Chapter 3
A/N:
This is thinking
"This is speaking"
This is a flashback
I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or its characters. I just own this story.
It's now Tuesday and Ryou and Bakura are sitting at Ryou's couch playing video games.
"Yes I win!" Ryou exclaims with glee.
"I swear you cheat." Bakura growls playfully.
"I don't cheat, I happen to be good at this game." He says with a proud smile.
"You still cheated." He claims.
"What will get you to stop saying that I cheated?" He asks.
"A kiss from you."
"Fine." Ryou leans in on Bakura and he kisses him on the cheek.
"Hey that's not what I meant! I wanted it on the lips."
"You weren't specific." He smiles.
"I'll get you next time."
"Sure you will."
They continue to play their game when Bakura had an idea.
"Hey Ryou how would you like to go out Saturday night?" He ask.
"Sure. Where did you want to go?" He looks at him.
"Well I wanted to show you this one place I found and then-" he mumbles the rest since he wasn't sure if Ryou would agree.
"Sorry I didn't catch that last part."
"I want you to come with me to go inside this one store." Bakura mumbles and Ryou's eyes widen not believing what Bakura had just said but then he sighed.
"You mean rob it. Sorry Bakura, I don't steal."
"Come on Ryou you need to live some more. We won't get caught trust me."
"One many things could go wrong. Two it is wrong. Three if Yugi or anyone found out we won't be togther anymore."
"Well one, your with me, the Thief King so nothing can go wrong. Two it's fun. Three they won't find out. Please Ryou I haven't stolen something since we've been togther, I need to with hold my reputation." He pleads.
"I'm sorry but my answer is no." He stubbornly says and turns his head so he won't look at Bakura.
"Ryou come on." Ryou ignores him.
"Oh no don't you dare ignore me." Silence. "Ryou if you do this for me I'll buy you unlimited creampuffs for a month." Ryou's ears perk up and he turns to Bakura with eyes of not believing him.
"I will! I promise just come with me and I'll buy them for you. Please this will be the first and last time I'll ever ask you to come steal with me!" Bakura pleads, which is a rare side and Ryou knows this.
"Are you sure we won't get caught if we do this?" Ryou sighs as he rubs his temples.
"I'm positive. The king of thieves never gets caught." He proclaims.
Ryou ponders for a bit.
If I do this it will be a good experience on what Bakura does. He has done this many times so I doubt we will get caught, plus I need to at least do one bad thing in my life. Oh my did I just think that? Bakura must be rubbing off on me.
"Fine."
"Really?" Bakura's eyes widen at Ryou's answer. "That's great." He tackles Ryou to the couch.
"Gha Bakura your heavy." He smiles.
"No your too light." He counters with a smirks as he looks into Ryou's eyes. Ryou looks back at him as they lean closer when there is a knock at the door. Ryou starts to laugh as Bakura grumbles about the door.
"I wonder who it is?" Ryou says as he pushes off Bakura lightly to get up.
"Your not expecting anyone?" Bakura raises his eyebrow. Ryou shakes his head as he heads to the door.
"Who is it?" Ryou says with a cheerful tone.
"It's Marik and Malik!" Marik cheers as he bangs on the door with one hand, as the other was holding four drinks, while Malik holds a big brown bag. "Open the door."
Ryou smiles and opens the door.
"Marik Malik why didn't you tell me that you were coming?" Ryou smiles as he stands to the side so the two blonds could walk in.
"We wanted to surprise you!" Marik says with glee as he puts down the drinks in the living room and Malik puts the bag down there as well.
"More like he wanted to come over." Malik explains.
"We brought food so we're staying!" Marik claims so Ryou had no choice. It's not like he mind either way, he loved being with his friends.
"That's fine but next time tell me ahead of time so I could have gotten things ready." Ryou lectures.
"Hai!" Both blonds say.
"You two have such great timing." Bakura scowls as he glares at them.
"What's wrong with him?" Malik ask pointing at Bakura.
"He's just a little grumpy. Marik help me with the plates please." Ryou says.
"Sure lets get the plate." Marik agrees as he hugs the bunny while walking to the kitchen to get the plates.
"You and Ryou were going to kiss." Malik smirks.
"And you two ruined the chance." Bakura growls.
"Hey you could have texted me so I could have delayed the arrival time." Malik laughs.
"Whatever the moments gone now besides I have better news." He smirks.
"Oh and what's the news." The blond ask as he sits next to his best friend, drinking one of the drinks.
"Ryou said yes about Saturday."
