Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Mary-Sue Invasion ❯ Plotting ( Chapter 2 )

So, here comes the second chapter. Hope you're going to like it… ^^ And very many thanks for the review, Loki-chan!

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, and all pink flamingos that appear in this chapter actually belong to Pikachumaniac.

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Chapter 2: Plotting

"Get in Anzu. The others are here already."

"Thanks. Big place you have, Mai…"

The blonde girl shrugged. "Maybe. This way, follow me."

The two girls walked to a big living room where four other persons were sitting by a comfortably crackling fire.

"Hi Anzu!"

"Hello Mokuba." She smiled at the small boy, as well as at the other visitors. A little worriedly she noticed how tired Mutou Sugoroku seemed to be.

"Are you all right, jiichan?" she asked.

The old man smiled at her reassuringly. "Just a little tired… Lately Yuugi hasn't been of any help in keeping the shop."

Shizuka sighed. "I'm sure he hasn't, if he behaves like my brother does… During the past week I haven't been able to talk with Jou about anything else but Maryann. He's all the time with her - and if he isn't, he's somewhere dreaming about her."

"I've noticed," Mai said dryly. "He completely ignores me nowadays."

Anzu raised her eyebrows as she sat down. "I wouldn't have thought that you'd mind that. I thought you said that you don't care about him…"

Mai shifted uncomfortably. "Well, maybe, but… I don't still want him to be ignoring me."

"It's the same with Yuugi and Yami," Anzu said sighing. "I don't think that they anymore even remember that I exist…"

She frowned a little as she remembered what had happened two days ago when she had decided to pay a visit to Yuugi and his yami. Sugoroku had been working at the shop, and after they had exchanged few words, she had climbed to the upstairs, looking for Yuugi. What she had found was Aurora, lying on Yuugi's bed reading a magazine.

She stopped at the doorway, staring hostilely at the silvery haired girl. After a moment Aurora realized that she wasn't alone anymore, and raised her head from the pillow.

"Hi!" She smiled brightly at the brunette who was glaring daggers at her. "Nice to see you! Have you… calmed down from the time we last talked?

Anzu kept on glaring at her. "Witch," she muttered under her breath. Aurora sighed, and sat up on the bed.

"Obviously not," she said. "Look, I can understand that you have a thing for Yuugi - or his yami, I'm not sure for witch one - but you could even try to be a good loser. If they have chosen us…

"They haven't chosen anything! The only reason they stand your company for five minutes is your damned mascara!"

Aurora shifted uncomfortably. "For now, yes, but after some time, when they've come to know us, we won't need it anymore. They…"

Anzu snorted. "You think that they will forgive you? You're more stupid than I thought, then. Just wait… as soon as Yami is back to himself, you'll find yourself on a one way trip to the Shadow Realm." At this point she was almost boiling with rage. "Actually I think that I'll find a way to send you there by myself!" she shrieked as Aurora was going to say something.

Aurora's eyes widened in shock as she suddenly lunged towards her. Before Anzu could reach the other girl, though, she felt something hitting her back.

"No! Leave her be!"

The said something hit her again. It didn't hurt though, whatever it was, was really soft. In confusion she turned to look behind, just in time to see Yuugi hit her again with something pink.

"Yuugi? What…" She stumbled few steps backwards, away from the glowering small boy, who was whacking her with a pink stuffed flamingo. [1]

"Leave her be, I said!" Whack. "Don't even dare to think about hurting her!" Whack. "Leave." Whack. "Her." Whack. "BE!" Whack.

Finally Yuugi stopped the whacking, and stood still, literally shaking with anger, and staring at her with flaming eyes. Anzu had backed to the wall and leaned against it, more shaken than she had ever been, and stared at the small boy with wide eyes.

"Oh my dearest!" Aurora shouted suddenly, dashing to Yuugi. "My hero…" She bent down to hug him. The pink flamingo dropped from Yuugi's hands, forgotten, as he hugged her back.

"What is going on here?" a cold voice asked from the door, and both Anzu and Aurora turned to look at the newcomer - Yuugi kept on hugging Aurora, face buried against her neck.

Anzu gulped as she met Yami Aurora's cold eyes. I don't think that I want to be here, she thought, and made a hesitant move towards the door. The only problem was that the said yami was standing on her way.

"She threatened me with the Shadow Realm, yami, "Aurora said quietly, and her yami's eyes narrowed.

