Stopwatch

by tuttifluties

Ryou keeps track of his abuses from Bakura and from school and compares it to an average. Every night before sleeping, he stops his mental stopwatch and analyses his day. Discontinued but I'll most likely go back to it soon.

1. Chapter 1

Day 1

He laughed as he raised the knife again. This time, it came down on my chest. Crimson flowed and stained the striped shirt I wore thoroughly. I gasped and bent over. Even though the knife left my skin, I could still feel it pierce through.

I curled up and hoped that I could just die and escape all this misery. But I couldn't. He prolonged my suffering by stopping. He just wouldn't let me die.

One last kick in the guts was enough to knock me out. Dark…

When I did regain consciousness, the pain was worse. Despite all that, I got up with great difficulty to wash and change. Somehow, I managed to not fall down the stairs. Woohoo. Go me.

The dried blood was easy to wash off but my clothes were a different story. Oh well. I'll worry about that later. Carefully, I washed the cuts with a damp cloth and bandaged it as best as I could. Aspirin helped a lot too.

Fresh scents greeted me as I put on my school uniform. It could get worse from this point on but I'm used to it.

School. Long, boring day filled with useless lessons. No beatings. Lucky me.

I was greeted home graciously by a punch to the face. That's going to leave a mark.

When I finally reached the Promised Land, my bedroom, I plopped down and closed my eyes without thinking much. But I did remember to count:

Day 1

Punches-24

Kicks-15

Knife slashes-11

School beatings-0

Average

Punches-approximately 30

Kicks-15

Knife slashes-10

School beatings-3

Finally, I analysed:

Punches- below average

Kicks-exact

Knife slashes-slightly above average

School beatings-way below average

So to sum it up, today was a good day.