Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Rose Colored Moon ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

Okay, chapter three. I know this is taking awhile, but I tell you this all worth it. I'd tell you why, but then I'd be giving it away. And I'm sure you're all wondering about the rating, but the reason for that will happen later on. You just have to wait till then…

 

Koharu: Like they'll really wait that long. I update more than you!

 

Ro: *glares* Yeah, well I have more stories to work with than you.

 

Koharu: *rolls eyes* Mm-hm, su~ure. Excuses, excuses.

 

Shio: Shush and let the woman type!

 

Koharu: *sticks out tongue* Bleh!

 

Shio: Ro-chan doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh! so there is no use suing her over it. Right Ro-chan?

 

Ro: *glares* B4k4s.

 

Enjoy, su!

 

 

Chapter 3

 

 

Rose was currently upstairs changing out of that damn uniform she was forced to wear. She'd gone up immediately as soon as they'd gotten home, claiming that if she stayed in that overly short skirt a moment longer, there would probably be some sirens in the neighborhood. The others didn't appear to mind, seeing as they were more concerned with why Marik was there in the first place. And why wouldn't they be? It wasn't every day that someone who had been your enemy a few years ago showed up claiming something was seriously wrong.

 

“I take it this isn't an exercise on your new found freedom, is it?” Tea asked seriously, waiting expectantly for him to begin.

 

Marik shook his head no. “Correct. My being here has something to do with the holders of the Millennium Items,” he started.

 

“But Yugi's got nearly all the items, so what could be wrong with the others that has you so worried,” Tristan interrupted before he could continue much farther.

 

Tea smacked him in the arm and sent him a glare that told him to shut it before she looked back to Marik. “Sorry, please continue.”

 

Marik nodded. “Those who once,” he glared at Tristan, “held the items, although only Yugi and Shadi have them now.”

 

“Who's Shadi?” Joey asked, trying to place name and face together. He could not remember who the man was, but knew the name was familiar to him.

 

“Shadi was the keeper of the Millennium Items,” Yugi explained, trying to find a way to break it to them. “He, well, was the one who made the Professor attack us that time at the museum.”

 

There was a flash of recognition at the mention of that singular event, then a few flashes of anger and some surprise. Oh yeah, he was the one who'd turned Tea into a living doll and then turned around and saved Devlin and Tristan from falling off the blimp during Battle City. What a two-faced guy, they thought as they remembered.

 

“Yeah, we remember now,” Tea said tightly, having not forgiven him just yet. After all, the man was only trying to see if Yugi was worthy of the Millennium Puzzle. Although…he didn't have to try and kill all of them just to do it.

 

Marik gave a tight smile, reading their thoughts without their needing to tell him what they were thinking. “Yes, anyway, the Pharaoh locked away the dark magic of the Shadow Games in the eight items in order to save the world. But what he didn't know was—”

 

“Wait, wait, I thought there were seven items, not eight,” Bakura interrupted. He received a glare from the Egyptian, the tan boy's patience running thin.

 

“Officially, yes, but he didn't know he'd created an eighth when his daughter ran into the hall where they were making them,” he explained with barely concealed annoyance. The four backed off, much to his relief, deciding letting him get to what he was talking about was safer then interrupting and asking. “Only the six priests and himself were allowed in when she came just as the magic was being sealed away. Her disturbance caused the Pharaoh to loose his concentration, and some of the black magic slipped into the necklace she was wearing at the time; it was unfortunate that she was the only one who noticed as she was being dragged out by the guards, because if they had, her fate wouldn't have been so harsh.”

 

Yugi looked thoughtful, wondering if the girl was actually his other half's daughter. The ghost hadn't told him if he'd had one, but then he didn't seem to remember much of his past anyways. “So what does this have to do with me?” he asked once the Egyptian was finished. “What do I have to do now?”

 

Marik didn't look at him for a moment, and Yugi felt nervous for it. “You and the holder of that missing item have to save me and the other former holders from descending into darkness and insanity,” he replied reluctantly, still not meeting the other boy's violet eyes.

 

Purple eyes hardened. “And that means…?”

 

“That if and when we do, we'll be unstoppable and humanity will be in danger,” he finished, a hand coming up to rub his eyes; they all knew that he really didn't want to look at them, since he had already tried to destroy the world once, and he'd actually wanted to at that time.

 

“When will this all happen?” Tea's voice broke through the silence.

 

Marik was silent.

 

“Marik,” Joey urged, growing panicky.

 

He sighed heavily. “It's already started,” the former tomb keeper said finally; he cringed at their confused and questioning looks. “`When the Millennium Puzzle and Millennium Luna are reunited, the light they emit will set into motion a chain of events that shall eventually bring about the end of the world if not stopped.'”

