Romeo & Juliet Chapter 3 (Rewritten)

Drag: are we introduced yet?

Anna: no

Kath: why did you change your name again?

Skies: she didn't want anyone to know her real identity

Drag: pff, that's a fail since Help Is On The Way has your name

Anna: actually I'm rewriting that so that they don't know

Kath: smart thinking. Now you won't have people beating you even more because of this

Skies: Jaden-Lover1634 doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh!

(Song: New Deep by John Mayer)

Chapter 3: Look Whose Back

"Jii-chan!" Yuugi yelled as he entered the Game Shop his grandpa own, Jonouchi, Malik, and Ryou filed in behind him as he walked past the counter. "I'm home and the two workaholics came with me." A crash from above alerted the teens that the person they were calling for was upstairs in the apartment part of the shop.

"Up here Yuugi!" An aged old voice shouted back down the stairs to the apartment and the teens looked at each other with raised eyebrows before they walked up the stairs. They put their shoes in the walk way, noticing a pair of black combat boots and black flats showing they had company, before entering the living room. Solomon was just setting down a tray of lemonade for six people and a can of Sprite sat beside it, already open. The four teens sat in the remaining seats since Solomon plopped himself in one of the chairs. All of the teens reached for the drinks and, as Jonouchi reached for the can, his hand froze just before he could grab it.

"Hands off the Sprite freeloader!" A voice said loudly and Yuugi looked up at the sound of feet hitting wood, sounding like a herd of elephants were in his house. A teen was barreling down the stairs to the living room and a collective gasps came from the teens. Jonouchi stilled as he looked at the newcomer, the freezing spell now meaningless, and she snatched the can before he could get his head around the fact that he was looking at the one person he thought he would never see again. Someone chuckled from Ryou's right and said teen jumped in surprise to see another teen perched on the arm of the couch he, Yuugi, and Malik was sitting on.

"Annabeth what have I told you about using your shadow magic in my house?" Solomon asked calmly but embedded in his words was the tone of disappointment.

The teen dubbed 'Annabeth' hung her head, rolling her eyes when her bangs covered her face, and sighed out a gust of air because she was annoyed at herself for forgetting the rules in the house. "Gomen nasai Jii-chan," she said with a bow. "I guess I'm so use to my powers that I forgot that you didn't want me to use them because of what happened last time."

She didn't look up, hating the fact that she was in trouble once again, and tried to fight back the memories that resurfaced from their prison. A pair of faces became confused and the other teen sitting on the arm of the couch rolled her eyes in annoyance at the fact that their family didn't know Arabic. The only faces that didn't seem confused were Malik because of his background, Solomon, who was an archeologist in Egypt, and Yuugi, who was taught Arabic from his grandpa.

"Ah Kitten," the other teen said with a shake of her head as if she too was disappointed. "You're speaking Heritic not Japanese again. She said that she's sorry and that Joey's a mutt."

"NANI?!" Came from two enraged teens—Jonouchi, who was angry at the fact that Annabeth would say that, and Annabeth, who was angry that her girlfriend would put her in the line of fire. Annabeth glared at the smirking teen and Jonouchi glared at Annabeth.

"Why you-" Started Jonouchi before he was interrupted.

"Jou," Yuugi interrupted him before he could go into a full out rant and the blonde snapped his mouth shut so he could listen to what his brother would say. "She didn't say that." Malik nodded his head in agreement as he went on, "Skylar-kun is just trying to ruffle your feathers so to speak."

"Oh," the blonde teen said as he settled down and Skylar rolled her eyes to the heavens.

"You're so gullible," she muttered under her breath but everyone could still hear her and Jonouchi glared at her.

"Well sorry for being so rallied up," he shot back.

She smirked and looked over and down to the fuming blonde on her right, looking more and more like the golden retriever her always looked like to her. "Apology accepted Joey."

Joey glared before turning and took a swing from his lemonade as he grumbled under his breath about how stupid some red heads where and how he would rid the world of their sarcastic ways before Annabeth spoke up so that her family didn't have a fight. "So," she drawled out and everyone turned to look at her, who was now sitting on the floor with her legs crossed, "what happened to make you so 'rallied up'?"

Malik snorted into his drink as Ryou patted his back when he started coughing with a smile and Yuugi giggled into his hand as Jonouchi made a face at a memory. Jonouchi grumbled under his breath and Skylar started laughing since she could read his mind and saw said memory. Annabeth shared a glance with Solomon as he got up to watch the shop. Annabeth turned back to the teens and Jonouchi's crossed face.

"I ran into a jerk," he stated vaguely into his cup as he glared at it as if it was the reason why he felt like tearing someone's throat out.

"…" Annabeth crocked her head since she didn't get it, "um…what did she do?"

"It was a guy," Ryou said and Annabeth 'ah'd in understandment.

