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Yea! I'm so glad you guys liked it! I got a lot of reviews!

Well, so far, the votes are:

Bakura – 3

Ryou – 4

And now to address my lovely readers!

Ishtarzkiss75: Yes, something will happen. Thanks for the idea! Don't worry; you'll be happy in the end.

Demon of Faith: Hehehe... Yes, floating sandwiches are fun...

Whimsical Lady – Awesome! I got a review from you! Kwelies! I love your fics!

Mastery Ruby: Wow! You've review... like all of my YGO stories! Thanks!

And whenever I write that Ryou appears to be talking to himself, you know he's really talking to Bakura.

Oh, and each stanza of the lyrics appear at the beginning of a chapter (there's a different stanza for every chapter, unless I run out... ;P)

Temporary Illness

By: Chi Yagami

Chapter Two – Bakura's Mischief Begins

Everyone instantly turned their heads towards the floating sandwich. Everyone except Ryou, who was already watching Bakura take a huge bite of delicious ham and cheese. He instantly snatched the food back from his comrade and stuffed it into his mouth (1). Everyone continued staring, the got up and moved to different tables. Tea wanted to stay, but Ryou saw the one called Yugi whisper something in her ear, and she too left.

Bakura glared at him evilly.

"I was eating that, you know," he said with a scoff.

"I know, but everyone saw you! You've got to keep a low profile!"

"Whatever... You know, I've never heard of a PMSing hikari," he replied with a smirk.

"I AM NOT PMSING!"

Well, that earned him the whole cafeteria's undivided attention, especially the group who'd been sitting with him moments ago.

"Is that guy mental?" Tristan asked.

"Is he even a guy?" Marik replied with a sneer.

"He appears to be talking to himself," said Yugi, whom (besides Tea) had the best view of what Ryou was doing.

"I vote we neva go near him again," Joey announced. "All in fava say 'I'."

Everyone's hand shot up except for Yugi, Tea, Yami, and Miho.

"What's the matter? Don't you guys agree with us?" Duke asked.

"Well..."

"Well what, Tea? The guy's delirious! A complete freak!"

"I think we should give him a chance," Yugi said softly. Tea agreed.

"I don't want to hate him or anything... I mean, I've got nothing against him," Miho stated.

"So, Yams, what's your reason?" (2)

"Yams? Joey, where the hell did you come up with that?" Yami demanded.

"Well, I call Yugi 'Yug,' so I figured I'd call you 'Yams!'"

Everyone sweatdropped.

"Anyway, I suspect him of something."

"WHAT!"

"You're suspicious of him?" Tea asked bewildered. Yami nodded.

"Nobody talks to himself like that," he replied.

"Well, I'm giving him a second chance," she announced for the whole table to hear. Nobody said anything; Tea was the friendship queen. It was her nature to turn everyone she met into a close friend.

When school let out that afternoon, Tea skipped down the hall to Ryou's locker, where he was busy stuffing books into his backpack and telling himself not to do anything rational. This creeped her out a bit.

"Uh, Ryou... all set for this afternoon?" she asked, coming up behind him. He jumped about three feet into the air and spun around.

"Oh, hey Tea. Yeah, I'm ready. So where are we going?"

She was about to open her mouth when Ryou's locker door slammed shut. He paled and closed his eyes. He looked like he was about to faint.

"Ryou, are you okay?"

"Uh... yeah. Let's go," he said, grabbing her wrist and leading her out onto the street.

"So, where are we going?" he asked again.

"I thought maybe I go show you all the cool spots in Domino, starting with the Kame Game Shop!"

"Dear Ra, doesn't she ever shut up?" Bakura asked.

"Don't you!" his light replied.

"Huh?" Tea asked, thinking he was talking to her.

"Wha... Oh, never mind."

The continued on in silence, well, except for the raging yami.

"Here we are!"

They had stopped in front of a tiny shop. When they entered, the bell rang, and Yugi looked up from the counter smiling. But his smile soon shifted into a line when he noticed Ryou.

"Hey Tea! Ryou..."

Bakura scoffed. This place was run by the evil midget from his hikari's pathetic school? Although Bakura had to admit that the Duel Monsters cards intrigued him. Ryou and Tea were talking about their favorite cards.

"I like the Change of Heart," Ryou said. Bakura laughed at his reasons for that choice. As if Ryou'd ever get him to change...!

"Me too," she replied, "but my favorite is the Dark Magician Girl..."

