Blue Stockings.
Warnings: Swearing! YAOI, Yami/Hikari slashing! My humour…
Rtb - Hey guys! It's chapter four already! This story has so many words! *angst hands* Now! Some reviews had some very good questions about the fic which I will answer at the end of the fanfiction!
And Thankyou to my sexy reviewers! You have made me update much faster than I expected too! And thankyou to those who have alerted and favourited this story! I'm glad you're all enjoying it so far! ^^
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Disclaimer - I do not own YuGiOh… but I do own YuGiOh cards and cosplays! Does that count for something?! No? WELL OKAY THEN!
Chapter four.
Nervously making his way to school, Ryou anxiously fiddled with the hem of his shirt and bit at his lip. He was completely terrified that the boy's from yesterday would come and find him in order to get their 'revenge'.
Breathing shallowly, Ryou's whole body shook with fear as he began to get closer and closer to the schools front gate.
The school, now only meters away, suddenly seemed to be so much more menacing than Ryou last remembered and he had the strongest urge to turn on his heel and run back home as fast as he could.
However before he could do such a thing, a hand suddenly clamped down on his shoulder causing Ryou to scream bloody murder.
"Ryou, relax would you?! It's just me and the two dingbats over there." Marik laughed as he jerked a thumb over to Malik and Bakura who were only a few steps behind him, glaring at Marik for the 'dingbat' comment.
"Ding what?!" Malik asked with a raised eyebrow resulting in Marik simply shrugging it off.
"Oh… um… hi guys… It's great to see you and all but I have to go to class… I really must be off…" Ryou said quickly, hiding his face with his long, silky, yet spiky, hair.
"Oi… Ryou. What's wrong? Why are you hiding your face?" Bakura inquired.
"Oh um… no reason.. I just forgot to brush my hair today is all and now it's all over my face… I'll go to the bathroom to fix it now…"
Marik, now just as curious as Bakura, kept his hold on Ryou's shoulder.
"Ryou… what happened?" Marik asked forcefully making Ryou cringe at the others serious tone.
Marik wasn't a very serious person by nature… but when he did get serious it was for a good reason, and all jokes were put aside.
Knowing he didn't really have any other choice, Ryou looked up at the three boys, his hair falling down off his face, revealing the huge bruise on his right cheek, his eye's welling up with tears, not use to such confrontation.
"I'm sorry, it wasn't my fault! Yugi, …one of the boys from my class, was being picked on and they were hurting him, so I had to help!" Ryou blathered.
All three boy's became rather silent as their eyes fell onto the darkened bruise on his otherwise perfect face.
All of their eyes narrowed in anger and hate towards the people who had been stupid and brutal enough to hurt such a passive person as Ryou.
"I'll fucking kill who ever did this!" Bakura growled in malice as Marik nodded in a agreement.
Malik looked over Ryou once more and noticed the boy's lips were swollen and cut.
"Ryou… what else did those Bastards do to you?" Malik asked with a sneaking suspicion that he already knew the answer.
Bakura and Marik looked back at Malik before looking back to Ryou who was staying rather silent.
"Well?!" Bakura demanded.
"N-nothing!" Ryou yelled back, his eye's focused on the floor… he knew that if he looked into their eyes they'd know, for sure, he was lying.
"Ryou!" Marik shouted, tightening his grip slightly.
"Okay! It… it wasn't anything to bad… and I don't want you to be angry or anything! It's kind of really embarrassing and gross…B-but… he… um… kinda ki-kissed me and stuff… but when he started groping me I kicked him in the stomach and ran off with Yugi back to my house! He was much more hurt than I was! So please, please, please don't worry! I'm fine! Really!" Ryou explained, still looking down at the floor.
After a short moments silence, Ryou dared to look up at the three boys. He was completely embarrassed by all of this and having to tell everyone all about it wasn't helping that embarrassment very much.
However, he was very surprised to find not looks of shock and surprise but looks over murderous intent.
At first he thought they were being directed at him, which scared him immensely! But, upon closer inspection, he could tell they were definitely being directed at the boys who had created this whole mess.
"Ryou… tell us who did this fucking shit…right now!" Marik insisted sternly.
Ryou gulped as he looked over at the other two before looking back up to Marik.
"I don't know there names… I just know they're year 12 boys." Ryou whined as he tried to worm his way out of Marik's grip… which apparently was like some kind of death hold!
Malik, finally noticing the evident fear on Ryou's face, intervened.
"It's okay Marik… we'll just ask around and find out what we can… I bet that Yugi kid knows them." Malik rationalised.
