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Yugi and Marinette got to the park first after checking in first at home. Marinette insisted on wearing a scarf and sunglasses to hide her identity, which made Yugi grown and Yami chuckle.
"Come on, Mari! The others are coming and not hiding their identities either!"
"But what if they think I'm a disappointment?!" Before Yugi could retort, she was interrupted by Alya, who was walking over and waving, shouting Marinette's name. So the disguise didn't work. Yugi thanked the stars above for that.
"Alya, what are you doing here?" Marinette asked, curious.
"I'm meeting some, uh, online friends!" She decided. "Yeah, this is where we decided to meet this time to talk about any possible, uh, collaborations we could do together. What about you?"
"We're waiting for some people Yugi met the other day." Marinette explained and Yugi facepalmed.
"I see, mind if I wait with you?"
"No problem-"
"Hey, Alya, Marinette, Yugi!" The three girls turned to see Adrien, Nino, and Ryou walking over. "What are you guys doing here?"
"I'm meeting with some people for a collaboration through the blogs and Marinette and Yugi are waiting for some friends they met the other day." Alya explained as the last person walked over.
"Oh, hi Chloe!" Yugi said cheerfully. "What are you doing here?"
"Just meeting some people." She said blandly, looking at her fingernails. She had stopped clinging to Adrien recently, which everyone appreciated.
"Ryou and I are meeting some model associates of mine and Nino's meeting other friends of his." Adrien said as they all stood there, together, completely unaware of what was going on. Yugi groaned and Ryou sighed as she walked over to the other.
"Will this ever end?" She asked the game queen.
"Hopefully soon." Yugi said. "I'm surprised Mou Hitori No Boku still finds it funny, it only gets more and more aggravating for me." Ryou sighed in understanding. There were several seconds that stretched to minutes as everyone obliviously waited for the people who were already there. It was three minutes later that Yugi snapped, freezing as the wind had begun to pick up.
"Can't we all just go to this Master Fu now?!" She asked loudly, earning everyone's attention. "I might be used to the cold and harsh winters of Japan, but that doesn't mean I can stand standing in the snow with a cold wind for a long time without moving!" Several seconds of silence answered Yugi, and Ryou, who was now Bakura, was howling in laughter at Yugi, who scowl-pouted at him.
"I thought you were going to meet friends you met yesterday." Adrien said, surprised that they knew of Master Fu.
"Well…" Marinette fiddled with her fingers. "We are. We were going to meet here and then head to Master Fu's to talk. In reality, I have no idea who they are… unless…" She stared at where she knew the other's miraculous would be. Chloe was wearing a Bee hair comb, Nino had a bracelet of some sort, Alya was fiddling with a necklace, and Adrien had a ring on his left hand.
They looked similar, she always knew that, but was it possible?! It appeared to be so, as Yugi nodded when Marinette sent her a glance. Bakura was too busy laughing up a storm as Marinette erupted into a red version of herself. Adrien blinked.
"Wait-" He held up his hand. "You mean to say that we've known everyone from the beginning?"
"Finally!" Yugi said. "I wasn't sure how sane I would be if I had to wait any longer!"
"What are you talking about?" Alya asked, tilting her head to the side. Adrien walked in a very Cat Noir like way and went down on one knee, smirk on his face as he grabbed Marinette's hand gently and pulled it up to his lips, kissing it.
"I finally found you, M'lady." Poor Marinette had had too much and fainted, almost landing in the snow if Adrien hadn't caught her before any part of her besides her feet could touch the ground, carrying her bridal style. He had an affectionate smile at the girl in his arms as Ryou, Yugi, and Alya squealed. "Let's go, no need to keep Master Fu waiting."
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Marinette woke up right before they reached Master Fu's house in Adrien's warm arms. Yugi was explaining everything to everyone who didn't know, and Ryou and Adrien inserting their own words when it was needed or asked of them.
Adrien smiled a dashing smile at Marinette when he noticed that she was awake.
