aibou-doodle: Because I like to think that Atemu struggles with what we think are simple tasks. And also because he'll never back down from a challenge.

Warnings: implied Tendershipping.

Characters: Bakura, Atemu, Ryou, Yugi


Shoe

Bakura stared at the affronting object. It sat there on the floor, angry and frustrated, while he thought about what to do with it. A little trip to the Shadow Realm would be nice, he decided. And it certainly would hurt it (unfortunately). The Shadow Monsters could take care of it...

"Stop staring at me, Thief."

Bakura smirked as Atemu shifted uncomfortably under his gaze. "Make me," he replied, happy that he had irked the former-Pharaoh.

Atemu huffed and angled his body as far away as possible from the other dark spirit. "This isn't as easy as it looks," he grumbled, shifting about on the floor to get as much access as possible. "I'd like to see you try."

Bakura yawned widely and stretched, purposefully pushing his shoe-clad foot up Atemu's face. Atemu blinked and growled, shoving the foot away from him. "I bet you had your hikari do that, Tomb Robber."

"It was all me," Bakura boasted, much to the annoyance of Atemu. The tri-coloured teen went back to his administrations for another few minutes while Bakura lounged on the sofa. Eventually, he got a bit impatient.

"For Ra's sake," Bakura snapped, glaring at him. "Just admit that you can't do it."

Atemu didn't answer and kept his gaze on his foot. His fingers uselessly tried again and again to successfully tie the laces on his trainer. "Damn," he cursed. "Things were so much simpler in Ancient Egypt. I could just slide on a pair of sandals and not be tormented by these Ra-forsaken pieces of string!"

Bakura laughed evilly, just as their hikari's walked in to the room. "You're missing all the fun," he told them, gesturing to Atemu.

Ryou took his seat beside Bakura and smiled slightly at the floor-bound Egyptian. "He's still trying?"

Bakura smirked. "Hasn't stopped," he said. He roughly wrapped a protective arm around Ryou's waist. "Hikari, tell him that you don't tie my shoe-laces."

Ryou blinked. "Of course I don't!" he said. "But I did have to teach you after you kept threatening to send all of my trainers to the Shadow Realm."

Bakura glared at Atemu who had started to chuckle. "At least I can do it," he stated, and Atemu quickly shut-up.

Yugi frowned as his looked at his yami, struggling so hard to accomplish such a simple task. "Do you need me to show you how to do it again?" he asked.

Atemu shook his head. "No, no. I will get this" he said, stubbornness leaking in to his voice. He cursed as the loop slipped between his fingers and he had to start all over. "I'll just keep trying."

Yugi sighed. "Yes, but you've been trying for half an hour now--"

"Stop judging me!"

His hikari blinked at the random outburst. However, Yugi shrugged it off and took a seat on the armchair, settling in to watch Atemu struggle some more. After a few more minutes of fumbling, muttered threats and curses, Atemu was still no nearer to accomplishing his task.

"You know," Bakura began, revelling in how the vein on Atemu's temple was throbbing. He also didn't know how to stop while he was ahead. "It only takes me five seconds to tie my sh--"

The Thief King had to quickly duck to avoid a flying trainer that wanted to connect with his nose.


aibou-doodle: Yes, I may have borrowed a line from YGOTAS, but I mostly used it because earlier, I told my mother to stop judging the vegetables, and the phrase is still fresh in my mind!

Please review? =] Cookies for all, and Atemu will strip-- I mean, sing for you!