to us?" Jaden asked, getting the classic frightened chibi look on his face.
"Nothing!" Annie laughed. "We have wigs!!!" And the J twins fell over in shock.
Violet was practically on the floor as well from her laughing. "You should have seen your faces!! It was PRICELESS!!!" she managed. Jesse wasn't sure whether to be relieved by this fact or royally ticked that they'd been had.
Jaden managed to get to his feet, looking horrified. "Alexis? How could you joke about that?!" he whined.
Alexis smirked again. "Sorry, Jay. Had to go along with it; and the look on your face WAS pretty funny."
"Had to? Ha! You're the one who sugg-" The pink hair dye bottle promptly bounced off of Violet's head, and she just as promptly shut up.
Jesse stood as well and pouted. "You girls are devious!"
"That's what you get for eating our chocolate without asking," Annie teased. "So we have our wigs ready... Now we just have to cut them properly. Sit on the couch, boys..."
Jesse sighed as he plopped down. "Well, at least we only have to worry about wearing 'em for one day, Jay..."
"Oh no you don't... You have to wear them all three days," Annie smirked.
"What!? But that ain't fair!" Jesse whimpered.
"It's fair," Jaden groaned, "since we get to take it off at night... right?"
Alexis nodded. "Of course. There's no point in making you wear it then."
"Then... it's fair... We'll get through this alive, bro," Jaden stated.
Jesse sighed again. "All right... it is still better than dying, at least."
"Yeah..."
"Okay, guys, get the wigs on the dummy heads," Annie stated, sitting down.
"Wait... Us?" Jaden asked.
"Yes... you," Annie said.
"Hey! I take offense to that." Jesse replied with a pout, crossing his arms over his chest in half-jest and half-indignation.
Annie looked at the boys. "The wigs are on dummy heads. I wasn't talking about you!"
Jaden and Jesse both sweat-dropped. "Uh... we knew that," they said at the same time. The girls snickered and giggled as they set to work aligning the wigs, getting out scissors and combs and hair gel. It would be hard getting them just right.
"At least we don't have to worry about dyeing Jaden's hair now... That two-tone aspect would be trouble," Annie stated as she set to work on Jesse's wig.
"This idea's easier and faster, anyway. I'd rather cut and mold wigs than dye and scrub their hair," Violet added.
"Yeah... and I wouldn't like to have to deal with dyeing their hair back... It took my stylist forever to do that back in sixth grade when I screwed up my hair," Annie admitted, blushing as she tweaked the bangs on Jesse's pink wig.
"You did that too? What color were you going for?" Violet asked.
"I was... going for blonde, but, well... It turned the same shade as the top of your head, Jaden and then I tried to correct it." The twin boys looked at each other in horror.
"What happened?" Jesse dared to ask.
"Well... I tried dyeing back to my natural color, but it ended up wiry and stiff and there was a huge orange spot on the back of my head," the dark-haired Obelisk girl groaned, hanging her head and sweat-dropping.
Violet grimaced. "Yikes. Mine wasn't that bad... I just used way too much pink hair dye and it wouldn't go away for over a year."
"You had an orange spot on the back of your head?" Jaden asked Annie. She nodded. "Wow... we could've looked related," he said happily.
Alexis laughed a little. "Well, I think she likes her hair better without it being wiry and stiff."
"Yeah... that was bad," Annie groaned. "Fortunately it was in the summer between 5th and 6th grade and on the 5th of July..."
"That is lucky. I remember my brothers trying to dye their hair once," Rosa said as she held out the container of gel for Alexis to use on Jaden's wig.
"What color did their hair change?" Jaden asked, watching the wigs transform.
"Green. It was the twins when they were fifteen and thought it was a very macho color. Papa and Mama were not happy about it, though," Rosa answered with a sly smirk.
"Well, green can be a very powerful color," Annie said thoughtfully as she fluffed Jesse's wig, using industrial strength hair gel.
Jesse grimaced. "It's better than pink, anyway..."
"Oh, come on... Pink isn't so bad, Jesse... One of my brother's soccer buddies had pink hair when he was on the field. And that guy was a foul-mouthed goalie," Annie remembered.
"Well... maybe if it was a dark pink or a really light pink. But that's like bubblegum!" Jesse countered.
"That was the color Jeff had on his head," Annie countered, smiling. "You should've heard him cuss when he threw that ball. Mr. Chiarelli nearly had a conniption fit!"
"Wait, what?" Jaden asked, stunned.
"This was at my brother's high school, and this guy cussed. It was funny!" Annie laughed. "And Mr. Chiarelli, the soccer coach, freaked out! It was like a Crowler crack-up!"
Alexis sighed. "Well, I'd rather have a cussing goalie at my soccer game than a streaking big brother..."
The girls looked at each other. "Oh boy... not what I'd want to see... How old was he again?" Annie wondered.
"Six," Alexis answered with a twitching eyebrow.
"Oh, yeah... the dragon dance," Annie and Jaden groaned at the same time.
"I saw the video," he groaned.
"The dragon dance?" Jesse asked in confusion.
"They ran onto the field in their dragon underpants," Jaden groaned, "and they danced around. Judging by the vid, Alexis was furious." She had actually run up to her brother with crimson cheeks and starting punching with her four-year-old fists, yelling, "YOU DOODYHEADS RUINED OUR SOCCER GAME!"
Alexis blushed a little at the memory. "Well you would be too if that happened. Wouldn't you?"
