((Bakura's POV))

Why is Ryou laying on the sand? We basically have this whole beach to ourselves besides those two honeymooning couples on the far left. Should I go up to him? Nah, he's trying to get over me.

I shouldn't bother him. I sat down in front of the water and began thinking. Questioning myself. Do I really want Ryou to stop loving me? Should he listen to me this time? I could be making a mistake.

I closed my eyes and thought I felt two arms wrap around my neck. It was only my imagination. I wish it had been Ryou. Oh no…here I go. I knew this trip was a bad idea.

All I need now is for me to love Ryou again and find out he doesn't love me so I can be made a fool of and be just like him. I sighed. I felt a wave drench me and choked on salt water.

It was disgusting. I laid back down ignoring the fact I was wet and freezing. Someone looked down at me and slouched smiling. I turned to see Ryou's happy face. He brought me a towel.

"Your welcome." He said going to walk away.

"Ryou I—I stopped myself.

"What?" Ryou asked.

"Thanks." I can't believe I said thanks. This would be the first time ever.

He blushed. I growled angrily and tossed the towel next to me. I'm not going to fall for Ryou again! It's just this charm that he has. He's—

Shut it Bakura. You can refrain from it like before. I need to beat up something. Ryou came up to me and squatted in front of me.

"Why aren't you in the water with the others?" He asked nicely.

"I don't feel like swimming!" I said stubbornly.

"Oh, ok. I'll be in the water if you need anything you can call me." He said getting back up again.

"Yea like I'll need any help from you." I grumbled.

I guess he heard me. Oh well. I'm not feeling so bad because he heard it. I watched everyone have fun in the water. Playing and laughing.

Marik had his Yami. Yugi had his Yami. Tea had…I guess Joey. Ishizu had her brother. Who did I have? I didn't have anyone. No body would want me anyway. And if they did I'd be too good for them anyway! I'm Bakura. Bakura doesn't need anyone.

All the laughing and playing and teasing grew louder and disturbed me. I headed back for the hotel to get away from it. I don't need anyone. If I don't need anyone…why do I feel so alone? Maybe I do need someone.

I sat down on the waterbed and poked at it for fun. I heard someone come in and immediately hid in the closet for some odd reason.

"Where's Bakura? He's missing all the fun outside."

It was Ryou.

I suppressed my breathing so he couldn't hear me.

"I wonder what Yami Marik said was true. I'm too scared to actually talk to him. Maybe he can talk to him for me."

He sighed.

"There's no point in this. I should just…let it go like he wants me too."

Who is he talking about? I heard the door close and peeked my head outside.

"Bakura? What are you doing in the closet?" Ryou asked still holding the knob from the bathroom door.

"I um…I…was…just…you know um…hanging out." I said.

"Why aren't you hanging out outside? What's so interesting about being in the closet?" He asked opening it.

I shrugged.

"Come on I'll make you have fun." He said grabbing my hand.

His hand felt so smooth and soft. I gripped it tightly, but not too tight that it hurt him.

"Ryou on second thought, I don't want to go outside." I released my hand from his and backed away.

"But why?" He asked.

I stayed quiet. No one likes me or really knows or cares about me out there. Not that I care.

He stared at me.

"Please come out and play with me."

Me…play with you? Ha. You're out of your mind.

I shook my head and went to the living room section.

"Bakura please. We're playing really fun games and…and you can swim and tan."

Why did Ryou want me to go outside so bad?

"I don't…want to." I said looking down.

Ryou sat down beside me on the couch.

"Bakura, why can't you try to have some fun? I want you to have fun. You're always locked in a room and you never go outside. Please…go outside if not for me for yourself." He begged.

I looked into his sad eyes.

"All right. I'll go outside again…for you." I had to kill it with the "for you" didn't I?

He smiled and went to give me a hug when he stopped.

"Let's go." He said smiling grabbing my hand again practically pulling me.

"Yay! Bakura came out again." Marik's annoying voice screeched.

I pulled back from Ryou. I didn't want Marik to come near me.

Ryou grabbed both my hands.

"Don't worry." He said.

How can I not worry Marik's like a mutant it's hard to miss him.

"Ok Ryou, I'm outside, dazzle me." I said. I was already pretty bored. The beach isn't really all that fun. I don't know what Ryou sees in it.

Ryou sat in the sand and started making something. I watched.

"There. A sand castle." He said smiling at me.

