Hey Guys sorry I'm late on the update! I've been meaning on updating earlier but seeing as how I have exams I couldn't. BUT DOBBY IS A FREESTUDENT NOW UPDATES WILL COME SOONER

I'm sorry I'm focusing on Bakushipping so much and the relationship between Akefia and Ryou but seeing Ryou's past (which you guys get a glimpse of in this chapter) I sort of have to. I will be having more Malik in this chapter unlike last chapter. But yeah here we go! This is more of a filler chapter so I apologize for that as well and I'm sorry. ;-;

A pale girl's body tosses and turns in her bed. White locks cling to her face and body as she pants in fear. A vicious nightmare takes over her mind.

One of a past she'd rather forget.

Rusty chains and a blood covered nine tailed whip fill her sight. She pleads with them for no more pain.
'This is why you were born.'

Pain pierces her back's skin.
Pools of blood scatter the ground.
A curved blade cuts into her hand leaving a gaping whole.
Jagged white scares litter her body.

"You're an assassin."
Below her a man is pleading for his life.
Her jade eyes cold and empty.
Her blade presses against his throat and she slices it open.
Dead eyes watch his drain of life and light.

That's 15 dead by her hands...

"Your mother is useless," They hiss.
"NO! Please don't hurt her!" her cries fall to empty ears.
Now she's dead.

Needles filled with ink jab her tender scars creating beauty.
A tattoo put to hide them.

"Until you complete you're mission, your sister is of no use to us."
"Don't you fucking dare touch her!"
"Big sister help me!"
The body of a 6 year old girl calling out is dragged away into a locked building, covered in her older sister's blood.

"AMANE NO!"

Ryou's body jerks up out of sleep, gasping for breath and covered in a sheer layer of sweat. She brushes her snowy bangs from her face as the cling to it. She looks around her room remembering where she is now. Those dreams have been happening more often now. She sighs and is grateful she's learned to stay silent during them. She doesn't want be a bother to the others. Even Malik doesn't know these dreams are back. Her eyes lock onto the clock 3:54 am. Might as well get up for school, its not like she'll be able to go to sleep again.

She swings herself out of bed and quickly makes her bed, giving Celestia a scratch behind her ears as she sleeps on her pillow. She slowly walks over to her closet pulling out clothing for school. She shakingly pulls off her clothing, throwing them in the basket to be washed. Naked she walks to her bathroom knowing the others are still dead turns the lights on but avoids her reflection not wanting to she the state she's in.

Ryou goes to the shower and turns on the water running a hand through the streams. She slides open the cabinet grabbing a towel and setting it aside for later. She locks the door to the bathroom and jumps inside the water. Cold water assaults her and her body shivers but doesn't move to leave.
As the water begins to warm she begins to scrub her skin of sweat and fear with a wash cloth. Pouring her strawberry scented body wash into the cloth she scrubs harder turning her skin red. The smell calms her down as the warm water soothes her aching limbs. Her scars begin to throb in the heat but she ignores it, starting to wash her snowy white locks with strawberry shampoo and conditioner. She lets the silky strands pass through her fingers as she attempts to untangle them. The lay flat against her back coming down to her mid thigh, the water running through them.

The promise she made echos in her head haunting her. She'll never cut her hair not until she finds her, dead or alive. It was a promise to her sister, who always loved her hair. She sighs and slips down to the bottom of the shower letting the warm water run over her body.

20 minutes later she stands, fingers puny, and water turning cold. She turns the water of and puts her head against the wall of the shower watching the water drip off her naked body. She pushes aside the shower curtain and steps out onto the white rugs. She wraps the towel around her body and wrings out her hair onto the rugs. She pulls her wide brush from the drawer running it through her tangled mess of white hair. Once the wet locks come out smooth she leaves them to fall naturally. Despite the thickness and it's length it dries quickly. The dampness doesn't bother her as she walks back into her room, shutting off the bathroom lights as she goes.

Once in her room she pulls on black underwear with lace edges. As she reaches for her matching bra she feels stinging on her back. She turns it towards the floor mirror brushing her hair out of the way. Revealing the inked up back. On the bottom right half surrounded by purple streaks is blue skinned woman in silver armor and spikes. On her left arm is a purple blade and cradling a broken doll. Her ribs are made of silver and encasing her upper right arm is armor of the same material. Her pupil-less yellow eyes glow with an evil intent. The upper left half of her back surrounded by yellow is a blue-skinned woman with long pin straight honey brown hair. She wears greens robes with white shouldering armor and the same fashion headdress. Her eyes are closed and her hands are clasped as if in prayer. In the middle is a woman half her body within the light and the other half shrouded in the shadows. On the light side is a feather white angel wing while the other is a black bat wing. She wears blue robs with her blonde hair straight and green eyes wide open. In her open hands is a floating red heart.