Bakura ignored the two mortals and strolled around the room. There were lots of rare cards that Bakura wasn't interested in, but one of them caught his eye: it was the Dark Magician Girl! He looked at Yugi, who was watching Ryou suspiciously, and smirked. His hikari would be in major trouble and the midget would be ticked!

He pulled a hairpin out of his pocket and began to pick the lock on the cards' case (3). Making sure little Yugi wasn't watching, Bakura fished the card off the shelf and stuffed it into his pocket. The he went up behind Ryou and tapped him on the shoulder. Luckily, Tea had gone to talk to Yugi.

"What!" he hissed through gritted teeth.

"Here," Bakura said, holding out the card. "You can give your girlfriend this."

"Whoa! It's the Dark Magician Girl! Where'd you get it!"

"I found it on the ground in that pathetic bus we took to get to your school."

Ryou looked at him suspiciously.

"Oh I get it."

"Get what?"

"Come on! You're the King of Thieves! I think you stole it."

"What? Fine! I was just trying to be nice for a change, but my prissy hikari wants me mean, so that's that."

Bakura smiled inwardly as he watched Ryou get worried if Bakura might actually be telling the truth.

"Ugh... I'm sorry Bakura..."

Ryou took the card and tried to think of a decent way to give it to Tea.

Bakura chuckled as he continued wandering around the store. A stairwell caught his attention, and he decided to find out where they lead. At the top of the landing was a kitchen-living room. He found another stairway and went up those too. He discovered a messy bedroom decorated with DM memorabilia. There was also a boy lying on the bed. He looked just like that other boy downstairs.

"I remember him from that school, too," Bakura said. The boy stretched and got up. Bakura screamed (literally). The boy had no clothes on.

He looked frantically around the room as the boy walked towards him.

"Oh Ra; he's going to rape me!"

Bakura picked up some dirty pairs of pants and threw them at the guy, who, startled, fell backwards after stumbling and tripping on a Dark Magician Girl plushie.

Ryou heard somebody scream and turned to Tea and Yugi.

"Did y'all hear someone scream?"

They both shook their heads and Yugi gave him a weird look. Suddenly Bakura came running down the stairs and straight out the shop door, the bells jingling.

"Who—" Yugi started to ask.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

A half-dressed Yami came running down the stairs and crashed right into Tea.

"Uh... Yami?" she said blushing. He didn't have a shirt on and was lying on top of her chest. He blushed and got off her at once. Then he helped her up. Then he noticed the DM card in Ryou's hand.

"You play?" Yami asked.

Ryou mouthed 'me?' and Yami nodded.

"Yeah... But I'm not very good at it..."

"Well... Hey, that's a DMG card!" Tea exclaimed. "I didn't know you had one of those!"

Ryou smiled sheepishly, and Bakura whispered something in his ear. His body stiffened as he watched Yugi walk over to the card case. Ryou dropped the card, grabbed Tea's wrist, and dragged her out of the store and down the street.

"Yami! The DMG card is missing from the case!" Yugi exclaimed. Yami bent down and picked up the dropped card.

"It's still here." Yugi sighed with relief.

"But I'm still suspicious of that Ryou guy," he continued. "Why did he have a DMG card when ours was missing? And why did he run away so quickly? I think he stole it."

"Maybe... But Tea and I were right there; we would've seen him."

"Hmm..."

"Yami, why don't you have a shirt on?"

"Well, I had just gotten out of the shower and laid down on the bed, when I got up and all of the sudden your dirty clothes are being thrown at me! I thought I heard someone run out the door, so I put on some pants and followed them down here."

"Interesting..."

Yami smiled at Yugi, but deep inside he was angry. What was this new kid's motive? And why was Tea hanging out with him? He knew she was friendly but he also knew when and where to draw the line. Was Ryou using Tea as a source of information on her friends? He just had to find out the truth about Ryou Bakura.

(1) Yeah right, like Ryou and Bakura would ever be comrades! More like two enemies who're stuck together!

(2) Pronounced like 'Yami' only drop the '–i' and add and '–s'.

(3) Why he would have a hairpin in his pocket, I have no idea. Maybe because his hair is so long, he has to pin some of it up... LOL.

How was the chapter? This is just the beginning of Bakura's evil deeds that Ryou gets blamed for. Here's some things that are going to happen in Ch.3: Tea gets humiliated, Miho and Malik get into a little argument..., and there's somebody else's reflection in the mirror! Find out next chappie!

Since you've read this far, you might as well go ahead and review (XD).