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[OPEN] Love Shack

Characters: OPEN
Location: Nocturne Bazaar
Rating: Gen… Maybe. Don't do anything you wouldn't tell your mother about!
Time: April 3rd, April 4th
Description: The "attraction" was quite the hit last time. Who will you find yourself shacked up with now?

The island the Bazaar sits on is certainly big, but who thought they'd be able to fit an entire river on top of it? The line for the ride is just as large as you'd think it'd be, and it's been split in two with a tall screen to prevent people in both sides from seeing the other.

The staffers operating the line don't seem to care about making it grow; they're literally pulling people unlucky enough to wander too close and shoving them in a line before they can protest. You could try to get away, but the rest of the crowd's pushing impatiently forward and before long, you're up.

You might as well just get it over with. Hopefully the company's nice.

((ooc; this log takes place over both the first day and the second day. please use the subject line indicator [ NAME | DATE | OPEN/CLOSED ] and keep in mind that during the second day, characters will likely be under the effects of growing madness!))

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[[Bakura had noticed the Tunnel of Love on his first round and given it wide berth when he had been alone. Just because he didn't have his fan club in Death City didn't mean any of those reflexes had gone away, after all!

But with Yuugi with him and happily chatting away when there was a push from behind, propelling him towards the ride. He had just enough time to see Takuto give him a wink as he sauntered off before he and Yuugi were escorted towards a waiting boat.

Wait-- wait-- what-- but--

There was a small bubble of panic as he looked from Takuto's retreating form to Yuugi to the ride they were being guided to. While one part of him was actually rather thankful for the prank (because there was no other way he would have been able to go on this ride with Yuugi...!) a larger part of him was panicking that somehow, Takuto knew. It was one thing for Ryuzaki to have figured it out, he was the nosy, super smart detective, but Takuto?! Takuto shouldn't have even known that he liked any boys at all, never the less Yuugi! Did that mean he was that obvious?! Did Yuugi know already?!

He looked over at his friend, trying to judge his reaction to it all, trying to keep all his own hidden until he could see what Yuugi's response would be....]]

[Yuugi is totally unprepared for the sudden shove and stumbles right into one of the attendants, who grabs him so quickly he doesn't even have time to notice what ride he and Bakura are headed towards. A brief glance over his shoulder reveals a glimpse of Takuto disappearing into the crowd, and all Yuugi can think is... huh? What just happened?

Wait a second. That sign over there. The tunnel of...?

Oh boy. Suddenly he can't help remembering all the weird stuff Takuto said to him the first time they met in person, about Bakura looking for Yuugi and talking about him all the time and how he meant so much to him and Takuto didn't really jump to the conclusion that they were like that did he?!? This is just a practical joke. Right?

... Oh boy. Yuugi goes red and tries to protest as he is half-dragged over to a rather ridiculous swan-shaped boat, but it does no good whatsoever and a few short moments later, he and Bakura are seated side by side--along with Bakura's new stuffed toy, which is really crowding the tiny boat--and about to embark on a journey of love together (at least, that's what the staffer tells them before pushing them off.)

Awkwaaaard.]

[[A small glimpse is all it takes before Bakura looks away again, his own face darkening with blush.

Damnit, Takuto-kun!

What should he do? Should he say something? But what? Maybe...]]

Well... I guess we did want to go on every ride...

[[He peters out, glancing back over at Yuugi again, awkward and nervous and everything in between]]

[Unlike Bakura, Yuugi isn't nervous, just awkward. But then he's not the one heading through the tunnel of love in a cozy boat with his secret crush.]

I guess we did...

[Every ride except for this one, but now it's too late to do anything except wait until it's over. Gah, Takuto.]

Uh... I don't know what Takuto-kun was thinking.

[That's a lie but it's a lie to cover up awkward, and is therefore forgivable, right?]

[[Bakura could guess... but how Takuto was thinking that...!]]

He doesn't seem the type to pull pranks, does he?

[[There was no way this wasn't going to end badly!]]

[Gah, Yuugi thought the same thing about Takuto but he was hoping to be wrong! If he wasn't trying to play a prank, that means the other boy might actually think the two of them are more than friends, and... Wow, that is just a really embarrassing misunderstanding.

Yuugi is almost grateful they've entered the tunnel itself now and it's too dark for Bakura to see his face.]

I didn't think so either.

[Awkward pause.]

He might just have the wrong idea... Like before...

[[Oh shi--]]

Like before...?

[[TAKUTO WHAT HAVE YOU DONE]]

[Ahahah, yeeeeeah... Totally not giving Bakura details about that conversation, 'specially now when they're in a dark tunnel with cheesy love songs echoing across the water.]

You know, when he thought we'd had a fight or something!

[[blink blink.

Blink]]

Why would he think something like that...?

[YUUGI DOESN'T KNOW EITHER.]

He thought you and I were from different times and that we, uh... had some kind of argument, but we didn't. [He scratches his cheek.] And he also said he thought you had something you couldn't tell me right now...

