See No Evil
Tamer: Hey, yeah, it's still me I'm just going by a new name because I felt like it.
Spirit: HI!
Tamer: He's hyper so don't mind him.
Akane: *Hits Spirit*
Tamer: Now, now, no fighting, anyway, where were we, oh right, well, I looked over the story and found that I didn't really like it so I decided to go back and rewrite it to make it better.
Spirit: Shadow Spirit Dragon-Wolf and Kit-Hikari14 have no legal ownership of Yu-gi-oh so don't get mad at them or Pyra will get the flame thrower out and prove that she can flame as well as an flamer on this sight.
Tamer: Also, we plan on spelling Ryou's name like that, I have no idea why I changed it but at first I saw it spelt without the U and then everyone was spelling it with a U and now it's going to be like that. Also, there will probably be a bit of cursing, blood, violence and torture.
Akane: I think that is all we have to say for now, we all hope you like the new and improved version.
Chapter 1
Ryou Bakura was a boy of about fifteen years old. He had two older brothers, Akefia who was seventeen and Yami who was sixteen and most of them just called him Bakura because he preferred it. He also had a younger sister who was two years younger than him named Amane but she died in a car crash that also killed their parents
He was not average in many ways though. One was his long white hair that he kept at around mid-back. The white hair was passed down through his family though no one would explain why. Then again, his older brothers had silver-white hair while his was pure white. His sister's hair had been white but with a tiny hint of blue in it. His eyes were rather normal though as they were a chocolate brown like Bakura's while Amane had green and Akefia had lavender. Akefia was also tanned while the other three were slightly pale.
Another thing set the three Bakura brothers apart from the rest of the world; they held an ancient secret of a power long ago forgotten but their family was supposed to guard it until it was time for the power to be used again to prevent the world from being destroyed and this is where the story begins.
The three boys huddled in an underground chamber that no one else knew about. Akefia and Bakura were looking at a book while Ryou watched his older brothers. "Come here Ryou."
"Alright Bakura," Ryou said and walked to stand between his two brothers. He looked down at the page they were looking at but he didn't have long to study it before there was a loud crash.
"Shit," Akefia cursed under his breath as the two older boys looked at each other over Ryou's head. "We should go, Ryou you stay here."
"But," Ryou started.
"No, listen Ryou, you stay here, let us handle this, don't come out until we come and get you," Bakura said sternly and Ryou nodded as the two boys were already at the ladder that led back to the actual house.
"Be careful," Ryou replied as he watched first Akefia then Bakura ascend the ladder to confront whoever was in there house. The youngest boy heard a lot of shouting and metal hitting metal and he winced hoping his brothers were going to be alright. Sure the two knew how to fight but was it enough.
"Shouldn't there be another one?" someone asked and Ryou was worried. What had happened up there and how were his brothers? He didn't want to go up and find out really, he was truly scared.
"Doesn't matter, if we take these two back to base then the other one will probably come after them, either way, we could get some information from these two," a second man said and Ryou wanted to scream. By the way they were talking they had his brothers. The only family he had left! Silent tears streamed down his pale cheeks as he heard the footsteps and then the front door slam shut again. He was alone… all alone…
"Ryou," he jumped as if imagining the voice he whirled around but saw nothing and no one. Who had said his name and where were they?
"W-who's there?" he asked nervous and scared as he felt in his pockets to see if he had anything, though he could barely see in the darkness as the boys had turned off the lights. He inched towards the lights to turn them back on.
"You must find the others and together you can save them," the voice spoke again but it seemed to fade and when Ryou turned on the lights it was like nothing was there. He looked around and saw nothing in the room that could have spoken to him. Though, when he thought about it, the voice sounded like it had been coming from his own head and it also sounded familiar… a bit too familiar.
"What's going on here? This is so weird," he said to himself as he walked to the book that the boys had been looking at. He pulled the backpack from the wall and put the book in. He looked around the room to find anything else he should take with him. After all, staying here was way out of the question.
He picked up the pouch that he had always wondered about. It was rather large and looked to be made out of different coloured thread all woven together into an intricate abstract patter, though when Ryou looked at it hard enough he could swear that the threads seemed to be forming the shape of a dragon. He pulled open the pouch to see that there were round objects inside, each with a different colour. He counted them swiftly and got thirteen. He shrugged not knowing what it meant at all.
"Where too?" he asked himself as he put one foot on the ladder and climbed up it and looked around. Walking around he saw that his brothers had put up a bit of a fight but in the end they had lost. He wondered why though, they'd always seemed so strong before, it was like something was missing.
