Hello! Please forgive me for taking so long!.. But I caught the worst cold and my brain wouldn't write in my medicine haze…..' …glares at muses and plot bunnies..even they abandoned me for fear of catching it…. I have this chapter done... working on the next one and will be starting the next chapter of One Dance.. So please don't lynch me! chibi eyes

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Looky… a disclaimer..points to sign that reads "She does not own anything other than the stories her twisted mind comes up with that she puts innocent characters through"… Hmmm.. I think Marik wrote that one…

Yugi's POV:

Wow! I don't even know where to start! I haven't gotten a chance to write before now because everything was happening so quickly! That and Bakura didn't leave until a few minutes ago. I wanted him to stay the night again but Grandpa didn't like that idea, I don't think he is very comfortable with my dating Kura. But that is much later on from what I was going to tell you about!

I went to the party, I almost didn't, I was so nervous and then Grandpa's friend was running late. But I went anyway, since I told Kura I would it left me little choice. I know if I had waited much longer he would have sent someone to get me and that would have been too embarrassing! So I went to the party, and right as I came in some guy asked me to dance. I didn't want to hurt his feelings so I said okay, there wasn't much left of the song anyway. After the dance I tried to get away to look for Kura but he kept following me, nothing against him, he seemed nice enough but I wanted to find my boyfriend. I said I needed something to drink after the walk and dance, he offered to show me where the drinks were and walked to the back. Just as we got to the table I heard Kura yell something out and turned to look, he motioned for me to come over and the kid looked about ready to mess his pants. Thinking back now I wonder if the kid was afraid Kura meant him? Oh well. I went over and he pulled me onto his lap, a lot of kissing started but that was interrupted by Ryou and Malik, who I think thought they were rescuing me or something.. The rest of the night was fun, Kura taught me how to play pool, I danced with Ryou and Malik and even tried beer for the first time, though I got drunk.

Kura walked me home, we started making out again but I got sick. I was never so embarrassed! Here I was alone with Kura and I end up hugging the toilet and him taking care of me all night! He was very sweet and understanding about it though. I doubt anyone at school would believe me if I told them how gentle and sweet he can be, and it would most likely piss him off if I told, so its my secret.

The next morning we picked up where we left off, but then the phone rang and it was grandpa, I swear the world was against us at that point! He said he was coming home early, I figured Kura would take off, but he only asked how much time we had. I still blush thinking about it… but…. I'm not a virgin anymore! I don't think I could have picked anyone better! He was careful and gentle! It was so amazing, I never felt anything like it, I wouldn't even begin to know how to describe it. Afterwards we took a shower together and he helped me dress since I was still a bit sore.

Grandpa got home right after we were dressed, I went down first and about the time I got to the car and my grandpa raised an eyebrow I remembered I had forgotten my leather choker and my neck had been attacked rather viciously. Well all in all grandpa was not very happy about the situation, I think he is just worried about me and he hasn't gotten a chance to know this other side of Kura.

But while grandpa took the rental back and picked up pizzas Kura fixed the shelf in the stock room, I didn't know it was that bad but I found out it was worrying Grandpa and that the storm before last had damaged the roof in a couple spots. Kura said he would fix those too! I didn't know he was so handy but I suppose growing up how he did that he would have to learn to do a lot for himself.

I don't think grandpa is very fond of him, I plan to talk it over during breakfast but I have a feeling that it boils down to things Atemu has told him. Though from everything that has happened I doubt Atemu is the most reliable source on things such as that. Kura said he would be back tomorrow, so I am hoping after grandpa and I talk he will be more open to getting to know Kura. I can't stop yawning so I shall be off to bed now.

Bakura's POV:

No sooner than I walked in the door and the questions started.

"Your back already?"

"Did you and Yugi have a fight?"

"How long have you been together?"

"What brought it about?"

"Do..mph!"

I could not take one more question from those two!

"Enough! Are either of you even bothering to breath!"

I brushed past both of them, shrugging off my trench and tossing it over the back of one of the kitchen chairs on my way to the fridge. I also had two shadows following me the whole way as I pulled out a beer and opened it, taking a long pull that drained half the bottle. I looked up to see two hikaris giving me the best puppy eyes they could muster, bloody hell.

"I'm not going to get a moment of peace until I answer at least some of your questions, am I?"

Both shook their head furiously in the negative. This was quickly turning into a long night. I grabbed another beer before walking into the living room with my two shadows close behind. I sat in my recliner and got comfortable as I killed that beer and opened the next one before motioning them to sit on the couch.

