A/N: I have decided to move the update date to Sundays or Monday (comment for which day you would prefer) due to the large amount of work that I have at school. I would hate to say that I would update on Friday when I won't have the time to send the chapter to my beta on Thursday considering the amount of teachers that enjoy the idea of Friday Tests/Quizzes.

Chapter 04

"Are you sure that this is going to work, Fluffy?" Malik asked the young little thief. Bakura didn't enjoy the nickname, but he decided to save his complaints after he managed to get the two Egyptians together before they cause him to lose hair. It wouldn't be ideal to have Akefia be bald before he even reached Middle School.

"I'm sure, I'm sure," Bakura said, trying to convinced Malik with empty words. He didn't really care much for the other. In fact, if he had the choice they would be countries away from each other.

"Okay," Malik said, even though he was still not sure. He didn't like the idea of taking anyone on a date. He wasn't very capable of being tender or sweet at all. He was born out of the darkness and hate after all. He shouldn't need to be going on a date with his counterpart. The whole dating idea was, because Marik didn't want to forgive the other. It was basically a round about way of begging for forgiveness in Malik eyes.

Marik was busy talking to Ryou and Yugi on the couch. They had managed to get Yami to fetch them drinks. The Pharaoh was truly desperate to get his partner's forgiveness, but Yugi wasn't ready to forgive him just yet. It wasn't really Yugi that was ordering Yami around, but Marik. He did enjoy this sort of thing. He didn't have the Millennium Rod anymore so he was making up for the lack of control he had over people by making Yami fetch like a dog.

Malik approached Marik by hugging his neck. It was supposed to be sweet, but he was practically strangling Marik. Luckily, Ryou managed to get Malik to stop before Marik could pass out from the lack of air.

"What do you want?" Marik asked the other, rubbing his neck. He kept his distance from the other and stared straight at Malik's face.

"Well, do you want to go on a..." Malik trailed off. He didn't wanted to say that blasted word. "A date...to the amusement park or something?"

"What?"

The three Hikari looked over at Malik and wondered if he was feeling okay. Marik even went as far as to put his hand on Malik's forehead to test his temperature.
"I don't have a fever," Malik said, trying to keep his poker face. "I'm serious. Do you want to? This weekend?"

"This weekend? But I am already going to there with Ryou and..."

Malik stopped listening after that. His mind went back to what Akefia had told him earlier when Marik had stepped out to talk with Ryou about something. Then his train of thought brought him to what Bakura said about his relationship with his partner. He left the room with not another word, right in the middle of Marik's excuse about why he couldn't go on a date that weekend.

"Well, that went well," Bakura said, chuckling.

"What?" Marik asked, looking down at the short, white haired boy. "What are you going on about Fluffy?"

"My name is not Fluffy!" Bakura shouted.

"Are you sure this is going to work?"

Again, someone doubted Bakura's plan. Ryou had reason to doubt the other though, with all the times his plans had failed.

"I told you to trust me," Bakura said as he grumbled. "So you Hikari's go to the amusement park and I expect Malik to follow you. All you have to do is hint that you're in a relationship with Marik, but don't do it too much or Malik might try to send you to the Shadow Realm or something."

"Wait! What was the last part?"

"Nothing," Bakura said looking away, pretending to focus on the senseless cartoons on the TV screen. Ryou wasn't stupid though. He knew exactly what Bakura said. Currently Marik was taking forever to get ready, even with Yugi's help.

"You didn't tell me this part of the plan," Ryou complained. "I don't want Malik to try to stab me at every turn."

"Well, there is a possibility of Malik kidnapping Marik on your little found outing," Bakura said, shrugging. "Just call me if he's trying to kill you. I'll probably get Yami to pop in and save you. I swear, he has some hero complex for his friends."

"What about you?" Ryou asked, slightly hurt that his Yami didn't seem to care what happened to him now that they had separate bodies. Bakura looked at Ryou and felt like he just ripped up a Change of Heart in front of his host.

"Ryou! I'm ready," Marik said, dragging Yugi behind him. "Let's go."

"Are you sure it's okay to leave Bakura alone with Yami and Malik?" Yugi asked, slightly worried. Yami didn't wake up yet so Bakura would have to deal with Malik alone and Yugi felt that Malik wasn't being himself lately. His normal psychotic vibe came back.

"It'll be fine," Ryou said, looking at Bakura, who acted as if he didn't care. "If we can leave Akefia alone with them, then we can leave Bakura alone with them. Let's just go."

Once the three left, Malik was trying to sneak to the door without Bakura noticing.

"What are you doing?" Kefie asked, looking at Malik. He pouted gently, staring at the other with big, round eyes. "Mama, you look more creepy than usual."

"I'm just going to go to the amusement park," Malik said, leaving out the gory details from the other. He still smiled at the thought of what he could do to get Marik's attention again. Akefia ignore the creepy grin and ran towards Malik.