 

Yugi paled visibly when the other boy had finished speaking the legend, remembering the other night as he and Rose were going to sleep. Marik saw this, and his stomach dropped when he put two and two together, realizing why the tri-colored boy had turned so white.

 

“Yugi,” he breathed, suddenly finding it hard to do so. “You know who has the Millennium Luna, don't you?”

 

The poor boy could only nod weakly as his throat constricted, cutting off his vocal chords; the blonde could only stare at him in horror.

 

“You two mind cluing us in?” Joey asked through the thick cloud of tension, asking what the other three were afraid to.

 

Yugi swallowed thickly, not hearing his blonde friend's question as he continued to stare at the Egyptian. “The Millennium Luna, that's Rose's necklace isn't it?”

 

Marik nodded, unable to speak himself. He looked away from the five of them, falling into the pregnant silence that seemed to fill the room. He couldn't breath suddenly, his throat closing up just like Yugi's had, but he forced himself to take in deep gulps of air almost greedily. The tension in the air was so thick, he was almost tempted to ask for a knife so that he could try and cut it away; he was about to when the door of the shop slammed open.

 

“Where is she?!” Kaiba's voice boomed from the entrance. The six of them had to scramble from the back room just to see what was going on, being that a visit from Seto Kaiba was never a good thing.

 

“Where's who?” Bakura was the first to ask.

 

Kaiba glowered menacingly at him. “What do you mean `who'?! The damned Rose Dualist, of course!” he shrieked, looking like he was about to punch somebody out. “If I get my hands on her, I swear that she'll never be able to pick up another card again!”

 

Everyone looked at him as if he had just proclaimed his undying love for Joey (who was even thinking that might be more likely then the crap he was spewing right now himself), each with their own thoughts on what he was yelling about.

 

`What the hell is Kaiba on now?' Joey and Tristan unknowingly thought in unison.

 

`Oh God, this is embarrassing,' was what Tea thought as she brought a hand up to hide her face.

 

`I think he's finally lost it,' Bakura thought in wonder, staring at the brunette as if he were some kind of freak.

 

`Did he just say the Rose Dualist was a she?' were the disbelieving thoughts of Yugi and Marik, who were decidedly to close to the angry man and moved back safely behind Joey and Tristan.

 

And finally…

 

`Pie…' Of course, Grandpa wasn't in the room; he was upstairs staring at a pie in the refrigerator, but we can pretend he didn't hear the ruckus downstairs, right?

 

“'Bout time you figured it out, Kaiba-boy,” Rose said from her spot on the stairs as she leaned on the banister, looking amused and bored.

 

Kaiba glared. “You, why didn't you tell me it was you,” he demanded dangerously, to which the rooms other six moved backwards should he decide to lash out. “You could have saved a whole lot of humiliation by coming up to me at the airport instead of leaving me to stand there for four hours.”

 

The blonde girl snorted at him. “Oh hush up. It's not my fault you're stupid, so don't blame me for it,” she said dismissively, waving him off as she descended the stairs to walk up behind her cousin. She hugged him from behind. “Besides, my darling cousin and his wonderful friends were there to greet me, and I couldn't just be rude and leave them there without at least saying hello. What kind of person would that make me?”

 

Kaiba's face turned red, fighting the urge to snap that it would make her the same annoying brat that she was being right now. He didn't have to once he'd caught a glimpse of what she was wearing from around Yugi's now decidedly too large head, along with two other nameless males. (A/N *coughs* Marik and Bakura *coughs again)

 

Rose wore what appeared to be a skirt made of black velvet that reached all the way down to the tops of her feet, two slits reaching up to just above her knees on either side revealing the boots she'd been wearing for the last few days. Her black shirt was a little ditty that hung just barely on her shoulders, revealing the smooth skin that was there, and the tight sleeves stopping just before her wrists as she draped her arms loosely around Yugi's neck. That blasted rose choker clung to her neck on the same strip of see-through black ribbon it had been on when he first dismissed it, but this time a pair of matching dangle earrings accompanied it, taunting him as the swung form her earlobes. She'd taken out the braid and pig-tail she'd sported earlier in the afternoon, letting her lopsided hair fall down with its cute wave that could also be mistaken for light curls had she let her hair flow wild. Fishnet stockings were seen from where her boots stopped on up to where the slit in the skirt began to open, and two familiar belts hung loosely on her hips, completing the ensemble.

 

Good God, was she trying to seduce them?!

