Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ My Promise ❯ Childhood Saga: Bakura, the unfriendly ghost, Part two ( Chapter 4 )

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4 Childhood Saga: Bakura, the unfriendly ghost, Part 2.

There are some Japanese words in every chap.

The Japanese words which are mostly used in fics I WON'T name. If you don't know a translation, just look in earlier chaps to find their translation. If these words aren't named in there, and if you REALLY wanna know a translation of one word, just mail me! With these words I mean hai, iie, gomen, yami, hikari, etc. etc.

For the people who don't know any difficult Japanese words, here's the translation of them who are gonna be seen in this chap;

Yamero: Stop that!

Simatta: Shit.

Yosh': ALL RIGHT! Cool!

Disclaimer: Yu-Gi-Oh isn't mine. I do not own Ryou, Bakura, or any other characters.

# Where's the exit? #

As he said those words, I fell over and started to laugh my head off.

“You're funny! It's right under you! Haven't you ever been in a tree-house before?” I snickered, but shut my mouth as I received a cold stare from `Kura.

# I thought my name was Bakura, instead of `Kura! SO DON'T LET ME REPEAT THIS ANOTHER TIME! #

No fair ...

# Life isn't always fair, kid. Now lets go to that house of you #

“OKAY!” I squeaked, and showed him how to climb to downstairs seen from up here. At first he was hesitated a bit, but when he noticed I noticed this, he snorted once more and climbed also downstairs ... at least, that was the plan.

Since he was wearing summer-clothes, and since at the point he was almost in the middle of the ladder a cold wind blew, he sneezed.

And hai, stupidly enough he used his hands to cover his sneezing, which caused him to notice -too late- he wasn't holding the ladder anymore, and fell down with a great `BOOM!'.

Luckily, he fell in a pile of snow ...

Unluckily, he was now freezing `til death ...

And very unluckily, I couldn't stop laughing, and he couldn't pull himself outta the snow.

“ YAMERO, BAKA! And help me outta this!” He yelled, but it was more a mumble, since the `BOOM!' caused some snow from the tree to fell upon him, so not only his body was packing in snow, but also his face was covered with snow.

“SIMATTA, THIS IS FUCKING COLD!” He yelped some more, still not able to come outta the pile of snow.

When I calmed down some more, I walked towards him, grabbed a sprawling hand, and tugged him outta the pile of snow.

When I finally did that thing, he suddenly turned around, so I couldn't see his face anymore. The strange thing of this all: he didn't snort ... heck, he didn't even look at me anymore!

“Nani ... what's wrong, Bakura?” I asked.

When he looked at me, I immediately understood it. He was freezing. His lips weren't their usual pink color, but were now blue-tinted. His cheeks were colored deep-red, and his hair was covered by the snow that fell. I didn't mind the snow, since I was wearing a cap and a scarf. Suddenly I reminded the fact he already had goose-flesh inside the tree-house, so now he must have been extra cold.

You see, in my tree-house it wasn't that cold, just cuz mommy hang the walls with some sort of fabric, so the little bit of warmth that was inside, was kept inside. But if you went outside again, it felt extra cold!

“O MY GOD! You're freezing!” I yelled at him.

He weakly snorted some more, but didn't seem to have the strength to say something back.

# Y-Yamero! ... ca -... can you lend me ... that thing you're wearing ... # He suddenly mentally stated.

“You mean my jacket, SURE! ... o iie, I forgot it ... mommy said I wasn't allowed to take off my jacket, since I could catch a cold that way.”

# It's not like I'm freezing right now ... Come-on! I'm WAY more important than you! Can I now have it? # He crossed his arms, hoping that would make him something warmer.

“I KNOW! Under my jacket I wear a sweater AND a waistcoat! You can have my waistcoat for the time we're still outside.”

# I don't know what a waist-thing is, but if it'll keep me warm, then it's fine by me ... anything is better than this thing I'm wearing right now ... what IS this thing anyway? Where I come from we never had these types of funky clothes! You must be a rich kid to have these soft clothes! Just LOOK at the fabric! #

“You never heard about T-shirts? BOY! T-shirts are cool, but you only wear them in summer, else you'll freeze! And everybody around here can afford T-shirts. But about my waistcoat, gimme a minute, then you can have it.”