"Was he flirting with you?" She asked, wiggling her eyebrows with a Chester cat smile and Jonouchi blushed.

"N-No," He said horrified and he got a disbelief look, making him mentally curse at his stutter. He leaned forward, took a drink of his cup and kept it in his hand so he had some anchor over his anger. "I ran into him after school. Literally! And the jerk didn't even apologize!" Jonouchi glared at the cup as Annabeth and Yuugi shared worried looks but before they could comment Jonouchi continued on with his rant. "He looked down and glared at me as if I was beneath him." He tightened his grip on the cup and the girls could hear the glass creak under the pressure with their sensitive ears. "The jerk freakin' called me a dog! A loser!" The grip on the glass tightened even further and it gave one last groan before shattering in his hand, cutting his palm and he hissed at the pain. Lemonade covered his hand and dripped into the open wounds as the people around him flinched at the sound of shattered glass. "I'm not a dog," he hissed out as he gripped his bleeding hand with his other in order to stop the blood from flowing even more only making the glass dig deeper into his pierced flesh.

Suddenly soft and nimble hands was on his own and he looked up with surprise eyes to see Annabeth prying open his clinched fists with gentle but firm fingers. She looked at the bleeding limb with criticizing eyes as she summed up what needed to be done and how bad it was. With a nod she looked away from the wound and the hissing teen to look at her girlfriend. "Skylar, can you clean up the mess please?" Skylar nodded to her and took Malik arm before dragging the paling teen away with her when she heard Annabeth's thoughts about asking the sandy blond to assist her. "Ryou," she turned to the teen and the albino straighten when he was addressed, "I need you to tell Ojii-chan what happened but don't make it sound as bad as it looks okay? I don't think we can afford to go to a hospital because he had a heart attack." Ryou nodded to show he understood and scurried away to do what she asked. Annabeth turned to Yuugi as she took of her jacket. "Yuugi, I'm going to need you to help so can you start getting the first aid kit and run some hot water in the sink in the bathroom." Yuugi looked into calm purple and chocolate depts with a blank expression and she had to hold back a groan when she remembered that her older brother didn't do so well in these situations. "Yuugi!" She snapped at him and he jumped before nodding and hurried up the stairs.

A hiss grabbed Annabeth's attention again and she turned back to the blond she was kneeling in front of. Jonouchi's face was twisted a bit as pain flared up from his hand and he clinched his teeth since Annabeth still had his hand in her grasp.

"Gomen nasai," she whispered and he opened one eye to look at her with a smile.

"Don't worry," he said, looking at her with warm caramel eyes. "I was just startled by your shout. It's not your fault that I have this injury."

"No but I could have stopped it," she muttered and before he could say anything she looked back at the bleeding hand he just now saw that her jacket was under the wound to collect the falling blood. "Come on," she said, standing up from her crouch and he followed her out of the room to the stairs.

He pulled his hand close to him as he wrapped the jacket around his palm and closed his hand into a fist over the jacket and wrapped the rest of the material around his fist. They climbed the stairs and heard running water cut off suddenly. Annabeth was about to grab the knob of the white painted, wooden door when it opened to show Yuugi behind it. He looked up from the sink he was gazing at and saw the people he was going to get already in front of him. He moved to the side and Annabeth pushed Jonouchi before her and sat him done gently on the toilet seat. She shut the door and turned to Yuugi who was taking off the jacket around his brother's hand before handing to her. She took it and hung it on the silver metal knob of the bathroom door.

"It looks like there's still glass," Yuugi said as he checked over the hand and looked over at the red headed teen who was dunking a red face towel in the hot water in the white, newly clean, sink. "I cleaned the sink before I added the water," he said and she nodded.

"Smart thinking Gamer64," she praised and he looked over at her in surprise. She smiled at the shocked teen, "you're not the only one that knows about GamingLife."

He smiled and pulled Jonouchi's hand to him; closer into the light to see better. She gave him a pair of small tweezers and he took it gratefully. "Arigatou. So you're EgyptianRose or EgyptGamingKing01?" He asked, pulling the wound open more to get the glass and Jonouchi hissed, "gomen Jou."

"Not even close," she said as she watched him pull out a small piece of glass and she put a black plastic bowl next to him so he could put the blood covered glass in somewhere safe. "I'm Neko-Judai1634 and Skylar's Haou_Jaden69." She scowled, "though I wished she changed her name because of the numbers but this is her."

Yuugi plucked out another piece of glass as a frown formed on his lips and Jonouchi looked over to Annabeth with a hurt expression. "If you're Neko-Judai then, why aren't you my friend?" He asked and it was her time to be surprised.

"You have an account on GamingLife?" She asked incredulously.

"Yeah. I'm RedEyes18," he said as she dropped the rag in her hands in disbelief, the wet rag flopping with a slap into the water.

