Emerald-demoness: Yay! I updated! I'm sorry it took so long to update. Honestly, I completely forgot about this story for awhile. I had absolutely no clue what to do with it, so I decided to add in the OC I was thinking about. I'm sorry it's so short, I'll try to update sooner this time.
Chapter 7
"Yugi!" The yell came from Grandpa, who was down stairs in the shop. Everyone immediately got up and rushed down, Yugi in the front. They had to stop suddenly or run Yugi over. He just stood there, staring in shock. Then again, everyone else was shocked too when they looked at what he was staring at.
There was a girl, about 5ft 10in tall. Her skin was pale, her clothes hung off her. She wore a long sleeved, purple shirt and tight, dark jeans. Her almost knee high boots were flat and black. What caught their attention the most though, was her red-tinted black hair and her violet eyes, with the scar running from her right eyebrow to her right cheekbone.
"Zira?" Yugi asked, sounding uncertain and shocked. The girl turned away from Grandpa and looked at Yugi. Her eyes were oddly blank.
"Yugi. I am sorry it took me so long to come back." The girl said, sounding regretful. Her voice was soft and deep for a girl.
"Zira!" Yugi yelled, before running up and hugging her. She only barely managed to stay standing.
"I can't believe you're here! We thought you were dead!" Yugi shouted happily. Her emotionless eyes turned soft and loving.
"I'm sorry I worried you so. It's so good to see you again, little brother." She said. (That was such a wonderful cliffhanger moment . . .).
"Come, Zira, let's sit down in the living room. We have much to talk about." Grandpa said, turning the sign in the window so it said 'Closed'.
They all went to the living room where Yugi introduced Zira to his friends; Ryou, Marik, Odion, Ishizu, Mai, Duke, Tristan, and Joey. Then he explained to his friends how Zira was going abroad for college, going to Spain, when she disappeared. That was four years ago. Then he looked at his sister for an explanation.
She told them how she was kidnapped. There had been others, both boy and girl. They were tortured, raped, beaten. In the end they were to be killed, as a sacrifice for some god. Here she hesitated, before telling them of her escape. How she had to trick the key holder into thinking she wanted to have sex with him, before knocking him out and stealing the keys. How she snuck out while the person before her was being sacrificed, leaving everyone to fend for themselves once she opened their doors.
Then she told them that that was two years ago. They had been following her, and she wouldn't let them hurt the only family she had left because she led them right to their doorstep. She'd had to hunt down every single one of the people who captured and tortured her, only to kill them. To ensure her family's safety.
At the end of her tale, she glared at them defiantly. Daring them to judge her for what she had to do. But they didn't. Yugi hugged her and told her how glad he was that she was back. He babbled that it didn't matter what she did, she was still his sister. Grandpa merely smiled and told her that she did a good job. Not a single person in the room judged her, and for that, she was thankful.
Then Yugi told her their story. He told her about the Millennium items. How he met the pharaoh after Grandpa's soul was stolen. How he helped Marik defeat his evil side at Kaiba's tournament. About the final battle. He told how Ryou's yami had always been in the way. He told her about Kaiba's mood swings and Joey's tantrums. He told her about meeting Duke and Mai. He told her about how the pharaoh refused to leave him, and how he, Yugi, begged for Bakura's right to live, even after all he had done, simply because it wasn't his fault. He told her, at Ryou's nod, about Ryou's father and just recently learning about his other personalities.
During Yugi's story, the Yami's appeared in their corporal form. She studied them curiously, and with all the over protectiveness of an older sibling. The last one was done only when Yugi wasn't looking, which amused everyone greatly. When Yugi finished his story, his sister simply told him,
"Well, your last years haven't been boring." This made everyone laugh, having never really thought about it that way before.
"I don't suppose you still have my piano?" She asked after awhile.
"Actually, we do. I keep it out in the back of the shop so no one messes with it." Grandpa said, before showing her to it. Her eyes lit up the second she saw it.
'I swear she loves that thing more than she does me.' Yugi told Yami through their link.
Yami laughed before telling him just how untrue that statement was by showing him the looks his sister gave him behind her brother's back. All of this happened in the link they shared.
Zira immediately sat at the piano and started playing "Hijo de la Luna", singing along with it. Her voice was amazing. It was soft and lilting, with no Japanese accent to make it hard to understand her when she sung in another language. It was obvious why she had planned to go to Spain for college, her Spanish was perfect.
In the end everyone decided to stay at Marik's house to give Zira and Grandpa time alone to talk about serious things. Like a job.
"She was going to college to sing, but I don't think she can now. Not with that scar on her face. No company would hire her to sing." Yugi told them sadly.
"It really is a shame; she has such a good voice." Mai commented.
"Stupid, perfect lookin' celebrities." Joey grouched, irritated that someone with such obvious talent wouldn't be allowed to do what they loved simply because they didn't look good enough. It was like someone telling Yugi he couldn't play duel monsters because he was too short!
"They wouldn't let her travel like she'd have too anyway. Did you notice how many weapons she had on her?" Marik asked.
"I counted three." Yugi told him.
"Really? I only noticed one!" Tristan exclaimed.
"She had daggers, on her arms; I only realized they were there because she hugged me." Yugi told him.
"She had a gun in each boot, a dagger at the small of her back, and two daggers on each arm, upper and lower." Bakura told them.
"How could you tell all that!" Duke asked him.
"I had to know how to see hidden weapons when I was the Thief King." Bakura told him nonchalantly. It was silent for a few minutes before-
"Yugi, you can't kill them. They are already dead." Yami told him, looking half amused and half concerned.
"What?" Tristan asked him, confused.
"His protective brother instincts were rising." Yami told him, completely amused now.
"And why are they just showing up now?" Marik asked them.
"They didn't. They only became more pronounced." Yami told him.
"And what was he thinking that made you say that?" Duke asked, wondering just how vicious a vindictive Yugi could be. It was Yugi, after all. He was about as vicious as a kitten with its claws taken out.
"He just got to the part where burning them alive would be too kind." Yami said, sounding bemused. Every stared as if saying 'Okay, tell the truth now.' When Yami didn't say anything, they turned to stare at Yugi.
"What?" he asked. "Zira used to be like an older version of me almost. Now she's carrying seven weapons on her. They had something to do with that transformation. I don't like it." He told them.
They were starting to understand now. I mean, what would it take for Yugi to start carrying multiple weapons on him at all times, let alone one? And cue protective instincts. Many in the room had to remind themselves that it was not Yugi who changed, and that no, they couldn't do anything for his sister either.
'We haven't even known her for a day and already we're protective of her as if she were one of us.' Ryou commented to his yami through the link, looking at all the expressions around the room.
'Of course we are. Since she's Little Pharaoh's sister, she is one of us.' Bakura told him.