CPegasus: hey there people! Well, looks like it's my turn! SOSOSOSOSO sorry it took me so long to get this up, I wanted to do it right, y'know? Call me petty, or call me professional, either one works for me.

so, looks like it's up to me to get Ryou and Kaiba un-stuck from the wall, now isn't it? Just so's ya know, while everyone else seems to like writing about several different storylines in one chapter, I tend to stick to one. So, this entire chappy is about Ryou and Kaiba. *perky* Oh, and no one kill me if I mess something up, kay? *V-for-Victory*

Sam: . . . . . . I will never understand you . . .

Note: I'm probably the only one so far and for a while who calls Bakura's personalities Ryou and Bakura, rather than Bakura and Yami Bakura or EB or something along those lines. Just ta letcha know. ****************

"Er, Kaiba?"

"What?"

"I'm stuck to the wall."

"That's pathetic. So am I." Kaiba looked around. The supplies for the volcano were all still scattered about the room, much to his annoyance. Kaiba was one of those people who had to have everything in the right place, all the time, while Ryou had the tendency to not notice something on the floor until he tripped on it (A/n: kinda like me ^^'). But then, Kaiba thought, perhaps something lying around on the room could help them out.

"Wow, would ya look at that," Ryou said, wide-eyed, as he suddenly slipped out of his lemony-fresh bindings.

Kaiba stared. "What did you do?"

Ryou stood looking at his hands with fascination. (a/n: heh, he'd be cute doing that) "I'm not sure . . ."

Kaiba sighed. ~great,~ he thought, ~I am stuck to a wall with lemon juice in the company of only one person with a British accent and apparently a very relaxed view on life. Juuuuuusssssssttttt perfect. ~

"Well," Ryou said with a very perky smile on his face, "I guess I should set about helping you out of there, shouldn't I?"

Kaiba suddenly got a very bad feeling about the situation. And likely as he was not to believe them, when Kaiba got those kinds of feelings, they were usually right . . .

*** (2 hours later)

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"DON'T YOU DARE!"

"Don't worry; I'm sure THIS one will work!" Ryou insisted, holding a bottle of bleach up and preparing to pour it on the lemony mess. However, by now the mess was more than just lemony. It was lemony, peanut-butter-y, masking-tape-y, Juicy-Fruit (dun own it)-y, honey-y, toothpaste-y, tinfoil- y, and about to be bleach-y too.

"This is my favorite coat. I will NOT have it bleached."

"But-"

"I have gum in my hair, tinfoil on my pants, and lemon all over me. SO DON'T MAKE ME ANY MORE MAD!" Little known fact: when faced with a huge mess, Seto Kaiba tends to lose his temper pretty severely.

"Well then, I'll just see if the plaster is about ready then!" Ryou said with a smile that would blind the sun.

"HELL NO!"

"Wait a minute!" Ryou shouted. "I've got it!"

"if you say any kind of hard candy, I'm going to scream."

"Your coat is the only thing stuck to the wall!"

Kaiba hung there on the wall for a moment. He looked down dimly at his coat. It WAS his favorite trenchcoat, but was it worth . . . THIS? Kaiba sighed and squirmed out of his trenchcoat. He instantly fell to the floor, covered in various sticky substances. He glared sharply at Ryou.

"Why didn't you think of that before!?"

"I'm not sure! But it's a jolly good thing I did, isn't it?"

Kaiba buried his face in his hands, quickly withdrawing it as it was now covered in toothpaste.

"I am going to wash this junk off me. When I return, have a good idea ready to work with, you got it?" Kaiba asked coldly.

"Sure thing!" replied Ryou, and he sat down to think.

***

Kaiba returned a little while later, in clean clothes and with wet hair. Kaiba didn't particularly LIKE being wet, but it was definitely better than being covered in goop. Ryou was still sitting on the floor in the middle of a huge mess left by the volcano, thinking.

"oh, hello Kaiba!" Ryou smiled reeeeeeeeeeealy big. Kaiba shuddered slightly.

"Did you think of anything?" Kaiba began to pick up bottles of messy liquid and shards of plaster left behind by the volcano.

"Well . . . there is that whole virtual game thing you have, isn't there? Can we do something with that?

Kaiba froze in place. "That actually may not be a bad idea . . . I mean, the technology isn't new, but we could work with that . . ."

"I've got it!" Ryou smiled big again. "What if we stick someone inside the game without them knowing, and see what they do?"

Kaiba stopped again and stared at Ryou.

"*ahem* I just read Lord of the Flies" Ryou rubbed the back of his neck. "It could be like a study of Human Nature."

"now THAT we can do. See how long it takes for a person to lose hope and sanity in a world where everything is rigged against him . . ." Kaiba rubbed his hands together in malicious delight. Ryou backed away. "And I've got just the victim . . ."

"who?" Ryou asked a bit nervously, wishing he hadn't brought it up.

Kaiba smirked. "Wheeler"

******

CPegasus: HAH! There we go! A good idea that someone else can finish up! ^.^

Okay, I don't own Lord of the Flies or anything else. Of course I need to say that. -_-

Now let's see . . . . . . . . . . jeti-chan, you're up! You said u wanted to work with the pancake house, so go right ahead

Bai-bai - CPegasus