A/N So writing the abridged characters is very hard Little Kuriboh is a genius I don't know how he does it. I hope you all enjoy. I don't have a beta so please forgive any mistakes. I got this idea while rewatching Marik's bloodlines lets play part 6. Marik at one point flat out says he is gay after getting scared but when Bakura questions him about he denies it. The explanation I played around with was that Marik was brainwashed, and that when he got scared it temporarily broke the mind control. This story fell into my head after that.
Bakura sat on the couch of the apartment he and Marik shared. Bakura was taking advantage of the rare moment of quiet reading. The moment came to a screaming halt when Marik slammed open the door. "Hey Bakura." Marik called in a sing song voice
"What the bloody hell do you want?" Bakura grumbled looking up from his book
"We have to go resign our lease." Marik said is he jumped on the couch next to Bakura.
"I'm not signing the lease I moving." Bakura said going back to his book. Trying to ignore Marik
"Oh, where are we moving to?" Bakura sighed closing his book and placing it on the coffee table.
"We are not moving anywhere I'm leaving I can't stand being here anymore."
"Why?" Marik asked and in response Bakura grabbed Marik by the shoulders and turned him to where there were facing each other on the couch. "wh-." Marik was cut off when Bakura pressed their lips together in a kiss pushing them both down on the couch. Bakura had no idea what he was doing right now. All he knew was that the subtle hints of his feeling for the Egyptian had gone unnoticed. His last hope of getting through to Marik was to directly confront him with no possibility of any misinterpretations or miss communication.
All of this ran though his mind has he kissed Marik, but every thought in his head was drowned out by one realization. Marik was kissing him back. Marik was kissing him back. This kept on repeating itself over and over again. He could not believe this was really happening. He waited so long for this to happen he was going to enjoy this for as long as he could. Bakura broke the kiss needing to catch his breath. he placed his hands on either side of Marik's face waiting for Marik to say something. "I told you Bakura I'm not gay." The statement was like a bucket of ice water being dumped on him.
"Then why the bloody hell did you kiss me back?" Bakura snapped. What had he thought just thought that some switch in Marik's mind just suddenly flipped.
The blonde stared up at Bakura. "I'm not gay." Marik said as Bakura pushed himself off Marik. He should have known better than to get his hopes up "I can't do this anymore." Bakura said getting up off the couch walking out the apartment slamming the door behind him. Leaving Marik laying on the couch his mind unable to process what just happened.
By the time Bakura came back to the apartment Marik had fallen asleep on the couch. Drool hanging out of Marik's open mouth. Shaking his head at the blonde idiot he covered Marik up with a blanket. Watching Marik sleep it was easy to forget how difficult it was to be around him.
As he stared down at Marik he wondered for the hundredth time if he was making the right decision. A while ago he would have told himself that he was being stupid. He should be Marik in whatever way he could. Bakura didn't know when everything changes. When every interaction with Marik became more painful than the last. His heart constricting every time he looked at the Egyptian. With a sigh Bakura tore his gaze away exiting to his bedroom.
The next morning Bakura left his room suit case in tow with all of his remaining things. When he got to the front door of the apartment he heard Marik call out "Bakura wait." Marik said sitting up on the couch still suffering from the effects of sleep. "You aren't really leaving, are you? We have too many evil plans that we have to complete."
Bakura had turned around his hand still on the door handle "Sorry Marik but I think that you can rearrange Yugi's sock draw on your own." Bakura said
"But how am I supposed to be the sexy waiter and give a stunningly sexy performance during the night club plan."
"How was that plan going to defeat Yugi?" Bakura asked pinching the bridge of his nose in frustration.
"Once he sees my sexy performance he will die from embarrassment for ever thinking he could compete with me in leather pants." Marik said matter of fact as if the answer was one of the most logical thing in the world.
"Right." Bakura said taking in a deep breath as he remembered who he was dealing with. "Well If anyone can pull it off its you." Bakura paused for a second hoping against hope to hear the one thing he need to make him stay. The silence dragged on for a minute before decided to end the silly charade finally saying "Good bye Marik." Before walking out the door Bakura could hear Marik shouting. "Florence come back." Though the door. Bakura ignored it and continued walking
Odion knocked on the door of Marik's apartment. Marik had not been out of his apartment or attempted to do any evil plans in the last two weeks. Odion was worried that something might have happened to his little brother. There was no response but He could hear the muffled sound of music though the door. He knocked again. Becoming impatient He tried the door knob the door opened music blared out Odion ran into the apartment finding the stereo system under the tv. He quickly tuned the system off.
"Hey, I was listing to that" came a shout from a mass of purple Blankets Laying on the couch across from the tv. The blanket began to fall to the floor reviling Marik as he sat up. "What are you doing here?"
"You haven't Been out side in two weeks." Marik Glared from under his hood of sheets that were still wrapped around him like a cocoon.
"I don't to go outside to lead my army of Steves." Marik said pulling the millennium rod from between the couch cushion.
