Kidiu Anaji-...Thank you for reviewing... I have no idea how the heck to reply to that...
journey maker-Hey! Ryou's trying give him some credit. Besides, if someone made you carry a watermelon half way across town then had you cut it up just so at midnight you'd be upset too. Do not deny the truth.
DeathsIllusion-Well, as of this chapter everything's set. Now you can frind out what starts it
"No. Uh-uh. No way. No"
"Please" Ryou begged "Bakura I haven't been able to actually hang out with Yugi in three months!"
"You see him five times a week"
"Yeah… but I can't actually play games with him or do any of the other things we do together during school. It's like you watching Malik through a window and occasionally he pulls it up and you can talk to him through the screen but that's it"
"I'm not spending the night at the pharaoh's house"
"Malik is. Even Marik is" Ryou scowled "And you can just play with them if you don't want to spend time with my friends"
Bakura stared at Ryou for a minute before looking down at his stomach. His hikari hadn't bee lying when he said it would get bigger. It came out to the point where it was noticeable (though barely) in his loosest shirts now and some of his tighter shirts had ripped. "But…"
"…Malik already figured it out" Ryou said
"Oh. Well then Marik will probably know too. Okay"
Ryou stared at Bakura "A-aren't you upset? I… I thought you'd be mad at me because I let Malik know that…"
"Nah" Bakura shrugged "I don't really care right now. Maybe I'll be mad later"
Ryou knew he would. At seventeen weeks Bakura's latest faze was to not take offense to something right away, it wouldn't seem important until a couple days later when it would be such a big deal the he'd have to guess at what he'd said in the last week that had made his yami mad.
"….so… you'll go?"
"Yeah sure, why not?"
"Well… three minutes ago you were-"
"Come on Ryou you spend to much time in the past"
Ryou opened his mouth to point out that out of everyone Bakura was the person who dwelled the most on the past (with the possible exception of Kaiba) but shook his head "You're a real piece of work" he whispered quietly enough that Bakura couldn't hear "So are you gonna pack?"
"Huh?"
"You're going to be at Yugi's over night"
"Oh… yeah… um…" Bakura looked away blushing "All my other shirts are to tight, can I just where this one?"
Ryou shook his head and held his hand out "Take it off, let me see it" Bakura narrowed his eyes at Ryou then removed his shirt, revealing his growing stomach "Let's see… the size is… Bakura, this shirt's huge. Don't you have any slightly smaller ones?"
Bakura shook his head "They make my stomach show" he whined
"Bakura you-" he stopped himself. Yugi might notice and Yami had threatened to do horrible things to both of them if Yugi found out about what they were doing "Okay. I'll go by some mat-larger shirts" he had to stop himself again when he almost said maternity clothes. There were some things that Bakura still didn't wait to get upset about
Bakura smiled "Oh, while you're out-"
"Strawberry jelly" Ryou interrupted. Bakura nodded "Anything else disgusting you'd like to put your favorite spread on?"
"Um… do we have ice-cream in the freezer?"
"AGH!"
"What?"
"How-never mind!" Ryou'd asked once before how Bakura could eat the things he ate. He'd had nightmares after he got an answer.
"So are we going or not?"
"Let me get the shirt first!"
"Oh yeah, can I have mine back?" Bakura asked sweetly, shocking Ryou into handing it over "Thank you!"
"…mood swings…" Ryou said quietly, wishing Bakura could be like that around others before he left to get the jelly and some shirts.
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"They're huge" Bakura whined "I don't want huge shirts!"
"They're half a size larger than the one you're wearing" Ryou pointed out, feeling much calmer after an hour and a half away from Bakura shopping. He'd actually been amazed that that was all the time it took to calm down after three days (no school this week) of non-stop pregnant Bakura acting unpredictable "you said you wanted large shirts"
"But… they're huge" Bakura repeated "Can't we just shrink my stomach or something? Everyone's gonna see me wearing these and then they'll know I have to wear them because I'm so fat!"
"You're not fat…"
"YES I AM!" Bakura screamed then broke down in tears, slugging Ryou when he came to close "YES I AM! YES I AM! YES I AM!"
Ryou considered making another attempt to calm Bakura down. Walking up to him had gotten the yami to nearly brake his leg. In the end he packed a bag for Bakura at the sleepover before returning to check up on the yami
"Why did you leave?"
