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[EDIT: I had to finish up super fast last night, so I submitted it but I had forgotten to re-fix some stuff (cuz I had one of my save-erase-fails). But I fixed it all up and stuff so yay!]
OMG thank you all for your reviwes and favorites and follows. They make me so happy and it makes me feel all that warm and fuzzy crap. I like it. Thanks. It makes me feel so acompliced as a (fanfic) writer. Keep it up! Everything helps. Even the one-liners.
Speaking of which, I shall now start answering/responding to reivews in the OpeningAN's if I feel it neccesary. Such as this one:
Shadowclanwarrior: NO! YOU CANNOT BE HER! DIDN'T YOU READ THE ENDINGAN? *cries dramatically at your unboservantness* And sorry, I don't think the 3 Bakuras will be in the same scene together again. Ahehehe...
*Laughs nervously*
*looks around*
Riiight...
In the previous chapter, Yami Bakura tried a three-person method to break the Fourth Wall. In this chapter, he tries another method to break it.
Anyway!
As I said before, this chapter happens as if he never did the previous chapter. Also, each chapter works a bit differently in terms of knowledge and feelings. Like one chapter, Bakura will hate someone, and the next he may not hate him/her anymore.
I have some news for all of you: I had a dream last night. I dreamt that the Fourth Wall broke and Yami Bakura stepped out and became my boyfriend. Then he stabbed me, told me he was breaking up with me, and threw the capital letters "F" and "W" at me. Somehow, I realiuzed that the Fourth Wall was mad at me and wants me to capitalize its name in compsensation for the torture I am putting it through in this fanfic. So I shall.
Now back to the important stuff.
The genre of this chapter is: horror
WARNING: MAY CONTAIN STAMPEDING FANGIRLS, SHIRTLESS CHARACTERS, MAKING OUT, SPIKED DIP, AND OTHER FANGIRL HEALTH HAZARDS. FANGIRLS BE CAREFUL AND NON-FANGIRLS PROCEED WITH CAUTION. ALSO CONTAINS VIOLENCE, CURSING, ANNOYED VILLAINS, FAKED/ASSUMES/IMPLIED SHIPPINGS, AND THE OCCASIONAL HATE ON LITTLE KURIBOH (not my fault it's Bakura's fault!)
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, Yu-Gi-Oh! Season 0, YGOTAS, Hetalia, YouTube, Google, Cannibal Holocaust, Gmail, the video titled "Bakuras favorite card", the Fourth Wall, or any of the characters. And bunch of other stuff and whatevers.
WARNING OF THE CHAPTER: CONTAINS USE OF SHARP OBJECTS SUCH AS KNIVES, ASSUEMD ONE-SIDED THIEFSHIPPING, DESCRIPTIONS OF TORTURE, AND MENTAL IMAGES OF COSPLAYS
Anyway, let's get on with it!
R&R
ENJOY~!
2. Use the Millenium Necklace.
Bakura had done some research and found out that the Millenium Necklace had the power to break or cross the fourth wall. One or the other. However, it seemed that it was only in the abridged version that this was possible. Still, it was worth a try.
Bakura thought of Ishizu. Now how to go about doing this?
He thought for a few minutes before he got the perfect idea.
He went into Ryou's room and into Ryou's closet. He pressed a small button that Ryou didn't know about and the back wall of the closet slid open. Bakura smiled.
He went inside the secret room and took out a few things, then put them in a box and left with them.
He pressed the button again and the wall closed up behind him.
Bakura placed the box on a table and picked up the phone. He dialed Ishizu's cell number.
She picked up on the first ring.
{"Hello, Yami Bakura. I predicted your call. But I did not predict your reason. What do you want?"}
Bakura suddenly became worried. What if Ishizu saw a vision of his plan? He would simply have to use his Millenium Ring in it or else nothing would stop her from doing so.
"I'd like to talk to you about something." He got an idea and waited for her reply.
{"What for?"} she asked.
Bakura pretended to be nervous and hiding something. "Oh, no reason. Just want to talk, just a little friendly meeting. Hehehehehe..."
Ishizu was silent for a moment. Then she sighed. {"It's about Marik, isn't it?"} she asked irritatedly.
"How did you guess?" Bakura mockingly asked.
