A.n.-Here it is, for those of you who wanted the happy ending, or the best I can for it...here it is. I hope you like it^_~Gomen-ne for those of you who were...upset about Ryou-chan's death...but...it had to happen becouse...well you'll see^_~Enjoy the epilouge.
Dissclaimer-I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or This song"I'll Be Right Here Waiting" by Richard Marx.
Dedication-Fyreda, G.O.C., LoanShark, Akemi, Sea Cucumber, Yuki-chan, Starkitty, Gin Ryu-chan, Hana no Ceres, Ana, Asian Angel 12, and Crystaldraygon98. Thanks again for your kind reviews!!^_^
~Oceans apart day after day
And I slowly go insane
I hear your voice on the line
But it doesn't stop the pain~
~If I see you next to never
How can we say forever~
***********100 years later**************
He haunts me.
Ever since I was a child...he's filled my dreams...Dreams? Are they that? They're so vivid...the pain in them...the sorrow...the fertile reality of it all...far real to be a mere fantasy world my mind's created. The only time I've ever felt alive is when I'm there...with him. Those preciouse moments of my life are the only time I've ever felt free and complete.
Love pounds through my veins when I see him there...when I look into those icy brown eyes with shots of blood red simmering through it...the emotions are undescriable. I've drawn pictures of him...sometimes on purpose...other times by accident. He's my obsession...thats the only word for this facination. He's *so* real...and as I've grown older the 'dreams' of him have only become more intense...each one blurring the thin line between fantasy and reality.
Maybe he's a true, liveing breathing being...or maybe I'm a freakin' nutcase.
I don't know.
And honostly I don't give a damn anymore.
When I first 'dreamed' him...he both made me fear and love him. The former becouse he used to torture me like I was somesort of slave from long ago. The latter for reasons I don't know. How can you love someone who abuses you? How can you love you love someone who screamed that he hated you? I don't know. I can't explain it. I can't even figure it out myself.
Teresa, my Nanny, (the woman who more or less raised me after my mother's death when I was born and my father started leaveing on is business trips more and more often) always told me that the dreams would go away. That they were just figments of my imagenation. That I couldn't love someone who didn't exist. That I was being crazy.
She sent me to a therpist becouse of the dreams.
I learned not to talk about my dreams any more after that.
Every day of my life I've walked the path Fate has choosen for me like a ghost. All I've ever been able to feel is this suffacating lonelyness that has always swept through me. A cruel deep acheing pain within makes me want to scream until my voice cracks into nothing. I've clawed my flesh just to feel pain to try and show that I was alive. To prove it both to myself and whatever it is out there that makes me feel like this...it didn't work and nearly earned me another trip to a a therpist.
Not that that quack of a doctor did a damn thing to hlep me anyway.
He couldn't help me and thats the simple fact...no one can help me.
Only one person in this whole world can make this world seem real...seem right.
Every night I dream of him. Each time I fall into the oblivion of sleep I find him there...and unlike the first time I had the 'dreams' of him...he holds me close..whisperes words of comfort that no ones ever told me into my ears...I'm not alone when I'm with him...I'm happy...I'm complete. Crazy as it might sound to anyone eles I have fallen in love with him...this shadow that fills my thoughts and mind every wakeing and sleeping moment.
I rolled over on my bed, reaching over to my sketch book on the edge of my nightstand. Dropping it on my quilted bed I opened it and stared at the first page...etched to utter perfection was the face of my dark angel...who was he? Why did he haunt me so? Such questions have haunted me for the longest of times. Never though have I recieved an answer.
"Yami..."I whispered suddenly...
Yami? What was a Yami? Darkness...it meant darkness...and yes, looking closer every graceful curve of him...every preditoral look to him screamed such a thing. Why now? Why would I name this ageless figure from my mind Yami? Why? I ran a finger down his face...he was beautiful, this Yami person...exceptionaly so...
I blushed instantly at my own thoughts. Strange as it would seem, at fifteen years of age I've never had a single crush on anyone really. There always seemed to be some sort of invisable barrior between me and them...they never really seemed *there* to me...its always felt like I'm waiting for something...or someone for that matter to suddenly appear...
But who? This...'Yami' of mine perhapes? I chuckled, my voice bounceing off the walls of my room loudly, at my own stupidity. It's foolish of me to even think like this. Even if someone like 'Yami' did exist....no...no, its simply not possible!
