Ying and Yang

Chapter 10: Festivals, Fireworks, and Fights

Hey friends !!! I usually don't talk before a chapter but as I was going through what I had so far there were a few things I skipped over so this story does take place in Japan so I'm going by the school system which is 3 years of high school, which is why they're 17 and in the second year, and Mokuba is two years younger than the other characters but he's in high school because he's a genius and skipped a grade so he's a first year. So yeah I just wanted to clear some stuff up because it was unclear in the story, so yeah, but enough of that time to get to the real story !!
Bakura's POV:
     "C'mon Ryou we don't have all day !" Malik said, while impatiently tapping his foot. Today's the day, the day of the school winter festival, and Yugi, Malik, Ryou, and I were in the boys' locker room changing into our costumes. For some reason, Malik thought it would be a good idea to make me some kind of Egyptian thief, which honestly I have to admit, I look pretty good. I'm wearing a tan skirt type of thing that stops right above my knee, since pants weren't invented yet, and Malik wanted it to be "authentic". I also had matching tan slippers for my feet, and I only had a long red robe for my upper body leaving my chest and abs bare. The girl who made the costumes was also doing makeup and decided to give me a scar down my right eye, and I gotta say it looks bad ass.
"Bakura could you please step away from the mirror for one second and help us ?!" Malik said while tugging on the hood of my robe. Yugi and Malik were currently trying to get Ryou to come out of the changing room.
"And what do you want me to do ?" I yelled tugging back my robe.
"Maybe you can convince him to come out ?" Yugi asked. Yugi was the Pharaoh so he had a tan toga on, with tan slippers, a purple cape hanging around his shoulders, and a golden crown around his forehead, with an eye on the center. "Yugi and I have tried everything now it's your turn!" Malik was supposed to be Yugi's right hand man so he was wearing a matching toga and slippers to Yugi's except he had a blue robe, and a matching blue head piece that was supposed to match the Sphinx in Egypt.
"Alright fine! Ryou come out!" I finally yelled.
"No way !" Ryou replied from behind the curtain.
"There I tried." I shrugged my shoulders, and Yugi just facepalmed, while Malik began to fume.
"We've tried that already ! And if we don't get back soon then all the cookies Ryou made will be all eaten already!" At the mention of food that made me want to leave right away.
"Ryou if you don't come out now I'll drag you out !"
"But this outfit is so embarrassing I don't want to !"
"Ok you asked for it!"
I reached back behind the curtain and caught Ryou by his wrist and pulled him out, ignoring his complaints "Besides how bad could it-" I couldn't finish the rest of my sentence because at that moment, my eyes finally landed on Ryou, and I understood why he didn't want to come out. He was wearing a toga longer then ours, it stopped right at his ankles, but it had a slit on the right side revealing his leg, he had a light pink sash tied around his waist. His toga wrapped around just below his shoulders, exposing them, and he had a golden necklace with a pink stone in the middle, with a matching pink veil on his head. He looked so cute that my brain stopped functioning, the only thing I could do was stand there and gawk at him.
"I don't get it how come I have to be the sorcerer ? Why couldn't it be a girl or something !" Ryou yelled with his bright red cheeks.
"Because all the girls are peasants and are acting as the maids, besides it was a class vote." Malik said nodding his head.
"I don't remember there being a vote!"
"We might've done it while you and Bakura were getting extra paint."
"YOU WHAT ?!"
" Would you two cut it out ?! We have to get back to the festival, and I think Bakura's sick, his face is all red and I think his nose is bleeding ?" Yugi questioned, and as they all turned their heads towards me I quickly rubbed my nose with my robe. Good thing it's red.
"Bakura are you alright?" I flinched at Ryou's voice
"Huh ? Oh me ?! I'm fine ! Besides Yugi's right we should head back to the festival !" I quickly changed the subject, and started to walk out into the hallway, not before giving Malik a quick glare at the smirk he was making, idiot pervert ! He did this on purpose he knew what kind of affect Ryou's outfit would have on me !
My cursing Malik was cut short as we passed by Marik and Yami's class. And I began to cry, not the sad kind of crying, I'm not that kind of guy, it was more like I was laughing so hard I couldn't help it !
"HAHAHAHAHA YOU GUYS LOOK GREAT!" I said beating my knees as I looked at Yami and Marik wearing what looked to be children's onesies. They were both Dragons, Yami was an orange dragon while Marik was a green one.
"SHUT UP BAKURA!" Even while Yami had me in a choke hold I couldn't keep in my laughter, I just couldn't take him seriously!
"But I thought last years theme was Dragons?" Malik asked.
"It was, and it'll probably be next years too, Kaiba's like obsessed or something, and would you two knock it off you're causing a scene!" Marik said pulling Yami off of me. Once Yami was off of me, he looked at Yugi and starting fangirling.
"Yugi you look great, and you're dressed as a King, that's my Yugi !" Yami said while hugging Yugi.
"Y-Yami cut it out! Not in the middle of the hallway!" Once Yugi was out of Yami's grip, Yami shifted his gaze to the rest of us, "You guys look good too, and Ryou that's quite the costume, wouldn't you agree Bakura ?" Yami said swinging an arm around my shoulders, ok now it was my turn to put him in a choke hold.
"I told you two to quit it already!" Marik said trying to break us apart again.
"Alright what's with all the commotion out here ?"
We all turned our heads to the voice, and it belonged to none other than Kaiba. Instead of wearing a dragon outfit, he was wearing a White suit with a light blue cape, and a golden crown on his head. Probably the king of dragons like last year.
"Tch. It's just you guys I should've figured as much." He sneered.
"Hey it's the King of douchery and to what do we owe the pleasure your hein-ass?" Ha see what I did there?
"Ha good one." Yami fist pumped me, these are the only times we ever get along.
