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"Dang, Mari, how are you so good at these things?" Adrien asked as they sat in front of the tv, playing a two player game. She giggled.
"I don't know."
"Well, your lucky charm has done wonders, though." He admitted with a blush, fingering it in his pocket.
"R-Really?" Marinette blushed lightly. "Well, you're welcome!" She cheered, beaming up at him. Adrien smiled back, already familiar with the words 'so cute' 'kawaii' or 'super cute' when it came to anything Marinette.
"Hey, Marinette…" Adrien paused as he thought. "What do you… think of Ryou and Yugi's situation?" Marinette tilted her head, and he continued. "With the whole in love with spirit thing?"
"Well, I don't know about you, but it's clear as day that they do love each other, for me, anyway. With the way that Yami and Yugi act when they're together, they know the other so well that they probably share everything with each other. I'd be surprised if their relationship didn't start when they first met! But with Ryou and Bakura…" Marinette hesitated. "They look like a more realistic version of how couples are. Their all so sweet… some in their own twisted way. Why do you ask?"
"Well, Bakura and Ryou told me that they're each other's other halfs, like yin and yang." He sighed. "But with the way they were speaking when Ryou- or should I say Bakura- ran off after threatening the other guys life, it sounded like someone who knew their love to each other that wanted to take Yami and Bakura away, for whatever reason. And if their love for each other is that strong, then how do we help them keep it that way?" Marinette nodded in agreement, humming in thought.
"I don't know. Whatever you decide is probably better than what we have- we don't even have a real game plan." The two jumped at the spirit's voice, turning to see Yami floating in a casual, yet attentive way.
"Curses, Yami, you scared us!" Marinette said, placing a hand on her beating heart.
"My apologies. Yugi has told me that I need to work on announcing when I enter a room." A fond smile crossed his lips.
"So do you guys really don't know what to do next?" Adrien asked, and Yami nodded.
"We were planning on doing research here on our own and find out that way from what we already know, but Ishizu Ishtar and her tablets depicting small fragments of mine and Bakura's past are coming to be on tour here for Ra knows how long. With her history, she'll intimidate any other sources we could use to keep their mouths shut."
"And she wants you two to separate?" Marinette asked. Yami nodded. "That's horrible!"
"Ishizu always has a reason for everything." Yami continued. "Every move she has made is for some sort of gain. Mostly beneficial to her or her brother, but I don't see what she could gain from separating Aibou from me and Ryou from the thief."
"I see… so she's like my father." Adrien concluded, a hand to his chin in thought. "I haven't exactly found a way to persuade my father into doing anything than what he has planned, besides going to school, but that was probably a rare stroke of luck." He sighed.
"Ah…"
"So you decided to talk to them without your precious mini Pharaoh? I'm intrigued." Bakura appeared a moment later just lounging on air, mischievous smirk planted on his lips as Yami growled, his face hardening.
"Yugi is having a private moment with Ryou and I figured that talking to Marinette and Adrien would help all of us find a better solution to this whole mess. I don't see you doing anything to help, Baka." Yami replied. Bakura opened his mouth to retort, but Marinette had already stood up and held her hands out.
"Please, don't fight!" She begged. "We'll never find a solution if you two fight!"
"Tch."
"Marinette's right, Bakura." Adrien placed a hand on her shoulder.
"I'm not on about that." Bakura replied. "I just can't help but notice that the two people in this room that are smarter than the Pharaoh can't figure out something so obvious about each other." He chuckled darkly, sending shivers up Marinette's spine. Yami glared at him harshly for the comment. "No matter, it's even more boring in here now. I'm gonna go see if Ryou's doing anything fun, or maybe I'll torment some people out on the street." He 'stood up' and walked out of the room, phasing through the door.
"I never will want to understand him and his strange, savage ways." Yami said dryly.
"What did he mean by something obvious about each other?" Adrien asked, curious. Yami froze, his eyes wide.
"Uhh… well…" He cleared his throat. "Yugi said that she would stop doing something with me if I told you two. I'm gonna go see how Yugi and Ryou are doing." And then the other spirit left. Adrien pouted at the space that Yami had vacated and Marinette groaned, flopping down on the chair behind her.
"Like that was insightful." She grumbled.
"I agree. I might be even more confused now than I was." Adrien replied, sitting down in his chair as well. "When do you think the others will start suspecting them?"
