Mystified
Yu-Gi-Oh! Ryou/BakuraBy: Klyukaizer
Summary: [Chapter version to "Numb", same plot… but different all throughout!] Bakura keeps on beating Ryou… Ryou continues receiving them! But what do they truly feel about each other? And why do they continue doing it?
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Mystified
Chapter 9 – A mother's touch
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"Yugi! Please! Stop!" Yugi didn't pay attention and kept on running. Yami tried his best to outrun the smaller boy. //Aibou… Please, calm down!//
Yugi closed his mental link off and continued running. "Yugi! Come on, please!" Yami quickened his haste and finally caught Yugi by the wrist and pulled him in an immediate embrace, allowing the younger youth to cry in his chest. "Shh… it's okay! He was just preoccupied, Aibou… The both of you shouldn't misunderstand yourselves!" Yami explained as he smiled at his Hikari.
"He doesn't need me! Ever since this whole thing started he's been pushing me aside!" Yugi sobbed angrily and banging his head on his Yami's chest, "I was only trying to help!"
"Then you should be proud!" Yami said, pushing Yugi away slowly and wiping the tears away, "Remember… it was because of you Ryou had returned back to his normal sanity!"
~ Flashback ~
/Yugi quickly embraced the broken boy but Ryou tried to get away. Yugi's grip was indeed tight and didn't allow the silver-haired boy to get away this time. "Let. Me. Go." Ryou pleaded in a whisper, "I said. Let me go, Yugi!" Ryou tried his best to struggle away, apart from all the trembling.
"I'm not letting you go, Ryou! We promised Bakura we wouldn't leave you!" Yugi scolded as Ryou's eyes widened, there were tears strolling from Yugi's eyes too! "And I will never break his promise!"/
~ Flashback ends ~
"You're just trying to make me feel better!" Yugi pouted as his tears began to subside. "Well, am I succeeding?" Yami smiled at his counterpart as Yugi pouted a smile and nodded. "Arigatou, Yami…"
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"Ryou…"
~ Flashback ~
/'I know he's not a bad person… I know… deep down inside, lays the Bakura I love!'/
Ryou slammed to the wall as blood flowed terribly to the ground as he coughed uncontrollably. Bakura walked to the broken boy to the floor as he grabbed a handful of Ryou's silver hair. Ryou gritted in pain as he stared weakly at his Yami. "S- Stop it… Please…" Ryou pleaded as tears strolled down from his cheeks.
"You're pathetic!" Bakura yelled as he slammed Ryou's face to the floor and it landed with a loud thud. Bakura left the silver-haired boy as Ryou's blood soaked the carpet.
/'He just needs… someone… to make him realize everything!'/
"You better clean that up in the morning… you wouldn't want the others to find out, ne?" Bakura teased as he marched away. Ryou tried his best to stand up and trembled at his own weight. Ryou's tears filled his eyes and dropped on the same spot his blood dripped.
~ Flashback ends ~
"He never lost hope in me…"
~ Flashback ~
Ryou fell on the arms of his savior as both of them plunged down to the stairs. The impact of the fall made the boy wince in pain, but he still held Ryou in a tight embrace to keep him from getting hurt. The both of them fell to the ground with a loud thud as Ryou started opening his eyes.
"B- Bakura?" Ryou moaned as Bakura winced in pain. "Aibou, Daijoubu desu ka?" Bakura panicked as Ryou closed his eyes once again, surrendering to the darkness.
~ Flashback ends ~
"Why do I feel something missing? Like as if my heart is torn into two…"
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"Like as if my heart is torn into two?" Ryou asked as he held a hand on the Millenium Ring in his chest. "Ryou?" A voice came into Ryou's ears as he looked up to see Yami. Ryou quickly looked away and clutched his fist into a ball.
"I blew it, didn't I? I shouldn't have said those things to Yugi!" Ryou murmured. "Yup! You really blew it!" Yami agreed in a laughing tone, but Ryou didn't get the whole joke. "Don't worry about it Ryou… Yugi isn't really mad at you! The both of you really had some misunderstandings!" Yami sighed out loud.
