This chapter gave me so much trouble and I'm still not all that happy with it, it just wouldn't bow to my will. Donno, it could be me wanting to write something new –sighs- but it don't mean that I'm going to push this to finish either, I'm taking my time with it… anyway enjoy what I have posted.

Warnings: Rated M. Yaoi, Language. Supernatural themes. Horror... Disclaimer: I own NOTHING!! Except the plot-line…

CHAP 14: Hard To Take

Early that morning Bakura sat up in bed and glanced down at the spot where his Mate normally slept at his side. Nothing, only sheets. It suddenly felt cold and empty and the bedroom far too large. He shook off his own thoughts and tiredly he swung his legs out over the edge of the bed and stood up; he had one restless, sleepless night. Half his time was spent sneaking into the other room to see Ryou, but found the Human awake just like him and having been yelled at to get out… Ryou truly didn't want to see anyone.

Bakura just didn't know what to do and was going to go as far to seeking out Seto for advice on what to do, maybe even have Ryou's mind erased of the whole incident, but Marik was once enough and he wouldn't do that again to anybody.

Bakura took a long shower, letting his mind run away with every thought and feeling he had. Ryou's attacker wasn't going to get away with this; Bakura would tear them apart until there was nothing left. He needed to try again; he wasn't going to completely leave his Mate alone. Bakura didn't care if he was bothering his Mate by doing this. He needed reassurance that his Mate was somewhat okay. And he really needed Ryou to talk to him; Bakura hadn't recognized the scent of the attacker since the other smells from everyone else that Ryou hung with stuck to him. His Mate had gone and washed all the smells from his body, so now Bakura had to go off his memory.

He soon got out of the shower and dried himself off, dressing in black jeans and a white shirt. He left the bedroom to only vanish and reappeared in the room Ryou was now using. He hated the fact that Ryou had spent the night here. Bakura hated the fact that his Mate was hurting and there was nothing he could do about it but be there for his Human. He heard the water running in the bathroom and the smell of blood faintly in the air, both sound and smell coming from the bathroom, where he presumed Ryou was in.

His heart lodged itself in his throat as he ripped opened the door and entered the steam filled room. "Ryou!" He called out rushing for the shower with all kinds of horrid thoughts that filled his head on what his Mate might have done to himself. Bakura cursed that he should have had a closer watch over his Mate, but Ryou wanted space. No reply but the sound of water and the smell of blood was as thick as the steam.

Bakura ripped the flimsy shower curtain back with a shaky hand, his eyes instantly on the pinkish blood stained water that ran down the drain, before his wide eyes fell upon his Human.

His Mate was standing there under hot water, scrubbing so hard at himself that he had broken the skin, making it bleed out in some places. "Ryou," Bakura hissed somewhat shocked, not sure what to think, some part of him was relieved that his Mate hadn't attempted to harm himself in some twisted way.

Ryou glanced at him; his eyes were puffy and red from crying. He choked out, "it won't come off. I still feel it." Bakura moved forward and stopped what Ryou was doing by grabbing on to his wrists. "Let go!" He struggled against the Demon. "Don't touch me!" Bakura wasn't listening, he let go of Ryou's wrists only to pull him into a hug. His Human struggled for a moment more before giving up and going limp in the Demon's embrace, clutching at him so tightly that his fingers were turning white in the dark fabric of the Demon's shirt. He pressed himself impossibly close to the other's body weeping into his chest.

"It's alright, I'm here for you." Bakura whispered to him, his lips pressed against the side of his Mate's head, listening to the Human break down again and not for the first time. Bakura had listened to his Mate's sobs most of the night and was highly upsetting not to be able to do anything about it.

Bakura held his Mate for what seemed like hours, rubbing his back and whispered reassuring words to him. Soon enough Ryou had stopped crying and lent completely against his Mate. Bakura was the first to move, lifting Ryou's chin up gently. The pale Demon may not know what to do, but he did know he could make whoever attacked his Mate regret that they ever laid their eyes on him. "Tell me who it was." Ryou didn't respond at all, his tear filled eyes were downcast. "Let me take care of them, you'll never have to see them again."

"Y-you'll kill them." Ryou knew his Mate would and strangely he wasn't shocked or horrified by the idea that Bakura was capable of such a thing.

"I'm not denying that I won't." Bakura caressed Ryou's cheek gently, feeling so much better now that his Human wasn't pushing him away and letting him be close enough to hold, touch and talk to him again.

