Concept: March 07, 2006
Started: 07:48 AM, March 08, 2006
Ended: 10:08 AM, March 8, 2006
Chapter: 2?
Bounced On: SilverWing and Elsalhir
Disclaimer/s: Chocolate chip cookies must be eaten with milk
Warnings: AU-ness, possible shounen-ai and Nami's vague writing style.
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Sons of the Divine
by Inami
Current Time Period, Domino City
Bakura was staring again.
Not swearing, not threatening, not even boasting about his own greatness.
He was just staring.
It was beginning to annoy.
The man once known as 'mou hitori no Yuugi' and now as Atemu felt his irritation grow. The tomb robber had yet to remove his gaze from his back.
He had not moved from his position by the wall for the past half-hour that Ryou had been upstairs to visit Yuugi. In fact, he seemed to take interest in Atemu's chores - manning the game shop - but unnervingly more on Atemu himself.
It was disturbing, and he'd preferred to play solitaire as its name suggested - alone.
In peace.
"Tomb robber..."
"After regaining your memory, you haven't even thought about it, have you?"
That was the first time Bakura had spoken this whole time and as determined Atemu was to tell him off, the look on the near-albino's face stunned him.
His brown eyes were intense and were trained on his face, unreadable not because he meant to hide anything from the former monarch. It seemed like there were too many emotions to hide, and more startlingly was that he made no effort to conceal anything from him at all.
Atemu inwardly frowned. "...Bakura...?"
"Or maybe you haven't recalled everything yet." Bakura seemed to muse to himself. "Is that why we are here? Why we were given these bodies?" his eyes took on a glassy look as he spoke, his gaze trailing down to his own hand as if to see if it were truly real.
Was he... reminiscing...?
At this, the former Pharaoh truly frowned. "What nonsense are you spouting now, Bakura?" his voice barely hid his frustration. "We were given another chance to live and yet you question it. I wonder if the Gods' judgment of your return -"
"Was it to put an end to the enmity between you and your light?" Bakura's eyes were on his once more, disturbingly clear but he took no heed.
His anger peaked. "There is no room for enmity or discord in my relationship with my aibou. To assume so is an insult and I'd like to make sure that that idea is clear."
It was comforting, the feel of shadows under his fingers, caressing his skin like a lost lover. They came when he beckoned and aided him in whatever he chose to pursue.
He wanted Bakura to be silent, to stop this senseless prattle and lies and the shadows were willing, were eager to fulfill that one wish...
He could do it, he really could, and he had the means to do so, and Bakura was in the wrong...
"Mou hitori no boku, what are you doing!"
Atemu spun around, his powers dissipating when his eyes focused on his light. His savior. His aibou. His other.
"...Mou hitori no ore..."
It was like a veil was lifted from his vision, and he could think clearly...
Yuugi stood on the steps that led to the apartment above the store – and Atemu vaguely noticed Ryou on the step behind – his aibou's eyes wide with... disappointment?
"Aibou..."
Re, what was he going to do? He wasn't just about to lose his temper and attack Bakura, was he...?
Ryou glanced towards Atemu then at Yuugi. "I guess it's time for us to leave. I'll see you tomorrow in school, Yuugi." He walked around his friend and bypassed Atemu. "Bakura? Let's go home."
The look on his other's face... it wasn't just a daydream. He really was about to attack Bakura...
"Pharaoh!"
Atemu had to reluctantly wrestle his eyes away from Yuugi's face - so upset. He had broken his silent promise to his other. How could he have just lost - and found Bakura's.
Bakura looked strangely sympathetic, his light already waiting patiently outside. "If things are going the way I think they are," he began in their native tongue, "you should work hard to remember what really happened in Egypt five thousand years ago. That is... if you want to keep your precious Yuugi with you."