{"Your tone of voice. I predict my arrival time to be in exactly ten minutes."} Then she hung up.
Bakura smiled evilly. Hehe. Another ignorant sucker for me to mess with.
As she promised, Ishizu knocked on Ryou's front door exactly ten minutes after she had hung up. Bakura opened the door and welcomed her inside.
"Hello Yami Bakura," she said to him.
"Oh please, Ishizu. No need to be so formal," Bakura said politely. "Simply call me Bakura. Like everyone else does."
"I'd rather not refer to you by only the name of your host. Now, what was it that Marik did that you felt I had to know? Is it about him or his darker side or-"
Bakura laughed a bit. "Please, my dear Ishizu, stop worrying so much," he said calmly. "Just relax and make yourself at home." He put an arm around Ishizu and led her over to the couch.
Ishizu started to get suspicious. "Y- erm... Bakura. Did you call me here about my brother or are you just stalling for time?"
Bakura was wondering when her Necklace would kick in and she would try to escape. He knew that if the Millenium Ring was activated, her Millenium Necklace wouldn't be able to predict what he did with it. But he couldn't figure out how he was going to use it.
Then he thought of a different way to distract her.
His arm was still around her shoulder. He snaked his hand down to her waist.
Ishizu became uncomfortable. "Bakura, I am not my brother. Please remove your hand."
Bakura was caught off guard by her statement and temporarily forgot his plan. Then he refocused and replied. "I despite what some of you people may believe, I don't like Marik that way. We are totally just... Erm... Friends I guess. Not even that. We're just partners in crime. I'm not sure how he feels about me though."
This actually helped him. The conversation was just as distracting to Ishizu as the presence of his hand on her waist. He raised his other arm behind his head and leaned on it, his hand near Ishizu's neck, but not touching.
"Well as much as I don't like it, I for one fully believe in thiefshipping. But I guess that- AHH!" She bent away from Bakura and spazzed to the side as Bakura violently poked her side with the hand that was near her waist. This had been his plan the whole time.
Bakura used her distracted state to quickly undo the clasp of the Millenium Necklace with one hand. He had almost removed it from around her neck when she recovered and pulled away from him, catching the Necklace as it fell off.
She jumped up and stepped away from the couch. "Bakura! What are you doing?! Why are you trying to steal my Millenium Necklace?!"
Bakura didn't answer and tried to grab her again. She quickly put her necklace back on and dodged. She punched Bakura in the side, catching him off guard at the fact that she had tried to fight back (because we all know that a mere punch alone wouldn't put him off guard).
He turned around and looked at her. Noticing Bakura's surprise, she explained. "I belong to a family of tombkeepers. I didn't go through the initiation myself, but I was taught to fight. How do you think we kept away thiefs like you?"
Bakura just stared at her silently, trying to figure out what to do now.
Ishizu activated her Millenium Necklace and a flash of light shone from it. It left the Necklace and shot towards Bakura. He reacted quickly and had the Millenium Ring absorb it.
He was still pushed back an inch. When he recovered, he looked around and noticed Ishizu running out the front door. He tried to follow her, but stopped in the door way. She was far ahead of him. He stared after her.
Then he slammed the door closed angrily.
"Dammit!" he shouted in defeat. "I almost had it!"
He looked over at the table that the box was on. There was also a random Duel Monsters card there.
The mention of Marik and the fight for the necklace reminded him of the Millenium Rod. And the card reminded him of dueling. The Rod and dueling reminded him of Seto Kaiba. And Seto Kaiba reminded him of Mokuba Kaiba.
And Mokuba Kaiba made him think of...
He smirked at the idea.
He took the box to another room in the house, returned to the secret closet-room and picked up another item, then left Ryou's house and headed for Ishizu's home.
Ishizu woke up, and the first thing she noticed were that it was dark, she had a headache, and that she was tied up in a chair. She groaned a bit in pain.
How did she not see this coming?
"I see you've woken up," said a voice in the room. She recognized it as Ryou's Yami.
"Bakura! Let me go! What do you want from me?!"
