Bakura: Wow.. Two lines... And not a single glomp...
Kendra: Wait... Something more to say.... Every once in a while during Ryou's P.O.V. when Yugi's Yami isn't around Ryou'll say Yami referring to Bakura, and when he talks mentally to Bakura he's always Yami.
Yami: Meh, it was worth a shot...
Kendra *glomps Yami*
::Lonely Nights::
:Fun with Food:
**Bakura**
I turned and ran, ignoring the startled looks that Yugi and Yami gave me. "Where's the fire tomb-robber?" he called tauntingly after me. I resisted the urge to kill him and continued on. Whoever it was messing with my hikari was going to pay. Okay, so I call him my hikari, that doesn't mean anything... I can be protective of him if I want to!
Idiot.
Damn voice... I will find a way to kill it... I reach Ryou's house, I wasn't that far away from it in the first place. [Hikari!] I call as I open the door slowly, trying not to make any noise as I travel across the living room.
{Yami...} Ryou's voice is faint. Damn whoever hurt him, they will die a thousand times over for this! I look around for a weapon to use against my hikari's tormentor. I pick up a shovel from beside the fireplace. It's one of those black shovels that are used to shovel the ashes out of the fire. This'll work, I think to myself. {Help...} Ryou's voice is weaker. I climb the stairs quickly but quietly. No one messes with my aibou...
Entering Ryou's room slowly I see a figure standing over his bed, the dagger that I used on the wolfos in his hand. Walking quickly behind him I bring the shovel up and bring it down hard on the back of his head. The man collapsed into a small heap beside the bed. Looking down on the body I see that it's Yami Malik. Turning quickly I survey the room, looking for his hikari. {He was supposed to be watching the door...} Ryou coughs. Turning quickly back to my hikari I lean over him.
"Are you okay?"
Ryou looks sarcastically up at me, he has a new, deep, cut on his chest and a shallower one on his cheek. "I'm just peachy," he says in a fake happy voice. "What do we do with Yami Malik?" His voice is harsh and week and I look down at the dark spirit at my feet. Grabbing the dagger from his hand I turn it over in mine, considering killing him. {Please don't kill him,} Ryou asks, sensing my plans. I sigh and grab Yami Malik roughly by the hair, dragging him over to a corner tying him up with a rope from Ryou's closet. {Thank you,} Ryou says softly and I smile.
"Sorry Yami," Malik's voice comes from the hallway, "I had to go to the bathroom. . ." I look quickly at Ryou who shrugs. "Yami?" the blonde Egyptian asks as he sticks his head in the room. "Oh... uh... Hello Bakura..." he the boy asks looking uncomfortable. "Nice to see you.... Have you seen my yami?" Bakura raised an eyebrow trying to hold back the laugh that was coming from listening to the ridiculous boy. Just at that moment the unconscious yami decided to stir and groan. Malik looked at the dark spirit face devoid of expression. I look at my hikari again, is that how he would react if I was the one trussed up in the corner like that?
"Damn bastard..." Yami Malik mutters as he struggles to stand only to find himself tied up. He looks up to see his hikari standing in the doorway. "You were supposed to be guarding the doorway!" he yelled at the boy.
"Aw, don't be so hard on him," I drawl. Yami Malik turns his glare to me.
"You!" he spits at me.
"Yup, it's me!" I touch the shovel's handle with a smirk. Yami Malik glares at me. "What should I do to you for hurting my hikari like this?..." I muse to myself. "Maybe I'll through you out the window or I cou-"
"Ryou! Bakura!" I growl and roll my eyes at Yugi's voice, does that kid not leave anyone alone?
{Not really,} Ryou says, having heard my thought. I snort as I hear the door opening. Malik looks out in the hall then back at his yami.
"Untie me you idiot!" Yami Malik snapped at his light. Malik looked from me, to his yami, to the hall.
"But-"
"But noth-" then seeing me listening intently he continued to yell at his hikari mentally.
