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Chapter 9: unconscious dreams

When I went into a coma I found myself dreaming lots of different dreams. Some made no sense, others seemed so real they could really happen in the future, some were nightmares, others sweet dreams, but they all were just that, dreams. Nothing really needed to make sense. Some freaked me out with how real they seemed, as if I was dropped in the future. I tried to tell myself I was dreaming and I'd wake soon. I was half right, I was dreaming, but I didn't wake soon.

One dream I had was nice and calm, relaxing really. I was lying next to Amane, soaking up some rays of the little sun we got in England. Today was nice for English weather, almost too nice. The sun was peeking through white puffy clouds, the sky was more bleu than white. Amane and I were saying what the clouds looked like. "Look there's a bunny," I said pointing to a rather odd looking cloud. Amane giggled when she saw the cloud.
"Ryou, all these just look like cotton balls to me," she said shaking her head. Amane liked to live realistically, she had little imagination. The little she had was spent roleplaying with me and playing duel monsters with her friends. So, the simple task of seeing clouds as anything other than clouds was hard for her.

"Use your imagination, I know you have one," I teased her. I knew she did, but I also knew she didn't use it often.

"But all these look like cotton balls, I can't even see how that cloud is a rabbit," she said pointing to the one I pointed to earlier.

"Well there are the ears," I said pointing to the top, "and the nose," I said pointing to the other spot, "and the head. It's more like a bunny head," I said. Amane giggled and shook her head, obviously still not seeing it.

"You are crazy Ryou, but you know that right?" Amane asked.

"Of course I know that, I mean I'm the great Ryou Bakura," I said grinning at her. Then I got up and breathed in the England air and looked around the field we were laying in. "race ya," I told Amane before taking off.

"No fair!" Amane complained as she jumped up and took off after me. I was laughing as I ran through the field, the wind through my hair.

"Come get me if you can!" I yelled back to her and I ran harder. Every step I took I felt better, I was laughing happily and just ran. Then the scene faded away into black. Too bad, I thought, I wish that was real life.

Next one was nightmare much to my dismay. I was standing in the field that I was just running in with Amane. Only this time Amane wasn't there and it was raining. No scratch that, POURING! I had not been standing there for two minutes and my clothes were already soaked, exposing my scars. Then I looked down to see what I was wearing; I was wearing my blue and white striped shirt with my gray yoga pants. This use to be my normal outfit so I was obviously in England again. Probably the same field. I needed to find shelter from the downpour so I started to walk.

As I was walking I heard the crack of lightning followed by menacing sounding thunder. Not good, I thought and I started to sprint. I was soaked and there was lightning, plus I had the worst luck. With my bad luck I would get struck, no problem. Then I heard another crack. Looking over to the only tree in the meadow I saw that it had been hit. Though not on fire do to the heavy downpour that continued. Oh god, I thought, that is to close for comfort. Where could I find shelter though? I didn't even know how far this field was from anything! Another clap of thunder and strike of lightning, they were now becoming for frequent. This. Was. Bad. Now sprinting I slipped in some mud.

When I slipped lightning stuck right where I had been standing just moments before. "That can't be a good sign," I muttered as I scurried to my feet. Now I was soaked and caked in mud, needless to say not happy. As soon as I started to run though I realized I had hurt my ankle. "AHHHHH!" I cried into the rain. The pain was so bad it made me fall again. Great now I have to crawl, I thought bitterly. Then I started to crawl fast. BOOM! Another clap of thunder came and my nerves started to sky rocket. If I got hit by lightning, game over. Wait, scratch that, life over! Very few people survived that, though I did have a reputation of surviving things like that. I didn't want to push that though.

As I crawled the lightning became more and more frequent. This was really freaking me out. This all seemed to real for a dream. I never had dreams this realistic. You don't feel the pain of a sprained ankle in a dream, now do you? Your clothes don't become wet and muddy in dream, now do they? Plus my hair was mattered exactly like it does when wet. If this was a dream then I need to applaud it. This was the realest dream I had ever had that's for sure. There was another clap of thunder to break me of my day dreaming. No, I thought, I need to focus on finding shelter and crawling, not if this is a dream or not.

