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Chapter 4 : Circle-Time and Pokemon

The room was pitch black as night had crept over the sky and replaced the vibrant sun, blazing in all its mid day glory, with its weaker shadow, the moon. Since there was no harsh sunlight to crack through my curtains and shine upon my face in the most annoying manner ever, I found it strange that I still woke up.

Oddly enough, there are only two things in this world that could wake me from my dead slumber, school and my alarm clock. I am not joking, if someone was getting murdered in ten feet of me I would not hear it…

Without those things I am useless; which is why I found it so difficult to believe that I was actually awake in my dark room with the pale moon light streaming through my window.

I shifted somewhat in irritation but then smiled in contentment once I realized that I was safe in my bed and nuzzling against a warmth that was pressed next to my body. I sighed to myself as hazy pieces of memories came over to haunt my half registered brain.

Strong flashes of starlight, blinding shadows, and a mixture of uniquely colored irises stared back into my hazel ones as I recalled, distantly, the insane cats that I had dreamed of finding on my door step.

'I hope those cats were just a dream…if not I'm going to have to face the almighty wrath of the titan that is my mother pretty soon.'

I 'hhhmped' and hugged the warm thing next to my chest more, seeking enough comfort to return to my hazy dream world once more. I shook my head to detangle my knotted hair from underneath my shoulder but stopped once my brain took a few seconds to register that something was tickling my nose. I grunted as I cracked open one of my eyes for a quick peek, ready to fling the offensive object away, only to see a tip of black hair with a burgundy colored outline as the moon light shone slightly from behind me. Closing my eye again I nodded to myself sleepy as I realized that one of the tri-colored cats had curled next to me as I slept.

'How cute, it's probably the little one'

I mused sluggishly as I lifted a blind hand to rub the tip of hair the just barely brushed past my nose before drifting back to sleep. Then I heard a small sigh of content, much like what I had done earlier as I rubbed the cat's head.

Wait…cats don't sigh

I instantly became alert and froze once the kitten moved slightly in its doze. Instead of a small warm pressure that should have been near my stomach I felt a pressure that felt almost as big as me curled into my side.

'T-this is… is… way TOO BIG to be a fucking cat!'

My eyes shot open as big as they possibly could. It took a few moments for my bleary vision to adapt to my sudden awaking and the suffocating darkness of the room. It took all of five minutes for me to make sense of what I was seeing.

The tuff of hair I had seen before wasn't part of a cat but attached to a whole head! Shifting slightly the warmth in my arms stirred a little to the right. Ice ran down my spine as my stomach dropped to my feet in shock and disbelief.

What greeted me was the pale, smooth, slumbering face of…a young boy.

'Don't panic! This has to be a dream, it has to! DON'T BLOODY PANIC!'

My thoughts did little to soothe me however once I registered that a pair of thin bony arms were hugging my abdomen. I clenched my teeth, almost biting the tip of my tongue off in the process, as I tried to breathe harshly through the mass of tri-colored hair that was current blocking my nasal passages.

'Ok…keep clam, count to ten! COUNT TO TEN!

'One Mississippi (*Wheezes*)'

'Two Mississippi (*sneezes on spiky hair*)'

'Three Mississippi, o-ok…I can do this'

'Four M-Mississippi-i, Holy crap I'm losing it!'

'F-Five M-Mmississip-pi

…

…ah fuck it.'

My mouth dropped open and I unwillingly let the loudest scream I had ever made before in my life.

"AAAHHHYYYYIIIIEEE!" The young girl screamed, like a banshee as she shot, like a bat out of hell, out from under her sheets and knocked the young duelist king flat on his back as he tumbled out from the same bed. Yugi gave a cry of surprise and a bit of pain as he was awaked by a harsh kick to his backside and he sailed helplessly through the air before crashing into the wooden floorboards, face first.

"Ow, ow, ow…" He groaned piteously as pain flared in his nose and he rubbed the spot where huge red footprint would be on his backside. Amanda stood at the other end of the bedroom, holding a hand to her forehand in disbelieve as she watched the shorter boy pick himself up, her mouth failing comically to the ground at the scene before her.

Both their eyes met.

Yugi opened his mouth, ready to say a greeting or to try and pacify the now frazzled girl before him, but he didn't get very far before he got a mouthful of alarm clock.

Amanda screeched incoherent profanities as she grabbed anything in her reach and began throwing blinding at the sudden intruder that had invader her home and her bed.

'Good grief that sounded so wrong even in my own head.' Amanda gimmicked in embarrassment as the though briefly flashed through her delirious mind before she continued in her rampage of terror against poor Yugi, her cheeks now flushed bright pink.