"Don't be rude now," I chide.
{Yami...}
I turn to look at my hikari, [Yeah?]
{I feel woozy...} Crap. Forgot that Ryou's already lost a lot of blood... I glare at Yami Malik as I grab a bandage from the kit beside Ryou's bed, still there from earlier when I bandaged him up the first time. "Aw," Yami Malik sneers, "the tomb-robber's got a heart... Makes me sick. Turning into the Pharaoh now?"
I growl, "be happy you're not dead."
"Ryou?" Yugi's voice comes from just outside the door seconds before he appears in the doorway behind Malik. "Holy..." he trails off as Malik moves away from the doorway.
"What?" Yami comes up behind him, seeing only the bloody dagger that I still have clenched in my hand and the bleeding Ryou. "You sick tomb-robber!" he exclaims and I sigh smacking myself in the head with the hand with the bandages in it.
"You're stupid Pharaoh," I reply, turning my back on him to work on Ryou. Suddenly something hits me from behind and I snap my arms out to brace myself on the walls to keep from falling on my hikari. Whirling around I face Yami, who had just hit me. "You are stupid Pharaoh! I didn't do this to my hikari! Idiot," I growl to myself. "Just look over-" I point to where Yami Malik was but see that Malik has untied him and he's in the process of shoving Yugi out of the way to get out of the room. "Damn!" I swear and try to throw the dagger at Yami Malik before he can get away... No way he can just leave after what he did to my hikari... But Pharaoh, being the idiot he is, grabs my wrist and the spirit escapes from the room. "What the hell was that for!" I yell as I hear Yami Malik running for his life. Which he was, because if Yami wasn't holding onto me I would have already had caught him and be beating the bloody shit out of him.
"You could have hit Yugi!" the Pharaoh told me, letting go of my wrist. I run out to the hallway to try and see Yami Malik, but he's gone, the door swinging open.
"Damn you Pharaoh," I tell the dark spirit as I walk back over to Ryou. Yami is bent over his hikari who is rubbing his back from being slammed into the door. "Stupid, stupid Pharaoh," I mutter to my hikari as I resume bandaging the two new cuts.
"Thank you Yami," Ryou breathes as I finish. I smile slightly at the boy as he closes his eyes to sleep. I turn around to Yami and Yugi who are standing in the doorway looking at me.
"Will you stay here now?" Yami demands.
"Please," Yugi adds when I say nothing.
"Fine," I growl, "not like I've got anywhere to be..."
"Thank you," Yugi says as he walks out after his Yami who had left after I'd first said 'fine.'
"Close the door behind you!" I holler at the two tricolour-haired young men. I hear Pharaoh laugh and I growl softly to myself as I return to Ryou's bedside. I look at my hikari. Maybe it's time to be honest to myself... I think.
'Bout time.
Ra damn that fucking voice! I growl, wishing I could kill the annoying voice... I rub my temples, now where was I? Oh right, being honest with myself. I look at Ryou, he's beautiful, I realise. Despite being covered in bandages and some blood he looks like an angel. Who, I stop myself thinking and shake my head. That was the must unexpected thought I've ever thought. I stand up and walk to the bathroom to wet a cloth to wash the blood off Ryou. I look at myself in the mirror, did I really think that my hikari was an angel? I sigh and splash my face with water while I'm in the bathroom. Walking back into Ryou's room I begin to wash the blood off him.
**Ryou**
I wake slowly, my eyes travelling instinctively to the digital clock beside my bed. The room is dark and I feel a cool breeze from the window across my face, though the rest of me is warm. The digital clock's face radiates a red 2:54. I sigh and close my eyes again, trying to go back to sleep, but it's hopeless, I'm wide-awake. I hear someone sigh beside me and I start, looking beside me towards the wall. Yami's sleeping on his side against the wall, one arm protectively over my chest. I stare for a few minutes at my sleeping dark half. He doesn't look nearly so evil while he's sleeping. I've never seen him sleeping before so I've never seen how-- not innocent, I don't think Yami could ever look innocent but--peaceful. Yes, I've never seen Yami look so peaceful, so- so- so hot. No. I didn't think that. Wrong, I did. I close my eyes. How in the hell could I think that about him? For the longest time he's done nothing but torment me...
