Shandy: *faints*
Candy: OMGOSH you guys are so much more eager to review! I wonder if it's because this is a cross over or if it's because we're branching out into a new and more active fandom...
Shandy: *still passed out on the floor*
Candy: Whatever it is- PLEASE KEEP IT UP! And reviews!
GGMJ: I'm so happy you have an account now! If I could I would give you a celebratory high-five, but the last time I tried doing that to someone I almost broke the screen... hahaha...
whitlaw123: Nice to see you on here along with Dark Yugi, or GGMJ!
KawaiiFanficLover: Yes they are. And I wouldn't do that to poor, sweet Nathaniel. I sympathise with him very much. He's like a little angel... (Everyone: But you have written all sorts of horrible things to sweet Yugi, Ryou, Marinette, Adrien- Me: Shhhhhhhhhhhhh!)
foxchick: Well, I suggest you get ready for an amewsing reveal! (Haha, see what I did there? I can pun after all! *pumps fist in air*
Candy: ON TO THE REVEAL- I MEAN STORY HEHE NO SPOILERS HERE oh wait you're already reading it... never mind.
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"Yugi... can I talk to you for a moment?" Marinette asked. Yugi looked up from her homework on the table and smiled. It had been a good two weeks since Yami had sent Vincent to the hospital, and business had gotten better as the days passed.
"Of course you can, Mari!" She chirped.
"In one of our bedrooms." Yugi's face suddenly became a little more serious before she nodded, gathering her things and walking with Marinette up a flight of stairs to her bedroom. This would be her third time in the room since she came here, not including the tour. Marinette closed the trap door behind her.
"So, what did you want to talk about?" Yugi sat down in one of the three chairs in Marinette's room, Marinette sitting at her computer desk. This was hard for Marinette- Tikki had explained to her and Master Fu what she saw and said that a confrontation would be the best way to gather information, though Marinette didn't really like how they had decided to do it.
"You've known, for a while now, haven't you?" Marinette asked softly, and Yugi blinked. "That I'm Ladybug." Relief seemed to flood through Yugi and she giggled, relaxing.
"First Akuma attack was all I needed to see." She admitted, slightly embarrassed.
"And you know who the others are as well?"
"Hai." Yugi brightened up before repeating what she had said before with a nod of her head. "Yes.
"Good- please do not tell me." She almost pleaded.
"...alright." Yugi said after a moment. "I won't tell you or anyone else who you guys are- promise." Marinette smiled in relief.
"Thank you." Then she gasped. "Oh, I completely forgot to introduce Tikki!"
"Who?" Yugi asked as the Kwami hesitantly flew over to her (you couldn't really blame her, she was still spooked about seeing Yami).
"Nice to meet you Yugi- I'm Tikki, Marinette's Kwami."
"Kwami?" Yugi asked. She could feel Yami's intense attention on the creature, but she would ask him about it after they finished talking with Marinette.
"She allows me to become Ladybug- though Tikki likes to say it as she's my disguise." Marinette explained, grabbing a cookie she had from a plate on her desk and giving it to Tikki in the hopes of having her Kwami relax. "But that can only happen as long as I wear my earrings."
'Like how the puzzle keeps us together.' Yugi recognized, her hand absently tracing the outline of it. "So that's why Hawk Moth wants them?"
"Not really." Tikki replied after swallowing her bite of cookie. "He wants ultimate power and the ability to have to power of creation and destruction in the palm of his hand- which he can only get if he gets both the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous."
"And that's A-, I mean, Cat Noir's ring, right?" Yugi asked, very well aware that it wasn't the only way, and that the way she had thought was the only way before was also not the only way. Gather all seven Millennium Items, and you would have untold power. Gather the Miraculouses of Creation and Destruction, and you would have untold power.
