JC: All right, I am sorry for the long wait.
Thomas: And for the shortness of the chapter.
Bou: However, this will be the last chapter for a while.
JC: It is true. I am going to be in California, with no access to a computer, for an undetermined amount of time(at least three weeks, maybe more). So, there will be no updates during that time. You'll all have to just hold tight. I am sorry, but that is just the way it goes.
Thomas: So, now that that's settled, how about we get this shit done?
Disclaimer: Bou: We don't own it. If we did, we'd be rich. Rich, yes. I wish. No money is being made off this. We wish it was the opposite, but it isn't. So there.
JC: We are poor...
Thomas: Speak for yourself. I'm rolling in money.
JC: Bastard.
Bou: No kidding.
Warnings: Thomas: Well, other than the obvious gay-ness of this fic, nothing. Oh, cussing. That is it. So, it homos scare you or curse words offend you...well why the hell are you here then you stupid bitch?
JC: You don't have to yell at the poor confused bitches, Thomas.
Bou: Stupid bitches...
Thomas: Exactly.
Pairings: JC: Later on, it will be mainly Jou/Seto. I am open for opinions on the other pairings, though. There will be a bit of everyone/Jou, but it won't be major. I'm thinking about some Bakura/Ryou. I'm not sure about anyone else. I'd live suggestions if you have any.
Thomas: Because you can't seem to make decisions by yourself.
Bou: It's a real problem of her's.
JC: Shut up. I can make decisions, I just don't want to.
Bou: Riiiight.
JC: Well, that is about it.
Thomas: Yeah, that's all. For now.
JC: Great. Then, read and enjoy.
All In The Date
Chapter 3:
Uneventful and Confusing (an average day)
After the ambulance had gotten out of the school, with surprisingly little trouble considering that Marik attended that very school, Mrs. Ramz's first hour class was a little lost. There were still ten minutes of class, but no teacher. They also were not allowed back in their class room, since there was a broken window and the staff apparently didn't trust them not to injury themselves or others on the glass. So, they stood gathered in the hall, giving each other questioning looks and shrugging in response to ones received. Ryou watched all this go on with a faint amusement. He had yet to go back to his own class, being upset at the prospect of leaving Bakura alone in the hall to reek havoc upon the unsuspecting. Jou was still fast asleep, snoring lightly, slumped up against the wall in a position that just had to be uncomfortable.
"Shouldn't we move him?" Ryou questioned, giving Jou a pointed look. Bakura turned his attention to his Light, warily meeting the other's brown eyes.
"Why?" the Yami asked, raising an eyebrow slightly.
"He doesn't look very comfortable." Ryou replied. Bakura's expression didn't change.
"So?" Bakura asked. Ryou sighed and shook his head.
"So, we should put him in a more comfortable position. Don't you care at all?" Ryou asked in exasperation.
"No." the statement was said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. Ryou puffed his cheeks slightly before huffing quietly. Sometimes his Yami really did drive him mad. Bakura smirked slightly, enjoying his other half's obvious frustration. It was rather amusing to him. Sending a half-hearted glare at the other, Ryou plopped himself on the ground and maneuvered Jou so that his head now rested in the white-haired boy's lap. It was hopefully a more comfortable position for Jou then the wall. Surprisingly the blond didn't wake up after being moved, especially considering that he was jerked around quite a bit during the process.
"So, what now?" Ryou questioned, attempting to change the subject. Bakura shrugged in response.
"You expect me to know?" he growled. Ryou shook his head.
"Not really, but I thought it was worth a try." The two sat in silence for a moment. Ryou began to absent mindedly run his fingers through Jou's hair. The twirled the blond strands between his fingers as he thought. "I suppose we just wait for the bell to ring, then go to our next period."
"Gee, isn't that logical of you." Bakura replied, frowning down at his light, "Not at all obvious."
"Are you looking for a fight?" Ryou replied, glaring up at his darker half. Bakura smirked in response.
"You're really cute when you're angry." Bakura said smoothly, his smirk growing wider as Ryou's face turned pink. His light was so adorable when embarrassed. Not that he would admit thinking it. It was either sexy or nothing. After all, if one of the Mariks heard him say "adorable" or even "cute" like he just did, they'd never let him live it down. Evil creatures, those ones.
"Bakura, sometimes I really consider locking you in the closet and never letting you out." Ryou declared. Bakura sat himself down on the ground, next to his light.
"But your life would be so boring without me!" he exclaimed, giving the other his most charming smirk(which boarded scary). Ryou shook his head.
"Admit it, you think I'm great and you can't imagine life without me. Admit it!" Bakura stared into Ryou's eyes and Ryou could do nothing but sigh again. It seemed to be becoming an unhealthy habit of his. Sighing that much couldn't be normal. Ryou rolled his eyes and laid his head against his Yami's shoulder.
"You're right." Ryou said, his voice on of slight exasperation and quite a bit more adoration, "My life would be boring with out you, and I'd hate it."Bakura grinned in triumph. He opened his mouth the reply but the sound of the bell drowned him out.