"Really? That is not a good idea, little girl. I…"

"Where did you go, love?" a new voice interrupted her, and soon Yami appeared behind her shoulder. He frowned a little as he saw the angry expression on his love's face.

"What is it?" He noticed Anzu in the room and his frown deepened. "Is this girl bothering you?"

Yami Aurora smirked a little. "Yes, dear, indeed she is," she purred. "Could you do something about it?"

"Anything for you," Yami looked at her admiringly. At that time Anzu decided that she really didn't want to be around there at all, and darted past both yamis and out of the door.

"Hey!" she heard Yami shouting after her, and knew without telling that the Eye of Horus had appeared on his forehead. She run to the downstairs, out through the back door, and didn't stop running until she was totally out of breath.

"Yeah… I don't think that they exactly remember me anymore…" she muttered, thinking aloud.

"That's nothing, but I don't think that niisama remembers that I exist," Mokuba piped up with a small sniffle, startling her awake from her thoughts.

Isis hugged him comfortingly. "We'll make him to remember, don't worry about that." She looked at the others. "I don't think that I have to tell you that Malik's behaving just in the same way. What really freaks me out is that even his darker personality behaves like that when he's in the control… We even tried to…" she cut herself off, looking quite ill at ease as she stared at the carpet.

"What?" Anzu asked looking at her expectantly.

Isis shook her head, almost angrily. "Oh, then on the first day, Yami Malik wasn't really in control for long, and we thought that if we arranged so that he'd stay in control, say, day or two, maybe he'd scare Felicia away, but…"

"Let me guess," Mokuba said wryly, leaning back on the coach, "it didn't work."

"No," Isis said with a sigh. "It most definitely didn't work. First I thought that all was going fine when Yami Malik disappeared one night and then came back with a bloody, still warm heart which he gave to Felicia - I don't really want to know where he got it from. I guess it was supposed to somehow symbol his giving his own heart to her… Anyways, you can bet she was quite upset about that… but then suddenly she turned all teary-eyed, and started going on about her 'poor misunderstood little boy who's forced to use violence to get attention' or something like that… and then she started to explain to him what people can do and what they can't to each other and… well, let's just say that now neither Malik nor his yami does anything before they're sure that she approves of it."

With a shaky sigh she rubbed softly her temples. "It just freaks me out…" she muttered quietly. "It doesn't matter which one of them is in control, he's just like a kitten when she's around."

This time it was Mokuba's turn to give her a hug. "Don't you worry either, we'll get them back to what they were."

Shizuka shivered a little. "I'm not sure if that's such a great option either," she muttered so quietly no one heard her.

The wood cracked loudly in the fire, breaking the silence that had followed and startling everyone.

"Right…" Mai cleared her throat uneasily. "I'm pretty sure that we all agree that we must do something."

"Definitely," Sugoroku said as the others nodded. "If not for any other reason than that they're dangerous in their current state. Few days ago Yami almost mind crushed one customer who spoke sharply to his 'loved one'." He shook his head as he recalled the situation. "And having customers mind crushed would be really bad for the business…" he added under the breath.

"But what should we do?" Shizuka asked, shooting a sharp glance at the old man.

"Well…" Anzu looked up from the floor she had been staring at with a thoughtful expression. "Maybe we should try to steal that mascara thing. Anyways, it is what they use to control the boys and if it's gone…"

Sugoroku nodded. "It's a good idea. Of course we could try kidnapping the boys and keeping them somewhere till the effect fades away, but as long as the mascara exists…"

"As long as it exists, they're in danger," Mai finished his sentence. "So, any ideas of how we're going to steal it?"

A long silence followed.

"Maybe we should first go through everything we know about these girls," Isis said finally, and the others agreed. Mai got some paper and a pen, and sat down with them.

"Hmmm… We know that Aurora has the mascara, Pearl has the dagger, and Felicia has the bracelet. Of these, we don't know what powers the dagger has. So, does anyone know if the other girls have some Millennium Items?"

"Ummm…" Mokuba stared at the floor thoughtfully. "I don't know if Unity has any Millennium Item, but… She does have a strange computer. It's really small, portable, and it seems that it doesn't need any electricity to work… She's really protective over it, and when she saw that I was examining it she got really angry."

Anzu looked over Mai's shoulder as she wrote and snorted. "Millennium Computer? I don't think they had computers in ancient Egypt."