Finally I found a small ditch. Not much of a shelter but at least I would be on lower ground. There was a minus of this, it was pretty far away. My stomach was becoming scratched form crawling and the rocks were digging into any skin that happened to show. Also my ankle was now throbbing in pain. How on Earth could I make it there in time? Then there was a crack of lighting and a roll of thunder. Well, I thought, I have to try now don't I? Sighing I started to crawl again.

When I had almost reached the ditch I was stuck. I was so close, I could feel the edge.
Of course it had to stick me THEN! Pain came over me as I cried out into the rain that continued to fall around me. "AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed in agonizing pain. Then came a weird numbing feeling as the electricity started to surge through me. Then it went to the ground and my vision blurred and went black. Please tell me that was just a dream, I silently prayed as I blacked out.

Then came the dream I had whenever I was close to death in real time. "Ryou," I heard a soft voice call. Slowly I opened my eyes to see who was calling me. My vision blurred but cleared after I blinked a couple times.

"Ryou," called a different voice, this one more muscular than the first. The first sounded like a young girl. My whole body was stiff and ached slightly. I groaned and then sat up. A bright light momentarily blinded me as my eyes adjusted. When they finally did I saw two figures standing in the middle of the light; the figures were none other than Amane and daddy.

"Amane, daddy," I said my voice was raspy and hoarse.

"Yes that's right deary, now come to us," my dad said holding his hand out. I got to my feet and started toward him before stopping myself. Did this always happen in the movies before the person died? Isn't that why they say DON'T go into the light? That was most definitely what I was doing, going into a light.

"Come on Ryou, hurry," Amane called. Amane wouldn't want me to die. When I was ready to earlier she told me to hold on, not to die on her. Was I just going to walk into some light and possibly die when I had survived so many things I SHOUDLNT have?

"What's in that light?" I decided to ask. Maybe they could tell me and I would know whether or not I would die.

"Paradise," my dad his hand still out to me. I then started to walk further before stopping again, isn't that what they said heaven was? Paradise? We had never been religious but I had heard about it a lot from peers.

"Would I die?" I asked bluntly. This was what I needed to know before I came to them. This all seemed to fishy. They were dead, there was a bright light, and I was probably in a coma.

"In the human world yes but spiritually no," my dad said. at first I thought this could be good. No more bullies, no more pain, no more suffering period. So I started to walk towards them, then I heard it.

"Ryou don't die on us," the voice was faint and pleading. Was I hearing what was going on in the real world? Was I dying? "RYOU DARN IT DON'T DIE ON ME!" I heard a sob after this. Who was talking?

"Kaiba it's no use," I heard someone say.

"Seto?" I asked turning around. Where was he?

"Don't say that! She can make it! Kura if you can hear me come back don't die," Seto said. this was happening right now, I was dying. My mind spun, this was why I was seeing them, I was about to die. Weren't they giving me a choice though, couldn't I go back?

"Kaiba's right Tea, she can make it," I heard a small voice say. Yugi?

"Yugi you can't think that. Too much hope leaves you crushed, she's gone," Tea said confiming my suspicions about who it was.

"But that is all we have now Tea, hope. Hope that Bakura is going to get better. Hope that she isn't dead, that she can hear us and know not to go into the light or whatever," Yugi argued. Well Yugi said it, DON'T go into the light Amane and dad wanted me to go into. This made me take a step back.

"Ignore them sister, come with me," Amane said still trying to win me over.

"You told me not to die. There is still something I must do, I know it. I just got friends, friends who are telling me not to die. NOT to go into the light you want me to go into," I told her taking more steps backward away from the light.

"Amane is right Ryou, ignore them and come home. Come with us. There will be no more suffering, which is all living is, suffering," my dad said. They both could see I was really thinking about NOT joining them like they wanted me to.

