Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Probationis Vitae ❯ Attack ( Chapter 3 )

Attack

AN: I'm so sorry I didn't update sooner, but pretty much right after I published the last chapter we updated my computer's hard drive and I still can't find half the stuff I'd saved. And then I had a HUGE project due in Latin and finally I got sick last week and am just now starting to feel better. Plus some of the adults at the karate school have been a little tense and depressed because the founder of our school, Mr. Wheeler, may not live to see Thanksgiving. They say that it'll be a miracle if he sees Christmas. And all this is happening when my birthday is coming up on the 23rd of this month. As you can see my life has been a little messed up lately. The delay is he reason I made sure that this chapter was definitely longer than the others.

Thank you to all those who reviewed. You have no idea how much all of you have helped me lately. These are those who reviewed:

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Well, I hope you enjoy this.

Also-though I probably won't use most of it just yet-, just in case:

/…../ is Yugi to Yami.

//…..// is Yami to Yugi.

\…..\ is Ryou to Bakura.

\\…..\\ is Bakura to Ryou.

^…..^ is Malik (hikari) to Marik (yami).

^^…..^^ is Marik to Malik.

"~…..~" is someone talking on the other end of a phone, walkie-talkie, etc.

~*~*~*~Last time~*~*~*~

Selene looked up and said one sentence that seemed to make time freeze for all in that room. "It was your father, Yugi. He's come to take you back."

~*~*~*~On with the story~*~*~*~

~*~*~With Selene when she answers the door~*~*~

Selene headed out of the kitchen wondering who would be visiting at noon on a Saturday. Any other day she could understand, but a Saturday. And it wouldn't be one of Yugi's friends, he would've mentioned it if it was.

Shrugging off the questions Selene answered the door and was met with the sight of a man who was about the same height as Damien, maybe a little shorter, with graying blond hair and brown eyes standing at the door. Though she recognized him immediately she kept her instinctive reaction under a mask.

"Hello, I'm here to see Yugi Mutou. I am Adam Mutou, his father." The man said with an air of such superiority that it made Selene want to slap him, though it was more so with his next words. "So if you step aside I'll let myself in."

At this Selene made sure to place herself right in the center of the doorway and said, "Like hell I'll let you see him."

The man frowned slightly and said, while showing her a piece of official looking paper, "I have every right to see him. Not only am I his father but I also have the papers that give me the legal right to seem him. Now move aside girl."

Selene scowled and said, "I don't give a shit what kind of damn paperwork you have you fucking bastard, I'm not letting you in to seem him!"

Comprehension suddenly dawned on the man's face, it seems he finally recognized her and this just took out the remainder of his already short patience with her. "I have every right to see him, now let me past!"

Selene scowled even more before screaming, "Screw you! There is no way in hell that I'd let a son of a bitching, fucking bastard like you into this house! Now get your fucking ass off this property and go screw one of your whores why don't you!"

Adam's face went scarlet in rage and he shouted in return, "Let me past, or I'll me you!"

Selene just jumped at the challenge. "I'd like to see you damn well try you shit face!" she screamed.

Adam took a step toward her and she gave into her urge to smack him, hard. It was hard enough that it left her own hand stinging slightly and caused the man in front of her to stumble back and fall on his ass. Taking the opportunity Selene slammed the door shut and locked it before leaning against the door to try and get her thoughts back under control. After a few moments she stood up and walked into the kitchen, knowing that she probably now looked like a ghost. She walked over to her seat, buried her head in her hands and started mumbling very creative curses in several of the different languages she'd studied, including Latin, Japanese, English (probably the best for this sort of thing), and Egyptian. Finally she managed to calm down all the way and stopped herself from emitting any more vile sentences. Then she heard Yugi's voice.

"Who was it?" he asked, curiosity evident in his voice. No doubt he was wondering who could deserve such a mouthing off from her.

