Bakura took the long way back to Yami and Yugi's house, he had messed up.
Right? He had lost his first job. But he had gotten the paycheck, which
counted for something! He planned to go to see Ryou, but first he had to
clean and he was torn between calling Ryou first or just showing up.
He showed up, still dirty and in his uniform, on Ryou's doorstep. This had been his home, 'And it was going to be just that again!' he reassured himself.
'Ryou must be missing me, he'll probably be so worried since I haven't called and I'm sure that he'll be so happy that I'm back and that I have a paycheck that he won't even care that I lost the job!!' Bakura walked up to the door and rang the bell. He looked down at himself and beamed. 'And with how crappy I look he'll be so pleased that I'm not hurt!!!' he had everything planned out.
Then Ryou came to the door and opened it. He looked at Bakura surprised, "Oh my god what happened!?"
"A little problem at work, but don't worry I'm alright." He made sure that he looked tired and stressed. Ryou started to usher Bakura in but he stopped himself.
"Do you have a paycheck?" he asked sternly, or at least what passed as stern for him.
Bakura pulled the envelope from his pocket and handed it to Ryou, Ryou glanced at the paycheck and smiled. "Welcome home." He moved from the door way and let Bakura in.
"I'd hug you and all but I'm a little bit of a mess, I'm gonna go take a shower. I'll be back to give you the hug." Bakura smiled at Ryou and then jogged upstairs. He had made it back in! He stripped down and shoved his uniform in the dirty hamper then he took a shower.
When he got out and he felt a million times better, he was home, he was clean, he was away from those little animals from the party, and best of all he wasn't living in close vicinity with Yami! He went to the room that he shared with Ryou and got dressed, he was so happy to be able to get dressed with clothes that came from a dresser and not a plastic bag! Everything was going to be just as it had been before!
He went downstairs and found Ryou sitting in the kitchen, there was a plate of food in front of the seat that Bakura usually sat in, Bakura smiled, everything was perfect again.
"So what time do you go to work tomorrow?" Ryou asked as Bakura sat down and started gobbling up his food.
"I don't." Bakura answered over a mouth of chicken and rice.
Ryou thought he had heard 'I don't' but he wasn't sure, and he was hoping that he hadn't heard that. "What?"
"I don't have to go to work tomorrow." Bakura kept shoveling food down. But then Ryou grabbed the plate away from Bakura. "HEY!" Bakura protested.
"What do you mean you don't have to go to work tomorrow!?! You DO understand that a job is for longer than a WEEK, right!?!"
"Yeah, sure. I know." Bakura reached for the plate that Ryou still held away from him. Ryou backed away from the table and Bakura.
"So then why aren't you going to work tomorrow?" Ryou's voice was menacing, Bakura thought for a second that he could lie to Ryou but after seeing that look he rethought that plan.
"I was fired today." Bakura looked at Ryou and expected Ryou to reassure him and tell him that he could stay and look for another job.
Wrong idea, completely. "Get out." Ryou looked at Bakura, his eyes seemed to be piercing Bakura's middle. Bakura lost his appetite.
"Why? I brought home a paycheck, didn't I? That's what you wanted!" Bakura was getting annoyed that Ryou was being so unreasonable.
"GET OUT!!! Before I throw this plate at you!!"
"WHAT!?! THIS IS BULL-!" Bakura stopped and ducked as a plate flew past where his head had been a moment before.
"I SAID GET OUT!!!!" Ryou grabbed another plate and a cup and looked at Bakura, rage building up in him. Bakura stared at Ryou, this wasn't the man he had fallen in love with. This was a psychopath!!
"Ryou calm do-!" the plate flew past his head, Bakura took the hint and hightailed it out of the house, though Ryou was still throwing things in his direction.
Yugi was curled up on the couch, his head in Yami's lap, watching TV. "It's getting late. Bakura still hasn't shown up. Think we should maybe call Ryou, see if he went over there?"
"I guess we could, but I don't think Bakura would be that stupid." Yami changed the channel. "What do you want to watch?"
"I WAS watching that other show." Yugi poked Yami in the side. "I don't get why you just can't stay on ONE channel!" Yugi poked him a few more times.