Mai shrugged. "Maybe not, but I don't think that they had any mascaras either. At least not these modern-day plastic ones… Anything else?"

Mokuba shook his head.

"I don't really know about this but I saw something quite weird one day," Shizuka said thoughtfully. "Maryann and Susan were going somewhere - they had Jou and Honda with them of course - and it seemed that they were having a fight over exactly where they were going. So, Maryann took an old-looking book from her bag, it had the eye of Horus on it's cover - or something that looked like the eye, anyways. She gave it to Susan who wrote into it with a quill and then Maryann read what she had written, and… well, that's it. Then they left somewhere. There was a weird air of… ritual in the whole thing."

Everyone was staring at the brown haired girl.

"Millennium Book and Millennium Quill…?" Mai shook her head, but wrote it down with a big question mark. "Talk about weird…" she muttered. "That leaves Azura. Does anyone know about her?"

Everyone shook their heads.

Mai looked at what she had written and sighed. "That's not much… Can't anyone really think about anything useful?"

Again, silence followed.

She sighed again. "I guess not."

Isis bit her lip softly. "You know… I was thinking about what jiichan said about kidnapping the boys and… maybe we should try that first. I've noticed that the effect of the mascara starts fading away after few days, and then it has to be used again. If we could keep them away from the girls for few days, then they could help us to defeat them."

"Not a bad idea," Mai said, thinking about it. "We certainly could use the yamis' powers. What about your Tauk, by the way? Is it of any help?"

Isis shook her head. "I don't think so. The only thing I can do with it is to look into the near future, and it really hasn't shown me anything of importance lately."

Mai snorted. "Figures," she muttered. "The only Millennium Item we have, and it's of no help. Oh well. But speaking of our kidnapping scheme… where would we keep them? The girls know where we live so we can't take them to our homes."

Silence took over again, as everyone thought about this. The only sounds in the large room came from the clock ticking on the wall and the crackling of the wood in the fireplace.

"I know!"

Everyone turned to look at Mokuba. "What?" Anzu asked.

"I can hire some house where we can take them."

"You can?" Isis looked at him skeptically. "I mean… you're just a kid."

Mokuba snorted. "Of course I can, just leave it to me. You can have it tomorrow, if you want to - or today, in five minutes."

"The sooner the better, if you ask me," Anzu said, and the others agreed.

"So, if Mokuba arranges the house for us, I can drive the boys there," Yuugi's grandpa said. "I think they all have room in my van… The remaining problem is how we're going to get them away from their 'loves'."

Shizuka smirked a little. "I think that I will have no problems in cheating those stupid twins… Honestly, they should be blondes- no offense, Mai," she added quickly, as she saw the blonde girl frowning.

"Unity is easily tricked as well," Mokuba said, kicking his legs happily. "She's quite goodhearted, actually… Maybe if I act miserably enough she'll let me have some time together with niisama."

Anzu grinned. "You should face no problems in that… What about the others?"

Isis shook her head. "I'm not sure about Felicia… She's not very bright, but Malik's quite protective of her, it's not easy to separate them. I should come up with some way to make her to order him to leave her alone for a while, but I'm not sure how to do that."

Shizuka looked at her. "Maybe my plan for the twins would work on her too… We have to talk about it. But that leaves Aurora, Azura and Pearl…"

"Aurora is going to be a difficult one… or at least her yami will be that," Sugoroku said. "And probably Pearl too. They seem to be quite bright, and their yamis are quite ruthless. Although…" he paused, considering things. "Aurora herself is also rather good-natured, maybe I can convince her that I really need Yuugi's help in something."

Shizuka and Isis had been whispering together, and now they turned to the others.

"Okay, here's what we thought," Shizuka said. "In three days there'll be the annual Domino Fashion Show. The twins have been talking about it for long. I think that they were going to take Jou and Honda with them there, but it'll be easy to convince them to leave them home… so that they can 'surprise' the boys later with beautiful new dresses." She grinned, uncharacteristically wickedly.

"That should work for Felicia too," Isis said. "Maybe we could make them all to go there together and to leave the boys home."

Mokuba shook his head. "It won't work with Unity. She doesn't care about anything but her stupid computer, least of all clothes. It's quite amazing how she manages to look so good given the rags she's always wearing. But it doesn't matter… I can take care of her on my own." He looked at the others smugly, and Anzu rolled her eyes.

