See No Evil
Tamer: Welcome back.
Akane: We were planning to clear a few things up before we start.
Tamer: Yeah, for one, we found out that Ryou's name can be spelt either with or without the U and not having it is just a different variation of the same name.
Ryou: And second of all.
Akane: We thought about parings and Tamer has wanted to do Heartshipping for some time so we decided to do it.
Tamer: Yup, though there won't be very much romance and you can choose other parings just don't put any siblings and we'll be fine.
Ryou: Now on to the story!
Chapter 2
Bakura sat in a corner of their cell eyes closed concentrating but finding that he was getting nowhere fast. Looking up, he saw Akefia doing the same but glaring at the door as if that would solve anything, and if the circumstances were different it probably would have.
"Well, that didn't work, what's plan B?" he asked sarcastically as his brother sighed and turned to him with a dark look in his eyes.
"I don't know how they did it but they've taken our power, I just hope we get it back," Akefia replied and Bakura shrugged.
"The fact that we don't have our gems helps that they can get rid of it," Bakura replied with a sigh as he stood up to sit next to his brother.
"You know they would have taken them if we still had them, it's better this way, neither of us will spill anything but if he had the gems then they had power and that would be bad," Akefia stated and Bakura just nodded in agreement. He knew what his brother was telling the truth. In some ways the gems were safer with Ryou, but it still annoyed him and made him feel weak, and he hated feeling weak.
The door slammed open and the two boys turned to look at the people who entered. The binding around their wrists had been removed. The two stood to meet the people head on even if there were more of them and they seemed stronger and older.
"You know, you could save yourselves a lot of trouble and pain if you just come quietly," one of the people said and Bakura and Akefia spat on the ground at almost the same time with angry looks in their eyes that only caused the man to smirk at them.
"We would never give up to scum like you," Akefia growled as he prepared to lung at one of the men but hey grabbed him first doing the same to Bakura. The two teens were forced to their knees by two men each.
"That's too bad, you could have made this easy or yourselves," The man said and snapped his fingers. The men bound their arms again and cloth was tied around their eyes. They were then led out of the cell. Both boys guessed they were going to be in for a world of hurt but neither really cared.
It was true that both Marik and Malik had been in a gang once. It had been after their father had died and they had run off. It had stopped and they had never looked back but that gave them enough knowledge about the situation at hand as they needed.
The issue in question was simple. A group of gang members were beating up someone who looked to be a bit younger than Marik and Malik. They assumed he was new seeing as they'd never seen anyone like him before and it would explain why he was in the district of town.
The boy had white hair (though some parts were stained pink from blood) and he wore pretty simple clothes, grey jeans and a blue and white stripped T-shirt with a blue top and blue sneakers. All the articles of clothing were covered in blood. Some of the people had knives and some were just kicking and punching him as they pinned him to a wall.
Marik glanced from the scene to his twin. Their eyes met and Marik saw the anger flicker across his brother's face. It was no real secret that Malik sometimes had anger issues and this seemed to push him over the edge, personally, Marik wanted to kick some major ass too.
Malik nodded at his twin and with that gesture they both started moving from their hiding place.
His whole body hurt like hell. He cried out in pain but it didn't stop. His eyes were closed tight as if that would help get rid of the pain. His arms were being held over his head and he couldn't move.
His eyes snapped open at the sound of a cry and he looked to see two tanned boys knocking out the gang. He almost hoped that one of them was Akefia but that hope died down fast as he watched the boys. They were both blond and were most likely twins. He didn't see it but he felt one of them knock away the person who was holding him and his body, seeing as his legs no longer supported his weight after all the pain, started to tip but he was caught.
"It's alright,' he heard one of the boys said as he looked over his shoulder. The boy's eyes were lavender like his oldest brothers causing him to get a little upset.
"Marik, I think you're going to have to carry him, I doubt he can walk in that state, it's a wonder he's conscious," the other boy commented walking over. The boy, Marik, hoisted him onto his back and the two of them walked out and took a few turns and Marik sighed.
"Ishizu's going to kill us for doing that," Marik commented and his brother laughed a bit. "What's up with you, Malik?"
"She can't, or else she would be telling us off for saving someone," Malik replied and Marik shook his head.
"Well, I'm Marik Ishtar, and I guess you already figured out that this is my twin brother, Malik," Marik said over his shoulder.
"My name's Ryou Bakura," he somehow managed out but his throat was sore from yelling and he just wanted to sleep.
"Alright, we're going to take you to our house, our sister, Ishizu, will be able to help you," Marik said as he walked through the streets of the town.
"You really shouldn't have been down there Ryou, that's the bad part of town, then again, I guess you're knew so you wouldn't know that," Malik said and Ryou nodded a tiny bit to say that Malik was right. They reached a door and Malik opened it to enter the house.
