Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Half Full or Half Empty? ❯ Pop Tart ( Chapter 14 )

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Pop Tart
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Shika's POV…
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I lay awake on my bottom bunk, listening to Anzu and Taree whispering and giggling and kissing up above. I could never sleep when it was noisy - with the exception of Bakura's or Ryou's heartbeat and breathing. Eventually I went to sleep.

I awoke the next morning to a sleeping yami next to me. Bakura must have drifted out of his ring during the night and made his way into my cabin. He was still in his spirit form, but he was warm and breathing contentedly next to me; one arm draped over the pillow above my head.

Sunlight streaming through the dirty lattice window woke the spirit sleeping beside me. He smiled and rubbed his eyes and kissed me. It felt strange when he kissed me in his spirit form - I could feel him, but I couldn't. It was a tingling sensation against my lips. I heard a mumbling sound from up above and suddenly Taree rolled off the top bunk and crashed onto the floor, squealing. I rolled my eyes and turned back to Bakura. Anzu scrambled down the ladder to help her airhead girlfriend.

"How come you're in here, naughty?" I asked. I felt a tingling sensation brush over my lower thigh.

"Well, why sleep inside the Ring's chamber when I have my girl to sleep next to?" Bakura said huskily, and then added. "Just because Ryou has to sleep in the boys' side of the campsite doesn't mean I have to."

I glanced at the time - 7:30AM. Usually by now we would be in a mad rush toward the showers; of which we were only allowed to spend three and a half minutes in. Suddenly there was a rat-a-tat-tat on the door. Taree and Anzu got up and answered it. Outside stood three bare-chested boys - Ryou, Seto and Jou.

"Ryou's lost something. He needs to talk to Shika." Seto said.

More like a certain someone. I giggled to myself mentally as I noticed that Bakura had disappeared back into the ring. I sat up on the edge of my bed and hovered in between my crutches. I went outside and joined Ryou, who was shivering, standing in a pair of lavender boxers with jeans roughly pulled on over the top.

"So, what have you lost, Ryou?" I asked sarcastically.

He giggled and hugged me.

Ryou's POV…
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//I'm hungry, hikari.//

/Hungry for what?/

//Food//

/Oh, yeah right!/

//Hey I was in my spirit form last night, it's not like I could have gotten any.//

/Oh yeah. Uh… well I'm pretty hungry too. I might go take a shower and see what's served up for breakfast./

I looked over at Shika who was laughing and talking with Jou. She was so beautiful, I couldn't thank God enough for what I had been blessed with. Coming to Japan was a good idea. Thank you, father. For sending me here. Thank you.

Her mass of burgundy hair looked delectable twenty-four-seven; even when she just woke up. There was never a strand out of place. And as for her eyes… oh… her eyes… so deep… like I could dive into them; glistening pools of olive, emerald and forest green all blended to make one divine colour. Her milky skin glowed all hours of the days and nights - so pure. No wonder Bakura and I had fallen head-over-heels for her. She was walking perfection. In my eyes.

//You're making my stomach churn with your thoughts, Ryou.//

I closed my mind link. Bakura was never good with stuff like that unless he had just had an orgasm, or if someone was about to die. The only time I ever saw him shed tears was when Shika was comatose.

I vaguely heard Shika say that she was heading to the showers before she came over to me. The cool easterly wind was blowing from behind me, making Shika's waist-length tresses fly out behind her and around her shoulders. My spiky white locks rustled about around my face, getting in my eyes.

"We have to meet up in the front yard for our activities for today. I'm heading over to the showers. You coming?" she asked me.

I nodded and fiddled with the bundle of clothes which were in my arms. We made our way over to the bathroom block and went to our respected showering rooms and took our three and a half minute showers.

Oddly enough, as I made my way to the front yard, everyone seemed to be settled on the grass but me. Seiji was standing on the verandah with the teachers in front of everyone making some sort of speech. I spotted my group and sat down beside Shika, grasping her hand.

"Today, people! You will be doing a small orienteering activity in your groups in the forest. Once you have completed that task, you will return here for lunch and begin your next activity which involves practicing for an act which you will perform onstage in the dining hall after dinner tonight. Now this may be a play, a skit, a song, a dance or a combination of any."

