Bakura raised his eye at Anastasia and Joey kissing as any big brother would, even though it was Anastasia who made the first move on Joey and not the other way around. Joey was a long time friend of his, but Anastasia was his sister, and so even though Bakura knew Joey was a good guy, part of him didn't know how he would feel about Joey dating Anastasia if Joey felt the same way. But Bakura still didn't feel it was the right time yet to tell Anastasia about them being family either, and he couldn't take action without her knowing that, and he couldn't take action until he found out how Joey felt about Anastasia first anyway.
Joey listens to Anastasia and says "You've been in love with me sense kindergarten huh?..Wow.." He chuckles then and says "Well I'm flattered at the kiss and I feel honored, the fact you like me so strongly..It's very nice and I thank you for it..And you're a great girl and wonderful friend to have..And I've felt a lot of care for all my friends from as far back as I can remember..But I honestly haven't ever thought about if I at one time or another felt more than just friendship or having a girlfriend..Or if I did I didn't pay much attention to it, in which the latter happens a lot..I know..I'm in high school..so to say I never really had much thought to the girlfriend subject probably sounds way odd..But my friends will all confirm that..I however have been really good friends with this one girl, Mai Valentine, for a good while now..She goes to a different school than this one..one of higher class..And I didn't realize it at first how much I felt for her..and at the start of when we met I guess she wouldn't have been considered more than just a friend in my eyes..I don't know if it got closer than us being just friends or not as our friendship grew as it lasted through the last few years..But something definitely happened between the time I met Mai and during the first tournament that Seto Kaiba threw..Because there was this one other person, a guy by the name of Marik, at the tournament too, and he had a millennium item, much like Yugi's puzzle, and Bakura's ring. Marik had a millennium rod. I don't know much about the items, but from what I've experienced so far, I've seen that all of the items have a spirit from way back in time, and some of the spirits are good like the spirit that's inside the millennium puzzle, but some of the spirits are evil also, like the spirit that inhabits Bakura's millennium ring had been in a lot of past occasions..Anyway Marik's item possessed an evil spirit, and the spirit that inhabited Marik's rod took him over, and Mai's mind ended up being trapped in a place called the shadow realm, and it resulted in her being unconscious..all the while pieces of her memory being taken away from her while her mind was trapped there..that is until we were about to defeat Marik..So yeah..I mean she's a close friend..I realized just how much during that time..I mean she and I never said anything about it..back then or to this day..But Mai cares about me, I know that, and I care a lot about her, and as I said I never payed much attention, but if I ever went beyond the limits of being just friends with a girl..Then I probably have gone beyond them with her. However though, I always am up for hanging out with a friend of mine..whether or not the friend is a boy like Yugi and Tristan are, or a girl like Tea and Rebecca are..You of course being a girl..But yeah..if you ever want to hang out or do something together, know that I'll always be fine with it."
Tristan listens to what Joey says to Anastasia and vice versa as well when she told Joey she loved him. Though the daze he's caught up in the grip of still holds on to him. Even though he sees the kiss and it very well astonishes him. Tristan's also taken aback by Joey confessing to her his feelings towards Mai even though Tristan always had a hunch that their friend Mai seemed to be important to his long term pal.