Hentai Ryou

By Vada via cretino

Okay firstly, I think some of you guys kind of over-reacted with this whole proposal thing. ^^;;; I just want to say that it was part of the bet, though you'll realise this in the chapter. Not to disappoint or anything, but given all of the events that have happened so far, ending it with a proposal would be a stupid thing to do, don't you agree?

Secondly, I have over 500 reviews!!! *glomps readers* Wow! I'm so happy that you take your time to review my fic, and with such nice comments too. ^_^ Thank you, everyone!

And finally, I'm quite proud of myself for getting this chapter out – I've got a lot of work to do. *nods* My Graphics coursework deadline is due in a few days' time. *cringes* But I couldn't keep you guys waiting any longer to find out what happens. So without further ado, I give you chapter 12!

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, Kazuki Takahashi does… etcetera, etcetera.

Warnings: Shounen-ai. My weird 'sense of humour'. Perverted and sarcastic Ryou. Swearing.

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Just so you remember what happened last time… ^_^

Blushing furiously, Bakura took hold of my smaller left hand in both of his.

"Ryou…will you marry me?"

Chapter 12 – Losing touch with reality

"WHAT?!"

What the hell does he think he's playing at?! Why would he propose…I don't understand! I'm under-age, we're both male, it's just--I  don't…

Wait a minute…

Bakura's face grew even redder, but he remained on his knees and repeated slowly, "Will you marry me?"

Muffled snickers met my ears, and I tore my gaze from Bakura to see that Yami was desperately trying to contain his laughter, but failing miserably.

Just as I had suspected…Yami. He was behind this. The proposal was the result of a stupid bet between two enormous egos. This realisation had the growing panic inside me fading slowly. At least he wasn't serious.

Frowning, I looked down at my Yami and pulled my hand out of his. "You're a moron."

Ignoring the shocked look on his face, I walked past him and up to Yami Yugi, who had incidentally stopped laughing. He actually looked quite sheepish. I think the fact that Yugi was stood next to him with a disapproving look on his face had something to do with it.

"And you!" I hissed at the former Pharaoh, "Who the hell do you think you are?! You think this is funny?!" I sensed he was about to nod, but one quick glance at Yugi made him think otherwise. I stood there, boiling in fury, but unsure of what to say. "You--you stupid, stupid man!"

I heard Bakura slap a hand to his forehead in embarrassment at my insult. I can understand, I mean, he was the infamous Tomb Robber, cruel, powerful, heartless… blah, blah, blah. But this embarrassment coming from the beet-red 'Tomb Robber' still stood on one knee, having proposed to his feminine hikari just moments prior? I think I should be the one feeling humiliated.

Yami raised a fine eyebrow, obviously unimpressed with my confrontation.

An idea suddenly occurred to me, and a slow smirk made its way onto my face. Yami's own smirk dropped, and his eyes narrowed warily.

"Well at least I don't sleep with a stuffed bear at night!" I exclaimed, childishly.

Yugi rolled his eyes. "Yami doesn't even have a stuffed bear." He pointed out, smiling. "He has me to sleep with at night. Right Yami?" The height-impaired teen asked, looking up at his lover with blind faith.

Yami had turned a few shades paler, and he seemed to have frozen in momentary shock. My jaw dropped.

"…You do have a stuffed bear?" I heard someone ask incredulously. It sounded suspiciously like Malik.

Yugi's smile vanished instantly, and he scowled up at Yami. "Why do you need a bear? Aren't I good enough for you?!"

Giggling slightly, I shot a triumphant look at Yami – who was trying to reassure his usually-gentle-but-currently-enraged aibou – before turning and walking out of the arcade, not giving my Yami a second glance.

Malik's POV

I watched in amusement as Yugi stormed out soon after Ryou, his Yami was right behind him, apologising profusely. I've never seen the Pharaoh looking so flustered before. All this over a stuffed bear? I didn't know Ryou had it in him.

My gaze switched to the now-standing Bakura, who had a nasty scowl on his face. Smirking, I sauntered over. My smirk widened as I saw the unhidden malice in his eyes. I'm not surprised. I mean, my Yami and I are taking his precious hikari away from him after all. Well as far as he knows.

