"C'mon Mariku, Bakura is going to be there." Marik whines as she looks over to her stubborn yami. The girl is dressed in a purple long sleeved shirt with a purple tank top over it, and a denim skirt that reached around mid-thigh.
Mariku didn't budge, but instead pulled his hikari towards him so that she was now sitting on his lap. "But hikari, there are so many other things that we can do here." Mariku purrs as he runs his fingers against the girl's thighs.
"Nope," Marik says as she hits the male's hand away and quickly moves out of her yami's grip. "You only get this if you go shopping with us." Marik teases, shaking her hip for emphasis. Mariku glares at his hikari for a moment before he nods and makes his way to the door.
At the mall
"Yay, you guys got the yamis to come. That's good, they need new clothes too." Mai exclaims as Yami stares in disbelief.
"I thought we were friends!" The male exclaims as Yugi giggles.
"C'mon guys, we should get going. Does everyone have enough money?" Anzu asks looking around the group. The girls nod and grab the hands of the guy nearest to them and drag them towards the mall.
"Guys first," Ryou says as she drags Bakura into the first store, Marik, Mariku, Yugi, Yami, Mai, and well everyone else. Mai takes one look around the store and gives a low whistle.
"Ryou, this is a nice store." She says, only to notice that everyone had already dispersed and were already looking at different pieces of clothing.
Mai sighs as she goes to a section that holds nice button-up shirts, she then smirks when she finds a shirt for Bakura and Yami. After looking around a bit more she finds some black slacks that seem to go quite well with the outfits.
The girl starts looking for the others, and once she does she finds each girl with only a few garments, and that's when she realizes that both Yami and Bakura are probably more so the punk type, and that it would be hard to shop for them at a more main stream store.
"Here, go try everything on while I help the others. Okay" Mai instructs as she basically shoves the two guys into separate changing rooms. There is a grunt as an answer as the two boys change.
As Mai continues to look around, she finds that neither Miho nor Joey is doing much. She walks up to them and offers each of them a small smile. "You guys want to do anything. I mean, you guys can go help your friends. I'm pretty sure Anzu needs help shopping for both Honda and Duke."
Joey gives her a small smirk before walking off in the other direction, and within a moment Mai frowns. It's hard, now that Joey is a girl…would she be willing to go down that path just to make it work? She had never been sure of her preference until she had met Joey, now though; she is just as confused as before, because no matter what she might say, she would always have a small crush on Joey.
Mai continues to stare at Miho as the girl looks around the room her eyes shining with a hidden feeling. Mai however, being as perceptive as she is, was easily able define the emotion.
"Which one did you like?" She asks softly looking over the group of the four boys who were now obviously girls, and smirking when she saw Ryou's pink face over Bakura's outfit. His outfit consists of the black pants and a black the black button-up, the sleeves only reaching his elbow, and the top button being left undone. She then notices the smirk on his face as he looks down at Ryou, obviously noticing the scarlet that has overcome the girl's face.
"Ryou." The answer was replied rather softy, however, Mai had heard it, and quite frankly, she nearly choked.
"Ryou, really?" Mai asks, looking back at Miho. Sure Ryou wasn't ugly, and he was polite, but he was just so effeminate.
"Well yeah." Miho replies, and Mai looks back to the girl, also taking notice to the fact that unlike the other girls who were wearing skirts, she was wearing pants. Miho lets out a small sigh as she turns her head in the other direction, "he and Miho were supposed to get married," the girl finally continues. Mai's eye twitches, she wasn't a big fan of people who spoke in third person, and even less of a fan of people who made presumptions that they were going to marry someone. Poor Miho, she was almost as helpful as a wandering fangirl. To Mai, it was quite obvious that Ryou probably would have ended up with either Bakura, Marik, or Mariku, or all three of them, based on how things were going, but, what could she say, Ryou might have been leading her on at the beginning.
"I'm sorry to hear that hun', I had my eyes set on one too. But, I don't know, she seems to have her eyes on…well no one at this point in time." Mai admits, but simply shrugs. "Oh well, there are other guys out there, and maybe you and Ryou could become friends. You should go try helping her, maybe you guys could try something. I mean Ryou's made it obvious she's bi, if you try, who knows, maybe you'll get lucky." Mai informs Miho before pushing the girl forwards until she runs into Ryou.
"Oh sorry," Ryou immediately says, even though it is quite obvious that she had nothing to do with what happened. Miho looks up at the other girl, and for a moment her mind reverts back to when she and Ryou first met and her cheeks heat up.
"Uh, sorry." Miho finally says before looking back into the girl's emerald eyes. She had fallen in love with those eyes once before, and her eyes had to shoot downcast before that could happen again.
"It's okay," Ryou says, but she stops speaking and turns a deep shade of red when she feels two arms wrap around her and pull her into a tight hug.
