Chapter 4

Hey everyone! I haven't updated in ages whoops. Okay so my editor vanished? Like they haven't gotten back to me in 7 months since I sent this chapter to them in December. So yeah I'm looking for another editor If you want to help me out PM me. Oh and this chapter is un-Beta'd obviously. I also got dragging into another fandom and that has absorbed my life for the past six months. It's about a tabletop campaign so of course I got hooked. I will still be updating this story. In fact that fandom gave me more ideas for this and a fic from that fandom pushed me to post this chapter. Just understand that this isn't the only thing I'm working on anymore. I hope have fun and Enjoy!

Chapter Summary: Ryou and Bakura decide to play a card game, a children's card game! It's go fish. And what's this about nosy babysitters? Read to find out!

The next day was Friday and Mrs. Bakura had to stay late at work on Friday's. So Ryou and Amane were at the mercy of their babysitter Amber. The teenager that watched them on Friday's and whenever else their mother was called into work. Amber was nice enough and usually just left Ryou to his own devices. Amane needing most of Amber's attention after all.

Ryou went up to his room like he had done every day that week. This time he didn't yell anything about not bugging them though, he just rushed on up. The Spirit was waiting on the bed like he had done the day before. Ryou quickly got a game deciding on go fish this time. The Spirit had to shuffle the cards since Ryou didn't know how to yet.

"Do you have any 7's?" asked Ryou as they started the game.

"No," responded the Spirit.

"You're supposed to say go fish," corrected Ryou as he grabbed a card from the middle.

"No go fishing," said the Spirit intentionally saying it wrong. "Do you have any 3's?"

"No Go Fish!" said Ryou with just a little too much enthusiasm. "You disappeared before I could ask you, but did you have fun at dinner last night? You were really quiet. Any 6's?"

"Here," said the Spirit handing over a six. "It was alright not to annoying. I didn't talk, because what was the point no one could see me but you. Do you have any 4's?"

Ryou gave him two fours, "Just cause Mummy can't hear you doesn't mean you can't be a part of the conversation. Amane can hear you! So that's like half the family. What were you to doing anyway? I saw you to staring at each other. Do you have any Kings?"

"Those are the ones with K's instead of numbers right?" asked the Spirit trying to memorize the names of the cards that weren't numbers so he could ask for them.

"Yeah," answered Ryou the Spirit gave him one. "You never answered my question."

"Do you have any of the A ones?" asked the Spirit.

"Aces?"

"Yeah those," Ryou gave the Spirit two making the first set in the game. "What answer do you want me to give? We weren't doing much. The brat just kept staring at me so I stared back. You made me lose that game by the way. Have any 2's?"

"Go Fish. Sorry I didn't know you were playing with her. I didn't mean to interrupt." Said Ryou trying to think of the next card he should ask for. "Do you have any 6's?" Deciding to ask again for a six, the Spirit gave him one.

"I wasn't playing with her, she challenged me and I couldn't let her just win. Next time I'll beat her though. Have any of the Q's?" Said the Spirit denying any positive interaction with the baby.

"Queen's," Ryou corrected "Here," he said giving the Spirit one. Allowing the Spirit to finish his second set. "It seemed like you guys were having fun. Don't see how you can have a competition with a baby."

"It wasn't fun, it was annoying. Have any 2's?" Answered the Spirit still denying having fun with the toddler.

"Go Fish. Maybe you can talk more tonight at dinner. Got any 3's," said Ryou remembering the Spirit had asked for one earlier. The Spirit gave him three giving Ryou his first Set. "Do you have a 10?"

"Go Fish. Not likely. I don't even feel like being at dinner tonight. Have any Aces?" The Spirit responded not wanting to sound like he enjoyed these family dinners.

"Go fish. But you can't miss dinner! Mummy said you have to be there every night. It's a rule. Have any Kings?" Explained Ryou not picking up on the Spirit's lie. The Spirit gave him one King.

"I'm not one to follow the rules. I didn't in Kemet and I won't here. Have any 6's?" Knowing Ryou had the other three 6's. Ryou handed them over giving the Spirit his third set. "Have any Queens now?"