"Good Afternoon, Princess." He said smoothly. Marinette turned red and almost fainted again as he continued. "We're almost there." He noticed how red she was and grew worried. "Are you alright? You can walk if you want to, or if you feel uncomfortable I can-"
"I-I'm fine." She managed to say, looking up into his soft, emerald green eyes. She looked away almost instantly and blushed another ten shades. "This is comfortable." He smiled, pleased as she hid her face in his chest, wishing she was still passed out.
"Here we are." Alya said, knocking on the door. The door opened a few moments later to show a man just about the same height at Yugi. He was in a red Hawaiian shirt and was clearly Chinese.
"Ah, hello." He said, smiling calmly. "I heard that you needed to discuss something with me about the Millennium Items that were brought up around the beginning of the school year?" Everyone nodded and he welcomed them in. "It's a pleasant surprise to meet the two of the four hikaris."
"The pleasure is ours, Master Fu." Ryou answered for Yugi as Yugi was having trouble with the winter clothes she had on. Adrien placed Marinette on the floor when she asked and both of them moved to help poor, little Yugi.
"If they wish, your spirits may come out as well. They are welcome in my home." He said when everyone finally walked into the main area. Pillows were set up in a circle around a smaller, just barely off the ground, table. The table had three candles in the center, but otherwise it was bare.
"That's a deadly mistake." Bakura appeared by Ryou with a dark chuckle, and shortly after Yami appeared. "Might just decide to rob this place."
"As if you'd succeed." Yami replied, more focused on Yugi than anyone else. "He knew of us before we could introduce ourselves. Surely if he were to welcome such a dirty, low-life thief to come in at any time he would be prepared should you decide to steal from him, baka." Bakura growled as Fu chuckled, sitting down on the floor with Adrien, Yugi, Ryou, and Marinette following. The others were staring at them in shock.
"Is something wrong?" Yugi asked.
"It's different hearing it than seeing it." Nino replied as Alya rubbed her eyes. Chloe scoffed, sitting down on the other side of Adrien even though she didn't act in any clingy way towards him.
"Let's get on with it. All I know about this meeting is that we're here to help those two-" She pointed at Yugi and Ryou. "And these spirits with a problem that is apparently very conflicting."
"It is." Tikki agreed, speaking for the first time as she appeared from behind Marinette. "I'm sure you have all heard of Yin and Yang, right?"
"Yeah, complete opposites that balance each other out and go hand in hand. Yin is supposed to be good and Yang is supposed to be bad, right?"
"The basic idea." Plagg agreed from Adrien's shoulder. "Me and Tikki are like that, but so are Yugi and Yami, and Ryou and Bakura. If one were to die or be permanently separated from the other, they would go insane or kill themselves with the pain that would be caused. Someone plans on doing just that."
"Ishizu Ishtar is the woman in charge of the new Aincient Egyptian exhibit that's coming to town." Yugi explained. "Generally, she is good. This is the first time I've seen her do something so reckless for whatever reason it may be. Though she has never strayed us the wrong way before, we know she is now."
"She wishes for me to get my memories of my past life back." Yami continued. "But with the way she has chosen, I have to Duel Yugi with a special duel after I regain my memories so that I can move on to the afterlife. If I do not participate in the Duel or if I were to win, I would loose not only the memories I gained, but perhaps even the ones of my time with Yugi- and potentially causing the Millennium Puzzle to shatter, preventing me and Yugi from ever meeting each other ever again."
"At the moment, staying 'indecisive' about the Duel is the best we can do." Ryou sighed, slouching forward and resting her head on her fist. "But Ishtar-san has given us a week to decide, and I fear what would happen if we were to say no to her without solid proof of why we said no- and us being in love with our darks wouldn't count."
"You know, if you'd listen to my ideas we probably wouldn't be in this mess." Bakura stated.
"All of your plans involve murder and torture. Of course we're not using it." Yami replied with a scowl.
"Was there anything else weird going on?" Fu asked.
