Cover Up

A/N: yay! I updated! And I got many reviews again! I love you all. Sorry this took a while, I told you that the next update would be pretty soon, and I guess this isn't to bad, but I was hoping for sooner. Anyways, I know I do thank you's at the bottom, but I have to thank the queen of Games2 right here, because she was the one who got me out of my rut just now and made me want to write this tonight, otherwise, god knows how long it would've taken, so.thank you! *gives QoG2 browneys she made yesterday* hope they're still good ^_^. Anyways, on with the fic!

BTW: a question I want all of you to answer, do you think I should keep up the ch with the bloopers up? Or is it just a waste of space, I'm debating taking them down. Let me know what you think.

Disclaimer: to own or not to own, to own or not to own

Lawyer: not to own

Fine, you heard the man, I no own

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"hello pharaoh," Bakura said, nodding curtly.

"Uh. Hello Bakura, Malik, Marik. What can I do for you?"

"Well, my hikari thought that Ryou's friends should be together," Marik said, shrugging. Yami's brain was going into overtime, how could he get rid of them. He couldn't let them in, that was just asking for trouble. He knew he'd been stalling for to long.

"Are you alright Yami?" Malik asked. Yai stared at him. His hair was tangled and his eyes were red from crying. It looked like he had been through hell and back.

"I. I'm fine, come in all of you, we can sit in the livingroom." He turned around and walked into the living room. He was about to wave them towards the couch when he saw the jacket. 'oh shit! If Bakura sees this here there'll be hell to pay' He stopped suddenly.

"What's wrong?" Bakura asked, trying to look over Yami's shoulder.

"Let's go sit in the kitchen, Yugi just cleaned in there and I don't want to disturb it." Malik, Marik and Bakura each lifted an eyebrow.

"Are you sure everything's ok?" Malik asked. He looked worried.

"Everything's fine," Yami almost put cheerfulness in his voice, but realized just in time that that wouldn't fit the situation. He turned around and practically pushed Bakura into the kitchen.

"Pharaoh, what the bloody hell is wrong with you? You're acting like you're walking across hot coals."

"Wrong? Absolutely nothing. I'll be right back, I want to check on Yugi. He's sleeping." He hurried out of the room and into the living room where he picked up the jacket and walked towards Yugi's room with it.

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Bakura stared at the Ishtars.

"What do you think is wrong with him?" Marik shrugged.

"Who knows, probably grieving, I don't know, but what business is it of ours?"

"It's not I guess, but we should go see what he's doing, I'm worried about him." Marik said. Bakura stared, shrugged and they walked towards Yugi's room.

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Yami was standing by Yugi's bed, the jacket in his arms when he heard a step behind him. He bent and threw the jacket under the bed.

"What are you doing down there pharaoh?" there was a gasp from under the bed and as Yami stood up one of his feet slipped under. There was a soft grunt and then silence. Yami looked over his shoulder to make sure no one but him had heard. Luckily, it didn't appear so.

"I was just putting some of Yugi's things under his bed." Yami whispered. The last thing he needed was to have Yugi awake right now. They all stood in silence, watching the sleeping Yugi. Malik sniffled.

"What is it Malik?" Marik asked.

"He." He pointed at Yugi, "he reminds me of Ryou." And then he broke down. His arms flew up around Marik's neck and Marik wrapped his arms around Malik, hugging him and stroking his back and rocking back and forth. Malik's sobs echoed softly around the room.

"Let's go out to the living room," Yami said quietly.

"I thought,"

"It doesn't matter, Malik needs to sit." They all followed him out to the living room where Marik laid Malik on the couch, taking a seat next to him. Malik leaned up against his Yami and cried softly into his shoulder while the rest only stared.

"Bakura," Yami suddenly asked, "What happened to your hands?"

