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Warnings: yawns.
The same as usual. This chapter:
nothing special.
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Chapter
12 – No Matter What - Pt. 2
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Yami looked around. “You know, I
think it’s time this place got some sun and a bit of airing out.”
Kaiba glanced down at him. “What
are you suggesting?”
“I’m thinking we’ve got all seven Millennium Items here and that we
ought to give Professor Hawkins a very special Christmas present.” Yami looked down at the Professor. “Tell me, Professor, how long would you say
it will take you to excavate my Palace?”
“A few years, if we want it done properly and with few incidents.”
Yami shook his head. “Too
long. Well, I think we can speed thing up
a bit.” He gestured at Pegasus. “Pegasus, I’d suggest you have everyone
evacuate the site immediately. Not to
mention anyone within, oh, let’s say a one mile radius.”
“My Pharaoh,” Ishizu looked up
at him curiously. “Might I ask what it
is you plan to do?”
“We’ll use the Millennium Items to ‘resurrect’ my Palace, Ishizu.”
“Ah, Yami? Do you think that’s
such a good idea?” Yugi asked. Yami just smiled.
//Do not worry, aibou. I know
what I’m doing.//
//I know. I just thought I’d
ask.//
Pegasus was issuing orders and commands into his walkie-talkie.
“It will take about an hour and a half to get everyone clear.” He finally stated.
Rebecca stamped a foot. “So what
are we supposed to do? Just sit here?”
A slow, slightly wicked smile spread over Kaiba’s face. “You know, Yami, she has a point. Want to have a duel? For old time’s sake?”
Everyone’s attention was suddenly on them.
“A duel? Are you challenging me,
High Priest?” Yami’s eyes
glittered. Yugi just sighed. His Yami never turned down a challenge.
“Why, yes. I think I am, Your
Majesty.” Kaiba reached down and picked
up his leather carry bag, taking out two Battle City duel disk systems.
Yami laughed. “Always prepared,
aren’t you? All right, fine. We’ll duel.
But let’s put down some rules.
No using magic - Millennium or otherwise.”
“Agreed. And no God
cards. That’s just not fair.”
“Agreed. Give me one of those.”
Kaiba handed him a duel disk and Yami slid it on, taking out his deck
(minus 3) and inserting it into the deck slot.
Kaiba did the same.
Yugi slid off the arm and sat in Yami’s place. While Yami was perfectly sized for the throne, Yugi was engulfed
by it. “Hey guys! Take a seat on the steps up here. It’s almost as good as stadium seating.”
Rebecca sat down between her grandfather and Pegasus with a huff. “Darn.
I wanted to duel Kaiba.”
Ryou gave her one of his beautiful smiles. “Don’t worry, Rebecca.
Believe me, this duel will be a good one. Those two are the very best.”
He glanced up at Yugi. “Oh, and
Yugi too, of course.”
Pegasus yawned. “Oh they’re both
good. I’m better. I did create the game after all.”
“Get real.” Marik snorted. “The game is older than I am. You had nothing to do with its creation.”
“And Yami’s full title is ‘Yu-Gi Oh.’
It means ‘King of Games.’” Malik
added.
Professor Hawkins stared at them.
“How can you know all this?”
It was Shadi who answered.
“Malik and Ishizu come from the Ishtar family. There has been an Ishtar guarding the Pharaoh’s tomb for over
5,000 years. They know most of the
ancient secrets.”
Bakura settled back, Ryou sitting on the step below him and between his
Yami’s legs and leaning back in Bakura’s arms.
“As for Marik, Isis, and myself, we are ancient Spirits just as the
Pharaoh is. We know ‘cause we were
there.”
Serenity and Joey were sitting on the floor next to the throne, and
Yugi. “Kaiba and I were
reincarnated. We were there, too. Only I was a commoner and Kaiba was High
Priest.”
“Amazing. Truly amazing.” The Professor was awed.
Isis gave him a look of warning.
“You mustn’t reveal any of this to anyone, Professor. Nor you, Rebecca. It isn’t meant to be known.”
“And Pegasus?”
“He knows better.” Shadi
replied. “The Eye would punish him if
he dared go against the Pharaoh’s direct command.”
“Wait! Those tablets you once
showed me, Shadi. The figures depicted
on them were those two?” Pegasus
exclaimed as the realization finally hit him.
“Yes.”
Kaiba and Yami took their places and activated their duel disks,
initiating the duel. Yami gave Pegasus
an arch look and said, “Keep your Eye out of it, Pegasus. Got that?”
