Simple Songwriter: (still running away from Bakura; pie in hand) MWAH HA HA HA HA! You'll never catch me or this pie!

Bakura: (casts a shadow spell at Simple Songwriter) Give me that pie!

Simple Songwriter: (gets caught by the shadow spell) H-Hey! No fair! (Tries to break free from shadow spell)

Bakura: The pie is mine! (snatches the pie from Simple Songwriter)

Simple Songwriter: Sigh...Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. Anyways, here's chapter 3! Hope y'all like it! (Mutters under breath) I'm gonna go bake another pie.

Note: Thank you "LeoOsaka Bakura's stalker" for your last review. It gave me kind of a good idea for this chapter. AND things regarding Ryou and Bakura will (hopefully) begin to make more sense.

Disclaimer: Simple Songwriter doesn't own Yu-gi-oh!

Chapter 3: Truth and Deception

"Well?" Tea screamed.

"Sorry, what?" Bakura asked.

"Why were you kissing me?"

"Well, you seemed sad and…Why did you kiss me back?"

"I—Um—It was only polite…Why'd you stop?" She bit her lip. "(Oh my god…D—did I just say that out loud! I'm so screwed…NO! Not in that way!)" She clutched her head in distress.

"What did you just say?" he asked with a twisted smile spreading across his face.

She turned a brilliant shade of red. "N—Nothing…"

"Why did I stop? Ha! You pushed me off!" Tea grabbed Bakura's arm and reeled him into her. But instead of kissing him, she whispered slowly and forcefully, "If you DARE tell anyone about this… I swear I will—"

"Make me wish I was never born…" he interrupted. "I've had many people say that to me before."

She immediately stopped. "What?" He stood up and put his T-shirt back on. More thoughts had flooded his mind. "Bakura…"

"What?!" he snapped.

"W—What happened to Ryou?" Bakura froze. It was as though something internally had snapped. All the feelings of happiness, sympathy, and even what he thought to be as love had all been changed to pure hatred. "B—Bakura… I asked you, what happened to Ryou?" He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.

"None of your business…" he said as calmly as he could.

Now Tea was really confused. "(What's up with him? Why won't he speak of Ryou? I mean, he is Bakura's Light…) What's wrong with you? You leech off of his body! Why won't you tell me about what's going on?"

"It's none of your business!"

"Ryou is one of my friends! And I'll make this my business!"

"Gardner, if you mention one more thing about me—my Light, I will send you to the Shadow Realm!"

Tea fell silent. The last thing she wanted was to be trapped within the Shadows for all eternity.

Bakura rummaged through a pile of junk on the floor and pulled out a black shirt. He put it over his T-shirt. Next, he found a bunch of silver chains and attached them to the torn pair of pants he was wearing. "Now listen to me." Bakura started. "I have stuff that I have to take care of. You are to stay here until I return. I will be back in about three hours or so. You're free to do anything you want in here as long as you don't do anything stupid." Bakura eyed the knife and then eyed Tea. "Don't make too much noise. The last thing I need in here are bloody tourists…" With that, he climbed up the ladder and crawled out of the hideout.

Tea glanced around her new 'home.' It wasn't really that big. As she looked to her right, she saw a small heap of clothes, a bag of pretzels, and a table with a knife and a sack of apples on it. Then she looked over at the left. She saw a small cabinet. On the top shelf, Tea counted thirteen bottles of expensive cologne. On the bottom shelf, there were a bunch of books. One of them caught her attention.

Tea got up and walked over to the cabinet. There she picked up a small leather book. A picture of Ryou fell out.

"Hmm…" Tea opened the book. She read the first page aloud. "Diary/Journal of Ryou Bakura (Whoa! Should I be reading this? What if he finds out?)"

She became even more curious and decided to read on. She flipped through and read the pages with the highlighted dates.