# Well ... HURRY! I'm freezing here! # A snort followed the line, while Bakura was still freezing.

I nodded once more, before unzipping my jacket, taking it off, also taking my waistcoat off, and giving him the waistcoat, before pulling my jacket back on, cuz I also felt the coldness surround me.

# A bit better already. But I don't think I'd survive it longer than an hour here. So where's that house of you? # He mentally stated while pulling the waistcoat on.

I pointed at the house in front of me and Bakura, seen through the bushes. He looked up, but his eyes became larger when he spotted my house.

# ... WOW, That's what I call a HUGE house! # He gasped mentally.

I nodded another time, and gestured him to come with me. He followed me silently, probably still trembling a bit from the coldness.

“We're going back along the street side... I'll explain you another time why I do that.” I said, while NOT thinking of why I did this, cuz else he would able to hear it mentally.

Then I gestured him to the hedgerow, and both of us crawled through it. Then I began walking to the street.

# This can't be Egypt. The only freezing hours in Egypt are those in the middle of the night. And seeing the horizon, the sun just went down an hour ago #

“You lived in Egypt? Yosh'! My daddy works in Egypt! But now, you are in Japan, that's -I think- on the other side of the world.”

# NANI? That can't be! ... never mind, I think it CAN be. Since your dad gave you this thing, I guess he bought it in Egypt #

“Hai.” I nodded in response. We were now walking on the street, also in a big circle around my house -I didn't forget the thing I wasn't allowed to go to my tree-house in the first place!- and were now talking with each other ... that meant I was asking him things, and he was looking at the surroundings. I guess he never saw houses like this in Egypt before.

# To react at your thinking a second ago ... I think I already have a good influence on you! You weren't allowed in that house-in-the-tree in the first place! ... You're a very good student! Your master is proud of you! #

I blushed a bit ... never mind that, just scrap it: MY WHOLE FACE WAS REDDER THAN A RED-PAINTED TOMATOE!

“You're not my master, Bakura. You're my new friend. And it's a tree-house, not a house-in-the-tree.” I pouted. Geez, that sounded childish ... Matte yo! ... I AM a child ... why do I care?

# I told you I only want to be friends with you if I can trust you. So `till the point I can trust you, you just be my slave, and I'm your master! And I don't care how you call that house-in-the-tree, it's all the same to me! #

“No fair!” I pouted some more, but kept my mouth shut.

When we were almost by my front-door, something hit me -not literally-. I immediately looked at Bakura's side, which had already turned his face to my direction.

# Doush'tano? #

“The thing that you can read my mind is really, REALLY, scary! ... that's not my point by the way ... When did I exactly free you out of the ring?”

# Dunno ... why? # He shrugged his shoulders, and looked at the surroundings again. I guess he really likes the houses in Japan, and the cars ... and the gardens ... yadda-yadda-yadda. I wonder if he liked those simple things.

“Did you sing that song I heard just before I saw you?” I asked him. Hopefully he didn't get angry, cuz I don't know if he wanted to get remembered of that moment.

# Hai # he mentally stated, and snorted a bit.

“ ... It's a beautiful song! Can you teach me that song too?” I pleaded my eyes, and gave him a begging smile.

-PLEASE! Pwetty, pwetty, pwease!- I added in my mind. HEY, if he can talk mentally to me, then I wanna also do it!

# Iie .. It's my song, and not yours. And don't tell anyone I sang that thing ... It would ruin my reputation # He snorted again.

“Nobody knows you're here yet.” I dryly answered.

# Then that would ruin the reputation I want to create here! # He snorted once more.

“Why do you snort every minute?”

# Why do you keep asking annoying questions? #

“Cuz I want to know more of you.”

# I know something! # He suddenly mentally yelled at me. Then he turned around and said, with a little bit evil added in his voice.

“If you SHUT UP your mouth right now, then I'll tell you a few things tonight! Have we got a deal or not?”

at least he was talking to me for real ...

“Are you angry at me? I only asked you something.” I asked softly. I don't even know if he heard me, but hearing his reaction, I think he did.

“Hai, why wouldn't I be angry! I just came outta that ring, after way to many years spending in it, and then I met a STUPID child, who can't stop talking and asking annoying questions, and is now giving me a headache, cuz he won't stop asking me things which I don't care about! In Egypt you would be DEAD if you kept on being so curious! And if I say to that boy he has to shut up, he just asks if something is wrong ... HAI, SOMETHING IS WRONG ALLRIGHT! IT'S YOU WHAT IS WRONG!” He ended his speech with his famous snort.

