Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Yu-Gi-Oh! A Tapestry Incomplete ❯ Dene is Betrothed to Umei? ( Chapter 6 )

~Previously on Yugiou; "I know it was her," a peeved tone spat out, "It wreaks of her, I know it is her! She tried to kill me! I know I know! I saw it! I saw her! For the while I was dead, I saw her! Temee! She dueled as if she could win! That entire duel! That boy! Those monsters! But how could I see all that? How could I see her? Wie!? A connection perhaps? A connection by a thread? A thread of an inevitable outcome! I, and only I, am destined to kill her!"

"Leave me alone!" It was as if Umei's body became one with the darkness as she disappeared into the void.

"You… You are calling me a false person…" Umei had a hurt personage strike her face. "Everyone does…"

"He? It was a she? Wasn't it?" Yuugi's sclera widened and made his pupils grew small.

"Androgynous. Man and Woman in the same body and similar features. A Hermaphrodite. But that's besides the point," Umei continued as Yuugi was rather bewildered to hear about such a thing for the first time. "While I slept that night, the night I was attacked and rescued by you, she kept calling to me-" Umei affected her voice in a low and raspy town, "-Stop me and I take you with me, banish me and I take you with me, disobey me and your loved ones will be tortured forever, I can make you do such acts without your knowing… you'll wake up everyday wondering what you have done… murder, thievery, rape…"

Those kind, purple eyes of Yuugi mesmerized Umei as a lone tear slid down her cheek. "Unbelievable, there is only one you in all the world, and the only person that anyone would want to have as their company, though luckily, I get you all to myself." Umei came away from Yuugi, leaving his hands suspended in air from where her shoulders have been. She stood.

Yuugi grew a little paranoid at Umei's statement and began to sweat. `All to herself?!'

`Mmhmm… that's right.' Umei's thoughts went through Yuugi's.

Umei reached for her red beanie atop her head and dropped it to the floor as it disturbed the dust particles around it. She waved her head from side to side and let her brownish-blonde locks fall to her shoulders.

Yuugi began to sweat now as his eyes shrunk and the veins in his eyes began to pulse. "U-mm-Umei!" Yuugi stuttered.

Umei brought her hands behind her neck and began to fiddle with something. "Yuugi I want you-"

"To think, the only way out of exile was to give an enemy a friendly greeting…" Yuugi guffawed.

Umei traced her fingers over her Egyptian totem. "My Anubis Girandole…"

"See what we learn… Enemies aren't at all what you believe them to be."

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A Tapestry Incomplete

Episode Six: Something New, Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something Blue-Dene is Betrothed to Umei?

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"Whoa, all that really happened?" Anzu said walking beside Yuugi as she listened to Yuugi reminisce on his experience with Umei.

"Yea, Umei really isn't all that bad you know." Yuugi kept walking but noticed the rest of his group wasn't so he turned to see what was wrong. "Anzu? Honda, Jounouchi?"

Anzu, holding her shoulders, shivered a bit. Jounouchi shook his head, doubting Yuugi's words. Honda on the other hand just pretended he didn't hear Yuugi's question by looking off into the distance as if he were looking for something.

"Come on guys, you can't judge her so quickly, I mean she was influenced, and controlled, by an entirely different being. She shouldn't be held responsible for what someone else did. She doesn't look like the sort of person that would want to harm anyone, does she?"

"YES!" the three hummed all at once as Yuugi just itched his head.

"Just try and give her a chance, she said she was sorry so that is a sign that she wants to change. She even gave you back your star chips, Jou-kun."

Jounouchi snapped his head at Yuugi and began to shout at Yuugi, "She cheated, she killed someone, two people actually! Remember that other person that must have died before Anzu! Why do you want to stick up for her, we worried about you and now all you do is talk about Umei. She may have been controlled but the way I see it, all the blood is on her hands anyway, not anyone else's! If this were a trial, the jury would find her insane!"

"Jounouchi!" Anzu warned him to stop.

"I gave you a chance didn't I?" Yuugi whispered rather calmly, as Jounouchi stood startled. "And you gave me a chance. I showed you I could be strong by doing something my own way. You showed me that you weren't as nefarious as you wanted everyone to think you were. Sound familiar. Like you, Umei has a completely different, softer side too."

Honda and Anzu now diverted their eyes to Jounouchi to hear his comeback but instead he said, "Yuugi… I don't know."

Anzu and Honda turned their eyes to Yuugi now. Yuugi turned around, his back facing Jounouchi, "If you dueled her again you would see, she offered to duel you again without using her telepathy, maybe you'll see then, maybe she'll show you who she really is like she showed me."

Anzu and Honda turned their eyes back towards Jounouchi again. Jounouchi huffed, "I'll try to give her a… chance, ugh."

