"IT'S ICKY AND YUCKY AND IT DOESN'T EVEN TASTE LIKE CHERRIES!" yelled a hoarse voice.
"But I want you to get better! And stop yelling! You're hurting your voice!" snapped Yami Bakura. "Now, take it before I shove it down your throat!"
"But it's icky, yucky, and it's nowhere near tasting like cherries!"
"Threaten her again and I -- I'll -- ACHOO!" Lyn stopped in the middle of her own threat to sneeze, and Yami looked at her worriedly and gave her a tissue.
"Dude, these aren't Puffs!" she complained. "There are the evil things that make my nose hurt!"
A couple of hours earlier, Reneey and Lyn had woke up coughing, sneezing, and throwing up, with fevers. Lyn had blamed Reneey because it was dead winter and Reneey had forgotten the keys so that they were locked outside of the game shop until Solomon got home. Apparently, Yugi was a very heavy sleeper, and Lyn didn't have anything to pick the lock with.
While the others went to school, Atem stayed behind to tend the girls. Of course, Yami Bakura heard of this and wouldn't let anyone else help his daughter, so he came over, too. He would suffer through being with the pharaoh and his daughter for Reneey.. but ONLY for Reneey.
"Tomb robber, I really don't think yelling is going to get your daughter to drink the medicine," Yami said with a sweatdrop while Bakura glared.
"I can take care of my daughter just fine!"
"Yeah, because you did such an excellent job in ancient Egypt," Lyn said sarcastically before collapsing into a coughing fit.
"Irina Bakura Umbra, take this medicine right now!" Bakura snapped.
"If my throat wasn't hurting, you would be so deaf!" Reneey tried to yell in her whispering tone.
"Quit yelling at her -- before I break -- your face!" Lyn managed to get out between sneezes.
Naturally, give any other circumstasnce, Bakura would already have sent Lyn to the Shadow Realm -- but right now, his daughter was sick and, as a parent, he had to tend to her. Besides.. there were sure to be other opportunities.
Yami sighed as he went to a cupboard and got a box of Puffs tissues. "Here you go," he said as he handed her a couple of tissues.
"Fine, I'll take it, but I want something to wash it down with," Reneey growled.
"And that is?"
"Red tea."
Bakura blinked. "What's tea?"
Lyn promptly laughed so hard that she broke into another coughing and sneezing fit.
Yami widened his eyes and put his arms around her, patting her on the back to ease the coughing.
"What's so funny!?" Bakura asked with a glare.
"No tea, no medi..."
Reneey didn't finish her sentence because she suddenly flew out of bed, pushed her dad out of the way, scrambled to the bathroom, and slammed the door.
"Eurgh, lucky," Lyn growled, glaring at the door. "You get to puke and feel better. I just have to sit here and be nauseous."
"Puking ain't fun!" Reneey groaned from the bathroom.
"But it makes you feel better," Lyn muttered darkly.
Bakura looked at the pharaoh and then at the pharaoh's daughter. "What is this thing called.. red tea?"
Yami sighed and asked, "Lyn, could you stay here for a bit while I make some red tea?"
At least he had learned something from his time in staying with Yugi -- he had picked up on how to use modern items simply by watching Yugi use them.
"Mmkay," Lyn said faintly from where she sat with her head tilted back and her eyes closed. "So long as you shut up about it, my head's about to implode..."
Bakura blinked, then reached into his pocket and threw some Tylenol at Lyn. A few minutes before, when Yami had forced Bakura to go to this place called 'CVS' (only Ra knew what 'CVS' meant), he had asked some people about treatments for sore throat, fevers, etc. And while he was going to pay for them, Tylenol caught his eye when it said something about 'headaches, sore throat, stomachaches,' etc. So naturally, he took it -- and, being the thief king, he managed to steal it without being caught.
"I don't want stolen Tylenol, thanks," Lyn said, shaking her head. "Anyway, I already took ibuprofen. And since when do you care if I have a headache?"
"If you die, I'll never hear the end of it," Yami Bakura grumbled. "Take it, it said it works better than i..whatever."
