*whew* this chapter is lo-ong. I'm so proud of myself!
Bakura: You're proud that you made a really long chapter?
And I got in someone special! Though I think he's confused...
Ryou: * hiding from spiders* You think?
Yeah, um, Ryou will you stand over there? Someone wants to see you.
Ryou: *walks over* who—oh Ra! My fangirls?!
Disclaimer: Me no owny Yugioh or Danny Phantom
Chapter 10: Flippity Flop
Ryou sighed as he stood up. Bakura just had to be hyper today, didn't he? Oh well, it was Friday anyway. This was usually his night to go places empty-handed and come back with a few...on sale things. Bakura called it 'shopping', but Ryou knew what it really was. Not that it stopped the yami.
But the fact that Bakura wanted to start early meant that he'd gotten into some sugar before Ryou'd woken up. Ryou shot a pleading look Joey's way, but the blond didn't understand. He thought he actually meant shopping. Poor guy.
"No, Bakura. You can't go shopping this early." /The stores are still open!/
"I wouldn't be long!" //No one will catch me. My way of shopping is fun!//
/Only to you/
//And?// Ryou sighed. There just was no way of getting through to him.
"I'll take the Ring if you try to leave," Ryou said, threatening the spirit's chances of staying in the mortal world. Bakura grumbled, but sat down anyways, beaten.
Joey just sat there confused.
"What's wrong with 'Kura goin' shoppin'? Is he like Tea or somethin'?" There was a knock on the door.
"Speak of the devil!" Bakura said, jumping behind the chair, doing a very good impression of giggling. Yup, far too much sugar. Ryou shot a look at Joey that made him flinch. But only slightly as the blond answered the door. And it was—
"Oh, hey Tea."
—Her. Maybe there was some truth to that saying. Ryou ducked behind the couch as Tea came in.
Unfortunately, Tea found both him and Bakura. This time they were both her prisoners. At least until Ryou remembered that he wasn't in control of the body. Bakura's hyperness faded fast.
//Hikari, if you leave me—// Ryou vanished from sight before Bakura could think up a proper threat. Tea looked stunned, but didn't let it last long enough for Bakura to get away. She held on with both arms wrapped around him. Joey blinked and hadn't moved from the door. Which sounded again a few minutes later. He opened it and looked surprised. Tea dragged Bakura to the door to see who it was.
Good news: It was Yugi, not Yami.
Bad news: Tristan was with him.
Bakura weighed the good and bad and decided it was okay as long as Tristan and the Pharaoh didn't start anything. Which was unlikely.
"What is it?" Joey asked, seeing his friends. They looked uncomfortable. Tristan noticed Bakura and Tea and obviously was deciding whether to ask or not. Yugi was oblivious.
"I just wanted to say sorry for the Pharaoh. He wasn't thinking straight," Yugi apologized, bowing a little. Joey looked at Tristan, who was still thinking about the odd couple that was standing by the door. Even though it looked like 'Ryou' (Tristan couldn't tell it was Bakura) wanted to get away, it might've been a trick.
"An' whattabout you, Tris?" Joey said, smirking when he noticed where his eyes were.
"I wanted to say sorry for hitting you," He said, finally taking his eyes off Tea and Bakura. He held out a hand. "Friends?"
Joey reached out and grasped Tristan's hand. "The best."
"As touching as this is," Tea pulled Bakura tighter against her to keep him from struggling, "can I get some help?" Bakura asked struggling for breath as Tea squeezed him. Tristan and Yugi jumped at his voice.
"What's going on?" Yugi's voice was hesitant. Like he wanted to know, but at the same time didn't. Tea squeezed Bakura again, and this time he couldn't breathe at all. He fought back as Joey realized he should help and came over to pry Tea's arms off. Tristan eventually helped since Tea was obviously strong when she wanted to be.
It took ten minutes before Tea released the boy. He fell on Yugi, accidentally making him fall on the floor. Bakura could barely to stand, so he scrambled off the boy as quickly as he could so that everyone could make sure Yugi was alright.
Bakura on the other hand... he was positive his ribs were bruised. They hurt like hell and Bakura couldn't move his arms from around them.
/That looked like it hurt/ he heard Ryou, who didn't seem very happy about it.
//Shove it, Ryou// he thought. Though to be fair, his predicament had been pretty serious.
But why did Tea have to be so rough with him? She hadn't hurt Ryou like that...
Idly he wondered if that was how fangirls treat celebrities... Yugi has one heck of a future coming up if so.
