THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR! THE EPIC SONG CHAPTER THAT IS SURE TO BE TOTALLY SUPERSPECIALAWESOME!
I had WAY too much fun writing the lyrics for this chapter. I hope you have just as much fun reading them! I suggest that you put the song on repeat in a separate tab (if ur not on a mobile device and can do that) for the effect. Preferably the instrumental.
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I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series, the song "Remember When (Push Rewind)", or any of the characters/trademarks in those.
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Marik was starting to eye the empty stage. The microphones had caught his interest and just wouldn't let go of it. Every nerve in his body was screaming to his instincts, "GO UP THERE AND SING!" But Marik told his instincts not to listen. The last time he sang in public was...
No! Have to forget about him! He left. He doesn't care. So neither should I!
But then his instincts somehow got drunk and started listening to his nerves. Then his instinct (or perhaps something else?) took over his brain and he found himself walking over to the person in charge of the music.
He was Marik freaking Sebatsian Ishtar III. He could listen to a song completely foreign to him (as long as he could speak the language it was in) and improvise his way into a kick-ass parody performance that would surely win American Idol if he were to be on the show.
He took a $20 bill out of his pocket and held it out to the guy person.
The guy looked up expectantly, a hint of recognition in his eyes that Marik didn't pay any mind to.
"Please tell me you don't want any specific song played." he asked Marik.
"I don't," Marik said to him. "I want you to play an instrumental version of any song you have there. It doesn't matter what. As long as its lyrics are in English, Egyptian, Japanese, or British."
The guy's eyes lit up. "So you're going to sing?!" he asked excitedly.
"No DUH!" Marik murmured, almost in a controlled slur. "Yes I'm going to sing. You got a problem with that?"
"No. Not at all. I have the perfect song for you!"
The music guy smiled wide and took the money. Then he got the song ready and prepared to play it. He eagerly motioned for Marik to get on stage.
Marik did so. A few people looked up, a bit curious now that someone was actually going to get up and take the open mic.
The music started.
Marik had litterally exactly five seconds to react. And how he reacted was this: he recognized the song as one that described his situation perfectly, he was glad that Bakura—as well as no one either of them knew—wasn't there, and he knew exactly how he was going to make up the lyrics.
The lyrics to a parody of the song "Remember When (Push Rewind)".
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Out of the corner of his eye, Bakura saw someone get on stage, but didn't care who it was.
Then he heard music starting. A warp-like sound faded in. Bakura recognized the song. It was "Remember When (Push Rewind)". He had heard it once before and had decided that he never wanted to hear it again. He was about to cover his ears when whoever had decided to get on stage started singing.
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"I'm sitting in my empty tomb
"With a broken heart"
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Bakura recognized the voice. And those lyrics weren't the right ones. It could only be one person.
He picked up his head and looked.
His eyes widened, he stopped breathing for a moment, and his heart skipped a beat. The glass he was holding slipped from his hand and fell to the floor, shattering alone with no one to watch. They were all too focused on the purple-robed Egyptian that had just started singing.
Marik Sebastian Ishtar.
(The III.)
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"Thinking to myself, 'What have I done?'"
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How? How could Marik be here, in this place, with him, at the same time?! How?! It was too much of a coincidence. Why was he up there, singing? Singing a song that could perfectly descirbe their situation? Singing without him?
Singing...to him?
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"Cuz as our hatred got bright
"It started losing light"
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"Hatred..." Bakura muttered. He remembered...
"I hate you. I hate you more than I've ever hated anybody. I hate you so much that I can barely take it. In fact I want to go on hating you for the rest of my life."
Only Bakura and the fangirls (and maybe Melvin and Ryou) knew what he had truly meant by that. But now...?
Marik had let him leave. In fact, at the last moment Marik had ENCOURAGED and ACCEPTED it. Marik was the reason he had left.
