Chapter 9 - Confessions
The next morning, Yami woke to the sound of both his phone and his alarm blaring at max volume, scaring the living daylights out of him. He thought he was about to have a heart attack. Yami answered his phone. "Yami?"
"Who else could it be? How weird is it when you call me and my alarm goes off at the same time?" Yami sighed, too tired to put up with anything at the moment.
"Pretty weird." Joey responded. "Speaking of which, why haven't you been talking to us recently?"
Yami rolled his eyes. "I've just been busy lately. I thought I told you guys that already."
"Yeah, you did, but..."
"But...?" Yami waited for Joey to continue.
"Look, I'm just making absolutely sure. Are you sure nothing's on your mind?"
"I'm fine, Joey. Don't worry so much!" Yami insisted. "Look, you can talk to me when we see each other at school, 'kay? Bye!"
"Yami, wait-" Yami hung up him before he could get another word in.
On Joey's end, the blonde stared at the cell in rage. "Damn it." He turned to Mai, Duke, Tristan, and Téa. "No luck. He hung up on me."
He climbed in behind Mai. "Let's go."
Seto waited by the gates of Domino High in hopes of finding the recently secretive Yami. After getting the truth out of Mokuba, there were a few things that needed to be explained to him. Especially the fact that Yami was hiding his own gender from his friends.
His brother then demanded, "Don't lie to us, then. Tell us everything you know."
Mokuba shuffled his feet as he remained in Marik's grasp. Marik and Ryou exchanged worried looks and Yugi swallowed hard. "Well?" Marik growled impatiently.
Seto's eyes lit up in realization. "Wait..." He leaned forward a little to look into his brother's blue eyes. "Were you four running for woods earlier?" he asked curiously, his eyes flitting between the boys. The teens in question tensed. Marik tried to get them out of this.
"Yeah, right. Why would we be around here anyway?" Marik began his lie. "We happened to be passing through the woods on a whim. Whatever went on here, we have nothing to do with it."
Mokuba silently prayed. This situation is bad enough as it is. "I'm pretty sure Kaiba asked you not to lie." Malik said plainly, causing them to shiver.
"You're not in trouble, Mokuba. I just need to know, okay?" the brunette said calmly. True, it's wrong to spy on people, but if Mokuba's got something about Yami that they need to know, he's going to get the answer one way or another.
The raven-haired male sighed in defeat. "Alright, alright, I'll tell the truth." He looked at the others, waiting to see if they were ready to listen. "We were spying on Yami."
An outraged burst from the blonde was enough to make him flinch. "You guys snuck in here?! I thought you guys knew better!" Joey demanded before Mai smacked him at the back of his head.
"How about giving them a chance to explain themselves before screeching at them, Joey?" the buxom blonde suggested coldly. Joey just rubbed his head in slight pain.
Marik, Ryou, and Yugi exchanged rather worried looks as Mokuba continued, "You guys wanted to know why Yami was being so secretive as of late, so we did the work for you." He looked at the group half-expecting them to be clawing their eyes put or something.
"We had no idea what we were getting into. Not until we saw Yami..." His voice trailed, unsure of how to tell them what they saw.
"I think they saw something that they weren't supposed to from him." Bakura laughed, mentally congratulating them on sneaking in and almost getting away with it. Ryou's voice sounded in his head, *"I can see what you're thinking. And, I'm not proud of it, but thanks anyway, I suppose..."* The thief chuckled quietly at that.
"I think it'll be easier to show them, Mokuba. I think I accidently left mine on record." Ryou offered casually, feeling a little foolish for doing so.
Mokuba nodded as Bakura released the smaller albino to go fetch the device from the living room where he dropped it in the panic. When he brought it up, he play the scene back.
Note: Anything said from here will be coming from the video until otherwise noted.
"Is it on, Ryou?" Yugi's voice sounded.
"I-I think so..." Ryou responded hesitantly.
"Can you guys see anything?" Marik asked from the device.
"There's no movement down here. I can see what you see and Yugi can see through Mokuba." Ryou said quietly.
"Alright, then. Warn us if anything changes."
"Will do."
Ryou waited, looking around for anything peculiar. Yugi decided to start a conversation to lighten the mood.
"So, um, you didn't want to come either?" Yugi asked.
"No." he laughed. "If anyone else found out about this, God knows what they'll do to us."
They both looked for any sort of visual update from either Mokuba or Marik. The timing of it was... well, they weren't sure what to say because they were seeing Yami. With breasts...
"Yami's a woman?!" Yugi gasped. He looked up, trying to comprehend what he just saw, but he spotted Seto's car pulling up in the driveway. He widened his eyes in fear.
"Mayday! Mayday! Mokuba, your brother's in the driveway! Pull out now! I repeat, pull out now!" he said quickly before taking his and running as if his life depended on it.
Ryou took the one he was holding and went to turn it off.
Note: Video's over, guys
Malik and Bakura instantly released their hostages in pure shock of seeing the former Pharaoh as a woman. "What the hell?!" they screamed simultaneously.
Mokuba nodded, "Yami's a girl. She's a crossdresser."
