Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Mary-Sue Invasion ❯ Déjà vu ( Chapter 12 )

For some time I imagined that this chapter would be the last one, but that just proves how much I know about my fics. In the end, 80% of what happens in this chapter wasn't even supposed to happen… you could say that I kind of lost control with things. ^^;;

Now I imagine that the next chapter will be the last one, but… we'll see. Can't say for sure before I've written it, this fic has a habit of swelling.

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Chapter 12: Déjà vu

/This was what I call a good day's job./

Ryou only sighed.

/It isn't every day I can feed people to duel monsters without anyone trying to intervene/ Bakura continued cheerfully. There was quiet chuckling in the back of Ryou's mind. /I wonder if the Pharaoh is still enchanted by 'his queen'… hmm, why don't we go to see?/

Ryou sighed again. "I'm tired, I want to go home," he muttered. It had really been a long day.

/But don't you want to help your friends? We should go to save the Pharaoh, right?/

Ryou snorted. /As if you wanted to save him. You just want to go there to laugh at him, right?/

/Me? Would I…/

/Yes, you would/Ryou cut him off. Bakura fell silent, and for a moment he thought that his yami had dropped the subject, but suddenly he found himself thrown to the back of his soulroom.

/Yami!/

Bakura grinned. /I admit, you're right. I would./

-

Malik was not in the best of moods currently. First of all, he had tried to get a little nap but hadn't slept too well because his dark side kept on interrupting his sleep, secondly, once he finally gave up sleeping and went to the kitchen to get something to eat he found the fridge empty (okay, there were a couple of tomatoes, and he really didn't have anything against tomatoes, but… let's face this. If you are really hungry, how much do two tomatoes help?), and after that his yami found out that the Bracelet had disappeared while he slept. He still had a headache from all the screaming and swearing that had taken place in his head.

Shortly put, the evening wasn't going too well for him.

He got on his motorbike, stepped on the gas and, blatantly ignoring the other traffic on the street, started to drive towards the game shop. He was quite sure that the one who had stolen the Bracelet had to be one of these annoying Millennium Girls, or whatever it was they had called themselves. Since they had earlier lodged at the game shop, he would probably find them there now as well. In hic current enraged state (not to mention the headache), he couldn't have cared less about the possible dangers of his mission. Anyway, there was only one Bracelet, all the girls wouldn't be able to use it at the same time. Now that he knew their tricks they wouldn't pose any kind of threat to him.

So he continued his way at full throttle, passing every car on his way and almost giving heart attacks to the drivers of the oncoming cars.

As the game shop finally came into view, his eyes immediately stopped on a white-haired boy who was walking towards it. He frowned a little. What did Ryou have to do here? He slowed down by the other, immediately seeing that it was the yami in control.

Bakura gave him a short nod. "What brought you here?"

"I was just going to ask you the same," Malik answered, still frowning.

"Oh, I'm just going to 'save' the Pharaoh," Bakura said lightly. "We can't leave him into the hands of his lovely queen, can we?"

Malik just stared at him suspiciously not saying anything as they arrived to the game shop. He left his bike by the pavement and followed Bakura to the front door.

"You sure it's wise just to walk in?" he asked as Bakura tried the door and it opened.

"Afraid?"

He shrugged off the mocking question and entered the house after Bakura. They had barely taken two steps when Mai appeared in the doorway a bread knife in her hand.

She blinked at them, they blinked at her - for a moment everyone was blinking.

"What are you doing here?" they exclaimed then in unison.

Malik was the first to answer. "We came to save the Pharaoh," he said with sarcastic air. "And you?"

Mai shrugged. "We saved the Pharaoh," she said, making Bakura's face to fall. "Or… actually he saved himself before we came. Then the others left to the Kaiba mansion."

Bakura began cursing silently. "Saved himself… he just has to ruin all the fun in my life, doesn't he…" he muttered under his breath.

"So, why didn't you go with them?" Malik asked.

"Me and Shizuka stayed here to guard Otogi. He is still under the influence of the Mascara."

"Otogi?" Malik frowned thoughtfully while Bakura continued cursing (and getting lectured by Ryou on the language he used). "I wonder… could I ask him a couple of questions? Maybe he knows, umm… something I want to know," he finished lamely.

Mai gave him a long look but shrugged then. "Sure, why not. He's in the cellar."

"What's going on?" Shizuka as well entered the room.

"Malik's got some questions for Otogi," Mai answered as she led them to the cellar door and started to open it. "Just be careful he doesn't…"

She didn't have time to finish the sentence as Otogi jumped out of the cellar. He didn't get far before Bakura and Malik stopped him.

