Tenshibabe: Mmm, new chapter taste...urm lookie a new chapter...enjoy!

A/N:

"Talking"

'Thinking'

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(The authoresses' pointless blabber)

Shaddup!

Chapter 11: Are You Sure You Read the Manual?

Chalking it off as another random burst of insanity on Marik's part, Yami and Bakura continued on their walk. Marik not wanting to be left behind now that he had found something to do joined them.

"So, what's been going on while I've been gone?" Marik questioned, smiling at the other two yami's.

"What's that supposed to mean, did you actually go somewhere?" Bakura questioned right back, glaring.

"Hikari says it's rude to answer a question with a question, but to answer your question, for the past month Isis, Hikari and I were in Egypt...Isis went there for work or something, but Malik wanted to skip school, and ride a camel to compare it with his motorcycle-his exact words I swear." Marik answered, as he followed the strange pair.

Yami turned to him with a blank stare, "So that's why you weren't talking to me...And here I thought you were devoured by shadow ghouls, I suppose it was too good to be true..." there was a pause. " That wasn't...uh...I mean-oh forget it I'm not taking it back" he stated, his evil side winning today.

Marik pouted, and Bakura snorted. 'The pharaoh actually insulted Marik without being provoked' Bakura thought happily.

"What's got you so giddy?" Yami asked, raising an eyebrow. They entered a park, which included a small playground; Yami headed over to the swing set snagging one of the two 'big kid' swings available.

"I don't see why that's your business pharaoh" Bakura evaded, before pushing Marik off of the other swing.

The blonde yami pouted, rubbing his butt, as he glared at the thief who just stole his swing. "Meanie, that wasn't fair!" Marik whined; Yami rolled his eyes at their antics.

"Shaddup, your not allowed on swings, your afraid of heights remember?" Bakura stated annoyed with the other yami.

Marik stuck his tongue out at the thief, as he hoisted himself into one of the swings made for toddlers, "Says you"

"Says your mom" Bakura retorted. Yami shook his head at their immaturity. Really who does this anymore?

Marik sat flabbergasted, gaping at the white haired yami in awe. "Bakura...you know my mother?"

There was a short silence afterwards.

"I should stop talking to you, lest I become stupid" Yami deadpanned, glaring at the blond yami.

"You may be onto something there" Bakura added, contemplating the idea. Marik frowned looking between the two yami's.

"This is not fair, since when did you two become so chummy; now your both ganging up on me...just you wait one day I'll leave and you'll both regret it mark my words!" Marik argued turning to the duo pointing his finger at them.

"Ack! What are you; you aren't even listening to me!" Marik shrieked as he watched Yami and Bakura compete on who could swing higher, totally ignoring the blond yami as he glared at them.

"Hmph, fine then...some friends" Marik huffed, leaving the two darks to compete. He left the park deciding to check up on how Yugi and Ryou were, because he was a good yami and all; yep a good yami who was going to pay a friendly visit to his fellow hikari's and not that Ryou would give him cookies when he visited the British teen, nope just to be a good yami. Marik smirked to himself as he hurried on down the street.

Yami grinned as he landed easily passing Bakura by at least a meter. "You have to do better than that if you want to beat me Bakura" Yami stated looking down on the tomb robber even though Bakura was the taller one of the two. How that was even possible Bakura didn't know but Yami had a way to seem larger that life sometimes.

"Fine, I'll give you that but just you wait, I'll find something to beat you at" the light haired yami announced, as Yami nodded absentmindedly looking about the park noticing and ice cream vendor giving little children treats. Yami smirked, turning to the other yami who was still ranting on about something or another.

"Hey Tomb robber, buy me ice cream" Yami ordered, sticking his hands into his pockets with a smug look on his face. Bakura froze mid rant turning to glare at the other duellist.

"Excuse me?" Bakura questioned giving Yami a strange look. Yami glared back, looking down on him again.

"Did I stutter? Ice cream, go buy me some, since you lost so pitifully" Yami repeated much to Bakura's disdain. He had heard, he was just surprised was all; I mean this was Yami were talking about here.

"Hn, I'll get you your ice cream, but you've got to tell me what's going on with you, your acting stranger than usual" Bakura stated, heading over to the vendor.

Yami blinked, was he really acting different? He hadn't noticed; well maybe spending time with Marik and Bakura was changing his out look on some things he would admit. But he didn't think he was acting all that strange; and he told Bakura exactly that.

Bakura made a face, "So you're saying that spending time with us is somehow changing you, instead of your goody too shoes behaviour rubbing off on us?" Bakura questioned, smirking as he pulled out way too much cash and watching as the poor vendor struggled to make change for him.

