Sicky: Chapter Three
By OtakuChild
DISCLAIMER: Watch the dub. Do Bakura and Malik start making out? No? Well, that proves Yu-Gi-Oh! Is not mine.
Chapter three! Wow! This is coming along swimmingly! Well, it was until the computer pitched it's semi-monthly fit. Sorry for the delay.


Chapter Three: Yugi Has WHAT???

"Well, Mr..."
"Yami. Call me Yami."
"Well, Mr. Yami..."
Yami sweatdropped.
"It's not good. Yugi has come down with Mononucleosis."
"Beg your pardon?"
"Mononucleosis. It's a nasty virus, Mr. Yami."
"Yami is fine, thank you."
"Sorry Yami. Anyway, the symptoms include those associated with the common cold, such as stuffiness, sore throat, fever, but also includes major fatigue. I'd say he'll be missing school for the next two to three weeks."
"TWO TO THREE WEEKS! How did he get this..."
"Mononucleosis?"
"YES, that!"
"Well, it is known as the "kissing disease" because it is transmitted through human saliva. But he also could have gotten it from any number of things: A drinking fountain, sharing beverages, and, yes, kissing."
Yami would have definitely known if Yugi was kissing someone. He knew Joey and Yugi had split a soda the week before. It figures, Yami thought, he's too thickheaded sometimes to even get sick! Yami decided that trait came in handy, no wonder Bakura never got sick.
Yami thanked the doctor, paid him, and set about calling the school after the doctor had left. He told Yugi's teacher of the predicament ahead, and she said that she'd send Tea to the game shop with the homework, and that she hoped Yugi got better soon.
That afternoon Tea came by, as told, with the homework for Yugi. She also came over with a batch of cookies for the two of them.
"Did the doctor come to see him yet?"
"He did. Yugi has something called Mononucle...something like that."
Tea's eyes grew wide.
"YUGI HAS MONO? OH MY GOD! NO!"
"Tea, It's not life threatening. Why are you panicking?"
Tea sweatdropped. "I...uh...I just hate to see him sick, that's all." Then she ran up to Yugi's room, and shut the door.
"Yugi?"
Tea inched slowly towards the bed.
"Tea..." Yugi blinked and slowly sat up. "I'm so tired.."
"I know, the doctor says you have mono. You'll be out for a few weeks." She brushed sweaty blonde bangs away from his face.
"Tea...Last night I had a dream..." He looked down.
"It's okay Yugi. You can tell me."
"Well...I was sleeping, and it was dark, and you kissed me."
Tea's eyes widened again.
"Oh, well, I guess dreams are like that."
Yugi looked shy. "Um...would you...would you ever..." he trailed off, scared, and kicking himself mentally for ever starting the question.
"Would I ever what?" Tea leaned in closer.
"Um...kiss me. Would you ever kiss me. I mean, not when I'm sick, of course."
"Yeah," Tea said quietly. "I would, Yugi."
Yugi smiled. "Good." He looked down again. "Cuz I'd kiss you too. Though not right now, because I'm sick."
Tea remembered last night's incident, and realized she needed to get home, to try and stop the mono she got from kissing Yugi from getting her sick.
"Yugi, I gotta go," she said. "Mom wants me home early today." She leaned over and gave him a hug, to show that she wasn't leaving because she was uncomfortable, she didn't want to unintentionally hurt Yugi. But she needed to hide the fact that she kissed him while he was sick.
Tea and Yugi exchanged their good-byes and left. Tea walked home, and burst through the front door. "MOM! I'm HOME!" she yelled.
"You're home early," her mother said. "I thought you were going to be at Yugi's house."
"Well, there was a change of plans. I have mono."
Tea's mother looked at her quizzically. "How did you manage that? You haven't been kissing anyone, have you?"
"Oh, no!" Tea lied. "Mai and I shared a drink a few days ago, and she's sick with mono, so I think I have it too."
"Well, I'll call the doctor, and get some medicine, let me know when you don't feel well." Tea's mom trusted her very much, and set about making a list of things to get.
"Thanks mom!" Tea bounded up the stairs, sent an email to Mai explaining the situation, and asking her to act horribly sick for the next few weeks. She was working on homework when the phone rang.
"Tea! Phone!" Her mother yelled. "Some strange boy, I think is name is Maleek."
"Malik, mom," Tea corrected. Why is he calling me? WAIT! How did he get my phone number??
"Hello?" she asked suspiciously, taking the cordless phone up to her room.
"Heeeeeeeeey Teabag," came a smooth, low voice on the other line that belonged to none other than the infamous Malik Ishtar.
"It's Tea. 'tay-uh.'" she corrected. "How did you get my number?"
"Well, Bakura knew it cuz Ryou knew it and I tickled it out of him," Malik said. "But that's beside the point. I heard from a ceartain multicolor-haired shortiesqueak that you kissed him, and it disappoints me Tea, being left out of the loop and all."
"I DIDN'T KISS HIM!!!" Tea shrieked. "I only said I would kiss him. And he said he'd kiss me, so there!"
"So why don't you?"
"Do what?"
"Kiss, neener-head!"
Tea growled. Malik could really get annoying sometimes.
"He's sick, and If I kiss him, that means I get sick."
"Tea, Tea, Tea..." Malik tsk-tsked. "We all make sacrifices for love. For instance, I'm not having sex with Bakura for three whole days because I just found a dirty sock under the couch."
Tea heard a loud "EXCUSE ME???" in the background, followed by several thumps.
"But you see," Malik said, "I do it because I love him, and I believe it to be very unsanitary when SOMEBODY LEAVES THEIR SOCK UNDER THE COUCH!!!" The thuds continued, and Tea figured he was running away from Bakura. The thudding stopped.
"You can't prove that sock is mine," said a Bakura's muffled voice on the other end of the line.
"It has a bat on the toe."
"Oh."
Tea continued to listen intently, and the thumps started up again. "I wouldn't have to be such a buttinsky, Teabag, but when I get left out of the loop..."
"Loop? Malik! It's my personal life!"
"Exactly."
"MALIK!"
"That is my name, don't wear it out, because somebody WILL NOT be screaming it later!" Tea heard a door slam, and the click of a lock.
"Anyways, Tea, tell him how you feel. If you don't, he may find out under worse circumstances, and believe me, it's no fun." His voice had a very sincere ring to it. Tea heard a bang, and a very familiar British voice.
"MALIK! OPEN UP THE DAMN DOOR! I CAN PICK THE LOCK, YOU KNOW!"
"Damn, Tea, I gotta go. But we're not finished with this conversation!"
Tea hung up the phone, relieved. Malik wasn't an easy one to avoid. Tea knew that even though he could be the most infuriating person on the planet, he had a heart of gold, and was a good friend to have. Malik's right, Tea thought. I need to tell him. He'll find out I kissed him anyway, when I get sick.