"But you're not, besides Master Marik if you don't go outside then you will lose your tan." Marik flopped down on the couch again placing his for arm over his eyes groaning
"I don't friggin care about my friggin tan." Odion fell to the floor in shock
"Who are you and what have you done with Master Marik." Marik sat up glaring at his brother
"I'm me you idiot."
"Then what's wrong?" Marik held out his Phone there was a long string of text with no responses
"Bakura left and now he won't respond to any of my text."
"Why did he leave?" Marik let out a sad moan as he fell to the ground obscuring himself under the blanket again
"I don't know he said that he could not do this anymore and then left." His voice was muffled from under the blankets being wrapped around him like a burrito.
"What happened before he said that he could not do this anymore start from the beginning" Marik recounted the conversation he had with Bakura. "Wait Bakura kissed you?" Odion interrupted when Marik got to that part of the story.
"Yes" Marik dragged out the word. he peeked out for his cocoon of blankets to look up at his brother. Confused by Odion's interest in what seemed to Marik a trivial detail.
"What did you do when he kissed you, did you yell or push him away?" Odion asked
"Nothing just said I wasn't gay." There was no disgust no anger in Marik's voice as he said this.
Thing were now making sense as to why Bakura suddenly left. While that might make sense something about the entire situation bothered Odion how could Marik think that he was straight when it seemed like kissing a guy did not bother him at all. "What would you have done if Bakura was a girl?"
"Who would want to kiss a smelly girl" The horror in Marik's voice was evident. Seriously Odion thought to himself how could possible think that he is straight. Marik had sat up from his spot on the floor by this point.
Odion crouched down next to his brother placing his hand on Marik's shoulders as he said "Someone who wasn't gay," he felt like he was talking to a small child right now. "Just close your eyes." Marik did this and just try to imagine a girl kissing you." Marik sat silent for amount his face scrunched up in concentration after a minute Odion saw Marik give a small shutter telling Odion all he needed to know
"You did not like that, did you?" Marik opened his eyes
"Why would I want to kiss a smelly girl?" Marik repeated.
Odion held up his hand to silence his younger brother do me "One more favor closer your eyes again but this time imagine Bakura instead." Marik raised his eyebrow and gave an are your crazy look. "Just do it."
Marik complied this time Marik only closed his for half a minute before Marik gasped and his eyes shot opened. "What was the point of all this?"
"Why are you in denial?"
"I'm not friggin gay." Marik said becoming exasperated.
"Okay fine" Odion said giving up on that point. "But you're at least in love with Bakura."
Marik sat for a moment honestly considering this for one brief second a flash of gold spark in Marik's eyes he the repeated "I'm not gay."
"Okay." Odion said he knew that he needed to let the issue drop. that gold flash meant that Marik was under the influence of the Millennium rod. Nothing Odion said or did right now would make a difference. "I have to go." Odion said as he rushed out of the apartment. He did not know how it happened but he knew where to start looking for answers.
As soon as he was outside he pulled out his phone and selected Bakura's number. A few months ago, Marik had stolen his phone to prank call Bakura he had saved the contact information just in case. He waited as the phone ringed in his ear.
"Marik stop calling me to tell me." Bakura yelled though the phones speaker "Its Odion, I need to talk to you about the millennium items." he interrupted quickly before Bakura could hang up.
"Give me one reason why I should even be talking to you." Bakura's harsh tone came thought the phone
"Because you love Marik and he needs your help." There was dead silence on Bakura's end of the line. he took that as permission to continue. He quickly brought Bakura up to speed one everything that had been going on with Marik since he left, as well as everything that just happen in the apartment a minute ago.
"Someone used the millennium rod to make him straight?" Bakura said clearly furious, but also as if everything made since now.
"How do we undo it?" Odion asked there was a few moments of silence as Bakura though on the situation.
"We have to get the castor to resigned the command themselves?"
"What if it was our or Marik himself.
"You can't us the items on yourself and if it was your dad then Marik would have gone back to normal when he died." Well that left only one suspect Ishizu. Odion was honestly a little shocked that she would do something like this.
"Dame it how on earth are we going to convince her to do that."
"Isn't Ishizu coming into town next week lets trick her into meeting up with me."
"You're not going to kill her, are you?"
"We'll see." Bakura said as he hung up. Odion took a deep breath wondering what he just gotten himself into.
The next week when Ishizu came it to town that they would meet at Odion's apartment and the only one there to meet her would be Bakura when she showed up. Bakura sat on the couch facing the door a serious expression on his face. Ishizu scowled when she saw him "What are you doing here" Bakura ignored her question and responded with one of his own. "You brain washed Marik when you were kids to make him think he was straight"
"Why would you think that?" Ishizu asked her posture took up a defensive stance
"During a conversation with Marik Odion saw his eyes glow like someone under the influence of the rod. We knew it had to have been you because if it was your bastard of a father then I would have already been undone."
Ishizu crossed her arms raising her eyebrows "Because shut up."
