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Chapter 10: Suspicious Behavior
"C'mon Pharaoh, get your lazy ass up here!" Bakura shouted down to Yami, who stood at the bottom of the tree staring warily at the flimsy rope ladder provided.
"Thief are you sure this thing is safe, you said it yourself that Marik has fallen off of this half-assed tree fort many times!" Yami shouted back up at Bakura who sat inside the fort glaring daggers at the ruby eyed teen looking up at him.
"First off its Marik you're talking about, he can fall off of a pebble, and second don't call my hideout half assed, it took a lot of time to build and the only reason you're allowed up here is because we have to find out what our hikari's are up to and Ryou won't come up here!" Bakura shouted back.
"It's nice to know I'm needed…"Yami muttered to himself; taking a deep breath he began to climb the feeble rope, and dragging himself up onto the platform.
"How nice of you to join me" Bakura sneered, as he began to pull up the rope ladder to return it to its hiding spot.
Yami glared at Bakura as he found a spot to sit in the small and very dangerous looking tree fort. "Yeah well lets just get this over with…hm apparently our hikari's scheme has something to do with this 'festival' that is next week and it has something to do with Ryou's stash of what were they called again…" Yami paused trying to remember the name of the stuff that Ryou had.
Bakura huffed, "Giant lollipops, and other various kinds of sweets" the once tomb robber grumbled to himself about how hikari's shouldn't hide things from their yami's or something along those lines.
"Right, Giant Lollipops, geeze I still don't quite understand just what those things are…" Yami paused looking to the other spirit with wide eyes.
Bakura sighed once again, looking upwards as if the information he was looking for was written above his head. "Hm, we had them in ancient Egypt too you know; really they're just candy usually in the shape of a circle on a stick, so they're much easier to eat on the go, except that giant lollipops are bigger, much bigger" Bakura described, leveling Yami with a 'you get it now' look.
Yami nodded in understanding, so that's what they were, for some reason he was thinking along the lines of little alien invaders, no matter. Yami saw a flash of color in the corner of his eye and noticed a window on the second story of the house that, say if he was standing there would let him see directly into Bakura's tree fort.
Yami's eyes widened, and turned to mention his findings to the other yami; when the curtains fluttered and he spotted Yugi and Ryou staring right back at him.
He nudged Bakura, "Hey see that window there, what room is that?" Yami asked, pointing to the window.
Bakura looked at the window, seeing nothing there, he shrugged, "I dunno I guessed that it was Ryou's fathers room, and no ones allowed in there so I don't worry about it, and neither should you, I thought that we were scheming evil plots here" Bakura huffed at the other diverting his attention away from the house.
Yami made a whiny noise at the back of his throat, before complying with the other. Still he stole a curious glance back at the window, furrowing his brows, 'Wasn't Ryou's father's room facing the front of the house?' Yami thought quickly.
Yami turned to Bakura once again, as the other spirit had been calling for his attention. Bakura growled, reaching over and pinching Yami on the arm.
Yami stared at Bakura with wide eyes, as he rubbed his arm. "Y-you just pinched me" Yami said disbelievingly as if he thought that something like that would never happen.
Bakura rolled his eyes, "Obviously, pay attention here, evil plots don't just plot themselves y'know" he grumbled.
Yami sighed, "I know, it's just I think our hikari's are spying on us, I mean how do we know that they are doing what they said they were doing" Yami accused.
Bakura looked confused for a moment, "What did they say they were doing anyways?" he asked, interested now.
"That's just the thing, they didn't say they were doing anything, the perfect excuse to use to spy on us" Yami proclaimed.
"Um Ryou does Bakura know that you can clearly see what he is doing in his "Secret Club House" from here?" Yugi questioned, even adding the quotation marks. Ryou smiled innocently as only a hikari can.
He came over to stand with Yugi by the window facing the backyard, coincidentally showing the open view of his yami's tree fort. Handing his friend the book he was looking for he continued to grin,
"Nope not at all- he probably doesn't even know that I have two windows in my room" Ryou stated lightly.
"What do you think they're talking about? No dumb question, it's perfectly obvious that they're talking about the school festival. Really Tea's nice and all but she's starting to become a nuisance" Yugi ranted, disgruntled.
Ryou hummed in agreement before nearly choking when Yami pointed in their direction.
"DUCK!" he shouted pulling Yugi down with him.
"Aw shucks that was close, darn Yami and his perceptiveness" Yugi muttered, hunching lower so his hair didn't peek out.