"I-I don't… I'm not sure," Ryou felt a new wave of tears that it made his voice tremble.

"Shhh, I'll take care of everything." He lent in to press his lips to Ryou's in a soft kiss.

Ryou quickly jerked out of his arms, "What are you doing?" He practically yelled backing up, covering his mouth with both hands. Bakura sighed, feeling hurt that Ryou reacted in such away. "You don't want me." It spilled from his lips before he could say anything.

Bakura narrowed his eyes. "What?" He hadn't uttered such words of rejecting his Human; he didn't think such words were in his vocabulary. How could Ryou think that he wasn't wanted?

"Honda said that you wouldn't want me anymore." Ryou had slipped out the name of his attacker without realizing it. "Not after… what he did to me."

Bakura felt sick that he had let that Human live this long and now Ryou paid for his mistake in not killing off that Human sooner. It was a mistake that he was going to rectify as soon as possible. "He said you wouldn't love me." Ryou broke down again sobbing into his hands.

Bakura moved forward, wrapping his arms about his Human. "My beloved Mate, I waited centuries for you to fall back into my life and I'm not about to let you go because of one lowly Human." A small smile graced Ryou's lips; he brushed away a few tears. Bakura gave a fanged grin, not only happy to hear how his Mate felt about him, but he could also feel it, even though there was a lot of conflicting emotions there as well, it would take time to heal the damage that Human had caused. Taking note on how tired his Human looked, Bakura turned off the water and wrapped a towel about his Mate and gathered him in his arms. Ryou squeaked in slight fright of being swept off his feet and carried out of the bathroom, down the hallway and into the bedroom he shared with his Demon Mate. Bakura placed him down onto their bed. He turned walking into the bathroom for a few moments and came back, surprised that Ryou had dressed himself in that short time. And in the longest clothing he had, long paints and a long sleeved top.

Silently Bakura sat down beside his mate and opened the small pot of his own made salve and applied it to some of the abrasions his Human had done to himself. Bakura pulled back Ryou's sleeve and applied a generous amount to his skin and the injuries on his wrist from the belt that was used to bind Ryou's wrists to the bench.

Ryou relaxed somewhat, he knew that he was safe while Bakura was about, but uncomfortable at the same time as thoughts plagued his mind. "Do, do Marik and Malik know what happened?" Ryou whispered, not remembering that Marik had been there in the locker room with Bakura upon finding him. He hoped his lovers didn't know and somehow Ryou could hide from them what Honda and his uncle had done to him.

"They both do." Bakura wasn't about to hold back the truth.

Ryou let out a soft whimper, his eyes downcast watching Bakura's hands run over his skin gently. He was too ashamed to look the other in the eyes. Ryou realized that this was the second time that they were in this position of Bakura doing what he was doing in trying to heal his wounds. "What, what did Marik say?"

"He is more upset than anything else that you got hurt." Bakura threw in as an afterthought. "Angry as well at the Human that did this."

"And Malik?" Ryou gripped the sheet with his other hand.

"Like you, he cried most of the night, blaming himself." Bakura frowned, unable to put the salve on anywhere else due to the clothing Ryou now wore.

"It wasn't his fault." Ryou argued, having some idea on how Malik must be feeling. Bakura closed the lid on the small pot of salve and placed it onto the nightstand. "It was mine." Ryou took in a deep breath. "I-I didn't fight back hard enough against them. I let them corner me. I let them…"

Them, there was more than one. "Honda is sick." Bakura cut him off snapping angrily. "Nothing you, Marik, Malik or I could have done to change his mind. He targeted you from the start. It was nothing you, Malik or any one of us did. Got that!"

Ryou averted his eyes to the floor. "So you know who it was." Bakura's eyes narrowed; he only knew because his Human had slipped up and gave up the name, his eyes burned a darker crimson. "What will you do with him?" Ryou asked even though he knew that his Mate wouldn't hold back, Honda was as good as dead. A side of Ryou hoped that Honda wouldn't live long enough to see the end of the week.

"Kill him." Bakura said outright. "I'm tired of giving Humans like him chances, only to have them do something like this. He'll only keep coming after you time and time again until there is nothing left of you too fight back or I keep you here like a prisoner or you are never again to leave my sight. I prefer to kill him." He cupped Ryou's face in both his hands. "I'm so worried about you and what he has done. I don't want to lose you over this. Let me take care of him in my own way." Ryou locked his tear filled eyes with his Mate's dark crimson ones.