I narrowed my eyes at the picture, stareing hard at every feature of him. In a strange way he looked like me...same silver hair...same pale skin. But something in the eyes...some difference in the way he held himself and that hardened expression made us completely different. My eyes dropped lower to take in the strange Ring he wore around his neck...
"The Sennen Ring..."I said softely.
Once more the name fit perfectly. The 'Sennen Ring' was basicly a large Ring shaped object with a pyrimide inside it with the Egyption Eye of Horus in the center of it...made of pure gold that glistened with power and unknown secrets that my 'dreams' did not reveal. I sighed, riseing from my bed and tearing my gaze from the sketch on my bed. Defiently still it burned like the brightest of embers in my mind...forbidding itself to be forgotten. What did this 'Yami' want from me? Am I really going crazy?
I've not told anyone about my dreams since the last incident with Teresa, which was about five years ago for the record. I finaly got Father convicened enough to let me stay home alone when I was thirteen years old. That meant I didn't have to worry about her hearing me call out for 'Yami' in my sleep...which would make me have to go see more docors...and I don't want to see them again. They won't belive me this time and I'll end up in a padded white room stuck in a strait-jacket to the end of my years. Not a pleasureable thought.
I don't have to worry that much though.
With Teresa gone and the fact that I rarely see my Father its doubtful anyone will find out. Friends you might ask? I've never really had any. Never saw the reaon to make any. Its not as though they could help this utter uselessness that well inside of me...I know they couldn't and I won't burnden them with trying to help me...they can't. And I won't bother them with trying.
The only moment I feel alive is when He's near....'Yami'...the name really does fit him...Darkness...Abruptly the sound of the door-bell crashed through the stillness of the house. I was home alone. The loud noise itself made me jump. I hurried down the stairs and opened the door to see a young man in a postal uniform with raven-wing black hair and bright blue eyes standing there impatiently with a package under one arm and a clip-board with papers in his hand.
"Package for a Ryou Bakrua."He said in a bord voice, his eyes peeking around me into my house.
I felt my eyebrow raise as I responded,"Thats me."
His gaze hardened and snapped back to me,"Sign here."he said as he all but shuved the clip-board at me.
I signed quickly and toke my package, closeing and locking the door quickly behind me as I did so. The man hadn't seemed all there either. Just as ghostly as everone eles in this world appared. I walked back up the stairs and into to my room, sitting back on the bed I turned the package over in my hands. Maybe it was a bomb...heh, I don't think theres anyone that wants me dead that bad...most don't even know i'm alive anyway.
Grabbing a sharp letter opener from my nightstand I cut throug the scotch-tap across it before dropping it uselessly on my bed. Takeing a deep breath I pulled open the brown cardboard box I saw an object wrapped in gold paper and a letter sitting ontop of it. Pulling out the letter first I unfoled it and started to read.
Ryou,
I saw this at a merchent's bazzar in Cairo, Egypt severel weeks ago. I immidetly thought of you, this gift seemed destiened for you really son. I've missed you and I'm sorry I'm not home more often. I hope you like the gift, the man who sold it said it has ancient powers and a tragic love tale behind it...I thought you'd be intrestested. I'll try to be home in within the next two weeks...see you then I hope.
Love,
Your Father
Short and strait to the point...thats my father. The basic translation of this littler letter is "I'm too busy to come home for whatever new reeason so i'm going to try and buy off your feelings with this, love father". I sighed heavely. Maybe I'm being unfair to him...but he *always* does this. Every time. I haven't seen my father face-to-face in nearly two years....I have a right to be bitter...maybe.
Shakeing off my thoughts I pulled out the papper-wrapped present. Mind as well see what Father's sent me this time. A sudden jolt of anticpation I've neveer felt before stirred in my stomache and I found myself ripping off the paper with unfettered excitement. What I found made me drop it in shock. It was the Ring...the one 'Yami' always wore....was it...did that mean...He was really real and I wasn't crazy?!?!
Unbrittled hope kindled brightly in my chest, the blast so hard and fast inside I couldn't even feel the impact of it...and the aftershocks were only just makeing themselves known. I ran my fingers across the surface of the Ring. Smooth and slightly cold under my touch. A tingly sensation sizzled through me. A single secoud of utter bliss clutched me close as I tuched it...and for a moment in time the world seemed more real...the harsh edges of it withered away completely.
I smiled my first real geniune smile in god knows how long and picked the Ring up off my bed. A dark long cord hung from it...screaming with all its might to slip it over my throat...it wasn't a request I could deny...I lifted it higher...
