Chapter 14 - A special gift

It was supposed to be a whole day off with only him and bakura, just the only two of them. You can't actually really say that it was supposed to be like a 'date', as others would probably think or take it the wrong way. No, it wasn't a date at all. More of a sibling related thing. Instead, bakura had already promised him that they would spend some quality time with each other for the very first time ever. Of coarse, ryou had to go through another begging to satisfy bakura, but it was obvious later that he didn't even need to since bakura had already agreed on it without any problems. Ryou always wanted to show bakura around during the modern present time since he wasn't really familiar with some other things, so ryou had planned on teaching him some fun entertainments first.

First was off to the electronic store, where ryou predicted that it would eventually catch bakura's fascination. He had thought it would be nice to share all the cool gadgets with bakura since he liked mostly all of them. Surprisingly, he was correct.

"What's this..?" bakura asked curiously in interest awe. The white haired darker boy held the object above his head. "Arn't these supposed to be called headbands?" the thief raised an eyebrow

Ryou couldn't help but only allow a small laugh. "No. That's a headphone." he corrected.

"I knew that baka." bakura murmured annoyingly. Ryou only sighed and rolled his eyes in frustration.

"How do you wear these?" he spoke more seriously.

"You put it over your head, like this." ryou took the time to help bakura with everything as much as possible without trying to go through the frustration at the same exact time. Although this was bakura's very first experience after all. After going through a seemingly rough struggling to get it the proper way he finally managed to..

"There. Now you just push this right here to hear music." Ryou smiled while pushing a random red button below. Bakura scratched his head in suspicion.

"I don't even hear anything.."

"You have to wait."

"Oh wait, I hear it. Hey, this is pretty cool ryou...so this is what music sounds like." ryou then noticed that his expression had grown more soft again.

"See. I knew that you would like it. Just push the other buttons to change the music and songs. I'm going to go look at some video games and movies in the meantime. Don't go anywhere without even telling me. Okay?"

Hoping that bakura wouldn't possibly do anything stupid, ryou left the thief behind.

He thinks that I can't even take care of my own self. What makes him think that...?bakura thought lowly to himself while pushing another random button to change the music. The next one, however, didn't really catch any of his interest at all..

"Boring..." he spoke outloud in a monotone. He began repeatedly pushing every other button to change the station in boredom entertainment.

Ryou, on the other hand, was searching for some interesting home movies that he could probably buy for both him and bakura to watch when they go back home at the end of the day. At first none of them didn't seem to catch any of his interest . He continued looking until he spotted the one he was looking for, picking it up from the shelf.

I just hope that bakura will like this..he thought to himself hopefully. "Or maybe I'll just get two instead just in case.." he smiled brightly before grabbing another. His expression grew more serious at remembering the thought of his yami. "I wonder what he's up to.." ryou told himself worriedly.

"Work you stupid. Damn. Piece of crap..!" A sudden yell from a certain tomb robber filled the whole store, where some people were expected to be found staring weirdly at him in confusion, but bakura didn't really care about the humans around him.

"If you wish not to be tortured by one of my favorite torturing methods you WILL obey me!"

Unexpectedly, bakura had already ruined the whole new music system after it hadn't even been about half an hour since ryou had left him all alone. He growled furiously in frustration by banging his fist violently on top of the buttons, causing some of them to malfunction and break.

"Oh shit." he cursed more calmly. "That wasn't smart.." He soon noticed that a grumpy security guard then walked up towards him.

"Um excuse me kid, but what are you doing?" the taller man demanded a quick answer by tapping his foot impatiently.

"Um...well...you see...I can explain.." bakura forced out a fake nervous laugh. If this guy dosen't wish to die then he better get the hell out of my face. Oh wait...I already promised to ryou that I would stop trying to kill people from now on...damn it!

"Excuse me sir. Are you there?"

"It's not like I did it on purpose...honestly!" bakura waved his hands in front of him while sweat dropping nervously. I can feel my patience wearing thinner....

"Yes you did. I saw you kid. You literally broke it and now I'm going to have to ask you for in charge of paying that thing." the officer informed while pulling out a small notepad out from his pockets.