June 3, 2002

I'm here again. Being the new kid at Domino High is hard. I've been ridiculed by everyone in my class. Well, that's not all true. I met a group of students that I was able to get acquainted with. The person who came up to me was the only girl in the group. I believe her name was Tea. And the others were Yugi, Joey, and Tristan. They were all very nice. But that girl… She's different that anyone I've ever met before. I hop I can get to know her…

June 9, 2002

Hello. My dad just returned from Egypt. He brought me a gold necklace. He called it the Millennium Ring. It was brilliant. I showed it to my new friends. Yugi seemed to take particular interest in my necklace. He showed me his Millennium item. It was the Millennium Puzzle. It was amazing! The brilliance of the gold was indescribable. Then Yugi told me something. He said that he felt some sort of other presence when he wore the puzzle. He described it as being some sort of evil, or darkness. However, I wasn't worried. But just to make him feel a bit better, I told him that I'd watch out for that. Ha! An evil, dark presence…That's ridiculous…

June 15, 2002

I don't want to believe it, but I think Yugi is right. I've had sudden urges to just try and steal stuff, mainly, Yugi's Millennium Puzzle. It's so weird…And now I feel as though I'm watching Tea twice as much.

July 3, 2002

My suspicions were confirmed last week. The other presence is named Bakura (Yami) Bakura. And he proved himself to be evil. He lost my/our house to a street gang, and now he's in debt fifty thousand dollars. We have three years to get the money or Marik said he'd make us wish we were never born. I hope he can find the money in time…

July 1, 2004

Some dude made me drink something. It made me pass out. And when I woke up, I no longer shared my body with my Yami.

June 15, 2005

I finally finished my hideout. Kura, as I now call him, lives in the secret room in my hideout. He seems to like it just fine, since everything in it is what he stole.

July 3, 2005

The day is here. Marik and his gang of thugs are supposed to find us. But we don't have the fifty grand. Man is it early…I found Tea unconscious yesterday. I've had feelings for her ever since I met her that one day during freshman year. It broke my heart to see her like that; lying almost lifelessly on the ground; the moonlight shimmering in her beautiful hair. She's always seemed to take interest in my darker half though. So when she wakes up, my charade begins. True, Kura is still in his room, and I'm praying he doesn't walk in on us while we're talking or she'll think I've gone mad. So until such time that she starts liking 'Ryou,' then I'm Kura. Later today, I have to find a way to get the fifty grand so the real Kura can pay his debt. Otherwise, I will have met my fear. I'll have to run away. But since I took in Tea, it'll be worse…After all, I can't hide my feelings for her forever. And she'd have to run with us. Hmm…Maybe one day she'll forgive me ever thinking I could be with her. It was all just wishful thinking. Great Gods of Egypt! It's already 3:00 in the morning. I have to try and get some more sleep. It's difficult…Sleeping next to a girl whom I have loved for such a long time…Now she's right here! I have to resist the urge to touch her, or for that matter, do anything to harm her. Sigh…It will be hard, but I will tell her when the time is right. I just hope she'll understand…

Tea gasped. The whole time…It wasn't Bakura she was next to. It was his light, Ryou. She carefully put Ryou's journal on the shelf. She turned to sit back on the mattress and nearly killed herself on a small stool by her foot.

"WHOA!" she yelled as she tripped over the stool and onto the mattress. "Okay then… I ought to be more careful or I might end up killing myself here!" She scratched her head and then smiled as she remembered what Bakura, or Ryou for that matter had said. 'You're free to do anything you want in here as long as you don't do anything stupid.' Tea chuckled to herself. "I think a little cleaning is in order…"

Bakura was lying on his bed, throwing a tennis ball at his wall. "Hmph…" he growled. "What do I care if Marik doesn't get his money? The damn fool cheated anyways. Hmm…" His stomach growled. "I wonder if Ryou left any food on the table." He got up and pushed open a door that was well hidden among the rest of the wall. As he walked out, he saw Tea folding the once-massive pile of clothes. "Who the hell are you?"

Tea jumped in surprise. "(W—Where did he come from? I don't remember there being another room in this—)" She then remembered what had been said in Ryou's diary. "Um…I—I'm Tea."

"What are you doing in here?"

"K—Kura said I was to stay in here."

"(Kura?) Oi! I'm Bakura. My light was trying to act like me again eh?"

"I suppose so…So that was Ryou I was talking to?"

"Yeah."

"Why is he acting like you?"

"He just knows I'm cooler than him. And because he said you have some sort of a crush on me."

