And here I am back for the next chapter! 12 reviews!! Yay! You guys make me so happy! This was my first fic so I really didn't think people would like it enough to read this far and actually ask for more! Oh, wanted to clear something up, the timeline for this story would be that the Yami's yes have their own bodies but are already out of school (according to the paperwork done by Kiaba they would be 1-2 years older than their counterparts, well couldn't really put down 3,019 on a job application right?..) The Hikari's are on their last year of high school the 17-18 age range. Got it? Good!..
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Chaos-chick3: Thank you so much! Marik's personality is still evolving itself, I don't know how to explain it. With me I start the story and the characters just kind of build their own personality from it. shrugs..odd... I know....Glad I could give you an idea..you should try it sometime..lots of fun..yes tenshi means angel so Ryou kind of cursed them there. Thank you so much for your high praise and the review was not too long, it was great! I really loved getting the input!!
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Now on to the story! I even had to do some research on this Thanks to Bakura for pointing it out so I didn't make any really silly oops!!
Ryou's POV:
'Bottles of formula, check. My report for history, check. School uniform, check. Breakfast, almost done, good now hopefully Kura and Marik will wake up soon.'
"Hey Ryou, you know your spare uniform is a little tight."
"Quit complaining Malik, I could not loan it to you."
"No, no, its fine, just great! So is breakie ready?"
"Almost, I swear Malik you think about your stomach almost as much as Bakura! He is always in here drooling, I wonder why he isn't here yet?" Malik suddenly wrapped his arms around my waist startling me, were all of my friends going insane?
"Are you sure its the food he is drooling over?"
"W-what do you mean?" Suddenly he let go and ruffled my hair before walking to the table. Normally I really hate it when people mess with my hair but this morning I think I was just thankful he let go of me.
"Nothing little Ryou-chan. You know sometimes you are just too cute!" I blinked at him a couple times before flipping the last of the pancakes. Putting them on the stack while buttering each one I suddenly felt two arms wrap around my waist and a mouth nuzzle my neck. This wasn't Malik, I knew as soon as I felt the arms and then the smell, before he said a word I knew. That spicy, musky, rich scent that could only belong to one person.
"Good morning Bakura. Your just in time for breakfast." His nuzzling was a bit distracting though and I think I might have dropped the pancakes if he hadn't grabbed them and the sausage.
"Only if it doesn't go on the floor hikari." That smirk, always that smirk. The one I don't know if I want to wipe off his face or kiss. Wait. No, not kiss. I think maybe everyone acting so oddly is getting to me. Its not that I'm not attracted to my yami, its just, well, I doubt he would look at me as anything other than a fling or a back-up. I'm not going to be that. I know people have thought me weak and in the past they couldn't be more right. I always believed in choosing my battles, though mostly it was that I chose not to have battles. But living with Bakura has rubbed off on me, how could it not after sharing a body with him so long?! I'm still quiet, that is just my nature but I have more respect for myself and I think that is a good start.
"Oh! Bakura, I already have Tenshi all set up, she needs to be fed about every 4 hours, place the bottles in warm water to heat, not the microwave. Also don't move the corner of the box off the heating pad or change the temp. that is very important. Are you sure you can handle this?" He arches one brow at me, I guess maybe the morning time isn't the best for directions.
"Well little light it seems there isn't much choice but for me to handle it, ne? Don't worry your pretty little head the fur ball will be fine." I smiled at him, I know he sounded kind of gruff, but to anyone that knows Bakura that was him being nice.
Bakura's POV:
Ryou is giving me instructions on the kitten, I suppose I should listen but these pancakes taste really good, I wonder if we have more syrup? Oh well, no heating bottle in micro, got it. I mean how hard could this be, its just a little kitten! So saying I put a few more pancakes on my plate since I hear Marik stirring. Yeppers here he comes, I don't even try to contain my laughter. He walks into the kitchen following his nose like some cartoon, eyes completely closed just sniffing his way to the table.