"The amusement park? Take me with you!" Akefia exclaimed, jumping up and down. Bakura wanted to hit himself on the head when Akefia did this, because he forgot all about the other person that shared the body with him. It should be hard to forget the 4-year-old that repeatedly takes over whenever he feels like it, but somehow Bakura managed to.

"No, I'm going by myself," Malik said, shoving Akefia away. He wasn't going to fall for the little boy's tricks. He had a mission to do. He needed to get it done without a little boy distracting him from his target every 5 minutes or less.

"B-but why?" Kefie asked. "That sounds lonely and sad."

"Well! I was going to go with Marik, but he decided to go with the creampuff instead," Malik said with a growl.

"And Yuyu," Kefie pointed out. "Are you jealous?"

"Jealous? Of course not."

"I think Mama is jealous!" Akefia exclaimed.

Malik sighed as this conversation wasn't getting him anywhere and now his target was out of sight. He opened the door and walked toward the direction of the amusement park. He closed the door and thought that he closed Kefie inside. What he didn't know was that Akefia was clinging onto his purple cape.

"Wow, Ryou," Marik said, looking at the giant teddy bear that he was carrying. "Did you really need to win that? You already have Fluffy."

"I didn't win this," Ryou said, sighing. He was carrying it for Yugi that had won it off a game. The person declared that the short boy cheated and explained to the public of how his game was actually rigged so that no one could win, but of course when he did that he lost a lot of business. Yugi simply took the bear and left with Ryou before the person could challenge him to a children's card game.

They did all of that while Marik was apparently distracted by cotton candy or candy floss, if you were British like Ryou. Marik didn't understand how it could be called candy floss, it made more sense for him that it was called cotton candy, but he decided that it tasted good so it didn't matter what its name was. He didn't even care how they made it. He decided to think of it as magic and leave it at that.

"You really never had cotton candy before?" Yugi asked, getting some as well.

"Well I've been living underground most of my life, Yugi," Marik said as he let the pink fluff melt in his mouth. "I never even had been to an amusement park before."

"You never came here with Malik before?" Ryou asked.

"Well, he doesn't like dates and he doesn't even know what an amusement park is other than some bad horror movies with carnivals," Marik explained. "Normally, the most romantic thing he would ever do with me is fuck me into the-"

"Marik! There's children here!" Yugi exclaimed.

"Oh right, sorry," Marik said, rolling his eyes.

Malik was trailing behind them, trying to get out of sight. He stared at the pink fluffy thing in Marik's hand and wondered how a person could possibly eat that sort of thing. He spent a couple minutes thinking about something trivial as that, that he didn't notice that Akefia had ran off over to some stranger that was offering him some sweets.

"Kefie," Malik said, finally noticing Akefia. He saw the stranger and ran over to Akefia, pretending to accidently knocking out the sweet out of Akefia's hand. "Opps. Don't worry, Kefie, I'll buy you something."

"Hey," Bakura said, looking at Malik. "Aren't you supposed to go follow Marik or something?"

Malik growled, not expecting to be greeted by Bakura. The stranger ran off in some other direction, saying something about Malik's glowing third eye that seems to randomly appear now on his forehead. Bakura looked at the stranger and shook his head.

"I was going to send that guy to the Shadow Realm," Bakura said, jokingly. He looked at Malik. "What? Kefie is the one that followed you. Oh, and don't look now but your Hikari is going into a Ferris wheel."

"A what now?" Malik asked, looking for Marik. "What is that?"

"One of the more romantic rides in the whole area," Bakura explained with a smirk. He loved how easily it could be to read Malik when Marik was involved. Usually Malik would have the same expression unless something funny happened and he would laugh up a storm until it wasn't funny anymore. "Ryou told me that there's some legend that if a couple kisses up at the top, they would be together forever or something silly like that. Just a bunch of school girl talk, right, Mallk? Malik?"

Malik had already made his way to the Hikari's. Bakura went after him to prevent him from doing something stupid, but he had short legs. Malik had already reached Marik and dragged him away from the Ferries wheel.

"Oh don't do anything stupid, don't do anything stupid," Bakura said running over.

"Huh…Where did everyone go?" Yami asked, not realizing that he was talking to himself. He was so used to the idea of sharing a body with Yugi. Sometimes he wondered if he should have taken his life and joined his father in the world beyond. He didn't because of Yugi. It was hard to resist the other.

The boy was always looking out for other people and because of that he would be led into trouble. Yami needed to help Yugi when things gotten past a children's card game. No matter what dangers he was put in, Yugi never seemed to be angry. Yami must have messed up really badly to make him angry enough to push him away.

He sighed at the idea and looked at the calendar.

"Oh, it's…Oh! Oh!" Yami exclaimed, finally noticing what his partner was so angry about. The one thing that Yugi cared about more than Christmas or children card games, it was their anniversary that Yami missed. There were two types of anniversaries that they celebrated together. There was the anniversary of their relationship and the anniversary of the day that they met. He noticed that he missed both when he looked at the year. No wonder Yugi was so upset.

Yami hit his head. He needed to check the calendar more often.