"Go Fish. But you're not breaking the rules right now. You haven't cheated in any of the games we've played. Got any 9's?" Stated Ryou confused by what the Spirit said.

"Go Fish. I don't cheat at games. They are the one thing I don't cheat in. I might set things up in my favor, but I don't cheat. Do you have any 5's?" Ryou gave him one.

"I'm glad you don't cheat at games, but I don't understand why not following the rules is something you do. Have any Jacks?"

"What in the other world is a Jack?" asked the Spirit confused not having gotten one yet. Causing Ryou to laugh really loud.

"They're the ones with J's on them," explained Ryou after he was done laughing.

"Ryou are you okay?" Asked a female voice as the door opened. The Spirit and Ryou both froze. Ryou had been a little too loud with his laughing and when Amber came up to check on him she had heard him talking. "Who are you talking t-" started Amber looking around the empty room. She stopped, eyes frozen on the floating cards on top of the bed.

"Oh shoot! Ryou what did you do!? Why are the Cards floating?!" Panicked Amber. Always having ignored Ryou's fast talking about ghosts.

"That's just Mr. Spirit. We're playing Go Fish today," answered Ryou not understanding why Amber was worried. Mr. Spirit was a nice spirit they had dinner last night together. Mr. Spirit was his friend.

While Ryou was answering Amber the Spirit put down his cards. He didn't like how the nanny was reacting. It was making him tense and question whether he should just vanish into the Ring and wait for this to blow over.

"Where did it go?! Why aren't the cards moving anymore?" Asked Amber as she moved against the wall after noticing the cards stop floating.

"He's still on the bed. He just put down his cards. You don't have to be scared of him." Said Ryou still confused on why his babysitter was scared of the ghost.

"Wait you can SEE it!? How?" Said Amber surprised and even more worried at the same time.

"I've always been able to see him after I summoned him the second time." Explained Ryou while pointing at the summoning circle still on his floor. He wasn't very good at cleaning up his room. He still had action figures on the floor from before he even summoned the Spirit.

"What the Hell! You summoned it?! Oh my God Ryou's possessed! Come on Ryou I got to get you as far away from this demon as possible." Said Amber rushing towards the bed and grabbing Ryou's arm pulling him towards the door. "I got to call his Mum. Oh God what if she doesn't believe me? Doesn't matter I've got to get this kid to an extortionist. The sooner the demons out of him the bet-"

"Enough!" Yelled the Spirit as Ryou and in turn Amber turned towards the bed. The Spirit had let out some shadow magic in his anger and the cards that had been on the bed flew across the room. The increase in magic also allow Amber to hear the Spirit. "Your pointless panicking is annoying me and if you think this is possession then you are an idiot. I am not possessing the boy and I will not allow you to tell his Mum that I am doing such a thing. Ryou I am leaving don't expect me at dinner and tell this idiotic girl that if she ever tries to get an extortionist I will show her what real possession is." Finished the Spirit returning to the Ring.

"Uh Mr. Spirit I think she heard everything you said," Said Ryou after the Spirit left. Not at all scared by the Spirit's outburst, but Amber was. She stood at Ryou's side shaking in terror for only a few more seconds before she bolted out of the room. She ended up waiting at the door for Mrs. Bakura and yelling that she quit as she ran out the door. Never daring to step foot in the Bakura household ever again.

Mrs. Bakura made Ryou sit at the table as she put in the pizza they were going to have for dinner that night. Hoping to find out what happened and hoping it wasn't what she thought it was.

"So Ryou care to share with me why Miss. Amber decided to quit today?" asked Mrs. Bakura as she pulled the pizza out of the fridge.

"We didn't do anything wrong," said Ryou trying to stay out of trouble. "We were just playing Go Fish honest."

"We? So Mr. Spirit was playing with you?" Questioned Mrs. Bakura knowing Go Fish wasn't a game you could play by yourself, but not wanting to think about the ramifications. She finished opening the pizza.