"Yeah, okay… you're right." Marik agreed as he let go of the younger boy who instantly rubbed his arm with a small, little, pout.
"I'm sorry Ryou… I… I just don't like seeing you hurt… none of us do. We're your friends and we want to protect you…. Isn't that right Bakura." Marik stated turning the conversation over to Bakura, hoping that Bakura would talk out some of the feelings he had for Ryou and comfort him, thus building up their relationship and working towards Ryou falling in love with Bakura… however… this is Bakura we're talking about here… and so, not so surprisingly, when the three boys turned to face him … he was gone.
"What the fuck?! How the hell did he do that?! What's he related to, hoodeeney or somethin'?!" Marik shrieked as he stamped his foot on the ground in frustration.
Malik couldn't help but sigh as he pulled Ryou into him, effectively hugging the other.
"You know Bakura… he's good at that kind of thing… and by now he's probably on the way to getting his own type of blood filled 'go to jail for that kind of behaviour' revenge." Malik stated simply.
Marik frowned.
"Well we're just going to have to get our own revenge before he goes and get's himself put in jail then, aren't we?! … Something that'll satisfy his blood lust, somewhat." Marik grinned psychotically making Ryou shudder in fear and Malik shudder in excitement.
"Okay, sounds good to me." Malik grinned back, looking almost as psychotic as Marik, which was a feat and a half in itself.
"Um… this may sound silly… but… er… why is Bakura so mad? Why does he want to get revenge so bad?" Ryou asked naively, blinking his wide curious eyes rapidly as he looked up at the two.
"Er… we'll tell ya when you're older, kid. Later~!" Marik said simply before running off with Malik running off behind him.
"Tell me when I'm older…? Ewwww… is it a sex thing?! Wait… that doesn't make sense, Ryou!" Ryou thought aloud before realising what had just happened.
"Hey wait! I don't want any revenge!" he called out to the boys who were already long gone and way out of ear shot.
Sighing, as he made his way out of class, Ryou was looking forward to a long lasting lunch break.
Sitting at one of the outside tables, he opened his pink, tin, lunch box and smiled in delight at the food he had made only hours before.
"Cucumber sandwiches, one of my favourites." he said happily.
Ryou was one of the few people in the world that actually liked cucumber sandwiches. Although many people believed that it was common for British people to eat cucumber sandwiches for lunch, it was not. It was strange people, like Ryou, who made people believe this was the case.
Humming softly as he undid the cling wrap, stuck to his sandwich, the petite boy took a bite out of the corner as he placed his apple juice box next to his lunch, puncturing the small hole with his straw before taking a sip.
It was times like these, calm… and peaceful, that Ryou liked best.
However Ryou's peace was soon interrupted as he heard a strange mumbling of voices off in the distance, becoming louder and louder with each and every second.
Looking over, in the direction the voices were coming from, Ryou waited for a moment to find out what was causing such a ruckus within the school and it wasn't long before the year twelve boys, that had beaten up Ryou, came into view.
Thinking they were finally out for revenge on him, Ryou froze in fear… before he suddenly noticed the strange look of terror on their faces as they came hurdling past him.
"What in the world…" Ryou thought aloud before another group came running towards him, anger and sadistic pleasure evident upon their faces.
"GET THEM! THEY TOUCHED RYOU!" Malik screamed as he ran along with the crowd chasing after the boys who had passed only moments before.
"KILL THE BASTARDS!" Marik yelled as he also ran past Ryou, still sitting at his table… skirt fluttering slightly as people ran by him.
After a moment or so, the two groups had completely disappeared and Ryou was left to himself once more.
'Hm… I have strange friends…' Ryou thought simply before turning back to his lunch, sipping lightly on his juice box.
Bakura grinned wildly as he kicked the boy, who had dared to lay a hand on Ryou's innocent body, to the ground, taking pleasure in the others pain filled cries.
"Marik, Malik, you did a good job rounding these fuckwits up for me… and, even better, weeding out which one had assaulted my dearest Ryou."
"Oh Bakura, you flatter us." Marik chuckled before waggling his eyebrows towards the other suggestively, resulting in Malik punching him in the arm.
"Hey! You're mine remember?!" he yelled at Marik before turning to Bakura, once more.
"And we're staying here to make sure you don't kill this poor fool, so do whatever you're going to do and make it quick." Malik hissed, although, inwardly, he was looking forward to this boy's, obvious to be, torture.