"Hey Marik, sitting at the table usually works better with your eyes open."
"nyah, sweeb foo" Yeah, he is awake. I can't help myself as I stick my foot out and watch him fly to the floor. Smirking I wait to see if that woke him or if I should get some water. Malik looks completely unfazed, I'm guessing this is normal. They don't usually sleep over, just show up when bored or hungry.
"Owwie Kura-chan. That wasn't nice now I have a boo-boo! Kiss it!" He points to his head and my eye twitches. There is no way I am kissing his head!
"Come here Mari-kins and I will kiss it."
"Yay! Mali-poo kissie and make all better!" That seems to help his mood and there goes the last of the food. How does someone stuff half a pancake in their mouth in one bite? Oh well.
Its already time for our hikaris to head off to school. I swear that whole school thing is just an evil plot! I mean I didn't go to school and look at me! I have a perfectly good profession that would more than pay the bills. But Ryou insists its important so I guess its one of those things I concede on. Marik and Malik kiss goodbye, that kind of makes me jealous, I mean where is my kiss?! I look at Ryou and try for my best puppy eyes.
"Okay Kura I just checked Tenshi and she is fine for another three and a half hours but please listen in case she mews. Thank you so much, you are the best yami ever!" I try to turn the eyes up a notch, he looks a bit confused.
"Is something wrong Kura?"
"No kiss bye-bye?" Wow isn't that an interesting shade of red he just turned. Why does he have to look so cute when he blushes?!
"Umm, okay." I couldn't believe it! He agreed! And then I face faulted, yeah just about fell on my face completely as he leans up and plants a quick kiss on my cheek before turning and dashing away. Great, of course that is what I wanted.
"Shot down." I look over at Marik's smug smirk.
"Shut it squirrel bait."
"Awwwww Kura-chan, I'm wounded, no love for me anymore?"
"Yeah I have your love right here." I make a rude gesture at him but realize it was a big mistake when he is suddenly pressing me against the wall. Great.
"Oh, Kura. I had no idea you cared."
"I don't. At least not about you." I shove him off and walk into the living room collapsing in my chair. Marik following a few steps behind and taking the couch, remote in hand. Mental note, remind Ryou we need to clean the couch, really well.
"So any big plans today while the lights are out?"
"I don't know Kura, I thought you were kitty sitting." He smirks over at me, damn I wish I had already put my knives on.
"Yeah well Ryou said I have four hours between feedings. So we wait until the next feeding and then have some fun for a couple hours."
"Works for me." I take the remote and flip mindlessly through channels. Why are there so many damned soap operas on during the day?!
Seemed like forever but three and a half hours finally passed. I went up to Ryou's room to grab the fur ball while Marik warmed the bottle. But something was wrong, I'm not saying I knew a lot about animals, because I don't, but it was impossible not to notice something wrong. I picked Tenshi (yeah yeah I know refer to her by name when worried only but I'm a tomb robber, what do you expect?!) and headed towards the kitchen.
"Hey Marik, forget the bottle, I think we have bigger problems."
"Oh Kura! Don't tell me you killed the kitten already, Ryou-chan is going to kill you!" He shook his head as if in grief. "And you were so much fun to hang out with."
"The bloody fur ball isn't dead! At least not yet. But I don't think they are supposed to look like this!" I held said kitten up.
"Did you feed it a golf ball?"
"No I didn't feed it a golf ball you twit! I think something is wrong! What the hell do we do?!" Marik sat on the floor, right there, dropped into a cross legged position looking for all the world like he was in deep thought.
"I know!" I just about jumped two feet when he shouted and made a mad dash for the phone.
"What in the name of Ra are you doing?"
"Well see every time Malik needed to know something he would use this and call some person and they always told him. So I asked once and he told me the magic number to this person. See! You push 4-1-1" Then he held the phone to his ear and waited. Would this actually work? Did they have a seer at that number or something?