"Okay, I'll make this simple cause there is a movie coming on I want to see. Yes Yugi and I are dating, no it wasn't planned, no we didn't have a fight, I'm back because Yugi's grandpa came home, and we have been together since Thursday afternoon. Does that cover it?"

I took another long drink as they processed this information.

"What brought this about yami?"

Great, leave it to Ryou to be nosy. I really didn't feel like it but I explained all the events of Thursday and Friday, having to go into much more detail with them than I had with Solomon. They interrupted me a couple times with their incessant questions but since they kept the beers coming I answered all of them until the movie came on.

"Okay, you little shits are out of luck now, I have a dagger with their name on it for anyone that interrupts my movie."

They both fell silent, most likely since they knew I wasn't joking. It wasn't long though until Ryou couldn't take the bloodshed anymore and headed upstairs, mumbling something about a bath and getting images out of his mind. Malik and I finished the movie, him having a few beers with me and actually grabbing some chips for us during a slow part.

"That was great! I loved the electricity in the water part! Think that would actually work?"

"No clue, never tried it, but be my guest to find out, just hopefully on Atemu. Personally I like the sign falling at the end, took that baka's head clean off!"

"I'm going to check on Ryou."

I smirked at Malik as he headed for the stairs.

"Don't you mean you are going to go climb in the tub with Ryou?"

He gave me a quick mischievous grin before taking the stairs two at a time. It was only eleven by now so I sat down again and channel surfed around until finding another movie. I sat through that one before realizing I had nodded off towards the end, so turning everything off and making sure the house was locked up I proceeded to drag my sorry ass to bed, collapsing on my cotton sheets still dressed. It was only when the smell hit me that I sat up. My sheets smelled good. I looked at my bed and noticed it was made, Ryou must have done this today, damn kid was too nice for his own good! But I wasn't going to complain as I stripped off my clothes and climbed in.

Next Day:

Bakura's POV:

I smelled something, yes it was definitely food that was pulling me from sleep. And judging from how good it smelled I would have to say Ryou is cooking, most likely to get me out of bed for more questions. Well I was never one to turn down free food, so grabbing an old pair of pants and shirt I pulled them on before heading downstairs, stopping only briefly to answer nature's call. Walking into the kitchen Ryou was at the stove laughing about something while Malik was setting the table.

"What are you making?"

"Oh! Your finally up Kura? I was beginning to wonder if you still lived."

"Yeah yeah, cut the crap and hand me my coffee."

I sat at the table, glancing at the clock to see it was already eleven am. I didn't sleep in too late, just because my hikari thinks everyone should rise with the sun doesn't mean I'm willing to. Malik set a mug of coffee down in front of me and I stared at the steaming contents for only a moment before picking it up and swallowing half of it.

"Here's breakfast!"

Ryou sat down two plates, one piled with pancakes and the other with sausages. I stabbed my fork into the pancakes, spearing four and placing them on my plate while Ryou placed six sausages beside them. Malik poured syrup on his stack before handing it to me and watching as I drowned my plate in the sticky, sweet stuff.

"So Kura, what are the plans for today?"

I arched an eyebrow at Malik's smug face before swallowing my mouthful.

"Heading over to the game shop and seeing if I can finish scaring the shit out of his grandfather."

"Oh no yami! That can't be good for your relationship!"

I stuffed another bite into my mouth.

"Yeah Kura, aren't you even going to try and get along with the old man?"

"Why? Its not his ass I'm pounding."

Ryou choked on his food and turned an interesting shade of red while Malik almost fell out of his chair laughing.

"Besides, he already didn't like me after one look at Yugi's neck so why the hell bother, its not like Yugi is going to stop putting out to me just cause his grandpa doesn't approve."

"What did you do to Yugi's neck?"

"Left a few love bites."

Malik laughed even harder.

"Kura! Knowing… you… it was… more than… a few!"

I shrugged and went back to eating. Ryou and Malik talked quietly about their plans for the day. Seems Malik was hoping to relax but Ryou was hoping to clean the attic for some Ra damned reason. I have no clue about him and his need to clean.

"Malik."

"Yeah Kura?"

"My tool belt still has all the stuff from the roof repair in it?"

"Yeah, I didn't clean it out. Why?"

"I have to take it over with me today, seems they have a couple bad spots on their roof. So keep your cell on you, after I see how bad it is I'll give you a call and have you bring over what I need in Ryou's car."

Suddenly Ryou is giving me this knowing smile, I really hate that smile and Malik is smirking his head off. Great, now what is going through their love-fogged pea brains!

"You do love Yugi."

I just about choked, hell I did choke when that sentence left Ryou's mouth.

"What!"

"Come on Kura, its okay to admit it! I mean hell, you two were all over each other last night."

