Sakura: Hey! So sorry for the wait, but here's the next chapter! Going between high school and managing my story is kinda stressing me out.
Yami: Please read the notice at the bottom of the chapter before you leave.
Yuugi: Hope you like the next chapter!
Chapter 6 - Identity Revealed!
*I've never heard of Sakura before, but why does the name Taki sound so familiar to me?!* Yuugi wondered as Yami continued to stare defiantly into this woman's eyes. He thought it was safe to assume that this was Taki. Now that he thought about it, Yami and Luna had a conversation when that name was suddenly brought up. (See Chapter 2 for details)
Taki honestly looked exactly like Luna! They had to be twins! There was no other logical explanation to tell who she was!
He stood on his toes to get a better look into the room through the window. "Get away from me, lunatic wretch!" Yami demanded the woman. She just stood there with a grin on her face.
"Well? Are you ready to talk?" she asked. Yami pulled at his chains in vain. Taki laughed at his futile attempts at freedom.
"It's no use, my dear. You can't break those chains. I'll release you if you only give me some information." the brunette offered.
The crimson-eyed teen glared daggers at her, saying, "Why should I trust you?!"
She shook her head. "You must ask the right question."
He demanded, "What is it that you want from me?!"
She closed his eyes. "I have my reasons. One's I'm not willing to tell at the moment. So don't ask."
He hesitated for a moment before asking, "What do you need me for?"
She smiled, "Now, that is the right question." The brunette turned her back on him.
"I need you because I can't get my hands on my sister. Other than her, you are the only other being who knows where the items I search for are hidden. I search for those items for a very special purpose. One that will not come to pass for quite some time whether you agree to assist me or not."
"Let me stop you right there, Kumeo." Yami interrupted. "Anything you have to offer always comes at the price of information. Information that is not meant to be revealed to the likes of you!" he spat at her. She sighed in discontent.
"You always act without thinking, don't you?" she said airily.
He let out a feral growl, one that Yuugi could've confused for a lion or some other wild cat.
"Only when the situation calls for it. Let me go!" he demanded furiously.
Taki shook her head. "You should at least listen to me. Isn't it better to hear my demands before refusing so eagerly?"
Yami let out a sigh and dropped to his knees. His strength was quickly fading from his earlier struggles.
"Now will you please listen to me?" the woman asked politely. Yami sighed in defeat.
"I just needed to let everything out, you know? Some form of stress relief. It's a little difficult not to use magic from time to time. I'm surprised the Angels could keep it under wraps without having problems." he said, rolling his eyes at the notion.
Taki looked at him with wide eyes. "I know! They are all just act like they're so perfect! Stuck-up assholes! The only one who doesn't act like them is your darling sister, Sakura. I still wonder how you two are even related!" Taki began pacing around the room.
"She is the Demonic Angel Valentine Sakura Beth. The Princess of Darkness, your other half to destruction and chaos! She's more evil than you are on her best day! But, you. You are the Angelic Demon Keiro Loki, the master of Chaos and the Prince of Darkness, the Devil's Incarnate! And yet, you can be more pure and innocent than all of the Angels put together!
"You and Sakura are both half-breeds of Angelic and Demonic Royalty. You were born from the Queen of the Angels and theKing of the Demons while Sakura was born from the Queen of the Demons and the King of the Angels. How is it that you two are considered brother and sister by blood?!"
Yuugi gasped. Yami wasn't human?! How?! Why?! But... Loki... the name sounds so familiar, yet he can't seem to remember who it was. Where has he heard it before?!
Yami smirked at the bewildered female. "Simple. Because Sakura and I were literally born from the darkness itself. We came out separately. We seem like we are twins, yet we seem like opposites. We are practically two sides of the same coin."
Taki stopped pacing and turned her attention back towards the bound male. "As much as I want to talk about this, this is not why I captured you."
Yami rolled his crimson eyes. "Technically, I gave myself up because my position could have been compromised. We are among humans here."
"That doesn't matter." Taki waved her hand, signaling him to be silent. "The reason I need your knowledge because I search for the Key of the Elements."
Yami felt like he stopped breathing for a moment. "My apologies, Miss Valentine, but I can't tell you that."
"Why not? Surely you know where it's hidden!" she claimed. Yami shook his head.
"No, I don't think you quite understand, Taki." Yami cut in. "I never hid the Key. Sakura did. Only she knows its current location." he lied.
"What about the Heart then?" she demanded. "If she hid one, then you hid the other!"
Yami widened his eyes. "What are you planning, Taki?!" he asked furiously, feeling his blood run cold as he thought of the many things she would need the Key and/or the Heart for.
"I'm not going to tell you my plan, Loki." she mused. "What's the fun in spoiling the surprise?"
Yami shouted, "If you try anything, I'll put your ass in the ground myself, you psychotic bitch! Especially if you try to harm Amiti!"
She looked shocked at the name. "Of course I would never harm your beloved husband! To do so is to invoke the wrath of the Dark Prince and we all know how dangerous that is, not to mention how foolish."
