Ying and Yang

Chapter 5: One And The Same

Bakura's POV:
"B-Bakura stop it hurts!" Ryou breathed through clenched teeth, "I know but just try to relax I'm almost done." I stated.
"A-ah." He gasped.
"Ow! Quit gripping me so hard, it's not my fault your a clutz!" I scolded. Ryou and I were currently sitting in the nurse's office, we were playing basketball in P.E when Ryou tripped and fell and scrapped his knee pretty bad, I helped him to the nurse's and was patching him up. I was trying to put the disinfecting medicine in his wound, but he kept complaining about how much it hurt and to cope he was digging his fingernails into my shoulder. "H-hey I'm not a clutz you big jerk !" Ryou pouted.
"And that about does it." I stated as I finished putting on the band aid. I started to pack up the first aid kit, "Do you think you can walk?" I asked Ryou, "Yeah I think I'll be alright." Ryou said as he stood up, I gave him a small nod and returned the first aid kit to the cabinet. "Shall we head back?" Ryou asked waiting for me at the door, I nodded to him again and followed him out. As we walked down the halls I stared out the windows watching the passing clouds, it somehow relaxed me. "Hey Bakura," Ryou started, I hummed to signal that I was paying attention, "Are you still available to come to the study session tonight?" I thought for a second, about to come up with some excuse until I looked over at Ryou and he was looking at me making a sad puppy dog face. S-so cute. I thought as I felt an arrow shoot through my heart. I coughed because my throat had suddenly gotten dry and grunted out, "Yeah I'm free."
"Great ! I'll see you at 7 then, I'll text you my address after school." Ryou said cheerfully. "Fine." I grunted again. he just giggled and walked to were Malik and Yugi were when we entered the gymnasium. Maybe this won't be so bad. I thought.
~ Time Skip ~
"Now what clothes do I even wear to a study session." I said with my hand to my chin staring at my open closet. "And on top of that I've never even met Ryou's family so I don't even know how to act in front of them." I gave a heavy sigh and decided to do something I would probably regret later. I called Yami. Yes Yami is the biggest prick ever, and yes he and I want to rip each others throats out but, I have to admit, he's got some fashion sense. So I began to nibble on my thumb waiting for Yami to pick up. "What's up Bakura?" Yami answered and then I explained to him my whole situation, and Yami became silent for a while, then he said "Well if it's just a study session you'd probably want to wear something casual like jeans." "Okay" I said as I pulled out a pair of dark blue jeans from my closet, "And since this is your first time going over you do want to make a good first impression so wear a nice button down shirt, like the black one you wore to Malik's birthday party last month." Yami concluded as I pulled out said shirt. "Alright cool, thanks Yami."
"No problem, I'm just happy that I could help you on your little love quest."
"S-SHUT UP!" I yelled as I hung up and threw the phone on my bed. I was breathing heavily and blushing furiously, that Yami sure knows how to make my blood boil. Damn him.
Ryou's POV:
" I can't believe Bakura is actually coming over." I squealed to myself. I probably sounded like some star struck school girl but, I didn't care at the moment. I was so happy ! "Alright Ryou," I said and I smacked my hands to my cheeks, "That's enough squealing, time to pick out something to wear" I turned my attention to my closet scanning the various clothes I had. "No not this, no, definitely not this." I said shaking my head as I began to throw the unwanted items over my head to the floor. "Now where's that- aha !" I exclaimed as I pulled out a white turtle neck sweater. I placed the sweater on the bed and pulled out a pair of black jeans. After getting dressed I examined myself in the mirror, "Not to bad," I said pleased at the choice that I made. My eyes drifted to the clock on my night stand, 6:40 pm. "He should be getting here in a couple of minutes, perhaps I should start dinner." I said starting to make my way into the kitchen.
Third Person POV:
At around 7 Ryou had put a lid on the beef stew he was making, and heard a knock on the door. His heart fluttered knowing who it was. "Coming!" He said excitedly. He opened the door to reveal Bakura with his school bag in hand. "Well don't you clean up nicely." Ryou joked, although on the inside he was trying to hold back an enormous blush trying to creep its way through. "You too." Bakura said.
"Please come in and make yourself at home." Ryou stated stepping aside to allow Bakura to enter. After Bakura removed his shoes and walked over to the dining room located right next to the kitchen, he began to smell something that made his mouth water. "Beef stew?" Bakura asked
"Yup! I remembered you saying how much you liked it so I thought I would make some for us to have after studying." Ryou said cheerfully. He actually remembered something like that? Bakura thought as his heart fluttered a bit. "Alright shall we begin." said Ryou, they both sat at the table and began to work in their books. after about 30 minutes Ryou decided to check Bakura's answers to see how he was doing. "I can't believe it, " Ryou started, "You actually got all of them right! But why did you do so poorly on the test." Ryou looked over at Bakura who was twirling around his pencil in his hand. "Well," Bakura started, " It's like I told you before, I don't really care what I get in school. Nobody else seems to care what happens so neither do I." Bakura stated. "But what about your parents?" Ryou asked. Bakura clicked his tongue at that, "Tch. I'm nothing but a pest to them, they don't care about me unless I do something to soil they're precious reputation." Bakura sneered. "Bakura..." Ryou softly said, Bakura looked over to Ryou who had his bangs covering his eyes. Ryou suddenly