Heh heh, sorry to the people I pissed off with the cliffie. I'm just evil that way. Anyways, I wanted to post this after only a week because of all the reviews I got, even though it was over Thanksgiving. This chapter might seem a little rushed because of that, but hopefully it will be to your liking and I promise no bad cliffhanger at the end of this one! A big thanks to Bakuraluva for reviewing each chapter, extremely appreciated! I like getting constructive comments. I love all of you who consistently review my little story!
Chapter 12
Rude Awakening
"What the hell?!?"
There is a pause and a much louder thud than the first, enough that I am forced to open my eyes. I peak out from underneath the covers that are nested around me and Yami. I can't see anyone from this angle, but it suddenly occurs to me who that must have been. I shift a bit so that I can wake up Yami to tell him that his aibou has discovered us. I really didn't want Yugi to know about us this early, but I guess it can't be helped. From the loud thud, I assume that he didn't take it very well.
Wait… Yami's aibou… my aibou… holy shit, I forgot about Ryou!! Dammit, I'm sure he's totally panicked right now because I was missing when he woke up. He probably thinks I went out to try and kill myself again. Shit, I am so stupid sometimes!
"Yami, wake up! I think Yugi just passed out!" Yami makes a rather dissatisfied sound and wraps his arms tighter around my waist. I roll my eyes. "Dammit Yami! This isn't the time for this!"
I do the first thing I think of and crush my lips against Yami's. This better damn well wake him up! I leave him after a few seconds and look down to see his eyes flutter open. He lets go of me and sits up in bed. He smiles softly, but he quickly realizes that I am not all that happy at the moment.
"Bakura, what's wrong?"
"That's what's wrong!" I say as I sit up and point to an unconscious Yugi on the floor next to the cordless phone.
"Shit! I was going to wake up before him. I didn't think he would get up this early when he didn't have school." Yami jumps out of bed and runs to Yugi's side, trying to wake him up. I get up as well and put all of my clothes back on. I walk over to Yami and Yugi, and notice the phone on the floor. I pick it up, but the other end is dead.
"Aibou! Wake up!" Yami shakes Yugi's shoulder gently and he starts to open his eyes. He smiles up at Yami.
"Mm… what happened?"
"It's okay now. I think you just fainted." Yugi sits up holding a hand to his head and notices me kneeling next to Yami. His eyes go wide, wider than I ever thought his eyes could and points at me.
"Ah! You really are here! What were you doing in bed with my Yami?!?" I raise my eyebrow, annoyed by the fact that Yugi seems to be accusing me of doing something wrong.
I look straight into Yugi's eyes and grin evilly. "He's my Yami now and do you really want me to answer that question?"
Yugi turns back to Yami and looks absolutely terrified. Yami turns and lightly punches me in the arm. "He's been traumatized enough; you don't need to add to it."
"Aibou, it's okay, Bakura just spent the night here, that's all." His hands return to Yugi's shoulders, I wonder if he's expecting him to faint again.
"But he was sleeping with you!" Yugi's voice reaches a new high and it looks like he's going to cry.
"Yes aibou, that's what people who are in a relationship do." Yami glances over to me, unsure about his last statement. Without hesitation, I give him a reassuring smile to eliminate his doubts. It's official now, we're a couple, which feels odd for me to say, but it seems right.
"But it's… Bakura!" Okay, now I'm starting to get offended. What's so bad about me? Yugi knows better than to piss me off and I'm not about to let that last little comment go. I rise up on my knees, about to say something back to Yugi, but Yami's hand comes up to my chest and my anger somewhat subsides. I guess I shouldn't make things worse than they already are.
Yami breathes out shortly and looks rather annoyed. "There's nothing wrong with seeing Bakura. I… Let's just talk about it later okay and don't tell Jii-chan, please. I don't want to have to explain to anymore people today." Apparently he hadn't expected someone to find out this early either.
Yami gets up and walks over to the other side of his room into his closet. He starts to put on his usual clothing. Yugi is still staring at me in disbelief and it's beginning to make me uncomfortable. I walk over to Yami's side, so Yugi can't see us and whisper to him, "Um, do you think he's going to be okay?"
"Hm? Oh, sorry I was just talking to Yugi. Yeah, he'll be fine, he's just shocked about it all and he's afraid that you're going to take me away from him. That little comment didn't help either by the way."
