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

Four and a Half Blocks Later by Yaoi Girl

Shifting slightly, moving closer to the warmth of Malik's body as he pulled the blanket tighter against himself, Bakura vaguely heard the rattle of keys just outside the door, but he was too comfortable to wake up for a little noise.

A few moments later, he was completely comfortable and back in his deep sleep, not hearing the herd of friends enter the house chattering away to each other, especially the girls.

He did, however, reluctantly open his eyes when he heard very distinctive female giggles very close to him.

Only shortly after his chocolate orbs had opened a crack, someone pounced on him and Malik. All he had seen before he was put in a headlock was a flash of blonde hair, and it didn't belong to the now angrily woken boy beside him.

"Katsuya," he hissed low in warning as he gripped the blanket hard enough to rip it in two.

Jounouchi laughed and released him, quickly climbing off the couch and out of the reach of the angry pair.

"Ryou told me to wake you up, but he didn't say how," the blonde grinned as he hid behind Honda, as Bakura was now heading in his general direction.

"Oh, leave him alone, Bakura. He was only having a little fun," Ryou said as he appeared from the kitchen a few moments later with a tray of little ghost and pumpkin cookies. "Besides, you didn't leave any specific directions in your note other than wake you up when we got back."

Bakura glared at his hikari, Malik now standing behind him, gently holding onto his arms in case the spirit launched himself at either Ryou or Jounouchi.

"Let's go get ready," the blonde said as he gently and insistently pulled Bakura away from the group and towards Bakura's room.

~*~

"You two have fun and don't get in too much trouble!" Jounouchi teased as the boys headed towards the front door, two bags each full of toilet paper and a bag holding three- dozen eggs, in their cartons of course.

"Don't worry, we won't even be noticed," Malik grinned, revealing a hint of gold tucked into his belt before partially buttoning the robe that Bakura had given him earlier.

With that, they left.

"Wow, Bakura really must trust and like Malik, letting him wear his necklace and part of his costume with as cold as it is outside," Anzu said as she and the other two girls took a seat on the couch, draping the blanket across their cold legs.

"I still don't see what Malik sees in him. He's always so grouchy and mean," Jounouchi said as he wrinkled his nose and rolled his eyes, seating his puppy-dog costumed bottom on Honda's lap, who was reclining in the chair. (A/N: Doesn't he just look adorable in the dog outfit? XD)

"At times, yes, but I've yet to see him get angry with Malik for anything," Ryou said as he sat down on the love seat.

Seto was also sitting on the love seat with Yami in his lap while Yugi and Mokuba sat on the floor while happily munching on the cookies before them.

"I don't think there'd ever be a reason for him to be mad at Malik. He's always so kind and polite to everyone unless they rub him the wrong way. Bakura just knows how to ruffle his feathers enough to persuade him into things," Mai said as she reached for a cookie.

"That's true, but I think he doesn't get mad at him because he doesn't realize how deep his feelings are for Malik. He thinks that its just lust, but I know better. I've seen the way they act around each other enough to know that he's just in love with Malik as Malik is with him. He's just too blind to see it," Ryou said as he eyed the couple next to him, who were currently making out with no regards to the stares thrown their way.

"I know it's not lust, even though I've only seen them together a couple times," Honda said as he half-heartedly fought back for his half of cookie that Jounouchi now possessed. "Just seeing him holding Malik the way he did when they first came out of his room this afternoon was enough for anyone to see how much he likes him."

~*~

"Are they talking about us?"

Malik rolled his eyes as he listened through Shizuka's mind by using the power of his item. "Of course."

"What are they saying?"

The blonde blushed slightly. "Nothing of importance."

"Fine. I'll get it out of Ryou later," he sighed with a smile, glancing to the boy next to him.

"How do you know I'm not telling the truth?"

"You're blushing."

For this Malik shoved him slightly before wrapping his arms around one of Bakura's.

"How much further?"

"Not much. Just another block and a half."

~*~

"That should do it for this block," the white-haired yami nodded in approval as he and the blonde stood in the middle of the road, looking at the white steamers flowing in the cool air.

