Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ If only for one moment, I could be like you... ❯ Trashin Jono's apartment ( Chapter 8 )

It was nearly noon before Ryou awoke the next day, having been SO worn out from the previous day's activities and SO comfortable in the downy soft bed. He wandered quietly around the house, looking for his sandy haired friend. "I wonder where he went?" Ryou said softly, as he peered into the last room, sighing at finding nothing. "Well, he did say he had work...I wonder what he does?" Ryou murmured wandering back to the bed and sitting on it. "Didn't he say he'd leave me food? I'm hungry..." Ryou grumbled rising again from the bed to look for the `table' hoping to find the food Jono had spoken of. "What is a table?!" Ryou whined, after an hour of looking, and literally passing the `table' 10 times. "This is silly! It should be like the sea! Where are some fish? Surely he has fish somewhere..."

After much debate with himself, as to whether it was OK to touch someone else's things, Ryou decided his hunger was more important than manners. He began what will be more appropriately deemed, exploring the wonders of Jono's apartment.

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Ryou grinned at the body pillow on Jono's bed. "Hey...what's that thing?" He said poking it lightly; unsure what it might be capable of doing. When nothing happened, Ryou gingerly picked up the pillow and grinned. "SOFT!" He chirped and hugged it tighter, causing a few feathers to slip out the ends, to be left unnoticed on the floor. Ryou began dragging the pillow through the house, as though it were a pet, or perhaps a small child's teddy bear. It was when Ryou stepped into the bathroom he discovered another wonder of humanity. Shaving cream.

He gently put the pillow down on the toilet seat and picked up the small can. "Oh...what's this?" He said, finger slipping on the still slightly wet can and causing it to spray foam on him, and everything else. "AHH! IT'S ANGRY!!" Ryou yelped throwing it into the bathtub and blinking, covered in the foamy substance. "Oh I'm really REALLY s-sorry...I...I'll just leave you there ok?" He said softly, picking up his pillow and backing out of the bathroom, glad to have survived THAT ordeal.

Ryou wandered into the living room, dragging the pillow behind him. He yelped, almost falling over, when the pillow began tugging against him. "Please...soft thing, don't do that!" He said tugging back. Had Ryou taken the time to look, he would have seen that the pillow was merely caught on a loose nail in the hardwood floor. Ryou grumbled and leaned back, putting his entire body weight into the tug. There was a muffled rip, and was soon the room was filled with hundreds of feathers falling like snow. "Oh no! I killed the soft thing!" Ryou yelped, hugging the empty fabric of the pillow. Ryou blinked and crossed his eyes, when a feather landed on his nose. "Oooh what's this?"

Ryou's next stop was in the kitchen, his hunger forgotten as he found more and more interesting things. He opened a cabinet and blinked at the small circular rocks. He gently picked up one of the many plates and looked at it. "I wonder what humans use giant sand dollars for...?" Ryou mumbled accidentally dropping the one he was holding, hand slicked up from shaving cream foam. Ryou giggled at the delightful tinkle of shattering glass as it broke on the floor. He picked up another and dropped it as well, although this was more on purpose than accident. "Wow! They make such pretty noises!" He said grinning and dropping another. After a while though, Ryou ran out of plates to drop and wandered out of the kitchen to the den.

Ryou sat down in the chair, not noticing the remote control, which flipped on the TV. Ryou jumped when the television flipped on, it was wrestling. Ryou blinked getting out of the chair and scooting through the feathers until he was less than a foot from the TV. "Oh...humans..." Ryou said amazed.

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Jono entered the apartment, after a hard day's work, although it was only four in the after noon. He was tackled abruptly by a pale blur before he was in a hammer lock. Ryou grinned at him. "HI!" He chirped just as merrily as a child. "Ryou, would you mind letting go?" Ryou blinked, but obliged happily. "I saw a bunch of humans doing it in this little square thing…" Jono blinked when he noticed that Ryou was covered in shaving cream and feathers. "You...you need a shower." Ryou blinked. "What's that?" Jono got up and entered his home, before his jaw nearly hit the floor. "What did you DO all day?!" He shouted, scaring Ryou causing him to whimper and back up. "I...I just looked around. I didn't mean to do anything bad..."

Jono sighed as he dragged Ryou down the hall and into the bathroom, frowning at the shaving cream mess, and removing the can from the bathtub. "You! Sit!" He said sternly, pointing to the toilet seat. Ryou immediately sat down still whimpering slightly, unsure as to what he had done wrong. Jono turned on the water and adjusted the temperature to a good warm state, and then looked at Ryou. "Take off that shirt and get in, then take this soap..." he said shoving a small bar of soap at Ryou. "And clean yourself." He grumbled leaving the room. Ryou blinked lightly. "But..." he said softly, knowing that Jono wasn't even remotely close enough to hear.

Sighing, Ryou took off the oversized shirt, being already nude beneath it and looked at the small bar of soap, then at the water. Ryou got into the tub and was a bit surprised when he didn't change back immediately, but his relief was short lived, as soon as he was thoroughly drenched, a loud THUNK filled the bathroom, and most surely the rest of the house. Jono jumped and ran to the bathroom door. Ryou began to whimper and panic. There was NO way he'd get dry enough again before Jono saw him. He was right too as Jono stormed in that very instant. "Oh...my...god. You WEREN'T lying!" He breathed staring; mouth agape and reaching up to slap himself in the face. This HAD to be a dream. This was like...something out of like...dungeons and dragons or something. Ryou looked up sheepishly. "I t-told you. I'm not supposed to get wet...it um...changes me back." Ryou mumbled looking down. "You aren't mad are you?"

Jono shook his head dumbly. Of course, it'd be him that would have a slight crush on a mythical creature straight from the pages of a Tolkien book, and it was just his luck that he'd be the one who would have to introduce the poor thing to humanity. "And here I thought I could just find his family and take him home..." Jono mumbled to himself before turning the water off, and grabbing a few towels and wrapping Ryou up. "C'mon you." He groaned, picking up the small teen mercreature. "When you're dry, we'll go out and get you some clothes. Then, we'll clean up the mess you've made of my apartment." Ryou smiled softly. "You're not mad?" Jono shook his head. "I think, that you ACTUALLY being a merguy was enough to make me drop it. I suppose I'll just forget it. You didn't know better, its painfully obvious now." Jono said, looking to Ryou's fins.

"Next time, you'll take a bath instead." Ryou nodded and rubbed his head, which had taken a nasty blow on the way down. "Yes...`showers' hurt too much." He said smiling as Jono laid him back on the couch bed. "So...I suppose you get to tell me about yourself, but don't tell anyone else you're a merguy, there are some serious freaks in this world who would do about anything to have a cool new `fish' to experiment on or worse." Ryou blinked. "Um...ok...so I'm not supposed to tell that I'm not human?" Jono nodded. "Bingo."

AN: Ok, I have also seen MANY variations of Jou/Jono spellings. I like Jono, simply because I would poke fun at him if he was Jou and I knew him in person. Lol Also, this was a great lil chapter, I'll try and update again tomorrow, Monday. But most likely it will be here Tuesday. Unless of course, I get lots of reviews. Ps feel FREE to IM me. I enjoy a good chat just like everyone else! Love all of you and thank you for the reviews I have gotten so far! You'll love the next chapter!