Malik starts to choke from the drink as he couldn't believe what Bakura had said. "No way." He says after he calmed down.
"Yeah I manage to convince him."
"Ryou stealing. Nope that doesn't sound like him."
"Well he's going with us on Saturday and that's it."
"Does he know that me and Marik are going?"
"I was going to tell him on Saturday but if Ryou tells Mar-"
"Your going with us!" A very loud yell from Marik can be heard from the kitchen.
"And now Marik know." Bakura says calmly as he grabs a frenchfri.
Marik comes running from the kitchen to the living room and grabs the front of Bakura's shirt.
"What is wrong with you?" Marik angrily says.
"What are you talking about?" Bakura asks innocently knowing full well what he did.
"You know what it is! Why would you want to take him? You do know if we get caught Ryou can't be with you!" Marik practically yells at him.
"But we won't get caught sheesh why can't you be like Malik and take it calmly?" Bakura states.
"Hey don't bring me into this!" Malik protests.
"That doesn't matter, the important thing here is that Ryou can't come. It's to dangerous and the consequences that could follow if we get caught are seriously bad." Marik explains.
"Marik," Bakura grabs Marik's arm that is holing his shirt and grips it hard leading to Marlik let go, "we are not getting caught, Ryou is coming with us, and if you don't like my orders then don't come." He says in a dark low voice so only Marik and
Malik could hear. "Got it." He threatens.
"Y-yeah I got it." Marik gulps since he hasn't seen Bakura really angry in a long time.
"Good." Bakura lets go of Marik's wrist and he eats another frenchfri. Marik goes back to the kitchen and helps Ryou bring the plates in the living room. Once that's out of the way, Bakura makes Ryou sit in his lap after he served them all their burger
and soda.
"So your coming with us on Saturday Ryou. That's a big step." Malik says still surprised.
"Th-thanks?" Ryou's questions. "Wait you two are going to be there?"
"Yeah it's going to be fun now that your coming with us!" Malik says all too proudly while Marik mumbles to himself.
"And we won't get caught or in trouble right Marik." Bakura says with a hint of you better not say anything or you'll pay.
"Right everything will be perfect. You are with the Thief King and us." Marik smiles and says it normally.
"Then I'll be in your care and I hope I don't mess up." Ryou smiles as he looks at them.
The poor boy is gonna get in some deep trouble if we get caught. Marik thinks as he smiles at Ryou. The four start to eat their burgers and talk about Saturday.
"The plan will be how it always is but since your new at this Ryou we will guide you." Bakura says as he takes a bite of his burger.
"Yeah well I'm sure Bakura would want to dress you later so we will skip that." Malik smirks as he sees Ryou's face flush a bit. "The place we are robbing is Domino Collectibles. This store sounds like it has security but not really. The camera's are
fake and the only real threat is the dog inside." Malik explains.
"So for a distraction we will be taking the dog a treat." Marik says beating Malik to it.
"What will be robbing are some very valuable items. I'll point them out when we get there so don't worry on what it is." Bakura adds on.
"As I was saying!" Malik yells making Bakura and Marik shut up. "We will meet at the park at 10 o'clock sharp where we will walk and wait for the store owner to leave at 10:15. At 10:30 Bakura will walk up to the store and picklock the door while the
rest of us keep a look out. If by any chance we see a cop or someone that can get us in trouble you whistle very high. After Bakura gets in we will wait for a few minutes before entering ourselves. By then Bakura would have feed the dog the treat
and will we steal the items we need and get out before 11:30." Malik says with a proud smirk and a bite of his burger as they clap at his performance.
"Nice job now explain what happens if anything wrong happens." Marik glares at Malik.
"Run." Malik says. "Run as fast as you can and you don't look back."
Ryou gulps at this knowing he wasn't much of a good runner.
"But nothing will go wrong so don't worry Ryou." Bakura smiles kindly to him but glares at Marik for bringing it up.
"Oh I see but what I don't understand is why wont you tell me what we are stealing?" Ryou asks but in his mind he didn't like the word "we" and "steal" in the same sentence.
"Because it's of no importance right now." Bakura takes a bite out of Ryou's burger.
"Hey that's mine." Ryou pulls it close to him.
"Aww won't you share a bite with me?" Bakura smirks.
"Nope." Ryou smiles as he eats his.
"Well you are now." Bakura tries to bite Ryou's burger but he moves it around.
While the two white haired boys are having there little game Malik looks at Marik with a bit of worry.
"Hey Marik you know you don't have to come on this one. You can make an excuse." Malik whispers.