 

“Rose, what's Kaiba talking about?” Yugi asked suspiciously, pushing her arms off of him and turning to face her with narrowed eyes. Hmm, seemed he wasn't all that surprised by her get up; lucky him.

 

The blonde laughed nervously, hoping that Kaiba's sudden appearance would have distracted him so that she could figure up a suitable explanation. “Heh heh, um, Yugi do you remember when I said I was at Dualist Kingdom for the tournament a few years ago?”

 

He nodded, not sure and not liking where all this was headed.

 

“Well, you see, I wasn't exactly there as a contestant,” she continued, wringing her hands like a child caught doing something bad. Oh dear lord… “I was there as an Eliminator.”

 

Silence, and then…

 

“What?!” Joey screeched in horror, basically covering what all the others wanted to say for them.

 

Yugi stared at his cousin in horror, opting for that instead of the shock Tea, Tristan, and Bakura were currently warring over. Rose had worked, no, still was working for Pegasus?! When and how had that happened—no. Couldn't be.

 

“Do you mean to say that the big shot company president from your story was Pegasus?” Tristan sputtered finally, seeing as loud mouth Joey was now the one reeling from the information overload. “The guy's a flippin' psycho!” The last part was yelled out.

 

Rose pouted at all the fuss being made, clearly unaffected by their reactions. “You see? This is exactly why I didn't want Grandpa to tell you guys. I knew you'd all flip out.”

 

Yugi blinked owlishly at her. “Grandpa knew?” he asked in disbelief.

 

“Of course he knew!” Rose exclaimed in annoyance. “He's been in charge of my trust fund since my mom died; don't you think he'd have noticed when large sums of money started being sifted into it by one `M. Pegasus'?”

 

Yugi couldn't believe what he was hearing, no he didn't want to.

 

“Excuse me, but if haven't noticed I'm still here,” Kaiba interrupted, growing irritated at being ignored.

 

Two pairs of eyes, one pair violet and the other violet and blue, glared at him, causing him to shrink away for once. “Oh, shut up,” two voices hissed, to which he actually obeyed. Hell, even Kaiba knew he needed to keep his mouth shut.

 

“You still could have at least told me,” Yugi said, hurt visible in his eyes as he turned angrily back to his cousin.

 

“Nah-uh, `cause you'd still would have flipped out like you are now!” she yelled at him, her hands on her hips. “Ya damn pin cushion!”

 

“Don't call me a pin cushion, Rainbow Bright!” he yelled back.

 

“Porcupine!”

 

“LOPPY!”

 

Oops, wrong insult.

 

Rose went dangerously silent, her body completely still as her hands balled into fists at her sides. “What…did you just call me?” her voice low and dangerous as she spoke.

 

Yugi realized he'd said the wrong thing to the wrong person, and took a step back. No, don't step back, he ordered himself to stay put. What's done is done, and there was no turning back; especially when arguing with Rose. Of course, the only agonizing part was trying to figure out what his manic cousin was going to do, and the only problem the others would realize soon enough.

 

“Y-you heard me,” he stuttered bravely, trying his very hardest not to sound scared. Failing, oh so very miserably.

 

By this time, Rose had lowered her head so that her hair fell over her eyes dangerously, obscuring them from view. She looked slightly possessed; slightly because even if she was, she could still do twice the amount of damage Yugi knew she could do had a spirit tried to invade her body. Funny how strong her personality seemed at the moment, everyone thought as they all took a gigantic step back.

 

“Yugi,” she said, her voice low and filled with promises of death; the spiky-headed teen gulped, mentally trying to prepare himself for his looming demise. Everyone held their breaths, and then…

 

“You're mean!” she cried as she snapped her head up, tears streaming down her face as she burst into sobs. She covered her face with her hands, her back shaking with the wrenching cries as she leaned on a confused Bakura's shoulder. Kaiba growled, not at all sure why, but kept at it anyway, and poor Bakura, still severely confused, just stood there and let her cry with an odd look on his face.

 

Yugi, meanwhile, just sweat-dropped as everyone turned their own confused gazes towards him. They were practically screaming `WHAT THE HELL?!'

 

`I should of known,' he thought in exasperation, dragging a hand down his face.

 

“Rose, knock it off,” he actually growled, his eye twitching in annoyance. “I'm not buying it, and you should well know that I didn't mean what I said either.”

 

Everyone watched with numbed amazement as Rose sniffled once before brightening as if by magic, saying, “Oh, alright. I should have known that my powers of whoa wouldn't work on you, so I forgive you,” in what was the perkiest voice Yugi had ever heard her use.

 

Tea twitched. “Do you ever cry for real?!” she yelled, just as exasperated as her friend.