"WHAT?!" bakura blurted out hastily. The security guard only eyed him raising an eyebrow. Bakura had enough of this once and for all.

"Heh. What if I don't then? It's not like your going to make me...so what are you going to do about it mortal?" his voice suddenly changed back to his old attitude.

"Well, then I'm going to have to do this.." the officer smirked while a several more guards appeared out of nowhere behind him with what it looked like a pair of handcuffs in both of their hands. Bakura's eyes instantly widened from surprise afterwards realizing. He quickly pushed and ran past all of them, causing some of them to get knocked over.

"Ahhh! Ryou! Help me!"

"Get him!!" one of them yelled from under another.

Ryou stood in front of the cashier's table. He again stared down at both of the dvds that he had chosen out for both him and bakura. He smiled at the thought. One of these could be a special Christmas gift for bakura. I just hope that he doesn't find out that I bought it for him until I tell him about it first." ryou sighed happily.

"I just need to pay for these and then I have to go look for hi-" his thoughts were immediately cut off by the sudden scream of a familiar voice yelling out his own name. Ryou slowly turned his head to the side and saw the frantic thief running towards him with great speed.

"There you are baka! I was looking everywhere for you!" he panted breathlessly.

Ryou's eyes widened. "Bakur..?"

Without even letting him to get the chance of finishing his question, bakura quickly grabbed onto his hand and began pulling me out.

Ryou had no idea on what was going on. "Hey! Wha..? Bakura, what are you doing?!" he screamed.

"I Can't explain right now, I'll tell you later. Now just shut up and come with me. NOW!" he continued dragging the poor boy out of the store.

"Now...wait a minute..! I still need to pay for-"

"Ok good, I knew that you would understand!" bakura interrupted him yet again.

"Demo-"

"LET'S GO FEED THE PIGEONS!" bakura shouted more loudly, trying to ignore what ryou was trying to get out from his mouth.

"There aren't no any pigeons in here!" ryou pointed out.

"I meant out in the park baka. We can play with them, torture them, shove corn seeds up their small asses..." bakura constantly went off acting as if he was excited about all of this.

"Bakura, what has suddenly gotten into you?" ryou asked worriedly. "Why are you in such a hurry?"

"Why must you keep on asking?! Now just hurry up!" Ryou only sighed out loud as they both finally got out of the small building.

"Okay...where are the pigeons...?" ryou asked bluntly, looking around the streets.

"Um..I lied." bakura replied back lowly. Ryou only glared back at him.

"Bakura!! I didn't even get to pay for the things that I wanted to buy. It's all your fault that everyone probably thinks I'm a thief now..!" ryou screamed. "What happened?!"

Bakura felt more bad after noticing the furious look on the boy's face. "I..um..accidently broke that thing I was listening to back there..." he confessed hesitantly.

Ryou's eyes widened in fear. "You...WHAT?!?"

"I'm sorry! I didn't really mean to!" He apologized arrogantly.

Ryou slightly shook his head in disappointment. "Bakura...I think it would be best if we both just went somewhere else instead.."

"Fine with me."

Electronic stores…they…weren't definitely the right place for him. I was sure we were about to get literally killed just for the main reason that He 'accidentally' broke some hopeless CD player that I showed me. Luckily, we both never got our own asses caught for the consequence. I didn't know why for myself, but just remembering the thought on what happened on that day always made me laugh out loud..

Ryou sighed disappointingly before taking a small bit out of his food.

"I still can't believe you did that.."

"Uresei.." bakura growled angrily , taking a huge chomp out of a big red piece from his rare meat in unmannered form. A red juice trailed down from his mouth, making ryou to hope that it wasn't what he thought it looked like and slightly cringed at the sight. He looked back down at his own meal, gently poking the food with his fork nervously in playful manner. Bakura soon noticed his sudden change.

"Aren't you hungry..?" he quirked an eyebrow, feeling not comfortable of how ryou was now acting.

"No. It's not that. It's just..." ryou paused as if he was trying to get something out from his mouth. "It's really nothing.."

"Are you sure you okay? You've been acting really weird ever since we came here." bakura suddenly grew more concerned.

"Huh? Of coarse. Why do you think that?" ryou smiled back at the thief mysteriously; this made bakura slightly shudder.