"Hello nice person that knows everything! My friend Bakura and I have a question for you! His Hikari's kitten looks like it ate a golf ball, what do we do?" This was followed by some nodding on his part, why nod to a phone I don't know but if I didn't find out what this seer was saying soon I might have to harm him. Course at that time he starts to talk to me.
"She says we have to take it to a vet."
"Okay, what is a vet?"
"I don't know, that's just what she said." I hit him upside the head, bloody idiot, and take the phone.
"Okay Seer of the weird three number phone place, what is this vet thing and where do we find one?" After a few minutes of confusion and explanation on her part (I have to hand it to her she was patient) we not only had the name of this vet person, which turns out is a doctor to animals, but also how to get there.
Ryou's POV:
It was about time to feed Tenshi, I wondered briefly if maybe I should call home at break and remind Bakura, I just couldn't shake this bad feeling. But I knew if I did that he would think I didn't trust him. I sighed and resigned myself that I would have to have faith in my yami and wait until school ended. I tried willing the clock to move faster but it just wouldn't, sometimes having shadow powers would be handy, such as now, but I wouldn't want to trade my sanity for them. I felt the note bounce off my forehead before glancing down at my desk to see the crumpled ball and then looked up to see Malik smirking.
Ryou lighten up, I'm sure they haven't eaten Tenshi, I mean there was plenty of food in the house and no teriyaki sauce, right?
Great, that was so reassuring. I wrote back and tossed it back only I managed to hit Jou in the back of the head but at least it landed on Malik's desk, even if Jou was glaring at him for it. I watched as he read my reply and barely contained his laughter.
Malik, I will never buy teriyaki sauce again!
Bakura's POV:
Thanks to the good directions and patience of the Seer we found this 'vet' place. Didn't look like much but once inside there were animals everywhere, wow this city must have a lot of sick pets. Marik immediately went over and started a yapping contest with something that looked similar to a bald rat with large ears. I don't think its owner was very pleased since she kept asking Marik to go away and leave her precious alone, yeah right, fat chance of that. I start to walk up to the counter when the lady there looked up with an expression of surprise.
"Ryou? What are you doing here today?"
"I'm not Ryou!" I growl at her, sheesh can't anyone ever tell the difference? He is so much 'prettier' than me, oh well.
"Oh, I'm sorry. What can we help you with?" Her tone was now what could only be described as icy. Damn, maybe I should have played along but too late now. I hold the kitten up.
"I need you to fix my hikari's kitten." Suddenly she is shoving a board with papers and a pen at me.
"We need you to fill these out first and then the doctor will call you back when he is ready." What is it with these doctors today and making everyone wait until they are ready?! I go back over by Marik who is now doing a perfect impersonation of a dog for a cat that has every hair on end and probably a good case of dehydration by now.
"Stop playing and help me here." I 'borrow' a pen from a lady's purse sitting next to me for Marik to use.
"Why do you have to fill out papers? It's the kitten that is sick, not you."
"I know that numb nuts, these papers are asking about the kitten."
A few minutes later I took the papers up to the woman behind the counter and waited as she looked through them.
"Occupation: tomb robber?"
"Yes, do you have a problem with that?" I smirked showing off one of my fangs.
"We require part of the payment today and the rest will be billed to you. How will you be paying?" I was glad at this point that I remembered to bring the checkbook, and Ryou had insisted on us getting a joint account. Its not that he trusts me completely, its not the account that the money his father sends goes into or the bills come out of. This account is more for stuff like groceries, necessities and such, its also the account where I put my 'earnings' though Ryou never asks where the extra money comes from.
"Do you take checks?" She looked at me skeptically but slowly nodded so I took out the checkbook and started filling out a check. You know these things aren't hard, you write on it some, put in the amount of money you are giving them and there you go, wish we had these back in Egypt, but then it might not have been as easy to steal purses. Oh well. I hand her the check and she looks it over like it will bite her!
