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((.........)) Bakura's thinking
/........./ Ryou's thinking
(/........./)Akefia's thinking
"........." Normal speech
'.........' Normal thought
Yami's have their own bodies. NO ROMANCE OR YAOI!!!
Summary: Yami Bakura is bored and decides to try something new with the Ring. Something goes wrong, and, oh dear, there are TWO TOMB ROBBERS!!! What will Ryou do with double the trouble?
Chapter Four
Ryou and Akefia rushed out of the Kame Shop, hoping to find Bakura before he got away and hid himself.
Akefia cursed as he felt the mind-link die. Bakura had blocked it. Imagine! He had only known his double for, what, an hour? Less? And already things were going wrong.
"Come on, we have to find him!" Ryou panted, and activated the Ring.
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Bakura cursed as he felt his Shadow Copy of the Ring activate.
Ryou was tracking him.
Might as well give up and go home.
Or he could lead them on a merry chase.........
Bakura sighed, deciding not to take such extreme chances and just give up. He walked sullenly to their house, easily picked the lock, (only Ryou has a key.) and went in.
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Akefia and Ryou came to a stop before their house, blinking.
"He.........went home?" Ryou said, surprised.
"He must have." Akefia said, just as surprised. They went in and found Bakura slumped on a couch.
"Oh, 'Kura, you know I wouldn't trade you in for any other yami! And sorry, Akefia, but it's the truth." Ryou said, running over and hugging his yami.
"That's okay. I'm him and he's me. I understand." Akefia said, leaning against the wall.
Ryou looked up at him and giggled, before standing and pulling Akefia into a hug, and then dragging Bakura in.
"Group hug!!" He cheered, clasping the two tightly.
"Ryou!"
"Let me go!"
"I love you both!"
"Agh!"
"Get off me!"
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Ryou hummed happily as he made up breakfast. It was a weekend, so no school, which means he had a whole day to spend with his two yamis! Ryou was actually really happy to have two now, and he knew it would be a wrench to give up Akefia, but he didn't want to have two permanently.
Akefia was still asleep in the room he and Bakura shared, and Bakura was in the shower.
A knock on the door alerted Ryou to visitors.
He wiped his hands on a towel and ran over.
"Hello?"
Two blonde Egyptians met his eyes.
"Hey Ryou! Where's 'Kura?" Malik said, smiling happily.
"Upstairs." Ryou said distractedly as he smelled his pancakes burning. He let the two in and then ran to take care of his breakfast.
"Can we have some?" Marik mumbled, sniffing the air appreciatively.
"Sure, I can make more." Ryou said, smiling cheerfully.
Malik ran upstairs and threw open Bakura's door, seeing the motionless form in the bed.
"Wake up, 'Kura!" Malik hollered, jumping onto the form and startling him into the real world.
"Go 'way, Malik." Akefia mumbled, burying his head under his pillow.
"Nope. We get to spend the day together, so nope nope nope! Wake up! Rise and Shine! Pancakes are being made, and we get to have fun fun fun!" Malik cheered, shaking Akefia's shoulder.
Marik wandered into the room, raising an eyebrow at his hikari and his friend.
"I would get up, spirit. Malik has had plenty of sugar this morning and he will get what he wants when he is like this." Marik said, poking the still form.
"Go 'way!" Akefia howled, digging down and clutching his blankets as Malik tried to uncover him.
"Hey, guys! Breakfast is done!" Ryou said, skipping into the room.
"What's going on here?" A sleepy voice asked, and the four in the room turned to face a wet Bakura.
Malik stared between Ryou, Bakura, and Akefia, (who he still sat on.) and back again, and Marik alternated between Akefia and Bakura.
"What's going on?" Marik asked.
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They sat around at breakfast, and Ryou had just finished telling the story.
"Yay!" Malik cheered.
Everyone stared.
"Two 'Kura's now!" He cried joyfully, snagging the two twins in a hug.
"What is it with people hugging us??" Akefia howled, twisting in Malik's grip. Bakura wiggled loose and backed away from the crazy Egyptian.
Only to be caught by a smirking Marik.
