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Chapter 8
Ryou sighed miserably, as he bent down on his hands and knees to start scrubbing the floor. He was tired, upset, and most of all irritated thanks to the clothes he was wearing. High heeled boots and white leather, weren't exactly good clothes for cleaning.
Ryou sighed again, and dipped the old rag he was holding into the bucket of soapy water by his side. He'd been at this for hours already. His feet hurt, his knees were sore, and most importantly he was worried about Yugi and Malik. He hadn't seen them since this morning, after 'Lord Kaiba' told, or rather forced, them into taking their duties seriously, or else they would have to 'face the consequences' as Seto so nicely put it.
Ryou rolled his eyes. There was nothing nice about that demon.
The angel suddenly frowned, and quickly shook his head at that thought. That was wrong, there is some good in everyone, it's just harder to see in some people. Then again he was talking about a demon here… but Mokuba seemed nice, so maybe not all demons were bad? Then again, maybe that was just because of Mokuba's age…
"Something's not right."
The boy stopped and looked up at the sound of footsteps and voices from the hallway.
"What do you mean?" Ryou's eyes widened. That sounded like Malik's look-a-like, which means that Bakura-
"Now what are you complaining about? The entire thing went well to me."
"That's because Honda lasted longer than Anzu! You got to have fun way longer than I did Bakura!"
-was back to… somehow that fact didn't make Ryou jump for joy… he almost felt like crying again.
"Will you two stop arguing, and listen to me!"
The footsteps stopped.
"What's wrong Yami?"
"Yeah, why are you having another hissy fit?"
"It's just." There was a pause. "Don't you think it's strange?"
"What?"
"Everything. The fact that they were praying, the weapon they tried to use."
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Bakura crossed his arms, and looked at his oldest brother, looking very annoyed. "We already went through this idiot. The weapon is simple enough to make, even if it was pure light, and they prayed after because they're crazy! The fact that they tried to assassinate us in the first place is proof of that."
"I'm not saying they're not crazy." Yami replied back. "But because they were able to make that weapon is suspicious, we know that it's simple to make, but how did they know? It was enchanted with pure white magic, Anzu and Honda aren't smart enough to figure out how to do that!"
"So another demon helped them out, big deal." Marik said with a shrug. "We'll just go find them, and then play with them a little like we did with Honda and Anzu." He added with a big grin.
Yami shook his head. "You two don't get it do you? They felt confidant enough to threaten you, and then prayed to the people that actually are 'pure light,' when they knew that would just anger us all more. It was as though they had nothing to fear, as though they knew someone was going to save them!" Yami paused again. So many troubled thoughts were running through his head, and the sudden idea that leaped at him troubled him even more. "I don't think the one that helped them was a demon..."
Bakura blinked, a little taken back by what his brother just said. "You're not saying?…."
"I think there's an angel in Hell."
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Ryou dropped the rag he was holding, and was so horrified about what he just heard, that he began to shake. The conversation he was listening to had turned to mumbles, yet there were no sounds to suggest that the rulers had walked further away, they must have lowered their voices on purpose.
What he heard though… oh God… an angel in Hell…
He must have heard wrong. HE MUST HAVE HEARD WRONG! They didn't do anything! The rulers were talking about something that had nothing to do with them, and yet if they were found out, then they would probably get blamed for it! And now that the three demons were suspicious of this half truth it could cause serious problems! What if the demons announce a search? Did the rulers know a way to uncover an angels wings?
Ryou scrambled up from the floor. He needed to tell Yugi and Malik! He would have done it to, if that stupid bucket of water he was using didn't trip him up…
"Why is mini-Kura on the floor?"
The pale teen heard footsteps coming into the room, and recognised the voice to be Marik's. He almost blurted out 'I'M NOT AN ANGEL, I SWEAR!' But when he did look up, what he saw managed to scare him to the point where words were unable to leave his mouth.
Bakura and Marik's clothes were covered in blood.
Ryou jumped as far away from Marik as he possibly could, and ended up pushing his back against the wall at the other side of the room, shaking like a leaf, and looking as though he'd just seen the demons commit murder in front of his very eyes.
Marik raised a brow at Ryou's strange behaviour. "Mini-Kura is acting weird… I think he's ill."
"He's not ill, you're just scaring him." Yami said, looking completely uninterested.
