Thanks for the reviews! This is the longest chapter so far, enjoy!
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Chapter 3: A trip to the mall no one will forget and Ryou's bithday party begins!
Ryou slammed his hand on the ground. Tears poured from his eyes, reflecting the light of the street lamps and the soft glow of the moon. Why wasn't he able to save Yugi! How could he let Yugi down like that? He closed his eyes as he started to sob harder.
Bakura stirred uneasily in his seat. Isis looked over at him.
"Is something the matter?" she asked
"I've got this bad feeling…" Bakura said slowly.
"A feeling? How so?"
"I don't know, just like Ryous in trouble…"
Isis seemed to suddenly come out of a daze or something as her head turned quickly to him with a worried look.
"Are you sure?"
Bakura nodded slightly. He couldn't explained it any clearer than that. He just had this strange feeling growing inside him that Ryou was in danger. Isis stood up, grabbing a book.
"Then he's been out for too long. We should find him now. Please bring his body."
Bakura lifted Ryous body and followed Isis out of the museum.
Ryou staggered down the street. He was pretty much dragging his feet, barley lifting them off the ground. He felt so cold, so alone. The guilt flooded his mind; he hadn't been fast enough to save his friend. It was his fault Yugi was gone. He looked up at see Isis and Bakura coming towards him.
Bakura ran up to him, he put Ryous' body down and grabbed his hikari's soul by the shoulders.
"Ryou, what happened to you?" he asked looking into the dull eyes that stared back at him. Ryou looked pale, more than he normally did, to Bakura, which told Bakura Isis was right to trust his gut.
"Yugi's gone … I'm next aren't I?"
Bakura looked at Isis, who was standing next to Ryous body with the book open. She looked back at him.
"Bring him over here, quickly."
Bakura pulled his Hikari over to her. His heart was racing as he felt the fear of loosing Ryou come to his mind. He did everything Isis told him to do, having Ryou lay down beside his body, standing next to him and reading from the book.
Ryou's soul slowly vanished as Bakura read. He looked at Isis horrified but she shook her head and pointed at the book. He kept reading. The ring around Ryous neck started to shine and a strong wind hit them. As quickly as it had come though, it was gone. Bakura finished what he was suppose to read and looked at Ryou.
"He's … not moving."
Isis didn't say anything. Bakura tossed the book aside and kneeled next to Ryou.
"Ryou?" He shook Ryous shoulder. He didn't look as pale anymore, which was a good sign right? He shook Ryous shoulder again. "Wake up Ryou."
Ryou opened his eyes. He looked at his yami and smiled. "Bakura…"
"Ryou!" Bakura suddenly hugged Ryou.
Isis started to laugh quietly. Ryou looked at her; "Did Bakura hit his head…?"
She shook her head and smiled at him. "It's a temporary and rare side effect, he should be back to his normal self in a few hours."
Ryou patted Bakura on the back as he continued to hug Ryou. "Oh…"
Bakura smiled at him and stood up. He pulled Ryou to his feet. "Are you feeling ok Ryou?"
Ryou nodded, unsure if he should enjoy having Bakura be happy like an innocent child or if he should be afraid of when the side effect wore off. Bakura smiled again and went to hug him once more. Ryou ducked out of the way. "Uh, that's ok. I don't need another hug."
Bakura caught Ryou. "Do you love me?"
"Bakura, you know I do, but you're not yourself..."
"So? You could at least tell me you love me!" With that said, Bakura pulled Ryou into a kiss.
Marik leaned against a tree near by. "So, they've figured out how to separate each other." He smiled a bit evilly. "Maybe we should have a go at it Malik, and then I can let you join Yugi."
Malik looked at Marik; "I won't help you if you're going to do something like that."
"That's what you think." Marik said holding up his millennium rod, before Malik could even go for his, his eyes went blank.
"Now, what was it you were saying? You'd love to get the books I need and do exactly what Isis told Ryou and Bakura to do?"
Malik nodded "Yes" he said in a dull voice. Marik started to laugh loudly.
