[Note: I'm going to just say that Jou and Kaiba are a couple. I'll write the back story later if ya'll want me to. ^_^ I also take it that Yami can send people into the past. I know its just his memories but lemme just twist it abit. O_o]
Normal POV
Yugi Motou walked up the porch to Ryou's home. It was four in the afternoon and he had come over to watch some anime with the hikari. Jounouchi Katsuya trailed behind him, dragging a very pissed Kaiba. Knocking the door, Yugi smiled, looking at the couple squabble.
"I don't know why you dragged me here dumb mutt.." Kaiba scowled as he was led to the door. Jou grinned at him.
"Well, you hardly get any days off so now I want you to spend it with us." Jou told him. By then, Yugi had given up knocking. Ryou hadn't come to the door in 5 minutes and he felt like something was wrong. Yugi dug into his pocket and pulled out the key Ryou gave him just in case. Turning the knob, he made his way in, leaving the bickering couple outside.
"Oh yeah? Well I can think of other things we could do on my days off. For example I could be fu-" Kaiba stopped short as an ear piercing scream came from inside.
"Yugi!?" Jou called out, dashing in, followed by his lover. When he got there, he saw Yugi beside a pale Ryou.. There was blood everywhere and an intricately carved dagger sticking out of Ryou's stomach.
Jou felt sick as he saw the caked blood soaked into the carpet and the Sennen Ring holder's clothes. Kaiba had moved beside him and was trying to feel for a pulse. His face was scrunched in a deep frown.
"Ryou... RYOU WAKE UP!!!" Yugi shouted, shaking his friend vigourously as tears poured out of his eyes. Jou still stood there shocked. Deep in his mind, this scene looked familiar... too familiar... yet.. wrong somehow.
"He's still alive." Kaiba said with slight relief. "But he's in a terrible condition and his pulse is faint. We have to get him to my Mansion. I'll call the doctors on standby there to get everything ready. Jou, help Yugi carry Ryou into the car." The CEO ordered as he flipped open his cell phone.
Jou jolted up from his daze and nodded, running to Yugi's side to help him. Suddenly, Bakura came through the door. He stared at the bloodied body before him and an expression of shock appeared on his face.
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Kaiba's POV
That loser still dare show his face here after what he's done to Ryou?! And whats with that feigned shock of his? It's obvious he did this. Who else could?! I can't believe he could bring himself to do this, after all the care and love that Ryou has showered over him. I raise my fist to punch that pathetic face of his in but am stopped midway.
"Kaiba don't! We can't fight now, Ryou needs help!" I hear Yugi say to me. I nod at him and take over Jou in getting Ryou to the car. Something's wrong with Jou, I can see it in his dazed eyes but that isn't my concern now, I have to save Ryou.
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Bakura's POV
It all happened so fast. Was that my hikari in Kaiba's arms? What happened to him? Why is there so much blood all over the place? What was going on?! I know I don't care for Ryou, but why did looking at him like that shock me so badly? I swear I felt my heart just stop when I saw him like that.
Now isn't the time to ask questions. I run after the group as they enter the limo, not before noticing an evil aura that had been in the room for quite a while now. I ask Kaiba to let me follow them. He looks at me like as if I was insane. I had never asked anyone for anything. It was always an order. Kaiba saw the look in my eyes and nodded. I knew he thought I did it to Ryou but I couldn't care less at this point. Ryou mattered more right now... Wait.. what the hell am I saying.. Oh heck.. no.. I am NOT falling for him...
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Normal POV
At the Kaiba Mansion, everyone was crowded around the bed where a pale Ryou lay. Yugi had contacted everyone while they were in the limo and so everyone had rushed down to see if their friend was ok. The blade had been removed from his body and the wounds bandaged properly. His condition was stabilized but something else was wrong. His internal organs were slowly failing one by one and none of the doctors could give a reason for it. All of them knew that Ryou wouldn't last much longer. He would probably leave them right before Christmas. Jou kept stealing glances at Bakura in the most disturbing of ways but no one seemed to notice. Téa had been crying onto Honda's shoulder while Yami held Yugi in a reassuring embrace.
