Movie night
Yugi sighed happily and sank into the couch, sandwiched between Jou and Honda on one side and Bakura, who was perched on the arm of the couch on the other. Ryou sat on the floor curled up at his yami's feet, head on Bakura's knee. It felt so right to be with the gang again. Looking around with satisfaction, he took in the situation in his living room. Anzu giggled with Shizuka and Mai in the corner and Otogi was hanging around them hoping for a chance to impress Shizuka. He and the other boys were, as he had observed earlier, piled onto the couch, and his grandfather was cleaning up the pizza boxes.
It was a good thing that they had ordered so many, because Jou had polished off most of his two pizzas on his own, and Honda hadn't been much better. Watching Bakura eat for the first time in three millennia had been a revelation in itself. Yugi hadn't realized until that moment how much Bakura had missed having his own body. Apparently living through a host was not a satisfactory substitute for having your own body to inhabit.
Yugi had gotten the first of the Lord of the Rings movies out for them to watch, figuring that it would be unlikely to cause any arguments. He didn't think he knew anyone who disliked that movie, so it should be a safe film for the group. Grabbing the remote he hit the button and watched as the opening credits rolled onto the screen. Within ten minutes Bakura was smirking madly as he stared, unblinking, at the screen.
As Ringwraiths attacked Frodo's party Bakura licked his lips and Ryou wrapped his arms around the yami's legs, clutching on to him as if for dear life. That surprised Yugi more than a little bit. He had thought that Ryou would have watched this movie already. All of the others had.
Frodo's rescue at the hands of Aragorn brought a sigh of relief from Ryou, and Bakura reached down to draw his light into his lap. Yugi swallowed back his jealousy, reminding himself firmly that Ryou was not in love with his yami, and forcing his concentration away from the soul-bonded youths. The movie played out in front of him, but he had seen it too many times already and it went by in a blur of brown and green. He watched his friends instead, joining in the laughter when Joey made caustic comments about the actors and the filming.
Anzu came over to perch on the armrest on the other side, leaning against Honda as if by mistake. Yugi grinned, seeing that she wasn't broken-hearted over any of the boys she'd watched so far. She needed to really fall in love sometime, he decided. If she knew what it really felt like then maybe she wouldn't keep falling for people who she didn't really love.
He nearly laughed to hear himself expounding on love. Having only fallen in love once, he wasn't exactly and expert, but he was sure that Bakura was really the one. There couldn't be anyone else for him now that he'd begun to find out what being with the ancient thief was like. Dark laughter rang out over his head, and he looked back at the movie to see that they had come to the council already. The others joined in after a startled pause and Yugi smiled.
The sound of their combined laughter made him feel safe and happy, and he closed his eyes, leaning backward against the couch back as he felt himself getting sleepy. He hadn't fallen asleep this early for years but it seemed that the ritual yesterday night had taken even more out of him than he had thought. Laying his head on Bakura's leg he drifted off into a happy dream of how his friendships began.
