I walked through the crowds and heard a crying child, just like my men said I would. Who knows how long this brat has been crying. It's what he's said that brought me to him. He speaks of 'Bakura'. Who that is, I can only guess. But I've been told he's perfectly described me. And I've never met this kid. He keeps crying about wanting 'Bakura back'.
Okay, admittedly, I also came to see him because he has a Millennium Ring. That's my item. I was wearing it right now! How in Anubis's name could there be two of the same Millennium items at the same time?! I walked toward the kid, while no one else listened to his cries.
"Why won't you talk to me? What did I do Bakura?" I stopped right in front of the kid. He was tiny. Probably at least four years old.
"What's wrong with you kid?" I demanded. "Don't you have a family?" He looked up at me, a look of joy on his face.
"Bakura?" He asked. Then he beamed, his cries immediately stopping. "Bakura!"
"How the hell do you know who I am? I've not greeted myself to you yet!" I snarled. He didn't seem bothered by my harsh tone.
"You don't need to. You already did! … The same day my family died." He whispered, tears forming in his eyes. He started crying again. I groaned, getting on one knee.
"Where did you get that necklace? The Millennium Ring?" He burst out sobbing. I growled. Stupid brat!
"M-my D-daddy g-gave i-it t-to m-mee." He hid his eyes behind his hands. I grabbed them and held them away from his face.
"Well crying isn't going to help anything. Stop it." He didn't listen. "Stop crying!" He still didn't listen. I scoffed and removed my hands from him. I turned to leave. He sobbed harder.
"You promised you'd never leave me."
"I never made such promise!" I growled at him, glaring at the kid. A part of my dead heart twinged when I compared him to myself when I watched my family… die. I looked left and then right. No one was watching. I sat myself down on the ground on the right of the kid. He threw himself in my lap, still crying. Clearly he was looking for comfort.
"Please don't leave me again." He whispered, sobbing. I bit my lip, looking away from him.
"Tell me something." He looked up, nodding.
"Anything. You're the first friend I've ever had who didn't run away from me. Or call me weird." He's truly alone? No family, no friends.
"Did you… watch your family die?" I whispered softly. He nodded, almost crying again.
"It's only because of you that I survived. Or that's what you said."
"And how do you know that that 'Bakura' is the same one as I?" His hand reached up and traced my scar. I clenched my hand on his wrist and pulled his hand away.
"You look the same. You sound the same. You even have the same scar as my Zork." Zorc?! He knows about that demon?
"How do you know about Zorc?"
"… That's you're name. You said so. Zork Bakura. Am I wrong?"
"Well why would you call… Bakura Zorc?"
"Because you said so. Zork's easier to say than Bakura." He replied. Now that he mentions it, I can hear him saying the name wrong. 'Bakuwa'. Well… since he's young I guess it makes sense? I need to pray to Anubis to know if this kid really knows me. What do I do with him until then?
"What's your name kid?"
"Wyu Bakuwa." He smiled up at me. His last name is Bakura?
"Do you know what I'm called? Besides Bakura. Or Zorc." He looked puzzled.
"You have another name?" I smirked.
"I'm called Akefia Bakura. Known as Bandit Thief King Bakura." He awed at me.
"You're a King? Where's your kingdom?" That's what he got from what I said? I grinned. This kid is innocent as an infant. Even at his age, I knew what a thief was.
"You wanna know where my kingdom is or do you wanna see where my kingdom is?" He clapped his hands, jumping up and down.
"See! See! See!" I took a deep breath and looked right and left. No one was looking. Really? What was I expecting? No one gives a damn about anyone but themselves. I stood up, Ryou falling to the ground. "Ow!" He rubbed his bottom from the fall. I chuckled as I grabbed his wrist and started dragging him through the streets. No one would notice this kid wasn't mine. He looks like me and parents usually drag their kids. Or so I've seen. Ryou tried his hardest to keep up with me and I found my horse.
"I want it to be a surprise so you have to wear this." I removed the rope that was supposed to go around my waist and tied it behind his head to blind him. "I'll keep you safe while you wear this." I informed him as I tied him to the horse using rope. I got on the horse and steadied him before turning him and heading back to Kul Elna.