((Bakura's POV))
How could Ryou possibly be sleepy after he slept so long in the car? He got out of bed and went to shower.
Shower…I wanted to shower too. Ryou always took a bath in steaming hot water. I figured it was late enough so the most I did was wash my face. He didn't know I was in the bathroom.
I started brushing my teeth. My teeth. My pride and joy. I couldn't eat steak without these sharp teeth. I flossed my teeth and heard the curtains open. Ryou had his towel on and freaked when he saw me in the bathroom.
"What are you doing in here! I'm showering! Oh my god Bakura! Get out!"
I started chuckling and purposely threw my floss on the floor putting on my pajamas. I started stripping when Ryou came in the room. I mimicked him.
"Oh my god Ryou get out of here! I'm taking off my clothes! Get out!"
He laughed sarcastically and I grabbed his shoulder.
"I mean it get out. Let me change." I said firmly.
"Let me get my clothes then."
"No. I'm almost done." I threw him back in the bathroom and started changing.
I took a really long time to piss him off. He came in the room at about the time where I was putting on my black socks.
"You like to upset me don't you?" Ryou asked putting on his facial cream.
Facial cream…who the hell wears that?
"You want some?" He offered me some cream.
I looked at his face. It looked so shiny. I went to touch it when I stopped myself. He grabbed my hand so I could touch his face.
"It does that to you." He said.
I put my hand to try some.
"I'll put it on if you want." He blushed.
He rubbed his hands together and placed them on my face. They were warm from his bath and his hands were smooth gently massaging my face.
I closed my eyes. I was actually enjoying it. I opened my eyes when he stopped and he was smiling at me. He brushed his hair and jumped into bed next to me. I felt him place a pillow to separate us.
Good. I don't want to be touched. Ryou had fallen asleep before me and tossed and turned a lot. He kicked the pillow off and scooted closer to hug me.
I allowed him to hug me and snuggle me. I loved to be cuddled, but how did I know if he was awake and he was just hugging me because he wanted to? I started remembering what he was saying on the bus. You know the part about loving me.
If he loved me, why didn't he just tell me? Probably the same reason as mine. He was too scared to see the reaction of that person. Ryou and I have a lot in common I've realized this now.
But it doesn't make any difference if we're different or the same. I've stopped him from loving me and I've stopped loving him along time ago. But is he completely over me?
((Ryou's POV))
I felt Bakura inhale deeply. Was he sleeping? I rubbed my eyes to see better and looked down at him. He looked up at me.
"Why aren't you sleeping?" Well there could be many logical answers to this question that I just asked him.
He's not tired
He doesn't feel like going to sleep
He's worried about what I might do to him while he's sleeping
He's trying to stay up all night
He's having bad dreams and is avoiding going to sleep in fear he'd have another one.
See one of those has to be his answer.
He didn't say anything. How could I forget that one?
"Bakura? Do you feel uncomfortable with me sleeping here? If you want I'll leave." What the hell was I saying? I've never slept on a waterbed before. I was comfortable.
I haven't been this comfortable…since ever!
"No I don't feel uncomfortable. Go back to sleep." Something was bothering him. For him to say "I don't feel uncomfortable" when I make him uncomfortable 24/7 he's got a massive problem. Massive…? Let's go with "big" not massive.
I turned on my lamp and sat with my legs folded under me.
"What is wrong Bakura? If you can ask what's wrong with me and I don't get all bitchy about it you should be able to tell me what's wrong." I actually said that pretty confident. Oh yea, I'm coming out of the dark. Try and top that Bakura.
"I don't want to tell you I don't have too." He said grumpily.
"Please tell me. We're on vacation you should be happy." Yea, yea I'm slowly making my way out of the dark.
He growled angrily. "I don't have to tell you anything! You didn't have to tell me you wanted to tell me! So stop comparing me to you!"
"But I'm no-
"Shut the fuck up!" He screamed loudly.
Back in the dark. Back in the dark. Damn and I was so confident too he had to scream at me. No I'm taking action I'm going to get my way. It's time for things to change.