He clenched his fist he was tempted to just kill her and fix Marik the easy way. The only thing that stopped him was the concern of what would happen to Marik if the Rods influence ended that abruptly. "How could you do that to your own brother."
"What do you think our father would have done if he found out that he was gay. He would have killed him. So, I used the rod to protect him." Bakura hated to admit it but she did have a point. He honestly could not fault her for that, but that did bring up another question.
"How did you use the rod on him his names bloody Steve?"
"His middle name is Sebastian which Steve is derived from"
"I'm pretty sure that's not true"
"I said shut up" Ishizu said as she regained her haughty tone. They were back to this again.
"Undo it." Bakura demanded after what felt like an eternity of the two glaring at each other.
"No." Ishizu said. At this point Bakura had had enough of Ishizu. He stood up and grabbed her and slammed her against the wall.
"Why the hell not?" he asked as he pulled out a pocket knife and held it to her throat.
"Because you just want me to do this so that you can get into my brother's pants" she was completely unbothered by the knife on throat.
"That's not true." Bakura growled pressing the knife deeper into her skin drawing a thin trail of blood to form. Ishizu just raised her eye brows daring him to do it, not believing his words or his threats.
"You're just going to break his heart when the pharaoh finally destroys you. If this is really about Him like you say it is than you would do whatever was in Marik's best interest." This made Bakura loosen his grip on Ishizu.
He put his knife up and slowly walked back over to the couch. Bakura closed his eyes leaning back it to the cushions. He thought about everything that Ishizu said "Your right." Bakura breathed out slowly. Bakura opened his eyes staring at the ceiling he said "Erase me from his memories then."
"What?" Ishizu could be surprised judging by her confusion to what Bakura just said.
"That would get rid of your only objection right."
"I'll do it but you have stay away from him."
"Fine." he said quietly so quietly that Ishizu almost did not hear it. Bakura than shot up and yelled "Just do it soon" as he stormed out of the apartment.
Ishizu took a deep breath as she looked around the apartment Odion must also know and be on the same side on this that thought left a bitter taste in her mouth. She had been planning to release the spell after their father died and Marik had some time to deal with his death, but then Marik ran away and started on his path to destroy the pharaoh. Then when she saw him again it had been so long that it did not feel right to suddenly bring up 'oh Marik your actually gay and I used the rod to make you think you weren't.' Not to mention what she said to Bakura. she just forgot about it. Well so much for that she though taking out her phone and called Odion. The phone rang a few times before Odion answered.
"Did Bakura talk to you." Odion asked in lieu of hello
"Yes, we came to an understanding where are you so I can undo it." There was a large crashing sound came through phone speaker.
"What happened"
"Marik broke a bunch of his plates. Were at his apartment ill text you the address."
Ishizu made her way across town to Marik's apartment Odion let her in neither said anything for a second as she looked around the living room. It was filthy, food littered everywhere blankets and clothing skewed all over the floor.
"You should have seen it before I started cleaning." Odion said reading her concerned. "Where is he?"
"I was able to convince him to take a shower." Ishizu gave a small nod an awkward silence stretched out between them. Ishizu helped Odion clean the apartment while they waited for Marik to finish his shower. While she cleaned she took one of the pictures of Bakura and Marik that was sitting on counter and placed it in the trash. Odion noticed
"You're really going to erase Bakura from his mind?" Odion asked. Ishizu sighed with annoyance Bakura must have called and told Odion their arrangement.
"This happened when he a Bakura were just friends." She said gesturing around the filthy apartment. "It would destroy him if they were actually together when the pharaoh defeats the spirt."
"Shouldn't that be Marik choice though?" Ishizu was saved from having to answer when their conversation was interrupted by Marik coming out of the bathroom wearing a large purple terrycloth rob. He moved slowly shoulder slumps not even noticing Ishizu. He just continued walking to his room Ishizu followed him. When she got there Marik was laid on his bed staring up at the celling. She saw the gold glint of the millennium rod sitting on the bed side table. She walked over to pick it up.
"What do you want Ishizu?" Marik asked as she sat down next to him
"I'm going to fix everything"
Marik's entire face lite up "Your going to get Bakura back."
"No." She shook her head. Placing a hand on her brother shoulders holding the rod in front of him there was a golden flash of light and Marik collapsed on the bed. Ishizu moved Marik up to where his pillows were, and covered her brother up with a blanket. While she did this she noticed Marik's phone sitting on the bed.
She took Marik phone and blocked Bakura's number then deleting all of his contacts information and clearing call history. She could not have Marik stumble upon the name in his phone and wonder how he had no memory of calling that person three hundred time. After she finish she placed the phone back on the bed.
She walked around to room removing any trace of Bakura that she could find. Once she was satisfied she left the room and continued to remove any trace of Bakura from the apartment. When Marik woke up He would have no clue that the spirt had even existed.
A/N Thank you for reading this please let me know what you think. I will try to get the next chapter out as soon as possible. Critiques are always welcomed.