Gah...I deleted the chapter I wrote up so this is like a filler. Just how daily life went on when there weren't any murders. I have a serious case of writer's block and I can't figure out where I want tihs to go.

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It's just the way things stand

Bakura pondered inside his room, his chin resting in his hand lightly, his fingers tapping against the wooden desk lightly. "Let me think…why, why, it's so strange." Ryou yawned slightly and turned over, his eyes fluttering open slightly and his lips parted innocently. Half a moment later, Ryou propped himself up on his elbows gingerly, rubbing the back of his head sharply. "Ah-Ha-Kura?" He spoke while still in his sleeping form, and glanced at Bakura while looking around still. "What time is it?" Bakura looked up somewhat mildly…if you can call anything Bakura does as mild.

"Time for you to get ready to go to breakfast, I'm hungry." Ryou groaned and rolled over groggily, his hair rising for a moment and then falling back down to nestle around his face once more, his pillow lifting up to hide the rest of his face from Bakura. "Go by yourself then, I'm too tired to go out and eat. I'll be fine without food today." Bakura growled and grabbed Ryou by the back of his collar.

"No way Ryou, or did you forget…I can't leave you alone, or more specifically, I'M NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE YOU ALONE." Ryou groaned and stuck his tongue out at Bakura with a blank expression before blowing him a raspberry and trying to go back to sleep, while still hanging by the scruff of his collar…and it didn't work. Bakura dragged him bodily to the door where the bathroom was and dropped Ryou for a moment. When he came back, he picked Bakura up again and threw him into the shower…which was currently pouring out cold water, wait, just cold? Pfft, yeah right, it was ice cold! "Have fun Ryou!" Bakura called, teasingly before Ryou suddenly found himself being soaked with ice cold water.

"UWAAAAAAAAAAAAH! BAKURA!" Ryou screeched at the top of his lungs, due to the fact that he was now completely drenched in cold water…and he still had clothes on which had to dry now, because seriously, like Bakura would really undress Ryou. However, Ryou's screams were undoubtedly loud and ear piercing and when there's been plenty of murders in one house already, a scream calls for a lot of attention. Pounding footsteps made their way up the stairs and down the hall towards their door and then the banging began against their door, but neither Bakura nor Ryou could go too get it because Ryou was trying to drag Bakura into the shower to drench the older white haired boy.

"Ryou-kun! RYOU!" Everyone frantically pounded against the near albino's room, except for little Yugi, who knew precisely that neither one of them was in danger. The twin blonde's violet eyes narrowed as they realized that neither could hear them and started and stepped back.

"Alright guys, get the hell out of the way. We're busting in!" The remaining group gulped and immediately moved back against the walls; hell no, they weren't going to get in the way of two psychopathic blondes with a mission. Malik started count in the beginning, both of them in stances ready to go.

"Okay, ready? On three, one…" Marik cut him off boredly and narrowed his eyes again.

"Oh for crying out loud, let's just get started." And he ran off, regardless of Malik's protests who followed him shortly. "RYOU! BAKURA!" They burst in through the broken door and ran into the bathroom. Now what, suffocating with drowning? Or were they already dead?

They froze at the bathroom door and stared, expression frozen as they watched the unfolding scene. "You're not dragging me in with you Ryou, OI! Let go already, I got you wet, now take a shower already, before I clobber you!" Bakura's hand was in the shower folds while the rest of his body was out and trying to get away, dragging away but not succeeding. On the other hand, a slender and pale hand was gripped tightly around Bakura's wrist, trying to drag him in.

"Uh…guys?" Ryou's head poked out of the shower glass and blinked. "Oh…hello you guys, what's going on? Mind pushing Bakura in here for me, as he so graciously pushed me in here with my clothes on?" Marik and Malik stared for a moment longer before laughing, pure and very real laughter that hadn't been heard for a while, rich and golden. Leaning against the walls in relief and humor, they clapped their arms around Bakura and Ryou, dragging the two out of the shower and laughing while shutting the icy water off.

"Damn I love you guys." Ryou and Bakura blinked as Ryou finally decided he'd lost and shut the cold water off, looking around at Marik and Malik. "I can't believe that even now…Ra." Ryou raised an eyebrow, confused. Malik shook his head. "Nah, don't worry about it. C'mon, let's get out there. Everyone else is waiting for you two to show that you're not in danger." Ryou nodded before coming out.

Suggestions are loved right now! And someone I could possibly discuss or bounce ideas off.