"That's YOU?!" She asked loudly and her voice echoed in the bathroom making the two other teens cringe. Yuugi plucked another piece of glass and dropped down into the bowl. "You're the one that has Red Eyes?! THE Red Eyes Black Dragon?!"

"Yup," he said brightly with a smile but it crumbled as he looked down at Yuugi with a playfully glare. "But I still can't beat shorty here in a duel."

Yuugi plucked a glass out a little too hard and Jonouchi yelped at the sharp flare of pain. Yuugi looked up with a glare but his eyes danced with amusement. "I resent that statement. But you are getting better Jou, all you need to do is keep practicing." Yuugi said with a tone a pride embedded in his voice as he plucked out two more glass shards.

"Do Ryou and Malik have an account?" Annabeth asked as she saw Yuugi plucked one more glass piece.

"Not of my knowledge," Yuugi said, sighing as he looked for any glass he missed. "Malik and Ryou aren't really the type of people to really get into games."

"True," she stated simply. Yuugi stood up and stretched after finding no other shards and she looked at him. "You done?"

"Just about," he said mildly and dumped the bloody pieces into the bathroom trash that sat beside the toilet Jonouchi was still sitting on. "I just have to clean out the wound and dress it."

Annabeth giggled before taking his shoulders so that they switched places and kneeled down to Jonouchi's level. "Don't worry," she said, putting the rag she had and started to gently clean his wound, "I got you covered."

When the blood was cleaned away with gentle strokes so she didn't make it bleed again, she took the alcohol from Yuugi, who was holding it out to her by the mirror on the countertop, and dumped it on the cuts. Jonouchi cursed loudly and jerked his hand away, trying to escape the burning liquid that was on his hand. Bubbles started to form and Annabeth dabbed at the cuts to get rid of the bacteria. She dropped the rag into the clean water and reached to the back of her neck as Yuugi rinsed off the red towel.

"What are you going to do?" Jonouchi asked with a wary expression as a small snap sounded in the air and Annabeth pulled off her necklace.

"Goin to speed up a healing process," she stated and he paled as Yuugi looked at her with a small amount of fear.

"Can you control it?" Yuugi asked as he looked at her, twitching and his body went into the fight or flight response.

Annabeth rolled her eyes and glared at the tri-colored hair teen. "Just clean the water!" She snapped at him before turning to the blonde and she reached deep with inside her soul for a dormant power. "I've perfected the healing process by making a short rhyme to go with it and to channel all of the energy to my hands." The winged charm turned sapphire and her eyes flashed a purple as her hands started to have a golden-yellow and green glow to them. "I also use the power of my Millennium Wings to keep it in control."

Yuugi and Jonouchi didn't seem fazed by the fact that she could heal but seemed dazed at the fact that she could control it.

"So does this mean," Yuugi started as Annabeth placed her hands on jonouchi's wounded one, "you can control the shadows?"

The red head hummed, though he didn't know if it was in agreement or disagreement, before gazing at Jonouchi. "Listen, you might feel a slight pinch—like a needle going through your skin—but that's it."

The teen sighed and leaned against the back toilet before nodding, giving her the permission she was asking for. She smiled and focused on the warmth in her soul that was slowly building and coming to the surface. A little breeze started, gently brushing against the three teen's hair and body as the glow of Annabeth's hands grew brighter until it filled the room with her voice.

"Love and Light; Hate and Dark. From my life source I give you my strength and power. The soul of Hikari and Yami come on this hour. The love of Light and Dark is always right."

The glow died down until it didn't exist and the wind died down as the last word was said. Annabeth moved her hands and hurriedly slipped the necklace around her neck with shaky hands. Yuugi watched as Jonouchi's hand shimmered gold as the wounds closed up until the only thing to show what happened was a little bit of dried blood and faint white scars of where the injury was.

"The down side is that your hand will glitter until tomorrow at the same time I healed you." Annabeth said breathlessly, looking as if she ran three miles nonstop, and she sat on the side of the bathtub. "And since I'm not skilled enough, you'll have a scar like you would have after it healed six weeks from now if you let it heal naturally."

Jonouchi clentched his hand into a fist and felt no pain, not even a tingle, and wiggled his figures in experima=ent as Yuugi watched with an impressive look. Jonouchi turned to the worn out teen with a goofy smile and she smiled back. "Arigatou Anna."

Yuugi put the red towel in a cabinet that opened to the hamper. He looked at the teen with a raised eyebrow as he held up the blood stained jacket and waved her hand to the hamper which he complied and dumped it into the cabinet. Jonouchi put the first aid kit into a corner under the sink after he collected everything they used into it.

"Up we go," Jonouchi said softly as he hoist the red head up and let her lean against his side because he could see she could barely move, let alone walk do a flight of stairs without falling or tripping. Yuugi held open the door as his family walked by him and turned off the light before closing the door. He walked behind the two teens down the stairs and entered the living room to see Skylar sitting on the couch and Malik finishing his cleaning.

