After Ryou carried both girls out while Bakura carried Raven and April's things out and locked the door behind him, the phone rang. Two rings afterwards the answer machine picked up.
"This is the Bakura residence. No one is here right now so leave a message at the beep." Ryou's voice said followed by a beep.
"Bakura, this is Isis. If I know Raven and April you'll need my help very soon. I got off work early so call me and I'll take the girls off your hands. Oh and before I forget, whatever you do don't let Marik see the girls. Last I heard he still holds a grudge against them for cutting his hair. Please don't be over there!" and then Isis hung up.
"Where we goin'?" Raven asked for the fifth time in the past five minutes. Bakura looked down at the little girl whose hand he held while Ryou carried April.
"We're going to visit Marik and see if we can play with his Rod." He replied.
"Bakura, that didn't sound right." Ryou told his yami with a blush. April giggled.
"Play with Rod, play with Rod." She exclaimed. Raven laughed with her sister.
"Oh Ra did that sound bad." Bakura muttered.
"Let me rephrase that: We're going over to Marik's house to play with a shiny hard stick."
Bakura and the girls both began laughing at Ryou once he realized what he said and began blushing a furious red.
"Nice color for you." Bakura commented. April nodded poked at his red cheeks.
"Ryou funny. Ryou red." Raven told everyone as they walked. As they passed people on the street, she would free her hand, go up to total strangers and tell them Ryou was red before Bakura could stop her.
"They're so darling at that age." One woman said as they waited at the crosswalk after Raven told her about Ryou blushing.
"Yes, extremely." Bakura replied mildly.
The woman turned and addressed April, "You love going out with your big brothers don't you."
Raven laughed when Bakura's eyes bugged out and Ryou laughed nervously as April replied.
"Batura not bro ther. Ray Ray sisser."
The woman bent down to address Raven warmly, "Are you her sister?"
Raven nodded.
"You're such a good sister, aren't you dear." The woman said standing straight.
"Oh yes, pinching their baby-sitter to get even for yelling at her." Bakura replied. "Such a darling."
"Well maybe their baby-sitter shouldn't have yelled." The woman responded with a sniff.
"She bit me!"
"Well what did you do to her?"
Bakura reached into his pocket and pulled out the Man-Eater Bug card, summoning it to devour the woman.
Luckily the light changed and the woman walked off with the rest of the crowd unaware of the creature behind her.
"Put it away." Ryou hissed as he made sure the little girl in his arms didn't see the scary looking bug. Raven unfortunately saw it and began crying.
Bakura reluctantly sent the monster back to the Shadow Realm as he picked up his screaming charge and crossed the street with the crowd.
Some blocks away Raven was still crying over what she dubbed 'the scary big bug' and even Ryou was tiring of her sobs. Bakura was beyond tired, he was desperate for some silence. Just then he looked up and spied his salvation.
Macdonald's playland.
"Hey Raven, what would you say to going to Macdonald's." Bakura asked her. Raven was silent and April giggled and clapped her hands narrowly missing Ryou's nose.
"I like Macdonald's." The older girl told him matter of fact like. "Momma take us there a lot."
Bakura smirked as April began babbling incoherently to Ryou about Macdonald's and French fries in between cute giggles.
"Well Momma is a very smart lady." The yami told the girl in his arms. "Shall we go?"
Raven and April nodded.
If Bakura were a normal person instead of a knife obsessed freak bent on world domination, he would have taken Raven and April inside, bought a dollar hamburger and ate while the girls played. But he was Bakura, the knife obsessed freak bent on world domination that we all adore.
He walked up to the pad locked gateway in between him and playland madness, put Raven down, whipped out his lucky lock pick he always kept on his person and proceeded to pick the lock. Once he sprung the lock, he graciously opened the door for Raven, who ran straight inside followed by Ryou and the wiggling April.
"You know I could have bought a hamburger and got inside legally." Ryou told his yami as he let April lose after her sister and Bakura shut the gate behind them.
"Yeah but who wants to do things legally." Bakura replied. His hikari rolled his eyes.
