Day 14: Rustshipping (Thief King/Yami Marik/Ryou) - "Gingerbread house"
(Yami Marik's name-of-the-day: Amir!)
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Bakura and Amir tromped into the kitchen, bickering about what their next moves should be when they sat down for Monster World that night. Their conversation stopped in its tracks when they realized they'd walked into some kind of confectionary war zone.
"Ryou, what the hell happed in here?"
Ryou, to his credit, looked perfectly calm in the midst of the chaos. "Oh, perfect timing! Everything's just ready!"
Amir stared curiously at the little dishes full of various brightly-coloured candies. "Ready for what?"
"Making the gingerbread house! I've cooked the pieces from scratch. The store-bought stuff is horribly bland, so it had to be done."
Bakura dipped a finger in a bowlful of frosting, and got his hand smacked. He glared at Ryou. "You left it unguarded. It's fair game."
"Not in my kitchen it isn't."
Bakura huffed. So, it was going to be that kind of day, was it? They'd long since learned not to bother trying to stop Ryou if he was on a baking rampage. The only way out was through. He caught Amir's eyes and squared his shoulders. "So why are we building a house out of candy?"
Ryou perked up. "For fun. And it's tasty. And neither of you have done it before." Ryou's grin widened a bit. "And because I'm pretty sure Amir will have fun ripping it apart at the seams to eat it later."
Amir gave Ryou a wild grin. "Sounds like my kind of baking." He shuffled up next to Ryou. "What do we need to do?"
Ryou beamed and set them to work. Before they were through, icing had ended up various in places it shouldn't have (showers were now a must), a game of stealing candies when Ryou's back was turned developed and then immediately fizzled when Ryou turned his best pout on the pair of them, and more than one argument broke out about the optimal candies for landscaping, which usually ended with a random assortment being thrown together in an effort to compromise.
In the end, the final product was a little lopsided and would make any home designer want to gouge their eyes out at the horribly clashing colours and styles, but it was theirs. Ryou was delighted.