She sees the little ripples on her back and feels the scars sting in phantom pain. Three woman light and dark. It shows who she is. The angle of death, a person split and the innocence she still holds deep inside her. Lately that shy lighter half has shown on the surface. Malik noticed and encourage it fully. She also teases her because the reason its been coming out more is because of a certain pair of thieves. She doesn't know why Akefia and Bakura have this effect on her.

She shakes her head and slips on her uniform then walks down stairs silently. Celestia follows her, yawning and stretching her little body. Ryou steps into the kitchen and turns on the coffee maker. She'll need several cups of the stuff before making everyone breakfast and lunch and before she has to deal with the two idiots from school.

The dark liquid fills her mug, steam hitting her face. Instead of bothering with cream and sugar she drinks it black, grimacing at the bitter taste that stains her tongue. She gulps it down letting the hot bitter liquid warm her chilling body up. She brushes the damp hair from her face letting it fluff around her head. Celestia rubs against her legs mewing softly. She lifts up the little creature after settling her mug down on the counter. Ryou rubs her fuzzy ears gaining a mewl of appreciation.

Ryou goes to the fridge pulling out a little container marked "Celestia" in English characters. Ryou pops the lid placing the carton and the fox squirrel on the ground off to the side. Celestia digs into her raw meat eating it in large bites. Ryou watches her for a few moments before going to the fridge again. Lettuce, meat packages, and various other items are dropped on the counter. Celestia mewls again scratching the back door to outside. Ryou throws the empty container into the sink then goes to the door, popping it open letting the fox squirrel run out the door into the damp grass.

Ryou's lips twitch into a smile as she turns back to the kitchen.

After washing her hands and tying back her drying locks, she pulls out several pans from the cabinets and oil as well. She fires up the stove watching the oil fill the two pans. She turns back to the counter and washes out the lettuce and tomatoes. The already flatten and prepared chicken is ready to be breaded and fried so she prepares that too.

Soon chicken is frying and salads are being made. Once the salad is done she separates them into four containers adding the other vegetables as she goes. She cuts up hard boiled eggs and separates them into two of the boxes, her and Malik's. She already knows Jou is going to bitch about having to eat the dread salad but frankly she doesn't care.
She carefully adds green salad dressing and once that's done she slides them into the fridge until later. The chicken slabs are flipped and starts the pots of rice then lets Celestia in. The chicken finishes and she puts it on a rack to cool off. More chicken is put on to cook and she waits the rice finish. It's separated into three containers for Jou, Malik, and herself. The chicken is separated into the four containers and Ryou watches herself fill two other containers with rice and chicken.

She frowns, she can't believe she made them of all people lunch. Her face goes hot. Why did she every bother?

Sighing she cleans up the mess, boxing up the lunches and putting them away. Once the oil cools she pours it into the trash since it can't go down the sink. She erases all traces she's been there and trudges into the living room. But not before getting another cup of coffee.

She plops on the couch and flips the tv on. Lazily sipping her coffee now that its too her taste. Celestia jumps up and curls up in her side. Ryou surfs through the channels half paying attention until something catches her attention.

The news.

"The war in White Light continues!"

Ryou's clenches her jaw leaning forward to watch. A woman with a blonde bob cut and red suit looks straight at the camera with her business face on. "The war that only started a week ago has already had severe causalities from both sides. The Kingdom of the Southern Peninsula has been relentless and nobody knows the main cause of this war besides the friction between the two kingdoms. The royal princess of white light has fled the kingdom under the orders of the king and queen. Along with the princess are her three bodyguards. All four names and pictures will be withheld for the time being for the safely. We don't knew when they'll be able to come out of hiding but for their sake and both kingdoms we hope its soon. So until then we will keep you posted Japan."

Ryou's breath release slowly in a hiss. Great full for the withdrawal of their identities. Not only would that be difficult to cover up but it'd give away their location. She doesn't want to have to uproot everyone again. Especially with the new found crushes of her comrades. She doesn't want to hurt Yugi like that. Despite how much she denies it she feels an ack in her heart when she thinks of leaving Akefia and Bakura. Damn fools. Why do they have this effect on her?

