Heloooooooooo Dragonblade122 here, this is one of my new storys (again, but not as bad as my sister is with new story's since she has four new ones to type up) hope you like it and please comment.


BEEP, BEEP, BEEP...SLAM!

"Alright I'm up already" I said as I hit the alarm button, I groaned, today was the first day of my job, oh yeah I forgot to mention, my name is Ryou, I'm 17 years old and I live by myself in a small roomed apartment, my dad is an Archeologist and works in Egypt, I don't have a mum because she and my sister Amane died in a car accident when I was just a kid, I can understand my dad not being here all the time, at least he's got something to distract him nearly 24/7, that's why I'm getting a job, not just to distract myself but to actually be able to handle myself instead of having to rely on others all the time. I got out of bed and began to go into the bathroom after getting my job clothes from my wardrobe, oh yeah I also forgot to tell you, my new job is working at the aquarium and my boss turns out to be Mako Tsunami from Duelist Kingdom and the Battle City Tournament hosted by none other than Seto freaking Kaiba, I swear he has no emotion what so ever, I mean come on he didn't let me go to a proper hospital when Zorc(1) had taken over my body, but that was in the past, now Yami has come back and has decided to stay with Yugi and Marik (Yami) has somehow learned not to be the psycho he used to be and is now dating Malik (I don't see how since they are basically the same person) and now I'm kicked so to speak out of their little friendship circle and the only person I talk to is Malik and even then he's usually getting done by Marik.

It's just another day for me being on my own" I say to myself, yeah I talk to myself, it's a downside to living with myself, anyway I finish in the shower, dry myself off and got changed into my job clothes then went downstairs into the kitchen to make my breakfast which was scrambled eggs, sausage and beans which was something I used to eat when I was in England. After I finished eating and cleaned up I realized that I had an hour to get to work, I rushed to get my shoes on left, locked the door before rushing down the stairs and exiting the apartment before getting to a bus station and getting on just as it was about to leave, after sitting down at the back of the bus I let out a breath that I didn't know I had held in and waited till the bus came to my stop.

Thankfully it took 30 minutes to get to the Aquarium so as soon as I got off I jogged slightly so I could get there faster

"Hey Ryou didn't think you'd get here on time" said Mako as he walked out of the doors to the Aquarium

"You know me Mako, I like to get to places early in case someone decides to change the time" Mako didn't really mind me calling his name instead of boss because he lets all of his employees because he believes we are a team and is always open to new ideas that his employees have in mind if it helps the Aquarium or to help raise money to help the environments or animals of the sea.

"Well since your here a little early I would like you to set up the Cafe first then help the cashiers to set up all the food ready for when they open up please then tell me when you're done, how's that for you?"

"You know me Mako, always ready for a little challenge to get the blood going" I giggle lightly, yeah I giggle sometimes, I guess that's why people mistake me for a girl sometimes, no offences to my mum but sometimes I curse my looks and my long hair, one because I get picked on for it and second every time I look in the mirror I see either my mum or my little sister.

"Oh yeah, here's a map in case you get lost" he hands me a piece of paper which was the map of the entire Aquarium, this I was thankful for since I've only been here once or twice, after saying 'thanks' I left him to do his job and went inside the main building that was to the left of the water show that Mako does every midday to closing time, as you look at the outside of the building you would think that it was a small cafeteria the kind you'd get in schools or Collage, but as you look on the inside you'd think you'd have stepped into a Tardis, I didn't take long to find the cafe but I was shocked to find who worked there.

"Malik?" I nearly squeaked

"Ryou?" Malik replied "what are you doing here it's not even opening time"

"I work here now, I just got the job a few days ago" I replied with a slight smile on my face as Malik looked at me wide eyed

"No way, you serious?"

"Would I really be here if I wasn't?"

"Right, point taken, so I take it you were sent to help me with the delivery stuff?"

I resisted the urge to roll my eyes "yes I am"

"Right then, all I need you to do is to grab the boxes from the truck outside and sort them into the freezer and fridge stuff ok?"

"Gotcha Malik" I already knew where the fridge and freezer were so I went into the back and started picking the boxes and placing the stuff from them into the fridge and freezer "so how's Marik doing?" I asked as he came through the back door

"Oh you know the usual pain in the neck" he laughed as he placed his boxes down next to me "what about you?"

"Oh you know, the usual" I say as I'm putting the food in

"Ryou, we've got to get you out at some point, maybe you should go to the bar with us so you can find someone"

"Malik you know I'm underage by a year"

"So what, you need to get out more, and hopefully get laid"

I raised an eyebrow at that, true that I've never done something intimate with someone, but I don't want to throw away my innocence like it was nothing, plus I wanted to wait after marriage, because my family was Christian.

"Also why are you getting a job? I thought you had plenty of money to last"

"Because I don't want to always rely on other people, I want to do stuff out of my own money and use my dad's money for emergencies" that was also true.

"So why did you decide to work here?"