"Yeah... That was... so wrong... And Zane took part!"
"He was apparently not as serious at that age," Violet added. The girls had just put their finishing touches on the wigs.
"Yeah... Lex, your mom has that tape under lock and key, right?" Jaden asked as Annie fitted a skin cap over his head.
"Of course. Why do you ask?" Alexis was putting an identical skin cap on Jesse, both girls finding it a bit difficult because of their hair.
"Well, just think what would happen if that video fell into the wrong hands. Bam, right on YouTube and on TMZ!" the brown-haired Slifer asserted, seeing the horror before his eyes.
Alexis grimaced. "That is a really bad thought..."
The young people all looked at each other, nodding in agreement. The girls put the wigs on the boys and surveyed their handiwork. "Hmmm... not bad," Jaden said as he looked at his new 'do. "Now I know what it's like to be you and Sy, Jesse!"
"AAGHH!!" Jesse was nowhere near as content as his twin, staring with wide-eyes at his reflection. The wig looked fine on him like it did on Jaden, but the pink freaked him out. With his green-almost-blue eyes, his head did indeed look like an antenna-less Weapon. "I don't know if I can do this, Jay!" he groaned, wincing at his reflection.
"You look fine, Jess... And I'll be with you through this, bro, remember?"
"Yeah, but..." Jesse was clearly disturbed by this punishment and needed some serious reassurance.
"They'll laugh at both of us..."
"You sure?"
"I'm sure," Jaden asserted, "and I think we look okay." He grinned sheepishly. "I should've gotten contacts!"
"Contacts?" Jesse asked bewilderedly.
"Then I'd have the same eyes as you!"
Jesse realized. "You'd be like a clone of me!!"
"Yeah! We'd really look like twins!" Jaden enthused.
"Girls, I think they're beginning to enjoy this," Annie muttered, sensing their revenge was about to backfire.
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Violet whispered as the two jabbered on about this newfound idea.
"Hmmm... we'll see..."
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As three of the girls worked over Jesse and Jaden, down at the Ra dining hall, Syrus and Bastion were having tea. "They wanted us out of the suite," the big Ra genius sighed. "Poor Jaden and Jesse..."
"Well... maybe it won't be so bad. I mean, Tuesday will be the worst, won't it?" Syrus asked, remembering what he'd said.
"Tuesday? Wait a moment.... Syrus, are you going to put on the girls' uniform?" Bastion asked, eyes wide.
Syrus grimaced a little and looked away, obviously trying to hide behind his teacup. "Uh... well, y-yeah... I told Jay and Jesse I would... do it with them," he muttered, blushing with embarrassment.
"Hmmm... perhaps I should join in," Bastion mused.
"Huh?!" Syrus yelped, looking at the taller teen with wide eyes. He certainly hadn't been expecting THAT.
"You need the support... Besides... I've wanted to prank Violet back," the big boy smirked.
"Well, um... when you put it that way," Syrus sweat-dropped, not really sure what to say.
"Gives you a strange mental image doesn't it?"
"Kinda... yeah..."
"Well," Bastion smiled, "it's all right. Perhaps... we should involve the others in this... Think we can get Tyson involved?"
Syrus nearly face-planted. "Er, I don't think he'd do it..." Not to mention that was a very, very bad image.
"He might do it... especially if Jaden is having to do it..."
For once, Bastion's logic was wrong. "No. Got. Dang. Way!" Tyson exclaimed in horror when he, Bastion, Syrus, Aster Phoenix, Jim, Axel, Adrian, Atticus and Chazz were sitting around the table. "I love the Sarge, but not that much!" he asserted, holding up his index finger in frustration.
Syrus grinned sheepishly. "I told you he wouldn't do it..."
Bastion sighed, chuckling a bit. "Besides... he doesn't have the legs for it..."
"What'd you say?!" the Texas Ra demanded, eyes flashing dangerously.
Some of the guys snickered, while others sweat-dropped, while the rest just seemed plain uncomfortable with the situation. "Uh, mate, I don't think he meant any harm by it," Jim tried, not wanting Tyson to go dino.
Tyson growled softly. Bastion, though, chuckled, holding up his arms in a surrendering gesture. "Don't worry, I really don't, either... It's rather hard to cross-dress successfully as a gent..."
"Or find uniforms in your size," Chazz muttered, going beet red when he realized what he'd let slip out.
Atticus snorted, then grinned. "That would be a hard part of doing it. Guys aren't exactly shaped like girls," he added smoothly. Thank God he was used to pranking and conning.
"Well, I think the girls are handling that," Syrus replied, sighing.
"Wait a minute... why would you be looking for uniforms, Chazz?" Aster asked, his eyes widening, but not in mockery. "Are you..?" Chazz groaned in response, slamming his head to the table.
Atticus sweat-dropped. Aster was a hard guy to fool; he'd learned that much. "Looks like we were caught red-handed, bro..."
"Don't tell me you're doing it too? Why didn't you tell us?" Jim asked, his good eye wide with surprise.
Chazz muttered a low response that no one could quite make out. "What was that? Chazz, we can't hear you, man," Axel said curiously.
"I said... I owe Slacker big... And in some ways... Anderson..."
Now it was Atticus's turn to be surprised, along with everyone else. They kind of understood Chazz owing Jaden, but Jesse? "Bro, you never told me that."
Chazz sighed. "He... made me remember stuff... good stuff..."And so he took a deep breath and told them all of the day he started classes at North Academy...
