Notes:
This is based on the manga, not the anime. So it will, probably, only really make sense (character wise) if you know the manga. A lot of (pillow talk) dialogue. Again Bakura POV. More notes at the end of the fic.
Bakura remained in the millennium ring, waiting and pondering in thought. He knew the time until morning was drawing close, and he began to watch the last minute's get nearer to the mark when he would pounce.
11:40...11:41...11:42...11:43...11:44...11:44:27...11:44:28...11:44:29. Now!
"Landlord...!" Bakura whispered out with enough volume to rouse him from sleep.
"Hmmm. Eh?" Ryou replied with a groan.
"Landlord, I have to speak with you..." Bakura hissed out with more volume in his voice.
Ryou blinked his eye's open once, twice, three times. He looked down at the ring: his eye's darting over to see it under his hand. He heaved himself up with a slow tiredness.
"Hmmm...? What time is it?"
"It's 15 minutes 'til midnight."
"Why did you woke me up, now...?"
"I have to speak with you. Don't worry it won't take long."
"...Alright. What is it?"
"Do you remember when you first received the millenium ring?"
"I-I, sort of-"
"Of course you remember. You were 10 years old on that day; you and your family all went to Egypt for that important day. Then, when you happened to stumble across the millenium items you tried to steal the ring because you thought that no-one was around and would see you take it."
"That's not true!" Ryou exclaimed abashed. "I was just trying it on...and I was going to put it right back afterwards."
"Oh, how erroneous of me: you're right. I apologies. You wanted to try on the millennium ring, and that was when you met the person guarding the millennium items: Shadi."
Ryou nodded in silence, the words bringing the events back to him more clearly.
"He let you take it, as we both recall. Apparently-you were the right and acceptable person for the millennium ring. That made you really happy, didn't it?"
Bakura knew that he was ecstatic about finally finding his Host. He was so giddy about it made him intoxicated. So much so that he wanted to give his young Host anything he wished. The problem. though, that he didn't seem at all grateful for the collateral which he paid unto him. Must be a mortal thing to not show the right gratitude. He thought it better to not mention it now, though; better to let sleeping dogs lie.
Bakura paused to notice the time. 11:48 As Ryou began to speak. "I understood what he was saying to me, but I didn't really know what he was talking about...at the time. I was really grateful just to receive such a valuable item."
"I was excited to meet you, of course."
"Yeah...is that all?" Ryou eyes started to droop a little, sleep beginning to take hold once more.
"There is something else, actually..." Bakura said.
With a hint of an exasperated sigh, Ryou nodded in answer.
"I did see-despite the illusions you cast-the drawings you left on the floor..." Bakura paused it was obvious by Ryou's reaction that this was a sensitive subject.
"What!? You shouldn't spy on me!" The cross expression on his face turned quickly into one of hurt.
"Except-you knew-that I would've seen those drawings. Despite that fact that you hindered me in seeing them."
A confused look flittered over the hurt expression on his face. "I didn't do that..."
"Ah, but you did do that. You somehow tapped into that white mage like power-of yours-to hide behind, yet despite that hiding you still wanted me to see them. Why do you think you let them fall to the floor like that? You want my help, of course."
"I-I..."
"You do know that I also remember the time when your family were all together. I was there for those few cherished memories, they belong to me, too, Landlord." Bakura's thoughts began to trail away from his words. "Interesting..."
Ryou was silent for a moment, a look of apprehension had all but taken over his features. "What is?"
"We both have these attachments to those beyond the grave, and want to have them be apart of our life...our existence."
Ryou tilted his head to look at the millennium ring. "I miss them, that is different..."
"Oh, things are not sodifferent between us. I think we are very much alike, maybe like two sides of the same coin."
Bakura granted another look at the time. 11:50 and got back on track.
"I do have a way to make to make it so you don't have to feel this way, Landlord. For you not to feel this unhappiness. "What if you built the scene you wanted into a diorama, similar to the table top game you created for the rpg monster world?"
His eye's flashed in alarm, and his hand flew to his mouth to cover his gasp. That fear that he would always harbor sprang out. It was like small sapling had burst out of the sand when the rain drops fell in the desert.
"Don't fret, Landlord." He quickly added. "You know that being locked away-inside the millennium ring-for such a long time left me misguided..."
"I can't let that happen, again." Ryou said, in a barely audible voice, as though speaking to himself.
"I won't do any such a thing like that again. I know of better ways to do things-good ways." Bakura said, diffusing the disharmony that could ruin everything.
Ryou picked up and held the ring in front of him with both hands. He was listening, yet still looked uneasy and apprehensive. "What did you mean, before, that I hid behind the white mage power?"