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"And I couldn't see that you were the one"
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Marik was the reason he wanted to come back. Marik was the reason that he was here. Marik was the one he should be helping...not just with the council, but with this... This... This what?
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"So can we..."
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No! No I don't care! I'm done with him! I'm over! There's only so much playful arguing and idiocy I can take. He was holding me back.
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"...push push push rewind
"Go go back in time
"When we stole cards and Millenium Items"
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"No..." Bakura murmured. "I..."
Come on! Do it! a certain person though hopefully.
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"Please please please come back..."
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"No..." he breathed. He didn't know how to react...
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"...Bakura come back
"Back to my council!"
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Bakura suddenly knew what to do.
~•~
Marik continued singing straight from the heart.
Everything he wanted to say to Bakura, to whom he insisted time after time that he was straight and that he loved him but wasn't in love with him and would totally give his Rod to him if he didn't need it for the Steves, came out in his alternated lyrics to the song "Remember When (Push Rewind)".
He heard this song a while back, back before Bakura had left. And he had heard the song on the radio two days after he left. Because of the slow progress they were making, Marik had to change the meetings from annually to monthly. But that had only served to make things worse and make it even more obvious how he couldn't really control a council of idiotic unwilling non-Steve morons month after month.
The only thing that could make anything worse was if he actually saw the Limey Bastard again. If he did, he would be willing to dive into the world of Hetalia and ask Tony to tell Bakura what he was.
But he missed the Brit. No matter how much of a killjoy or a degrader or a critic he could be, Marik 'hated' Bakura more than he let on.
So this song was a welcome release for him.
I'm so glad Bakura isn't here, he managed to think while still singing his version of the song, moving a bit to the words and rhythm (and also to the alcohol).
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"Do you remember when we met in the alley
"And when you said 'I don't care' to me
"Remember when we stole the Pharaoh's pants
"And did that weird Michael Jackson dance"
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Somewhere in the room, two people facepalmed. One of them...was...
Marik smiled as he remembered both of those things. Both meeting in the alley, and stealing the Pharaoh's leather pants while singing that Lady Gaga song parody. Parodies were their thing. But not this one...
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"Two villains flying so high"
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Time for his favorite line of the song.
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"Yeah, partners in crime."
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Bakura probably thought that Marik didn't remember this part or registered it... But he did register it...
"We should be partners."
"You mean like partners in crime?"
With an eyeroll, Bakura said sarcastically, "Yeah. That's precisely what I meant."
But Marik knew exactly what Bakura had really meant.
He also knew what Bakura had meant when he said that he "hated" him.
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"Why did you ever say goodbye?
"Remember when we, when we HAD IT ALL!"
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"Missed me?"
Marik almost didn't sing the next line. Instead, he turned his head to the person he now shared the stage with, who had just grabbed the microphone next to Marik and held it near his mouth as if to sing, and who had just spoken to him through the mind link that Marik had created with the Millenium Rod years ago and forgot still even existed. He wore his sexy and intimidatingly evil black trench coat and his hair was still as Fluffy as ever.
Bakura.
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"Do you remember when?"
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~•~
He had somehow managed to walk onstage without tripping over or bumping into anyone or anything, despite his mind's lack of say in the actions of his feet (and also despite the alcohol). And it wasn't the alcohol that pushed his mind out of the driver's seat of his body: it was his instincts.
(One can arguably reword that and simply say that his brain has taken backseat to his heart in controlling his body, but remember that Bakura doesn't have one of those ;) .)
And now he was onstage. Next to his former partner (unfortunately, only in crime and singing). About to sing as much from the "heart" (remember that he doesn't really have one!) as Marik just had.
Bakura decided to get his attention by talking to him through the mind link they had created back in Battle City. After briefly activating his Millenium Ring to activate the mind link, he spoke. "Missed me?"
Marik turned to him and his eyes widened just before he sang the next line. He gave the spirit a look that asked "what the hell are you doing here?"
Bakura answered his incredulous look with a smirk and a wink.