Not today. My memory reminds me and I see him saving me from that dark wolf and again from Malik earlier today. And Yami had been the one that Malik had been looking for. I opened my eyes, thinking of Malik was scaring the shit out of me. It really was terrifying seeing Malik with the same dagger that Yami had protected me with earlier prepared to use it against me to bring him here... But then Yami had come and got the upper hand on Malik anyway...
I sigh and try to get up, but Yami's arm tightens on my side and he holds me tight to his side. I relax into his hold, letting him keep me in the bed. But that brings my mind back to the question of why Yami's in the bed in the first place... Yami takes a deep breath and I hear him whisper "don't leave yet..." That must be from his dream, I think to myself, yeah... I try to keep my eyes awake but I feel so warm and safe that I fall asleep again.
* ^ * ^ * ^ *
The alarm clock blaring the next morning causes both of us to snap our eyes open, though I close mine again. "Crap, it's Monday..." I whisper almost to myself as Yami releases me and sits up quickly, seemingly shaking himself out of whatever it was that he was in the night before that made him so protective of me. He slides out of the bed and turns the alarm clock off.
"Stay home," he suggests, he seems to be unusual careful in not looking at me.
I look up at him, "yeah, maybe you're right..." I whisper and he walks quickly out of the room. I look out the window, there's a nest of birds sitting in the tree outside my window chirping cheerfully at me, seeming to be saying get up! get up! get up! I wish I had something to hit them with.
"Kill those goddamn birds," I hear Yami mutter from the hallway as he walks by my room from the bathroom to the stairs. Amen to that, I think but don't voice it, it's just to blissful to just lay here. I look over to where Yami had spent the night, feeling more content then I have for a long time...
**Bakura**
"Yes, you heard what I said, Ryou's not going to school." I listen to the Pharaoh's response. "Oh come on, you can't really have expected him to be up to going to that goddamn school after yesterday... What? Yugi says he'll bring Ryou's homework over for him?" I pause and relay the information to my hikari, "Ryou says 'damn… and here I though that something good would come of yesterday...' ... Yes well, fuck you too." I hang the phone up and smile. It's fun doing that to Yami... [Want breakfast?] I ask my hikari.
{That'd be ... nice...} Ryou says.
[Something wrong with me making breakfast?] I demand.
{Can you cook?}
[I'm offended by that!] I exclaim, [I'll have you know that I can cook, thank you so much for having faith in me!] I shake my head, wondering what Ryou thinks. Probably that I'm on some drug... I mean really... I spend the night with him, tell him to stay home from school, then offer to make him breakfast! I laugh at myself and proceed to the kitchen.
* ^ * ^ * ^ *
I stand in the doorway to Ryou's room, Ryou's still in bed laughing his pretty little ass off at my expense. The first attempt at breakfast blew up. Yup, pancake batter all over the kitchen, bet you didn't know that you could blow pancakes up. Then I tried bacon and eggs, took me ten minutes to turn the damn smoke alarm off. Now, I'm standing in Ryou's doorway with his breakfast on a tray. Cereal and juice. There would have been toast but the toaster broke and I'm not trying to toast bread in the oven.
Ryou seems to have got himself under control then he looks up at me again and bursts into laughter again, "and you said..... you could.... cook!" he works out in his laughter.
I growl, "I can!" I exclaim, "today's just not my day..."
"You have batter on your face," he tells me as his laughter dies down.
I smile dangerously, "I know." Ryou takes a deep breath and finally stops laughing. I glare at him as I hand him the tray and have to restrain myself from dumping it on him lap. No one laughs at me.
