Life for Rent
Chapter 10: Comfort spots and Boundary spaces
Maru:yawns: Gunten Morgen, I am so sorry for not updating a long, long, long, long, long, time this is the final chappie for 'Life for Rent.' But don't worry; there'll be more stories of the three Bakura's. Thank you all very much for reading this fic, glad you enjoyed it as it progressed. Thanks for all the tips and help, I appreciated it. Well, shall we start the end? Let's go!
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"Hey! Watch where you're swinging that, spirit!" Tozuku shouted at Bakura over the vacuum's loud droning. Bakura shot a glared at him and ignored the warning once more and went back to vacuuming.
" 'Kura, please!" Ryou begged, but Bakura wouldn't listen. He was pissed and had every reason to be. Bakura had woken up with a crash, literally.
Flash Back
Bakura had been sleeping soundly beside Ryou, or so he thought as he certainly remembered falling asleep next to him. Someone had taken a hold of his ankles and pulled him off the bed without giving him any time to brace himself.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!" Bakura had yelled when his vision focused from the fall and recognized Tozuku as the culprit.
Tozuku didn't asked if he was alright or did he sleep well, instead he started by instructing Bakura about the chores that would be taken care by him if he was to be living with him.
"Ryou will not be doing all the chores here, so I have divided them up among us."
"WHAT!"
Tozuku raised an eyebrow and smirked, it was apparent that he knew what clever sentence would make Bakura work.
"Then I guess I'll have Ryou to myself then."
"What do you mean by that?" Bakura asked, his voice growing dangerous.
Tozuku closed into Bakura's face and whispered, menacingly.
"You don't work, you leave."
Bakura's eyes widened and Tozuku smirked. Thoughts ran through Bakura's head and his eyes spotted the vacuum in the corner next to him.
"You want me to work, eh? I'll show you work!"
He took the vacuum, plugging it in, and started chasing Tozuku with a mad smile on his face. The only thing that saved Tozuku from Bakura's fury was the vacuum's cord halted without warning and resulted in Bakura falling flat on his face, not able to catch himself.
Flash back ended
"I'd listen to Ryou or you won't get anything tonight." Ryou blushed deep cranberry.
That was it. The tab had risen too high and Bakura's last nerve popped with a snap. He had had it with his almost twin, which made him, regretfully; know how the pharaoh felt when he fought with him. He pulled the tube part of the vacuum up and had it suck in the front part of Tozuku's shirt. Tozuku tried to remove the tube from his shirt, but Bakura had increased the power, so he pushed at Bakura with his foot. Still the tube wouldn't release its grip. Each time Tozuku would push, he had to hop to push Bakura more. So they started yelling.
"TURN IT OFF!"
"TAKE THAT BACK! TAKE THAT BACK!"
They were almost screaming as they had to yell louder to be heard over the vacuum's drone.
"NEEEEEEVER!"
"TAAAAAKE IIIT BAAACK!"
Ryou watched as the two yelled back and forth. It was like watching a ping pong tournament except with a lot more noise. He sighed again and resigned to dust the windows when he heard a crash. He scurried over to find that Tozuku had fallen on top of Bakura. Ryou turned off the vacuum. What probably happened and a really good guess was; Tozuku hopped until he landed on Bakura's foot, Bakura pulled back the tube in a painful reaction, pulling Tozuku along and they fell.
Bakura was the first to recover. He pushed Tozuku off himself and sat up.
"Ow."
There was a muffled laugh, but Ryou couldn't hold it in. Tears of laughter appeared at his eyes but they didn't move. He dropped to his knees and laughed harder. Bakura couldn't figure out why his hikari was laughing. He had been so mad at Tozuku that everything else didn't matter. Bakura put a hand on Ryou's shoulder.
"All right, Ryou?"
"I-I'm ok it's just the way you two fell," Ryou put his arms on Bakura's shoulders, trying to control himself, "a-and Tozuku knocked himself out!"
Bakura put his arms around Ryou's middle and held him closer, then looked over at Tozuku. It was true. He laid there sprawled out on the floor where Bakura had pushed him.
…Heheh…you mean you won't be getting any tonight…
Ryou had stop laughing to see why Bakura was quiet. His yami looked at him with one of his many smirks, except this one had delirious slapped on it.
"Bakura-"
Before Ryou could continue, Bakura stole him with a kiss. When they parted, Bakura nuzzled Ryou's nose and whispered softly in his ear…
"All mine?"
Ryou gave him an indecisive expression and looked over at Tozuku who was still unconscious. Bakura gently took his chin and turned Ryou's head to face him and wagged his finger.
"Don't worry about him." His voice filled with annoyance and impatience. Ryou thought it through once more and nodded with a smile. He wrapped his arms around his yami's neck and whispered back.
"Take me away."
Bakura took Ryou into his arms and started carrying him up to their room.
"Oh ho. This'll be great blackmail for him in the morning, I'll brag all day."
"Bakura!"
The next evening…
Ryou stirred the simmering milk in the pan. Outside of the kitchen, there was a satisfied Bakura crouched on the table in front of the couch teasing a seated, grumpy Tozuku, who had woken up on the cold, hard floor and was finding out now the events that occurred last night, announced by yours truly.
"ahaha, you missed out on so much…you there sleeping on the hard, cold, wooden floor, missing out on everything!"
In truth, they really didn't do anything. Just cuddled and kissed a little before falling asleep, but Bakura really liked to expand on the truth.
Ryou walked out of the kitchen, cautiously carrying a tray with three cups of hot chocolate (Fall's coming, YAY!). When Tozuku glanced at him, he gave a guilty smile, but Tozuku returned it with a warm half smile (can't really see hime smile, so half), and then glared back at Bakura, who impatiently demanded his attention so that he could continue to tease him.
"Hot chocolate?" Ryou offered.
"Yes. I'll take one." Tozuku took one, ignoring Bakura. Ryou placed the tray on the table and joined Tozuku on the couch. Bakura stopped talking at this and took his cup and sat opposite of Tozuku with Ryou. He would take up teasing the life out of Tozuku some other time. No one talked. Bakura and Tozuku wrapped the big comforter around themselves and Ryou. As they sipped their hot coco, they became drowsy within the warmth of the blanket. Slowly, they started to dose off to sleep. Before they took their last wink, Tozuku and Bakura kissed Ryou on top of his head and rested their heads on his. Ryou smiled happily now that it was finally quiet and peaceful within the Bakura residence.
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Maru: well, how was it? I think I like the ending better than how it began. I, again, apologize for the wait on this chappie.