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Chazz walked down what could easily pass for the set of an Old West movie Main Street to the main building of North Academy. He was still clad in his bright blue Duel Academy Central jacket, unlike the motley wardrobes of the other boys at North Academy. 'I'm practically at the top of the school. And no one can ruin my mood,' he thought with a grin. Oh how wrong he was...
"I got it! I got it!" Before Chazz could even look to see who was interrupting his quiet, a blue-haired figure crashed into him. Seconds later a football hit him square in the side of the head.
Chazz crashed into the ground face first, and came up coughing out dirt. "WHAT THE HECK?!" he shouted. "Who threw that?!" When he looked up, he did a double take. The boy rushing up to him, backlit by the school lighting, looked almost like... "Jaden?" he muttered. But in the next second, he saw that this boy had sea green eyes, teal hair and was wearing what looked like a modified Obelisk Blue jacket with ruffles at the cuffs. He also wore a pair of blue jeans and boots instead of Jaden's customary red boots.
"Sorry about that! Jeb, I thought you said you could catch it if I went long!" The teen stated in a thick Southern accent as he picked up the ball.
The person who had crashed into Chazz, obviously named Jeb, had pale blue hair that could be mistaken as white and reddish-brown eyes. He wore the same maroon jacket, brown pants, and black boots as most of the boys at North Academy. "Sorry, Jesse. I woulda caught it if I hadn't run into the new guy!" he replied in a slightly less noticeable Irish accent.
Chazz stood up with what dignity he could muster. And again the resemblance between Jaden and the boy identified as "Jesse" made the Duel Academy Central student shout, "Slacker, watch where you're throwing that stupid ball!"
Jesse turned his attention to Chazz, blinking in surprise. Then he gave that awful grin— in Chazz's opinion— that Jaden would have given. "So you're the new guy! Wow, cool uniform. I'm Jesse Anderson, what's your name?" He spoke a bit quickly, and shook Chazz's hand vigorously before the boy could even reply.
"Uh..." was all that came out of Chazz's mouth before he crashed to the ground in a faint.
He came to a moment later with a crowd of students around him. "Give him some air!" one boy was yelling.
"I'm workin' on it! Good thing I know CPR..." It was Jesse speaking now, sounding much closer to Chazz than the others. He was actually kneeling beside him, having just finished applying the thrusts to his chest. Not realizing that the teen had come out of it, Jesse moved in to perform the second step of CPR.
Chazz's eyes went wide when he felt Jesse's lips touch his. "MMMMPH!!! GET OFF!!!" he yelled, sitting up, waving his arms.
Jesse yelped in shock and fell onto his back, eyes as wide as saucers. "Hey! It worked! HE'S ALIVE!!" he cheered, grinning proudly. The blue-haired teen sat-up, still grinning as he looked at Chazz. "No need to thank me, partner! Just be glad I know CPR!"
"I DIDN'T NEED IT! DID YOU CHECK MY DAMN PULSE, SLACKER?!"
"He is grumpy like Russian bear," the former top student of the school known as the Czar stated, stunned. "And who is this Slacker?"
Jesse shrugged. "Dunno. Maybe someone from his old school?"
"Slacker is a weird name, yeah? I feel sorry for whoever has to deal with that all his life," Jeb stated from beside his Southern friend.
"His name's Jaden... and how the heck did I get into a school where his twin lives?" Chazz growled.
"Jaden? Now that's a name! And he has a twin that goes here? Cool! Do you know him, too?" Jesse questioned with a broad grin, the excitement obvious in his expression.
Chazz face-palmed, remembering just how stupid Jaden could seem sometimes. "I meant you... Jesse, right?"
"Uh, yeah... but me? Really?" Jesse asked, blinking and pointing at himself. He had a twin that went to Duel Academy Central?
Chazz nodded. "Yeah, yeah..."
"Oh. COOL! Hey, so what's your name?" By now the crowd had started to disperse, as classes would soon start.
"Chazz Princeton," the raven-haired teen stated grudgingly. "And... thanks..."
Jesse blinked. "Huh? For what?"
"For... you know..." Chazz sighed, hating to say it... "CPR..."
Jesse grinned, jumping to his feet. "Oh, that? You're welcome! But like I said, no need to thank me. I was just glad I could help a new student!" He reached down, grabbing Chazz's wrist and pulling him up onto his feet a bit roughly.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever..." The boys made it to class on time, and all that day, Chazz noticed things about Jesse that reminded him of Jaden.
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"So... that's something that happened," he concluded in the present.
"Wow... and to think it was like that, even when they'd never met... It's weird," Syrus said, being the first to speak.
The guys had all chuckled at the mention of the CPR incident, but they were all smiling a bit as they thought of the resemblance. "If I hadn't known better, I'd say that was Jaden," Bastion agreed.
"Mum used to tell me that in this world, we all have someone like us in a lot of ways. And that it's a rare gift if we ever get to meet that person," Jim stated thoughtfully.
"Yeah," Aster agreed. "That is rare... But maybe it's a good thing that there are two of them. So what else happened, Chazz?"
"Well...one day I saw him sitting on the roof, kinda like Jaden does sometimes... when he's talking to his monsters..." And so Chazz told them of another event that had occurred during his time at North Academy...
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It was a quiet Saturday morning in November, with a chilling breeze hanging over the school like a fog. Most of the students were huddled up inside, by one of the many fireplaces or under the blankets of their own beds. But up on the roof of the main building sat one student, oblivious to the cold and most everything around him. Jesse was far too busy chatting happily with the Crystal Beasts to care about something as boring as the weather.