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Ryou laid under the bed, listening to Yami greet everyone. He felt a little tug to go out there but didn't. He heard them go heading for the living room. Then there was a boom, like they had all run into each other. It was then that he realized that he didn't have his jacket. 'please find it before they do Yami' he prayed. There was some talk, then it sounded like they went to the kitchen and Yami was coming into the living room. The door to Yugi's room opened and he saw Yami holding the jacket. Yami just stood there for a moment. Ryou supposed he was staring at Yugi. Then the door opened further and Yami bent down and threw the jacket under the bed. It landed on Ryou's head and he gasped when he saw Bakura in the door. Yami's foot swung under the bed and kicked him in the hand. He tried to suppress the grunt of pain, but a little grunt came out anyway. He was silent. The whole room was silent. They were all staring at the bed. 'oh no! they heard me and now they're trying to figure out what's under here. I am so stupid!' but to his relief, he found no one looking under the bed, it was all directed at Yugi. Malik said something and began to sob. Ryou felt his heart pulling at his chest. Malik was the closest thing he'd ever had to a brother or a friend. Causing him this much pain when Malik had always been there made him feel guilty. His legs actually twitched from wanting to go out and comfort his friend, but he stayed where he was. They all moved out of the room, but Yami forgot to shut the door. He could hear their conversation.

"Bakura, what happened to your hands?" There was silence for a moment.

"Just admit it Bakura, there's no one who'll laugh at you here,' Marik said after the silence had gotten to long.

"Well, when I found out what had happened to my hikari, i. Uh. Got a little angry and. Well, punched a tree, and a wall." Ryou felt his heart stop in his chest. Bakura actually cared? No! that couldn't be. He was just in shock and that was all. He forced himself to start breatheing again. He could never mean that much to Bakura. There was no way. He was just the stupid mortal. He wouldn't let himself believe and then get crushed again. It had been hard enough the first time.

There was silence after this statement from Bakura. It was a long, slightly awkward one.

"Well, I think we should be going, Malik should go to bed." Marik said, lifting his hikari into his arms and beckoning Bakura to follow. They stood around the door.

"Thank you for the use of your couch pharaoh," Bakura said.

"Any time, and I truly am sorry tomb robber."

"Me too, me too. Ja ne."

"Ja." They were headed out the door when he heard Yami raise his voice slightly.

"I think I need to go shopping, we're out of groceries." Ryou knew that the rest were probably staring at him.

"Ok, you do that then." They thought he'd lost his mind. It was obvious though. He had just been making it known that he was leaving. Ryou stayed still until the door closed and locked. Then he slowly, so slowly pulled himself out from under the bed. His body felt cramped from the 10 to 20 minutes he'd been curled up under there. He straightened, again slowly and turned around. What he saw almost made him faint right on the spot. Staring back at him from the bed were to large sleepy amethyst eyes.

"Hi Ryou," came the sleepy voice from the bed.

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A/N: I so sorry! It so short! It another cliffy! Pweese don't kill me! I love you? Well, we all know what time it is! It's thank you's time!

Ok, first we do reviews for ch3

Yami Krissy: yep, cliffies are evil, and you are the first one who reviewed ch3! I love you! :huggles: I'm glad it made you giggle, that was the intent. ^_^

Queen of eternal Darkness: yay! Someone thinks I'm funny! I feel so special :feels special: thanks for reviewing again!

Ok, so that ch wasn't so much of a hit, oh well, onto h4!

Queen of eternal darkness: yay! You reviewed again.thanks! And no, it's not fair!

Isetnofret: I'm glad you liked it! And thanks for giving me a boost, it was good to get another review! And so positive!

Misty Magic: ok, I know you were in the same review as the one abuv, still, thanks! I really appreciate you reading this every time I update

Ir0m m0usy: omg! You liked it! You liked it a lot! And.how is it like an action movie? And, did you honestly go and read it over again? And sorry, I just like leaving you at cliffies because then I know you'll come back and read it :smirks evilly:

Windswift: I'm glad you liked it! And there was no blood shed.yet. And yes it was a mistake! And it's another cliffy! Thanks for reviewing!

Queen of Games2: yeppers, I believe they did forget something, and Ryou is KAWAII when he's evil! I thought I'd be original with having them go over there, just thought it made the story stranger than it already was so.:shrugs: hope you liked this ch and will read the next one!

That's it, not as many as last time, but that's ok, It's still a lot in my mind

Bakura: mind?

I'm ignoring you for now. Well, review! And all my reviewers get a box of chocolate! :gives everyone listed abuv a box of chocolate: review! And don't forget to give me your opinions on ch3 otay? See you later

Ja Ne

TTFN

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