Blue Stockings.
Warnings: Swearing! YAOI, Yami/Hikari slashing! My humour…
Rtb - YAY! Chapter TEN and it's a loooooong one! And, except for a small part in the middle, I'm actually really happy with how this chapter turned out! It's like… basically exactly as it was in my head! Kay! I'm off to the beach to enjoy the summer sun! XD
Thankyou AliceCambio, subaru1999, KATZUNITED-MEOW-, Mysia Ri, randomn, DistanceBetween, ScarlettKuasta, Spost, Miserywriter, Flacks, JiangShi
Your reviews made me so happy! I'm glad people are liking it so far! But lol, I wonder ~ what people will think of this chapter and the next one *grin* I has evil planz! XD
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Disclaimer - If I owned Yugioh, there would be a lot more Ryou and a lot less Tristan! Sorry Tristan lovers, he's just not the guy for me! XP
Chapter ten.
Gulping for the hundredth time that morning, Ryou made his way to school, as his stomach tumbled and churned with every step he took. The school had never felt so close before and it just seemed to get closer and closer with every single second that went by.
Biting his lip as he made his way through the front gates, he smiled politely as he was greeted by, both, Anzu and Miho outside the front of their home room class.
"Hello Anzu-san, Miho-chan. H-how are you today?" Ryou stumbled as his chest tightened, slightly, his breathing becoming awkward and shallow.
He was completely afraid of whether, or not, Bakura had told anyone his little secret. And what better way to find out, if the word had spread, than through Anzu and Miho, two of the schools biggest gossips… they knew everything about everyone and they knew it first. If Bakura had said anything about his hidden gender, he would find out now, with these two… and the suspense was killing him.
"I'm fine, Miho over here is having a bit of boy trouble, though…" Anzu grinned as she looked over to the girl in question.
"It's not my fault! Tristan wouldn't buy me anything so I got a boyfriend who did and then they bothbroke up with me! It's so unfair! You're so lucky Ryou! You maybe weird, but you have guys and lezo's chasing after you all the time. It's so unfair! Honestly, what do they see in you?!" Miho ranted as Anzu simply sighed and shook her head at the other girl.
"It's alright Ryou-chan, I'm sure Miho doesn't mean any of it… she's just a little to caught up in her own world to be mindful of others… so, you ready for RSS day? Where's your sports uniform?" Anzu inquired as she circled Ryou, looking for where the other had hidden it.
Breathing a small sigh of relief, now certain that Bakura hadn't spread the word… as of yet, Ryou thought for a moment or two before his eyes widened and his brow furrowed.
"I-I completely forgot! Anzu! What am I going to do? I'll get a detention for this!" Ryou panicked as he hoped from one foot to the other in anxiousness and worry.
Anzu blinked, for a moment, in disbelief before bringing her hands down onto Ryou's shoulders, stopping him from his anxious movements.
"It's okay, Ryou! Detention isn't the end of the world!"
"Nooo~, but I saw the teachers give this one kid a really hard time all because he forgot his sports uniform… they made him do laps around the school and then push ups and then he had to stay after school to write lines! I'm so happy, I've never forgotten to bring my sports uniform." Miho grinned making Anzu frown and Ryou look up at the two of them in fear.
"I-I don't want to do laps and push ups and, and, and lines! Please, do any of you have a spare uniform?" Ryou begged but was devastated as the two girls shook their head to indicate that they did not.
"I have one…" someone called out from behind them, making the three turn around to face the new comer.
"Naoki?! Really? May-may I please borrow it? It would mean a lot to me!" Ryou exclaimed, his hands clutching together in front of his chest as he looked up at the other boy with big, thankful, eyes.
"Sure thing… it maybe a little big on you, but it's better than nothin' right?" Naoki chuckled darkly as Ryou nodded, enthusiastically, in response.
Digging through his bag for a few moments, Naoki pulled out the spare uniform and handed it over to the younger boy who smiled widely as a sign of thanks.
"Thankyou so much Naoki! I'll have to pay you back somehow."
"Don't worry about it… I'm sure you'll forget all about it this afternoon…" Naoki said slyly as Ryou looked up at him, again, this time with a look of confusion and wariness.
Noticing the others curious, and somewhat worried, gaze upon him, Naoki took to changing the subject as he smiled and gently ruffled the top of Ryou's hair.
"Mah, it's fine… but it's a good thing the boys uniform and the girls uniform are the same; shorts and a tee-shirt, otherwise you may have been in trouble there… Ry-chan." Naoki somewhat sneered as he plastered on an, utterly fake, smile.
"Oh… yeah… I guess…" Ryou mumbled as he tried to lean away from Naoki's touch. There was just something about it that felt wrong. It didn't feel like Bakura… these hands were smaller and smoother… they felt creepy instead of warm, comforting and playful like Bakura's hands were.
Eye's welling up with tears at the thought of Bakura, Ryou sniffled slightly as he wiped his face, quickly, with the sleeves of his sailor top.
"I… I should go and get changed… I-I'll be right back! I will!" Ryou called out, as he detached himself from Naoki's keen hold, and made his way down to the school changing rooms.
The change rooms were situated right next to the schools indoor gym and were inside a small building which was also home to two class rooms, the school gallery, a small stage for theatre and the music room… all located within one building. If it wasn't for the gym, right next door, it probably would have been strange to have the change rooms situated there.
Walking into the girls changing room, Ryou went into one of the shower cubicles and locked the door behind him before getting changed. Once changed he managed to, after some effort, fit his normal uniform into his leather school bag and hang it up on one of the hooks next to the other girls bags.
Coming out of the change rooms, he made his way back to his home room and tried his best not to frown when he saw that Naoki was still there.