Whoa Ryou a sand castle. This is so much fun. This is more fun than sitting on my ass in the hotel watching TV. Something I'd want to be doing right now.

I sighed in boredom while Ryou tried perfecting his sand castle. Marik ran over to me.

"Hey, you wanna play something?" He asked me.

I shrugged. I had nothing better to do.

"Ok. Tag you're it." He said hyperly and running around everywhere.

Oh my ra someone just shoot him. I decided to play along with his game. It was actually…pretty fun. For an idiot, Marik's got a lot of energy and speed it was kinda hard catching him.

I finally caught him and I ran past Ryou who was still making a sand castle. I hid in a bush watching Marik idiotically run by me not noticing half my head was out in the open from the bush. I walked over to Ryou and saw what he was making.

He looked up at me.

"You look interested you want to help?"

Yea! I want to help! It looks fun.

"No I don't help anyone." I said. I don't and I'm not starting any time soon.

I stood there watching and felt a hard push making me fall to the floor.

"Tag! I found you!" Marik screamed.

I got up and noticed I squished Ryou's masterpiece.

He sighed.

"There goes all my hard work."

I cleaned my chest off from the sand and spit some out.

"Ah, I'm sorry Ryou."

Whoa…what was that again? Sorry? Did I just say "sorry"?

"Maybe if you're sand castle wasn't so crappy it wouldn't have been smashed on."

There that sounded like me.

"Oh. Well, it's…it's ok. It's Marik's fault you fell." Ryou said.

"Yea Marik! You dumb fuck! You made me squish his tower! What the hell's wrong with you? Ever heard of pushing lightly!" I started fuming and grabbed Marik's hair.

"Uh Bakura no. No it's ok. Really." Ryou grabbed my hand making me let go of Marik's hair.

"You didn't care anyway why are you bugging me?" Marik asked me fixing his hair.

I growled. He had me. I couldn't answer the question.

"Just forget it Bakura. It's no big deal. Want to go in the water with me?" Ryou asked.

How could I say no to that face. He always looks so happy, but I know he's not. Something's missing.

"Well?" He asked.

I looked down and kicked the sand under my feet.

"I don't know how to swim." I blushed lightly, but no one could notice.

"So neither could Marik." He said.

I watched Marik drowning in the water screaming for dear life.

"I better not." I walked away from Ryou and sat near a palm tree for shade.

I watched everyone doing their own little thing. Tea pretending to be sexy in a bathing suit, Yugi thinking he had small eyes by squinting them, Yami Yugi thinking he was all hot, Joey just sitting there throwing rocks, Marik was still trying to swim and Ryou was teaching him, and Ishizu was sun bathing. Where's Yami Marik?

"Hey."

Oh there he is.

I grumbled.

"That's fine I don't need a hello back."

I hate the fact he was so calm about everything. It annoys me.

"You having fun?" He asked.

"Not really." I said to see if it would piss him off.

"Well you're not the only one."

He took a seat next to me and sighed deeply.

"Why aren't you having fun there's lot's to do? There's sun bathing, swimming, playing in the sand."

"I don't like to do any of those. You can do those. Why aren't you doing anyone of those? You just decided to come here and just annoy me. I guess that's entertaining enough for you."

"Yes because I just live to annoy you." Yami Marik said sarcastically.

"Maybe you do." I shrugged.

He stayed quiet for a while looking at Marik who's now able to swim.

"It took me 3 years to teach Marik to swim and he never got it. He's an idiot. Ryou sure is something isn't he? You're lucky to have someone like Ryou. But then again you take him for granted."

What's that supposed to mean "take him for granted!"

"No Ryou isn't all that special." And he wasn't everyone knows I am.

"You're probably thinking that he's not special because you are am I right?" Yami Marik asked with a smile.

Impressive. Very impressive. That giant eye on his forehead has proved him worthy of something instead of it being there for decoration.

"Perhaps." I answered.

"Let me ask you something Kura, what do you exactly have against Ryou? If you can answer me that."

What does this guy want from me?

"I just don't like him ok." I did not need to go into further detail for this chump.

"Why?"

"I just don't!" I screamed.

He stayed quiet for a while. I knew he was looking at me.

"Ryou really idolizes you Bakura." Yami Marik said lying on the sand.

"He does?" Ryou…idolizing me? For what?

"Yes of course. He idolizes your behavior. He likes how you act. Tough. Not letting anyone bother you. He looks up to you."

"How do you know this?" I asked.