# And stop saying I'm snorting ... I SNORT WHENEVER I WANT! #

“Demo ...”

# Stop `butting' at me! We go to your house now, and that's it. And some other time, I'll tell you some things #

“We're here, Bakura.” I whispered. I didn't move for at least 2 minutes, or at least from the beginning of his speech. I think this is a point I could start to cry any minute now ...

# AND I HATE CRYING KIDS! SO DON'T GO CRYING! #

“Demo ... why do you yell at me?” I asked, and sobbed a bit. My shoulders were already shaking, so now only wait for the upcoming tears.

# You're a wimp! And at this rate, you'll be a wimp forever! See this as a unique opportunity for you to pass the `wimp-level' and become a normal kid! #

“ ... But I hate people who yell at me ...”

# Get used to it. One day, when you move outta the house, you'll be no sweet child of your mommy anymore! Then everybody will yell at you ... this is, IF you won't listen to me. I'm only helping you to get you beyond the state you're in now! #

I think he has a point in his lecture. Off course I don't mean the point he said I was a wimp right now!

# Off course you are a wimp! And my lectures are ALWAYS right! #

But he didn't need to yell at me. I know it's meant sweetly, but it'll take plenty of years, before I move out of the house. And I was planning to be mommy's sweet son `till that time.

# Then plan again. If you want me to be your friend, things will have to change #

“Okay, Bakura ... But please stop yelling at me. I'm only six, so there's no way I'll move out of the house soon.”

# Depends on how you develop ... Come-on! I want to see that huge thing from inside! In Egypt we only had small houses ... and huge pyramids, but I wasn't officially allowed to go in those things ... that didn't mean I never went into a pyramid #

“Okay then.”

I started to walk to the back-door, while Bakura followed. When I reached it, I softly knocked, and stepped back a few feet. Bakura stood behind me, and unlike me, he hadn't a huge smile at his face.

# That's only cuz I have a headache ... and guess whose fault that is! # He snorted in my direction.

But I couldn't answer, cuz mommy opened the door already, looking angry ... scrap that, she looked pissed off!

“Ryou-chan! Where on earth have you been! I thought you didn't want to go outside, but you stayed away for more than 4 hours!”

She sighed, and opened the door now fully for me and Bakura. Strangely enough she didn't mention this was the first time I took someone with me home ... Perhaps she was tired from cooking dinner.

“Come-on Ryou-chan! And don't forget to wash your hands when you're ready!” She sighed one more time, before going back to the kitchen and cook further ... so far it smelled GOO-OOD!

# Is your mother blind? #

“Iie ... I don't know why she didn't mention you. But please come inside ... I don't think there's another place for you to stay.”

# Do NOT demand me for doing something ... Can I stay for dinner, the food smells good! # He almost knocked me over when he jumped -Hai, he jumped- inside.

“Okay then. But first I need to take my jacket and my shoes off.” I said and walked inside, where the hallway was, and undid my jacket. Then I took off my shoes, and put on my pink-colored slippers ... WITH bunnies drawn on it.

# You look ridiculous in those things! Pink is for girls, blue is for boys! #

“Tsss, I liked these slippers better than the blue ones, cuz only on the pink ones were bunnies drawn on! On the blue ones there were drawn soldiers and supermen on, and I like bunnies better.

# Sissy # I heard him mentally mumble ... NOT NICE!

# Who said I was nice in the first place? #

“I did.”

# Nice comeback #

See, I knew he could be nice! He gave a compliment! And only sweet guys give other people compliment.

# Would you please shut up! Now go talk to that mother of you ... I still have my doubts about trusting you. Perhaps it was better for the almighty me for NOT going to some nitwit's house! #

“OKAY! But first wash my hands ... and perhaps you can do that also! Your hands don't look clean also.”

A snort was my answer. But in the end he did as I told him. He offered me my waistcoat back but I refused it, since I was already warm and he still looked a bit cold. After this we walked to the kitchen, where mommy was.

“Kaa-san?” I started .. I really wanted to introduce Bakura to mommy, and also I wanted Bakura to trust me!