"No way. Now that Ryou is going I can't leave him alone with you two." Marik whispers back.
"Then stop pouting Bakura is already pissed off at you. You don't want him to get you later." He whispers with a bit of worry.
"I'll be fine don't worry about me." He smiles at him as they both look in each others eyes. They lean in closer to each other as they start to close their eyes for their lips to touch when a burger cuts them off.
"Well well what's going on with you two?" Bakura smirks at the two tan teens knowing that they had feeling for each other.
"'Kura you should have let them kiss." Ryou giggles at the two tan teens.
"W-we were not going to kiss!" The tan teens shout with a deep red blush covering their faces.
"So looking in each others eyes and leaning in was so you two wouldn't kiss." Bakura laughs at them knowing he got his revenge from earlier on.
"Why don't you guy get together? You two are the perfect match." Ryou smiles at them. The said two look at each other and blush.
"Well I mean if Marik wants to i-it's not like I don't but umm well..." Malik jumbles up his words.
"I-if you and me were together it wouldn't be bad." Marik blushes as he speaks.
"Then let's be together." Malik smiles at Marik as he returns the smile.
"Finally!" Both white haired boys scream a bit.
"Oh shut up!" The tan teens say as they all laugh.
"This calls for celebration I say we go and get some pastries!" Ryou suggests as the other three nod as they get up and go out to a near by bakery.
The next day Ryou walked to school by him self as Bakura, Marik, and Malik all got stomach aches for eating too much sweets. As he walks to school two star shaped haired boys come to his view.
"Yugi Atem Good morning!" Ryou smiles and waves at his friends as they look at him and wave back.
"Good morning Ryou." Both say as Ryou walks with them.
"Why are you walking alone? Don't you usually walk with Bakura and his friends?" Yûgi asks.
"Yes but they all got stomach aches from eating to many sweets yesterday." Ryou smiles.
"All three? Figures I believe they are just ditching Ryou." Atem snorts out.
"I saw how many pastries they ate and they ate a lot of them." Ryou defends.
"Why were you guys eating pastries?" Yugi asks, "and why didn't you bring me some?" He pouts.
Ryou giggles. "I bought pastries for all of you guys so don't worry. And we were eating them yesterday because we were celebrating."
"Celebrating?" The tri colored haired boys look at Ryou confused.
"Yes well you see Marik and Malik got together yesterday so we decided to celebrate." Ryou smiles but he knew they celebrated more than that.
"Huh? I thought they were already together. You know because of how they are around each other." Yugi looks surprised.
"Hmp that's pretty weird to celebrate them getting together." Atem comments.
"Didn't we all celebrate when you and Yugi got together?" Ryou and Yugi laugh as Atem turns red.
"Oh and Jonouchi and Seto too." Yugi adds.
"Okay okay it's not dumb." Atem sighs. "Either way so are we going to your house today then Ryou?" He changes the subject.
"Yes since you guys haven't been over my home in a while." Ryou nods as they meet Jonouchi and Seto, who are bickering, at the front of the school.
"Good Morning Seto Jonouchi." Ryou and Yugi say.
"Morning you two." Atem says.
"Hey Yug' Ry' Atem." Jonouchi smiles at them.
"Ryou your not here with Bakura?" Seto questions.
"Ahh no you see..." Ryou explains what happen.
"Wow not even me." Jonouchi comments.
"You never get full." Seto adds.
"Hey!" Jonouchi glares at Seto.
"Anyways lets go in already. Class is gonna start in a bit." Atem says as they all nod and walk to class.
Lunch began as Yugi, Ryou, Atem, and the rest sit down at their usual table. They all talk and laugh about old stories and what not. Then Ryou had to explain again why three of his "friends" were not here today.
"So they're suppose to be home right?" Ryuji asks.
"Yes they are." Ryou responds.
"Then why are they right there?" Honda points at the food line.
"Huh? I thought they were sick?" Ryou murmurs.
"Lying already shouldn't that count as a strike?" Atem looks at everyone.
"Maybe there's an explanation." Yugi says trying to make Atem calm.
"Yeah they probably got better and decided to come after all." Ryou says trying to convince them but mostly himself.
"I doubt it's possible for all three to get cured at once." Jonouchi comments.
"Either way they're coming this way." Honda says as the three teens finish getting their food when a girl walks up to Bakura. This girl has short brown hair and blue eyes and a good figure but she uses it to her advantage. Her name is Anzu.
They all see Anzu talking to Bakura as he looks at Ryou for a second and the three follow Anzu to her table.