"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No one will be able to stop me once I get my own body! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Isis, Ryou and Bakura all looked over at the tree Marik was standing next to. Marik noticed and looked around. "Uh..." He slowly started to back away. "I was never here."
"… Something tells me my brother is up to some horrible deed."
Bakura looked at Ryou's watch "Gasp! Ryou it's late, we need to get some rest if we're going to get ready for your party tomorrow!"
He pulled out an invitation and handed it to Isis. "Tell your brother he can come too! The more the merrier!"
Ryou sweat dropped as Bakura started to drag him towards their home. "… Come if you want to." He said, "Maybe … we could find a way to help Yugi?"
Yami's eyes shot open. He wiped the sweat from his forehead as he sat up and found himself in Yugi's bed alone.
"Was it just?" he drifted off and heard the phone ringing downstairs. He got up and ran down the stairs. Grabbing the phone, he hit talk and put it to his ear.
"Hello?"
"Pharaoh."
"Bakura."
"Ryou wants to know if you want to come to this mall place with us."
"The mall?"
"Did I not just say that?" in the back round Ryou sighed and said, "Just give me the phone."
"No!"
"Bakura, cut it out! It's not my fault you went on a love and peace craze last night and hugged me every five seconds!"
"Shut up! The pharaoh might hear!"
"Good! Did you hear that Yami?"
"……"
"Good going Ryou, he probably hung up, ok so lets go. Finish cooking me lunch and-." There was a loud bang and the phone fell to the floor. It was picked up shortly after.
"I told you cooking was a hard and dangerous thing. Just look what this big hot pan did to your forehead." Ryou said before putting the phone to his ear.
"Yami? Are you still there?"
"… Yes."
"I would like you to come with me and Bakura to the mall, you can get a pair of those leather boots you always wear, oh and that one cosmetic store is having a sale on eyeliner."
"Alright … I guess" Yami said, he felt so weird not having Yugi around to comment on how he wore makeup with Ryou.
"Great! We'll be by in about twenty minutes."
"Okay." Yami said. He heard a click and hung the phone up. "Bakura and Ryou seem to have gotten their own bodies … and it worked … if they could, how come Yugi's not here?"
He walked up stairs to grab his boots. Yami picked up one of the cookies and ate it while looking at the note Ryou had left.
"I didn't know it was his birthday…" He sat down and sighed. He was sure Yugi knew about it. He noticed a piece of paper sticking out of one of the drawers. He opened it and looked at the paper.
"Happy Birthday Ryou. Hope you enjoy the gift, from your friend Yugi." He read. He looked back and saw a small box wrapped in bright colors.
"So Yugi did know." He said picking the box up and wondering what was inside. He heard knocking and the doorbell ringing. He walked down stairs and opened the door.
"Come on pharaoh." Bakura muttered. Ryou poked his head out from behind him.
"Hello Yami!"
Yami smiled slightly at him and held the box out. "This is … uh from Yugi. I just found it."
Ryou looked at the box then took it. "Oh! Thanks. I'll think of it as a gift from both of you." He said sounding cheerful. Bakura muttered something about wanting to kill someone but Yami didn't catch all of it.
"Well, isn't that great. You gave him a square covered in ugly paper. Whoopie. Can we go now?"
Ryou sighed and rolled his eyes. "Bakura, it's not the box, it's what's inside the box that the person is giving."
"Whatever."
"Are you going to open it?" Yami asked.
Ryou looked at the box. "Sure." He pulled the wrapping paper off and opened the box. He pulled out two glass candleholders and a gift card to Bed Bath and Beyond. He let out a cry of joy and hugged Yami.
"It's just what I needed after what Bakura did this morning!"
Bakura shook his head and started to walk away.
"I swear, I told him the blow dryer wasn't out to burn him to death in a slow, painful way, and yet he throws it into the bathtub anyway, sending shampoo and soap everywhere. It covered everything, but in the good news of that, it made Bakura take a shower."
Yami smirked. Ryou started after Bakura.
"Alright. Lets get going, I still have decorate."
Bakura froze. He turned around and looked at Ryou. "Decorate? B-But … you decorated last night."
"Yeah, but I need more streamers."
Bakura looked as if he had seen a ghost.