Kaiba paced up and down the room in anger. Ryou meant alot to him. After all, it was him that got Jou and himself together. He owed much to the platinum haired teenager who helped him understand what it was like to love someone unconditionally. He needed to let all of it out and who better to do it to than Bakura, the monster who hurt Ryou in the first place.
Suddenly, he stood up and walked over to Bakura who had been sitting in the corner with an irritated look on his face. Without warning, he punched Bakura in the face with great force. The tomb robber faltered abit then looked up at him.
He didn't get a chance to say anything as Kaiba hit him again. By then, almost everyone had stood up and gone to stop the CEO from turning the Egyptian into a bloody mass.
However, even the three people who were holding him back didn't stop him from kicking at Bakura. Surprisingly, Bakura wasn't dodging a single attack. He looked almost forlorn and just sat there as if he was accepting his fate.
"Hey Jou, aren't you going to help us!?" Honda growled as he tried to restrain Kaiba. They turned to Jou who was holding the dagger that had impaled Ryou gently in his hands. They stared at him, even Kaiba stopped his assault.
"Heh, mou ichido.." He said in a voice that wasn't his. Then he turned enraged towards Bakura and lunged at him with the blade. The tomb robber didn't notice, his head was turned away in deep thought. He could still feel the evil aura. It had followed them all the way from the house.
"STOP!!" Yugi shouted as he lunged for his best friend. He managed to topple the blonde over. Honda and Kaiba came over to restrain him.
Kaiba turned his lover over and straddled him pinning him to the ground, causing him to drop the blade at Bakura's feet.
"What have you done to Jou?! I know you're not him so tell me now what you've done before I wipe that smirk off your face permanently!" Kaiba shouted, ready to hit the daylights out of the teenager below him. He knew all along that something was amiss with Jou but he didn't know what to do about it. Ever since Jou had seen Ryou lying there, he wasn't himself, and Kaiba knew. He was just waiting for an opportunity to do something.
"Ohho, don't be so eager Seto Kaiba, after all, hurt me and you hurt the precious body of your lover." The person said maliciously. Bakura's head jerked up at the sound of the voice. He heard it before. Infact, he knew who it was. Dread filled him.
"You've possessed him?!" Yugi said, alarmed.
"Heh, of course I have. I ahhhhh-" The stranger said gripping his head in pain. Suddenly, his expression changed.
"...Kaiba... stop him... it hurts!" They all heard Jou say, in a voice that was definitely his. He was fighting the spirit who had taken his body over.
"Hang on Jou, just hang on!" Kaiba said in desperation.
"...He.. he stabbed...Ryou with a... a poisoned blade... Ryou will die without the antidote... I saw it in his memories..." Jou said weakly before the spirit took over again.
"Arrrgh, stupid boy. He told you too much! Oh well, Ryou will die anyway. And then I will-" No one heard the last line as Kaiba uttered a silent apology and punched Jou in the face, knocking him out.
The room was silent for a while as everyone took in what had just happened. They were all too shocked to do anything. Suddenly, Bakura stood up.
"I'm going."
"Going where?" Téa asked.
"To get the antidote for Ryou..." He said softly and turned towards Yami who had been silently watching the whole time. "I need your help Pharaoh, please."
All of them stared at him, shocked. Was this really Bakura standing before them?
"What am I missing, Bakura?" Kaiba asked. He knew there was more to it than met the eye and if anyone could explain it, it would be the yami. Bakura sighed as he looked at him, then at the still form on the bed. He didn't know why he wanted to do this. He couldn't explain it, but something told him he had to save his hikari.
Bakura looked around the room at everyone. They were all waiting for his explanation. Finally, he started.
"...The spirit who possessed Jou was someone I knew when I robbed the tombs thousands of years ago...He.. he was my friend...Takut." Saying that line made him partially responsible for the condition Ryou was in and it took alot of tolerance for Kaiba not to knock him out at that very moment.
"...During one of the raids, we found the Crystal Key. It was a very special key that could open any of the doors in any tomb. However, once inserted into the keyhole, it could not be pulled out anymore. We planned to use it on the tomb of Nefertina one night. However, that night, Takut said he was unwell and didn't want to go. I agreed to go another night and left with a knapsack to get foodstuffs for the both of us and medicine for him..." Bakura explained, fingering the familiar dagger he knew belonged to Takut.