"Argh, not you too, Marik! Release me!" Bakura snarled, but was held tightly.
Ryou was laughing at their predicament, finding it all amusing.
"Now there's one for both of us, yami!" Malik continued, clasping Akefia harder.
"Ack! I can't breathe, dodo!" the double grated from between clenched teeth.
Marik snickered, tightening his hold on the sulky and pouting Bakura.
"Well, it seems you guys are having fun, so I'll just go visit Yugi. We can have a bonding day later, okay guys?" Ryou said mischeviously, dashing out of the door before his yamis could protest.
Malik and Marik exchanged wicked grins, snickering to themselves.
Oh, what fun.- - - - - - - - - - - - -
"What do you want to do?" Marik asked, sprawled on the couch in Ryou's living room.
"I don't know, why do you keep asking me?" Yami Bakura snapped back from where he lounged on the living room floor, staring up at the fan that spun around and around.
And around and around.........
"What are we going to do?" Malik wondered, idly playing with his hair.
"I don't know! What do you want to do, Akefia?" Bakura asked.
Around and around and around.........
"What's that?" Malik interrupted, pointing at a piece of paper on the living room table.
"Oh, that? It's a poem Ryou has to do for his school class. He wanted me to help, so I told him a poem I learned when I was little." Bakura said, staring as the fan went around and around.
"Oh." Marik said, snatching the paper up.
He read it.
"Shadows lurking in the night,
Under stars shining bright.
See one sneaking, always creeping,
Into rooms peacefully sleeping.
Finding treasure in a tomb,
Taking it while dangers loom.
The theft not discovered until next morn,
The victim receiving the thief's silent scorn.
Slick as shadows, as yet uncaught,
Silent as a whisper, quicker than thought.
Trending the dark path,
Facing a guard's wrath,
Success and failure, full of wit,
A thief knows not to quit.
Showing qualities that are true,
That thief is a lot better than you."
(A/N: That poem was made by me on a random moment of boredom, so it is mine and not copied from anywhere! It is kind of stupid, but I was bored, after all.)
Marik cocked his head as he considered the poem.
"It's about tomb robbing."
"But of course." Bakura said, rolling his eyes to follow the spinning fan.
"Should I make a poem?"
"No."
"Why?" Marik asked.
"You wouldn't do good at it." Bakura said truthfully.
"Oh." Marik said, disappointed.
"But I do know a fun game." Bakura said, smiling.
"What?" Marik asked, suddenly interested.
"It's called, 'annoy the pharaoh!'" Bakura cried, standing up.
"That's fun. But he's not here." Akefia pointed out.
"So? I know how to use the telephone. Ryou showed me how." Bakura said, walking over to the phone.
"So we call him?"
"Yep." Bakura said happily, picking up the phone.
"Do you know his number?" Malik asked.
"Nope."
"Then how are you going to call him?" Akefia wondered.
"Dial a random number. I should get it right sometime." Bakura said, punching in a couple of digits.
The phone rang for a moment, before someone answered.
"Hello?"
"Hey, is this the Pharaoh?" Bakura asked.
"What? No! There is no pharaoh here. You have the wrong number."
The line went dead.
"How rude was that?" Bakura asked angrily.
He saw a little list beside the phone.
Hmmm.........
He dialed the first number on the list.
"Hello?"
It was Joey.
"........." what should he say to the idiot?
"Hey, anybody there?" Joey's voice asked impatiently from the other line.
"Yeah, I'm here, I called the wrong number." Bakura snapped into the receiver.
"Oh.........Yami B. I see, wrong number. Bye." Joey hung up quickly.
"Humph. He didn't want to talk." Bakura whined, while the others snickered.
"How about.........Kaiba? Why does Ryou have Kaiba's number? Oh well." Bakura grinned as he dialed the numbers on the list.
Ring.........ring.........ring.........
"Hello?" There was a bright, cheery greeting.
Not Kaiba.
"Hey, brat, is your brother there?" Bakura growled into the phone to Mokuba, Kaiba's little brother.
"Oh, sure he is! I'll go get him, you just hang on a moment, okay, bye bye." There was a quick switch and Mokuba could be heard screaming through the house.
