Batteryshipping (Katsuya Jounouchi x Yami no Bakura x Ryou)

Named because they would mostly fight throughout the relationship.

Flaws of the triangle/three–way/whatever: Even the NAME acknowledges this – all three of them are going to fight. Ryo will constantly push Jounouchi away from him, not wanting Yami Bakura to attack Jounouchi. This only makes Jounouchi more determined to find out what's wrong, and Ryo only more determined not to let him get close. Ryo hates Yami Bakura so much that he would literally break his own soul to knock Yami Bakura out (as seen in Monster World), and of course Jounouchi doesn't like Yami Bakura either.

Come on – on a more basic level, you are trying to ship a five–thousand year old evil spirit with his unwilling host, and then both of them with the secondary Protagonist.
…It's not gonna have happy endings with everyone IC, is it?

Warnings: OH NO, IT'S A CHILDREN'S CARD GAAAAME!
And aside from that, absolutely nothing.

Time Period:
After Monster World, before Duelist Kingdom.
Names:
Katsuya Jounouchi/Joey Wheeler = Katsuya Jounouchi
Bakura Ryo/Ryo Bakura = Ryo Bakura. It's unusual that I'll only use someone's dub name, however I became too used to using it when writing and reading fanfiction – plus, it's easier to differentiate between "Ryo" and "Bakura" than it is to differentiate between "Bakura" and "Bakura" (I'd constantly have to call one of them "Yami Bakura" to avoid confusion)
Yami Bakura = Bakura

"Ryo!"
The slim, white haired boy barely gets a chance to react – the bigger teen's on him in seconds, nearly knocking him over. "You've gotta duel me!"
"But, Jounouchi–"
"You still gotta! I challenge you!"

Moments later, the poor kid's sitting at a table with his noisy friend. "So… You got a deck?"
"Yeah…" The quiet boy smiles and nods, placing his deck on the table. (1) "It's… it's an occult deck…"
"Hah! No match for strong warriors like mine!" Jounouchi is Ryo's opposite in every way possible – strong and muscled where Ryo's slim and delicate, loud and brash when Ryo's silent, confident and outgoing when Ryo would quite frankly like to stay away from the whole world in general.
But Ryo has a reason why this is…

Put me on. The Ring spirit's calling to him again, and he finds it too hard to resist.
"Q–quiet…"
Jounouchi frowns. "I'm sorry?"
"Erm… N–nothing!"
I've got to be careful… Jounouchi knows Ryo's darkest secret, after all. He knows all about the evil spirit that took his friend over.
What he doesn't know is that said spirit's not gone yet.
That's right. And I'm gonna be around for a long, long time…
Ryo's shaking now.
Go on. Put it on.

Jounouchi plays another card, and now Ryo's in a very bad situation – both in game and in real life. He can feel the thing surging under his skin, wanting, calling…
I can turn this whole situation around.
A shake of the head.
The other kids… They're laughing at you…
Ryo can see them – he's seen them right from the start, he's sure of it. They're cheering on Jounouchi, and ridiculing him.
I can salvage your dignity. Don't go down like this!
He swallows, nervous.
Just… put it on, and it'll all be fine…

Under the table, the teen's hand goes to his jacket pocket. Slender fingers curl around the loop of cord, tug it loose.
Yes… Yes!
His other hand knocks a few cards off the table. Jounouchi bends to grab them… and in one smooth movement, Ryo's slipped the cord over his neck.
He twitches, and then… just wasn't there anymore.

The one they call Yami Bakura – Ryo possessed by the Ring – grins, watching Jounouchi pick up the cards. "I get the feeling my luck's changed."
The blonde sits up with a start at the sound of that different voice… then groans. "You."

Yami Bakura smirks at the empty space behind Jounouchi. It had been so simple to influence Ryo's thoughts in his current state. So easy to make him see those people.
So… addictive. He wants to do it again, and again, and again…
"Let's continue the game, shall we?"
"I haven't got a chance, ya brute!"
An evil laugh, one that cracks the air like a whip. "You're not meant to have a chance."
"B–but!"
Yami Bakura smiles at him. "My host was just going easy on you. He didn't want to hurt your feelings… but it's too late for that now, isn't it?"
"Uh–"
"When this duel's over, your soul's going to be MINE." He leers. "Until dearest Ryo works it out and decides to return you, you're going to be stuck in the Shadow Realm… with me."
The scream of outright horror says pretty much all there is to say about this:
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Notes:
1. Anime!Ryo presumably built his DK deck himself – he knows how to play. Manga!Ryo built his Battle City deck himself, and lectured whoever was dueling from the sidelines in DK. Though he himself is never actually shown dueling, it can be safely assumed that he (a) knew how to and (b) would have been building his first deck somewhere around this point.