"You know I couldn't help myself." I grin and help Yami buckle up his shirt. After Yami puts the last belt around his neck and I pull him in close for one last kiss before we have to face Yugi again.
As we walk out, I hear a door open and then slam.
"Yugi!?!" From the voice and presence of the other Ring I can tell that it's Ryou. Great, I was hoping to deal with him when I got home. Yugi runs out of the room and Yami and I quickly follow.
From atop the stairs, I can see Ryou by the door with his hands on his knees, head down and breathing very hard. Yugi hurries downstairs and goes instantly to Ryou's side, resting a hand on his back. Ryou stands up after catching his breath a bit and grabs hold of Yugi's other arm.
"I came over here as fast as I could. What happened? You were talking and then suddenly stopped. I was worried that something had happened to you."
"No, I'm okay. I was just a little surprised, that's all."
"About what?"
"Them." Yugi says plainly as he turns and points up the stairs to where we are standing.
"Bakura! I'm so relieved you're alright!" Ryou runs up the stairs and hugs me.
"So what are you doing here?" Ugh, the question I knew was coming but didn't want to hear.
"Well…" I scratch my cheek nervously for a moment. "I was here visiting Yami."
"Why would you want to visit Yami? I thought you two hated each other. The only time I've seen you act somewhat civil towards Yami is after you… after your accident." The last part of Ryou's sentence kind of trailed off. It seems my suicide attempt is still affecting him, but I guess I can't expect it to go away so quickly. I need to do something to keep his mind off it or at least try to prove to him that I'm getting better.
"Um, well, now it's pretty much the opposite… considering what we did last night." I mumbled the last little bit, as a sort of a note to myself, so hopefully Ryou couldn't make sense of it.
Ryou gives me a suspicious look. What is really going on here? I roll my eyes at him, why would I lie about something like this?
It's just what I said before. Yami and I are a couple now. Yugi actually walked in this morning and saw us sleeping together. His reaction was rather funny, considering he passed out.
Bakura... Besides that, why didn't you tell me you were going over here?
Well, I wasn't expecting to stay the night.
Okay, so is this what you want? This is making you happy?
Yes, I believe so.
Then I'm totally fine with all of it.
Ryou hugs me again. At least he took the whole thing better than Yugi did. But Yugi didn't have much of a warning come to think of it. Either way, now both of our hikaris know about us. The hard part will be keeping the secret from everyone else. I could really care less about the others' opinions, but I know Yami does. I really don't want them pestering him and telling him that it's a bad idea for him to be romantically involved with me. I'm sure they don't place me in the 'acceptable boyfriend material' category.
From behind me, I hear a door open. Great, it must be their grandfather. I've never really minded the old man because he hasn't had too much to do with me one way or the other in the past, but I have no idea what his opinions would be about Yami becoming my boyfriend. We should have left a long time ago. "Yugi, what's going- oh, what are you two doing here so early?" He looks straight at me and Ryou, well, up at an angle considering how short he is. Poor Yugi, genetics can be a bastard sometimes.
Ryou lets go of me and takes a step back, obviously at a loss for an excuse to give for our presence. "Umm…" Ryou starts, but apparently hasn't thought of anything concrete.
"We are all going to go out to breakfast this morning since we don't have school today." Yugi suddenly appears at the top of the stairs, thankfully though, considering I could not think of an excuse either.
"Okay then, you kids have fun. I'm going to go get ready to open up the shop." He turns around and starts to walk back to his room.
"Okay Jii-chan! We'll see you later!" As the door closes, Yugi turns towards the rest of us. Yami gives him an unsure look; he must be surprised that Yugi would lie to his grandfather. "What? I wasn't really lying. I just haven't called everyone yet!" Yugi grins sheepishly. Well, at least Yugi doesn't act so damn pure and innocent all the time.
"So you're all coming and I'll tell everyone to meet us there! I'll wait to call for a couple hours to give everyone a chance to wake up." Jeez, he's being way too happy right now. Why can't he just drag Ryou somewhere and leave me and Yami alone. I swear Yugi planned this just to piss me off. I'd really rather not spend any time whatsoever with all of their little annoying friends. I glare at Yugi but he only smiles back. Arrogant little ankle biter.