Both boys watched the happy girls crawl through the maze of tubing, waved at them when they demanded their attention and were all in all enjoying the peace of having the girls entertained.
Then it happened…
Both teens heard the unmistakable scream of one of their charges followed by a thump and another scream.
"You check it out." Bakura told his hikari. "You're skinnier."
Ryou looked at him shocked, "You're the babysitter, you go see what happened."
Bakura stood up and glared down at him, "I am not crawling into those idiotic plastic tubes just to see what happened to those monsters."
His hikari got to his feet as well, "I'm going inside and getting some drinks. While I'm inside, I'll page Malik and tell him how you're mistreating his girlfriend's baby girls."
"You can't." the yami growled as there was another scream from the tubes. "You don't know the number."
"555- I'm King." Ryou replied smugly. When Bakura's jaw dropped, he continued with a shrug, "When you and Marik spent two weeks terrorizing the countryside, Malik gave me the number. He wanted to know how many people he had to bury."
"He didn't have to." Bakura muttered as Ryou walked off. "We buried everyone ourselves!"
He went to the entrance of the tubes, passing by the smiling face of Ronald himself informing everyone that you had to be shorter than his raised hand to play inside the tubes. Bakura glared at the clown and crawled inside the maze.
He went through a tunnel of pink that hurt his eyes in a manner that wasn't all due to the brightness or the lighting. He followed the screams and an occasional thump past the yellow tinted window the girls waved at him and Ryou through. Then found the two girls crying and kicking at each other where the tunnel became at bit snug for the tomb raider.
"What's going on." Bakura demanded.
"April bite me!" Raven wailed and showed the yami a dark red bite mark that was identical to a faint pink one he was sporting. Then she kicked at her sister angrily and the littler girl screamed and kicked back.
Bakura swatted at April's foot, "Hey! No kicking!"
The little girl turned her teary eyes toward him and began to sob. Raven looked at April, then at Bakura and began hitting him.
"Hey!" he cried trying to avoid stinging slaps to his face. Bakura tried scooting back up the tunnel but found himself in a bit of trouble. He was stuck.
"Batura." April sobbed.
The tomb raider attempted to pull himself toward the girls. No go.
"Kura bad!" Raven shouted with a flurry of smacks across Bakura's head. "Go away!"
"Ow! I'm trying to!" he replied through his gritted teeth. Ryou! He shouted through their link.
Do you want Sprite or Dr. Pepper? Ryou inquired.
Right now, a good shot of whiskey, the yami replied. Forget the drinks, I'm stuck.
Bakura swore he heard something like a giggle come from Ryou, but the hikari wouldn't do that. No, he knew better than to laugh at Bakura.
You're…stuck?
And getting beat up by a pre-schooler! Now get over here and get me out!!
Bakura heard the giggling sound again.
Are you laughing? The yami growled through the link as he blocked another attack from Raven. Are you laughing at me?
No I'd never laugh at you. You're scary and evil and…giggle and stuck in a restaurant playground! Ryou irrupted in laughter.
Stop laughing! Bakura ordered his hikari who was smiling faintly as he paid for the two large and small drinks.
"Do you have a pay phone?" Ryou asked as he received his change.
"Outside by the left entrance." The cashier replied.
The teen tried to stifle a fit of audible laughter as his yami began cursing, "Thank you."
Ryou carried the drinks outside and sat them at his feet as he put in some of his drink change into the phone and dialed a familiar number.
"Hello?"
"You're never going to believe this but Bakura is getting beat up by a four-year old and needs help getting unstuck in some playground tubes."
Ryou heard the expected laughter over the phone and the person tell another person what was said then that person began to laugh.
"He's very frantic about getting out and away from the little girl, so if you would come over to Mac Donald's and help him I would appreciate it." Ryou said after the laughter was under control. "All his cursing and prayers for Amut to devour him are getting on my nerves."
"We'll be over there in twenty minutes." Then they hung up.
Ryou hung up the phone, sat at a table near the tubes and sipped his soda calmly. He didn't call Raven and April over, no, he waited quite some time before he did.
Sorry about the long wait.