"Back already? Whelp, I better be off if I want to make roll call in time. I'll grab that uniform off you at lunch, Ry-chan? Okay? Anzu was just telling me that you guys have study in the library after lunch so I can grab it back off you then, see ya." Naoki grinned before running off to his own home group class.
"Oh Ryou! I think someone has a crush on you! Are you going to go out with him?" Miho teased as Ryou shook his head in a furious 'no'.
"I like… someone else…" he mumbled and before Anzu or Miho could even begin to attack Ryou with questions about that statement they were ushered inside by there homeroom teacher Jounouchi-sensei.
"Awright! Get inside, ya dumb kids. No time for chatting and whatnot, we have RSS day and I'm going to make you guys work for all you've got." Jounouchi grinned as Miho simply 'hmph-ed' and turned her nose up in the air… only going inside after Anzu and Ryou made there way into the class room first.
Panting loudly, the white haired boy let himself collapse on a near by chair.
"Ryou! What's going on? You've still got another half an hour of tennis left… where's your partner?" Jounouchi called out as he slowly made his way over to Ryou, making Ryou sit up almost instantly .
"I-I don't know sir… she was talking with some of the other students and they suddenly all ran off together… and sir… I think I'm a little unfit." Ryou puffed out before collapsing back down onto the chair. He didn't have the energy to sit anymore let alone play tennis for another half an hour in the freezing cold with nothing more than a flimsy tee-shirt and shorts to keep him warm.
"Alright, I'll go find them, you rest here and, if I'm not back by lunch time, instruct the class to go and get changed, have some food, and I'll meet up with them in study this afternoon. Got it?" the older man asked as he eyed Ryou carefully, awaiting his answer.
Nodding softly, almost shyly, Ryou grinned as he looked up at his favourite sensei.
"Yup! I'll do my best, sir!" he stated enthusiastically making Jounouchi smile down at him, fondly.
Giving the young boy a small nod, he left the school grounds in order to hunt down his missing students and give them one hell of an earful, and a few after school detentions here and there, just to scare them a bit and, hopefully, keep them inline for the next few days.
Waking up to the feel of a soft, repetitive, prod in his shoulder, Ryou yawned, cutely, before rubbing his eyes free from sleep.
"Huh? What?" he groaned as he slowly opened his eyes to the world… only to be confronted with the rest of his class staring at him impatiently.
"Ryou! Where did Jounouchi-sensei go? He was talking to you before he went, what did he say?" one of his classmates questioned with a small frown, making Ryou wince slightly under the others strong gaze.
"Ummm, he said if he wasn't back in time for lunch we should get changed and then meet up with him in the library for study after lunch break." Ryou answered, repeating everything his sensei had told him.
"Sweet! It's five minutes to lunch! Let's get changed now and we'll be early for lunch after PE for a change!" one of the boy's pipped up.
The class seemed to agree with this idea as the students made their way to the change rooms, Ryou tagging along at the end of the crowd. He was in no rush to get changed so he'd wait until most of the other girls came out and then he'd go in. He liked the privacy and, although there was a lock on the door, he couldn't help but worry that someone might peak or accidentally walk in on him… as a him.
Waiting ten minutes, or so, the last of the girls piled out of the change room, giggling about something and meeting up with the rest of the class outside the building. They didn't seem to be in a rush for lunch as they had claimed to be, only moments before, but Ryou didn't question it to much… for all he knew the others could be holding some kind of lunch get together and he just hadn't been invited. It didn't bother him to much… in fact he really couldn't care less. He was happier with his close circle of friends than with his classmates anyway.
So, with that in mind, Ryou made his way into the girls change room, grabbed his bag and headed into the small shower cubicle, locking the door behind him. Wincing slightly as he heard the loud chatter of teenagers through the thin building walls, Ryou took off his top and shorts before picking up his bag to take out his normal school uniform.
Blinking for a moment or two he was quite surprised to find it gone. Most intrigued, with the sudden disappearance of his uniform, Ryou check the bag again and again and again… not noticing the sports uniform, he had borrowed from Naoki, slowly disappearing from the gap underneath the shower cubicle's walls and the floor.
After searching his bag for a sixth time, Ryou finally gave up. His clothes were simply not there anymore.
Pouting slightly, Ryou set his bag back down on the floor before turning around to pick up his sports uniform and put that on instead… however, he was most perplexed when that had also vanished.
Furrowing his brow in confusion and annoyance Ryou span around the shower cubicle in circles for a moment or two as he tried to work out where both uniforms could have possibly gotten to.
"Did…. Did they fall down the drain?" he thought aloud as he bent down, pressed his eye against the silver grated drain hole, and tried his best to see if his clothes had indeed fallen down the drain.
"Ah… I suppose you're right, Amane… that would be kind of strange… but I just don't know where they went! Clothes don't just go poof and disappear! They had to have gone somewhere!" he mused softly before giving up on looking for the lost clothes and plopping down onto the ground of the shower cubicle.
"I guess I should probably call Malik and Marik… they're the only ones who know my secret and could bring me some new clothes…" Ryou hummed before reaching into his bag to pull out his phone… only to find that that had gone missing as well!
"What?! Now my phonesmissing?! D-did I just… did I just get robbed?!" Ryou cried out in horror before gently banging his head on the door behind him.
"What am I going to do? What am I going to do?! If anyone see's me, in just my underwear, I'm sure they'll figure out… what I am… but I can't stay in here all day… the girls from the other class will be getting changed in here soon!" he wailed softly as he continued to, gently, bang his head against the door, in despair.
Waiting another few moments as he tried his best to work out a plan, Ryou blinked as he noticed something….
It was quiet.