Marik looked away and sang the line "Do you remember when".
Show time!
Marik looked like he was about to sing the next lines, but Bakura cut him off by singing for him. He was just as good as Marik was at creating parodies on the spot.
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"Hope I didn't lose my seat, which is at your side
"I guess that I just want you to know"
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Bakura couldn't keep it together staring at Marik, so he turned to their audience as he sang the next lines.
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"Oh how I miss your sexiness, your Rod and midriff
"Why the bugger did I let you go?"
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Bakura turned to Marik again. The Egyptian was blushing. Bakura could feel himself blushing as well.
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"So can we...
"Push push push rewind
"Go go back in time
"Like how I cheated in Season 5"
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He looked Marik in the eyes. The hand that Marik held his microphone in—which he had removed from its stand—had dropped to his side and he was staring in wonder at Bakura. Bakura also removed his microphone from its stand.
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"Take take take me back...
"...Marik, take me back
"Back to your council!"
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I am so glad that no one I know is here, Bakura thought gladly. Besides Marik, of course.
Especially Melvin and Ryou, he added.
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"Do you remember when my gaydar led me to you
"And you insisted it wasn't true
"Remember when we went to that weird town
"It's funny how all of that went down"
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He did dare say the name of the town. In truth, what had really occurred in "Censored" town was a lot different than what had occurred in the fanfic.
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"Two villains flying so high
"Yeah partners in crime"
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He loved that line. That line was what made the song so perfect for them. The words alone "partners in crime" practically made this song their theme song.
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"Why did I ever say good bye?
"Remember when we, when we had it all"
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He looked over at Marik again, who was still staring at him with wide and surprised eyes. But he could see the gears turning in his head as Marik tried to think of the next line. Bakura smirked. Of course, singing a song is the only thing that Marik could ever waste any brain cells on to think of something brilliant for.
It gave Bakura an idea that he would share later if this went well.
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"Do you remember when?"
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~•~
Marik had watched Bakura singing next to him in awe, shock, and...something else. Here he was, after all this time, casually doing a parody with him like nothing had happened months ago.
Marik could tell that Bakura was enjoying himself and enjoying the reaction he got out of him. Why was he doing this?
But all he had time to think of now was the next line.
Bakura noticed the look in Marik's eyes. A silent message passed between them and they both instantly knew how to finish this song off.
Duet.
Bakura sang "Do you remember when".
Marik stepped in to sing.
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"Can't get you out my head"
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Then Bakura sang the next line.
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"Can't keep you out my dreams"
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They sang the next part together, at the same time.
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"Holding on to what we used to be
"And I can't let you go
"The fangirls would hate us
"Us us us us us us us us us us..."
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They sang the "us's" by alternating at first and then singing in unison to create the effect that no lone person could create for this song.
They continued singing together.
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"Push push push rewind
"Go go back in time
"To when we were simply partners in crime"
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They each sang one of the next two lines.
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"Marik, take me back"
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"Bakura, come back"
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Then together once again:
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To our Evil Council of Doom!
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The music guy did a DJ mix thing so that there was a pause of music between the previous line and the next one. Marik and Bakura used this to catch their breaths and quickly think of the next lines, which they somehow agreed on without actually mentally communicating again.
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"Do you remember when we... Met in the alley
"And we became best friends instantly
"Remember when we stole Kaiba's jet
"Kidnapped Mokuba for the hell of it
"Two villains flying so high
"Yeah partners in crime
"Why did we ever say good bye?
"Remember when we, when we had it all!
"Do you remember when?"
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The music ended, and for a moment, all was silent.
HOW WAS THAT! Awesome, right?
Don't forget to watch my thiefshipping "Remember When" video on YouTube! you totally should. There are two version.
And guess what? There will be TWO songfic chapters!
This was the first. I won't tell you much about the second because it's a secret d-(^70)-b
Next chapter, the reactions and stuffz!
See you next chapter!
BYEEEEEEEEEE~!