Names and Not: Who and What?

They stared when Bakura followed Ryou into the dining area where the table was set up with bowls of fresh fruit and clusters of boxed cereal. Ryou pulled an empty cereal bowl and tugged a box towards him. Bakura ignored the stares as he collapsed into the seat next to his double, snagging an apple on his way down.

Lunar didn't seem to notice the stares he and Bakura were getting and Bakura was more interested in watching Lunar fix his breakfast than eating the apple in his hand. It wasn't until Lunar had taken his first mouthful that Bakura finally looked at the apple he held. He lifted it up to eye level to examine it more thoroughly, shrugged then bit down on it. Not expecting the juicy sweetness he closed his eyes to savor the bite.

"Never had an apple before?" A dry tone inquired. Bakura's eyes snapped open to glare at the speaker who, to his credit, did not flinch as crimson eyes fastened on him.

"No." He replied with a condescending air that made the blond boy flush angrily and open his mouth to start an argument.

Without looking up Ryou cleared his throat and Iceman forced himself to calm down. Bakura merely raised an eyebrow in question.

"Who are you anyways? And how do you know Lunar."

Bakura smirked. "I'm Eclipse. Lunar and I am the same person."

Looks of shock echoed along the table and only the newly declared Eclipse, Rouge, and Nightcrawler noticed the mischievous smile that graced Lunar's lips.

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They hadn't known him for more than an hour and the majority of the mutants at the mansion had come to the same conclusion: Eclipse was a great deal more confrontational than Lunar.

Many of them, Bobby, Jean, and Logan being a few, did not believe that the two near-albinos were the same person. Kurt, Kitty, and Rouge couldn't care less if they were, they just liked Ryou and Bakura didn't actively try and attack anyone.

Yet.

Bobby kept antagonizing Bakura, no one knew why and Lunar discouraged people from asking without actually saying anything. Rogue noticed once that when Bobby was pestering Bakura, Lunar got a wicked glint to his eyes and when Bakura got pissed at all the questions, Lunar was smirking, but not looking at either of them.

Rogue thought Lunar was just waiting for Eclipse to loose his patience.

--

It started off simple enough. Breakfast had ended and Bobby had yet to test Bakura's entire limit as it was still only the first day. As the Professor was busy and unable to talk to the 'newest mutant', not that he was aware he was a mutant, Bakura had time to kill.

Which was why he had joined in on watching television.

Well, he wasn't really watching it, he didn't understand most of what was going on and when they started sneaking in through the building to steal a guarded artifact, he snorted in disbelief.

Bobby sneered from two seats over on the couch. There was no one between them to block his view of the red eyed Egyptian thief. "What? You think you could do better?"

Rogue glanced over at Lunar who had lifted his attention away from his book to watch.

"Yes. For starters, I would not have gone in through a window; you'd be surprised at how many people put security on their windows and forget to lock their doors."

Logan, who had been ignoring the exchange, looked over with a raised eyebrow in interest.

"They should have left the bag at home, all you need is a knife and you can disable any security system and make due with the shit you've got around you."

"What about the flashlight? How are you going to see what you're doing?"

Eclipse snorted rudely. "There are windows every four feet and it's a full moon: plenty of light. Besides, people will more than likely spot the flashlight beam than realize someone bumped into something in the dark."

"Have experience with that?" Scott prodded, his tone lofty and derisive.

Lunar startled Scott and Bobby both by speaking up with a rare strong and clear voice. "No. Eclipse doesn't run into stuff in the dark, he's way too good to do that."

Eclipse smirked and Scott glowered. Bobby just narrowed his eyes and placed his hand on the seat next to him.

Rogue, the only one to notice and understand the gesture, gasped softly and stiffened.

Bakura's eyes flitted over to her, but she turned her attention over to the TV and frowned.

With tension you could feel, attention turned from the two teens on the couch and back to the show.

As Eclipse slowly began to feel a chill, he didn't understand. He chalked it up to being in a different country at first but then he began to shiver. He glanced over at Bobby, noticed a badly concealed smirk and then looked down at the frost covering the couch.

