Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Room For Rent ❯ Chapter Four ( Chapter 4 )

Room For Rent

Chapter Four

AN: Bakura is angry because someone felt the need to insinuate that he has a feminine side. He would like to yell loudly that he does not have a feminine side, but luckily for you, the reader(s), he is not allowed to disrupt the peace of the pre-chapter-ness. Yes.

Ryou, after he was done 'eep'ing, decided to actually do something about the albino collapsed halfway on his bed. Using techniques he had learned in health, he carried (AKA dragged) him onto the bed.

After this quite weighty task (after all, Baku weighed at least twenty pounds more than poor Ryou did), he went downstairs to look for the Pepto Bismol. You know, that smelly pink medicine. Of course, it would only work if Bakura had been right about the pizza thing. Hn. Blah.

As mentioned before, he really didn't feel like bothering with this. Ryou was sleepy. He yawned, halting his half-hearted search in the cabinet for the stomach medicine. There wasn't any there, so he dragged a dining room chair in front of the refrigerator. Standing on top of it, he scanned the top of the refrigerator for the holy medicine bottle. He didn't manage to locate any medicine, but he did find an odd assortment of pens, some strawberry pocky, and a packet of batteries. He grabbed the pocky and began munching on it, before hopping off the chair.

He eventually located the Pepto Bismol hiding behind a 64 oz. bottle of ketchup. He wondered what it had been doing there, but figured it had probably ended up there just to spite him. Inanimate objects enjoyed tormenting his poor little mind.

He made his way back up the stairs, for once managing to not trip over anything; he thanked the holy medicine bottle for this strange phenomenon, but of course, this angered the pocky. It was the pocky that made him trip in the middle of the hall, it had to be!

He reminded himself to next time send his thanks to the pocky as well. However, I digress. Back to the story.

Bakura was lying in the bed, still out like a light.or a dark, if you want to get technical. But this is AU, and ergo, there are no hikaris and yamis! Maybe I'm talking too much. I should really stop now.

"Bakura?" Ryou called softly. You guessed it; the sleeping albino remained asleep. Ryou growled and grabbed a pillow, thwacking the other boy's face with it. It has by now been determined that Bakura is a heavy sleeper. Ryou, although slightly discouraged, would not give up so easily, which resulted in the practice of several strange methods of waking someone up.

Method one: jumping on the bed. Status: failed. Subject remains unconscious.

Method two: making lots of noise. Status: failed. Subject remains unconscious.

Method three: pouring icy water on the subject. Status: subject is still asleep, but did exhibit anger by involuntary twitching of the left eyebrow.

And so on and so on. It was on the last try, after which Ryou would have just given up, that he switched on the lamp on the bedside table.

"AAAAAAAAAARGH!" Bakura yelled, shielding his eyes. It took a moment for him to realize he was sopping wet. "Ryou.why am I covered in ice water?!"

"You wouldn't wake up, and you needed to take some medicine."

"DON'T YOU KNOW ABOUT THE THROAT THING?!"

"Erm.no?"

"Really? Well, neither do I. I've always wondered about that, actually. How does it work? And what is it?"

Ryou took advantage of Bakura's sudden conversationalist turn by shoving a tablespoon of Pepto Bismol in his mouth. Bakura sputtered angrily before he was forced to swallow the vile-tasting medicine.

"What was that for?"

"It'll make you feel better!"

"Oh yeah, just like stabbing me with a dull spatula will make me feel better!"

"What are you talking about? I didn't stab you!"

"Well, then.who did?"

"No one stabbed you! You're just mental."

"You're just making fun of me because I have to take special medicine. you bully."

"Whatever. Now, get out of my bed! I want to go to sleep!"

Bakura suddenly noticed the strawberry-flavored pocky in his hands. "Can I have some?"

Ryou threw the food (that he wasn't happy with and that wasn't happy with him) out the door. Bakura managed to save it from falling on the floor and began eating it. "I thought your stomach hurt."

"Of course not!"

"Then why'd you say the pizza was poisoned?"

"It smelled like bitter almonds! So obviously, they were poisoning me!"

O.o?

"CYANIDE!" Bakura yelled, brandishing the pocky at him.

"Eek!" Ryou squeaked, stumbling backward.

"Oh no, Ryou! You ate the pizza too! That means we're both gonna die!" However, as Bakura had just finished the last of the very threatening pocky, Ryou was no longer afraid, and was just annoyed. He pushed the mental albino out of his room and slammed the door in his face.

"Mwahahahahahah! I can now wreak havoc upon the poor mortal grapes! They will never be able to defeat me! I will conquer them with one iron fist!"

Ryou rolled his eyes as, five minutes later, there were sounds of Bakura being pelted by wrathful grapes.

Hours later, Otogi called.

"Are you up yet?"

"Well, gee, now I am," Ryou said, annoyed.

"Just making sure you don't oversleep or anything. I was just trying to help. You don't have to go all Ryou-zilla on me."

"Gomen ne," he apologized. "It's just that I've had a long night."

"Does poor Ryou-chan's head hurt?"

".A little," he admitted.

"HAS RYOU-CHAN BEEN DOING NAUGHTY THINGS?!"

Ryou 'eeped' and threw the phone halfway across the room, so that he could listen to Otogi and still be able to hear later. "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" he yelled in the general direction of the phone.

Otogi stopped yelling, so Ryou had to get up and retrieve the phone in order to continue the phone conversation. "I am sorry, sweet, innocent Ryou. I had forgotten just how naïve you were."

"O.togi?" he asked, confused.

"Never mind, never mind. So are you still coming?"

"If you'll let me have a couple more hours of sleep. Yesterday was quite tiring."

Ryou listening to the sounds of Otogi trying to keep his perverted comments to himself, but didn't know what they were. "Are you all right?"

There was a muffled sound.

"DON'T CHOKE, OTOGI! You remember what they taught us in health, right?! You remember how to do the Heimlich on yourself!?"

More strange noises.

"DON'T WORRY, I'LL CALL THE AMBULANCE FOR YOU!"

Otogi burst out laughing. "I'm fine, Ryou. I was just.having technical difficulties."

"You mean.you WEREN'T DYING!? I'LL KILL YOU, RYUUJI OTOGI!"

Otogi 'eeped' and hung up on him.

"How dare he use my word!" Ryou yelled, and went back to sleep.