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Characters: Yami Bakura and Nanami & and whoever would like to visit them.
Location: Hospital
Rating: PG-13
Time: May 21st – May 26th
Description: Yami Bakura and Nanami share a hospital room after their disastrous mission in Venezuela. Yami Bakura will be unconscious until May 25th, but Nanami will be here all week folks awake for the most part.


The room was silent with the exception of the machines beeping to remind visitors that the two bodies in the room were still warm. Nanami spent her time awake staring at the ceiling or out the window and periodically glancing over at her dormant partner in the other hospital bed that occupied the room.

He was covered in various bandages with bruises peeking out from behind them. His hair was sticking out in a more ridiculous manner than usual due to the bandage wrapped around his head like some sweatband from the 80’s. She had been updated on his condition shortly after she regained consciousness and besides the things you could see he had also twisted an ankle and had been poisoned by one of the monsters they had tried to fight off. The antidote had been administered shortly after they had arrived at the hospital but he was still unconscious.

Nanami hadn’t managed to get off scot-free either. Aside from the usual cuts, scrapes and bruises she had some deep lacerations on the left side of her back that had been stitched up and she was still anemic.

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[morecowbell]

Nanami set them on the tray next to her bed for the time being. "They've cleared me to leave later today with some restrictions but I've been told I could use the bed a little longer so long as they have a few other beds open." She looked over at the sleeping Bakura with a frown indicating that she had reservations about leaving the hospital while he was still unconscious.

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura followed her glance over. "...but you're worried about him...?" he guessed, voice soft.

[morecowbell]

"Mm," she replied as quietly as Bakura had spoken, "that's all I can do at this point, if I couldn't even do that I'd be worse than useless as a partner. And, your sessions with him, how are those going?" She moved along abruptly so as to not hover too long over her guilt.

[shiromadoushi]

"It's hard to tell, to be honest..." Bakura sighed, shoulders slumping. "I thought I was getting somewhere... but..." he trailed off unhappily, thinking about the chaos that had resulted the other day.

"Sometimes I think I can almost reach him... others...." he shook his head.

"...so you're proper partners, then...?" he asked after a moment, voice very soft.

[morecowbell]

"I see..." She stared down at the bandage on her hand from where they had removed the needle earlier that morning.

"Hmm? Proper? You mean like a permanent partnership? No," she shook her head, "we're just sometimes partners." She frowned over at Bakura wondering if that would be the case after this incident.

[shiromadoushi]

There was a faint smile at that. "Just someone he chooses to work with, then..." There was a touch of something almost like relief in that that he wasn't even quite aware of.

[morecowbell]

She returned her gaze to Ryou fast enough to catch the small expression change. She scrutinized him for a moment, "oh, could it be that you're his former partner?" She asked bluntly.

[shiromadoushi]

"Aaa..." Bakura faltered a moment, scratching at his cheek before pausing. "...he said he had a partner before...?" Had the other Bakura thought of him that way...? He hadn't said anything...

[morecowbell]

"I believe the words he used were "clingy and self-important". Well now that I think about it, he said it wasn't an exclusive partnership and he's mentioned he's had others as well but this one..." how could she say it, "he got quite worked up over it."

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura winces just a touch, looking down. "He never even told me it was a partnership..." he admitted softly. "Just... sometimes we wound up working together..."

[morecowbell]

"Hmmm?" Nanami hummed as if she understood everything now. "But none-the-less you were working together as partners. It makes sense now, even though your link was severed by coming here, you still have a strong bond. That's nice, isn't it," she said wistfully.

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura's right hand drifted to rub the scar on his left in an unconscious motion. "We... we never really had a bond, back home... not like that," he corrected. "We fought a lot. Misunderstood each other a lot. ....not that that really changed, coming here..." he admitted, shoulders slumping. "A lot of unpleasant things happened back home... a lot of things that he was the center of. ...things that I couldn't forgive him for...." he finished, voice very soft.

[morecowbell]

"Is that so? And yet, here you are." Nanami still felt her intuition was correct and was once again being stubborn about it even if the voice she had used didn't indicate anything more than pointing something out.

[shiromadoushi]

"U-- un..." Bakura agreed, but still looked unsure.

[morecowbell]

Nanami sighed softly with a small, somewhat bittersweet smile on her face, because she could relate. "Not that I don't appreciate your help on the matter but why? Why are you helping him if you can't forgive him?"

[shiromadoushi]

An awkward silence. "...I'm not sure if there's any way I can explain it..." he admitted after a moment, playing with his hands a moment. "Not easily..."

Not when she couldn't wrap her head around what they truly were to each other.

No when he couldn't explain it properly to himself.

[morecowbell]

Nanami tilted her head back and forth a couple times while trying to read him. "Well... it's not like I have anywhere to be if you'd like to try." To explain that is, after all, this could potentially affect her.

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura was quiet a long moment. Everything he could think of to say sounded stupid and wrong in his head. "...I just don't want him to die..."

It didn't explain anything. But it was the only answer he had.

[morecowbell]

"I suppose I sort of understand," she replied. She couldn't completely because the history she knew from both accounts so far had as many holes as lace. "You two are quite the conundrum."

[shiromadoushi]

A faint smile quirked at the teen's lips at that and he nodded. "Un... even to each other, I think."

[morecowbell]

"Well don't let me keep you, he needs you..." she'd just be over here being not needed, "And Ryou, you should probably solve that puzzle sooner rather than later or someone will take that piece from you." She didn't mean for it to sound as sinister as it did but well, it might get his rear in gear at least.

[shiromadoushi]

"Eh?" Bakura blinked, eyes widening slightly as he looked over. "What do you mean...?"

[morecowbell]

"You don't expect me to spell out everything for you, do you?" Nanami felt like teasing him a little.

[shiromadoushi]

There was an awkward uncomfortable moment. "...I don't think things are how you think they are, Nanami-chan..."

[morecowbell]

She shrugged. He may not actually be on the same page as she was which was par the course for Nanami, she didn't exactly follow normal logic.