Bakura however found this quite amusing, Ryou was acting like a lamb being cornered by three hungry wolves. "Marik, don't you have to go feed your cat or something?"
Marik's confused look, suddenly turned to a happy hyper one, when his precious kitty was mentioned. "I have to find Malik-pretty!" The tanned demon said in a joyously keen voice. "Bye mini-Kura!" He then speedily left the room.
Ryou didn't say anything, but looked to be a little relieved that one of the 'hungry wolves' had gone away.
Bakura smirked, and then turned to Yami giving him a look that practically screamed 'GET LOST.'
Yami rolled his eyes, but walked out of the room. It's not as though he didn't have anything better to do anyway… maybe he should check on Yugi…
Ryou let out another relieved breath, another demon had gone away so- WAIT, NO THAT WAS BAD! With Yami and Marik gone it meant that he was left alone in a room with-
"Well, well, well… what do we have here?"
Ryou began to shake again. It meant that he was alone with Bakura.
"I-I w-was just cleaning" The angel said, voice quivering "I s-should really get back t-to it."
Bakura slowly stalked his way closer to the frightened slave. He could hear the pale teen's heartbeat pounding fiercely, and it thrilled Bakura to no end. "You wouldn't get very far, seeing as you have no water left." He gestured to the tipped over bucket, and spilt water on the floor.
"T-then I should get some more." The angel moved to get around Bakura, but as soon as he was in reach, the demon grabbed him, and roughly pulled him to the side, so he stood in front of the demon, staring directly into lustful brown eyes flaring with sadistic need.
Ryou gulped nervously.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" Malik's angry voice was heard echoing throughout the halls, and a split second later, Malik was running into the room followed by Marik.
"HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE ME ALONE? FOR GOD SAKE, YOU HAVE BLOOD ALL OVER YOU!" Malik then ran around the table so it was in between him and the purple eyed ruler.
"But Malik-prettttttttty!" Marik said with a whiny pout, as he tried to run around the table and catch his blonde kitten.
Bakura growled. "Will you two get the Hell out!"
The two blondes ignored him.
Malik ran from the table. "You dare touch me pineapple-head, and I swear I'll- AHH!" Malik yelped as he slipped on the wet floor, and skidded across the room, crashing straight into Ryou and Bakura.
Ryou gasped as he was forcefully pushed to the ground, and winced as his head hit the floor.
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The boy yelled in pain as his head hit the floor, but refused to cry as another boy pinned him down, and twisted his arm.
"Where'd your sister go Ryou?" The boy snarled as he sat on Ryou's back, still twisting and pulling his arm at a painful angle.
"You leave Amane alone!"
"Aw, come on Ryou, I'm not gonna hurt her. Me and my friends just want to talk to her."
"You're lying! Leave her alone, or I'll-"
The boy laughed. "You'll what? Is poor innocent little Ryou going to tell his daddy on me? Oh wait, that's right you can't because he'd rather be on the other side of the world then anywhere near you!"
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"Kitten!" Marik shouted worriedly, and ran to his fallen slave.
The tanned angel grumbled, and rubbed his head, but then yelped again as he was pushed to the floor, and off of an angry white haired demon.
"You little brat!" Bakura yelled threateningly, and let his claws grown to their full size.
Marik hurriedly picked Malik up from the floor, and brought him close to his chest, growling at Bakura warningly. Bakura growled right back.
"Ow." Ryou mumbled as he pushed himself up from the floor, while clutching his head. Was all that… a memory?
"I'm sorry Ryou! Are you ok?"
"Huh?" Ryou slowly managed to focus his dizzy vision on Malik, and his concerned face, while still trapped in Marik's arms. "Oh, yeah I'm fine Mal- MALIK! I have to tell-" Suddenly Ryou stopped, when realising that Bakura and Marik were still in the room having their little 'growling contest'.
"Never mind…" Ryou mumbled quietly. What was he thinking? Of course he couldn't tell Malik about what he heard… at least not with Bakura and Marik in the room.
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Why did he have to be so small?
Yugi pouted and crossed his arms in a sulking manner. Lord Kaiba had made him clean the Library, and while the small angel was dusting some of the shelves, a certain book had caught his eye. It was called 'Demonic past'. Yugi guessed it to be about demon history, and his curious nature couldn't help but get interested with it.
