Okay..Next chappie, actually working on three stories at once, mommy bought me an espresso machine!!.. Mwahahahaha the world shall know cough..ahem..okay..On with the story!! (right after reviews)

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BaKura's POV:

Malik drove home since he had actually drunk the least and my eye was swelling like a bitch! Yeah I was going to hear it from Ryou on fighting. I sighed.

"You know you're going to get it from Ryou." I snarled, well I snarled as much as my split lip would let me anyways. "Just warning you, sheesh."

"I already know that! I'm just glad he is already asleep!"

"I wouldn't count on that 'Kura-chan."

"What? Why?" I looked to where he was pointing; Ryou's bedroom light was on.

"Oh bloody hell." Malik turned to look at me assessing my appearance.

"You're a dead man."

"Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence. Come on, might as well head in since I'm sure he knows we are back. Some ending to a Friday night." I slowly got out of the car and shuffled my feet on the way in, the great tomb robber, scared shitless to face a person he could break with one hand. Oh how the mighty have fallen. We make it inside and just take off our shoes when a very annoyed looking Ryou comes down the stairs. "Hey Ry, why aren't you asleep?" I try hiding my face under my hair looking down as he walks closer and Marik and Malik step away.

"I had to feed Tenshi, and I would ask what you three were out doing but I'm sure I will be able to read about it in the paper tomorrow, not to mention I want to be able to pass a lie detector for the police when I say I know nothing." Malik and Marik were intently studying the ceiling and floor, which only made Ryou more suspicious as he stepped closer. "'Kura, you have yet to look up. I know your little stunts never embarrass you so what is... OH Ra! 'Kura!" Yeah…he finally got close enough to see my face, here it comes. "You three have been out fighting again!"

"No way! We didn't throw even a wittle punch!" Marik staunchly defended his innocence.

"Yeah, only cause you two had the damn big knives so they wouldn't fight you!" Ryou was madly looking between us trying to piece everything together.

"Well if we hadn't then his friends would have joined in! At least we kept it fair!"

"HOLD IT!!" All talking ceased as we looked at Ryou. "Good, now that I have your attention, what in the bloody hell happened?!" Marik was the first to happily chirp in.

"Okay, first we went to get some eggs, this was a really great plan..."

"NOT the whole night!" He pointed to my face, I gave up all hope. "I mean THIS!" Marik looked confused for a second.

"Okay, well a very long time ago BaKura's mommy and daddy... OWWIE! That huwt Mali-kins!"

"He means the fight." But he started kissing Marik's head where he hit anyways.

"Oh! That! That was great!" Marik looked like he had the best story in the world to tell. "See we went to our usual bar and had a few drinks to unwind." Ryou wasn't looking pleased as he glanced between Marik and myself. "So it was all fun until these guy came in." Malik interrupted him.

"Hey Ryou, do you remember what those guys looked like that you got Tenshi from?" Ryou looked confused but shook his head no.

"I couldn't tell you, I was more worried about Tenshi."

"Well they remember you!" Marik practically shouted it while beaming. "See they sat near us and boy were they loud! So they were talking about work and what caught our attention was that they started talking about finding this kitten." Ryou nodded hesitantly. "So then they started talking about the cute boy that begged to have the kitten." Ryou started blushing and looked at me with confusion on his face.

"Honest Ryou, 'Kura had a good reason!" Ryou looked at Malik before looking back at Marik to finish.

"Yeah! He did! We knew it was you when they started saying how pretty he was and that you almost wondered if it was a boy or girl." I think I actually heard Ryou growl as I bit back a snicker and Malik coughed. "Then they started talking about your long white hair, soft voice…oh! And how they wondered how loud you screamed with such a soft voice." Ryou turned a much deeper shade of red. "Then your accent, 'Kura was getting really mad but he kept his control still...honest! Only a little growling!" Ryou nodded. "So then they started on about how it wouldn't matter if you were a boy a girl cause it would still be nice having their fingers in your hair while you were on your knees."

