Palace Rebel!
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Chapter Thirty-Eight
Are You Awake?
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"Mariku?" Ryou sat up sleepily rubbing his eyes, "is that you? Come here…" Mariku rolled his eyes getting off the ground from the end of the pale teens bed, he couldn't sleep so he had come into Ryou's room to watch him sleep, but he seemed awake now too
Though still half asleep
Ryou smiled happily, still rubbing his eyes sleepily and pausing every so often as he kept remember and forgetting about the scar on his cheek, "are you there?" Mariku rolled his eyes nodding and Ryou seemed to smile at this information and he wagged his hand for Mariku to come closer, Mariku huffed slightly coming closer to see what the other teen wanted
Ryou's smile seemed to grow more the closer he got until suddenly his arms shot into the air and wrapped around his neck dragging the tanned teen forcefully down to him
Mariku couldn't help but blush slightly at the forcefulness, he liked it when Ryou surprised him
Ryou dragged him even closer before carefully kissing his cheek, "sleep!"
"huh…" Mariku swallowed as the other teen seemed to kiss him on the cheek and than just say sleep? "Ryou? are you awake?"
"Of course I'm awake!" Ryou protested
"Really? can you prove it?"
"One plus one equals three!"
"It equals two Ryou…and this doesn't really prove your not asleep…"
"Well I'm not! Now please sleep! The sun will be up soon!"
"Where am I meant to be sleeping Ryou?" Mariku decided to just play along, it was obvious Ryou was asleep now…
"Here of course!" Ryou tried pulling him around and onto the bed, Mariku shrugged crawling onto the bed and lying beside Ryou
"Here?"
"Yep! Now sleep!" Ryou practically ordered, Mariku rolled his eyes and placed an arm around the pale teen…he didn't see much other places to put it, "I said sleep Mariku! Stop turning the lights on and off!"
"I'm not…"
"You are! You can't just say a stupid monkey is doing it because we don't have a monkey! or any animal…we should get a pet Mariku…but not a big one, you know like a rabbit…then you could have a real rabbit! Wait…no…"
"Why not?"
"We can't get a pet…Father said pets were stupid waste of space which just meant more cleaning…wait! Mariku! I know what your doing!"
"What?"
"Your trying to get out of sleeping! and stop bloody turning that light on and off already!"
"Ok…I stopped…"
"You could of stopped while it was off! We need to sleep!"
"Ok…is that better?" Mariku tried holding in a chuckle as he played along with Ryou's little sleep talking
"Yeah…" Ryou nodded slightly, "it is…lets sleep…Mariku? are you asleep?"
"Nope," Mariku smirked
"Mariku! I told you to sleep!" Ryou fought, "but while your awake, can I ask something?"
"Sure Ryou," Mariku shrugged
"Ok actually two things…do I look fat in this? I heard Isis ask this a lot and it made me curious if I looked fat too or if it was just a girl thing?"
"Just a girl thing," Mariku couldn't resist his laughter anymore at Ryou's ridiculous comments
"Ok and secondly…my Father loves me? Doesn't he?" Ryou said quietly, he quickly continued before Mariku had a chance, "I know he blames me slightly for killing my Mother and Amane…and driving Bakura out of the castle…but I love him…I don't care that he hurts me or he treats me like a toy…Mariku?"
"I'm listening," Mariku hugged the other teen tighter, it seemed like the topic was still on the other teens mind
"I love him Mariku… I don't know why or if he returns these feelings, but I do… Why? why can I say so openly I love someone that hurts me and treats me like a toy…when I can't even say I love you? Why?"
Mariku sat quietly…he didn't know what to say, "Ryou what has your father done? To hurt you that is?" he didn't want to take advantage of the other teen in his sleep to get an I love you…he was an ass, but he still even had standards
"You won't tell?"
"Sure…"
"Well I don't know really…he just hurt me for having different opinions. He always set out test for me…I always failed…then he would beat me with his whip or throw me around, I didn't mind. I had to have done something wrong anyway…Plus I had been told I made a deal with the devil once…that was evil, I don't think he wants to hurt me…but he does, he wouldn't if I was better…The beatings when I was younger use to knock me out…one time I woke up out of a coma like a month later…that was closer to when Bakura left though he was angrier then and plus as I grew up I learnt how to take the beatings…but I no longer want them, but if I fight they hurt more…Mariku…I want to sleep now…I don't want to talk about this any longer…"
"Ok, we can sleep…"
"You know I love you right?"
"Yeah…" He sighed knowing the albino teen wouldn't remember this when he woke up
"Thankyou…" the sleeping Ryou sniffed quietly, "I don't think I can sleep…"
"You already are…" Mariku decided the sleeping teen needed cheering up
"No! two plus two equals three!"
"Three again? I thought that was one plus one?" Mariku chuckled slightly
"Yeah?"
Mariku chuckled as the other teen didn't seem to see the flaw in his logic, "what is five plus five?"
"Three?"
"Seventy-two plus eighty-six?" Mariku smirked
"Three?"
"Are all the answers three?"
"No! Thats stupid Mariku!"
"Oh…so what is three plus three?"
"Five…"
"Five?" Mariku chuckled
"Three plus two?"
"Five"
"Two plus eight?"
"Three…Mariku why are we doing this? Can you not figure these answers out by yourself?"
"No…I just like listening to you give me the answers," Mariku smirked hugging the other teen closely, "you should sleep now Ryou…"
"Ok Mariku…promise you won't turn the light on again? and just sleep?"
"Yep…"
"Goodnight Mariku…"
"Yeah whatever bunny…"
"Yeah whatever bunny…"
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Ryou yawned sleepily, he felt warm…He smiled not opening his eyes yet, just yet…he wiggled slightly as the thing he felt warm in fidgeted slightly, he blinked open his eyes slowly to look into a black material…he glanced up and the sleeping blonde haired teen, hugging him tightly into his chest…sugar…
Ryou quickly pushed out of the other teens grasp and shot him self backwards landing on the hard flooring, probably not the smartest idea
"Hello bunny," Mariku chuckled, "are you finally awake?"
"Yes! Why are you here!" Ryou sat up rubbing the back of his head
"Firstly I was just sitting around your room and secondly you invited me to sleep with you…" Mariku smirked as Ryou seemed to process what happened
"Was I sleep talking again?" Ryou moaned… "bloody hell…"
"It's ok," Mariku smirked, "you were nice to talk too and you knew who you were talking to most of the time…"
"I must of sounded like an idiot…Rishid always told me I didn't want to know when he caught me doing it…" Ryou moaned sitting up properly
"Yeah…it doesn't matter what you said…" Mariku smirked, "anyway…I suppose we're both awake, want to go out?"
"Sure…"
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