"I hope you all give her a chance." Yuugi said as he continued to walk, not seeing Anzu and Honda nod in agreement-Jounouchi glared at them to make them stop.

"Uh Yuu-chan! One more thing!" Jounouchi shouted a little peeved.

"What now Jounouchi?!" Yuugi, Anzu, and Honda sighed in unison.

Jounouchi glanced behind him; "Do you want me to give the GIRL, Matouchi Mesmori, another chance? Did you spend sometime with her to preach about giving her a chance too?! She hasn't shut up yet!"

It was true, Mesmori was still following Yuugi and his friends, she was also still jabbering on about every little detail she knew about the "great" Umei Jopa Crawford.

"-And then there was the first time I saw her, she gained so many enemies, so many followers, so many unworthy groupies! Not that there is anything wrong with unworthy groupies! But I know I'm worthy! I know I know! Then I watched as her `non-boyfriend-anymore' dueled you", Mesmori pointed at Yuugi, "The Marvelous-not-as-great-as-Umei Yuugi Motou!"

"NOT AS GREAT!" Jounouchi tried to mumble but it came out as a shout.

"Then the arrogant-and-foolish Kaiba Seto broke up with her because he was too blind to see what he was doing! How could he let the Great Umei Jopa Crawford leave like that! He taught her everything she knows but now he abandons her! Just like you abandoned her for Yuugi!"

The group was speechless. Mesmori was about to open her mouth again but Jounouchi had to stop her.

Mesmori blabbed, "Now Umei is in this tournament to prove to her father that-"

Jounouchi butted in, "What are you talking about! We never were on Umei's side to begin with, we were cheering for YUUGI! Did you not just listen to what we were talking about just now! Do you think Umei would like you to give out all her information like that! And whoa! You were in that coliseum! That was you I saw! Seto and Umei! WAH! I just found out you were a girl and now you surprise me again with more information!" he began to shake Mesmori vigorously-She would have fallen to the ground if Jounouchi weren't holding onto her the way he did fore her back was arched upward towards him and she couldn't get proper footing as he leaned even more forward.

"Can we just move on." Anzu held her head getting irritated.

"We can talk about this while we find another duelist to challenge right?" Honda finally said something.

"Jounouchi calm down." Yuugi coaxed as his friend kept shaking Mesmori.

Jounouchi peered back at Yuugi and growled, "Oi, oi, she said something about Seto and Umei, she was talking too fast for me to hear it but I wanna know what else she-"

As soon as Jounouchi turned back to glare at Mesmori, he realized he was glaring into the very pit of a black revolver with `Schwarz' written on the barrel in silver. The firearm was directly over Mesmori's forehead but Jounouchi was too busy staring into the gun to notice the proprietor of it. Jounouchi was too stunned to move, so stunned he lost hold of Mesmori as she fell to the ground right on her rump. Everyone else couldn't budge as they watched Jounouchi seconds from certain death-Honda and Anzu both had their mouths gaping open while Yuugi's eyes were widened so much you could possibly see his skull. Mesmori, on the other hand, laid in the dirt gazing up at her fellow East Domino High student.

"Don-Don't, please, don't shoot!" Yuugi pleaded.

The female with the ebony, shoulder length hair didn't move her gun from Jounouchi's brown eyes. "Get up." She hissed. Jounouchi straightened himself; at the same time the pistol followed Jounouchi's movement.

"What do you want." Yuugi tried to say as calm as he could, he was the only one that seemed brave enough to speak.

The intruder clicked the trigger of her gun back-this caused Jounouchi to start sweating even more and forget how to speak as he mumbled for mercy.

"Umei, where is she?" The woman said with a sedated tone and looked down at Jounouchi superciliously.

"I dun un know who you arrrre talking abo abo-" Jounouchi found his words as he was on the verge of tears.

"Do you really want to lie to someone who gives you the offer to live." The woman brought the gun under Jounouchi's chin as she grabbed him by his dirty blonde hair with her free hand and pushed him down towards her. "If you don't tell me what I want to hear then I start killing off each one of you…" her tone remained tranquil.

Yuugi noticed her duelist glove on her right hand, the hand that held the gun. He quickly blurted out, "Why don't we settle this in a duel."

The black-haired woman blinked at Yuugi. She backed away, Jounouchi going with her. She twirled Jounouchi around until his back was against her body and her left hand coped over his neck. Her gun was in Yuugi's direction. "This is not about dueling, I just need to find Umei. And I certainly will not listen to the advice of someone who sounds rather castrated. " She then turned the gun back to Jounouchi. "And I'll kill anyone who won't be truthful with me, you know, people who aren't truthful, should be punished." And with that, the firearm went off.

"JOUNOUCHI!" Everyone screamed as birds flocked away from the scene that suddenly grew silent.

