Me: *screams and hides* I'M SO SORRY OH MY GOD DON'T KILL ME!
Yami: WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?!
Me: *sucks in deep breath* I'MSORRYIGOTBUSYANDIHADTHISDONEBUTICOULDN'TGETTHECOMPUTERCUZMYMOMHATESTHISSITEANDIHURTMYLEGREALBADANDHADSURGERYANDI'MJUSTGETTINGTOWHEREICANWALKAGAINPLEASEDON'THATEME!
Yugi: SURGERY?! What'd you do?!
Me: Uhhh...I went in for a jump shot...landed wrong...ended up screwing everything in my knee up except a tendon...
Yami: You freaking clutz. What did you screw up?
Me: I blew apart my ACL, tore BOTH meniscus on either side, I actually managed to get a double tear on the inside, cracked my tibia, bruised my bones, and had a loooooot of internal swelling. ^-^'
Yugi and Yami: O_O' w-way to go...
Me: Yeaaaah, sorry! Please forgive me, and I knooooow this is short, but I don't have much time to work on my stories, and I'm so sososososososososososososooooooooo sorry!
'Oh merciful Ra...'
My mouth flopped open and closed like a fish out of water, and my face must have been a darker red than his narrow crimson eyes.
"I-I-I.." 'Smooth, Motou, smooth...now he most likely thinks you're incompetent.'
The leather-clad stranger looked from me to the violent Akarui and beaten Bakura. "So, they're at it again, are they? Well, that's going to knock Bakura's ego down a few notches…" He smirked, and I felt my knees go weak.
I swallowed when his captivating eyes met mine again. My heart felt like an 808 drum in my chest, surely this man could hear its frantic beating, seeing how close we were.
When I realized just how close we were (practically chest to chest), I quickly stepped back a little.
The stranger smirked again, and looked behind me again. "How about we get her attention before she kills him, shall we?"
I nodded, not sure what I just agreed to. I was partially hoping he suggested we go back to his place where we ravish each other all night.
He smiled (wow, his teeth were white!), and folded his arms over his muscular chest.
"Now, Akarui, no need to kill Bakura; Ryou still needs him you know!"
The reaction was instantaneous. Akarui dropped Bakura, she had previously been punching him repeatedly, and spun around with one of the biggest grins I had ever seen on her face. Bakura, being bloody and most likely in high levels of pain, collapsed to the ground with a groan and a scowl. Ryou rushed to his aid, but turned and sent the stranger a grateful smile, which he returned I noticed jealously. Jou turned and stared, pointing a finger between the red-eyed stranger and me and gaping.
"HATTER!" Akarui screamed, and almost tackled him. He chuckled and barely caught her, shaking his head softly. 'Oh. That's the Hatter.'
"You don't change, do you Akarui? Mind telling me who this little one and that tall blonde are, and what Bakura did to make you beat him to a pulp?" Akarui nodded rapidly and released the Hatter from her hold. She pointed to me and exclaimed brightly, "This Yugi and Jou! They from other world! Yugi got hurt by Bandersnatch," Hatter grimaced in sympathy, "but Ryou fixed him up again! Yugi, this Yami; everyone calls him Hatter though!" I blinked and nodded shyly. Jou hummed and said, "Pleased ta make ya 'quaintence. I'm Jounouchi. Ya c'n call me Jou."
Akarui crossed her arms with a childish pout and glared at Bakura. "Bakura say I like violence! That why I beat him up!" Yami, or Hatter, gasped and tsked disapprovingly at Bakura.
"Surely you know better than that, Bakura!"
Bakura growled and hissed lightly as Ryou healed him. Once Ryou was done, he accepted the help offered to him and stood up. "Shut up Yami! I said it because it's bloody true, you bipolar brat!"
I thought Akarui was going to attack him again; instead, she just stuck her tongue out at him and turned her head away.
Yami raised an eyebrow at me.
"So, you're from the other world, are you?" I nodded shyly again. 'Dammit Yugi! Speak!' "Y-Yes, um, w-w-we, I-I mean, Jou and I, w-we were in the p-park and R-Ryou k-kinda fell on us and w-w-we chased him, and f-fell down a h-hole…" Yami's eyes widened as he blinked and looked back and forth from me, to Jou, to Ryou.
Focusing his attention on Ryou, he asked incredulously, "She actually let you out?!" Ryou nodded.
"I know! I was surprised myself!" Bakura smirked at Yami. "So, Yami, has she tried to have the guards catch you any since last time?"
With a roll of his eyes and an exasperated expression Yami answered with an annoyed sound, "Yes, unfortunately. I can't understand why Queen Anzu wants me so badly! I don't even like girls! You know, she's actually sent me about six marriage proposals?!"
In my head, I was screaming for joy and jumping up and down at the fact that he was gay.
