xIsisx: Looky here, another wonderful fanfic by me.

Bakura: She's a very sarcastic person.

xIsisx: That's very true... And oh yeah, I don't even have a LIFE, what makes you think I own Yu-Gi-Oh or Kleenex? I do, however, own a box of Kleenex tissues and some 300 Yu-Gi-Oh cards...

Notes:
(hikari to yami)
((yami to hikari))
Bakura ≈ Yami Bakura
Ryou ≈ uh... the hikari
Yami ≈ Yami Yugi
Yugi ≈ ... Yugi
Marik ≈ is the yami
Malik ≈ the hikari

§ Once Upon A Storm §

Much to nobody's surprise, Ryou Bakura was worried. That was the statement of the yar, 'worrying' seemed to come naturally to the silver-haired boy.

But tonight, Ryou was worried about more than one thing. Again, if you know him, this was not surprising, but what he worried about was, in a way, unexpected. Perhaps 'strange' would be a much more fitting description.

Thing is, three hours ago, his darker side had walked out of the house, muttering something about a walk and meeting squirrels and Marik, and oddly enough, world domination. This was enough to cause Ryou to fear for Bakura's sanity, and without his sanity, Bakura could end up getting drunk and lost. A drunk Bakura is something everyone and everything should fear. That was already three things on Ryou's worrying list, and don't even get him started on what would happing if Bakura DID manage to get himself lost. Sure, the older one knew his way around the place perfectly fine... that is, if you consider the Shadow Realm 'the place'.

Ryou tapped his fingers on the kitchen table restlessly, listening to the radio out of habit.

"...we are expecting a storm tonight, possibly a hurricane. All residents are advised to stay out of the streets..."

He groaned and put his head into his hands, this was just great... Bakura's missing and there was a protentially dangerous storm coming. How could he contact Bakura? Wait, the mindlink! Gosh, he was so stupid not to have thought of that earlier.

(Bakura?)

(This is not a joke! Answer me!)

(I'll throw away your daggers!)

Sighing, Ryou closed the mindlink. Okay, so that didn't work, Bakura must be unconcious or dead, but Bakura can't die, he's a spirit, even if he did have his own body. Great, this just makes the situation crystal clear. Yup.

Panic rose in his chest, he wondered what he could do, he didn't want to risk his life by going out into the storm... Who would? Then a wicked idea came to him, and he slowly reached for the phone.

- ¤ - ¤ - ¤ -

Bakura, meanwhile, was facedown in the mud in the middle of a very very big, very dense forest, with rain poking his back. If someone looked at him, they'd say that he was dead, but no, the great and awesome Bakura can't die.

Bakura's closed eyes twitched and opened, blinking slowly in the mud, with effort, he reluctantly pulled himself into a sitting position... in the mud. He cursed and the ring glowed, and the mud was sent to the shadow realm. He rubbed his head.

"Screw this... my head hurts like hell..."

The last thing he remember was finishing his 6th can of beer when suddenly a good-for-nothing squirrel jumped on his head and somehow make Bakura fall down the edge of the cliff. Well, that was the last straw, sure, the squirrels were good at world domination but starting from now on, they were NOT going to help him or Marik anymore.

At that moment, as if the squirrels could hear this thoughts, an acorn came flying out of nowhere and hit Bakura straight between the eyes.

Bakura instantly jumped up and ran in the direction where the acorn came from, cursing as he did so. yes, he still had energy to run after falling off of a very high cliff...

Five minutes later (and after Bakura had cursed everything known to man), he stopped running and, for the first time, realized that he was lost. He squeezed some water out of his hair (cursing the rain as he did so) and pondered his situation. He was hungry, he needed to go to the bathroom, he has no idea where he was, and Ryou was probably...

Wait a sec, RYOU? He opened up the mindlink.

((Ryou?))

- ¤ - ¤ - ¤ -

"Thanks Yugi!" Ryou said gratefully and hung up the phone.

((Ryou?))

"Ahh!" Ryou yelped and dropped the book he was holding and fell out of his chair, "Ow..." He mumbled.

((You wuss.))

(Bakura? Is that you?)

((No I am the boogy man)) Came the sarcatic reply of the yami, ((Of COURSE it's me you baka!))

(Are you okay? You know there's a storm coming, right?)

((I'm soaked to within an inch of my life and my clothes are covered in mud... no, of course I don't know there's a storm coming...))

Ryou could picture Bakura rolling his eyes (Where are you?)

