His hand was suddenly warm and Bakura just knew what that meant. A quick and brief look at the front end of April's pull-ups confirmed it. There were now no purple ribbons on the front: April needed changed.
"We need to stop somewhere." he told his hikari with a sigh. Ryou shot him a puzzled look.
"I go potty." April replied proudly sparing the yami from explaining further.
"Do you have to go?" Ryou asked Raven. He received a solemn look and a nod. "I see a Wal-mart up ahead. I can go buy some pencils while you take the girls to the bathroom."
"You do realize, despite the long hair, that I am a guy and thus unable to take the girls to the correct bathroom?"
Ryou shrugged as he jogged over to the store, followed closely by his yami.
"I'm sure you'll think of something. You came up with some good plans in all the times you tried stealing Yugi's puzzle."
As the yami and two girls briskly walked to the back of the store where the bathrooms were located, Ryou slipped off into the office supply section to buy a package of pencils.
In the area for layaway, close to the application computer, sat two mighty doors. One spoke of Men while the other spoke of Women. It was a moral dilemma that could warp two little girls or one tomb raider mentally swearing a blue streak. Which door to take?
"Why couldn't you two be born male?" he muttered.
"'Cause we're girls." Raven replied brightly. April chewed on her finger and giggled as Bakura rolled his eyes.
I could pass as a girl, Bakura thought darkly. I hear it enough from stupid punks on the street. He scowled, Of course not everyone is stupid and walking into the ladies restroom can get me arrested.
Raven tugged on the yami's sleeve and announced in a very pathetic voice, "Kura I gotta go potty."
"Hush for a minute, I'm thinking!"
"But I gotta go potty!"
"Hold it for a minute!" Bakura hissed.
"I GOTTA GO POTTY!" Raven screamed at the top of her lungs and Bakura was hard pressed whether to hide in embarrassment or strangle the little girl.
"Having problems?" a familiar voice inquired behind him.
Bakura turned and saw one of the last people he wanted to see at a time like this. She had two shopping bags in her hand, out of one a stuffed Red Eyes Black Dragon's head stuck out.
She wore a red mini skirt and a yellow mid drift that strangely complimented her shoulder length brown hair and bright blue eyes.
"None at all, Tea." Bakura replied with mock politeness.
"Batura." April whined.
"One minute!" he snapped and the little girl began to cry.
Tea watched in amusement as Raven kicked Bakura in the shin and called him bad. Then laughed when the little girl began dancing around in the universally known dance called 'I have to go to the bathroom but I am going to hold it until I get to a bathroom.'
"Seems to me you're having problems." Tea stated still laughing a tad.
"If you don't want to make a permanent visit to the Shadow Realm, I suggest you take these two to the bathroom and change April." Bakura snarled at her.
Tea quirked a single eyebrow and placed one hand on her hip, "You try that and Yami will send you on a similar trip. Guaranteed."
The yami growled in frustration as Raven added a hop to her dance and began clutching herself. It was at this time Bakura felt his hand become warm again. He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.
"How much." he muttered.
Tea smirked, "Three dollars and you announcing over the intercom that you are a ring raider."
"What?!"
Tea shook a finger at him, "I'm not repeating it. You know what I said."
Bakura shoved the girl's back packs into the young woman's arms before foisting the little girls off on her.
The layaway intercom took care of stipulation one of Tea's diaper changing deal. A quick picking of a random pocket took care of the rest. But when he returned to the bathrooms, he discovered a rather smug looking Tea sitting on a bench and no toddlers.
"What did you do with the kids?" he inquired evenly.
Tea stood up with a chuckle, "They went looking for you and Ryou."
"Why didn't you stop them!?"
"Because that wasn't part of the deal." she replied over her shoulder as she walked away.
Bakura uttered a few choice curses in Tea's direction before walking off to find the two little girls.
His first stop was the toy aisle where many parents and their child snatched up entertainment pieces and board games. Bakura peered around and did not spot Raven and April amongst the crowd.
Next he tried the candy/junk food aisle. There Bakura spotted Joey loading up his hand basket full of Twinkies, chocolate cakes and cola. But no girls.
A similar occurrence happened in the tea/coffee aisle. This time it was Duke with a basket loading up on café brand coffee.
So where did Bakura finally find the two little girls? In the book aisle, sitting on the floor next to their backpacks 'reading' from the pile they made in the back corner.
"Hi Batura," April greeted as she flipped a page of the magazine in her lap. "Time to go?"
The yami gritted his teeth and replied calmly, "Yes, it is time to go."
"But what about Ryou? Where Ryou?" Raven asked snatching up her sister's magazine. April screamed and so began a tug-a-war over the publication. Sure enough, it ended in the death of the latest issue of Shonen Jump.
"Ryou's somewhere around, now pick up your mess." Bakura snapped. Raven frowned and looked at the yami askew as April began singing some song off of Barney as she cleaned.
"Raven, help your sister." He growled and once more had the same look shot at him. April began cleaning Raven's mess.
"Stop that." Bakura snapped at April. "It's your sister's mess, have her clean it."
It was April's turn to look at him funny.
"But she made it too." Raven argued as April began to sing as she cleaned once more. The yami growled at her and her sister.
"Here!" he snapped shoving an armload of books into Raven's arms. "Put them back."
Raven looked at him with a frown and huffed as April breezed by with her song and began plucking books from her sister to put back up.
"She needs to put them back." Raven argued as April went off with her new stack of books. "April made a mess."
"You made the mess too." Bakura shot back then pointed at her sister up the aisle from them. "Go put those books up!"
The little girl gave him an annoyed look and was about to open her mouth again when the yami cut her off.
"Pick them up!"
The little girl's eyes began to fill with water. Her breathing quickened and she let out this frustrated whimper.
"But she needs to pick up!" Raven cried as big tears began to run down her face. "She does!"
"April does not need to pick up all those books. You need to pick up those books too." Bakura replied grinding his teeth together so not to start viciously attacking the small girl with her backpack. There were money and store cameras to be concerned about.
But as Raven went into full tantrum mode, complete with screams and throwing herself down on the floor so she could kick and scream more, Bakura wondered if beating her would be justifiable.
The police'll clearly see I had no choice in the matter. It was either hit her or have her continue to disturb the peace. Murder in the name of peace is always a good thing.
"Bloody hell Bakura, I leave you alone for one moment..."Ryou cried rushing to Raven's side, a bag of newly purchased pencils in one hand and a newly purchased notebook in the other. "I could hear her clear across the store...and I caught that plan you had!"
Upon hearing Ryou's voice, Raven calmed down enough to tell the teen all her troubles as April finished putting the books back and ran back to everyone.
"And Kura loves April more" Ryou was told as he carried Raven out of the store followed closely by his yami carrying April.
"I do not." Bakura snapped. "I hate you both equally."
April giggled and laid her head down on his shoulder, "My Batura."
Raven laid her head down on Ryou's shoulder and made a similar claim. Then there was a lull between the four of them where no words were spoken and the two little girls began to doze, content in the arms of their babysitters. And then...
"Say," Ryou said abruptly with a smile. "I could have sworn I heard you on the store intercom."
Both girls giggled.