Suddenly the slightly ajar wooden door burst open with a defending crack as it slammed against the adjacent wall. Three familiar feline forms dashed into the center of the room as they stood, too stunned for words as they observed the scene involving their friend before them, the two less enthusiastic spirit cats stood in the doorway as they too observed with interest.

Yugi and Amanda didn't even notice the audience that had now gather to watch their little squabble.

Yami was terribly worried for his 'abuio' yet was confused over what was occurring; Royu simply watched wide-eyed in fear for his friend's life; while Marik was torn between being concerned and amused. Malik snorted, and if he could he would raise an eyebrow as he watched this wild little imp yell profanities, some of which were even new to him, and throw things that she should even be able to lift. Bakura smirked snidely as he bit back a cruel chuckle at seeing the pharaoh's former vessel being assaulted by this small and very aggressive little girl.

The small peanut gallery watched for another moment as random objects sailed through the air.

At first the objects were harmless, pillows, plushies, notebooks, etc, but after another quick moment the game began to change when the small five foot girl began throwing things like large textbooks, a few extra alarm-clocks, and, to everybody's astonishment, a large wooden chair It sailed through the air only to crash into splinters a few feet from a petrified Yugi.

Still unfortunately for Yugi though a few of these items of choice would indeed hit the poor and dazed king of games, who would only have mere seconds on his feet before being hit again and again and again, square in the center of his forehead each time, before getting back up only to repeat the process in a few seconds.

"What in the name of Ra-" Marik trailed off.

'THUMP!'

"Oh my-" Royu gasped.

'CRASH!'

"Amusing-" Malik deadpanned.

'BOOM!'

"Indeed-" Bakura smirked.

"Yugi!" Yami shouted as the feline bound pharaoh bounded towards his partner as the dust began to settle.

Amanda soon ran out of objects to throw and thankfully Yugi got a quick breather in. Yugi blinked as he heard a series of loud cat yowls and turned just in time to his yami bound over to him, feline form and all.

"Yami?" Yugi questioned as he rubbed his tender face again and froze for a moment as it dawned on him.

"I'm back to normal?! H-How? What about you? Why is everyone still a cat, and…why is so cold in here?" Yugi quickly spun around to assure himself and he blushed terribly once he realized another starling fact that was practically glaring him in the face.

Yugi made a noise that sounded like a strangled squeak before he cocooned himself in the fallen cream colored sheets that he had taken down with him in his disastrous pilgrimage from the girl's bed to face his new enemy, the floor.

Everyone sweat dropped at this, wondering how he had missed that vital piece of information.

"Yugi calm down." Yami tried instructing but all yugi could understand was a few growls and 'meows'.

"Ah Atem, I can't understand you at all!" Yugi panicked. Marik and Royu's eyes widened, both never having known the pharaoh's real name before he had gone to the afterlife. Mark sneered and Bakura rolled his eyes. Yami swore in ancient Egyptian when he realized that yugi couldn't understand him in this form.

Yugi looked around and after seeing no one else back to normal he sighed sadly.

"Now what? Why is no one else back to normal?" He wondered out loud as he turned questioningly to his yami. Atem shrugged his shoulders the best a cat could possibly do as the ancient pharaoh pounded a more pressing question in his mind. Suddenly everyone began thinking the same thing.

"How in Ra's name did Yugi turn back to normal?" Marik wondered out loud as he wandered up to yugi's other side. Yami glanced over to the sandy blonde cat before looking to yugi. Royu by this time had been thinking and doing the same as Marik. He looked as well to yugi. Yugi noticed the intense and otherwise questioning stares of his three friends and sighed.

"I don't remember turning back to normal guys, I just, kind of, woke up like this…" yugi trailed off not sure of what was happening either.

Meanwhile, Amanda watched this scene from across the now destroyed bedroom with a small frown and an eyebrow quirked. She too was wondering what was happening. She studied the scene before realizing that the small, hapless, but still naked, boy wasn't a real threat to her. She sighed before rubbing her eyes warily.

Everyone looked over to her, having almost completely forgotten she was still standing there. Yugi gulped as he place a hand over his now bruised forehead, ready to run if she picked up another heavy object.

"So…you wanna explain who you are and perhaps how you managed to crawl into bed with me?" Amanda mused as she leaned against the wall. She crossed her arms patiently as she watched the strange boy and cats from across her bedroom. Yugi's face turned various shades of scarlet as he scratched the back of his head sheepishly before clearing his throat.

"U-um, you're n-not going to throw anything else at me a-are you?" He looked up shyly at the girl before him. She tilted her head to one side and raised one of her eyebrows to the ceiling as she seemed to actually think about the question.

