Bakura talked with Yugi or a long time, he couldn't understand why he had to get a job. "You'd think Ryou would just be happy that I live with him! Now he wants me to go to work that's not my place! If it's anyone's place it's-"

"Yours," Yugi interrupted and Bakura looked at him shocked. "do you pay any of the bills?"

"No."

"Buy groceries?"

"No."

"Ok, how about this: do you even clean up?" Yugi hadn't realized just how lazy Bakura was till now.

"No, Ryou takes care of all that stuff. See!? Why should I have to take care of all of that if Ryou does it?" Bakura looked at Yugi and saw that one of his eyebrows was twitching and so was a corner of his mouth. "Yugi, you ok?"

Yugi took a deep breath and calmed himself down. "Go out and look for a job tomorrow. Do it or else Ryou is not going to let you go home." Yugi got up and started to walk out of the living room. "You are sleeping in the guest room, you know where everything is."

"Sure, and besides if worse comes to worse I can just stay with you and Pharaoh until Ryou gets lonely." Bakura said as he picked up his bundle of clothes again and stood up from the couch and started toward the stairs. He noticed that Yugi had stopped, mid walk, "Yugi, did something happen?"

"Just...go...to.....your...room..." Yugi spoke slowly and clearly in a way that gave Bakura the willys. Bakura double timed it up the stairs. Much to his annoyance, though, he found Yami posted up by the guest room.

"What do you want, Pharaoh? Came to laugh some more?" Bakura sneered, walking up to Yami.

"You can't stay here forever, Ryou may have let you get away with being a freeloader for as long as he did but I won't, and neither will Yugi." Yami stood up from his leaning position and started to walk past Bakura. "Besides, if you stay here forever just think of all the nookie you'll miss out on. I mean, I like you but I don't know if Yugi would want to share me." Yami flicked his tongue out, suggestively at Bakura.

Bakura screwed up his face in disgust. "In your dreams."

"Yeah the ones that make those nightmares about being ripped to shreds by rabid lions sound like fun." Yami retorted as he walked back to the main bedroom. Bakura rolled his eyes and went to the room he was going to be staying in.

'How do I look for a job? Do I just look around for places that have a sign up? Or should I look through the newspaper?' Bakura debated as he unfolded the wad of clothes. 'Damnit why couldn't someone have gone over this, I have no idea what to do!!'

Yugi gave Bakura a newspaper and a highlighter and told him to look for a job he thought he could do. Yugi warned that he should start small because he was new to the whole job thing.

Bakura looked at the paper and started going through the 'Help Wanted' section carefully. He got to the third page, circling a few things here and there and then he saw something about being a waiter at a bar he went to every so often and happened to like, the listing said that they needed someone by Saturday. He sighed, he needed a job ASAP. Then he happened to look at a calendar that was on the wall and saw that it was Saturday!

Bakura jumped up and quickly ran to get Yugi, who was in the kitchen heating something up in the microwave. "I FOUND SOMETHING AND IT STARTS TONIGHT!!!"

Yugi stood shocked for a minute. "That's great, where is it?"

"Friends Bar, I love that place!! It's perfect!!" Bakura was completely overjoyed; this job would be perfect for him.

"Ok, that's good. Are there any requirements?" Yugi took his food from the microwave.

"Probably proper clothes." Yami said as he walked up from the basement.

Bakura was going to shoot something back at Yami but then he looked down at himself and realized that Yami was right.

"Oh you're right, Yami." Yugi said, and Yami smirked. "That's why you're going to let Bakura borrow some of your clothes."

The smirk fell from Yami's lips, both he and Bakura looked horrified, well that was until Bakura realized just how much that irked Yami. "Yeah, thanks Yami! Such a pal!" he sneered.

Yami grumbled, "C'mon."

Bakura happily followed, seeing Yami looking so annoyed put him in an even better mood.

Yami went into his chest of drawers and pulled out a decent tee shirt and sensible jeans and handed them, with a pair of sock to Bakura. "I hate to say this but I need to also borrow a pair of boxers." Bakura asked uncomfortably.

Yami made a face and took out a pair of plain dark blue boxers from a drawer. "Take a shower also, you smell just the way you look, bad." Bakura would've retorted but again he knew that Yami wasn't lying, at least about the not smelling so fresh part.

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Bakura took a quick shower and got dressed and then called the bar, got directions, and left the house, after getting some bus fare from Yugi. "Good luck!" Yugi said as Bakura left.

Yami said nothing as he closed the door behind Bakura. "He's gonna need all the luck he can get." He said as he followed Yugi back to the bedroom.

"Yeah well it's not like you were an ace when you first started working." Yugi opened the door and crawled back into bed and turned the TV back on.

"Well.yeah.I remember." Yami blushed remembering what it was like when he got his first job.

"So then be nice to Bakura, he's just like you, except that he doesn't have Ryou to lean on and to teach him the way you had me." Yugi flipped through a few channels, looking for a new show he had heard a lot of good things about. Yami frowned as he thought about what Yugi had just said, he hadn't thought of it that way.

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Bakura got to the place pretty quickly and without much trouble, he didn't have a job but he knew how to get around on the train and the bus. He looked at the place and smiled, 'This is where I'm going to be working.'

He went inside, and saw that the place was relatively empty because it was still only four o'clock in the afternoon. "Hi, I'm applying for the waiter job." He said to the bartender.

"Alright," he took an application from a stack behind him and handed it to Bakura with a pen. "Just fill that out and the boss will take a look at it." He smiled and went back to setting up for later that night.

Bakura looked at the application for a second, he had forgotten about these things. 'Ryou told me these thing were a pain in the butt, doesn't look all that hard though.' He sat down at the bar and started filling the thing out. He had watched Ryou fill an application out before so he had some sort of idea of what to do.

He filled the application out and then went over to the bartender. "I'm finished, where's the owner?"

The bartender smiled, "That'd be me. Lemme take a look at that." Bakura handed the man the application. The owner/bartender looked over the application. He looked at Bakura, "This is your first job?"

"Yes."

"Um, I hate to do this but I don't think this is a good job for you then. I'm sorry I should have specified that I needed someone with experience." The man really did seem to be sincere. Bakura just stared at the man. "But good luck on your job search." The bartender smiled again and went back to cleanin up.

Bakura walked down the block, 'Where else can I get a job?' Bakura was thoroughly bummed that his first attempt hadn't worked. He had to find a job and fast, 'But what place is gonna hire me?'

He walked and walked, looking in windows for 'Help Wanted' signs, finally he saw one. He looked at the sign and was hopeful. He looked up at to see what store it was and saw that it was.McDonald's.

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Next chapter: Want My FIST With That?!

~@~@~ A/N: I just wanted to pop in and say hello to those of you who are so nice that you read my lil story!

Also I wanted to let you that as absurd as it sounds there IS an actual bar called Friends Bar, it's in New York, Brooklyn to be exact. It's a small place that I've only been able to see the outside of, I used to pass by it on my way to my mother's job, as a nurse. So yea, watch out for some reason I like to take some of the weird stuff from my own life and shove them into stories.

I would like to also take this space to let you know that I in no way shape or form own Friends Bar, though just the fact that I have only seen the outside of it should have tipped you off.