"Actually, yes." Yugi supplied. "She has a little brother, Malik. He's supposed to be the third hikari, but Ishizu hasn't told him that and has only told him that there are three, not four, hikaris. I've never heard her lie so outright to Malik like that. It was so unnerving. And dangerous."
"Why is not knowing dangerous?" Nino asked. Yugi, Ryou, and Yami winced.
"Not knowing you're a hikari or yami is indeed dangerous." Bakura explained. "For three out of the four pairs, the dark is a spirit and the hikari is their connection to the real world. That includes Malik. His dark, however, is crazier than me and insane because of events best not mentioned now. We actually had to temporarily send him to the shadow realm on Ishizu's insistence, but that would only make it worse for his condition. A yami needs his hikari to stay sane. Because Malik doesn't know, he could very easily have Ishizu or his older brother, Odion, block the other out. If this continues, Marik would eventually die from insanity- separating the two of them permanently. Then a whole bunch of depression s*** would go down and Malik would end up either insane or suicidal." Everyone in the room shivered.
"Why can't we just tell him?" Chloe asked.
"As much as I would love to tell Malik that he's a hikari and invite him to mine and Ryou's hikari chat, I believe that Ishizu should be the one to do it. Or, at least, Odion. It's better the words of knowledge come from your family than complete strangers who can predict the future." Yugi sighed.
"From experience, it's also very painful when you have to learn something important from your friends and not your family." Ryou added. "I'd hate to see how Malik would react to learning that his sister basically lied to him about all of that." Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Now, let's focus on finding out Miss. Ishtar's reason for doing this." Fu said seriously, and they all began to converse with each other about possible solutions.
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He didn't blame them, nor did he hate them. They hadn't earned anything that would direct his anger on them.
But his sister, on the other hand… he did not approve of.
Malik looked down at his hand, were hieroglyphics were drawn onto there to help 'secure' his mind and prevent the evil spirit from hurting anyone else ever again.
But whenever Malik looked at one of those moments, he knew the other was only protecting him. Had Marik only gotten insane because Malik ignored him for a good portion of his life ever since they met? What was he like before that, then?
Malik rushed away to a clear patch of shoe and began scrubbing the writing off, feeling the presence in his mind return slowly. When it was all off, he was hugging and comforting the other spirit in his head, promising that this would never happen again.
To his delight, the other was only surprised in a happy way and was very much like a child when Malik promised to hang out with him later that night, when he got into bed.
Malik began to walk to where they were staying, a new point of view in mind as he thought of how he would get everything to go down.
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"Well, I've found something that you'll find interesting." Fu said, pulling out a book. "It talks about what was going on at the time- and let me tell you it was horrid." He sighed. "Just after the Miraculous were retired, the seven items were created in an effort for higher protection by murdering a whole village whose name is lost to time."
'Kul Elna.'
'What?'
'Nothing.'
"It's written that the items were later used to seal a demon and sacrificed three souls, and that during that time several other souls were sacrificed as well- three who were the closest to the three sacrificed, two whose story would last for ages, and the rest aren't mentioned in numbers, but it says that they were everyone's support and back up. All except for the three who were sacrificed were reincarnated in what appears to be today, with your Pharaoh and Thief being here." Master Fu nodded towards the two spirits. "But after that there is nothing more besides the story of the Priest and street girl."
"Please, tell us." Yami said. "What is this story?"
"During the fight against the demon, there was a Priest who saved a street girl from being stoned to death by the local townsfolk. She possessed a rare and powerful ability that only came out in dire situations. It's stated that even though she was technically sacrificed, the gods decided that she would be reborn in a different form after the Priest begged to be with her in the mortal life, and when his time came he was reborn as well. They are the fourth yami-hikari pair, supposedly." Master Fu placed the book in front of Yugi and Ryou.
"Fu?"
"You can look through this to your heart's desire to see if you found anything that I've missed."
"Alright. Thank you so much!"
"Your welcome! You guys can all socialize here while I talk to your Kwamis- is that okay?"
"Sure!" Marinette said, while the others shrugged.
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