"Ry-Ry, you're way too nice!" Marik says hugging her best friend close to her chest.
"Hey Marik, is Mariku trying on clothes to?" Ryou asks. "You fucking pervert, get your hand out of my dressing room, agh, that's my leg. YOU BASTARD!" Bakura basically yells as everyone else chuckles softly.
"Yes." Marik finally answers, pulling Ryou closer and nuzzling her nose into the white-haired girl's neck. Ryou blushes as Yami finally exits his changing room, his face paler than normal.
Yami is dressed in a red version of Bakura's shirt and the same type of black pants that Mai had chosen for them. Yugi, who a moment ago was watching her friends is now blushing at Yami too.
"You little slut, I know you think he looks good in that." Marik teases as he whispers in the girl's ear. Ryou however simply removes her friend's hand from where it was resting right by her crotch.
"Oh…" Marik says softly, realizing that Ryou had not been paying attention to Yami in the least. "Sorry Ry-Ry." Marik says, placing a small peck on the girl's cheek, both of them blushing the moment afterward.
Miho looks at the two and sighs, she'll never have the chance to become closer to Ryou, especially with the other people, and that other him who had once trapped them in a board game (TTRPG but it's Miho), it hurt, actually it stung. Wasn't he supposed to be a teenage crush? Why was she still attracted to her, especially now that she is a her?
"Mariku, remove your hands from my dressing chambers immediately," Yami demands in the most regal way that he can. Mariku snickers as all three hikari's face turn red, well; Ryou's and Marik's faces are now a very deep red from all the blushing that the two have done.
"Don't I look sexy," Mariku says, stepping out at the same time as Bakura who is dressed in his normal clothes. Mariku is dressed in a purple polo with a gray jacket, his pants remaining the same as the other two.
"No," Bakura deadpans. Mariku pouts for a moment before turning to Ryou. "Ryou, you think that I'm sexy right?" Mariku whines, turning his attention to the white-haired teen. Ryou flushes even more, if that is possible and tries to turn away. "Ha ha, no one can resist my sexiness!" Mariku explains.
To the next store…
"Why are we here anyways?" Joey asks, taking a look around and noticing all the dark colors and clothing that seem to be lining the walls.
"C'mon 'Kura, I say this outfit that you would look amazing in." Ryou says dragging Bakura off in a random direction. Yugi and Yami then turn and go off into a different direction, leaving those who are non-punk rocker types to stand in the middle of the store dazed. However, this is also the perfect time for getting answers.
"So, Marik, you don't think that out of the three of them you would choose Ryou, because from what I've seen, it seems like you and Ryou have a lot of chemistry." Joey teases, and laughs when she sees Marik's pink face.
"Hikari, you're going to leave me!" Mariku whines, and there is that awkward silence. The two had only decided to make their relationship official a couple of days ago, and they hadn't really broadcasted it. Hopefully, they can just make it seem as though it was a joke. However, one look in Mariku's direction, and he can see the carefully hidden disappointment in his eyes. They had spoken about this, they both knew each other's feelings for certain people, and they said that they would work through it, but was that really fair?
"No," was Marik's simple answer as she grabbed her yami's hand. "C'mon let's help Bakura." Marik says as she drags her yami off in the direction that the two whitenettes had earlier traveled off in.
"That was strange." Anzu says, but then waves at her friends. "Since none of you guys are the type to wear this type of clothing, imma go help Yugi and Yami." She explains, turning and making her way off in the direction that those two had left in, leaving the others.
"Ryou doesn't love Miho…" Miho says dejectedly to Mai. Mai wraps her arms around the girl in a comforting hug as she rubs in her back in a soothing way.
"I'm sorry hun', but I think there are other people on her mind. But there are other people out there for you." Mai says, trying to cheer the purple-haired girl up, only to realize that she herself is also being cheered up.
"Miho, if you want, we can go and get a milkshake or something." Honda asks, only to be cut off by Duke.
"Woah, if Ryou…well now that she's a she, doesn't want the cute girl, then I am more than willing to help her." Duke intrudes, linking his arms with Miho. "Let's go!" He says, dragging the now giggling the girl out of the door.
"Hey!" Honda hollers as he moves to take off after the girl and that stupid raven teen who stole his girlfriend.
"Wow, for once they aren't fighting over Serenity, that's a new one." Joey says, smirking over at Mai, and then realizing that the two are alone. "Well, this is awkward…" Joey says softly, but Mai shakes her head no.
"C'mon Joey, I think that we should go spy on the blooming love." Mai says, a devious glint in her eyes, Joey smiles and they two go to stalk the others who are currently shopping.
Author's Notes:
Girls are next chapter. Sorry for the lateness and shortness, I have been busy all day. Anyways, hope you enjoy.
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BTW: Sorry it is late