Meanwhile, at Malik's place....

"OPEN THE DOOR!" Bakura pounded on the door.
"NO!"
There was dead silence, and then several clicks, the door swung open.
"Malik!"
Silence. The blonde would-be cupid was nowhere to be found in what turned out to be the laundry room.
"Ah, you can't hide this time," Bakura opened the dryer door. "GOTCHA!"
And the dryer was empty.
Bakura heard a rustle from near the ceiling.
"AAAAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!!"
Malik jumped from his hiding spot on top of the shelf that hung on the washer and dryer, let out a feral yell, and jumped onto his koi.
"No, Bakura, I got you."
"I don't believe this." Bakura wiggled and tried to escape, but Malik had both of Bakura's ankles secured and both his wrists as well.
"I win." Malik reached down and licked his boyfriend's earlobe.
"No, you don't. Now why are you not sleeping with me again?" Bakura smirked.
Malik's lavender eyes went wide. For the love or Ra, Bakura was smarter than that!
"BECAUSE YOU LEFT YOUR FRIGGIN SOCK UNDER THE COUCH!"
"I was going to pick it up!" Bakura pleaded.
"No you weren't."
Pause.
"No, you're right, I wasn't. I'm sorry."
"And you're forgiven." Malik kissed Bakura on the cheek. "This time anyway." He rolled off of Bakura.
Another pause.
"I'm bored."
Bakura grinned. "I know what we could do."
Malik returned the grin. "Yeah!"
Bakura leaned forward, and much to his shock, Malik said:
"But you're still not getting any. Now, let's go, we have a Pharaoh to prank-call."

