A/N: Thank you people who reviewed! This is going to be the last chapter…and it's on time! I'm so proud of me! I think this might be the first time I updated within a week of my last update! Yeah…that's really not something to be proud of…anyhow; here's the last part.
Disclaimer; I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!
Part Three
Bakura stared at his hikari questioningly. The boy was up to something. Now Bakura didn't know what or why or even how innocent little Ryou would get it in his head to be up to anything…but he was. The yami could almost smell it on him it was so obvious; his light was a terrible liar.
"Come on now Ryou, I know you're plotting something. Did you really think that I wouldn't know plotting when I saw it?" Bakura's voice sounded more than slightly annoyed; he'd been grilling his innkeeper for an hour. "As much as it pains me to say it; I'm a little proud of you. But come on boy! You're caught, so spill it!"
"Sorry yami, but I'm really not planning anything." Ryou said with a fake smile and a nervous laugh. What was Yugi thinking? He knew his albino friend couldn't lie! The uncomfortable laughter continued as Ryou scratched the back of his head.
"…I don't believe you." Red-brown eyes narrowed as the spirit of the ring looked over his host again. "You know if you won't tell me I can probe your mind to find out, yadonushi."
"Bakura! I swear I'm not –" Ryou's protest was cut short when the phone rang. "Hey, the phone! I'll get it!" The white haired boy practically bounced into the next room over, he was so glad to be away from his suspicious dark. Said dark decided to go up to Ryou's room and use his phone to listen in…he didn't like it when his hikari hid things from him.
"Bakura residence, Ryou speaking." Pleasant as always. If the kid wasn't up to something, then Bakura was going to have to have a serious talk with him.
"Hey Ryou…it's Yugi." The midget sounded down, weird. He was usually so perky.
"Oh, hello Yugi, what a pleasant surprise!" Like that. Plot or no plot, they would have to discuss this.
"Yeah, umm…listen Ryou, I have some bad news." That was good. Bakura hoped it had something to do with the pharaoh. Maybe the royal pain was sick?
"Really? Whatever could it be?" That just sounded fake. Maybe there was hope for the boy after all!
"It's Yami…" Awesome! "He's gone." Wha? No way…but it sounded like Yugi was crying. "He was sick when I went to school this mourning, and now he's just…faded away. I think that means he's dead…" Yugi was sobbing into the phone.
So, the pharaoh was gone for good. That was great…wasn't it? Then why did Bakura feel so crappy all of a sudden. He hung up the phone and fell back onto Ryou's bed. The yami felt something warm on his cheek and reached to brush it away, only to discover that he was crying. "…damn you pharaoh."
Back to Yugi and Ryou
"I think I herd him hang up." Ryou whispered into the telephone, just in case Bakura came back down the stairs.
"Me to. Heh, you know Ryou, you're a terrible actor. 'Oh, hello Yugi, what a pleasant surprise!'." Yugi was laughing now.
"I know, sorry…Err, I mean…Well, you should have thought of that before you came up with this!" Ryou was glad Yugi couldn't see him blush. He was working on the apologizing thing! Really he was!
"Well, you bluff Bakura a lot; I don't see how this is any harder." The tri-haired one teased cheerfully.
"Yeah, but I don't think of that as lying! It's just play…" Ryou was cut off.
"Acting! Not lying; acting…Oh, hey! I hear Yami coming!" The shorter boy hastily hung up the telephone and opened the refrigerator, trying to make it look like he hadn't been talking to anyone. "Oh, hey Yami! Are you hungry?"
"Not really, aibou…" Yami still wasn't quite over the event from the morning before. Stubborn as he may have been with other people, the former pharaoh never questioned his own actions or feelings. He liked Bakura and was more than a little hurt by how said tombrobber had responded to him. Of course, no one else needed to know that. Well, Yugi knew, but he could trust his smaller other.
"I take it you're still down about Bakura?" Yugi said, putting on a disappointed voice. "Listen Yami, I'm really sorry to say this but Bakura…he's coming to try to steal our puzzle later tonight. Ryou tipped me off."
That stung. Not only had the grave robber turned him down, he was up to his old tricks again right after? The pain was washed away by Yami's anger. "Well, I'll just have to be ready for him then."
The Bakura Residence
"Hey, Bakura! I have some horrible news…well, good news for you I suppose." Ryou called through his bedroom door. "Bakura..?" He opened to door to find a very broken thief king lying on his bed staring absently at the ceiling. "Oh my…were you listening? I didn't think you'd be this upset." The last part was true. Some part of Ryou hadn't believed his Yami really had feelings for Yugi's until right then. "Well, I'm going over to Yugi's to comfort him…do you want to come?" He really wanted to comfort his Yami right then, but the sooner they got to Yugi's the sooner this would all be over.
Comfort Yugi? Bakura could care less about the brat…but he had to see for himself that Yami was gone. "…Sure Ryou. I'm coming."
Outside the Game Shop
Ryou knocked on the door of the game shop, the glanced back to his yami. "Hey Bakura…I'm really sorry."
The spirit looked up from the ground (witch he'd been staring at the whole way over) to question his light. "Why are you sorry?"
"Among other things; this." Ryou was gone faster than the thief had thought him capable of. He turned chase after the boy, but stopped when the door was thrust open. It was Yami…he was alive.
A smile found it's way to Bakura's face; Yami was alive. He wasn't even sick! Sure looked pissed though…
"You bastard! You decide to try robbing me again almost right after I…I can't believe you!" An eye glowed on the ex-king's forehead and his own eyes had become more red than usual.
"Don't flatter yourself pharaoh! You know I gave that up; it's not worth it." Bakura's smile faded as he snapped out a reply.
"Then what in the name of Ra are you doing here!" It was fairly obvious Yami didn't believe the thief.
"I heard out hikari's saying you were dead!" It was a bitter response, but Yami seemed to overlook that.
"So you were worried about me?" The eye disappeared and his own returned to their usual colour.
"What? No!...maybe." Bakura looked away from Yami, who was grinning like a jackass. "What the hell is that look for?"
To answer him Yami leaned in and planted a soft, quick kiss on the thief's lips.
"Awww!" Both yami's turned to see their lights standing in the shop doorway.
"Pharaoh…I think they set us up." The tomb raider said darkly; so this was what Ryou was up to. He'd have to praise the boy after he yelled at him.
Yami simply chuckled. "Come on now Bakura, they're our lights…they wouldn't do that."
"Who told you I was coming to steal the puzzle?"
"Yugi…" Yami's eyes widened as it hit him. "Bakura!"
"What?" The robber said confused.
"Tell my hikari I'm not speaking to him!"