"Just like his brother," she muttered.

"That sounds like a good plan," Sugoroku said slowly. "Although I'm not sure if the yamis are interested in fashion shows… Still, it's worth trying. It would probably be best if you'd try to get your quality time with niisama the same day the fashion show takes place, Mokuba."

The small boy nodded. "Sure."

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"No… I don't think that I'm coming, I… Yes, I know, but Mary, you know I don't like those… I don't know why, I just am like that. You go and have fun, I… yes… yes…"

Mokuba was lying on a big armchair, feet on its back and head on the seat, listening as Unity talked with Maryann in the phone. She was sitting on the couch, and Seto was sitting beside her, staring at her worshipfully. It was the first day after the enchantment had been renewed, and that was always the worst time. As the enchantment gradually faded away, the victims would behave at least a little more normally, but on the first day…

Mokuba sighed as he looked at his brother who stared at Unity as if she were a goddess from the heavens and chatting about the meaning of life with her fellow goddesses in the phone.

When Unity finally ended the phone call, she got up from the coach, patting Seto on the cheek and smiling at him.

"Come on, honey. Let's go to…"

Mokuba chose that moment to sigh heartbreakingly.

"What?" She turned to look at Mokuba. "Is something wrong, cutie?"

Slowly, Mokuba rolled around and sat up.

"Not really…" he said, staring at the ground and sighing again.

Unity frowned. "You know… I don't think that that was exactly true…"

Aren't you the bright one… Mokuba resisted an urge to roll his eyes and continued staring at the ground, trying to look as miserable as he could.

"You know, kid," Unity continued, "whatever it is, you can tell it to me." She walked to Mokuba and kneeled down beside him, taking his hand into hers.

"I know that your life has been difficult too, just as your brother's," she whispered sympathetically, "If you're having some problems again, just tell me. I understand."

Mokuba shifted restlessly on his chair. "It's just that…" he gulped, and Unity squeezed his hand reassuringly. "I miss niisama," he whispered, forcing a tear to roll down his cheek - which wasn't as difficult as he had thought. He really did miss his brother, after all.

Unity blinked. "What? But he's right here." She gestured at Seto who was standing right behind her, his eyes fixed on her.

"I know." Mokuba looked finally up and met Unity's eyes, giving her the dreaded lost-and-abandoned-puppy-eyes look. I don't need mascara to do this… "But he's all the time with you… We never spend any time together anymore."

"Oh." Unity stared at him as if he had told her some great secret, which she could have never figured out on her own. "Oh."

For a moment she looked at Mokuba who bit his lip as if to stop it from quivering - in truth he was trying not to laugh. Then she hugged him.

"Oh you poor thing… I've been so selfish… We're going to movies now, you can come with us if you want to."

Mokuba forced a smile on his lips. "That's nice of you… but…"

"Yes?"

"Could I possibly have a little time alone with him? Please? Pretty please? Pleasepleaseplease…" He grasped Unity's arm before she could get up from the floor and stared into her eyes. "Please?"

"Yes, well…" She cleared her throat, looking away. "I guess… but not today, okay?"

"Tomorrow?"

She thought about it and shrugged then. "I guess it doesn't really matter."

"Yes!" Mokuba bounced up and wrapped his arms around her. "Thanyouthankyouthankyou…"

"Yes, yes, calm down…" Unity got up from the floor and smiled at the beaming boy. "There… if people only realized how small things can make other people happy the world would be a lot better place… but we really have to be going now. Come on, Seto!"

Mokuba watched how his brother followed Unity out of the room like a puppy dog, a small grin playing on his lips. Gotcha.

Then he rushed away to call his fellow conspirators.

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[1] A pink flamingo? Blame Pikachumaniac. And if you want to know what's going on here, read her fic Fairydust (in fanfiction.net) ^^ Okay, if you're too lazy to do that, just read the beginning of the 15th chapter… and if you're too lazy to do even that (your loss, I might add) maybe I have to tell you that the flamingo in question is called Mr. Feathers and is Yuugi's favorite stuffed animal. ^^

No comment. There'll be no comment from me right now… I'd probably just scare all the readers away. ^^; I just came home about an hour ago, we were in the movies and watched Kill Bill. That's… a very… interesting movie. Not nice. Bloody. Not nice.

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