No more teenage laughter or squeals or mindless chatter flying about, it was completely and utterly silent. Which meant that the class had moved on and left the area… meaning… Ryou could quickly duck out and get to somewhere secluded that had a payphone and he would be able to call, both, Malik and Marik from there. And Ryou knew just the place.
A hundred metres away from the school change rooms was one of the exits from the school, the back exit… and the next street down from the school had a payphone. That was Ryou's goal… that was going to be his saviour.
Sitting, silently, for a moment, he fought down his nerves and anxiousness as he took a deep breath in and, without a second thought, he got up, unlocked the door and ran from the shower cubicle to the front door of the girls changing room.
Standing at the door for a few seconds, he took another deep breath, before opening it slightly to see if there was anyone in sight, but, before he could register anything, two strong hands grabbed hold of his arm, pushed the door wide open, and pulled him out of the change room.
Eye's widening in fright, Ryou's breathing stopped as he saw his entire class standing in front of him.
Without thinking, he instinctively let his hands drop to cover himself, one arm and hand covering his crop top and chest… the other covering his underwear and obvious male parts.
"W-what's going on?" Ryou whimpered as two older boys rounded up on him and took a tight hold of his arms.
Naoki smiled as he hid in the back of the crowd, like the coward he was, and put the final part of his plan into action.
"TAKE THEM OFF!" he yelled out and without any hesitation the two boys pulled down Ryou's underwear and held back his arms, so that he was unable to cover himself, and had no chance of escape.
There was silence for a moment or two as Ryou's classmates took in what they were seeing… Ryou was a boy.
Ryou was a boy.
And, within seconds, there was an uproar. Girls screamed and giggled as boy's pointed and laughed. Some of the students looked absolutely disgusted and mortified, others look repulsed and some simply looked amused, taking pleasure in his public humiliation and embarrassment.
Whimpering loudly, as he tried his best to struggle out of the two boy's grasp, he begged mercilessly for help, from someone… anyone.
"Please… help. Help. Help me! Please! Why won't you help me?!" Ryou cried out, obviously terrified and hurt.
He didn't understand why no one was helping him. Why were they all laughing at him? Why weren't they trying to help him… he asked them to help… but they all just stood there… laughing and pointing at him, as though he were some kind of freak. He had always been nice to them… he had never done anything to hurt anyone. So why?! Why were they treating him this way? Why was no one helping him?!
"Amane! Help me, Amane! I'm so scared… please… save me. Please, Amane, help me!" Ryou sobbed as the boy's finally let him go, letting him fall to the ground in a heap.
Curling into a small ball, Ryou whimpered pathetically as Amane, for once, did not come to his rescue… she didn't even respond to him… he was alone… and he was hurt… and no one seemed to care enough to help him.
Crying loudly into his own arms, Ryou winced as he heard the sound of footsteps walking past him. The students had obviously gotten bored with him and were moving on to grab something for lunch before their study session in the library.
Briefly, as one of the girls was walking by, she looked down at him and spat on the ground, next to his face, before yelling a loud and resounding 'pervert' at him, her friends all laughing in response.
"Yeah, I bet he just dressed like that just to perv on us girls in the change room! The dirty little creep!" one girl sneered whilst the other girls nodded in agreement as they made their way out of the building and down to the cafeteria for lunch.
Shaking slightly as he tried his best to get up off the ground, after everyone had left, Ryou chocked, to some extent, as the whole incident replayed itself within his head, causing him to break down into a fit of cries and mild hysteria as he lay naked on the ground, curled up into a small, tight, ball.
He was so worked up, in his current state, that he failed to hear the sound of new footsteps making their way towards him, and was crying so loudly that he didn't even register the opening of the buildings door.
"So what did you do about the run away students, mutt?" Seto asked with a smirk as he looked over at his colleague, who simply frowned back at him.
"I rounded 'em up and gave them a weeks suspension! That outta' straighten them out…. Or at least teach them never to… hey, what the hell?! Ryou!" Jounouchi yelled out as he spotted the, basically, naked teen curled up on the floor.
Running over to the other, the two teachers were quite surprised to find out that their top female student… was actually their top male student, instead. And although they were, a little more than, shocked by this, somewhat, random turn of events, the boy's broken state, and hysterical cries, made it obvious that they had more important things to worry about... such as making sure Ryou was going to be okay.
"Ryou… are you okay? What happened?" Jounouchi asked gently as he crouched down beside the other, cautiously reach out to put a hand on the younger boy's shoulder.
Flinching away from the touch, Ryou looked up at both of his sensei's, with wide, tear filled eyes, before bursting out into a loud, resounding, cry as he fell into Jounouchi's outstretched arms.
"What-" Jounouchi began but was cut off as Kaiba put a hand on his shoulder and gave him a warning look.
"I think it would be best to take her… ahem… him into sickbay. He can have a rest and be secluded from the other students… once his calmed down then we can ask him what happened. You, take him to sick bay. I'm going to go and get the school councillor, she's probably the most qualified out of all of us for this kind of thing." Kaiba ordered before turning on his heel and briskly walking out of the building, in search for the schools councillor.
Jounouchi just nodded, dumbly, in Kaiba's wake before scooping Ryou up into his arms and carrying him out of the building, making a conscious effort to take Ryou around the front of the school into sickbay, thus, limiting his exposure to the other students in his present state.
Walking up the small ramp and into the school head office, Jounouchi walked up to the desk and politely asked the girl at reception to let him and Ryou through to sickbay.
Catching sight of the crying, almost naked boy in the others arms, she gave a, small, quick, nod before rushing out of her seat and over to a wooden door, unlocking it with her key and letting the two pass before following them down the hall and into the sickbay area.
