"So how do we do this?" Bakura asked as he crossed his arms over his chest and stared at Marik who picked up a book from Malik's bookcase.
"I'm not exactly sure," Marik admitted as he began flipping through 'Ancient Egyptian Spells for Dummies'. "I wasn't around you currently are. So unless you want to lose a dark game I suggest we find another spell to use." He then picked up another book and tossed it Bakura who caught it and read the cover.
"Idiot's Guide to Ancient Egyptian Spells?" he asked giving Marik a confused look. "What kind of books are these?"
"Beats me but we have a ton of these books around the place," Marik replied with a shrug.
The pair searched for hours and finally found a spell that Marik thought would work. "Are you sure about this?" Bakura asked cautiously eyeing Marik.
"Yes! Just recite the damn passage already!"
Bakura did what he was told and afterwards he gave Marik yet another look. "Now what?" he impatiently asked. "I don't feel any different!"
"Give it time baka!" Marik yelled at him. "It took a year for me! It shouldn't take as long for you though."
"Fine! But I'm not leaving until I get my body!" Bakura growled.
"Whatever. We need a free babysitter anyway."
"I'm not watching your brat!"
"Get your hikari to do it then!"
"Stop yelling!" Malik's angry voice came from downstairs. "You're scaring Marzuq!"
"Like I care," Bakura muttered and Marik gave him a murderous look.
"Are you guys finished yet?" Malik bravely asked as he entered his bedroom with Marzuq in his arms, who was tightly clutching his tiger plushie with a scared look in his eyes.
"Yes," Marik muttered as he shot Bakura a dirty look.
"Good because I need you to go to the mall for me," Malik replied throwing him a grin. "And you get to take Marzuq with you since it's too hard for me too look after him still all by myself."
"Have fun," Bakura said to Marik with a smirk on his face as Malik passed Marzuq to him.
"Oh no you don't!" Marik cried grabbing the back of Bakura's shirt with his free hand and started dragging him out of the house. "You are not staying here all alone with my Malik! Come on!"
"Have fun boys!" Malik gleefully called after with a small wave. He happily sighed once he was all alone. "Freedom at last!"
"What are we doing here anyway?" Bakura grumbled as walked through the mall with Marik who was pushing Marzuq's stroller.
"There's a sale on leather pants," Marik informed with a small grumble. He did have to admit it was worth going shopping with Bakura and Marzuq if he got to see Malik in leather pants, which was rare since the accident because Malik had too much trouble doing them up.
"You're whipped," Bakura replied. "Remind me never to fall for Ryou when we get our own bodies."
"Yeah right," Marik scoffed. "Do you realize how sweet and innocent he is? A person could have lots of fun with someone like that. Just imagine the sounds he'd make if he was tied up and fucked crazy."
"Need. Body. Soon!" Bakura lustfully groaned while Marik laughed at him. Marzuq's happy squealing, however, soon drowned his laugher, out.
"Huh?" Marik asked before he noticed what caught Marzuq's eye, a small black lab puppy in the window of a pet store.
"Make him stop!" Bakura yelled who had covered his ears as soon as Marzuq had started making noises. Marik gave him a glare before pushing Marzuq inside the store to look at all the animals.
"Hello!" a saleswoman chirped as soon as they entered. The woman had dollar signs in her eyes knowing a sucker when she saw one. Unfortunately for Marik, he had no experience in dealing with people like the saleswoman. "Can I interest you in a pet for your wonderful son?"
"No," Marik grumbled, as a reply but the women was not about to back off.
"Are you sure?" the woman asked, whose nametag read Bobette. "Studies show that children with pets are far more smarter then those without. Any noble parent would want the best for their child."
"Get a snake," Bakura suggested as he walked up behind Marik, following him.
"No!" Marik snapped. "Malik was bitten by a snake as a child and almost died! No snake is ever getting near him again!"
"A puppy then?" Bobette said and Bakura noticed her for the first time.
"Don't I know you from somewhere?" he asked her.
