The fall of icarus

WARNINGS FOR THIS CHAPPIE: USUAL
SHOUENEN-AI, IMPLIED BAKURA X RYOU, IMPLIED MALIK X MARIK, IMPLIED YUGI X YAMI,
SETO X JOEY—IMPLIED EVERYBODY WHY NOT?
NO LEMON IN THIS CHAPPIE. 
   
 
I WILL BE UPDATING SERVANT YAMIS TODAY BECAUSE PHILADELPHIA GOT POUNDED IN
SNOW AND I’M OFF FROM WORK TODAY!!!  YEAHHHHHHHHHHH
FRIENDSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Cheesepuff: Glad you like the shirt.  I like it too. Cinetti comes back
for more. Later.
0: Lemon chappie coming, people!  Just give me this chappie! 
Then….onto the goodness that is Bakura x Ryou.
Ssjgoddesschico: Thankies for the review. Anzu bashing rocks.
Cat: I feel bad for what they go through too.  They really love each
other, but it only proves how strong their bond is.
Anonymous: Thankies for the review.  I seem to have slot of people who
like Seto x Joey, but I can throw in a little Mai, too.  He can dream about
her or something.
X20Deepx:  Glad you like it.  Seto x Joey it is.
YugiCloset Fan: Here is the carnival.  I think I put in a nice amount of
humor in this one to balance the sweetness.
Firedraygon97: Yes, Cinetti was an a**.  I actually relly hated him when
I wrote his part. I thought he was a real creep.  One of my specialties is
villains which are really really easy to hate.

Carnival
Ryou woke from his sleep with Bakura dozing next to him.  He looked up
at his yami and poked him.  "Wake up."
Bakura stirred with a yawn.  He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and
stred.&nd.  "Fell better, Ryou?"
"Yup. It's all thanks to you, yami!"  Ryou hugged Bakura.  "Let's
call everybody to see if they want to come with us."
"Even the pharoah's lapdog?"
Ryou's eyes narrowed and pouted. "His name is Yugi and he is my friend. 
Yes, I know he'll come.  Yami loves games.  Joey will lick the place
clean of any food.  Malik and Marik will…..well….."
Bakura pulled Ryou on top of him gripping his bottom.  "I know you and
Malik love rides," Bakura grinned.
Ryou giggled as he resumed hugging his yami.  "Come to think of it, you
and Joey could wipe the place clean. You both have a bottomless pit for a
stomach."  Ryou sat up and poked Bakura's stomach causing his yami to
laugh.  "Who would have known that the vicious tomb robber's most ticklish
spot was his belly?" 
"Stop!  Ryou!"
"What's the matter? *poke * Can't take it like a man? *poke *  Got a
tickly belly, yami? *poke poke poke poke *"
"Ryou! I swear to Ra! I'll get you for this!"  Bakura tried to buck Ryou
off of his hip and failed to turn around. 
"What are you *poke * going to do *poke *?  Gonna punish me? *poke *
Send me to bed without my supper? *poke *" Bakura grabbed Ryou's shoulders and
rolled him off of his hip. 
"Ryou, if you keep doing that, there will be no carnival for us
tonight." 
Ryou turned red from laughing.  "O.K., yami. Ok. I'll call the
gang.  Change your shirt and get rid of those old shirts that were torn or
dirty.  We bought you new clothes today."  Ryou ran downstairs as
Bakura made the bed.  Bakura took his old shirts and tore them up into
strips.  He placed the shredded clothes in a box under Ryou's bed.  He
wore his new white shirt with horizontal stripes, a new pair of blue jeans, and
a blue solid shirt over the striped shirt.  The golden Millenium Ring
sparkled around his neck.  He brushed his hair back.  Before he went
downstairs he checked everything to make certain Ryou's night would be
memorable: candles, chocolates, and he planned to win prizes for Ryou at the
carnival.  Tonight was going to be perfect for him and Ryou. 
Bakura placed his dueling deck in his pocket just in case of trouble. 
He regretted not taking his deck this afternoon and vowed to keep it with
him.
 Ryou called to him from downstairs. "Yugi and Yami are in! 
Tristan's bringing Serenity!
Joey's coming, too."
"Seto's not bringing him on a leash, is he?"
"Joey and Seto had a fight. I think he's going out with Mai for revenge."
"Hmm…never thought Joey would be like that.  Seto and him were
inseparable.
Bakura popped a few more chocolate covered cherries into his mouth. 
"Let's get some pizza!"
"Tonight is going to be fun," Rsmilsmiled.
"It's going to be more fun than you know," Bakura winked and they left for
the  pizza place.
               