"When I came back he was lying on the floor bleeding to death. Everything was upturned. With his last few breaths he told me how much he hated me for betraying him to the Pharaoh's guards, accusing me of telling on him to protect myself as well as to use the time to raid Nefertina's tomb, mocking that I had brought back quite a good amount of treasure, since my bag was so full. I wanted to explain everything to him but he died before I could." Bakura looked up sadly.
"..He..he was good with magic and was probably the one who did all this. It's not surprising he was able to use his powers to give his spirit the ability to possess another human thousands of years after his death. He must have attacked Ryou since he was drawn to Ryou's life essence which is similar to mine. He didn't know about Ryou so he attacked him thinking it was me." The tomb robber said. Silence filled the room. No one knew what to say.
"So thats why you need my help. You want me to send you to the past don't you?" Yami asked. He had figured it out much deeper than Bakura had explained. "You believe that Ryou has an ancient poison running through his veins and so you want to go back to ancient Egypt to get the antidote." Yami said. Bakura nodded, looking downwards.
"Alright." Yami said in the end.
"I'm coming with you." Kaiba stated. "After all, this involves Jou now as well."
Bakura shook his head. "You can't.. I have to go alone. You'll only be a burden." He stated.
"Bakura's right Kaiba. I'm sorry but you won't be able to keep up with him in Egypt. I'd imagine he has quite a lot to do." Yami said. Kaiba growled and turned away.
"Why are you suddenly doing all this for him?" Honda asked.
"I...I don't know..." Bakura said, uncertainty present in his voice. They had never seen the violent yami like this, but they knew that even if Bakura didn't admit it, he was starting to treasure his hikari. The only thing that they feared was that it would be too late to save Ryou.
Bakura walked towards the bed where Ryou lay and bent down to whisper something in his ear. He didn't know if Ryou could hear him or not but he did it anyway. He then turned to Yami.
"I'm ready."
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[Note: Ahh, another chapter done. In the next one, Bakura goes back to Ancient Egypt to get the cure. Will he succeed? Please do review!! I need to know what ya think of it! Thank you for reading so far.]
"Mou ichido" means again or one more time.
[I posted this chapter a few hours in advance because FF.net takes quite abit of time to get it on the site. ^__^]
Normal POV
Yugi Motou walked up the porch to Ryou's home. It was four in the afternoon and he had come over to watch some anime with the hikari. Jounouchi Katsuya trailed behind him, dragging a very pissed Kaiba. Knocking the door, Yugi smiled, looking at the couple squabble.
"I don't know why you dragged me here dumb mutt.." Kaiba scowled as he was led to the door. Jou grinned at him.
"Well, you hardly get any days off so now I want you to spend it with us." Jou told him. By then, Yugi had given up knocking. Ryou hadn't come to the door in 5 minutes and he felt like something was wrong. Yugi dug into his pocket and pulled out the key Ryou gave him just in case. Turning the knob, he made his way in, leaving the bickering couple outside.
"Oh yeah? Well I can think of other things we could do on my days off. For example I could be fu-" Kaiba stopped short as an ear piercing scream came from inside.
"Yugi!?" Jou called out, dashing in, followed by his lover. When he got there, he saw Yugi beside a pale Ryou.. There was blood everywhere and an intricately carved dagger sticking out of Ryou's stomach.
Jou felt sick as he saw the caked blood soaked into the carpet and the Sennen Ring holder's clothes. Kaiba had moved beside him and was trying to feel for a pulse. His face was scrunched in a deep frown.
"Ryou... RYOU WAKE UP!!!" Yugi shouted, shaking his friend vigourously as tears poured out of his eyes. Jou still stood there shocked. Deep in his mind, this scene looked familiar... too familiar... yet.. wrong somehow.
"He's still alive." Kaiba said with slight relief. "But he's in a terrible condition and his pulse is faint. We have to get him to my Mansion. I'll call the doctors on standby there to get everything ready. Jou, help Yugi carry Ryou into the car." The CEO ordered as he flipped open his cell phone.
Jou jolted up from his daze and nodded, running to Yugi's side to help him. Suddenly, Bakura came through the door. He stared at the bloodied body before him and an expression of shock appeared on his face.
