Sorry this took so long, guys, but this month is going to be pretty hectic around my area. Here's your update and I'll see you as soon as I possibly can! X3
Chapter 7 - I Think I'm Seeing Double!
The group reappeared in the familiar jeweled landscape of the fantasy world Yami and Sakura had resided in.
"So, do I call you Sakura or Luna?" Yuugi asked the brunette.
She smiled. "If it's just me, Yami, or both of us, you can call me by my birth name, Sakura. Any other time, you continue calling me Luna."
"Alright!" the male returned the beaming smile to the female, unaware that Yami had proceeded to walk away.
"As for you, Yami," she called. "You should learn not to get yourself caught, 'princess'." she finished with a smirk.
Yami blushed heavily at the comment. "My position was compromised, alright?! I wasn't going to let mere humans find out about us!" he spat before storming off, embarrassed at the way he appeared in front of them.
"Yami? Where are you going?" Yuugi called vainly, the taller male walking on without turning.
"Just leave him be for a little while." Sakura sighed, placing a hand on her forehead. "He's just going to sulk for about half an hour, give or take."
Yuugi looked her in the eye, inquiring, "Is this a usual thing for you guys?"
Sakura responded, "Oh, every now and then, I suppose. Taki has a way of catching Yami in his most vulnerable state. How she does, I don't know. Yet." She turned on her heel and walked towards the cave.
"We may as well return. The others must be worrying themselves sick looking for us." she called. Yami approached Yuugi from behind, arms crossed over his chest, a slight blush lingering on his face from the embarrassment earlier.
As they walked, Yuugi and Sakura conversed on the way back to reality. Yami could only follow them close behind.
"How could they just disappear like that?" Malik voiced aloud.
"I honestly don't know, Malik. If I did, I would have said so ages ago." Ryou sighed in defeat.
Malik and Ryou, along with the company of Ryou's older sister, Amane, were sitting at a café, waiting for their friends to show, hopefully with information with where Yuugi, Yami, and Luna had gone.
"Any luck with finding them?" she asked, worry evident in her eyes.
"No." they replied simultaneously.
"I guess that makes three of us." she sighed, exhausted from searching practically the entire city for Yuugi and Yami.
"Hey guys!" a familiar blonde called from a distance. Jounouchi had a wide grin while Anzu shook her head, mumbling, "This is ridiculous." under her breath, and Honda staring behind him with a confused look written all over his face. Kaiba showed up as well... with Yami... with a chain attached to the choker around his neck.
Seeing the teen crossing his arms with a slightly miffed expression, Malik, Ryou, and Amane could only stare as both males avoided the other's gaze.
"Umm... Do I want to know?" Malik asked hesitantly, completely lost with the sight before him.
Right on cue, Kaiba and Yami turned to face each other. Kaiba glared daggers at him. Yami returned his glare with a growl.
The blonde ignored them and answered, "Probably not."
It was only a blur, but Yami managed to pin Kaiba to the ground by his wrists. Everyone took a couple steps back at the sudden movement from the teen.
"What the hell?! Get off of me!" the brunette gasped, a little shaken from the unexpected attack and the fact that he had a perverse smirk on his face.
Oblivious to the demand, Yami leaned down and stole a kiss from him. Ryuuji and Mai just happened to pass by in time for the scene.
They approached them as the blonde woman demanded, "What in the world is going on here?!"
Ryuuji was just staring at the oblivious teen on the ground, who was being resisted by the brunette underneath of him. When Yami pulled out of the kiss, Kaiba immediately smacked him across his face. Hard. Everyone else gasped, but the male didn't seem the slightest bit fazed by the action. Instead, he was sitting on him with that same perverse smirk on his face.
"Aren't you a feisty one?" Yami laughed in spite of it all.
"Get the hell off of me, you ass!" Kaiba shouted.
As if on cue, a familiar brunette woman had pounced on Yami from behind. Jounouchi managed to recognize her immediately. "Luna! How'd ya find us?" the blonde asked, smiling at the female.
With a victorious smirk on her face, she responded, "I heard Kaiba scream. That was enough of an incentive for me!"
The male in question began fuming over her casual answer, the faintest sign of a blush evident on his pale skin. "You bitch!"
"She's been called far worse, take it from me." someone sighed from behind Ryou. It was the twins themselves: Yami and Yuugi. "However, you have to watch what you say. She's a little sensitive on certain subjects." The brunette could barely stand the teasing he was forced to endure because of the situation he was dragged into. However, the blush on his face was absolutely priceless.