Ishizu heard him away from her. Then to her left, she saw a little flame. It was a match. In the glow, she saw Yami Bakura light a wall candle in the corner of the room. Then he moved over to what seemed to be another candle in the corner to her right. He lit that one as well. Then he moved behind her. She couldn't turn her head to see behind her, but by the fact that the room brightened two more times she inferred that he had lit two more candles in the other two corners of the room.
Then she actually decided to examine her current state. She was tied to a chair with a slotted back. Her arms were through the outermost slots and her hands tied tightly. The ropes dug into her skin. Her legs were tied to the legs of the chair. But instead of the rope simply being wrapped around her legs and the chair, she realized that each of her legs was tied directly to its own chair leg. Her torso was tied by a rope that wrapped around the whole back of the chair. The chair itself was high-backed, the head of it going all the way up to her head. That part was solid, which is why she couldn't see behind her.
The last thing she noticed was the lack of weight around her neck. She gasped as she realized that the millenium Necklace was gone. Where was it?!
Out of the corner of her eye, Ishizu saw Yami Bakura moving in front of her again from her right. She turned her head to look at him.
He looked at her smugly and leaned an arm on the head of the chair. "Glad to see you're awake," he said to her. "I hope you don't have too much of a headache. Are you feeling comfy?"
Ishizu took a look around the place. It appeared that they were in some sort of basement. But it wasn't Ryou's or her own. She had been both places and unless Yami Bakura moved everything out of one of them, she wast in any place she knew of. The walls and floor were made of concrete. The walls had been painted to look like those of a tomb. In fact, the whole place looked like an empty tomb. There was a board hanging on the wall and parallel to the floor that might have served as a bed at some point but now appeared to be used as a sort of table.
"Wh- where are we?" Ishizu asked Yami Bakura.
"Oh, how rude of me. We're in the basement of my host's house. My basement."
It didn't look like Ryou's basement. "But I've never been here before..."
"Well that's because you've only seen the first basement. There is surprisingly a few things that Ryou doesn't know about his own house. One of them is this second basement."
"Second basement?" So apparently, this was a room lower than Ryou's basement that Ryou never knew about. And his Yami did know of it and had made it his own.
She frowned at her captor. "Yami Bakura, what is the meaning of this?! Why are you doing this?!"
He chuckled at her. "Well, my dear. I simply wanted something of yours. Your Millenium Necklace." He moved his right hand up to his neck and Ishizu saw that he was wearing the Millenium Necklace. She gasped.
"What are you doing?" she asked. "Why have you taken it? What are you going to do with it?"
Yami Bakura smirked at her. "Well isn't it obvious? I want to use it. But I need your help on how to make it do what I want."
Ishizu wondered exactly what that was. She knew that anyone who held it could easily activate its psychic powers of viewing the future and the past on their own. However, there were only two abilities that required more work than simple willing for it to happen. As far as Ishizu knew, she was the only one who knew the procedures necessary to do them. One of the powers was something that she didn't thing Yami Bakura would be interested in. However, the other...
She gasped again. Yami Bakura couldn't mean...
"Are you trying to...?"
Yami Bakura laughed and walked away from Ishizu. He turned around to face her again. "I see you've figured out my motives. Yes, I want to use the Millenium Necklace to break the Fourth Wall."
"No!" Ishizu shouted. "You can't! It's too dangerous and it will disrupt the balance of-"
"I don't care," Yami Bakura informed her. "I just want to do it. And you're going to tell me how."
"No I won't. I won't tell you how. Either you figure it out yourself or try in vain to get it out of me."
"Well I'm glad you suggested it," Yami Bakura said. "I do rather like your second idea.." He waved a hand in her direction.
Ishizu cried out in surprise and pain as five sharp objects poked her in the back. What were they though? She looked over at Yami Bakura and saw that he wasn't wearing the Millenium Ring. Then she realized that the Ring must be hung behind the chair and Yami Bakura was making the points stab her from back.
So this is how he was going to make her talk.
The stabbing feeling in her back ceased and Yami Bakura lowered his arm. "I suggest you reconsider your silence, or else I may have to torture the information out of you."
She was almost afraid to ask what he meant, even though it was pretty obvious. "Wha- what do you mean?" she asked in fear.
"Well isn't it obvious?" Yami Bakura walked over to the table and picked something up from it. He turned around and revealed a knife in his hand. "For each time you don't talk, you get another taste of this," he said holding it up to her. "Or if I feel like it, the Millenium Ring."