Yuugi was still standing there just taking all of it in. 'Amiti' sounded like a nickname. A name suddenly popped into his head. Why does the name Rosu Amitos suddenly seem familiar as well?
Taki continued, "Your attacks are extremely dangerous and deadly as much as you are graceful and mysterious in nature. Only a complete idiot would do such a thing."
"Says the woman who picked a fight with me the day of our wedding." Yami pointed out to the brunette, smiling all the while.
"Hm, you have a fair point." she mumbled before staring at him intently. "Where is the Heart, boy?"
"I'm not telling." the teen refused, turning his head.
Taki rolled her eyes at him for his childish behavior before glaring at him again. "You will reveal the location of the Heart to me!"
"I refuse to tell!" Yami yelled. Taki narrowed her eyes at the stubborn male.
"Tell me, Loki!"
"Never!"
Taki struck him across his face, fuming for a moment before turning her back on him. "Fine. You'll crack eventually. I'm going to entertain my guest for a while." Yuugi immediately fled back to where he stood before the brunette left the room.
"When you're ready to talk, just call me, sweetheart." she said sweetly, making both males want to gag.
"You wish." Yami growled as she locked the door.
Taki made her way back to her throne and sat down. "My apologies for all of that, Yuugi. I didn't expect to get anywhere with him."
"I'm sure you didn't, Taki." The brunette widened her eyes in surprise. "Tell me, who's Sakura?" Yuugi inquired, seeming a little eager to know the female in question.
"How come you know my name without me telling you?" she asked suspiciously.
Violet clashed with hazel before the male smirked and said, "You should really tell your, erm, client, to be a little quieter if you don't want anything revealed about you."
Taki raised an eyebrow at the statement. "I'll deal with him later. So, is it safe to assume that you heard our little conversation?"
"Was I that obvious?" the male asked innocently.
"Well, Mutou Yuugi, Valentine Sakura Beth is the woman you know as Frost Luna." Taki explained. She drew close to the tri-color haired teen and said, "But here's a warning for you. She is not to be trusted. And neither is the one you call Yami. They have much more hidden from you than they would ever care to confess." The felines that brought him here purred and rubbed up against the male's legs.
"Oh, are my kitties hungry again?" Taki asked in a cute voice. Yuugi rolled his eyes. How this woman is so evil and still manages to look like an angel he'll never know.
Out of nowhere, an explosion went off and smoke quickly filled the throne room. Taki let out a startled scream, both male and female raised their arms to protect themselves from the dust and debris, and Luna (or Sakura?) had appeared in the room. She had both Teros and Sophero by her side.
They both begin to transform from feline to human. Sophero transformed into a young black-haired teenage boy, who looks like he's at least sixteen, and Teros transformed into a young teenage girl with dark brown hair about fifteen years of age.
Taki's cats Soret and Orephos turned into a male and female version just like Luna's kitties had, but the male had red hair and a scar that brought out his arrogant personality and made him look gorgeous while the female looked practically like an assassin. Both parties' pets attacked each other head on as Sakura and Taki clashed with one another.
Moments later, once Taki had been sufficiently weakened, Sakura brought Yuugi closer to herself and called, "Yami! We're leaving!"
The male in question had managed to break free of his binds and literally teleported over to the two. "No!" Taki shouted as Yami created a dark cloud around them. A flash of light, a blur of pink and black, and the group had vanished without a trace.
Taki looked at the now empty space of where her sibling had been standing a moment before. As she twitched and slightly shook with anger, Soret approached her, dropped to one knee, and bowed her head. "I'm sorry, Master Taki. We have failed you."
Orephos was leaning against the wall with a look of contempt written all over his face. "It was all because her damn sister trespassed in Master Taki's territory."
He kicked off of the wall and walked towards the rage-filled brunette, who sat there calmly. "Why didn't that bitch burn when she entered the volcano? We would all know if she had the flower to come in! Why was she allowed in?!"
Taki stared at the ground for a moment. "Because she is one of the few who can destroy me at will. If she can do that, then she would have no problem breaking and entering into our domain." she mumbled, the wheels in her head were beginning to turn. Planning, scheming, laying out the blueprints of her insidious plan in her cryptic mind.
"Besides," she said with a smile, lifting her head doing so. "She'll get what's coming to her. After all, good things come to those who wait."
~A/N: Sakura: Elements, Princes, Princesses, Twins and more! What is the Key and what's the Heart for? With my riddles that all can see, this really is a royal mystery!
Yami: Could you stop with the rhymes, Sakura?
Sakura: Why? It's fun! It makes me smile! It makes my time really worthwhile!
Yuugi: Give it up, Yami. There's nothing to gain. Don't try to stop her. It'll only be in vain.
Yami: *sweatdrop* Not you too, Yuugi!
Sakura: Listen to him! You know it's true! With the chapter at an end, Please Review!
Yami: I can't stand this! Give it a break! How much more of this do I have to take?! *pauses for a second* Shit! Now I'm rhyming too! Mark my words, I'm going to get you! *facepalm* Ra, damn it!
Sakura and Yuugi: Aha ha ha ha ha ha ha! X3 *victory pose*
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