I know it does. And I think- [He doesn't know what he thinks. Kai groans and finally pushes himself up off the floor to drop back onto the couch.] It doesn't matter, I don't need to end up friends or something with him, it'd just blow up in my face. [That and he's disliked Bakura for so long, and so intensely that it seems like it should be impossible for him to feel any other way. The fact he's starting to is confusing.]

I'll make sure he gets the hang of Barrier and then go back to my own stuff. I need to start learning Aero for the next time I char my dinner.

[Trusts him...that's good. He's glad for that; it's been eating at him just as much as her fear of him was. He smiles a bit.]

Geeze, and I thought being a teenager was hard when I was back home. Being here makes growing up all sorts of fun, doesn't it?