She was pushed from him and went to move forward again but was blinded by the light. Raising her arms to her face, she turned her head from the light.
Just as suddenly as it had appeared, the light dimmed then faded all together. Standing in Ryou's place was Bakura looking agitated.
Slowly, she lowered her arms and took a step back seeing Bakura standing there. "W-where's Ryou?" she asked with a stutter.
"Gone," he said simply, eyeing the coat. "So you managed to bring it, good for you." Bakura walked over to the table and sat. "Why are you still here? Do you expect a share?"
"No, I don't care about that," she said turning towards. "Ryou and I are...are friends."
He actually laughed. "You? Friends with that spineless waste of space?" Bakura chuckled darkly. "He has all the friends he needs already."
She grit her teeth taking a slight step forward, "and who are you to tell him who he can or cannot be friends with? Or how many friends he can have?"
"He is my host and therefore I control his entire life," Bakura said simply as if they were discussing the weather.
"Host?" she echoed easing slightly, "like you possess his body?"
Bakura ignored her, sorting the haul he had brought in.
She growled, now irritated, "if that's true then you're a guest in his body right? So you don't rule his life, you should be happy you even have the chance to use a body! Let alone someone as nice as him."
A knife soared passed her and landed mere inches from her skull in a wall. "Don't you dare try and lecture me," he said in a low, murderous tone.
She froze suddenly, her heart racing a mile a minute. It took me a moment to recover, "Yugi and the others warned me about you, I never saw it though Ryou was always so sweet." she took a deep breath.
His head snapped up, glowing crimson orbs narrowing. "The Pharaoh's midget you say?"
"y-yea, that whole group, and Mokuba." she stuttered softy, she would have said Seto but he didn't give a two cents about him.
He laughed. "They're all pathetic. Ryou isn't allowed with them."
She growled, "you're so conceded! God I thought Seto was bad, you're so..."she stopped and shivered slightly. "evil," she said in a whisper.
He actually stood and bowed his head. "I try my hardest," Bakura said in a falsely sweet tone. "Besides, Kaiba's a pushover."
She growled, "don't talk about him like that!" she yelled suddenly.
"Why do you care?" he asked coldly. "Have a thing for the bastard, do you?"
She blushed and looked away from him down towards her hand, glancing at the ring sitting there. "that has nothing to do with you, got that?"
"Well, maybe if I kill him then it'll have something to do with me," he replied in steady amusement. "Now leave."
"Don't you touch him!" she yelled again, "and I'm not leaving until I know Ryou's safe!"
Bakura chuckled. "Ryou is never safe, Aura."
She feared for Ryou for that moment, "well then..." she paused thinking, "I'm not leaving." she crossed her arms with a defiant grunt. "until I can find a way to rid you of him."
"Oh you're not, are you?" His tone was dark and angry. As he stood, the entire room's atmosphere seemed to darken along with him
She shivered trying to keep her defiant attitude, "n-no, Ryou is my friend and I don't want to leave without him."
"You won't live long enough to see him again," Bakura murmured, a knife poised in his hand.
Her arms uncrossed as she attempted to take a step back only to find the wall there. "Why do you do this to him? What did he ever do to you?"
"Why, it was him who wished this on himself! That and he was the only host available," Bakura replied, advancing towards her.
"He wished someone like you in his life? That hardly seems like him." she said pressing herself against the wall, trying to sound confident
"No. I granted him a single wish as payment for residing in his soul," he replied.
"Wish? What did he wish for?"
Bakura continued drawing nearer and nearer. "Friends that would never leave him. And so, I gave them to him but he wasn't pleased. It was no longer my problem because the wish had been granted until the damn Pharaoh messed it up. Now he is simply left with nothing."
"Y-you're wrong, if those friends would never leave them, they'd still be his friends. It may be late, but I'm his friend, and I don't plan on leaving him anytime soon!" she said through her gritted teeth
"Oh, they left alright and now Ryou is alone. He has no friends, and you'll be dead soon anyway." He was about a foot away from her.
She reached into her pocket suddenly and grabbed her cell phone dialing a number. But didn't press send yet, "kill me fine, if it's meant to be, then it's meant to be." she stood upright, now fully confident in herself. "I told Ryou I'd be here for him and I intend too, alright? I'm sorry that he has a better friend than anything you could ever have."
Bakura glared, unimpressed. He stabbed his knife into the hand that held the phone.
Aura let out a growl of pain and dropped the phone gritting her teeth refusing to let out any more sound. "so, you're big and bad now?" she said with a shaky voice. "Killing me proves what? One less nuisance? In the end you'll still end up alone, and miserable, nothing will ever change that! You're lucky to have Ryou at all!"
He stabbed her again. "You annoy me," Bakura said simply.
She grit her teeth still attempting to stop from screaming at all. "Really? I figured that was obvious."
"So leave." He opened the door that she was leaning against, shoved her out, and locked it.
She fell back onto the ground and finally let out a growl of pain as she landed on her wounded hand. "You arrogant, self-righteous-gah!" she kicked the door hard, definitely putting some sort of ding into it. "I'm not done with you Bakura!"
Laughter was head from inside the house. Through a window, Bakura could be seen munching on the bread Ryou had been holding.
"Seriously, you have two seconds to open this door or I'm breaking through the window." she yelled remembering she left her cell phone on the floor.
"Fat chance!" he called back. He came up to the window, holding her phone and smirking before he crumbled it with one hand.
She growled, and cursed at him then began looking around. Picking up a rock she threw it at the window he was standing at shattering it. She didn't care about the phone that much she could get a new one easily, it was now just because she was pissed at him. Then, suddenly she regretted her actions
The look that he gave her could have killed a person. He lept out of the broken window, not caring that he landed on glass shards. "You bitch."
"shi..." she muttered backing up and forced a smile, "what's it to you if I broke a window? Not like you pay for it, or take care of this house, right?" she said /God why can't I keep my mouth shut?/
He gripped a knife tightly in one hand, a demonic look painting his face. "Those who disturb my property will die by my hand."
She backed away, nearing the street, "you keep threatening me with the same threat. Are you going to actually hold your word now?"
He sprung into action, cutting her deeply in the chest.
Finally let out a yell of pain as she fell back grasping her chest. She struggled to stay on her feet, "come on, surely you can do better than that!" she said coughing, growling in pain.
"Ms. Kaiba!" a voice shouted followed by a quick patter of feet. A couple guards ran up to her, keeping her still.
"Thanks for ruining the fun." she growled as one of them called the car around. "Well Bakura, what now?" she coughed, the corner of her lip stained with blood.
"I don't give a fuck." He lunged again, an idea forming.
Two guards stepped in the way of his lung just as a car pulled up behind her. The third guard forced her towards the car, "we need to get you to the hospital ma'am,"
"Call Seto, now." she ordered and he did pulling out his phone and calling him. /That way even if he kills me, they know what happened, and where/ she thought
"Pathetic bitch!" He called after her. "Hiding behind others to do your dirty work!"
She laughed at him, "are you any different? When you get weak don't you hide in your host body? Kinda like the pot calling the kettle black isn't it?" she stood in the open door of the car, "don't think you're getting rid of me, we'll cross paths again I'm sure. Ryou and I share the same class, and friends."
He glared back. "At least I fight unlike you and that pathetic lover of yours." With that final comment, he stalked back to the house and slammed the door shut.
"That little..." she went to move forward after him but the Guard stopped her, so she got in the car instead. /Don't worry Bakura, I'll be back and we'll fight for real next time/ she thought.
Bakura went straight to his and Ryou's room, thinking. 'That girl will never be allowed to see Ryou again, I'll make sure of it...'