"Why do I have to always be the one who gets run over by lovesick prisoners?" Mai muttered as she scrambled up from the floor.

"Let go off me!" Otogi managed somehow to bite Malik's hand and he let go for a moment with a yelp. That didn't help Otogi though, since Bakura had a good hold of his other hand and Mai and Shizuka lunged to catch the other.

"Let go! I have to go to save her!"

"Oh, be quiet!" Malik grasped his hair and stared into his eyes. "Do you know anything about the Millennium Bracelet?"

Otogi blinked. "Bracelet? What makes you think I'd know anything about it? I don't know who stole it, I just want to…"

Malik's eyes narrowed. "How do you know it was stolen?"

"I…" Otogi blinked as he realized that Malik hadn't said anything about that. "Uh, I just… I'm psychic?"

Malik snorted. "Sure." He took a firmer grip of Otogi's hair and drew his head so close to his that their noses almost touched. "You stole it, didn't you?"

Otogi really didn't like this situation. "Me? What do you take me for, some common thief? Of course I didn't, what would I do with it?"

"Take it to your 'sweetheart'," Mai said suddenly. "She wanted to have it, didn't she?"

Azura's beautiful blue eyes floated to Otogi's mind when she was mentioned. He sighed dreamily, relaxing a little. "I just wanted to make her eyes shine like two blue stars," he whispered quietly, not even realizing that he was speaking aloud.

There was a moment's silence. Just when Malik was going to demand him to tell what Azura had done with the Bracelet, Bakura burst into laughter.

"He… he really stole… it?" he managed to get out between his guffaws. "I don't… believe…" He almost fell down to the floor holding his stomach from the laughter. Otogi stared at him, unsure whether he should be insulted or relieved at this distraction.

"Stole it… from under your… nose…"

/That tomb thief is really starting to annoy me… although he is right in a way. This almostcould be funny - if this had happened to someone else. Why couldn't you…/

/Oh, please be quiet! And do you have to deliberately make my headache worse all the time?!/

/I think you do deserve some headache for losing my toy,/ a wry voice commented in his head, but thankfully fell then silent.

Malik gave the still-laughing Bakura an angry glare. "And will you stop that laughing! I was just sleeping for a while, I…"

"Oh yes… poor little Malik…" Bakura gave up trying to stay on his feet and fell down to sit on the floor. "Just taking a nap, and then bad boys come to steal his treasure…"

"I told you to shut up!" Malik screamed grabbing Bakura's shirt and dragged him up. "How could I have known that some idiot would be stupid enough to try to brave my wrath!"

This only made Bakura to laugh harder. "Your wrath? Since when has…"

"Hey, guys?" Mai interrupted him. "Maybe you should calm down, this isn't a good time for fighting."

Bakura ignored her, and Malik only shot an angry glare at her before turning his attention back to Bakura. Shizuka and Mai shared an exasperated look as Malik continued screaming at the white-haired boy who didn't seem to be able to stop laughing.

Otogi stared at the two boys, vaguely amused. This turn of events was quite welcome for him - he really didn't care explaining to Malik how he had been snooping around in his house.

Then it hit him. Now that Malik and Bakura were fighting the only ones holding him were a couple of girls, and their attention was on the boys. With a sudden move he wrenched himself free and started running.

-

The rain had made the weather to cool a little, and there was quite a pleasant freshness in the air. The sun hadn't set yet, and everything glistened in its rays. Slowly, the day was turning into a night. Domino really was a pleasant place to visit when it was summer.

A middle-aged man was standing on the pavement smoking a cigarette. Why he was doing that I don't know, since he had wanted to go get some fresh air, and I'd say that a cigarette quite effectively ruins that… Anyway, he leaned against a car and enjoyed the cool weather. He, his wife, their daughter and her dog were visiting his wife's sister and her family. The visit had been quite successful, everyone had had good time, and he had been able to forget the weird events from the morning.

He frowned a little. He really hadn't been going to think about that. These days, even peaceful little villages like his hometown were turning into nests of some hooligan gangs. Quite incredible. Something really should have been done, but no one seemed to be interested in taking action.

Hmm… maybe they should move to Domino. He took an estimating look around. Domino was a city, and he had many times been talking with his wife about the benefits of living in a city, but still it wasn't too big, and all in all it seemed to be quite a peaceful place. At least this part of it was very pleasant… He made a decision to talk about this with his wife on the way home, stubbed out his cigarette and turned to go back in.

