:The Wolfos Return:
**Ryou**
I was snuggling closer to my yami when my damn alarm went off. I muttered things under my breath that sounded something along the lines of 'damn fucking alarm.'
Yami groaned and rolled over, "I agree completely." I sat up slowly, hating having to move from the warmth of the bed. "Why'd you even turn the damn thing on?"
"Because I have to go to school today…." I groaned.
I felt him behind me and leaned into him. He grunted and fell over backwards. "Ow," he mumbled as he hit his head on the wall.
"Mph, sorry," I mumbled back.
"Why do you have to go to school?" he asked, sounding like a little kid asking their parent why they have to go to work.
"If I can have a food fight I can survive school."
Yami sighed, "If you say so…" he wrapped his arms around me and put his head on my shoulder as best he could, leaning against that wall, plainly showing that he didn't agree.
"Leggo," I told him as I struggled to stand up, much as I didn't want to. Yami let go and flopped back down onto the bed.
"If you're so dead set on going to school then I'll just go back to sleep…"
"You know, you could got hang out with Yugi's yami while I'm at school…" Yami just grunted and I sigh. "Why can't you get along with them?"
"Who?" Yami asked, rolling over, "The peanut gallery?"
"Yugi and the gang."
"Because they're idiots." I glared at my Yami. "Honestly! All Anzu does is preach friendship, Joey—I'm going to have to agree with Kaiba's description of him and Tristen… I don't know—he's just Tristenish."
"What about Yugi and Yami?"
"Yami is the Pharaoh, 'nuf said, and Yugi, he's altogether to perky. It's like he's on drugs!" I know I made some odd sound between a cough, snort and choke because Yami looked at me funny. Yami laughed softly, deep in the back of his throat as his eyes moved slowly around the room, "Hm."
"What?"
"It was Daylight Savings Times on the weekend."
"What? Ah shit!" I sped up my morning preparations.
"What?"
"I'm gunna be late!" I exclaimed as the telephone started ringing, "shit!"
"Ill get it," Yami said lazily, walking out of the room to the telephone in what he had slept in… His boxers…
**Bakura**
"Hello?" I asked the telephone, trying not to sound happy.
"Hello…"
I waited, "well?" I finally asked.
"Um… It's Yugi…"
I sighed, "what do you want?"
"Is Ryou going to school today?" he finally burst out. Just then Ryou ran down the hall and tromped down the stairs and I watched him before I answered Yugi.
"Eventually," I said and hung up the phone. I leaned over the railing and called down to Ryou. "Aibou, your shirt is on backwards."
"Oh, thanks," he said, trying to turn his shirt around while eating a piece of toast. He ended up falling on his butt.
I strolled slowly down the stairs to watch Ryou, finally I commented, "I changed the clocks."
That brought my aibou to a crashing halt, "What?"
"I changed the clocks for Daylight Savings."
"You changed the clocks," Ryou repeated slowly. Just because I liked Ryou didn't mean I couldn't play pranks on him. "You—you ass!" he exclaimed jumping on me and beginning to tickle me.
"No!" I hollered trailing off into laughter. I may not seem like the ticklish type but that is just about my biggest weakness.
"Teach you to do that to me again!" he yelled at me as he continued to tickle me.
"I give! I give! I give!" I yelled and Ryou eased off. Suddenly I felt my hikari's weight on my stomach acutely. The boy had me on my back and was straddling my stomach, he had been tickling my armpits.
Suddenly Ryou grabbed me around the back of the neck and was about to crush our mouths together when the door opened. Ryou quickly let of my neck and his hand slid to my shoulder and he looked over his shoulder at the door. I looked around Ryou's side and saw Yugi and the peanut gallery. "Haven't you ever heard of knocking?" I demanded of the open-mouthed quartet.
"What?" Joey asked, a wicked grin coming to his lips, "don't want us to see Ryou beating you up?"