~Where ever you go, whatever you do
I'll be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks
I'll be right here waiting for you~
~I toke for granted all the times
That I thought would last somehow
I hear the laughter, I taste the tears
But I can't get near you now~
~Oh, can't you see it baby
You've got me got me goin' crazy~
*******************Bakura's p.o.v.*************
Its a shapless darkness inside of the Ring.
Insanity wrecked havok through my thoughts...mixing reality and fantasy together in a perfect blind of maliciouse cruelty. A pulasating agony that would never abate pounded through my very soul...eating up what little of my remained. I was floating on the edge of eternity...the infinet feel of darkness swallowing any element of light that would brave it's way near.
Hope? A forgotten notion. A foolish dream I've long since pushed away.
Aburptly the picture of a frail teen with long glistening white hair and innocent melted chocolate eyes flashe din my mind's eye...a perfect, gentle smile...a kind aura..Ryou...my Hikari....Gods...I failed you Ryou, I did. I didn't protect you...not like I was suppose to do. I hurt you. I crushed you at every turn even though I loved you...Ra, I loved you Ryou...and in the end...you loved me too. What a fine pair of pride-filled bakas we were...what a fool I was not to of seen it.
If theres one upside to being trapped in this hellish cage its that I've been given time to think...to repent my sins against you my beautiful Hikari. Though there can be no redeption for what I've done. Ever. The Ring often shows me my memories over and over. Hour after hour. Day after Day. Years upon years. Like some sort of twisted movie. Sometimes it shows me the times I hurt you. Sometime ste moments you looked at me with such longing...desire that I hadn't seen...hadn't deserved.
I've screamed at my blank prision for hours upon hours. Until my voice is raw and ragged. I've made my blood run down in rivers onto the floor and through my fingers just to feel the pain....to see the blood...to see if I was still here and alive...My tainted soul dosen't deserve to live when your pure one left this world. I should have been taken with you.
Then I wouldn't be here...writheing in utter agony without you. I need you more then ever, Hikari...but you not here...and i've the rest of eternity to face that. Until Ra shows me mercy and frees me from this torment. Something that very, very unlikely...as I've said before...the God's have never been fond of me. They seem fond of kicking me in the teeth when I least expect it.
{"I...I'll be with you again...Yami...I'm your Hikari...I'll never leave you completely..."}
Ryou's last words echoed around me.
His voice seeming as real now as it had then.
He'd promised he'd be with me again...somehow...someway, but...it's not possible, is it? tT can't be..true, we're two halves of the same soul...but our finding eachother before had been chance at best...and such a thing isn't all that likely to happen again. I'll sped forever here...trapped and reliveing my past...waiting for the moment of death in hopes that I may be able to be reunited with him...maybe...
Somewhre along the line of these counrtless years within this blasted Ring I think I've truely fallen off the ledge of sanity...without my Hikari near I'm nothing. No defence can protect me from this agony of being without him....
Abruptly I felt it.
A tugg within my soul
A blinding completeness of remarkable intensity surged through me...Sootheing the harsh pain that had become a part of me. Light, pure perfect innocent light filled me. An unblimeshed soul of white naivite touched my mind...The shapless darkness that had surrounded me for so very long lifted instantly.
A broken hope I thought had been crushed into a thousand shards filled me as I gathered my energy to create a form outside the Ring. I had to see if it was true or this was some cruel joke fate had played. See if Ryou had truely rejoined me after all this time...onegai...Ra, don't let this be a trick...let me be with him again...onegai...
~Where ever you go, whatever you do
I'll be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes, or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you~
~I wonder how we can survive
This romance
But in the end if I'm with you
I'll take the chance~
~Oh can't you see it, baby
You've got me goin' crazy~
**************Ryou's P.O.V.***************
The secoud the Ring slipped over my neck it was like a switch had been flipped inside of my mind. A flamboyant joy surged through my very soul, a feeling of completeness riveted through me like a warm fire. My flesh tingled, a smile surged across my face. All the peices fell into place at that moment. A puzzle finaly sovled.
They weren't dreams.
They were memories.
My memories from my past life.
I had returned at long last...but had he waited? Was my darker half I'd longed for still inside the Ring after all this time? Kami-sama...onegai...
The Ring pulsated against my chest. Heat spreaded through my body and I suddenly found myself inches away from the being that had haunted me for so very long...the person I had waited for...was here. My Yami. My Koi. My other halfl My dark fallen angel.
"Ryou..."he whipered, my name sounded so preciouse falling from his lips. Regreat, happiness, hope...love even....all woven into it.