A bog of smoke from the gun filled the air and a `thump' was heard. No one dared to move.

The smoke cleared and everyone was shocked to see who had saved Jounouchi's life. Mesmori stood beside the woman and the hostage; her fingers were grasping the gun upward to the sky. As if on cue, a bird fell to the ground in front of Anzu and Honda, it was shot right through the heart from the woman's bullet.

"Don't hurt Jou-sama." Mesmori's eyes sparkled with tears flowing everywhere. "I know you are permanently wicked but just this once, don't harm him!"

The woman let go of Jounouchi who fainted to the floor automatically, unable to dwell on Mesmori's kind words she had said about him. Mesmori let go of the gun and dropped to the floor, holding Jounouchi. The woman pointed her gun to Mesmori and said for once in an enraged tone. "Matouchi, of all people I would love to kill. I knew you looked familiar, you thought you could elude being recognized by dressing in THAT way. Wherever you went, Umei wasn't too close behind. If I kill you, my bait, Umei would most definitely come looking for me out of revenge. I don't see why she would care, one more fan not admiring her, and more to fear me."

Mesmori lost her split second of courage and whined, "Don't hurt me, AH!" She shielded herself with Jounouchi's unconscious body.

"Enough!" Yuugi's Millennium Puzzle began to glow as his spiritual partner took over. "There has been too many deaths. The ones that died were brought back but this time, no one would be spared. I warn you now, you fire that weapon again and you will pay." Yami Yuugi began to step forward.

Dene looked up to face Yami Yuugi. "To think I was one of the ones that died and came back."

"Nani?!" Yami Yuugi stopped in his tracks.

"You were the one that defeated that underdog, Umei. I was meant to be the one to defeat her, to kill her. You ruined part of my destiny. I have every right to kill you now--" Dene began to laugh as she stepped away from Mesmori and Jounouchi. Now she began to waltz over to Yami Yuugi with her firearm inches from his chest.

Yami Yuugi closed his eyes as Dene placed her weapon right by Yami Yuugi's heart; Anzu and Honda were both hugging each other for dear life and praying that nothing bad would happen.

"But…" Dene brought her pistol away from Yami Yuugi and placed her left hand over her huge, dark blue tote bag and opened it. She replaced her weapon with what looked like a crimson cape with a fuzzy orange material stitched around the top of it.

Yami Yuugi looked a little puzzled.

"My destiny is not with killing you, I have to keep my engagement with Umei." Anzu and Honda began to cry from relief at what Dene had just said. "Besides, someone else is destined to kill you anyway." Anzu and Honda began to blink.

Yami Yuugi relaxed, "Someone else?"

"Where's Umei." Dene ignored Yami Yuugi while she attached her red cape over her right shoulder and only her right shoulder. "You see what Umei has done." Dene brought out her old East Domino High uniform from her bag. "It's tattered and stained with my blood. I was the one killed during your duel with her, torn to pieces it seems."

Yami Yuugi glimpsed at Dene's attire. Besides her entire right side of her body being covered by her cloak, she wore a long black skirt with slits on both sides to where you could see her pantyhose and lilac garter belt with little smiley faces dotted over it. Her shirt was quite unusual. She wore a long-sleeve, button-up see-through shirt; her black laced brassiere and pearly white corset completely visible to all. Furthermore, it was very strange to see someone walk around on this rough terrain in clear, six-inch heels.

Dene placed her uniform back in her bag. "Now no more delay, where's the underdog."

"We saw her for the last time, walking towards the cliffs over to the beaches. That's all we know." Yami Yuugi finally told her.

Dene looked off in the direction out of the forest they stood in at the moment-she cupped her fingers around her spiked choker and said, "So new to me, a chance at a new life against that underdog. So old to me, this cloak as a tradition handed down to every third born child in my family. So borrowed to me, the wondrous weapon given idea to me by my older brother. But something blue, I have not yet obtained."

Yami Yuugi was a little confused while Anzu and Honda stood in the background a little dumbfounded. "Something new, something old, something borrowed, something blue?"

Dene began to chuckle as she placed her hands over her bag. "That's right, once I acquire something blue it will be time for me and Umei's wedding."

A shocked expression struck everyone's face, yes, even Mesmori. All of a sudden, the "unconscious" Jounouchi miraculously shot up from Mesmori's arms and was cackling about what had just fallen upon his ears. "Umei! YOU! But what about Seto?! WHU! No wonder Umei seems to dislike boys so much!"

Mesmori went right along with him as she protested against what Dene had said. "No! Umei will not marry you! She won't she won't! You two are enemies! Terrible rivals! Fighting for eternity! You want to kill her, why marry her! YOU CAN'T!"

Jounouchi muttered to himself so no one heard him, "Yea cuz you wanna marry her."

