The Self-Proclaimed "King of Thieves"

[stealshinies]

[The door to the nurse's room suddenly flies open, revealing a tanned man clad in a dark red robe. Under one arm was tucked an anatomical cross-section of the human torso and under the other was a mess of sheets. Between his lips rested a cherry lollipop and perched atop his head was a little pink nurse's cap.

Without moving, his eyes trace the hall in front of him while his lips twitch into a smirk.]

I wonder...where am I?

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[fluffydeathdealer]

M-MASTER?! What the hell do you think you're saying?! Just because you're a 'complete soul' doesn't give you the right to order me around! I don't take orders from anyone!

[stealshinies]

Doesn't it? You're just a part of me, and last time I checked, the only one I took orders from was myself!

[And Zorc, but you know...technicalities.]

1/2

[fluffydeathdealer]

Bastard...

2/2

[fluffydeathdealer]

Like hell I'm going to fall at your feet and take orders from you because of a technicality! Just because I'm in such a weak body, that doesn't mean I'm any lesser than you!

[stealshinies]

H-hehe! You better watch your mouth. He's my Ba, you know. I won't stand for insults--even if they are true!

[Bakura hops off the counter, heading for the bathroom door.]

And technically...you're only one-third of me!

[fluffydeathdealer]

What?! You can insult me but you take offense at my insulting him?

[His lips draw back into a snarl, teeth bared as he follows, intent on at least getting the last word.]

One-third or not, you're just a child compared to me!

[stealshinies]

[Once back in the main room, he casually hops back onto the couch, folding his arms behind his head and stretching out across the cushions.]

That just means I have my youth on my side!

[fluffydeathdealer]

[...okay, he's too stunned even to be offended at that one.]

...did you just call me old?

[stealshinies]

I don't know! Maybe you're just too senile to figure it out!

[Yeah he's just going to lay here...LAUGHING.]

[fluffydeathdealer]

...

Oy. You know that insulting yourself is a sign of insanity, right?

[stealshinies]

... [Well that shuts him up.]

You're starting to sound like my enemies.

[fluffydeathdealer]

Heh heh... It got you to stop laughing, didn't it?

[Using one hand, he casually vaults up to sit on the back of the couch, crouching there and looking down at the man there.]

But you know, I don't remember anything from before then. I don't even know who those enemies were.

[stealshinies]

You sound like you really have gone senile. [His tone isn't joking like before. This was potentially his future...could he really forget everything like that? The idea was disturbing.]

[fluffydeathdealer]

...

[He looks away for a moment before looking back, staring at the Thief King as if trying to commit him to memory.]

Whatever magic got me sealed in this thing locked my memories away. It's taken three thousand years for them to even weaken enough for fragments to slip through. The only thing I managed to hold onto was that I needed the Puzzle to be completed again.

It's coming back, in tiny pieces, but I don't think it'll recover fully until I take the items back to Kul Elna - and I've had to wait a long time to even remember that I needed to, let alone get the chance. I've been trying to recover the Items for a long time before that... but I never knew why until that memory unlocked.

[stealshinies]

[Three thousand years inside that Ring...without his memories. He couldn't let that happen. He didn't want to wait that long; hadn't he already waited long enough?

It still seemed impossible. The idea of failure...]

Tch, it's too bad you don't remember! If you did...then I would know how to alter my own plans, and instead of being separated like this, we would still be one!

[fluffydeathdealer]

If I knew, I'd tell you. All I know is that Pharaoh was the one that did it, somehow.

But short of murdering him in his sleep, there's not that many ways to ensure that he doesn't interfere.

[stealshinies]

...Where would be the fun in that? I want to see him squirm a little first, h-hehe.

[But if it really was the Pharaoh...shit! He'll just have to be extra cautious, and strike the finishing blow the first chance he has.

...After he's made sure the Pharaoh knows exactly what he's going to do once he's killed him, of course.]

[fluffydeathdealer]

Heh...

[His lips twist into a malevolent smile. That's right... They really are parts of the same person after all.]

That brat... He deserves every moment of suffering you inflict on him... h-heh heh... I wish I could see it when you do. To see his body writhing in fear and pain, those brave and cold eyes flooded with despair...! That would be true Heaven!

[He'll see it some day. He's sure of it.]

[stealshinies]

[The thought alone excited him, had him grinning and brimming with bloodlust he could never sate while he was here.

What waste...it was truly a waste, to be this excited and have no way to vent it!]

Yes...I'll make him suffer through the pain of each life his father ended at Kul Elna! Ninety-Nine lifetimes of anguish and despair, ripping through his body!

[fluffydeathdealer]

[Kul Elna... lives lost... Anguish and despair like that... suffering like that... for Pharaoh, hated Pharaoh to endure something like that...

Even if he doesn't remember anything of what the thief is speaking of, the air feels charged suddenly, restless energy flooding him even as laughter bursts free.]

WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's right! That pain and suffering will be the last thing he remembers! Carve the pain of those people into his very soul, even if it takes the life of everyone he loves to embed it deeply enough that he will feel it in the afterlife!

[stealshinies]

[His voice changes tone a bit, shaking with the anger and hatred he so excitedly embraced.] Oh...I'll be sure to.

I'll let the spirits do it personally! The fervor of their hatred and suffering destroying him from the inside out will be the perfect finale to his "prosperous reign"! By the time they're through with him...he won't even be able to enter the afterlife, let alone feel in it!

[He lets out a sharp, shameless laugh.]

[fluffydeathdealer]

[Oh hell, that's good. That maliciousness, those mental images... they feed the wicked part of him that's been starved for so long now. There's no outlet for that hatred and cruelty here, nowhere for it to rise up to, and this conversation is making it stir all over again. Dropping down, he straddles the thief's waist, lowering his head to whisper unnervingly close to his lips.]

And to think I thought you were just an asshole...

[Liiiiiick~ ✰]

[stealshinies]

[His Akh doesn't even get to finish that lick before Bakura grabs his two-thirds of a soul by the collar and chucks him off the couch. He doesn't even care if the bastard hits the table on his way down.]

[fluffydeathdealer]

[He does, hitting the table with a crash and lying there. His shoulders shake with laughter that he doesn't even bother to repress.]

Hahahahaha! What? Did I scare you?

[stealshinies]

[Folding his arms again with a scowl on his lips, his good mood was ruined.]

Shut up! If I wanted to masturbate, I would do it myself!