Disclaimer: shuffles through boxes and stacks of papers ….Damn! Still don't own it.

Chapter three: Dinner plans

"Hello?" a young female voice said into the phone. "Hey, it's me." said a familiar voice. "Oh, hi Bakura. What's up?" Tea replied. "Um… I need your help." Tea could tell that Bakura was blushing over the phone. "I want to take Luna to our winter formal, but I'm scared to just go up to her and ask her." Bakura finished. "Well, it's not like you two are strangers. I mean, she's been going over to your house everyday after school since she came to our school in later September and it's now the beginning of December… that's a little bit more then two months being together day after day." Tea said. Bakura sighed, "I know that Tea but… I want it to be more then just me asking her. I want it to be… I don't know." "Well, if you want to make an impression when you ask you can always set up this sweet, romantic dinner for Saturday and ask her then, that way you have two more weeks to decide your plans for the dance." Tea thought. "Eh… me and cooking are two words that shouldn't be in the same hemisphere at the same time." Bakura frowned. "It's not that hard. Just follow the recipe in the book, if nothing else I can come over before hand and give you some pointers." Tea smiled. "Okay, that'll work. Now all I have to do is get her to come over for dinner."

The next day was Monday; he had a week to figure out what he was going to do for dinner on Saturday and only a few days to ask Luna to dinner before she made other plans. Out side after school everyone was in a huddle under the edge of the school waiting on Luna to come out. "Why do you have to have a dinner? Can't you just ask her?" Tristian said wrapping his arms around Serenity. "Hey! Watch it you! That's my lil' sister there!" Joey yelled. "Um… ignoring him. I want it to be more then just that. However I'm quite nervous." Bakura said looking down. "Well, if you're that nervous how about we all come over for dinner or better then that we can go to an all you can eat buffet so Tristian and me can have an eating contest." Joey said slapping Bakura's back. "NO!" Tea, Serenity, Yugi, and Bakura said in unison. "I think the dinner at Bakura's place with just the two of them will be much better, you know, noise wise." Serenity said.

Just then Luna came out of the school, "Dinner? What is Tristian planning something for you guys or something?" Luna asked. "Hey you know that's not a bad idea! How about it Serenity?" Tristian asked. "What are you talking about you dork, we already are having dinner Saturday." Serenity said stepping on her boyfriend's foot. "OW! Ow, oh… right." he winked at Serenity. On that note they all parted and head towards their homes. "Hey Luna, Tristian talking about dinner made me think, how would you like to come to my house Saturday for dinner?" Bakura said visibly shaking. "But Bakura, I eat dinner with you every night." Luna said. "If you can count Ramen and grilled cheese as dinner, but I mean dinner, like a home cooked, real dinner." Bakura said. Luna blushed slightly, "Oh, that type of dinner, well in that case I'd love to." When they arrived at Bakura's they found that her parents were already there waiting.

"Is something wrong, sir?" Bakura asked. "No not at all, it's just that Luna's mom and I got off work early today so we figured that we'd come get her so we can have a nice family dinner for a change." her father replied. Luna looked at Bakura and thought about their dinner Saturday, "Dad, can Bakura come with us? It's just that he invited me over to his house for dinner Saturday so I figured it'll be nice if he came to dinner with us tonight" Luna bowed low to her father hoping her would say yes. "I don't see why not." So Bakura joined Luna and her parents for dinner. During dinner Luna's parents asked about Bakura's mother and father, since they were never around. He told them about his mother and sister dieing and how his father is always off in Egypt or somewhere digging some other artifact up. Luna felt so bad for him, she had known about his father but he never said anything about his mother and sister. Dinner went on and her parents seem to put more trust in Bakura since they now know more about the young man that they entrust their only child to everyday.

The week seemed to go by so fast, before they knew it, it was Friday. Luna was the last one coming out of the school as usual, but it was so cold that everyone had gone home, except Bakura. However he was waiting just on the inside of the school. Just before Luna came around the corner to greet her friend she was stopped by Mr. Larsen, their English teacher. "Oh, hello Mr. Larsen." Luna said in surprise. "Luna, my favorite student, can you spare a moment?" Mr. Larsen said placing his hand on her shoulders. "Um... what does the restraining order say?" Luan said backing away. "Restraining order? Why does she have one against Mr. Larsen?" Bakura thought. "Yes, that little thing." Mr. Larsen said in a grimace. "Isn't it amazing that one little piece of paper can do so much like, declare war or a marriage or in our case keep two hearts separated." "You mean keep your 'heart' away from me!" Luna snapped. "Feisty as ever I see Luna, that's what I like about you." Mr. Larsen grabbed Luna and pulled her in for a kiss. Luna was so scared that she couldn't move all she wanted was to run around the corner to Bakura. Or for that matter anywhere as long as it was away from Mr. Larsen and Bakura was near to her.

Just then Bakura came around the corner, and Mr. Larsen quickly let Luna go, "I wondered where you were, come on, lets go home." Bakura held his hand out of Luna, without giving it a second thought she grabbed his hand and ran, dragging Bakura behind her. When they got out side the school Luna let his hand go and ran all the way to his house. She didn't even look back to see how close or far Bakura was to her, when she reached the door to his house she collapsed. Bakura quickly ran up to her to make sure she was okay. Bakura opened the door, picked Luna up and laid her on the couch, throwing a quilt over her. "I'll just let her rest, between the stress of what just happened and running here probably used most of her energy." Bakura said looking at the poor girl. "What happened to her that made her run all the way here?" Yami asked, over the past couple of months he had grown to enjoy having the crimson haired girl around and he began to worry about her. "Well, I'll let her explain that when she wakes up… I don't quite know myself." Bakura sighed going into the kitchen.

Several hours later Luna finally woke up to the smell of orange tea and soba noodles. "What's that smell? Why do I feel so bad?" Luna asked trying to sit up on the couch. "When you reached our door you collapsed." said Yami sitting down beside her. Bakura came into the living room carrying a tray of tea and noodles and setting it on the coffee table. Luna suddenly remembered what had happened, "About that… thank you for coming when you did Bakura." "Sure, but what was that about?" he questioned. "Well, I have a restraining order on him because he… well he raped me about two years ago." Luna started to cry and turned away from the two boys. "Hey, don't worry, I'm not gonna do that to you and I'm not gonna let anybody else do it to you either." Bakura sat on the other side of Luna and put his arm around her; she buried her face into his chest and cried. Bakura had to force Luna to eat after she had calmed down, but eventually got her to eat half of her dinner, after that she fell asleep again, only this time it was curled up with Bakura on the couch. Around 9:47 Luna's mother arrived to take her home, she so deep in sleep that Bakura had to carry her to the car.

"Oh, by the way Bakura, is she is coming over tomorrow for dinner still?" her mother asked. "As far ad I know of, yes." Bakura replied. "About what time should she be here because we are going to be at her aunts for a while tomorrow and she lives only a few blocks away?" she asked making sure the heat was on in the car and Luna was in before she shut the door. "Is five okay?" Bakura asked. "Sure, she'll be here at five."

That's it for now… told you it would be longer this time! Stay tuned for the next chapter. In the next one the actual dinner will happen… maybe the dance too, I don't know yet.