As they headed for the next block, a hint of evil arose in Bakura's chocolate eyes as he sat his bags down before kneeling down and removing a couple eggs.

"Oh, no, Bakura," Malik groaned. "Not the principal's new car!"

"All the more reason to do it," he said as he launched an egg at the silver beauty sitting in the principal's driveway, a car alarm blaring upon impact. "That's what he gets for giving me a weeks detention for starting a food fight on my first day back from suspension."

He threw a couple more eggs before closing the carton and beginning to walk off, the owner of the car emerging a few moments later to turn off the alarm and yell up and down the street to whoever had egged his car, but no one was there.

Upon reaching the next block to decorate, the boys sat their baggage down and took out a couple rolls of TP, beginning to cover the entire area in white. Anything and everything, ranging from plants on porches to the dogs in backyards, was covered in a beautiful layer of white.

As they headed for the next block, a cop car pulled up next to them as they walked down the dark and semi-empty road, the exceptions being themselves, the cop car, and some leaves.

"Can I ask what you two are doing out this late at night with the materials in those bags?" the passenger police officer said.

Malik smiled and nodded to Bakura, indicating that the driver was in his control.

"We're making the town look nice," the white-haired yami smiled as he continued walking, the driver peeling out unexpectedly down the road, at least that's the way it seemed to the passenger. "I'm sure that he'll have someone else come and check us out."

The blonde shrugged. "Like that's a problem?"

The third and fourth blocks were soon covered like all the rest of the neighborhood that they had just bombarded with eggs and TP, Malik carrying a 'snowball' from their 'snowball fight' on the fourth block.

As they walked, he tossed the white ball of fluff into Bakura's face before running a little ways down the road, laughing like a child.

Having no eggs left and only a few rolls of toilet paper in his bags, Bakura took off after him, quickly catching up to him in a graveyard. Malik had attempted to hide behind a tree just inside the gates.

Playing along, Bakura sat his things down next to the tree Malik was hiding behind, making it seem as though he didn't know where the boy was as he slowly walked among the headstones, looking this way and that, every once in a while he'd call out the boy's name and make a threat.

Once Bakura was far enough away, Malik snuck away from the tree, ducking behind headstones as he snuck up on the yami from behind.

Bakura had heard him snickering a few tombstones away and knew exactly where he was. Since there was no place for Malik to hide now, he turned around and continued to look around. He knew that Malik knew if he moved he would be seen and caught.

Once the yami reached that gravestone, he went to scare the blonde, but was instead scared himself, as somehow Malik had snuck behind him and pounced on him, causing both boys to tumble to the ground.

With Bakura pinned beneath the blonde, all he could do was stare up at him, awe stricken by the way the full moon lit his features and seemed to make him glow even more beautifully than the graveyard they were in. Then it clicked in his mind: he wasn't just lusting after Malik.

'The comfort, the wanting to be near, the wanting to make him smile, it's because I…'

His eyes widened slightly in surprise, having been caught off guard while he was thinking. Malik was kissing him!

Malik, the boy who always was reluctant to do anything to cause trouble, was causing major conflict in Bakura's head right now.

'Since when is he the dominant one?' he thought as he felt Malik's hand slide beneath his head, deepening the kiss, having been encouraged to do so when Bakura responded.

After their tongues were done exploring, they separated, staring at each other as they regulated their breathing.

"It's not just lust, is it?" Malik asked as he moved to sit next to the yami. "If it was, then you would've been more aggressive."

"I think I'm ready to head back home now. I'd rather be there were it's warm with you in my arms that be out here among old friends," Bakura said as he stood up, indicating the graves and their occupants before helping Malik to his feet, that being the only way he could think of at the moment to indicate that it was in fact love without saying it outright.

But Malik understood.

TBC

How did you like the fluffiness?! ^_^; ::Daydreaming about Jounouchi in the puppy outfit in Honda's lap with a cookie::

One more chapter to go! I'll make sure it's up by tomorrow night!!! XD