Omg...mini heart attack! While in the car this morning! I DELETED THE NOTE FROM MY IPOD BY ACCIDENT THAT CONTAINS THIS FANFIC!
That WOULD have been the end of the world for me and the end of the fanfic, but luckily my iPod Notes are connected to my Gmail and I was able to recover the Note and put it back on my iPod.
If I had done that while this story was still on my old iPod, I wouldn't have been able to recover it from Gmail.

The moral of this story is to be thankful for the forces in the universe watching over each and every...

lolz just kidding. The moral of this story is HERE IS THE NEXT CHAPTER! NOW READ IT!

I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!, YGOTAS, Hetalia, the fanfiction site, Bakura's hair, the British language, Slenderman (the game or the abridged version), or any of the character/trademarks in those.

R&R

ENJOY~!

"SOMEONE HELP!"

Bakura was in the living room, waiting for the pizza to arrive or Marik to return (whichever came first).

And he'd had enough. He was tired of Ryou bothering him through the mind link. And now Ryou had decided to shout out loud.

Bakura burst into Marik's room. "WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM?!" he asked irritatedly.

He found Ryou tied to a chair, facing Marik's computer. He was watching a video on YouTube. Melvin stood behind him.

"What the bloody hell are you doing?" Bakura asked calmly.

"He's forcing me to watch the worst episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh ZeXAL!" Ryou cried. "Save me!"

Marik burst into the room. "Did someone say ZeXaL?" he asked upon entering.

Bakura turned to him and said, "Oh. Good, you're back. Do something! Your yami is torturing my hikari by forcing him to watch the crappiest episodes of the worst spin off of anything that ever existed in this terrible excuse for a dimension."

Marik walked over to Ryou and stood behind him next to Melvin.

"Well?" Bakura said expectantly.

"No. It's fine," Marik said. "I like ZeXaL. This right here is one of my favorite episodes."

Bakura's jaw dropped. Then, so did his head. Then, so did he. To the floor. On his knees.

He hugged himself tightly and cried, "Why has my Karma come back to torture me! How can it be that my boyfriend and his psychotic yami both like Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXaL?! The apocalypse isn't due for another half season or two!"

"Calm the frig down, Florence," Melvin said. "I don't actually like ZeXaL."

Bakura lifted his head and gave him a confused look. "Then why in the name of Ra are you torturing Ryou with it?!"

"Puh-lease, Florence," Melvin said with an eye roll. "Just because someone likes using something as torture doesn't mean that they necessarily like using it on themselves."

Bakura stopped hugging himself and raised an eyebrow and grinned. "Doesn't it?"

"Well you're an exception. You're a masochist. Especially when sharp objects are involved."

Bakura's eyes widened briefly. "Who told you that?!" he asked harshly. "And they were lying."

"I don't think Marik's a liar," Melvin said, smirking at his hikari who was now glaring back. "Don't forget that until about a week ago I had access to everything in Marik's mind. I still do, but it's not as easy."

"Frig off," Marik said.

"Don't say stuff like that in front of Ryou!" Bakura scolded Melvin. "We've had problems with him regarding this type of stuff before, and I'd rather there not be a repeat of the incident."

Melvin grinned evilly in Ryou's direction. "Oh, is that so? So that kind of talk makes him uncomfortable, does it? Well then perhaps Ryou would like to hear about that one time two months ago when you asked Marik to—"

Ryou shifted uncomfortably as much as he possibly could, and cried out. "NO PLEASE DON'T TELL ME I DON'T WANT TO KNOW!" He hated that he couldn't cover his ears. At least he had been able to close his eyes from seeing the episodes, but he couldn't cover his ears to block out any sounds.

"MALIK ISHTAR!" Bakura shouted at the top of his lungs. He was standing up now. "Stop torturing my former host! Not only is that my job, but he's had enough for one week! You're doing it all wrong and I don't appreciate you purposefully trying to irreversibly scar him for life!"

Melvin held up the Millenium Rod, which had been in his hand the entire time. "Well by all means, Florence," he said tauntingly, "feel free to try to stop me."

Bakura took off the Millenium Ring and held it in his hand, then just stood there and growled at Melvin. But he didn't move towards him or Ryou.

"Ha!" Melvin said in satisfaction. "I know you don't have the balls to come at me."

"I have more balls than you."

"You would know all about that, wouldn't you?"

Ryou groaned. "Please stop?" he asked.

"No," Melvin replied without looking at him.

"Just let him go," Marik said, still watching the episode, which was almost over.

Melvin pouted.

Still watching, Marik suddenly grabbed the Millenium Rod from Melvin, slashed the ropes holding Ryou with it, then handed the Rod back to Melvin. Melvin backed up in surprise at Marik's speed.

Once the ropes were slashed, Ryou shrugged them off and shot out of the chair and ran over to Bakura. He hid behind the spirit and hugged him tightly.