"Marik." I growled out as Ryou choked.

"Hold on 'Kura! I'm just getting to the good part!" Ryou looked almost scared. "Right, so at that point 'Kura only broke his cup and if they had shut up then there probably wouldn't have been a problem. But they started going on about your ass and how they would love to bend you over a table…" Ryou turned a new shade of red as he choked before screaming out.

"WHAT?!" Malik nodded once but Marik was bobbing his head enthusiastically.

"Yeah! That was the point Kura lost it! And I mean in a big way, it was beautiful! He just turns and isn't even standing yet when he slugs this guy!" Marik began to act out how the scene had unfolded. "The asshole goes flying across the room, took out some tables and chairs on the way. So Kura stalks up to him, the guy is standing by then, I would say if BaKura had been drunk then the other guy wouldn't have stood any kind of chance!" At the word drunk Ryou arched a brow at me and I cringed. I don't think Marik was helping my case much. "So the guy throws a punch.' More enactment. "And Kura blocks it, but then his other fist comes out of nowhere and catches Kura in the eye, he stumbles back but regains fast." Marik's words were just getting faster and faster. Would have been damn amusing under different circumstances. "So he starts yelling at Kura asking what his damn problem is, Kura hit his again knocking him into the wall. Walks over and picks the guy up by his neck"

"Hey! Mari-poo!" Malik was very startled to be pulled into this enactment.

"No worries Mali-kins! Your Mari-poo would never ever ever hurt his wittle Mali-kins!" Malik gave in, somehow he trusted him. "So then he grabs the guy like this, he throws another punch and splits open Kura's lip, but he doesn't even notice, I mean blood pouring and he doesn't even flinch! The guy is still yelling wanting to know Kura's problem so Kura asks if he really wants to know, this was beautiful! I mean poetry!" Ryou is looking between the two of us a bit more hesitant now; maybe it was helping my cause. "So Kura starts punching the guy…but he is talking to, like this." At which point the spoke and mimicked the punches. " Stay away from my boy-"

"MARIK!" I hadn't realized I had shouted until I noticed Ryou's head whip around to look at me.

"But Kura! This is what you said! So anyways he said 'Stay away from my boyfriend or I will cut off your balls and feed them to you!'" At which point Marik let go of Malik but started to cover his neck in kisses cooing thanks to him for 'helping'. Ryou choked again and looked at me with a mixture of astonishment, disbelief, shock, and I think maybe, hope?

"Is this true? How it happened?" He looked between myself and Malik, both of us nodded yes. "I see." He looked thoughtful for a minute before looking at me again and sighing. "Come with me." He turned walking into the kitchen while the three of us followed silently. "Up here." He motioned to the counter where the best lighting was as he pulled a first aid kit out from under the sink and grabbed a washcloth from the drawer. Having the three of us around he got in the habit of having a first aide kit in every room with a sink. I hopped onto the counter, nervous but slightly relieved, I mean, even if I was going to be punished at least it will be with my wounds taken care of. He looked over my shirt, now covered in blood and sticking to me in places. "Well that is ruined. Lets get it off." Slowly he began peeling the shirt away from my skin before we removed it and he threw it in the trash. "Now lets see how bad this is." Pulling my head down he examined my eye and the small gash above it. Dampening the washcloth he started to dab at the blood.

"You know that washcloth will be ruined too." He arched an eyebrow at me.

"Would you prefer I not do this? Perhaps tell you to just suffer?"

"No."

"Okay then, keep quiet." I pouted and he finally broke a bit of a smile. "Well this won't need stitches, it's very light. He then moved down to my lip and cringed. "Oh Kura, what am I going to do with you?!" I smirked, well started smirking until I flinched.

"I could give you a few ideas." Ryou blushed a bit but rinsed out the washcloth before returning and dabbing at my lip trying to carefully clean it. It took a bit but he finally had all the blood cleaned from my face.

"Well it seems your lip looked much worse than it is."