"We'll put her in room three… it's a bit smaller but it's more secluded, she shouldn't be bothered to much in there. Do you want me to try and get a hold of her father?" the receptionist asked, with sincere concern, as she gently stroked Ryou's hair, trying to offer some form of comfort to the young boy who was still sobbing, quite loudly, into Jounouchi's shirt.
"Um, it's he… and yes. I think it would be best if he came to pick Ryou up. But, let Kaiba and I have a quick word with him in the principles office before seeing Ryou… I think we need to have a talk with him. And get Ryou one of the spare uniform's… a boys one!" The blonde informed her before taking Ryou into sickbay - room three, setting him down on the bed as carefully as possible.
"Ryou… do… do you want a glass of water? Maybe something to eat? You haven't had any lunch yet…" the older man asked softly as Ryou shook his head before crying once more, pressing his face into the pillow beneath his head, try his best to show that he just wanted to be left alone.
Sighing before rubbing at the bridge of his nose, Jounouchi sat silently and watched over his young student until Kaiba arrived and called him out into the teachers lounge.
"The councillor said that it would best to let him calm down on his own before she talks with him. She's going to drop by in a half an hour… until then we're to leave him alone, apparently. Psychological bullshit, if you ask me!" Seto snarled, not happy that the councillor hadn't come to Ryou's aid straight away. Kaiba had a soft spot for Ryou… he was his favourite student… so innocent yet so clever. He never did anything stupid, like the other students seemed to, and he always seemed to see the logical side of things instead of the emotional side of things… Kaiba liked that about him… and to see what those other students had done to him… it just angered him, greatly.
Jounouchi, watched as Kaiba's frown increased tenfold and winced slightly as the anger began to visibly boil up within the other.
"Don't worry, Seto… Ryou's going to be okay!" he smiled but his smile was only met with a frown as Kaiba glared at him before turning away.
"Don't you think I know that?!" he snapped before walking out of the teachers lounge and into the schools head office to check on whether Ryou's father had been contacted yet, leaving Jounouchi to simply shake his head at the other before going to make a nice, warm, cup of coffee. With everything that was happening it looked like it was going to be a long day... And so, he was definitely going to need a quick pick-me-up of energy to keep him going.
Meanwhile…
Malik gave a small yawn as he woke up … in the shower? …with Marik beside him? Naked?
Yawning once more, he rubbed at his face before slapping his cheeks twice, trying his best to wake up and remember what had happened the night before. Something about Bakura… and then ice cream… with Ryou… had Bakura had an ice cream date with Ryou? It didn't sound right… but it was all that he could remember.
'Perhaps Marik knows something…' Malik pondered, thoughtfully, as he reached up and turned on the taps, water instantly falling down upon the two blonde teens.
Waking up with a jolt, as cold water pelted itself down upon him, Marik yelped as he jerked slightly, hitting his head on the showers glass wall.
"What the hell?!" he screamed as Malik grinned innocently at him before turning off the taps.
"Do you remember what happened last night?" the younger one asked, with a small tilt of his head, as he observed the others naked form, licking his lips as he did so.
"Oh, what? Yeah… I mean… some of it… I remember Bakura yelling about Ryou and us and gayness… and then you went to see Ryou for some reason to do with Bakura… how'd that go anyway?"
"I don't know! I don't remember, you fool! God, why did we have so much to drink last night?! I have the weirdest feeling we were supposed to do something today, but I can't remember what the fuck it was! It was something to do with Ryou… I'm sure of it!…I think." Malik groaned as he held his head, trying his best to remember what had happened despite his pounding headache.
"Yeah… I have a feeling you're right. Ryou was upset because Bakura hated him, wasn't it? But Bakura loooooooves Ryou… why would he suddenly hate him? …Unless…" Marik trailed off with a gulp as he began to recall the night before.
Malik blinked as he thought over Marik's words, his eyes widening, as he finally remembered what had happened.
"Bakura found out about Ryou being a boy!" Malik exclaimed.
"And Bakura was angry… And Ryou… well he must have been devastated.. And then you went to see him but he sent you home and he was going to school tomorrow… which would be today and we were going to…"
"Meet up with him at school and make sure he was okay for the next few days….FUCK!!! What time is it?!" Malik screamed as he scrambled his way up off the slippery shower floor and hoped out of the shower at lightning speed, drying his wet, naked, body off with a near by towel.
Looking up at the clock as Marik also scrambled his way out of the shower, Malik almost screamed in horror.
"MARIK! It's fucking 1 pm! School's basically over!" Malik whined as he threw on his school uniform from yesterday, not really caring if it was clean or not.
"Shit!" Marik swore in response as he also put on his uniform from the day before, fiddling with his tie before Malik rushed over and did it up for him.
"You can drive us there, right?" Malik asked looking up at the other with pleading eyes, as he put the finishing touches on the older boys tie.
"Sure thing, babe! My car's just out front, let's go." Marik grinned as the two made their way down the stairs before running out the front door and jumping in the car, making their way to school as quickly, and as crazily, as humanly possible.
Bakura frowned as he stared at himself in his bathroom mirror.
He had been thinking about the whole Ryou incident all of last night, he had even gone to sleep thinking about it, he had dreamt about it and he had woken up thinking about it. It was plaguing his mind and eating away at his sanity and finally… he had come to a decision. Bakura wasn't the type of person to dwell on things too long… he preferred fast, quick action, and preferred to make decisions without thinking and to deal with the consequences later… so the fact that he had given this type of situation any kind of thought, atall, was astounding in itself.
"Fuck… I've come to a decision… I know exactly what I'm going to do… what I'm going to say… but fuck… I feel bad for Ryou… I don't know if I'll be able to tell him… god… it's so disgusting…" Bakura growled as his hands curled up into little balls around the sink, knuckles turning white as circulation was cut off.
