(Adding more human qualities to Bakura and just playing off his hard ass personally)

Traveling Domino City wasn't easy, not when your rag tag group of friends led by a short stack were dead set on walking everywhere instead of using public transportation, or the car you actually owned- but here you stood, trying to figure out where they ran off to, leaving you in the park, you knew Joey and Tristan ran off one way, Yugi and Anzu one way, and Ryou was somewhere close, you saw his Snow White hair among the park scape. "If I had known this would happen I would have prepared for this" you muttered walking among the pathway to the center of the park.

Nothing eventful actually happened, maybe a duel or two but nothing out of the ordinary, and checking your watch, it was more or less 5pm, rush hour would begin, and then dinner had to be done, upon your mindless thinking you bumped into something that was like a wall but organic, looking up it was Ryou but not Ryou, "Ah the esteemed spirit of the ring, I'm
Shaking" you said sarcastically as Bakura rolled his eyes.

"I can only assume you're dragging me to your apartment so you can feed my host and then we find where the pharaoh and his little pets went." He puffed seemingly annoyed he knew the game at this point.

"I don't see you feeding him, plus I know you will just run around and cause trouble, I don't need Yugi to worry about your stupidity right now" you told him, Bakura just shrugged and walked off to your apartment, you weren't quite sure what to do with his behavior but at least he was following directions now, the memory's of essentially threatening Bakura to do simple tasks skimmed your mind for a moment but you shook those away, he was behaving, that's what mattered right now.

Bakura tried opening the door, and walked into the door, you normally unlocked the door from your phone, it was the new smart lock thing, your apartment complex installed them as it's a KC product, so it's the highest technology around right now. Bakura looked at the door handle he had his hand on, he looked at you, his face showed minor confusion to a break in his seemingly scheduled appointment into your apartment and just jingled the door handle until you opened it, sometimes you wondered if the spirt of the king of thrives was really just a bitchy cat sometimes. "Please refrain from delaying my entry" he mumbled as he went into the kitchen to look for leftovers, which there was, some pizza from the dungeon dice night you held a day ago. "This will do" he said carefully separating slices, "you sit, I will handle this mundane task you mortals do" he said as if he was doing you a favor of microwaving pizza.

"Sounds good to me, I'm going to run by my deck, I have a few cards that need replacing" you said as he went on to do what you guessed what his best attempt at a thank you for giving him food.

Just a few minutes went by as your shuffled along your deck, Bakura had a cheese pizza slice for you and two for himself, he didn't like eatting from what you gathered but did so for you, "Y/n" he questioned as you were mid bite.

"Mhmm?"

"Why do you care so much about me?" After processing his question a bit you were not following, you put your pizza back on the plate.

"I'm not following, " you said as he finished a slice, he seemed to be deep in thought, almost frustrated,

"Why do you care? The Pharaoh and his pets don't seem to care about me, just my host but you just seem to accept it's all of us" he struggled to say, as if he just couldn't put words together enough, it was kinda cute to see him struggle to express feelings.

"Babes it's a packaged deal, you are a spirit yes, and Ryou is your host but you're both in this together. I don't agree with how Yugi and co don't see you as...well not as one but two in one? You're both vastly different but you share one body you can't disregard the other, that's just fucked" you said, Bakura seemed to be thinking again, only his face red. "Babes are you stuck thinking again? You can take your time, it's ok" you reassured the inhabitant of the ring, with time he's been getting better at emotions and honestly thinking but he gets stuck and dwells to much on things a lot of the time, poor thing you thought.

"Why have you made me aware of feelings? I disregarded those long ago in my village, and now here I am, trying to have my revenge and succeed this time but here I am having feelings for a mortal, truly I have been cursed or have fallen weak once more" he stated before he stoped mid hand movement of dismissal "y/n what the fuck did I just say-"

You felt your cheeks flush with head, "I think I have a idea of what you mean but I don't think your going to be able to process it as fast as you want" he shook his head and laid down on the carpet, "do you want me to help you navigate those emotions or just let you be a carpet crab for now?"

Bakura groaned loudly while covering his face "why do you love me? I am literally a terrible person-"

"Deep down I think your kind, you just have a hard shell to protect yourself" you abandoned your half eaten pizza and laid down next to him, "your just having a rough time letting your guard down, and that's ok" he looked at you, you could almost see the love in his eyes but it was clouded by pure confusion.

"Allaena" he cursed, you looked at him confused, "fuck in my tongue woman" he grumbled

"Well I'm going to let you sit on your thoughts now, I'm going to clean up, love you?" He covered his face with his arm

"Love you too y/n" he grumbled, with time he would open up more, it's only what? 3000? 5000? Years of someone who was forced to grow up to early, it's taken a few months of breaking down his shell but the spirit of the ring was not immune to persistence.

"If you need me I'm always here ok?" He nodded from his floor spot as you went to clean up the two plates and finish your half eaten pizza.