"Marik! Malik! Oh…," a woman's voice could be heard and as she came into the hallway she noticed the almost unconscious boy on Marik's back.
"We know Ishizu, but he needs help, fast," Marik said and she nodded as the two boys went to put Ryou in a bed she went to get some things to patch up his wounds.
"She's just mad because we're late, I mean, she's not even our mother," Malik said leaning back on one of the chairs until his sister came in and hit him over the head.
"I'm not but I'm the closest thing to a mother you have," she said and the boys looked a bit upset. Their mother had died giving birth to the two of them and thus they had never known the woman who had given half of their DNA.
"We know," Marik said as Ishizu went to work healing Ryou's wounds. By this time he had drifted off into a restless sleep the blood and pain reminding him of that day. The odd thing had been that he was never in the car but he somehow knew.
It was late at night, all three Bakura brothers were in the house but their little sister wasn't. She was coming home from dance practice and it had gotten late. Ryou was sleeping in his bed while Akefia and Bakura were still up watching some TV. The two boys jumped when they heard a cry from their little brother. They jumped out of their seats and ran to his room.
"Ryou, what's the matter?" Bakura demanded. The younger boy was sitting up in bad, face pale and eyes wide as he looked at the other two.
"I… it was… Mom… Dad… Amane… they… no," he couldn't form a sentence to talk. He didn't know what to say to his brothers.
"It's alright, Ryou, it was only a bad dream," Akefia soothed but something in Ryou told him it wasn't and the phone ringing confirmed it. "I'll get it."
"Akefia, what?" Bakura asked as the older teen walked into the room. He had turned on the lights and his tanned face was slightly pale.
"Ryou, Yami," Akefia started, Bakura flinched at his first name knowing that if the older teen was using it then it was serious. "Mom, Dad and Amane were in a car crash… they… Mom died right away, Dad didn't make it to the hospital and Amane… they don't think she'll live."
"No!" Ryou cried out almost jumping out of bed. Bakura pulled him back down as tears started to come to the younger boy's eyes. If there was any one of the three who had been very close to Amane it was Ryou. In fact it was sometimes hard to believe that there was a two year age difference between the two, they acted like twins.
"I know, Ryou, listen, we're going to get a lift so we can go see her," Akefia said as he sat down on the other side and the two of them hugged their little brother tight.
Ryou's eyes opened and they felt wet, he guessed he had started to cry again. When they had gone to the hospital and they had gotten to see Amane. Her last words had been "Never give up and always stay fighting."
I promise not to ever give in, Ryou vowed in his head as the memories came. He looked around to see that he was in a room and his wounds were bandaged up. There were the twins, Marik and Malik and a woman that he assumed was Ishizu.
"- and I told you," the woman was saying. It wounded like she was telling the boys off for something. Ryou guessed it was that they went into the bad part of town.
"Ishizu, listen, I know we shouldn't have but they were killing him and… I," Malik started and then seemed to just stop what he was saying.
"I know you meant well but it was dangerous," she told him and he looked over to Ryou to see that he was awake.
"Hey, he's up again," he said and the woman turned. Unlike the twins her hair was jet black and her eyes were blue. She walked over to Ryou.
"How are you feeling?" she asked and one of the twins snorted at the question causing her to level a glare at the younger boy.
"Well, sorry, sis, but he is lying in a bed with multiple bandages and was out for a few days, how do you think he is?" Marik asked.
"A few days…," Ryou muttered and the three Ishtar siblings nodded at him and he looked at his hands that were shaking little. What had happened to his brothers in that time?
Screams echoed across the room which only made the men smirk at their captives. Akefia and Bakura were bleeding; there was no question of that. Deep cuts and dark bruises littered their skin and new ones kept getting added.
"Just tell us what we want to know already and this will stop," a man told them and they shook their heads as much as they could. They're hands were chained above their heads so they were suspended over the floor of the room.
"In your dreams," Bakura said before letting out another scream of pain as a whip cracked across his chest. This had been going on since the first day and in some ways the two boys were used to it by now.
"You two are very stubborn, but you'll crack soon enough," the man said with a laugh as more pain was inflicted on the two boys.
Never give up! The two boys thought even if the pain was unreal they would fight through it. They would never sell out their family secrets, much less their little brother.
"So what happened to you?" Marik asked Ryou who looked up at him with tear filled eyes. The memory of his sister's death now vivid in his mind.
"It's a long story," the boy replied and then looked around as if looking for something. "Where's my bag?"
"Oh, it's right here," Malik said pulling the bag out of one of the drawers it had been placed in. Ryou rummaged through it and then smiled.
