Spirits, Boats, and Crackers (Part 4)

Bakura's Apartment

///Bakura: Offer her some snacks. I have fruit in the back of the refrigerator and some crackers. I think I have an apple left too.///

///Bandit King: I'd rather offer cold death!///

///Bakura: If you try anything-///

///Bandit King: I know, I know./// Ryou Bakura would take his body back. "Bastard," he muttered as he checked the refrigerator. One minute he was stuck within an afterlife where he was stuck in Kul Elna. No one there, just lonely and unable to leave. The same way he grew up. He had no powers, and no demon in him. And now?

He was serving a spirit that was in Anzu Mazaki, fruit. ///Bandit King: This sucks and you all suck. I was supposed to get to destroy the world./// "Here."

She looked down at the food. She picked up the cracker box. "Crackers." She looked at the fruit. "Where is Anzu? I don't eat. I don't do anything, this is her body." She looked toward Bakura. "Do you know anything?"

"You showed up like a bad dream, and now I'm serving you food." He was honest.

"I'm not used to being served food. I served the food."

"Hmph." Well. ///Bandit King: That's a little less distasteful. Still. I am trying to figure out my problem and I don't need a woman meddling around here!///

///Bakura: That's why we called for Yuugi's friend. Now quiet. Be polite. Ask her name.///

"What do they call you?" Bakura was forced to ask. "Speak up." Hm. She wasn't listening. Then? She had a glint in her eye. A strange glint. Her expression slowly creaked upward as she whispered into his ear.

Wouldn't he like to know.

"Ooohh," Bakura said with a dangerous edge. ///Bandit King: There was something familiar to that./// "Do you mind? Oh so politely. If I ask?" His teeth almost showing to her. "The fuck are doing in my home?"

Then he switched back to Ryou Bakura. "I am very sorry," he said with more ease. "He's . . . learning? Although, it is a little rude to pop in on someone's house. Do you mind explaining that?"

She stared at the crackers, uninterested in him. "I was on a boat, and now I am here."

"Correction, you were on my game of Monster World," Ryou Bakura said. "I couldn't get a hold of Yuugi directly, but I did get his friend. They should be coming to pick you up." ///Bakura: Now be good. You can have back control./// Bakura's face scowled again. "Can you connect with your host?"

"I can't reach Anzu." She looked at the food. "I don't know what to do."

"You're in distress." Bakura's mouth pulled itself into a wicked grin. "I know the look of distress. I am often the culprit of it. You figured out something. What did you figure out?" She didn't answer. "Out with it, woman."

///Bakura: More polite, please! I've told you, if I give you control, you are going to be nice to my friends or I will keep blocking you off. Besides, she's like you. She clearly didn't grow up with the riches like Yuugi's old spirit. What's the harm in being nice?///

"I would. Be happy." Annoying. "To know what happened."

"It would be disrespectful," she answered. "Even for you. It is between her and Yuugi."

There was a knock at the door. Bakura went to answer it.

Oohhh . . . "Ah. Well. Isn't this one of those fucked up moments in life?"

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Him, it was so him. ///Atem: Yuugi's friend would never say that, the Bandit Thief King is back./// "Where is Anzu Mazaki?" Bakura left the door open and moved away to the side. Atem saw her, sitting and eating crackers.

"Anzu?" Jounouchi called to her. "Are you Anzu or are you Satiah?"

"Satiah," she answered carefully. "I can't reach Anzu." She gestured toward Bakura. "He is under a leash by Ryou Bakura."

"You bitch," Bakura growled, "it's not a leash! Oh yes it is." Ryou Bakura seemed to take over. "Go ahead and take your friend, Yuugi. She appeared on top of my Monster World game out of nowhere."

"Heh heh," Honda chuckled from behind as they went inside. "Good thing to see he's been put in his place."

Humility. Bakura may be back, but he was now having to be submissive to his modern form. Atem came closer to her. "Satiah. Do you know how you left to come here?"

"I was on a boat and then I was right here. I'm sorry, Yuugi Mutoh, I am not able to lend control back to Anzu. There is something that she does need to tell you. Once I talk to her."

"What does she need to say?" Atem asked. "That you know of."

"It is not my place with you, it is she who must talk to you," she said again. "After I can communicate again." She stood up. "Are we going back to the Game Shop?"

"Yes." Although the security did no good. Those men had somehow outwitted it. It could track them with cameras but they somehow snuck inside regardless. However, Atem was nowhere near afraid. Of anything. Except one thing. ///Atem: Yuugi. When are you coming back?///

What was happening between Yuugi and Anzu that Satiah would only share when she became Anzu? What could it be that explained her disappearing away from the boat all the way to Ryou Bakura?