"Look Malik just cause I won't hit my own hikari doesn't mean your safe."

"Oh come on Kura! Don't hurt Malik, he is only speaking the truth and what is wrong with you actually admitting to caring about someone? Yugi is very sweet, I couldn't think of anyone better for you! And Malik and I didn't have to try to match you two up."

That made me set my now empty coffee cup down beside my just as empty plate. What exactly had he meant by that?

"Ryou, my dear, sweet hikari, is there something your not telling me?"

I leveled my gaze on him, smirking as he began to squirm. He was horrid at lying and could never keep anything from me so I knew this wouldn't take long.

"Well you see yami, Malik and I, well we kind of noticed Yugi looking at you a few times and you know how we felt about you needing a relationship."

"Are you saying you set that up!"

My voice and face showed exactly how unhappy I was at this moment. Ryou wouldn't take his eyes off the table but Malik grabbed his hand and spoke up for them.

"No! We wouldn't have put Yugi through that, honest! All we did was invite Yugi to eat lunch with us that day, we wanted to see if there was a chance between you two."

"And?"

Ryou looked up, from his expression and tears I knew his words would be honest.

"And we planned to invite him over this weekend to try to set the two of you up. It was obvious he had feelings for you but we would have never invited him to lunch that day if we had known it would make him a target like that!"

I smiled and ruffled his hair playfully as I stood from the table.

"Don't worry about it, it all worked itself out. I have to get ready to go, you think you can do some laundry if I leave it outside my door?"

Ryou smiled up at me, relief evident on his face. I know the guilt must have been eating at him horribly, thinking he had almost caused something so horrible to happen to one of his friends. Malik however just smirked at me, great here comes some other smart ass remark.

"Kura, with everything you can do and fix can you seriously tell me you don't know how to wash your own clothes!"

"I know how, I just hate doing it. Thanks Ryou."

That said I left the kitchen and headed to my room, scooping all the dirty clothing off my floor and placing it outside the door. I then went to my closet and got out a clean change of clothes for after I was done, thinking that Yugi and I might go catch a movie. That was when I heard a soft knock on my door, while I was rolling my clothing up.

"Its open."

Malik came into my room and sat on the foot of my bed.

"Ryou is really excited, he thinks you are finally settling down and are even happy."

"Hhn."

I nodded my head while going over to my dresser and picking out a couple knives for the day.

"You know he will be crushed if Yugi ends up hurt. You also know if he is crushed we suffer."

I arched an eyebrow as I looked him in the eye.

"Is this going somewhere? Cause if so then I hope it gets there today."

Malik shook his head and smirked.

"Fine, Ryou is excited but he sent me up to make sure you aren't just playing some horrible game with Yugi. Some devious way to get at Atemu maybe?"

I snorted in disgust. I thought Ryou thought better of me than something like that.

"Look, the problem I have with Atemu is between he and I, and believe it or not Yugi and I share some very similar opinions on said person."

"You know there was a rumor going around that Yugi was waiting for him, that they had been dating before he left."

"And I'm sure I can guess who started those rumors, but they weren't."

"Look Kura, your like a brother to me and while yes we are worried about Yugi getting hurt, Ryou and I are also worried about you getting hurt."

Okay, that caught me off guard.

"Why the hell would I end up hurt!"

He had my full attention now.

"Well I mean the obvious first thought is you getting back at Atemu, but then given the rumors and how Atemu has been acting it does make a person wonder if Yugi wouldn't use you to get back at Atemu himself."

I took a deep breath before hiding the knives I had chosen in select spots on my person. I hated to admit that I actually hadn't thought of that, though given everything that has happened and what I know of Yugi it seemed pretty farfetched.

"Not likely."

I picked up my clothes from the bed, wondering about this uneasy feeling in my stomach. Was I actually letting Yugi get to me that much, so much that the thought he could be playing a game worried me! Ra damn it!

"Okay, well anyway, thanks for stopping the attic cleaning today. I'll get everything ready for when you call, I think Ryou wants to go over and visit with Yugi while we work."

I nodded before opening my door to see Ryou gathering my clothes.

"Leaving already yami?"

"Yeah, I just have to grab some stuff out of the garage."

"Okay, we'll see you later then!"

I headed out of the house by way of the kitchen door to the garage. Stuffing my clothing in one saddlebag on my bike I grabbed my tool belt, making sure what I needed was there before stuffing it in the other saddlebag. I opened the garage door and rolled my bike out before climbing on, pulling on my helmet and making sure the spare was secure before bringing it to life and taking off down the street.

There you go! I hope it was at least okay..… longer chapter since I feel so bad for the delay! Please R&R! I am working on the next ones now!