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Warnings: This is a fictional story and nothing more. Rating M, swearing, child abuse, if this type of thing offends you then DO NOT READ! This rating will be staying the same nothing will change in it so please take note.

Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh.

CHAP 7: New Find

Malik woke with a fright sitting up right in his bed and looking around and panting sweat ran down his forehead and body He looked around and found himself in his room and the soft moon shape nightlight gave off a soft warm yellow glow.

He bit his lip and something seemed off, the room was cold, Marik always liked the house warm and made sure of that, he said so. He shivered as the cold air hit his damp body, he glanced at the open door and he could see Marik's bedroom across the hall, well he could tell that the door was open. He must have placed him in his bed earlier that night, Malik looked down as he pulled the blankets off missing the dark shadow that walked soundlessly past his doorway.

Malik got to his feet and slowly walked to the door, biting his lip, sure he felt like running as the corners of his mind told him to, that once he got across that hallway and into Marik's room that nothing could touch him, and he would be safe.

But that hallway looked so dark, Malik opened his mouth maybe if he called out Marik would come and get him and take him the rest of the way. He shifted and looked over what parts of the hall he could see, still making up his mind on what to do.

Malik was about to run across, when someone stepped in front of him. "Hello Malik." That voice, Malik stepped back, it couldn't be? "I've missed you…son." Malik's father stepped into the dim light, and with every step he took Malik's eyes widened. "It looks to me that you've done quite well for yourself." He swiped an arm across Malik's nightstand making everything fall and smash onto the floor, Malik jumped at the action and wondered where Marik was. "You know Malik I just can't have you replacing me, WITH A COP!" Malik stepped back again his hand on his bed, not as support but a guide as he backed up.

But Malik's heels hit something and he feel over onto something, he struggled to get up and fell to the floor on the other side. "So I had to show you that there is no escaping me, no one runs from me, your mother did because of you." Malik backed up still on the floor his back hit the wall.

"But you made me do this Malik, this is all your fault." The light was switched on flooding the room; Malik closed his eyes for a minute. "Can't have you talking now can I!" Malik opened his eyes and looked down, his mouth fell open as tears ran down his cheeks, and Marik laid there on the floor, like the girls, pale, eyes wide. "Nothing can stop me, not even this guy." Suddenly his father was face to face with him. "I'm coming Malik, I'm coming for you and there's no one left to save you." Laughter rang out, and Malik let out a scream.

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A fear filled scream shattered the quite of the night, Marik literally fell out of bed with a yelp onto the floor with a thud in a mess of blankets, he scrambled out of them and onto his feet and ran into Malik's room, he switched on the light and found Malik sitting in his bed screaming, Marik looked around but found nothing amiss he rushed over grabbing Malik by the shoulders. "Malik?" Marik gave him a light shake. Malik stopped but didn't look at him, his eyes rolled as he went limp, and Marik had to catch him and lay him down the rest of the way. "What is it?" Marik asked, and noticed the boy had stopped breathing. "Malik!" Marik gave him one more shake and got nothing, he rushed to the door where he kept Malik's bag and pulled out what he needed and rushed back, taking the boy into his arms, and noticed that Malik had wet himself, Marik ignored it as he placed the mask onto Malik's mouth and nose.

"Malik!" Marik gave him another shake but the body just moved with the force, Marik got up taking Malik with him and ran downstairs and called an ambulance, Marik tried what he could and still Malik wasn't responding at all, Marik heard the sirens from down the street, he pulled off Malik's wet clothing and grabbed the blanket that was on the back of the couch and wrapped him up in it and rushed out to meet them, they took Malik from Marik who climbed into the front.

Once there, Malik was rushed away on the stretcher, Marik ran right next to it until a doctor stopped him. "Please wait here." With that Malik was gone.

Marik paced back and forth in the waiting room still wearing his black pajama's and boots, Marik stopped every doctor and nurse that came out or in when he could see Malik all he got was. "I'm sorry you'll just have to wait." As they walked through the doors.