"Yes, he came over like he always does and we were just about to finish the first game. I didn't mean to laugh so loud. Mr. Spirit just said something funny when he didn't know what a Jack was. If I hadn't laughed so loud none of this would have happened." Explained Ryou starting to feel bad and blame himself.

"Ryou what happened after you laughed to loud." Asked Mrs. Bakura after she had put the pizza in the oven and set the timer. She was now kneeling in front of Ryou who was staring at his feet that didn't quite touch the ground yet in his chair.

"Amber came up stairs and when she saw Mr. Spirit holding his cards. She got scared and started saying all this stuff. We were just playing. We weren't doing anything bad." Said Ryou starting to cry.

"Aww baby. It's alright. Here." Comforted Mrs. Bakura hugging him and letting him cry into her shirt. "I know you and your friend weren't doing anything wrong sweetheart. I just want to know what happened. I'm not mad. What stuff did Amber say?" Asked Mrs. Bakura after Ryou's crying had calmed down.

"She said *hic* he was a demon and *hic* that I was *hic* possessed. I-I tried to tell her he was a nice *hic* ghost but she wouldn't *hic* listen." Ryou told his Mummy through her shirt. Mrs. Bakura stiffened at this that had been her first worry too. When the possibility that Mr. Spirit wasn't imaginary finally started to seem true. Now she was extremely glad she didn't act on it. Amber's response had obviously upset Ryou. She didn't want to think about how he would have taken it if she had responded that way.

"Did anything else happen? Amber didn't tell me anything about her planning to call an extortionist." Said Mrs. Bakura after she was certain Ryou had calmed down a little more.

"Promise you won't be mad at him?" Questioned Ryou as he nuzzled his head into his Mummy's shoulder.

"Only if he didn't hurt her." Answered Mrs. Bakura as she moved to allow Ryou to sit in her lap. Mrs. Bakura reasoned that Ryou had asked the question, because the Spirit had respond in a bad way. She knew the only way she could promise to not be mad at the Spirit was if she said she would still be mad if he had hurt Amber. That would suggest he was a dangerous ghost after all.

"He didn't hurt her honest. He just got really mad that she was calling him a demon and saying I was possessed. He got so mad she could hear him when he was yelling at her that was it. He just yelled at her then disappeared." Said Ryou hoping to persuade his Mummy that Mr. Spirit didn't do anything to bad.

"He only yelled at her Ryou. I won't be mad at him for yelling at her. It seemed like an alright time to get a little mad at her and if he just yelled at her then I'm not mad. Why were you worried that I would be mad at him?" Answered Mrs. Bakura glad that was all the Spirit did.

Amber hearing the Spirit sealed the deal for Mrs. Bakura there was a Spirit following around her son a real one not an imaginary friend. At the same time she wasn't worried or scared. The Spirit passed her test. He wasn't here to hurt her son or anyone else it seemed, so he could stay until they figured something else out.

"Because I think he's scared you're mad at him. He went and disappeared after yelling at Amber. I think he went into the Ring I got from Daddy. That's where he came from the first time he showed up. He said he wasn't coming to dinner and I think it's because he's scared you will be mad." Explained Ryou his crying had stopped a while ago and he seemed to have calmed down. Mr. Spirit not being in trouble completely calmed him. He held up the Ring he had been holding since Amber had left. Showing it to his Mummy to see where he believed Mr. Spirit hid when he wasn't with them.

"He's in the Ring your father gave you? Guess that explains how you got an Egyptian ghost." Mrs. Bakura laughed surprised she hadn't thought of the ghost being in their sooner. It made sense if he was from Egypt he had to of come from the only Egyptian object Ryou owned.

Though her husband had sworn it was a fake and not a real artifact when they talked over the line last. Something about it being in too good of a condition and not being made of pure gold. Guess her archaeologist husband was wrong for once when it came to ancient Egypt.

"So would you like to invite him out for dinner? The pizza is almost ready and I have a great story from work I'm sure both of you will love." Offered Mrs. Bakura after she had calmed down her laughter.

