Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Professional Sinners ❯ A funny encounter ( Chapter 4 )

A funny encounter

 

It had been only a few hours till the morning, but the experience of resting herself had been quite refreshing, enabling her to replenish the energy spent into various activities she'd been doing lately. She got up from bed, walking on the tip of her toes not to wake Ryu and went close to the balcony door where she drew the silken curtains that bore a greenish colour just to enjoy the view beyond; no horizon could be found, for the vast buildings blocked the way, fortunatelly the sun could be distinguished in the east, radiating it's very first rays for the new day to come.

"At least, the sun always sets every morning, no matter where you are." she thought in relief, then pointed her head in a sleeping Ryu that looked like an angel alive on earth; kind, friendly, innocent, extremely different to that creeping alter ego of his, Yami Bakura. On one hand, she took pity of Ryu to be suffering from such a fate, on the other hand it was not of her concern, for she would sooner or later return to her longing adventurous place, where no building was blocking her sight in most parts of it.

She was a lover of nature, delightful into exploring the endless green forests, the darkened mysterious caves, the mystical temples haunted by guardian forces. At times, she was searching for a shelter in nearby towns or cities just for a change, trying to find and study old books including information about myths and legends of each place, then went back searching for hidden locations of unknown tombs, in hopes of finding some special guardian forces and gain more knowledge on the planet. No, you wouldn't call her an archaeologist, mostly a wandering warrior that longed for travelling and battles with fearsome monsters. Life was simple to her, though equated with survival and constant fighting, until today that she was opposed by a more complicated quest, forced to break her promise to the likings of a vicious man such as the one Bakura was. Nonetheless, she would do it, killing Kaiba would not count as a sin, for she would do everything to the best of her abilities just to regain her crucial companions, for which she could but worry by sensing constantly their dramatic absence. How come it all started? Why did it have to turn like this?

"Sorry about this, Sacred and Minotaur, I'd prefer to disobey your advice rather than losing you, too, from my side." she thought miserably, in some rare occasions like this she had a tendency into being vulnerable by the intrusion of various feelings that would be considered useless under different circumstances.

She kept on spectating the lovely view as she got out in the spacious balcony, watching the cars following one after the other, trains passing by, pedestrians making haste, heading for their jobs, even stray dogs chasing cats.

"I have to admit, this city's quite attracting, just like Esthar..." she nearly whispered to herself, then decided to go back into the room to check on Ryu, who was still sleeping, bearing a calm angelic expression on his face, one that no way would she ruin by waking him up, unless his Yami bothered doing so. Thus, she went to suit herself to the rest of the house by finding something edible just to fill that annoying stomache demanding to cease it's growling.

There went to the kitchen, opening the drawers containing various stuff; knives, forks, spoons, only food could not be found, to her astonishment.

"What the hell does this boy eat?" she wondered, only to realise that the fridge was next to her, perhaps it was too modern compared to the ones of her own world, then called herself some names and raised a hand to open it.

"How dramatic, I hate those nasty eggs, disgusting, I'll throw up!" she was mumbling complainingly though did not give up, eventually to bump into something more interesting...

After a while, the bell rang cheerfully. She ignored it at first, thinking she lacked the authority to open the door, plus Ryu was in need of some vital sleep. There was a short pause, but nothing, therefore she had to take the initiative.

"Oh shit! And he told me not to be woken early. Now I have to perform secretary duties." she protested irritably and went to open the door, only to see a slightly short boy (compared to her), with strange tri-coloured spiky hair and violet vivid eyes ; that was Yugi, one of Ryu's classmates who had been invited to play cards with him, yet he had forgotten it, it seemed, and that wasn't Ryu's fault, of course. Bakura was taking control of his body a lot lately, that was for sure.

"What the hell do you want, kiddo? Ryu's sleeping for good." she hissed aggressively and shut the door right before his very goggling eyes. To make matters worse, the boy was not dissuaded, on the contrary it went to introduce himself.