 

Rose put a finger to her chin as if in deep thought. “No, not really,” she replied grinning.

 

The brunette gave her a droll look. “Never mind,” she grumbled, copying Yugi's earlier motion and dragged a hand down her face.

 

The blonde grinned again, obviously severely amused by the chaos she had created. “Right then, now that that little matter's been cleared up, time to hit the road,” she exclaimed happily, dashing behind the store counter and returning with a duffle bag that Yugi hadn't noticed was there. “C'mon bamboo-boy, onward and off!”

 

That said, Rose shouldered her bag and proceeded to walk briskly past a confused Seto Kaiba to the door, only stopping when a hand closed around the back of her shirt, dragging her back. She looked back to see a slightly taller Yugi, his hair spikier and mauve eyes more severe looking on his pale face. (A/N Heh heh, he went Yami. ^_^)

 

She smiled innocently at him, to which Yami raise an eyebrow.

 

“And just where do you think you're going?” his deep voice reverberated from his chest.

 

To which Rose replied brightly, “With Kaiba.”

 

Another raised eyebrow. “And why are you going with Kaiba?” he asked curiously, wondering whether or not he wanted to know anyway.

 

“Because it's part of a deal Pegasus is trying to work with him,” came her airy reply, her smile growing into a grin when she caught Kaiba's grimace at the reminder.

 

Yami blinked. “And what deal is this?”

 

If possible, Rose's grin grew even wider with secret amusement. “That I come live with Kaiba for a while and he keeps me amused and Pegasus won't attempt another Hostile Take Over. A sort of truce, if you will,” she said with an evil cackle at the annoyed and fearful Kaiba's direction, rubbing her hands together in anticipation of the evils she would reap upon his head on her bosses orders. Oh no, nothing bad like stealing souls and the like, nothing as bad as that; just her pulling a few over the top pranks and making the brunette's life an all around hell for the next year or so. If Joey was completely aware of her plans, he probably wouldn't have been so against them.

 

“There is no way you're going to stay with Kaiba,” the blonde boy exploded, glaring at the source of his woes with a passion.

 

Kaiba sneered derisively at him. “You have no choice in the matter, so go back to playing you're little games, lapdog.”

 

“WHAT?!” Joey screeched, leaping at the brunette with murder in his eyes. He was annoyed to find himself being hampered down by Marik, Tristan and Bakura.

 

“Joey, calm yourself,” Bakura pleaded before he was elbowed in the face. Tristan got him revenge by smacking his blonde friend up side the head, gaining immense satisfaction when it seemed he was now seeing stars. Tea watched them in disgust.

 

Fortunately, whether for them or the others, they went ignored for the moment as Yami fixed his other half's cousin with serious stare. She felt a bit unnerved, but didn't let on. “I don't think you should go with him,” he said with concern.

 

Rose stuck her tongue out at him. “Well tough, `cause gramps already okayed it, so there,” she shot back with childish annoyance, still not sensing the change in her cousin's personality.

 

Yami raised an eyebrow. “He did?”

 

“Yep, so I'll see you all Monday,” she chirped before grabbing Kaiba by the arm and dragged him out to the limo waiting outside and leaving before Yami could utter another protest to her plans.

 

Silence rang through the shop for several minutes, each of its six remaining occupants trying to gather their thoughts as they stared at the still open door. Then Grandpa walked in.

 

“Yugi? What was all that noise just now?” Sugoroku's voice echoed before he came into the room.

 

`Yugi' glared at him, regaining control just as the old man walked in. “Grandpa, you have a lot of explaining to do.”

 

~*~

 

Later, at Kaiba's mansion…

 

“Seto, where's you go? I got a cal from your secretary claiming you'd just disappeared,” Mokuba as soon as his big brother stepped in through the front door. He was surprised when Rose followed after him, her mismatched eyes scanning the part of the mansion she could see at the moment with wonder. “What's she doing here?” he asked curiously.

 

Kaiba gave a long suffering sigh, and Mokuba raised an eyebrow. “She's the Rose Dualist,” was all he would say; to his eternal annoyance, Rose herself waved amiably at Mokuba, who looked down right dubious. Couldn't blame him, really.

 

“No really, what's she doing here?”

 

He glared at his brother, catching the barely concealed laughter in the younger Kaiba's voice. “She's. The. Rose. Dualist.” He repeated through clenched teeth. God, he only wished he could be as disbelieving as Mokuba right now; honestly, was it so hard to believe she was the famous champion from America? Know what, scratch that.

 

“Hiya Mokie,” Rose greeted brightly, waving again. “Long time no see.”