Seto was still a little shaken over that conversation, but he got his answer. He watched as Mai's car pulled up. He half-expected Yami's head to pop out. No such luck as Joey and the rest of his friends climbed out of the vehicle.
However, a black car caught his attention since Yami climbed out of that one instead. She nodded her thanks as she walked towards the school. The brunette aprroached her.
"Yami." he started, hoping he got the attention he requested.
The teen turned to face him. "Oh, Seto. Did you need something from me?" she requested, still sounding like the Yami he knew.
"Come with me." he said as he grabbed Yami's arm. "We need to talk."
He dragged her to a classroom where it was closest to her first period class. Shutting the door so no one could hear them, he released Yami and crosses his arms over his broad chest. "Start talking, Yami. Why have you been so secretive lately? You've been avoiding everyone." he demanded, waiting for the female to answer him.
"What are you talking about?" Yami asked, seeming genuinely confused. "I haven't been avoiding anyone. They just haven't said anything to me."
*Damn, he's catching on, isn't he?* she cursed mentally, hoping Seto didn't notice anything.
The warning bell rang out, saving her from further interrogation. "I have to get to class!" Yami said before turning and quickly opening the door to make her exit.
Seto cursed his luck. "How convenient..." he mumbled in frustration. This wasn't going to be easy...
Seto spotted Ryou towards the end of the day. "Ryou." he called, hoping to talk to the young Britain.
The albino ran over to him with a simple, "Yes?"
"Have you seen Yami? She was here this morning." the brunette asked. Yami had been gone since third class.
"Oh, she claimed that she wasn't feeling well, so they took her to the nurse." Ryou replied. "I would assume they sent her home."
"Hn" was his only response before thanking him and making his way to the gates to await Isono's arrival.
"Honestly, how do you continue this derangement act for so long, my dear?" a female brunette asked her prisoner who was chained to the wall in the shadows.
The male growled lowly before saying, "It's no act, Suarez. They'll find him, Valencia. You can't keep Yami in the shadows forever."
The woman tutted, "Just watch me, sweetheart. I'm a much better actor than you give me credit for." She kneeled to look into his crimson eyes. "Now, tell me, what is exactly is your personality like? Daredevil? Noble Prince?" she began guessing.
The teen smirked and lied, "Try suicidal. Remember when you murdered them? How depressed do you think he was, hm?"
Valencia thought about it for a while. "Well, that's kinda my point and purpose in some of this. So, I need to pretend to want to die to pull it off?"
Riley nodded. Yami may have been depressed, but he knew better than to kill himself. *He's already improving thanks to that boy.* he thinks as she tries to pin the faux persona.
"No, no, no, you're doing that all wrong, you stupid girl!" Riley sighes exasperately. "Think of yourself as a bit of a martyr, so to speak. Keep practicing and you'll be pretty convincing, okay?"
The woman smiled darkly. "I can already do that. They don't suspect a thing." She turned on her heel and headed for the door. Glancing back for a moment to say, "I'll be back for you, love!", she walked out of the cold gray room with Yami's home being the destination in mind.
Seto approached the house later that night to check on Yami. She had been acting strange enough as it was. He walked up to the door and knocked on it.
The moonlight seemed to have caught some because Seto turned to see a window to his right had been shattered. The adrenaline began to course through him as he ran over and carefully climbed into the house concern shining in his cobalt eyes. The sound of a gun being loaded in Yami's room drew his attention. He dashed as fast as he could only to walk in with the female in question holding the gun.
"Yami? What are you doing?" Seto dared to ask. Yami turned to look at him. The pain in her eyes were clear. Seto reacted quickly as she put the gun to her head. He leapt at her in an attempt to disarm her. He succeeded just before she pulled the trigger, pinning her to the wall and accidently catching her lips in a heated kiss.
When they parted for breath, Seto asked, "What were you thinking?! Why were you trying to off yourself?!" Yami remained silent for a moment, feeling a little shaken.
Instead of giving an answer, she pulled him close for another passionate kiss. She found it quite... enchanting. Seto looked into those crimson eyes and asked, "What's gotten into your head to kill yourself?"
The look in Yami's eyes changed. Instead of pain, there was hope. For what, Seto could only guess. He began laughing, a sad look in his eyes. "A better question... is why I haven't done so already." he mumbled as he pushed himself off of the wall.
The male caught him by the wrist. "What do you mean by that, exactly?" he demanded as Yami pulled away and faced him.
He backed away from him as far as the window to the balcony. "I don't exactly know who Yami is..." He drew a knife from his sleeve. "But I am Riley Spade. I am one of you. A monster..." He put the knife to her throat, getting ready to kill himself.
~A/N: So, Yami's a suicidal woman?! Shocker!
Malik: I still think this is a load of bullshit!
Bakura: I know! It's like saying this isn't a straight-up Prideshipping story!
Sakura: Indeed! ;) Please Review! X3
Seto: Please tell me that Yami isn't a woman! I don't think I could handle that after all of this!
Sakura: Perhaps something could be arranged since I'm typing up the next chapter this very moment!
Seto: Preferrably not a dead lover would be nice.
Yami: I'm not going to die. Sakura here wouldn't allow that.
Sakura: Got that right! And I apologize for slight bashing in the next chapter to those who like her.