Ryou's POV

I'm a little worried about going to the park today, with it being April first and all.

I'm fearing for my life and the color of my hair right now.

When I get to the park I see Bakura reading some piece of paper looking a little confused. Marik is nowhere in sight. This deeply worries me.

I reached Bakura and he throws the note to the ground angrily. Of course being paper it gently drifts to the ground comically.

"Where is that idiot hiding? I know he's here somewhere!" Bakura started searching behind the tree and in bushes angrily.

I wonder what got him so worked up. I pick up the note obviously, it's from Marik. The little doodle of a chibi Marik showing his midriff is a dead giveaway.

'Dear kitties,

I have decided to fulfill my dream of joining the circus. Don't wait for me. I am totally not lying here. Seriously. I'm gone. That means don't look for me Bakura! Stop thinking about searching for me.

Also be nice to each other. Or you shall face the vengeance of the smexiest being in the universe! Guardian chibi Marik! He will smite you with his tiny sword!

Sincerely, Marik'

Looking at the back again, I notice the chibi does have a tiny sword. Not only tiny to my standards, tiny to chibi standards. It's like a tiny knife in his tiny chibi hands. But about the actual contents of the note I can only conclude that it defiantly means Marik is in the park waiting to pull a prank on us... I wonder, is he being this obvious on purpose or did he really think this would fool us?

"Marik! Come out here right now! I mean it!" Bakura yelled while searching the nearby jungle gym. After finding nothing on the slide or in the tunnel he walked over to the bench and plopped down. "Fine! Hide if you want! I won't humor you anymore." Bakura folded his arms and made a face that one could call pouting. Not out loud though, if one wished to live with an unscathed face, of course.

In a flash, Marik swung down from the tree above by his knees and hung upside down while he began squirting Bakura with a familiar squirt gun filled with something purple that I can only assume is dye.

"Gaaah! Marik! What are you doing?" Bakura shouted trying to shield as much of his face as possible from Marik's onslaught with the colorful liquid.

"April Fool's! It's called a prank Fluffy!" Marik cheerfully replied. I could see he was running low on ammo. This should be interesting. "You should have seen this coming! The note was obviously a fake. You know my dream is to join the Blue Man Group!"

Marik continued pulling the trigger of his toy until the flow slowed and eventually stopped. He was still pulling the trigger after dye ceased to come out, Bakura slowly stood and walked closer to Marik. I've never seen a more lovely combination of purple of Bakura's hair and the shade of red his face was becoming.

But even more odd was what Marik was wearing. He was dressed head to toe in a bright blue and had his face and hair the same shade as his clothes... I assume it's some sort of camouflage, but you think blue would be noticeable in a tree! Which makes me wonder how Bakura and I missed him.

Bakura swiped the squirt gun from Marik's hand with incredible speed. Marik put his hands up. "Put Squirty the second down Bakura."

"No! I've had enough of you and your stupid toys!" Bakura said. "I'll smash this thing into a hundred pieces before I give it back to you!" Bakura raised the gun and prepared to throw it to the ground.

"Fine," Marik yawned loudly and stretched his arms. "If you want to."

Bakura's expression turned from furious to confused. "So you don't care about Squirty the second anymore?"

"Heck no!" Marik exclaimed with exaggerated arm movements. "I found out he cheated on his wife! Can you even begin to understand how traumatizing that must be for his kids?"

This made Bakura's expression go from confused to a look of 'how is anybody this stupid?'.

"Marik, it's a squirt gun. It's a toy."

"That doesn't mean he can't love!" Marik retorted.

"Yeah, it kinda does."

"Nu-uh." Marik reached into his pocket and pulled out a picture of of three squirt guns. One in a tiny groom's tux, one in a mini bride's wedding dress, and one behind them dressed as a priest. "See! This is a picture of Squirty the second's wedding."

"Then how'd they get kids?" Bakura asked incredulously.

Marik sighed and walked over to me while explaining. "You see, when a mommy squirt gun and a daddy squirt gun love each other very much-" Marik put his hands over my ears, like one would to a small child to stop them from hearing a dirty joke, so the rest of whatever he was saying was cut off.