Bakura growled slightly irritated, "You can't expect me to sit by and let him think that he has gotten away with this!" He gripped his Mate by the shoulders clearly frustrated and enraged. "You felt the need to stand up for Marik against Yami the other day, I feel the same way." Ryou remembered and how angry and most of all upset Yami had made him feel with using such a threat on Marik. Ryou nodded his head giving in; he just didn't have it in him to argue.

He nodded his head and Bakura stood up to leave, Ryou reached out and gripped his hand. "You don't have to leave now. Please stay."

Bakura wanted to go after Honda and put an end to his miserable existence right now. Instead he gave into his Mate's wants. He crawled onto the bed and sat up against the mound of pillows. "Come here," The pale Demon held his arms open; Ryou laid himself down on the Demon and was instantly embraced. "I'll take care of everything." Bakura muttered darkly.


Marik entered the house a little later that afternoon, Malik followed right after. They had gone in search for Yami and found out from Yugi that he had gone into the Demon Realm. The small Human was vague on details since Yami didn't really like telling him much about it. Yugi wasn't really up to knowing on what Yami got up to. Marik knew their Demon Lord was preparing for the Gathering.

He growled, it was such bad timing and Yami couldn't hold it off for much longer, even if they told him what happened to their Human.

Marik climbed the stairs and stopped on the top landing at hearing a loud thump, he looked up at the ceiling and glanced back at Malik… had someone broken in? They did keep most of their personal valuables up there. The barrier about the house kept everyone out and stopped such things like robbery from happening as well as unsuspected attacks. "Who would be up there?" Marik muttered more to himself.

Malik's eyes turned on his bedroom door, to find it open. "Ryou!" He gasped out happily, rushing forward to the door in hopes of seeing Ryou out and about.

Marik's mood was lifted a little in thoughts that Ryou was pulling through better then what he thought. Whoever was in the attic was momentarily forgotten. He was about to join Malik until he saw his Mate's face fall. The room was empty.

Malik turned about and found the room he shared with Marik empty, he rushed down the hallway to Bakura's bedroom door to find it blocked up with the pale Demon's shadow powers. Malik backed up when he saw it ripple and then sharp spikes jutted out towards him. Bakura was protecting his room, Ryou came to mind and that he may be in that room.

The pale Demon came down the attic ladder and stopped when he reached the bottom and spoke up before his lovers could. "Ryou's watching TV." He walked by his bedroom and down the stairs to the bottom floor of the house. Marik followed him noticing an old looking scroll clutched in his hand.

The scroll looked oddly familiar to the tan Demon and it sent up warning bells within Marik's mind, but for the life of him he couldn't remember why. He also noticed the weapons his lover had hidden on him, a few daggers, nothing major but enough in the right hands could be the killing tool for all creatures in this Realm and theirs and Bakura was skilled enough to use them in such a way.

Bakura tucked the scroll into the back of his belt and glanced at them as he entered the kitchen. "Are you coming?"

"Where?" Marik asked, but somehow he knew and he couldn't help the wave of excitement on the events that were about to unfold.

"Hunting," Bakura growled and vanished. Marik smirked it had been sometime since he was involved in a good old fashion slaughter; he instantly followed Bakura as did Malik.


Malik appeared in the school's hallway and was just in time to see Bakura render all the Humans unconscious and Marik followed glancing back at him and gestured him to follow with a short sharp nod of his head.

The students that Malik had to fight for a path to walk everyday with Ryou to a locker or between classes, were instantly frozen in place and silence filled the hallways, paper that was being thrown about even stopped in mid flight. Even the water from the bubbler had frozen as a student was trying to take drink from it. Shadows crept out from, lockers, doorways and anything that had cast a common shadow. Bakura's voice echoed his tone angry, his eyes crimson as he muttered darkly his command for his powers to do his will. His clothing as well as Marik's and Malik's flapped dramatically as the dark fog blew through the hallways like a wind. It entered through every student and teacher's eyes, ears, noses and mouths and moved onto the next Human in a smooth wave. The students and teachers all fell as if they had died on their feet. Completely rendered unconscious.