Bakura snarled, jumped up, flung his hand palm forward at Bobby and spat out, "Shiryoo No Fuuinken!"

A translucent sword materialized out of nothing and sped towards a stunned Iceman who was propelled backwards through the couch to become pinned against the far wall by the see-through blade.

Kitty screamed and everyone scrambled into action. Ryou's eyes went wide and he launched himself at his other half, propelling the two of them through what Rouge would later claim was a black portal made of shadows, one that swirled into existence as Lunar started moving.

As Kitty screamed for the assistance of the other professors, Logan began his hunt for the two white-haired mutants. Jean and Scott rushed to assist Bobby who, despite being pinned to a wall by a sword, seemed to be unharmed.

"I have no idea what he just did, but that was awesome! Someone go make sure Wolverine doesn't kill them!" Iceman enunciated this by flailing his arms around. It was only his torso that couldn't move. He likened it to being taped to the wall with duct tape. Only with this he didn't have the effect of gravity making it hard for him to breathe.

--

Rogue was the one to take off and hunt down Wolverine. It was probably a good thing because she was probably one of the only ones who could get the clawed man to calm down and listen to reason.

It didn't take her long to find him prowling up and down one of the halls of the mansion, sniffing at each doorway.

"Logan!" The man turned to raise an eyebrow at the girl. "Bobby's not hurt. While he's pinned to the wall, he says not to kill them."

"Still need to find 'em."

"They'll probably come back out on their own. You know Lunar, it's unlikely that you're going to find him – and we don't know Eclipse that well, nor his hideouts."

"That portal looked like the elf's."

"Kind of, but it looked more like they jumped through a hole. I didn't know they could do that. I don't even think Lunar knew."

--

"Okay Ryou, what the hell was that? That's not one of the powers of the Ring."

"We're mutants, Bakura, we don't need the Ring anymore."

"But that doesn't explain where we are or how we got here."

Bakura stretched his legs out along the rough surface beneath him and leaned back, enjoying the height and the view. It wasn't everyday you were randomly transported to the roof of the building you lived in. Bakura had to admit it was a good spot to hide out, there were no windows that faced them and the road was too far away for anyone in a car to spot them. Bakura couldn't see how a human could reach the spot without a ladder or possibly these new mutant powers.

"You can use the shadows to bring the cards into reality. Mine is to be not there. Together we can do more – like the portal. I was unaware of this before."

"When others forget about you, I can still see you, can't I?"

"We are the same person."

They sat in silence, simply listening to the muted sounds of traffic and mulling over their newest discovery.

"Shall we go back? I believe it's safe now."

"How?"

"Let's see if we can't do the portal again."

"Ryou, you did the portal. I don't know how we are going to do it again."

"But you had the shadows with you. Even with the Ring I could not access them."

"Is there a card that reflects this portal? Besides the obvious Dark Hole."

"Does it have to be a card? Could it not be possible to just will it into existence?"

"It'd be easier if it were a card."

Ryou rolled his eyes and shrugged. Bakura snorted softly and brought his hand up in front of him. Narrowing his eyes, the outline of his hand began to flicker.

"I know!" Ryou piped up and Bakura started with a curse as he lost his grip on the shadows. The darker teen went to glare at his partner only to get a view of Ryou's head as the smaller teen pushed the both of them off the roof.

"Ryou! You ahou!"

--

Kitty looked up in surprise as she heard the shout from two different locations, out her window and-!

The same portal from earlier opened up and deposited the two entangled albinos on Rogue's bed. Kitty yelped as Eclipse pushed Lunar off the bed and began to – in Kitty's opinion – curse in varying languages. Lunar, once he got his breath back, began to laugh.

"C'mon! Let's go survey the damage done! Coming Kitty?"

Deciding this was the sanest she had ever seen Lunar, she hopped up off her bed with a smile and followed the albino out. She didn't even feel threatened when the grumbling Eclipse removed himself from Rogue's bed and stalked after them.

A/N: Apparently there still was a wait. My bad. No, I do not have any idea of where this story is going to go.