I smiled, feeling tears of joy slither down my cheeks. He was here. After so long...we were together again.And tihs time I won't let him go...I will not lose him again I swear it. I won't let my damnable pride get in the way like before...I won't be so distrustful of him ever again...I swear it.
"Yami...I...I told you I'd be back."I replied softly, throwing my arms around him...needing to feel him against me...to prove he was real and I wans't dreaming anymore...that he was truely here with me....
He squeezed me tight against him, my breath left my longs and though they burned with the need for air I didn't care. He was here...holding me. The pain only meant that this was reality...
"This is a dream..."he whispered...his breath hot against my ear.
I shook my head, burying my face in his hair...it smelled of vanilla,"Its real, Yami...its real...I've missed you...and I...I still love you"
He pulled away from me slightly, cradleing my face between his hands,"I love you too, Hikari"he replied before crushing his lips against my own.
Passion that had waited far too long for relese flew through us. We were soaring high above the sky, above any limit or shadows that would dare to swipe our love away. We were together again....and never would we part.
//Ai sherteru, Yami//
/Ai sherteru, HIkari, zutto/
//Zutto//
~Where ever you go, whatever you do
I'll be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks
I'll be right here waiting for you~
~Waiting for you~
A.n.-^_^I hope you liked the real ending to this^_^Arigato all of you for your reviews^_^It has truely meant a lot to me^_^Also for those of you who don't know "Itsu mo" means always/forever:)Onegai, review to tell me what you thought of the epilogu!^_^Sorry it was kinda short...I re-wrote this too so I hope ya'all liked the new version better^_^
Ja Ne
Dissclaimer-I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or This song"I'll Be Right Here Waiting" by Richard Marx.
Dedication-Fyreda, G.O.C., LoanShark, Akemi, Sea Cucumber, Yuki-chan, Starkitty, Gin Ryu-chan, Hana no Ceres, Ana, Asian Angel 12, and Crystaldraygon98. Thanks again for your kind reviews!!^_^
~Oceans apart day after day
And I slowly go insane
I hear your voice on the line
But it doesn't stop the pain~
~If I see you next to never
How can we say forever~
***********100 years later**************
He haunts me.
Ever since I was a child...he's filled my dreams...Dreams? Are they that? They're so vivid...the pain in them...the sorrow...the fertile reality of it all...far real to be a mere fantasy world my mind's created. The only time I've ever felt alive is when I'm there...with him. Those preciouse moments of my life are the only time I've ever felt free and complete.
Love pounds through my veins when I see him there...when I look into those icy brown eyes with shots of blood red simmering through it...the emotions are undescriable. I've drawn pictures of him...sometimes on purpose...other times by accident. He's my obsession...thats the only word for this facination. He's *so* real...and as I've grown older the 'dreams' of him have only become more intense...each one blurring the thin line between fantasy and reality.
Maybe he's a true, liveing breathing being...or maybe I'm a freakin' nutcase.
I don't know.
And honostly I don't give a damn anymore.
When I first 'dreamed' him...he both made me fear and love him. The former becouse he used to torture me like I was somesort of slave from long ago. The latter for reasons I don't know. How can you love someone who abuses you? How can you love you love someone who screamed that he hated you? I don't know. I can't explain it. I can't even figure it out myself.
Teresa, my Nanny, (the woman who more or less raised me after my mother's death when I was born and my father started leaveing on is business trips more and more often) always told me that the dreams would go away. That they were just figments of my imagenation. That I couldn't love someone who didn't exist. That I was being crazy.
She sent me to a therpist becouse of the dreams.
I learned not to talk about my dreams any more after that.
Every day of my life I've walked the path Fate has choosen for me like a ghost. All I've ever been able to feel is this suffacating lonelyness that has always swept through me. A cruel deep acheing pain within makes me want to scream until my voice cracks into nothing. I've clawed my flesh just to feel pain to try and show that I was alive. To prove it both to myself and whatever it is out there that makes me feel like this...it didn't work and nearly earned me another trip to a a therpist.
Not that that quack of a doctor did a damn thing to hlep me anyway.
He couldn't help me and thats the simple fact...no one can help me.
Only one person in this whole world can make this world seem real...seem right.
Every night I dream of him. Each time I fall into the oblivion of sleep I find him there...and unlike the first time I had the 'dreams' of him...he holds me close..whisperes words of comfort that no ones ever told me into my ears...I'm not alone when I'm with him...I'm happy...I'm complete. Crazy as it might sound to anyone eles I have fallen in love with him...this shadow that fills my thoughts and mind every wakeing and sleeping moment.