This little part in my brain is telling me what things I might need in my funeral. I guess I'm not as confident as I think I am.
"No Bakura I'm not shutting up. I want to now what's wrong with you. If you can talk some sense into me I'm sure I can do the same for you. What relationship do we have? Marik's up his Yami's ass, Yugi's up his Yami's ass. I could be so far away from your ass and you don't care. You're just some dead guy walking around the street and your living body can be like eating shit over town and you wouldn't know or probably even care. You don't have to care about me or take care of me just let's talk more often!"
Yea I said all that. I breathed in deeply and heavily from talking so much. That little part in my brain was still saying stuff about my funeral.
Bakura sat up. This is it. It can go two ways: Friendly or chaotic.
"You wanna talk Ryou? Let's talk. Go say something to me." Bakura said sweetly crossing his legs and putting his hands on his knees.
I stayed quiet saying "Um" a lot.
"You'd better say something or I'll make you say something." He said with that sweet tone of voice. It was scaring me.
"So…how's your life?" I started sweating. I was nervous.
"It's great. Are you done? 10 minutes have my life have been parted from me. I can't ever get them back Ryou. This was a nice chat. If you want to keep talking to me, you can talk to my ass it would probably care more than I do." He said sweetly and dropping the lamp off the table to shut it off.
I got out of bed with a pillow under my arm and walked to the door. I sighed. So much for the comfy waterbed.
"Where do you think you're going?" I turned around.
"I'm going to the couch where does it look like I'm going?"
"Did I give you permission to go to the couch?" He asked.
"Um…no, but you don't care where I go so I thought you wouldn't care if I got up and left." Yea I was on a roll.
"Who said I didn't care?" He gave me a smirk.
He had me. Damn there goes my roll! He has to screw everything for me. he just loves it.
He got up from bed and grabbed my arm.
"Now I want you to go back into that bed and go to sleep you are not going anywhere tonight or any nights that we are here. After all, what's the point of being on vacation if we can't "hang out?"
I cocked an eyebrow. And he thinks I have issues. He was just screaming at me a little while ago and now he's being…I guess this is his way of being nice.
"You're making me feel weird." Did I say that right?
"Oh I'm sorry Ryou. I didn't mean to make you feel weird." He gave me a hug. Now I'm confused.
"Let's go back to bed. Oh and if you try to escape, I'll ring your neck." He said smiling at me and going back into bed.
I walked over to bed hesitantly and laid down facing Bakura's back. He turned around and brought me closer for a hug. I'm really confused now. Why is he hugging me? Is he testing me?
He went under the covers and put his head close to my chest. I didn't hear from him anymore that night.
I woke up the next morning to something wet and cold seeping through my shirt. I lifted the covers and saw Bakura sleeping soundly with his arm around me drooling on my chest.
I moved away making him moan and pull me closer. I groaned. Now how am I supposed to get out?
"Ryou don't leave me." Bakura said drowsily.
"I can't anyway." I said.
"I don't like it when you leave me Ryou. Don't ever leave me."
I cocked an eyebrow. He's sleep talking. I moved out of bed and went to the kitchen to see the time. Why do I always wake up so early? That's not the question I should be asking myself. I should be asking myself" "Why does everyone wake up so late?"
I went to Marik's room and saw this fort of pillows with a sign that said "Marik's almighty fort. Do not touch." And his Yami was laying on the bed with his eyes half open.
He must have heard me open the door because he looked in my direction.
"Good morning." I said waving at him.
"Hi." He replied tiredly.
I walked in and heard muffled snoring.
"Marik keep you up?" I asked smiling.
"You bet your ass he did. I should've stuck with Ishizu." Yami Marik yawned. He got out of bed and went to the kitchen with me.
I looked at him and he looked at me.
"What?" He asked me yawning again.
"I need to ask you something."
"Shoot." He said grabbing milk from the fridge.
"Have you…have you—I hope this doesn't sound too weird." I scratched my head and blushed.