"Huh? Since when were they all buddy buddy with Anzu?" Ryuji asks as they all look at Ryou.
"I don't know. I didn't even know that they talked." Ryou says with a frown. He never liked Anzu. When the gang, excluding Ryou, was in their first year of middle school Anzu was their friend but once she started hanging out with the cheerleaders she
turned sour and claims to never have been friends with them. When Ryou transferred his second year into the middle school Anzu was sweet to him, but once he started to hang out with Yugi and the rest she started hating him. Some say that she hates
him because he took her place in the group even though she had left. No matter what though Anzu always picked on Ryou and even hurt him at moments when he was alone.
"I wonder what she wants from them?" Yugi says as they watch them. Anzu leans on Bakura and he flinches a bit but from far you couldn't tell.
"What the hell?!" Atem yells a bit.
"This makes no sense." Honda exclaims.
"Doesn't he know that you don't like her?" Jonouchi looks at Ryou who was hurt a bit.
"I-i don't remember if I ever told him." Ryou says as he eats his food slowly.
"I'm sure he'll explain himself later Ryou." Yugi tries to comfort his friend.
"Yeah later." Ryou mutters as he looks back at where Bakura was sitting as he was laughing at something that Marik did while Anzu was laughing and pushing her breast against Bakura.
They all continue the rest of lunch as they past the rest of the day.
"Come on let's go to Ryou's!" Jonouchi says with joy as they walk out of the school.
"Ryou! Hey! Wait up!" Ryou turns to see Marik running to them.
"Marik hello. Did you need something?" Ryou asks.
"Hey I just wanted to say sorry that Bakura said we all had a stomach ache. Truthfully I did have one but it was when I got home. Anyways I wanted to say that the only reason we say with Anzu today in lunch was because she threaten Bakura." Marik explains
as the rest listen in.
"Threaten Bakura?" Ryou questions as he was quite shocked.
"Yeah but he said he'll explain everything to you later." Marik says not wanting to give Atem a reason to convince Ryou of anything bad.
"Why can't he explain now?" Seto asks with an eyebrow raised.
"Detention." Marik looks Ryou straight in the eye not wanting him to know he's lying. "Anyways Ryou I'll see you later." Marik runs back in the school before Ryou could speak.
Ryou just watches Marik leave as he looks down with a bit of sadness. He felt a pain in his heart but he didn't know why.
"Hey I'm sure it's nothing Ryou. He'll call you later you know." Yugi tries to cheer him up again. When it didn't work Yugi looks at everyone giving them the look to help out.
"Yeah hey maybe he's giving you a surprise or something." Jonouchi ruffles Ryou's hair.
"Or maybe he had something important to do and he didn't want you to worry." Atem says shocking the group that he was defending Bakura but they guessed it was for Ryou's sake.
"Probably." Ryou smiles at them not wanting them to worry.
"Come on let's go." Honda says as they all walk again to Ryou's.
"Explain to me again why you have to do it with Anzu!" Malik yells at Bakura as the two teens are on the roof top. Bakura was watching Ryou from there and he just finished seeing Marik leaving, knowing he was coming up here. Once he saw Ryou leaving he
turned to Malik.
"She threaten to tell Ryou." Bakura said.
"Tell him what?! You said you've told him everything and he's told you everything! What else could you be hiding from him?!" Malik screams at him. Yes sometimes Malik can seem like an ass or seems like he doesn't care for people but that's false. Malik
cares for Marik and Bakura, and when Ryou came to the picture he cared for him too. He even remembers when Ryou helped him get Marik a birthday present.
Flashback
"What would Marik want for his birthday?" Ryou repeats the question that Malik had ask. It was a Saturday before the picnic before Ryou and Bakura got together.
"Yeah. Has he like mentioned anything to you about what he would want?" Malik blushes a bit when he says that. He wanted to get Marik something special.
"Well he was telling me that he needed clothes but he just went shopping with his sister a few days ago." Ryou says remembering what Marik had said.
"Ugh that so did not help." Malik hits his head on the table. Currently the two were at the park. "What you going to give him?"
"Me? Well I was going to make him a figurine. He saw one that I had in my backpack. He thought it was cute so I decided to make him one." Ryou says with a little proudness.
"Yeah I can't make things." Malik grumbles.
"What did you get him last year?" He asks.
"Make-up."
Ryou giggles at that. "Well I'm sure he still has make-up."
"I want it to be meaningful so he won't forget."
"So you do like Marik?"
"Of course I do...shit." He groans as he just confessed to Ryou that he like Marik.
"I knew it! Why don't you ask him out?"