"I'm Yugi Muto, Ryu had invited me for a card game! I didn't know he was busy last night. "

"What do you mean you didn't know? Don't take me for a fool! You must be on the plan, too!" she growned suspiciously at him, who remained outside the door.

"No I'm not! Ryu would never involve his friends on his personal moments!" Yugi's voice was heard in slight embarrassment, a dull retort that blew her top.

"I didn't have something with Ryu, you nosy pervert! I'm much older than him!" she complained apologetically.

"That's the point, you are experienced!" he replied cheerfully in an immature way that drove the hell out of her, then she reopened the door furiously, only to fall upon Yugi's cards, that was the best way to skip this annoying conversation by asking him if she could see his deck. Yugi was too kind to refuse in spite of the manner he had been treated, thus allowed her to grab his deck and take a look, only for her to be disappointed by the sight of the depicted monsters.

"You know, we play cards in my world, too, but our monsters are scarier than that. Look at this guy dressed in that unworthy purple robe, he seems to be suffering from constipation! And this half-naked girl is supposed to be his chick?" she commented in a lame way that made Yugi grimace from suprise. Obviously, he was terribly shocked by her offending comments about his all time favourite cards, wondering what was wrong with her. Indeed, she looked kinda strange, though it wasn't the first time he had encountered people claiming to be from different worlds, actually, many of them could be often seen in psychologic clinics! He smirked as a sign of politeness after he had gotten his deck back, then was allowed to see her own one, which consisted of even stranger monsters, till his eye fell upon a green monster with many tentacles, huge bulb eyes and a sickening mouth, named Malboro, thus asked Gillian if the name was related to the famous brand of cigarettes.

"Really? Marlboro, you said? Well... no way. If fact, you wouldn't like to face such a thing in personal, you wouldn't stand a chance against it's special attack called Bad Breath!" she said in an childish boasting way.

"Wow! Is this Bad Breath so devastating?" Yugi asked both in astonishment and curiosity.

"Yup! Thus I had to throw at it some toothpaste! One thing is for sure, both Malboro and your so called Marlboro are associated to bad breath!" she giggled, resulting in a giggling Yugi as well.

"Oh! I forgot, it's Gillian, an alien here, I suppose!" she exclaimed sarcastically about herself.

Yugi grimaced at the word "alien", for she looked completely humane to his eyes, and stared at her meticulously to see if she had anything strange upon her. Nope, not the slightest detail. Yet he somehow believed indeed that she was from somewhere else, for his eyes had seen too many things during his dueling adventures.

"So, how come did you get to know Bakura? Seems to me you like boys younger than you!" he was interrupted instantly. All the same, it was still questionable to what a boy and a slightly older woman were doing in the same house, if not the most obvious thing in the whole world.

"Stop it! " she barked extremely loud. "No way, pal!" then her eye took notice of his strange puzzle, that looked like Ryu's ring by bearing the same mysterious eye.

"Don't tell me you've got a spirit hidden inside that puzzle!" she yelled in such a childish way that Yugi took an expression of curiosity.

"Well, would you mind if I said yes?" he asked in apparent fear and smirked when he witnessed her gunblade.

"Nice sword, you do have there, it's fairly unusual, what do you use it for?" he tried to calm her in a clumsy way. Gillian grimaced funnily, wondering if Yugi was trully and idiot or played the fool just to trick her and get her in hot water just like Yami Bakura, therefore she held her gunblade on her right shoulder in a showing off mood.

"Nothing in particular. I like cutting bread with it, or slaughter annoying kids that make silly questions!" she said not laughing, augmenting Yugi's anxiety.

"Well, I've got something to do, I'll come back a little later. Bye bye!" he yelled from a safe distance and vanished into thin air, running away from Ryu's house. Gillian lowered her weapon and put her hand in her forehead, still unbelievable to what she had experienced a few moments ago. It was more than obvious that she had overeacted, exaggerated behaviour she had but what the hell, few times was she offered the opportunity to act like a kid herself, maybe because she felt to be surrounded by such little creatures. If she was not to have boy fun at all, she would definitely lose her mind over the whole insane situation.