"Humpf, easy for you to say." He smirked at me, which was a shock, seeing a smirk on Ryou, I think I am rubbing off on him.

"Malik. Would you mind detaching yourself from Marik long enough to fill this bag with ice?" A few noises later Malik managed to at least get Marik to move to his neck so he could fill the bag and hand it back to Ryou. "Thank you." He placed the bag of ice in a towel and held it against my eye.

"Ra damned! That's cold!"

"That would be the idea, Kura. Now hold this so I can get the rest of the blood off you." I held the bag while Ryou rinsed the washcloth again and started to clean the rest of my front, starting at my neck. It was actually nice until he reached my chest, those soft touches of his as he wiped away the blood was anything but relaxing at that point but as he moved to the few spots on my stomach I couldn't stop squirming. He stopped and stood up looking at me confused. "Something wrong? Am I hurting you?"

"Well not really wrong, and hurting." He looked even more confused.

"Then what is it?" Okay, he asked. I grabbed his hand not holding the washcloth and placed it on my groin moving his had over the definite bulge straining at my pants. I watched his face turn almost purple it was so red. "Oh." I don't think he knew what else to say, but he hadn't removed his hand yet. I couldn't help myself.

"Well you took care of my other problems, feel like helping with this one?" I smirked as I pushed his hand harder against myself and heard his gasp.

"K-Kura!" He took his hand way s if burned and blushed very vividly as he packed way the first aide kit. I couldn't help the empty feeling that started in my chest. I looked up to see Malik and Marik looking at me with, was that pity?! Oh Ra! That's the last thing I need, so I showed them I could count to one on my fingers. Ryou hurried out of the kitchen mumbling something about going to bed. I leaned back on the counter and sighed deeply, yeah this night sucked.

"Maybe he was just startled?" I opened one eye to look at Malik.

"Hnnn."

"Well maybe Kura-kins was just too forward and scawed wittle Ryou." I glared at Marik, well as much as I could with an ice pack over half my face.

"Come on Mari-kins, your Mali-poo has something vewy, vewy special for hims." Marik's eyes lit up as they headed out of the kitchen. I groaned before hopping down and slowly trudging up to my room. I noticed my door was slightly open and the light on which made me halt in my tracks, I never leave my door open, or lights on for that fact, I always preferred the darkness. I nudged the door open only to shocked seeing someone sitting on my bed.

"Ryou?!" He looked up from his lap, startled at the sound of my voice. Standing up as I walked into the room and closed the door behind me.

"I umm, didn't think you would be up so soon." He looks really embarrassed and won't make eye contact with me. I quickly closed the distance between us and gently lifted his face to look at me. He suddenly looked so sad.

"Did you really?" Lost me there.

"Did I really what?" He gestured slightly at my face.

"Get hurt, standing up for… me." I couldn't help the smile that graced my face.

"Well I wasn't about to let him continue talking about you like that. I would do it again to." He looked up startled.

"You would, risk getting hurt… for me?" I chuckled lightly and cupped his cheek brushing my thumb over his smooth skin.

"You have any doubts my little light?" He seemed so flustered now.

"I just, I mean I wouldn't…" He sighed so sadly. "It just looks so painful." His eyes suddenly welled with tears.

"Oh Ry-chan, no crying. I mean that. Yeah he was talking shit about you, I wasn't going to let him, I wouldn't let anyone. I knew I risked getting hurt before I threw the first punch but I didn't care, you're worth it, worth so much more." He actually looks scared and yet blushes at the same time.

"So then, what Marik said, its true?" I arched my brow at him.

"Marik said an awful lot of things, care to get a little more specific?" He blushed more and kept trying to look away but I wouldn't let him.

"About what you called me, your umm, well… is that how you think of me? As your boy…umm." He tried his best to look away but I leaned down and pressed my lips very lightly against his in a quick, chaste kiss.

"Do you not want me to?" Now it was my turn to be nervous.

"N-no, I mean! I-I don't mind you thinking of me… like that. I just... I just didn't know you felt that way… towards me." I couldn't help genuinely laughing now.