"Ready to go?" Yugi asked and Ryou scrambled off of me and dashed to the door, grabbing his bag on the way out. I dropped down to lay spread-eagled on the floor. Joey is good for something! How amazing….
* ^ * ^ * ^ *
Well, eventually I got off the floor and started cleaning up the kitchen from yesterday. Who knew you could have so much fun with food… I seriously doubt I can ever look at whipped cream the same way again though… Cleaning, bleh… If the Pharaoh saw me he'd probably say something along the lines of, "Tomb-robber's going so-oft. Cleaning house, hmph."
"Pharaoh?" I demanded, whirling around with the pot I had been washing in hand like a soapy weapon.
"You're losing your touch," Yami commented and I growled at him. "Time was when you would have been on me with a knife as soon as I got in the house."
I'm seriously contemplating giving him death by soapy pot… "What do you want?" I demand.
"Just to hang," Yami says innocently. I glare at him and he smiles.
"What do you really want?" I ask him, hesitant to turn back to the sink now that Yugi isn't here to stop Yami from beating the shit out of me.
"To find out what's up between you and Ryou," Yami admitted.
"Nothing's up," I say, finally turning back to the sink before cursing myself for answering so fast.
Yami looks at my back, "Are you sure? Aibou said you two were acting strange this morning, he said something about Ryou beating you up." Pharaoh pauses, "and why the hell are you only wearing boxers?"
I glance down at myself, "because I'm a lazy asshole, you know that," I tell the Pharaoh, ignoring his prying questions about Ryou and me.
Yami replies lazily, "I know you're an asshole, but that doesn't explain your behaviour, one would think you're almost happy…"
I turn around again, frying pan in hand, "one more word out of your fucking mouth and I'm going to kill you. You're making me sick."
"How sweet, I'm touched."
I step forward and smack him in the side of the head with the frying pan, ^classic…^ and he falls like a rock. I look down on him, hope I didn't kill him…
{Hope you didn't kill whom?}
[Uh… No one?]
{Did you do something to Yami?}
[How did yo- I mean… No.]
{Yugi's freaking out, says that you attacked Yami.}
I look down at the unconscious Pharaoh, [tell Yugi he provoked me. And that his yami's 'touched' in the head.]
{What?}
[Nothing…]
I can feel my aibou shake his head, {Yugi wants to come 'save' Yami…}
[Isn't anything he can do to stop me.]
{Stop you from what?}
[Nothing… Just saying that if I wanted to do anything to Yami it would have been over and done by the time he got here…]
{Well that's not very reassuring to Yugi…}
[Meh, to bad for him.]
{…}
I look down at the Pharaoh again, [tell Yugi I won't kill his Yami…]
{You sound so thrilled.}
[I'm ecstatic. I finally get Pharaoh down then I'm not allowed to hurt him! Arg!]
**Ryou**
[I'm ecstatic,] Bakura says sarcastically. [I finally get Pharaoh down then I'm not allowed to hurt him! Arg!]
I try not to laugh and Yugi glares at me. "This is no laughing matter! Yami's in terrible peril!"
"No he's not!" I protested, "Bakura is not going to hurt Yami."
Yugi glares at me, "How do you know that?"
"Because-uh… he said so?"
"Arg!" Yugi exclaims, flinging his hands up. I tilt my head sideways at him, "What?"
"You just sounded like my yami is all."
"Ach!" he exclaims falling over backwards.
{This is kinda fun…}
[Welcome to the ways of the tormentor. And well done, young grasshopper.] ^Lol, major inside joke there… Sorta…^
"What's wit' Yug'?" Joey asks coming over and looking down at Yugi.
"Nothing," I say innocently and Yugi glares at me.
"Bakura's attacking Yami! And he says that Bakura's not going to do anything…"
"Well… He was beating Bakura up this morning…" Tristen interjects, making me blush slightly. I wasn't exactly /beating/ Bakura up… I don't think anyone would count tickling someone as beating him or her up…
"Yeah, maybe Ryou here's got Bakura under control now!" Joey says.