Switching the channel she watches some early morning kids show letting it through one ear and out the other.

Before she knows it she hears the sleepy shuffling upstairs, thunking and a cursing. She raises up and walks into the kitchen again.

Soon breakfast is started with eggs and toast cooking. Little footsteps shuffle into the kitchen and she recognizes them as Yugi's. Ryou turns and gives her a little peck on her forehead. "Good mornin'," Yugi's sleepy mumble says.

"Morning," she slides her a plate of food. "Breakfast?" Yugi nods and accepts it greatly. Ryou notes she's already dressed and ready to go but still needs to wake up.

As Yugi eats, Jou and Malik come down bickering about who knows what. As Ryou finishes making breakfast the door bell rings right at 6:45. Yugi perks up and goes to open it letting in their favorite duo of starfish shaped hair friends."So Yugi, how are you?" Yami asks with a smile. Yugi smiles at him.

"I slept like a log last night, it was great! How about you and Atemu?"

"I slept pretty well despite the fact Yami snores like a lawn mower," Atemu says nudging him lightly.

"Hey! I don't snore!" Yami shouts nudging him back.

"Tell that to my ears."

Yugi giggles and looks at Yami. "Frankly, the fact you snore fits you very well Yami," Yugi says sneakily. Yami puts her in a head lock and runs his fist in her head. "Atemu lies. I don't snore!"

Begin use to the gesture from Jou, Yugi only laughs. Atemu pulls her away holding her close to his chest. "Stop that you'll ruin her beautiful face with your ugliness." Yugi's face blushes a bit at this.

"You literally have the same face as me! Only tan and with different eyes!"

"Still makes me hotter! Right Yugi," he purrs to the young girl in his arms. Her faces goes a little redder as she looks helplessly between the two males.

Yami's eye twitches and he grabs hold of one of Yugi's hands tugging her forward. Atemu grabs the other and Yugi doesn't try to pull away. The trio continues on. Yugi internally squeals and is thanking the heavens for this moment. Little does she know the others are too.

Ryou watches this all happen with a sly grin on her lips. Oh this will be fun. She's happy for the princess. If anyone deserves a happy relationship it's Yugi. She wonders if they'll get together before they have to go leave. As the group approaches the school a familiar figure runs up.

Ryou frowns and looks away as suddenly a tan arm wraps around her waist. "Damn fool," she curses under her breath.

"Good morning babe.~" Akefia purrs. Ryou looks up glaring at him.

"What the hell do you want?"

"Well you see I was planning our wedding and I was wondering if you wanted to do it on a Friday or Saturday."

"We're not getting married you buffoon!" Ryou says blushing at the very thought of marriage.

"That ring on your finger says otherwise." He says pointing down at the said finger.

Confused Ryou looks down at her fingers and seeing nothing she frowns. "What ring are you-"

Suddenly something is slid onto her ring finger. "This one." Ryou looks down and sees a simple silver band with little rhinestones.

"What the bloody hell?"

"It's fake silver so it might turn your finger green," Akefia says shrugging.

Ryou looks at it for a moment before trying to take it off. "Akefia what is wrong with you?! I can't take this stupid ring!"

He stops her and pushes it further on her finger where she tried to take it off. "Well as Beyonce once said if you like then you better put a ring on it. So I did in fact put a ring in it."

Ryou glares at him but he only grins immune to her glares by now. "What? I told you I'd make you my wife. And the first step to that would be a ring so I saw this yesterday when I was at the store and thought it'd look cute on you."

Ryou frowns and turns away from him but doesn't attempt to remove the ring from her finger. "Moron," she mumbles. Akefia grins and the others who witnessed this decide to chime in.

"Man Akefia you work fast," Malik says laughing along with Jou at the blush on her little friends face.

"Can I be your best man?" Yami says teasingly.

"Nah, I gotta let my apprentice be my best man. That is unless he's on the alter with us."

"What?!" Everyone cries. Akefia blinks innocently.

"What? I'm okay with having both Ryou and Bakura. That's why I got him a ring too."

"I'm not a second Akefia." Ryou hisses. Akefia raises a brow.

"No, you wouldn't be and neither would Bakura. It would be like poly um a poly- damn what was that word?"