Chazz was one student who'd gone for a walk that morning, needing to think. He'd managed to elude his brothers, who no doubt were scouring the planet to find him. 'They know I'm not dead...' And then he'd looked at the main building to see a... Pegasus?! And a giant turtle? A mammoth? 'What the heck?!' his mind screamed.
And then... "Cool! Other duel spirits!" Ojama Yellow squealed. He was the raven-haired teen's duel spirit, a small yellow creature with crablike eyestalks and little red bikini briefs on his… person.
"Biiii!" The sound was similar to that of Jaden's Winged Kuriboh, but rather than a brown fluff ball with wings appearing, a blue fox padded over to them. It had four ears and two bright red eyes, and a large red orb was on the end of its tail. "Bi bi biii!" it squealed again.
Ojama Yellow's eye stalks rose up as he looked at the blue fox-like creature. "Uh... hi there... I'm Ojama Yellow... Who are you?"
Chazz climbed the building to follow the little Ojama. "Where are you going, you little squirt?!"
"Her name's Ruby." Jesse answered, looking over at Chazz and the two spirits. "Well, Ruby Carbuncle is her full name, but she likes just Ruby better. Ain't that right, Ruby?"
"Bii!" Ruby answered, running over to climb up onto Jesse's shoulder.
The blue-haired teen grinned and waved at Chazz. "Hey Chazz. I didn't know you could see duel spirits."
Chazz's eyes widened. "What? Wait... Anderson? You... you mean..." He wasn't sure what to say. And so, in an odd moment, he stated, "You can see that little yellow annoyance?!"
"You know you love me, boss!" Ojama Yellow squeaked happily.
Jesse laughed, along with the spirits gathered around him. He was used to the black-haired duelist referring to him by his last name by now. "Course I can! If you can see one spirit, you can see 'em all. And that's one loyal Ojama you got yourself there," he explained happily.
"Ojamas... annoying and a bit unattractive, but... tirelessly loyal to their owners," purred one of Jesse's spirits. It was a large pink cat with a gold breastplate, adorned with a giant amethyst gem.
Ojama Yellow shivered. "You aren't gonna eat me, are ya?" he asked, tears coming.
The cat stretched and laid down, giving a smirk that would make Zane proud. "Of course not. I have a strictly all-fish diet."
"Aw, don't worry about her, little fella. Amethyst Cat wouldn't hurt a fly... outside of a duel, at least," Jesse added reassuringly as said cat folded her forepaws.
"Okay... can I pet ya?" the little yellow creature asked, gliding over to the big cat.
"...All right. Just don't mess up the fur," she answered.
Another spirit laughed from his sitting position beside Amethyst. He was a large white tiger with saber-tooth-like canines, a horn jutting out from his head, horns jutting outward from each leg, and two round, topaz gems on either side of his neck. "She's always so worried about her appearance. You should see how long it takes her to get ready in the morning!"
"I'll show you how much I take care of my claws if you don't shut up, Topaz!" Amethyst hissed, causing the tiger to sweat-drop.
Jesse sweat-dropped as well, grinning sheepishly as he explained to Chazz. "Those two are always fighting, even though they've been together for months. Sapphire Pegasus says it's how they show their affection to each other, but... it just looks like arguing to me."
"Sapphire..." Chazz stopped when he felt the beat of feathery wings behind him. He turned around to see the white Pegasus, now noticing that it was a unicorn Pegasus with a bright sapphire horn, along with two large sapphires on its wings. "You're the Pegasus I saw... I must be going crazy..."
But then the Pegasus spoke, revealing a kind tenor voice. "You're not crazy; you're just like Jesse. He's been able to see us for the past few months, ever since he met us in a museum," he said with a slight smile.
"Yeah, the chief is our brother," added a large eagle with a metal collar around his neck. The collar had a very large cobalt jewel on it, with another jewel on either side. Like Sapphire Pegasus, the bird had a cobalt jewel in each wing. "I'm Cobalt Eagle, by the way."
Chazz's eyes were the size of dinner plates now as a horrible possibility presented itself. "I've... gone nuts... I'm seeing Jaden's twin... I'm seeing Duel Monsters and they're talkin' to me... No, wait... I'm in Hell!"
Jesse blinked in surprise. "Uh, Chazz? Are you feelin' okay?"
"Maybe he's delirious," offered another spirit. This one was a giant tortoise with light blue skin, wrinkled with age, and grey eyes. Eyebrows also white with age and a green goatee accented his old face, and emeralds dotted his clawed feet. The tortoise's underbelly was yellow, and his shell was a deep blue. Larger emeralds covered it, and a few jutted out in dangerous-looking spikes.
"Delirious? I hope you're wrong, Emerald Turtle. He might be sick!" Jesse replied worriedly.
Poor Chazz's head was spinning. "I must've died out there... or... I have a tumor!"
"It's not a tumor... It's not a tumor at all," a strangely Austrian-accented voice stated. Chazz looked over to Jesse's left, his right and saw a large grey mammoth with a huge amber jewel on his forehead, below a tuft of light gray hair. The mammoth had tusks on either side of his mouth, totaling four tusks. "You need to relax, little human..."