Ryou could only nod slowly, as he felt his heart rate nearly tripled. "C'mon" Ryou motioned, and keeping below the window level, they snuck out of the room.
~*~
Sitting or more like lounging in the living room, Ryou and Yugi sat staring at the ceiling looking at the random shadows on the walls.
"Follow my lead" Ryou whispered to Yugi.
Within the minute Bakura entered the living room, followed by Yami both coming in from the backyard. Bakura huffed disappointed, giving Yami an annoyed look.
"See I told you they'd be doing something dumb" Bakura grumbled gesturing to the two hikari's who had barely acknowledged their presence.
Yami eyed the two disbelievingly, narrowing his eyes in suspicion as if glaring at them would cause them to slip up. Yugi twitched, blinking rapidly.
Ryou sprang to life jumping up, pointing at Yugi enthusiastically. "HA! You blinked, I win!" Ryou grinned madly.
Both Yami and Bakura blinked in shock, before they looked at each other and then back at the two hikari's.
Yugi then seemingly noticed the two yami's. "Hey Yami, Bakura what are you two doing standing there?" Yugi intoned, causing Ryou to regard them as well.
"Well we were in the backyard, when the pharaoh here…heey!"Bakura was interrupted as Yami quickly grabbed the tomb robber, heading out the front door.
"Oh, err Yugi, Ryou we are going out now, we'll be back before it gets too dark, and don't worry see ya" Yami rushed, pulling a wide-eyed thief along.
Yugi blinked, "You think they suspected anything?" he questioned, looking towards the other hikari in wonder. Ryou turned to Yugi, before rushing towards the window, watching the two spirits argue as they walked down the street.
"Ryou" Yugi questioned Ryou's strange behavior, first he made them have an impromptu staring contest, and now he was looking at their yami's suspiciously.
"Bakura fell for it as always, but Yami's much smarter than I expected-no offense-he may figure us out Yugi" Ryou narrowed his eyes at the pair as they crossed the street.
Yugi looked on nervously, fingering the book they had retrieved from Ryou's room.
Yami stuffed his hands in his pockets, as he trudged on down the street, he could feel someone watching him. 'Darn it, Ryou is sneakier than he looks' Yami thought to himself as he glared at a can on the sidewalk.
Bakura glanced sideways at the grumbling pharaoh, this new Yami was a bit strange to him…no he hadn't changed much from the whiny brat that he used to be, but at least he seemed more 'fun' now if that was the word.
His suspiciousness about Ryou was a bit strange still. True it was a bit weird to see Ryou act like that, 'Since when did he ever win anything' but overall the whole situation didn't seem strange at all, like what Yami was proposing.
Yami suddenly kicked the can hard, causing the can to swerve at an angle and hit the person coming around the corner.
"Ouchie, okay who in the name of Ra is kicking cans, answer and I'll send you to the shadows!" an angry snarl came from around the corner. Bakura smirked.
Yami rolled his eyes, "Che, and what if I don't answer you idiot, that can was supposed to hit you" Yami growled apparently in a mood.
"Pharaoh…is that you, oh and it's you…wait what are you two doing together?"Marik looked between the two warily.
"Cut it out you perv, our hikari's are hanging out today, Yami here decided to take a walk and decided to drag me along" Bakura answered.
"Not to mention the fact that our hikari's are conspiring against us" Yami sniped.
"Oh…for a moment there you two reminded me of Gokudera and Yamamoto walking together like that down the street" Marik stated smiling.
Yami and Bakura looked at the other yami strangely.
"Okay what are you talking about? Did you hit something other that the can?" Yami questioned.
"And who the hell are Yamamoto and Gokudera?" Bakura growled, glaring at the blonde.
Marik shrugged, "I don't know actually…" he stared off into space for a moment.
Somewhere far off into the future, Tsuna stared wide-eyed as both Gokudera and Yamamoto sneezed simultaneously.
"Are you guys okay?" Tsuna asked, as Yamamoto shrugged.
Gokudera huffed, "Che, someone's talking about us again" he growled, looking around suspiciously.
'Darn fan girls…what the heck does 8059 mean anyways' he thought testily.
Tenshibabe: Okay this was a random chapter, but we got to meet Marik ya…ya? I just had to add the Kateikyoshi Hitman Reborn reference, because the way Yami and Bakura were walking down the street reminded me of our favorite pair of guys, long live 8059! Its canon I swear! On that note I don't own Reborn either.
R&R, the next chapter shall appear randomly as well, look out for it.