Ying and Yang

Chapter 6: Stupid Cats!

Third Person POV:
Bakura was enjoying the warmth of his bed, planning to sleep in til noon, it was Saturday after all. But it appears that fate was not on his side this morning.
RING RING!
Ugggh who the hell would be calling me at this time on a Saturday morning? Bakura thought groggily.
RING RING!
Maybe if I just ignore it, whoever it is will stop calling.
RING RING!
A vein began to pop on Bakura's head. And more began to pop after every ring, until his entire head was covered and finally-
"WHAT!?" Bakura screamed angrily into his phone not caring whoever was on the end. "Well good morning to you too sunshine."
"Malik..." Bakura growled out "...what on earth would possess you to call me ON A SATURDAY MORNING?!" Bakura screamed angrily into the phone, he hoped Malik's ears were ringing, it was the least amount of punishment he planned on giving to Malik for waking him up.
"Well, sleeping beauty, I was just calling to see how your 'study' date went with Ryou yesterday." Malik mocked.
At hearing the sound of Ryou's name made all the anger in Bakura subside, but it was replaced with the feeling of sympathy. All the memories of last night, and of what Ryou had told him came flooding back at once. Bakura began to stare at his bed sheets, as he remembered the look on Ryou's face as he told his story. He was wearing a smile but Bakura could see the sadness in his eyes. It made Bakura's chest hurt, he wondered how long Ryou had kept that to himself, had he been secretly wanting to tell someone that, to relief some of his pain? Bakura realized he should probably say something to Malik if he wanted him to leave him alone.
"It was fine." Bakura finally gave his generic answer.
"Don't give me that! C'mon I was the one who basically planned it! You should be grateful and at least give me some details! Now tell me is Ryou a top or a bottom?"
Bakura face palmed at that, through gritted teeth he said, "Nothing like that happened," just then Bakura had a flashback to how he and Ryou almost kissed, he shook his head to return to his rant, "And even if it had, I don't see how that's any of your business? Now if that's all you wanted to bother me about I think I'll hang up."
"Hold on !" Malik began " There was another reason I called you, on my way home yesterday I saw a flyer for an amusement park, and it's open today! I'm calling everyone and telling them to come!"
Bakura grunted, amusement parks were on the long lists of things he hated . Malik began to speak again, "C'mon Bakura it'll be fun! Plus Ryou said he'd come." Bakura could practically hear the cynical smile on Malik's face.
"Fine but I'm only going so you don't corrupt Ryou's mind."
"Alright! Meet us there at 11! See you there !"
"Yeah whatever." and with that Bakura hung up. He then looked at his clock 9:30. Bakura was at least thankful he could rest a little longer before getting ready, so he plopped back down and closed his eyes.
~Time Skip~
Waiting at the entrance were Yami, Yugi, Ryou, and an angry Bakura. He was tapping his foot impatiently from his place leaning against a light post. "What's taking him so long? He told everyone to get here at exactly 11, figures that he'd be late." Bakura growled. He was wearing jeans, black and white sneakers, a striped blue and white shirt, and a blue jacket.
"Did you expect anything different?" Yami rolled his eyes, he was wearing his signature leather pants and jacket with his black tank top underneath.
" I'm sure Malik will be here soon, so be patient you two." Yugi scolded, he was wearing dark jeans, a black long sleeved shirt, with a grey vest on top.
"Yugi's right, besides I'm sure Malik has a good reason as to why he's late." Ryou pointed out, he was wearing jeans and a tan sweater with a blue collared shirt underneath. " Ah here he comes now !" Ryou pointed down the side walk, and everyone turned their heads to see Malik and Marik walking up to them. " Sorry we're late, I was having trouble trying to decide which scented bath balm I wanted to use." Malik said, he was wearing black jeans, and a sleeveless purple hoodie that showed his stomach a bit. Ryou sweat dropped and Bakura said in a sarcastic tone, "Yeah, real good reason."
"Sup guys." Marik greeted, he was wearing khakis, and a black shirt with a navy blue vest. "Alright, enough talk! Let's go have some fun!" Malik cheered while raising his fist in the air. "Yeah!" Yugi and Ryou cheered together also raising their fists. Yami and Marik smiled while Bakura grunted and looked away. They all entered the park and not even a minute after entering Bakura and Yami were already arguing. "I want to ride the Ferris Wheel first!" Yami said cheerfully.
"No way that's for girls! We should go on the roller coaster first!" Bakura said
"What's wrong with the Ferris Wheel?"
"It's way too slow and boring! Roller coasters are fast and exciting!"
"Well I want to go on the Ferris Wheel even if it means tying your whiny ass up and forcing you!"
"HA! I'd like to see you try, it'll finally give me a reason to beat the shit out of you ! And besides who said you got to pick what ride we get to go on first ?"
"Same goes to you! Cosplay Neko !"
"Wannabe King !" A vein on Marik's head popped and he put an arm around each arguing boy's neck and squeezed, causing both Yami and Bakura to turn blue from the lack of air. "Will the both of you stop arguing you're disturbing the other people here." Marik said with an angry smile, both boys nodded and he released them, both gasping for air. "I have an idea!" Yugi chimed in "Since its Ryou's first time coming to this park, I say we let him decide what ride we go on first !"
"Great idea Yugi!" Malik agreed.
"Well..." Ryou put a finger to his chin and looked around the park for something to catch his eye. "Aha ! Why not the swings?" Ryou finally said. "Sweet those are my favorites !" Malik exclaimed and they all made their way over to the ride. The seats for the swing ride came in two's so it was only natural for the couples to want to sit next to each other, unfortunately that left Ryou and Bakura. "Well on the bright side at least no one will argue who they sit next two." Ryou smiled.