"One because I couldn't find any other place and second I love the ocean, my mum and dad used to go on ferry's all the time, I was supposed to go with them a day before the car crash" that was also true, though I don't always like to talk about it.

"Oh, well you could always come on my boat; it has room so you wouldn't feel cramped"

"If you haven't noticed Malik, your boat is a speed boat, and I'm not very comfortable with them"

Malik put on a face that made him look like a kicked puppy "pwease?" he said in a kiddy voice.

Ryou just rolled his eyes "you know that won't work on me right?"

Malik continued to use his expression "but I want you to go with me"

"Malik, the food's going warm"

That got him a reaction "OH NO!" he shouted "oh nuts, if Mako finds out he'll kill me"

"Relax all we need to do is put them in the back where it is more colder then it won't hurt anybody if they had some"

"Oh, ok" they rearranged the food and it didn't them long to finish their work "so, want any tea?"

"Are you sure you're allowed to do that?"

"As long as it isn't on the job yes"

They sat down on the inside chairs of the cafe and started chatting about other stuff until Mako caught them "if you two have finished dawdling we are about to open up the Aquarium now"

Ryou jumped slightly and stood up "sorry Mako what do you want me to do now?"

"We will be having a new animal coming in any time today so I want you to clean the tank outside now please"

"Do you mean the one that you use for the whales?"

"Yes"

"See you Malik" I waved at him and he waved back before I left, I pulled the map out of my pocket and began to work my way through the confusing maze of the Aquarium/museum, thankfully it didn't take me long and now I suddenly regretted it, because the tank was completely filthy, even worse than my apartment when I haven't cleaned when I had the flu, but thankfully I am one of those people who have a cleaning problem (2) so I went to find the cleaning utensils and set to work on cleaning the tank.

(2 hours later)

"Omgosh I never thought that it would take this long" I said to myself, again.

"What would take long?" said a familiar voice behind my back

"AH!" I screamed while turning round "gosh Malik don't do that, what are you trying to do give me a heart attack?" I say as I grabbed the place my heart would be.

Malik look sympathetic "sorry, but you know what I'm like"

I rolled my eyes "yeah I know" I pick up the utensils and place them back into the shed then pulled out one of the folding chairs out, settled it near the pool and sat down "Oof, normally I wouldn't mind doing work but that had to be the most tiring thing I've ever done" I say to Malik as I slowly close my eyes to rest, until he started nudging my shoulder to keep me awake.

"Come on Ryou you can't sit down now, besides I've got to go before I get kicked out of here" he started pulling my arm.

"You go ahead I need to go find Mako and tell him that I'm done" after successfully getting rid of Malik from poking me I picked up the chair, folded it and placed it back into the shed before closing and locking it up, after that I placed the key in my pocket before leaving the pool area and setting off to find Mako, weirdly enough I ended up bumping into him just as I was about to leave.

"Ah Ryou, there you are, I was just coming to check up on you"

"Well as you can see I did it all" I gestured the pool area with my hand

He walked up to the pool to get a closer inspection "wow, I'm impressed, there were stuff on this thing that even the others couldn't get rid of" he turned to look at me "as a reward for getting rid of the difficult stuff I'm going to give you a raise and allow you to look after the new animal once it gets here, how's that sound?" he smiled.

I tried to calm down and not to glomp him, so I ended jumping up and down while clapping my hands together like someone on sugar rush saying "oh thank you, thank you Mako, you won't be disappointed I swear, when the new animal comes I'll take good care of him, or her" I managed to stop and calm down but ended up feeling light headed.

"You go take a break, I'll let you know when I need you" he was about to walk off when I grabbed his arm

"Wait; before I go can you tell me when it its coming and what type of creature it is?"

"I'll only tell you this, it is a creature I discovered on my adventures and wanted the whole world to see, and secondly the creature will be coming around closing, if you want me to pay you for over time I'll do it"

I let go of his arm "no, don't worry about that, besides I've got that raise from you so I don't really need it" I gave him a smile.

"Alright but if you want it later then let me know now go to the cafe and rest before you end up falling" he turned and left before I could say anything.

I just shrugged it off and decided to go and look around since it had been a while since I was last here, and to be honest it had gotten bigger and popular than I had realized, since it was nearly cramped in every hall as people went to look at the whales, dolphins and fishes, I couldn't help but smile at all the creatures, I know this might sound cheesy but every time I look at sea life I begin to dream and sigh like some love sick girl, I usually dreamt about going here when I was a kid with my mum and sister, but there were other times where I wished to be a fish, whale or even a dolphin, they had no emotion, they swam all the time and could do whatever they wanted without to have consequences throw upon them, since I was too distracted in my daydream I never realized that until it was too late that I bumped into someone causing me to fall on my bum.

"Oof, ok, that hurt" I slightly rubbed my bum to ease the soreness.

"Ah shoot, sorry I didn't see you...Ryou?" I knew that voice anywhere and I was not too happy either.