I gulped. Singing and dancing in front of people was my worst nightmare. I could always get Bakura to do it for me but he was just as useless at dancing as I was.

Shika's POV…
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I heard Taree squeal with delight, along with Anzu. I couldn't deny that Anzu was a good performer - dancing and singing. I wasn't so sure about Taree but I bet she could pull some pretty awesome moves with that bangin' body of hers. I liked dancing but I couldn't sing for shit. At least we could lip-sync. I bet Anzu brought some of her girlie CDs along with her.

"I've got the best idea of what we could do!" Taree shrieked, referring to Anzu and I.

"What is that, Taree?" Anzu asked.

"We could lip-sync and dance to one of my Christina Aguilera tapes!"

I rolled my eyes. Christina Aguilera was the sluttiest bitch in all of pop-history. There was no way that I was dancing to her - or Britney. "Plan B?" I asked, evidently objecting.

"I bought my MisTeeq CD with me…" Anzu said.

I picked my brain. MisTeeq… where had I heard that band from before? Then I clicked. I actually liked one of their songs, even if their group was made up of a trio of prostitute-like stick figures.

"Hey yeah! Their song `One Night Stand' is soooo cool!" Taree cried, clapping her hands together.

"That's the song that I was thinking of." I thought aloud to myself.

"Well, that's that settled then. Let's go and get our orienteering stuff." Anzu said getting to her feet.

Meanwhile, with the boys… normal POV…
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"This is going to be so humiliating." Ryou said quietly.

"How bad can it be? We'll blow everyone away!" Jou supposed enthusiastically.

"Yes but what are we going to do? You know how well I can dance, Jou. And that's not very good." Kaiba reasoned.

"What's that boy-band that Anzu likes… guh! What are they called?!" Jou asked.

"Blue?" Ryou suggested.

"How did you know?"

"I don't know, I found a `Blue' CD in Shika's CD collection once."

"Really? Anzu probably left it at her house by mistake."

"What are you implying, Jounouchi?" Seto asked prudently.

"Well, Blue have got flair, man! I mean, you gotta admit, for a boy-band, they're better than those pussies Westlife and the Backstreet Boys." Jou chuckled.

"Yes, I suppose they are." Ryou said thoughtfully. "They're from England, like I am!" he said cheerfully.

"I'ma go ask Anzu if she brought the CD with her. Fingers crossed guys!" Jou said, getting to his feet. He ran over to the girls who were collecting their compasses and maps of the forest for their orienteering activity. "Hey Anzu! Did you bring that `Blue' CD with you?" Jou asked.

"Uh, yeah why?" Anzu asked, muddled.

"Yes! We need it for tonight! Us boys I mean!" Jou exclaimed, jumping two feet in the air.

"Sure, I'll give it to you after lunch, alright?"

"Thanks Anzu!" when Jou arrived back at the group, Malik and Honda were there too, loitering about, asking Seto and Ryou what they would be doing for their performance tonight.

"Hey Malik, Honda." Jou greeted.

They waved to Jou. "Can we join you guys in your performance tonight? We're completely stuck." Honda asked.

"Sure! But you have to like the boy-band group, Blue." Ryou mentioned.

"How humiliatingly gay." Malik protested.

Jou and Seto huffed at his comment.

"It's only for one night. We all have to do it, you know. Besides it's only lip-syncing." Ryou reassured everyone.

"Hey you guys come on, let's get this orienteering task thingy over and done with!" Shika cried, a compass dangling around her neck on a string with a map tucked under her arm. Ryou jumped up instantly and unrolled the map to take a look. Everyone peered over his shoulder. Anzu held the coordinates to find the first marker in the forest.

"Well, X on the map is by the Giant Maple tree so that would be the best place to start." Anzu said, careering off in the direction of the Giant Maple, hand-in-hand with Taree. Ryou walked behind the group with his girlfriend, who couldn't go nearly as fast as the others on her crutches.
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After about two hours in the forest, consisting of tripping up on logs, getting lost, encounters with strange animals and Joey thinking that he saw a little green leprechaun sitting on a rock by the stream, resulting in Seto piggy-backing him around.