"You're wrong, I have had so many good times with those people. With Seto and Yugi and all of them. Life has suffering yes, but that is not all it is," I told them taking more steps away.

"Ryou don't walk away from me," Amane pleaded. This broke my heart, because that's what I had to do. I couldn't go with them, I just couldn't.

"I am sorry Amane, I can't come with you yet. You see, I am not ready to die yet," I told them standing my ground firmly.

"Very well as you wish," my dad said and then the light faded.

"SHE'S ALIVE! I TOLD YOU SHE WOUDLNT DIE TEA!" I heard Yugi say.

"Thank god," I heard Seto say sighing in relief.

"Well what you know," Tea said and I could tell she was smiling. I sighed, well I was alive, but for how long?

Then sometimes I had dreams that featured Yami. Those dreams tore me a part because I knew they had taken my ring. She was gone, but that didn't stop me from dreaming about her. There was one where I was at train tracks. On one side of the tracks I was standing there. Just standing looking at the other side. We were in the countryside of some place. All you could see was grass and trees. On the other side of the tracks I saw Yami. "Yami?" I asked and she nodded. "OH MY GOD YOU'RE BACK!" I yelled. She stayed silent, what was with her? We just stared at each other for a while.

"Why won't you say anything?" I asked her worried I had done something. Sure they had taken the ring, but she couldn't be mad about that. Yami pointed to her mouth and shook her finger. "You can't talk?" I asked her. Man I hated charades. Yami nodded and I looked at her confused. "Why?" I asked her. She pointed down at our ring. I looked down, I saw my striped shirts and yoga's but no ring. Oh no, I thought, even in this dream world I didn't have it. She gave me a sad and weak smile. "How will I get it back?" I asked. She looked frustrated at this question. Then she glared at someone I couldn't see. "Do they still have it? The trouble trio?" I asked and she shook her head. This made me sigh in relief. "Did my friends get it back," I asked. She smiled and nodded happily. This made me smile as well. Good, I thought, when I awoke I would get it back, and with the ring I would get Yami back.

"Can I touch you? Like hug you? I miss you so much! I am so sorry! I should have listened to you!" I cried as tears fell down. I couldn't help it, I felt so bad. Yami held up her hand to stop my rambling. "Can I hug you?" I asked biting back tears that threatened to spill. It was my fault we couldn't talk, all mine. If I had just listened to her. Yami shrugged not knowing whether I could or not. If I had to guess I would have said not, why else were there tracks in front of us?

"Whats with the tracks?" I asked her and again she shrugged. I would have asked her whats with the shrugging but I already knew that. She couldn't talk because of MY mistake. "Am…" I almost didn't want to ask but I knew I had to, "Am I dying?" Yami looked shocked at the question. She hadn't expected that but with me she should have. Then she looked down at her feet not wanting to answer. Either she was messing with me or I was. I was hoping for the first one. "Yami answer me!" I screeched making her jump and look at me. I needed to know this fact. Didn't Seto and Yugi and Tea all say I was? For a while we just starred at each other, neither one breaking the eye contact. We stood like that for some time.

Then, the time passed and Yami sighed. It was a weird sigh since she made no noise. Yami was turning into a mime really, it was funny and sad all at the same time. Yami looked me in the eye and gave me a swift nod. Yes, I was dying. "OH THAT'S JUST WONDERFUL!" I yelled out to the country. Yami looked sad that she had to break the news to me. "Then again knowing me, I will bounce back. You know I have a thing with doing that. You're supposed to be dead, WELL GUESS WHAT THE DEAD DON'T LIVE!" I screamed out. "If they did I wouldn't be living with witch woman now I would?" I asked to no one in particular. I was just mad, mad I was dying, mad I hadn't died yet, and mad that I was even in this situation to begin with. If I had listened to the people around me, I wouldn't be here. I would be with them, at school, alive and well. Of course I didn't though, not me! I let out a groan and Yami looked at me apologetically.