Selene looked up and said the one sentence that seemed capable of freezing time in the kitchen. "It was your father, Yugi. He's come to take you back."

The whole kitchen was silent as they all digested this disturbing news. Suddenly the silence was broken by Jason.

"But he can't take Yugi back, can he? I mean, Yugi is already legally an adult, right?" he said hopefully.

"Yes," Selene replied, "but, unless I'm very much mistaken, Yugi and Yami both go to college and your only income is from the Kame Game shop, right?" she directed this last part to Yugi and Yami who both nodded and she continued. "That, from what I can tell, means that his did, now that he's been ruled `mentally stable' and `safe', has the right to take you under his care." (AN: Just so you know, I'm not sure if this is an actual fact, but I need to use it for right now.)

The kitchen lapsed into silence again, everyone lost in his or her own thoughts. Jake was the first to look up and, seeing how absorbed everyone was with his or her own thoughts, grinned as he thought of a way to `jolt' them out of it. Innocently and inconspicuously he slid his hands slowly off the table and into his lap. After one more look around to make sure everyone was too busy with their thoughts, he brought his palms up to meet the bottom of the table with a very loud bang.

The reaction was instantaneous, Selene, who had put her head back onto the table, shot upright in her seat. Jason and Derek both leapt out of their seats, searching for the source of the commotion. Damien, who had had his forehead in his hands with his elbows on the table, started and his head fell onto said table with a thump followed by curses as he rubbed his head. Yami and Yugi both jumped in their chairs, and Yugi, who'd been sitting on the edge of his seat, fell to the floor with a thump followed by curses similar to Damien's. Selene, the first to realize what had caused the commotion, lunged at Jake and knocked him out of his chair and into the floor. Everyone watched as Selene and Jake wrestled for a few minutes before Selene pulled off a complicated little move that ended with Jake chest-down on the floor with his left arm pinned under him and Selene straddling his back with his right arm twisted in a slightly painful looking position.

"What the hell possessed you to do that?" Selene ground out, irritated.

A mumbled and incoherent reply was heard because Selene still had Jake's face planted firmly in the floor with her hold on him. Selene sighed, exasperated, before letting him up so he could answer the question.

Jake stood up before saying, "I said that I did it because everyone was too tense. I had to snap you out of it somehow. Would you rather have been hit by cold water?" Jake grinned `innocently' at the last part only to cower when Selene practically growled at him in annoyance.

Selene just replied, "Just don't do it again or else I'll make sure that you can no longer call yourself a man." Jake paled and moved quickly to try and hide behind Jason and Derek, both of whom just as quickly got out of the way. They had no wish to be on the receiving end of Selene's temper.

Damien, resigned to be the peacemaker, walked behind Selene and wrapped his arms around her waist and said, "Well, at least Jake's plan worked." He felt Selene sigh again before relaxing against him.

"Um," Yugi said, getting everyone's attention, "what do we do now?" He was feeling restless and really didn't want to sit around doing nothing at all.

"I know the first thing we need to do," Selene said, gesturing to the other Venators and herself.

"What?" Derek asked cautiously. He was slightly wary of the huge grin slowly spreading across her face, especially with the very mischievous twinkle creeping into her emerald green eyes.

"We need to go to the mall. We cant' just continue bumming clothes as long as we're here." Selene said. All the guys gulped, Selene loved to find new outfits for everyone, and she somehow always managed to find them on sale or cheap AND convince the person it was for to buy it for themselves. "And tonight we can go clubbing. For once Jake's right. Everyone's too tense, we need something to distract us." They all grinned and Yugi, Jake, Jason, and Derek cheered at the last suggestion, it was a great idea, especially since they all loved to dance. With that they went off to get ready.

"Hey Yugi!" Jason called as they got ready to leave, mainly putting the Ancient Egyptian spell book in a safe place to go over when they got home that night.

"Yes?" Yugi said, turning from his chore of washing the breakfast/lunch dishes.

