The third X; A Guard's duty, Jou's Tale
One single word that escaped Bakura's lips reached his ears, Dog... Jou erupted with anger and fury beyond comparison, revenge bubbled under the surface and an unfamiliar gleam entered his eyes. "Yea n oo d'ya tink u re eh?" yelled Jou as he slammed his mug of ale down on the table. The man ignored him before calmly announcing he was 'the Thief Lord'... Jou's head snapped up and he asked, "Wat d'ya say?!" Bakura chuckled and Mokuba, the high priests' brother had the guards posted at his tavern move the fight outside.
Jou looked at the white haired thief, "If I kill kiel 'im da ol pharaoh will 'avta like meh.." he murmured to himself, still obviously drunk from all the ale he'd been drinking.. Jou chuckled darkly at Bakura, "Youuu mayed a bahd mihstaayke fightun me." he stated and then ignored Bakura's comment about a dagger and that was how he'd be dying tonight... It wasn't as if it mattered much to him what his opponent had to say about death, the only thing that mattered was killing the thief and gaining glory and honour for his family and his sister. Jou charged, Bakura toyed with him for a second by slapping him in the back of his head with the blunt side of the blade. Head ringing, the next thing Jou knew was that the blinding pain in his side had caused his world to go dark as his consciousness faded.
The next time he came to, Jou was at home in his room with his sister Shizuka in a chair by his bed sleeping calmly. "Shizuka, wat would I dou withoutcha?" he thought to himself as he glanced around the plain room he'd lived in since he was a small child. Closing his eyes once again, Jou drifted into an uneasy sleep filled with strange dreams of a dying woman and the white haired thief.