Yami laughed and started tickling Yugi. "Because it gets boring!" he laughed as Yugi tickled his side.
They were laughing so loud that they almost didn't hear the doorbell.
"Damnit! That's our house guest." Yami said and wrapped his arms around Yugi's waist.
"Oh c'mon Yami, we can't just leave him out there!" Yugi said and then saw the look on Yami's face and saw Yami opening his mouth to reply. "No." Yami made a face and closed his mouth and loosened his grip on Yugi. "Yami stop bein a brat."
Yami screwed up his face indignantly and let Yugi go, "I'm not a brat." He said that in a childish pouting voice.
Yugi opened the door, "Hey, Bakura, we were getting worried about you-!"
"Nuh-huh, YOU were the one who was-!" Yami said as he poked his head into the hallway from the living room.
They both stopped and looked at Bakura who was standing on their doorstep, looking disheveled. He looked pretty bad, he just walked past the other two men and went to his room. Yami and Yugi were too shocked to say anything to him.
A few minutes later Yugi went up to talk to Bakura. He knocked on the guest room door. "Bakura?"
There was no answer. Yugi pushed the door open and looked in and saw Bakura sitting on the windowsill looked out into the distance, in the direction of his home. "I don't understand what he wants from me." Bakura whispered and Yugi couldn't tell whether he was thinking out loud or talking to Yugi. "I got a job, got a paycheck. But I can't go home."
Yugi walked to Bakura's side. "You went to go see him?"
"Yes. I gave him my paycheck."
Yugi was confused. "It wasn't enough?"
"I don't know. I don't understand all of this. I robbed for my last 'job' I didn't answer to anyone. I totally confused by all of this."
Yugi felt bad for Bakura and he put his hand on Bakura's shoulder. "Did Ryou tell you what was wrong when he told you to leave?"
"I think it had something to do with my losing my job." Then Bakura yelped as he was smacked across the back of his head.
"YOU LOST YOUR JOB!" Yugi looked at Bakura, furious.
"WHAT!?!? I told you I'm new at this!!" Bakura shouted back. He was holding his hurt cheek.
"Bakura you are such a load of bullcrap!!!" Yugi yelled and then walked out and slammed the door behind him.
Bakura sat up the whole night trying to think of what to do, he had to get a new job and fast. He wanted to get back home.
The next morning he was walking around, trying to figure out where he should go to try to get a job. 'I have to find a good job and fast! Yugi seemed really angry with me this morning.'
Yugi's annoyed face, when Bakura had asked if he had the latest newspaper, flashed in Bakura's mind. He was thinking so hard about what to do for a job that he didn't see what was in front of him. He walked right into a wooden doghouse, lost his balance, tried to catch himself, grabbed onto a piece of paper on the nearby door. He ripped the paper off when he fell, right on his butt.
"Shit!" He exclaimed as he rubbed his butt. Then he noticed the paper in his hand. 'Help Wanted' jumped out at him. He read on.
He looked up at the sign above the entrance. Puppy City. He stood up and brushed himself.
-twenty minutes later-
"Welcome to the Puppy City staff!! You're the new Animal Cleansing Technician." A smiling man said as he clapped his hand on Bakura's shoulder.
A smaller woman handed Bakura an apron and grinned evilly, "Yeah, congrats, you wash dogs."
[~][~]
Next Chapter: Man's Best Friend, Bakura's Worst Enemy
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Yugi: -sitting with Phoenix and Ryou- Matthew was the best decision Yami and I ever made. -reaches over and touches the baby's nose, the baby is still in Phoenix's arms-
Ryou: -melts as the baby gurgles and coos- Yami was all for the idea?
Yugi: Well.not at first, he didn't want to have to worry about a child in the house and all. But then I told him that raising a child isn't just a job it's a joy and that he couldn't just see the hard work that comes from raising a child. He still wasn't all that into the idea, but then I explained that if we adopted an orphan we were giving a happy home to a child who might not have one otherwise.
Phoenix: -listens-
Ryou: -looks at Matthew happily playing with Yugi's finger- So.Matthew was an orphan.