Leaving the house he turned around. It hadn't felt like home really after Amane and their parents had died. Amane had been special to him so her death had hit him the hardest and he felt like crying thinking about her. Now he'd lost his two brothers too but he would be damned if he was going to let them die on him. He would rescue them; he just had to figure out how.
"I miss you… little sister," he whispered as he looked in the bag to find some figurines he'd made out of clay. There were four in total, one for each of the siblings. He put them back and headed out of the place they lived. Where he was going he had no idea but all he knew was that it was somewhere.
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Bakura and Akefia strained against their captors' holds. No way where they giving up, they had a little brother to protect and he didn't really know the first thing about the legends that their family had to guard. Unfortunately it seemed to be no use to struggle but they didn't care about that. Their wrists chafed as they rubbed against the rope that bound their arms behind their back.
"Will you hold still you pest?" one of the men asked and Akefia, who was being held by the man growled before replying.
"Oh yeah, why don't we just hold still and let ourselves be held hostage, brilliant idea," he said sarcastically and winced as he felt a cold blade rake across one of his slightly bare arms.
"Shut up you stupid brat," the man said and Akefia spat on the ground. Next to him Bakura was struggling too and Akefia scowled as he concentrated.
"It's not going to work, pest," another man said and Akefia found that it was true. But how could it be? That made no sense at all.
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Walking through the countryside was peaceful in Ryou's own opinion. At the same time knowing that going home was out of the question made the whole experience not really worth it. He had one good thing going for him; he knew how to live off the land. When it started to get dark he sighed and sat down. He had made it to a forest and he leaned up against a tree.
"Better make some food," he thought as he had grabbed some things that he could eat on the go and he didn't even need to make a fire for most of it. Biting into an apple he looked up at the setting sun as if wondering what was going on somewhere else other than where he was sitting. Was he really that special? They had said that there were things that were passed down their family line for generations. His brothers had told him a bit but he knew there was more they had to tell him. Things that now he would have to figure out on his own.
"Am I really special? I mean, I know I look different but still. That makes little difference in the grand scheme of things, right?" He asked himself aloud as he ate some more food and then lay down to get some sleep. He was glad that it was summer or he'd be really cold. He tucked his bag so that he was able to tell if someone tried to grab it, not that he would know what to do if they did.
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He sat bolt upright looking around. He wasn't in the forest anymore and the bag he had with him was nowhere to be seen. He was a little nervous about it since he seemed to know that the things in the bag were special, after all, they had to be if there was a secret underground room under their house in order to hold them.
"Hello!" he called into the expanse he was in, he couldn't be in a room since the place seemed to stretch on forever with no end in sight. He seemed to be standing on clouds, though he had no idea what clouds felt like but they looked like clouds. The rest was blue-green and he looked around again. He saw what looked like a whole in the cloud-like ground and he walked over to it finding that his feet sunk into the white ground a bit as he went.
When he got to the hole he looked down to see himself lying on the grass under the tree with the bag tucked safely next to him so where was he and why could he see himself?
"Ryou," he jumped again, the voice was the same one as he'd heard before in the house and he knew he'd heard it before. He turned around to look at the voice hoping that she, for the voice was feminine, would come out and show herself to him.
"Who are you?" he asked looking as something seemed to materialize in front of him. It was a girl and he knew then who she was. "A-Amane!"
"Finally you remember, has it been that long brother?" she said teasing him as he ran over but she put her hands up to stop him. "Sorry but you can't touch me, for one I am not solid, I'm kind of a ghost but also it would be bad if you woke up."
"Wait, so I'm just dreaming this whole thing?" Ryou asked looking around the place and then back at the form of himself sleeping and then back at his sister.
"Yes, sort of, this is a dream world in a sense. I can only come to you in your dreams for now but you will need my help," she said with a sigh. "Sadly I don't know as much as Bakura and Akefia do but I know some things that will help you."
"Oh, well, then I'm all ears," Ryou said sitting down cross-legged as Amane sat down facing him with a bit of a sad look on her face as she thought of her two oldest brothers for a bit.
"Good, well, first things first, there is a legend from long ago that tells about thirteen warriors. They each wielded a strong force that they used to defend the world. Of course, they were human so one day they would end up dying. Before their death, however they were approached by a person with the ability to see the future and they were told that their power would be needed once more. The warriors decided to seal away their power until the day that it was needed again. When the power was sealed it formed thirteen gems, the same ones you carry in that pouch now, they were then given to a family in order to protect them and to pass on the secrets down the generations," Amane explained.
"Our family," Ryou guessed and the girl nodded in agreement.
"Yes, our distant relatives and now us, however, there is more to it than that now. You see, Bakura and Akefia discovered something special a little while back. They found that they were two of the people who would hold the power."