"Hmmm, you can not rush an artist, Malik…and believe me… this is going to be art." Bakura grinned as he picked the boy up by the shirt with one arm and shoved him up against a nearby wall.
Kicking, punching, throwing and even cutting and burning, every now and again, Bakura licked his lips as he let the boy fall to the ground before him in a bloodied heap.
The boy had passed out a few times, but, with a little pick me up, Bakura conveniently had in his back pocket, for times like these and absolutely not for 'personal use' what so ever, the boy had managed to stay conscious for the last part of Bakura's 'revenge'.
Leaning down, Bakura dug into the boy's pocket and smiled as his hand brushed against a leather wallet.
"You won't be needing this at the moment so you won't mind if I take it will you? Didn't think so." he chuckled darkly as he opened it up, happy to find a hundred dollars in cash. Pocketing the money he then threw the wallet down at the broken body sprawled against the cement pavement of a back part of the school grounds.
Looking down on the boy with disgust, Bakura spat at him before wiping his hands clean of blood on a towel Malik had nicked for him, from the art room, beforehand.
"If you even think about telling anyone about this… maybe they'd be interested to know about you trying to rape a 16 year old girl." Bakura said simply before walking off.
"Pft! And it wouldn't matter anyway, not with that senile principle of ours… we probably could have killed him and still wouldn't be expelled!" Marik laughed in delight as he followed after Bakura.
Malik frowned as he looked over at the boy before kicking him in the gut.
"Stay away from Ryou!" he said childishly with a pout before running to catch up with the other two.
"So where do you guys wanna go now? I was thinking of going to subway for lunch, I'm starved!" Malik said animatedly, waving his arms about, trying to get attention from the others.
"Subway's shit, we're going to the steak house." Bakura told the younger blonde.
"Fuck no! We're going to macca's! I ain't having any of your healthy junk or your meat crap!" Marik frowned as they left the school, trying to find a place for lunch that they could all agree on.
"Hey Ryou!" Yugi called out as Ryou entered the class room.
Lunch just finished and Ryou had only just walked into the class room when he was addressed by the younger boy.
"Oh, hello Yugi. How are you… you know, after yesterday and all?" Ryou asked with concern making Yugi smile childishly at him.
"I'm actually doing okay! You'll never believe what happened at lunch!" he exclaimed loudly, half the class turning to glare at him with annoyance for being so loud.
Grinning sheepishly, the two made their way to the back of the class room, effectively toning down their voices, the two silently thankful that their teacher had yet to arrive as they continued their conversation.
"What happened?" Ryou inquired, tilting his head to the side, lips pursed together in interest and thoughtfulness.
"Well, the guy's that, kinda, sorta, beat us up yesterday… they were mugged! On school grounds too! Apparently they didn't get a good look at who robbed them… so they're not able to press charges or anything! And I heard a few of them got messed up really bad… it's kind of scary that such a thing can happen on school grounds!"
Ryou paled as he listened to the story, gulping as a terrible thought struck him.
'Amane… you don't think that Malik and Marik would… but it's just so hard to believe… I'll talk to them after school… I don't believe they did it but I have to be sure, you know?' Ryou thought slowly before being brought out of his daze by fingers snapping in front of his face.
"Ryou! You completely dozed out for a minute there! Are you okay?" Yugi questioned with obvious concern for the other.
"Mmm, I'm fine… just a little tired, I must have zoned out a bit, my bad." he reassured the other, giving him a small wink as he poked out his tongue, playfully.
Making their way back to their desks as their teacher, Pegasus-sensei, arrived, Ryou couldn't seem to pay attention to his school work as he fiddled, aimlessly, with his pen between his delicate fingers.
Ryou smiled happily as he made his way down one of the back streets of the city. He had stayed at school for a little while longer, to work on his upcoming assignment, in the library. He had wanted to stay longer, of course, but it had started to get dark and the Librarian wanted to go home.
Giggling softly as he balanced on the edge of the gutter, he held his arms out, to steady himself, as he walked along the side, resembling a someone on a balance beam or a tiny piece of string.
Humming contently to himself, Ryou was quite surprised to hear someone calling out his name. Losing concentration, he lost his balance and slide down a few inches into the gutter, scratching the leather on his, otherwise perfect, school shoes.
"Hey! Ryou! We were hoping to catch up with you! Come here, sweet cheeks!" Marik called out from across the street.
Ryou blinked as he looked across the road, only to find Bakura, Marik and Malik all stumbling down the street putting all of their concentration into trying to stay upright.
Bitting his lip as he patted down his skirt a little, Ryou made his way across the road, meeting up with the drunk and disorderly trio.