"Maybe you know my twin brother Bob?" Bobette replied. "I doubt it though since he lives in Domino, Japan. I guess I just have one of those faces."
"We're not getting a puppy unless I can train it to attack the pharaoh," Marik said getting back to the subject on hand. "Now will you please leave us alone!"
"A cat?" Bobette said trying again while pointing to Marzuq's tiger plushie. "The gods would be most pleased with you and I see he likes tigers."
"Cats are independent, not cuddly!" Marik argued not realizing he was falling into a trap. While the adults talked, Marzuq noticed a cage full of bunny rabbits and started squealing delightfully again.
"A bun!" Bobette cried. "A perfect pet! They're clean and can be litter trained and they love to cuddle!"
"Hey, this one looks like Ryou," Bakura said pulling out an all white lop eared bunny. "Buy this one!"
"No!" Marik protested and he turned Marzuq's stroller around and started pushing his son out of the store. That is until Marzuq started sobbing and threw his tiger plushie in fit of protest. "Fine we'll take the damn rabbit!" Marik yelled and Bobette gladly put the bun in a traveling box and picked out the most expensive stuff that the rabbit would need. Needless- to-say there was an extremely large total once she was finished and Marik was glad he borrowed Rishid's credit card before going out that day.
"Lets take this crap back to the van and then we can get on with our real reason for being here," Bakura suggested so that is exactly what they did except they kept the Ryou look-a-like bunny with them as even the two yamis knew that it wasn't wise to keep the bun in the hot van. They then headed back inside the mall and almost got to their goal of buying leather pants when Marzuq started crying like crazy.
"Now what?" Bakura asked in annoyance. He was already pissed that he had to carry the box with the bunny in it around everywhere even though it was him who had picked out the bunny in the first place.
"I don't know!" Marik replied, yelling at Bakura. It was then he noticed that Marzuq's tiger plushie was missing. "Hey! Where's that stupid toy of his?"
"Hell the how should I know?" Bakura asked. "He must have dropped it somewhere!"
"Help me look for it!" Marik demanded. "Or else he'll never stop crying!"
"No thanks," Bakura replied before vanishing and leaving Ryou in his place. Ryou blinked a few times before staring at Marik with a scared look on his face.
"Find me his stupid tiger toy!" Marik yelled at him and a frighten Ryou ran off stilling clutching the rabbit box in his arms. Noticing he was carrying a box from a pet store Ryou decided to try there first.
"Excuse me but did a small child leave a tiger plushie here?" Ryou asked rushing into the store where he was met by Bobette.
"Why yes!" Bobette happily cried with the dollar signs once again appearing in her eyes. She dug out the plushie from behind the counter and placed it on top of the box Ryou was holding. "I'm glad you came back though because I was just looking up rabbit care and saw that studies show that rabbits like to live with a buddy. And I have a perfect buddy in mind!" She then pulled out an orange kitten from a bin.
"I don't know," Ryou began to protest. "It's not my pet!"
"But don't you want what's best for the child of your friend?" Bobette innocently asked and Ryou sighed.
"Okay, okay," Ryou agreed and Bobette, charged up the kitten as well as all the kitten's supplies. For a small fee she also got another employee to help Ryou carry all the supplies to the van. Ryou then carried, the bunny, the kitten and the tiger plushie back to where Marik was waiting.
"Found it!" Ryou happily cried as he sat down the boxes and handed the plushie to Marzuq who immediately stopped crying and giggled happily. "It was at the pet store."
"Where did that other box come from?" Marik suspiciously asked, peering at the box which suddenly started meowing.
"Well the nice lady at the pet store said your bunny needed a friend and a pet kitten would be good for it," Ryou nervously explained, wishing his yami hadn't left him all alone with Marik.
"You better have paid for it yourself!"
"Actually Bakura stole Rishid's credit card from you so I used that," Ryou weakly replied. "I couldn't afford everything myself."
"Well that's just as good," Marik said as he started pushing Marzuq towards the mall's exit and Ryou once again picked up his boxes before following Marik.
