A/N: Alrighty!! I got reviews so here's a new chapter!! Huzzah!! Oh and I forgot but I don't own yu-gi-oh so don't sue me!
Bakura: She doesn't own me either!! Thank Ra!
Kaley: Oh hush! Do you want sex with Ryou or not?!
Bakura: O_O Alright already I'll be good!!!
Ryou: o_O Oh God…
'' is thinking and "" is talking and is the telepathy thing.
Birds sang far too loudly outside Ryou's window, waking him from his sleep. His chocolate eyes opened slowly, closing again to shield from the piercing rays of the morning sun. At first, his mind was blissfully empty…until he remembered the other night. His wish, the Goddess, it all became clear in his waking brain. He sat up slowly, expecting to see Ai still sitting with her manga pile but to his delight, she was no longer there.
'Maybe she left! Or maybe it was just a dream?' Ryou jumped out of bed, threw on some clothes and raced downstairs only to see the Goddess with sky blue hair standing over a passed out Bakura. Ryou could tell Bakura would have a hangover, the way he was half on half off the couch, his mouth hanging open with a stupid grin on his face. Ryou sighed and walked over to her.
"Excuse me Ai but maybe you should let him sleep." Ryou whispered. Ai turned and smiled.
"Good morning Ryou-kun!!!" She cried cheerfully. Ryou winced and quickly looked to see if Bakura had heard. He hadn't even moved.
"Ai, please keep your voice down!!" Ryou begged. "Bakura must have been drinking last night…I don't need to give him a reason to hit me!"
"Hmm…lover's shouldn't beat each other up!" Benten frowned and hovered closer to Bakura's sleeping face. "I think I should teach him a lesson!!"
"No, whatever you are thinking don't!" Ryou grabbed her arm. "Please?" Ai sighed and nodded.
"Fine fine…your story Ryou-kun." The Goddess shook her head and then a smile formed on her lips. "Speaking of stories, I nearly forgot…" The woman walked into the kitchen and motioned for Ryou to follow. The boy obeyed, all too happy to leave his sleeping yami right where he was.
"Ryou-kun, I'm a love Goddess." Benten said, sitting down on top of the dining table. "I keep a record book of every person's life from the moment they first feel love." She paused. "Your book is huge. You felt love so many times in your life and yet each has ended in heartbreak. You're just like half population of earth that way."
"Thanks for making me feel special." Ryou rolled his eyes and sat at the table.
"I'm not done yet." She glared at the door, towards the living room. "Kura-kun's book is…very short. He really hasn't felt much love in his life. His mother died when he was young and his father was about ten times worse then Kura on a bad day. The things he did to that poor kid…well, it's sad really. But it doesn't make him different. Even the fact that he's a 5000 year old tomb-robbing spirit doesn't change anything."
"I don't follow you." Ryou ran a hand through his silvery hair. "I mean, Bakura sounds like he had a hard time but why are you telling me?"
"Ryou-kun…" Ai smiled and patted him on the cheek. "You're so cute. Anyway, when you and Bakura first met, he felt something. It wasn't quite love yet but it was something that confused him. It made his body heavy, his breath get short, his heart felt like it would burst…well, you get the picture. But being who he is, he couldn't understand those feelings…so he hurt you." Benten giggled rather inappropriately in Ryou's mind. "You see, he wanted you to feel the same way so he figured pain equals love."
"Right, so you're saying he loves for me to be in pain." Ryou's tone was weighted with his usual sarcasm. "I couldn't have known that by now if you hadn't told me."
"Oh hush!" The goddess leapt off the table and rounded on Ryou. "Listen! I'm trying to help you understand that Kura-kun does love you! But in his own way! That's why I'm here! One of you will have to give in to the other's way of love and since I don't think you want to have vine sex mixed with daggers with Bakura I've decided to help you! We'll show Bakura the true meaning of love and peace! We'll warm his heart and make him see your view on love!" Benten panted softly after her long speech. Ryou was quiet for a few moments before he finally found some words.
"…vine sex?" Ryou stared at Ai.
"Yeah, you know where you tie up one of the parties involved, then you…never mind that now!" Benten shouted. It was then that they both heard a loud grunt from the other room. The two froze and listened. The couch creaked and there was a 'thud' followed by a string of Egyptian curses. "Ah, he's up! Bout time, lazy drunk…"
"Ai, you've got to hide!" Ryou cried. "If Bakura sees-"
"If I see what Ryou?" Ryou's eyes widened and he turned around and saw his yami leaning against the door. His eyes were slightly red and he looked dead tired but the same old malevolence still sparkled in his smile.