"Stupid Ryou! I really do hate you!" Bakura yelled at the mirror before turning away in anger and storming out of the bathroom in a small fit of rage.
Grabbing his school bag, as well as his blazer, up off the couch, he still had to replace, he stomped his way out of the house, like a 2 year old child before hoping into his car and driving to school.
He was going to have a nice, long, talk with Ryou… if the kid liked it or not.
"Can't you drive any faster?! Ishizu could out drive you right now, for RA's sake!" Malik complained causing Marik to growl lowly at him.
"It's not my fucking fault! It's this stupid city traffic! If everyone would just get out of the F'n way, we wouldn't be having this problem! I swear to god lady! If you cut in front of me one more time, without an indicator on, at least, I'm going to RAM this car straight up you're a-hole!" Marik screamed as Malik pouted before crossing his arms.
"Marik! Drive. Faster!" he ordered making Marik's eye twitch considerably now.
'You can't kill him, he's your sex muffin… you can't kill him… not even a little bit…' Marik repeated over and over again, in his head, before thinking of an idea. Taking a hand of the wheel of the car, he searched through his pockets, before pulling out his phone and chucking it at Malik, inwardly smiling as it hit him in the head making the poor boy squeal in both fright and pain.
"Call up that Yugi kid and see if he has seen Ryou at school today and then ask if he can keep an eye on him until we get there… his numbers in my contacts list… Ryou put it in there for the study group or some shit like that." Marik muttered before concentrating on the road once more.
"Grrr, Ishizu still has my phone… I need to get it back from her!" Malik grumbled as he searched through Marik's contacts, and found Yugi in amongst the small number of contacts he had.
Waiting for the other to answer as he rang, Malik leant against the car window, resting his head after the long night of drinking. However, his rest was short lived as Yugi answered the phone almost instantly.
"Yes? Hello? Marik?" Yugi asked, in confusion, as he read the caller ID on his phone. He had no idea why Marik of all people would be calling him and especially on a RSS day… those were the day's party animals like Marik and Malik stayed home and did nothing but get drunk, with loads of strangers, and then collapsed on the ground somewhere in a pool of their own vomit.
"No, it's Malik. Look, we're on our way to school and we just wanted to know if Ryou was with you… and if you could keep an eye on him until we get there." Malik asked as he held tightly onto the ledge of the seat while Marik swerved in between traffic, obviously giving up on the road rules and the 'driving safely' method he was using before.
"Huh? Ummm, I'm not at school today, I'm helping Yami with the schools soccer team, over in Lego city… and we're winning, too! Lego city high school is, like, Domino city high-schools biggest rival! Wish us luck, okay?!" Yugi said happily before hanging up, leaving Malik stunned and sitting in absolute silence, eye twitching slightly from time to time.
"That bastard just hung up on me!" he yelled, after a few moments of coming to grips with the situation.
"Well, what did he say?!"
"He said… he's not at school today. He's helping Yami with our schools soccer team and they're winning against Lego city's team…" Malik said in confusion and annoyance.
"Lego city high school?! They're our biggest rivals!" Marik exclaimed happily resulting in Malik beating him a few time with his phone, the car swerving from side to side as he did so.
"Just get us to school you idiot!" Malik hollered as Marik simply laughed at him whilst he drove spastically along the highway.
Finally making it to school, Bakura flicked his whitish, grey, hair out of his face as he, slammed, closed the door to his car. He was just about to make his way into the school grounds when a familiar car came racing down the street and parked itself right next to Bakura's, on a very noticeably, not straight, angle. Rolling his eyes as the two blondes pilled their way out of the car, he raised an eyebrow at them as they finally caught sight of him.
"B-Bakura! What are you doing here?! Have you talked to Ryou yet?! What did you say?!" Malik began ranting but was cut short as Marik pulled him into his chest and hushed him.
"Shhh. It's none of our business… now come on… I presume we're all looking for the same person, right? Why not look together?" Marik suggested with a dangerously sly smirk, resulting in Bakura glaring at him intently.
"Yeah but-" Malik began but was cut off once more.
"SILENTLY look for the same person together." Marik stated quite forcefully, making Malik pout up at the other two, yet he didn't dare to make another sound.
Making there way around the school yard and asking Ryou's classmates if they had seen 'her' or knew where 'she' was, the three boys were quite surprised when every single student seemed to either brake into a fit of giggles or look disgusted and say they never wanted anything to do with Ryou ever again. It didn't make any sense to them… not only had no one claimed to have seen him throughout the whole entire day, even though he was in the same class as them, they all seemed to hate him or laugh at him. And, whilst Ryou had never been the most popular 'girl' in school, he had been liked well enough by the majority of the student body, so it was strange to see such a dramatic change in view point.
"Maybe… he didn't come to school today?" Malik thought allowed as Marik shook his head in response.
"No… that wouldn't explain everyone's weird ass behaviour… it makes no sense! Where the hell is he?" Marik frowned as he looked over at Bakura as though accusing him of killing Ryou and hiding the body.
"Stop looking at me like that, freak! I didn't do anything to your precious Ryou, alright?!" he snapped before 'hmph-ing', crossing his arms and turning his nose up in the air.
Rolling his eyes at the other Marik simply shrugged before taking a seat at a nearby, outside table. There was no use looking for Ryou at the moment, he was basically missing, so there was no point trying to find him, especially since no one had apparently 'seen him all day'.
"Ummm, you-you guy's are looking for Ryou… right?" a slightly timid voice sounded out from in front of them.
Looking up, the three boy's were confused to find two girls standing in front of them. One looking slightly afraid of them, the other looking like a complete and utter fangirl.
