A/N: ¡Hola! How has everyone been? Good? Good.

Well, I just had a sudden urge to write a bunch of Bakurae one-shots, but didn't have enough inspiration in my own head to do it alone, so I went to DA and got a 100-theme challenge. This series ensued. I'm going to try to do a one-a-day thing, but I don't know how that will work out. Surely I'll have one every other day.

Theme 1: Introduction - 338 words

Ryou grabbed his head groggily, trying to recognize drunken blurs as shapes and things. Where was he? What was he doing? ...Gakuyuu... he and Ryou had been playing a game... Monster World. Ryou remembered starting, but did they finish?

Ryou groaned as the world slowly shifted into focus. He was sitting in front of his monster world game board. The game master, Zorc, stood triumphantly in the center of his castle's keep. But where was Gakuyuu? He wasn't in the seat across from Ryou.

Ryou got to his feet carefully, ignoring his pounding headache. "Ga-kun?" Ryou's raspy voice called the nickname Gakuyuu insisted Ryou should use. There was no answer. "Ga-kun? Where are you?" Ryou turned in a slow circle, looking for any sign of his best friend. Suddenly, his eyes fell upon a familiar figurine.

A half-elf illusionist with flowing turquoise robes and short and wild black hair sat on a previously unused shelf. Ryou picked it up carefully, fingering the intricate embroidery he had painted on his best friend's figurine. Suddenly, he noticed that the figure had been standing on a small square of paper.

Ryou placed the figurine down carefully and picked up the paper. On it was written two words in what looked like his own handwriting, but messier: Turn Left. Fearing what he would find, but unable to resist, Ryou obeyed.

Gakuyuu had fallen off his chair and was now laying unconscious, curled into a fetal position. "Ga-kun!" Ryou cried, running to his best friend's side. "Are you okay?" Ryou's brain whirrled. What happened? Why was Gakuyuu unconscious? He didn't have any bumps on his head. And why had Ryou passed out as well? His head didn't have any bumps either! Why?

"Payment, my little light."

The voice was smooth but harsh, his own but not. "Who are you? What did you do to him? What do you mean by "payment"?!" Ryou stood up, trying to make his wiry physique appear intimidating.

"I am you tenant, my light. And you,... you are my landlord."

A/N: YAAAAAAYZ! Ryou meets Bakura! I guess it *is* a little AU-ish, since Ryou technically can't hear Bakura until Ryou touches the Millennium puzzle, but who cares! This is the first thing that came to my head, so there!

Read and review please? =w=