Well here's another chapter for you all. Sorry it took so long, college, need I say more. Thank you to those who reviewed my story.
Warning: A hint of Téa bashing.
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, but I do own the OC characters. Enjoy!
It was exactly seven o'clock and both Ryou and Bakura were walking up to Duke Devlin's house. Bakura walked behind Ryou rather slowly, not because the ancient tomb robber felt lower than his innocent hikari—that was far from the truth—the truth was his light forced him into this get together with his loser friends. As he walked on the stepping-stones that laid neatly on the freshly cut grass in the front yard, he noticed how expensive the house looked. The two story house didn't look like it even belonged in Domino, not with the middle class anyway.
"Who knew the dice boy could get a nice place like this," Bakura said as he examined the outside of the house.
"Don't you ever have anything nice to say about anyone Bakura?" Ryou asked sternly.
"No."
"You're hopeless." As Ryou neared the front door he took notice of the dandelions that lined the side of the house that sent off an amazing aroma around them. He couldn't help but stop for a moment to bask in the sweet aroma.
They finally reached the large, wooden doubles doors of the house. The doors had finely crafted designs on both doors. One would think that they were entering a designer's or celebrity's house, let alone their friends.
As Ryou reached up for one of the golden door knockers, the door opened by none other than the Dungeon Dice Monster creator himself, Duke Devlin.
"Hey guys, come on the parties being held in the basement."
"How did you know that we were here?" Ryou asked with a quizzical look on his face.
"Because you are the punctual one, you always want to be on time," Duke replied.
"That's what's so annoying about him." Bakura blurted out. "OWW, WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!" he yelled while rubbing the back of his head where Ryou just hit him.
"Believe me, you deserve a lot worse than that Bakura," Ryou said with agitation clearly shown on his face.
"O…k… well if you guys are done now, you can come inside."
Ryou followed Duke into his house, closely followed by his Yami. The living room was well furnished with expensive furniture, and the walls were decorated with an assortment of trophies and awards from various Duel Monster and Dungeon Dice Monsters tournaments. Muffled sounds of music could be heard from beneath them. Duke motioned his head toward the other side of the room and lead Ryou and Bakura down to the basement.
"Hurry up! We're going to be late!" A very agitated Ginger yelled at her room mates. The room was littered with clothes, due to the fact that no one could decide what they were going to wear.
"Calm down, its not like Duke is going anywhere," Gabby said as she was putting on the finishing touches of her makeup.
"I don't know why it takes the two of you an eternity to get ready, I've been ready for the past half hour," Tiff said with a big sigh. "And I don't even know why you are taking so long Gabby, its not like you're meeting anyone there."
"It's a party, or have you forgotten that," Gabby replied with a roll of the eyes. But for some unknown reason, she started to think of Bakura. "Why am I thinking of him now?" She thought to herself. What she couldn't admit to herself was that even though she only met with the thief once, she couldn't stop thinking about him. She had developed feelings for him.
"Hello, earth to Gabby." Ginger said while waving her hands in front of her face.
"Huh, did you say something?"
"Damn girl, I was trying to get your attention for like five minutes." She said with obvious annoyance in her voice. "What's the matter with you? Ever since yesterday, all you do is space out?"
"It's nothing, its just I have stuff on my mind," Gabby replied dismissively.
"Well I hope you snap out of it, coz I want us all to have fun at Duke's party tonight, which we are going to be late to, so if you guys are ready lets go." Ginger stated as she headed towards the door.
"This is going to be a long night," Gabby wearily said as she closed the door behind them.
As Ryou and Bakura walked down the creaky steps of the basement, all that could be felt was the base of the music reverberating off of the walls. When they finally reached the bottom, the inside of the room looked like an underground night club. There were neon lights all over the place that bounced around the room with every beat of the music; a built in bar, a D.J., and tables that held various appetizers.
"HEY RYOU!" A very high pitched voice called out to him. But before Ryou could react, he was suddenly tackled to the ground. To his horror it was none other than Téa Gardner. "Hey cutie, what's going on?" She asked very cheerily.
