Bakura, in a child-like moment of thought, stuck his tongue out at her as she exited. Once she was gone though, he turned to grin darkly at Ryou. The boy shivered at his look and sat beside Bakura, both white-haired teens lost in thought for different reasons.
Aura sighed sitting forward and removing the headset from her head and setting it aside, "what a glorified ass," she muttered standing. "I suppose a good nights rest is in order, I'll check up on them tomorrow." she left the room with another long sigh
Bakura turned to Ryou and murmured, "Why are you with her? She causes nothing but trouble and we both know that." The other white-haired boy stayed silent, knowing it would be the best option.
She returned home with Seto and laid down on the bed thinking. "Why do you keep helping that boy? Every time you're with him you end up hurt." Seto growled and she glanced over. "He's a friend, I help my friends."
Ryou finally decided to speak. "She's not that bad, Bakura. In fact, she's pretty similar to you... Would it kill you to get alo-" He was silenced when Bakura slapped his cheek roughly. Though it caused him no pain, the action itself shut Ryou up quickly.
"Perhaps it's the similarness of the two of us that makes it hard for me to see anything in her..." Bakura whispered almost mutely.
"Listen, I'm just worried alright? Can we just go to sleep?" she asked rolling over so that she faced away from him and he sighed but agreed. She didn't sleep instead she tossed and turned all night until early morning when Seto's alarm started buzzing.
Bakura and Ryou spent the entire night in silence. However, once they prepared to go to sleep, Bakura laid on the ground and Ryou balanced his head gently on the other male's chest. They were still asleep.
Aura was the first out of bed and sluggishly dressed, "school?" he asked like he did every day.
"It's saturday," she growled, "I'll be in the virtual world for most of the morning."
"You know it's not safe to stay in there for more than four or five hours."
"I know." she left the room heading straight for KaibaCorp.
Still, Bakura and Ryou slept. Ryou was surprisingly comfortable so close to Bakura in the strange virtual world. It made him feel safer and he unconsciously moved closer to the white-haired man.
Once standing before the virtual pod she side rubbing her eyes, she looked like hell, she knew it. The tossing and turning worried about the two of them probably didn't help, she knew Bakura would make some sly remark and hopefully she wouldn't snap. Appearing in the virtual world she sighed watching them sleep, "shit," she cursed and walked away. /I'll let them sleep a bit longer/ she thought
Ryou was the first one to wake up. He stretched up high, then looked over at Bakura, smiling. He loved it when his darker half slept because his usual smirk was smoothed into a light frown and his glowing crimson eyes were out of sight.
Aura was not too far away laying back on a hill watching the clouds, "if I didn't know this place was fake I'd enjoy it a bit more." she sighed sitting upright, "still it's quiet serene here." thinking, looking at her arm, her duel disk appeared and she drew a card placing it down. A small dragon appeared and coed when it saw her moving close. Placing a hand on its snout she smiled and pet it, "I guess the sense enhancements worked, I can feel your scales."
Bakura finally woke up, and Ryou felt a pang of disappointment as he did so. The white-haired man stood, stretched, then turned to Ryou. "We're exploring," he said simply and walked off in a direction, Ryou close behind.
"Hmm, I wonder." she muttered drawing another card looking at it. Summoning it, a large Celestial Dragon appeared and she smiled looking up at it as it roared violently before lowered its head towards her pushing into her lightly, in a loving way. "cute," she chuckled petting it's snout.
Bakura came into the clearing where Aura was and frowned. He was about to turn back when Ryou called out, "Aura!"
The Dragon growled standing defensively towards the new people, "relax, they're friends," she said walking around the dragon and towards them. "Glad to see you're finally up."
Bakura only glared at her as Ryou ran over to the dragon, grinning. "He's so cute!" he said happily, not remotely intimidated.
She dragon lowered its head brushing into Ryou, coeing as it did so in a friendly gesture. "You can summon nearly anything here as long as you have your deck." she smiled pointing out her duel disk. "It's rather simple, and it makes everything a bit more interesting." she said trying to hide the fact that she was extremely tired.
Ryou grinned, wishing he had his deck on him even though it was much more sorted to Bakura's wants than his own. Bakura, however, pulled out his deck and smirked.