"Can't you just trust me that Bakura's not going to beat Yami up? And stop talking like I'm not here!"
"He's unconscious," Yugi says calmly.
[You'd be unconscious too if you got hit in the head with a frying pan…]
I snort and try not to laugh, {You hit him in the head with a frying pan?}
[Yes. He provoked me! Like I said…]
{He's gonna be pissed when he wakes up…}
[Meh, I put him in the dumpster out back…]
{You what?}
[I put him in the dumpster out back,] Bakura repeats slowly. I rub my face.
"What is it?" Yugi asks.
I shake my head ruefully, "Nothing." Yugi glares at me.
"Hey, we've got an hour before class starts again, why don't we go check on Yami?"
I feel Bakura roll his eyes, [Your friends are moronic.]
"Great idea!" Yugi exclaims.
[If something takes down a Pharaoh with magic what makes them think they can do anything to help him?]
{Um, the 'power of friendship'?}
Bakura snorts, "are you coming Ryou?" Tristen asks and I trot to catch up with them.
{Well, we're all coming…}
[You're bringing the peanut gallery?] Bakura exclaims.
{Yes.}
[Then I guess I'll go put some pants on before they get here…]
{What! It's lunchtime!}
[Really?]
{You're psychotic, you know?}
[Damn straight.] I sigh and shake my head.
"What?" Yugi demands.
"Can't I sigh?" I ask sharply, before I can catch myself.
Yugi looks at me sideways, "Something wrong Ryou?"
"No! Everything is absolutely pea-ah!"
"Ryou? Holy shit!"
**Bakura**
Listening to Ryou's conversation with his friends while I get dressed I'm suddenly assaulted with a loud exclamation of, {HELP!}
[Ryou! What?]
{Helphelphelphelphelphelphelphelphelp Oh bloody hell…}^Say it with a British accent and it's just that much funnier...^
I dash out of the house, [Aibou! What?] Seeing the peanut gallery from down the street I mutter, "shit," to myself and try to run casually over to them. Like you can run casually. Fortunately they don't seem to notice. In fact, they don't seem to notice me at all, that is, until I shouted in their faces, "Where the hell is Ryou!"
Very comical, that was, they all literally jumped three inches in the air whirling around to face me like I was going to kill them while they aren't looking. Anzu points down the street and Joey demands, "Where's Yami?"
"In a dumpster somewhere," I tell him before starting off down the street. I look around me for weapons, good old habits, I grabbed that dagger I used before as I ran out of the room… Handy. Finding the alley that Anzu pointed to I can see two of those wolfos, as I've come to refer to them as. One of them has its jaws closed around the ring, Ryou's got both hands on the other side and is pulling with all his strength against the wolfos, but it's dragging him backwards into the alley. The other's got Yugi's arm in its mouth and is pulling on it, blood dribbling out of the corners of its mouth. Grabbing a rock I grab it and fling it at the wolfos with the ring in its mouth. Its head snaps up, dragging Ryou along with him so that his feet are off the ground. These things are huge, I realise.
{Yugi!} Ryou exclaims in my mind, his voice sounding strained. Wondering why the hell I'm listening to what my aibou is saying I lunge at the beast with Yugi in its mouth, stabbing the dagger into its flank. The thing roared, dropping Yugi, the kid scrambled backwards as fast as he could go and I drove the dagger into the thing's back trying to distract it from the midget. Whirling around, the thing faces me, mouth open slightly, blood and saliva dripping from its mouth and growling slightly. I grab the dagger tightly in my fist and wait for the wolfos to make the first move. {Watch out!} Ryou exclaims moments before I'm slammed to the ground by the other wolfos. Reversing the knife I stab backwards, hoping to hit the wolfos. I hear a snarl from above me as my knife cuts the flesh of the fiend on my back. Suddenly the weight was lifted off my back and I scrambled to my feet. The first wolfos I had attacked appeared to be defending me… At least we knew that the wolfos weren't entirely packly… Looking at the two boys I saw that Yugi was passed out and Ryou was hanging on to the smaller boy's shoulder, watching me with wide eyes.
