Hell is other people ~ Jean Paul Sartre
It was lunch and everyone was happy. Kids all across the lunch room were throwing their heads back in laughter and eagerly digging into their food. And Ryou sitting quietly at the end of the table, watching Yuugi destroy Jou in duel monsters. Watching Honda taunt Jou every chance he got for it and Anzu laughing with that gleam in her pretty blue eyes.
This was hell. (Ryou was sure of it.)
Some reasonable part of his mind would always try to disagree and say things like "If this was hell you wouldn't even have the little bit of happiness you do now,". But Ryou knew the truth. Ryou understood that in order to make everything hurt worst they had to make you think that things could get better. Make you think you had hope.
Perhaps he had died that night with his mother and sister and this was his punishment. Now instead of just protecting them (which he had failed to do), he had to protect the whole world from whatever lay in his ring.
And he knew something was in that ring. He could feel it! Even when Ryou was all alone – he knew he wasn't. He wasn't stupid! Didn't this ring know the power it let out? The suffocating energy that it wrapped around him? Oh, how Ryou longed to just rip the ring off of his chest and throw it to the ground, screaming, I know you're in there. In fact just scream to the whole world that he knew the truth and that he saw through their lies and despite everything he didn't deserve this and – .
"Bakura! Are you okay?"
"Oh! Yuugi-kun, I'm fine."
This is what happens when I decide I want to write insane!Ryou. Yeah, you know in the summary it said these would be drabbles and oneshots. This is of the drabble varity. I have to other chapters written...but I think I'll post the fluffy one next. You know, just to prove to myself I can post something fluffy.