“Ryou-chan, not now. I'm really busy right now! Go see TV `till I finished this, then you can ask me whatever you wanted to ask.” Mommy said, not one time looking at me and Bakura.

“Okay, kaa-san.” I answered sweetly. I'd introduce Bakura later on.

# What's a `TC' anyway? # Bakura said while we walked to the living-room.

I giggled and said between snickers: “It's not a `TC', but a `TV'! Did you never see a TV in your whole life? WOW, you must have been too long inside that ring to miss TV! You've missed the greatest invention from this century!”

I walked to the TV, grabbed the remote control and turned it on.

“There! This is TV! It's super-cool!” I smiled, and turned on to my favorite consignor ... HEY, THAT'S `JONNY BRAVO'!

# ... I don't get it ... # I heard Bakura say mentally and before I could stop him, he sorta tackled the TV. This meant he jumped in front of it, and touched the screen with his hand, while his mouth hit the ground and his eyes got stuck to the screen, before they became twice their normal length.

When he opened his mouth, no noise came out, so he closed it. And there he went again, opening his mouth, then closing it because no noise came out. He looked like a fish that way, snapping for breath.

# ... UNREAL! ... # I heard him mentally say, before his whole mind sorta stopped thinking, and all he could do, was watching the TV-screen. He repeatedly knocked carefully with his hands against the TV-screen, like he was hoping someone would wave back. Further, all his actions were lowered to only stare, mimicking a fish, and knocking the screen.

He touched the screen also with his other hand, so now a baby Johnny Bravo who was staring at the kindergarten-teacher was outta my sight.

“Bakura, please sit down. I like this cartoon!” I whined, while trying to shove his body outta the screen. But since he was standing, and zoomed outta this world, and I was sitting behind him, there was no way I could shove away.

After a minute I gave up, grabbing my newest book, and started reading in it -not out loud ... mommy still doesn't think I can read yet ... so let her please live in the dream-world of me who cannot read yet ... I have my reasons for doing this, by the way-.

As much as I liked the book, I still didn't like the fact Bakura was still standing in front of my precious TV while his hands hadn't removed out of the screen. He was still in some sorta trance, which looked like he was stoned or something along that line.

When Johnny Bravo ended -NO FAIR! I MISSED THE WHOLE EPISODE!- he suddenly turned around and spoke ... well, he tried to speak, but ended up stuttering:

“Nani ... Demo ... How ... When ... I don't ... Nani ...-

“What's wrong Bakura?”

“I ... I ... HOW ON EARTH DID YOU DO THAT?” He suddenly yelled, and immediately I heard my mommy yell from the kitchen: “Ryou, I love your interest in TV-shows, but PLEASE calm down a bit! Don't go yell toward TV-people!”

I think that got him back to this world. He shook his head in confusion and then said, this time without stuttering: “HOW did you got that?”

This time it was my turn to look in confusion to the other.

“What do you mean by that?” I asked, this time softer spoken, so mommy wouldn't yell another time.

# You ... You just ... YOU CHAUGHT PEOPLE AND LOCKED THEM UP INSIDE A BOX! #

Emmm ... “Bakura, I think I need to explain a few things ...”

# THAT'S SO COOL! SUGOI! I never thought you were able of doing such a cruel thing! I think you're way cooler than I expected you to be in the first place! #

He started to grin widely. # Yep. If this continues, I think we'll be friends in no-time! #

“Bakura ... Although I liked the idea that you liked me better ... I didn't lock those people up.”

# Iie. You're lying ... Look at the screen! #

I turned my head towards screen, just to see a women scream for help.

“HELP! I'M CAPTURED! SAVE ME, CLAUDE!”

I fell in anime-styleâ„¢, before yelling -absolutely unaware of the possibility that mommy could hear me-; “That's a soap! People always cry and scream for help in those things! And that woman is not captured, that's just Cecilia! She's my favorite character of the soap `underway to golden times'. She's always screaming! If it isn't cuz she saw a murderer, than it's cuz she's havin' ...you-know-what-I-mean... but they don't show that!”

(((((A.N.; I just mixed up some Dutch soaps, and this was the result! I wonder right now ... IF there's a Dutch person reading this ... can you guess to which 3 soaps-names this name comes from? HINT: one soap has ended quit some time ago, and the other 2 are the most famous ones in the Netherlands! )))))

# You mean you KNOW that woman! WOW, you're givin' me the creeps! # Bakura backed away a bit, making a larger space between me and him.

