I'm happy I got back to this story. I've been thinking about turning it into a comic, but I'm not sure :3
Tristan: You haven't been sure about anything for a while, have you?
Me: I have so! And it's about time you said something...
As Emily left with her father the rest of the gang went their separate ways to go home. Bakura walked with Yugi and Atem for a while, before deciding to stop at a rest stop. Bakura then noticed Sara was at the same rest stop and called,
"Hi Sara!" Sarah jumped a little and turned around. She smiled at the three boys,
"Hey guys. We seem to keep bumping into each other today, huh?" The three walked up to her.
"How was your grandma today? Did you visit her?" Bakura asked her. She nodded,
"Yes I did. She's doing better I think. Hopefully she'll be out of there soon." The three smiled back as Sara looked up at the main clock at the rest stop. "Welp, I'll be seeing you guys. I'm gonna visit her tomorrow so I wanna get some rest." She waved goodbye and started to walk away when Bakura called,
"Sara!" The said girl looked back at the trio as Bakura averted his eyes to another direction, "Um...Would you like me to walk you home?" Sara blushed three shades of red while Atem and Yugi stared at Bakura. "I-I mean, if that's ok with you..." Bakura continued, clearing his throat and placed both his hands in his pocket. Sara remained silent for a while, but nodded,
"S-Sure...If you want to..." Bakura nodded, walked towards her, and the two walked off together. Yugi stood dumbfounded,
"Uhh...ok." Was all Yugi managed to say. Atem chuckled,
"I guess he has an admiration for her." Yugi blinked, looked at Atem and asked,
"What makes you say that?" Atem chuckled a bit more and walked the direction to the game shop. "A-Atem! Wait up! What do you mean?" Yugi called running after his friend.
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Bakura and Sara were quiet most of their walk. The two would occasionally make glances at each other, but would turn away instantly. About 5 minutes away from Sara's house, she finally spoke up.
"S-So...how's school for you." Bakura jolted out of his thoughts and looked at her.
"O-Oh...School is...School is fine for me...Y-You?" Sara looked at her sketch book,
"It's good...I'm glad you're having a good time so far." Bakura smiled and nodded,
"Thank you. Did your Grandma like the picture?" Sara smiled back,
"Yes. Very much...Hey Ryou?" Bakura blinked, a little shocked. Sara rarely called him by his first name, the reason for this he had yet to understand. They stopped walking as Bakura looked at the girl beside him. She gave him a sweet smile,
"Thanks. For convincing me to give it to her." Bakura smiled back and took her hand,
"No problem. You're a great drawer. I'm sure no matter what you draw, your Grandma would enjoy it anyway." Sara blushed a bit, tearing up, but her smile remained,
"Th-Thanks..." Bakura removed his hand from her's and hugged her. Sara blinked, blushing a bit, but hugged him back slowly.
"Don't cry Sara. It's all ok." Bakura said as Sara nodded. The two remained like that for a while, until both blushed and separated.
"I-I'm sorry! I-I didn't mean to...to..."
"I-It's fine." Bakura said nervously, scratching the back of his head. Sara giggled nervously and saw her house up ahead,
"Oh, there's my house. I'll see you later Bakura!" She waved at him as she ran to the house. Bakura waved back smiling and headed home himself. It only took him about 3 minutes to get there. He unlocked his apartment door and headed in. He set down his backpack and sat at his desk. He decided to write to his mother and little sister, since he hadn't in a while. Pondering what to write, his eyes wandered over to a picture above his laptop. It was a detailed portrait of him, drawn by Sara. His thoughts wandered back to when she gave it to him.
Flashback
Bakura was sitting on the bench, reading a book. The new school year was starting in two days and since Bakura was already prepared, he decided to spend the rest of his vacation relaxing.
"Hi Bakura." Came a voice. He looked up and saw Sarah smiling cheerfully at him. Bakura smiled back and said,
"Hello Sarah. How are you?"
"I'm good. You?" Sara asked.
"I'm fine thank you." Bakura replied. He noticed that Sarah was hiding something behind her back and tilted himself a little to try to get a glimpse of it. Sara giggled, blushing a bit, but Bakura didn't notice it.
"No peaking silly. You have to close your eyes." She said smiling. Bakura blinked,
"Why?"
"You'll see!" Sara's eyes closed; her smile was so big. Bakura blinked again and chuckled a bit. He did what he was told and closed his eyes. He felt Sara wave her hand in front of his face and then he felt something in his lap.
"Ok! Open them!" Bakura did just that as he looked down and saw a rectangular object wrapped in yellow wrapping paper. "Happy Birthday, Bakura!" Bakura turned to her, since she was sitting next to him now, and smiled widely.
