Shounen-ai: Bakura x Ryou
Created 26th Feb. 2005

Bakura is not a thief, even if Ryou insists on calling him one.

He's not a Tomb Robber either – despite The Almighty Pharaoh calling him that whenever they meet, Bakura has actually discovered that there just aren't any tombs around anymore to rob.

Okay, so he used to be one, but it seems to Bakura that that is completely besides the point. If he no longer robs tombs, how can he possibly be a Tomb Robber?

Truth be told, he used to be known as the King of Thieves, but Ryou doesn't know that, and his yami doesn't feel any need to enlighten him just yet anyway.

Which is why he gets so pissed off whenever he comes home with some random object (preferably some shiny random object) stashed in his pocket, and the next thing he knows, his hikari starts screeching like some hysterical little girl about thieves and how they get – and here Ryou's eyes get freakily large – prosecuted. Actually, Bakura quite likes that word... reminds him of home.

Bakura will hold his head up high, look Ryou dead into those still slightly alarmed chocolate eyes, and tell him quite firmly that, although he himself might be many things, he was most certainly not a thief.

When Ryou demands to know the difference between Bakura and a thief, Bakura will be only to happy to comply.

Thieves, he states, are petty. Thieves steal items of little value – fake jewellery, sticks of gum from a kiddies candy store, mere pocket change; that sort of thing. And what Bakura... erm, borrowed, was anything but petty.

Which, he continues, gets him around to his next point. Thieves steal things. Bakura didn't steal things – Ra, no, perish the thought. He might borrow things on occasion – hell, might even borrow them for extended periods of time, but that simply didn't amount to enough reason for Ryou to call Bakura something so insulting as the word 'thief'.

Plus there is the fact, he reasons, half to himself now, that humans these days were tied down. Bakura, in a heroic attempt to save the pitiful mortals from themselves, would help to relieve them of some of their more... extensive earthly possessions, so that they might be returned to a state of pure and goodly simplicity.

Ryou looks more than slightly dazed by by now – Bakura takes the opportunity to kiss him only slightly bruisingly on the mouth, telling him to stop looking so worried – stress just isn't good for him.

And besides all that, he purrs, thieves just didn't have such utterly beautiful koi's now, did they?

Well, Ryou's not about to argue that, so for Bakura, the conversation is over – he has better things to do with his mouth than talk about topics such as this anyway. And Ryou isn't about to argue that point either – why bother arguing when you know the other person is right?

So Bakura tells himself, and it will remain perfectly true until the next time Bakura comes home with pockets bulging suspiciously.

So you see, Bakura is not a thief, does not even remotely resemble a thief. He is simply a citizen working hard at his job. He's good at it, and it helps pay Ryou's bills, so why bother changing his occupation now?