Kidiu Anaji & koukou13-Well... I updated (big surprise) and no. After that point it's all kind of boring listening/reading about the fight. I'll try to come up with something by the next chapter to actually make stuff happen in the story again.

DeathaIllusion-It gets worse... originally, Bakura was supposed to come in when Yugi and Ryou had fallen in an awkward position while jumping on the bed making it look like they were about to have sex, but I decided that was a little to harsh so I just made them kiss.

Ryou glanced over at Bakura "Is something wrong? You haven't touched your food"

"…I'm not hungry…"

"He said he isn't hungry" Joey gave Ryou a playful slug "you haven't eaten either"

Bakura watched Ryou start eating. He knew he'd seen his hikari kiss Yugi, he knew it… but he didn't want to believe it. He was racking his brain for some sort of explanation. Some reason why that would of happened. Then he came up with something.

Everyone watched as Bakura shoved his food aside and left the table. Yugi and Joey shrugged it off as him just acting anti-social, Ryou figured he was upset about having to spend the night at Yugi's and got up to follow after Bakura and try to comfort him, Anzu and Tristan were just glad he was gone, and Malik Marik and Yami dismissed it as mood swings.

Bakura sat down on the couch and buried his face in one of the pillows "Hey" Ryou came up and sat down next to him "Is something wrong?" Bakura didn't respond. He couldn't believe it, how could Ryou have kissed Yugi then gone and acted like he still cared about his yami? "Bakura… Bakura please talk to me…"

Bakura didn't talk to him. Not then and not for the rest of the slumber party. He didn't talk to anyone. Yugi and all of his friends didn't put much effort (if any) in to talking to him, but Malik and Marik tried all night with Ryou. Joking, trying to get him to play games and going as far as throwing a pillow at him to try to make him hit them. Nothing worked. He just sat there either with his face buried in the pillow or just watching them silently.

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"…well?"

"Well what?" Ryou glance Bakura a concerned glance before opening the door

"…never mind…"

"…if you say so" Ryou sighed and opened the front door to the apartment. Bakura hurried past him and locked himself in the bedroom. Ryou walked up and knocked on the door "Hey! Are you going to tell me what's wrong? You were moping around all night! Bakura…?"

"Are… you… stupid!?" Bakura yelled from the other side of the door "Why… why wouldn't… something be… wrong?" Ryou bit his lip. He could hear Bakura sobbing on their bed. "I… I can't… believe that… that you… you…" there was a period of silence. Bakura hiccupped slightly as the baby kicked him "You… you got tired… of me! …you were… real nice and… and acted like… you actually cared… about… about me and… and…" Now Ryou was starting to feel really bad. He knew that Bakura's past had been pretty rough, that's why he acted so cold toward most people, but was softer around people who he knew cared about him. "I… I'm carrying your $&#& kid but… you… you got tired of me… you didn't want… to put up… with me… being pregnant and… and you started… to… with Yugi… Yugi…" the sobbing in the other room suddenly became louder and harder.

Ryou shook his head "B-Bakura that's not true!" Suddenly he understood. Bakura had picked a bad time to come into the room "That's not true at all! You don't know what happened!"

"Yes I do! You got sick of… putting up… with me!" He whined

"NO!" Ryou yelled "Bakura please, just listen" he dropped his voice to a softer tone, just loud enough for Bakura to hear.

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In the bedroom Bakura had rapped the blanket around himself while in a sitting position and was sobbing. He looked over at the door. He really, really, really wanted there to be some other reason. And not that Ryou had been going out with Yugi since before he was pregnant. Though that didn't make sense, Ryou had been the one planning to get knocked up, and he'd promised months before they'd actually been given the potion that he wouldn't tell Yugi anything. Maybe he'd planed on letting Yugi get him pregnant and then claiming the baby wasn't related to Yugi. But then why would the potion have been in the hot chocolate in the first place?

"Bakura… you haven't eaten since lunch yesterday" he heard Ryou call, a painful reminder of how starved he was "If you wont listen to me at least open the door so I can give you something to eat"

Bakura swallowed. He could smell it. There had been a time while he was trying to come up with some reason why his hikari would have kissed Yugi when Ryou hadn't been outside the door saying he could explain it (to which was always responded that an explanation wasn't necessary). He'd thought maybe Ryou had completely given up and gone to Yugi's during that time, but now he could smell food on the other side of the door. Ryou had been cooking then. There weren't any clocks in the room since both of them liked total darkness when they slept so he didn't know what time it was but he was willing to bet it was too late for lunch.

He got up and hesitantly walked over to the door, opening it long enough for Ryou to hand him dinner before closing and locking it again. He looked down at it. Mashed potatoes with gravy and pork. He smiled a little when he noticed Ryou had left a little pile of strawberry jelly on the side of the plate too, probably more of a joke though knowing Ryou. At least… he'd thought he knew Ryou. He was actually a little surprised that, for once, his hikari hadn't made steak to try to soften him up. He'd never known Ryou to not make steak when he knew he'd upset his yami.

