Opposites Attract

I guess this is what happens when you go plotbunny hunting in the middle of Science class. Nothing special, just a one-shot I came up with while watching a video about electricity.


Electricity was the theme of today's lesson, although instead of listening to a lecture or reading out of an old, defaced textbook, it was one of those rare times that the grade 10 class was going to watch a video.

The last thing Ryou remembered was a paper airplane being thrown past the television screen care of Jounouchi, and then his vision blurring, but not from the airplane. He tried rubbing his eyes to remedy it, but nothing. The white-haired boy looked around in somewhat of a panic, noticing only then that everyone else seemed to have stopped moving.

That's when he felt it. A familiar coldness engulfing him, diving into his lungs and every orifice of his body, trying to drown him. And there he was.

Beside him sat his yami, the dark figure smirking back at him. Ryou's eyes widened a little bit and he opened his mouth as if to speak, but Bakura put an icy finger to Ryou's lips. He then turned to the front of the class boredly.

"Normally," he started, "I could care less about whatever it is you're learning in class, but I've been seeking the answer to a question I've had for a long time." He looked at Ryou from the corner of his eye.

Ryou blinked. "A-about electricity?" At this he wondered why his yami had gained interest in electricity, of all things.

"…not quite," the darker said. "But I do know that it's to do with a theory of electricity."

"What… what theory?" Where was Bakura going with this?

"Ever heard the phrase 'opposites attract'?" He asked. Ryou searched and searched his mind for an answer as to why his yami would be asking him such a thing, but he needed to answer the question first.

"Yes… it's… it's, um, caused because electrons need to become stable, so they need to combine with an opposite charge to do so. Positives can't… can't combine with positives, nor can negatives with negatives. They repel." He looked at his hands in his lap. "I-I've never been excellent at explaining things…"

"No," Bakura said thoughtfully, "it makes complete sense." He was quiet for a long moment before adding in a tone that suggested that he was already embarrassed enough to be out here, asking his hikari such things, "so the negative charge needs the positive to become complete, is that it?" He then turned to Ryou as if he was staring a hole right through him, "…interesting."

Ryou blinked and then Bakura's face was in front of his. The hikari's breathing came out in short, quiet gasps, unsure of what his yami was going to do next.

"…very interesting."

And with that Bakura disappeared and the cold went away, and Ryou was left with the blurry images for only a second more. He knew he was back in reality when the afore mentioned paper airplane lodged itself in Ryou's white hair.

"Jounouchi!"


A/N: …okay, I don't know if that explanation of the theory was right, but I know it is in chemistry. I'm just going to assume it's the same for that, too. (How was I supposed to know what it really was? I was too busy writing a fic to pay any attention! -shot-)