"Don't you remember? You had cast illusion before my eyes."
"Really...? What did they look like?" Ryou said with anxious curiosity in his voice. "M-maybe I can do it again. I want to see it for myself."
As Ryou concentrated, Bakura speculated that maybe his Host hadn't realised what he was doing with the 'spells'. Recalling that the ease at which he had been able to tear through the veil's added to the credible notion that it was a subconscious, barely there, inner most thought, and maybe his Host wasn't feigning innocence about not knowing about them.
"I don't see anything different..." Ryou said. "I can't do what you said." Ryou's face dropped with the same hurt expression as before and he turned away to lie back down; his face now no longer visible to him.
"Oi. You did do it, Landlord."
Ryou only answered in silence.
"You wanted me to tell you how they looked...right? Then I'll tell you. I saw a lot of snowflakes, every one that fell and every one that lay on the white ground..."
"White...? What you said before about the white mage..."
"Yes, I mentioned him, earlier. Your illusory spells made me think of him."
Ryou sat up and turned back around to looked down at the millennium ring. "I thought about him, too. Maybe that was why you saw them. I wanted to keep what I was doing personal to me, and when I thought about the white mage it caused illusions to happen."
Ryou's face no longer held that saddened expression. He even beamed a little. Once again a lighthouse working to tell him exactly where he needed to go, instead of running aground on the shore.
"I still know what you had drawn, and you wanted me to know. It was because you wanted help from me: wanted me to help you with this."
"Help?" Ryou said and let out a sigh. "I really don't think it is something to be helped..."
"I know it is possible, I can prove that it's possible."
Ryou blinked. "How?"
"Since your are still skeptical, I will have to prove it to you." He pause for a moment before speaking again. "...There is an ancient Egyptian exhibition being set up at the museum that your Father owns. I can help you build a model city-with my memories-of that time. Of course, I will have to borrow one of the art pencils to draw the blue prints."
"You should know alot about ancient Egypt...I suppose that it would be a good thing."
"I am happy to hear you say that. It is in the power of the millennium items to project such memories, that could be called a memory world. It will show a world that one can use and view of that ancient time."
He let the silent response from his Host waste away the remaining seconds. He was pleased despite the time ticking down in the silence.
"Why do you never show yourself to me? Can you?"
Bakura had expected to hear an agreement and felt irritated at the sudden new questions.
"I want to see you, not just listen to a voice."
The silence began to stretch between them. An expected look was held in his eye's, but a cynical frown was also forming. He may not agree to build the miniature world otherwise.
"Of course I can. You are my master, after all."
A small flash of light emitted from the ring before dimming and his spirit came forth to show himself. Ryou peered through the dark at the sight of the spirit that materialised before him, and let his surprise be known with a small gasp.
"Y-you look exactly like me..."
Ryou reached out slowly to touch the spirit's face lightly. His fingers trembled, showing the shock hadn't worn off at the reveal, and his fingers brushed down lightly as though he wasn't quite convinced it was real. Bakura smiled at the reaction, and reached out his own hand to gently caress past a few loose strands of unkempt hair on his head.
"Yes. I told you we are alike. Your friend Yugi and his other self are exactly the same in spirit, as we are."
Ryou looked away. "I do have some question that I want to ask Yugi."
"Ask? What would you ask, Landlord?"
"I'm not sure. I actually, just really want to know what the meaning to all this is..."
"Don't worry anymore about it, tonight. You should sleep on this, and talk to your friends tomorrow. Then you can agree to what I proposed."
Ryou's eyes shot a quick glance at the clock, the sight of the time causing him to yawn. "11:59." He murmured before settling back down.
Before he returned to the ring, Bakura crossed his arms in worry. He had said everything in time before it tipped over into morning, with almost a minute to spare no less, and had set the groundwork to achieve his goal. It was definite except for one uncertainty, and that was what his Landlord would be asking the spirit of the Millennium puzzle. It still could all come crashing down.
Okay second chapter, all finished.
I think this is more like a character study than a fic actually ha ha I wrote in what I think was the likely age that Ryou received the millennium ring according to the manga. Since it was being guarded by Shadi and a group of people he would have most likely have to Unless I missed a point in the manga story. I would probably guess that Ryou was going to turn 10yrs old, and reaching double digits is a big deal, so his family all went to Egypt.
It would probably have been after most or all the other millennium items had already been distributed because Bakura would probably take them or try to take them.
One thing that I am unsure of is if his Mother is alive or not. If it was his Mother and his Sister that died, or just his sister.