"We talk. We're friends." He said.

I relaxed a bit. What else does Ryou say about me? I'm too afraid to ask him. What if Ryou thinks poorly about me? I gained my confidence and asked him.

"Wh-what else does Ryou say about m-me?" I sounded like a scared kid.

"Oh I can't tell you. They're all private." Yami Marik said with a smile.

"No tell me!" I urged grabbing his shoulders.

He looked at me.

"Uh...never mind I don't want to know." Yeesh what got into me? I wasn't even thinking when I did that.

"Yami! Yami! Yami I can swim!" Marik said running over to us.

"Yes I saw you Marik." Yami Marik said.

"Ryou taught me and now I'm going to swim all the time now. Hopefully I won't forget like all the times you taught me and I got it and then I forgot. I'm sorry my brain is stupid Yami."

Marik hugged his Yami.

"It's ok Marik. Let's go bother your sister." Yami Marik said grabbing Marik's shoulders and pushing him towards Ishizu.

Ryou came toward me and sat beside me.

"Wanna learn how to swim?" He asked me.

"No." I said.

"Bakura…I want you to have fun. Can you please have fun?"

Why does he want me to have fun?

"No." I said.

He sighed sadly. I felt my eyes get heavy and I fell asleep in the shade.

I woke up almost as quickly as I had fallen asleep when I felt Ryou putting sand all over me covering my body.

"What the hell do you think you're doing!" I asked him angrily.

"Burying you." He said smiling.

I growled angrily and got out of the sand shell.

"Get over here!"

He started running away from me laughing and jumped in the water.

"Ryou come here so I can hit you!" I screamed.

"No you'll just have to get in and get me." He said playfully.

I grabbed a half inflated lifesaver and put it in the water. Hearing him laugh at me got me pissed off.

"Fuck this I'm not gonna get you." I said angrily going back to the palm tree. I know he'd come back and apologize to me making him vulnerable for my attack. Ooh I sound like a lion.

I sat down and I guessed right there he came trailing after me.

"I'm sorry for burying you." He said sadly. "I just wanted you to do something besides sitting and—

He started rambling about me wanting to have fun and I jumped on top of him slapping him. I knocked him down and I grabbed both his hands so he could stop covering his face.

"You two look like you're about have rough—

"Shut the hell up Marik." I screamed at him getting off of Ryou and kicking him.

"Ow what did you do that for?" Ryou asked me.

"Because I felt like it!" I screamed at him.

"Well you didn't have to be so mean!" He screamed at me.

My mouth was half opened. Did he just scream at me!

"Marik leave." I ordered.

Marik obeyed me and left me alone with Ryou.

"I…I didn't mean to scream at you." He said frightened.

This is my favorite part where he pisses himself because I get all seriously quiet. I grabbed his hair and brought him closer to my face and brought him down to the sand.

"Look Ryou." I said pointing at a shell.

I could tell he was afraid and on guard. He looked down.

"What?" He asked me.

"Look." I said putting my face closer to the shell.

He did the same as I did and I pushed his head roughly on the sand brushing it from left to right grinding on the piece of shell.

I laughed and after a few minutes I lifted his head. He pushed my hands away and started rubbing his eyes and spitting. I saw a stream of blood run down his nose from the cut from the shell.

I put my finger on his cut and wiped the blood trailing down. He shuddered and pushed me down so I could sit.

"You hurt me." He said sniffing and whimpering.

"So?" I said.

"I didn't do anything to you. All…all I wanted you to do was have…fun. Maybe have fun with me. But you don't appreciate anything I do! I hope you…you…die!" He screamed at me kicking sand in my face and running off.

I would have gone after him and pummeled him but the last thing he said left me immobile. I sat there shocked at what he said. He…he really has started hating me. I growled angrily. Yami Marik lied to me!

I finally had the power to move and forget what Ryou told me.

"Hey Ba—

I pushed Yugi out of the way and plodded up to the steps to our room. I'm getting the hell out of here. As long as I'm away from these losers I'm living the good life.

I flung the door open and heard crying. Stupid Ryou get a new hobby!

"I don't know why he does it. I…I just want him to be happy that we're here. Knowing the he's not happy doesn't make me happy. I can't enjoy the trip if he's not happy." Ryou cried.

I grumbled and heard Yami Marik talking. Yami Marik, talking to Ryou! I tiptoed to the door and placed my ear on it to listen to their conversation…

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