"The mammoth is right, master. You must calm yourself and accept the fact that you can see duel spirits," stated a grating voice. Beside Chazz appeared a tall, intimidating-looking spirit that was likely one of the scariest monsters in Chazz's new deck. He was a red-eyed skeleton dressed from head-to-toe in black armor trimmed with gold. Claws adorned his shoulder plates and a helmet with two red horns jutting out of either side covered his head. In one hand he carried a menacing blood red sword with a golden handle. It looked like it weighed a ton, yet the spirit carried it with ease.
Chazz looked at the creature with the blood red sword. His pupil went to pinpricks and his skin paled. He couldn't speak. Ojama Yellow quickly moved to his boss's shoulder and scolded the other spirit. "I think you scared him, Skull Knight."
The spirit, now known as Skull Knight, blinked. "I did?" He rubbed the back of his skeletal neck with a gloved hand, obviously not as scary in personality as in appearance and name. "I didn't mean to. I'm sorry, Master Chazz. I was only trying to stop you from fainting again," he apologized sincerely.
"Just... I gotta sit down," the boy groaned. He sat heavily onto the flat room, head in his hands. "I can't be seeing this... Not again..."
"Again?" Jesse asked, scooting over to sit beside the boy.
The black-clad young man clenched his fists. "Imaginary friends... that's what's happening..."
The blue-haired teen blinked. "Imaginary friends? Chazz, these guys are duel spirits! They ain't imaginary. They're real."
"But... this hasn't happened since I was six... My brothers said they weren't real..."
"Your brothers? You never told me you had brothers, Chazz."
Chazz blinked and looked at the other boy. "Okay... if this is all real... hit me." 'If this isn't real,' he thought, 'then it doesn't matter... I'll still be dead or unconscious somewhere...'
Jesse's eyes widened. "Hit you? Chazz, I don't know..."
"Just do it! I need to be sure about something, okay, Twin Slacker?!"
"Well... okay. But I'm warnin' ya, I can pack a mean punch..." Jesse really wasn't sure about this, and didn't want to hurt his new friend. But if Chazz wanted to be hit that badly... The Southern teen promptly threw his fist into the other's cheek.
POW! Chazz saw stars and crashed back on the roof. The next thing he knew, he was in the school infirmary hearing a profusely apologizing Jesse.
"Gosh, I'm sorry, Chazz! I tried to hold back! Really I did! Momma always told me I didn't know my own strength," Jesse wailed, flailing his arms and looking genuinely guilty.
"Oooh... It's... all right," the other boy groaned. "So... I'm not dreaming..."
"No, boss, you're not!" Ojama Yellow stated, sitting on Chazz's chest, smiling. "You can see me!"
"So I can see them... I'm not going crazy," the black-clad duelist said aloud.
"Nope! Gee, why would you think that, Chazz? It's great when you can see'em! Then you've got friends to talk to all the time," Jesse replied happily.
"It's...not normal," Chazz sighed. "My brothers said it was little kid stuff..."
Jesse frowned. "That's not right. Duel spirits may not be normal, but it's not a bad kind of not normal. And last time I checked, adults could see 'em too."
Chazz managed to pull into a sitting position. "What?"
"Well, yeah. I mean, what about Yugi?"
"The King of Games can see...duel spirits?" he dared ask.
"Yeah! You mean you didn't know?" the other boy asked in surprise. Chazz shook his head mutely. "Well, he can! It's one of the reasons he has such a strong connection with his monsters. Hey, can Jaden see duel spirits?" Jesse asked eagerly. If he could, then his twin must be able to also, right? Chazz nodded, still unable to speak for shock. "Cool!" Realizing that Chazz hadn't spoken for some time, Jesse blinked. "You sure you're okay, Chazz?"
Then Chazz found his voice. "Yeah... Yeah, of course I'm okay, Anderson... Just... I'm not crazy..."
"Course not! I can see 'em, and I'm not crazy. Same with Yugi and this Jaden guy."
And then with a flash of his classic acerbity, Chazz grumbled, "Yeah, yeah... so we're all not insane... Woop de freakin' doo... Did I miss lunch?" He looked up at the wall clock. "11:30... How long was I out?"
"A half hour. The nurse said you're fine, but there'll be a bad bruise... You can still rest if you want. Lunch isn't for another half hour yet."
Chazz sighed, lying back down. 'Maybe this place isn't so bad after all,' he thought as he closed his eyes...
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"So Jesse made me realize I wasn't nuts," the red-clad Rhodes finished.
"I can understand that. If I could suddenly see duel spirits, I'd think I was going bonkers too," Jim said with a nod.
"Well, I think I could see them when I was little, like Slacker can... But... Slade and Jagger didn't believe me, and said I needed to give up my imaginary friends," the now red-clad boy stated ruefully.
"I'm not surprised they did that... I guess it's like what happened with Jay. He couldn't see them for a while either, but then he could again," Syrus replied thoughtfully.
Bastion looked up. "You can lose the ability?" he asked, an arrested look on his face.
"It looks like you can, since both Jay and Chazz did," Atticus answered.
"Hmmm... but Chazz, anyway, so you feel you owe Jesse?" Bastion asked, sipping on his mug of tea.
"Yeah... I'm gonna pay for this but..." And then Chazz muttered something nearly inaudible.
"Huh? Chazz, what did you say?" Syrus asked, tilting his head in confusion.
"I said... I'm glad I can see them again," he growled through gritted teeth.
"YAY!!" the Ojama brothers squealed, landing on his head.
"KNOCK IT OFF!!!" Chazz yelled.
The other guys all laughed, and Atticus ruffled his brother's hair. "I knew you liked seeing them! You were just too stubborn to admit it."