"We better get going. Who do you have third period again?" Ryou questioned, standing up and attempting to pull up Jou with him(with little success).
"Oh, I have Mr. Rough." Bakura replied with a shrug. Ryou grunted got Jou to raise a bit, then grunted louder as the blond fell back to the ground. Bakura shook his head as he watched the two, but offered no help. Ryou glared over at his Yami for a long time, silently commanding him to help. However, the darker boy paid no attention to this and continued to stare Ryou down.
"Fine!" Ryou exclaimed, with a growl of frustration "Since you want to have him to yourself all day, you can carry him around. I have a class to get to." Ryou spun around on his heel and stomped off down the hall. Bakura smirked slightly as heard a mumbled "jerk" from his other half.
"My dear Light!" he called out "Isn't your class in the other direction?' Ryou stopped, turned slowly around to face Bakura, stared at him for a moment, then finally, with a grudging look on his face, stomped back down the hall in the other direction.
"Thanks." he mumbled, ever so politely as he passed Bakura "...but you're still a jerk."
Bakura was late for second period. This was to be expected, as he had spent a long period of time in the hall with Ryou, and after that had to lug Jou, who was surprisingly heavy, all the way to a class room that was pretty much across the entire school. He always might not have been quite so late if he hadn't made so many stops along the way to curse water fountains, clocks, and other various things. When the white-haired boy finally entire the class room, he received very odd looks from everyone in the room, excluding the teacher himself. The great thing about Mr. Rough, Bakura had decided long ago, was the fact that he never really seemed to know or care what was going on. He wasn't a very old man, Bakura guessed he was in his early 40s, but he sometimes seemed as if he was. It would have made more sense that way. Mr. Rough would continue to sit there, reading his text book, 'Great American History', to the class, through a fire if a student didn't pull him out(this had been proven, as there had been a fire recently).
So, of course, when Bakura walked into the room the teacher did not notice at all. The students all stared at him, as if they had never seen a late kid before. Bakura waved at then slightly, grinning in that creepy way of his.
"Bakura...you killed Jou!" Honda exclaimed, standing up from his seat and pointing his finger at Bakura in accusation. Bakura gave the other a quizzical look, the grin falling from his face. After a moment of confusion, he followed Hondas wide eyes to Jou's sleeping body, tossed carelessly over his shoulder. He looked from the body to Honda, and a back again a few times before rolling his eyes.
"You really are an idiot." Bakura shook his head.
"I'm an idiot? Well, at least I'm not a freak like you. What are you doing to Jou?" Honda demanded angrily, glaring for all he was worth a Bakura. Bakura sneered at the brunette.
"Stupid. I didn't do anything to him. He's asleep, for God's sake." Bakura replied. Honda continued to glare at him.
"Yeah right!" he cried, "You probably drugged him or something. Sick bastard that you are. You pretend to be innocent, but I know the truth." Honda had a wild look in his eyes, slightly crazy, that had even Bakura looking impressed. Subtle insanity was something to be respected.
"I didn't do shit to him. He is perfectly fine. He just has some sort of sleeping disorder or something. You know Jou, constantly wanting to sleep. 12:00am and he wants to stay in bed! You have to drag him out of his room and then after staying up all night he just zonks out in the morning. If I were to wake him up, he'd probably just fall asleep again in the afternoon. And you know what he'll be doing tonight? Sleeping! It's unnatural. And..." Bakura cut himself off in his rant when he saw the look on Honda's face, "What?"
Honda stared at Bakura with a raised eyebrow and a confused frown. He stated, slowly and cautiously "Bakura, people need sleep. Sleeping is normal. Especially at ungodly hours of the night." He paused to make sure the other was listening before continuing, "When people miss sleep, they tend to make up for it by sleeping at different times of the day. Jou isn't the unnatural one, you are! You can't just pull someone out of bed at 12:00am to drug them up and drag them around school. Not to mention using evil dark mind control magic and what not!"
"I am not drugging Jou or have I used any "evil mind control magic" on him...today." Bakura exclaimed, mumbling the last part to himself. Honda rolled his eyes.
"As if I am going to believe that! He is obviously drugged." Honda's voice rose a few octaves as he spoke. Bakura mimicked his rise.
"You just told me that he is making up for lost sleep, so maybe, just maybe, that is why he looks so drugged. Ever think of that, you dumb ass!" Bakura yelled at Honda.
"That would be if your sleep story is true. You obviously made up the whole bit to trick me. Pretending not to know about normal sleeping habits. You're a real evil genius, I'll give you that. However, you are no match for my superior mind! I am too smart for you and I won't let you hurt Jou. Now, hand him over!" Honda called back, passionately.
"Superior mind? Your mind is only superior to that of a fish. I am not doing anything evil at school. If I were planning something, do you think I'd be here of all places? I will not give you Jou, because I have rights to him for the whole day. So, just shut up and save yourself from looking any stupider than you already do." Bakura narrowed his eyes at Honda as he finished his last sentence.
"How dare you call me stupid!" Honda cried indigently.
"I called you stupid about five times before that! If you weren't such an idiot, you would have realized that." Bakura shot back.