"Polyamory?" Yugi offers.

"Yeah that. I mean both of you are amazing and it'd be a threeway relationship. You know just between us and it'd be equal. Just like if the pharaoh and prince get enough balls to ask out Yugi."

Yugi blushes heavily and both Yami and Atemu gap like fishes.

Ryou mumbles at this and unconsciously twists the ring on her finger.

"Too school then? If we don't get going well all be late." Akefia says causally as if he didn't say everything he just did.

He tugs Ryou closer and takes the lead with her the others still staring at him like he has 10 heads. Ryou grumbles a bit looking down at the pavement.

"Hey Akefia," Ryou mumbles. "What is it?" He says looking down at the object of his affections.
"You would really get into a relationship with both me and Bakura? " He nods not hesitating. "Definately, Ryou you're special to me and so is Bakura. I certainly wouldn't mind being with both of you." He grins madly. "Why? Considering it?" He flutters his lashes at her. RYou blushes and punches him in the chest.

"No way in the seven depts of the underworld."

"I still put a ring on it."

"Shut up."

The group makes their way to homeroom a few minutes before the bell rings. The girls and Akefia take there seats as Malik frowns, looking away from Mariku who sighs. "Malik, how many times do you want me to apologize?"

"Why didn't you tell me?" She hisses. He frowns looking down at the desk. "I didn't tell you about my powers because of this reaction. You know how hard it is being a mindreader? It's like the hardest thing to deal with everyday. You meet someone amazing and someone you like, then suddenly they find out and they give you the absolute look of disgust as if you choose to be this way! I should've told you sooner but I like you Malik. I didn't want you to react how you are now."

Malik looks at him with a blank expression. Suddenly she leans forward and kisses his cheek. "I forgive you. I know what it's like having a power you can't control" She mumbles softly. Mariku's face goes into a look of shock and he blinks several times before he realizes what happened. When he does he smiles and wraps an arm around her. "Thank you, Malik." After a moment of comfortable silence he looks at her. "So do you wanna come over my house sometime? You know we could sit and watch movies or other things."

Malik raises a brow. "My, my getting ahead of yourself aren't you?" her voice lowers seductively. "I might be up for certain...activities with you." Her eyelashes flutter. He smirks as the teacher walks in taking attendance of the students. "I'll text you the details," He murmurs. Malik smiles and turns away from him looking at the front of the classroom.

Ryou sighs as Akefia tries shoving the other ring onto Bakura's finger with no explanation given to him. "Akefia what the fuck are you doing?" He shouts trying to push the said male off of him. Ryou, sick of Akefia leaning across her lap to get to Bakura, yanks him back hard. She takes the ring from him and then lifts up Bakura left hand, slipping on the ring skillfully. Bakura blinks looking at the identical ring to Ryou's. "What the hell is this?"

"It's apparently your engagement ring Akefia got," Ryou lifts her hand up showing hers. "He has this crazy idea that the three of us are going to get married." Bakura looks down at the ring, then at Ryou, then at Akefia.

"Yeah I could see it happening." Ryou's jaw drops and instead of saying anything she sighs and just looks forward frowning slightly. Why did these two idiots think she'd actually marry either one of them never mind both? Because you would. Her face goes red. Like hell she would. Suddenly the first class of the day goes by fast and without any real issues. Malik and Mariku passed notes the whole time. Ryou somewhere in the middle of class fell asleep on Bakura's shoulder due to getting no sleep. Yugi dutifully took notes of the class along with Yami and Atemu. While Jou causally sharpened her pencil with a pair a scissors and Seto tapping away on his phone glancing at Jou several times. The bruise on his jaw disappeared and he made his way back to school much to Jou's displeasure.

When the bell rang Akefia and Bakura carefully woke up RYou who jolted awake and reached form the sword by her hip that wasn't there. Once realizing where she was she calmed quickly and got up prepared to go to her next class with Malik Mariku and her two white haired companions. As the others wait outside the classroom for her she starts to walk to the door only to be stopped by the teacher.

"Miss Miyamoto please come here," the teacher calls. Ryou stops and turns a flash of confusion in her eyes. She stands infront of her teacher's desk. "Yes Sensei?" She asks.