Joey helped Bakura up and supported him while they walked into the den, sitting him down in a chair. The whitenette's arms were still wrapped around his body. He heard Yugi talk to Tea about something, but he didn't pay attention to it. Instead he focused on ignoring the pain. After all, bruised ribs were nothing that should be folded over for.
Yugi and Joey started a Duel soon after Tea had apologized for crushing him. All that Bakura had to do was say that it was alright and make sure that Ryou wasn't in control of the body til the bruise had either gone away or stopped hurting so bad. Ryou didn't have a tolerance for pain, which Bakura had tried and failed to remedy, so it was better if he didn't have to go through it.
He managed to pull himself together enough to watch the Duel with Tristan and Tea, neither rooting for Yugi nor Joey. Tristan sided with Joey this round while Tea was rooting for Yugi. Ryou appeared in his transparent form to watch with him and stood behind the chair, leaning against his yami's shoulders.
Both Duelists seemed to have drawn bad hands, though it was Joey that had blown the secret about his. Yugi was just good at hiding the fact.
Yugi was obviously playing with an old deck of his, because he was using cards that Bakura hadn't seen since his Duel with Pegasus. Black Luster Solider had found its way onto the field while Joey had Baby Dragon out in attack mode as well as a card in the magic and trap card zone.
/He's going to play Time Wizard, isn't he?/ Ryou asked knowingly as they watched.
//Probably// Bakura answered. And they were right. When Yugi had attacked with his Solider, Joey had used it and was flipping a coin to see if he would win or not. It took a lot of courage to look at the coin afterwards, it seemed.
"Alright!" Joey said as he showed it to his opponent. Yugi nodded in agreement as he put his Solider in the graveyard and Joey fished his Thousand Dragon out of his bag, having forgotten to put it into his deck. Bakura leaned forward and was painfully reminded of his ribs. Ryou wished he could help, but even if he were able to, Bakura wouldn't want it. That was just how he was.
Of course, now that he wasn't hyper or getting crushed to death, the spirit was crashing. Hard.
But he wouldn't relinquish control to his hikari. It wasn't even noon yet, why did he have to be so tired? He blocked Ryou so that he couldn't gain control if he passed out.
He was nodding off when he felt someone grab him and pull him forward. He doubted it was Ryou, mostly because the person had to be strong to pull him anywhere, even if he was asleep.
Next thing he knew, he was in a field of flowers. So not where he was supposed to be.
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Ryou, who had been transparent while Joey and Tristan had picked his other up and took him into the living room so they wouldn't disturb him later, felt his yami's discomfort. But it wasn't at being picked up.
/Mou hitori no boku?/ he called down the link, only to find it blocked. But it wasn't just Bakura blocking him. /What's going on, Bakura?/
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It was dark.
So dark.
Where was the light?
He was answered by a gentle brightness that came from no one place. It was a room, but the walls were made of stone. What annoyed him now was that it was empty. But...Why? Why would that annoy him? Where was he anyway? What was he looking for?
He walked out to the center of the room and was met with a blinding light as the floor disappeared and he fell down, down into the light.
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Danny shot up in his bed as the events in the dream replayed in his mind. A soft light caught his eye as he looked around his room, half expecting to still be in his dream.
He rubbed his eyes a moment before getting up to check out the source of the light. It was his deck, glowing with feeling, as it had done everytime he had a nightmare over the last year and a half. He never knew why the cards reacted to his feelings; he just knew that they did.
He lifted the deck in his hands and shuffled the cards. That always seemed to help him after a nightmare. He drew the top card and watched as the glow emanating from Neo the Magic Swordsman faded with the memory of the dream.
Then his ghost sense went off as Skulker floated by his window, purposefully pausing by and waving before speeding off towards the town center.
Danny sighed as he dressed before going ghost, just knowing that he would be out all night. Sometimes it wasn't worth it to be half ghost.
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Ryou waited in his soulroom while Bakura slept. He'd taken a nap for a little while, but he just wasn't tired. Yugi was probably wondering why Ryou hadn't taken over.
Eventually Ryou got worried as the feelings he was getting from his other increased and turned into fear. Bakura was never afraid. Of anything.
Ryou ran out of his room and knocked on Bakura's door. He didn't hear anything coming from behind it, but the emotions were telling him that Bakura should be yelling for someone to wake him up.
"Bakura?" he called through the door. "Are you alright?" the feeling of fear was all that answered him. Ryou drew a deep breath and opened the door.