"Seto! Someone is on the phone for you!!!!"
"This had better be important!" Kaiba could be heard yelling back.
"I didn't know Kaiba yelled." Malik commented.
"He can if he gets worked up enough." Bakura answered back.
"What do you want?" Kaiba's voice rang over the phone, containing annoyance.
"Hello, Kaiba! We were just wondering what's going on with you today." Bakura said cheerfully.
"Who is this?" Kaiba growled.
"Why, it's Ryou!" Bakura said, snickering his laughing friends.
"Ryou wouldn't call me like this, and he wouldn't be talking like you do, Yami Bakura." Kaiba said, grasping the name out of his extensive memory. He hasn't seen Bakura very much, but took a good guess on who would be calling on Ryou's phone.
"Oh, shoot. You found me out. Oh well! You didn't answer my question." Bakura pouted.
"What question?" Kaiba grated out, seriously annoyed now.
"How are you today?"
"Fine. Okay? Just peachy." Kaiba snapped.
"Did he just say 'peachy'?" Marik wondered.
"Yep, he did. Hey, Kaiba, care for some services?" Bakura said, a brilliant idea striking him.
"No." Kaiba said immediately.
"But you don't even know what I was going to say." Bakura whined.
"It doesn't matter. Any services you offer are bound to be unworthy of my time." Kaiba snapped. Akefia snickered at that, and Bakura glared at his double.
"Fine. But, if ever you need something done, just call 1-800-EZTHVE!" Bakura said, and hung up.
The group burst into laughter.
"1-800-EZTHVE?? Where in the world did you come up with that?" Malik howled.
"Just now I thought of it. Pretty clever, ne?" Bakura laughed.
"I like it. Here, let me try." Marik reached for the phone.
"Who are you calling?" Bakura asked.
"I don't know. This one." He pointed to a random number and typed it in. He didn't bother looking at the name.
"Hello?"
It was Tristan.
"Hey, what's up? So, we're going to have a threesome tonight as planned?" Marik said into the phone. Bakura and Akefia snickered, while Malik laughed outright.
"What? Sorry, wrong number." Tristan hung up.
Marik dialed another number.
"Hello? Who is this?" a voice asked.
Marik's eyes widened and he slammed down the phone.
"Who was it?" Bakura asked.
"Isis." Marik said, this time looking carefully at the name next to the number.
"Isis? You called my sister??" Malik asked, looking at the list. "Why does Ryou have our number?"
"Um, because I call you guys sometimes?" Bakura suggested, and Malik's eyes widened.
"Oh, yeah. Okay. Here, I want to try!" He snatched the phone from his dark.
"Nope, hate her. Don't like him. Here's a number!" Malik said triumphantly.
"Hello?"
"Uh.........who is this?" Malik asked, suddenly confused. He didn't know the voice.
"Ryou? No, you're not Ryou. Where's my son, who are you, and why are you calling on his home phone?" the man, who seemed to be Ryou's father, asked.
Bakura's eyes widened and he grabbed the phone away from his startled friend, changing his voice to sound like Ryou's.
"Sorry, dad. That's my friend Malik. I think he called the wrong number." Bakura said, innocence seeping through his words.
"Ryou? Oh, that's okay then. I haven't talked to you for a while. How have you been?"
"Uh, good?" Bakura answered, trying to figure out how to end the conversation without seeming rude.
Akefia solved the problem.
He grabbed a random thing from a bookshelf and threw it against a wall, causing a magnificent crash and the pieces tinkered to the ground.
"What was that?" Ryou's father yelled.
"One of my friends just fell down the stairs! Call you later, I got to go, Dad!" Bakura hung up.
The four teens stared at each other, before they burst out laughing.
"What did you use, Akefia?" Marik asked, and they turned to the shattered remains of what just happened to be a rather expensive picture frame.
Now smashed on the floor.
"Oh, Ra." Bakura cursed.
"Oops?" Akefia said, grinning sheepishly.
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(End Chapter)
Thanks to all reviewers! I've got way too many to answer now, so only specific questions will have answers now. But thanks to you all, I'm glad you all like this story so much!