Yami frowned as he ate his ice popsicle "Yea, I suppose...stop tormenting him it's not his fault your hikari is evil and is now working with mine to destroy the world one seemingly evil plot at a time" Yami intoned, as Bakura rolled his eyes, pulling out exact change and growling at the little kid that looked at him funny.

"Keh whatever, Its about time you stepped out of your self-imposed punishment and go wild, have fun embrace your dark side y'know the good stuff" Bakura explained whilst licking his fudgesicle. Yea the vendor didn't have any ice cream, only popsicles, which was a shame.

Yami glared at the tomb robber, "Who said I was punishing my self?"

Bakura smirked, "You could've fooled me; why else would you stay in on a Friday night to watch chick flicks with your hikari, when everyone else and their hikari's are out causing chaos and destroying government property" Bakura exclaimed, somehow managing to get fudge on his face during his heated ranting.

Yami grinned, entering the others personal space. "P-Pharaoh what are you doing?" Bakura gasped, stepping back as Yami leaned forward.

"Your quite the messy eater there Kura" Yami whispered, leaning close to lick a chocolate smudge off the tomb robbers cheek. "Hmm, yep I'll definetly take that next time".

"Y-Y-Yami! That's…this is inappropriate behaviour, what would our hikari's say!" A very red, very flustered tomb robber blurted out, hiding his heated cheeks behind his hand, eyeing the pharaoh warily.

"Hmph, don't care after all I'm finished spending Friday nights in, I'm feeling like I should let loose and as you say embrace my dark side after all I am a yami" he grinned, finishing off his popsicle.

"If you say so…just don't do that Ra knows everyone already believes we're having some yami three some or whatever" Bakura muttered, causing Yami to raise a brow in surprise.

"Oh really, well it's not that surprising since I told you two about the link we share we have been hanging out more often, you could say we've become-"

"Stop right there! Don't even start with one of those friendship speeches, or Ra help me I won't hesitate to destroy you" Bakura interrupted, Yami grinned nodding lightly.

"Well you guys may not have made a drastic change since we began hanging out, but there are some things" Yami started, Bakura looked surprised as he began to chew on his Popsicle stick. "Like what?"

"Well take for example with the ice cream vendor just now, a couple months ago and you would've intimidated that vendor into giving you his whole trolley worth of ice treats, his house, car, even his dog…however you paid for them, even if you did torment him a little" Yami explained chuckling at Bakura's shocked expression.

"By Ra your right, your absolutely right…I-I'm a failure of a thief, how dare I pay for anything in this city, this country …on this planet!" Bakura seethed turning to Yami. "And you, you allowed me to do it!"

Yami sighed, idiots the whole lot of them.

"Okay, put it this way, who did you get the money from?" Yami questioned, Bakura thought for a moment, "yes that's right you stole it from Tea this afternoon, because she was being a ditz and left her purse in the cafeteria, so technically you did steal the ice cream, see it all works out" Yami finished, rolling his eyes at the relieved expression written all over the thief's face.

Yami just hoped his dark side wasn't an idiot too.

Marik grinned maniacally at the thought of all the tasty treats that he would receive when he went to visit the poor lonely hikari's of his companions…out of the goodness of his heart of course. The blonde yami's grin erupted into a borderline insane laugh; causing mothers to hide their little children from his view.

As he passed the house next door to Ryou's he noticed that the two hikari's weren't inside but standing out in the open in front of the said hikari's house. 'What are they doing?' Marik thought, as he watched the two lights converse in hushed tones.

Marik hid behind the bushes that divided the two properties, trying to decipher what they were plotting. Then he suddenly remembered what Yami had been grumbling about earlier, something about their hikari's conspiring against them.

"Look this is stupid…Yami and Bakura…out of proportion" Marik furrowed his brow as he tried to hear what was being said.

Yugi sighed, and mumbled something, before looking panicked and whispering something to Ryou.

The light haired hikari smiled and shrugged. "It's not problem…everything…won't suspect a thing…huh?" Marik gulped as he noticed that both hikari's turned to his direction, curious looks on their faces.

'Oh crud…' He thought, as he looked up at the innocently, evil faces of the two hikari's.

"Heh, Marik-kun when did you get back" Yugi questioned smiling with his eyes closed, hands behind his back as he swayed back and forth lightly.

Marik looked between the two; Ryou wore the same expression as Yugi, until the taller youth raised a brow. "I wonder…if you've seen our yami's any chance, Marik-kun"

Marik breath hitched, the hikari's were looking very scary at the moment. 'What's with this Marik-kun business? Who is Marik-kun?' Marik's eyes widened as the last thing he saw was the creepy faces of the pair of hikari's, before everything went dark.

Tenshibabe: Not very long, I know sorry about that, well what have learned from this chapter?

Marik: That not all hikari's will give you cookies when you visit…

TB: Uh, yea…yea that's right :) R&R