"What the hell do you want, Malik?" He spat, glaring daggers at me.

I stopped beside him, blinking in a confused manner. "I'm not here to talk to you, Bakura. I was going to go see if Ryou was all right. He did seem quite angry, wouldn't you agree?" That said, I started to make my way towards the door.

Bakura snarled, grabbing my arm quite roughly, dragging me back to face him. I frowned, wincing slightly in pain. I pried his hand off my arm, narrowing my eyes at him, maintaining a somewhat 'confused' look.

"What's your problem?"

"You are not going anywhere near my hikari." A livid Bakura ground out.

"And why not? He's important to me, you know. He's not yours to control." I smirked inwardly at my choice of wording. Normally I would have said 'best friend', but Bakura would have noticed. Bakura's not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to relationships of any kind, so I'll have to give him a light shove in the right direction.

Bakura's eyes lost some of their anger, and I could see a light sadness in them. It wasn't easy to see, but it was there.

"I know that." He said, somewhat mournfully, though I could tell he was trying to hide it.

I raised an eyebrow. "Then why aren't you letting me see him? I don't want to have to run to catch up to him, you know."

Bakura shook his head. "No…I'll go after him. He is my aibou, after all."

Both of my eyebrows shot up this time. "I don't think that's wise. You just proposed to him, humiliating him in front of a lot of people, Bakura. Maybe it's best if I went to see him."

Bakura's lip curled upwards into a snarl, his anger returning full-force. The sight of an angry Bakura, fangs and all, would have any normal person trembling in terror. I, however, am immune to such things.

"No you won't. I'll do it. And if I catch you near Ryou in the next 6 days there'll be hell to pay." Without waiting for a response, Bakura turned and ran to catch up to Ryou.

Honestly, do I have to do everything for those two? They would never get together if it wasn't for my intervention. Not to mention Bakura wouldn't have gone after Ryou if it wasn't for me putting the idea into his head.

Knowing Bakura, he would have probably just moped until late, slinking into the house when he was sure Ryou was in bed to avoid being shouted at. Either that, or avoid being ignored. And Yami's hate to be ignored.

//Malik…I'm bored. Come and play with me.// A deep, silky voice purred in my mind, interrupting my thoughts.

Smirking, I set off for home. This hikari wasn't about to ignore a request like that.

Ryou's POV

I stalked home, scowling. People were giving my weary looks, but I didn't care. I can't believe Bakura actually did that. I sighed, running a hand through my hair in frustration. I can't blame Bakura for this. It was only a bet, after all. I'll just blame Yami instead. That asshole of an ex-Pharaoh knows how I feel, I can't believe he made Bakura do that!

I do feel kind of guilty about the bear thing, though. I didn't even know he had one. Though the thought is quite funny. But knowing Yami and Yugi, everything will be sorted out by now and they'll be doing one of either three things. Cuddling, sucking face or 'making love'. Why don't they just call it sex like everyone else?

Getting back to my point, the main reason the proposal irked me so much is that I thought it was real. Only for a split second, but for that split second I thought that maybe, just maybe, Bakura loved me.

So much for that notion.

"Hikari!"

I stiffened, recognising the voice to be Bakura's. Ignoring it, I picked up my pace. Home wasn't too far away, and if I managed to get home before Bakura caught up with me then I could lock myself in my room. Then again, there was always the ring… I could take that off so he couldn't use it to get to me.

The problem with having an ex-Tomb Robber for a Yami is that he knows how to pick locks. I found that out the first time I tried to get away from him. Luckily I had a bolt put on my side of the door. The only problem is getting there before he does.

//Ryou, will you slow down?! I want to talk to you.//

/Go to hell./ I said, closing down the mind link.

Had I known that this would have made Bakura even more determined, I would have stopped running. But I kept going, and only seconds later, Bakura tackled me to the ground.

"Oww…" I moaned. My vision was blurry. I think that was due to the fact that my head was just smacked into the pavement. I'm not sure, though. But damn, it hurts.

I blinked rapidly, trying to clear my vision, and when things stopped spinning I found two sharp brown eyes peering down at me. "Eep!" I cried in shock, sitting up. This caused my head to knock into Bakura's, and Bakura to fall backwards.

