Title: Terror in the Snow
Genre: romance, fluff
Rating: T for mild language
Pairings: BakuraXRyou; suggested YamiXYugi
Summary: Ryou comes home during a blizzard from school, and a sudden sickness causes him to collapse and get buried under the snow. Bakura, being worried, runs out into the storm to find his hikari. Will he find him in time, and confess his true feelings before it's too late?
Me: Here's the next one-shot!
Lucy: Yup! Yami and Yugi play matchmaker for Ryou and Bakura!
Me: And innocent Ryou is harmed by snow!
Lucy: Hypothermia!
Me: And Bakura goes to save him!
Lucy: Enjoy this story!
Chapter One: Terror in the Snow
It was deep into the winter, and the snow was falling all over Domino city, covering the dark city with a blanket of pure white.
The sun had long since set, and the bell struck seven times, signaling that it was seven o'clock, and that most jobs would be ending around this time. The school had been canceled, due to how deep the snow was and how harsh it was falling.
Everyone usually hated the snow in Domino, since it usually was very cold and could easily take away a life. And thus is why so many people hated the snow fall in the city of Domino.
But for two silverettes, this snow was about to bring them closer than they would ever believe.
"Stop it, Yugi-kun! It's not funny!"
"Oh, relax, Ryou-chan! It's gonna be just fine!"
"Yeah, so you say," the silverette hikari said while looking out the window, his eyes narrowing as they scanned the white lands. Yugi smiled sadly at his friend before placing a hand on his shoulder gently.
"Relax, things are gonna be all right," he promised. Ryou shook his head slowly.
"I don't think so. There's no way Bakura could ever fall in love with someone like me," he said. Yugi rolled his eyes and placed a hand on Ryou's shoulder, bringing him closer. They were very close friends, and Ryou knew he could trust Yugi with anything.
Truth be told, Ryou was a little scared about going home, since he knew that his yami, Bakura, would be there. No, Bakura didn't beat Ryou or ever harm him, but Ryou was afraid of telling the yami his true feelings.
Yugi pursed his lips tightly.
"Ryou-chan, if you don't tell him, then you'll never know about whether or not Bakura likes you back," the star-haired hikari said. Ryou frowned and looked over to his friend.
Ryou hated it when his friend was so optimistic, but he had to admit, he did feel a little better by his friend saying such kind things to him. The silverette then shook his head and smiled sadly before looking out the window.
"There's no chance. Bakura hates me," he whispered. Yugi smirked.
"There's no chance of that, Ry-chan," he stated. Ryou shook his head slowly.
"You don't know," he said before standing up and thanking Yugi for letting him come over. Yugi nodded before letting Ryou walk past him. The star-haired hikari rose to his feet before letting Ryou walk to the door.
"Want one of us to walk you home?" Yugi offered, but Ryou shook his head slowly.
"No. I'll be all right," he said with a smile before turning and heading for the outside. As the door slowly closed, hiding Ryou behind it, Yugi turned to his yami, who was perched on the couch by the phone.
"Yami..." Yugi breathed, and Yami nodded before reaching to the phone.
"Already ahead of ya, Hikari," he whispered before winking. Yami then dialed the phone and held it to his ear as it started ringing. He let it ring for a few moments, and then the phone picked up.
"Moshi moshi. Bakura Ryou speaking," a voice said, and Yami scoffed.
"Give it up, Tomb Robber. I know it's you," he replied. He heard Bakura growl over the phone.
"What do you want, Pharaoh-sama?" the former thief taunted. Yami snickered at the nickname and at Bakura's attempt to sound scary before he became serious.
"There's... something you should probably know," the star-haired yami of the Sennen Puzzle whispered, and Bakura stayed silent before he waited for Yami to continue on with what he was going to say.
Yami sighed.
It was now or never.
Bakura rolled his brown eyes and leaned against the couch, ignoring whatever was blaring on the television.
It was some kind of winter special, but it didn't interest Bakura in the least. He was bored because his hikari, Ryou, was supposed to be home ages ago, but he hadn't shown up. The thief started to get worried, until the phone rang.
Deciding to play a prank, he picked up the phone.
"Moshi moshi. Bakura Ryou speaking," he grinned. He was totally gonna get this sucker.
"Give it up, Tomb Robber. I know it's you."
Bakura narrowed his eyes in anger.
"What do you want, Pharaoh-sama," he taunted. He heard Yami sigh on the other end of the phone, and he could tell that something was wrong. Very wrong.
"Your hikari just left here a few moments ago. But there is something you might wanna hear about. It's something very serious, and my aibou is worried about your aibou because of it," Yami stated. Bakura was confused.
"What are you talking about?" he asked.
"Bakura... Just... confess to Ryou..." Yami said before hanging up the phone. Bakura stayed silent and looked at the phone before hanging it up and sitting on the edge of the couch, where he had been merely moments ago.