Aura didn't pay attention to Bakura, she wasn't in the mood to deal with him. She was way too tired to care. She came up beside Ryou and placed her hand on the dragons neck smiling, the enhancements were a huge improvement.
Bakura, surprisingly, handed the deck to Ryou. He murmured something in a quiet voice and Ryou positively beamed back at him. "Aura, what monster is that?" he asked.
She looked over at him, "Stardust Dragon, relatively new actually." she smiled brightly, "it was created to rival the Blue Eyes." she looked back at the dragon, "why do you ask?"
"Only curious," Ryou replied, sifting through his cards. "I wonder..."
She looked over at him, now curious, watching him shuffle through his cards.
Ryou finally picked out a card and smiled. It was one of the cards at the very bottom of his deck that was never used, but there to fill up a single space. "I summon Baby Dragon!" he said as the Baby Dragon appeared beside him happily.
She laughed, "there ya go!" she looked at the Baby Dragon and the first dragon she summoned came over sniffing his dragon. "look, how cute!" she giggled.
The Baby Dragon snapped playfully at Aura's dragon, then nipped at its tail. Ryou allowed a giggle to pass, while Bakura sat down and rolled his eyes.
Aura laughed watching them play, they ended up rolling in the grass and the stardust dragon watched, too big to play.
The Baby Dragon frowned, stood, and nudged the stardust dragon. He then began running around the larger dragon.
The large dragon watched the little one run around him and huffed slightly bending down the dragon knocked the little dragon over playfully and rolled him down the hill. Aura laughed watching them, "makes you wonder if they're like this in their realm, or just here."
Ryou nodded slowly. "I wonder about that a lot. What happens to them when they aren't dueling, that is."
She glanced up thinking, "If I recall correctly, they live peacefully in a realm existing side by side with this one. I think." she looked back down and watched the two small dragons pounce on the large one who fell back. The two small dragons then pranced around on top of it.
The baby dragon nipped at the larger dragon playfully, a smile on its face. "It's a nice thought," Ryou told Aura. "A really nice one..."
She giggled nodding, watching the dragons play. "I meant to ask," she looked over at Ryou, "although the both of you are detached from your body, how are you feeling?"
Bakura spoke this time. "Bored," he told her with a sigh.
She shot him a half-hearted glare, "not what I meant. Are you feeling any pain? Discomfort? Other than being bored?"
He opened his mouth to say something, reconsidered, and didn't speak. He shot Ryou a look and Ryou remained quiet as well.
"Whatever, I'm only trying to do you a favor, I'm asking out of your concern, not mine." she laid back in the grass. "I suppose you don't want the latest updates about your recovery, so whatever."
"Please, how is it going?" Ryou asked. Bakura meanwhile stood and stretched a bit.
"We've set you up in a rehabilitation tank, you'll heal almost three times as fast as you would outside of it. So far, everything looks good, and fine." she shut her eyes tightening her face. Enjoying the warmth on her skin. "If all goes well you should be back in your body by dinner tomorrow."
Ryou grinned merrily. "Good," Bakura said gruffly. "Is there anything to do in here by chance?"
"I told you the whole environment was changeable. You could do whatever you want, this is your own private world, locked away from the online system." she said her voice trailing off.
Bakura sighed, not really paying attention to her. "Yeah, yeah."
"Then don't complain to..." she trailed off taking a deep breath and fell asleep on the grass.
Ryou frowned and looked over her. "...Aura?"
She didn't respond, she breathed deep again a very slight smile appeared on her face.
"She was dead exhausted, wasn't it obvious?" Bakura told Ryou impatiently. The white-haired boy frowned and laid beside her.
/at least he's safe/ she thought sleeping peacefully. Even sleeping, she enjoyed the warm sun rays, though virtual, it was still pleasing.
Ryou found himself enjoying the sunlight too until Bakura griped his hand and dragged him to a standing position. "We're leaving," he said gruffly.
She shifted lightly, "Shut up Bakura," she growled in her sleep.
He completely ignored the sleeping figure and began dragging Ryou off. Ryou frowned, but followed Bakura, glancing behind his shoulder every now and then.