"Marik?" Came a familiar voice, he turned and Tucker walked up to him a bag over her shoulder and in jeans and jacket, hat and scarf on just starting her shift "Are you…"

"It's Malik something happened he stopped breathing and they're not telling me anything." she gave him a concerned look at the wet patch on his black pajamas.

"I'm sure that he'll be okay." She tried to reassure him. "I'll go in and find out what's happening with him, okay." She called over a nurse that was walking by. "Get Mr. Ishtar a coffee." The nurse nodded and walked away.

"He gets worried if I'm not around." Marik bit his lip.

"I know, have you called anyone?" she walked over to a cart and pulled off a blanket and walked back passing it to him.

"Why?" He looked up.

"Your wet." She pointed out. Marik looked down pulling at it.

"I didn't notice. I did, but." He let it go. "He was scared."

"Alright, you call someone and I'll find out what's going on for you." She watched him for a minute.

"I don't have my cell." He said as he looked up one was held out to him, he blinked a few times and took it. "Thanks."

"I'll be back." She walked back through those doors.

Marik sat there and ran his hands through his hair and took in a deep breath, then noticed for the first time that the people in the room were watching him. "What the hell are you staring at!" He growled at them, each one in turn looked away.

The hospitals ground floor and waiting room was fill with calls as a group of doctors and nurses ran in with a stretch bed, a doctor on top over a small body doing CPR, Marik got up and watched them and saw Yami and Otogi running after them. The bed was knocked into the wall on their rush to get who ever into the emergency, the boy let out a gasp. Marik rushed over to help them move it through the doors. Marik grabbed onto the rail but a hand grabbed his, he looked down and saw that it was the boy from earlier today. "Bakura?" Marik said shocked to see the boy in such a way.

"S-southside docks." Bakura gave a gasp, sounding desperate to get it out and his hold on Marik's wrist tightened.

"We have to move him now!" The doctor called out as the bed was moved, but Marik stopped them.

"Wait!" He lent over, but the boy seemed to have fallen unconscious again, Marik thought that if the boy was so injured and fought to speak then he should be listened too, placed a hand on his shoulder. "Southside docks?" the boy gasped again and gritted his teeth tears fell onto his off-white hair.

"There's no time for this he could die!" The doctor hissed still on the bed.

"S-seven warehouse, just." He coughed and blood ran from out of his mouth, and the hand fell.

"We have internal bleeding!" The Doctor over the boy called out and the bed was moved only to be stopped again, as the hand reached out and grabbed onto Marik again, the boy had such will.

"Just find him." The hand fell again as the boy lay completely limp on the bed.

"He's crashing." This time the bed was moved.

"He's flat-lined!" The machine let out a screaming alarm and they rushed off.

"Marik!" Yami said as he walked up and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"What happened?" He asked turning around.

"He was shot twice." Yami said. "I got the call."

"Looks like he might not make it?" Marik mumbled.

"I hope he does, he was hit in the shoulder… but one in his stomach looked bad and he's so young."

"Poor kid, what was he doing for that to happen?"

"The guy said that he broke in and was after food." Yami sighed as he walked away and sat down, Otogi was at the front desk talking with the girl that was sitting there, Marik followed sitting down next to him. "It seemed odd, that if you rob a place then you take something worth stealing to sell…not food."

"I think there's more to this kid then what he's letting on." Marik lent back in the hard green chair.

"Maybe, we have the guy at the station it will be a long while before he walks out, shooting a kid over food." Yami sighed. "If he dies that guy is going to jail." Marik nodded his head. "So why are you here?" Yami pointed to the bedtime outfit and blanket.

"Malik." Marik looked back at the doors Tucker hadn't came back yet, could it be that serious?

"Will he be alright?" Yami asked.

"I don't know." Marik whispered. "After I know Malik's alright, we should look into that address."

"I forgot…" Marik lifted the phone and looked at it. "I have to call someone." He said blankly.

"Call Elder." Yami said.

"Can't she's out of town until tonight."

