Title: Regret Message
Genre: romance, angst
Rating: T for language and violence
Pairings: BakuraXRyou
Song: "Regret Message" by VOCALOID
Summary: Years after Ryou's death in his place, the ex-prince Bakura starts to regret everything that he had done to force this to happen. This is his song of regret and sorrow...
Me: This is a depressing one! It's part two of the Servant of Evil one!
Lucy: Listen to the song and imagine all of this happening during it! You'll cry, I promise!
Me: But the next chapter will be much happier!
Lucy: We swear! Now, please enjoy this one, miina!
Chapter One: Regret Message
Standing on a beach was a young boy with long silver hair that was pulled up by a red ribbon. His brown eyes were rimmed with red from crying, and he was staring at the ocean.
He was dressed in servant's clothing, and his memories were returning slowly but surely.
"Honestly, Ryou!"
The little servant glanced over at Bakura, the boy standing on the beach. Bakura had his arms folded over his chest and was looking at Ryou in a simple fashion.
"You're a dunce. Something this stupid can't make a wish come true," Bakura snapped.
Ryou grinned.
"Would you like to try it, My Prince?" he asked.
Bakura flushed crimson. "I-I told you to call me 'Bakura' we're alone, and no, I don't want to do something as trivial and as dumb as that," he snapped angrily.
Ryou grinned.
"Come on, Bakura," he cooed.
Bakura rolled his eyes and started writing something in a bottle. He then pushed the bottle out to see and looked at Ryou with a look that read the question, 'Happy now?'
Ryou giggled.
"What did you wish for?" he asked.
Bakura glanced away. "Not telling. How about you?" he asked.
Ryou smiled. "I wish for us to be together forever, Bakura," he said with a kind smile. Bakura held his breath and smirked before lacing his arm around Ryou's shoulders.
"You are such a dunce," he said.
On the edge of a small port in town, is a boy who stands quietly
Looking out to the sea that holds his memories
A story he cannot tell
Bakura now stood on the beach all alone, holding a bottle with a letter in his hands. He looked at the bottle, tears forming in his eyes. He blinked them back and held the bottle close to his body.
He remembered Ryou's grinning face.
"Bakura, have you heard this legend?" his words echoed in Bakura's mind from many years ago. Bakura brought the bottle to his lips and held it still, closing his brown eyes.
"Lets write a wish on paper and send it out to sea in a bottle"
"If it doesnt break then surely there"
"Will be a wish granted"
"Ryou, what are you always wishing for?" he asked.
Ryou beamed.
"To make you happy, my beloed Prince," he said. Bakura flushed deep scarlet and then leaned over so that he was leaning against Ryou's shoulder, smiling.
"Then stay right here next to me forever..." Bakura whispered.
Ryou chuckled.
"Okay," he said with a giggle.
Floating away
Is a little glass bottle
That holds the wishes of two children
It fades into the horizon without a sound to be heard.
Bakura lowered the bottle as Ryou's voice, his sweet loving voice, echoed through his mind. The former prince closed his eyes, and he thought he was going to go insane.
Ryou... His Ryou...
Always you did those things for me
Even though they were toublesome
I've realized I've only been selfish
And hurt you for so long
Your the only one who heard me, but you're no longer here.
The sea will express my gratitude
It will express my only wish
Bakura remembered Ryou bringing him anything he asked for, doing anything he asked, and even fighting off people that said bad things about Bakura as their prince.
He remembered the day that he said he wanted Miho, the princess of another country dead.
He remembered that day well.
[Flashback]
Bakura gasped and drew back as Ryou came walking up to him. Ryou was coated head to toe in splattered blood. Ryou stared at Bakura and then giggled and grinned.
"Sorry. Did I scare you?" he asked.
Bakura shuddered a little. "...R-Ryou...?" he whispered. Ryou smiled and gently pushed past Bakura and went to his room. He closed the door gently and Bakura followed.
Through the door, Bakura could hear Ryou sobbing.
[End Flashback]
Bakura gently placed the bottle in the water and pushed it off as the bottle gently swung towards the open water, the current carrying it far from his sights.
Bakura frowned softly.
Floating away
Is a little glass wish
That holds the regrets of a boy
That finally saw how he sinned
However he could repent
Bakura stood ankle-deep in the water and waded in up to his shins. He shuddered and felt tears touching the corners of his eyes as his memories of the worst kind returned.
The worst thing to ever happen.
[Flashback]
Bakura pushed through the crowd that surrounded the platform where Ryou was to be executed. Ryou had dressed up as Bakura, and Bakura had been forced to be Ryou.
Bakura glanced up and saw Ryou in the stockades.
"RYOU!!" he cried.
Ryou smiled at Bakura softly and mouthed that he loved him. Bakura's eyes widened in horror as a sword was swung and then Ryou's head was detatched from his body.
[End Flashback]
Bakura stood in silence and smiled as he watched the bottle vanish. Then tears started falling from his eyes. Bakura drew in a choked sob, tears cascading now.
He then dropped to his knees in the water and sobbed.
Floating away is a little glass bottle
That holds the wishes of two children
"I'm sorry..." Bakura whispered. "I'm sorry..." he whispered a bit louder. He then drew in a choking sob and covered his eyes with his hands as the tears fell harder.
"I'M SORRY!!"
It fades into the horizon
without a sound to be heard
"God!" Bakura shouted, throwing his head back to the heavens. He choked back a sob. "I'm begging you! I-I know I'm bad, but... Please! I beg of you, God!" Bakura sobbed.
Floating away
Is a little glass wish
That holds the regrets of a boy
"If only we could be reborn...!!"
"If only we could be reborn..."
"It would be nice it we could be friends again, Bakura..." a new voice whispered next to him. Bakura gasped and glanced over and spotted Ryou for a quick second.
He stared and then shuddered. He smiled sadly.
"Yeah... It would be..." he whispered as the tears fell harder.
And what Bakura soon learned was that he would see his beloved in the next life again, and they would indeed be friends once again, as they had been in this life time.
Lucy: Waah! I was crying when I wrote that!
Me: It's so depressing! At least they're together again! (Read the end of Servamt to Evil to see)
Lucy: Please review nicely!
Me: Thank you, miina! No flamers!