"Yes! I'll let him know you're not mad." Said Ryou happy once again. His mother laughter had brought back his cheerfulness. "Oh Mr. Spirit here my call and answer." Chanted Ryou liked he always did to summon the Spirit.

The Spirit heard Ryou's usual call, but didn't immediately come out. He wanted to wait a few days for everything to blow over before he left the Ring again. Though his patience level for dealing with all the screeching in the ring was already reaching its limit. So he decided to leave the inner parts of the ring and try to see what the kid wanted without leaving it.

When Mr. Spirit didn't immediately come out of the Ring like he usually did. Ryou decide to try again. When that didn't work he decide to talk to the Ring hoping Mr. Spirit could hear him inside.

"It's okay Mr. Spirit you can come out now. Mummy's not mad promise and the pizza's almost ready. So you gotta come out for dinner." Spoke Ryou to the Ring still sitting in his Mum's lap.

"That's right Mr. Spirit I'm not mad and dinner's almost ready, so you better come out and join us." Said Mrs. Bakura hoping it would help the Spirit come out of the Ring. So Ryou would get up and she could pull the pizza before it burned.

The Spirit was surprised he didn't expect to hear Ryou's Mother outside the Ring. He figured what they were saying must be true if they were both asking him to come out. He was so sure Ryou's Mother would be trying to get rid of him as soon as she found out what happened. Yet she seemed just as happy as her son and what was stranger was she wasn't talking to him as if she was putting on a front for Ryou. Did she truly believe he existed now and if she did then why wasn't she trying to get rid of him? The Spirit decided the only way to figure out what was going on was to leave the Ring. So he did, it wasn't that hard of a choice really.

Mrs. Bakura was actually surprised to feel a change in temperature the moment she saw the eye on Ryou's Ring glow the room instantly got cooler. Not cold, but certainly not as warm as it was before. Oh and Ryou's Ring was glowing . . .What!? She certainly didn't expect that any last doubt she could have had was gone with the glow of that Ring. She heard a gasp from Ryou and saw him circle his head around them before settling on the wall next to the doorway to the living room. She assumed that meant Mr. Spirit had materialized over there, but as before she couldn't see him.

"Hi," said the Spirit awkwardly not knowing what to say and just hoping he wasn't wrong about Mrs. Bakura not being angry.

"Hi Mr. Spirit! I'm glad you came out! I was worried you would miss dinner," Greeted Ryou excitedly.

"Mr. Spirit I'm glad you could join us tonight. Ryou told me you were worried I would be mad at you. So I just wanted to tell you I'm not mad. Now Ryou why don't you and Mr. Spirit go set the table while I get your sister. Before pulling the pizza." Spoke Mrs. Bakura first to the Spirit then to Ryou.

"Okay," said Ryou getting up from his mother's lap. "Come on Mr. Spirit you can hold the plates while I put them where they go. Don't worry about dropping them we use the plastic ones on pizza night." Said Ryou as he headed to the cabinet where the plastic plates were. They were in a lower cabinet so Ryou could get a plate whenever he needed one.

Mrs. Bakura stood up and stretched as Ryou opened the cabinet. She then left to get Amane up from her nap. Once Mrs. Bakura returned with the toddler in her arms she was overcome with what she saw. Ryou was walking around the table talking as he went putting a plate and cup at every place. Following behind him was a floating stack of plates. That would take some getting used to Mrs. Bakura thought, but it wouldn't be a bad thing to get used to she decided.

"Ryou you forgot to get a sippy cup for Amane." Said Mrs. Bakura as she walked into the kitchen. She wasn't oblivious to how Ryou and the stack of floating plates froze at their walk around the table when she walked in and sat Amane down at her booster seat. Only after did she realize this was probably how Amber found them. Ryou talking and having fun with a floating object. The two didn't unfreeze until Mrs. Bakura turned to the stove to get out the pizza.

"Ouch. Uh sorry for forgetting Amane's sippy cup I'll go get it now. Mr. Spirit don't hold the plates in one hand you'll drop them!" Coming from behind Mrs. Bakura as she moved the pizza back onto its box and started cutting it.