"Yugi? What are you doing here" I gave him a polite smile as I got up

"I was hanging out with my friends, what about you? I didn't know you came here after the...incident" I will admit that he was nice not to tell me directly about what I told him before he kicked me out of the circle, I once told Yugi about me going to the Aquarium with my family, but never went after my mum and sister died and my dad decided to stay away from me to do his job in Egypt.

"I've decided to work here to get myself out of my apartment since it's the holidays" oh yeah I forgot to tell you, I just finished my first year in high school and are now on a six week holiday until I have to go back, since I didn't really have much to do other than make more stuff for my RPG game I decided to get this job so I could try and be more social towards other people.

"Oh well congratulations on your new job" he looks over his shoulder "I better get back, nice to see you Ryou" he runs in the opposite direction before I could say anything.

"Yeah, see you Yugi" I whisper to myself, I don't know why but ever since I saw him I had a slight crush on him, but when he kicked me out of his group I felt my heart shatter, and since then I've been trying to get over it, sometimes I wish I could find someone else who could help me when I was down, but I knew that was never going to work, I mean who would want to go out with a boy who lived on his own, who would want to go out with a boy that had terrible social skills and always stayed away from people and had some serious parent issues, sighing to myself I went rushed onward to find Malik and for some serious cheering up.

(After closing time)

"Ok Ryou, you help Malik while their putting the animal in and I'll introduce you afterward" Mako said to me as I was cleaning up the floor from all the sticky and muddy stuff that people couldn't be bothered to clean their shoes before going in.

"Sure thing Mako" I placed the mop in the bucket then headed off to the Cafeteria, which only took 5 minutes "hey Malik, need a hand there?"

Malik who had his back turned tome didn't jump at all and continued to clean the counter "yeah could you please clean the tables, I've got the counters nearly done"
I went into the back and took out the cleaning stuff, I went back into the front and started working on the tables, I didn't notice until later that I started humming to a tune that kept popping into my head until Malik turned round and said.

"Ryou, why didn't you tell me that you could sing you're amazing" he gave the biggest grin and caused me to blush like made.

"Because I can't sing and I only do it when no one is around" I ended up mumbling all of that and Malik raised a brow at me.

"That's bull, you can sing Ryou and I'm jealous cause I cannot sing if my life depended on it" he walked over to me and hugged me. "I wish I could sing like you" he whispered in my ear causing my blush to darken more and shiver as he whispered and blew into my ear.

"Malik, could you please let go of me your making me a bit uncomfortable" I nearly whimpered, it's not because he hugged because he always did that when he greeted meat school, it was because he whispered and slightly licked my ear causing me to shriek like a girl, so I pushed him as hard as I could away from me, I ended up hearing a whimper coming from him.

"But Ryou, don't you want me?" he started giving me the puppy eyes "what did I do to you?" he slowly walked towards me causing me to back up.

"Wait Malik, what are you doing? Won't Marik be disappointed if he find out you were doing this?"

"Me and Marik want an open relationship, but there is only one person I want to be with for the relationship, and that's you" my eyes widened "I've liked you for some time, but I was afraid of you rejecting me, so I decided to just say it instead of waiting, so how about it?"

"Malik, I'm sorry but I don't feel that way to you" I tried to lay it down gently but I don't think it was working because Malik was walking towards me so he could trap me into a corner

"Why though? I can help you, you've driven me crazy, I want you Ryou can't you see that?" he started tearing up.

"Malik, I'm sorry but I only see you as a friend, plus if I was with you I would not want to be with you just for the...physical stuff, plus I don't like open relationships so either way I would end up hurt as well as Marik and yourself" I turned and walked away which was a big mistake as he grabbed my arms, swung me around, shoved me to a wall and forced his mouth against mine which was thankfully not my first kiss because I was on a date with a girl, when she kissed me I then realized I was gay.

"Don't you like that?" he said as he removed his lips from mine

"No Malik I don't so please let me go and leave me alone" I tried my best to speak nicely but he still didn't let me go.

"WHY DO YOU STILL REJECT ME?! I LOVE YOU RYOU WHY DON'T YOU SEE THAT!" he was starting to cry

"You don't me Malik, if you did you wouldn't be with Marik and having an open relationship" I was trying my best not to cry as well.

"I'll get you back, you'll see" he let go of then left to go home.

I let out a breath that I didn't know I had been holding, I turned in the opposite direction and headed towards the outdoor pool for whales etc.

"Ah Ryou, you're here" Mako said as I headed towards him.

"Sorry I didn't get here early, I had a bit of trouble" I partly told the truth

"Yeah, yeah anyway you ready to see the new creature?" he cracked a smile

"I've been dying to see this animal since the beginning of the day" I tried to hold down the jumping.

"Who said it was an animal?" he walked away before I could answer

I quickly ran towards him, but as I got closer I suddenly stopped as I saw what kind of creature was in there, but even then I could not believe it with my own eyes.

"Ryou, may I present the merman Bakura"


(1) Zork and Bakura are two different souls in this so don't get confused

(2) It is a disorder and my dad has it