"Are we going to invite any or your other friends?"

"We can if the others are fine with it." Yugi replied.

"I'll ask," Jason said before yelling to the others, "Hey guys!"

"What?!" came Selene's voice from upstairs, evidently she was to be the one yelling for all of them.

"What do you think about inviting some more of Yugi's and Yami's friends to join us?!" He yelled, louder than before, causing Yugi to wince slightly at the volume of his voice.

There was a few moments silence before Selene replied, "Sure! That's fine with all of us!"

"They said okay," Jason said to Yugi, the twinkle in his amber eyes ruining the innocent smile on his face.

Yugi scowled at his and replied, "So I heard. Jake's a bad influence on you. I'll go call them now before you decide to blow out my eardrums again."

As Yugi walked over to the phone he heard Jason chuckling and firmly resisted the temptation to imitate Selene's actions concerning Jake earlier. He quickly pick up the phone and dialed Seto's number knowing that Jo, or Katsuya Jonouchi, would probably be over there. The phone rang a couple of times before it was picked up and he heard Mokuba's voice.

"~Kiaba residence, Mokuba speaking.~" Mokuba said.

"Hey Mokuba," Yugi said, "its Yugi. Is your brother or Jo there? I need to speak to them."

"~Oh, hey Yugi. Sure, I'll get them. Hang on just a second.~" Yugi faintly heard Yugi yelling for his brother-he guessed Seto was probably in a near by room-before another phone was picked up and this time Seto's voice was heard.

"~Hey Yugi, what did you need?~" Seto asked. He had become decidedly less of a `cold bastard', as many refer to him, after Battle City and even more so after Yugi returned which was shortly followed by his starting to date Jo.

"Hey Seto, I was wondering if you and Jo would like to go to the mall this afternoon. You see, Selene and the other Venators are here and they suggested it. Jason also suggested I invite you all." Yugi said, knowing that Seto knew exactly whom he was talking about.

"~Just a second, let me ask Katsuya.~" Seto said before turning to talk to someone on the other end. Then he came back on and said, "~Sure, we can pick you up in about half an hour. If you want I can call Anzu and Honda while you call Ryou, Bakura (they live together), Malik, and Marik (as do they).~"

"Great, see you in about half an hour. Bye." Yugi said.

"~See you Yugi.~" Seto replied before hanging up.

Yugi then hung up the phone, turned it back on and called Ryou and Malik. They could all come, meaning that they now had 13 people in their group and would have 15 if Anzu and Honda could come.

Ryou, Bakura, Malik, and Marik showed up about 20 minutes later, having been in the same place they just came over together. Ten minutes after that Seto showed up in his limo with only Jo, Anzu and Honda had had a date that afternoon with dinner that night so they couldn't make it. They all climbed in and headed off.

When they got there Selene immediately dragged them over to s store called "Original". (AN: don't think it's a real store, I just made it up. Not very creative though) Evidently the store was having a big sale and Selene decided to take advantage of it. She immediately started sizing each of them up and handing them clothes to try on. After at least an hour if not two or three and several sets of outfits, everyone ended up with at least two new outfits, though the Venators each got five as the only clothes they had were the ones they'd arrived in and what they bummed off of Yugi and Yami. After that they decided to split up and meet back at the food court at 4:30 (one and a half hours) so they could go to their respective houses and prepare to go dancing that night. (I'm not going to write this out in detail because I've no idea how to make it remotely interesting, so you can just use your own imaginations. Also, if anyone wants to write this they can tell me and I'll be happy to post the notice on this story so everyone who reads this'll know.)

They all met at the food court as planned, though Malik, Marik, Ryou, Bakura, and Jake (who had met them later) were late. It seems that they-meaning Malik, Marik, Bakura, and Jake-had decided it would be fun to play a prank on one of the mall security officers. Evidently the officer didn't think so and had chased them over half the mall before losing them in an over-packed music store. After waiting for a few minutes after the officer left they had headed to the food court, only then noticing that they were already ten minutes late. They had arrived ten minutes later still laughing about the officer.