[Come on! While they're distracted!] Ryou picked Yugi up carefully, the ring still clenched in this left fist. I turned around to see that the wolfos had apparently resolved their conflict and the first wolfos appeared to be the victor, and he was looking angrily at me, blood dripping down its flank. Growling it leapt at me, I slashed at it but it got my elbow in its jaws. It bit down hard and I heard the bone in my elbow crunching. I bit my lip, determined not to scream, grabbed the knife with the other hand and plunged it into the thing's brain. Shuddering, it disappeared, much like the first one had.
"Yugi!" I heard the Pharaoh call; I will admit, I was happy to hear him. But never again! That was a once-in-a-lifetime thing… The other wolfos looked over his shoulder at the Pharaoh and peanut gallery standing in the entrance to the alleyway, looking back and forth between us the wolfos obviously decided we were to much to handle and jumped over the fence, disappearing in mid air… Not like the ones I had killed, but sort of the same. I stood up painfully just before the Pharaoh shoved by me to get to his hikari, rudely shoving me into a wall.
I clenched my jaw, Ra my elbow hurt. "Yami?" Ryou whispered from slightly behind me. "You okay?"
"I just got my Ra-damned elbow crunched by a fucking wolfos, I'm just peachy!" I said through clenched teeth.
"You goddamned tomb-robber! You hit me in the head with a frying pan and then put me in a dumpster when my hikari needed me!" I turn to look at Yami; he's standing with Yugi cradled in his arms. I don't have the energy to rely with some witty remark so I'm content to glare at the Pharaoh.
**Ryou**
I can feel that Bakura's too tired to respond to Yami' rant so I do it for him, "He just saved Yugi's life!" I yell at the spirit.
"Sh… Ryou…" Bakura whispers to me, but I ignore him, and stare at Yami. Bakura risked his life to save Yugi, no matter how un-him-like it is! Yami seems to be pretty surprised that I'd defend my yami. I'm about to yell something that's probably completely out of line but Bakura grabs my shoulder, "Shut up hikari…" [I didn't expect him to jump up and down and say thank-you. It doesn't matter, can we please go home?]
{But your elbow…} I look at his elbow and wince, it looks absolutely horrible, {shouldn't we go to the hospital?}
[Fine, fine, whatever, as long as there's pain killers there…]
**Bakura**
Hospitals are nice… They have lots of painkillers… Maybe I should raid a hospital… Meh… Not right now… Ryou's been here ever since I got here… Hey… Guess what? They put some metal in my elbow… I think… Well… Ryou was pretty revolted with my elbow, however it looked… I didn't look at it… Drugs are fun… I think they put Yugi an' me in the same room as me… Stupid people… Wonder how long you have to stay in the hospital if you've got a broken arm… Hopefully not very long… I think Ryou said they're letting me out tomorrow… It looks like an asylum in here. Asylums are fun! That's where they put the crazy people… Does that mean I'm crazy?
"Mr. Bakura? Have those drugs worn off yet?" Hm? I look over at the lady talking to me. Oh yes, it's that nurse-lady that's been drugging me up… I nod and she raises an eyebrow. She seems to expect me to speak. Well, she can't make me! I press my lips together and grit my teeth obviously enough for her to see. She rolled her eyes and looked at Ryou. "Sirs, visiting hours are over."
I look around, I know Ryou's here but who else was? Hm… Oh, look, Pharaoh… Where's the peanut gallery? {They went home.}
[Woh! When did you start listening?]
{You've been babbling like that since they drugged you.}
[Um… What have I been saying?]
Ryou blushes, {Uh…}
[Never mind then. I can guess.]
{I'll see you tomorrow when you get out then…} Ryou said, looking at Yami and Yugi.