“PLEASE! Stop saying I put those guys in there. People just tape things, and play it on a TV! I never locked people in TVs!”

# You mean other people lock those guys for you in the TV! YOU'RE AWESOME! # He cheered mentally.

Although I loved the compliments he gave me -I mean, no-one ever called me `awesome' before!- I didn't have more time to try explaining Bakura how TV works. Mommy called me from out of the kitchen.

“I'm coming Kaa-san!” I yelled back, turned my face to Bakura and motioned him to come with me.

Both of us walked to the kitchen. I, being tired of Bakura, and Bakura himself, being happy of the fact he thought I locked people in the TV for my own fun. When I stood still, Bakura walked a bit further, collapsed against my back, scratched his belly and then backed away a bit, so it didn't look like we were sticking together.

“What did you want to tell me, Ryou-chan?” Mommy asked, not looking up from what-ever she was preparing.

At this point I started to grin like madly, and said over-active, which caused me to fall over my words: “I ...I-I-I-I, I have got ... have got a FRIEND!” I managed to squeak out in the end.

“That's great, honey! That's probably the reason why you were outside for so long,” Mommy turned around, stooped down to my level and smiled at me, “What's his name anyway?”

“Well, he forgot his name, so I just lent him our surname ... So his name's Bakura!” cheered happily, “I met him when I was playing outside! And although he's really strange sometimes -I immediately received a cold stare from Bakura- he can be sweet! Only he never saw a TV before! He's SO funny sometimes!”

Suddenly my mom's happy face disappeared and made place for a frown ... Nani! wasn't she happy for me?

oOo End flashback oOo

“Back then I just thought Kaa-san was surprised cuz this was the first time I brought a friend home. But after that, I think she thought I had been so lonely for such a long time, I started to see things.”

“ ... I never realized things went this way. I just thought he was always a bully, and would always be ... not that he IS a bully ... I just didn't know him very well to really .. know him ...” Yugi said something for the first time in more than a half an hour.

“I didn't know when I first met Yami,” he continued speaking, “ ... I do remember zooming out often while I was dueling, but I never thought another me was taking me over.” Yugi said softly, hoping I wouldn't get too emotional by remembering me of the fact Yugi still had a Yami, while I ... sorta didn't care anymore.

“But as I was telling, my mother looked very strangely at me ... That was until I said ...

oOo Enter flashback oOo

“Kaa-san, is something the matter? Anyway, as I was telling, Bakura wanted to go to my place, so he's here right now.”

Then mommy's frown disappeared, before standing up and walking to the cooking-range. She poked with a fork into the meat, and suddenly said -way happier than she looked a minute ago-; “Ryou-chan, I'm sorry I reacted that way. Can you please grab some grapes out of the refrigerator? And if that `Bakura-person' wants to come here, he can. But doesn't he has parents to eat with at #1 Christmas-day?”

“Iie Kaa-san.” I said, while walking to the refrigerator. I opened it, and heard another gasp from behind me.

I didn't respond at Bakura's gasping, but grabbed the grapes, closed the door, then gave it to my mommy, while saying: “But Bakura is already here.”

Then the strangest thing happened. First mommy turned around, while Bakura stood now direct in front of her, but then mommy said: “Then call your friend. I don't see him, so please go get him. I really want to meet that boy.” Then she grabbed the grapes and started cleaning them. When she turned around a minute ago, I just thought she just didn't see Bakura ... but now I'm not THAT sure of it anymore.

Bakura, probably aware of his invisibility, climbed on a chair, and started waving at my mommy.

I think I could laugh at it, wasn't it for the fact, mommy really couldn't see him.

“Mommy, he's already here.” I spoke.

She turned around, and faced Bakura totally. Bakura was practically 10 inches away from her. From this point it looked some really funny play, like sometimes those things on the TV where I laugh my head off ... it looked like they were playing in front of the camera:

oOo Begin scene 1 oOo

Mother and new friend in kitchen. Ryou stands near the refrigerator. Mother stand for dresser. Bakura stands on chair, 2 feet away from mother and dresser.

Bakura:

-wave, wave-

Ryou: (thinking)

-Bakura, stop waving!-

Mother:

“I don't see him.”