And for once, he was greeted with the furniture instead of the Shadows. Or Bakura.
Ryou noticed the lack of his other, but actually being in Bakura's room was shocking. He walked over to the bed, which was closest to the door. He brushed his hand on the fabric, marveling at how soft the sheets were. He looked at the dresser that was made of dark ebony and had a couple drawers open. Ryou shook his head at his other's carelessness and closed the drawers.
Once he was done with that, there was nothing else to do but wait for Bakura to find his way back. He sat on the bed and just looked from his viewpoint. There were daggers lying on the nightstand nearby and a couple swords hanging for decoration.
Waiting reminded him of the last time Bakura had been sent to the Shadow Realm. They'd just started to get along when Battle City had started up, and Bakura had seen it as an opportunity to get more Items. They still had the Eye lying around the house somewhere.
Ryou laid back, suddenly sleepy as he tried to shake off those thoughts. Bakura wasn't in the Shadow Realm. He was asleep. Probably he was in this room and Ryou couldn't find him because he didn't want to be found.
That didn't stop the memory from playing, though.
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The Shadows swirled around him as Ryou walked forward, not knowing where he was going. Eventually he sat down, hoping that he wasn't anywhere near the monsters that inhabited this world, and knowing that Bakura would come get him when he got around to it.
He remembered the Duel his other half had been in, the Shadow Game that he had against Yami Marik. Marik had been really annoying, even to Ryou. Ryou had been content to stay in his soulroom and give support from the sidelines and advice when Bakura needed it. Even if he received insults as 'thank you's. But, Marik was sharing the body and as consequence, could hear whatever conversation he had with his yami.
And Bakura had a reputation to keep up. So he couldn't be nice to him. Ryou was used to it though. Marik probably thought he was glutton for punishment or something since he stayed around Bakura.
During that Duel, Ryou had wanted to take brief control and tell Marik exactly what was on his mind, but that wouldn't have been nice.
So Bakura said it instead.
Still, it made Ryou feel better. Sad, but true.
Ryou looked around as he heard footsteps reverberate and wondered if he should run. He was just about to, but saw that it was Bakura. The spirit had smiled.
"Having fun?"
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Ryou remembered just how much Bakura used to scare him before that. It hardly made sense to him now, but Bakura had been a lot scarier when they'd met. Of course, he hadn't learned about Bakura until just before he moved to Domino. That was...what? A year ago? A year and a half? He couldn't remember exactly.
Ryou's eyes started to close as he sank into sleep...
Until a foreboding feeling came over him and he stood up, expecting Dark Necrofear to be there.
Only it wasn't.
The Change of Heart woman stood there, holding Bakura in her delicate looking arms.
"What happened?" he questioned as she laid his yami on his bed. She put her finger to her lips and looked...motherly at Bakura. That was exactly the word Ryou put to the stare. It was like how a mother would look at her sleeping baby.
She nodded to Ryou, placing one of her hands on his shoulder, warming it up slightly before walking out the door that he'd left open in case he'd need to leave and disappearing from sight.
Ryou looked at Bakura, who looked worse for wear. Change of Heart was a gentle soul. That much he knew from past experiences with her. She'd saved him from some pretty deadly creatures the last time Bakura had sent him to the Shadow Realm. And she'd fed him.
So why would she set off his alarms? Did she mess with Bakura? Would he be evil again?
Ryou hoped not as he pulled his yami's shoes off and tucked him into his bed.
Completely on accident, Ryou fell asleep next to him, mentally worn out from all the thinking he'd done and emotionally worn out from all the worrying.
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When Bakura woke up, his body acted on its own, sliding closer to the warmth beside it. Until that warmth shivered, that is. Bakura rolled over to see who it was.
Ryou's unconscious form shifted uncomfortably under Bakura's stare.
"Hikari," Bakura whispered, trying to be gentle in waking him up. Ryou pushed Bakura's hands away as he mumbled something incoherent.
The boy shivered again and curled up, trying to retain his own body heat. Bakura sighed as he noticed his host's problem. The Shadows were flowing around his bed.
As many times as Ryou'd been in the Shadow Realm, it still affected him worse that it ever would Yugi. He couldn't stay in the Shadow Realm for long, hence why he'd been sent so many times before. The yami ordered the Shadows back far enough that they weren't freezing Ryou to death, but he was too lazy to carry him to his Shadow-free room.