"Now what?" I asked her defeated in every way. I had told Amane and daddy I wasn't ready to die, but I was still stuck in this forever long coma it seems. Yami again shrugged, she didn't seem to have very many answers for me tonight. The one time I ask for her help and she's no help at all! "Well how about this, I am going to try and hug you. Maybe that'll make me feel better," I said sounding exhausted. I don't know how I would be since I was in a coma after all! As I walked over the tracks I waited for some train to come or something. When nothing happened I continued to tread down them, cautiously. When I got over there I threw my arms around her. Only to have me fall flat on my face. When I rolled over Yami was gone. I felt like she was ripped away from me all over again.

Then there were the dreams that seemed to real to be just dreams. Like this one of me in the future. It felt like I was just dropped in another time period. Like, it all was so, unreal. One second I am falling in the darkness I fall in before going to a new dream and the next I am standing in a kitchen making coffee. Why was I making coffee? I hate coffee! "Honey is the coffee almost done?" I familiar voice asked me. I turned to see Seto had just walked in. he looked exhausted and like he just woke up, which I guess he did. I looked over at the coffee, yep it was almost done.

"Almost," I said giving him a smile. He seemed, older. Not by much just a couple years. The major give away was the height, there was no way he was the same height as the Seto I was currently dating. The coffee made a ding sound and I poured him a cup of coffee. Seto was sitting at a small bar where I could hand him the coffee threw the window and still be in the kitchen.

"Thank you Kura," he said smiling at me as he sipped his coffee and read the newspaper. Well, he still had the nickname for me. Not that I didn't like that nickname, in fact I loved it. Just hearing the nickname made me grin at him. "Could you wake up Mokuba?" he asked me. Yep, it couldn't be that much older. Even if I moved in Mokuba couldn't move out till he was 16 and I saw more along the lines of 17 or 18. Seto would make that kid stay here till then, I just knew it.

"Sure," I said and walked out. Please let Mokuba's room be the same room as it is now as it is in the future. When I got to the room it was in in current times I found out it hadn't changed. Mokuba was lying on his bed sprawled out everywhere and slightly snoring. This made me chuckle slightly. He still had his long bushy hair but he too looked older. He looked about 15 or 16. This made me think of something. I looked down at my ring finger to see a gorgeous ring. It had a HUGE opal in the middle, my favorite stone because I thought I reflected life, surrounded by Tourmaline and Sapphire's. This was probably our birthstones which meant that Seto's birthday was in October. Man did I hope I woke up in time for it!

Walking over to Mokuba I slightly shook him, "Mokuba, wake up." Mokuba groaned and rolled over. This made me chuckle, yep he was a teenager now. "Mokuba you need to wake up," he grunted this time in response. This made me shake my head, he needed to get up. I looked over at the clock; it read 11:00. He REALLY needed to get up. "Mokuba if you are not up and around in 10 minutes I am sending Seto in here after you," I threatened laughing as he sat up and looked at me.

"You wouldn't," Mokuba said eyes slightly narrowing.

"You know I would," I said chuckling. Him trying to glare just made him looked like an angry fluffy kitten.

"Okay, okay I am up," he said starting to stand up.

"We'll be in the kitchen," I told him as I shut the door so he could change. Then I went to the kitchen. As I did I passed by a photo that caught my eye in the hall. It was a photo of my and Seto's wedding. In the picture I was wearing a beautiful dress that was some sort of crystal- knowing Seto diamonds- at the top and the bottom was long silk that trailed behind me slightly. Seto was wearing a tux that looked rather dashing on him, he was smiling at me and I was smiling at him. This made me look down at my ring and smile getting married to Seto, I could live with that, I thought laughingly as I started the rest of the way down the hall to the kitchen.

When I entered the kitchen Seto put down his newspaper, took a sip of his coffee, and smiled at me. "Is he up?" he asked me.