"Hmm, maybe not…let's see how good your answer is first." Amanda mused as she tapped a finger to her chin and glanced back at him. Yugi gulped once more, all the blood draining from his face, as he began rushing to explain.

"W-well my name is Yugi Moto, and these are my friends-" He gestured to the three cats next to him. He chuckled sheepishly at the girl's incredulous expression. "-and um, well I know this is really strange but we're, kind of, sort of, not all really cats…" He fumbled over his words as he trailed off, not really sure of how to explain this one.

"-and um, as waking up next to you, well, I went to go check if you were alright yesterday after you got… attacked and I guess I fell asleep on your pillow-and your pillow was really comfy and uh pleasedon'tkillme!" He finished in a rush before looking away as he was afraid of the dangerous glint in the girl's hazel eyes as she studied him like a hawk.

After a tense quiet moment yugi looked back at the girl to see her reaction.

Amanda simply stood there, unimpressed.

Suddenly she started towards him and in a few quick strides, she knelt right in front of him. Yugi froze, slightly afraid as she raised her hand. Yami's warning hiss died in his throat as Amanda simply fingered the tips of yugi's outrageously spiky hair before rubbing the top of yugi's spiky head in a comforting gesture.

"Well then, sorry about beating you up there Yugi" Amanda apologized as she stood up and offered him a hand. All of Yugi's, Royu's, and Marik's jaws nearly hit the ground in disbelief at the girl's complete mood change.

"Y-y-you b-believe me!" Yugi exclaimed in shock as Amanda quirked an eyebrow.

"Well duh, of course I do. After all-" Amanda reached out to ruff his hair and she smirked lazily.

"There is no way in heaven or hell I can image anyone else with hair like this" She laughed out loud at Yugi's comical expression and he blushed even harder. Yami chuckled at his abuio's mortified expression, Marik sniggered, and Royu merely offered a small smile. After offering her hand again, Amanda hoisted Yugi up to his feet. Suddenly she frowned as she looked closer at the boy's face, seeming to remember something.

"Wait here" Amanda said simply before calmly walking out the door while sidestepping Malik and Bakura. After a moment of odd noises and a few choice words aimed at a door, she returned and tossed something at yugi again, this time it landed by his feet.

"Get dressed" was all she said before leaving and shutting the door promptly behind her. They blinked as yugi picked up the clothes a studied them. After finding a bathroom and getting dressed Yugi emerged in surprisingly fitting clothes, a dark blue T-shirt with a picture of odd looking writing* and a pair of large grey gym shorts. He looked over to his friends and with that they all walked back out into the hallway and into the living room.

Amanda stood in the center of the room, staring intently at something as they came in. Upon hearing the boy's, Yugi was it?, light foot falls Amanda turned around and pointed to the plush beige sofa.

"Sit down" She commanded as she sat on a black ottoman across the sofa.

Yugi blinked owlishly at the girl's sudden cold tone. Yugi fidgeted under the intense stare and he tried to avoid the girl's cold, harsh, yet faraway gaze. Yugi began raking his brain, trying to figure out what had suddenly made his newfound host so distant and cold towards him. He suddenly jumped as he felt a burning sensation against his cheek.

"Ah!" Yugi yelped as he clutched his face in surprise.
"Hey, calm down would you" Amanda quickly caught his arm.

"W-what was that for?" He whined. Amanda rolled her eyes teasingly as she produced a bottle in her hand and a damp rag in the other.

"I'm fixing up your face, don't you remember that I nailed you pretty good in the face a couple times? Unless you want your face to look even more beat up." She lowered her voice as she said the last part, more towards herself then anything. Yugi heard it anyway and fear flashed across his face briefly as he recounted those painfully fresh memories. Amanda noticed the tense little duelist and she feared he would bolt out of her living room like a bat out of hell by the way he was looking at her, like she would eat him as her mid-night snack.

"H-hey, I didn't mean it like that. You just need to relax and-HOLD STILL!" Amanda yelled as quickly lunged after Yugi when he suddenly tried to bolt. Like a lioness pouncing onto her prey, Amanda caught the fleeing boy and quickly held him down. He struggled for a bit as she rolled her eyes, now even more annoyed.

Marik fell over laughing uncontrollably beside a giggling Royu and Yami tried hard not to crack a smile as Yugi pleaded for his help.

"Sorry Yugi, I cannot interfere. After all it is for your health" Yami chided teasingly as his tail twitched in restrained amusement. Even though Yugi couldn't understand anything Yami was saying he got the general gist and he tried to glare as best as he could, in the end failing miserably and being reduced to pouting.