'HE'S GAY! HE'S GAY, HE'S GAY, HE'S GAAAAAAAYYY~! THANK YOU RA!' In my head, I was bowing repeatedly to a shrine of Ra and every god out there.
"Tch, figures. She's insane!" Bakura rolled his eyes and crossed his arms.
Jou blinked and tilted his head. "Wait, I thought ya couldn't talk about tha queen or anythin' cuz of-"
Yami, Hatter, whoever, chuckled slightly, and I felt my heart, which had just returned to a normal pattern, stutter.
'I'm most certainly going to have heart problems because of this man…not that I mind, or anything.' Yami motioned us to follow him, I quickly did, hoping none of the others noticed my eagerness. Jou did, unfortunately; he smirked at me and waggled his eyebrows toward the lean body in front of us. I blushed and turned my focus elsewhere. We were going deeper into the forest; the trees were denser, vines and leaves hanging down in every direction. Akarui simply skipped ahead of us, babbling happily to Yami, while Ryou and Bakura followed us, whispering quietly to each other.
I once again thought of Akarui as a big child, but it suited her. I smiled lightly. Jou nudged me, and, with reluctance, I looked at him, knowing it was about Yami.
I looked up at him, and sure enough, he had a wicked grin on his face. Leaning down, he whispered to me, "Get 'im Yug! Seduce 'im, and tell me later how he is in bed!"
With an indignant squeak, I jumped back, my face burning hotter than a furnace, and half-yelled, "JOUNOUCHI!" Yami and Akarui turned their heads towards us, Akarui asked, "What the matter Yugi? What Jounouchi say?" Yami raised an eyebrow at my burning face, and grinned.
"I wonder what he said to make you blush that hard…" I shook my head and tried not to look at anyone else. Jounouchi was laughing his head off, tears streaming down his cheeks and holding his sides from laughing so hard. Jerk. I'll get him later.
Yami turned fully around to face us, walking backwards. I wondered amazingly how he managed to dodge every tree he was going toward.
"So, Yugi and Jounouchi, how do you like our wonderful little world so far?" He asked with a grin. Jou raised an eyebrow. "It wouldn' be so bad if there weren', ya know, crazy monstas that 'tack us. Right, Yug'?" He looked down at me with a half worried, half amused glint in his eyes. "Speakin' o' that, how's ya arm?" I blinked and looked down at it; there was no trace there had ever been a monstrously fatal wound, only a torn sleeve remained.
"Yes, how is your arm? I trust that Ryou healed it perfectly, as he always does?" Yami raised an eyebrow and smirked, which again sent my heart into irregular patterns.
I quickly averted my eyes to our surroundings; the vines and plants were so dark a green they were almost black.
"M-my arm feels perfect! Thanks again, Ryou," I said, looking over my shoulder at the rabbit-eared fellow, who, at the moment, was trying to (unsuccessfully, I might add,) remove Bakura's arms from his waist. Ryou's ears perked up and he smiled at me.
"No worries, Yugi! I wouldn't wish that death on my worst enemy!"
Akarui snorted, "Ryou don't have enemies." Yami grinned and chuckled, turning around and leading us to a door that was seemingly standing against a tree. Now why there was a door in the middle of a forest, I have no idea. But with this world, Wonderland, I'm slowly learning to just go with it.
Akarui squealed and bounced while clapping her hands. "Yay, yay, yaaaaay! Hatter's house! Hatter's house!" The girl in the colorful dress sang, twirling around and grinning as if she won the lottery.
Jou scratched his head. "Uh, no 'fense but, uh, why's there a door 'gainst a tree?" Yami winked at me (which made Jou grin at me, and me blush for the hundredth time), and opened the door: there was the tree.
"Okaaaaay, there's a tree. I don' unda-" Yami closed, then opened the door again, this time revealing a sunny field with a house in the shape of a...teapot? and tables placed here and there with cakes and smaller teapots. As Jou and I gaped, Akarui jumped through shrieking with joy, Bakura tried to turn back, claiming 'it's too bright and happy', and Ryou dragging him through with a relieved sigh. Yami held the door open for us and bowed. "Welcome to my humble home, Yugi and Jou!" Jou hummed and stepped through, looking around in wonder.
I stood there staring like the fool I was until I felt an arm wrap around my waist. I blinked up at Yami, who was gazing around the forest. "Come, little one, you wish not to stay here in the forest, for it is dangerous. Come with me, please," And with that, gently pushed me through the doorway, from which he followed and closed the door. The door disappeared in a poof! and a cloud of white smoke with red fireworks.
Yami turned and smiled at me. "Would you like some tea?"
Me: I'm sorry, again. I hope I'll get to work on them more! T-T
Yugi: Please review and thank you for reading! :D