lifted up his arm and took ahold of Bakura's hand, staring him straight in the eyes. "But that's why you should care! To prove to them that you're not a pest, to prove that you could be better than them. And you're wrong Bakura you do have people that care about what happens to you ! You have Yami, Yugi, Marik, Malik, and me." Ryou finished and squeezed Bakura's hand tighter. Bakura was taken back by Ryou's words, he didn't know what to say or even think. He just sat there and stared into Ryou's chocolate orbs. Little did either of them know that they were slowly leaning closer to on another, neither one of them breaking their eye contact, time seemed to slow down as they inched closer and closer and- "BEEP BEEP." Startled both boys shot back into their chairs and Ryou quickly let go of Bakura's hand. They both looked at each other and began to register what was about to happen, Ryou's entire face went bright red and Bakura had a dust of pink on both cheeks. Ryou began to shake his head violently and stood up "T-that was the timer t-the stew must be fin-nished I'll go get it ready." He stuttered looking anywhere but at Bakura, and rushed into the kitchen. "Uh yeah and I have to go to the bathroom!" Bakura said standing up and heading towards the bathroom. Bakura then began to splash water in his face from the sink in the bathroom. Then he looked at himself in the mirror. "C'mon Bakura pull yourself together." he said to his reflection he took another deep breath and walked out of the bathroom, walking back towards the table. Bakura couldn't help but notice a table against the wall with a bunch of pictures on it and one had caught his attention almost immediately. He lifted up the picture to get a better look,there was a little boy presumably Ryou at about 10 years old, who was smiling brightly holding on to a girl who looked exactly like him, she looked to be about 5 years old. Behind the two was a beautiful woman with long white hair probably Ryou's mother and next to her Ryou's father, a man with blue hair and glasses. Both adults seemed to be in their 30's, and the background looked to be in a park, they looked like the perfect family that everyone dreamed of having, but something strange occurred to Bakura. Mmm I don't remember Ryou ever mentioning he had a sister, and come to think of it were is his family? Bakura thought. "It's a lovely picture isn't it." Bakura jumped slightly at his thoughts suddenly being interrupted and he turned around to see Ryou looking at the picture in his hands, with a sad smile. Bakura instantly regretted picking up the picture. "The little girl there is my younger sister Amane, she loved animals," Ryou said pointing to the picture, "And as you probably already guessed those are my parents, that was when we used to live in England, my mother was English and my father is Japanese. My father is an archeologist and met my mother on a trip there and they agreed to raise my sister and I there. But a couple of months after this photo was taken my mother and sister went out one day to the grocery store. My father was working and I decided to stay home and play games, as any young boy would. Then on they're way home they had gotten into a car accident, they were rushed to the hospital. The doctor said he did everything he could but the damage was too great, and my mother and sister unfortunately lost their lives. My father was so broken hearted that he allowed his work to consume him and took on any job he could get. Which also meant dragging me along with him, we traveled all over England for a while, we never stayed in one place for long, so I never really was able to make that many friends. Then my father still found it hard to move on and came back to Japan, we still moved a lot until my father realized that moving around this much wasn't good for my education, so my father waited until I was old enough as to were I could take care of my self, and he rented this apartment for me to live in, and he sends me money for groceries, rent, and a little extra to go shopping with. My father calls whenever he gets connection but that sometimes only happens a couple of times a month, he's actually in Egypt right now and I haven't heard from him since last week. And that's how I ended up here." Ryou said smiling up at Bakura. Bakura couldn't believe what he just heard, even after all that Ryou has gone through he still finds a way to smile. So Ryou and I are one and the same, we're both alone.... but I mean I'm an asshole so I kinda deserve it but Ryou, he's the sweetest, nicest person I've ever met he doesn't deserve the kind of loneliness and suffering I go through. Bakura thought, he then placed the picture down and pulled Ryou into his chest. He held on to Ryou tightly, Ryou's eyes widened at the sudden action but he quickly responded by wrapping his arms around Bakura's back and they both just stood there. After a few minutes of enjoying each other's warmth, to both of there dismay, Ryou pulled back and said, "We should eat the stew is going to get cold." He smiled to Bakura and he gave a small smile in return and both boys went to the table and began to eat. "Wow this is amazing Ryou!" Bakura exclaimed and continued to stuff his face. Ryou laughed at Bakura's lack of manners but thanked him anyway, "Thank you." He smiled, and Ryou began to think, It's funny how two completely different people can end up in the same situation and meet. It's almost like - " Fate." Ryou looked at Bakura as he finished his thought for him. "What?" Ryou asked,
"Nothing I was just remembering something Malik said to me." Ryou nodded and both boys continued their meal enjoying each other's company.

Well that's the end of that chapter ! Sorry for the really slow update but now that schools over I'm sure to update a lot faster, but anyway thanks for ready, I almost cried while writing this chapter but I'm really happy with it and thanks again!