Pegasus tried to look innocent, but failed miserably.
“Oh, one last rule, Yami.” Kaiba
thought of something.
“What?”
“No talking with Yugi. This is
one-on-one, not two-on-one.”
Yami sighed. “Sorry, aibou.”
“It’s ok. You’ll do just fine
without me, Yami.” Yugi grinned. “Besides, I can still cheer you on.”
“Too bad we don’t have any soda and hot dogs.” Malik looked wistful.
“We just had breakfast, hikari.”
Marik pointed out.
“I’m still hungry.”
“Alright. Let’s go.” Kaiba drew his starting hand, Yami doing the
same.
“DUEL!” (A/N: You’ve all seen enough duels between these
two to know how it usually goes so I don’t need to describe the whole thing, do
I?)
As usual, the two duelists went at it with everything they had, keeping
everyone on the edge of their seats.
Yugi nearly fell off the throne because he was sitting on the edge in
excitement.
In the end, however, Yami won (of course!). Kaiba sighed and they met to shake hands.
“Good duel, Seto.”
“Yes. You know, it’s funny, but
I’m not really upset over loosing to you anymore.”
“I’m glad. Yugi was right you
know.”
“About what?”
“We can be rivals and still be friends.”
“I suppose so.” They both looked
at Yugi, who was smiling brilliantly at them from on high.
The duel only lasted half an hour, however. Rebecca had stars in her eyes as Yami came back to his throne,
and Kaiba decided to lounge next to the throne on the floor.
“So does anyone want to duel me now?”
She gave them all chibi-eyes.
“It would waste more time.”
Yugi pretended to think it over from his spot on Yami’s armrest then
said, “Sure. I think we need a re-match
anyway.” He looked at Kaiba. “Can we borrow the duel disks?”
“Whatever.” He took his off,
removed his deck, and handed it to Yugi, who handed it to Rebecca. Yugi slipped on Yami’s disk and shuffled his
deck before inserting it.
This duel didn’t last long. Yugi
had vastly improved since their last duel and it was over in ten minutes. This isn’t to say that Rebecca wasn’t better
too, only that she just wasn’t quite as good as Yugi.
“I need more practice.” She
said, mournfully. Yugi put an arm
around her shoulders and hugged her.
“You’re still a great duelist, Rebecca.”
“Thanks, Yugi.”
Joey was going through his cards, wondering if he ought to challenge
someone and waste some time when he spotted the Time Wizard card Yugi had given
him so long ago. Hmm. That gives me an idea.
“Hey, Yugi! Come here for a
minute.”
“What’s up Joey?”
The blond looked around and spotted his nemesis wandering around,
examining hieroglyphs. “Ok.” He said in a low voice. “Do you think if I used my Time Wizard
against Kaiba’s three Blue Eyes I would stand a chance of winning?”
“Probably. If you used it right - not to mention got
lucky and didn’t hit a skull when it does the Time Roulette thing.” Yugi answered. “But why? He won’t duel
you, Joey. You know how stubborn he
is.”
“I know. But we’ve never had a
real duel. I’m not counting that little
bashing he gave me at Duelist Kingdom.
I wasn’t ready to try taking him on then.” Joey watched Kaiba sadly.
“I don’t know why, but for some reason I really want his respect. I mean, I may not be his friend, but at
least I’d have his respect as a duelist.”
“I understand Joey.” And Yugi
did. “But I don’t know how you’ll ever
get him to agree to it.”
Bakura, who’d been eavesdropping the entire time shamelessly, butted
in. “Someone could dare him to duel
you.
They looked at him. “I don’t
know, Bakura.” Yugi didn’t think it
would work.
“Well, I’m not saying either of you dare him. It has to be someone he really dislikes who can get on this
nerves enough to get him to accept the dare without stopping to think about
it.”
All three looked down at Marik and Malik, who, sensing someone staring
at them, turned to glare.
“What?” They asked
simultaneously.
“Shhh. Come here guys.” Yugi waved them up.
Yami shook his head. //Please
don’t provoke him too much, aibou.// He
pleaded. //I don’t want to have to
break up a fight.//
//I’ll make sure they get the point, Yami.//
“Ok, Marik, Malik, here’s what you need to do.” Yugi and his friends huddled together and
formulated a plan - one that would make Kaiba except the dare but not piss him
off too badly.
