Hello again. Are you ready to see your favourite characters be put under some terrible spells and cause chaos? Of course you are! thanks go to KagomeGirl021 for the spell book idea.


Chapter 23

Even though winter had turned into spring it was still too cold and wet to be outside more than a few minutes. For this reason the gang had decided to stay inside the castle. This was good for them since they would not come back soaking wet after being caught in the rain. It was bad for the rest of the school since Malik and Marik (Marik in particular) hated being cooped up in the same place for long periods of time. The school was made to suffer when the Ishtars went on a pranking spree. The spree only stopped when they put cameras in their friends' rooms. After their friends showed their displeasure about being secretly filmed the Ishtars were barely able to walk let alone plan any other mischief.

One fine (like hell it was) day in March Yugi and Ryou were exploring the library. They had both been curious as to what spells could be done without the use of a wand. For this reason they were in a part of the library that was rarely used. The shelves were crammed with ritual books that all looked interesting to Ryou. Yugi on the other hand was disturbed by the number of books that looked to be drenched in blood.

As Yugi browsed the titles of the books he noticed that there was the Millennium eye on one of the spines. He immediately removed it from the shelf and opened it at a random page. The excitement that had bubbled up within him dissipated when he saw that the text was foreign to him.

"What have you got there Yugi?" Ryou asked as he placed the book he had been looking at back on the shelf.

"There's a picture of the Millennium Eye on the cover," Yugi told him.

Like Yugi, Ryou was instantly interested. "What does it say?" he asked eagerly.

"I don't know Ryou," Yugi said, squinting at the text. "Bamas balenta irula margera amota amore sandula perfeta septem septus irat."

Yugi looked up to see Ryou wearing a vacant expression. Suddenly, Ryou sprang forward and took hold of Yugi's shoulders. "I love you," he said before pressing their lips together.

Naturally Yugi was stunned. He just stood there, his eyes wide, as Ryou kissed him. He continued to remain in that surprised stupor even after Ryou had pulled away. He would have remained that way for a lot longer if he hadn't heard their war cry.

It was as if a message had been send directly into every one of their brains. Every girl in the library dropped their books. As one they turned towards the source of the disturbance and became a rabid Yaoi fangirl. Together they let out their war cry – an excited scream of DOOM!

Hearing the cry Yugi once again became aware of his surroundings. He grabbed Ryou's hand and ran as fast as his little legs would carry him towards the common room. It was doubly hard for poor Yugi today since Ryou was more concerned with never losing sight of Yugi than of being mobbed by hormonal teenage girls. For this reason Yugi was almost dragging Ryou along behind him.

After much effort and a few close encounters the two boys reached the safety of the common room. All eyes turned towards the two sweaty; out of breath boys when they first dived through the portrait hole. "We got attacked by fangirls…again," Yugi explained to the expectant audience.

The others would have accepted this answer and returned to what they were doing before if it hadn't been for one thing. As they sat there on the floor regaining their breath Ryou leaned over and kissed Yugi. The action was greeted with all round shock. Bakura and Yami jumped to their feet while the others all stared openly at the spectacle.

Things might have been conducted in an orderly and civil way if Ryou had not once again done something unexpected. He whispered, "I love you," to Yugi before kissing him again.

Bakura had to be restrained by both Jou and Seto. "You fucking pipsqueak! When I get over there I'm going to murder you!" he shouted angrily.

Meanwhile Yami just stood there trying to process the information and judge an appropriate reaction. As much as he would have liked to do what Bakura was doing (threatening; throwing a tantrum) a part of him refused to lower his kingly standards. Plus, he couldn't go and bash about Bakura's boyfriend like the other wanted to bash up his; hitting Ryou would be like kicking an Andrex puppy – an unforgivable crime.

Having deciding this Yami did the only thing he could. He went over and tore Ryou away from his Yugi. Ryou whined and struggled to get back to Yugi but Yami wouldn't allow it. Then Ryou tried to bite him and Yami remembered the Andrex puppy metaphor he had used before and realized it was more appropriate than he had first thought.