"Out of character, zero points to be credited today." she murmured over and over herself.

Finally, Ryu woke up, wondering where Gillian was, then headed downstairs to get some breakfast, eventually to find an almost empty fridge, gaping in mouth open.

"Sorry, I just hate eggs, they suck! Could you please dispose them of me instead?" she added hilariously.

Not the slightest trace of annoyance was shown by Ryu, all the same, just was surprised at her appetite.

"No problem, dear friend. Did you have a nice sleep last night?" he asked politely in such a cute way.

"Hmmm...yes, yes I did!" she retorted miserably, not willing to reveal him the other side of himself and upset him. For a while, all that she longed was to forget her task of killing Seto Kaiba, or find a way to eliminate that evil spirit torturing Ryu, for he was rather a good kid, at least she could appreciate his friendliness towards her, for the time being, at least.

Ryu smiled sweetly, pleased to hear that he was of great help to someone in desperate need, even a stranger that had threatened his life. Fortunatelly, he wasn't the person that could bear a grudge against anyone, had almost forgotten the latest incident, behaving as if nothing happened at all, no matter the slight pain he could feel on his stomache, not being aware of having been kicked so bad. After some time, he remembered that he had invited Yugi to pay a visit just to have some fun by playing duel monsters.Gillian gulped as she was drinking some water, almost strangled and choked by the mention of Yugi's name.

"I think he'll not be visiting temporarily." she said chockingly, eyebrows raised in redemption for her immaturity.

Ryu required politely an explanation to her previous statement, and she informed him about Yugi's visit, adding that those duel monsters were really funny for a childish game and that she preferred real monsters to deal with, causing him to giggle, till out of the blue Yami Bakura made his appearance once more.

"Go scaring kids? That's pretty immature for someone like you, filthy bitch!" he yelled aggressively, causing her smile to disappear, then went on, "Don't mess with my host otherwise they'll suspect me, and make sure you keep your distances from Ryu, the least thing you want is to get your feelings hurt once more."

"Hey, what is this jackass is trying to tell me? I'm not the person who would fall for someone younger! Well, to be frank, it's the first time I got to like someone so quickly, but no, it's the different environment that shifts my mood, obviously. Ryu is a friend, that is that, no more no less." she thought in a sceptical way, then replied to Bakura :

"Thanks for the interest, next time we fight I'll make sure you'll have your ass kicked in the full sense of the word!" she warned icidly the evil guy that ruined her nice day, consequently it was urgent that she would go back to her normal attitude. Yami Bakura stayed indifferent by her threats, though he had to watch his back, she was not to be trusted thoroughly. It was that darkness emanating from her, implied that she had never shown her full potential, not the slightest bit of it, as she always tried to keep on a low but memorable profile.

"Bakura, tell me one thing. What makes you think you can trust me? Thinking that I'm desperately in need of your help to find the way back, or set free my guardian force? What if I knew of a way to dispose of you once and for all, enabling Ryu to go go living a normal life?"

He smiled in a sinister way, knowing that such a way did not exist, all the same she had her reasons for stating this.

"It's simple, you wouldn't tell me if such an option was available, wise people don't talk that much, that is why." he stroke back in precise confidence, adding that even he was to believe her conditional, he would have sent her to the shadow realm before she even tried. Honestly, he had to confess. Gillian sniggered for his previous joke, Bakura would never be honest to anyone, not even his own reflection, he was far too easy to read, though unpredictable his powers were. In any case, she hadn't still played her last card...for her, it was only a matter of time to find a way back, either hurting anyone, or eliminating that cruel bastard tormeting Ryu so bad.