"You know, your kind of scaring me." He continued chewing his food in a more slower pace. Ryou only laughed out loud at his reply.

"You are! Not only that, but your starting to laugh for no reason now."

Just when ryou didn't get the chance to answer back, the young waitress returned back to their table holding a yellow check in her hands.

"So did ya'll enjoy the meal?" she smiled.

"Yes. Arigato." ryou smiled back politely.

She nodded her head in return. Her attention then focused back to the boy that looked very much similar sitting in front of him, and then back to ryou in interested awe.

"I'v been always wanting to ask you ever since i first saw ya'll. Are you two related?" she asked curiously.

"Yes. No." bakura and ryou replied back with different answers at the same exact time. Ryou only gave him an odd stare of confusion.

"Oh. Then are you two twins then?"

"Yes. Well..." they both answered again. Ryou now glared back at him, and turned his attention back to the waitress. "Um..actually we're not related at-"

"Yes, we are." bakura interrupted rudely while wrapping his arm tightly around the other's neck, literally almost choking him to death. "We're brothers."

Ryou's eyes widened in surprise. "No, we're no-" he coughed.

"Right ryou?" bakura grabbed him by the head and ruffled his now messed up white hair in a playful manner.

"Wait a minut-!"

The young girl only laughed out loud hysterically. "You two are so sweet to each other. And cute too." she added at the end while winking mysteriously as her interested eyes appeared to seemingly be now focused on bakura.

A small blush of embarrasment formed on his cheeks while bakura twitched one of his eyes as she left them.

"I think she likes you, bakura." ryou giggled softly.

"Shut up! Um..look..let's just get out of here....now. Are you ready or not??"

Ryou slowly glanced around with his tiresome eyes, making sure that he hadn't forgotten about anything. As he was turning his head from side to side something fascinating then suddenly caught his brown eyes from outside the fogged glass window. Surprised, he had finally noticed that it had already begun to slowly flake down at steady pace. It was snowing. His attention focused back to his yami, who was waiting impatiently for him to hurry up. Of coarse, bakura didn't even notice this yet and ryou's mind had already planned for himself that he wanted to surprise bakura with the beautiful sight, the fact that ryou knew that he had never seen what snow looked like ever before. His lips curved upward into a mysterious smile in excitement.

"What are you smiling about..?" bakura cocked his head to the side in disturbance.

"I..want to show you something.." he told the thief softly. "Do you mind coming with me outside? And you can't peak." He added.

"Outside? Why do you want to go there? I'm freezing my ass off in here already!" bakura complained.

"Please bakura. Just for a sec. I promise..." ryou begged; his eyes expressing strong emotion.

The older boy pouted, but loosened up. "Fine! But hurry up."

"Ryou's smile returned back to his lips. "Thanks.."

"Is this supposed to be some kind of joke..? Cause if it is, it dosen't seem that funny.." bakura questioned suspiciously while his eyes were covered by ryou's both hands in front of his face. "Or is this supposed to be some sort of a surprise?" he asked again as he had no idea where he was walking to.

"We're almost there bakura. Just keep on walking until I tell you to stop. And remember, no peaking at all."

"What is it that you want to show me..?" the darker boy began to get more impatient. "You know...I think we should go home now. You've been acting weird all day and I don't think none of this has been good for you."

Ryou continued leading bakura to the very top of the small hill in front of their path and made sure that bakura didn't trip or miss anything in particular along the way, then he knew that he would ruin everything. After a seemingly long rough struggle to get to their destination they finally reached the very top. The wind in the cool air gently blew by, slightly tussling both his and his yami's long white hair. There was nothing surrounding the empty area, but except only from the large blue and clear ocean that fittingly matched nicely with the white and grey clouds above in the sky. The view was just perfect and breathtaking if anyone ever got the chance to see it. Luckily, both him and bakura were the only ones to view it for the first time.

"We're here." ryou whispered softly. With that he finally took his hands off of the other's face, allowing the thief to see his own sight again in front of him. Bakura's eyes instantly widened, blinking in both confusion, but fascination as well. The slightly taller boy stood silent for a moment, not knowing whether to speak or not for himself in this kind of situation right now. The flakes from the snow falling above him landed and blended along well in color that matched perfectly with his already white hair. Noticing his sudden change of personality, ryou smiled looked back at him.