Meanwhile, Seto and Jou were getting tired of having to constantly dodge Bakura's flying limbs. They were so tired in fact that they were contemplating just letting him go. But then they remembered that he was planning on tearing Yugi limb from limb and decided to hold on for another minute.

After awhile Marik came up with a way to stop both Bakura and Ryou struggling. He hit them over the head with one of Seto's computer manuals. He would have used Seto's briefcase but the death-glare he had been given had made him think twice about that particular plan.

Now that some form of order had been restored Yami asked the question on everybody's mind. "Yugi, what the hell is going on?"

"I don't know," Yugi admitted. "I read a verse from this spell book and then Ryou started to kiss me."

"What spell was it?"

"I don't know; it was in another language and I didn't even realize it was a spell when I read it."

"Have you got the book?" Seto asked.

Yugi looked down to see that the book was still tightly clenched in his hand. He flicked to the page he thought he had opened before handing it over to Seto. Seto looked at the writing on the page for a few seconds before saying, "It's Latin."

"Does that mean you can read it?" Jou asked hopefully.

Seto nodded. It took him a few minutes to read the whole spell since it had been a long time since he had last needed to translate anything like this. Eventually he declared, "It's a love spell."

"We'd already gathered that Seto," Yami said impatiently. "But how are we supposed to reverse it?"

"It doesn't say," Seto told them. "I'll look through the rest of the book to see if there's a reversal spell later on. I'll work much faster if I'm not disturbed." Everybody understood Seto's hint: shut up and stay well away.

"What shall we do with these two in the mean time?" Jou asked, gesturing to their unconscious comrades.

"I don't know; tie them to a chair," Seto said before leaving for the quiet of his room.

He never meant for his suggestion to be taken literally.


When Bakura came around later that day he found himself bound to a chair. "Whoever did this is going to pay dearly," he growled as he tried to escape the imprisoning bonds.

"Don't bother struggling Bakura; Marik tied you up and I'm sure he did a very good job."

Bakura turned to the side to see Yami. He was reading a book and hadn't even looked up from it when he had been speaking. Bakura growled at him. "Why did you tie me up?" he demanded.

"To stop you from trying to kill Yugi," Yami replied, still not looking up.

"He deserves to die!" Bakura shouted. Then, in a calmer voice he asked, "Where's Ryou?"

"Behind you."

Bakura twisted his head back as far as he could. Behind him he could see long strands of white which were too shiny to be his own.

"He's under a love spell that Yugi activated by accident. Seto's trying to find a way to reverse it."

"You mean he doesn't really love Yugi?"

Yami looked up for the first time when he heard Bakura's voice so full of quiet hope. "It's only the spell Bakura; when we reverse it you'll be his true love again."

Only when Yami started reading again did Bakura let out a sigh of relief and allow a thankful smile to grace his features.


Seto's eye twitched. "You know, it's really hard to concentrate with you leaning over my shoulder like that," he told Jou in the calmest voice he could manage. Jou pouted but stood back. When Seto got back to work Jou slowly leaned forward again. Seto grit his teeth when Jou was back in the same position he was in earlier. "Jou, what did I tell you?"

"You make it sound like you don't want your own boyfriend near you," Jou grumbled as he backed up.

Seto sighed in exasperation. "It isn't that. I just need space to work."

"You make it sound that way."

"I didn't mean to." They stayed silent for a moment before Seto put the spell book down and said, "I think I need a break."

Jou smiled seductively. "Can I help make this break enjoyable?"

"You certainly can," Seto said, smirking.

When the two were…occupied on the bed, Malik snuck into the room. He grabbed the discarded spell book and hurried to his own room where Marik was waiting. Once the door was closed they both poured over the book, identical looks of mischief on their faces.

"Did you see which page that love spell was on?" Malik asked.

"No, but we don't want that one anyway. Let's try out some of these other spells."