"Alya already wants to get down to the truth. She's been everywhere researching the Millenium Puzzle, and the ring if she knew of it's existence. Yami and Yugi were thinking of telling most of our friends besides Chloe about them with Ryou and Bakura, but they want to wait for the right moment." She sighed. "But I saw several occasions where they could've done it and gotten it over with. It makes me wonder what they're waiting for."
"It's all about strategy." Adrien muttered before speaking a little louder. "I mean, she and Yami are the the queen/king of games, they might want to be in a specific type of circumstance to reveal their secrets."
"Yeah… wanna continue playing?" Adrien smiled at her playfully and Marinette turned to mush, though she couldn't help but feel like she had seen that smile many, many, MANY times before.
"Sure!"
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Yugi and Ryou were on edge all the time when school came back around after the holidays. They had decided that they would tell Alya and Nino (who was the new superhero who had appeared just over a month ago named Jade Turtle) when Adrien and Marinette found out about each other. Unfortunately, the arrival of Ishizu and the question of when she would show up at the places they lived were postponing their progress on getting the two of them to confess.
Tikki and Plagg had also talked to the two girls, their chosen, and the other Kwamis about going to see Master Fu in their civilian forms to see if Fu had found anything that could help them. The two Kwamis had also decided that everyone trusted each other blindly enough to not be having any doubts when their identities were revealed- especially Chloe, since she had been getting better recently.
Marinette was against the idea at first, but Adrien was all for it. They had all talked about it the night before, during patrol, and decided to meet in the park by a specific bench.
Yugi and Ryou froze when a student walked in. Their teacher glanced at him.
"Yes?"
"Uh, Yugi Motou and Ryou Bakura have a guardian visitor that requests to see them immediately." He explained. The two girls shot each other a look. "A Miss Ishtar waiting by the front of the school."
"We're going." Yugi sighed as the two of them stood up, walking out of the classroom like they were being walked to heir death.
While their darks comforted the two girls in their mind, Yugi and Ryou stood awfully close to each other. One of Yugi's hands was holding on tightly to the chain around her neck, and Ryou was heavily tempted to pull out the ring. She settled for folding her arms across her chest, almost hugging the area where the ring lay on her chest. They stopped when they finished approaching the front of the school, an Egyptian woman with long black hair and blue eyes was staring at them expectedly, and a platinum blonde Egyptian with lavender eyes was leaning against the wall and looking very disinterested.
"I wish to speak to the Pharaoh." Ishizu spoke. Yugi bit her lip.
'Yami?'
'I have no intent on talking to she who wishes to separate us, Aibou.'
"He doesn't want to talk to you at the moment." She replied. Ryou side-stepped behind Yugi a little, the aura that Ishizu was giving off wasn't a good one.
"Why not? Does he not want to learn of his memories?" She asked. Yami growled in Yugi's mind.
"Of course he does, it's just…" Yugi paused, trying to find the best way to say this. "He doesn't want to learn of them right away!"
"Both of your actions during Battle City prove that claim false. I know when your lying, Yugi." Ishizu replied. Her younger brother, Malik, seemed to be interested.
"Why wouldn't he want to find out who he was in the past?" Yugi swallowed, unsure of what to say now.
"I-Ishtar-san." Ryou spoke hesitantly. "If I may ask, you have told us before that we were hikaris- the light halves to the spirits that inhabit our Millennium Items, correct?" Malik was shocked as his older sister nodded. "And the Ceremonial Duel would split us up either way, correct?" She nodded again. "Then what I ask is why you want to separate two souls that were meant to be together from the beginning? What is the point of us wanting to become only half of one again?"
"That is not up to me." Ishizu said calmly. "It is up to destiny and fate, do not ask me things in which I do not know of."
"Sister, aren't there supposed to be three hikaris?" Malik asked. "That's what it said in the legend. Where is the third?"
"I do not know." Ishizu replied instantly, turning to glance at her brother before looking back at the two girls. "I'll give you a week before I come to talk to you again- if you wish to speak to me, I'll be at the museum. Come, Malik." They left before Yugi or Ryou could blink.
"Wait, so Malik doesn't know that he's a hikari?!" Ryou asked in a whisper.
"And shouldn't there be four hikaris? You know, one for Yami, one for Bakura, one for Marik, and one for the high priest, in other words, Seto?" Yugi asked in turn after nodding to Ryou's question. Ryou nodded in response to Yugi's as the two just stood there.
"Come, Yugi, let's go back to class. The others are taking us to Master Fu after school today." Ryou grabbed the other's hand while Yugi nodded numbly, allowing herself to be lead to class.
Something wasn't right about any of this. And she wanted to find out why.
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