Ishizu hadn't been frightened before, only confused and upset and irritated. But now, those things transformed into fear. Ishizu had to think fast. Should she tell him now and save herself or wait for him to give up and save the balance that the Wall kept? What should she do?
"So, how about you tell me what I need to do to break the fourth wall?" Yami Bakura asked as he slowly walked towards Ishizu.
Stall. That was the only thing that she could think of at the moment. "Why do you even want to break it?" she asked. "What could you possibly gain from doing so?"
Yami Bakura laughed at her. He knelt next to Ishizu and looked into her eyes. "My motives are of no concern to you. What you should be concerned about is telling me what I want to know. Now tell me!"
Stall! Just keep stalling! But for what? Who actually knew she was here?
Ishizu looked Yami Bakura in the eyes and talked with a straight face, trying to keep the fear out of her voice. "I know what you are trying to do. But I can't help you. I have never actually done it myself and I do not know how."
Yami Bakura smirked evilly at her. "Wrong answer."
Ishizu closed her eyes and yelled out in pain as she felt the cold metal of the knife dig deep into the skin on her upper right arm. Yami Bakura dragged the action out slowly and painfully.
Ishizu felt the knife leave her skin. She shook in pain and fear and felt blood running down her arm. It flowed down to her hands and soaked the ropes that bound them. Then it dripped on the floor.
"See what happens when you don't tell me what I want to know?" Yami Bakura asked mockingly. "Now shall we try that again? How do I use the Millenium Necklace to break the fourth wall?"
Ishizu pulled through the pain and talked to him. "You must be very desperate to break the Fourth Wall," she observed, "if you're physically torturing me in order to learn how."
Yami Bakura smiled at her. "You're absolutely right. I am desperate." His smile grew. "But I'm also doing this because it's fun." He got up and stood up right in front of her. He raised the knife to his face and ran his tongue across the blood-stained blade, licking the blood off. "Mmmmm. Delicious," he said creepily.
Ishizu looked on in horror and disgust as the evil spirit of the Millenium Ring licked HER blood off of the knife. She shuddered in disgust.
She lowered her head and stared at the concrete floor.
She had to do something. She knew she wouldn't win this. She knew that, as he had said, Yami Bakura actually enjoyed this. Well, she wouldn't give him the satisfaction.
She flashed back to the conversation she'd had with Yami Bakura earlier.
"Bakura, I am not my brother. Please remove your hand."
"Despite what some of you may believe, I don't like Marik that way. We are totally just... Erm... Friends I guess. Not even that. We're just partners in crime. I'm not sure how he feels about me though."
"Well as much as I don't like it, I for one fully believe in thiefshipping. But I guess that- AHH!"
Her brother... Marik...
If this experience went on any further, she would become more and more injured. If Marik saw her like this, it would break his heart and probably haunt him. And it would haunt her too.
Also, when Marik learned that his 'friend' and 'partner in crime' Bakura had done it, he would feel heartbroken and betrayed. Ishizu was sure that Marik had feelings for Yami Bakura, and she didn't want her brother's heart broken.
She had to end this. She sighed.
"Fine."
Yami Bakura's smile faded. "Fine what?"
Ishizu looked up at him. "Fine, I'll tell you. I'll tell you how to break the Fourth Wall with the Millenium Necklace."
Yami Bakura gasped and his facial expression transformed into one of surprise. Then disappointment. Then he smirked again. "Aww... What a shame. You gave in so soon. And I was just starting to have fun, too. You're such a killjoy."
Ishizu looked at Yami Bakura angrily. "Just shut up and let me go now. I'll tell you. But I won't tell you if you continue with this."
"Uh uh uh," Yami Bakura said as he shook a finger at her. "You don't get out until you tell me what I need to do. And not until it actually works. So," he walked over to the table and placed the knife down. "Start talking."
Was she really doing the right thing here? At least she wouldn't lose the necklace. Yami Bakura couldn't take it with him. The Wall didn't allow it.
"Fine," she said again.
Bakura stood, his back to Ishizu and his eyes closed. He put a hand on the Millenium Necklace and concentrated. The images flooded into his head.
