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Previously

Ryou sighed. He didn't want the little one to get hurt because of him. Who knows what could happen? Chibi Bakura hadn't ever done something like this before.

Chapter Nine: The Truth of the Matter

Bakura loomed over his younger self, glaring ominously. The mist gray fog made his appearance all the more eerie. Did that faze Chibi Bakura? Nope. He met Bakura's glare with one of his own.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Bakura growled.

"I'm trying to make Princess happy! I thought you wanted Princess to be happy, too!" Chibi Bakura yelled back.

"Of course I do! That's why I don't want to see him!" Bakura hissed.

"That's making Princess hurt more!" Chibi Bakura replied, "You're just too scared!"

"I am not!"

"You are too!"

"Am not!"

"Are too!

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"AM NOT!"

"Prove it!" Chibi Bakura smirked, looking a lot like his older self, "Go talk to Princess!"

Bakura gaped. Since when could this brat manipulate him like this? How did that twerp know that his pride could, and would, make him do anything? Damn pride, damn it to an eternity in hell!

"See, I knew it. You're just scared. You're scared of Princess," Chibi Bakura giggled in a mocking manner that Bakura did not appreciate at all.

"I'm not scared. The King of Thieves does not get scared, much less over a princess," Bakura sniffed indignantly, "Just show me the way outta here and I'll go talk to him."

The next thing Bakura felt was a pair of tiny hands pushing him off a cliff-like edge.

"Khalid? Khalid! Are you okay?" Ryou asked frantically when the child's body gave a jolt. The little boy let out a gasp of shock to accompany the sudden jolt. Ryou watched the boy carefully. Chibi Bakura had his head bent low, his silver-gray hair covered his face, shadowing his eyes completely. His whole demeanor screamed disappointment, at least to Ryou it did.

"Khalid? It's okay if you couldn't…" Ryou started as he reached out to the child. Chibi Bakura quickly took a few steps back to avoid being touched.

"I'm not Khalid anymore, yadonushi," the little boy replied softly, finally lifting his head and meeting Ryou's eyes. Ryou uttered a small gasp at the little one's narrow red eyes that shone coldly.

"Bakura…?" Ryou breathed. Bakura looked away and would've inched farther away if he hadn't suddenly been encircled in a pair of pale arms.

"Bakura, I'm so glad you're okay! I was so scared! I thought you wouldn't ever come back. I-I thought that you left me," Ryou cried tearfully, burying his face into Bakura's mane of hair.

Bakura was completely frozen in Ryou's arms, his face pressed gently against Ryou's clothed chest. He couldn't remember the last time he'd been held like this, if indeed he'd ever been held like this. He couldn't remember the last time someone cared for his safety, worried of his absence…he couldn't remember anyone ever having shed a single tear for him.

"H-Hikari," Bakura whimpered softly, small, timid arms reaching out to return the hug. It was an awkward, inexperienced embrace of a child.

"I missed you so much Bakura," Ryou said.

"Why? I don't understand," Bakura muttered.

Neither of them noticed that Bakura had started to glow a faint glittery pink. They didn't notice that Bakura was slowly paling and growing larger. The also didn't notice that a ghostly apparition started to solidify near them; an apparition with wide cherry red eyes.

"Because…I'm not really sure. I just want to…to take care of you, make sure you're happy and well, and, and," Ryou hiccupped nervously, vaguely becoming aware that he was being held by a pair of strong arms bound in a black leather coat.

"Even if you ignore me and avoid me, you make me feel safe," Ryou whispered.

Bakura was left breathless by this statement. He was about to give a shocked reply when he was interrupted by a very familiar voice.

"See? I told you Princess liked you, Bigger Me!" Chibi Bakura giggled teasingly. Bakura growled.

"Brat!" he said lowly before letting go of Ryou and pouncing on the child. Chibi Bakura just giggled in response. He then blinked.

"Hey! You're outta my head, Bigger Me!" he realized. Bakura blinked as he realized that the little boy was right.

"Well, this is odd," Bakura stated.

Ryou hurriedly wiped away any tears and regained his cheerful composure. He smiled brightly at the two. Chibi Bakura squirmed out of his older self's grasp and tackled Ryou to the ground, smiling widely.

"I told you Bigger Me would come back!" he leaned close to Ryou's ear and whispered loudly, "He tol' me that he missed you and that if I was too much trouble for you he would hurt me, 'cause he likes you too much! He likes you a lot, a lot, a lot! THIS much!" he spread his little arms as wide as he could possibly get them.

Bakura felt his face heat up immensely. Timid green eyes traveled up to see a very red-faced yami. Bakura avoided Ryou's gaze, preferring to glare at the little chibi that had ratted him out instead.

"Really? Is that…true, Bakura?" Ryou asked shyly, also preferring to watch the cheerfully smiling chibi. Said chibi was nodding enthusiastically.

