SCHOOL PLAY
By Starflower Sakura

DISCLAIMER: Yu-Gi-Oh doesn't belong to me. If you didn't get that by now, then honestly, where have you been?

To readers/reviewers: Here's the second chapter of my Bakura/Ryou fic. Well, there's also a side dish of Yami/Yugi and Marik/Malik, although I have something against Yami right now. What is it? Oh, I'm pretty sure that the Anzu haters wouldn't want to hear… Anyways, I'm glad that I got so much reviews! I was thinking more of about one or two, since my summary wasn't all that good. Not that I'm complaining, it just wasn't expected. That was just a thought from yours truly.

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Thank You List


Shinu a.k.a Yami Tea
- I wouldn't want to disappoint!

Silver Mist4 - Bakura having a change of heart? Not for a while…

Yami Krissy - I'm glad you liked the parts I gave the characters though… I don't think I should be telling people this, but there might just be a little change in the near future… well not as in this chapter near

Cirque du Macabre - I'm extremely honored. Although, I must agree that "Romeo and Juliet" is way over done.

DarkShadowFlame - Lol! Since I don't have a part for Jounouchi, and I do think that the part would fit him (not that I hate him), and Yami as Gaston is perfectly funny! I could definitely see women flocking over him… The bad thing is that although he's taller than Yugi… he's still shorter than the rest -.-;;

lil kiddo - *curtsies* Of course, Your Highness.

Neko Moon Goddess - On with the story is right, here I go!

dark angel5221 - I can't wait until I start writing the play either! LOL

Angelic Warrior - Ah! I'm so sorry I didn't attend on Monday, but I was busy! School is just fine, but I have a feeling that my World Literature teacher doesn't like me… ^-^;;

Anonymous - I'm glad that you loved it!

LiLTakariGirl aka Yami Aro & ~Yami Aro~ - *laughs* Thanks for everything! You know that I want Marik and Malik, they are one of the cutest things ever!! *huggles them*

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SCHOOL PLAY
CHAPTER 2 - CHANGING ROLES


Feeling Bakura glare at him, Ryou sighed and sunk down in his seat. Maybe asking him what his role is, and finding out that they were going to play opposite each other wasn't a good idea after all. No, it definitely didn't come as a nice shock.

"This story is called what again?" Bakura asked.

"Beauty and the Beast," Malik answered.

"So if I'm the beast who's err… Beauty?" Bakura questioned once again.

"Belle is the beauty, which is also played by the Ryou!" Yugi chirped.

Ryou sunk down even farther into his seat, as if he could go down any farther. This was a big mistake. If he didn't make Bakura go to school with him he wouldn't be in such a tight spot.

"Nani?!" Bakura yelled, jumping up from his seat and creating a scene.

"Bakura, sit down," Marik ordered.

"Who are you to tell me what to do?" Bakura snarled at him.

"I am Marik, that's why."

"So?"

"Sit or would you rather my Millennium Rod make you sit?" Marik asked, a mischievous grin resting on his lips.

Bakura took his seat once again, growling and mumbling some illogical words, while all the same keeping his glare on the now one foot shorter Ryou.

"Ryusaki-san, is there something wrong?" the teacher, Nuromi Yuko, asked.

Bakura was about to answer the question thrown at him, but Marik answered in his place, "No, he's just surprised."

Yuko nodded in understanding as she continued asking everybody what role they got and writing it down. Yuko was amazed that the two major roles haven't come up yet until she got to Ryou and Bakura.

"And what role do you have?"

"Belle," Ryou answered in a voice that was barely a whisper.

Yuko looked surprise, but continued onto Bakura who was still keeping a death glare on Ryou. Having a feeling that he won't answer when she asked, she took the slip of paper off his table and read it to herself. Her eyes twinkled in amusement as she put the paper back onto Bakura's desk and continued onto the next person.

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Right after school Ryou was found talking to Yuko.

"Onegai, Nuromi-sensei!" Ryou pleaded, throwing her the best puppy dog eyes he can manage right at that moment.

"I don't know…" she answered, faltering.

"Lot of people wants my role, so you can make them happy and me happy!"

"Yes, but with Ryusaki as the beast, I truly doubt they want that role anymore."

"But I'm sure that there are girls that has crushes on Bakura, no matter how much of a crazed, sadistic, psychopath he is," Ryou described.

Yuko was speechless, not knowing how to reply to that sudden description of her students from another one of her students.