The Turtle Game Shop

The phone rang in the Turtle Game Shop rather loudly and indignantly. Yami knew instantly who it was.
"This is the Stuffed Spooky Corporation."
On the other end of the line, Malik and Bakura were rolling around on the floor in convulsions of mirth.
"So you did read the books(1)." Malik was still giggling profusely.
"I did."
"Sooo, I heard that Tea likes Yugi and she wants to kiss him." Malik was still giggling.
"She might. She freaked out when she found out Yugi had mono."
"Yaaieee. Know what I think?"
"Well, since you're not going to listen to me anyway, googledeglok!" Yami rolled his eyes.
"Funny again! Ya know, I listen. Anywhoo, I think that Tea did kiss Yugi. And I think she's gonna get sick."
"Did she tell you?"
"No, but she told me that she wants to kiss him, but if she did she would get sick."
"Then why would she kiss him now?" Yami double-checked to make sure the mental link between he and Yugi was closed.
"YAMI! You don't listen! I might as well have told you Tea told me she walks around with her thumb up her nose! Yami think. Tea wants to kiss Yugi, Tea freaks out when she finds out he has mono, which is not like her at all. I think she kissed him before she found out what he had."
"Prove it," Yami said."
"If she gets sick with mono, then we know that she kissed him, and so will Yugi."
"And what do you think will happen?"
"You dummy! They'll fall in love, duh! And then they'll be happy! And to celebrate you can screw Kaiba!"
"YOU LEAVE KAIBA OUT OF THIS!!" Yami's crimson eyes were wide.
"Touchy, geez. Fine, no more Kaiba."
"Malik, why did you call?"
"To tell you all this of course."
"Why?"
"Because it's infuriating beyond belief, Yami, to see those two constantly flirt, and then hide it, and then get all wishful and be like, 'Oh, he'll never like meeeee,' or 'She'll never like me, I'm too short!' Ryou says they do this at school, day after day after day, and I see them do it after school, day after day after day, and we just wish they'd hook up!"
"Malik, not to sound harsh, but why do you care?" Yami leaned against the counter of the game shop.
"Because I know what that's like, and it's not as much fun as you think, Yami. It tore me apart. And it was a big relief, and very joyful, when I finally told that person."
"And just who was that person?"
"Who do you think? I'll give you a hint, he's holding me right now." Malik handed the phone to Bakura. "Hiiiiiii Yugi's dark half!" he said, in a cheery voice that sounded rather disturbing. Then he handed the phone back to Malik.
"Oh, yeah, I knew that," Yami said, embarrassed.
"You're just tired from taking care of Shortysqeak." Malik said, with sympathy. "Yami, I just want my friends to be happy, and that includes Yugi, and Tea, and you."
"Me?"
"Yeah."
"Wow. Thanks."
"No problem. Now just don't tell Yugi what I said, and I think things will just work out on their own. But as for you, you need to be in the loop more. I shouldn't have had to inform you what was going on under your own roof. Promise me you'll pay more attention.?"
"I promise."
"Coolness. Ryou just dropped by, got to go."
The two exchanged good-byes and hung up. Yami was feeling considerably happier, because Malik wasn't beating around the bush and calling him Yamcha. Even though Malik could be a bit of a butt-head a times, Yami did realize that Malik's intentions were only good. He grinned. Things were going to get rather interesting within the next few days, especially if Malik's theory turned out to be correct. Weehoo! It's done! I think it could have gone better, but I always think that! Okay, The first person who can guess what comic the footnote comes from(Spooky, Wet Jimmy's Gourmet Assmeats, the books Malik talks about) will win a poem of their fav character. Thanks to everyone who continues to read and review, and hopefully the next chapter will get up sooner! Ja ne!
-OtakuChild