"Right!" Yami bit his lip. "I could go to the station and get you a change." Yami offered. "Or better yet." Yami got up and pulled out his cell and waited. "Shizuka it's Yami can you get Marik's change of clothing from his locker and bring it to the hospital right away... thanks." Yami pocketed his cell. "She'll be here soon." Marik just nodded. Shizuka soon walked in with his fresh clothing, and Marik had to wonder if the young woman slept at all as she was always at the office Marik showered in a private bathroom, Yami and Otogi stood watch so no one would walk in on him.

A few hours later Tucker walked into the waiting room, and Marik was on his feet and met her half way. "He's okay, they're putting him into his own bed now, he's breathing with aid his lungs were more damaged than what I thought."

"Yeah but is he going to be okay?" Marik asked. "Can I see him?"

"Yeah, come on I'll take you." She walked to the doors.

Marik and Tucker walked down the busy hallways. "He's sleeping right now, and breathing with aid, well it's just to make it easer on him." She said as she pressed the button for the lift. They stepped in and took it to the fifth floor and out into a corridor that wasn't as busy and more quite.

She mumbled off a lot of scientific words that Marik had no clue what she was saying but for the word Malik. "In English." Marik stated.

"Malik just had a rather large panic attack for some one his age." She looked around. "What happened to set it off?"

"Nothing, he was asleep but woke up screaming " Marik said she narrowed her eyes in thought.

"It could also have something to do with his past, we have no idea what he might have gone through before he came here." She remembered about the state the boy was in when Marik first brought him in.

"So he's in shock?" Marik frowned as they stopped outside a door.

"At the time he was, he was breathing… barely. We were lucky that you knew what you where doing, or he might not have made it at all."

"But he'll be alright now?" Marik asked worriedly.

"We'll see how he goes. Look you go in and see him and I'll came back in awhile." She opened the door, in the room there was a line up of beds and a nurse at one end at a desk, the line up of beds had a few people in them sleeping. "Meg?" the young woman looked up and smiled. "Can we just give them a minute?" She nodded as she got up and walked out of the room.

The door closed behind Marik, he looked over the row of beds and in the corner with a soft night-light cast over what he was looking for. The sounds of beeping and hissing came from the breather and heart machines that were in the room other then Malik's. Marik walked up to the bedside and kissed Malik on the forehead moving the hair from his eyes. "Malik!" Marik watched to see what would happen. "You know what I said how you can tell me anything, I meant it." He looked Malik over; the small boy lay in such a large bed. Marik took his hand and squeezed it gently. "Come on wake up it's not that bad to do this to yourself." Marik sighed as he ran a thumb over Malik's cheek. "I need you around now Malik." Still nothing Marik watched Malik's chest rise and fall smoothly. "I just wish that you would talk to me." Marik bit his lip and looked over briefly at the much older people in the beds. "Come back to me baby." Marik lay on the bed next to Malik as there was plenty of room, and held Malik's hand in his. "I'll wait until your ready."

Later that morning Marik was stirred from his sleep by gentle touches on his head, forehead and cheek, he lifted his head and opened his eyes only to be eye to eye with Malik as the boy brushed the hair out of his eyes. "Malik?" the boy gave him a smile as he pulled back his hand. "Your okay?" Malik nodded his head as Marik sat up and pulled Malik into his arms. "Don't scare me like that boy, I'm to young to have a heart-attack."

"Oh good he's awake?" Tucker said as she walked in, Malik buried himself deeper into Marik's arms. Tucker looked Malik over who fought against her every step of the way, pushing her hands away from him and moving about making it imposable for her to do her work.

"Leave him he's fine." Marik moved Malik out of reach; the young woman huffed and held out a thermometer.

"Then you take his temperature." Marik took it. "Just place it in his ear for a few seconds." She instructed him, Malik didn't even bat an eye as Marik did it then handed it back, she looked it over and wrote it down in the clipboard. "I'd like to keep him for awhile." She said as she placed the clipboard on the end of the bed.

Isis and Radish walked into the room. "Yami called us and told us that you where here." Isis said.

"We thought that it was you until he told us that it was Malik." Radish said, Malik gave them a small wave, which he got smiles in return.