"Before you say anything," Skylar said as she looked at Jonouchi who opened his mouth, "Kitten and I are connected by are Millennium item so when she healed you she tapped into the power of the Millennium Wings in order to do it." When she got a blank look from the three guys she sighed as Jonouchi dropped Annabeth beside her. She pulled her tired girlfriend in her lap and tucked the long haired teen's head under her chin as she rubbed her back in soothing motions. "As Kitten uses her item to channel her energy she not only take's her energy but also mine since we are both connected. Even though she healed something so small it still takes a toll on her to heal someone else and because she rarely heals other people. I don't count because I'm her other half but she's not use to healing. That's why she's so tired. I'm just taking as much as I can from her pain or, in this case, exhaustion to make sure she doesn't die. Just give her a while to catch her breath okay?" She closed her eyes, signaling that was the last thing she was going to say as she leaned back into the soft material of the couch.

"Okay," Malik said as he stood up and shook his arm that cramped up from all the scrubbing. "The blood's cleaned up and so is the glass, or at least what's left of it." Skylar gave him a tired nodded, still having her eyes closed, as he walked to the kitchen to dump the glass shards.

As he walked away Ryou came in and looked around, "what did I miss?"

Jonouchi sat in the seat he sat in before as Yuugi sat next to the two teens on the couch, "nothing. Malik finished cleaning and Anna used up her energy to heal my injury."

Ryou's eyebrows rose as he sat besides Yuugi and looked at the dozing couple beside his brother. "Since when could she do that?"

"She worked hard on trying to control her powers since the last time we saw her," Yuugi answered and Malik came into the room.

The sandy blonde teen grunted as he fell into the last open chair and rubbed his face as he closed his eyes. "How long ago was the last time we talked to her…face to face?"

"I think the last time we talked to her was the last time we saw her." Yonouchi stated as he glanced at the red head they were talking about. "She's grown," he commented and his brothers' nodded. "I think we lost our sweet and innocent little sister."

"She's 16, right?" Ryou asked as he did the math in his head. "Almost 17 and already found the one for her. I heard that she became Egypt's top duelist and champion." The albino sighed as he closed his eyes and leaned back into the couch. "I wonder why they're here though. Don't they live in Egypt with Anna's parents or what?"

Yuugi looked down at the table and saw his half full glass on the wooden table as guilt ate his insides. "Anna's mom died when she was 13 Ryou." He softly said this as he took a drink of the tangy drink. He heard a collection of gasps and looked up to see them gazing at the teen in horror. They all knew what that meant and they couldn't imagine the things she had to go through but why didn't she tell them before. "She's been keeping me updated until a year ago on the phone."

"Why…" Breathed Malik as he tried to figure out why they're own sister would keep them in the dark for a year and then stop calling two years later.

"She didn't want anyone to feel bad for her." Yuugi said before sighing and closed his eyes. "She didn't want to put worry on us because we were already trying to run a company and deal with our own problems so she didn't talk about it and gave a white lie when we asked. I found out on our last phone call and she made me promise to tell and stay out of her problems because she could handle it."

Jonouchi compared the child from his memory to the teen beside him and glanced at her before looking at Yuugi again. "Well…it doesn't seem as if she changed that much. She seems wiser and prepare for the worse but she's still that happy, scatterbrain I remember."

Malik smiled and nodded with a soft look. "Yeah. Though, I wonder if she still gets pissed when someone plays a prank on her."

Ryou groaned as Jonouchi and Malik shared Chester cat smiles and Yuugi snorted into his drink as he was drinking it. "Let her rest before you do, ne?" HE said with a roll of his eyes, "and let her tell us why she's here before you have to plan out your will."

Yuugi nodded as he coughed to clear his airways. "I agree. After they rest up from their trip you can deal with a pissed off girl and her over protective girlfriend."

"Sure, sure, sure." Malik said with a dismissive wave of his hand as he yawned. "I need the rest. School took a lot out of me, though I am glad that we've found our emissary."

Yuugi made a face and Malik join the other two sleeping teens in the land of dreams. Ryou turned on the t.v. and lowered it until it was background noise as Jonouchi got up.

"I'm going to send an e-mail to Pegasus to show we have a duelist and then join you lazy kids." Joey said before going up the stairs. Soon five teens were knocked out in the living room. As Naruto played in the background when the blond came in. he shrugged and lay on the couch and watched the moving pictures with lazy eyes before they closed and his breath evened out.

Kath: So when are you going to stop using OC's?

Anna: I really don't know but after chapter 7 is when that will happen

Drag: It's going to be a hundred chapters long won't it?

Skies: *rubs temples* I need coffee if that's true. *walks away* Lots and lots of coffee