"Uh, B-Bakura…I-I can e-explain…" Ryou shook nervously as his yami approached him.
"Explain what?" This time Bakura's voice sounded generally confused. "I don't want breakfast yet anyway, make me something later."
'Breakfast? He thinks I'm trying to explain breakfast? Can't he see Ai?' Ryou spun back around, to ask Ai what the hell was going on when he noticed that she'd vanished from the room.
"I'm too tired to punish you right now…" Bakura yawned and bowed his head somewhat. "I've got a headache too. Go get me some of those colored painkiller things." Bakura yawned again and walked back towards the door when he suddenly stopped. "Oh yeah, did you have the TV on this morning?" He asked.
"Um, um…" Ryou shrugged. "Sure, yeah."
"Oh, well, keep it down next time!" He yelled then grimaced as he grabbed his head and wandered back to the sofa. Ryou stared after him for a while before he snapped out of his trance. He ran upstairs and opened the mirrored cabinet where he kept the aspirin. He pulled a few out and shut the doors and let loose a cry of surprise. Ai was standing behind him. She quickly threw her hand over Ryou's mouth.
"Hush!" She whispered. "It's me!"
"Don't scare me like that!" Ryou glared at her and pushed her hand away. "Where did you go?"
"Well now Ryou-kun, I can't let Kura see me or else the wish becomes null and void or whatever…" Ai smiled and Ryou noted that he was going to need some painkillers later too if Ai was around much longer.
"Ai, listen, I know you are trying to help but I don't think Bakura would change for a Goddess let alone me!" Ryou sighed. "I wish he would but…"
"Careful what you wish for, that's what got you into this." Ai smiled. "According to the rules of heaven, I'm not allowed to leave until you and Bakura are happy together."
"Damn…" The chocolate-eyed boy rolled the aspirin in his hand. "Listen, I need to give these to Bakura, he's not feeling well…" Suddenly, The Goddess' eyes lit up and a huge grin spread across her face.
"That's it!" She exclaimed. "Ryou-kun! Take care of him today! Wait on him, make him feel like a Pharaoh!"
"What?!" Ryou's jaw dropped. "Why do I have to do the waiting?! I was going to go see a movie with Yugi!"
"Come on Ryou!" Ai pouted. "He'll be happy when he sees you're not running from him but are instead trying to make him feel better."
"…I don't have a choice do I?" The younger one asked. Ai grinned and Ryou sighed. "Fine but what do I tell Yugi?"
"Don't worry bout that!" Ai said, pushing him out of the bathroom. "Now go make him happy!" Ryou left and Ai nodded, pulling out a manga. "Yep, just like in this chapter where she gets sick and the guy gives her soup. This is fool-proof." She closed the book and started to fade away. "Now to go bug Ryou's friends. Bakura may not be aloud to see me but they can!"
Bakura sat on the couch, the lights on low with his head against a pillow. He'd taken his painkillers and was currently having a warm cloth put over his eyes. It felt great, the rag felt like it was absorbing his hangover right off him. Yet something was nagging him, keeping him from completely enjoying the treatment his light was giving him.
"Your lunch is almost done ok?" He heard Ryou say. "Need anything else?"
"Yeah, an answer! Why the hell are you being so damn nice?!" Bakura yelled, though careful not to move and cause his head further pain. Sure, Ryou was never mean to him but his light was never a slave to him either. Bakura could make his hikari scream, bleed, cry and just about everything else but never could he make the boy willingly do nice things for him. He would always have to threaten him of hurt him before Ryou would get off his ass and do something.
"Do you want me to stop?" Damn, he hated it when questions were turned on him like that.
"Well, no…but still! You want something, right? Want me to not beat you today or something like that right?!"
"Not at all. If you want, you can give me a lesson right now."
"I don't feel like it right now!" Now it was really weird. His hikari was asking for a beating?! That took the fun right out of it. No, there was something going on…he just couldn't put his finger on it…"You didn't answer me! Why are you doing this?!"
"I just want to make my yami happy. Is that bad?"
"Well, er, no but…"
"If you need anything more Bakura, please call. I'm going back in the kitchen to finish your meal."