"Yes." Tikki finished her cookie and flew in a few circles before stopping next to Marinette. "But that's not the only thing we want to talk to you about. Usually, a Kwami's magic protects others from recognizing the person behind the mask as a defense mechanism, so long as the Miraculous' owner wishes to remain anonymous. If Marinette told someone she was Ladybug herself, and not other people telling her, then and only then could they be able to see the similarities. You, however, admitted to figuring it out on your own when Illusionist attacked, along with Cat Noir, Volpina, and Queen Bee's miraculousess." Yugi paled, Yami at the ready to switch places wether Yugi liked it or not.
"We were simply wondering if you would like to tell us how you were able to do that so that we could prevent it in the future." Marinette continued for Tikki.
"Well, I guess you can't really prevent it from happening in the end." Yugi muttered and sighed, muttering something even softer on about 'you were right'. Marinette and Tikki shared a look as Yugi combed one of her hands through her hair.
"This is gonna be so much harder to explain that from your secret." Yugi finally spoke to the two of them after having what appeared to be an extremely mental war with herself. "Especially when it's hard to give proof, now that I'm no longer in Japan and the exhibit is all the way over there..." Now she seemed to be going back into her mental war about it.
"Exhibit?" Marinette found herself questioning, her thoughts traveling back to the Pharaoh-Akuma-guy who had wanted to sacrifice Alya to bring a wife that wasn't even his own back from the dead.
"Yeah- ancient Egyptian exhibit with the history of the Millennium Items on it, though that info is very low in it's own way..."
"Why don't you just bring him out?" Tikki asked. "Then you two could explain everything together." Yugi's eyes widened as she paled. A small flash from the Puzzle and Yugi was suddenly not-Yugi, her eyes narrowed and suspicious.
"How did you learn of me?" She asked in such a serious and dangerous voice that it sent shivers up Marinette's spine. Tikki slowly flew to hide partially behind Marinette.
"I might've been following my nose when you sent Marinette up to deal with Vincent and found Yugi's sweet stash and was hiding there when you came back up." She admitted just loud enough for Yami to hear, but just as the spirit opened Yugi's mouth to say something, he froze, as though listening to his conscience. Then he sighed, closed Yugi's eyes, and when they were open again Yugi's amethyst eyes shone through.
"Sorry about that." She said nervously. "He has a temper of sorts."
"That's okay." Marinette said while a sweat drop seemed to form on her head. Though Tikki had explained it to her, she was still as confused as ever.
"You know that because Marinette's the Ladybug Miraculous holder, she can see him if he wishes to show himself." Tikki added, coming out a little from behind Marinette.
"Well, I guess that does make sense..." Yugi admitted, and she looked away, probably asking the other a question. Then with a small flash, Yami stood to the right of Yugi with his arms folded, his face unreadable. Marinette gasped softly.
"Marinette, this is Yami, the spirit of the Millennium Puzzle who is also known as the Nameless Pharaoh." Yugi stepped to the side, presenting the spirit with pride.
"It's nice to meet you, Yami." Marinette spoke after a moment.
"The pleasure is mine." He replied swiftly.
"So... Nameless Pharaoh?" Marinette asked, almost in awe. Yugi giggled.
"Yup! Three thousand or so years ago he sacrificed himself to save the world from a demon named Zork who wanted to destroy the world. His soul was infused into the Millennium Puzzle when he sacrificed himself, not only breaking the Puzzle in the process, but also sacrificing any and all of his memories." Yami was simply gazing out the window. It happened whenever his memories were brought up, because whenever they told someone about it, some form of memory would rise up and simply disappear before he could realize that it was even there.
"Wow... that's really brave of you." Tikki commented, flying over to Yami, who looked at her with a small mixture of confusion and curiousness breaking through his neutral mask. "The Miraculous were originally made in China, though my fellow Kwamis and I have traveled all over the world. Any time a holder was chosen it was because they needed to save the world- it really isn't easy." Yugi laughed a bit and a wry smile made it's way onto Yami's lips.
"He's not the only one." Yugi said as Yami shifted so that he was now sitting in an invisible chair the same size as Yugi's, his legs crossed at the knee, though his arms remained folded. "Ever since I've solved the puzzle it's been one adventure after another, saving the world with our friends."
"So, there are others who are in the same position as you?" Marinette asked.