Sadly the book was on a very high shelf, and Yugi's short arms were unable to reach it… he needed a chair. As the boy looked around the library though, there only seemed to be large lounging chairs.
Yugi frowned, there was no way he could move one of them over to the shelf, they were just too big and heavy for him, plus he wasn't even sure if the chairs would get him high enough to grab the book. So what could he do?… Well there was one option that could work, but did he dare do it?
Yugi's eyes darted around the room, searching for anyone else who might be in the Library, but after seeing no one, he decided to pull all his courage together and take the risk. With a deep breath, Yugi jumped into the air and made his wings quickly unfold from his back. With a flap of white feathers, he was able to get high enough to reach the book. Yugi smiled in victory, and reached out to grab it-
A creaking sound was heard, which sounded suspiciously like a door opening. Yugi panicked and without thinking, he immediately focussed his light energy into putting his wings back into his back.
Yami stepped into the room, and quietly closed the door behind him. Seto had told him that he took Yugi to the Library to start cleaning.
"Yugi?" The ruler called.
An alarmed 'eep' was heard, and Yami automatically went to the distressed yelp, worried that his slave was in trouble. When he did find Yugi however, he didn't expect to find him dangling from a shelf that was up four times higher than himself.
Then suddenly Yugi's fingers slipped, and Yami's eyes widened when Yugi began to fall.
As though on instinct, Yami quickly dove forward, only just managing to catch the small boy by pulling him into his chest. Both skidded across the floor, Yami holding the boy tightly so Yugi was securely pressed against him, until they came to a halt.
Yugi's heart was pounding hard, and he found himself shaking from the whole experience. Just a second ago he was hastily trying to get rid of his wings, and then all of a sudden he's grabbing onto the bookshelf in a vain attempt to stop himself from falling and breaking his leg… and now he was being held…?
"I'm sorry!" The angel found himself shouting to his saviour, but the arms around him had not loosened, and he found it impossible to move. Hesitantly, Yugi slowly lifted his face away from the chest he was being carefully held against, to see Yami staring at him with a look he could not place. A strange feeling was stirring in the pit of Yugi's stomach, as he stared into deep red orbs.
He should let go now shouldn't he? But he couldn't. Although Yami's mind was telling him to let go of the boy, his arms just refused to listen. It was strange how perfectly Yugi fit into his arms… it was as though the human was made just for him… no one else… his, all his…
Without realising it, the demon had slowly leaned closer, and Yugi was able to feel Yami's warm breath fall soothingly onto his face with every breath he took. Was Yami going to… kiss him? But if Yugi thought he was, then why didn't he try and struggle to keep him away?
They drew closer, and closer, until their lips were a mere inch apart-
The mood was cut short, when a cough was heard from behind them. Yugi quickly drew away, and lowered his head to hide behind his golden bangs in an attempt to not meet the demons gaze, while blushed fiercely in embarrassment.
Yami however let out a low growl in the back of his throat, thoroughly annoyed. He was so close! So close! The only option Yami could see in getting over this little 'crush', was to woo Yugi into his bed, then once the deed was done he would be bored of Yugi like he had his other slaves, and his fascination with the boy would come to a stop. The fact that he couldn't just take the boy when he wanted was frustrating, and a complete mystery to him at the same time, but he would do it, Yugi just seemed too addicting for the ruler not to.
Although he couldn't deny that he felt….something… while holding Yugi so close, but whatever that 'something' was he chose to ignore it.
"Yami." The serious, and somewhat angry voice said from behind him.
Yami recognised the voice immediately, and felt like hitting his head against the wall. Seto. The one person he couldn't yell and threaten at for disturbing him, because he knew it would have no effect on the spell caster/potion master.
"What?" Yami asked dully.
"We need to discuss the matter of this morning." Seto said in a very displeased tone of voice.
"So talk." Yami said a little snappy.
The blue eyed demon gave Yugi a quick glance, not really wanting to talk about such an important matter in front of a human, but he continued as ordered.
"The council is very unhappy with you and your brothers, you did not tell them that you would have Anzu and Honda put to death during the torture show."
Yugi stiffened when hearing the word 'death'. Yami had killed someone? For some reason Yugi's heart ached painfully at this new information, but what did he expect? Yami was a demon after all, and not just any demon, he was a ruler, killing was probably an everyday thing for him.