"…maybe…" Bakura mumbled, sitting cross-legged on the kitchen floor with the other two. He kept telling himself that he was definitely not sulking. No, of course he wasn't.

"He's too a-scared to tell you, Princess," Chibi Bakura said wisely from his seat, which just so happened to be Ryou's lap.

"Shut up," Bakura hissed angrily, his glare intensifying. Chibi Bakura stuck his tongue out at him and it took all of Bakura's self control not to do the same.

"Why would you be scared to tell me?" Ryou asked, fidgety fingers twirling Chibi Bakura's hair. Chibi Bakura reacted by smiling smugly at Bakura, which he in turn translated as a 'look-at-me-I-got-Ryou-all-to-myself' smirk.

"First of all, I'm not scared of anything! Second of all, what makes you think that little brat is telling the truth? And third of all, there isn't a chance in hell that you would feel the same away about me as I feel for you!" Bakura listed off angrily. His eyes widened when he replayed the last sentence in his head.

"S-so you do like me?" Ryou asked in shock.

"…No," Bakura replied, blushing madly, "I really, really like you, th-there's a difference y-you see." Bakura cursed himself for stuttering and blushing like a love struck schoolgirl.

Ryou watched as Bakura blushed and stumbled over his words as he continued to babble on nervously. Ryou let out a small giggle. He was so cute all blushing and stammering like that! Bakura narrowed his eyes. So his light thought this was amusing?

"I really, really like you too, 'Kura," Ryou said, leaning over and pressing his lips against Bakura's cheek. Bakura's jaw promptly dropped open.

"Yay!" Chibi Bakura squealed, clapping his hands, "Princess kissed Bigger Me!"

Bakura picked the chibi out of Ryou's lap and set him aside. Ryou suddenly found himself pinned down. Bakura glanced at his younger self.

"I should return the favor by kissing Princess back, shouldn't I?" he asked mischievously. Chibi Bakura's grin widened.

"Yep! You should, you should!" he said gleefully. Bakura smirked down at Ryou who was now having trouble meeting Bakura's eyes.

"I…I would really like that…very much," Ryou said with a blush.

"Well, then, I should give my Princess whatever he wants," Bakura reasoned.

Amazingly enough, Bakura's kiss was much more timid than Ryou's was. He pressed his lips softly against Ryou's satiny lips. It was more of a brushing of lips than an actual kiss and it would've remained that way if Ryou hadn't sighed happily.

After that sound of acceptance, Bakura became bolder. The once timid kiss was becoming a rather heated passionate one. Fortunately, (or unfortunately in the cases of Bakura, Ryou, and others who would've loved to watch it continue) they were interrupted.

"Ahem! You two do know that there is a set of very innocent and naïve eyes watching, right?" they heard someone giggle.

With a growl, Bakura stopped kissing his pretty, cute, sexy, adorable hikari that was now officially his (if anyone disagreed, their safety or the continuance of their lives aren't guaranteed) to look up at who dared interrupt them. What he saw jolted his memory that had been rather fogged up recently. Kitty Kira was covering Chibi Bakura's innocent eyes as she beamed at the other two white hair boys.

"Hi! Remember me? Well, you and I haven't really met yet, Ryou. I'm Kitty Kira!" Kitty Kira rambled cheerfully.

"I'm really sorry I worried you and Bakura so much. But, honestly, if you two had known what was going on, then your wish wouldn't have come true. It's about time you two got together, I was getting kind of worried," Kitty Kira continued to rant ignoring Bakura's death glare.

"So you turned Bakura into a chibi?" Ryou asked. Kitty Kira shook her head.

"No, no I didn't. I brought Chibi Bakura to the present so that he could help Bakura realize that you and him are meant to be," she responded.

"It was really hard, too," Chibi Bakura pouted.

"Yeah, well, how was I supposed to know! I was more preoccupied on how I ended up in my younger self's mind and how to get out than anything else!" Bakura defended himself.

"I'm really glad you came to help, Kitty Kira," Ryou interrupted before Bakura got into one of his moods and tried to murder his younger self and the strange kitten girl.

"How will I ever be able to repay you for what you've done?" Ryou asked.

"We don't have to do that! She's the one who did it on her own, no one made her help us. We're not paying her, hikari!" Bakura said, sulking again. Kitty Kira giggled.

"Oh, don't worry about that. You two won't even remember me!" Kitty Kira replied.

"What?" Bakura and Ryou asked simultaneously.

Instead of replying, Kitty Kira turned to Chibi Bakura. She smiled at him and took his hand. The two of them were about the same height, so it was easy for Chibi Bakura to meet her gaze.

"It's time to go home now. I'm sure your parents really would like to see you again," Kitty Kira said. Chibi Bakura's eyes widened and he grinned excitedly.