"Yup! There's Ryou Bakura with the Millennium Ring, which hosts the spirit of Bakura, who was a tomb robber and the thief king during Yami's short rule-" Yami was growling at the mere mention of the sadistic Albino spirit, and Yugi rolled her eyes. "And then there's Malik Ishtar with the Millennium Rod, which hosts a crazed an insane spirit that claims to not have a name, so we call him Marik." Tikki didn't seemed phased by Yami's anger, and neither did Marinette. That part was probably self explanatory. Pharaoh's were considered kings, kings hated thieves, and their hatred towards each other was probably one of the few things Yami had from his life in Egypt.
"So, who do you save the world from?" Marinette asked, and Yugi tilted her head side to side, contemplating how to best answer the question, when Yami answered for her, surprising Marinette.
"There is a legend that speaks of untold power being granted to those who possess all Seven Millennium Items, the other items being the Scales, Taunk, Eye, and Key. Our first opponent wished to bring his deceased wife back from the grave. The second thought that he would be better than Yugi at being the link to the world of the living for me, and really only Wanted the Puzzle. The third guy wished to end all worlds for the sake of creating a new one." Yugi raised her eye brows and stared at Yami in shock. He looked at her curiously.
"Mou Hitori No Boku, that might be the first time I have ever heard you speak so many words to someone you haven't even warmed up to yet." He shrugged, flashing Yugi a smirk.
"I guess it is easier when you are conversing with those who have gone through similar things, though it may be in different ways."
"Another thing I've been meaning to ask... what did you guys do to Vincent?" Marinette asked. Yugi bit her lip as Yami chuckled darkly, smirking devilishly.
"We simply played a game with him." Yami replied vaguely, but Yugi rolled her eyes, hitting Yami on the back of his head. "Ow! Aibou!"
"You were asking for it." Yugi replied as Yami rubbed the spot she had hit. "You see, any who hold a Millennium Item have access to a magic called Shadow Magic. He used this magic to judge Vincent's character and then punish him accordingly. This time he was punished with an illusion of beauty, which basically makes anyone who he would find attractive without the curse suddenly less beautiful. The curse can be lifted, but only if Vincent has a good change in his heart and commits to no longer be the way he used to be."
"Could you do that to Chloe? Or Lila?" Marinette asked, and Tikki gave her a disapproving look.
"I would love to do it-"
"Yami, that's a bad Idea!" Yugi exclaimed. "I forbid you from playing a game with Chloe or Lila."
"Yugi-"
"No buts." Yami pouted slightly.
"That doesn't mean that he can't mess with her." Marinette pointed out, and Yami was about to agree when he remembered something that Tikki had said. About how because Marinette was a miraculous holder, she could see him. If that was true with all of them…
"To my great displeasure, I cannot mess with her." He sighed. "She would be able to see me even if I had all of my guards up."
"Dang." Yugi giggled.
"To be honest, it's nice not having to keep Yami a secret from you. Much more relieving." She said. "Do you feel the same?"
"Yeah." Marinette admitted with a sigh. "Dang, I had no idea that a secret could put on such stress."
"Mmn, this makes me want to introduce Yami to the others." Yugi admitted. "I think most of your friends would be able to see him- right, Yami?" Yami nodded in agreement.
"Definitely not that Lila girl, however." Yami said. "And because she never seems to be able to leave our friends alone it'll be harder to do it… unless…"
"Yami, you wouldn't!" Yugi gasped in shock.
"For something like this, I wouldn't mind asking him for help." Her boyfriend admitted. "Besides, Ryou has a tight hold on him. Last I checked, he doesn't want to leave her either, so helping us in our search would actually benefit him- the only downside would be him himself. Besides, we shouldn't do it right away, that would be too suspicious. Let them believe what they wish and explain when the time comes." Yugi pursed her lips.
"And just how would you pull this off?"
"… What are you talking about?" Marinette was almost scared to ask. Yugi sighed as Yami chuckled.
"Marinette, you should prepare to meet the spirit of the Millennium Ring, the sadistic king of thieves, Bakura."
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