Yami groaned. Those fools that made up his council just wouldn't give him a break. He was the ruler of Hell, and yet he needed to explain himself for everything thing he did to the council members. They treated Bakura and Marik exactly the same way, and have suggested numerous times that they should get rid of them their way instead of putting up with them. Although he did need to discuss a similar topic about this morning with the council…
"Tell the council that me and my brothers will discuss this at the meeting tomorrow."
Seto nodded.
"And Seto?"
"Yes?"
"You would be wise to knock next time."
"I did not knock because I was not at the door."
"What?" Yami asked in confusion, but as he looked over his shoulder, Seto had already gone. "…Damn magician." The ruler grumbled.
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"Nurse Mai, do ya think I could get some more pork chops please?"
"Jounouchi, I don't know where you put it all! This is your third plate already!"
A blonde teen was sitting up in a hospital bed, with a bandage wrapped around his head, and a sheepish grin on his face. In front of him was a tray, with three empty plates. "Hey am still a growing boy Mai! I gotta keep my strength up if a expected to be let outa here!"
Mai laughed. "You may be a growing boy, but if you carry on eating like that you'll end up getting fat, hon." She said with a small shake of her head. "And actually that's what I came to tell you. The doctor said you're ok to leave the hospital now, just be careful not to bang that head of yours again."
"For real? That's great!" Jou said excitedly, after all, the sooner he got out of the hospital, the sooner he could go beat the crap out of Malik for making him crash into that fountain.
"That's right, so that means," Mai bent over and took the tray from Jou "no more pork chops."
"Aww! But nurse Mai!" But the nurse took no notice of the teens whiny complaints, and simply walked away.
Well that was just great… Sure he wanted to go find Malik, but he wanted the pork chops to… Jou's excited face soon turned into a sad one, as he watched Mai's retreating back.
"Stop being so lazy Jou, and get your ass out of bed."
Jou sharply turned his head to the side to find the source of this new voice, and tell whoever it was to get lost, when he realised it was none other than his friend Otogi leaning against the wall.
"Shut up Otogi… where ya been anyway? I an't seen you for two days."
"Watching over a new human down on Erath. So what happened to you?"
"What do ya think happened? It was that twat Malik again!" Jou shouted angrily. "Because of him I was knocked out for a whole hour!- HEY, DON'T LAUGH AT ME!"
"S-sorry Jou, b-but it's just too funny!" The ebony haired angel said, while trying to put a stop to his snickering.
"It's not funny!" Jou replied angrily, fighting the urge to whack his so called 'friend' upside the head.
"Ok, ok, I'm sorry." Otogi apologised again, just about managing to put a complete stop to his laughing. "You shouldn't get so worked up about it anyway, I bet Ryou and Yugi have already come up with a fitting punishment for him."
Jou broke out into a grin. "Yeah, remember the time they forced Malik to be my maid for a week? He even apologised, and gave me a tray full of cookies afterwards to!"
"…Weren't you sick after you ate those cookies though? I thought you were in bed for two weeks straight…"
"THAT'S BECAUSE THE LITTLE PRICK POISONED ME!" Jou shouted angrily again, his happy grin now back to the angry frown.
Otogi sweat dropped. "Jou keep your voice down, other patients are staring…"
The honey eyed angel took no notice of his friends complaint, and instead shoved the covers off his body, and swung his legs round to stand, revealing the white hospital gown his was wearing. "Shut the curtains."
"Why? What's going on?" Otogi asked.
"I need to get dressed, an' am not gonna go out in public wearing this!" Jou said with much distaste, and he pointed to the gown.
Otogi paled. "I don't want you getting naked in front of me!" The guardian angel shouted, which in result attracted more stares from the other angels on the ward, one being an old man sitting up in his bed across from them, giving them a particular disgusted look.
"Geez, just go an' stand on the other side of the curtain then will ya!"
Otogi grumbled, but did just that and shut the curtains, and waited for his friend to get dressed.
"So how is Ryou, Yugi, and Malik anyway? I bet Yugi and Ryou have been mothering you as soon as you were taken into the hospital, right?" Otogi shouted from the other side of the curtain, with a small amused smile.