He smiles cutely at me, "sorry about laughing. But you do have to admit it is kinda funny..." He grins.
I roll my eyes and smile, "I suppose... Though it won't be fun cleaning up the kitchen..." Ryou rubs his hands on his face and sighs, shaking his head.
"I'll help after breakfast," he tells me.
I'm halfway to the door and I look over my shoulder at him, "you know the reason people stay home from school is supposed to be to rest."
"Pft," he waves his hand flippantly at me, "that's not the point! When you stay home from school you might as well enjoy it!" I roll my eyes and he growls, "I'm serious!"
I look at Ryou, "okay then," I say wickedly.
**Yami** ^oh my, you never expected this did you?^
"Yami! Yami! Stop! Hey! Don't do that! Noooo!!" We hear Ryou yelling from inside his house. Yugi and I exchange glances, Ryou must be in trouble.
"Hey you! Come back here! I'm going to get you for that!" That was Bakura's voice.
"What's Bakura doing to Ryou?" Yugi exclaims as we run up to the front door. School just finished and Yugi is bringing Ryou his homework, as promised. I pound on the door.
The door opens to reveal a ticked off Bakura. He's only wearing a pair of pants and his chest is heaving and covered in sweat as if he's been working hard. "Oh," he says sounding absolutely thrilled. ^Sarcasm there people.^ "You."
"We brought Ryou his homework, where is he?" I say narrowing my eyes at Bakura.
"I'm right here," Ryou says coming down from upstairs, only revealing his head, there's something wrong but I can't seem to pinpoint it. "Why do you ask?"
"We heard you yelling from outside..." Yugi says, trailing off as Ryou smiles.
"Why don't you show them what you're going to 'get me for'?" he asked Bakura with a wicked grin.
"Just give me Ryou's homework," Bakura said with a faint hint of a blush on his cheeks, holding out his arms.
"Aw… But we wanna see what Ryou did to you," I say sweetly as Yugi handed Bakura the books. Bakura merely growled and tried to shut the door. I wouldn't let him and raised my eyebrows at him.
He finally relented and turned around to show us a whipped cream covered back, "Happy?" he snapped angrily at me.
"Very," I said, closing the door.
**Ryou**
"I hate him," Yami tells me as he puts the books Yugi had given him on the table in the living room.
"Yeah?" I ask, continuing to try to rub the food die off myself. "Yami, this die isn't coming off..."
"Must mean you make good food," he tells me with a smirk. I look down at myself, my chest is red, blue and green splotched and my hair looks purple from the combination of blue and red. My face is green.
"Yes, well, at least I don't have whipped cream down my pants," I tell him with a smirk of my own.
Yami blushed, "That's not funny! It's very uncomfortable," he ends quieter.
"It was certainly funny to watch you answer the door."
Yami glares at me, "that was not funny."
"Maybe not for you, but it certainly was for me!" I say with a shrug of my shoulders.
Suddenly Yami grins and takes off for the stairs, "I claim bathroom first!"
"No fair!" I yell and run after him. We both reach the bathroom at the same time but I slip on some water on the floor from the overflowing bathtub that I forgot about and slide across the floor to the tub. Yami's just standing in the doorway, one hand near the top of the frame and he looks like he's trying not to laugh. I hit the edge and fall into the square tub. A wave of water sloshes out of the tub swamping the floor. Yami leans over and turns the water off as I re-surface.
"Now who's not being fair?" he asks with a smile and a tilt of his head. "Jumping in with your clothes on," he pretends to look hurt.
"I didn't do it on purpose!" I protest. "I.. just kinda... uh... what are you doing?" Yami's rummaging in the closet.
"Nothing!" he says innocently. I glare at his back and he whistles innocently.
**Bakura**
"Nothing," I say trying to sound innocent as I whistle. Where are the damn towels.... A-ha, Ryou's not going to like this plan... Suddenly I feel Ryou behind me, looking over my shoulder. "Hey!" I exclaim, "when did you get out of the tub?"