"You really do love us, boss!" Ojama Green cheered happily.
"You try not getting enough sleep at night," Chazz grumbled to his brother. "Okay... so the girls are making Jesse and Jaden have different colored hair for class tomorrow. Tuesday, Atticus, Sy and I will be cross-dressing along with them, and on Wednesday, it's Halloween..."
"They're making them cosplay as Hikaru and Kaoru from Ouran High School Host Club.... with the hair," Syrus explained, grinning sheepishly.
"Those... creepy twins?" Tyson asked, looking a bit creeped out.
Atticus sweat-dropped. "There not too creepy, Tyson. It's mostly an act." He'd watched the anime solely to get some tips on picking up girls and charming them.
"That must be some act," Adrian said drily. "I... haven't seen it..."
"I have the whole series on DVD if you guys wanna see. You might like some of the other guys in it; they're pretty cool," Atticus said with a grin.
All of the guys looked at each other. "Maybe we should... I've heard about it," Axel stated, "but I don't know enough about it..."
"This is a girly anime?" Tyson asked, startled.
"Oh, grow up, Tyson, I've seen it," Aster said nonchalantly.
"It's not that girly. It focuses mainly on guys charming girls. How can that be girly? Even if it is an anime mainly watched by girls... and the main character is a girl... But she dresses as a boy most of the time!" Atticus explained, sweat-dropping at the complicated explanation.
"How many yaoi relationships are there and how many fan fics are there on the subject?" Axel wondered.
"Uh... Dunno. You'd have to check online or something. I didn't do anything other than watch the show," Atty answered.
"15000 fan fics and at least 60 percent are yaoi pairings," Bastion answered without thinking. All the heads in the group turned, and several pairs of eyes narrowed.
"How did you know that?" Chazz asked.
"Violet and I read fan fictions one night," Bastion answered calmly.
Syrus sweat-dropped. "Annie's tried to get me to read some, but... I always manage to get out of it..."
"Doesn't she prefer Sailor Moon?" Bastion asked.
"Yeah... but she watches other anime and reads fan fiction for it. She's seen this one," Syrus answered, referring to their current topic.
"She likes the canon pairing of Haruhi and Tamaki and then Haruhi and Kyouya, right?" Bastion confirmed.
"Yeah. She doesn't like yaoi that much," the smaller teen replied.
"She loves Yami no Matsuei, though," Bastion observed.
"Descendants of Darkness," Adrian realized. Bastion nodded.
"Well, anyway, this one's not so bad. Besides, I had an idea for Halloween to help Jay and Jesse, and to do it you guys will need to see at least some of this," Atticus piped up with a sly grin.
"Well... this will be one dang strange movie night," Tyson groaned softly, wondering if he'd have to turn in his man card.
"Well, don't mention it to the girls. It's gotta be a surprise," Atticus added.
"I'll get the caramel corn from Professor Sartyr. Should we watch here or Obelisk Blue?" Bastion asked.
"If we watch it here, we'd be less likely to get caught watching it by the girls," Syrus offered.
"We'll have to get Jaden and Jesse down here... but how?" Aster wondered.
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Meanwhile, up at Obelisk Blue, Jaden took in his new look. "I think this hair looks better on you, Jesse... My eyes look all wrong!" Jaden groaned.
"At least that's all you gotta worry about. I still can't get over this pink hair," Jesse groaned in response, tugging at the wig in some spots. It was less unruly than his real hair, in a way that bugged him and made it feel awkward.
"You look better than me, though..."
"Really? Are ya sure?"
The two boys were looking in a mirror, frowning identically. "Yeah, I'm sure. At least your eyes don't look wrong with your wig!" Jaden groaned again. "My eyes don't go with this color!!"
"Wait, blue goes with pink but brown doesn't go with blue?" Jesse asked, scratching his now pink head.
"Not my shade of brown," Jaden growled, staring at the mirror. His brown orbs did contrast. "My eyes are too dark... But your eyes are kind of a green-blue, and they look good with pink..."
"Except they make me look like a Watapon!" Jesse whined.
"And that's bad why?!" Jaden demanded.
"Because Weapons are all cute and fuzzy and stuff... and girly! I'm a guy!" Jesse stammered, surprised that Jaden simply didn't understand why it was so bad.
"Well, I'd rather look like a duel monster!" Jaden whined back.
"Well, I'd rather have my eyes not match my hair!" Jesse replied, pouting. And then they heard it... Giggling. Both boys turned around to see that the girls were all stifling their laughter. "What's so dang funny?" Jesse asked, confused.
Alexis, Annie and Violet looked at each other and broke out laughing. "You two! Complaining about who looks worse!" Annie squealed, rocking on her crutches.
"It's so adorably cute! You guys really are just like twins!" Violet added in an equally squealing tone, hopping up and down.
Alexis didn't squeal, though she did laugh and hold her side. "It is pretty cute."
The nearly identical boys looked at each other, and were puzzled. "We look cute? Really?" Jaden wanted to know.
Alexis sweat-dropped. "To most girls? Yeah, you do."
Jesse grimaced. "Uh-oh. I hope the girls don't go too crazy, like Atticus's fan girls... I got a girlfriend..."
Annie's eyes widened. "You have a girlfriend, Jesse? Really?"
Jesse grinned, placing his hands on his hips proudly. "Yep! Her name's Willow. She's back in Nova Scotia, though. She doesn't like to duel herself, though she'll watch the tournaments on TV."