Just then the door of a game shop on the other side of the street was thrown open. With a start he looked behind to see a raven-haired boy running out, stopping dead by a motorbike that was parked at the shop, jumping then on it and speeding away.

Two other boys ran out of the shop as well, another of them cursing loudly after the disappearing bike. The other one though… the boy was running towards him, and he gulped as he recognized the mad-eyed, white-haired weirdo he had ran across earlier.

Before he could say anything the white-haired boy's hand had found it's way into his pocket and was grasping the keys of his car.

"Come on, Malik!" the boy shouted running to the car.

"Hey, wait a minute! That's my car!" he shouted getting over his initial shock. He tried to grasp the white-haired boy but he slipped throughhis hands like an eel.

"Give me those keys," the other boy was shouting. "I'm gonna drive."

"I can…!"

"Since when have tomb thieves known how to drive a car?" The boy - Malik, was he? - grasped the keys, shoved the man away, and sat on the driver's seat. Two girls had appeared from the shop and plunged into the car too. Another of them, a beautiful blonde the man remembered seeing before, flashed a quick smile at him.

"We'll borrow this for a moment," she shouted and then quickly drew the door close as the car screeched away.

He blinked after the car, seriously starting to consider moving to some other country.

-

"Okay, where did he go…?"

Malik was grasping the wheel knuckles white. Looking at him, Bakura began to doubt that it might have been safer with him driving after all, despite the fact that he had never driven before. Malik's eyes were getting quite a mad gleam….

"I'm going to teach him… stealing the bracelet… stealing my bike… going to be so sorry…"

Bakura shook his head. That guy was really getting a little too worked up for his own good.

"Where did he go!"

Malik's sudden scream made him to start a little.

"I think we lost him," he answered calmly.

"Lost him?" Malik turned his maddened glare to him. "Lost him?!" he shrieked. "What do you mean lost him? He's got my bike! My bike!"

"Look where you're driving!" Mai screamed from the backseat and Malik narrowly missed hitting a streetlamp.

"Maybe we should stop for a moment to consider…" Shizuka started to say meekly but Malik didn't let her to finish the sentence.

"Stop? We won't stop till we find my bike! I'm going to teach that lowly thief to touch my property! I'll make him…"

Bakura reached out his hand, grasped the key, and turned the engine off. Malik shouted angrily as the car came to a stop.

"What do you think you're doing! Give me that key…" He reached for the key but Bakura held it out of his reach.

"I think you'd better to try to calm down a little… if we just drive around aimlessly we're never going to find anything."

Malik took a deep breath, and hit then annoyedly the steering wheel. "I just want my [censored] bike back…" he muttered. With an angry shake of his head he held his hand to Bakura. "Give me that key, we can't stop in the middle of the street."

Slowly he drove the car to the side of the street.

"If someone's ever going to complain about my driving again…" Mai muttered. Both she and Shizuka were still quite pale.

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First, Otogi had driven to his home, hoping to find Azura there. The place turned out to be empty. He spent a moment wondering what to do, and decided then to go to Unity to ask if she knew where his love was, blissfully unaware that to find Unity he would have had to go to the Domino City Hospital.

As he drove towards the Kaiba mansion he was, again, happily ignorant of the car that started to follow him as he happened to pass a bridge from which certain people spotted him.

-

Meanwhile, the others had arrived to the mansion. They had found the computer in what used to be Unity's room, and currently Seto was trying to figure out it's programming. The deepening frown on his face didn't bode well, though. The others were sprawled across the room on the bed and chairs.

"How long does it take?" Jou complained finally. He stretched his hands a little as he lay on the bed. "Try to hurr…"

"I am trying!"" Kaiba snapped at him. "If you want me to get ready some day, stop bothering me."

"Well, sorry," Jou snorted. "But no one's been bothering you for half an hour or so, and still…"

"It's because this computer makes no sense!" Kaiba exclaimed, hitting the table in frustration. "There's only one program in this, and nothing else. Not even an operating system… I don't understand how it can work in the first place."

"What kind of program is it?" Yuugi had gotten up from his chair and was looking at the computer over Kaiba's shoulder.

He shrugged. "No idea. There's no information about it, nothing… as far as I know, it shouldn't even exist, but there it still is.

Yuugi frowned at the computer screen. It was colored light pink and had a flower icon with a smiley face in it. That was all.

"So… is that a shortcut to it?" he asked pointing to the flower.

"Yes," Kaiba said, double clicking it. Nothing happened. "But as you see, it doesn't work."