Yugi: -smiles- Yes, once Yami realized that adopting a child like Matthew was such a good thing to do he agreed.
Bakura: -looks at Yami- -thinks 'Wow, I never realized.Yami is so nice.'-
Yami: -shoots a look back- What the hell do you want, Pokki!
Bakura: To kick your ass from here to the next universe over! But since that ain't happenin I'll just have to dream!
Yami: -makes a weird face- Dude, keep me the HELL out of your fantasies!
Bakura: You WISH I fantasized about you!!!
Ryou: Yugi, would you mind if I held Matthew? -completely ignoring Yami and Bakura yelling on the end of the room-
Yugi: -beams- Of course!
Phoenix: -smiles and carefully hands Matthew over to Ryou as Yugi carefully shows him how to properly hold a baby-
Ryou: -nervously holds the tiny child in his arms- Oh he's so precious. I can't believe that we used to be like this a long time ago.
Phoenix: -laughs- Yeah you guys but those two were spawned. -stabs her thumb in the direction of Bakura and Yami-
Bakura and Yami: HEY!! WHO ARE YOU CALLING SPAWNED!!!!
Matthew: -starts crying, startled by the yelling-
Yugi: -whips his head around, the evil power of a parent filling his aura and the air- LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!!!
Bakura and Yami: -if they were dogs there tails would be between their legs- Sorry.
[=][=]
Ok so you all officially want to kill me I KNOW!! I want to kill me too for being so late with these things but I have some good excuses!
I was sick for a long time! Did you know a cold can last for like three weeks?! Yeah I didn't but I found out the hard way, I don't know how long it was but it felt like a freakin eternity.
Family Emergencies! I finally got to meet my nieces!!!! Two of my uncles weren't feelin too hot, one has gotten better but the other is seriously ill. Some of my in-laws had to move ;_; -WAAAA!!!!!!
And then there was my website! I was working a lil too hard on that. Ok and by too hard I mean: For the ten to twenty minute intervals that I was conscious I was fixing it up. Most of my days while I was sick was me sleeping or almost asleep
Anyhow! I am back!! And I hope to do a MUCH better job than I have been!
Gomenasai,
Phoenix
He showed up, still dirty and in his uniform, on Ryou's doorstep. This had been his home, 'And it was going to be just that again!' he reassured himself.
'Ryou must be missing me, he'll probably be so worried since I haven't called and I'm sure that he'll be so happy that I'm back and that I have a paycheck that he won't even care that I lost the job!!' Bakura walked up to the door and rang the bell. He looked down at himself and beamed. 'And with how crappy I look he'll be so pleased that I'm not hurt!!!' he had everything planned out.
Then Ryou came to the door and opened it. He looked at Bakura surprised, "Oh my god what happened!?"
"A little problem at work, but don't worry I'm alright." He made sure that he looked tired and stressed. Ryou started to usher Bakura in but he stopped himself.
"Do you have a paycheck?" he asked sternly, or at least what passed as stern for him.
Bakura pulled the envelope from his pocket and handed it to Ryou, Ryou glanced at the paycheck and smiled. "Welcome home." He moved from the door way and let Bakura in.
"I'd hug you and all but I'm a little bit of a mess, I'm gonna go take a shower. I'll be back to give you the hug." Bakura smiled at Ryou and then jogged upstairs. He had made it back in! He stripped down and shoved his uniform in the dirty hamper then he took a shower.
When he got out and he felt a million times better, he was home, he was clean, he was away from those little animals from the party, and best of all he wasn't living in close vicinity with Yami! He went to the room that he shared with Ryou and got dressed, he was so happy to be able to get dressed with clothes that came from a dresser and not a plastic bag! Everything was going to be just as it had been before!
He went downstairs and found Ryou sitting in the kitchen, there was a plate of food in front of the seat that Bakura usually sat in, Bakura smiled, everything was perfect again.
"So what time do you go to work tomorrow?" Ryou asked as Bakura sat down and started gobbling up his food.
"I don't." Bakura answered over a mouth of chicken and rice.
Ryou thought he had heard 'I don't' but he wasn't sure, and he was hoping that he hadn't heard that. "What?"