"Good, everything is still here, I was worried for a second,' he said more to himself than the other people in the room.
"Ryou, what's wrong?" Ishizu asked sitting on the bed near him. She may not have been a mother yet but it seemed helping raise her two younger brothers had taught her a lot about how things worked.
"It's just that I… I miss my family," he said honestly as she wrapped her arms around him comfortingly but avoiding hurting any or his wounds.
"It's alright," she soothed and Ryou cried out what he had been keeping in but he knew she was wrong, it wasn't alright.
"No, it's not alright," he replied looking from one face to the other in the room. "My mom, dad and little sister died in a car crash a few years ago and my two big brothers… they…"
"What is it?" Ishizu asked and Ryou wondered if he should just tell them. It wasn't like he had that much information and maybe he would get some help in what he had to do.
"I'm not entirely sure, but I can tell you what I do know," Ryou replied. Marik handed him a glass of water and he drank it before he began his tale of what had happened and what he knew. The twins seemed excited as if hoping that they would be dragged into the adventure. Ishizu looked a lot more sympathetic.
"Well, we can help," Marik said and Ishizu gave him a look but she didn't reply, she knew there her brothers would do it if they wished too.
"Thank you, all three of you, I owe you a lot," he told them with a smile but he felt something inside of him and he put his hand in his bag. He pulled something out.
"It's alright," Ishizu replied with a smile as he fished around in his bag. He hoped he hadn't lost it, he knew it was very important that he not lose it.
"What's that?" Malik asked as the boy finally found what he was looking for and he looked down at the pouch that he held in his hand.
"This," Ryou said holding it up with a bit of a smile on his face. "is something very special and it holds the power that is needed to save the world."
"Some power for a bag that small," Malik replied and Ryou just smiled and opened the bag. He rolled out the thirteen gems onto his bed and he looked at them. The white one seemed to jump out and land in his hand.
"Oh… well, that explains some things," Ryou said as he looked at the white gem wondering what it meant. It hadn't been that one that caught his attention. Four of the gems seemed have rolled farther from the group. The black and silver gems were closer to Ryou while the orange and purple ones were closer to the end of the bed.
"What does it mean?" Marik wanted to know. As he walked closer the orange gem started to glow. He was puzzled so he took a step back, the gem stopped glowing. He walked forwards again and it started to glow. The closer he got the brighter it was glowing.
"Marik, pick the orange one up for a second," Ryou said and Marik grabbed it. It glowed once again and Marik blinked and Ryou smiled brightly at him. "Well, looks like you are chosen then."
"How…what?" Marik asked and Ryou giggled slightly at his confusion and looked down at the white one.
"Well, as I said I don't know much, but I do know this; see, when you get close to the gem you're supposed to have, it glows," Ryou said.
"I wonder if…," Malik trailed off walking up to the bed and he purple gem started to glow and he smirked and grabbed it. "Nice, but what do they do?"
"That I can't tell you, even I don't know what this one does and it's mine," Ryou said looking down at the white gem lying in his palm.
"So, what about those two then?" Malik asked pointing to the black and silver gems that lay nearest Ryou before the boy started to put them away.
"My guess is they belong to my two brothers," Ryou replied as he gently put the gems back in the bag they came in. "We need to find the others but at least we've started somewhere."
"Ryu," the leader turned from the window he had been looking out of. He had changed his name because he thought that the name Dragon fit better for him than the name he had been given by his parents.
"Yes?" he asked. It was the figure from before and he seemed to be the only one on equal standing as Ryu though perhaps he was higher, no one really knew because they barely even knew he was there at all.
"It seems that two more of the reincarnations have found their power, though they are unaware of what it is yet," the voice said and Ryu's mouth curved into a smirk.
"Well, he is lucky then," Ryu replied with a smirk.
"Indeed he is, he has found his own gem of power but is unaware of its true capabilities," the voice told him and he laughed at that.
"Master Ryu," one of the men said and he dropped to a bow in front of his header who turned to look at him.
"What is it now?" he asked annoyed because they seemed to need to bother him about everything that was going on.
"The boys will not give in, sir." the man said and Ryu sighed. It had been like this for a while now and he was starting to lose his patience.
"Very well then," he said as he walked to the throne that sat at the end of the room and sat down. "Bring them to me."
"Yes sir," the man said and with another bow he left in a hurry as Ryu cursed the three Bakura boys under his breath.
Bakura: Will you stop it!
Tamer: Stop what?
Bakura: Stop making cliffhangers.
Tamer: No, I won't, they're fun.
Akane: We, the cast and crew of See No Evil, hope that you realize that the scene between the three Bakura brothers was a flashback.
Marik: Did you have to say it like that?
Akane: Yes!