Dene strolled past Yami Yuugi and halted behind him, he didn't turn to face her. "It will be a wedding, an engagement, a celebration of the end. I see how we will both end our lives, when I catch up to her it is over. She is the only one that will kill me, I am the only one that will kill her."

`This is insane.' Honda thought.

`This is the most bizarre day I have ever had.' Anzu thought.

`Two appealing ladies getting married, I wanna see the honeymoon!' Jounouchi thought as he drifted off into his own world.

"Hmm, it seems I have wasted too much time staying here, my `groom' could be gone from the location you have given me." Dene brushed her bangs from her face.

`Oi! Why does Umei have to be the groom! Oh yeh she's more tomboy than the more sensual Dene' Jounouchi shook his head at his own imagination.

"And Yuugi," Dene attracted Yami Yuugi's attention as he turned to face her. "The one destined to kill you is someone you already know… very well."

Yami Yuugi was tempted to ask but he knew Dene would not tell him. How was she able to discover how people would die? Was she born with an ESP like Umei? She didn't possess a millennium item or a totem like Umei so she had to be born with an ESP!

"Little Matouchi…" Dene called as she began to walk away.

"Hai?" Mesmori gasped a little hesitant.

Dene stopped again and quarter-turned to the group, "A message for you, `He' sees you right now, `He' knows you had the chance to do it. But if you listen to `Him', if you kill her before I `marry' her, I will kill you."

"…" Mesmori's eyes lost their sparkle, for that instant the only person Mesmori thought about was that stranger that confronted her on that night. She knew who he really was now. That fated night that Mesmori got a chance to catch up to the one person she admired so much. Mesmori's legs lost their balance and she fell to the floor dazzled at what Dene had said. There was only one thought that traced through Mesmori's mind now, `That's right, Dene is his…'

Dene sniggered an awkward chuckle that left the entire group staring at her as she strode away--her laugh being the last thing heard as she walked off into the direction out of the forest.

The group stood there, wondering about the mysterious Dene. The Dene that was murderous, the Dene that wanted to marry Umei Jopa Crawford, the Dene that was crazy to walk around in six-inch heels.

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`Why didn't I kill him! Why didn't I kill her! Damn you Mesmori. Why does he fancy you so much, you are so weak, so undeserving! And that Yuugi… He interfered, why should I leave him to `you' to kill!' Dene pondered. The exit out of the forest shouldn't be too far away from where she was, but the further she walked the darker it seemed to get.

"I'm coming, underdog. You better wait for me!" Dene looked down at her duelist glove-still just two star chips. Even Mesmori had five. She wasn't into dueling anyone at all, she only came to this tournament to find Umei and that was it She didn't care for the prize money or the granted request you got from Pegasus if you beat him. She mainly didn't care about the `special division' at least eight top duelists making it to the final round had to compete in. Well, maybe this special division did interest her; what could this special reward for the `top eight' duelists of Duelist Kingdom be?

Dene was taken away from her thoughts about Umei, murder, and the special division when she glanced at the most beautiful sight she had ever seen that had befallen her eyes. No it was impossible, her yellow eyes must have been playing tricks on her! Standing at the exit of the forest, 30 yards away from her, illuminated in the golden rays of the sun, was a man. Not someone who was still in high school like she was, someone much older. She had seen him on the television. He was once the best American duelist around. Like herself, he too had lost to a person of the Crawford family, he had lost to Pegasus J. Crawford! Damn the Crawford generation!

His back was facing Dene as his head was turned looking directly at her, the shades covering his eyes made him even more arousing to Dene. Stubble was dotted over his chin and jaw while his bandanna that resembled the American flag covered his blonde hair.

Dene fell in love with him the first time she saw him on the television, seeing him on the boat so distant from her and so many people present made her heart flutter, but seeing him so close, and alone, made a pain strike through her heart this time. Dene held her chest. He began to walk away, away from the light of the opening out of the forest. She wouldn't let him get away. Dene raced down the path, her heart beating so fast that it was in step with her feet. Not only would she find her Umei Jopa Crawford, she would find her `angel' as well.

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To Be Continued

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That was the wicked girl, lingering in the shadows behind you. With the love of guns and death. Always with that maniacal expression, gazing at you menacingly. She has a tendency for shooting anyone who refuses to tell her what she wants to know, she has a tendency for shooting anyone who fails her. Everyone knows there's something wrong with her mentally; what could have possibly fascinated her with a girl so much she would stalk her every move, what could have influenced her into making guns for a living. Her only wish is to die with her koibito, which is her destiny she is able to see. No one else she possibly wants more than in the world-killing anyone who is in the presence of her and her koibito. That was the wicked girl, lingering in the shadows behind you… aiming the guns she made for her entire family directly at you… bang