He sighed, sitting down on the bed and slowly eating the food Ryou had given him. He left the jelly alone, not in the mood for it right then, and ate the food with no abnormal toppings for the first time in four weeks. The baby, though he was only guessing from the way it moved, seemed happy to be fed again.

He rolled over in bed going back to thinking of all the reasons he might have given his hikari to two-time him. He fell asleep within the first few minutes

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The rest of the week progressed like this. Ryou would spend most of the day begging Bakura to let him explain what happens while Bakura would refuse to listen and try to figure it out himself. The only time Ryou wasn't at the door was when he was cooking or buying things to cook, when Ryou was out of the house was the one time each day that Bakura would be out of his room. The door opened three times a day to let Ryou pass food in and accept the dishes from the previous meal. Bakura would sit in bed al day and cry occasionally wondering how his hikari got around the problem of the only bathroom being connected to the bedroom and therefore inaccessible. And Ryou slept on the couch since he didn't want to ask Bakura to let him into the room.

Finally Ryou gave up. Bakura didn't want to listen to him, that was obvious, so why was he doing this? He wouldn't be able to calm Bakura down, but he didn't want his yami locked up until the child was born, even if he was the one responsible for himself being locked up. There had to be something he could do. Then the solution came with a knock on the door. Malik.

"How's he doing?" the Egyptian asked automatically as the door was opened

"Not so good. He still wont listen"

Malik nodded and took a step back. He's come every day since the sleep over, timing himself to catch Ryou as he left to pick up groceries, to check up on Bakura. Even though he was worried he didn't enter the house as if his presence in the building would make Bakura think there was yet another person his hikari had been seeing. "Wait" Ryou grabbed his arm "Can you do me a favor?"

Malik blinked "Like what?"

"Take Bakura. He won't listen to me and he stays in his room as long as I'm around. Just long enough for me to figure out a way for him to realize I wasn't cheating on him. If I'm not around he actually comes out of the room, and I don't want him locking himself up. Please, Malik, can you let him stay at your place for a little while? Just long enough for me to be able to find a way to actually make him listen?"

Malik stared at Ryou for a second, not knowing what to say. Finally, he swallowed and spoke "He… might think you're getting rid of him completely"

"…I know. But… I… I don't want to see him hurt, or at the very least locking himself up like this. Please Malik, please take care of him for a little while"

Malik hesitated before nodding "I'm pretty sure Ishizu won't mind if I explained the situation… and Marik would be thrilled to have Bakura living with us for even a short amount of time" there was an awkward pause. Both boys were remembering when Bakura had finally realized that Ryou actually cared about him and the two's relationship had started, and when Marik had found out that someone had beaten him to Bakura's heart and attempted to kill Ryou behind Bakura's back. "Are you sure Bakura's okay with this?"

"How would I know? He refuses to listen to me so I wouldn't be able to ask him. Can you do that too?"

Malik nodded faster this time and slowly made his way through the apartment. He accidentally went into the spare room where it had never occurred to anyone to ever use. The emptiness of it scared Malik a little before he backed out and found the proper door, the locked one. He knocked once and got no response "Bakura?"

"…what?" Bakura asked softly from the other side of the door, surprised that Malik had come

"W-Would you" Malik paused, realizing that in the short time since he agreed to do this ha hadn't put any thought into how to ask Bakura "like to come to my place?"

"Why should I?"

"Um… It… might cheer you up a little" Malik looked back at Ryou and whispered to him, sending him off to buy groceries or something else away from Bakura "You can spend the night" 'or a couple' he added silently as he turned back to the door "With me and Marik and we can play video games and bug Ishizu and all those other things we used to do"

He waited for a minute before the door opened. Bakura smiled a little when he saw Malik "I… I'd like that"

Malik smiled back "Great. I can help you pack some clothes if you'd like"

Bakura scowled "Why does everyone think I need help with something like packing? I'm pregnant, not stupid"

Malik laughed "Probably because you couldn't pack before you were pregnant" Bakura just growled, though secretly he felt relieved to have someone trying to joke with him. He knew that if Ryou had known this that's what he would have done, but while part of him couldn't stop thinking about his hikari the other part of him didn't want to see or hear from the boy.

"Well if I'm an inept packer you can get my bag ready for me so we can go" he said dryly, sitting down on the bed and watching Malik pack his clothes.

He looked away, starting to think about all the things that could have made Ryou cheat on him again "Hey" Malik gave his arm a playful slug "You aren't allowed to make a face like that while you're at my house, got it?" Bakura blinked, suddenly realizing he'd been crying again, and nodded. "Good. I'm almost done. Where's your brush?"

"Brush?"

"So that's why…" he shook his head "Never mind. Okay, I'm done. Let's go" Bakura nodded, still thinking about Ryou but now doing a better job of not showing it. He knew he'd sensed his hikari still in the apartment when Malik had first come in. "I said lets go" Malik repeated since Bakura had forgotten to stand up. Bakura blushed and got up this time to follow Malik out

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