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soul_logs2012-05-14 07:16 pm
shiromadoushi) wrote in soul_logs2012-05-14 07:16 pm
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[Open] Taking over the High Scores
Characters: Bakura Ryou & anyone else near, in, or around the arcade
Location: The arcade
Rating: ...N for nerdy?
Time: Feb 17th, afternoon & evening
Description: Uncomfortably familiar weird stuff is starting happen around Bakura in addition to the drama across the hall, so he's avoiding dealing with it by sinking far too many quarters into machines at the arcade.
It had started when he noted that something he had left in the fridge to have for the next day had been missing. He didn't pay it much mind and had just assumed that he had absentmindedly eaten it the night before. But it seemed like it kept happening... And things he was sure he had put away properly were winding up in other places entirely.
Like they had back in Tokyo.
But he wasn't losing any time this time. Sure, he still would lose track of time when he was playing his games, but realizing that it was suddenly 2am and he had finished the game was different than realizing that it was 5pm and he couldn't remember where he'd spent the last 2 hours. Or why he was in a different part of town than he'd started.
Rather than think on it, after finding the drawers in his dresser looking almost as if someone had been searching through them, he'd headed out to the arcade. What better way to avoid a problem than to play games, right?
Of course, the fact that he was still there, packing away high score after high score on his favorite games after the sun was starting to set when there a possibly serial killer lurking out there, was it's own problem, but when had he ever given things like that any consideration?
Location: The arcade
Rating: ...N for nerdy?
Time: Feb 17th, afternoon & evening
Description: Uncomfortably familiar weird stuff is starting happen around Bakura in addition to the drama across the hall, so he's avoiding dealing with it by sinking far too many quarters into machines at the arcade.
It had started when he noted that something he had left in the fridge to have for the next day had been missing. He didn't pay it much mind and had just assumed that he had absentmindedly eaten it the night before. But it seemed like it kept happening... And things he was sure he had put away properly were winding up in other places entirely.
Like they had back in Tokyo.
But he wasn't losing any time this time. Sure, he still would lose track of time when he was playing his games, but realizing that it was suddenly 2am and he had finished the game was different than realizing that it was 5pm and he couldn't remember where he'd spent the last 2 hours. Or why he was in a different part of town than he'd started.
Rather than think on it, after finding the drawers in his dresser looking almost as if someone had been searching through them, he'd headed out to the arcade. What better way to avoid a problem than to play games, right?
Of course, the fact that he was still there, packing away high score after high score on his favorite games after the sun was starting to set when there a possibly serial killer lurking out there, was it's own problem, but when had he ever given things like that any consideration?
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No wonder Ryuzaki had looked so horrified that day...
"And Ryuzaki-kun knows? And that's why he's..."
He trailed off again as everything started to make a hideous sort of sense. All the fighting, the way they interacted, the way Ryuzaki fixated...
Like Kaiba and the other Yuugi. No, the Ring's Voice and the other Yuugi... Only backwards, where the one who was wronged was seeking out the one who had done it with reckless abandon.
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"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
It wasn't a bad justification, as long as one didn't look into things too closely.
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"He always knows what he's doing," he said, and hoped he wasn't wrong.
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"Sometimes I wonder about that... especially when it comes to Asahi-kun...."
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"Smart enough to be a threat is also smart enough to be interesting."
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Bakura let the sentence trail off with a soft sigh. "And he didn't even tell me... I could have gotten him hurt if things had gone differently and I wouldn't have even realized..."
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"Everyone else is safer if Ryuuzaki's breathing down Yagami's neck. It's his call if he wants to make that literal."
Bakura was lacking context, as was so often the case here. Mello could give him more than he'd done before, but not all. "I told you he's really ten years older than I am. What I left out was how much I looked up to him. And how much he deserved it."
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"Eh?" Bakura blinked. "Really?"
It was times like these that he realized how little he knew about Ryuzaki's life before Death City. Small hints and assumptions, off handed comments and things Bakura was sure were flat out lies put together a poor tattered picture covered in scribbles of crayon.
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"Really. If he thinks his way of dealing with Yagami is the most effective option, trust me, he's considered all the others."
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"If you're sure..."
He was supposed to believe in his friends, after all... even if he worried deeply about them.
...especially Ryuzaki.