Yami Bakura ordered her to go into Ryu's room and search in his closet, just to be taken back by finding some clothes appropriate for her ; she had been told they would match exactly her personality and come up to her expectations and needs. There she found a black top, a black pair of trousers with fine pockets, but the most fundamental of all was that impressive belt engraved with the Griever (Griever is said to be one of the most powerful legendary guardian forces, it looks like a silver lion) on the center of it, causing her spine to shiver by the reminiscence of the person who once wore such a thing on his neck, trembling by the thought that Bakura knew exactly what it meant to her, thus he desired to torture her soul to death, for no vital reason, it was just his nature to make people suffer, then thought of the possibility that he was after her soul, soul hunter he had claimed to be, right? And what better could he ever find other than a soul that could communicate with such powerful beasts as the guardian forces were; before them, duel monsters meant precisely nothing, in her opinion, ignorant as she was about their own purpose and existence...

"It's not your comments I need, it's your skills..." she recollected, presuming that those words of his must have had a deeper meaning, one that was before her very eyes, but she couldn't see, or even believe, then exclaimed "What if...? No, that's really outrageous, no way could I ever do such a thing. They're only stupid cards, after all!"

No answer could be given to those harsh wonders, to make matters worse she had to regain her attitude, one reckless mistake and most probably would join her guardian force in that so-called shadow realm...

"Speak or the devil, or else here comes the donkey!" she exclaimed while sensing Bakura's appearance into the room, turnt her back on him and asked how far he would go on with his insanity by providing her a belt with such a tremendous symbol.

"Just as long as you can bear, and fortunatelly looking closer at you makes me believe you have a tendency into becoming too emotional lately, haven't you?" he smiled ironically.

It was true, however, she had to admit, thinking of the past was not of any use, for nothing could be undone, separation was the key to redemption and deliverance in order to forget those forbidden thoughts about him...her adorable, precious love that meant more than everything to her. At the beginning, he had been just annoying, yet she never hated him, just teased him, repulsed by that frightening diagonal scar on his forehead, calling him pathetic all the time for that trait of his.

She wouldn't permit anyone exploit her weaknesses, neither would she allow herself to be taken advantage of, only because one imputent knew her wrong-doing. After all, it wasn't really her fault, she was struck by the hand of destiny, she tried to comfort herself, at least this particular time, just for once. Consequenntly, she gave him a deadly glare, smiling cunningly.

"Try the hardest you can, you'll soon realise you waste your precious time. And I don't think you expect me to change before you, unless you want so desperately to get yourself a foretaste of my gunblade."

He shrugged in total apathy, turnt his back and left the room without forming a single word, it was this gesture of indifference that showed it all. She had looked suspiciously around before she started putting off her dark purple uniform, first she did with the upper part, and the jewel around her neck was revealed; she had a very long time to see it, because it was hidden perhaps too well that even she had almost forgotten about it, then went on with the lower part and put the black trousers on, adjusted the belt and all was set. It was surprising that the clothes were exactly her size, but what would become of her gunblade?

"You won't need it for today." Bakura's voice echoed once again, after she had fasten her new boots. "You shall come with me to give you a tour of the city, in fact Ryu's the one who will do it, but stay alert and bear in mind that his body belongs to me." he warned in sharp voice, just to make her understand it would be wise not to draw unecessary attention by letting words slip from her profane mouth, supposing they bumped into Ryu's friends.

"I can do it myself, you know, I don't need your help." she barked at him.

"Come on, don't be such a shrew, I'd thought we were doing well together, especially that kick the other day impressed me a lot." he chucked sarcastically, making her laugh loudly at him.

"I'm glad you liked it, it would be my utter pleasure to give you some more, if you insist on getting on my nerves. I'm going on my own, all alone."

"That's the spirit, now you're talking like your real self." he waved an ephemeral goodbye at her, though he was certain she would not try to escape from him or the city.

 

Actually this chapter was bigger, so I'd love to know one thing from you. Do you prefer chapters consisting of 3000 words approximately or you don't mind with bigger ones?