CH.10 The Webs Tangled Strands

Ryou was sitting on the couch immersed in a book that Bakura had lent him. His father looked at him strangely. Ryou sighed and closed his book. "What?" He said crossly. His father continued to look at him.

"DAD WHAT IS IT!" Ryou said getting louder.

"I just can't figure it out," His dad said continuing to scrutinize him. Ryou stared at his dad blankly, already knowing the answer as he asked, "Can't figure what out?"

"Why you don't have a girlfriend yet." Ryou groaned, "Not this again, please."

"Well sorry, but I can't figure it out, You're a nice looking boy, you'd think the girls would be all over you." Ryou sighed and opened his book again. "I have school to worry about." His father nodded and frowned, "But I don't think that the way you obsesses about your schoolwork is unhealthy." Ryou rolled his eyes, and then grinned, Bakura was beginning to rub off on him. Then his father said something that knocked the smile right off his face. "How about I set you up with my bosses kid, She's nice, and a good kid, I think you'd like her."

"Dad no, that not necessary!" Ryou stuttered. His dad paused, "Really? why." Ryou said the first thing that jumped to his mind. "Because I lied to you. I already have a girl friend." His father looked overjoyed to hear this. "Really! What's her name?" His father said excitedly. Ryou paused and then slowly said. "Anzu."

Bakura burst out laughing. "NO FUCKING WAY! YOU DID NOT TELL YOUR DAD YOU AND ANZU WERE TOGETHER!" Ryo had met Bakura and the rest of the gang the day after his talk with his dad for zenzai and red bean buns. Bakura kept laughing holding his sides.

"Are you done yet?" Anzu asked annoyed. "I don't see anything funny about Ryou hiding his sexuality from his dad."

"Yeah I'm done," Bakura said, but then burst out laughing again. Jounuchi pushed Bakura's head into his bowl of zenzai.

"Thanks Jou." Ryou said cracking a smile for the first time that day.

"Eh, no problem." Jou said, tearing into a bun. Yami and Yuugi, who throughout most of the meal where otherwise occupied with each other, separated. Yuugi looked at Ryou sympathetically, "It must suck, having to lie and say your going out with Anzu,"

"Watch it Mutou!" Anzu said with a warning tone in her voice.

"Relax, I'm joking." Yuugi said curling up beside Yami once again.

"Oh that reminds me, somehow, Have any of you heard of someone named Ouji?" Anzu sprayed tea across the table, "THE Ouji?" She exclaimed. Ryou looked at her blankly, "Is there more then one?"

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME! You've never heard of Ouji? The teachers bane? The Prince Ouji?" Anzu said bewilderedly.

"What's so special about this chick? Is she like a super hero or something?" Bakura said picking tiny red orbs out of his hair.

"She's only the single most popular person in the entire school!" Anzu said. "She's a legend! All the teachers hate her because she never pays attention in class or turns in her work in time, but she still manages to ace every single test, quiz and pop test they throw at her! Plus all the girls have crushes on her! Even if they don't admit it, Everybody loves her!" Anzu explained. Then after she'd calmed down a bit she asked, "Why do you ask?"

"Someone named Ouji came up to me a few days ago, She warned me about this Bakura fan club or something like that."

"Lucky, she doesn't talk to people a lot!" Anzu whined. Bakura chuckled. "Jealous?" Anzu pouted her lips. "Of course not! I've spoken to her."

"When?" Bakura asked.

"After my dance rehearsal last spring, She said I had talent and looked cute in a tutu."

Ryou checked his watch, "Guys I think I should go, It's getting late." But as he got up to leave Bakura pulled Ryou into his lap.

"Why don't you," Bakura whispered breathily in his ear, "Tell your dad your with your girlfriend?"