Bakura pulled the blanket out from under Ryou and draped it over him before pulling the boy close enough so that he wouldn't be so cold in case the Shadows crawled back into place.
A warmth in his chest flared up and seemed to spread throughout his body. Bakura had no idea what it was, but Ryou could probably feel it, since he'd stopped shivering.
Some part of Bakura's brain said that this was wrong.
Another said that it was fine.
Bakura didn't know which one to listen to.
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Yugi looked into the living room where Ryou's body was sleeping, draped on the couch.
He'd half hoped that Ryou would wake up and say hi, but he hadn't. Yami was throwing out random guesses as to why that might be, all ranging from Ryou dead to just asleep. Yugi was glad that Yami had guessed the sleep one, because he didn't really like the other choices. Plus, that one felt like it was the closest to the truth to Yugi.
"I don't think he's going to be waking up anytime soon, Yugi," Tristan's voice called, jostling Yugi from his thoughts. The boy sighed. Tristan was right. It had only been a few hours...
Ryou turned over, the first movement in a long while. Yugi wasn't the only one to notice it. A very large black spider was waiting in Joey's closet, watching Ryou while the boy slept.
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Ryou woke up feeling pretty warm. Which was strange since he thought it had been cold. He opened his eyes, but it took a moment for him to remember where he was.
Then it hit him.
Bakura's room.
He looked beside him and saw his yami snoring softly there, facing away from him. Ryou sighed in relief. Bakura hadn't changed back.
If he had, Ryou would probably be in the Shadow Realm right then instead of under the covers in a nice warm bed. Well, almost warm.
Ryou shivered as a stream of Shadows floated over the bed. The whitenette resolved to taking control of the body while Bakura slept. Ryou could take the pain, if his ribs were still bruised.
He slid out of the bed and noticed the Shadows parting a path to the door. He walked down that path and shivered once before exiting the room. He closed the door behind him gently so that he didn't disturb Bakura. He glanced into his own room before walking toward the place he could take over from.
He thought about what his yami would say once he woke up. Whatever it was, it wasn't going to be pretty.
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The eyes opened; blank since it hadn't had anyone to control it until Ryou's warm brown filled the void. He blinked, making sure he had complete control. Of course, with control came pain.
The boy curled up around his torso as he fought back the pain. It seemed to last for an hour before it started to lessen. He was vaguely aware of hands massaging his side.
"It's okay, Bakura," Tea's voice came. It was...soothing. Ryou's ribs numbed under her hands. He relaxed before the feeling of weightlessness overcame him for a moment. When he felt something beneath him, he opened his eyes again.
Tea was leaning over him, or at least that was what it looked like to Ryou at first. Then he realized that he was in her lap.
He tried to squirm his way out of her grasp, but he was held down by three pairs of hands.
"Relax, 'Kura!" Joey said, helping Tristan and Tea hold him down. Tea took her hands off the whitenette and gently massaged his chest.
"Does it still hurt?" she asked as the boys stopped holding him down.
"Iie, it's fine," he answered before Tea helped him sit next to her. His arms were resting on his lap as he leaned forward.
"Ryou," Yugi started, "why did it take so long for you to take control?" Yugi was curious. Too curious for his own good.
"Bakura wouldn't let me," Ryou answered, giving as much of the truth as he saw fit to give. He didn't want to say that Bakura was sleeping, who knows what people would say then.
Yugi gave an 'Oh' and let the subject drop. Though there was an air of amusement around him. Ryou blinked at him.
"So, Yugi. How's the Pharaoh today?" Tea asked as the other boys sat down around the living room.
"Ano... He's fine. A little upset, but he's fine," Yugi shrugged. He himself seemed a little upset at the topic, but Ryou guessed that he didn't like it that his other wasn't happy. Maybe their emotions bled into each other.
Ryou didn't envy their closeness.
"Why's he upset?" Tristan asked, cocking his head in confusion. Yami was never anything but confident. Him being upset was...unsettling.
"Over the whole Unknown thing," Yugi shrugged. It was Ryou's turn to 'Oh' this time. Joey nodded.
"Yeah, those guy's are really something to worry over," he agreed. "I wonder what they want..."
Everyone (who had listened to Bakura) knew what—who—they wanted. No one knew why though. Not even Bakura had mentioned why they did what they did. No one talked for a moment.
Tristan and Joey thought for a moment before disappearing into the den.
"What're they doing?" Ryou asked as Tea stood up to see. Even Yugi had no idea what was going on.