"You three! You'll be arrested for public drunkenness if you're not careful, and Malik… you're still underage! You'll be in so much trouble if you're caught! What are you guy's even doing?!" Ryou whined, awkwardly shifting about in anxiousness as he watched his friends drunkenly scream at passer bys.
"Nuh-uh! I already been caught underage drinken and they didn't do nothing'!" Malik slurred, pointing at Ryou before blushing slightly.
"You're a pretty girl…" he said suddenly before bursting into laughter and patting Bakura on the shoulder.
"Ain't sheeeeeeee pretty, Bakura! Don't you just want to bone her so hard?!" Malik purred before laughing so much he crashed into a wall, eventually sliding down it.
"Oh look! A 1 cent coin… you can't get those anymore!" Malik said happily as Ryou blushed intently, refusing to look at any of them for Malik's previous comments.
"Fuck you Malik!" Bakura hissed before looking over at Marik for some help with the drunken teen.
"Marik! Can't you keep your little bitch inline for once?! He's becoming a nuisance!" Bakura muttered.
"I want to start a fire." Marik grinned.
Bakura couldn't help but frown before pointing towards Malik. Marik looked to where Bakura was pointing, surprised to fine such a lovely Malik sprawled out on the ground.
"Oh, right! I see what you're getting at! Come along, love-slave! I want to buy you a present… from 7/11." Marik stumbled, helping Malik up off the ground, guiding the other drunken blonde towards the 7/11 only a few meters away.
"Hey! Wait! Don't just leave us here!" Ryou whined and sulked as he was ignored.
Turning back to Bakura, Ryou couldn't help but feel extremely awkward… especially with how they ended things last time they were alone together, what with Ryou calling Bakura a rapist, accidentally of course, and Bakura sulking away in his car.
"Um.. I…." Ryou began but was cut off as Bakura's fingers gently brushed against his bruised cheek.
Wincing slightly, Ryou couldn't help but look up at the other, instantly regretting it the moment he did. He couldn't help but stare… Bakura had such interestingly grey eyes. It was as though something had died within him and left him completely empty inside, the emptiness entirely expressed through out his cold, steal grey, eyes.
He had the strangest urge… to just reach forward and fill the emptiness with love and warmth, but he was brought out of such thoughts, however, as Bakura's warm breath tickled at his lips.
Ryou hadn't even noticed they were that close… had they been? Or had they moved closer without even realising it?
Taking a small step back, Ryou bowed his head a fraction as he scuffed the sidewalk, slightly, with his school shoes.
"Um… I'm sorry about the other day. I… I didn't mean it like that, honestly. I actually… kind of… like the way you look at me… your eyes don't look so empty when you do and… ah, look at me, I'm blabbering! Sorry!" Ryou said hurriedly, looking up at Bakura for a split second before looking back down at his shoes.
Bakura let his hand run over his own face as he tried his best to listen intently to what the young 'girl' was saying. Blinking as the other stopped, he thought for a few moments about what had been said and smirked, sloppily as he grabbed the other's chin between his thumb and forefinger, forcing the other to look him straight in the eyes.
"You're a strange girl… you know?" he stated simply before grinning slightly.
"I like it." he continued as he leant in, his lips getting closer and closer to Ryou's.
He didn't really understand his actions all to well, perhaps it was the alcohol, or maybe his burning desire for the strange little 'girl' had finally come to breaking point. Whatever the reason, he didn't really care.
Ryou's eye's widened as he finally noticed how close Bakura's lips were getting, to his, once more.
Gulping slightly, he couldn't help himself as his eye's instinctively squeezed shut as his body leant away slightly.
Bakura quirked a brow at the others actions and smiled before pulling away slightly and kissing Ryou on the forehead instead.
Ryou eye's slowly creaked open as he looked up at Bakura quizzically.
'Heh, I need to be more patient… the kid hardly knows me enough for that… yet.' Bakura scrutinized before ruffling the 'girls' hair playfully.
"You need to be more careful! You're walkin' Jail bait, you know that, right?!" The older boy gruffly laughed as he continued to ruffle 'her' hair.
Squealing at his hair being messed up and his head being completely abused, Ryou whined at Malik and Marik who were only just returning with what looked to be innocent slushies at first glance, but were really slushies mixed with vodka.
"Ba…ba… Bakura? Yeah, you! I think we need to take light weight home… he passed out in the store and threw up in the gutter." Marik said with a smirk… finding Malik's predicament, of alcohol induced sickness, more amusing than anything else.