"But I don't understand, if that is true then why are all the orbs in the bag?" Ryou asked his sister and she sighed heavily.
"I know that, it's because they were figuring something might happen and they wanted to leave them there just in case they were attacked, if they couldn't hold back their attackers they wanted to make sure their enemy wouldn't get some of the power, seeing as since they were the holders then they must defeat the prophesied evil," Amane replied.
"So that is why they weren't as strong when they fought those guys, they didn't have all their power," Ryou said and Amane nodded with a sad look on her face.
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Akefia and Bakura found themselves shoved into a cell and they looked up at their captors with dark looks in their eyes. The men just smirked and slammed the door in their faces.
"Well, I'm just glad Ryou's not here," Akefia muttered quietly to Bakura who agreed.
"Yeah, if he can find the others we'll be alright, or at least hopefully," Bakura replied looking around the cell they were in.
"They won't kill us, they need information, that they aren't going to get, but still, they will probably torture us," Akefia replied and fire burned in the dark brown eyes of his younger brother. He was sure that his eyes burned with the same fire.
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"Master," one of the men who had captured the two boys said as he knelt in front of his leader. "We did as you asked."
"Not quite seeing as you only have two of the damned boys," the leader growled and his follower flinched at the tone of his voice.
"We couldn't find the youngest boy but we figured he would come back for his brothers in due time," the man said shaking a bit out of fear.
"Do you at least have the gems that their power is sealed into?" the leader asked and the man didn't answer. "You don't even have that! You're pathetic! You'd better get the information out of them or else!"
"Yes master," the man said and left the room just happy he was alive at the moment. The leader sighed as he sat back.
"Pitiful, you can't get anything done unless you do it yourself," he growled to seemingly no one yet a laugh still echoed around the walls of the room.
"Now, now, don't be too hasty, this could work in our favor anyway, you do realize that if the young boy manages to find the others they will not know their full power, he might just bring all the gems to us in one go, saving us having to look for them. Plus, if he does find the ones destined for the power then destroying them will be easy if we can do it at once," a voice echoed around the room.
"I suppose you have a point," the leader said though he was still mad, he could make use of this little advantage he did have.
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It had been a day and Ryou was a bit tired and hungry but he smiled to himself as he reached a city. The dream he had with Amane was still on his mind. The fact that he had to find the others worried him a little seeing as he didn't know how to do that but it seemed she would guide him.
"Now I feel like you're here with me even if I can't see you," Ryou said as if he was talking to the youngest of the Bakura family. "And I will save Bakura and Akefia."
He looked up at the buildings that towered over him. Most of them were bigger than he was used to and the city he entered larger than he was used to seeing. He scanned around and then sighed. There was nothing too it. He needed to go in if not just to rest up.
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"Well, we'd better head off, we promised Ishizu we'd help with some things and we don't want to get her mad," A tanned boy said as he stood up. His eyes were lavender and his hair was sandy blond. A boy who looked almost identical to him stood up a bit after him.
"Bye then Marik, Malik," one of their friends said as they walked to the door. The major difference, apart from their clothing style was that Marik's hair lay flat while Malik's spiked up in various directions.
"See you tomorrow, after all, we still have a project to finish," Malik called back and they heard one of their friends groan.
"I haven't even started," he complained and they just laughed as it was a typical day for the group. He didn't know how wrong he was about that.
"Alright, let's hurry, I don't want Ishizu to get mad at us," Marik said and Malik smirked at his twin brother.
"Scared of your big sister?" he asked teasingly.
"Don't tell me you aren't," Marik retorted.
"That isn't the point."
"Then what is?"
"It's fun to-."
"Shush," Marik cut him off abruptly.
"What is it?" Malik asked.
"Listen, do you hear that?" Marik replied and Malik listened and he heard it too. It was a scream. He looked back at his brother. "We should go."
"That's in the worst district in town, we're not supposed to go there," Malik commented and Marik nodded.
"And when has that stopped you before?" the other blond asked.
"Never, let's go," Malik replied and he led the way through the streets to the bad part of town. The two boys kept out of the way as they ran towards where they heard screaming. They looked at each other as they reached an alleyway and what they saw there made them speechless for a few seconds.
Tamer: Yay, much better if you ask me.
Bakura: Thanks…
Tamer: Oh don't worry; I love you too much to kill you.
Akefia: But torturing us is OK.
Akane: Yes!
Tamer: I added Akefia as one of the boys with powers because it made more sense to me, I don't want the good guys having too much of an advantage and having an immortal fighting by your side gives you that.
Ryou: But we have Amane.
Me: She's a spirit and she can only talk to you in dreams right now.
Ryou: Oh…