As he finally got his senses back and realized who it was who tackled him, he vigorously tried to get away from her. Every time Ryou was near her she would always go crazy and tackle him, saying how they should go out and talk about her ideas on friendship. He could not stand the ever so cheery, friendship-talking girl.
/ BAKURA HELP ME/ Ryou screamed through their mind link.
/ Why should I help you/
/ BAKURA PLEASE I'LL DO ANYTHING/
/ Anything/ Bakura quirked up an eyebrow.
/ Well—/
/ You have to do whatever I wish, for a month. /
/ A week. /
/ Deal. / He quickly glanced at Ryou with a smirk. "Hey bitch, get off my hikari before I rip out your insides, and send your remains to the shadow realm," Bakura spat at her.
Téa turned a ghostly shade of white after hearing the threat Bakura was sending her way. Without even a second thought, she got off of Ryou and ran out of the house.
After letting out a big sigh of relief, Ryou got up off the floor and brushed himself off. Looking around a little bit, he spotted Yugi, Joey, and Tristan so he decided to go over and talk to them, leaving the tomb robber to himself.
"What in seven hells am I going to do?" Bakura angrily thought to himself.
"Shall I send you to the shadow realm?" A dark voice said behind him.
"What are you doing here, tomb keeper?" He inquired without looking behind him.
"I was invited to this party."
"No you weren't Marik, I was invited, and I just decided to drag you along because you nearly destroyed the house the last time I left you alone." Malik said while approaching the two yamis.
"Baka hikari," Marik growled under his breath.
"Well I'm going to talk with Yugi and the gang, Marik you behave or else."
Marik, not being the promising type, just agreed even though he was going to cause trouble anyway, especially when he and Bakura are together. Ever since Malik and his family moved to Domino, Bakura and Marik caused more damage than any war has.
After nearly hitting three light poles, five pedestrians, and numerous cars, Gabby and her roommates finally arrived at Duke Devlin's house. Even though Gabby and Tiff were the more experienced drivers, Ginger insisted that she drive. They didn't think anything of it, until she started to drive, and was when they realized their big mistake. Ginger paid no heed to the traffic laws, all she could think about was getting to her boyfriends house as soon as possible. So when they finally arrived Ginger jumped out of the car, while Gabby and Tiff looked as if they were about to throw up what they had for lunch earlier that day.
"Come on guys hurry up," Ginger said as she ran up to the front door. All that Gabby and Tiff did to respond was send her death glares that could freeze hell.
"Tiff, remind me to kill myself before I ever let her drive again," Gabby said as she was trudging up to the door.
"Agreed," she replied while following right behind her.
As they were slowing making there way up to the door, Ginger was already there knocking lightly but vigorously at the door. Her leg started to shake in anticipation for Duke to open the door. And surely enough her anticipation was short live, because at that moment the door open revealing none other than her boyfriend Duke Devlin.
"DUKE!" Ginger screeched as she jumped into his arms.
"How's my delicious rose doing?" he said as he nuzzled her neck.
"Um, before you guys start to make out can we at least not be around?" Gabby stated as she approached them. "Where's the party at, so that me and Tiff can leave and not witness things we wish not witnessing."
"It's in the basement," he said not taking his eyes off of Ginger. "Just follow the music and you'll find it."
"Geeze, thanks for the directions," Tiff said with much sarcasm. "Well, let's go Gabby before they start to make out." They both entered the house and did as Duke told them, to follow the music.
"So my rose, shall we go somewhere and have some fun?" he said seductively with a smirk upon his face. Without even waiting for a response from her, he shut the door and led her to one of the upstairs bedrooms.
Tiff and Gabby walked across the living room and reached the door leading down to the basement; after that they began to walk down the stairs to where the party was.
Marik and Bakura were leaning against a dark corner near the bar when Marik noticed that Gabby and Tiff were walking into the room. He inwardly smirked and was now glad that his hikari dragged him to the party. He couldn't help but lick his lips instinctively, he wanted them for himself.