"Oh I have something for you Malik." Isis sat on the bed and looked through a bag. "I went through some of your old things Marik and thought that Malik could do with them." She pulled out a well worn and much loved velociraptor, which was dark green and brown, with soft claws and teeth, it was more of a plush toy, she held it out to Malik.

"Meet Squeak." She smiled, Malik reached out and took the stuffed toy and hugged it to his chest.

"It was Marik's favorite toy." Radish said. "That toy got a lot of blaming when Marik was your age." He laughed.

"Ha, ha." Marik rolled his eyes.

"Oh I got you a few books as well." She held them out; Marik took them this time, as Malik seemed to be more interested in the dinosaur.

"Thanks." Marik said, his brother and sister just nodded their heads.

Marik sat there watching Malik but then he remembered something that he had to do. "I have to make a call." Isis handed him her cell Marik dialed the number. "Shizuka, Yami is he around… What are you doing?… Great come to the hospital we're going for a drive." He hung up turning to his brother and sister. "Can you guys watch him? I don't want to leave him but I have something to check out."

"Sure." They both said he turned to Malik.

"I'm going out for a little bit." Malik looked up eyes widening as he grabbed onto Marik's shirt. "I'll be back Isis and Radish are going to watch you." Malik shook his head no and tears filled his eyes.

"Malik we'll read a story and when we are done Marik will be back." Malik looked at her. "Won't you Marik?" she looked at her brother.

"Yeah, that's right." he said; Malik gave them a doubtful look but let go of Marik, who kissed the top of Malik's head. "Be good." The boy nodded his head and watched as Marik left.

Marik came across Tucker he tapped her on the shoulder. "The boy that was shot, how is he?"

"Don't tell me you brought him in?" She gasped.

"No."

"Well we just put him in ICU now, I'm not sure that I should be telling you this."

"You can, hie's a street kid."

"Fine, if I get into trouble I'm taking you with me." He just raised an eyebrow at her. "Whatever, I'm to tired to fight, he flat-lined four times on the table and on the way to ICU, we had trouble bringing him back after each one, but he pulled through just."

"He'll make it?"

"I hope so he's such a fighter." She smiled, "He'll be in there for a while if he pulls through he's still very unstable."

"Right… I'm going to look at the address he gave us maybe we'll find out more on him." Marik saw Shizuka walking towards them.

"Does he have a name?" Tucker she asked as Marik started to walk towards Shizuka.

"Yeah, it's Bakura."

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Shizuka and Marik drove over to the south side shipping docks. "What the hell would be here?" she said as she closed the car door.

"Who knows but he got the words out right after they restarted his heart so I thought it would be a good idea to find out." Marik made sure that his gun was secure at his side in its holster. The two walked down the docks looking at each warehouse for their numbers.

"There it is." she pointed they walked up to the door and Marik kicked it in.

"That kid better be alright." Marik growled as he watched the dust fly up into the air.

"Why?" She asked.

"He's seen the guy that's killing all those girls." Marik walked in looking around, old crates lay about and boxes.

"Really we could have him by the end of the week." Shizuka said sounding hopeful this was one case that made her blood run cold.

"If he's okay." Marik frowned as he walked to wooden stairs, the two walked up them carefully, they found the second stairs and soon where on the third floor, nothing but boarded up windows and dust with scuff marks leading to a door at the far end of the big room.

Shizuka and Marik swiftly moved over to the door. "Should we just kick it in?" Shizuka asked, Marik gave her a look as she grinned, "Well it could be a room full of guys."

"You don't get out much." Marik whispered back.

"I sit behind a desk and do all the hard work that gets the bad guys hands down." She hissed backing up. "Let me kick it in." Shizuka said as she stepped in front of the door. "It doesn't sound like anyone's in there." Marik gave in and moved to the side and nodded his head with an amused smirk.

Shizuka kicked in the door and they both rushed in guns up as they looked over the room. "Great!" She said as she placed her gun away, Marik did the same. "No ones here." She said disappointed.