Bakura moved forward, stepping over the fallen Humans as if they were small pebbles in his path, Marik followed all too eagerly knowing just what his pale lover had in mind.

"Where's Ryou today?" Yugi glanced up at Honda as did Anzu, the lesson had yet to start and the teacher was running late, everyone around them was talking with a religious zealous about the destroyed locker room. It seemed to have been the most exciting thing that had happened to the school all year.

"Marik said that he wasn't well." Yugi shrugged, he knew Honda had a small infatuation for his friend, hell everyone knew he did, but Yugi's mind was on his Mate and how oddly Yami was acting and how much time he spent in his home Realm… Yugi sighed, Yami was spending more time there then with him, what did a Demon Lord have to do that kept him away for so long?

Honda mumbled under his breath and sat down few desks over when Yugi seemed to space out on him. It was natural for someone's first time to leave them a little tender the next day. His first time hadn't been as pleasant as the one he had given Ryou. Still he would have liked, no loved to have spent today on talking about the other moving in with him.

Honda shifted a little in his seat, he could still hear Ryou's cries in his mind and it was still sending shivers up his spin and he was getting all flustered under the collar. They would have to get together again and soon. Suddenly everyone in the room froze in place for a moment before they collapsed.

Honda stood up from his chair wide eyed, his arms were suddenly ripped up high above his head that he was up on his tip toes, and then he was pulled down to the ground. Screaming out when he was pulled across the floor by an invisible force by his wrists.

"What's going on?" Yugi got up out of his chair looking worried at his class mates out cold on the floor and frightened on what had happened to Honda, who now was laying on the floor at the front of the room attached to the large leg of the teacher's desk.

"Magic." Anzu hissed looking at most of her friends on the floor or slumped over desks, "A Demon approaches." She backed up looking about.

"Why would a Demon do this?" Yugi questioned her, their conversation passed over Honda's head, even though he wasn't listening but struggling to get free.

"I read that it's not uncommon for them to make attacks on Humans before the Gathering." She said.

"Should we run?" Yugi hissed back.

She shook her head no. "There's no point in running, they're here." Just as she had said that the door to the classroom slammed open with enough force that it cracked the wall and broke some of the glass in the windows. Anzu sighed relieved saying. "It's only Bakura and Marik." She gave them a happy greeting to which they ignored.

Honda started to struggle even more to get free. "You son of a…" White hot pain shot through his side as Malik had placed one good kick to his ribs braking at least a few. "I'll rip your fucking head off!" Malik yelled at him. Honda gasping for air and looking through tear blurred eyes to see Malik being pulled away by Marik.

His side was on fire. He knew that they would be pissed that Ryou chose to be with him instead. "What are you doing here?" Yugi questioned the three, a little angry at what they were doing.

"Sit down!" Bakura growled at him and Yugi was shoved into his chair by the pale Demon's powers. Anzu stopped Yugi from hitting the floor by grabbing onto his chair and keeping him upright.

Honda was struggling rather pathetically, his hands lost all blood circulation due to the tight hold that bound his wrists together, but there was nothing there holding them up. Bakura got a little too close for his liking. "Tell me," Bakura stated far too calmly, "In what Realm is it okay for anyone to touch ones Mate without permission?"

Honda stopped his struggling to look at them, confused on what was happening to him and what the other was on about. "I'll place it in Human terms for you." Bakura tried again, a growl etched his voice. "What part in your insane little mind did you think you could get away with what you did to my Mate? Did you think I wouldn't find out? Did you think that my Mate would hide it from me? Did you think that there wouldn't be any repercussions for your actions?"

"Mate?" Honda glanced from Bakura to Marik then Malik and back to Bakura, still confused but all knowing on what they were going to do with him, he didn't blame them. Ryou had been with them for awhile and now his crush was breaking free from their hold.

"Mate, is a Demon's term that is an equivalent mortals term for Husband… in a way." Anzu spoke up before anyone else could. "Ryou is Bakura's Husband, though I would have gone with wife, he is so cute, don't you think?" She closed her mouth when she got glares from the three Demons for interrupting.

"Ryou isn't married." Honda spat out, it was just stupid that someone as young as Ryou would be attached to someone this early in life. "He would have told me."

Yugi felt really uneasy, why did he have a feeling that this was going to end badly for Honda. "I think the only way you'll learn is the hard way," Bakura started to circle him, "So to make this lesson worthwhile, we need to make it interesting for both parties." Bakura stepped over him and straddled his waste in a crouched position. "I want you to try your hardest or it's not going to be fun." Bakura still held that eerily calm note to his voice.