"But, um, you…er…" Damn, being speechless sucks! (A/N: Always happens when you're with someone you like doesn't it? ^_^) A great thief like himself being stolen of words? Wasn't that against the laws of the gods or something?
"But what my yami?" Ryou's sweet, innocence voice had the ability to do such odd things. Bakura could feel his heart pounding again. He hated and loved that feeling at the same time, yet today he only wanted it to end.
"Er, uh, it's nothing! Get back in the kitchen and get my food!" Bakura barked.
"Of course Bakura. I'll hurry." With that he went back to his meal preparations, leaving Bakura to his thoughts.
'Ok, so maybe he doesn't want anything…but then would he be so damn nice?! Maybe he…finally broke and decided to call me his master! Ha! Yeah right, I didn't break him yet! So then maybe…maybe he really does only want to make me feel better? Maybe he loves me and is trying to show it? Maybe…just maybe, he wants me to show the same towards him? No, he wouldn't want that. Not my Ryou, not my cute, weak, pathetic Ryou. He must want me to die and rot in hell for the things I've done to him so then what's left?!'
Ryou!
What do you need?
'Right now, an answer…' Er, well, are you sure you want nothing in return for this work you're doing?
What I want is for you to be happy. Now, what kind of sandwich do you want?
…Turkey I guess.
Alright then! 'He sounds like he really means it…I guess he is trying to make me happy today. Could still be a trap but my weak little hikari couldn't do that. So, what the hell? I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now…'
…Ryou?
Yes Bakura?
Ah, um…thanks and since you did help me today I guess I won't give you a beating.
…Bakura…ok, well, anyways, the soup's almost done so I'll be right out with it ok? You just relax until then ok?
Alright Bakura closed the mental link and smiled. 'Man, if this is the treatment I get for a hangover then maybe I should get drunk more often!'
"Oh, that is so fake!" Ai cried out, pointing at the movie screen. "The Goddess of Love does NOT wear a throng!" Yami glared at her and hushed her again. "Oh hush yourself Yami!"
"Why did Ryou say we had to bring his annoying cousin again?" Yami asked Yugi. The latter shrugged.
"When he called me to say he couldn't come and found out she was with us he seemed surprised. But he said we should entertain her and so…"
"I'm not a babysitter you know. Well, at least the movie is only two hours long…" Yami groaned as Ai started to complain again.
"What?! The Love Goddess is NOT a sex-fiend!"
"That wasn't too bad." Bakura said, pushing the plates away. Ryou smiled at him.
"I'm glad you liked it." Ryou watched his yami stretch and sighed happily. Ai really had come up with a good plan. Bakura never said thank you or gave out compliments like this. He even seemed to have lost that insane look he always held in his eyes and his smile seemed to be pure in origin. "Can I get you anything else?"
"Yeah." Bakura looked at him strangely, then moved closer to his light. "I could use something else." The yami grew nearer until his face was only inches from Ryou's. The boy's eyes grew wide and they stared into Bakura's. His heart was pounding against his chest so loudly that he knew Bakura could hear it. The white haired man placed his hand over Ryou's heart.
"Your heart's beating rather quickly." Bakura smirked and moved his hand slowly up Ryou's neck. "What's wrong?"
"B-Bakura?" Ryou was frozen by his yami's unusually gentle touch. He could feel Bakura's fingers going up and around his neck, caressing his skin softly as they moved up to his lips. Bakura then traced around his mouth until he finally rested his hand on Ryou's face. Ryou felt like someone had squeezed the air out of his lungs. He couldn't breathe or move. The only thing he could do was stare at his yami and listen to his heart throbbing in his head.
Ryou, you are mine.
Bakura?
…
Bakura, what are you doing?!
…
Bakura! What are But Ryou's thoughts stopped abruptly as Bakura pressed his lips to his light's.
A/N: Yay! Ai's idiot idea is working!!….or is it??!! MWHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!! Maybe he's just using Ryou for sex or maybe he really loves him! Next chapter you shall see!!! MWHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!
Kaley: (sweatdrop) Uh, Bakura? What are you doing? I write the Author's Notes, not you.
Bakura: Uh, oh, uh, Hi Kaley! Great cliffhanger! (tackles Ryou and the two start making out) Now I'll finish the rest of the story!
Kaley: -_- whatever…anyways, next chapter! We'll see what the hell Bakura's thinking! Review please or Kura-kun will send you to the shadow realm.
Bakura: After Ryou and I are done anyway! ^_^