I rolled over on my bed, reaching over to my sketch book on the edge of my nightstand. Dropping it on my quilted bed I opened it and stared at the first page...etched to utter perfection was the face of my dark angel...who was he? Why did he haunt me so? Such questions have haunted me for the longest of times. Never though have I recieved an answer.
"Yami..."I whispered suddenly...
Yami? What was a Yami? Darkness...it meant darkness...and yes, looking closer every graceful curve of him...every preditoral look to him screamed such a thing. Why now? Why would I name this ageless figure from my mind Yami? Why? I ran a finger down his face...he was beautiful, this Yami person...exceptionaly so...
I blushed instantly at my own thoughts. Strange as it would seem, at fifteen years of age I've never had a single crush on anyone really. There always seemed to be some sort of invisable barrior between me and them...they never really seemed *there* to me...its always felt like I'm waiting for something...or someone for that matter to suddenly appear...
But who? This...'Yami' of mine perhapes? I chuckled, my voice bounceing off the walls of my room loudly, at my own stupidity. It's foolish of me to even think like this. Even if someone like 'Yami' did exist....no...no, its simply not possible!
I narrowed my eyes at the picture, stareing hard at every feature of him. In a strange way he looked like me...same silver hair...same pale skin. But something in the eyes...some difference in the way he held himself and that hardened expression made us completely different. My eyes dropped lower to take in the strange Ring he wore around his neck...
"The Sennen Ring..."I said softely.
Once more the name fit perfectly. The 'Sennen Ring' was basicly a large Ring shaped object with a pyrimide inside it with the Egyption Eye of Horus in the center of it...made of pure gold that glistened with power and unknown secrets that my 'dreams' did not reveal. I sighed, riseing from my bed and tearing my gaze from the sketch on my bed. Defiently still it burned like the brightest of embers in my mind...forbidding itself to be forgotten. What did this 'Yami' want from me? Am I really going crazy?
I've not told anyone about my dreams since the last incident with Teresa, which was about five years ago for the record. I finaly got Father convicened enough to let me stay home alone when I was thirteen years old. That meant I didn't have to worry about her hearing me call out for 'Yami' in my sleep...which would make me have to go see more docors...and I don't want to see them again. They won't belive me this time and I'll end up in a padded white room stuck in a strait-jacket to the end of my years. Not a pleasureable thought.
I don't have to worry that much though.
With Teresa gone and the fact that I rarely see my Father its doubtful anyone will find out. Friends you might ask? I've never really had any. Never saw the reaon to make any. Its not as though they could help this utter uselessness that well inside of me...I know they couldn't and I won't burnden them with trying to help me...they can't. And I won't bother them with trying.
The only moment I feel alive is when He's near....'Yami'...the name really does fit him...Darkness...Abruptly the sound of the door-bell crashed through the stillness of the house. I was home alone. The loud noise itself made me jump. I hurried down the stairs and opened the door to see a young man in a postal uniform with raven-wing black hair and bright blue eyes standing there impatiently with a package under one arm and a clip-board with papers in his hand.
"Package for a Ryou Bakrua."He said in a bord voice, his eyes peeking around me into my house.
I felt my eyebrow raise as I responded,"Thats me."
His gaze hardened and snapped back to me,"Sign here."he said as he all but shuved the clip-board at me.
I signed quickly and toke my package, closeing and locking the door quickly behind me as I did so. The man hadn't seemed all there either. Just as ghostly as everone eles in this world appared. I walked back up the stairs and into to my room, sitting back on the bed I turned the package over in my hands. Maybe it was a bomb...heh, I don't think theres anyone that wants me dead that bad...most don't even know i'm alive anyway.
Grabbing a sharp letter opener from my nightstand I cut throug the scotch-tap across it before dropping it uselessly on my bed. Takeing a deep breath I pulled open the brown cardboard box I saw an object wrapped in gold paper and a letter sitting ontop of it. Pulling out the letter first I unfoled it and started to read.
Ryou,
I saw this at a merchent's bazzar in Cairo, Egypt severel weeks ago. I immidetly thought of you, this gift seemed destiened for you really son. I've missed you and I'm sorry I'm not home more often. I hope you like the gift, the man who sold it said it has ancient powers and a tragic love tale behind it...I thought you'd be intrestested. I'll try to be home in within the next two weeks...see you then I hope.