"Let's play." Marik gave a fanged grin. Honda now a deathly white glanced at the tan Demon.

"But we need rules." Bakura looked thoughtful. "Don't want to end your life to fast now do we?"

"You-you're going to kill me?" Honda started to struggle.

"C'mon!" Bakura looked and sounded even more irritated then what he was. "You thought I would let you live after you violated my Mate like that." Bakura stood up glancing at Malik and Marik, "a game of cat and mouse?"

Both his lovers agreed, 'the usual rules?" Marik stated.

Bakura nodded his head and turned his attention back onto the Human. "The rules are, you must, and I mean, must, make it to your house before we do."

Honda shifted uneasily. "What happens if I do?" Honda couldn't tear his eyes from the dark crimson ones that bored into his own.

"If you make it there before we do, we'll leave you to go about your happy little life." Bakura grinned.

"If I don't make it?" Honda swallowed hard, his throat incredibly tight and dry.

"You don't want to know." Bakura got up. "But it'll be in your best interest for you and your family that you get there first."

"You wounded me." Honda said now that he could move. "How is that fair?" He would call the police on his way and they would be arrested.

"We'll give you a ten minute head start." Marik said.

Bakura ripped the Human to his feet; his cry of pain filled the room as he clutched at his side. "Oh before I forget, you can't tell anyone about what is happening, if you do it's a break of the rules and we instantly win. To make sure, you'll be followed…Time starts…. now!" The pale Demon hissed giving the Human a shove towards the door.

Honda stumbled out of the classroom and ran the best he could, not seeing the shadows that followed him.

The three Demons walked by the Witch in training and the Human. "You can't do this to him!" Yugi confronted the pale Demon as they passed him.

Bakura stopped walking and turned his attention onto the Human and approached him as if Yugi was now his target meal for the evening. Yugi backed up, never before seeing Bakura look so frightening, his skin was all a dark grey, including his hair, his eyes such a dark crimson. "When Yami finds out about this…" Whatever threat or words to make them stop what they were doing never fully came out when Yugi's back hit the wall and the pale Demon loomed over him.

"You're going tell?" Bakura sneered at him, eyes narrowed.

Yugi shook his head, he glanced to Marik and Malik to see the two didn't even move to stop Bakura or help him. "No, but Yami will find out." Yugi was trying to get him to see reason, Yami did have a temper at times and his patience wasn't the best when it came to these three.

"LET HIM!" Bakura raged and moved in even closer that his nose was almost touching Yugi's, fangs clearly seen pasted his lips. "I'm not taking orders from the Lord of Demons anymore." Bakura backed up looking to his lovers. Marik was looking at him so intently with a flicker of worry… Bakura ignored the look. "Let's go." He hissed vanishing from the room.

Marik shook his head glancing at his Mate, he would worry about Bakura's actions later, for now he was going to enjoy himself, he too vanished from the classroom taking his half Demon with him.

Yugi gave them a moment before he fled the school, going to the only one that could possibly help his classmate from being killed.

Seto sighed flicking the channels on the t.v, his eyes every once in awhile glanced over to the laptop on the kitchen bench. The laptop was connected to his company's system and gave him free rage to work from home. He had plenty to do in work wise. Joey's rant that he shouldn't be working but resting filled his mind. His Mate was taking his recovery a little too far.

Seto dropped the remote and stood up, walking towards the bench. Joey had threatened him that if he touched it, he would be in so much trouble… Seto gave a silent growl, since when did he take orders from a Human.

He could get in a little work before Joey got home and it would kill his boredom at the same time. He opened the laptop and got it started up, he turned about and grabbed a chair and sat down. Freezing in his seat when the screen came up asking for a password. Joey had locked his laptop on him? Seto wasn't even worried; he did own a computer company after all. He cracked his knuckles and got to work on hacking into his own computer. It would only take seconds.

Ten minutes later and it wasn't working, it didn't matter what he did he couldn't get in; Joey wasn't that great with technology… Seto took a closer look, was that his latest security system program installed just to stop him for getting a little work done. The Healer was mortified that his Mate would take such lengths to keep him stress free while recovering. How did his Mate get a hold of his software, Seto hadn't even placed it up within his own company yet, it wasn't even tested. It proved effective so far in keeping him out.