"Joey?" Tea called before entering the den. Yugi stood up to follow, hesitating when he remembered that Ryou would be alone. Nothing would happen to him, Yugi believed as he left the room.
He was gone for about five minutes before Ryou was so bored that he wanted to get up and see where everyone was.
Ryou noticed it when the closet door creaked. What he didn't notice was the hugest spider ever running under the chair closest to it. He didn't notice it as it sped across the room, going beneath the chairs and the tables. He didn't even notice it when it was lying in wait right in front of him.
The whitenette stood up, but the sudden movement was the trigger to the spider's bomb.
Ryou yelled out as the large black glob flew at him, determined to take something off of the boy. He felt a surge of power run through and out of him before anyone could respond to his yell.
//Baka!// Bakura said as the power created a shield around Ryou. //I said you couldn't take over yet! What part of that didn't you understand?// The spider hit the wall and bounced off. It then walked around him, hissing in displeasure at the loss of its meal.
/I'm sorry Bakura! I-I didn't know this would happen!/ Ryou sent back as he stood as still as he could. He was afraid to move in case there were other spiders waiting for him.
Joey and the others ran into the room, but were shocked when they saw the spider. They all silently agreed that the spider couldn't even hide in something like Yugi's hair. Joey disappeared back into his den for a moment as the spider tried to attack the force field and ended up trapped in a ball of Shadow Magic. It floated there while it hissed at the whitenette. Ryou gulped.
When Joey came back he was holding a box of matches and a can of aerosol. He shook the can and picked up a match. He looked at Ryou.
"Wanna let the monsta go?"
"You're going to...kill it?"
//I say let him//
/Bakura! You know I don't like that stuff/
//This is something that'll have to be done// Bakura said as the spider was lifted nearly to the ceiling as Joey lit the match and readied the can. The Shadow Ball disappeared and the spider came tumbling down—Ryou ducked and covered his eyes so that he wouldn't have to see—straight into a stream of fire, burning its over-large hairy body to a crisp.
Ryou kept his eyes covered, flinching at every scream the spider made until it died. Tea came over and led the bruised boy into the den while Bakura told him off. Joey put his spider-killer kit away and grabbed a bottle of water for Ryou to drink.
"Here, you probably need this," he said, giving the bottle to Ryou who accepted it gratefully. Ryou winced as Bakura said something not-very-nice to him. Yugi noticed and in a flash of bright light, the short thirteen-year-old was a little taller with crimson eyes and streaks of yellow in his hair. Ryou sighed and took a gulp of water so that his throat wasn't so dry.
"Bakura," Yami started. "What is going on?" Joey looked at the Pharaoh like something was wrong with him.
Ryou took another gulp of water. "Like we were telling you before, Pharaoh, we have no idea." Maybe a little too Bakura-ish, but it was what Ryou came up with while Bakura was still chewing him out, though now it had strayed from random insults to...safety concerns. It surprised him that Bakura was worried more about him than the body, but he didn't give that surprise a voice. He didn't want Bakura to have to say that he really meant something else.
"That's not a real answer. Where's your other? He must know something about this," Yami replied as Bakura stopped ranting. He didn't want to talk to the Pharaoh.
"Must we talk about this now?" Ryou asked making sure he was steady enough to sit down on his own. Yami sat at the other seat across the table as Joey sat on the floor and Tea pulled up another chair next to Ryou and Tristan sat next to Yami.
"When should we talk about this? When these creatures attack other people?"
"T-That's not what I—"
"Then what did you mean?"
"Yami!" Joey called as Ryou seemed to be in over his head. "Ryou's had a hard day already! This can wait," he said as Yami's mouth pursed. If this was what he had to deal with while he had been Pharaoh, he was glad he wasn't still Pharaoh. He didn't like it when people kept things from him. Liked it even less when they were the ones targeted.
"Very well," Yami said as Yugi resumed control.
"I'm sorry about him, he just won't listen to me," Yugi apologized. Ryou smiled.
"You don't have to be sorry, he's just doing what he thinks is right."
"I know, he's just overdoing it," then the boy's eyes lit up. "Oh, and the Pharaoh told me about your other's idea." Ryou thought he would say that he didn't want to go. "I want to go too."
To say that Ryou was surprised was an understatement. Even Bakura was speechless for a moment.
"Really?"
"Yeah, it sounds like fun." A phone rang, the sound came from the kitchen and Joey went to answer it.
Yugi and Ryou talked about it until Joey came back from his phone call with Tristan and Tea said their pieces.