"Yami?! Yuugi?! When did you guys get here?!" Ryuuji demanded, quite surprised on them showing up discreetly.
"Just now, actually." Yami responded airily, signs of interest missing from his tone. "We followed Luna, but didn't bother to keep up." He notices the male on top of Kaiba, the familiar smirk pointed towards the brunette on the ground.
"Well, this is certainly a sight to see!" the teen laughed, holding his sides before falling to the ground as Yuugi continued standing there with a horrified expression.
"Wait a minute, guys." Anzu cut in as Yami's laughter began to subside. "If Yami's right there, then who's this?!" she asked, a finger directed at the döppelganger on the ground that was smiling viciously in his contentment.
Yami managed to pick himself off the ground long enough to stand and face the duplicate that also rose to his feet. Silence passed between them until Yami's amused expression quickly assumed that of someone who has a bad side that is to be avoided (if that makes any sense at all).
"Secrutius." Yami growled darkly, irritation quite clear in his tone.
"How wonderful it is to see you again, brother!" he said cheerfully.
"Well, technically speaking, I'm his half-brother, in a way. It wouldn't make any sense to you of our… relation to each other." he clarified before trying to hug the crimson-eyed male. .Yami promptly pushed him away and pinned him to the ground in pure rage and contempt.
"How dare you come down here and show your face to me!" Yami shouted, the other wincing as his shoulder made contact with the concrete. Some would swear that the heard something break.
Secrutius only laughed. "Oh, come on, love. Does it hurt for me to come by every once in a while?" That earned him a punch to the face and a rather feral growl from the teen.
The sharp intake gave the weakness away as Yami kept him pinned on his back. "Who do you think you are, bastard?!" Yami was getting hostile fast just by seeing his 'half-brother'.
Kaiba was being ignored as he futilely attempted to stand. Yami pushed himself off of Secrutius, who proceeded to gasp in pain, and approached the brunette, offering his hand.
Seeing what he was trying to say, he pushed it away and growled, "I don't need your pity." The fact that he fell onto his back after those words left his lips was saying something.
Rolling his eyes at this, Yami decided to help the male, but he received a death glare in the process. "Put me down!" Kaiba's attitude wasn't really improving the situation one bit.
Yami gave him a warning look before he received yet another irritated growl from the stubborn teen. Without warning, Yami immediately dropped him… on Secrutius.
"Ow! You bastard! How dare you?!" Secrutius yelled, still in pain from the physical damage done to him. Yami rolled his eyes, mumbling, "Such a drama queen." under his breath.
Kaiba once again tried in vain to get up on his own, but landed on his side in the process.
"Why the hell did you drop me?!" Kaiba demanded, a little surprised that Yami actually listened to him.
"You told me to drop you, so I did." Yami replied with an annoyed tone. Nothing pissed him off more than people who thought of themselves higher than everyone else.
"I didn't think you would actually listen to me!" the blue-eyed brunette said, exasperated.
"Well, I guess that was a little overdone." Secrutius sighed. "It was meant to seduce the male, not paralyze him." he said with an impish grin.
"In your dreams, lunatic!" Kaiba growled, turning his head in disgust.
As soon as the male he was dropped on even glanced at him, Secrutius received some sort of metal disc thrown at his head, sending him straight back to the ground and causing Kaiba to jump in shock.
With a victorious smirk, Sakura caught the disc as it was coming back and hid it in her jacket pocket. No sooner that she had done so that Secrutius came back up and tried to hurt her, immediately initiating a fight between the two. An amused smile formed on Yami's face.
As everyone egged them on, Yami looked to the alley across the street. Within the darkness, there were two men; one with sandy blonde spiky hair and violet eyes along with another with snow white hair and brownish-red eyes.
Looking at his surroundings, he quickly crossed the street without being noticed, the others too caught up in the blossoming fight behind him.
"How long were you going to keep us waiting?" the blonde teen asked with an evil smile.
"You do realize that I am on a tight schedule?" the albino growls impatiently.
"Oh, calm down, brat." Yami sighed, closing his eyes and pinching the bridge of his nose as he at least attempted to keep his temper in check. The male rolls his eyes and shrugs it off in a sigh. "Weren't you supposed to pass something on to me?"
"Bakura, the message? You remember it a lot better than I do." the male points out. Bakura rolls his eyes again, but pushes himself off of the wall he was leaning against and relays the message.
"Taki told us to tell you 'Once it passes, you know where to meet me. We have a score to settle. Don't be late.' Marik, the flower?" The blonde beside him presented an orange-colored rose. No doubt from the woman herself.
"This was for you as well." Marik added on as Yami took the rose from his hand.