"Look that check is perfectly good! It even has my Hikari's name on it and he is almost too honest!" Suddenly her eyes go wide.
"Ryou Bakura! Then you must be Bakura!" I slowly nod, not sure if I like how fast her moods seem to swing.
"Ryou talks about you all the time, and you know, seeing you I have to say I think all those stories must be true." She looks over my shoulder with a thoughtful glance at Marik who was now having a licking war with a great Dane. "That has to be Marik."
"Yeah, so umm, you going to fix Ryou's kitten now or what?" I once again hold up the fur ball.
"Awww, poor thing. Yeah let me take it back to the doctor and see what we can do." I make a mental note to find out later how she is on such friendly terms with my light. But within a few minutes she pokes her head back out the door and beckons me to come.
Behind the door was a long hallway with lots of other doors and this woman took this moment as the appropriate time to talk to me as if we are long standing friends. I wonder briefly about the type of people my hikari hangs out with.
"Ryou is so sweet! Great with people and animals, its really been a joy since he started volunteering here." He volunteers? Wait, I remember him saying something about a class assignment to volunteer somewhere, guess this is his.
"So when is it that he volunteers?" She looks slightly surprised but keeps her smile, guess she figured I would know.
"Saturdays nine am until noon." Well that explains where he has been every Saturday lately.
"Is this something you have to sign up for or can you just show up?"
"Well usually you sign up and there is a screening process. But since you live with Ryou and how wonderful he has been I am sure if you wanted to help out you could just show and the we would be happy to have your help. Ryou speaks so highly of you." I smirk, I'm sure they would, and Ryou speaks highly of me huh? Well maybe it won't be as hard as I thought seducing my little light.
She led me through one of the doors where an older guy was holding the kitten.
"When was her last bowel movement?"
"Her what?"
"The last time she went to the bathroom." Come to think of it the towel she is in is the one from last night and its still clean.
"I have no clue when she took a shit last, maybe before Ryou found her yesterday."
"I see, okay then. I will show you how to do this and you can then show Ryou." He takes what looks like a large cotton ball and dips it in water.
"The water needs to be warm but not hot." Then he starts to rub it over her private areas. Oh no way! I am not...the cat exploded, I mean it. That was the most disgusting sight I ever saw. I guess she did have a lot backed up, but not anymore.
"You can't honestly expect me to do that! Its disgusting!" He looked at me skeptically.
"Well if you aren't willing to take care of this kitten properly I will have to keep her and find a suitable home." Dammit, if I don't return with the kitten Ryou is going to have a breakdown. I sighed and resigned myself.
"Fine. But how long until the fur ball can do it herself?" The doc still looked skeptical but I guess decided to give me a chance.
"Hopefully not too long, she appears to be two to three weeks old. You need to do this at each feeding though until she can go on her own. My receptionist will have everything you need waiting for you at the desk along with a pamphlet with some addition information."
"Great." He hands me the fur ball and I leave not sure if I really want to come back here on Saturday, oh well I guess I can see if I have won Ryou over by then or not.
Getting back out to the waiting room the woman behind the counter has a bag for me and a receipt for today's charges. I shake my head, so much money to find out how to make a kitten take a dump, fucking perfect. Taking the bag I look over to Marik who is now making some person's cat dance while it looks like they are having a seizure over it.
"Come on Baka, we have to get back home before Ryou and Malik." Marik drops the cat and sprints for the door.
"Race you home!"
"I hope we see you on Saturday then!" She gives me the most cheerful smile, I smirk.
"Maybe." I wonder how long until Marik realizes I have the keys?
GAH! Done!..that chapter is done, yes there will be more but I want to get this posted. I can't believe it took me over 24 hours to write this! Between this cold, a yard sale and a toddler that loves the backspace button. But its done! I plan to have the next chapter out very soon! Thank you again to all those that have reviewed and to those that are reading this!! Please R &R it makes my day!