"Well…what do you think?"

"It's…beautiful…" bakura whispered softly, continuing to now stare up at the falling sky. "…What is it?"

"It's snow." ryou told him simply.

"Snow…?" bakura questioned oddly. Suddenly, his eyes widened again.

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A young Egyptian boy that looked about only 8 years old sat at the very top of the steep roof of his own house, staring and silently admiring the big stars that sparkled and twinkled brightly in the dark sky high above him, however, he wasn't alone. Another small girl that looked slightly younger than her own beloved big brother was sitting right beside next to him, also admiring the sky in mild fascination. She softly sighed happily, resting her head against her brother's comfortable shoulder.

"It's beautiful…isn't it?" her soft voice was just barely above a whisper..

"Yeah." the other that appeared to have shoulder length and choppy white hair replied back, not bothering to take his staring eyes off the dark blue night.

"wouldn't it be really pretty if we both ever got the chance to see what snow really looked like..? I'v always wanted to see it.." she slightly frowned in mild depression, closing her eyes halfway.

"It's too bad that we will never get the chance to.." the white haired boy sighed deeply in disappointment. "It will never in this kind of place that I know of.." he added bluntly before now standing up on both of his legs. He then slightly spread his arms out apart, while slowly closing his dark brown eyes and sticking his nose up into the sky. The cool wind blowing in the thin air tickled his nose.

"I wish I could just fly…so I could go anywhere, and any place that I wish to go to…" he spoke softly. The sorrowful boy then opened his brown eyes again, looking back down at the other. He revealed a small sad smile. "Don't you..?"

"Hai." she nodded gently in agreement.

"C'mon. Try it, it's actually fun! Even though its just all pretending." he suddenly shouted out, his cheerful voice now filled with happiness.

"Okay." she grinned back.

The two young related siblings continued to laugh in both excitement and fun humor, to the to point where it all soon lead them to become extremely exhausted from all the too much fun at the end. They decided to take a short rest by sitting back down again on the roof.

"Can I ask you something..?

"What?" he replied back, still panting breathlessly.

"When we're both free…someday…could you sometime show me what it looks like?"

The boy's last expression on his face gradually faded to where now he was more serious, but he smiled back at the end.

"Of coarse."

She gasped in both excitement and surprise. "Really?!"

The boy nodded his head again. "I don't know when it will be…but someday…"

"Do you promise??" she held out her pinky out, waiting for the other's response.

"I promise."

They both twined their fingers together in agreement. She looked back into his eyes with a now more happy smile on her face.

"Arigato...oniisan.."

Bakura suddenly gasped, tightly clutching onto his head with one of his hands which literally almost made him to lose his own balance. He softly groaned while clenching his teeth together. Ryou immediately noticed this sudden reaction.

"Bakura..? Bakura! Are you okay?" ryou supported him by grabbing onto his shoulders.

The darker boy looked back at him, a slight look of surprise in his eyes. Ryou only grew more worried at this.

"What happened?"

"I'm..not sure. Are you ready to leave yet?" bakura suddenly asked out hastily.

"S-Sure." Ryou only watched him slowly leave…a tint of sadness in his brown eyes as the wind blew more harder messing up his white hair.

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He turned his back and started walking away. I stared at him blankly as he slowly walked off silently. I then opened my mouth to say something, but I reluntantly backed down again as I soon suddenly felt a sharp-like striking pain go through my heart, and it felt so horrible. I quickly clenched onto my chest with the support I hoped that obviously didn't exactly help much. I knew then for sure that it was another attack I was going through. This time the attack was more worse than it ever had been before, and it was more difficult for me to breathe again...

But I didn't let him see me like this as I quickly turned my back on him. Luckily, he didn't hear me struggling and he continued walking off as if nothing had ever happened. I quickly took the respirator out the back pocket of my jeans and inhaled into it. After a couple of minutes the pain was starting to go away gradually and I felt a little better afterwards.

"Hey Ryou, you coming?" He then called out, turning his head around.

"Be right there bakura." I smiled back at him.