"Oh, cool! I'll bet she's pretty," Annie said, smiling.
"Great, Jess! You have to tell me more about her!" Jaden added excitedly. "Later, of course."
"Yeah... I don't know what she'd say about these challenges, though. I mean... dressing in a girl's uniform," Jesse muttered, blushing lightly.
"If she's anything like Lex, she'd probably think it's kinda fun," Jaden said thoughtfully.
Jesse thought for a few moments. "Well... now that you mention it, she IS kinda like Alexis. But with black hair and blue eyes."
Jaden's jaw dropped and his eyes went wide. "WHAT?!"
"Are you serious?!" Alexis asked, also surprised.
Jesse sweat-dropped. "Uh, yeah. I really hadn't thought about it until now, but now that I think about it she is."
"Ooookay... that is... strange," Annie admitted. They finished with the two boys and reminded them of what they must do. And then Jesse's PDA rang.
Jesse blinked in surprise and answered it. "Hello?"
"Hey, Jesse, it's Tyson. Are you and the Sarge done?" the Texas Ra asked.
"Yep. All finished, Tyson. What's up?"
"Think you fellas can come on down to Ra Yellow for a few hours? We've got some grub and something we guys are watchin'!"
Jesse grinned excitedly. "Sure thing! Lemme ask Jay. Hey, Jay? The guys are invitin' us down to Ra for some food and a movie. You in?"
"Sounds good to me," Jaden said, eager to make an escape. "You girls can have fun, can't you?" he asked his fiancée.
Alexis scoffed as Jesse confirmed to Tyson that they'd be there. "Of course. You guys go ahead and show the others your new look," she teased with a smirk.
The twin boys couldn't suppress a groan. "Let's get this over with," Jaden groaned as they headed out the door. "Glad these are wigs, though..."
"Yeah, not permanent," Jesse agreed, poking Jaden's blue wig.
The two young men headed down the hall and down to the Obelisk Blue common area. "If anyone asks, we tied on a bet," Jaden muttered, noticing the looks they were getting.
"Sounds good to me," Jesse muttered back. He grimaced again when he caught a group of girls cooing at his hair.
"Oh, my gosh, Jesse, you look so cute!" Uma Rashid, a girl with raven hair, deeply tanned skin and a Brahma dot on her forehead, purred.
Jesse sweat-dropped, giving the girl a sheepish grin as he went a little red. "Uh... thanks?" He nudged Jaden in the ribs. "I TOLD you this would happen! Girls aren't cooin' over YOUR hair!" he whispered, groaning.
Oh, how wrong he was. "JADEN!!! I LOVE YOU AND YOUR HAIR!" Yasmine Young squealed from across the room. "DON'T TELL ALEXIS!!!"
"Aw, crap," the Slifer groaned.
Suddenly, the two boys noticed that some of the girls were slowly edging closer to them from all sides. "Uh... Jay? I don't like the way they're lookin' at us," Jesse whispered fearfully.
"I have a suggestion," Jaden whispered back.
"Okay. What?"
Jaden grabbed his twin's wrist and then shouted, "RUN!!!" And they tore out of Obelisk Blue at top speed.
"THEY'RE GETTING AWAY!!" one girl shouted.
"AFTER THEM!!" shouted another. It was an all-out fan girl mob.
"Run FASTER, Jay!!" Jesse yelped, now dragging his red-clad twin instead.
"I AM RUNNING FASTER!" They ran like the wind and dove behind bushes as the girls ran past.
"Where'd they go?" one of the girls demanded.
"Uh, I think they ran into the woods!" shouted a girl's voice that sounded a bit off.
Fortunately, the other girls ran into the woods. Jaden looked at his twin in amazement. "You... wow..."
Jesse grinned sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck as he had thrown his voice. "I had to run from girls a few times. I sorta learned how to trick'em like that."
"That's awesome... I wonder how Atticus does it," Jaden said as they got up from their hiding place to get to Ra Yellow.
"Dunno. But... maybe we should ask him for some tips. Somethin' tells me this ain't gonna be the last time that happens, and... I can't keep faking girl to get us outta it."
Jaden grinned, a diabolical thought occurring to him. "You do really well at that, though... Jessica..."
Jesse put on an indignant expression. "Hey! That's not very nice... Jade..."
Jaden smirked, adopted a high voice and then he sashayed toward the Yellow dorm. "Well, I'm going to do a good job of being a girl..."
Jesse snickered, and then copied Jaden's movements. He even added in the hair flip. "Oh, I bet I can do better," he replied in the girly voice he'd used before.
"Hey, are there... oh, bugger!" Bastion yelped, as he'd walked outside hearing what he thought was a group of young women. He was instead shocked to see the J twins acting like girls.
"Bastion?" Aster asked, "Are there... Oh, my gosh!" His normal coolness evaporated at the sight.
"Hey guys, did they bring—" Syrus stopped mid-sentence, jaw dropping in shock.
"Whoa... is that...?" Atticus muttered, eyes wide.
Jaden and Jesse both fell over in the classic anime fashion. "Uh..." Jaden hadn't dropped his voice, and he coughed. "Uh... this isn't what it looks like!"
"Sure, it ain't, Sarge, and I'm wearing a hoopskirt," Tyson grinned.
"Aw, gosh darn it!! Why am I always caught at the worst times like this?!" Jesse groaned, face beet red from embarrassment.
Jim shook his head. "The hair I was expecting. But not the two of you acting like Sheilas..."