"I don't have to go to work tomorrow." Bakura kept shoveling food down. But then Ryou grabbed the plate away from Bakura. "HEY!" Bakura protested.
"What do you mean you don't have to go to work tomorrow!?! You DO understand that a job is for longer than a WEEK, right!?!"
"Yeah, sure. I know." Bakura reached for the plate that Ryou still held away from him. Ryou backed away from the table and Bakura.
"So then why aren't you going to work tomorrow?" Ryou's voice was menacing, Bakura thought for a second that he could lie to Ryou but after seeing that look he rethought that plan.
"I was fired today." Bakura looked at Ryou and expected Ryou to reassure him and tell him that he could stay and look for another job.
Wrong idea, completely. "Get out." Ryou looked at Bakura, his eyes seemed to be piercing Bakura's middle. Bakura lost his appetite.
"Why? I brought home a paycheck, didn't I? That's what you wanted!" Bakura was getting annoyed that Ryou was being so unreasonable.
"GET OUT!!! Before I throw this plate at you!!"
"WHAT!?! THIS IS BULL-!" Bakura stopped and ducked as a plate flew past where his head had been a moment before.
"I SAID GET OUT!!!!" Ryou grabbed another plate and a cup and looked at Bakura, rage building up in him. Bakura stared at Ryou, this wasn't the man he had fallen in love with. This was a psychopath!!
"Ryou calm do-!" the plate flew past his head, Bakura took the hint and hightailed it out of the house, though Ryou was still throwing things in his direction.
Yugi was curled up on the couch, his head in Yami's lap, watching TV. "It's getting late. Bakura still hasn't shown up. Think we should maybe call Ryou, see if he went over there?"
"I guess we could, but I don't think Bakura would be that stupid." Yami changed the channel. "What do you want to watch?"
"I WAS watching that other show." Yugi poked Yami in the side. "I don't get why you just can't stay on ONE channel!" Yugi poked him a few more times.
Yami laughed and started tickling Yugi. "Because it gets boring!" he laughed as Yugi tickled his side.
They were laughing so loud that they almost didn't hear the doorbell.
"Damnit! That's our house guest." Yami said and wrapped his arms around Yugi's waist.
"Oh c'mon Yami, we can't just leave him out there!" Yugi said and then saw the look on Yami's face and saw Yami opening his mouth to reply. "No." Yami made a face and closed his mouth and loosened his grip on Yugi. "Yami stop bein a brat."
Yami screwed up his face indignantly and let Yugi go, "I'm not a brat." He said that in a childish pouting voice.
Yugi opened the door, "Hey, Bakura, we were getting worried about you-!"
"Nuh-huh, YOU were the one who was-!" Yami said as he poked his head into the hallway from the living room.
They both stopped and looked at Bakura who was standing on their doorstep, looking disheveled. He looked pretty bad, he just walked past the other two men and went to his room. Yami and Yugi were too shocked to say anything to him.
A few minutes later Yugi went up to talk to Bakura. He knocked on the guest room door. "Bakura?"
There was no answer. Yugi pushed the door open and looked in and saw Bakura sitting on the windowsill looked out into the distance, in the direction of his home. "I don't understand what he wants from me." Bakura whispered and Yugi couldn't tell whether he was thinking out loud or talking to Yugi. "I got a job, got a paycheck. But I can't go home."
Yugi walked to Bakura's side. "You went to go see him?"
"Yes. I gave him my paycheck."
Yugi was confused. "It wasn't enough?"
"I don't know. I don't understand all of this. I robbed for my last 'job' I didn't answer to anyone. I totally confused by all of this."
Yugi felt bad for Bakura and he put his hand on Bakura's shoulder. "Did Ryou tell you what was wrong when he told you to leave?"
"I think it had something to do with my losing my job." Then Bakura yelped as he was smacked across the back of his head.
"YOU LOST YOUR JOB!" Yugi looked at Bakura, furious.
"WHAT!?!? I told you I'm new at this!!" Bakura shouted back. He was holding his hurt cheek.