[Bye, Aibou.] Ryou walked out after Yami on the insistence of the nurse.
"You're friends," Yugi commented.
"I don't think so," I told him.
"I think so."
"Fuck off."
"Come now Mr. Bakura, don't be like that," I glare at the nurse.
{Don't kill anyone while I'm gone.}
[Aw… But Ryou… She's just begging to be killed…]
{No.}
[Party-pooper.]
"Time for sleep."
**Ryou**
"And once you've written that blah blah blah blahblah blahblah." This teacher never shuts up…
"Ryou," hisses Yami, he's at school today for Yugi, I'm pretty sure the smaller boy is 'listening in' on the class. "Is she always like this?"
"Sh, the teacher is droning."
"I'll take that as a yes."
"Boys!" the teacher yelled. "Do you have something to share?"
"No ma'am," I replied automatically.
"I was just saying how boring this class is."
"Yami!" I hissed at the dark spirit. That was not what Yugi would have said.
[Aw… Let 'im, it's fun. Yugi's hilarious.]
{What's he doing?}
[Oh, he's practically spitting… It's hilarious, the nurse thinks he's having some sort of seizure… Much fun…]
I sigh and roll my eyes as Yami gets into a discussion with the teacher about how she should liven up her lessons. Can't life be normal?…
**Bakura**
I stand, leaning against the door to the house. They let me out of the hospital about an hour ago; I came home to find the door locked. I tried to break into the back, I fell, it hurt. Damn cast… Dammit all, when does Ryou get out of school? I lean back with a sigh, glaring at my cast. Wonder if Ryou would approve of cutting it off with that chainsaw in the garage… Probably not…
"Hello, Bakura," Yami said, his tone indicated that he was ready to tease me.
I open one eye, "I thought you went to school for Yugi."
"They 'suspended' me for talking back to the teacher. Where's Yugi?"
"They've still got him at the hospital… Why?"
"Nothing. Why aren't you inside? Hm…?"
I ignore the Pharaoh and lean against the door. Adjusting my sling so that my arm is more comfortable I sigh, "When does school get out?"
Yami shrugged, "I think Aibou said three-twenty." I nod, then proceed to ignore him. "You wouldn't be locked out, would you?" Yami asks with a grin plastered on his face.
"No, I enjoy standing outside like this," I told him, not opening my eyes.
"Why don't you just pick the lock?"
I look at the pharaoh out of the corner of my eyes, "Because that would wreck the lock."
"Aw, since when did you care about that?"
"I care because if I wrecked the lock then it wouldn't lock and right now I'm not ready to pay to replace the damn thing. Why don't you go see Yugi?"
"Because I'd rather spend time with you," I look at my watch, two-twenty, I've got to wait for an hour before Ryou gets out of school. I shove off the door and walk away from the pharaoh. "Don't want to spend time with me?" Yami asked, pretending to sound hurt.
"I'd rather get attacked by wolfos."
A growl answers my voice, "Be careful what you wish for, tomb-robber," Yami says, looking at the growling wolfos ahead of us. I grab the dagger sitting on my hip and the wolfos seems to laugh! He trots slowly forward and stops about a foot from us, opening his mouth he drops something onto the pavement. Then he turns and runs a few steps disappearing like he ran into a mist. I blink and walk forward to the think on the ground. It's a pendant, a tooth mounted in a silver bracket on a chain. The entire thing looks expensive and I pick it up on the end of my dagger, "be careful, tomb-robber." The necklace looks normal enough and I turn around to show it to Yami.
"What the hell do you make of this?"
Yami shook his head, "Whatever it is, I wouldn't trust it." Well that's good enough for me. I bring the dagger closer and pick the necklace up in my fingers, bracing myself for a shock or something. When nothing comes I smirk at Yami and put the necklace around my neck, the chain is long enough that the tooth clacks against the Ring. "You're just doing this because I said not to trust it, aren't you?"