"Anzu? Miho? What the hell do you two bitches want?" Malik asked in confusion as he looked the two up and down, slightly weary of the two girls. He knew their reputations… one was known for being an outright bitch and the other was known for being a gold-digger, between the two of them they had a fairly nasty background and it was something Malik didn't want to be apart of… ever.
"We … we know where Ryou is… we can't tell you what happened… you'll have to talk to 'her' about it… but… 'she's' in sick bay… we don't know which room, the curtains are shut in all rooms, but I'm sure if you knock and 'she' see's your faces 'she'll' open them up and talk to you… we… we just want 'her' to be okay… 'she' is our friend after all." Anzu stated straightforwardly with a small nod.
"Sickbay?! Fuck! 'She' must be hurt or something must have happened! Guy's hurry up! Ryou needs us!" Malik screamed as he hurriedly pulled Marik off the seat and dragged him and Bakura along with him, not bothering to thank the two girls because he really didn't see them as worthy of his words, even if they had helped them find Ryou.
Running up to the main school building, which included the school head office, the teachers lounge, the principles office, the vice principles office and three sickbay rooms, the three boys crawled through several overgrown gardens before reaching the first sickbay room's window. Tapping, lightly, on the glass, they were met with the face of a teary eyed little girl holding an ice pack to her arm as she sniffled.
"Do you know where Ryou is?!" Malik asked loudly, the girl shaking her head before yelling back a snivelling: "Who's that?" before wiping her eyes free from some more, watery, tears.
"A … 'girl' … with longish white hair… kinda spiky yet fluffy? Green eyes? Kinda pale? Really cute?" Marik called back, this time.
Thinking for a moment, the girls eye's lit up, slightly, as she nodded happily.
"I know her! I saw her! The teacher said to put her in room three!" she yelled back with a big goofy smile, her nose still running and her eyes still tearing as she did so.
"Ah… thankyou! Hope you feel better soon!" Malik called back before the three boys made there way over to the third window.
Tapping on the glass, as loud as they could, they waited for Ryou to open up the curtains, however, after several minutes of waiting and nothing happening they began to get a bit fed up with waiting and started to bash against the window with their fists, continually, until Ryou opened the window in pure frustration.
Wincing on the bed, as the banging against the window got louder and louder as the seconds went by, Ryou sat up on the bed and pulled back a small part of the curtains, happily surprised to be greeted by Malik's eye ball staring him in the face. Letting the curtain drop back down again, he quickly threw on the spare uniform he'd been given and wiped his face clear from the tears he'd been crying before whisking the curtains wide open and opening the window.
"Marik! Malik! I'm so happy to see you two… you-" Ryou started happily but was cut short as he caught sight of Bakura.
Biting his at his lip, harder than ever before, Ryou's smile turned into an obvious frown as he picked up a near by pillow and threw it out the window and directly at Bakura.
"YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" Ryou swore, for probably the first time in his entire life, as he picked up the next closest object, a tissue box, and also threw it at Bakura.
Bakura's eye's went wide as he tried his best to dodge the random objects being thrown at him for no apparent reason.
"WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT?!" Ryou screamed, again, before picking up the next closest item, a glass full of water this time, and throwing it at Bakura as well.
"What the hell?! Stop throwing shit at me! I didn't do anything!" Bakura yelled in frustration and anger as he dodged the glass but was instead drenched in water.
"I GET THAT YOU DON'T LIKE ME! I GET THAT YOU THINK I'M DISGUSTING! BUT WHY?! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!" Ryou screamed before breaking down into tears as Marik and Malik stood completely still in fear of being hit with any of the random things being hurled at Bakura.
"What but I-" Bakura began, taking a step forward but immediately jumped ten steps back when Ryou picked up a plastic chair and threw it at him.
"I HATE YOU!" Ryou screamed before sliding the window shut and locking it, closing the curtain's, roughly, behind him.
In Ryou's mind, Bakura was the only one who could have possibly told anyone about his secret and, thus, Ryou had come to the conclusion that Bakura must have been the one to pull that stupid prank on him and expose him for what he really was… a boy and a freak.
"Bakura… what the hell did you do?" Marik and Malik both asked in unison, both completely stunned by Ryou's outburst. They had never seen Ryou act like that before, in all their years of close friendship with the boy, not once had they ever seen him lash out or become that violently angry at someone. It was actually quite astounding to see him so worked up!
"I didn't do anything! Hell! That's it! I'm sick of this shit! You two keeping secrets! She being a he! Me getting water thrown all over me! I'm putting an end to all of it!" Bakura yelled before stomping angrily over to the window, pulling a couple of wires out of his pocket, and fiddling with the lock on the window.
"Er… you want us to come with you or can you handle 'that' on your own? Cause frankly… I don't want to go in there." Malik said honestly, Bakura simply rolling his eyes at the other as he continued to work on the lock.
"You two wait out here, I'll be back in a minute." Bakura instructed and, with a small 'click', the window was open.
Whimpering softly into the pillow as he clutched at his aching chest, Ryou was quite shocked, to say the least, when the window slid open and Bakura climbed into the room.
"You and I have to talk, kid." Bakura stated simply as he closed the window behind him before sitting down on the edge of the bed.
However, Ryou remained silent as he tried his best to avoid eye contact with the older boy by looking around the room at the walls and ceiling.
Bakura frowned as he, very quickly, got annoyed with Ryou's childishness. Growling softly, in the back of his throat, he grabbed hold, of the front, of Ryou's shirt and pulled him up off the bed, before grabbing his face, with his free hand, and forcing Ryou to look at him.
"Look… I don't know what the hell your problem is… but I didn't do anything… I only just got to school half an hour ago with Marik and Malik. Alright?!"
"…Liar…" Ryou whimpered out, under his breath, yet, unfortunately for Ryou, Bakura still heard it, loud and clear.