((... A place with a lot of trees and mean squirrels))

(I'm not gonna even ask about the squirrels, well anyway, Marik and Yami are coming to look for you)

((THE BAKA PHARAOH?))

(No, a kuriboh that's named Yami...)

((This is no time to be sarcastic)) Came the voice that was suddenly serious.

(Speak for yourself Mr. I'm-not-sarcastic... how did you end up in the forest anyway?)

((Oh I'm in a forest? That clears it up...))

(-sighs- Yes, yes, it's absolutly amazing that you're in a forest... NOW, how did you get there?)

((I... uh... fell off of a cliff..?))

Ryou banged his head on the table, (That's just wonderful...)

- ¤ - ¤ - ¤ -

"WHEE! LOOK AT ME EVERYBODY! I'M A SQUIRREL!"

"SHUT UP MARIK!" Yami yelled at the said person, "YUGI'S TRYING TO TALK ON THE PHONE THINGY!"

Marik stuck his tongue out at Yami and proceeded to hop around the room for all he was worth and for some reason singing "Happy Birthday" even though nobody was having a birthday anytime soon. His hikari sighed but continued to watch TV like this stuff happened everyday.

"What did he eat?" A frantic Yami asked Malik.

"Sugar," Came the simple and blunt answer.

Marik suddenly jumped out of nowhere and stuck his face into Yami's.

"ACK!" Yami screamed and not really gracefully fell out of his chair.

"ONE DAY I SHALL RULE THE WORLD!" Marik screamed and started laughing like a psycho, which he was.

"MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHA!"

"'Kay I'll let Marik and Yami know," Yugi said into the phone and hung up.

He went into the very noisy living room when his foot collided with something solid. Yugi blinked and looked down.

"Ah... Yami... what are you doing down there?"

Yami blinked, looking up at his hikari.

"Uh... I, uh, was just admiring our fine fine carpet... yeah..."

Yugi blinked again, the carpet was accually very dirty and stained.

"Yeah sure, listen, can you do me a favor?"

"Of course, anything for you aibou," Yami said, straightening up.

"WHAT? YOU EXPECT ME TO FIND THE TOMB ROBBER IN THE MIDDLE OF A STORM WITH HIM?" Yami yelled after Yugi explained, pointing to a now quiet Marik, who was staring at something on the table.

"Pleeeaaaase Yami?" Yugi begged and put on his best puppy dog eyes.

Yami twitched, boy, his hikari's knew all the right buttons to push. He looked at his adorable hikari's even more adorable puppy eyes. Yami twitched again. He rubbed his eyes and sighed.

"...fine..." He gave in at last.

"YAY! Thank you Yami! I LOVE YOU!" Yugi exclaimed, hugging Yami.

"Yugi? Can't. Breath..." Came the strangled voice.

"Oh sorry..." Yugi let go.

Yami looked over at a mesmorized Marik, "Marik? What are you doing?"

Getting no answer, he walked over and found that Marik was very intrested in a piece of tissue. Yami pondered the fact of why he was surrounded by psychos for a moment but then poked Marik, hard, on the shoulder.

Grunt.

Well, at least Marik knew he was there.

"MARIK!" He yelled.

"Mm?"

"What are you doing?"

"This piece of Kleenex tissue... it's very intresting... Look, it can seperate into two!" Marik said confidently, and promptly seperated the tissue into two layers.

"Yeah yeah that's nice Marik... but," Yami lowered his voice in a dramatic whisper, "We need to resue someone!"

"Rescue?" Marik perked up, the 'fastinating' tissue forgotten, "Did someone say 'rescue'? Never fear! The super Marik is here!" He did a superhero pose, causing everyone else in the room to do an anime fall.

"Yeah yeah that's nice Marik..." Yami said again, "Bakura's lost in a forest and we need to go resue him."

"WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO? COME ON!" With that, he grabbed Yami's arm and literally 'flew' out of the room.

Malik and Yugi stared at each other and blinked twice.

"Well, I think they'll be alright..." Yugi said not really confidentally and sat down next to Malik, "Too bad they didn't bring an umbrella... What movie are you watching?"

•

xIsisx: Ooo Yugi... you liar...

Ryou: Shh! You're giving away the plot!

xIsisx: What plot? Oh the one about them ru-

Ryou: -puts hand over xIsisx's mouth- Some authoress you are...

xIsisx: -glares- mmummpuph unmm mmphumm! (translation: if you like it so far, tell me to continue or I won't cuz I'll think that nobody likes it)