Chapter 4

"Why did I have to come?" Bakura hissed as they crossed the street "They're your friends"

Ryou sighed "Just because. Come on, Bakura, they're expecting both of us"

Bakura scowled as Yugi opened the door to let them in "It's great that you could make it. Come in…" he hesitated a little as he saw Bakura "…both…of you…"

Bakura snorted but followed Ryou in "Thank you, Yugi" the hikari said softly "May we speak to Yami?" Yugi nodded and ran off to get him

"So, what is this about?" Yami asked as he came downstairs with Yugi "Have you had any luck with… you know…"

Ryou shook his head, they'd agreed not to let Yugi in on their attempts "Actually, Yugi, I'd like to talk to Yami in private" he glanced over at Bakura "You have to go too" Bakura huffed and stormed off. Yugi smiled and left, though he was now very curious "Yami, we have a bit of a problem"

"Wrong potion? I'm sorry, it's my fault I should have-"

"Actually, it's Bakura's fault. He was the one who wanted hot chocolate"

Yami stared at Ryou for a good five minutes trying to figure out what that meant "You mean…?"

"Bakura drank the potion by mistake, and you know how we didn't know which… place to take" Ryou was looking extremely uncomfortable as he said this "well… we kind of did what you said and-"

"And Bakura wound up getting pregnant" Yami decided that it would be better not to add 'serves him right' to that sentence.

Ryou nodded "he's been kind of nauseas since last night, and I made him take a pregnancy test and it came out positive, though I may have him take another just incase, you can't always trust them. He was really upset about it last night but since this morning he's kind of been in denial" he sighed "I thought you might be able to help him…"

Yami scowled "I'm not too thrilled by the thought of helping that thief, but if you really want help with it… I suppose I might be able to do something, though it won't be shoving reality in his face. You wanted a kid, that's your job"

"I… I guess so…" Ryou sighed "Right, I should probably go, I need to pick up groceries and Bakura doesn't really want to be here so…"

"I'll let you know if I come up with any way to help you two"

Ryou nodded "BAKURA" he called "WE'RE LEAVING NOW!"

"Finally!" Bakura bolted into the room "We've been here for ages!"

"Seven minutes" Ryou muttered looking at his watch. Yugi laughed from the doorway

"So…" Yugi asked as he and Yami waved to Ryou, thought only the later waved back "what was that about?"

SC

"We can go home now?" Bakura asked hopefully, he really just wanted to lie down and watch the history channel, which became more and more interesting each day

"No, I need to pick up a few groceries. We're low on vegetables and fruit and as of this morning completely out of meat"

"Well, I'll wait a little longer if we need to get meat…"

Ryou laughed, he always found it hilarious how his yami was so obsessed with meat. "Okay, come on, I doubt it will take longer than half an hour" he said as he walked into the store

Bakura followed him in, then stepped back outside "I'm gonna wait here" he muttered. Ryou shrugged and picked up a cart to put the groceries in

Bakura leaned against the outside wall and sighed shakily. "What's wrong with me?" he asked quietly "I'm not really…" he swallowed hard, trying to ignore the nausea in the pit of his stomach, which had become a million times worse the instant he'd stepped into the store "N-no that's silly. It's not like… I mean… why would I be? Ryou's the one that took the potion… right?" he tired to shake any thoughts about last night out of his head, but failed "damn it, Ryou, you were the one who wanted this… though… there is the possibility it's just a coincidence, oh Ra please be that"

He didn't say anything else for the next 45 minutes while Ryou shopped, allowing his stomach to calm down, which worked pretty well until Ryou came out with arms full of groceries and the smell made Bakura feel sick.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah…. Fine…" he took some of the bags from Ryou "Let me carry these"

Ryou blushed a little "Thanks for helping"

"Whatever" Bakura swallowed and did his best to keep pace with Ryou while going as slowly as possible. He wanted to scream he felt so sick, and constantly told what little food he'd put in his stomach at Yugi's (to which he was eternally grateful to the midget) to stay down.

"We're home" Ryou chirped once they got to the bottom of the apartment building. Bakura shook his head, which made him feel a little dizzy, they lived on the fifth floor, and being on ground level didn't seem 'home' enough.

"Ryou, how much longer?" he whined after three minutes of climbing stairs

"One more floor" the hikari said dryly

Bakura wanted to say he couldn't wait that long, but before he could say that he had to drop the bags he was carrying and lean over the edge of the balcony to puke

"I-I'm sorry!" Ryou exclaimed, picking up the bags Bakura had dropped "I didn't realize you still weren't feeling well"

Bakura groaned and fell to his knees "Go put those stupid things away, I'll be up in a minute"

Ryou sighed and went up the last flight of stairs. Making sure all the groceries were in the proper place before going back down to fetch Bakura, who'd stopped trembling by then and was grumbling about a pity glance one of their neighbors had given him "Come on" Ryou whispered, helping him stand up "let's get you inside"

"I'm… let go…" Bakura whispered, feeling embarrassed about needing help. There wasn't much he could do about it though, he felt so weak and tired…

Ryou lay Bakura down in the bed they shared. "There, you get some rest. I'm going to make a really light lunch for you"

Bakura nodded tiredly and closed his eyes. He felt so nauseas and confused, half way between the denial story he'd made up that morning and the truth from last night.

In the kitchen Ryou boiled a couple eggs and heated up a can of soup. He kept glancing down the hall to their bedroom, wondering how Bakura was doing in there. He really hadn't been trying to make the yami sick. "I'll have to make it up to him later" Ryou told himself, though he really didn't know how he'd make it up to him.

Finishing making the quick lunch Ryou poured the soup into a bowl, which he put on a plate with the now hard-boiled eggs and carried the plate over to the bedroom "Bakura" the yami opened his eyes slightly and looked up at Ryou "I made you some lunch. Do you think you can stomach it or would you like me to save it for later?

Bakura sat up and took the plate "…thanks…"