Akutenshi-
Ok, I finally got around to typing this... hard though.
**gets pelted by sharp pointy objects for intensifying the wait by not updating for a very long time**
Ack! **runs and hides in her Happy Room**
**From hiding place** I know, the last chappie sucked cause I got tired of checking with the cards every move, and blah... and don't kill me... **scented candles get to her** Aw, rosy goodness... **grins like an idiot**
Epilogue-
Seto's POV:
We had one more large thing to do with out life. It was more Ryou's idea, but you try arguing with him.
The bell announced our presence.
"Yes? Oh..." The attendant looked us over, eyeing us like she was trying to figure out something.
"Same sex couple." I mumbled, being annoyed by her stare. "I am Seto Kaiba, and this is Ryou Bakura."
"Oh, yes! Sit down; I assume you're here to adopt a child?"
"Yes." Ryou nodded timidly.
"Well, you do know that with your..." She fumbled with words, "state, you will be under closer observation and will have more difficulty with papers, correct?"
"Yes." I nodded. I had been through it before, not hard. And these places don't check up on the children anyway, at least not thoroughly enough. If they had, they may have noticed the maltreatment of Mokuba and I.
I felt a small tug on my jacket. Turning, I saw a small boy around eleven standing there. He ran a hand through dark hair.
"Um, mister? Hello, my name is Rob. I don't mean to sound rude, but... if you can, would you take my brother and I? I mean, I just want him to get to a good home, and I need to be there to watch over him. As I said, I don't mean to be rude."
"Robert, go back with the other children."
"Yes ma'am." He turned and walked off, dark eyes staring at the ground.
"I'm sorry; he asks everyone he gets the chance to that. He and his brother moved here from America, and their parents died and well, they came to us eventually."
"Seto." Ryou put a hand on my shoulder, his eyes giving me a message only I could tell.
"May we meet Robert and his brother?" I asked. Ryou smiled.
I know what he was trying to say. At least, in my own words. This kid, he seemed so much like myself when I was younger. He could end up another me, abused and cold. I couldn't let that happen.
"Yes sir." She picked up a radio. "Mr. Yazaki, send in Robert and Brennan."
The same boy from earlier walked in, a smaller figure clutching his arm. He sent a small relieved glance in our direction, but popped back to a serious look quickly.
"Yes ma'am?"
"Mr. Kaiba and Mr. Bakura wish to speak to you two."
Ryou and I stood and turned to the two. The younger- Brennan- shied slightly, hiding behind his brother.
"She probably told you I ask everyone what I asked you."
I only nodded.
"I don't, only people I think Brennan would feel safe with. Some people who come in here, no one would ever be able to trust."
"But you trust us?"
Robert nodded.
Ryou smiled, lowered himself down, and held out a hand to Brennan. The boy stared at him for about half a minute, and slowly separated from Robert and touched Ryou's sleeve, before clutching onto it tightly.
A small almost-unnoticeable smile etched Robert's face. "So, are you considering?"
Ryou again glanced at me, then to Brennan, who was still clutching his arm, and then back to me again with a slight nod.
I smiled slightly. "Not considering." I turned to the attendant and nodded.
She gave a surprised look and fumbled through papers, pulling out a large stack. Ryou's mouth almost dropped, but I expected it.
"You do realize that it will be a few months still before being able to take them home with you, correct?"
"Yes."
The months passed by quicker than I thought they would. Between work, home, Mokuba's tournaments, and Ryou's insistent frequent visits, not much time seemed to have been cleared.
We had fixed up a room for both of them- Rob had wanted them to be in the same room.
Mokuba was in the back seat, foot twitching at a high speed.
We entered the front office. A small face peered in through a window and the door opened quickly. Brennan ran in and flung himself at Ryou, hugging him viciously. Ryou laughed. Nonetheless, it looked very cute. The boy had taken to Ryou very rapidly.
Rob walked in slower. We acknowledged each other with our typical nod.
"Ready to come home with us?" Ryou asked.
Brennan nodded furiously.
I took care of what was left to be done, and we were off with two new people. After all the months of paperwork, examinations, questioning, prejudice, it finally happened.
Rob and Brennan got in the back seat with Mokuba. They had met previously, though not so often. Rob carried the one bag of belongings they had.
After some time of driving, I pulled up in front of the house. Rob took one look at it and dropped his bag.
"Whoa." He sighed slightly. "And here we stand, hopes renewed, a new life to live as a new name, new identity. The past influences the present, and the present controls the future, though we cannot delve into the said future, only guess from today's actions. And life is the adventure no one asked for, no coincidences, all contrived. Fate."
The kid was right. I remembered everything that had happened since I met my love, Ryou Bakura. Way back then, when we hardly knew each other, hardly cared about one another, not able to look ahead and know. It was no coincidence.
"Hello Kaiba."
"What are you doing here?"
When I first met Ryou...
"I... I-I-I... what was I going to do?"
"It's going to be ok. Bakura, I... I love you."
I admitted my love to him...
"Who are you?"
"Who am I? Why, I am Ryou Bakura. Just, the half of him you didn't know."
"You're Yami Bakura?"
"Yes."
"What do you want?"
"I want you, Seto Kaiba."
I first met Bakura...
"My other self loves you, and you love him."
"Yeah, you just noticed?"
"I've never felt love. All this time, I did love you."
Bakura told me his feelings...
"Aishiteru. Sayonara, Yami Ryuu."
Bakura said goodbye, never expecting to return...
"Ok, I don't know how many illegal things I've done in my life and I don't know if this is illegal or not in this day and age."
"What? What is it?"
"Ryou, will you..."
I proposed...
"Seto, because I do truly love you, I will tell you how to save him. It will be dangerous and possibly life threatening, I warn you."
"Tell me."
Our adventure began...
"Yami Ryuu, I must. For you and Shiro Tenshi to be together again, I must. I-I don't mind dying if it brings your happiness."
Bakura giving himself for Ryou...
"Seto."
"Ryou, you're back."
"Yes, we both are."
Reuniting with him, both of his halves finally united...
I looked up at the house.
"Seto, are you ok?"
"Yes, my Ryou, I am." I nodded.
And now here I was, home at last.
~~Owari-Fin~~
So, what do you think? Some people may think it rather... useless- this chapter, I mean, but hey. I liked it.
Rob and Brennan are the winners of the first season of the Amazing Race. I cheered for them the whole way...
I'll admit that this was nowhere as good as Yami Ryuu, Shiro Tenshi... but at least I completed it. It gave me enough sentimental value to complete it. **huggles the fic**
I added a new spice onto the world of fanfiction.net by introducing a new coupling into the vast amounts already given. Seto Kaiba and Ryou Bakura. It blossomed beautifully, and now I am no longer the only one to write them together. And someday, people will forget this fic and its predecessor. It will be lost in the nothingness for eternity.
I hope you people truly enjoyed this, I stressed myself for it.
Amber, Katherine, arigato, so much for reading it all and living with me, and stressing me to post.
Knowing I am done, as I type this message to you, I feel a coldness. And no, it's not the fan that happens to be blowing on me. Also, an emptiness, knowing that... it's over. It's over.
Minna-chan, arigato as well. You are the main reason I did this. You, the one reading this, are one of the reasons this is up. Thank you.
Sayonara.
-Wildwolf
The infamous Seto/Bakura writer