"Fuck! I'm not lying, okay! I don't even know what happened to you and the only reason I came to school today was to talk to you! So could you show a little appreciation?!" Bakura snarled making Ryou wince slightly before becoming slightly curios.
"… You came to school for me? Why?" Ryou asked, looking up at Bakura with big, bright, sparkling, green eyes.
"Because… I had to talk to you… about last night. About what happened. Look I… fuck… I don't know how to tell you this… especially since you're in such a state…." Bakura mumbled as Ryou unconsciously leaned in closer to Bakura trying his best to hear every single word he spoke.
"Look… I just… I…" Bakura began getting more and more tense as Ryou leaned in closer.
"Fuck it." Bakura stated simply before smashing his mouth up against Ryou's.
Catching the other by surprise, he used this to his advantage in order to slip his tongue into the others mouth, gently grazing the top of the others mouth before sucking playfully against the others mouth. Hands travelling up Ryou's thigh, before lightly brushing over the other crouch before giving a tight squeeze, he couldn't help but inwardly grin as Ryou moaned out in pleasure and leaned back into the bed, Bakura following him, ending up, leaning over the other.
Pulling away from the kiss, Bakura smirked, somewhat proud of himself, as Ryou panted beneath him with slightly swollen lips and tainted pink cheeks.
"I don't find you disgusting, Ryou." Bakura stated rather clearly with a rare tender smile he had never shown anyone before.
And it was true… he didn't find Ryou disgusting… what he really found disgusting was himself and the way he had acted after discovering Ryou's true gender. He cared for Ryou so much, and, to think that he had almost lost what was so dear to him, it not only scared him but disgusted him as well. How could he have been so closed minded? Especially when he had been ridiculed and judged, for being different, all of his life. An outcast, they called him. A misfit, delinquent… a freak. How could he have been so blind, even for just those small couple of hours, to even think like those people who had hated on him so many years back?
He wasn't going to lie, and say that everything was going to be fine now… he was still having troubles coming to terms with being sexually attracted to another boy… but that was normal, in this situation… and it wasn't due to his closed minded views, it was just his body and mind trying to sort everything out and become accustomed to this new development.
Sighing, slightly, at his own thoughts, Bakura was happy to be brought out of his inner mind turmoil as Ryou gently tugged on the sleeve of his shirt.
"Do you love me?" Ryou asked, as his head quirked to the side, a small smile creeping up to his face.
"No." Bakura answered honestly, not even needing to think over the answer.
"Why not?" the younger boy asked innocently with a visible frown as he gave the older boy above him a concerned and confused look.
Smiling at the boy's innocence he slowly let himself get up off the other and seated himself, carefully, beside him.
"Because… love takes time. Don't get me wrong, Ryou. I like you… I'm absolutely obsessed with you, to be honest… I find you attractive and pleasant to be around… but I don't love you. Maybe after we've been together for a while… been through a few things and a few, more than, pleasurable times together I might come to love you… but at the moment I, honestly, can't say I do." Bakura said simply with a shrug as Ryou took in his words.
"But you want to be with me now… and then maybe you can?" Ryou reaffirmed as he tried to work everything out in his head.
"Yes."
"Oh… okay… I guess I can do the same then… because.. I really like you too." Ryou said with a smile as he brought his legs up and flopped them into Bakura's lap.
"So… why were you throwing shit at me again?" Bakura asked out of the blue making Ryou falter slightly. He had completely forgotten all about that whole incident after Bakura had kissed him, but … since Bakura had, obviously, had nothing to do with it… who was behind the whole incident? It didn't make any sense! It wasn't just some random prank, it was well thought out and the person had obviously known Ryou's treasured secret… but he knew, now, that Bakura hadn't been the one to say anything… and Marik and Malik wouldn't have said anything… they were his friends and they had kept it secret for years, they wouldn't just suddenly betray him like that, he was certain of it… which left Ryou confused… who had pulled the prank?!
Frowning as he thought over the matter, he was brought out of said thoughts as Bakura snapped his fingers in front of his face, making him jolt in surprise.
"Huh? What?" he said airily as Bakura gave him a funny look.
"The reason why you were trying to kill me with a chair… ring a bell?" Bakura inquired.
"Oh, yeah, that. Well I thought you had been the one to pull the prank on me so I was upset with you… but now I know it wasn't you, so I'm really confused as to who it was…" Ryou said slowly as he drifted off into thought once more.
"What prank?" the older boy asked with a dangerous tone… Ryou was now his… and Bakura was a very possessive person. He didn't like his things being damaged, or used, or borrowed or broken… and judging from the state Ryou was in before the two of them had worked things out… obviously Ryou had been victim to at least one of those four things… and that thought made him very, very angry.
"Oh um… well… I…" Ryou gulped as he fidgeted with his own fingers, nervously. He could feel tears beginning to prick at his eyes again as the laughs of his classmates filled his head once more.
"We had sports today… and when I was getting changed my clothes disappeared… and when I opened the door a bit… some boys … they… they held me and stripped me in front of the whole class and now everyone knows that I'm a boooooooy!" Ryou wailed, as he collapsed back down onto the bed, sobbing loudly into the duna cover beneath him.
Bakura, on the other hand, was still. His brain had gone completely blank and his blood had run cold.
Sitting in silence, except for the excruciatingly loud sobs coming from Ryou, Bakura sat entirely still for the next few moments before being broken out of his trance like state by a particularly loud cry from the younger, now distraught, boy.
Laying down beside the other, he brought Ryou into his chest and held him close. He wasn't a comforting kind of person, so he knew nothing he said would help… and he just felt awkward patting people on the back or stroking their hair to comfort them… so he hoped that this would be enough to help the other for the time being.