"Oh, Ry-chan, you are just too cute!" He blushed and looked at me, the question written so clearly in his expression. "If I didn't feel that way, do you think I would take care of the fur ball like I have been? Including the special help?" I leaned forward and gently rubbed my nose against his. "If I didn't feel this way do you think I would have been trying so hard to steal the kisses I have thus far?" I placed my forehead against his, the ice pack held to my side. "And if I didn't do you really think I would get into a fight and get hurt without caring about the pain? Ry, your awful silly if you think I would do any of that for just anyone." He smiled softly as he brought his hand up tracing just the outside of my discolored eye.

"It looks so painful."

"It will heal."

"Still." He looked at thoughtfully before pulling his forehead away from mine covering it feather light kisses. I was genuinely shocked.

"Ry, what are you doing?" He blushed before answering after placing what I supposed was the last kiss.

"Kissing it better. Did it help?" I smiled and nodded.

"Very much." I couldn't help the cringe though from moving my lip.

"Oh Kura." He then began planting more of those feather type kisses on the wound on my lip. You know, not sure if the kisses actually did make it feel better, or the fact that having him kissing me made me completely forget the pain. Either way it was wonderful. "Better?" I nodded and couldn't help myself as I smirked.

"Yeah, but I still have that other problem, and it could get very painful." I winked my good eye at him as he turned almost purple from blushing.

"Umm, Kura… I just…. I mean I'm not sure… if I'm… ready, for that I mean." By the time he finished stammering it out he was looking intently at the floor. I raised his face once more to see his beautiful eyes.

"Its okay." He looked surprised. "I mean it Ry. Its okay, I'm not going to force you into anything. When your ready, I mean given you want to with me, then just say the word. Until then, I won't push." He looked so surprised but I couldn't keep the smirk off my face, or my smart mouth closed, yep that's me, Mr. Ruin Any Perfect Moment Guy. "Now hint at it, or tease, that completely different."

"Oh Kura!" He smiled and giggled, making my heart feel lighter. "Sometimes you're impossible!"

"But you wouldn't have me any other way." He shook his head.

"No, I wouldn't." He reached up kissing my lips lightly again, fearful of hurting me I'm sure. "We should probably get some sleep." He started to pull away until I grabbed his hand.

"Can I hold you?" He looked back me blinking in confusion.

"What?"

"Tonight. I promise not to try anything, but can I hold you?" He smiled so sweetly, I don't think he ever smiles without it touching his eyes making them sparkle.

"I would really like that."

"Great." I led him to the bed, pulling back my blankets and helping him in my bed. I stepped back and started to unbutton my pants as he blushed and looked away. I know that he is aware I sleep in only my boxers; he has seen me walk around the house enough in the mornings. After I threw down my pants and socks I walked over turning out the light when suddenly Ryou began giggling like crazy. "Something wrong?" I could hear him stifling his giggles.

"No, just your boxers." More giggling. "Too cute Kura." I looked down having completely forgotten which pair I wore today, but I saw the humor soon enough. Glowing all over my boxers were lips and the words 'YES' and 'OH YES'. I chuckled as I climbed into bed.

"So you like them, huh?"

"Yeah, I didn't know those did that."

"Well maybe if you were in my room more after dark you would." I could almost feel his blush. "Come here." I wrapped an arm around his waist pulling him down against my chest as I lay on my back.

"Thank you, Kura." I ran my fingers slowly through his silky hair.

"For what?

"Everything." He then leaned up and planted another soft kiss on my lips before nestling back down against my chest.

"Always Ry, always." I continued to play with his hair as I listened to his breathing even out, knowing sleep had claimed him. I relished having him in my arms just a bit longer before also falling victim to peaceful oblivion.

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Okay, I had to end it there, it was just too cute a part! Remember this is Friday night so the next day will be Saturday!!…… I will update One Dance next, then this, so please no maiming or killing! I know I said citrus but somehow it turned to fluff..points to Ryou..I blame him!!..;;;