"I actually liked you, Bakura. Why could you not see that?"

Bakura smirked at her sad attempt to start a catfight. Who did she think she was kidding? He laughed when he saw what she had on.

Natale, clad in a dark green kimono, her hair tied back into a ponytail, looking very pretty indeed and more like a girl then usual, took her fighting stance. Bakura laughed at the thought that she actually wanted to fight him. He knew who would win, heh. Him hands down.

"What is it you want, Natale?" Bakura spat out like poison.

It was her turn to smirk. "To fight Ryou for your love," she spat back.

Bakura laughed some more. "You think I could love you?" She nodded her head in reply. "If you haven't noticed yet, I love Ryou. How hard is it to penetrate that thick skull of yours that I haven't in the last 5,000 years liked women, let alone love them?!"

She frowned at this. "Let me see you two kiss then."

Bakura strode over to Ryou. He grabbed the back of Ryou head and pulled him into a hard kiss, sending Ryou's senses spinning. The rush and the want and the force behind it was nearly overwhelming.

Bakura pulled back and broke the kiss, turning to face Natale as she walked out of their door, whose jaw was down so far he was surprised it wasn't dragging on the ground.

When he turned back to Ryou, he looked in the hikari's big doe brown looking eyes and saw something there that wasn't there before, he was sure of that. There was the want and the need that had been left by the kiss, but there was one more emotion… love?

Ryou took him by the shoulders and gave Bakura the biggest hug and then pulled away a few minutes later. Ryou laughed at the confused look on his yami's face. "Waaa…?"

Ryou laughed again. "I think I should be mad that you told her first that you loved me. But now, I just see that I am the luckiest hikari in the world to have such an emotional yami as you, Kura-chan," he said, finishing with what must have been the sweetest kiss ever in the record of kisses.

As Bakura relaxed and automatically pulled Ryou's body closer to his, he felt Ryou's lips part slightly, inviting the yami into his territory and Bakura accepted his invitation, dipping his tongue into Ryou's delicate little cavern. He felt Ryou also relax as he prodded his koi's tongue with his own, and it accordingly came to life and wrestled intimately with his own tongue for minute, until it just caressed it.

As Ryou pulled back and broke the kiss, gasping for air, he looked Bakura in the eyes for a second with his big brown ones. "Could we go out for a while?"

*~*~*

As Bakura and Ryou walked into the nightclub, they weren't really surprised to see Yugi, Yami, Malik and Ishtar* already there.

Apparently, word had spread fast.

As Ryou started to walk to over the group's table, he paused when Bakura walked up to microphone.

~I think Bakura is finally gonna sing.~ Malik told his yami via mind link.

Bakura started to sing as he played the piano.

"I would like to visit you for a while

Get away and out of this city

Maybe I shouldn't have called but someone had to be the first to break

We can go sit on your porch

Relax

Talk about anything

It don't matter

I'll be courageous if you can pretend that you've forgiven me."

Bakura's voice flowed with a love that only Ryou could detect, and it was this song that made Ryou understand totally that Bakura was truly sorry.

"I know I let you down

Again and again

I know I never really treated you right

I've paid the price

I'm still paying for it every day."

Ryou then sent a mind message that made Bakura stop singing, but he continued to play the piano until the very end, when the whole club clapped for his talent.

*~*~*

As Bakura and Ryou walked out of the nightclub after Bakura's song, Ryou wrapped his arm around his yami's waist as they walked home.

"That was really nice, Kura-chan," Ryou sighed.

Bakura merely shrugged. "I didn't know if you really believe me that I was sorry."

Ryou laughed. "Of course I believed you, baka!"

Bakura shot a soft glare at Ryou. "Eh, can't do anything about it now."

As they walked into their house, Ryou's eyes got that dark brown look that he did when he had raped Bakura. Bakura shuddered as they walked up the stairs, but thankfully they went to their own rooms.

As Bakura flopped down onto his bed and turned on the radio, he felt exactly like the lyrics were.

"It's just a sense, really nothing clear

Is this desire or is this fear?"

The tomb-robber sighed. Yeah, were telling him how he felt. He was sure of it.

"Do I let you in, or do I shut you out?

Is this control, or is this doubt?

You move so close that I feel your sweat

…Is it time to go, but not just yet?"

Bakura stared into the bedspread his head was on. It was like the person singing this new exactly how he was feeling.

"Here's the thing

Is it love or hate, is it right or wrong

Can we get it straight?"

Bakura frowned as he pushed the 'Off' button on his radio. He just wasn't in the mood right now for songs that depicted his mood.

*~*~*

* = I'm starting to get them confused, so from now on Malik is the hikari and Ishtar is the yami.

You guys should really like next chapter!

Ryou: Why's that?

One simple word.

*crickets chirping*

…LEMONS!