Blessed Be Those Who Live

Rating- T

Pairings- None for this chapter, but mainly Thiefshipping, Puppyshipping, and Puzzleshipping

Summary- The pharaoh separates Ryou and Bakura, and now they must deal with life.

A strange tinkling sound woke Ryou up from deep sleep, but he didn't dare move, instead opting to try and identify where the noise was coming from. He didn't want to risk upsetting an attacker, in case anyone –Bakura?- had broken into his apartment.

A rock crashed through window and fell in front of his bed.

"Open the damn door, you useless wanker!" shouted a drunken voice from outside.

Ryou jumped out of his bed and ran to the window, taking care to not step over any broken glass. He had never heard Bakura drunk, much less to this point; and honestly? He had just started getting his self esteem back.

"You're the bloody king of thieves damn it! Do it yourself!" he shouted back. Three stories down, Bakura stumbled forward once, then threw another rock at Ryou's window. He had surprisingly good aim to be as drunk as Ryou thought he was.

Lights were being turned on in a few apartments, so Ryou decided to just go along with him before any of his neighbors called the police.

He ran down the stairs and opened the door. "What are you doing here? What happened to you?" he asked as he guided Bakura up the stairs. Just his luck, the elevator had broken down the day before.

"Whuss? Din't we have one o' those…elevatin'…box thing?" Bakura asked. Ryou tried to make him hold to his shoulders, but found a bunch of dark red stains in Bakura's coat and instead tried to touch him as little as possible as he helped him up the stairs.

"The elevator is broken."

"Then fix eet! Gods, you useless-!" he tripped over one of the steps and Ryou had to hold him. His hand touched a slightly wet and sticky patch in Bakura's clothes.

Please don't be blood, please don't be blood…

"Course it is, dammit! Shtop shoutin' in my head!" Bakura pushed him away and held on to the wall for the last flight of stairs. The door to the apartment directly below Ryou's opened, and an old lady wearing the ugliest bathrobe came out.

"Oh, my, are you alright Ryou dear? What is all that shouting?" asked Mrs. Sadel. Ryou was torn between making sure Bakura didn't trip on any more steps (thus hurting himself, and making sure Ryou paid for it later), and making sure his neighbors didn't get him evicted. So much for getting his self esteem back.

"Uhm, hi Mrs. Sadel. I'm sorry. It's just…uh, my brother is-. Well, he had a bit of a party. I'm really sorry, I'll get him under control."

"Oh, my. Well, be careful dear," she said, and gave him a bunch of cookies. She always gave him cookies whenever she saw him. Even at one in the morning when his drunk "brother" was making a mess, apparently.

"Thank you Mrs. Sadel. I'm really, really sorry."

Bakura shouted from the floor above "Ryou! Open the damn door!"

Ryou bowed to the old lady, and ran upstairs where he found Bakura already messing with his lock using a knife.

"Oh, my god! Stop that!" he shouted, batting away Bakura's hands. He would now have to change the lock before anyone noticed it. "Is this how you steal things?" he whispered. He could barely believe this was the great king of thieves.

"In m'times we opened locks wi' a…wid' a hammer! Locks big as a- ´s your 'ead!"

"Oh, god, please stop talking."

Ryou finally managed to get open the door and Bakura inside. It was a small miracle that none of his other neighbors had decided to investigate

He dashed to his room. The glass from the broken window was at the other side of the bed, so he would probably not have too much trouble getting Bakura there. He dashed back to the living room as fast he could, and found Bakura had crashed into the couch and fallen asleep.

He snored.

Ryou smiled at the sight. He had never thought someone as usually elegant and proud as Bakura would do something as mundane as snoring.

Wait…Does this mean I snore too?

He decided to just put a blanket over him and go back to sleep.

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