"Hot. Okay… well I think I'm sober enough to drive us home, so get in the car and we'll… we'll go home." Bakura slurred before turning around in circles for a moment or two as he looked around the street.
"Where… where is my car?" Bakura asked in all seriousness… he really didn't have a clue where he had left his car… it was actually kind of a worry.
"Oh dear god, you are in no state to drive! We'll have to walk…" Ryou fretted as he bit at his thumb nail extensively.
"Calm down, Ry-Ry-chan. We'll find the car and you can drive!" Marik rationalised as Malik fell into one of the sidewalk gardens.
"No! No I can not! I'm 16! …and I don't have my learners license or an adult with a full license to drive with me, nor have I had any lessons on how to drive… AND WE CAN'T FIND THE CAAAR!" Ryou cried in dismay and worry. He was beginning to freak out about being out so late with drunks who were trying to drive home and get themselves arrested and, or, killed!
Marik blinked before laughing loudly, without a care in the world.
"Oh yeah! Hey, Malik, Bakura…we-we're walking home so…so… we should walk… where do we live again?" Marik asked before blinking rapidly.
"That was possibly th-the stupadass thing I've ever asked be-before." he said simply before turning to Bakura, who was trying to break into someone else's car in order to drive them home.
"Do-don't worry, Mariku! I've almost got it… we'll be driving home in-in no time!" Bakura exclaimed in some kind of weird excitement.
"Oh for fucks sa-" Marik began but was cut off as the car alarm began to siren.
"SHIT! FUCKING CHRISTS BAKURA!" Marik swore but cursed as he saw that Bakura was already gone.
"The sneaky bastard! I'll kill him!" Marik exclaimed before looking over to Ryou.
"Where's the hell's Malik?"
Ryou simply pointed at the garden as he watched the scene play out before him with wide, scared, eyes.
Pulling Malik out of the garden, Marik grabbed hold of the younger blondes wrist and dragged him off down the street, very awkwardly considering the fact they could both barely stand up straight.
Ryou gulped as he realised he was all alone… in a quiet back street to the city… with a car sounding it's alarm… right beside him.
"I think it's best if we just left, Amane." Ryou stated aloud before simply walking off.
He had been planning to talk to the Egyptians about the school mugging of the boys who had picked on him and Yugi, but it would have to wait until they were in a much more stable state…but that was okay. Ryou was patient and, even though his memory was a bit askew, no matter what he forgot, Amane always reminded him.
Rtb - It's a little shorter than the rest I know… *is sad* but I've already started the next chapter… so that's a good sign, I guess! Hehe!
Lol! Bakura's still such a little thief. And yay! Ryou and Bakura are slowly getting closer and closer! I just want to squish them together now! But I can't! I'm so frustrated elf right now… XP!
Review Replies -
Jiinxx101 - Lol! Nah, Yugi is 14 but is the same height as he is in the series… he's not any shorter… just to clear that up.... lol, I think you're right though! I don't think he can get much shorter! My theory is he stopped growing at twelve for some reason! Haha ^^;! Thanks for the review and for bringing that up… I hadn't even thought of that! 0_0!
KATZUNITED-MEOW- - Hey thar~! Hmmm, why is Amane there? I know I haven't really explained it yet but I promise bit by bit it will be revealed why Ryou is talking to his dead sister. My plan is to slowly go into Ryou's mental state over a few chapters rather than explain it all in one chapter… which would probably be easier and make more sense… but I'm slightly evil and have decided to do it the long way. XD!
Riku (my friend who pm'ed her review to me) - Hey, my love! I'm going to explain that over the coming chapters bit by bit along with Ryou's mental state. I didn't want to rush it you see… or explain it all in one go! I also want Bakura to kind of find out about it at the same time as the audience so it will be explained just bare with me guys! ^^;!
And for those who think it was a bit strange or un-realistic for Ryou to get beaten and then for Malik Marik and Bakura to chase the guys who did it around the school… well it's actually based off a life experience, lol.
I got beaten up at school and my best friend at the time found out about it and he was very angry but I told him I was fine… the next day I went to school, still kinda shaken up, and during lunch… my friend had gotten all his friends together and they chased down the guy who had beaten me up and roughed him up a bit… which was thoughtful… but kinda not the way I wanted to solve the issue. Lol.
Hope you enjoyed the drunken shenanigans of Marik Malik and Bakura! Just wait until the party comes into play~ soooo much more drunkenness to be had… and not just by those three! XD
Reviews make Malik strip~! *wink*