"You hit me"
"No I didn't!" a new wave of crying came on "I hate you! How could you say that I… that I…" he buried his face in Ryou's shoulder and bawled for several minutes before quieting down.
"Feeling better?"
Bakura nodded "Can I bring my video games over? I've been practicing really hard to be able to beat Malik with Pichu on Super Smash Bros. It's the only character he can beat me with"
"Um… sure. Anything else?"
"Can we get a cat"
And for a moment everyone was silent.
"A cat?"
"Yeah. A cat. Can we get a pet cat?"
"Yeah um… I'll look into it. A cat? Really? Bakura you always hated animals"
Bakura shook his head "I want a cat"
"Right. We'll talk about it tomorrow. We need to go now"
"Wait, let me pack my bag" Ryou grabbed Bakura's bag and held it up, as if he was the crazy monkey on 'the Lion King' presenting a newborn cub, then slung it over his shoulder "Ryou let me carry it" Bakura whined, something he'd done a lot of recently.
"Nope. You're pregnant, you aren't supposed to be carrying anything heavy"
"It's clothes Ryou"
"Clothes and all your video games and game systems"
Bakura followed Ryou down the stairs feeling silenced and mistreated for not being forced to carry a heavy bag.
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"Hi, Yugi"
"Glad you could make it!" Yugi let Ryou and Bakura in "Malik and Marik are…." he winced as there was a loud crash "in the living room 'waiting'. Ryou, everyone else is upstairs" both white haired boys nodded and split up. Ryou gave Bakura a concerned glance before following Yugi up the stairs.
Yami greeted him once they entered Yugi's bedroom "How goes it with preggo?" he whispered so that only Ryou heard. Preggo was his new nickname for Bakura, which he'd learned to use only when the yami wasn't around.
"He want's a cat" Ryou whispered back before joining Yugi Joey and Anzu for a game of monopoly. Yami joined too, he won. A rule was set up that he could only play every other game.
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Bakura's eye twitched "Marik…" he said in a dangerously low voice, acting more like himself than he had ever since his cravings and mood swings really set in "Get your freakin' head off my stomach before I kick you're ass"
Marik grinned "There's really a baby in there. Sweet. We can teach it all the dark secrets of-" Bakura slugged him.
"Marik, I think Bakura doesn't like you pressing your ear against his stomach (I doubt you'd hear anything either way)" Malik said, taking on Ryou's roll of being polite and somewhat protective "He doesn't seem to be in a good mode"
Marik sighed "Yeah… so can we teach it the dark secrets of-" Bakura slugged him again
"Sorry. I just wanted to slug him that time" he muttered to Malik before plopping down on the couch and turning his game on "Who are you gonna be?"
"Um… Pichu. I'm best with Pichu. How about you?"
"Zelda"
Malik gagged "A girl"
"She may be a girl but she-" he stopped, had he just felt something? Cautiously he put his hand on his stomach
"Bakura?"
A smile spread on his face as he felt the kid kick him. Okay, so he didn't feel it from the outside, but Ryou was right! He'd felt the baby "Hold on, I need to see Ryou!"
Marik, who regained consciousness as Bakura ran upstairs, looked at Malik confused. His hikari just shrugged.
Bakura opened the door to Yugi's room where he could sense his hikari. He froze as he looked inside though. Yugi and Ryou were kissing (in front of everyone too) He closed the door quietly, so that no one would notice him, and went back down stairs without saying a word. The baby wasn't kicking anymore…
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After the first game of monopoly the gang had attempted Twister, which Yami won, then a Chess tournament, which Yami won, then Labyrinth, which Yami won. Finally they'd all given up on trying to beat Yami and started to talk. Which had resulted in Joey deciding they needed marshmallows, which only he ate, which made him hyper.
Ryou was pacing around the room wondering if he should check on Bakura while Yugi sat on the floor playing solitaire. Joey stuck his leg out, tripping Ryou. He didn't even have time to yelp as he crashed into Yugi, landing on top of the shorter boy with their lips locked.
"JOEY!" He yelled sanding up and turning on the blond boy. Everyone was laughing with the exception of the two beet red hikari's and Yami who was feeling somewhat cross at Joey for getting Ryou to kiss his Yugi. No one had noticed Bakura silently enter and leave.
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SnowCreek: And so it began.