I jerk my head to one side with a raise of my eyebrows, "Yeah, pretty much." Yami sighs and rolls his eyes.
{Yami, what's going on?}
[Nothing, Aibou.]
{Yami…}
[I just picked up a necklace that a wolfos left us…]
{I hope you're not wearing it.}
[…]
{You are wearing it, aren't you.}
[…]
{Just to spite Yami too, I bet.}
[…]
{You can be an idiot sometimes.}
[Hey! I resent that! I could be an idiot all the time if I wanted to, but then I'd end up like the peanut gallery so I've contented myself with only being an idiot sometimes, you should be happy!]
{You're crazy.}
[Damn straight.]
{I can't understand your logic.}
[Damn straight, no one can! Not even me sometimes…]
{Well, I'll be home in half a hour, don't do anything to get yourself thrown into the hospital. Either one.}
I snort, hospitals may be fun but I'd prefer to stay to restrain my visits to once every several thousand years. "Well, now that you've got the damn thing on, what is it for?"
"Who knows," I replied with a smile, "but it looks nice, don't you think?"
Yami rolled his eyes, "I'm going to visit Yugi."
"Have fun!" I said in an obviously fake preppy voice, then I found myself flat on my back, watching an extremely pissed off Pharaoh stalking away. I touched my face gently, "Oh yeah, brave Pharaoh, hitting a guy with a cast," I muttered to myself getting to my feet. "Beat the bloody shit out of you if I wasn't wearing this damn cast either."
When I get back to the house I try the door to the garage, finding it open I enter, looking around for that chainsaw… This cast is driving me crazy… My eyes light on the chainsaw and I grin to myself, walking towards it.
* ^ * ^ * ^ *
I exit the garage to see Ryou standing there, unlocking the door. He looks over his shoulder and smiles at me, I give him a horribly fake smile and he snorts, opening the door. "What happened to your cast?" Ryou asks, walking into the house.
"Uh, I lost it?" I suggest.
"Right," he said, dropping his bag beside the door as he took off his coat. He shed his shoes and padded to the kitchen. I stepped out of my shoes and followed. I lean against the counter as he rummages in the fridge. "You're staring at my ass," he comments from inside the fridge.
"Do you object?" I ask, blinking slowly. He mumbles something that I can't hear and he stands up, apple in his mouth.
"Can I see?"
"What!"
"The necklace."
"Oh," I say, shamefaced, and hand him the necklace. He takes it, sticking the apple back in his mouth and raises the tooth to eye level. I turn to grab a pear off the counter when Ryou's cry makes me whirl around. He's dropped the apple and both hands are around the tooth's chain, which is shrinking rapidly around his neck. "Ryou!" I exclaim.
Authoress's Notes:
Kendra: Ooh… I feel evil. This chapter took me forever to write but it's also the longest of them all. I think it's thirteen pages long…
Seto: It just never ended…
Kendra: Shut up you.
Seto: She was having so much fun making Bakura and Yami fight. By the way, where are they?
Kendra *looks past Seto to where Bakura and Yami are trying to beat the shit out of each other.*
Seto *looks behind him*: Ah.
Bakura: Bloody bastard! Hitting a guy with a cast. What a wimp!
Yami: You hit me in the head with a frying pan! I demand retribution!
Kendra and Seto *look at each other*
Seto *raises an eyebrow*
Kendra *shrugs and turns to the camera*: Will my muses stop trying to beat the shit out of each other? It's your call. Read and review and tell me, what are my muses' words? Unfortunately, none of them said theirs this chapter… But they will next chapter… I will be sure of that…
Seto *looks nervous*
Anonymous Announcer: He should be nervous!
Kendra: When did you get here?
AA: Uh… I'm not here! No no, not me!
Kendra *grins evilly*
AA: Why are you looking at me like that? Aah!
Kendra *glomps AA*
Seto: Now he's got a word.
Kendra *laughs evilly*