Bakura:

-big smile ... wave, wave-

Mother:

“Ryou-chan, where's that friend of you? Is he to shy to come out from wherever he's hiding?”

Bakura:

-huge smile made place for a evil toothpaste-grin, climbs off the chair, climbs on the dresser, wave some more-

Mother:

-turns around and faces Bakura again, now dancing a stupid dance on the dresser-

Bakura:

-dances the chicken-dance ... until he kicks against a plate, which falls on the ground. He looks dumbfounded, and looked a bit guilty to Ryou-

Ryou: (thinking)

-Finally she'll notice you ... Then I can introduce you!-

Mother:

“O no! I'm so clumsy! Ryou, please don't disturb me, I can't concentrate on making dinner in that way.” -She starts cleaning the broken plate, and still doesn't notice Bakura-

Ryou:

-jaw hits ground-

Bakura:

-Now does the goblin-dance ... # wave your hands in the air, then sit down with a sigh, put your feet on the ground, yadda-yadda-yadda #-

Ryou:

-stares his eyes out-

Bakura:

# Egyptian style! # -dances around like mad, while arms wave through the air ... Bakura doesn't kick on anything else-

Ryou: (Thinking)

-BAKURA! Stop that dance ... please!-

Bakura:

# Far-away-tian style! # -jumps up and down on the dresser and sings mentally the weirdest song ever ... # jumping, jumping! Not quitting for a LOOOOONG time ... I can JUMP some more! #

Mother:

“Ryou. I almost fell for it. Please don't make fun of me again. Perhaps daddy likes this joke also ... but now you can go play some more. I don't want to get disturbed once more so I drop another plate.” -Mother turns around, only to stare directly into Bakura's eyes. Mother doesn't say a thing-

Bakura:

Bakura sticks out tongue, and sings # TIL I CAN JUMP SOME MOOOOOOORRRRRREEEEE! #

Ryou:

“Hai, Kaa-san. I'll go my room.”

Bakura:

-ends his dance with another wave # TIL I WAVE THIS SONG OUT! #, then jumps off dresser, and motions Ryou to come with him-

oOo End scene 1 oOo

“Your mother is almost as cool as you. I mean, you lock up people in funky boxes, and your mother is as blind, iie, even blinder, than a mole!” Bakura was now laughing his head off in my bedroom.

“It's not funny ... and I haven't got the slightest clue why mommy couldn't see you.” I mumbled, but Bakura kept in laughing his head off.

“And stop laughing ... although they can't see you, they sure can HEAR you!”

“GOMEN! It's ju-ust so-o-o-oooooo fu-nny!” He was laughing so hard, he could only hick up the words, so it looked like he stuttered ... which wasn't really true, cuz he was just laughing his head off.

“Can't we go play or something like that ... I don't think Tou-san will see you if Kaa-san can't.” I tried to ask Bakura, but all I received back was an even harder laugh.

“I think where you got the idea from that I would know that stupid ghost, Caster, Caspor ... Cas ...Cas ... What was his name again?”

“Casper ... And he's not stupid ... ! ... Shall I show you the tape? I taped it, and now I can see it anytime!” I cheered up with the thought I could see the tape.

“You lock the poor ghost in a tape? COOL!” Bakura had stopped laughing, but was now looking with an intense gaze to me while laying on his belly.

“Emmm ... I told you already I didn't ... never mind, I think you wouldn't believe me after all ... anyway, can we please go watch the poor locked-up ghost `Casper' in the funky box downstairs?” I asked again, while sarcasm dripped of the last sentence.

Then Bakura jumped off the floor -He laid on the floor, while I sat on a pillow, also on the floor- and motioned me to come downstairs.

# Then we'll see that poor locked-up ghost ... can we also get some rare food from the big white shining box in the room where your mother was cooking? You know, where you magically got those fine-looking grapes from! -I deeply sighed- ... and by the way ... I trust you now ... after this locking-innocents-up-in-the-TV-action ... We're now officially friends # Then he ran forwards to the TV downstairs, while his words sank in into my mind ...

O.o

YOSH'! I've got my very first friend!

I smiled widely to nobody in particular, and then ran also downstairs, hoping Bakura wouldn't have tried to save Casper or Cecilia by knocking over the TV, or tried to open the fridge to get something to eat.