Disclaimer: I still own nothing. Ryou Bakura and his yami belong to Yu-Gi-Oh (although I wish Pooky... I mean Yami Bakura was mine). The comic book Johnny the Homicidal Maniac belongs to Jhonen Vasquez.
Yami Bakura came home whistling to himself, and his hikari noticed the difference right away.
"You seem happy today."
"I have come to a decision. Things are going to change for me. I don't know how long it will last, since it is sort of an experiment."
"Oh?"
"Well, remember our conversations?"
Ryou Bakura did.
"I've decided to try to be a little nicer to people. It's already put Yami off balance, so it might actually be interesting."
"Well, that shouldn't be a reason to be nice to people."
"I know... but we have been in a rut lately. And Yami isn't all sunshine and flowers either (Author's Note: Where the hell did I come up with that? Smack me, please.) so why should I always be the bastard, right?"
"You do have a point... Yami did almost kill Kaiba that one time..."
"Exactly!"
Yami Bakura looked around for a moment, then found what he was searching for, lifting an issue of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. He had made Ryou buy all seven issues as well as the Director's Cut and even an official JtHM t-shirt for him. The yami adored the anorexic-thin, dark-haired psycho ever since seeing clips from the comic on the Internet, and had in fact learned English through reading the comic books.
"It's like Nny. He's this complete maniacal killer, but he tries to protect that kid, Squee. No matter what else he does - and even his date with that one girl did not turn out so well - he still does what he can to help Squee. Overall, you can't call him a nice guy, because he's not, but he does that one good thing. So who says I can't try?"
Ryou smiled. Yami Bakura had a point, in a way, and it seemed almost sweet of him. It might also, as the yami said, be the beginning of something rather interesting. And it also explained that pair of black shorts his yami had bought a couple of weeks ago... just as long as he didn't shave his head.
Author's Final Note: Hmm... really, really short chapter... ah well... at least it should help explain Yami Bakura's behavior in the previous chapter.