Disclaimer: I own nothing of YGO except a WHOLE lotta junk. Haha
It was a very interesting day. Well, perhaps that is putting it a little too lightly. It was a VERY strange day, filled with strange occurances and a very weird idea to claim a little English boy for a hikari. But that is not where the story begins. The story begins when Bakura took Ryou out to go shopping. Ryou's birthday was a few weeks away, and Bakura wanted to have the perfect gift for the hikari he loved so much. Ryou did not mind at all going shopping; he was happy enough in walking side-by-side with his yami. With Ryou's arm linked in Bakura's they made their way down the streets in downtown Domino City, window shopping in all the sidestores they passed.
"Ooh! Ooh! Looky, Bakura!" Ryou said happily, bouncing lightly up and down and pointing in the window of the shop to their right. "Kawaii!" shouted the strange little English boy. He jumped up and down like a little child, too excited to be able to sit still. "Puppy!" In the window of the shop he was referring to was a little Shih Tzu puppy. Bakura smiled and laughed at his hikari's happiness.
"Yes, Ryou," He said happily. "It's a puppy."
"Can I get it, 'Kura-chan? Can I? Can I!?"
"Of course you can." Bakura smiled, nodding his head. "I told you you could have anything you want for your birthday, ne? I was telling the truth."
"Yayyy!" Ryou cheered, leaving the window and his soon-to-be-new pet Shih Tzu to run up to his yami and glomp him. "Thank you!" He shouted for everyone to hear and they both got a few strange looks from passerbys.
"You're welcome." Bakura stated, placing his arms around his hikari and hugging him back. Their little moment of open affection was interrupted when there was a sound of bells clanging against a door. Looking up and breaking their embrace, Ryou and Bakura turned to see Yami and Yugi leave the very pet shop they had planned to enter themselves. Upon seeing Bakura, Yami stopped dead and the fierce electricity and hatred between the two ancient spirits boiled to a breaking point. Ryou watched in nervous anxiousness, bracing himself for the time when either of them would blow. Yugi, on the other hand, was cooing at the little plastic bag he held in his hand and seemed obliviously unaware of the events happening right before him. As they stood glaring at each other, the tension in the air only mounted and became more dense as the suspense rolled in. Ryou was waiting for the outburst any minute. The waiting stopped when Bakura was the one to provoke the other first; but instead of attacking Yami, he attacked Yugi.
"What's that you got there, little Yugi?" Bakura asked, disinterested sarcasm leaking into his every word.
"It's a goldfish!" Yugi piped up happily He was completely oblivious that Bakura was mocking him. "Yami bought it for me!"
"Did he?" Bakura scoffed, turning his gaze on the Ancient Egyptian pharaoh, although he still directed his inquiries at little Yugi. "And how much did he spend on that little goldfish? Ten cents?" Ryou saw a vein pulsate in Yami's right temple and he began to feel his stomach churn. He could tell nothing good would come out of this fight.
"No!" Yugi said, squinting his eyes together and attempting to look disgusted, but looked more like a little boy who had first got touched by a girl in the 'cooties' stage. "He spent a quarter!" Bakura could not hide the barking laugh that escaped his lips. The only question at hand was whether he tried to hide it.
"A quarter!?" He openly mocked at Yami. "Ha! Big spender there, aren't you, Pharaoh? Just you wait; another three million goldfish and you'll spend as much money as Kaiba does on a single slice of pizza!"
"Shut... up..." Yami said, his voice dripping with dangerous venom. His entire body was shaking with fury as he glared coldly at Bakura. "Shut... up... right... now...!" Bakura did not take heed to Yami's warnings, however, and continued his little chirade, even despite warnings from his hikari.
"What is the wittle pharaoh gonna do to wittle Bakura-kun?" Bakura mimicked, talking baby-talk to piss off the pharaoh even further. "Is he gonna be all sad? Is the wittle pharaoh gonna cry?" Leaving behind the baby cooing, Bakura let out a hearty guffaw. "What can you do, Pharaoh? You gonna throw a half-piece at me?" Bakura then errupted into raunchy laughter once more.
"THAT'S IT!" Yami boomed, finally unable to control his anger any longer. "BAKURA, I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL! THE LOSER WILL LOSE MORE THAN JUST THE GAME!"
"What?" Bakura scoffed. "Will you send me to the scary Shadow Realm again? For the umpteenth time?"
"NO!" Yami yelled. "THE LOSER WILL SURRENDER HIS HIKARI TO THE WINNER!"
"What!?" Both Ryou and Bakura exclaimed in unison. They were horrified at the news.
"Yes!" Yami said rather smuggly, finally happy that he was getting the upperhand in the matter. "That means, if I win, you surrender Ryou-chan to me to be my hikari forever."
"Why!?" Bakura demanded.
"Have you looked at my hikari?" Yami asked. "I mean, I will admit he is cute, but the bugger does get annoying! I want to be pharaoh to another hikari! And I will make sure I win so I can claim Ryou as my own!" Bakura and Ryou stood, dumbfounded.
--end first chappie--
Ending Notes: I needed some way for it to be set up so Yami and Bakura have a duel. That was the plan. Although I will admit that the whole goldfish idea is a little primative and unusual, to say the least. But, hey ::shurgs:: It sounded okay when I was in English. ::haha:: Read next chapter, onegai! Arigatou gozaimasu! ::hugs:: Daisuki! (but only if you read more!)