"No … no more streamers." Bakura begged. Ryou shook his head.
"I'm going to get more steamers and that's that Bakura."
Yami was confused on what was going on but followed behind Ryou. Bakura fell over.
-Flashback-
"Ryou, why are you hanging paper up on the walls?"
"Hand me the tape. Thanks. I'm decorating for my party. Is this straight?"
"I don't know."
Ryou got down off the chair and took a few steps back. "Hmm, no it's not." He got back onto the chair and moved the steamer.
Three hours later…
Bakura was sitting against the wall, banging his head against it. He had tape on his mouth and around his fingers. He groaned again as Ryou got back up onto the chair and moved the streamed over again.
"Ryou! The damn streamer doesn't have to be straight!"
Ryou looked at him. "Yes it does."
"How many times do I have to say it! No ones going to care if the streamers straight or not!"
"I'll care!"
Bakura eye twitched. "Where's Marik when you need him?"
"What?"
"Nothing."
"The hell it was nothing! Every time you say nothing, it's not nothing, it's something!"
"Damn it! I didn't say anything!"
"Right –give me a new piece of tape, this ones not sticking anymore, thanks- I'm just suppose to believe you? Like that time you were only going out for a 'walk' and then I ended up in the shadow realm!"
"Hey! That wasn't my fault!"
"You know, I cook your meals."
"What fuck does that have to do with anything!"
"You never know when I could mistake a spice for poison."
"………"
"That's what I thought."
-End Flashback-
They walked into the mall. Ryou looked at Bakura. "I'll be in the party store. Come get me when you're done helping Yami get what he wants. I'll come find you two if I finish early."
Ryou handed Yami two twenties. "Don't worry about paying me back. I owed Yugi some money."
Bakura muttered something else about killing someone and grabbed Yami. "Come on, let's go."
Ryou walked off, leaving the poor pharaoh alone with Bakura, who was pulling Yami around. Bakura and Yami started up some stairs. A few minutes later, the pharaoh looked around to realize that they weren't going anywhere. He stopped walking and slowly drifted down the stairs. Amazed, he ran up them and rode them back down a few times.
"Bakura! The stairs are going against us … like magic!"
Bakura looked back at Yami, his foot didn't go high enough, causing him to trip and went tumbling down the 'magical' stairs. He plowed right into Yami, making them both crash into a cart. Bad luck for them, the cart was full of tiny glass figurines. The glass shattered, scaring the two. Bakura grabbed Yami and ran out of the area before the owner of the cart could even realize what had happened.
Bakura's eyes lit up as they stopped in front of Hot Topic. He let go of Yami and ran inside. The pharaoh shrugged and walked around. He saw the cosmetic store Ryou had told him about and went inside.
"Hello sir, would you like to try some of our new cologne?"
Before the pharaoh could even realize what was going on he had something sprayed in his eyes. He let out a small cry and breathed in whatever the horrible smelling and tasting spray was. Choking he made his way to the other side of the store.
"Sir, would you like to try some of our new lotion?"
Yami covered his eyes with his hands quickly. "No, no that's ok."
He walked over to the area with pictures of eyes. The pharaoh picked up a pencil and looked at it. "This looks about right…" he grabbed a couple more before heading to the cashier. Yugi had been telling him about shopping a few days before he suddenly started to read over the books constantly.
"I'd like the buy these." He said holding up the eyeliner pencils. The man in a tight brightly colored shirt smiled at him, looked him over and winked. Yami stared, confused.
"Sure thing Mr. cute stuff."
"My names Yami… not cute stuff."
"Ooh, I like it, a nice strong name for such a strong man." The man said ringing up his purchase. Yami blinked.
"Thanks."
"So, doing anything later, Yami?"
"I have a party to go to."
"I love parties. Maybe we can go to one together sometime."
"Uh … sure." Yami said not getting what the man had really meant. He handed him one of the twenties.
"Here's my number, you hansom man you." The man wrote some numbers down on Yami's hand before giving him his change.
Ryou appeared out of no where and grabbed Yami.
"Ta' ta' Yami. Call me!" The man called out as Ryou dragged Yami out of the store. He looked at Yami.