Bakura put his hand to his head in pain, glaring at me in annoyance. "Dammit Ryou, what did you do that for?" He grumbled, getting up.

Ignoring the throbbing pain in my own head, I slowly got to my feet, feeling more than slightly dizzy. "Me?! Why the hell did you tackle me?!" I yelled. "Ahh…Pain…" I winced, reminding myself to not yell any time soon.

Bakura glanced at my worriedly, biting his lip. "Are you okay…?" He took hold of my arm to steady me but I shook him off.

"No thanks to you." I muttered, pushing him away once more as he tried to help me.

"Well how else was I supposed to stop you? You wouldn't listen to me." Bakura huffed, crossing his arms.

"Just forget it, Yami." I sighed, trying to get my feet to move. Bakura moved to walk beside me.

The dizziness came back before I'd even taken two steps, and the only thing I could see was the floor rushing up to meet me. I shut my eyes, waiting for the impact. When none came I opened my eyes to see the floor centimetres from my face, before Bakura hauled me back up to my feet.

"Damn Ryou, you're going to need to lose some weight if you're wanting me to do that again." Bakura muttered.

The dizziness was making me feel sick, and I could only give a weak, "Shut up," in reply. I faintly noticed that Bakura still had his arm wrapped around my waist, but I couldn't bring myself to care.

"You're in no fit state to walk, hikari." Bakura stated solemnly.

I giggled at his serious face, he looked so funny when he tried to look like he knew what he was on about! "I'll crawl home then." I said brightly, moving away from him and getting on my hands and knees.

"What the fuck?!" Bakura exclaimed. "Have you lost it or something? I think that hit to the head has done some serious damage."

I sat on the floor, pouting. "What do you mean, 'lost it'? I'm perfectly fine!" I shouted.

Many people turned to look at us, and I saw some asshole I knew from school stop to give me a weird look. "What are you looking at?" I snarled, baring my teeth. The guy quickly went on his way.

Bakura burst into laughter and I pouted again. He doubled over he was laughing so much, and someone that walked passed knocked into him, sending him sprawled across the floor.

I burst into a fit of giggles, watching with amusement as he leapt to his feet, flushed with embarrassment. I crawled over to him, but he edged away cautiously.

"Ryou, people are looking! Get up!" Bakura hissed, glaring at anyone that gave us a second glance.

A brilliant idea occurred to me, and so – with difficulty – I got onto one knee. "Bakura, will you marry me?" I exclaimed loudly.

Bakura's horrified face made me burst into another wild fit of giggles. Things started to spin again and I fell forwards, using Bakura's legs to keep me from hitting the floor. Muttering curses, Bakura dragged me to my feet, then lifted me into his arms bridal style.

"We're going home. Now." Bakura hissed, quickly striding in the direction of our house.

I nodded, cuddling to Bakura's warm chest, wrapping my arms around his neck. "Yes." I said simply, looking up at Bakura.

Bakura looked at me with confusion. "What?"

"I'll marry you." I said, rolling my eyes as if he were stupid.

Bakura flushed, looking ahead instead of at me. "You don't know what you're talking about." He muttered.

"Yes I do." I protested. "We're made for each other. Look, you're even carrying me as if I were your wife!" For some reason I found that idea funny, and giggled quietly to myself.

Bakura simply ignored me. Sighing, I closed my eyes to go to sleep. Some rational part of me was screaming, telling me that I was the biggest moron that ever lived. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why, though…

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Uh…okay…I don't know what happened but things got really weird. *laughs nervously* Sorry. ^^;; But yeah, the bump to Ryou's pretty little head did do a bit of damage. He just kind of lost touch with reality for a second.

Instead of going through the whole six days for this to finish, I might just skip a few days. You know, make them uneventful or something? Unless you don't want me to do that, but it'll mean more chapters till the end if you want all six days. *shrugs* It's up to you. ^_^

Oh, by the way, I've updated my site…if anyone cares? So go take a look if you want a fic written for you. *grins* There's a condition, of course.  Also, I've got over my writer's block for DLS&P, and will be continuing with chapter 5 shortly.

Review please! Ja ne.