Ryou watched Bakura eat his pizza as if he hadn't eaten in 5000 years. 
Ryou was only on his first piece while Bakura was on his third.
"Are you going to save some room for later?"
Bakura gulped. "You eat too slow, Ryou." Ryou sipped his soda.
"What are we going to do first?"
"We'll do the rides last. Let's play the games first.  I'm sure the
pharoah will want to play."
Ryou looked up from his dinner.  "You promised to behave around
him."
"I will behave.  We've patched up our differences, but that still
doesn't mean we see eye to eye completely yet."
"I just want a good time with my friends."
"I will behave."
The couple finished the entire pizza compliments of Bakura's ferocious
appetite and wto Yto Yugi's. 
Yami opened the door dressed in his usual leather and buckles ensemble
(authoress drools).  Yugi brushed past his yami looking like an identical,
yet smaller twin.  "Ryou! You made it!"  Yugi hugged Ryou.
"Ready for tonight, Bakura?" Yugi asked innocently.  Bakura nodded in
response, the two yamis staring at each other eye to eye tensely.
Yami pointed to Bakura. "Are you ready to crumble beneath my mighty gaming
prowess, Bakura?"
"Dream on!  You know I can beat you any day of the week."
"Then what happened in Duelist Kingdom? I beat you then!"
Bakura crossed his arms unintimidated.  "Are you going to win your aibou
a dolly?  How cute!"
"Are you mocking me?"
"……You were the ruler of Egypt and you can't tell sarcasm when you hear it?"

Yugi pulled Yami inside.  He was letting all the cold air out of the
shop.  Ryou greeted Tristan and Serenity.&nbsI caI called Joey. He's going
to meet us there at the carnival gates.  Yugi closed the shop after telling
his Grandpa where he was going.  They met Joey and Seto at the gates. 
Yami, BakuTrisTristan, and Joey bought the tickets.  Yami and Bakura
dragged their hikaris to the water gun games.  Each of them aimed their
water pistol at the target.  As they hit the target, their balloons
expanded, Yami's finally popping first.  Yami burst into laughter. "I beat
you, Bakura!"  Bakura folded his arms and rolled his eyes.
The man at the counter gave Yami a little stuffed dog with a little heart in
its mouth.  Seto won Joey a little puppy dog,too.  He thought it was
so appropriate.  Yami gave it to Yugi and Yugi hugged him.  Bakura
tugged Ryou over to a ring game.  One of the prizes was a pair of stuffed
bears kissing.  It was obvious that Ryou was eyeing it, so Bakura gave the
man two dollars and he got five rings.  He had to throw the ring over one
bottle, but there were so many, it would take great skill to get all of the
rings over a bottle.  Bakura was getting ready to throw when he heard a
squeal and he felt arms around his waist crushing him in a hug once again. 