"Uh…About that…" Tea blushed furiously. "I—Well…" It was just then that she noticed that he was wearing only a pair of boxers.

"Not interested…" Bakura yawned.

"Oh…" Tea frowned. "(Well, who couldn't see that coming a mile away?)"

"Where is he anyway?"

"He said he had to take care of something, and then he just up and left."

"WHAT?!" Bakura spat. "Damn it! He better not get into trouble yet." He put on a pair of denim jeans that were torn at the knees, and a tight black T-shirt. "(It shows off his muscles rather nicely,)" Tea thought. Bakura went back into his room and shut the door. When he returned, he had a knife in one hand and a gun in the other.

"What are those for?" Tea asked hesitantly.

"Protection mostly. But I suppose I could use them to kill someone if they really pissed me off." Tea chuckled to herself. "What? Do you think I'm joking?" Bakura pointed his gun at the unwanted guest. She lost all color in her face. He laughed maniacally. "I wouldn't waste a bullet on you." She gave a small sigh in relief. "Did Ryou tell you where he was going?"

"No." Bakura grunted at the reply and used his mind link to talk to Ryou.

"/Oi! Light/"

"/K—Kura? What is it?/"

"/Where the hell are you?/"

"/I'm on my way back. I just went to—to buy some food. I saw we were running a bit low./"

"/Why is that girlfriend of yours, Tea, here?/"

"/She wasn't feeling that great. I found her unconscious and brought her back here to rest./"

"/Did you do anything to her yet/"

"/N—No. Why would I do that Kura/"

"/Sigh…You've got a lot to learn about things like this./"

"/What do you mean?/"

"/You don't ask her to be with you. You make her yours.'"

"/B—By doing…THAT?/"

"/Well yeah…How else are you supposed to get a girl/"

"/Uh…Forget I asked. I'm right outside the door now./"

"/Whatever…/" Bakura closed the mind link.

"I—Is Ryou alright?" asked Tea. Ryou climbed down the ladder. He took one glance at Tea and then frowned. "(She knows that I'm Ryou…)" Satisfied with the return of his hikari, Bakura went back into his room.

"RYOU!" Tea yelled, before giving him a hug. "I—I thought you were hurt. But you're okay!"

Ryou was a tad surprised by the sudden hug, but again, he gladly returned the embrace. "That's not entirely true…"

"Huh?" Tea let go of Ryou. "What do you mean?"

"Well, I've known for a long time that you were—um…infatuated with him." Tea flinched at the word 'infatuated.' Ryou seemed to notice. "S—Sorry. And I heard about what happened between you two and I felt bad. (I hope all of what I'm saying is true…I can't believe I didn't admit my feelings for her!) So yeah…"

Tea smiled. "I never knew you cared. You're so sweet! (Okay, so I may have lied about not knowing how much he cared…But still, it was a pretty good cover up.)"

"(Phew! That was close… Thank Ra it worked. Now all I have to do is cover up the wounds on my back, and I should be fine.)" Without warning, Tea literally jumped onto Ryou and gave him another big hug. In doing so, she accidentally scratched his back. He yelped and then fell onto the ground. "RYOU!" He looked up at his crush weakly. "What happened to you?" Her mouth dropped in horror from what she saw as he took off his shirt.

Simple Songwriter: Another chapter is done. I hope everyone liked it... (crosses fingers)

Tea: Gasp... So... the Bakura was actually Ryou in disguise!

Simple Songwriter: Affirmative.

Tea & Bakura: (Both stare at Simple Songwriter) NERD!

Simple Songwriter: Eh... (sweatdrops)

Tea: So wait a minute...Does this mean that the Bakura here is actually Ryou?

Simple Songwriter: No. This is really the Yami Bakura. Ryou's over there watching over what I'm baking. (Points to the oven)

Bakura: (eating the pie) Mmm...I love pie...

Simple Songwriter & Tea & Ryou: (sweatdrop) Oh brother...

Ryou: Please read and review! My back hurts...

Tea: What's wrong with your back?

Simple Songwriter: Find out in chapter 4!

Note: if you have any other suggestions for the story or just other comments and stuff, you can also e-mail me personally. My e-mail address should be on the personal profile thingy...