Chaos at Work by: jade_tiger Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! or any of its characters.

Warning: Slash (m/m pairings), some m/f pairings, AU, and OOC

Chapter Four

Yami sat on the couch his head moving slightly with the beat of the music that was currently blaring in his earphones, ignoring everything else in his surroundings. Unfortunately for the former ruler he was too engorged in his music to notice the shadow that passed by, moving closer and closer to its target.

"Gotcha!" Bakura pounced on the unsuspecting yami and began to mercilessly tickle the smaller crimson-eyed spirit. In the last few week since they had run into each other in the park and seen the movie the two had become closer and had gotten to know one another better. Surprisingly neither had attempted to kill the other at all, no matter how many time Bakura had come close to pushing Yami too far or how many times Yami had dragged the other less social spirit into get together with the others to try and get him to socialize, they had, to the surprise of all, become good friends.

"Shit! Bakura, what the fuck are you doing," Yami exclaimed trying to control his laughter, with little success. "Stop, I swear if you don't stop now I'll......I'll tell Ryou that....... that you check out Kaiba whenever he's around!" His threats were accompanied by snorts of laughter and gasps, as Bakura continued his assault on his fellow spirit.

"I do not!" Bakura shot back indignantly continuing his attack. "Take it back Yami, take it back! I do not check him out; if anyone does it's you! Don't try to deny it! I've seen you looking at his butt!" Yami laughed tears streaming down his face and his sides cramping, Bakura seeing his friend weaken stopped and moved away from the other with a triumphant smile. "Hehehe, got you good that time Yami," he said slumping down on the couch and turning on the TV.

"Dammit, Bakura, why'd you have to do that, now I have a headache." Yami complained shoving the others feet off the couch and sitting down as well. "What the hell got you so fucking happy today?"

"Do I need a reason to be happy and visit my best friend to spread the joy?" Bakura asked innocently, turning to Yami with eyes that looked disturbingly identical to Ryou's, shinning with innocence and tranquility.

"For the love of Ra, Bakura, don't do that. It's creepy when you do that." Yami shuddered dramatically, and his crimson eyes grew wide as Bakura's brown eyes began to water and shimmer with unshed tears. "Where the hell did you learn to do that?"

"Are you saying I'm scary?" Bakura asked in an almost childish voice, his lips quivering slightly. "I thought you loved me." He suddenly lunged at Yami and clung to his chest like a child, giving a loud wail. "You don't love me anymore!!" The former tomb robber's shoulder shook, with silent tears, causing the leather clad Pharaoh to sigh.

"Bakura, seriously, stop," he sighed at the others theatrics. "What the hell are you on, man, I've never seen you so fucking high!" He was well aware that Bakura was just playing around; he had learned early in their unusual friendship that Bakura's sense of humour was very hard to understand and often had no basis whatsoever. Bakura's shaking suddenly stopped and he sat up with a large smile on his face, his eyes, thankfully, were back to their usual narrow, manic lit state.

"Hehehehe, come on you know I got you scared I with the eyes," Bakura said jokingly, smiling at Yami before turning his attention back to the TV and continuing his tone holding a note of seriousness. "You know, I wasn't lying before, I have seen you checking Kiaba out." The comment caused the spike haired spirit to colour and shaking his head in instant denial. "Don't lie, you know you want him Yami, and as your friend I will help you in any way I can."

"Bakura, you're seeing things, I don't want Kaiba, never have never will, understood?" Yami's denial fell on deaf ears as Bakura listed ways on how they could Kaiba. "Bakura, are you listening to me at all? I do not want Seto Kaiba!" Yami all but screamed at his soon to be dead friend.

Bakura gave the other a dubious look before continuing, "You know we can always kidnap him and you could have your wicked ways with him and then he wont be able to resist you. Yeah, definitely, that's the best way to go at it." Bakura nodded, mentally grinning as Yami fumed, the white haired spirit could practically see steam coming from the other's ears.

"Bakura, get this through your thick skull, I do not want Seto Kaiba, and we most certainly will not be kidnapping any one." Yami was lying through his teeth at his claim of not wanting the tall brunet, because he did, in fact, want Seto Kaiba, had wanted him for a while now but had said nothing since the two of them had never really got along to begin with.

"Don't lie Pharoah," Bakura said reproachingly, his smile changing from a manic grin into a real smile that was seen only by a few people. "I can tell you want him and I seem to recall someone from our past who greatly resembles Kaiba, someone you were close to." Yami gasped at the mention of their past life, not being able to deny the truth; Seto did, indeed, resemble someone from their ancient life in Egypt, someone Yami had been close to.

"Look 'Kura," he began, using the nickname he had started calling the other with, "I don't want you to tell anyone about this, understood? The past is best left where it is; there is too much pain in our past lives for us to bare in this one; to inflict on those we care about. I know you yourself have secrets you would never think of telling Ryou, I have my own that I would rather keep away from Yugi, and Seto. Please let's keep this to ourselves." His tone was sad and held a note of desperation, a feeling that Bakura could not ignore; although not many got along with the former tomb robber those who did found, in him a loyal friend who would always watch over them.

"As you wish, Pharaoh," he sighed, knowing that Yami was right, his past life was not something he wanted anyone to know about, even Ryou was kept in the dark about his history in Egypt. "I will tell no one, but I hope that you change your mind Yami, I really do. You can't keep on beating yourself up for the past, Seto, if he ever found out, will forgive you, he always has in the past from what I remember, and he was loyal to you first and foremost. Have faith that he will continue to feel the same towards you in this life."

"How I wish you are right Bakura, but we can not reveal anything to them yet, it is not time." Unknown to the two spirits they were not alone in the house and another person had heard everything that was said and was at the exact moment concocting a plan to get the pharaoh reunited with the CEO.

to be continued

tiger: well i hope you all like that! i tried to write something with a bit more humour for the holidays but i can't seem to write anything amusing at the moment. well that's all i'm going to write and hopefully i'll have the next chapter to By Shadows and Lights done before Christmas or hopefully soon after.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A MERRY NEW YEAR!!!! jade_tiger

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