"I get to see Mommy and Daddy again? Really?" he asked. Kitty Kira nodded, "Yay!" he cried. He ran over to Bakura.

"Bye, Bigger Me!" he said, hugging Bakura. Bakura scowled but patted the little boy's back.

"Bye to you, too, brat. I can't say I'll miss you terribly but…I guess you were pretty cool, for a brat, that is," Bakura replied, smirking. Chibi Bakura smiled before turning to Ryou and hugging him.

"Bye, Princess! Bigger Me is gonna take care of you now, so don't be hurting and sad anymore, okay? Oh, and the presents were from Bigger Me, too," Chibi Bakura said quickly. Ryou smiled softly and placed a kiss on Chibi Bakura's forehead.

"I'm really going to miss you, Khalid. You be good for you mom and dad. Don't give them too much trouble," Ryou said sniffling slightly.

"Don't cry, Ryou. Khalid isn't leaving, not really," Kitty Kira said, giving Bakura a glance, "He's still here to love and take care of you."

"Of course I am. A princess can't take care of himself, you know," Bakura smirked, giving Ryou a peck on the lips.

Suddenly, the two found themselves enshrouded in a cloud of glittering blue dust. Bakura sneezed twice while Ryou rubbed his watery eyes. Looking around, they realized that they were sitting on the kitchen floor all alone.

"Kura, why are we on the floor?" Ryou asked, cuddling up to his yami.

"Not exactly sure, but I know where I want to be…" Bakura trailed off.

"Really? Where's that?" Ryou asked.

"It depends. Where'd you leave that leather cat suit?" Bakura replied. Ryou squealed.

"Bakura, you pervert! I am not going to where that," Ryou protested.

"Aww, why not? Don't you love me to bits?" Bakura sulked. Ryou smiled.

"Of course I do. What made you think otherwise?" Ryou asked.

"You don't want to play dress up, that's why," Bakura whined.

"Maybe if you're a good boy, we'll play dress up later," Ryou said. 'Much, much later,' he added mentally.

"Really?"

"Yeah, really."

"Ryou?"

"Hm?"

"I love you."

"I love you, too."

"This is our last stop. Kul Elna, Ancient Egypt, everyone off!" Kitty Kira chirped. Chibi Bakura stood in front of a run down mud-brick house with a roof made of straw bundles. He grinned happily, gazing upon the place as if it was the Pharaoh's palace itself. Before going through the gap in the wall that was actually a door, he turned to Kitty Kira.

"Kitty, will I ever see Bigger Me and Princess again?" Chibi Bakura asked, tugging at the sleeves of his red robe. He had changed back to normal Egyptian attire on the way there.

"Someday, you will be Bigger Me, so don't worry about that. But, you will see Princess again," Kitty Kira assured him. Chibi Bakura sighed in relief, before blushing slightly.

"Good. I really liked Princess. He is very pretty," he murmured shyly.

"I know. Now go on before your mommy worries," Kitty Kira said, "Bye Khalid! I'll miss you!" she said before disappearing with a 'pop!' sound. Chibi Bakura grinned, running into the run down house.

"Mommy, Mommy, Mommy! Guess what? I met a Princess and Bigger Me and me and Diabound helped them not hurt anymore!" Chibi Bakura cried.

A woman with pale silver hair and violet eyes laughed merrily. She bent down and picked up the small child, holding him close.

"Is that so, little one? That's my big hero. No wonder you were gone almost all day," the woman said happily.

"Yep! Diabound and I are heroes. I'll see Princess again soon, too. Kitty-girl said so," Chibi Bakura said.

"That's my good boy. I love you so much, Khalid, my little boy," the mother said.

"Daddy'll be home soon?" the little boy yawned.

"Yes, he just went to get some food," she replied.

"I missed you and Daddy a lot. I love you, Mommy," Chibi Bakura murmured sleepily. The woman smiled at the sleeping boy in her arms.

"And everyone lived happily ever after! The end!" Kitty Kira finished with a flourish.

"That was a great story, Kitty," Mokuba yawned sleepily. He snuggled into his blankets. Kitty Kira gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"Nighty-night, Mokie. I'm glad you liked it," Kitty Kira said softly. Mokie smiled in his sleep.

"It's about time," Zhira said from the doorway where she, Seto, and Jou were standing.

"He's going to be very tired tomorrow morning," Seto whispered.

"Yeah, you're in charge of waking him up tomorrow," Jou replied cheerfully. Seto rolled his eyes at him before dragging him off to bed. Zhira glanced at Kitty Kira.

"So you gonna stay here with Mokie or at my room? Don't try spending the night in Kaiba and Jou's bedroom again because last time Kaiba nearly popped a gasket and strangled you," Zhira said. Kitty Kira mulled it over.

"I'll stay with Mokie," she replied snuggling up to the other boy who was still bigger than her.

"Okay, good night."

"G'night."

THE END!

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