"Thank you Sara. I'm happy you remembered, but you didn't have to get me anything." He said. Sara pouted,
"You always say that when someone gets you something. Open it! I wanna see your reaction!" Bakura looked up,
"I would, but I think it's going to rain today. I wouldn't want to get it ruined." Sara then had puppy dog eyes.
"Awww please? I worked really hard on it!" Bakura smiled nervously and sweat dropped,
"O-Ok ok!" He never could resist Sara's requests when she had puppy eyes. In fact, no one could. Her parents even told the gang the story of when they went to the shore back where they used to live and even though Sarah lost, she still won something. At times she didn't even know she was doing it, which was bizarre. Joey joked that she could get boys to cater to her every whim, to which she threw her manga books right at his face in response. When Bakura opened it, he was amazed at what he saw. A detailed portrait of him, made by Sara obviously.
"Sara...It's...It's wonderful. It must have taken you ages." He smiled at her again. Sara looked down slightly, becoming nervous. Bakura saw her face going red but he figured it was from the chill of the air. It was getting cooler after all.
"We-Well...Sort of. I just needed a good picture..." Bakura tilted his head a little and Sara jolted a little as she had a bucket of ice water dumped on her. "I-In my head! I needed to think of a good picture of you in my head...Not that I think of you regularly! I mean, I keep you in thought, yes, but I-" She cut herself off and stopped talking, her head hanging in embarrassment. Bakura blinked as his cheeks turned a light pinkish hue. He wasn't sure if it was because of her words, or if the chill of the air was getting to him too.
"So...Were you looking at me when you drew this?" He asked. Sara blushed a deep red and it looked as if smoke came out of her ears. Bakura chuckled and said, "S-Sorry Sarah. I was just teasing you. But anyway, thank you, I love it." Sara blinked and smiled widely before she hugged him tightly,
"I'm glad. I was worried that it didn't look anything like you!" Bakura blushed a red crimson. He was really shy, typically when somebody hugged him. He looked down for a moment, thinking about what to say, when Sara released him, her face still a deep red,
"I-I'm sorry! I didn't mean to surprise you!" She stood up. "Bye Bakura. Happy Birthday." Sara then bowed before running off.
End Flashback
Bakura continued to stare at the picture and smiled. He did have a feeling Sara had to look at him a couple of times to get the picture this detailed. The thought made him more amused then unsettled. Bakura then begun to write his letter, getting an idea of what to write.
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The next day, everyone was at Yugi's for a game day. Joey had called the group up and insisted they have one. Yugi didn't mind, since they hadn't one in a while, but Emily was still wondering how Joey was able to get ahold of her phone number though...The day consisted of duels, talking about college, since it WAS their senior year, and playing a video game Sara brought over. It was the new Harvest Moon(C) game. Since Yugi had a new wii, she brought it over, and she was played it for an hour and a half. Joey sighed and said,
"Gah! This is getting boring!" Sara pouted and said,
"I'm sorry! I like rpgs!" Bakura chuckled,
"Maybe we should play another game Sarah, ok?" Sarah gave him the puppy dog stare,
"5 more minutes, pleeeease?" Bakura sweatdropped, and blushed a light pink. Joey sighed and tried to remove the wii mote from Sarah's hand.
"Come on, ya baby. Give the mote up." The girl glared and hissed like a cat.
"MINE!" Joey jolted back and shuttered,
"Gees! I forgot how possesive of games you are!" Yugi chuckled as Atem and Tea rolled their eyes. Emily titled her head and asked,
"Sara doesn't look like a gamer to me." Joey stared at her and got in close and whispered,
"Oh ya she is. Everytime you tried to take her 3ds from her, she gives you the eye of the devil!" Emily went wide eyed a little.
"You say something Wheeler?" Joey jolted and turned to see Sara giving him the stare he had just discribed.
"U-Uh no! Nothing at all!" Tristan sighed, before he thought of something,
"Wait...How come you act all ticked off when one of us tries to take your games away, but when Bakura tries, you just pout and act all sweet?" Sara blushed and stopped playing. Everyone stared at her as she yelled,
"N-No reason!" Joey smirked and said,
"Oh really? You trying to hide something?" Sara started to shake out of embarrassment, and Yugi saw this. Whenever Sara got embaressed she got all quiet and her face turned redder than a tomato.
"H-Hey! W-Why don't we play another game?" She switched off the game and swiftly looked through Yugi's games. Joey's smirk never left his face while everyone else was left dumbfouned. They started playing Mario Party 8 (C). This consisted of laughter, pouting, and of course, Sara's gamer side unleashing it's full fury as she started to send glares at Joey who beat her a few times. Everyone was having a good time. They were all laughing at when Sara and Joey got all competitive. Yugi had even forgot about his problems he was facing. Having a good time with his friends, it just seemed like everything was back to normal. Today was actually turning out to be a great day.
Nothing could go wrong.
I have changed this chapter for the better. Hooray! XD;;;