"Yugue, Gramps needs you at the Game Shop. I think he's gettin' a few more costumers than usual," Joey said, walking in. Yugi nodded and went to the door.
"See you guys tomorrow!" he called before leaving. The children left behind called their goodbyes and started talking about what they could do next. Luckily for Ryou, he did not become Tea's hostage again.
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It wasn't long before Tristan had to go home and Bakura made his appearance to help his hikari out. He had been more than a little miffed that they'd left Ryou alone, but he never mentioned it because they'd already apologized. And saved the boy's life. Joey went to vacuum up the ashes, but he wasn't going to let his guests sleep somewhere that they would get hurt in.
It was soon fixed as Ryou and Bakura agreed to stay in Joey's room so that they wouldn't be alone. Joey's room was only big enough for two mattresses including his, but it was okay by the whitenettes.
Once Joey had done a good once over of his room so that he knew that there were no spiders at all in his room, he was happy.
It was getting pretty late, but not late enough for Tea to have to go home yet.
"So, Joey," the brunette said, "why did you and Tristan go back into the den anyway?" Joey blinked, not understanding.
"We...went into...the den? When'd we do that?" he asked back.
"Right before the spider tried to kill me, remember?"
"No...I don't remember. I remember being in the livin' room, and then I draw a blank til Bakura yelled, and then bada-bing I get the bug spray and killed the little monsta," Joey answered, scratching his cheek.
"That doesn't make any sense," Bakura muttered. "You remember what was going on when Marik was controlling you but you don't remember why you walked into a room of your own house?"
"You call that thing 'little'?" Joey grinned sheepishly at Ryou's comment.
"You know...That happened to me today too. When I squeezed you too hard. I don't remember it," Tea put in, tapping her cheek.
"Maybe we should see if Tristan remembers it. Then we could see if it was just coincidence or if something is going on," Bakura said, taking everything in.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, if Tristan was just following you, then the spider was just a coincidence that happened to be there when you had your mindblank. It could also mean that someone was targeting you with some weird form of control as well, but that would be less likely than anything else," the spirit muttered.
"And if he doesn't?"
"Then there is definitely something going on. Two people not remembering an event is near unheard of if there is no obvious explanation." The mortals of the group had to agree with that.
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After a little while, Tea's mom called and she had to go home for dinner, which reminded the boys that they were hungry. Joey didn't feel like having pizza so he went to see what he had in his kitchen.
"Let's see... I got mac n cheese, uhhh, rice, hmm, that looks good, chicken, what do y'all want?" Joey asked, finally sticking his head out of the kitchen. Ryou gave a light laugh as Bakura smirked.
"Maybe we should let Ryou cook in case you make something as crispy as that spider," he answered, his smirk a lot lighter than Joey had ever seen it. The blond conceded with a smile.
Ryou took the initiative and made the chicken and the macaroni. Joey was impressed at it, knowing that he would never be able to cook like that.
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"The fools have no idea what I'm planning," a cold voice rang out in the darkness. The voice laughed as a video was showing on a wall.
It was of Joey's bedroom, where the boys were turning in for the night. His 'video camera' was a nicely sized spider peering in through the window.
"They may have taken one of my pets, but they will never take them all. Right, my precious?" A purr answered him as he stroked the head of a dog-sized spider. The man turned back to the screen. The image focused on Ryou, allowing the shadow to see every feature on the boy's sleeping face. "Just you wait, Bakura. I will have my revenge on you yet."
The man's maniacal laughter resonated throughout the chamber he was enclosed in.
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OOOOooooOOOOooooOOOOoooohhhh!! Creepyville...
Bakura: You're having fun with this, aren't you.
Why wouldn't I? All that'll happen to me is death by angry spiders.
Ryou: Didn't one try to attack you?
Yeah, but I killed it before it could report back to the bad guy.
Ryou: Nani!? You did what?!?!!
Bakura: Cut it out, hikari. Yelling won't do any good.
Ryou: That's not the point...
How'd you get away from all those girls, Ryou? They seemed as bad as the Unknown.
Ryou: Uhh... *looks at crowd* I think they found Riku... Maybe they like guys with silver hair...
*holding Riku plushie* Wait for me!!!! I wanna hug him tooooooooooo!
Bakura and Ryou: *Sweatdrop*
Ryou: Review please, and maybe she'll co0me back and write the next chapter.
Riku: HEEEEELLLLLPPPPP MEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Bakura and Ryou: *Sweatdrop*