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Pharaoh Atems' Favorite Queen.
Bakura entered the living room of the Mutou residence and glanced around. 'It's been awhile since I've been here.' He realized, looking at the layout of the living room. 'Before, the television used to sit near the East wall, now it's sitting near the North wall. Let's see… how long has it been since I've been here?'
Bakura took a seat on the brown leather sofa and put his left index finger to his lips, thinking.
"Ah, yes," he grinned evilly, "now I remember. It was last year at Halloween. I came over dressed like a Zombie, used a little Shadow Magic, and scared little Yugi half out of his mind! That was hysterical!"
Bakura grabbed his stomach and burst out laughing. He was practically on the floor with laughter when he heard a deep male voice from behind him say, "Ryou, could you kinda keep it down a little? Yugi needs his rest."
Bakura stopped laughing and stood up. "Pha-I mean, Yami," he said, quickly changing his voice to sound like Ryou's and bowing slightly, "of course, anything to help a friend get well. Speaking of helping friends, that's what I came here for."
"I'm sorry Ryou," said Yami apologetically, "but Yugi's too sick to-" "It's not Yugi whom I came to see," said Bakura, cutting him off before he could finish, "it's you. I need your help."
"With what?" Yami asked curiously. There was something not quite right with Ryou but Yami couldn't put his finger on it, at least not yet. 'Hmm,' he thought, 'maybe just by talking with him I can figure it out.
"Well, you see," said Bakura, indicating the Rose in his shirt pocket to Yami, "I'm having a little problem."
"Go on." Yami encouraged him.
"I encountered a girl earlier today, beautiful too," said Bakura, trying his best to sound and act like Ryou, "with sapphire eyes and auburn hair. She gave me this flower, this Rose."
Yami folded his arms and shrugged. "So, what's the problem with that?" he asked.
"The problem," said Bakura, plucking the Rose from his shirt pocket, "is that it refuses to leave me. Watch." Bakura walked over to an open window and tossed the Rose out. Not even a minute later, the Rose was back in his shirt pocket.
"Magic!" Yami exclaimed in amazement.
"Duh!" said Bakura, readjusting the Rose in his pocket so that its thorns would quit poking him.
"It would seem," said Yami, walking over to Bakura to get a better look at the Rose, "that it works the same way as your Millennium Ring. No matter how many times you try to get rid of it, it always comes back to its owner."
'Brilliant deduction, Yami!' Bakura thought angrily. 'All the way over to the Card Shop just for this!'
"Any idea on how to get rid of it?" Bakura asked, growing irritated.
"Well," said Yami, pacing, "working under the assumption that it works like the Millennium Ring, I'd say the only way to get rid of it would probably be to kill yourself." 'Great,' Bakura thought, now official irritated, 'I can't kill my host. I need him alive. It looks like I'm going to be stuck with this cursed Rose forever! Unless...the Pharaoh knows any good removal spells.'
"Promise me you won't do that Ryou," said Yami, taking Ryou by the hand, "please?" he asked. He looked so sad that he looked pitiful.
"Yeah, yeah," Said Bakura, pulling his hand away from Yami's, "I promise." "Ryou," said Yami seriously, taking him by the hand again, "I mean it. Yugi, Joey, and I… we're all your friends. We care about you. We'd miss you if something bad happened to you. Promise me that you won't go running off after you leave here and try to commit suicide."
"I promise all right?" Bakura shouted, kicking over the stand. Fortunately, Yami caught the lamp before it fell to the floor and broke in million little pieces. "I fuckin' promise!"
"RYOU!" Yami shouted. Bakura stopped kicking at the fallen nightstand and looked at Yami. "What's gotten into you? You don't usually act like that! I understand that you're frustrated, but if you want me to try and help you, then pick up that stand, sit down, and calm down."
Bakura didn't appreciate the tone of voice the Pharaoh was taking with him, however, he did as he was told and sat down quietly in the brown leather chair that matched the couch. "I'm sorry," he mumbled, forcing his face to blush so as not to blow his cover, "I don't know what came over me. Please forgive me."
"All right then," said Yami, returning the lamp back to its place on the night-stand, "now I'll try to help you. Let me go into my soul room and see if I can find my 'Spell Removal' book. Maybe that'll have a spell in there that can fix your 'thorny' problem." With that, Yami turned and headed back into Yugi's room where the Millennium Puzzle lay waiting.