“Oh, and Joey?” Yugi lay a hand
on his friend’s shoulder as Marik and Malik went off to implement the
plan. “If you want him to stop calling
you ‘puppy’ and whatever, then act as if you couldn’t care less what he thinks
of you. It will confuse him and maybe he’ll
stop.”
“I’ll try.”
//Marik? What if the plan
doesn’t work?// Malik asked as they
headed down the steps and towards Kaiba.
//Well, if daring him doesn’t work, then blackmail will.// Marik grinned mentally, sending a memory of Kaiba
in his smock holding a paintbrush to his hikari.
Malik smothered a laugh. //Is
that really what he looked like?//
//Yep. Hilarious isn’t it?//
Kaiba heard the smothered giggle and eyed them warily as they
approached. “What do you two want?”
Malik gave him an innocent look.
“What do you mean?”
“Oh, please. Neither of you
would come near me on your own without wanting something from me, so what?”
“Actually, we had a question for you.”
Marik nudged Malik.
“Yeah. See, we know you’ve
dueled the very best and that you are one of the best, but how come you’ve
never dueled Joey?”
“He’s really good you know.”
Marik mused. “And he’s managed
to build a fairly impressive deck.”
“Wheeler? So what! He’s not worth my time. He wins most of his duels through dumb luck
- and I emphasize dumb - not skill.”
“Is that so?” Marik
grinned. “Sounds like you’re afraid.”
“WHAT?!” Kaiba’s voice rose,
echoing in the cavernous room. The
others looked over, curious.
Bakura winced and glanced at Yami.
“Um, I’ll accept the responsibility if he does something nasty to them.”
Yami raised one eyebrow at him.
“You’d get it whether you liked it or not.”
“It would be partly my fault too, Yami.
Don’t place all the blame on Bakura.”
Yugi said.
“You heard me, High Priest. If
you’re not afraid, then prove it. We
dare you to go challenge Joey.”
Kaiba seethed. Duel that
hack? Not likely. I have nothing to prove to these two
psychopaths.
//It’s not working, Marik.
Better try the blackmail.//
Malik suggested.
//Right.// “So? Huh.
I thought so. Well, if you don’t
accept the dare, then you’ll have to pay the penalty.”
Kaiba’s glare would have turned them into a pile of ashes.
“Either you go challenge Joey or we spread the word about the sort of
classes you’re really taking at Domino University.” Malik gave him his best evil, scheming grin.
Kaiba paled. “And just what sort
of classes would those be?” He thought,
Great Ra! How did they find out?
“Let’s just say you look adorable in a smock, Kaiba.” Marik said, amused.
Shit!
They do know! But how...
He turned and glared daggers at Yami.
{You told them!} He shouted
mentally at the Pharaoh. {You said you
wouldn’t tell anyone about my classes!}
Yami blinked, surprised. He hadn’t known Kaiba could communicate this
way. {No. I didn’t. If they know,
they found out on their own, though don’t ask me how.}
{You swear, on Yugi’s head, you told no one.}
He got a mental eye roll as a response.
{I swear, Seto.}
Kaiba looked back at the two patiently waiting blond Egyptians. “Fine.
But if you tell anyone about my classes.” He left the threat hanging.
Marik waved it off. “Don’t
worry. We won’t.”
Malik made a cross over his heart, though with his other hand behind his
back, Kaiba couldn’t see his crossed fingers.
Kaiba frowned at them, knowing perfectly well he couldn’t trust them,
but unable to do anything about it. He
turned and walked to the group.
Bakura was twitching with the effort not to laugh and turned away to
study the throne, pretending he was still trying to come up with a way to steal
it.
Yugi and Joey were sitting in front of Yami on the floor, seemingly
oblivious, and going through Joey’s deck.
“Wheeler. You still want to
duel?” Kaiba’s voice was back to its
usual coldness but held a hint of pain at having to do this. “If so, get up and let’s do this.”
Joey stared up at him. He hadn’t
really expected the plan to work. “Uh,
yeah! Sure. Yug, can I use that?”
Yugi handed him the duel disk and Joey slid it on.
Rebecca handed Kaiba back his disk and Kaiba put it on, stalking down
the steps and impatiently waiting for Joey to do the same.
Marik and Malik came back and sat next to Bakura and Ryou. Yugi whispered, “Good job, guys.” Before going to sit on Yami’s lap to watch
the duel.
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Authoress’
Notes: O.O
Whoa! A fic with actual dueling
in it! R/R!
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