Scenes from different episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! Appeared before him. He saw the characters. Though they were episodes, some of them felt like flashbacks to him. Then he saw other things. He saw some of the 4Kids staff that worked with YGO stuff. He saw Little Kuriboh, the creator of YGOTAS. He saw those from the original Japanese creators of YGO. He saw scenes from cosplays and anime conventions. And he saw himself, from the front, standing in the same position that he now stood in. It was freaky, but he didn't open his eyes.
Then he heard a noise that sounded like glass breaking. He opened his eyes. Without realizing it, he had raised his arm in front of him. There were cracks seemingly in midair where his arm was pointing towards. The Millenium Necklace was glowing.
Bakura mentally willed the glow to move towards the cracks.
The light did as he willed and shot towards the cracks in front of him.
The light made contact and there was a bright flash of light. He let go of the Millenium Necklace and shielded his eyes with his arm. He shrank back at the intensity of the light. Ishizu closed her eyes tightly and leaned into the back of her chair.
Then the light faded.
Bakura lowered his arm from his face and stared at the spot where the light had been. He gasped.
There was a gaping hole in what appeared to be the fourth wall. Big enough to walk through.
Bakura smiled. He removed the Millenium Necklace from around his neck and put it around Ishizu's neck. "Hmph," she said.
Bakura then went back over to the table and picked up his cell phone. He called someone he had on speed dial.
The other person picked up after two rings. {"Hello?"} he asked.
"Hello, Marik. It's me."
Ishizu's head perked up at the sound of her brother's name.
{"What do you want, Bakura?"}
"Now, don't hate me when you get here. But I would like to inform you that I have your sister here. You should probably come to pick her up. I'm going to be leaving soon so I can't do it myself."
{"Wait, what? Why is Ishizu there? You had better not be talking about me!"}
"No, Marik. We're not talking about you." Well not anymore, he thought, flashbacking to the conversation with Ishizu earlier. "But I think you should pick her up. Now. I'm leaving in about a minute."
{"Why? Where are you going? Why can't she come home herself? And what room is she in?"} Marik asked a bunch of questions in a hyper and interrogative manner.
"Well the answers to your questions are: because she needs to leave now, none of your business, because she needs assistance, and you know the one." That last response he said with a suggestive tone in his voice, somehow hinting that Marik also knew about the room they were in.
{"What room, Bakura? Which one? Is it a room Ryou doesn't know about?"} There were only two rooms in the house Marik knew of that Bakura had said Ryou didn't know about.
His suspicions were confirmed when Bakura's reply was, "Yup. Not the closet."
Marik knew. {I'll be right over. But you know I'm not going to forget about getting my other question answered. About where you're going. I'll ask you eventually."}
Bakura laughed into the phone. "Suuure you will. Just get your ass over here."
{"Fine! Geez!"} Bakura heard Marik hung up and he did the same.
He turned to Ishizu again. "Well, I guess your brother is going to be picking you up soon. Have fun and try not to miss me."
He gave a little wave as he walked over to the hole in the fourth wall and and stepped through.
The moment he was through, the wall repaired itself behind him.
Ishizu sighed in relief as the wall repaired and she began to wait anxiously for Marik to get there.
K now, before you hate on me with questions and whatever...
I don't know I"m just stalling! Hahaha...
Anyway...
Yeah that was interesting to type. If you hadn't already noticed, thinking of Mokuba reminded Bakura of kidnapping. Which is why he kidnapped Ishizu.
Stuff in this chapter that isn't mine:
Little Kuriboh's idea of the Millenium Necklace being able to break the Fourth Wall,
And Bakura's love of torturing people. *uses creepy voice* And his love of knives. He likes knives... *makes evil face!*,
Stuff that is:
The idea behind the Millenium Necklace's flashy power thing,
Ishizu's belief in thiefshipping,
The secret rooms in Ryou's house,
And the idea of being physically trained as a tombkeeper, no matter what gender.
A note about how things are going to work with this: Each chapter has its own warning and genre. Read it to see what type of chapter it will be. And there will be an end to all of this, there won't just be me having him break it 10 random times and then end. You'll just have to wait and see! Hehehe...
Next chapter: Number 3 on the list, and Bakura plays a game... and wins!
See you next chapter!
BYEEEEEEE~!