A knock on the door.

Seto suddenly jumped from his chair and away from the laptop, as if he had been caught red handed and he was doing something that he wasn't meant to be doing, which he was.

The knocking came again.

Seto growled for his own behavior since Joey wouldn't have been knocking on their door. He straightened up his clothes a little and ran his fingers through his hair before opening the door. A woman stood there, short brown hair and honey light brown eyes. Seto noticed the two suitcases by the woman's feet and a slip of paper in her hands.

She stared at him for a moment just blinking with her month open slightly. "Mr. Kaiba?" she sounded shocked and surprised to see him.

Seto's eyebrow lifted in a way to ask the woman what she wanted.

"I didn't think someone of your position would live in such a rundown building." She blurted out without thinking.

Seto felt rather insulted by the comment, he was highly fastidious about where he lived these days. The apartment wasn't some penthouse in the middle of the city where most businessmen preferred to live. The apartment of two bedrooms and a spacious area of living room and kitchen combined was brought for his get away from the mansion and a place for his Mate to call home… well Joey picked it out saying he loved it and it had everything he was looking for.. so without anything else being said Seto had brought it for him, leaving all decoration for his Mate to do.

"I think I have the wrong place." She looked at the bit of paper in her hand and then checked the door number to make sure she had the right apartment her son lived in. "My son gave me this address… are you his roommate?"

Was this Joey's mother? Seto's eyes twitched, "I'm Sono Wheeler." She thrusted her hand into his and shook it vigorously. "It's so nice to finally meet you face to face." Seto had to practically pull his hand from hers. She then dug about her briefcase for a moment and pulled out a folder, shoving it into his chest and let herself in. "Never would have thought someone like you would be sharing an apartment with my son. But you two do go to the same school after all." She let herself in.

Seto glared at her, which was lost on the woman. He dropped the folder onto the kitchen bench next to his laptop, knowing it was some business deal she had been wanting with him. "Joey does live here, right?" She pulled off her jacket looking about.

Seto had yet to say a word to her, he watched the Human with annoyance.

"It's a little tacky." She dropped her coat on the back of the couch. "I thought Joey would have picked something better, bigger." She walked about the living room for a moment, looking over the furnishings.

Joey loves this apartment, it had the best of everything, Seto Kaiba didn't do tacky, well except that inn he had to stay in one night about two hundred years go. Seto shuddered at the thought of spending half the night fighting with the rats for the right to sleep on the bed. "So where is the room I'll be sleeping in while I'm staying?"

Seto was going to tell her that she could sleep outside or on the roof for all he cared, but she wasn't staying in this apartment with them… Suddenly Yugi burst in through the front door, "Seto!" he rushed up to the Healer and grabbed onto his arm and pulled him. "You have to come with me, Marik, Bakura and Malik are going to kill him." He sounded and looked panicked.

Seto pulled his arm back, what those idiots did didn't concern him, he wasn't their babysitter. "I can't get in contact with Yami."

Seto gave him a look that he wasn't going to help in anyway.

"SETO!" Yugi yelled at him getting frustrated, "You're the only one that can stop them!"

Seto rolled his eyes, things hadn't changed in the last few thousand years, he was still cleaning up after everyone else. He gave in, the little Human would only bitch to Yami and then the Demon Lord would be in his ear.

Honda rushed for the payphone on the street corner. He picked up the receiver and pulled out some change from his pocket. Putting his money in and dialed the number. He waited. A female's voice picked up at the other end after a few rings. She asked what assistance he wanted. He opened his mouth to speak, when suddenly the phone started to melt as if someone had poured acid over it. With a cry Honda dropped the receiver and backed out with wide eyes. "I told you you couldn't tell anyone." Bakura said standing behind him.

"Stay away!" Honda screamed at him.

"Time is ticking." The pale Demon vanished, Honda started to run again heading for home.

His mind couldn't wrap about what Bakura and the others were, but Human wasn't one of them. Creatures from hell and they had somehow snared Ryou into their world. He bolted down the street, knocking into people almost falling over himself, but he kept going.

He finally made it home, rushing down his footpath and burst in through the front door calling out. "MOM! DAD!" He continued to call out urgently, rushing by the living room and into the kitchen he slipped suddenly, and his back hit the ground and he landed in something thick, warm and sticky.