"Thanks guys, thanks…" He sulked.

Yugi whined miserably and blushed redder than a tomato as Amanda sat on top of him, successfully pinning his arms down so he couldn't block her quick dabs with alcohol soaked cottons and possibly escape again. Amanda grinned in satisfaction as she finished and placed the last cartoon featured Band-Aid across the King of Games' flaming cheek.

They were Pokémon themed with little images of Pikachu, Charmander, and Bulbasor dotted across they're bright backgrounds; that were now dotted out all over Yugi's face. Amanda smirked and her eyes danced with mischief as she pulled Yugi off the floor for the second time that morning and inspected her work with a nod of approval.

"Much better" she mused as yugi ducked his head in shame. Afterwards they all sat on the coach as a still embarrassed beyond belief Yugi struggled to explain what was happening to the girl.

"Alright so explain to me again who you all are exactly." Amanda mused as she sat opposite from everyone atop the black ottoman with her legs crossed.

Yugi grinned slightly, glad she wasn't hitting him or pinning him to the ground for once, as he held the mug of hot cocoa, his host insisted he have, in his hands. She said something about it calming down the nerves, though Yugi was afraid she might need it more after what he was about to tell her.

"Ok. Well I alright told you my name was Yugi Moto and these are my friends, Ya-I mean Atem", he explained as he pointed to the regal looking tri-colored cat who offered a small nod of his head. Amanda nodded her head as well as offered him a small simile.

"Royu" Yugi pointed time to the snow colored kitten who had been sitting closer to the edge of the sofa as he fiddled with his bandaged paw. Royu looked up and said a warm 'hello' but all Amanda could hear was a soft 'meow' aimed at her. Amanda smiled never the less at him and greeted him right back.

"-and Marik." Yugi finished as she pointed to the last of the trio surrounding them. The sandy blond kitten simply yawned once as he rolled over from his laid down position on his stomach to lying on his back and somehow he waved at her. Amanda chuckled lightly at the cat-boy's lazy attitude and waved back.

"Ok then , nice to meet cha!"

Amanda then looked over at the other two cats, the devil duo, she had nicknamed them, and jabbed her thumb in their direction.

"What about those two?" She asked. Yugi's eyes widened and Yami, Royu, and Marik all stiffened at once.

"U-u-umm…" Yugi stuttered out. Amanda gave him a questioning glance but threw it out the window as she called over to them.

"Oye, you two!" She called over to them. Malik turned to face her and Bakura simply narrowed his eyes at the annoying girl.

"Why are you both over there being anti-social? Why don't you both come over here?" She offered, missing the small gasps from Yugi and Royu as well as the soft growls from Yami and Marik.

"Besides, you both owe an apology for being so damn rude yesterday and bringing on one of my episodes again."She huffed as she crossed her pale arms.

Bakura snarled directly at her and jumped gracefully from the dining table as he began stalking towards that wretched, insufferable, little brat.

Unfortunately for the Thief King, Yami Malik beat to it as he suddenly appeared next to the girl's leg and with a quick swipe, he dug his pointed claws deep into her calf.

"The hell!" She yelled before kicking at Dark Malik. He jumped away before she could strike him, smirking to himself as he licked his bloodied claws.

"You little shit" She accused as she pointed at him. Malik scowled dangerously at this.

"You're smirking aren't you?!" She snapped with a growl. Suddenly she spotted the other incoming danger from the corner of her eye and whirled around on the equally smirking King of Thieves.

"Don't you even dare try it, or I'll kick your ass back down to hell where it belongs Fluffy" She spoke menacingly towards Bakura as she stalked over to the bathroom to find some more bandages and clean the blood running down her leg. Bakura simply stood there in rage and shock after the pathetic little wrench had threatened him.

'Fluffy?! How dare she degrade and threaten me! I'm going to rip apart her soul and fed it to the never ending shadows' He snarled to himself.

After a quick moment Amanda emerged from the bathroom with a slightly bloody towel wrapped around her left calf. She muttered dark thoughts to herself of torturing those two wildly spiky balls of fluff she now knew were in fact two extremely testy men. Yugi ran over to her.

"Hey are you ok?" He asked, guilt written all over his face. "I-I should have warned you sooner, those two are actually very evil spirits. The yellow one is Malik and the white one is Bakura. They are really dangerous, even if they are still just cats." Yugi frowned guilty as he started at the girl's banged leg. She shrugged and smiled at him.

"Don't worry about it Yugi, it is just a scratch nothing I can't fix with some Neosporin and some Band-Aids" She grinned childishly as she patted his shoulder. "See look, I even put the same ones you have on" She smirked as she pointed to her leg as she took off the now-stained towel. Yugi laughed nervously, feeling slightly better.