Malik was lazily sipping on some lemonade and watching a DVD when he heard the van in the driveway and turned off the DVD so he could greet the returning yamis and his son. Much to his surprise, Ryou was in control and he was lugging box after box inside and placing them on the kitchen table.
"What's going on?" Malik demanded. "Did you get my leather pants that I wanted?"
"No," Marik grumbled for a reply. "We almost got there when Marzuq realized he lost his toy and Bakura took off leaving me with Ryou who then had to search the entire mall looking for the blasted thing."
"So what's in these boxes?" Malik asked taking a peak in one and to his surprise a rabbit jumped into his arms. Malik looked down at the rabbit then glared at his lover. "Marik!"
"It's not my fault!" Marik protested. "The lady at the store said pets make smart kids! Besides I only bought the rabbit!"
"There's something else!" Malik yelled and Ryou pulled out the kitten. "You three are never going shopping together again! Do you realize how much work goes into taking care of one pet let alone two?! And we're the ones that have to take care of it because in case you haven't noticed Marzuq is a baby!"
"Why do I get the feeling I'm not going to get laid tonight?" Marik muttered as he held onto Marzuq who was trying desperately to pet the kitten in Ryou's arms.
"Damn right you aren't!" Malik yelled. "Isis is going to kill us!"
"Why am I going to kill you?" Isis asked walking into the kitchen followed closely by Rishid and Malik and Ryou quickly hid the animals behind their backs. "Hello Ryou."
"Hi Isis, hi Rishid," Ryou politely replied. "I hope you don't mind me staying here. Bakura kind of didn't tell me that we were going to Egypt."
"It's all right," Isis replied with a wave of her hand. "I know all too well how yamis can be." It was then she noticed all the pet supplies. "What's going on?" she asked eyeing her brother. Malik and Ryou both reluctantly pulled the bun and kitten from behind their backs.
"They're adorable!" Isis cried taking the bunny from Malik and cuddling him close. "I always wanted a pet! Now we have two of them!"
"You're not mad?" Malik asked in shock.
"Of course not!" Isis replied. "Beside Rishid can take care of them so you guys can focus on Marzuq."
"Gee, thanks," Rishid sarcastically said and Ryou handed him the kitten. The kitten purred and nuzzled close to Rishid, melting his heart. "Okay we'll keep them."
"What are we going to call them?" Isis asked.
"That one looks like Ryou," Marik said pointing to the bunny.
"Hey, it does!" Malik cried and both Isis and Rishid agreed with them.
"No it doesn't!" Ryou protested with a pout.
"Let's see what we're dealing with," Isis suggested as she lifted up to sex the bunny. "Yep, it's a boy."
"Little Ryou it is!" Marik cried throwing a smirk in Ryou's direction.
"What about this one?" Rishid asked and checked the kitten. Again it was a boy.
"McGuire," Isis quickly said and everyone gave her a confused look.
"While you guys were running off with the Ghouls I adopted a cat named McGuire who looked exactly like the kitten," she explained. "One day when I had him outside a dog killed him."
"Fine with me," Rishid agreed and both Malik and Marik could care less what they named their new pets.
"You are so lucky," Malik muttered to Marik as they wandered out of the kitchen. After placing Marzuq in his playpen in the living room the two blonde Egyptians headed up the stairs to their room for some peace and quiet.
"Does this now mean I am getting laid tonight?" Marik innocently asked and Malik gave him a dirty look.
"No," he firmly replied and Marik gave him a small pout.
"How come?"
"Because you didn't get me my leather pants," Malik told him. "Until I get my pants, no sex."
Before Malik knew what was happening, Marik was gone in a flash. A few seconds later Malik could briefly heard the sound of their van pulling out of the driveway and speeding down the street.
"Yamis: can't live with them, if you kill them they just come right back," Malik said before lying down on his bed for a nap as he knew he had a long night ahead of him.
A/N - Appologies if the format is not right since the new edit system didn't put in the little '' I use when changing scenes. I think it's correct but it's late so if the scene suddenly changes without warning it's the new edit system fault.
Also McGuire would be my landlady's cat who I love very much and is very much alive.