"Uh yeah." Bakura nodded. He and Ryou took their seats behind Yami and Yugi and began to buckle themselves in. Once the ride operator was done checking that everyone was safely secured he pushed a button on the control panel next to him. All of the passengers on the ride began to feel their feet lift off the ground as the roof holding the swings began to rise into the air, and once they were high enough the roof began to spin, causing the seats to swing outwards over the park and fly around in the air. Bakura had to admit the view was pretty nice and breeze the ride created was refreshing. He then turned his head over to Ryou, who was marveling over the sight. Bakura couldn't help but to smile at the joyful expression on Ryou's face. I want for Ryou to smile like that forever. Even that thought caught Bakura off guard, and he thought it! Bakura was going through his own roller coaster in his head, when he felt a soft touch on his shoulder. He looked up surprised to find that the ride had stopped and Ryou was standing in front of him. "Bakura are you all right?" Ryou asked. His soothing voice returned Bakura back to his senses, "Uh yeah sorry, let's go." And Bakura got up from his seat and rushed out the exit, with Ryou chasing after him. Bakura began to think again, what if everything Malik and the others have been telling me was right? But, could this even be love? I've never been in love before, the only thing I'm certain of is that thought I had means I do have feelings for Ryou but-
"Bakura!"
"Uh?" Bakura turned around to see Ryou stumbling to keep up with him. Once Ryou finally caught up with him he had to bend over to catch his breath. "I've been *pant* trying to *pant* tell you to *pant* slow down." Ryou managed to huff out.
"Oh sorry I didn't realize." Bakura apologized.
Yeah no kidding. Ryou thought sarcastically. "Are you sure you're alright Bakura? You've been spacing out a lot lately." Ryou said concerned.
"Yeah, I've just had a lot on my mind."
"Well, if you want to talk about it you know, I'm always here for you." Ryou smiled sweetly up at Bakura. Bakura's heart skipped a beat once more, and he knew he had to do something about it soon, because at this rate he might have a heart attack. "Right, uh were's Malik and the others?" Bakura decided to change the subject, for the sake of his poor heart. "I believe Malik said something about going to the Haunted House ride." Ryou recalled.
"Great let's go!" Bakura grabbed Ryou by the hand unconsciously and began to pull the boy towards where their friends were expecting them. Ryou looked down at there hands and couldn't help but notice how perfect they fit together. Ryou began to blush furiously and just continued to look down. Bakura spotted Yami's gravity defying hair from a mile away and they were next to there friends in no time.
"There you two are, you guys made it just in time, after the group in front of us were next to go in." Marik said.
"What took you guys so long anyway we were starting to get worried?" Yugi asked. "We got a little lost in the crowd of people when we were getting off the swings ride." Bakura explained. "Bakura."
"Hm?" Bakura turned his head to Ryou who was looking away from him, Bakura was about to ask why but then he noticed he was holding something, he looked at his hand and realized he had been holding Ryou's hand this whole time. He quickly let go and began to laugh nervously like maniac. "Bakura you ok dude your acting strange?" Marik stared at him like he had three heads.
"I think all the fresh air from finally being out of the house has made him lose it." Yami concluded.
"HAHA That's a good one Yami !" Bakura said slapping Yami in the back like he had just told the best joke in the world.
"Ow! Quit it that hurts you jack ass!" Yami yelled at Bakura. Marik and Yugi just sweat dropped at the sight, while Malik just looked from the laughing Bakura to the tomato faced Ryou. He began to grin widely has he began to come up with yet another scheme. "Hey guys look it's our turn !" Yugi said and with that they all made there way into the Haunted House.
The inside of the house was dark, with only dimly lit candles to light the way. The house was styled as if it were a 19th century mansion. The gang had been walking for about 5 minutes already without anything popping out at them. "See guys it's not that bad." Yugi said most likely trying to convince himself of that. But right after Yugi made that statement the suit of armor holding up a sword swung it down right infront of Yugi's feet. Causing the small boy to shriek and jump into Yami's arms. Malik couldn't help but laugh at Yugi until a skeletal hand came out from a curtain behind Malik and placed itself right on his shoulder, which caused him to mimic Yugi's actions and jump into Marik's arms.
"Serves you right." Yugi huffed at Malik while said boy only stuck his tongue out at Yugi, Ryou giggled at Yugi and Malik's silliness. "C'mon lets keep going." Ryou continued forward, with everyone else following closely behind. They walked up a staircase which led to another hallway only this hallway broke into 3 parts, left, right, and straight. "Well now what do we do?" Bakura asked bored out of his mind. That's when a light bulb went off in Malik's head. "Why don't we make a little game out of this, we'll break into pairs and go into each hallway, and the couple that is the first to exit gets to pick which ride we go on next." Malik finished with a wide grin, too wide for Bakura's liking.
"Sure!" Yugi smiled to Yami, "Sounds fun." Ryou said.
"Alright then it's decided! Marik and I will take the left hallway, Yami and Yugi will go right, and Ryou and Bakura will continue straight." Once Malik finished his statement that's when it all clicked. This is just another scheme to get Ryou and I together! Bakura figured out, and he was not going to let Malik walk away with the satisfaction that his plan was actually working. "Hold it right there Malik I don-"
"Oh what's wrong now Bakura scared your gonna lose?" Yami instigated. At the sound of being challenged Bakura completely forgot about Malik and was focused on Yami. "Oh please scared of losing to a midget like you? Yeah right, I'll show you!" Bakura finished with confidence and walked down the hallway assigned to he and Ryou.
"Fine!" Yami shouted, angry at the fact he was called a midget and walked down his hallway with Yugi trying to calm him down, and walking down the hallway opposite to theirs was a cackling Malik and Marik wondering to himself why he even associates himself with these people. Probably because everyone else is afraid of me. Marik thought.