I'm very close to giving up on Bakura, I'll admit. It's been three weeks since our last run-in with each other, and I haven't heard anything from him since. In fact, nothing out of the ordinary has occurred in the past three weeks at all. I haven't sensed him following me lately, so I'm wondering if he's just leading me on now.
But...
Something makes me thing that he's not leading me on. If I had been contacted by the old Bakura, before all this immortal nonsense, I would be miles away by now; maybe even on another continent. But the new Bakura... I'm not quite sure. He's changed so much, and I can't help but comply with his wishes. Call me naive, but that's what I'm thinking right now.
I had to make major adaptions to stay here, too. Having no money, I couldn't very well waltz into a motel and ask for a room, so shelter was a bit of a concern for me. Luckily, I stumbled upon an ancient temple near the Nile that I could stay in. No one ever visits it anymore. It makes me wonder just how much people actually appreciate all our hard work those millennia ago. Sure, visitors come by the thousands to see the pyramids and the sphinx, but the temples are important too! We wouldn't have built most of our famous monuments if it weren't for the gods we worshiped in these temples.
I finger the index card Bakura gave me agitatedly. Why would he ask me to stay here if he wasn't going to do anything? He had better make his move soon, or I might just leave. I wonder if he would be able to track me down?
He could even be tracking me now, as I walk through a marketplace in Cairo. I don't sense him, but since I'm staring at the card he gave me and walking aimlessly, he could be walking in front of me for all I know. Right, I've got to put the cryptic card away and watch where I'm going.
Gazing upward, I catch a glimpse of white. Dear Ra, I didn't mean he could be literally standing in front of me!
"Ba—"
I blink. Before I even finish calling his name, he's gone. Disappeared into the crowd again. Dammit, I wish he would stop doing this! He needs to stand still long enough so I can talk to him, or even get a proper look at him!
I open my mouth to curse, but something flies into it, nearly choking me. After I finish gagging, I look at the moist—but not ruined—index card in my hand. Again, it has a verse. I wish he would stop doing this, too. I'm not in the mood to play games, and I'm not in a problem solving temperament either. Playing games has lost its appeal to me over three thousand years of aimless soul searching.
I sigh, and read the card out loud.
"I watched the world float to the dark side of the moon
After all I knew it had to be something to do with you
I really don't mind what happens now and then
As long as you'll be my friend at the end."
I look between both cards, putting them together in my head. There has to be a reason to these cards. Bakura wouldn't do this just to torment me. The new Bakura wouldn't, anyway. New or old, though, they do mean something to him, and therefore I should find that they mean something to me.
I've already come up with the theory that the first card. It talks about us individually, and our own experiences. But this second card suggests another person involved in our lives—each other, obviously. I just don't get the last line. Bakura and myself have never been friends. We never were to begin with, and we aren't now. Not really, anyway.
Bakura definitely meant for these cards to mean something about us, though. What he's hinting at, I don't know, but I will most certainly find out. I can already feel my old strategic mind shaking off its cobwebs, and my gaming senses are sharpening.
Whatever Bakura's playing at, I'm sure it's a two-player game.
First of all, I'll reward the people who know the verse: FurASmile, Anime Crazed, Elusia, Yamiyugistalker, and Terri (gives you all cookies). I am still not going to say where I got the verses, though, so if you want to know, you'll have to check out the reviews.
Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but I've been busy with Eighth Grade and with Japanese school (has piles of homework from both T.T). I will try to update sooner, I promise!
And I'm not going to say the results of my poll. You'll just have to figure out on your own, or read the reviews.
Ja!