Settling down as he cried into Bakura's broad chest, Ryou finally quietened down to just sniffles before he sat up.
"Y-you had better go… It think there's a councillor coming soon and you might get in trouble if you get caught in here." Ryou mumbled before yawning loudly, his eyes drooping ever so slightly, making Bakura chuckle softly at him.
"Heh, okay. You go to sleep until she turns up, I'm going to go fill 'the twins' in… they're probably worried that I've killed you or something." Bakura smirked as Ryou smiled at him, lazily, in return.
Leaning down, Bakura gave the other a chaste kiss on the lips before stealthily making his way back out the window, leaving Ryou to sleep in peace for the time being.
Catching sight of Bakura, finally, coming back out through the window, the two blondes made their way over to him.
"So… what happened?" Marik asked with an almost nonchalant kind of tone whilst Malik jumped up and down, slightly, on the balls of his feet, far to anxious and excited to keep himself well grounded.
"A lot, apparently… what do you want to hear first?" Bakura asked as he walked past them and continued to walk away from the sickbay. He didn't want to be caught to close to Ryou by the teachers at the moment… they'd be looking for someone to blame and a misfit student like himself, and the two 'bimbos' behind him, were the perfect and most likely 'culprits'.
Finally, after a few minutes of walking, they made there way to the back of the old school gym. It was due to be torn down a few years back… but for some reason the school had never gotten rid of it. Bakura's theory was that their senile principle had some fond memories of the place and didn't want it to go.
Sliding down the side of the rickety old safety hazard, Bakura took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it before bringing it up to his mouth, lightly sucking on the end, letting the smoke pour down into his lungs, resting there for a moment or two, until he breathed it all out again, creating small smoke circles to amuse himself with.
"Okay… so first off, what happened between you and Ryou… did you sort it out?" Marik asked with slight concern as he crouched down in front of the white haired boy as Malik laid down beside the two of them.
"Yeah, I guess…" Bakura smirked coyly before leaning his head back against the wall, letting it rest there for a moment as he stared up at the cloudy sky above.
"And the outcome was…?" Marik pried starting to get more than annoyed with the others open ended statements.
"We're together… kinda… but I'm not gay, alright! I'm just… I dunno…" he stated loudly with a pout, his nose scrunching up in annoyance as he spoke.
Grinning at each other, the two blondes threw themselves at Bakura, hugging him tightly as they nuzzled into his sides.
"I knew he'd do the right thing!" Malik exclaimed happily as Marik nodded in response, his hair tickling at Bakura's stomach.
"Mhm, Bakura's a good man, I didn't doubt him for a second." Marik grinned as Bakura's eye twitched rather violently.
"GET THE HELL OFF ME YOU FAGS!" Bakura screamed before thrashing about until the two finally detached themselves from him.
There was a moments silence, between the three, as Bakura regained his composure and the other two fixed up their hair. But, of course, it didn't take long for the silence to be broken as Malik grew curious as to why Ryou was in the sickbay in the first place and was intent on killing Bakura.
"And… the other news was…. why Ryou was in the sickbay? And why the hell was he so angry at you one minute and then going out with you the next?" Malik inquired with a puzzled expression that made Marik chuckle slightly.
"Well… here's the part that's got me more than a little pissed off… apparently, while we were all sleeping today, some guys thought it would be fucking hilarious to strip Ryou in front of the whole fucking class… held him down and everything, the sick fucks." Bakura spat before taking another long drag on his cigarette.
"What?" The two stated simultaneously in disbelief.
"Yeah, so now the whole friggin school basically knows Ryou's little secret… which would explain the weird reactions we were getting about him today… everyone's absolutely disgusted with him… he's probably going to have to change schools…. For Christ sake! Why didn't he just dress like an f'n boy… then we wouldn't be in this mess!" Bakura hissed as he went to hit the wall behind him…. Only to be stopped by Marik, who held onto his wrist tightly.
"I think you've done enough damage to your arm already…" he said seriously, giving Bakura a warning look.
Letting his arm drop, Bakura sighed as he looked up to the sky once more.
"It was definitely planned… when I find the bugger who did this I swear to god I'll rip them to shreds! Seriously! I can't F'n believe it! It's complete bollix! Ryou and I finally sort everything out… after all this time… and these guys go ahead and mess it up! Now Ryou will have to either go to a different school or stay here and get bullied to death… I mean, we can only protect him so much!" Bakura ranted before Marik slapped a hand over his mouth in order to shut him up for a second.
"OR we could change the peoples point of views… make the minority, the majority…" Marik smirked coyly before removing his hand from Bakura's mouth.
"What the bloody hell are you on about Marik?!" Bakura snarled, only causing Marik's smirk to widen.
Shuffling himself in close to Bakura, and ushering Malik to do the same, the three huddled close together as Marik spoke.
"I think… I have a plan."
Rtb - Yeah, um… enjoy?! Moves a little to fast for my liking at this point but this isn't the main part of the story so it should be fine~! ^^ Well it's the middle main part… not the main part over all! XD
And wow… this is 50 pages long… well I use big font cause my glasses broke and I'm to poor to pay to get new ones or my old ones fixed… I tried gluing them back together… But alas they fell apart once more… anyway! I need big font to see… in like.. Size 12 it's probably only like… one page long .! Word wise I think it is 9000 to 10,000 words long. Lawl!
I am soooo tired! It is 3 am… you all better pay me over time now! D
Okay! Well I look forward to writing the next chapter… cause Marik's plan is win! Hopefully that means no writers block though! I had major writers block with chapter nine and ten! And blah, no one likes that! But thankfully I am happy with this chapter… I am ignoring the small crappy middle part I don't like, but over all, I am happy!
Reviews get Bakura x Ryou xxx times!!!