Bakura looked at the ceiling and thought about his feelings. He admitted to himself a long time ago that he was only using Ryou as a tool, but when he had gotten his own body, and became... friends with the Pharaoh, he started to notice things.
Ryou was no longer a pawn.
The way Bakura saw it, everyone in their little gang involved in the Sennen Items was like a chess piece. Some were pawns, many of them being Yugi's friends, but then the ones in the back row were him and Yami, opposite sides.
He was the black chess piece, Yami the white.
To Yami, however, Yugi wasn't a pawn. Yugi was the queen that stood right next to him on the chess board. His friends were all in the front, guarding him, while some others closer to his heart were the people by the chess piece's side.
Bakura didn't have these. He was the lone King with his pawns.
But what was Ryou?
At first, Ryou was a pawn. But what was he now? Had he gone from being a small black pawn to being the queen that stood right by Bakura's side?
The former thief raised his arm up over his eyes.
"Ryou, please come home soon before these emotions tear through me. Please, tell me what these feelings are," he whispered before drifting to a peaceful sleep that no one had ever believed the tomb robber could go in to.
"Gotta... get home... Gotta... be near... Bakura..."
Ryou trudged through the knee deep snow, his head lowered to keep the rapidly falling snow from hitting his eyes. He kept his hands up near his face to keep the snow from his face and giving him frostbite.
The last thing he wanted was to go to a hospital.
Suddenly, as Ryou was walking, his vision blurred, and a horrid pounding pulsed in his mind.
The little hikari moaned and looked around, seeing his vision going cloudy. He moaned and then collapsed to his knees, the illness making his bones and his form weak and unable to work as well as it usually did.
Ryou laid still in the snow.
"B-Bakura..." he whispered as his consciousness started fading.
Finally, Ryou fell unconscious and let the falling snow cover him.
Bakura slowly opened his eyes, only to realize that he had been sleeping.
The yami shook his head, figuring that Ryou would have been home by now. Afterall, the clock read sometime around six-thirty, and Yami had called sometime around five. Bakura rose to his feet and went to the stairs.
"Yadonushi! You home?" he called.
Silence answered him, and Bakura pouted cutely.
"Ryou? Are you giving me the silent treatement?" he asked. The same silence answered him. Bakura was starting to get worried. He knew that Ryou wasn't angry with him, because they hadn't fought at all. They never really did, but they did have their days.
"Yadonushi!" Bakura called. He looked around in confusion. "Ryou?" he asked. Then he remembered Yami's phone call, and he started getting worried.
Ryou was supposed to be home now.
//Ryou?//
/..../
//Ryou!//
/........./
//RYOU!!//
Bakura grabbed his black jacket and threw it over his shoulders and then running towards the door. He could feel Ryou's mindlink open, which would make it easy to find him, but since Ryou wasn't answering, it either meant Ryou was ignoring him...
Or that he was hurt.
Bakura threw the door open and slammed it shut before he tore down the streets. Snow littered the roads, but Bakura used his shadow magic to melt the snow the moment it touched him so that he had a clear path.
'Shit! Ryou, where are you?' he thought in horror. He decided to try the mindlink again.
//Ryou? Please, say something if you can hear me!//
/.......Ngh..../
//Yadonushi!?//
/Mm........ 'K-Ku...ra..../
//Are you all right!?//
/So.... c-cold... Bakura.... I..../
Silence.
//Ryou? Ryou! Ryou!! Ryou!! RYOU!!!//
Bakura cursed silently and went racing down the sidewalks faster. He was a blur of black and white, looking around and sensing where Ryou might be. He couldn't see him, but he had a feeling that Ryou was close by.
Bakura stopped when he felt Ryou's precense, but he couldn't see him.
"Ryou, are you here!?" he shouted. Bakura looked around the snow until he spotted a small mound that he had assumed was piled up snow. But then that's when he noticed something he thought would make his heart stop.
A pale yellow glow came from the snow.
The same color as the Sennen Ring.
"Ryou..." Bakura whispered in horror before he dove for the snow mound and started pushing the snow away quickly. Because of his shadow magic, the snow melted the moment he touched it, and it made digging through it all the more easy.
Bakura continued digging for a few minutes, biting his lip as he hoped that Ryou would be all right. Finally, Bakura spotted a patch of pale indigo and white from the snow, and he continued to dig through the white mound.
Bakura gasped in horror when he uncovered the thing under the snow bank.
"Ryou!!"
Ryou lay on his side in the snow bank, his eyes closed. His lips were parted slightly, his skin paler than normal. The Sennen Ring around his throat was glowing softly, but then it seemed to dull once Bakura appeared.
"Ryou!!!" Bakura shouted as he rolled Ryou onto his back. Ryou moaned, his head rolling to the side. Bakura gasped and drew Ryou into his arms, giving him a small shake. His wide brown eyes stared in horror at his young light.
"Yadonushi..." he whispered. Bakura then grit his teeth and pressed his cheek against Ryou's. "This isn't happening!" he hissed in concern. Bakura then drew away from Ryou and peered down at him, holding him closer to his own body.
