Bakura was finally starting to adjust that nothing in his life would ever be normal again with his Yami around. Especially since he had just found out that he could fly.
There was a thunk from outside on the balcony and the creak of a door opening and shutting as Yami Bakura returned from outside, just in time to drink his cold tea. He wandered into the kitchen where Bakura was doing their homework and opened the newspaper. He flicked through the articles. Nothing interesting, except there was a new duel tournament, most likely run by Kaiba again.
"We're going over to Anzu's tonight," Bakura said once his Yami had laid down the newspaper. "And then Malik's coming over from Egypt on Thursday after we've broken up for summer, unless this whole wings thing sorts itself out," He continued. "Are you going to school tomorrow?"
"Probably. It'll be easier than having to amuse myself legally all day,"
"I mean, because of your wings…" Bakura pouted, fetching the sewing machine and cutting slits in a few more of Yami Bakura's shirts.
"I've noticed that most mortals don't even notice them. You can walk straight past someone like this and they won't even bat an eyelid."
"I guess," Bakura pondered. The room fell back into silence before Yami Bakura wandered out, bored out of his mind again, having no interesting millennium items to steal or innocent people to murder.
…
Yami had also twigged the stupidity of Domino's population, although he didn't refer to it as that. He also differed from his white-haired counterpart in another important respect - he wasn't bored.
"Are you competing in the new Tournament?" Yugi asked as he was helping to carry boxes of games around for his grandfather.
"Kaiba's only set it up as an excuse to duel me again, and I'm not going to step down from a challenge like that," The pharaoh replied, picking up another box and ferrying it into the storeroom.
"What if you didn't go? Show Kaiba you're not going to succumb into doing whatever he says?"
"You have a point, I guess," Yami said. "But all I've been duelling recently is you, Jounouchi and Yami Bakura; it'd be nice to have a change and duel someone new."
"Your choice," Yugi answered.
…
Sunday went, and Monday morning arrived, presumably. It might have been Tuesday all of a sudden, but that would confuse people, if they even realised it wasn't Monday anyway. So Monday it must have been. And Monday meant (at least for some people) school.
At exactly 6:35am, the alarm went off. It was a bit of a random time for the alarm to go off, but it meant that Yami Bakura could get five minutes extra sleep. Anyway, a few moments later, the alarm was turned off again, and then there was a thump and an "oof!" as Yami Bakura fell out of bed.
Next, there was the obligatory rustling as Yami Bakura got back into bed. Three minutes later, the alarm snooze went off, and then stopped for Yami Bakura to fall out of bed again with an "oof!" and stay there for the next twenty minutes, defeated.
Domino City continued upon its merry way, oblivious that at least fifty people were plotting to take it over or blow it up. It was also oblivious to the fact that there were two teenagers in its midst with large wings walking to school. It was the boys that were walking to school, not the wings, by the way. … I'm not making any sense, am I?
Anyway…
"So they just appeared? Randomly?" Jounouchi asked curiously.
"That's what I said, dog," Yami Bakura said. He was in an insulting-people mood today. Jounouchi grumbled incoherently at being called a dog, but it seemed to happen so much nowadays that he'd given up trying to stop people. It had become more of a nickname now anyway, just like Yugi was the hedgehog.
"There has to be some reason for it," Yami mused.
"But why? Not everything has to be for a reason," Anzu said, kicking Jounouchi for trying to look up her skirt. He toppled over with an "oof!" and had to run the catch up with them.
"We'll just have to wait and see what happens. There's little we can do now, but maybe some answers will come with Malik when he arrives from Egypt." Yami said.
There was a pause.
"Let's talk about something else now," Anzu said.
There was another pause.
"Like duel monsters?" Yami said hopefully.