Innocence?

Mystical Knight Dragon: Whee! I wrote this when I was very bored in the middle of the night. There is not much humor in this. Please don't be mad at me for giving up my normal humor writing and doing a big angst story. _ Oh well... I'll get back to writing my humor stories pretty soon...

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada. Ok? Ok.

Warnings: Mucho Yugi bashing. Some other character bashings, but that's unavoidable, right? Also, I state again: this is not a humor story. Mucho death.

Yugi: *sniffle* I hate you.

Mystical Knight Dragon: Don't we all.

Symbols: /Hikari to Yami/ //Yami to Hikari// 'thinking' "speaking" YELLING/EMPHASIS italics (Random response from me; A/N being Author's Note, and R/A/N being Random Author's Note)

Bakura is Yami Bakura, Ryou is the regular Bakura, and Yami refers to Yami Yugi.

Chapter 1: The Corner

It was done. He would never be able to forgive himself. The worst part of it all was that someone had seen him, and he was forced to run back to his house to hide like the coward his yami said he was.

A voice was calling to him. He tried to shut it out, but it kept coming through to him, despite his futile efforts. "Ryou!" it called out. "Ryou! Where are you?" Ryou just shrank back into the darkness of the corner that he was hiding in.

He had always been afraid of this corner. It was very dark and was shoved in a closet. He had attempted to clean it once but was always afraid of The Corner. The only person who went there was Bakura, never Ryou, which was his reason for hiding there: away from what he had done.

"Ryou!" the voice called again, more demanding this time. "Where are you hiding?! Yugi's waiting for us to come to his...party...that he's having and has most unfortunately invited us to!"

Ryou almost smiled when he thought of how much his yami despised anything social, but then he remembered that is was Yugi's party. He shuddered against the wall as he remembered those crisp, violet eyes and cold, blue lips glaring at him from the dumpster. Why did his yami have to mention Yugi? Why had he done what he did? How could he learn to live with the weight of The Deed upon his shoulders? If anyone else knew, even Bakura, what he had done, he wouldn't be accepted by anyone ever again- -especially not Yami. Ryou shuddered at he thought of what he would do once the Pharaoh had figured out what he had done.

//Ryou?// asked a voice in his head. He jumped at the sound, but recognized it immediately as his yami's voice.

/Bakura./ Ryou answered simply. He didn't feel like talking to anyone at the moment.

//Ryou, where are you?// Bakura demanded his light. //I'm tired of playing around. Now COME OUT NOW.// Ryou's eyes widened as he realized how serious his yami was. Bakura never yelled at his light anymore unless he was thoroughly pissed off.

/Bakura, I- -/ But he was cut off as his darker half opened up the door to where he was hiding.

"Ryou?" Bakura asked, very surprised. "Why are you in The Death Closet?"

Ryou shuddered as he saw the knives and corpses around him clearly once the light from the outside shone in. "Just...thinking..." he answered, choosing his words carefully.

Bakura raised an eyebrow (R/A/N: I can't do this, but my sister can! It looks really freaky!) at his hikari. "You're acting strange today..." he stated simply. "Now let's go to Yugi's...party." He made a face at the statement which caused Ryou to giggle a bit. When Ryou still hadn't moved from The Corner, Bakura was forced to pick up his light and carry him.

"Yami?" Ryou asked awkwardly. "What are you doing?"

"If I'm being forced to go, then you're being forced to go." With that last statement, Bakura locked up the house and proceeded to Yugi's house (A/N: Is it above or behind?) The Turtle Game Shop.

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Mystical Knight Dragon: Whee! That's all there is for chappie one. Sorry for the extreme shortness of it, but I hope that the next chappie will make up for this one. Chapter two will explain a lot more, so if you're confused, review your questions. Also, if you know if Yugi's house is above or behind The Turtle Game Shop, please tell me.

Marikay: Reviews are smiled upon and treated with sugar, while flames are frowned upon and...eaten?