"I knew it was a bad idea to leave you alone with Bakura. I'm so sorry Yami. I never thought something like that would happen."
"Like what?"
"He was … Uh … so, did you get your eyeliner?"
"Yeah." Yami looked down at his bag. Ryou nodded and held up the bag he was holding.
"Got my streamers. Now, where did Bakura run off too?"
Yami pointed at the Hot Topic store Bakura had ditched him in front of. Bakura walked out as if on cue, dressed in black gothic pants, a black Nightwish T-shirt, with a long black coat on over it. He also had on black shoes and a sliver chain wallet hung down from the black belt around his waist. To top it all off, his pure white hair was now black with bright red highlights.
Yami waved his hand in front of Ryou's eyes. "Ryou?" he poked him in a cheek. "Breath Ryou! Breath!"
Ryou looked at Yami slowly. "Tell me … is that who I think it is?"
"What do you think?" Bakura asked. "The red highlights are like blood!"
"Yep, it's Bakura." Yami said
"Can we go home now?" Ryou asked, sulking.
As they left the mall, Ryou whispered over to Yami.
"You know, I just realized something."
"Yeah?"
"I only gave Bakura ten dollars…"
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"EEEEIK!"
"What are you screaming about?" Bakura yelled out as he held the door open.
"EEEIK! Oh my god! Someone killed Ryou, peeled off his skin and is now wearing it!" Joey screamed, pointing at Bakura.
"I knew we shouldn't have watched Silence of the lambs before coming here. There was nothing about friendship in it!"
Tea and Joey walked in. Tristan, Serenity, Duke, Isis, Odion, Marik and Dartz all followed. Kaiba walked in last with Mokuba, he muttered to Bakura that his brother forced him to come. Bakura slammed the door shut and walked off the find Yami.
"Pharaoh, you're friends are here." He said finding Yami in the kitchen. He noticed a bottle of liquor and smirked. "Want something to drink?"
"Sure." Yami said flipping through a magazine Ryou had given him to read.
Bakura grabbed the bottle and poured two glasses. He set one next to the pharaoh and drank his. He watched Yami pick up the glass and gulp some down.
"Ugh! What is this?" Yami asked coughing.
"A drink." Bakura said.
"You poisoned it didn't you!"
"No, I didn't. Here watch." Bakura took a gulp from his cup, handed it to Yami, took Yami's cup and took another gulp.
"There, see. I drank from both. Neither are deadly." Bakura said. Yami looked at the cup and then back at Bakura.
"Ok…" Yami took another drink. Before long Bakura and Yami were sitting on the floor next to each other. Bakura poured Yami another glass.
"So I said to him," Yami said taking another gulp, "I said, said, you! I said, Mr. Muffin man, I do know where you live!" The drunk pharaoh waved his glass around, "And, you know, you know what he said?"
"What, what did the muffin man say to you pharaoh?"
"He says to me, he gets close to me ear." The Pharaoh leaned closer to Bakura "And, and he says to me." Yami started to whisper, "He says to me, Harold, I was never in space with the balloon man from the park, it was the store owner of Bobs chicken and nick knacks!"
"No!" Bakura said laughing so hard his face was as red as the highlights in his hair.
"No joke! No joke! Then Frank, he, he asked the same thing! It was crazy!"
"Really?"
"Yeah!" Yami said snorting out a laugh. "What a party, I tell ya' with those jokes of yours Bakura. Let me tell you, I've always hated you, I mean I just plain hated you! But you're all right. You're alright." He said nodding.
"Is he drunk?" a voice asked.
"Yeah … I'd say so." Bakura said standing up.
"Good."
"You don't know the meaning of French Fries!" Yami yelled at the new voice.
"Yep, he's drunk."
"Don't give me that omelet, I ordered the ketchup!" The pharaoh said as Bakura lifted him to his feet. Yami started to fall over, Bakura grabbed him and helped him stay on his feet.
"Is it all clear?"
"Yeah, they're all playing twister in the other room."
"HOLY COW THERES A TWISTER IN THE CAR?"
