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Chapter 8
Bakura sat alone in the temple of Ra. He was seated at the feet of the great sun God's statue and was eating the offered foods to the God. The room was half lite with candles; shadows crept around, untouched by the sweet smelling fumes. Bakura watched the shadows, transfixed by the swirling dark purples, blues and blacks. He faintly heard the sound of an opening door and looked around. Deciding it best he hid behind a pillar and was consumed by shadows.
"Hello…?" A timed soft voice drifted from the shadows and made Bakura shiver. From the shadows steeped the white-haired boy he'd carried from the horse. Bakura looked into his deep emerald eyes and was lost until the boy turned away and Bakura snapped out, cursing himself for his weakness! The small white-haired boy had knelt down before the alter and had bowed his head in pray to the Gods. Bakura watched his lips moved but was too far away to hear. Bakura watched him with intense brown eyes. The boy shifted and looked around. "Um…is anyone there…?" Bakura was tempted to steep forwards but held himself back and just watched the boy.
"Ryou?" Bakura and the boy looked around at the arrival of a blonde with bright honey eyes and a happy smile.
"Jou!" Ryou got up and embraced the blonde named Jou.
"What are you doing?" Jou inquired, releasing the white-haired boy.
"Praying to Ra that Yugi will be alright." Ryou sighed.
"I don't think even the Gods can help him now." Jou sighed. Bakura shifted and knocked a candleholder over, the runny wax seeped over the stone floor. "Who's there?" Jou called, placing himself in front of his younger friend and looking around. Bakura cursed himself and quickly hid himself behind another pillar.
"It could have been the wind…" Ryou whispered in a small frightened voice. Bakura felt a wave of guilt for making him so scared but quickly pushed it aside and continued to watch Ryou.
"I doubt the wind could have knocked over a solid gold candleholder." Jou's eyes scanned the shadows and Bakura let out a sigh of relief when his honey gaze passed over his hiding place.
"Come on Jou." Ryou pulled him towards the opened doors and Bakura watched him leave. He licked his lips and looked up at the statue of Ra.
"I see my punishment, a temptation I can not have, very smart…"
Amber-Lee slipped past the second pair of guards and headed down a random corridor looking for her ex-thief guard.
"Amber-Lee." Amber-Lee looked over at Bakura who had just climbed through the window at the end of the corridor and came to meet her.
"Where have you been?" Amber-Lee asked suspicion laced in her tone as she studied Bakura.
"In your cousin's temple." Bakura waved off carelessly. "But I have a much more important question for you, Princess." Amber-Lee looked around and nodded for him to continue. "Do you know off a small look-a-like of me?"
"Ryou?" Amber-Lee asked, wondering why he was interested in the Prince's young friend.
"So you know him?"
"He is a friend of Prince Yugi's," Bakura gave her a confused look, "the boy we tried to kidnap."
"Oh, him." Bakura nodded, remembering the young spiky-haired boy who'd slipped through their fingers.
"He bought some friends with him, one of them a look-a-like of you and a look-a-like of me."
"Really?" Bakura was more interested and smirked. "Is she good-looking?"
"She looks like me, of course!" Amber-Lee smirked. Approaching voices caused the two to look around. "Come on." Amber-Lee pulled him down twisting hallways, heading towards her chambers.
"Why are we sneaking around? Are you not a Princess?"
"Yes but I like to keep my thief skills sharp." Amber-Lee glanced down a hallway and slipped into another.
"So what's with this girl?" Bakura asked lazily as he followed Amber-Lee.
"She's quiet cute and looks a lot like me." She stopped at a corner and looked around.
"So what are you going to do?" Amber-Lee looked into Bakura's smirking face.
"Whatever do you mean?" She asked innocently.
"Isn't that Mariku?" Bakura pointed over to the blonde Egyptian who'd found the Prince's lost friend.
"It is too." Amber-Lee dropped her guard and walked over to the dozing guard. "Good evening Mariku." She called loudly. Mariku stirred and looked up at the two ex-thieves.
"Princess, Bakura, what are you two doing up?" Mariku got up and picked up his abandon spear.
"We could ask you the same." Amber-Lee smirked lightly.
"Mariku!" The three looked around to see the head guard, Honda, making his way to them.
"Sir?" Mariku, only Bakura and Amber-Lee heard the mocking in the guard's voice.
"Captain Honda, is there a problem?" Honda looked around and seemed to have just noticed the presence of the Princess.
"Your Highness, I am sorry if this guard had been bothering you."
"Not at all. In fact I was hoping that Mariku could perhaps, becoming a new guard for me…?" Bakura gave her an annoyed look but she ignored it and kept her gaze on Honda.
"Um…If her highness wishes it so…" Amber-Lee smirked.
"Perfect! He can start tomorrow. Good night." She swept past the two with Bakura trailing behind.
"What are you planning?"
"Remember the boy Mariku rescued from the Nile?" Bakura nodded. "Don't you think that Mariku looks a lot like him?" Bakura nodded again. They had finally arrived at her chambers. "Well good night Bakura." Bakura waved her off and left in a random direction, not at all tired.
The sky grew lighter as Ra descended into the air. Bakura watched the sky from his perch on his window seel. The light flooded into his room and bounced of the gold and silver objects he kept. He had spent the night wondering the halls looking for abandon objects. He'd come across an earthen clay cup, a gold earring and a silk scarf. His findings had been dropped on his floor before he'd had a few precious hours of sleep before getting back up. He was pondering over Amber-Lee's mystery finding. Bakura hadn't taken much notice of the new arrivals as they really didn't have much to do with the thief King.
"Bakura?" Bakura looked up at Amber-Lee who stood in the doorway that separated their rooms.
"What is on the agenda today Princess?" Amber-Lee lent against the frame of the door and smirked.
"We, Bakura, had the great honour of meeting with the Prince…and his friends…"
TBC…
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