"Warped asshole." Honda spat.
"Stupid bastard!" Bakura replied. They began trading insults back and forth, voices growing louder and louder with each word said, until they were screaming full force at each other. Through this all, Mr. Rough continued to read from his book. The rest of the class stared at the two yelling teens in awe. The battle of words went on for a long while before it was finally interrupted by a scream louder than that of either yelling boys.
"SHUT UP!"
All eyes, excluding Mr. Rough who continued his reading, swivelled to the blond boy slung over Bakura's shoulder. His amber eyes were only half open and he looked like he would fall back asleep any moment. His mouth was turned down in an obviously frown and he glared at those around him, though with little force. It was more of a glare that made you go "awe" at the cuteness than made you shake in fear.
"Honda. Stop being stupid." the voice was groggy but clear enough, and full of obvious annoyance, "Bakura didn't drug me, he just ruined my normal sleep pattern. Both of you stop yelling, I am trying to sleep." The boy closed his eyes once again, but added as an after thought "Dammit." With that, he was once again fast asleep.
Bakura looked over at Honda, who met his eyes.
"So...um...I guess we should probably sit down, ne?" The other simply nodded in agreement.
Mr. Rough's class passed by quickly and pleasantly after the yelling was over. Bakura spent his time practicing knife tricks, Honda plotted secret evil that no one was ever to know about, the kid in the far back row practiced voodoo, Jou slept peacefully on the floor, and Mr. Rough finished reading another chapter of his history book to the class. Everyone was content. Once the bell rang and they moved on to third period, their good moods went with them. Little happened. There was a small argument between Bakura and the teacher about wether Jou really was a foreign exchange kid(she was convinced she'd seen him around school before), but Bakura won it in the end ("He's from Germany dammit. Doesn't he look it? I could wake him up and prove it, but it's night, or something, in Germany right now and he is not on a right sleeping schedule yet. Stop being racist. He isn't a Nazi, you know." were the winning lines). After that everything went well, which was actually unusually for a class with the white haired boy in it. Third hour for Bakura was enjoyable, as it was literature and they had read a book he rather enjoyed. It involved a pig whom Bakura respected greatly for his subtle yet brutal take over of a farm. He was actually a little disappointed when the bell rang for the end of third period.
Fourth period passed just as quickly as third. It wasn't as enjoyable, but it was just as uneventful. Before Bakura even knew what was going on, it was lunch time and he was filing out to the cafeteria, Jou still asleep and slung over his back. Bakura dropped the blond down on top of an empty table and sat down by his body. As he stared at the other's prone body, he began to realize how quickly the day was ending.
"I get you all to myself, and you decide to sleep. I've barely gotten to do anything fun with you." Bakura said to Jou, though he knew the other couldn't hear him. The white haired boy pouted slightly. He wasn't going to waste this day. Without a second thought, Bakura shoved Jou off the table. The blond woke up with a shout. Once the blond boy was up and yelling(he was rather pissed off about Bakura's methods of waking him) Bakura was a happy camper. 'Time for the fun to begin' he thought, smirking at the disgruntled teen in front of him. Once the blond calmed down, Bakura was ready to make the most of the day.
AN: What did you think? I know, short. Sorry. Also, my apologies about the long wait. As I stated above, I will be in CA for an undetermined time so, there will be no updates for a while(but your all used to that by now, right?). I know where I am going with this, but I have been having some trouble getting there with this story, if you know what I mean. Don't worry. Kaiba will be showing up next chapter. We'll get some action in then with you favorite blond and brunette couple(no, the brunette isn't Honda). So, since that is about all I have to say, I'll now thank my dear reviewers.
Thanks and good wishes go out to:
kuroi-sakurapetals: Unfortunately, I'm still not in the mood for writing. I'm trying though. Thank you for being such a faithful reviewer to me, for so long(for AITP and AITD). If I knew where you lived, I go and give you a hug.
Sakusha Saelbu: Thanks. I was going for funny. That or dramatic, but funny is probably better. Sorry about the long wait.
mandapandabug: Trying hard is hard. Especially when I'm trying hard not to suck(or think I suck). I'm glad you like it. Jou still doesn't know about the Bakura/teacher incident, but he'll find out soon enough(maybe). Sorry, I didn't update very fast. Does that mean you are sad now? You scare me. Please don't kill me. I'll update as soon as I can(that, just may not be very soon). Thanks again.
Rayne: Some of my teachers are like that. It is scary. Crap. I destroyed the world. The meteor will crash down and kill us all because I am lazy and have writers block bad. I hope you're loaded up on sugar right now, other wise I'm scared you might hurt me for taking so long. Thanks for the review, even if you do hurt me. Oh, and Kaiba will be in the next chapter(I know you love him)
Little Midnight: Kilarious? Awesome. Sorry it took so long. Thanks for the review.
I love joey yugi 4eva: I'm sure everyone wants to be locked in that closet. Sorry, but for me this was A.S.A.H.P. Thanks so much for reviewing and please hold tight until I can get chapter 4 out.
Thank you all. Sorry(again). Please review and let me know about how much you hate me for taking so long.