"I told you, you should have tried to make it back here before we did." Bakura said stepping out of the shadows… was that blood all over his hands and his shirt? Honda glanced down to find himself laying in a pool of blood. He noticed Marik was leaning so casually against the kitchen counter licking what looked like blood from his hands.

"Where are my parents? What did you do to them?!" Honda scrambled out of the dark pool on the floor, he knew that the three had done what they had said… but he wouldn't believe it until he saw it with his own eyes. He felt like he had somehow slipped into his own personal nightmare.

Marik laughed as if he found the situation amusing, which he most likely did. Bakura couldn't help but grin as he pointed up towards the high set ceiling; Honda's eyes widened as swallowed hard and couldn't bring himself to look up. "Go on." Bakura said looking up. "It's a work of art, don't you think?"

"NO!" Honda screamed eyes shut tightly willing all this to go away… it couldn't be happening, no one in their right mind did something like this.

"I said look!" Bakura moved forward and grabbed Honda, forcing him onto his feet and pulled his head back by his hair making him look. "See the fate of your loved ones." Honda couldn't bare it no more and opened his eyes.

He screamed in horror as his mother and father hung by their ankles, their heads missing, their chests ripped open. He shakily fell to the ground in tears, feeling sick enough to throw up whatever he had eaten that day. "H-how could you? Y-you won't get away with this." He choked out.

"I can and I have." Bakura moved closer to him, kicking him over onto his back.

"Shall I explain how?" Marik asked Bakura still in his place. "Let me?" Bakura nodded backing away a little. "We all know how stressful school and home life is… I can read the tabloids right now. Teenager comes home from school and snaps under the pressure of life, kills his family in an intense laps moment and then the guilt sets in and you commit suicide, but not before burning the house down." Right at that moment Malik walked into the room and soon after the smell of smoke, he walked by Marik and ripped out the gas stove. "You'll be claimed dead along with your family."

"WHY?!" Honda screamed at them. "Was it because Ryou loves me?!" he was on his knees.

Suddenly Bakura had his hands on the side of Honda's head. "All of Ryou's pain on what you did to him." The energy flowed from the pale Demon into the Human. Honda convulsed, his eyes rolled into the back of his head and foamed at the mouth. "that is what I have felt from him since yesterday and now I have to place him back together."

"Bakura stop it." Marik said pushing away from the counter, the smell of gas filling the room. "You'll kill him."

"He should die." Bakura snapped

"We should go." Malik said knowing the neighbours would have seen the smoke from the top floor of the house. Indeed they could hear the sirens.

Seto appeared in the room. "What are you idiots doing?" His whispered voice raspy and soft, his eyes fell on the dead hanging Human's. Nice work, Marik or Bakura's handy work. He then turned his eyes on the one in Bakura's hands.

"Nothing that concerns you," Malik snapped.

"Going after Human's like this, are you insane!?" Seto growled at them, his throat starting to burn with every word he spoke.

"Honda attacked Ryou." Bakura explained.

"Is it necessary to kill off his whole family?" The Healer glared at them, if Ryou had been attacked then why had they not brought the Human to him to be healed? He now understood on why Bakura had made such an attack. If it had of been Joey they would all be dead already.

"What would you have suggested?" Marik growled not liking the Healer butting in on what they were doing.

"Nothing that would satisfy you." Seto shook his head; the smell of blood was affecting him. "Do you have any idea on the punishment that waits you when Yami finds out?"

"Let him find out." Bakura pulled the Human to him a little closer. "I've renewed my contract and taking orders from someone else."

"What?" Marik and Seto growled, Bakura didn't hear it as he vanished from the house taking Honda with him.

"Marik, let's go, the gas." Malik grabbed his arm, not that it would kill them, but it would be a pain to heal from such injuries.

"You three have gone too far this time." Seto growled and started to cough due to his injured throat, he knew he was risking losing his voice forever, but someone had to talk some sense into these idiots.

"Later." Marik said vanishing and taking Malik with him, Seto relieved that the three had the sense to cover up any evidence they might have left behind to have pinpointed what they were to the Humans of this Realm… the smell of gas got his attention and he vanished from the house just as it exploded.


TBC

I haven't really been in the mood to write anything else as I'm fighting a big writers block right now… so I'm hoping to get updates of my other fics up soon, Reviews are good (Love and Cookies)