"Well lets look the place over." Marik said as he walked forward.

"Wait." Shizuka said stopping him and pointed to the floor and the dust that lead over to one part of the room and the dustless areas around a large box. "Over there." Marik nodded his head as Shizuka drew out her gun again and followed Marik.

"You work to much with Yami." Marik pointed out.

"I know, I'm having a change in professions and he's training me." She said proudly.

"Police!" Marik hit the box with his foot, but nothing happened, he walked around to the opening and looking in to see ratty blankets inside. "This is where he must have been living." Marik looked down at the old bottle full of water and plates stacked on top of each other in the corner.

"But why would he want us to come here." Shizuka said putting the gun away again, Marik had explained everything on the way.

"He made it sound important that I came here." Marik crouched down and looked in the box. He started to move the blackest about, a small hand fell out and brushed against his, he gasped just about crawled into the box moving the blankets away to find a child about the same age as Malik, short white hair and pale skin with an over sized jumper on. Marik put a finger in his mouth and pulled off his black glove with his teeth, and felt for a pulse on the child's neck, but the heat that met him made him gasp and pull the child out, this was Malik all over again, what was something so young doing in such a place.

"Oh shit!" Shizuka said as she pulled out her cell.

"He's burning up." Marik said as he gathered the small boy up in his arms and stood up and walked to the door Shizuka followed him and by the time they got outside the ambulance met them, Marik handed over the boy, and got into the car and followed the other car to the hospital.

Marik and Shizuka followed them inside and the boy was rushed away, Marik walked up to a nurse holding the same clipboard as what he filled in for Malik. "I'll fill it out, for both of them." He said taking them back to the room they kept Malik in.

The next day Trucker walked into the room to find Malik on Marik's lap holding a stuffed dinosaur and looking through a picture book pointing out the colorful pictures to Marik on each page. "Are you going to take responsibility for every kid you come across?" Tucker asked as she walked up to them.

"No." He said, Isis and Rishid had left for a coffee and were yet to come back. "Will it be the same offer as what you gave Malik going to the orphanage and all?"

"Well his brother if that's what he is, will go to an older boys one." She said, Malik wrinkled his nose at her and buried his face in Marik's jumper.

"So you're going to separate them?"

"We'll have to it's the way things are." She once again tried to look Malik over and once again Malik fought her.

"Bakura, how's he doing anyway?" she stopped and turned around.

"Better, still not as stable as I want him to be, it was complicated and there was more damage done than what I thought."

"The younger one?"

"Oh he's awake and giving us a hard time," she said.

"Sounds like you Malik."

"Good news Malik you can go home today." She smiled. "Provided you don't get yourself all worked up." Malik gave her a nod, Marik held him more tightly as he got up.

"Where is he?" She sighed and walked back to the door.

"Come on I'll take you." They walked to the lift and took it one floor down, and to the fifth door on the left, soft crying could be heard. "He's been doing nothing but crying the whole time since he woke up wanting his brother." She said opening the door. "We still haven't a name, and a good night sleep in a warm bed has done him wonders."

"Could we take him to see Bakura?" Marik placed Malik down at his feet, as the two continued to talk. Malik walked in to see a boy with short wild white hair sitting in the bed, Malik pulled himself up onto a chair then onto the bed and crawled over to him, the other stopped for a minute moving his hands to look at Malik.

"I don't know where I am." He sniffled. "I'm lost." He started to cry again, Malik gave him a sad look and patted him on the head, he looked like the boy he met the other day but smaller.

"Malik there you are." Marik said as he stopped by the bed, Malik smiled as he moved closer to the other boy.

"I'm Marik and this is Malik." Marik pulled up a chair.

"I'm lost." The boy said as tears started to fall.

"You're not lost you're in the hospital your brother is here to." Marik said the boy only cried again, Marik got up and sat on the bed and patted the boy on the head. "What's your name?" He asked as Malik tried to pass Squeak to the other to help comfort him.

"Ryou." He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand and looked at the stuffed toy. "I'm this many." He held out his hand and his little fingers spread out telling Marik that he was five years of age, Malik smiled and did the same.