Judging by Bakura's facial reactions, it wasn't something I want to hear. Bakura's face switched comically back and forth from disgusted and laughing out loud before settling on revolted and looking like he was about to vomit.

Bakura looked down at the squirt gun in his hands with a horrified expression and the toy fell out of his hands. Bakura continued to stare at his hands while he began to tremble. His face wasn't red anymore, now it's green. Bakura speed off towards the nearest garbage can and when Marik took his hands off my ears I could hear the sounds of Bakura throwing up his lunch.

I stared wide eyed at Bakura then turned to Marik about to inquire what he said when I closed my jaw realizing, if it was that bad to Bakura, I would probably be scarred for life.

Bakura straightened from is bent over position at the garbage can, wiped off his mouth, turned around and walked back over to us.

"Marik,"

"Yes?"

"You need serious help."

"No need to be so mean Fluffy."

"I'm going to hit you over the head with a brick."

"But wouldn't that hurt?"

Bakura's POV

I'm going to hurt him. He will feel extreme pain.

What kind of demented person could think of anything like that about squirt guns?

With no bricks in sight, I reach down a scoop up a handful of dirt.

"Taste the wrath of my dirt!"

"What did I do to cause the dirt wrath?"

With all my might I throw the handful of dirt, pebbles, twigs, and other things found on the ground at parks at Marik. Unfortunately I forgot about Ryou in my anger and didn't realize he was in the crossfire until it was to late. The make-shift ammo pelted Ryou square in the face.

Ryou fell to his knees clutching his face and suppressing a scream into a groan.

I didn't mean for that to happen!

Marik and I were instantly at Ryou's side trying to help. But why did I have to go and do that? I'm such an idiot!

"Bakura," Marik said quietly. "Maybe you should go for a walk to cool down." There was no room for argument in his tone. I stood up, shoved my hands in my pockets and sulked off.

Marik's POV

"'Kura is gone, you can talk. Are you okay?" I ask him.

"I just got pelted in the face how do you think I feel?" Ryou hisses at me vehemently. Lil' Fluff is in a sour mood.

"If I knew I wouldn't be asking you." Do I really need to state the obvious so much?

Ryou said nothing but instead crossed his arms and looked in the other direction angrily. It's like having to deal with two Bakuras!

"Now you're only being grumpy."

Ryou continued to pouted.

Mental sigh, this might take longer than I thought. I know exactly what to do! I move so I'm face to face with Ryou and move so close to him our noses are almost touching.

Now that I know I have his attention...

"Did ya poop?"

"What?" Ryou splutters.

"Everybody in the world who is grumpy just needs to poop." I tell him. "So did ya poop?"

"...No..." Ryou responds.

"Then go to the bathroom, come back, and tell me how you feel." I order.

5 minutes later

Ryou is coming back and I look at him with an incredibly derpy grin. Ryou started laughing when he saw my expression.

"See, now you're a happy camper!"

Ryou's POV

As stupid as Marik is sometimes, I have to admit he's pretty good at cheering people up.

I see Bakura is coming back. Marik notices too. Marik runs up to Bakura and grasps Bakura's hand. "Good luck my friend." Then proceeded to drop Bakura's hand and crab walk into a nearby bush out of sight.

Bakura looked at his hand and saw a note Marik had secretly given him. Marik's lavender eyes peeked through and was intently starting at Bakura's face for reactions.

Bakura shakes his head in exasperation but unfolds the note regardless. His eyes widen and I'm dying from curiosity wondering what it says. Bakura walks over to me and says. "You have something to tell me?"

I decide I hate Marik at this moment. Well, it had to happen eventually. I nod my head.

Pause.

Then...

"¡Feliz primero de abril!" I shout.

"Ah!" Bakura jumps in surprise from my shouting. "What does that mean?"

"It means I knew how to speak English this whole time." I smile as I speak my first English sentence to Bakura. "April Fool's! I got you!"

TBC

Translation

¡Feliz primero de abril!- Happy April first!