"Bakura you are such a load of bullcrap!!!" Yugi yelled and then walked out and slammed the door behind him.
Bakura sat up the whole night trying to think of what to do, he had to get a new job and fast. He wanted to get back home.
The next morning he was walking around, trying to figure out where he should go to try to get a job. 'I have to find a good job and fast! Yugi seemed really angry with me this morning.'
Yugi's annoyed face, when Bakura had asked if he had the latest newspaper, flashed in Bakura's mind. He was thinking so hard about what to do for a job that he didn't see what was in front of him. He walked right into a wooden doghouse, lost his balance, tried to catch himself, grabbed onto a piece of paper on the nearby door. He ripped the paper off when he fell, right on his butt.
"Shit!" He exclaimed as he rubbed his butt. Then he noticed the paper in his hand. 'Help Wanted' jumped out at him. He read on.
He looked up at the sign above the entrance. Puppy City. He stood up and brushed himself.
-twenty minutes later-
"Welcome to the Puppy City staff!! You're the new Animal Cleansing Technician." A smiling man said as he clapped his hand on Bakura's shoulder.
A smaller woman handed Bakura an apron and grinned evilly, "Yeah, congrats, you wash dogs."
[~][~]
Next Chapter: Man's Best Friend, Bakura's Worst Enemy
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Yugi: -sitting with Phoenix and Ryou- Matthew was the best decision Yami and I ever made. -reaches over and touches the baby's nose, the baby is still in Phoenix's arms-
Ryou: -melts as the baby gurgles and coos- Yami was all for the idea?
Yugi: Well.not at first, he didn't want to have to worry about a child in the house and all. But then I told him that raising a child isn't just a job it's a joy and that he couldn't just see the hard work that comes from raising a child. He still wasn't all that into the idea, but then I explained that if we adopted an orphan we were giving a happy home to a child who might not have one otherwise.
Phoenix: -listens-
Ryou: -looks at Matthew happily playing with Yugi's finger- So.Matthew was an orphan.
Yugi: -smiles- Yes, once Yami realized that adopting a child like Matthew was such a good thing to do he agreed.
Bakura: -looks at Yami- -thinks 'Wow, I never realized.Yami is so nice.'-
Yami: -shoots a look back- What the hell do you want, Pokki!
Bakura: To kick your ass from here to the next universe over! But since that ain't happenin I'll just have to dream!
Yami: -makes a weird face- Dude, keep me the HELL out of your fantasies!
Bakura: You WISH I fantasized about you!!!
Ryou: Yugi, would you mind if I held Matthew? -completely ignoring Yami and Bakura yelling on the end of the room-
Yugi: -beams- Of course!
Phoenix: -smiles and carefully hands Matthew over to Ryou as Yugi carefully shows him how to properly hold a baby-
Ryou: -nervously holds the tiny child in his arms- Oh he's so precious. I can't believe that we used to be like this a long time ago.
Phoenix: -laughs- Yeah you guys but those two were spawned. -stabs her thumb in the direction of Bakura and Yami-
Bakura and Yami: HEY!! WHO ARE YOU CALLING SPAWNED!!!!
Matthew: -starts crying, startled by the yelling-
Yugi: -whips his head around, the evil power of a parent filling his aura and the air- LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!!!
Bakura and Yami: -if they were dogs there tails would be between their legs- Sorry.
[=][=]
Ok so you all officially want to kill me I KNOW!! I want to kill me too for being so late with these things but I have some good excuses!
I was sick for a long time! Did you know a cold can last for like three weeks?! Yeah I didn't but I found out the hard way, I don't know how long it was but it felt like a freakin eternity.
Family Emergencies! I finally got to meet my nieces!!!! Two of my uncles weren't feelin too hot, one has gotten better but the other is seriously ill. Some of my in-laws had to move ;_; -WAAAA!!!!!!
And then there was my website! I was working a lil too hard on that. Ok and by too hard I mean: For the ten to twenty minute intervals that I was conscious I was fixing it up. Most of my days while I was sick was me sleeping or almost asleep
Anyhow! I am back!! And I hope to do a MUCH better job than I have been!
Gomenasai,
Phoenix