The bathroom door slammed open. "Shit.. Daddy, do you have vitamin C gummy bears?"
"Vitamin C? Gummy bears?" Reneey's dad blinked. "Why would a bear be gummy?"
"I'm not gonna die from the flu," Lyn said, rolling her eyes. "Anyway, Tylenol's hard on the stomach and I really don't need any -- more --"
Lyn went even more pale and suddenly leapt out of bed, shoved Reneey out of the bathroom doorway, and slammed the door even louder than Reneey had.
"Daddy! GO TO CVS AND GET MY VITAMIN C GUMMY BEARS!"
Reneey shoved her dad out of the room; the thief growled, but remembered that this was his daughter. Besides, he could always just punish her later, when she was better.
What in Ra's name are vitamin C gummy bears?
"Lyn?" Atem asked, walking into the room. "Reneey, where's Lyn? And your dad?"
"Lyn's throwing up, Daddy's at CVS buying vitamin C gummy bears, and did you get me tea!?"
---
Bakura was in CVS, glaring at everyone who thought his hairdo was 'funny.'
Curse my hikari with his stupid hair and his stupid body and his stupid father picking him to be my stupid host!
He sighed as he went to look for the medicine. Only Slyfer knows what in the world Vitamin C Gummy Bears are...
"Hello, can I help you?" asked a worker, who caused Yami Bakura to jump and almost send the unfortunate soul to the Shadow Realm.
"Don't. Do. That," the thief said between growls. The worker just gulped and nodded.
"Anyway, what is this.. vitamin C gummy bear?"
"Oh, we don't have Vitamin C Gummy Bears, we only have Vitamin C Gum Drops."
The thief shrugged and said, "Whatever," so the thief gave him that and he paid for it (coughfive-finger-discountcough) before heading home. Or, well, to the pharaoh's home, anyway.
When he got there, he saw Lyn and Reneey dueling while Yami was trying to figure out how to make chicken and -- this that only the gods would know -- lasagna.
"Here you go, Reneey," Bakura said, throwing the Vitamin C Gum Drops at her. Reneey looked at them and frowned.
"These aren't gummy bears."
"The worker said they were out."
"I want GUMMY BEARS!"
"You know, thief dude," Lyn said with a twinkle in her eye, "there are Vitamin C Gummy Bears at Walmart..."
Yami Bakura blinked. "Why would a wall be at a marketplace?"
"Daddy! Go to Walmart and get Vitamin C Gummy Bears!"
"And where is this Wall Mart?"
A map hit him in the face.
"There's a map," Lyn said, shrugging, as she flipped over Lady Assailant of Flames, discarded three cards, and took 800 LP from Reneey.
"FINE!" the thief yelled as he stomped his way to the door, but not before --
"Bakura, do you know how to make lasagna?"
"Only the gods can know," Bakura said as he slammed the door.
And so Bakura looked at the map that Lyn had thrown at him.
"Okay, so the red dot says I'm here, and Wall Mart is... This.. line says it's five miles away."
He shrugged, took a few steps, and then finally it hit him: he had to walk five miles.
"FIVE FUCKING MILES!?"
And naturally, this got people to stare at them, and made him seriously wonder why he hadn't sent any of them to the Shadow Realm yet.
"Oh, right... because my stupid hikari has my stupid Millennium Ring because the stupid pharaoh just had to remind said stupid hikari to bring the stupid Millennium Ring with him! Stupid (censored words too graphic for thsi story) pharaoh!"
Meanwhile...
"RA!" Yami cursed in Egyptian. (He doesn't remember his past yet, but he remembers curses in Egypt?) "Stupid frying pan with its stupid sizzling hot pain when I poured the stupid button on it to fry this stupid chicken! Now my stupid arm is burning! Stupid (censored words too graphic for this story) pan!"
Now, of course this was really OOC for Yami, but.. you can't deny it was very funny.
Lyn promptly turned to Reneey and said, "I think my dad's been hanging around your dad too long."