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AN: Sorry I didn't update on Friday but there was no school, so I didn't have access to a computer. I'll try harder next time! Chapter eleven…(sigh) who would've thought that I had this many words in me?! Well, anyway, let's go find Bakura…

Chapter Eleven

Bakura rounded the corner onto Domino Main Street. He had his hands in his pockets, and was thinking to himself with his head bowed.

Last night had been a comedy of errors, so to speak. First, he told Ryou he didn't like his new look, then he told him he did. Then they'd had sex. What had he said to Ryou just before he fell asleep? It had something to do with forgiveness. Ryou was sorry for…something, and he'd said he forgave him.

It wasn't like him to even have a boyfriend, or a significant other in general. But to be mushy, and nice…? It was downright sickening. He scoffed and kicked a stone.

What was this? Usually, the thought of Ryou made him sick. He was a bloodthirsty, raving, homicidal, tomb-robbing maniac, and Ryou was this bunny-loving, butterfly-chasing, cute little…wait. Did he just think that Ryou was cute?

He suddenly ran into something very solid, and it wrenched him from his current thought train. He looked up to see Keith.

"Outta my way," Keith said. Bakura just looked at him as if he were unreal. "I said, out of my way, brat!"

Bakura realized that Keith thought that he was Ryou, and he got an idea. "Oh, Keith," he said sweetly. "I…I'm sorry. I didn't see you there."

Keith grabbed 'Ryou' by the collar and lifted him off the ground, putting his face right by Keith's. "Next time you won't be so careless, will ya?"

Bakura spat in Keith's face. "I guess not," he said, allowing his voice to return to normal.

Keith dropped Bakura back onto the sidewalk so hard that Bakura had to step back once to keep his balance. "What are you, you little freak?1" Keith said, wiping Bakura's spit from his face.

"Me?" Bakura said. "How many times must I tell you people?"

"Tell me what?" Keith asked.

"I am the darkness." 'Duh' hung unsaid on the air. "Have fun in the Shadow Realm," Bakura said. There was a flash, and Keith was gone. "Oh," he said to the air where Keith had been standing. "And I'm not Ryou."

"Hm," Bakura shoved his hands back into his pockets ad continued walking, falling back into his own mind, and the thoughts he was thinking before he was so rudely interrupted. About Ryou. Being cute…? That was new.

There must be some kind of cute disease, Bakura finally ruled. And he's infecting me with it. I should go to the doctor's office and find a cure.

The thought of a cure for cuteness amused Bakura mildly. What would it be? Maiming small animals? Causing fifty-car pileups? Torturing innocent children? The list went on and on in his mind.

He decided to turn around and head home. Ryou would start to worry…he shook his head. Let Ryou worry. A little negativity would do him good. He turned and went into the Domino Diner to enjoy his first meal alone in a long time.

KC666: Now that's not fair… it seems like he doesn't even want to be AROUND Ryou…! Anyway this madness should come to an end soon… Keep reading!