The teen pulled out a couple of small bags that was filled with gold coins. He hands them to Marik and Bakura respectively. The albino opens the bag to see how much was inside. Judging the way the coins clinked together, there was a reasonable amount for their trouble. Both teens exchanged glances, turned towards the darkness, and began to walk away, satisfied with the cash they got out of this.
However...
"Wait." Yami calls, causing both to cease their movements and turn their heads towards him. "Could you pass on a message to Taki? She'll need this one as an... incentive of sorts"
During the beginning of the fight, Sakura and Secrutius had actually agreed on something. Something that pissed off a certain Kaiba Seto nearby. Not too long after that, he tried to murder the both of them. As the fought, Yuugi checked out the rest of his friends, not even bothering with the trio's little spat.
Looking to his left, Anzu, Mai, Amane, Malik, and Ryou were chatting among themselves, oblivious to the ongoing fight. Glancing behind him, Ryuuji, Jounouchi, and Honda had decided to occupy their time with a nearby rumor.
But when he looked to his right where Yam was supposed to be beside him, his twin seemed to have disappeared. Yami had walked out of an alley as if he was just wandering for a moment or two. Upon returning to the Yuugi-tachi, he noticed the three still fighting with each other like children. He groaned, throughly pissed off at this (among other things, no doubt), and proceeds to pull out his pocket knife. He approaches the group and grabs Secrutius from behind, slitting his throat in the process. As the döppelganger's corpse drops lifelessly to the ground, all arguing instaneously ceases and desists as they watch it happen.
With all eyes trained on him, Yami shrugs with the knife still in his hand and says, "I couldn't take it anymore. He's an irritating prick and I had to get rid of him."
Sakura rolled her eyes, purposefully releasing the small amount of clothing held in her fist so Kaiba dropped to the ground once again before addressing her sibling with a sigh of, "Wasn't there a more humane way of getting him to shut up?" Yami placed the knife in his pocket.
"No." he responded simply. Sakura sighed and shook her head. "You're absolutely hopeless, you know that? Can't I trust you not to kill someone?"
"Probably not." Kaiba piped up from the ground. He was checking to see if he can feel any of his limbs now.
As the brunette stood to his feet, Yami began crying indignantly, "Stop treating me like a child, Luna! I'm older than you!"
"Yeah, by a year!" she laughed. "Maybe it really is true that women mature quicker than men. Not that I'm surprised."
Yami was fuming at the implication and growls "Listen, you-" before Taki shows up out of thin air, surprising everyone.
Yuugi knew her to be cruel and cunning, but she seemed timid, innocent, and insecure. She looked at them and presented a rose that was covered in an odd mix of black and blue color.
Yami and Sakura's eyes grew wide, knowing what they signified. "These are..." Sakura's voice trailed, still in shock of their appearance at the moment.
"The other one is to come with you." Yami cast a glance at Yuugi, seeming horrified at the very idea.
"But why would-"
"It's not my choice and I can't tell you more than I already have." Taki cut him off. Once both siblings pulled out their own roses, Sakura's being black and Yami's being blue, the twin brunette said, "They are waiting for you two. Or should I say three." With that, she disappeared again, as if nothing happened.
It didn't take Yuugi long to connect the dots. He was involved.
~A/N: I couldn't help it! I had to tease you guys! X3
Kaiba: One of these days, Sakura. One of these days...
Yami: Oh, calm down, Kaiba. She's just having a little fun.
Yuugi: Say, where did you disappear to, Yami?
Yami: Hm? I didn't go anywhere, Yuugi. And that wasn't Taki, I can assure you.
Malik: So, what can we expect in the next chapter?
Amane: {waving a bunch of paper in the air} I found the scripts, Sakura!
Ryuuji, Jounouchi, and Honda: Scripts?!
Sakura: Did you really think I wouldn't plan this out first? Could you pass those out, Amane?
Amane: Sure! XD {passes them out}
Ryou: {receives a script and skims it over before blushing} Oh my... 0/0
Mai: Two more people?! How many do you need, Sakura?!
Sakura: I haven't quite decided yet.
Yami: Haven't decided? I thought you finished writing this story about a month ago!
Sakura: Yami! 0.0; You weren't supposed to tell them that! Now they'll expect me to type them up faster!
Yami: Sakura, they're aren't that mean. They'll wait as long as it takes so long as you can get the stories typed up and posted.
Sakura: Um, I don't believe that's helping any, Yami.
Anzu: Actually, he's right, Sakura. Don't worry.
Sakura: If you say so.
Ryou and Kaiba: Please Review!