Yami smirked as he said that Bakura noticed. However, the thief king wasn't amused by the Pharaoh's idea of a joke.
'Ra, damn it,' he cursed mentally to himself, forcing a week smile, 'if I didn't need his help…' Bakura let the rest of that thought go elsewhere in his mind and started thinking about that girl he had met, Courtney. That's what she had said her name was. But how, how could a Precious Moments figurine turn itself into a human girl? It didn't make sense.
'There must be some sort of ancient magic at work here,' Bakura thought to himself, resting his arms on his legs, 'but how ancient? And would the Millennium Items stand a chance against whatever magic that girl has? Damn it! I HATE not knowing these sort of things! Damn it! And damn that annoying girl!' Bakura slugged his fist as hard as could into the couch.
"Well, Ryou…" said Yami, returning to the living room carrying a thick, white colored book.
Bakura jumped and reach for his knife.
"…I think I've found something in here that will…" Yami paused. Noticing that Ryou seemed to be holding the right side of his right leg. Bakura smiled up at him as innocently as one could, being an evil spirit and all, and removed his hand from his leg. "…Are you okay, Ryou? You're acting strangely today." Yamis said, wondering why Ryou had such a big grin on his face.
"Bug bite," Bakura lied, folding his hands neatly in his lap, "just happened."
Yami raised an eyebrow at him. "A bug bite?" he asked in disbelief. "That's odd, considering we just had the house sprayed for bugs a few days ago."
Bakura shrugged. "Must've come in on my pant leg. So, did you find anything?" "Well," said Yami, looking down at his book, "I found these two spells-" "What," Bakura yelled, jumping to his feet, "just two? In that great big book that's it?"
"Yes, that's it," Yami said sarcastically, "but I think they might be able to help you if you calm down a minute." "Well," said Bakura anxiously, snatching the book out of Yamis' hands, "let me see!" Bakura flipped through the pages quickly. "Where? I don't see any anything…"
"That's because," said, Yami snatching the book back from Bakura, "you aren't looking in the right place. Here," Yami open the book to pages 127 and 128 and handed the book back to "Ryou", "I had them marked."
"Well, why didn't you just say so?" asked Bakura, sitting back down on the couch and reading the spells. "I would have but you didn't give me the chance." Yami retorted. But Bakura was too busy studying and memorizing the spells to hear him.
So Yami left to go check on Yugis' body and when he returned, the book was lying on the sofa, but Bakura was gone. "Hmm," said Yami, picking up his book and returning it to its place back inside the Millennium Puzzle, "I wonder where he went. And I wonder if that was even Ryou…"
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After Bakura finished memorizing the two spells the Pharaoh had decided would probably help him, he left the book sitting on the couch, then left to go steal the ingredients that would be needed for the spells from Wal-Mart.
"Let's see," he said, going down one of the herbs isle once he had gotten inside Wal-Mart, "I need some black pepper, cayenne powder, cinnamon, sea salt, sulfur, vanilla incense…"
Bakura searched the cluttered shelves for the ingredients he would need, but was only able to find cayenne pepper and cinnamon.
"Blast it," he cursed irritated, knocking some jars of canned peas down on the floor, "where are the rest of the ingredients? This is what I get for always making Ryou do the grocery shopping."
Cursing in Egyptian, he walked over to a nearby worker.
"Listen," he said, taping the worker on his shoulder, "I need some black pepper, sea salt, and some sulfur. Where do I find it?"
"Well," the worker said, walking a few isles over, "the black pepper is over here. But as for the sea salt and sulfur, we don't sell that here. You'd have to go to Jake's Ocean House down the street to buy that stuff."
Bakura humphed "thanks", and grabbed a couple of black peppers, stuffing them into his pockets with the cayenne pepper and cinnamon.
"Now to go get the other ingredients." He said, glaring down at the bright red rose that had made itself comfortable in his shirt pocket.
"The sooner I get rid of this Rose, the better."
And with that, he disappeared into the Shadow Realm.
Okay, how was that? I kow it's been forever since I've updated this story, but I've been busy. So… how about a review?