Story: Whats left of me

Chapter: My Sanctuary

Rating: T

Category:Romance/Angst

Characters: RyouxBakura, MalikxMariku

Summary: A dark is not complete without a light, so what happens if the light commits suicide because of the dark? Can Ryou and Bakura save each other, one last time? RxB, YxY, MxM

HikariElfie: Put up with me here, okay? Another RyouxBakura story, because I love them:

Chapter 1. My Sanctuary

When I was younger, there was only you, you were my sanctuary, a place where I could hide from the rest of the world.

You tormented my mind endlessly, attempting to kill me, but you were there when others could not be, when others didn't want to be. You were my everything, the reason I woke up every day, and the reason I took a breath when it was needed.

But that all changed when you got a body of your own.

You discovered new ways to torment me, watched as my blood gushed out of a newly created wound. You told me I looked pretty in red, that I looked pretty covered in my blood.

I began hiding from my own sanctuary, running away from the face that haunted my dreams and nightmares.

I began wishing something happened to you while you were out drinking with Mariku. But still I waited by the door to make sure you were alive, I still smiled when you stumbled through the door.

You never liked it when I smiled, you would press my bloodied face to the floor and ask whether I could still smile.

I was still happy though, you would still pay attention to me, still physically touch me with your fists.

I thought everything would be okay, that you would always pay attention to me, and that I was always still with you.

My friends tried to convince me to turn you in; they said they were worried about me. I pushed away their fears with a smile and continued to pretend we were fine.

You, my sanctuary would greet me by the door when I returned from school, you would cut through my flesh with your favoured blade.

Those carvings meant I was yours, your slave, you would tell me, you would whisper in my ear how only you could hurt me so.

But still I waited for my sanctuary to return, to tell me everything was all right, and that all would fix itself in time.

Then everything stopped. My faith in you was the end of me; you grew tired of my everlasting smile.

You went drinking more often and only looked my way to beat me in your drunken state. You didn't look at me, even as you cut my bruised and bloodied body.

You stopped telling me how I belonged to you, you even stopped beating me with time, choosing instead to ignore me.

I think you thought you were helping me, but it was tearing me apart. My body was healed, but my heart was broken, my sanctuary had forgotten me.

I would have smiled even if you were just to look at me with those hateful eyes from before.

My nights were filled with dreams of you holding me tightly in your arms, whispering sweet nothings in my ear. Such a dream would never come true of course, but even for you to brush against my skin would bring me back to life.

Then that night came, the night that tore apart what was left of my heart.

You had gone drinking with Mariku, I waited by the door for so long. You did not come home that night, choosing to return the next afternoon.

These nights where you went missing became more and more often, and I fell asleep by the door waiting for you, at least three times every week.

The only thought that crossed my mind was, 'where is my sanctuary?'

Even the teachers noticed something was wrong; I had gone from top student to hardly ever showing up.

I stopped eating, could not eat.

What really finished me off? It wasn't my lack of eating, or even the habit of cutting into my skin.

You didn't even notice.

I confronted you, "Why can't you stand to look at me?"

"You mean nothing to me!"

You reply tore through me like a thousand shards of glass, you had no idea, you just looked away again.

As I felt my life slip away as I tore through the soft flesh of my arm, I thought, 'Come save me, my sanctuary, my Bakura.'

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Yugi raced up the stairs to Ryou's room and pushed open the door.

He and Yami had come as fast as possible after they had received a panicked phone call from the former tomb robber, saying that something terrible had happened.

They entered the room in haste, but stopped at what they saw.

Bakura sat in the middle of the room, covered in Ryou's blood, cradling his lighter half's head in his arms, whispering quietly to the lifeless body.

Yami sat heavily on the floor by the door, unable to call to Bakura, to tell him that nothing could be done.

Yugi lay a hand gently on his lovers shoulder and they watched as Bakura, the great Tomb Robber, sobbed quietly into the lifeless body of his light.

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"Ryou...Its not time for you to go yet Ryou..."

Bright green eyes opened slowly, pale figure floating in nothingness.

"Come with us Ryou, we have something we need you for…"

"…W…Where am I…?"

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