"Spirit if you drop those plates you're going to be the one cleaning them." Mrs. Bakura said over her shoulder as she finished cutting the pizza.

"He said he won't," Answered Ryou as he returned to the table with Amane's cup. Mrs. Bakura had set down the pizza, as the Spirit set down the last plate. She then went to the fridge to get the drinks.

After the drinks had been poured, juice for the kids and pop for Mrs. Bakura. Mrs. Bakura said a blessing over the food and everyone started eating their pizza. This was one meal Amane didn't need help with after her pizza was cut into small pieces and for that Mrs. Bakura was grateful.

"Mummy our game was really fun today. We played Go Fish!" Told Ryou through mouth full of pizza.

"I know you mentioned that earlier. Who won?" Inquired his Mum making sure her mouth wasn't full of pizza when she talked.

"I don't know. We weren't able to finish." Said Ryou starting to get sad again he thought about the end of their afternoon.

"I believe I was only one more set away from winning." Said the Spirit surprisingly joining in on the conversation.

"Yeah, but I was about to have another set once you gave me your Jack. Then we would have been tied again." Responded Ryou after telling his Mummy what Mr. Spirit had said.

"I didn't have a Jack I don't even know what a "jack" is." Said the Spirit not wanting to admit how neck and neck that last game was.

He wasn't the best at card games alright. Checkers and Battleship he could easily win at, but card games had more strategies than he could keep track of. When it came to what your opponent was doing it was easier for him to pick it up on boards where he could look back on his opponent's moves instead of relying on his own memory to remember what his opponent did 8 turns ago.

Ryou started laughing at the Spirit's response, remembering what the Spirit said when he was confused during the game. After explaining to his Mummy why he was laughing he didn't expect the question she asked him.

"Ryou do you know what a Jack is? Other than the name of a card in a deck of cards." Asked Mrs. Bakura slightly turning the jokeful conversation against her son.

"Uhhhhhh. Yeaahh. It's umm. Someone who is uh. Stop laughing I'm trying to think! It's someone who works for the king right? I mean yeah that's who it is! Someone who works for the King. See I knew the answer." Said Ryou triumphantly to the Spirit after stumbling for a while trying to find the answer. The Spirit laughing as soon as the question was asked didn't help him think.

"Can you be a little more specific? I could have told you that." Said the Spirit to mess with Ryou. He had found out bugging Ryou was a quite enjoyable way to spend these mandatory meals. Other than having staring contests with the toddler. Which had once again been interrupted by Ryou, next time.

"No you couldn't. You didn't know what a King was until today." Argued back Ryou by this point finishing his first piece of pizza.

"I knew what a King was I just didn't know which card and letter stood for King." Answered the Spirit slightly offended by the idea that he didn't know what a king was.

"Well you definitely didn't know what an Ace was." Responded Ryou taking a drink of his juice.

"That's not one of the cards I asked about." Said the Spirit deciding to go with denial.

"Yes it was." "No it wasn't" "Was" "Wasn't" "WAs" "WASn't" "WAS" "was" "WASN'T! Wait"

"Ha wasn't you just agreed."

"No you tricked me! You cheated. Mummy he cheated!"

"Don't be a snitch. I didn't cheat it wasn't even a game."

"You still tricked me! So it doesn't count!"

"Does" "Doesn't" "Does" "DOESN'T" "DOE-"

"BOYS ENOUGH." Yelled Mrs. Bakura getting them both to pause from their argument and look at her. "Ryou sit down and finish your dinner. Spirit sit down and I don't want to hear another nagging comment from either of you." Said Mrs. Bakura sternly as they did what they were told. Mrs. Bakura had been helping Amane clean her face when the squabble started and had hoped it would quickly die down on its own. When it didn't, but instead escalated Mrs. Bakura took charge and ended it.

"You can't hear me if I did say another comment." Mumbled the Spirit embarrassed and surprised at getting yelled at.