"Just say it." He urged on.
"Have you ever like…loved Marik?"
"Ra, don't I hear this question everyday." He said chuckling.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Marik always asks me. He adores me I'm like his idol. Of course I do."
Marik loves his Yami so it can't be weird, bu-u-ut then again…Marik's weird all over.
"I'm going to change into my trunks care to join me at the beach before the others?" Yami Marik asked.
I nodded. There was nothing else to do might as well just go. I put my trunks on and covered Bakura with his blanket before I went outside.
The beach sure was cold at 9:00. I sat in the sand next to Yami Marik and looked up at the sky.
"Is something bothering you Ryou?" Yami Marik asked while playing with the sand.
I turned my head away from the sky and down at him.
"Why do you ask?"
He shrugged. "You look like something's bothering you. Like you have a lot going on in your mind. You can tell me I'm good at keeping secrets."
I sighed. "Well…there is…one little thing. It's not that big of a deal." I said smiling.
"Then if it's not a big deal tell me." He urged on now laying on the sand.
"Well, it's why I asked you the question in the first place about you know…Marik loving you."
"Go on…" He said.
"A little while back I…I had feelings for Bakura. He's trying to rid me of these feelings because I keep feeling sad. He keeps giving me mixed signals and I don't know what to do. I want him to like me, but everything I do it just…never pleases him."
Yami Marik stayed quiet for a while.
"Maybe…he does like you."
I started laughing. "Bakura like me? And I love Tea." I was sarcastic about loving Tea. I'd love Yugi before I loved Tea. And I hate them both.
"Bakura. Bakura. Bakura. I know Bakura. Bakura's a very secretive person. Mean. Angry. Upset maybe with something. Do you know what? Maybe…he needs a friend. Maybe he needs someone, but he's too confused on whom. Maybe he doesn't like you because he knows you already like him and that would be the easy way out for him. I bet Bakura does like you. He's just in denial trust me when I say this. I bet he cares about you too just says he doesn't because denials his middle name."
I thought about what Yami Marik said.
"So…are you saying I should…keep my distance from Bakura for awhile, show him I got over him and when that time comes that he's ready I make my move?"
"Meh, something like that. I can tell Bakura hasn't felt that love emotion in a long time. It's probably rusty and when he does have it I bet he doesn't know what to do with it. Try talking with him. If not I'll talk to him for you. I could—
"Ya-a-ami!" Marik called out from his window.
Yami Marik turned around. Marik ran from his room to the beach and jumped on his Yami.
"There you are! I thought you left me forever! Hey Ryou! Conversing with my Yami? Can I be a part?" Marik asked hyper.
"No…we were finished." I sighed sadly and kicked sand up with my feet.
Marik giggled crazily. "Come on Yami let's go play in the water." He dragged his Yami into the water and pushed him in.
I sat there watching the sun get high. Yami, Yugi, Tea and Ishizu came out of their rooms soon after the sun had risen over the hotel. Ishizu was wearing a purple two-piece bathing suit. I shifted my eyes over to Tea. My god! What was she wearing? Yugi and his Yami had leather trousers. How tacky.
I sighed and laid down in the sand letting the sand seep through my fingers. I heard distant footsteps and looked back. Bakura was coming my way. I tried to calm myself.
"Hey Bakura. I said when he passed me by.
He said nothing and continued passing.
I felt like getting up and dropping him to the sand doing crazy unexpected things. It's the beach…the beach makes me do crazy things.
I blushed and turned to my side. Why do I brother? Bakura's only trying to get me to stop liking him. Should I stop? Should I listen to him?
Yep. See I kept my promise. It's June first at least where I'm at and like I promised I'm posting it. See how good I am at keeping my promises? Well hope you enjoy it nest ones coming up next week. Next chapter is what I meant. Enjoy! Wow I'll never say enjoy again. Reasons why I'm doing it next week? I'm coming up with another Bakura's first. Just think lot's of water. What place has lot's of water? Guess who's drowning. hehehe!