AN: Story Removal: Flight is dead. Sorry. No Big Deal has been taken off too, but is pending a rewrite. We're not sorry 'cause that was pretty bad.

Not as bad as this, but at least this was intentional.

"I want to see the octopus!" Ryou squealed in delight, grabbing Bakura by the hand and literally dragging the spirit across the room against his will towards a big tank at the far end of the wide hall. Everything around them was surrounded by fishes, all underground and blue and other things that aquariums are, especially the part where they tend to be full of people.

Bakura hated crowded places. They were noisy and, like stated above, full of people. People everywhere. People to the left, people to the right, people beneath his feet - stupid kid, the floor isn't for lying on!

But he did like Ryou, so here they were.

Ryou currently had his face plastered comically up against the glass facing a freaking enormous octopus, with his hands splayed on either side like he was trying to give it a hug and hadn't noticed that there was a large obstacle between them. The creature was staring back at him with its great bulbous eyes. "'Kuraaaa, it's cuuuute," Ryou declared.

"Yes, adorable," Bakura agreed offhandedly, giving an uncomfortable shudder and looking away from the creepy thing as it moved its many arms. Much too wriggly, why couldn't his host like normal animals? People like Ryou were supposed to like things like kittens and puppies, not these rejects from the Shadow Realm. But the boy always was a weird one that way.

"I love youuu~" he was saying now, making Bakura turn around and frown when he noticed the comment was directed at the octopus. The thing couldn't even understand him, why was he bothering? And meanwhile, he was getting jealous of a cephalopod, this was getting ridiculous.

He shot the octopus a glare like it knew what that meant, seizing Ryou by the collar of his shirt and prying him away from the glass to loud flailing and protests. "Noo, 'Kura, I don't want to go yet!" Ryou turned around and gave him the biggest sad eyes ever.

Bakura sighed and released him at once, unable to go against that face. "Fine."

"Glee!" There was a suctioning sound as Ryou attached himself to the tank again. He very distinctly resembled a sea star.

"Hey 'Kura, can we get an octopus?" Oh god. "A reaaaaal big one?" Oh god.

"Uh. I don't think an octopus would be very happy in our apartment, yadonushi," he evaded to the best of his ability.

"Oh, I guess not." Whew..

Though now Bakura felt kind of bad, Ryou sounded so put out-

"Let's move to a bigger place!" Bakura's hand flew up to his face in exasperation. "With a big swimming pool, that'll make it happy, right?"

"We can't afford an octopus.." Bakura didn't even know why he was even bothering to try and explain this rationally, there was no room for logic in this conversation.

"But what if we-"

"Come on, let's get out of here." He grabbed Ryou about the shoulders and attempted to steer him away from the distracting creature in hopes that being away from it would stop the boys train of thought.

"Wait, listen, if we move in to the aquarium, then we could-"

"We're not moving in with the octopus," Bakura said sternly, pushing him towards the door. "We're leaving."

"But you like octopus! I've read your manga, there's a lot of tentacles in those so you must like them!"

"LEAVING."