"So do you guys want to hear an interesting story from my work today?" Offered Mrs. Bakura once everyone had settled down and the silence started to feel awkward.

"Sure Mummy. What did you do today?" Asked Ryou cool with the change of subject.

"Well I was assigned to the maternity ward today and helped deliver a pair of twins!" Said Mrs. Bakura talking about her job as a nurse.

"What's a Maternity ward?" Asked the Spirit knowing what twins were and assuming she was a midwife, but not understanding what a maternity was.

"I don't know, but it's one of the many wards Mummy works at. Sometimes she's in the Emergency ward, or the sick people ward, or the old people ward, and sometimes she works in the kids ward." Ryou said trying to explain.

"Sweet heart not all of those places end in ward." Chuckled Mrs. Bakura as she corrected him. "The Maternity ward is where expectant mothers go when they're going to have a baby. I help them when we are short on nurses, but usually I work with the elderly in the senior living next door to the hospital." Explained Mrs. Bakura facing the Spirit. "Anyway there was a lot of mothers coming in and they called me to help, so I got to deliver twins. One's a boy and the other is a girl, both the babies and mommy is healthy and we don't think there will be any problems. Of course we don't know for sure yet if there won't be problems in the future." Told Mrs. Bakura as she finished her story.

The Spirit was surprised that the woman who gave birth to twins and the twins themselves all survived. Sure is happened in Egypt, but it was really rare. Bakura just added it to his list of things that had majorly changed since he had been alive. By the time Mrs. Bakura was done talking about the twins. Ryou had finished his last slice of pizza and had started to get up to get ready for bed. The Spirit took this as his cue to leave. He once again told Ryou to thank his Mum for letting him join them for dinner and added an extra thanks for not being mad about the nanny for good measure before going into the Ring.

Going into the Ring wasn't the gradual change it had been in past trips. Instead it was cool like being tossed in icy water. It was sudden, uncomfortable, and unwelcoming. That wasn't the only change the Spirit noticed as he went into the Ring. The Voices were louder than normal yelling and screeching at volumes he hadn't heard since the Ring had been in at it's making place and that had been a very long time ago. The darkness was angry too, the Spirit could feel it if just barely over all the noise, and this time the anger seemed to be directed at him. The Spirit didn't need any more encouragement to get out of the Ring. He didn't know why everything was going all weird in the Ring and he didn't need to know. He just had to GET OUT OF THERE!

That's how he found himself running into a ceiling covered with glow star stickers and falling back on a comforter covered in little ghosts painted with glow in the dark paint. The less than graceful landing didn't go unnoticed and the other occupant of the bed awoke with a start at the feeling of weight landing in their bed.

"Mr. Spirit?" Questioned a sleepy Ryou. "What are you doing here? I thought you slept in the Ring since you go there when you're not here."

"Uh, I decided sleeping in the Ring wasn't the best idea tonight. So I thought (without really thinking about it) I'd crash into your ceiling and then sleep on your floor. If that's alright with you." Said the Spirit thinking up an excuse on the spot.

"Sure you can sleep here it will be like a sleep over. You don't have to sleep on the floor you can sleep on the bed with me. I have an extra pillow." Offered Ryou excited about the idea of a sleep over.

"Alright, but only because I'm too deep into sleep to get up and move to the floor." Said the Spirit moving under the blankets and taking the offered pillow.

"You're not asleep." Giggled Ryou settling back in.

"Nope totally asleep." Said the Spirit closing his eyes. The two quickly fell asleep with the Spirit having the most peaceful sleep he had, had in centuries.

Okay like I said un-beta'd, so if you want to help me make my writing better feel free to PM me.

So that was me dipping my toe in the agnst pool. There will be more sad coming, because *cough*carcrash*cough* so this was just minor testing. Also note that Bakura totally does this in the future. Tosses the cuter one in front of the adults so he can get out of trouble.

I have no idea when the next chapter will come out. It depends on if I get a beta or not. It's written I just have to go back through and edit it. Which takes a long time, because I have trouble finding my own mistakes.

Thanks for reading!

Darkhorse out!