 

Mokuba Kaiba gave her an odd look, not having the heart to tell her that it had only been a day since they'd first met. “Hi…,” he said unsurely, motioning for her to follow him up the winding stairway. “I guess I'll show you to your room. Follow me, please.”

 

“'Kay,” she hummed, throwing her duffle bag over her shoulder once more to follow him up. Before disappearing around the corner, she paused at the top of the steps, smiling a small, shy and gentle smile. Kaiba could swear his heart had nearly stopped beating. “Goodnight Seto,” she said softly, her voice echoing around the empty hall. Mokuba called for her to hurry up, and she disappeared around the corner, leaving the elder Kaiba standing there in utter confusion as red spilled across his cheeks.

 

Had both her eyes just been violet?

 

~*~

 

Marik Ishtar wasn't one to usually complain when things got bad nowadays, especially since he had had the great fortune to have been set free from his fate as a Tomb Keeper for the Pharaohs lost soul, but with the way things had gone the last two days, he was certainly entitled to be a bit grouchy from it. But he wouldn't complain, at least not until he was safely back in his new apartment with Ishizu and Odeon, and even then it would only be about how his day had gone from okay, to bad, to worse. And all because of a little necklace, he thought sourly; he made a note to never wear jewelry again.

 

“Brother, is that you?” Ishizu called from the kitchen when she heard the door slam closed. She was a lot more cheery now that he wasn't possessed by evil, but even this had upset her, and he really didn't want to tell her the news.

 

“Yes Sister,” he called hesitantly, tossing his bag down by the door and tossing his uniform jacket on the coat rack beside it. He noted that the smell of Egyptian cooking was filling his nose with it's delicious scent, recognizing Odeon's cooking immediately, but he wasn't all that hungry now and just wanted to get this over with. “Could you and Odeon come out here for a moment?”

 

There was minute's silence before his sister and adopted brother filed out into the small living room to join him, both sitting opposite him on the couch while he took the chair. They noted apprehensively the way he held his head in his hands.

 

“Master Marik, what is the matter?” Odeon asked reluctantly, forgetting to drop the no longer needed formality. It went unheeded.

 

The sandy blonde was silent for a minute longer before looking up at his siblings with such a despairing look, Ishizu wanted to take him into her arms. “I have some good news and some bad news,” he said miserably, wringing his hands.

 

The two older siblings looked at each other, giving the other an identical look of worry. “What's the good news?” Ishizu asked gently.

 

Marik hesitated. “I found the Millennium Luna,” he answered slowly, almost mechanically. “And I know who has it.”

 

The Egyptian woman blinked, surprised. “Who has it?”

 

“The Pharaoh's-I mean, Yugi's cousin, Rose,” he answered in that same mechanical voice.

 

Well that wasn't too terribly bad, they both thought. They could just ask Yugi to get it from her so that they could figure out what to do later; but Odeon had a sneaking suspicion that he couldn't completely ignore.

 

“That isn't the bad news, is it?” he rumbled hesitantly, watching his brother with fearful golden eyes.

 

Marik shook his head, burying it in his hands once more. “No, it isn't,” he breathed just loud enough for them to hear. “You see…she's living with Kaiba now and—” He didn't want to continue.

 

“And,” Ishizu urged fearfully.

 

“And…and the curse has been activated,” he blurted out finally, still not meeting their eyes. He knew what was there anyways; it was the same cold horror that had crept its way through his stomach before it froze his heart, and he hated having to be the one to tell them the news and be the cause of it. He never wanted to make his family miserable again, after all.

 

Ishizu and Odeon paled considerably despite their dark complexions, both again thinking the same thing. This was not good; this was not good at all.

 

 

 

End Chapter 3

 

 

Okay, fairly certain I've lost a few readers for not updating, but I have a good excuse (sorta)! You people don't review, and when you people don't review, the poor starved Authoress feels alone and unloved-much like a pet abandoned out in the rain, as I have told my friend Shio-chan every time she doesn't call back. Anyways, I apologize profusely to my loyal readers who have not pulled their hair out waiting, and thank you for not giving up. Gomen nasai and arigatou gozaimasu minna-san!

 

Koharu: Stop making excuses, you're lazy and you know it!

 

Ro: *glares* And when was the last time you updated?

 

Koharu: *grins smugly* Just last month; you were there, too.

 

Shio: Ooh, burn!

 

Ro: Do I have to put you back in the closet for your behavior?

Shio: *shuts up*

 

Ro: Anyways, R&R, because reviews are an author's life blood, and without them, the story dies. Until next time, Ja Ne!