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Kaiba's POV
That loser still dare show his face here after what he's done to Ryou?! And whats with that feigned shock of his? It's obvious he did this. Who else could?! I can't believe he could bring himself to do this, after all the care and love that Ryou has showered over him. I raise my fist to punch that pathetic face of his in but am stopped midway.
"Kaiba don't! We can't fight now, Ryou needs help!" I hear Yugi say to me. I nod at him and take over Jou in getting Ryou to the car. Something's wrong with Jou, I can see it in his dazed eyes but that isn't my concern now, I have to save Ryou.
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Bakura's POV
It all happened so fast. Was that my hikari in Kaiba's arms? What happened to him? Why is there so much blood all over the place? What was going on?! I know I don't care for Ryou, but why did looking at him like that shock me so badly? I swear I felt my heart just stop when I saw him like that.
Now isn't the time to ask questions. I run after the group as they enter the limo, not before noticing an evil aura that had been in the room for quite a while now. I ask Kaiba to let me follow them. He looks at me like as if I was insane. I had never asked anyone for anything. It was always an order. Kaiba saw the look in my eyes and nodded. I knew he thought I did it to Ryou but I couldn't care less at this point. Ryou mattered more right now... Wait.. what the hell am I saying.. Oh heck.. no.. I am NOT falling for him...
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Normal POV
At the Kaiba Mansion, everyone was crowded around the bed where a pale Ryou lay. Yugi had contacted everyone while they were in the limo and so everyone had rushed down to see if their friend was ok. The blade had been removed from his body and the wounds bandaged properly. His condition was stabilized but something else was wrong. His internal organs were slowly failing one by one and none of the doctors could give a reason for it. All of them knew that Ryou wouldn't last much longer. He would probably leave them right before Christmas. Jou kept stealing glances at Bakura in the most disturbing of ways but no one seemed to notice. Téa had been crying onto Honda's shoulder while Yami held Yugi in a reassuring embrace.
Kaiba paced up and down the room in anger. Ryou meant alot to him. After all, it was him that got Jou and himself together. He owed much to the platinum haired teenager who helped him understand what it was like to love someone unconditionally. He needed to let all of it out and who better to do it to than Bakura, the monster who hurt Ryou in the first place.
Suddenly, he stood up and walked over to Bakura who had been sitting in the corner with an irritated look on his face. Without warning, he punched Bakura in the face with great force. The tomb robber faltered abit then looked up at him.
He didn't get a chance to say anything as Kaiba hit him again. By then, almost everyone had stood up and gone to stop the CEO from turning the Egyptian into a bloody mass.
However, even the three people who were holding him back didn't stop him from kicking at Bakura. Surprisingly, Bakura wasn't dodging a single attack. He looked almost forlorn and just sat there as if he was accepting his fate.
"Hey Jou, aren't you going to help us!?" Honda growled as he tried to restrain Kaiba. They turned to Jou who was holding the dagger that had impaled Ryou gently in his hands. They stared at him, even Kaiba stopped his assault.
"Heh, mou ichido.." He said in a voice that wasn't his. Then he turned enraged towards Bakura and lunged at him with the blade. The tomb robber didn't notice, his head was turned away in deep thought. He could still feel the evil aura. It had followed them all the way from the house.
"STOP!!" Yugi shouted as he lunged for his best friend. He managed to topple the blonde over. Honda and Kaiba came over to restrain him.
Kaiba turned his lover over and straddled him pinning him to the ground, causing him to drop the blade at Bakura's feet.
"What have you done to Jou?! I know you're not him so tell me now what you've done before I wipe that smirk off your face permanently!" Kaiba shouted, ready to hit the daylights out of the teenager below him. He knew all along that something was amiss with Jou but he didn't know what to do about it. Ever since Jou had seen Ryou lying there, he wasn't himself, and Kaiba knew. He was just waiting for an opportunity to do something.
"Ohho, don't be so eager Seto Kaiba, after all, hurt me and you hurt the precious body of your lover." The person said maliciously. Bakura's head jerked up at the sound of the voice. He heard it before. Infact, he knew who it was. Dread filled him.
"You've possessed him?!" Yugi said, alarmed.
"Heh, of course I have. I ahhhhh-" The stranger said gripping his head in pain. Suddenly, his expression changed.
