Disclaimers: I don't own Yu-Gu-Oh! I'm simply using the characters for my and my muse's entertainment.

Four and a Half Blocks Later by Yaoi Girl

"You!"

Ryou was on one side of the kitchen table, having to put something between him and the angered yami before Bakura could attack him head-on. "What did I do?"

"You left the phone off the charger last night, so not long after Malik called, it went dead, and right in the middle of an important conversation I might add," he said as they circled the table, Bakura glaring darkly at his hikari with an angered smirk.

"How important could something at three in the morning be? He wasn't dying, was he?"

"He was on the inside. And because of you, he just might actually be dead."

"What are you talking about?!"

"Malik finally confessed that he had a crush on me and I didn't get to tell him what I thought about it all because the phone died!"

"Sorry! But it was technically Jounouchi's fault! He was the last one to use the phone."

The white-haired yami stopped the circling and stood there, crossing his arms over his chest. "Really? Then I guess that you're safe, for the time being." With that, he turned and walked out of the room.

After the phone had died last night, Bakura somehow found the energy to walk downstairs and put the phone on its charger. With the phone now having enough of a charge to last more than two minutes, he tried to call Malik, only to get no answer.

'What if he really is dead?' he thought somewhat frantically. 'I should stop by his house and find out.'

"Where are you going?"

"To check on Malik."

"You do like him, don't you?" Ryou asked slyly, crossing his arms over his chest with a knowing smile.

Bakura glared at Ryou as he pulled his jacket on and walked out the door.

~*~

Bakura pounded and pounded on the front door when he got to his friend's house, only to be greeted by a very sleep mused Isis.

She simply glared groggily at him, he hair in a total disarray. "What do you want? It's six in the morning."

"Where's Malik?"

"In bed, where normal people are this early on a Saturday morning. Why?"

"I need to talk to him."

"I don't want to hear it when he tries to kill you for waking him up. He was up almost all night. Said he couldn't get to sleep," she yawned as she moved aside, shutting the door behind him after he entered.

"Why are you being so nice to me?"

"Because I'm still asleep enough to think this is a nightmare. Now get out of my sight before I strangle you," she said, waving him off as she staggered back into her bedroom, shutting her door.

Bakura slipped as quietly as he could through the house until he reached Malik's room. He then silently pushed the door open and slipped in, only to find his efforts to not wake him were wasted.

The blonde sat in his window seat, staring tiredly into the early light of the sun just below the horizon of houses, oblivious to Bakura's presence until he heard his bedroom door click shut.

His teary violet eyes only glanced at the figure walking across the room, returning to staring out the window afterward.

"Why are you here? And why are you up this early?" he asked tiredly with a slight amusement, resting his chin in the palm of one of his hands.

"I wanted to make sure that you're alright."

"Well, I am and then again I'm not. Now could you please leave? I'd like to be alone."

"No. That's not the only reason I'm here. I came to tell you that I didn't hang up on you last night."

"You don't have to lie to me. It's fine if you don't like the idea of your ex-best friend liking you. I'll get over it."

"You can be so stubborn. Of course you're still my best friend. And I wasn't lying. According to Ryou, Jounouchi used the phone and left it off the charger; it died when I was talking to you."

"Do you still want me to go with you tonight?" came the hesitant question a few silent moments later.

Bakura said nothing about his wording this time, as even he knew when to draw the line when Malik was depressed. "How else do you expect me to elude the cops? I need you with me."

"That's it? That's the only reason you want me to go with you? To keep you out of trouble?"

"You know perfectly well that I want you to go with me tonight because you're my friend. I have to be a bad influence on you so that your sister has another reason to hate me," he said, trying to raise the boy's spirits, but failed. He sighed and sat on Malik's bed.

Too the yami's surprise, the blonde climbed down from the window seat and sat next to him a few moments later.

"Are you lying to me about the phone thing last night?" Malik asked, staring into Bakura's eyes, searching, his own violet eyes showing just how vulnerable and hurt he was.

"I told you no; it died. I didn't hang up."

"Are you upset with me for liking you?"

Bakura rolled his eyes at him with a small smile. "I knew all along, so why would you finally admitting the obvious upset me? If I didn't want to be around you, I would've stopped hanging around you a long time ago."

Malik smiled, a small smile, and rested his head on Bakura's shoulder, yawning soon after.

"You should get some sleep. If you don't, you're powers won't be as strong tonight."

"Will you stay with me? At least until I fall asleep? If you leave now, I'll keep on thinking about you, and then I won't be able to get to sleep. But if you stay, I'll be content knowing that you're not doing this out of pit and you don't hate me."

"You know I pity no one. It's just that you're making me go soft," he teased as he laid the boy down on his bed, pulling the blanket that was scrunched up at the end of the bed over the half naked Egyptian.

"Well, someone has to make you learn to love," Malik yawned as he rested one of his hands on one of Bakura's before closing his eyes.

The yami didn't know what to say, so he laced his fingers with Malik's and brushed some of the boy's bangs away from his face. 'I do love, just not how and what you want me to, but I think I could learn. Money, power…that's nothing compared to you. You're the greatest thing that I could ever hope to possess. But it doesn't matter. Your sister still hates me and I'm not deserving of you.'

TBC

Yey! Chapter 2's done! Yes, more OOCness, but that's okay. This is MY fic after all. ^_^

Hope you liked this chapter! I'll have the next one up soon, so until then, R&R please!! ^_^

Oh yeah! I have a pic of Bakura and Malik from a later chapter, but I don't think I'm going to post it on my site since I'm going to have to find a new host...My current hostess is getting ready to take her site offline...So if anyone is nice enough to let me borrow some space in a website, please talk to me!! AIM: Erts No Koibito