[His tone is cautiously neutral, because just in case Bakura does have some kind of secret that he's keeping, Yuugi doesn't want to seem as though he's prying. Though he's pretty sure Bakura's only big secret was about not avoiding the spirit of the Ring, and he already knows that now, so...]

[[blink. Blink blink.

Where there sure as anything was something that he couldn't ever tell, however...]]

...I don't think I've ever said anything to Takuto-kun that could sound even anything like that....

[[.....]]

I don't even think I ever mentioned anything about different times at all... or even mentioned anything to him about you after you arrived...

[[There's a growing, uncomfortable feeling right now... Well. A new kind of uncomfortable.]]

[Bakura's response confirms a guess Yuugi'd made the last time he mentioned any of this to his friend.]

Yeah... [He resists the urge to sigh.] I guess the other Bakura told him something weird.

[There's a note of sympathy in his voice; he has only a vague idea of what it must be like to have someone imitate him without his knowledge--he doesn't remember a lot about what it was like when it happened to him--but he does feel badly for his friend for having to deal with it.

... The other Bakura just can't live with himself unless he's causing confusion somehow, can he?]

[[Bakura's shoulders slump]]

Aaaa~aaah! After he said he'd stopped pretending...! That stupid jerk!

[[he slumped forward, resting his forehead against the overstuffed plush]]

Now I have to talk to Takuto-kun about him, don't I...?

[[his voice was tired and a touch muffled from the plush]]

Bakura-kun... [Yuugi turns toward him, their knees bumping slightly in the small space.] Do you want me to talk to him instead?

[Takuto, he means. Not the other Bakura, because he already figures how well that would turn out.]

[[Bakura shakes his head, sitting back up again]] I don't want to put you in the middle of this... that jerk is my responsibility to deal with. [[there's an almost resigned stubbornness in that]]

You think so? [Yuugi is clearly skeptical.] Why should he be your responsibility...?

[The other Bakura is too good at creating problems; there's no way just one person should have to deal with that, okay.]

Because... [[he hesitates a long moment before his shoulders slump]] Because I put the Ring back on... because I let this all happen... [[finishes in a very soft voice]] He's only here because of me....

He's not here because you wore the Ring again. [Yuugi points out quickly, but he recognizes that it's not enough just to say that. Why Bakura had chosen to put the Ring back on is something he's never really understood himself, though right now doesn't seem like the best time to ask why he'd done it.]

It's not your fault...

[He believes that much. There's more at work regarding the items and the spirits within them than they realize or can control. There always has been.]

He'd still be trapped without a body if I hadn't... [[The protest is quiet before he sighs softly, leaning back against the seat of the boat.]]

He always ruins everything, doesn't he? Even when he's not right here. He makes it so I can't ever forget about him, no matter what....

[Yuugi's not so sure about that first part; if so many people have been brought to this world after their deaths then BREW must have a way of restoring their bodies... right? That has nothing to do with whether Bakura was wearing the Ring or not.]

Bakura-kun...

[He's not really sure what to say, though. He can't empathize, not really, because his own other self is so... different from the other Bakura. Sympathy, now, he can do that. And he does, his tone soft and almost apologetic.]

There being another you... I don't think we're supposed to be able to forget something like that.

If there's nothing I can do about it, what good does it do to remember...? [[His voice is soft and quiet.]] I just... wanted things to go right without having to worry about so many things...

[[He looks down at his left hand, tracing over the slightly faded scar]]

But forgetting isn't a good option either. [Yuugi can't help but think of his other self, and the memories they're fighting for so desperately.] Forgetting wouldn't make anything better...

[He's quiet for another moment, thinking.] I wouldn't want to forget about the other Bakura. In a way it's because of him that we were able to become friends.

[Not that he wants to shake the spirit's hand for what he'd done during that game of Monster World or anything. But still... In the end, he'd much rather having to put up with the other Bakura than to never have met the 'real' Bakura at all.]

[[Bakura looked up, almost recoiling at the thought]] But---

[[While it was true, the path of hardships, the bouncing from school to school, feeling almost like a ghost apart from the world until he had to move again...

Even if he had become good friends with Yuugi in the end... there was no way...!]]

[At the lack of verbal response, Yuugi drops his gaze.]

But there's a lot I don't understand. [He admits softly, his thumb tracing the edge of his Puzzle. He still doesn't believe that forgetting everything is anything to wish for, but he can't judge Bakura for having that thought.

Not when he's beginning to realize much more clearly the burden his friend bears. It's so different being the other Yuugi's partner.]

[[Bakura is quiet a moment, tracing his scar again]]

I never forgot about Monster World... [[His voice is soft and almost a touch distant]] I never forgot the important things... Just that he hadn't died there. Especially after---

[[He cut himself (and the thought) off. Not that he ever liked to think about that, but now was really not the time for it....! But he couldn't just leave that like that, Yuugi would want to know what he had been about to say...]]

...Especially after Duelist Kingdom...

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[OPEN] Love Shack

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