Bakura, noticing that the tomb keeper was starting at something; he turned his head to see what it was. His eyes widened in shock to see her, the girl he could not get off of his mind, the girl who had been haunting his thoughts ever since there meeting. His eyes wandered to what she was wearing. She had on a short, sleeveless red dress that hugged every part of her curves perfectly. The top part of the dress was V-shaped, that showed enough cleavage but not too extreme. And on the sides, the dress had slits that stopped at the middle of her thigh. To top it off she wore black high heel shoes and jewelry to match it.
Bakura was once again entranced by her. The feelings inside of him started to stir all over again, just like they did when he met her. But this time they were fiercer then before. He wanted to hold her, to feel and taste her. He wanted her just for himself and no one else, and seeing Marik stare at her was making fill with jealousy and anger.
"Hey tomb robber, check out the girls who just walked in," Marik said as a low growl was heard under his breath.
"What about them?" Bakura half-heartedly said. As much as it made him angry that Marik was looking at her, admitting to him that he had some unknown feelings for one of them was a major blow to his pride.
"Psh... come on tomb robber, tell me that you don't want to go over there and have your way with them." Bakura just shrugged. "Well if you're not going to claim anything I will." But before Marik was able to do anything, he saw that Yugi and his gang were walking over to the girls. So he decided to just sit and wait till one of them were alone, then he would move in.
"Hello, my name is Yugi, what's your name?" He asked sincerely.
"My name's Gabby, and this my room mate Tiff," she replied happily.
"It's nice to meet you both." He said with a little bow. "These are my friends Joey, Tristan, Malik, Yami, and Ryou," Yugi said as he pointed to each of them.
"Hi," they unanimously said.
"Is Yami your older brother, Yugi?" Tiff curiously asked. "You guys look alike, except for a few differences."
"Yes, he is," he hastily answered. He looked at the others as if telling them to play along. Yugi didn't want to see their reaction to telling them that Yami was a five thousand year old spirit of a pharaoh.
"So what brings you pretty girls to this party?" Joey asked.
"Well our other roommate, Ginger, is Duke's girlfriend, so he also invited us," Gabby replied. "But they're off getting friendly with each other at the moment, if you catch my drift."
"Ya, dice boy did mention that his girlfriend and you guys were coming," Joey commented. "Would you girls like to dance?"
They both agreed. Since there were only two girls, they kept on switching partners. First it was Yami and Gabby, and Joey and Tiff. Then after a song they would switch with someone else. It was at the moment when Gabby was dancing with Ryou, that she got a good look at him. "He looks like Bakura," she thought to herself. "I wonder if they are related somehow, I wonder if he's here." At thinking this she unconsciously started to look around the room. As she was scanning the room, she thought that she saw figures in a dark corner. But as he looked again she didn't see anything, so she just continued to dance.
When seeing that he wouldn't have an opportunity to get one of the girls alone, Marik decided to catch the one that was closest to him. So as Ryou and Gabby were dancing closer to the bar, Marik shoved Ryou out of the way and took his place with Gabby.
"Who are you?" she asked in a startled tone.
"Marik, I'm related to Malik," he replied nonchalantly. "I was watching you dance, and let's just say that you were intoxicating," he growled into her ear.
They kept on dancing, and Gabby was now getting really uncomfortable being around him. He would every so often gaze piercingly in her eyes, with a smirk upon his face that would partially show his fangs.
"Um, I'm going to go and get some fresh air, please excuse me," Gabby said quickly, as she broke away from him and headed up the steps to go outside.
"You're not getting away from me that easily," he growled to himself, as he followed her outside.
Bakura had been watching all that was taking place between them, and he was burning with anger. He did not want the tomb keeper dancing with her or touching her in any manner. And when he saw that he was following her outside, he decided that he had had enough. He was not going to let him take her, she was his. So he stood up and followed them upstairs.
What will Bakura do to Marik if he tries anything with Gabby? What will Bakura and Gabby do when they meet face to face? Will they confess their feelings? I guess you're going to have to wait and see. Please R&R. Thanks!