"But you know…" Ryou started as Yami looked at the boy on the bed, "Yugi's right!"
"I'm too blind to see the things you guys, my friends, have been doing for me!" Ryou dropped his head lower once again, "It's not an excuse or anything… it's just that… I'm used to handle things on my own! I tend to be really reckless when I don't get things the way I wanted it to happen!"
"Really? Since when?" Yami asked interestedly, //Yugi… I hope you're hearing this!//
"10 years ago. When I was in England…" Ryou answered briefly, "After my mother died." Yami's eyes widened (and so did Yugi's mentally) as Ryou began his story…
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(A/N: You know, listening to "The Prayer by Charlotte Church and Josh Groban" and reading this part id kind of sad! ;_; According to my own POV that is! ^^;;)
^10 years ago…^
"Mommy will be alright, Ryou! I know she would!" A middle-aged man held his silver-haired son in his arms. Little Ryou (about the age of 5 or 6) sobbed madly at his father's shoulders. "Please, Ryou… Stop crying!" He said as he embraced the boy tighter.
"I want to see my Mommy! I want to see my Mommy!" Little Ryou chanted.
"We will see her soon, Ryou! The doctors are still tending her…" His father said as he rubbed the back of his son to calm him down, "All we can do know is wait."
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"We're sorry… we're very sorry, Mr. Bakura!" A doctor apologized, "We did the best we could do! But, the virus is quickly spreading and it won't be long until she will… she will…" The doctor couldn't say it.
"I understand, doctor!" Ryou's father nodded as he pushed Ryou slowly to his mother's hospital room, "I know you did your best! And for that… I'm very thankful! Please allow my son to see his mother!"
"Galdly…" the doctor nodded as he opened the door to Mrs. Bakura's room.
"Ryou… Daddy has to go talk to the doctor, okay? Stay with Mommy!" Ryou's father said as little Ryou nodded obediently.
Before Ryou could enter the room, tears were already strolling from his eyes. "Mama?" Ryou called as the beautiful woman lying on the bed stirred to the small boy in the ground. "Ryou…" she smiled, "Come to Mama, Ryou!"
Ryou ran to his mother's side and jumped on the bed. "Mama…" he sobbed as he hugged his mother tightly, "Mama is the best person Ryou has ever met!" Ryou didn't stop there, "Mama always gave Ryou things that would make Ryou happy!" Ryou's mother smiled to that. "But… having Mama with Ryou makes Ryou happy already!"
Ryou showed his mother his best smile. "Ryou…" Ryou's mother smiled and hugged the boy tighter as well. "Mama, please don't go!" he pleaded while tears flooded down his eyes.
"I'm sorry, Ryou… but, that's one thing I can't give you!" Ryou cried harder but silently. "Please don't cry, Ryou!"
"Ryou won't cry!" Ryou said as he angrily wiped the tears away but the tears won't stop flowing, "Ryou won't cry for Mama!" He said again but he felt himself grit his teeth from all the tears.
"Ryou loves Mama so much!" Ryou sobbed into his mother's shoulders, which made his mother burst into tears too. "And Mama loves Ryou so much too!"
"Ryou… promise me you won't cry again if you lose someone special!"
"Eh? Why, Mama?"
"The person you cried for will never rest in peace knowing that you're sad! It's as if they are afraid of leaving the world…" His mother smiled, "Don't let them know you're sad! Let them know you care…"
"Mama, I don't understand!"
"Stay with them until the very end! Tell them you love them!"
"I will Mama!" Ryou nodded as his tears stopped, "Goodbye, Mama… I love you!" He said as he gave the last and final embrace to his mother.
"I love you too! Goodbye, Ryou!" Ryou's mother whispered his her son's ear. And on that day, Ryou's mother passed away, while holding her son close to her. But little did Ryou know that she had a smile, as well as tears, in her face.
To be continued…