"He wouldn't like me. I mean I know he's gay and all but I doubt he would go for a guy like me." He sighs.
"Well I think he likes you." He smiles. "Hehe I think I know the perfect gift for Marik that you can give him."
"Really? What is it?" He says with no enthusiasm.
"A ring or necklace."
"Ehh? Ehhhh! Why would I give him that?!"
"To show that you love him."
"But what if he doesn't like it."
"Of course he'll like it. It's from you." He smiles.
"Fine but if it fails I get to kill you." He glares. "And your helping me find him a ring."
"Haha deal! Come on I know a jewelry store that sells rings that are really good." Ryou smiles as he grabs Malik's hand and drags him to the jewelry store.
After searching Malik found the perfect ring for Marik and got it for him. The jewelry store owner even gave Malik one to match the one he got for Marik.
Flashback
At the time he didn't think he would need the ring that the owner gave him but now he was great full for it. Since he and Marik are together, the present will hold more value now. It was funny to him like it seem that Ryou knew they would get together
but Malik wouldn't know. But now that Bakura is telling him that he would have to cheat on Ryou, he could not accept that. Ryou didn't deserve to be cheated on.
"You remember that one time in middle school that Anzu asked me for a favor?" Bakura says softly.
"Yeah but you never told us what the favor was." Malik glares as he didn't like where this was going.
"She asked me to basically make Ryou's life hell for a week." He says with a sad face. "I didn't know Ryou at all only that he hanged out with Atem and his gang. So I thought 'Sure why not. I hate Atem and his friends.' I aggreed and basically made his
life hell. It started with leaving threats and then attacking him without him seeing me."
"That's what she has against you?!" Marik had open the door to the roof he had heard most of the conversation.
"There's more." Bakura sighs as he looks up at the sky.
"What could make it worse?" Malik asks.
"That week was the same week his mother died." Bakura looks up at the sky.
Marik and Malik stayed quiet as they were shocked and stunned by what Bakura said.
"Look I didn't know! He told me a few days ago that the day his mother died was the week he got threats and got hurt a lot." Bakura sighs. "He told me he never found out who it was but that Atem and the rest thought it was Anzu."
"And you didn't tell him why?!" Marik yells.
"He would hate me. Look I regret what I did but I can't let him find out it was me." Bakura hits the fence around the roof. "But that still wasn't the worse part." He whispers out.
"What else did you do?!" Malik screams as well.
"You know how Ryou only wears T-shirts and long sleeves." Bakura starts.
The bronze couple nod.
"On his left arm...there's a scar...a scar that I made on him." Bakura looks away.
Marik was pissed off and was ready to kill Bakura while Malik was just speechless.
"You gave him a scar?!" Malik yells.
"Yeah the day his mom died." Bakura says with shame. He was so ashamed of himself.
Marik punches Bakura in the face.
"You need to tell him." Marik says. "Right now."
"No way! I'm not telling him and neither are you two." Bakura glares at them.
"Bakura that's too far. He needs to know the truth. If you sleep with that slut and Ryou finds out he's going to be so pissed at you or worse! He may find out what you did and you didn't even tell him!" Malik growls.
"I promised Ryou I would always love him and keep him safe! If I have to keep a whore quiet by sleeping with her to have Ryou safe I'll do it! If I had to go kill someone for Ryou, I'd do it." Bakura yells at them. "You won't tell him and that's final."
"For you Bakura if you don't tell him I will!" Marik yells. "Ryou doesn't deserve to be cheated on or lied too."
"I have to agree with Marik on this." Mailk says.
"Do you two want to be beaten to a bloody pulp?" Dark aura surrounds Bakura as he gives them a death glare. "Hmm answer."
"N-no." Marik stutters out.
"Then I suggest you two shut your traps and tell Ryou nothing. Now the robbery will be moved to next month since I have business to do this Saturday. And remember not a single word to Ryou or you'll both get it." Bakura gives his final warning before
he leaves the roof.
"This will not end well." Marik says as Malik wraps an arm around him.
"I know but we can't do a thing right now." Malik knew that Bakura would beat the shit out of them both but he knew Bakura would reveal secrets of he got pissed off. "All we can do is hope that Ryou doesn't find out."
"Oh Ra please don't let Bakura make the wrong choice." Marik prays as they both walk out of the roof to go home.
Preview:
"I'm telling you the truth! Believe me he's asking about you." Jounouchi says.
"Oh but it's been a while since I've talked to him." Ryou mumbles.
"I think you should call him. Who knows you two might have a fun chat." Atem says.