"Ah, really?" She kept grinning as they say back down.

"Yep, we'll suffer the unbearable embarrassment together" She posed cheesly as Yugi stifled another chuckle.

Royu sighed and Marik shook his head at this strange new girl. They both watched for a while as she tried cheering up Yugi with jokes while Yami was arguing with the two evil spirits in the background.

Oh, if only she really knew who she had royally pissed off.

"Alright, back to business I guess…" Amanda mused but suddenly remembered something as she hit her forehead sheepishly.

"Yesh- you've all told me you're names and I still haven't given you mine!" She held out her hand to Yugi. "It's Amanda, Amanda Ginozokai or Gin if you prefer" she explained as Yugi grinned excitedly.

"So you're family is Japanese?"

"Well sort of, my real Dad is but my Mum was born in Spain and I'm actually American." Yugi's eyes widened slightly. She shrugged her shoulders.

"I know it doesn't really make sense, but I took on both their last names and nationalities for traveling benefits, so yea..." She trailed off awkwardly as she scratched the back of her head in thought.

"Oh? So if you are American where are we?" At this Amanda blinked owlishly for a minute before face-palming again.

"Oh great-" She muttered into her hand. Yugi frowned worriedly.

"Are we in the states?" He asked nervously as he bit his lip, not liking where this was going. Amanda groaned once more into her hands before looking back at Yugi.

"Err yea, you are, in the state of Florida to be exact." She confirmed before she peaked out from under her bangs to see their reactions.

It was just like she imagined it would be.

Yugi sat there with his mouth hanging open in shock and with some fear shinning through his wide violet orbs. Atem stood still like a statue at his partner's reaction and frowned deeply.

Royu started wide eyed in a mixture of horror and astonishment.

Marik's jaw dropped, much like yugi's, and deep settled confusion and annoyance flashed over his lilac colored irises.

Bakura and Malik displayed no reaction to this piece of information, though they felt deeply annoyed that they weren't aware of anything anymore.

"H-how did we get all the way over here?!" Yugi exclaimed. Yami looked concerned as he nudged Yugi's hand, signaling his former host to calm down.

Amanda shook her head.

"And here I thought you would be more worried about how you were all turned into cats." She mumbled to herself.

"That too!" Yugi suddenly jumped up.

"Amanda thank you a lot but I need to ask you something really important!" Yugi paused as he took a deep breath.

"D-do you know anything about something called the Millennium Items or the Shadow Realm?" Amanda's eyebrows shot up as everyone froze.

The atmosphere of the room changed so abruptly that Amanda felt as if she could cut it with a blunt spoon if she really felt like it. She cautiously looked around at the stiff figures that were all staring at her intently. She felt beyond extremely uncomfortable and a tad skirmish.

"Shadow Realm? Millennium Items?...hmmm." Amanda rubbed her chin thoughtfully. Everyone held their breath as they waited in tense anticipation. She closed her hazel eyes as she thought.

"Hmmm, tell me yugi would this have anything to do with that wired shadow thing that beat the crap out of me yesterday?" Yugi stiffened even more and his face was pale.

"Maybe…" Yugi admitted as his brows furrowed in worry. "Gin-chan?"

She crossed her arms as she looked back at Yugi, her eyes were strangely distant and cold again.

"The Eye" she spoke up simply. Yugi frowned in puzzlement again.

"What?-"

"The eye, the one that keeps appearing on everyone's foreheads. That eye. I know that eye" She muttered before suddenly getting up and rummaging through her nearby kitchen again. Marik growled in frustration.

"She's not making any sense."

She brought back something in her hand. Holding it up so they could see, they all realized that it was the same bottle that the girl had used in their first encounter after she had fainted. The thick liquid inside filled only half the amber-colored glass bottle but on the bottle itself one could see a very plain symbol of the notorious golden eye of Hours on its smooth surface.

Everyone's jaw dropped.

"How-What-Why?!" Yugi sputtered. Amanda shook her head.

"Sorry Moto-san I don't have any answers for you, only more questions." She responded before sitting the heavy bottle down beside her.

Yami sighed warily.

Yugi opened his mouth after a moment to continue asking questions but an abrupt hissing sound suddenly penetrated the silence and an inexplicable darkness began filling the room...

-And that's a wrap!

So what do you think? I'd love to hear from you all, and like I said up top, "Review and Message if you have questions or wanna show some love for this story!" Constructive reviews are welcome and if I go to too OC with anybody just let me know. Thanks again!

-Mara Gin