"Why don't you take a walk with me and Malik and I'll take you to see you your brother." Ryou looked at him a beaming smile as he leaped forward and hugged Marik, Malik frowned and puffed out his cheeks and held out his arms as well.

"Some ones jealous." Isis laughed as she walked into the room, Marik looked over and chuckled at the look he was getting from Malik and picked him up with this his other arm, and got off the bed with a boy in each arm.

"We're going to see his brother you could come and help." Marik said as he placed the both of them on the bed again, he wrapped up Ryou. Tucker was able to get his temperature down, and the boy had a bad case of flu, his cheeks were still flushed red and he was really pale, on Tucker's orders that Ryou was only allowed out of bed for half an hour and with luck the boy would be out the next day.

They walked the halls until they reached the ICU, Isis and Rishid were allowed inside as well, there Marik found Bakura, Ryou called out to him. "Kura!" He stretched out his arms but nothing happened. "Kura it's to late to be sleeping." Ryou said as Marik stopped by the bed, machines sat around the bed.

Marik sat Malik and Ryou on a chair close to the bed; Ryou lent in and touched the mask that was on his brother's mouth and nose. "Why is Kura sleeping?" Ryou asked, as Malik poked Bakura on the arm, Marik stopped him pulling his hand away.

"He was hurt Ryou." The boy sighed. "I told him not to go out." Ryou said in his best angry voice. "Never listen." Ryou climbed onto the bed and sat there, Malik moved and poked Bakura on the cheek.

"Malik stop it." Marik pulled him away and sat him down on the ground.

"What do I do?" Ryou asked. "I'm to little to find home. When's Kura waking up?" Everyone in the room jumped as the machines rang out in the room, doctors and nurses ran in, Marik picked up Ryou and moved back from the bed.

"Come Malik." Isis picked him up and walked out of the room.

"He's crashing again." They called back and forth to each other, Marik walked to the door.

"What are they doing?" Ryou asked but started to cry as Bakura's body jolted on the bed, and a doctor climbed on top and started to work, Ryou wriggled and fell from Marik's arms, he landed on the ground and pushed himself up and ran forward grabbing on to a nurses leg. "Stop it your hurting him!" Ryou hit her over and over again. "LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Ryou screamed tugging on her leg.

"Ryou!" Marik grabbed him, but not before Ryou bit the woman on the leg, she yelped and moved away.

"STOP! STOP!" Ryou screamed over Marik's shoulder as he was carried out of the room. Malik watched wide-eyed as Marik tried to calm down a hysterical Ryou.

Marik sat on the bed holding Ryou as he cried. "They're not hurting him." Marik said as he rubbed Ryou's back. "They're helping him."

"No, no they hit him." Ryou shook his head. "I want Kura."

"He'll be fine you'll see, he'll be better before you know it."

"He will." Ryou was now hiccupping, Marik smiled.

"I'm sure he will, he's tough and we'll see him again tomorrow." Ryou smiled, Marik looked up after a while as Isis passed Malik down to him. "We'll see you later." They both said good-bye as Marik now had everything under control.

A few hours later the door opened. "Alright, it's time for bed." Tucker walked into the room. "Oh sorry didn't know you were here."

"It's that late already?" Marik asked, the doctor nodded her head. "How is Bakura doing?" Ryou looked up at the mention of his brothers name.

"Oh resting again he's fine." Ryou smiled as she pulled back the blankets for him, she picked up Ryou and placed him down and covered him up.

"Lets go Malik." Malik shook his head no and crawled over to Ryou and got comfy next to him, and picked up the remote and held it out to Marik, Ryou giggled and shifted about.

"Looks like Malik made a new friend." She smiled as she tucked both of them in. "Good luck with that." Tucker said giving Marik a look.

"We'll be fine." Marik watched her walk out; more giggling came from the bed. "Alright move over." Both Ryou and Malik moved and Marik lay on the bed with both Ryou and Malik cuddled up to him as they watched t.v and soon the three had fallen asleep.

TBC

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