"And what are you supposed to be, a reject Aladdin ? You didn't even need the costume for that." Kaiba smirked. Oh this guy really knows how to grind my gears, but before I could even say anything back, I noticed Kaiba's eyes drifted off of me and focused on Ryou. Ryou visibly started to panic and grabbed onto Malik's shoulders "C-C'mon lets go !" I've never seen Ryou panic like that, only when he had to talk in front of the class, that's when I knew Kaiba had to have done something to him. Just the thought made me go from a medium irritated, to insanely enraged. I stepped into Kaiba's line of sight and growled through clenched teeth, "I'm over here."
"I don't have time to waste on you, I have my own attraction to get back to and I suggest you do the same." Kaiba said stepping back into the classroom.
"Alright Ryou I'm coming! See you guys later !" Malik said as he was already dragged halfway down the hall by Ryou. "Wait for us !" Yugi yelled chasing after them, Marik put a hand on my shoulder and said " Just forget him and enjoy the rest of the festival." I clenched my jaw and only nodded at him before walking down the hall after the other three.
Third Person POV:
     The rest of the festival went without anymore problems, Yugi, Malik, Ryou, and Bakura worked most of the festival in the café, and it was a big success. Now it was towards the end of the festival where everyone gathers outside around the bonfire to watch the fire works. But it seems as though the Egyptian thief was doing what his name suggests, he was stealing, and what he was stealing, was a very annoyed sorceress, away from all other students and staff, back into the school.
"Bakura could you please tell me what we're doing in here? Shouldn't we be outside with everyone else?"
"Yeah we should but we're not, besides there's a better view from the classroom, and it's a lot quieter."
"But won't we get in trouble ?" Ryou's eyes scanned around the hallway while Bakura opened the door.
"Not if we don't touch anything, now, after you Milady." Bakura said holding the door for Ryou, who just scowled at him but continued to walk inside. Bakura closed the door after him and took a seat on a desk closest to the window and pulled up another one for Ryou to sit on. Ryou just sighed at his friend and sat on the desk. "Why'd you bring me up here with you ?"
"Because I wanted to get away from the commotion outside, and I didn't want to go alone, and you're the only one who doesn't get on my nerves." Ryou just sighed again, and he and Bakura decided to people watch to pass the time. That is until Bakura's eyes spotted Kaiba talking with a few other students, and he remembered what happened in the hall earlier that day. "Hey Ryou?"
"Yes Bakura?"
"Earlier when we had that nice chat with Kaiba, I saw the way you panicked at the look he gave you, did he do something to you? Because you know I'll have him in a body bag if he did !" Bakura said looking straight into Ryou's eyes. Ryou blushed at Bakura's intense stare, but looked down after realizing Bakura's question. "No, Kaiba didn't do anything to me...he just...said something to me that's really messing with my head."
"What did he say?" Ryou could already feel the angry aura coming off of Bakura, but he knew he had to continue, "I'll tell you, just give me your honest opinion after you've heard everything alright ?" Bakura just nodded his head and Ryou began to speak again. "Alright so it was a few days ago, when I was heading back to class after getting extra paint with you."
*Flashback*
"Sorry to have come up to you so suddenly but I have an offer that you might be interested in."
"What kind of offer?"
"Well, you see, things in the student council have become hectic, and I could use some more help, and seeing how you have such perfect grades, for only being here for such a short amount of time, as shown me that you're just the person I'm looking for, so how would you like to become Vice President of the student council?"
Ryou was at a loss for words, "Wow Kaiba-San, this is a lot to take in-"
"Don't worry I know and I don't expect for you to give me an answer right away, I'll give you some time to think about your answer, and once you have one, you know where to find me, now please excuse me."
* End Flashback*
"And that's what happened." Ryou finished.
"So you're gonna say no right?" Bakura asked, Ryou eyes widened at Bakura's quick response.
"Well that's just it, you see being the Vice President of the student council, would mean I wouldn't be able to hang out with you and the others as much, but it's also a great opportunity and it'll look great for when I look for colleges in the future, so I just don't kn-"
"What do you mean you don't know ?!" Ryou flinched at Bakura's sudden rise in voice and he had gotten up from the desk and was standing beside Ryou. "Kaiba is a jackass, and he probably has some kind of ulterior motive to ask you something like that! So you should reject it!"
"Bakura how can you be so sure ? I can't just let something like that decide something that could potentially be something huge for my future ?!" Ryou also began to raise his voice and stood up as well.
"Because I just know ! I've known him longer than you have !"
"Bakura you're being irrational!"
"AND YOU'RE BEING AN IDIOT !" Ryou's eyes widened, never since he had come here, has Bakura ever insulted him like that, and it felt like arrows through the poor boy's heart to see Bakura, who he thought was his friend, look at him with such rage and be so aggressive towards him. Ryou was on the verge of tears "B-but Baku-"
"You know what? Just forget and do what you want, as if I'd care anyway!" Bakura yelled as he shoulder checked Ryou on the way out. Probably a lot harder then he ment, but all his rational thought was blinded by rage. Why won't he just listen to me?! Bakura screamed in his head and punched a nearby locker as he stomped down the hall. The force from Bakura hitting Ryou was enough to make him stumble backwards and fall straight to the floor, Ryou knew there would definitely be a bruise on his shoulder tomorrow, but he was too overcome with sadness to care and yelled, " FINE BE THAT WAY!" As he ran to the opposite direction Bakura had gone with tears falling down his face. And he says Kaiba's the jerk?!

Uh oh looks like the ship hit a rock, will Ryou and Bakura be able to make up and what will Ryou decide to do? Find out in the next chapter, thanks for all the reads and comments guys it means a lot ! Bye !
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