"Anzu, get off of him!" Ryou said trying to separate Bakura
again.    "He's trying to concentrate."
Yami and Joey snickered at her shirt.  "What? This is a friendly
shirt!  Laughing is like friendship!"
Bakura was surprised to find Ryou growling at the back of his throat. 
Bakura threw one ring and got it over the bottleneck.  Anzu grabbed Yugi's
animal.  "IT'S SOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!"
"Give that back," Yami said pulling it away from her.  Anzu grabbed onto
him in a tight hug and kissed his face frantically.  "Let's go on the
ferris wheel and the tunnel of love!!!! That's like a friendly ride!"
"I am not going on that ride with you!  You are a sick person." 
Anzu looked blankly at him which means her tiny brain was processing his
sentence to decipher it's simple, flat meaning.  "I'm not sick!  I
LOVE YOU, YAMI!"
"That sounds pretty disgustin' to me," Joey said revolted. 
"Yeah, that's a really sick thought," Tristan nodded in agreement.
"I love carnivals!!! YEAH!"
Bakura turned furiously. "Anzu, I'm trying to concentrate here, you
ditz!"
Bakura threw the rest of the rings and won the kissing bears for Ryou. 
"What made you so good at this?" Yami asked him.
"Well, it took a lot of skill to dodge your guards.  It wasn't easy,
King Yami."
Anzncednced around them like an idiot.  "These are happy friendship
bears!"  The group tried to run away from her , but since the crowds were
not there yet, it wasn't easy to lose her. 
Seto and Joey ran over to another game and played the wheels.  Everybody
put down fifty cents.  “Let’s see you win at this, King of Games! This is
merely a game of chance.”
“I’ve had worse odds against you.”
The wheel landed on Seto’s number, but on black and he bet on white.  A
strong of colorful metaphors left Seto’s lips until Yami slapped him upside the
head. 
“Don’t curse in front of my aibou!”
“Oh come on, Yami, that is the least you should worry about with him.”
Joey stepped between them.  “Knock it off, Seto!  We’re not here to
fight or talk about the Duelist Kingdom.”  Joey went over to a vender and
bought a Blue Eyes White Dragon with a big smile on its face-kina corny, but
Seto managed to calm down.
They caught Malik and Marik waiting for the Bumper cars with a wad of tickets
in their hands.  They joined the pair in line.  Anzu pouted. "It's not
nice to bump people!"
"That's the point of the entire game," Marik said with a grin winking at
Malik. 
"Why are you even here?" Malik asked.
"To have fun with my friends!" Anzu hugged Malik and Marik together. 

"Knock it off with the hugging!" Marik threatened poking her with the
Millenium Rod.
Malik and Marik grabbed separate cars.  Ryou and Bakura grabbed one car
as well as Yami and Yugi.  Joey and his date also grabbed separate
cars. 
               