"Well, he will be. I told him if he isn't up and around in 10 minutes then I am sending you in after him," I said walking over to him. He got up and went behind me, putting his arms around me in a hug. Man I loved hugging like this, he obviously knew. I wondered how long we had been married for.

"Oh the is oh so evil of you," he said planting a kiss on my forehead. I felt myself break out into an automatic smile that only he could bring out.

"Well you know that me. The evil angel I am," I said smiling up at him. He was just about to say something when I heard a baby cry.

"I'll get her," Seto said but I stopped him. Quickly I tried to think of an excuse. I just wanted to see our baby but that wasn't good enough.

"I told Mokuba that you would get him up and someone has to be with the baby if he doesn't get up," I pointed out. Yes good save, I praised myself.

"Good point, come on then," he said smiling and took my hand. This made me smile as well. It's good to know that whenever Seto and I get married, it'll still be romantic.

Seto led me to a small room that was decorated in light purples, different shades of pink, and light green. So cutesy, I thought as I looked around. Over by one of the walls was a small crib that held a small child. Over the crib, in different colored letters, was her name. When I say what her name was I bit back tears, only because it would be weird since the kid Seto was now holding looked to be around a year old. Her name was Amane. "Shhhhhh," Seto said bouncing baby Amane slightly to try and calm her. Amane giggled happily as I smiled down at her and at my husband.

"You said you'd be in the kitchen," Mokuba complained walking in. This made me chuckle because I did indeed say that.

"Amane started to cry so the plans changed," I said shrugging. Mokuab groaned and threw his head back as he shoved his hands in his pockets.

"My neice can be so annoying at times," Mokuba complained and Amane giggled. This made me and Seto laugh like mad.

"If you thinks he is annoying now just wait till she is older. If she is anything like her mother she will be NUTS!" Seto said laughing as I faked a scowl.

"I am not nuts!" I told him.

"Keep telling yourself that," Mokuba muttered and we all laughed. Even me, though the comment was directed toward me. Then the scene faded. It faded from where all of us were laughing with Amane in Seto's arms giggling. The last thought I had before the scene was gone was how much I wished that would come true.

Sometimes I could hear what was going on outside. One conversation tore me a part and made me want to wake even more. In fact this was the last time I dreamed before the waking dream. This conversation gave me the strength I needed to wake from my coma.

"How is she?" I heard someone ask. Mokuba perhaps, I thought. I was in an all-black room, which is where I went to when I listened to the outside.

"Not any change," the other one said. Yugi, I knew it was Yugi!

"YUGI!" I yelled. Oh I missed her so much. I missed her, I missed Seto, heck I even missed Yugi's friends!

"How is Seto?" Yugi asked. Yep, the other person was Mokuba.

"Not any better either. I haven't seen him this way since mom and dad died. He isn't eating right, he is barely sleeping, all he talks about is Bakura, and I'm getting scared. If she doesn't wake up, if she dies, what will become of him?" Mokuba sounded worried. I had never heard him sound this worried before. Oh no, I thought, what have I done.

"She'll wake soon," Yugi tried to reassure him. Yes, I thought, yes I will. Wake up stupid body! Wake up! I was screaming inside my mind, I need to wake up. Tears spilled from my eyes as I cried. This had gone on for far too long. I was ready to see the world again, to see my friends.

"I AM WAKING UP BODY AND YOU CANT STOP ME!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. Time to wake up, I thought and then it happened. I started to wake.

Bright lights started to invade my vision. What was going on, I wondered and then it hit me. I was waking up. Yes, I mentally screamed. Yes, I could see them! My vision swam and my hearing came back. I heard a beep that must be the heart monitor. Then I heard a slight sob, which was Yugi. Yugi was still in the room. Why was she sobbing? Oh, right, I was dying. Not any more, I thought and put all my strength in waking up. If. I. Just. Could. Wake. Up.

"Bakura?" Yugi asked and then I awoke.