"Let's go back to our house so you can change out of your old clothes Bakura. You guys should come too and then we can all go to the restaurant together." I sigh to myself, thinking that I will never get Yami to myself ever again, but it's probably better that we go back to our house. We won't have to worry about anyone else being in the house because Ryou's dad is never there.
The walk back is uneventful and mostly consisted of idle conversation. Although, there was not one word about me and Yami as a couple. I doubt that they are afraid to talk about it, at least not Ryou, hopefully they just consider it none of their business.
We finally get back to our house and I go upstairs to my room. Luckily, Yami has decided to follow me. I open my door and quickly pull Yami inside. Who care's if the hikari's saw that? I bet Yugi's thinking the worst by now though. Heh heh, I wasn't kidding though when I said that he was my Yami now and I'm not the sharing type. All the more fun.
I shut the door and immediately pin Yami against it. Our kisses are fast and desperate. Apparently Yami wanted to be alone together as much as I did. After a few minutes, I stop and wrap my arms around his shoulders while resting my forehead on his own. Gazing into his eyes while catching my breath, I try to search for some understanding, to make sense of all this. Why is this happening? Why does Yami even like me in the first place? For that matter, why do I like Yami?
"What?" Yami's question breaks me out of my thoughts and I lift my head.
"Hm… oh, I was just thinking." Yami's arms slide around my waist and he leans his head against my chest.
"Are you going to be able to survive breakfast with everyone this morning?"
"As long as I can kill whoever is stupid enough to piss me off." Yami laughs into my chest. He thinks I'm joking, but there have been many instances where I had wished I could do just that.
"I know they can be aggravating sometimes, but afterwards we can go far away from them and have the rest of the day to ourselves."
"Fine…" Gah, I give in way too easily.
Yami lets go of me so I can change my clothes and clean up in the bathroom a bit. Afterwards, we both head back downstairs to see what our hikaris are doing. We reach the living room to find that Ryou and Yugi are sitting on the couch, watching some ridiculous morning cartoon on TV. I swear they act like such children sometimes. I feel Yami put his hand on my lower back as he comes up next to me. "Come on, it'll be okay for just a little while."
Since Ryou and Yugi are taking up the couch, me and Yami are forced to sit in separate recliners, although I don't know how comfortable I am showing my affection for Yami in front of others. If that wasn't bad enough, the show they have decided to watch is mind-numbingly boring. It took me a while to get used to the whole television thing when I first woke up in this time, but I soon discovered that there wasn't much of anything special on it.
So for about an hour and a half, I pretty much spaced out, staring at some random point in the room. I vaguely notice that Yugi gets up, presumably to go call people and Ryou moves to follow him. Catching my attention though, is Yami coming towards me. He reaches down and grabs my arm, leading me to the couch. He sits down, so I do as well. He leans on my shoulder and I place my arm around him as we mold ourselves together. "Do you care if they see us?"
"Not really, they mine as well get used to seeing us together. Yugi is still kind of scared, but he'll get over it. We've been talking about it for the past hour or so through our link. Do you care?"
"No, I guess not." Okay, so I think I can handle it in front of Yugi and Ryou, but not out in public, not yet at least.
After about 15 minutes, Yugi walks back into the room, followed by Ryou. We both look up at them trying to look as innocent as possible, considering that we're both yamis. The first thing Yugi does is give me an obviously forced smile and then sits down in the chair Yami previously occupied. I snicker a bit and hold Yami tighter. I bet that he never thought that Yami would end up with someone like me. Ryou on the other hand, beams happiness that would fill the entire room if it were tangible. I think I'm going to be sick.
You two look so cute!
Don't ever apply that word to me again, Ryou! I snarl back. That word should never be used to describe someone like myself. Of course, Ryou pays no attention to my anger and simply giggles as he sits down.
"We should leave in about ten minutes if we want to get there on time." Yugi informs us. I need to savor these last few minutes of peace and quiet with Yami, even though that idiotic nonsense is playing on the TV, to prepare myself for the upcoming hell that I will be forced to go through. Ah well, maybe I will get to have some fun.
To be continued-
Sorry to end it there, it seems like a bad place to me, but I didn't have much time to write this. Hopefully the next chapter will be much longer! Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving and ate lots of food! I will try really, really hard to update next week but it is finals week and I have too many of them. Maybe I will write as a break between studying. Anyways, as always, please review!