'Ryou's body is freezing,' he thought. He then looked around and saw that no store near them was open. He hissed and then looked down at his unconscious light.
"Ryou, hang strong just a little longer, okay?" he yelled before taking off his black jacket and placing it around his light's cold body. He then stood, ignoring the cold that surrounded him, and then he raced towards his and Ryou's house.
"Hang in there, Yadonushi!" he shouted as he looked down to Ryou.
With that, Bakura practically flew towards the house.
"Gotta warm him up. Gotta warm him up. Gotta warm him up!!"
Bakura raced around the house, grabbing any blanket that he could and throwing it over Ryou, who was laying on the couch. Bakura had stripped Ryou of his clothes and placed him in his pajamas, and then placed every blanket he could find on the couch.
Ryou was still pale, but he wasn't moaning in pain anymore.
Bakura panicked and raced around, picking up something warm to drink. He sat near Ryou and tilted Ryou's head back, pouring the liquid down Ryou's throat before allowing him to swallow it. Bakura then laid Ryou back on the couch.
"Okay, okay, what do I do now?" he thought.
Bakura had never been this worried before. He usually knew what to do, but now, he was lost, and had no clue on what to give Ryou or how to make him wake up. Ryou had been unconscious for a few hours, and Bakura was starting to get worried.
'W-what if Ryou never wakes up again?' the silverette yami thought in horror.
He imagined Ryou laying on the couch for the rest of his life, his eyes never opening. Bakura imagined never waking up to see Ryou smiling at him and asking what he dreamed about. He imagined never walking into the house and having Ryou race up and ask how his day went.
He would miss Ryou in general.
"Ryou, don't do this! Wake up!" he shouted, giving Ryou a small shake. Bakura started panicking.
He couldn't call the hospital, because he couldn't read the phone book, and he didn't know the number for the hospital. Ryou had told him once, but what could they do? The roads were loaded in ice and snow. They'd never get there in time.
Bakura couldn't call the Pharaoh, because they couldn't do anything either. The snow would keep them in the Kame Game Shop.
Bakura couldn't do anything.
He looked down at Ryou and brushed a piece of hair from his face. Bakura frowned and laid his head on Ryou's chest, hearing his hikari breathing gently. The former thief reached down and clutched Ryou's ice-cold hand in his own.
"Yadonushi, you may never realize this, but... I don't want you to leave me. I-I know it might seem selfish but I don't want to see you go! You mean everything to me! If you spent nearly five thousand nears in a hunk of gold, you'd know how happy you make me. You'd know how happy I was to awaken finally and find you smiling at me, saying that you were glad to be my hikari. You'd realize that I wake up every day, having dreams about you, and love hanging around with you...
"You'd understand what I feel when you say my name. You'd understand what I want to say the most. I'm not good at this romance stuff, but..." Bakura was crying now. He swore that he would never cry after Kul Elna, but this was Ryou.
And Ryou was worth as many tears as Bakura had shed for Kul Elna.
"Ryou, I love you! Please don't leave me! Wake up!!" the yami shouted, tears pouring down his cheeks. He started sobbing on Ryou's chest, not caring if anyone saw or heard him. He was certain that no one would, but even if they did, he wouldn't have cared.
Sure, Bakura was a rough, tough king of thieves, but that doesn't mean that he didn't care about his hikari. He just never had the courage to tell him how he felt, because he was afraid that Ryou would reject him.
Especially after all the horrible things Bakura had done to him during the quest for the Sennen Items.
Bakura laid near Ryou for a few moments longer, sobbing his heart out. He just wanted Ryou to wake up. He didn't care if Ryou hated him or not, he just wanted Ryou to wake up and say that he was all right.
After a few moments, Bakura felt Ryou shift under him.
He blinked.
"Ryou?"
"Ngh...." Ryou moaned and slowly allowed his eyes to open up. Bakura felt his heart skip a few beats, and then Ryou looked over at him and smiled. With his pale skin, the smile was haunting. "Hey, 'Kura..." he whispered.
Bakura sighed. "Thank Ra," he whispered before laying his head next to Ryou.
Ryou smiled. "'Kura, did you mean all that stuff you said?" he asked.
Bakura gasped and then looked at Ryou, his face red. "Uh, I, uh, t-that is, I um....." the former thief stammered.
Ryou giggled and placed his hand on Bakura's head before bringing it to his nose and poking him once. Bakura squeaked and looked at his hikari, who was giggling.
"It's okay. I love you, too," he said.
Bakura gasped and then went to Ryou's lips. "You do?" he asked.
Ryou nodded, and then they both kissed one another passionately before breaking away. Bakura laid ontop of Ryou and placed his head near Ryou's shoulder.
The hikari laced his arms around Bakura's waist and then closed his eyes.
And the two lovers fell asleep.
Me: Awww XD He confessed!
Lucy: And saved Ryou from dying in the snow!
Me: Yes!
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