"...Kaiba... stop him... it hurts!" They all heard Jou say, in a voice that was definitely his. He was fighting the spirit who had taken his body over.
"Hang on Jou, just hang on!" Kaiba said in desperation.
"...He.. he stabbed...Ryou with a... a poisoned blade... Ryou will die without the antidote... I saw it in his memories..." Jou said weakly before the spirit took over again.
"Arrrgh, stupid boy. He told you too much! Oh well, Ryou will die anyway. And then I will-" No one heard the last line as Kaiba uttered a silent apology and punched Jou in the face, knocking him out.
The room was silent for a while as everyone took in what had just happened. They were all too shocked to do anything. Suddenly, Bakura stood up.
"I'm going."
"Going where?" Téa asked.
"To get the antidote for Ryou..." He said softly and turned towards Yami who had been silently watching the whole time. "I need your help Pharaoh, please."
All of them stared at him, shocked. Was this really Bakura standing before them?
"What am I missing, Bakura?" Kaiba asked. He knew there was more to it than met the eye and if anyone could explain it, it would be the yami. Bakura sighed as he looked at him, then at the still form on the bed. He didn't know why he wanted to do this. He couldn't explain it, but something told him he had to save his hikari.
Bakura looked around the room at everyone. They were all waiting for his explanation. Finally, he started.
"...The spirit who possessed Jou was someone I knew when I robbed the tombs thousands of years ago...He.. he was my friend...Takut." Saying that line made him partially responsible for the condition Ryou was in and it took alot of tolerance for Kaiba not to knock him out at that very moment.
"...During one of the raids, we found the Crystal Key. It was a very special key that could open any of the doors in any tomb. However, once inserted into the keyhole, it could not be pulled out anymore. We planned to use it on the tomb of Nefertina one night. However, that night, Takut said he was unwell and didn't want to go. I agreed to go another night and left with a knapsack to get foodstuffs for the both of us and medicine for him..." Bakura explained, fingering the familiar dagger he knew belonged to Takut.
"When I came back he was lying on the floor bleeding to death. Everything was upturned. With his last few breaths he told me how much he hated me for betraying him to the Pharaoh's guards, accusing me of telling on him to protect myself as well as to use the time to raid Nefertina's tomb, mocking that I had brought back quite a good amount of treasure, since my bag was so full. I wanted to explain everything to him but he died before I could." Bakura looked up sadly.
"..He..he was good with magic and was probably the one who did all this. It's not surprising he was able to use his powers to give his spirit the ability to possess another human thousands of years after his death. He must have attacked Ryou since he was drawn to Ryou's life essence which is similar to mine. He didn't know about Ryou so he attacked him thinking it was me." The tomb robber said. Silence filled the room. No one knew what to say.
"So thats why you need my help. You want me to send you to the past don't you?" Yami asked. He had figured it out much deeper than Bakura had explained. "You believe that Ryou has an ancient poison running through his veins and so you want to go back to ancient Egypt to get the antidote." Yami said. Bakura nodded, looking downwards.
"Alright." Yami said in the end.
"I'm coming with you." Kaiba stated. "After all, this involves Jou now as well."
Bakura shook his head. "You can't.. I have to go alone. You'll only be a burden." He stated.
"Bakura's right Kaiba. I'm sorry but you won't be able to keep up with him in Egypt. I'd imagine he has quite a lot to do." Yami said. Kaiba growled and turned away.
"Why are you suddenly doing all this for him?" Honda asked.
"I...I don't know..." Bakura said, uncertainty present in his voice. They had never seen the violent yami like this, but they knew that even if Bakura didn't admit it, he was starting to treasure his hikari. The only thing that they feared was that it would be too late to save Ryou.
Bakura walked towards the bed where Ryou lay and bent down to whisper something in his ear. He didn't know if Ryou could hear him or not but he did it anyway. He then turned to Yami.
"I'm ready."
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[Note: Ahh, another chapter done. In the next one, Bakura goes back to Ancient Egypt to get the cure. Will he succeed? Please do review!! I need to know what ya think of it! Thank you for reading so far.]
"Mou ichido" means again or one more time.
[I posted this chapter a few hours in advance because FF.net takes quite abit of time to get it on the site. ^__^]