"When you were whistling tunelessly," he says, then sees me twisting up the towel I grabbed. "Wait a minute.... Hey! Don't do that! Ow!" Ryou jumps up as I hit him in the backside with the towel. I feel my breath catch in my throat, his pants are clinging to his legs now that they're wet and it makes him look very sexy... Ryou seems to feel me pause and he turns around and pushes me off balance.
"Hey!" I exclaim as he shoves me hard and I feel the back of my legs hit the tub and I grab his wrist as I fall over backwards into the tub dragging him in after me. I try to resurface faster than Ryou and find myself locked lip-to-lip with my hikari. I look into his wide startle eyes and feel my own match his as my body burned where my hikari was pressed against me. It feels like his mouth is pouring liquid fire into me. I pushed Ryou off me and slipped out of the tub.
"Yami?" Ryou asked standing up. I look over my shoulder, then walk out of the room. "Yami, wait!" Ryou calls. I close my eyes and hurry my pace. {Was it that bad?} he demanded.
I stop, hand on doorknob, [Wha?] I ask, dumbly.
**Ryou**
I gasp in surprise as Yami pulled me into the tub. Suddenly he pushed up and I felt his warm lips on mine. My eyes snapped open and I saw Yami's eyes wide open and surprised. I thought I saw something else there but I didn't have time to figure out what it was because my body was burning. I pressed myself against my yami as I was filled with a desire to be as close to him as possible. Suddenly Yami pushed me off of him and got out of the bathtub.
"Yami?" I asked, confused. Hadn't he liked that? He looked over his shoulder at me as I stood up. Then, he turned and walked away. "Yami, wait!" I called after him. {Was it that bad?} I demanded of my yami as he reached the door.
[Wha?] he asks.
{I said was it that bad?}
[Bad?] Yami demanded, turning around to look at me. [Bad?] he asked again and I wondered what I had said wrong. ^How naive...^ Yami sight as I stepped off the stairs. [It wasn't bad, Aibou,] he said slowly taking a step towards me.
{Then why are you running?} I asked before remembering the painful lessons that he had taught me saying that he never ran. Yami may have changed, but he couldn't have changed that much...
[Because I'm afraid...] he said as he closed his eyes. That was news to me, I'd never known my yami to be afraid before...
{Yami?...}
[Afraid of my feelings. Afraid of- afraid of-]
{Of what Yami?}
[Of you,] he breathed
{Me!} I exclaimed.
[Of how I feel about you...]
{I-I'm just as scared as you are...} I trailed off. Yami looked up at me and suddenly I was struck at how frail he was. I lurched forward suddenly and wrapped my arms around his waist, burying my head in his chest. "Don't do that."
"Do what?" he asked as his arms closed around my shoulders and his head went down to the top of my head.
"I don't know... You looked so... frail..."
"Never again then, my precious Aibou... I promise."
Authoress's Notes:
Kendra: aww... How sweet...
Bakura *jumps on Kendra and tries to beat her up but Yami and Seto pull him off*
Kendra *stands up and brushes imaginary dirt off her front*
Yami: What the hell was that for?
Bakura: I said that if she mad me nice.... *tries to wave his fist around but the other two Muses are still hanging onto his arms*
Kendra: Oh come on Bakura, you're still your regualr assholish self the rest of the time. And to everyone else. Pretty much when it's not you and Ryou one-on-one... Yup, no-one else sees your lovey-dovey side...
Bakura: I don't have a 'lovey-dovey' side!
Kendra *points to the last line of the story*
Bakura *pulls out of the other two muses hold and stalks away*
Kendra: And through all that he didn't say his word...
Yami: Anyway, please R&R
Seto: And if you find out our words I'm dying to know what they are.
Kendra *glomps Seto*
Yami: That, can be arranged, my dear Seto...