"Well, if none of the girls would play the part then you can make Marik take the part as Belle!" Ryou exclaimed excitedly.

"And what role is Ishiyama playing again?" Yuko asked, looking through her list of names and what role each person was playing.

"He's in charge of the props. If you don't switch us you won't know what kind of props he'll come up with. Don't you want a sensible person to do the props? Also, if he played a part in the story he won't be able to come up with anything in that mind of his, or at least he won't be able to get it to work since he has to follow the script."

Yuko knew that he was right, but wasn't sure of whether to switch them or not. She sighed, for she knew that if she switched Ryou's role then a whole lot of people would come and ask her to change their roles also.

"Gomen nasai, Bakura-san."

Ryou's downcast eyes were almost enough to make her change her decision, but she knew she couldn't back down.

"Wakarimasu, sensei…" Ryou answered.

"Gomen nasai…"

Ryou walked slowly away, head still down. He had already knew that asking to change might cause their teacher a lot of trouble and confusion, but for his sake and Bakura's he had to try… but failed. He walked out of the building, turned his head towards the upcoming road before him and slowly began his walk home.

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"Tadaima!" Ryou shouted in the entrance hall of his house.

No response greeted him, nor was he expecting one. It just seemed right to shout that out.

"Bakura must have gone over to Malik's house again."

He jumped when the telephone began to ring. He contemplated on whether he should pick it up or not. If it was Bakura then the answer would be 'Don't pick up the phone even if your life depended on it!' but if it was somebody else then what other choice is there then to answer the phone. Ryou decided to test the fates and picked up the phone and to his relief it wasn't his yami.

"Moshi moshi, Ryou-san wa irasshaimasu ka?" the person asked.

"Dochira-sama desu ka?" Ryou replied with a question of his own.

"Marik desu."

Ryou held back a gasp at the unexpected caller. Marik was actually calling him? Wow, he might have expected Malik, Marik's hikari, but the yami himself is certainly something he would never dream of in a million years.

"Marik-kun?"

"Ryou? Is that you?"

"Hai."

"I heard your conversation with the sensei."

Ryou had no doubt that he was grinning wildly at the other end of the line.

"Then you know that I was trying to convince Nuromi-sensei to make you play my part, ne?"

Marik nodded although Ryou could not see him.

Noticing that Marik hastily answered a quick, "Yes."

Ryou laughed as the image of Marik, the super-saiyan look-alike, in a frilly dress appeared in his mind. What got him into more hysterics was Bakura with his bunny ears like hair-although Bakura rather have them be called "Horns of Evil"-in a tuxedo dancing with Marik in a dress. Marik raised an eyebrow at Ryou who, at the other end of the line, was laughing so hard that he was rolling on the ground with tears in his eyes.

"Daijoubu desu ka?"

Ryou tried to answer, but the image still playing vividly in his mind sent him into another fits oh hysterics. Marik waited until Ryou stopped laughing, while praying that whatever started the laughter won't come back for the time being.

"Are you done laughing now?"

"H-hai…" Ryou managed, gasping for breath.

"So tell me, why did you not want to play your part?"

"I didn't want to play a girl?" Ryou answered, falsehood apparent in his voice.

"And you think I do?" Marik asked, his tone wasn't angry just a bit confused.

"Well, no…" Ryou admitted.

"Are you sure it isn't something else besides not wanting to play a girl? Maybe something concerning more about what a particular silver haired yami thinks?"

Ryou's face turned as red as a beet for having his main reason guessed by Marik so easily.

"Don't tell Bakura, okay?" Ryou pleaded for the second time today.

"Why not?" Marik questioned.

"Because I don't want him to know."

"It's not like it's very important."

"I know, so let's keep the shock of me only a few inches away from succeeding in getting you to play Belle. If I did succeed, you better start puckering your lips," Ryou joked.

Marik scowled at the thought for he was secretly in love with a "mysterious" somebody and the thought of kissing his best friend wasn't going to help his situation.

"Whatever you say, Ryou. For it won't be me that's going to kiss Bakura…"

To be continued…

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Do any of you understand why Ryou wanted to change his role? If you don't then I'll have it explained to you in the next chapter! It would be a yami/hikari pairing fic so don't worry! I don't write anything besides that for Yu-Gi-Oh anyways.

Any comments? Questions? Suggestions? Reviews? Email me at--- xstarflowerx@hotmail.com if you want to ask me anything!


~* Starflower Sakura *~