"Are we there yet?" Taree whined as the group were trying to find their way back.

"Yup, finally. Look, there are the cabins." Jou said.

Shika heaved a sigh and rested on her crutches for a minute. The others continued walking. Bakura escaped from his ring.

"Are you alright, my love?" Ryou asked, supporting her chest and back.

"Yeah… I'm just getting a little tired, that's all." she assured. "But here, look Ryou…" Shika got up and rested her crutches against the truck of a giant Aspen tree. She started to walk around on both her feet, still limping though.

"I don't have to use my crutches anymore!"

"That's wonderful! You should probably still use them though." Ryou said, smiling.

Bakura grasped Shika around her waist and kissed her fierily. He couldn't resist her. She was Ra's gift to him. Nothing would ever come between them. Ryou could see that. He was completely, utterly, insanely and madly in love with her. As was Ryou. He loved their three-way bond; it was better than any miracle. Ryou went and put one hand around his yami's waist and the other around Shika's waist. Together they all cuddled, standing beneath the shade of a tall Aspen tree.

- Later -

Shika's POV…

"Okay so now that we've got the dance routine sorted, let's and see what we'll be wearing!" Taree said as she ripped open her bag which had a ridiculous amount of clothes in it. I wondered how she got dressed in the morning.

"Shika, these would look totally radical on you!" Taree said, whipping out a pair of skin-tight shiny black leather flares.

My eyes bulged at what she expected me to wear. Then she pulled out the tiniest top I think I had ever seen in my life. It was a pink boob-tube with the word `PORNSTAR' written on it in yellow with a little Playboy bunny symbol below it.

"No way! I can't wear that!" I cried.

"Why on earth not? You'll look great in it! You've got nice boobs!" Taree said, holding the top up in front of me.

And since when have you been perving at my boobs? I thought. Ah what the hell. Might as well give every guy in school a boner while I'm at it.

"Fine, pass it here and I'll try the pants and top on together."

Taree grinned and chucked me the pants and top. "You can try it on in here. We're only girls you know." She said.

I rolled my eyes mentally. I wasn't gonna win in this situation. To hell with it. If she wants to see me then here I am. I thought, and stripped down to my bare essentials - bra and thong. Taree and Anzu's eyes wandered my body delectably. I pulled on my pants first and then discarded my bra to put on the skanky top.

"That looks great on you!"

The pants I was wearing were so incredibly tight it was unbelievable. "How do you walk in these things, Taree?" I exclaimed.

"Guess they're a little tight, huh?" she said sweetly.

I rolled my eyes. "I'll wear them. But only for tonight."
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For the next couple of hours Taree, Anzu and I all practiced our dance routine and our singing. Even though we were only lip-synching. I guess it would be fun to see the look on Ryou and Bakura's faces, seeing me in leather and all. Anzu was dressed in knee-high black boots with a black leather skirt and white top on and Taree was wearing denim hotpants and a singlet top with platform stilettos. I decided against using my crutches on stage - they would only make me look like a gumby.

"Hey, why don't we go over and see what the guys are up to?" Anzu suggested. Taree and I agreed and we changed back into our camp uniforms. We made our way across to the boys' campsite. Inside Ryou's, Seto's and Jou's cabin we could hear music. We opened the door only to see the guys practicing their dance routine. Marik, Bakura and Yami were all sitting up on the bunks, watching their hikaris in amusement.

"Lookin' good guys!" Anzu said.

The guys stopped abruptly and turned to look at us. Ryou flushed scarlet. Bakura jumped down from the top bunk and grabbed me around the waist, snarling at Malik who stood on the other side of the room.

"Nice dancing, Ryou." I teased.

He blushed and sat down on his bottom bunk bed. "Thanks." He said a little gruffly.

"Well! There's only an hour until we'll be performing! I guess we'll see you guys in the dining hall!" Taree said, skipping off with Anzu.

I huffed a sigh under my breath. In the back of my mind I was still rather worried about my irregular heart. What if I was straining it too much? What if something happened to me while I was up on the stage performing? The nearest hospital was six or seven miles away in the main town centre of Shiranuka. I thought of Ryou and Bakura, and smiled. With them around, nothing could go wrong.

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