Chazz was doubled over with laughter. "Big bro... take lessons from Slacker!"
"CHAZZ!!!" Jaden yelled, running up the stairs to the Ra porch.
"AAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!" the other Slifer shrieked, running.
"Hmmm... Chazz just screamed like a girl," Adrian observed.
Atticus fell over laughing, unable to handle how hilarious the situation was. Syrus sweat-dropped. "Jaden!! Don't kill Chazz!! He's going to help you and Jesse when you guys cross-dress!" he called.
"He is?!" Jesse yelped in surprise.
Jaden stalled in his tracks, but couldn't stall fast enough. He crashed right into his quarry and they crashed into the wall. "Oh... Slacker... I'm gonna pound you," Chazz groaned in a daze.
"Huh?" Jaden wondered, also dazed. "You're gonna dress up?" he asked.
"Yeah..."
"So am I," Atticus stated when he finally calmed down and stood up.
"Wow... Atticus, I can understand with you. But Chazz? Really?" Jesse asked in shock.
Chazz shook out his head and then answered, "Yes, Anderson... I'm dressing like a freakin' girl..."
Jesse grinned. "Wow, that's really nice of you, Chazz."
"Yeah, yeah, sure..."
"But Chazz... it is nice," Jaden said, hugging him happily. The raven-haired Slifer sighed, giving up struggling out of the hug for once.
Jesse was up there at inhuman speed, joining the hug happily. "You really have changed a lot since we first met, Chazz."
Chazz sighed, and finally the J twins released. "So... what are we watching?" Jaden asked.
"The anime you'll be cosplaying from. Ouran High School Host Club," Atticus answered with a grin.
Jaden sighed. "Oh well, it's funny, especially when the girls kiss!"
"You mean you've seen it too, Jay?" Atty asked in surprise.
"Yeah... Alexis, Annie, Violet and Rosa watched it when we were all recovering back home... I watched with Lex for a bit."
"You never told me that, Jay. No wonder you knew who those twins were," Jesse said.
"Well, you have to watch what your fiancée watches... Otherwise, you won't know what she's talking about..."
"Really?"
Jaden looked at his twin in surprise. "You didn't know that?!"
"Uh… no...?"
"It's called sharing her interests and it's really important," Jaden stated matter-of-factly.
"He's right," Bastion agreed, sounding lightly stunned.
Jesse seemed to get a thoughtful look on his face. "But... Willow and I already share interests. That's how we got together."
"Well, does she have a show she loves to watch that you haven't seen before?"
"No..."
"Then that's a good thing. I wasn't crazy about OHSHC, but it was something Alexis liked. But... I found out I sorta liked it..."
"Sounds like Rosa and that one telenovela," Tyson muttered.
"Telenovela?" Syrus asked in obvious confusion.
"It's a Spanish language soap opera, Syrus," Bastion explained quickly. "The storyline goes in 13 week cycles."
"And you watched it with her, Tyson?" the shorter teen asked. He had to stifle a laugh at the thought of Tyson and Rosa sitting on the couch with a box of tissues between them, Tyson bawling his eyes out.
"Yeah, I watched it... It was kinda weird... It was all about supernatural stuff," the Texas Ra stated, grinning sheepishly.
"Really? Was it scary?" Atticus asked curiously.
"Nah... just weird... Ghosts, monsters... and not Duel Monsters..."
Syrus sweat-dropped, the picture he'd made in his head shattering. "I should've known Rosa wouldn't watch a normal sappy soap opera," he muttered.
"Well... it had sappy moments," Tyson groaned. "Can we watch the girly anime now?"
Atticus laughed. "I told you, it's not THAT girly! If you could stand to watch a soap opera in ANY language, then you can watch this!"
"Okay, but I'd better still have my man card after this," the Texas Ra groaned again. And then he smelled the delicious scent of caramel popcorn. "Is that... caramel corn?" he asked with a sudden angelic smile.
"There you boys are! I've been looking for you everywhere," Professor Sartyr stated as he walked over to them with two heaping bowls of the stuff. "And yes, Tyson, it's caramel corn."
"Thank you, sir!" Tyson grinned happily.
"Sorry, we had to run for our lives, Professor," Jaden apologized.
"It's quite all right, Ja-JADEN?!" The teacher blinked several times, looking from Jaden to Jesse and then back again in shock.
"Uh... we lost a bet?" Jaden tried. "Okay... we accidentally ate the girls' stash of chocolate and they wanted revenge…"
Don sweat-dropped. "Ah, that explains it..." If there was one thing the middle-aged man knew; it was to NEVER, EVER eat a woman's chocolate stash.
"We're lucky they didn't kill us, sir... and we're going to be seriously out of uniform on Tuesday," Jaden sighed again, quickly explaining the predicament. "We won't get in major trouble, will we?"
Professor Sartyr put on a sheepish grin. "I do believe you or the girls might have to speak with the chancellor and teachers about it first, Jaden..."
"Then..." Jaden asked, daring to look at Jesse with hope, "We might get out of this?"
Jesse's own eyes lit up with hope. "Maybe! Oh, that would be so great!"
"Knowing the girls, they're already asking," Bastion groaned softly.
"Good point," Syrus muttered, and both doomed boys fell over with a groan. And so the boys began watching the anime, wondering what the girls might be planning.
Yes… quite a long chapter! Next time, we continue the madness! So please join us next time! Thank you in advance for reading and reviewing!