Bakura turned his head and looked over his shoulder at Ryou. "Are you okay?"

Ryou frowned and nodded.

"Good. Now stop touching me."

Ryou obeyed and immediately let go of him and moved several steps away. Somehow, without realizing it, he ended up walking closer to Melvin.

Melvin took a step in Ryou's direction. Marik turned around just in time to see him take that step, and he took two steps in Melvin's direction. Out of the corner of his eye, Ryou saw Marik move and noticed that Melvin was a bit closer now, so he automatically took a few steps in Bakura's direction. Bakura was about to take a step towards Melvin and Marik as well, but he stopped after a step or two.

The fact that everyone was moving at the same time seemed a bit awkward-ish and coincidental-ish, so everyone stopped I their track and froze. The exchanged glances with each other, waiting for someone else to make a move or sound.

Everyone remained frozen and silent for about a minute before someone finally moved and spoke.

"THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HAND!" Bakura shouted at the top of his lungs.

Everyone's eyes locked on him.

He locked eyes with Marik.

"Ryou, catch!" he shouted sharply. He took off the Millenium Ring and tossed it to him. Too shocked to be his usual clutzy self, Ryou caught it easily with one hand. "Melvin, give your hikari your Item." Without hesitation, Melvin tossed the Millenium Rod to Marik, who caught it easily.

"Marik, this is not working out," Bakura said.

"Wh..." Marik began.

"This whole thing! Melvin can not stay here with us. He seems hell-bent on causing trouble in everything he does."

"Wait...so what are you..."

Again, Bakura didn't let him finish. "We should have given them the third option."

"Third option?" Ryou asked.

"The one you tried to cross out but I erased the X you wrote on it," Bakura continued, still addressing Marik. "And then you didn't bring it up when we gave them the options."

"There was a third option but you didn't tell us?!" Melvin exclaimed.

"It seems so," Ryou said. "What was this third option?"

Marik just stayed silent and held Bakura's gaze.

"For Melvin to move in with Slenderman instead of us," Bakura replied.

Melvin's eyes widened. "WHAT?! ARE YOU FRIGGING KIDDING ME! If that was an option, why didn't you say so?! That would have been a perfectly good idea. I would be fine with that! And it would get me away from you people!"

"Marik is paranoid that it'll make him bother us more and give him more access to our apartment. He has a bad habit of coming in when Marik's trying to make 'Let's Play' videos."

"I remember that," Melvin said. "But that doesn't mean he'll do it often. He's a good roommate. He only bothers people when he's bored and/or broke."

"I know that," Bakura said. "Marik doesn't believe me."

The two of them were still staring at each other, and hadn't looked away at all yet.

The intensity of their gazes was staring to make everyone in the room feel tense.

Marik couldn't help but think, I think there's more sexual tension between Bakura and I right now than there was between England and France in the whole entire Paint It White movie.

Ryou could sense it as well, but unlike Marik he didn't make a connection to Hetalia. "I'm leaving," he said. "I can't take this tension anymore! I'll be in my room."

He walked towards the door. But before he could walk out, his yami grabbed his arm. "Oh no you don't!" Bakura shouted.

"But—" Ryou tried to say

Bakura interrupted. "No one leaves until we all agree to have Melvin move in with Slenderman!"

"I'm fine with that," Ryou said, trying to free his arm from Bakura's grasp. Of course, he made zero progress.

"Marik, you are the only one who isn't on board with this," Bakura said.

Marik was still silent.

"Well?" Bakura asked expectantly.

Marik said nothing.

"OMFBR MARIK WHAT ARE YOU EVEN WAITING FOR?!"

"Waiting for you to end the chapter so we have an awesome cliffhanger," Marik said.

"NO! I'm not ending the chapter till you make a decision!"

"Make me! Uh wait no I take it back."

"Fine. We're not ending the chapter until you accept."

And so, Melvin, Bakura, and Ryou stood in the room staring at Marik, while I sit here and stare at Marik from the Author's seat, and while a bajillion fangirls and about a dozen or so readers stare at him from behind their screens.

Marik finally breaks eye contact with Bakura and looks all around everywhere.

Finally, he closed his eyes and frowned and shouted, "OH EM FRIGGIN GEE! Everyone, stop staring at me! You're making me nervous and I feel pressured!"

The stares continued.

"Fine! Melvin can stay with Slender! Just ignore me!"

"FINALLY!" Melvin, Ryou, and Bakura shouted.

"FINALLY!" I say.

"FINALLY!" the fangirls and readers all cry.

And now we can end the chapter.

Guess what happens in the next chapter!

PIZZA AND FILLER!

"Pizza" meaning pizza.
And "filler" meaning a drama-free chapter. RARITY SO FAR!

See you next chapter!

BYEEEEEEEEEEEE~!