The ride started and Anzu kept getting rammed by Yami and bakura who laughed
almost sadistically.  Marik kept hitting Malik in the back of his car,
causing a playful growl in the hikari.  Ryou held onto the side and front
of his car since Bakura wanted to drive.  He was now convinced that if
Bakura ever really did drive a car, he would have lost his license in five
minutes.  Bakura loved to play rough and his driving the bumper car was
fun, but he enjoyed ramming into Anzu who laughed it off as being
friendly.  Ryou laughed and looked at Bakura.  It was a long time
since he heard his yami enjoy himself like this.  Ryou could tell his yami
was enjoying himself being a little careless.  Bakura chased Yami and Yugi
with a big grin. Ryou was glad to see he still liked the thrill of the
chase.  "Here I come, King of Games!  Let's play a game of my
own!" 
Yami banged into Anzu and Bakura banged into Yami and Yugi sending a loud
cheer and chuckle from him.  Tristan and Serenity banged into Bakura. 
Joey banged into Yami and Yugi.  When the ride was done, Anzu staggered out
of her car with a backache from everyone hitting her.  "There's nothing
like friendship to give you a nice backache!  YEAH FRIENDSHIP!"
The group decided to get something to eat.  Seto and Joey split a funnel
cake and liked the powder off of each others fingers.  Yami bought Yugi
some popcorn and once in a while, Yami would slowly pop one into Yugi's waiting
mouth.  Anzu got some funnel cake because she thought it was real cake and
was really disappointed when it wasn't birthday cake because birthday cake
reminded her of friendship.  Anzu ran away for a while much to everyone's
relief.  Malik and Marik bought peanuts. Tristan and Serenity shared an ice
cream cone.  Bakura and Ryou shared cotton candy from a cone.  Bakura
bought an extra bag to take home since it was so sweet. 
Ryou watched as Yami put a piece of popcorn on his tongue and kissed
Yugi.  Tristan and Serenity were kissing the ice cream off of each other's
lips.  Malik and Marik did the same with their peanuts. Bakura and Ryou
watched the couples kiss. Bakura and Ryou turned around, so no one would see
them.  "Should we?  After this afternoon…" Ryou trailed off. 
Bakura was kissing Ryou already sharing the piece of cotton candy he placed on
his tongue. 
Anzu returned unexpectedly to see her friends.  She bought herself an
inflatable crayon and she jabbed it into Yami's back making him break his kiss
with Yugi.  "I'm drawing on you!"  Anzu moved the crayon around Yami's
back. 
"Will you quit it?"
Anzu jabbed Serenity with it.  "You know what happens when you
kiss?"  Serenity pushed the crayon away from her. 
"Nobody cares, Anzu!" Yugi shouted as he returned to kissing Yami. 
"You're making babies!!!"
Yami rolled his eyes and pushed Anzu away.  "You can't make babies by
kissing! Now go away!"
"Lucky for us," Marik winked to his hikari.
"Yeah, We would have fathered an entire army by now." Marik and Malik
led.&ed. 
Anzu poked Bakura on the back of his head with the crayon where Cinetti threw
him into the metal fence.  "Will you please…….go……away?"
Anzu jumped around with the crayon. 
"Let's go to the Carousel and the Ferris Wheel."
The hikaris pulled their yamis to the Merry go Round.  Tristen and
Serenity shared a brown horse.  Bakura chose a black horse with a large
feather on its head.  Ryou sat beside him on a white horse.  Yamso so
chose a white horse.  Yugi chose a white horse, too. "This was my horse's
color back in Egypt.  All the Pharaohs had white horses.  No wonder
the thief chose black."
"Now, Yami, Bakura's trying to be good.  Let's give him some
credit."
"I never would have guess that only a year ago, he was beating the living
snot out of Ryou and now they've become so close."
"Bakura loves him. Ryou is much happier, too."
Yugi and Yami watched Bakura actually laughing at Ryou trying to get his
horse to go faster.  Malik and Marik leaned on their black horses talking
quietly to one another.  Yami thought it was best not to know what that
pair was talking about. 
Anzu sat on her horse beside Malik trying to make it go faster. "COME ON
LITTLE HORSEY! THIS IS LIKE MARY POPP&nbs  I WANT TO DANCE WITH THE
PENGUINS! YEAH!!!!! I WANT TO WIN THE HORSERACE!!!  COME ON,
HORSIE!!!"  Of course, Anzu's horse didn't go up and down.  It stayed
there. It didn't move at all.  When the ride was done, the hikari's took
their yamis to the Ferris wheel.  Malik and Marik went first. Ryou and
Bakura went next. Yami and Yugi went next, then Tristan and Serenity, then Joey
and Seto.
Yugi and Ryou rested their heads on their yamis' shoulders and took their
hands.  The happy couples watched the stars sparkle like diamonds in the
night sky.  Yami and Bakura remembered their lives before their hikaris'
births.  The cycle of life was a funny thingsp; sp; Civilizations were
born, built, and turned to dust since they were first trapped in their
items.  For one perfect moment, hikari and yami felt complete. 
Bakura looked over at the smaller boy on his shoulder.  "Do you feel
better now that you had a nap today?"
"Thank you for staying with me, yami."
"Don't let anyone tell you what to do or what to think, Ryou.  I don't
think I protected you enough this afternoon."
Ryou looked up at Bakura.  "You were hurt, yami. I didn't want you to be
hurt."
"Oh Marik!" came a voice from above them. 
"Can you two lovebirds keep it down up there?"
"Marik, you're making the chair swing!"
"I thought you liked rocking!"
"I said knock it off!" Bakura yelled above him.  Bakura looked at the
bears he won Ryou.  He ran his fingers over them gently to feel their soft
fur.  Ryou took Bakura's hand and kissed his yami's neck sucking and
playfully nipping.  Bakura moved his hair so it wouldn't get in Ryou's path
of passion.  "You are so sweet, Bakura.  You still taste like cotton
candy."
Bakura ran his fingers through Ryou's cottony hair feeling each strand melt
under his carress.  Ryou ran his hands under Bakura's smooth chest. 
Bakura looked up at the sky and praised each one of those stars for giving him
such an exquisite angel.  What was it that gave birth to this boy so full
of passion, love, and sweet intensity?  How did destiny bring them so
close?  Or was it fate?  Bakura didn't care what had brought the two
lovers together. 
As Ryou ran his sweet lips over Bakura's neck as if claiming hir hir his
own.  Bakura vowed to protect this life beside him, this fragile
life.  Seeing Ryou gasp for breath and holding his side this afternoon
revealed how fragile he was.  "You are everything to me, Ryou.  I
don't know how you could love me."
Ryou pulled back from Bakura's neck and whispered in his ear. "I do,
yami.  I really do.  You are everything to me. I could never love
anybody else.  I gave my heart to you alone, Bakura.  I won't ever
give that up."  Bakura hugged Ryou tightly as they looked into the stars
knowing this starry night, the gods were looking fondly on the couple and that
for one brief moment, the universe and everything in it just seemed to twinkle
all the more brighter.
 
 
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