"Actually I an't seen them yet… but am not sure they know I'm in the hospital, I don't even think Malik knows either."
"That's strange." Otogi said in thought. "I went over to their place before I came looking for you, but it was empty, I just assumed they were somewhere with you."
"Well maybe they went to watch Malik do some sparring down at the training hall?"
"Yeah, maybe." Suddenly the curtains were pulled back, and out came a fully dressed Jounouchi, wearing denim jeans, a plain white t-shirt, and a green jacket. "Well that was quick."
"Yeah, well am eager to thank Malik for putting me in the hospital." Jou said with a smirk, as he punched his palm.
Otogi rolled his eyes. "Are we off to the training hall then?"
"You bet we are!"
After Jou was discharged from the hospital both guard, and guardian angel went in search to find the three friends, sadly they didn't have much luck in finding them. When they reached the training hall, the angels there told them they hadn't seen Malik all week. They then tried the training centre where Yugi and Ryou would study in medicine, but there was still no sign of them. They looked everywhere they could think of, but the effort was pointless, it was as though they just disappeared.
When they checked the angels home, but found it still as empty as when Otogi first came to check on the three, the two angels began to worry.
"I don't understand, where do you think they've gone!" Otogi asked, his voice full of concern and worry.
"I don't know… they gotta be around 'ere somewhere, I mean they can't av just vanished from Heaven-… Wait a minute!" In a flash Jou began to check his pockets, his face showing pure panic.
"Er, Jou… what are you doing?" The green eyed angel said, raising a brow at Jou's odd behaviour.
"It's gone!" Jou yelled in distress.
"What's gone?"
"The key!"
"The key?"
"YES THE KEY! The key I was given when I was guarding Heaven's gates! IT'S GONE!" Jou turned his pockets inside out, but there was no doubt about it.
It was gone.
"WHAT! Jou, are you trying to tell me that the only key to Heaven is lost!" The raven haired angel shouted in shock, as he grasped his friends shoulders roughly.
"No, no, no!" The guard said quickly in his defence, and pushed his friends hands away. "Every professionally trained guard is given a copy of the original key in case of emergences."
Otogi suddenly calmed down, but looked at Jou in a very odd, and confused way. "No offence man, but what's the big deal? So you lost one key-"
"The big deal," The blonde interrupted "Is that anyone could av found the key and walked through the gates when I was knocked out!-… OH MY GOD!"
Otogi's eyes suddenly widened, and his body turned tense once more, when hearing the alarm is Jou's voice. "What? What's wrong now?"
"That's the last time I saw Malik, Ryou, and Yugi! I think they took the key, and left Heaven! It all makes sense! Where else could they possibly be? We've looked everywhere!"
"Are you saying they're on Earth!"
"AM I SPEAKING ANOTHER LANGUAGE OR SOMETHIN? Yes I'm saying they're on Earth!- OW! WHAT WAS THAT FOR!" The hysterical blonde said angrily, as he rubbed his arm, after Otogi had for some strange reason felt the need to punch him there.
"Screaming at me isn't going to bring them back, nor will getting angry at me make it any better."
"AN' THAT MAKES IT ALRIGHT TO PUNCH ME? -OW!" Jou grumbled as he rubbed the numb feeling now in his arm, from Otogi's second punch.
"You do know what we have to do right?" Otogi said seriously.
"No way man we can't do that! We'll end up gettin them into trouble!… If it were just Malik I wouldn't mind, but Yugi and Ryou are my friends!" The guard shouted, this time taking a step back with caution in case Otogi decided to punch him again.
Otogi frowned. "They're all my friends Jou, but what choice do we have? What if they end up getting hurt or lost? They might not be able to find their way back to Heaven." This caught Jou's attention, but he still looked reluctant. "Cheer up Jou, you're acting like the Elder's are bad people… besides the new Elder is suppose to be really nice, so we should probably find him first."
Jou sighed, but nodded in agreement. "What was that guys name again?"
Otogi smiled, grateful that his friend was now cooperating with him
"Pegasus."
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Will you look at that? Jou's in the story again! You'll see plenty more of him soon. Sorry it took me so long to update guys, it's my last year of school so I've been having a lot of work piled on me. Hope you all like the chapter though.
Please review and give me the encouragement I need! (The chapters are going to get a little tricky for me soon).
