Mirrored out

As
promised, I won’t let you wait too long for an update-and a tiny plot twist,
heh.

Thanks for
reviewing so far, minna-san, it’s nice to know you like my stories!

Ja ne!^^

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17

The spell
caught Jounouchi completely off-guard, making the girl stumble a few steps,
before she caught herself.

In a flash,
the CEO was at her side, wrapped his arms around her and positioned himself
between the blonde and her attacker.

Eyes
blazing with anger, the pharao turned to face his arch-nemesis and seethed:

“Bakura,
what are you doing here? I thought you were in Domino?”

Crimson
eyes slanted mischievously.

“That’s
what you were supposed to believe, pharao. I have means of my own, you
know? Not even my hikari knew that I had hidden myself between your luggage.”

The thief’s
cackles died in his throath, when Kaiba closed his hands around the same and
snarled:

“Give me
one single, good reason not to kill you on the spot, you lunatic! What
have you done to Jou?”

Bakura
blinked, then smirked.

“Could it
be, that ol’ blue eyes has no idea of what’s going on here?”

Arms
crossed, the CEO gave the two Egyptians a level gaze.

“A
gender-switching curse.”

Yami and
Bakura, who was tied to a chair, nodded.

Letting his
gaze travel over Jounouchi, Kaiba closed his eyes and sighed:

“I’m
afraid, I am forced to believe you, because I know that even the most advanced
surgery and medication could not complete something so-perfect.”

Everybody,
including Jou and Mokuba, face-faulted.

Gaping,
Anzu screeched:

“You-you
mean to tell us, that you actually believed that nonsense she made up
for the teacher?”

“Well..until
last week, I did, yes.”

Yugi
blinked questoningly.

“Doushite*?
What happened last week?”

Kaiba
locked eyes with Jou, who had gone cherry-red, shaking her head vividly, and
then a truly sardonic grin blossomed on the brunet’s features.

Honda and
Bakura watched the mute exchange between the two former rivals and groaned:

“You
wouldn’t.”

“You
didn’t.”

Flexing his
shoulders contendedly, the CEO purred:

“Let’s say,
it was close enough.”

Worriedly,
the elder man watched the scene before him.

“Ara, young
lady, I think they stopped moving. Maybe you should let them go..?”

“No way,”
snarled Jou, as she pressed Kaiba‘s and Bakura’s heads underneath the water of
the bassin in which the little goldfishes resided, “I paid for two minutes and
I’ll make sure they’ll get their full two minutes!”

Kaiba got
the lecture of his life-once he could breathe again-and had to pledge, to never
ever let anything happening between him and Jou slip his tongue.

Bakura’s
ordeal was far from over, as punishment for Jou’s anewed cursing, Ryou forced
the thief to spend the rest of the weekend with Yugi-tachi, bound to a leash.

The leash
that belonged to the fluffy bunny costume…

It was time
to leave, and Honda had searched the entire area for the blonde.

Finally, he
found her on a small stone fence, gazing at the setting sun, lost in thought.

Bending
down, the brunet shook her gently, stating:

“Hey, Jou,
we’ve been looking for you all over the place! Come on, let’s go home.”

The
aforementioned nodded, but made no attempt to rise.

Honda
rolled his eyes and sat down next to her.

“Ja, what’s
bugging you, pal?”

Sighing,
Jou drove her fingers through her hair and replied:

“I, I don’t
know, I’m kinda confused…”

Honda
snorted.

“So, what’s
new?” POCK!

“Ok, not
your left backhand, that’s for sure” he moaned, once Jou had removed her
fist from his eye.

Blinking to
make sure he wouldn’t go blind, he asked:

“So, you
gonna spill or-?”

Jounouch
fidgeted, then admitted:

“It’s just
that, I dunno, since that makin’-out with Kaiba, I think I might have-feelings
for the guy. Know what I mean?”

His best
friend winced and shook his head.

“Kuso, Jou,
you really got a problem there.”

The blonde
gave a bitter chuckle.

“Tell me
‘bout it.”

Kaiba was
frozen to the spot at the wall beneath the two friends.

He had
overheard the whole conversation, including Jou’s confession, and frolicked the
entire journey back to Domino, annoying the hell out of everybody present, his
brother not excluded....

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Uhh, you
know these bassins where you get this ricepaper-coated loop thingy and can try
to catch as many fishes as possible before the paper rips, ne? Well, Jou found
an alternate use for it…¬ ¬’

*Jap: why