"…"
Bakura dragged Yami out of the kitchen and down into the basement. He tossed the pharaoh into a room and closed the door.
"I'll leave him to you for a while." Bakura said starting upstairs.
"Good."
Duke fell over on top of Tea. He started to stand up when he realized his hand was on Tea's ass. "OW!" He said as Tea smacked him in the head. "Hey! No one wants to get off with you, so stop thinking like I was thinking about that!" He said getting up and walking off.
Ryou looked around. "Where's Bakura and Yami?"
"I'm right here, sheeze Ryou." Bakura said coming out with a present. "Here." He said shoving the box at Ryou.
Ryou smiled and looked at him. "Aw, you shouldn't have Bakura."
"Just open it before it suffocates- I mean just open the damn thing."
Ryou pulled off the paper and opened the box. He pulled out a head, a human head! Suddenly it sneezed. Ryou screamed and threw it into the air. A loud cry came from the head. When it landed, the head started to run around on the floor. Ryou grabbed a bat and started to try and smash the head. Bakura's jaw dropped.
"You're going to kill it!"
"It's a zombie!"
"No it's not!"
Bakura grabbed the bat from Ryou as a small white face poked out of the eye of the 'human head'
"Meow."
Ryou stood there in shock. He picked up the paper head and pulled the tiny kitten out. "A .. a kitten?"
"Did you really think I'd chop off someone's head and give it to you? I got it from one of your Advance crafters and knitters books and I thought you liked the little cats. Besides, if I gave you the head to someone, the guards would find it."
"… You mean police?"
"Shut up Tea."
Ryou hugged Bakura, almost crushing the little kitten. "Aw! Thanks so much Bakura!"
Dartz kissed Yami's bare chest. Slowly going down towards his pants. He unbuttoned then and then his own. Yami's hands slid up and down Dartz. Dartz started to kiss the pharaohs neck. Letting Yami slowly join in on the kissing. Dartz smiled wickedly as the pharaoh pulled his pants off. He pushed Yami down onto the bed and kneeled on top of him.
"Wow." Yami said as Dartz rolled off of him, both of them breathing heavily.
"I told you the seal made me powerful."
"You're suppose to be hurting him, not pleasuring him Dartz." A dark voice said.
"I can have my fun, can't I Marik?"
"You're fun time is over."
Dartz stood up, already pulling his cloths on. "Fine, fine."
With his pants back on, the drunken pharaoh hiccuped as Marik grabbed him. His rosy cheeks and hot breath of alcohol made Marik raise an eyebrow.
"How much did Bakura get him to drink anyway?"
"From what I saw, there were a few empty bottles." Dartz said leaving.
Marik pushed the pharaoh down on the floor. "That's right, bow down to me Yami." He pulled the knife out of the millennium rod.
"Bow down before me as I kill you."
The pharaoh looked up. He could see a hazy Yugi standing behind Marik.
"...Yugi?"
"You're hikari can't help you now."
Yugi looked down at Yami. '…My darkness…'
"Are you ready to die?"
'…My Yami…'
Marik slammed the pharaoh against the wall.
"Aibou." Yami said quietly, continuing to look at his angel.
'Get out… before you die …'"Mazaka."
"What was that?" Marik stopped.
"I couldn't leave you."
Yugi smiled and so did the pharaoh. Yugi closed his eyes, held out his hands to the pharaoh and vanished.
"Yugi!" Yami pushed Marik and ran to where Yugi had been standing. "Yugi come back…" He stretched out his hand as if reaching for someone or something.
Marik raised the knife above Yami's head. "Time to die! Good bye Pharaoh!"
"NOOOO!"
To be continued...
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WhiteMageRyou: I feel bad for what I did to the pharaoh ...
Pharaoh: you should! You're about to kill me, you had some guy hit on me, I lost Yugi again, fell down those possesed stairs, got me drunk -goes on-
WhiteMageRyou: I know, I know! I'm sorry.. but it's all for the art of writing!
Malik: and how come I barley show up? What do you have against the pharaoh and me?
WhiteMageRyou: ... just wait for the next chapter
Pharaoh: Review please!