"What if they're dangerous though?"

"Not our problem!"

Malik rolled his eyes in exasperation. "You mean you'd willingly put your own friends' lives in danger?" Marik didn't answer and Malik shook his head. He then picked up a loose piece of paper that was wedged between two pages. The writing was incredibly neat (obviously Seto's) and it had an index of the spells contained within. Malik smirked. "Looks like Seto's done half the work for us," he said before showing the paper to Marik.

Marik also grinned when he saw the list of chaos they had to choose from. "Which ones shall we use?"

Together they looked at the list. "Let's not do anything to Seto since he's the only one who can actually work out how to reverse these."

"Agreed. Hey, let's use this one on Yami!"

Malik nodded in agreement. "You read it out."

Marik cleared his throat before starting. "Anos almar regard sterum sexterium amat ibas ibamus bilimus forat!"

Malik chuckled. "Now let's use this one on Jou." He took the book and began to recite. "Intergim eratimus legamun letigus ferim cabim karto invisibi specturam villalim rigitmus!"

Both Ishtars then turned to each other. "Let the fun begin."


Seto blinked. Where was Jou? A second ago he was underneath him but now he was gone. What had just happened? "Jou?" he whispered.

"What?"

Seto blinked again. Jou's voice was so clear it was as if he was right next to him. "Where are you?"

"Here; where else would I be?" Jou replied, sounding annoyed.

"I can't see you."

"Really? Well I can see you so stop playing with me Seto."

"I'm not playing with you; I really can't see you!"

"Really?"

"Yes!"

"Well why the hell not?"

Understanding dawned on Seto. "The spell book."

"But who would…Stupid question – it's Malik and Marik."

Seto nodded. "The Ishtars are going to wish they were never born."

"Again."


Bakura looked up when he heard Yami drop his book. He didn't know what he was expecting to see when he looked up but he definitely wasn't expecting to see what he saw. A four year old Yami standing on the sofa in mini leather.

Bakura's jaw dropped. "Holy shit!"

Mini Yami put his hand over his mouth in shock. He then jumped up and down, pointing at Bakura with his free hand. "Bad word; bad word; bad word; bad word!"

"Shut up!" Bakura shouted when he could take no more.

"You're mean!" mini Yami shouted before running out of the room.

When the noisy tot had gone Bakura heard a soft groaning behind him. "Ryou are you alright?" he asked when he felt the other's head rub against his own.

When Ryou had gained some of his senses the first thing he did was ask, "Where's Yugi?"

Bakura felt like an icy hand had grasped his heart. Even though he knew Ryou was under a spell it still hurt him to hear his love ask after someone else before him. This was all the fault of that damn spell book! When Bakura was free he was going to relish ripping out the book's pages and burning each and every one of them. After Seto had cured Ryou, of course.


Yugi had been figuring out a puzzle in his room when a little chibi ran up to him and threw its arms around his neck. To say that he was startled was an understatement. The chibi looked exactly like Yami! It was even wearing his leather! The only difference was that its voice was a lot higher than Yami's.

"Who are you?" Yugi asked when the chibi had finally stopped going on about someone called 'Mr Mean'.

The chibi puffed out its chest and said, "My name is Prince Yami and when I'm older I'm going to be the ruler of all of Egypt."

It was fair to say that Yugi nearly had a heart attack. His boyfriend had been turned into a four year old! How did this happen? As if life wasn't complicated enough with one of his friends thinking they were in love with him and their protective boyfriend after his blood, now he had a four year old for a boyfriend. What had he ever done to deserve this?

With a heavy sigh Yugi picked Yami up. "Come on then Yami; we need to go see someone who can hopefully figure all this out."

"But you look smart enough to figure anything out," Yami said innocently.

Yugi blushed at the compliment. "This is one thing that I need a bit of help with."

"I like you; you're my new best friend," Yami said as he snuggled closer to Yugi.

Yugi smiled down at the little chibi. Maybe things weren't as bad as they seemed.


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