Palace Rebel!

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Chapter Fifty-Two

Good-Morning!

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Atem smirked slightly as the pale teen was still fast asleep despite the way someone was pounding on the door, he knew Ryou was extremely unlikely to wake up without his command, unless the ring broke the puzzles sleep spell over the other teen, his smirk widened as he head his brother going to answer it. This was going to be amusing.

"What the fuck do you three want!" Yami growled at supposedly Bakura, Mariku and Marik…who else would come?

"We know you fucking have him!" it was Bakura's voice which broke through the air next.

Atem couldn't help but chuckle as they continued to fight, "who! I haven't touched anyone! I was bloody asleep!"

"Ryou! Where is he!" Bakura demanded.

"I don't know where you crazy brother is! I don't have him!" Yami growled getting pissed off.

"Come in Kura~ Ishtar's~" Atem called over smirked, deciding to intervene before his brother started a fight. He couldn't be bothered to clean their blood up.

"You have him!" Yami turned to his brother door letting the three teens in despite the way he hated them anywhere in his house…Marik only entered occasionally for Yugi but that was it.

"Yeah," Atem chuckled, "he's sleeping~" he chuckled as Mariku and Bakura fought to get in through the door first leading them both tumbling onto the ground followed by Marik shaking his head at the hopeless teens, "I did nothing to him~"

"Why the fuck do you have him!" Mariku demanded, "and get away from him!" he growled at Atem was still hugging around the pale teen as he slept.

"He followed me here," Atem smirked, "I was merely helping him~"

"Why on the fucked up earth would he follow you?" Bakura growled looking over his brother who seemed actually peaceful in his sleep.

"We were talking…he was woken by a nightmare and I was awake so we went on a walk," Atem shrugged sitting up slightly, "and I figured since his ring was affecting him sleep I would help but because that ass won't let me tell him about it I was just helping him without him knowing why or how…"

"Bloody get out of his head!" Mariku ordered, "your sleep spell is all over him!"

"He's sleeping ain't he?" Atem smirked, "plus don't you want to hear about his lovely dream?"

"What about it," Mariku held up a hand to make sure Bakura knew the dream was kind of important, "and why would he tell you anyway?"

"I'm very good at getting information I want, he trusts me," Atem patted down Ryou's white hair, "the ring doesn't like you? You three were killed, and he was running…but he obviously likes the ring? Why did you give it to him?"

"It was a bloody gift because I was going away and not coming back," Bakura pouted.

"Probably why then," Atem shrugged, "but if you wish for me to wake him I will…"

"Wake him now," Mariku glared at Atem. The ring wanted him dead? Dick.

"Ryou," he leant in to whisper into his ear carefully, "wake up now~" before sitting crossed legged behind the pale teen still facing him with a lazy smirk plastered on his lips.

"Huh…" Ryou wiggled slightly rubbing his eyes, "Atem…"

"Good morning Ryou," Atem said calmly, "don't worry I wasn't watching you sleep…I just noticed you were waking up and I decided to see if you slept ok?"

"Um…yeah," Ryou yawned slightly, "you?"

"Yep," Atem smirked, "we have visitors by the way~"

"Visitors?" Ryou blinked sitting up and turning to look at the three teens standing around angrily, "I'm sorry Mariku!" he instantly started apologising, he didn't know why he chose Mariku first. It just felt right.

"Shh," Mariku growled, "why are you bloody apologising?" smirking slightly at the way Ryou went to him first and not Bakura. He was totally winning.

"Because you told me to stay away from the Moto's…" Ryou said quietly, "I should of told you where I went."

"Ryou you don't have to apologise," Mariku went over and slowly picked the pale teen off the bed, "you can hang out with them if you want, it was a mere suggestion bunny…"

"But you said," Ryou begun.

"So? What's forcing you to listen to me?" Mariku shrugged, "come on though…we best leave Atem to sleep we woke him looking for you…"

"Oh!" Ryou jumped slightly but didn't reject to being picked up by Mariku and carried to the door, "I'm sorry Atem! I didn't mean for them to wake you!"

"It's ok Ryou…please pop by anytime," Atem smirked, "have a wonderful day~"

"Um…ok?" Ryou shrugged being carried away by Mariku and his brother and Marik were on either side, they took him back to his room and placed him onto the bed

"I heard you two went on a walk yesterday brother?" Bakura sat on the bed beside Ryou.

"Um yeah…we were both awake so he figured he wanted to go on a walk and invited me…"

"Why were you awake?" Mariku promoted, Atem had said a nightmare woke the Albino but he couldn't just tell Ryou he already knew.

"I had a nightmare and I guess it woke me up?" Ryou looked down at his lap, "so I just went to get fresh air…"

"You should come to me next time Ry," Mariku sighed, "I can help…"

"I didn't want to…" Ryou said quietly, "I didn't want to see incase you were actually dead…"

"Ryou there's no way I'm dying anytime soon," Mariku sighed, "why was I dead?"

"He killed you…" Ryou said quietly

"Who?"

"Him…"

"Who is he Ryou?"

"I don't know who he is…I never named him…"

"He's been around for awhile then?" Marik glanced at Ryou, he felt a tad left out being the only one not sitting on the bed. Maybe he could squish?

"I guess…he's in a lot of my dreams…" Ryou shuddered, "he hasn't killed anyone for years…"

"Who has he killed?"

"Your brother and sister…that's when Rishid started to let me wear my Sennen ring thing to bed because he said it would get rid of my bad dreams and it did," Ryou looked down.

"Of course," Mariku rolled his eyes, "always come bug me or Marik…"

"Ok…"

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17 days? BlehI wanted to make weekly updates! And this chapter is short! But I will be posting two more as soon as I grammar check them! Hopefully!

Hope you like it still!

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