Here's the second chapter, hope you like it. It's sort of another introductory chapter and I'm afraid it's not much longer than the last one, but they will get longer, and better, I promise. Cheers for the reviews, cookies for all!

I own nothing except the character Maith.

Babysitting the Maniac

Chapter 2-The 'It'

Ryou was awake early, despite the late night he had had the night before. He sat up in bed, rubbing his eyes, then, turning his head; he looked at the clock on the bedside table. It showed 7:47Am.

"Too early." he groaned, slumping back down and pulling the covers over his head. He was starting to drop back off to sleep when the phone rang. Ryou groaned again and curled up under the covers. Bakura will never get it, he thought as he dragged himself out of bed.

"I love marshmallows." Bakura mumbled in his sleep as Ryou passed the sofa on his way to the phone, which sat on the table next to the bathroom door.

"Hello?" Ryou answered, groggily.

"Hello, Ryou? It's Malik. Can I talk to Bakura please?" he sounded energetic.

"Sure, one second." Ryou placed the phone on the table next to its cradle, and walked up to the back of the sofa where Maith lay curled in a ball and Bakura lay spread-eagled.

"Bakura, Bakura get up you lazy ass!" he poked his Yami in the shoulder.

"Just five more minutes." He tried to roll over but fell off the sofa all together and landed hard on the floor with a yelp.

"What is it?" asked a sleepy Maith as she sat up. She started to laugh as she caught sight of Bakura on the floor.

"You have a phone call, it's Malik." Ryou said over Maith's now hysterical laughter, helping his doppelganger up.

"Malik, what does he want?"

"How the hell should I know?" Ryou snapped. Surprised at his Hikari's attitude he walked over to the phone and glared at it.

"It won't bite, you know." Maith had calmed down enough to speak.

Bakura switched his glare to her, and picked up the phone. "What do you want?"

"Good morning to you too Bakura, are you still okay for today?"

"Today? Oh shit yeah, I forgot!" Maith had got up and was walking towards the bathroom next to where Bakura was standing, biting his lip sheepishly. As she passed him, she flicked the speaker-phone button, without Bakura noticing. She could be stealthy too!

Malik's voice, now loud enough for all to hear (Bakura was too tired to even notice), sounded annoyed. "Can you still do it, or not?"

"Yeah, yeah course I can."

Maith listened at the bathroom door, wondering what 'it' was.

"Thanks. I might be a bit later than planned though, I have to help Ishizu out at the museum and go to the airport and pick up one of her friends, we don't know what time she'll be getting here though, because her plane was cancelled like ten times."

Bakura rolled his eyes, "Okay, don't worry I can handle it"

"Just remember-NO MARIK! BAD MARIK! PUT THAT DOWN!" There came a loud crash from the other end of the line and Bakura could hear Malik's Yami Marik cackling insanely. "For the love of Ra! Ishizu is gonna kill me! That's the fifth time it's broken that vase! Do not feed it sugar Bakura, if you do then may Ra rage his fury down on you!"

"Okay, okay, I got it, no sugar!" Bakura was trying his hardest not to laugh, he loved it when Malik was annoyed.

"I'll bring it over in an hour, thanks again."

"Why do you keep calling him it, he's a person you know?"

"No it's not, it's a thing."

"Okay whatever," Bakura gave up, "see you in a bit."

There was a click, and Bakura put the phone down in it's cradle.

"What were you talking about?"

Bakura flinched as Maith suddenly opened the bathroom door and jumped out facing him.

"Wouldn't you like to know?" He smirked, knowing she really would like to know.

"I put you on speaker-phone." She folded her arms and Bakura's smirk faltered.

"I really wish you would stop doing that!"

"So who's the it?"

"I'm not going to tell you." The Yami pushed past her and locked himself in the bathroom.

"Stupid Yami, tell me!" In reply came the running of shower water. Maith sighed; she'd have to tackle him when he came out.

Ten minutes later, Bakura emerged from the bathroom, steam billowing out of the open doorway, and his normally jagged locks hung limp about his shoulders. He walked into the kitchen wearing nothing but a light grey towel around his waist (he he, don't panic, inside joke with me and Fliceru01). He poured himself a glass of apple juice, he then headed towards the bedroom he shared with Ryou, but before he could get there, Maith jumped out of nowhere. Bakura dropped the glass and grabbed the towel, as though frightened she might rip it off.

"Are you gonna tell me?"

"Don't do that!", Bakura looked at the wet carpet, "look what you made me do, you can clean that up now."

"Only if you tell me who the it is!"

"You're not aloud to use blackmail, only I'm aloud to use blackmail."

"Oh Yeah, and what are the rest of us poor, useless shits supposed to use?" she smiled innocently.

Bakura thought for a moment, then shrugged "Toilet brushes, for your verbal diarrhoea." He went to push past her again but she put a hand to his chest to stop him.

"Tell me."

"Not until you clean up the apple juice." He said simply. Maith growled, still not removing her hand, and then she suddenly smiled sickly sweet.

"Tell me, and I'll give you whatever you want." She trailed her hand down his chest seductively.

Bakura took her hand in his and brought it up to his lips, laying a soft kiss on the back of it.

"Nice try but I'm gay." Maith's sickly smile faltered, she had forgotten about that, she was going to have to result to desperate measures.

"I'll tell Ryou you're being mean to me." Bakura's eyes widened.

"You wouldn't dare."

"RYOU, BAKURA'S BEING MEAN TO ME!"

Ryou poked his head out of the bedroom a few metres away, "Bakura, leave her alone, and for goodness sake will you put some clothes on! Get in here!"

Bakura scowled and whispered, "Tattle tale" to Math as he passed her. She just smiled smugly.

"You may have won this time but you still don't know who it is." Maith's smile was gone in a second.

"Don't tease her Bakura." came Ryou's voice from inside the room. Bakura scowled again.

"But where's the fun in that?" he stuck his tongue out childishly at Maith before disappearing into the room and shutting the door.

Maith growled again and headed to her own room, next to Bakura's and Ryou's, as she passed their door she kicked it, her growl turning to a yelp as pain began throbbing through her foot. She heard Bakura chuckle evilly from inside the room and screamed in mixed pain and frustration.

"I love winding her up", Bakura said to Ryou, picking out a top to wear, "it's just so easy."

Well what did you think of this one? Okay, I kinda lied, it's quite a bit longer than the last one but will you all forget I lied if I give you cookies? Please review