Blindness

One day, young Ryou Bakura was walking down the street to his favorite bakery. It was exactly two blocks from his home and around the corner. Ryou of course, now almost there turned the corner and opened the door to the familiar store. He turned his head to look at his surroundings. Then he heard a familiar voice.

"Ryou! Hey, what's up my man," asked a man. Ryou turned and looked up to see his favorite shop keeper, Joey. He wore a bright smile that accentuated his long disarrayed blond hair. His honey brown eyes had a soft look to them as he peered down on Ryou.

"Hey Joey, not much is going on with me. How about you," the small teen asked. He was wearing a blue short sleeved shirt with a pair of jeans. He looked friendly looking up to the taller male with his chocolate brown eyes.

"Not much going on here either. Nothing ever does. Do you want to see the most recent cake I've made?"

"Sure, that sound like fun!" the excited young male exclaimed. Joey began walking to the cake. Ryou soon followed after he realized that he was being left behind.

On the way there Joey told Ryou to watch out for some ice on the floor that he has spilled earlier. His worker was supposed to clean it, but never did. Little Ryou never heard the warning and with them approaching the cake…

Joey pulled out the cake and put in on the counter for Ryou to see. He looked around for him just long enough to see Ryou stepping on ice. "Ryou, No!" Ryou went sliding towards Joey with a piece of ice under his foot. He landed with his face right smack in the middle of the cake. He pulled his face out of the cake and gave Joey his apologies. Joey told him it was no big deal with a lot of trouble since he was laughing so hard. Ryou looked good enough to eat.

Ryou licked his lips. "Mm, I taste good. What kind of cake is this?"

"It's a chocolate cake. You're lucky that this cake was for you and not for one of my other customers."

"For me?" Ryou asked in shock. "Yes you numbskull! It's your birthday today!" "Omg! It is!"

Ryou felt indeed happy with a mixture of disappointment, but he was mostly happy. He was irritated with himself for forgetting his own birthday but happy since he found out how good chocolate cake is.

A deep sound entered Ryou's mind. "Hikari, I can't believe you're twenty-five today. Happy birthday."

"Hey Yami, happy birthday to you too. How old does that make you, 5008?" Ryou asked with an innocent twirl to his voice. "Very funny hikari." Bakura said with a growl.

Joey looked at Ryou with a weird face before asking, "Ryou, Ryou? Are you in there? He must be talking with his other self." Joey remembered back eight years to when Yugi used to speak with Yami. I just wish they would speak to each other again…

Ryou said goodbye to his yami and told him that he would be back later, after seeing Joey looking at him with a strange look in his eye. He walked towards Joey and placed his hand on the other man's shoulder. Joey looked at him in surprise and asked him what he was doing.

"You called out to me, remember? You asked me if I was there." "Sorry Ryou. I was a little lost in my own thought after speaking to you." "What about?" "Well, do you remember Yugi and Yami? How they never wanted to speak to one another again?" "Yes." "I was thinking that maybe we should try to find a way to get them to speak to each other again."

Ryou pondered the thought for a moment before concluding that the idea was a good one.

"That's a great idea Joey. We should find a way to set them up on a blind date. They may still be able to probe one another's mind, but the yami's still do have their own bodies. Like Bakura for example, he can still enter my mind at will but he terrorizes the world in his own body." He stopped for a breath before continuing. "All that we have to do is gain their trust again since we haven't spoken to them for years and then attempt to set them up on a blind date. I'll take Yugi and you take Yami. It's as simple as that."

Joey looked Ryou up and down for any signs of his evil yami taking control before accepting the strange idea.

"It's a deal, Ryou my man. I'll look up Yami's number and call him. You do the same for Yugi. Let's go!"

Ryou nodded and ran out the door to his favorite bakery shop. He went as fast as he could to his home to look up Yugi's number. He had no idea if it was the same number or not. Searching high and low, the telephone book was found. Looking up the number for Moto, Yugi was fairly easy. He found it and called the number &#-!#.

Ring, Ring, Ring, the phone said. "Moshi Moshi. Moto residence"

Ryou almost dropped the phone at the sound of Yugi's voice. It sounded just like Yami's eight years earlier.