Blessed Be Those Who Live

Rating- T

Pairings- None for this chapter, but mainly Thiefshipping, Puppyshipping, and Puzzleshipping

Summary- The pharaoh separates Ryou and Bakura, and now they must deal with life.

The spirit was right. The pharaoh didn't kill them.

He merely tore them apart.

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Ryou woke up first, when they had already landed. Bakura woke up much later, when they were both back at Ryou's apartment, and Ryou was changing the bandages on his arm. He glared at Ryou, then looked down at the wound in his arm.

"I seem to have gotten much more than I bargained for. Or rather, what you bargained for, my little slave," he said, and moved up to touch Ryou's face. Ryou moved away on instinct, and Bakura smirked. "Now, now, don't be afraid. You have been of great service to me. Good slaves are rewarded."

Ryou didn't move.

Lying there, bleeding from that body that was a perfect copy of Ryou's own, Bakura seemed much less…ethereal. Less threatening than the omnipotent presence he had been. He was a man now, bound to a body of his own, even if it was just like Ryou's.

"Did you ever go beyond the confines of the ring?" Ryou asked in a soft voice.

"What?" growled Bakura. Buut there was a tremor in his voice that, for once, let Ryou be corageous.

"It was empty, wasn't it? So empty…"

Bakura lunged at him too fast for Ryou to dodge, and threw him to the ground, hitting him in the face again and again. Ryou covered his face, begging him to stop.

"You…," panted Bakura. It was so strange to hear him speaking while out of breath that Ryou dared to look up at him. He seemed to be in pain, and Ryou noticed that the wound on his arm had reopened. The scent of blood made him shiver in fear. "I don't need you anymore, you pathetic, useless child." He tore Ryou's shirt open.

"He has it!" screamed Ryou, terrified at the cold feel of Bakura's hands on his skin. "Yuugi and the pharaoh! They took it!"

Bakura growled, but let go of him.

"I don't need you," he said. "I don't need you anymore," he repeated to himself, walking out of the apartment.

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