Once the others have left the teachers continues. "Despite the fact you have only been here for a few weeks at most, you have some of the highest marks in the school and in your class. You've caught up with everything and continue to almost effortlessly pass all your classes." Ryou nods slightly wondering where this could be going. "So, Miss Miyamoto, the other teachers and myself have decided to offer you a position to tutor other students after school. It'd be from 2:15 to 3:30 afterschool everyday unless you can't make it. If it works out then you can either add more students or stop all together. Would you like to do this? It would look good on your resume for college." Ryou holds back a snort at that. She already has been to college.

"I'm sure it would. I'd like to take you up on that. I'll do it. How many students will there be and when do we start?" Ryou says. She might as well blend in at the school. Doing this won't do any harm. The teacher claps her hands together in delight. "Oh good! I hoped you would say that. You'll start off with 2 students and you'll come to this room to do it. Is today a good day to start?" Ryou nods. "Alright! I hope this works out for you. Here I'll write you a pass to your next class." A white slip is given to her and Ryou leaves the classroom.

Noticing her friends went on ahead Ryou goes to her next class listening to the bell ring.

Ryou walks to the lunch room just as she's jumped on by Malik. "Hey sugar~" Ryou slides Malik off her and smiles a bit as they start to walk to the table they all sit at. "So, Ry-Ry what did the teacher want? I was gonna spy but I didn't want to be late and have detention since the new episode of my show is airing after school."

Ryou rolls her eyes, "She offered me a position to tutor students after school."

"And?"

"I said yes," Ryou says rasing a brow at Malik. The said girl gawks and facepalms. "Ryou, how the hell are you going to balance work, school, and now tutoring? Hell I know you haven't been sleeping as well either."

"First off you know I can go 4 days without sleep and still beat you in a fight. Second, I'm only doing it till 3:30 which gives me a half hour to get to work and I'll get home around 8:45. I'll be fine."

"You're a moron and I love you." Malik sighs. "Just don't over do it Ry-Ry I know how you can get. You don't take care of yourself."

"I'll be okay." As they approach the table Yugi sits down and gets out their lunches, noting the two extra one she questions Ryou.

"Who are these for?" Ryou frowns as the two buffoons come out and sit next to her again. "Them." She grumbles. Yugi blinks and surprise and hands the males their lunches Ryou made.

"These are for us?" Akefia says examining the special lunch. "Really?" Bakura says opening his lunch. Ryou nods as she takes a bite of her salad, not looking at the two males. Suddenly shes embraced on both sides. Akefia rubs his cheek against hers and Bakura cuddles her shoulder. "thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!," they chant as they squeeze her tighter. "We're definitely getting married Ry-Ry," Akefia purrs. "Hell yeah we are," Bakura chimes in. Ryou's eye twitches as she ignores the two males and focuses on her meal.

As the rest of lunch goes on with Akefia and Bakura showering Ryou with compliments on her cooking and generosity towards them and Malik and Jou laughing up a storm, Ryou blocks out everything. When lunch is over she practically races to her next class and leaves the others behind. Pretty soon the rest of the day goes by quicker than she hoped and her feet are silently stepping towards the classroom. Ryou said goodbye to everyone and teased Yugi a bit about going over to Atmeu's house after school.

Once that was over Ryou decided to make her way to the classroom where the students she was suppose to help were. She sighs as she stands outside the door and just hopes it isn't anyone she dislikes or someone who's undeserving of extreme help. She slides open the classroom door with her jade eyes shut. When she opens them they widen and her jaw drops.

There sitting at the desks are two males ones she knows all too well. They stare up at her with smirking faces and mischievous glints in their eyes. "I didn't know you were going to be our teacher, Ry-Ry," Akefia coos.

"Looks like we hit the jackpot Akefia, an hour alone with Ryou," Bakura cackles.

Still standing there with her jaw dropped Ryou lets out a string of multiple curses before saying,

"You've got to be fucking kidding me."

I'm Afraid that's all I have for now! Sorry for the lameness of this chapter. only 8 more before it's finished! I promise the plot kicks in soon! I hope!

Anyway I have a request to ask you guys!

If you know any really good yugioh fanfics whether it's baku gem tender angst death rust- basically anything with Ryou in it and any one or more of the others like Malik Mariku Akefia or Bakura can you pleaseeeee tell me! I've been looking for some good fics to read, whether they're still in progess or completed. If you know any please PM them to me or put them in the reviews.

Thank you so much if you do it would mean a lot to me!

Anyway tell me what you think of this lame chapter and until next time my lovelies !~