He clicked the icon with the right mouse button, and chose then 'properties' from the menu. A small window appeared, and he clicked next on 'general'. Type: Shortcut. Location: - . Size: 0 bytes [0 bytes], 0 bytes used. He gave an exasperated sigh. "That program just doesn't exist… Are you sure that there is something in this computer?"

Mokuba too had come to his brother and stared at the computer. "I guess there has to be, niisama. Why else would Unity have been so possessive of it if there weren't anything important in it? And I remember once when I… kind of… sneaked to her when she was using it, and I managed to see something that looked like a text processor."

"If there isn't anything in it… could you install some programs into it?"

Seto was shaking his head before Yuugi could finish his question. "I've tried that. Nothing even starts installing." He leaned back in his chair rubbing his temples. "That machine drives me crazy," he muttered quietly and continued staring at the screen, while Jou started snoring on the bed.

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While Kaiba was battling with the computer a taxi stopped in the front of his mansion. A girl stepped out of it, paid and gave a tip, and started walking towards the mansion. The guards tried to stop her, but she just batted her eyelashes at them and soon they changed their minds. She had just reached the main door when shouting at the gates made her to stop.

"Azura! Azura, is that you love? Wait for me! …damn you, let me go… Let me go!"

She turned to look back, and saw Otogi battling with the guards.

"It's okay," she shouted. "Let him come!"

Reluctantly the guards let go of the boy and watched him jealously as he ran to Azura.

"Oh, love, I'm so glad that I found you…"

"Yes, yes… what is it?" Azura asked a little impatiently. "I think I told you to stay home."

"You have to be careful, love!!" Otogi grasped her hand agitatedly. "They are here!"

Azura sighed. "Who are here?"

"Yami and others! He won Nightfall in a Shadow Game, and someone killed Aurora, and then they left here, I heard them talking about getting some computer, and…"

Azura frowned. "That's enough," she said cutting Otogi off. "Thanks for telling me. Now…" She thought for a moment. "Wait here and guard the door. I'll go in to get the computer."

"But…"

"Just do what I told you to."

Azura entered the mansion and left Otogi standing by the door, feeling quite rejected. As he sullenly stared at the door, he didn't notice the car that had stopped near to the mansion's gate.

Left me again… why on earth did she want to come here? For a computer? He snorted. Why would she be interested of a computer… it has to be only an excuse. Maybe she came here to see Kaiba.

He froze suddenly as a horrible thought entered his mind.

What if… what if she's cheating me with Kaiba?! Maybe they have a secret meeting… maybe she wanted to get the Bracelet so that she could give it to him!

That, of course, made sense to no one else but him. By this time, he had completely forgotten that Kaiba had been at the game shop and was one of those who were plotting against his love. The only thing he could think about was that his love didn't love him anymore. For a moment he considered doing something drastic, like abandoning his former life and running away to live as a Buddhist monk, but since he couldn't remember whether the Buddhists monks had to shave their heads or not, he decided to go to speak with Azura first.

Malik and Bakura watched from the street as the black-haired boy entered the mansion.

"So… he got in." Bakura stated quietly.

"And quite easily too," Malik continued after he had checked his bike and found it to be in good condition. "How will we do it? I somewhat doubt we can charm the guards to let us in."

"Just speak for yourself," Mai muttered and walked to the guards.

"Hi!" She flashed them a bright smile. "Did my little sister already come here? You know, an extremely beautiful girl, with blond hair and blue eyes?"

The guards' suspicious expressions melted in an instant.

"Yes," one of them answered. "She did… such an angel…" He looked quite dreamy.

"I'm afraid we still can't let you in, miss," another guard said as Mai gestured to the others to follow and made a move to get in.

"Oh…" She pouted a little. "Just imagine how sad she'll be when she finds out that you refused to let in her sister, her best friend, and their boyfriends." She drew quickly Bakura closer and hugged him. "Just let us go in, and we'll put in a good word for you." Wink. "She might even come to thank you."

The guards glanced at each other and nodded then as one.

As soon as they entered they mansion Bakura shook Mai's hand off. "Women's tricks…"

"Don't complain," Malik said lightly. "At least we got in."

"I wonder where they are…" Shizuka was looking around in awe. "This is quite a big place."

"Really big," Mai agreed. "Where are all the servants? You'd imagine there'd be quite a lot of them in a place like this."

"Who knows." Bakura shrugged. "I guess we'd better just start searching."

Yes… that's quite cliffhangry. Sorry. I just have to figure out what's going on before I continue… ^^;;

Next chapter should be the last one, unless nothing earth shattering takes place. Like alien abductions… or maybe the squirrels attack… or… who knows with this story. I don't, anyway. As always, reviews are appreciated. ^~