Then they all headed out to the limo and Seto dropped them off, saying he would pick them all back up at 7 to go back out. The Venators all changed into one of their new outfits. Damien was wearing a pair of black jeans with a black cotton t-shirt that seemed to have a strange silver shimmer to it. Jake wore a pair of dark-blue blue jeans with a matching dark-blue sleeveless shirt. Jason was wearing a pair of loose leather pants and a gold colored t-shirt. Derek had on a pair of pants similar to Jason's though he was wearing a deep-scarlet colored shirt. Yugi had changed into a pair of white-leather pants and a silver sleeveless shirt and had gotten Yami into a pair of black-leather pants with a dark-violet colored shirt. Selene had gone upstairs and came down in a set of clothes she had, most definitely, bought after they'd separated as none of them had seen this in her original stack from the first store. She was wearing a pair of dark-blue leather hip-huggers with a form-fitting black shirt that ended a couple inches over her belly button, showing her firm abdomen, and had a picture of a silver full moon on the bosom with a black wolf imprinted on it. All of them were also wearing their normal accessories.

When 7 rolled around they heard the limo pull up and Jo came to the door. He, like the others had decided to change into something else to go clubbing. He was wearing a pair of blue jeans with a jade green t-shirt. And Seto and somehow managed to get him to wear a spiked dog collar too. Jake, Jason, and Derek joined in with a laughing Malik, Marik, and Bakura upon seeing this.

"Shut up," Jo growled as they all got into the car, which just sent them into another laughing fit. They, most evidently, thought it was funny that Jo, who was always being called a koinu (Japanese for puppy) by Seto, would actually wear a dog collar and then growled in irritation when they were laughing. Thankfully Seto told the driver to take off then, otherwise Jo might've just attacked all those laughing. They arrived at the club 15 minutes later and, after showing their id's to the bouncer, walked in. Though the club did serve alcohol they had no intention of having any. They just knew that this was the best place if you wanted to dance and have a good time.

They found a large, round table a little apart from the dance floor and sat down. Then a new song came on and Selene and Yugi grinned at each other.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" she asked him.

"If you mean, it's time for a dance off then yes, I am." He replied before turning to the others and saying, "what about you guys?"

Marik and Malik too grinned and stood up with Selene, Damien, Yugi, and Yami. The others would wait until later, when they weren't having a dance-off basically. The six of them quickly moved to the center of the floor and started dancing with their respective partners. They were so caught up in their dancing and personal competition that they didn't notice when the other dancers started to back off and watch them, nor did they notice when the music changed. They were all having too much fun. They finally noticed when the third song ended and they took a breather. Grinning, they headed back to their table to rest for a bit and order their drinks.

When they sat down Selene noticed all the very unflattering looks she was getting from guys of all ages around the club-unflattering that is if you don't want to be looked at like a lion looks at a ripe piece of meat. Feeling a little uncomfortable she stood up and said, "I'm going to go outside for a minute. I can't rest in here. I'll be back in five minutes." As she said the second part she gestured with her hand to the surrounding crowd of people and, with one look, everyone knew what she meant and just nodded.

When she got outside Selene took a deep breath and walked over to the edge of the wall, leaning against it. She stood there for a few minutes, getting her breath back, before deciding it was time to go back in. When she stood up straight to go, however, she suddenly felt someone grasp her shoulders and pull her into the alleyway beside which she had been standing.

TBC…..

AN: So, what do you think? Please read and review and I'll try and update as soon as I can, though I can't promise exactly when that'll be. I also LOVE any suggestions sent my way. Thanks!

Also, just in case you were curious, in just the story part, starting right after the note that told that it was with Selene when she opened the door to right before the TBC, there were 3005 words according to my word processor, though probably there's a different count on FF.Net.