Love,
Your Father
Short and strait to the point...thats my father. The basic translation of this littler letter is "I'm too busy to come home for whatever new reeason so i'm going to try and buy off your feelings with this, love father". I sighed heavely. Maybe I'm being unfair to him...but he *always* does this. Every time. I haven't seen my father face-to-face in nearly two years....I have a right to be bitter...maybe.
Shakeing off my thoughts I pulled out the papper-wrapped present. Mind as well see what Father's sent me this time. A sudden jolt of anticpation I've neveer felt before stirred in my stomache and I found myself ripping off the paper with unfettered excitement. What I found made me drop it in shock. It was the Ring...the one 'Yami' always wore....was it...did that mean...He was really real and I wasn't crazy?!?!
Unbrittled hope kindled brightly in my chest, the blast so hard and fast inside I couldn't even feel the impact of it...and the aftershocks were only just makeing themselves known. I ran my fingers across the surface of the Ring. Smooth and slightly cold under my touch. A tingly sensation sizzled through me. A single secoud of utter bliss clutched me close as I tuched it...and for a moment in time the world seemed more real...the harsh edges of it withered away completely.
I smiled my first real geniune smile in god knows how long and picked the Ring up off my bed. A dark long cord hung from it...screaming with all its might to slip it over my throat...it wasn't a request I could deny...I lifted it higher...
~Where ever you go, whatever you do
I'll be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks
I'll be right here waiting for you~
~I toke for granted all the times
That I thought would last somehow
I hear the laughter, I taste the tears
But I can't get near you now~
~Oh, can't you see it baby
You've got me got me goin' crazy~
*******************Bakura's p.o.v.*************
Its a shapless darkness inside of the Ring.
Insanity wrecked havok through my thoughts...mixing reality and fantasy together in a perfect blind of maliciouse cruelty. A pulasating agony that would never abate pounded through my very soul...eating up what little of my remained. I was floating on the edge of eternity...the infinet feel of darkness swallowing any element of light that would brave it's way near.
Hope? A forgotten notion. A foolish dream I've long since pushed away.
Aburptly the picture of a frail teen with long glistening white hair and innocent melted chocolate eyes flashe din my mind's eye...a perfect, gentle smile...a kind aura..Ryou...my Hikari....Gods...I failed you Ryou, I did. I didn't protect you...not like I was suppose to do. I hurt you. I crushed you at every turn even though I loved you...Ra, I loved you Ryou...and in the end...you loved me too. What a fine pair of pride-filled bakas we were...what a fool I was not to of seen it.
If theres one upside to being trapped in this hellish cage its that I've been given time to think...to repent my sins against you my beautiful Hikari. Though there can be no redeption for what I've done. Ever. The Ring often shows me my memories over and over. Hour after hour. Day after Day. Years upon years. Like some sort of twisted movie. Sometimes it shows me the times I hurt you. Sometime ste moments you looked at me with such longing...desire that I hadn't seen...hadn't deserved.
I've screamed at my blank prision for hours upon hours. Until my voice is raw and ragged. I've made my blood run down in rivers onto the floor and through my fingers just to feel the pain....to see the blood...to see if I was still here and alive...My tainted soul dosen't deserve to live when your pure one left this world. I should have been taken with you.
Then I wouldn't be here...writheing in utter agony without you. I need you more then ever, Hikari...but you not here...and i've the rest of eternity to face that. Until Ra shows me mercy and frees me from this torment. Something that very, very unlikely...as I've said before...the God's have never been fond of me. They seem fond of kicking me in the teeth when I least expect it.
{"I...I'll be with you again...Yami...I'm your Hikari...I'll never leave you completely..."}
Ryou's last words echoed around me.
His voice seeming as real now as it had then.
He'd promised he'd be with me again...somehow...someway, but...it's not possible, is it? tT can't be..true, we're two halves of the same soul...but our finding eachother before had been chance at best...and such a thing isn't all that likely to happen again. I'll sped forever here...trapped and reliveing my past...waiting for the moment of death in hopes that I may be able to be reunited with him...maybe...
Somewhre along the line of these counrtless years within this blasted Ring I think I've truely fallen off the ledge of sanity...without my Hikari near I'm nothing. No defence can protect me from this agony of being without him....
Abruptly I felt it.
A tugg within my soul
A blinding completeness of remarkable intensity surged through me...Sootheing the harsh pain that had become a part of me. Light, pure perfect innocent light filled me. An unblimeshed soul of white naivite touched my mind...The shapless darkness that had surrounded me for so very long lifted instantly.
A broken hope I thought had been crushed into a thousand shards filled me as I gathered my energy to create a form outside the Ring. I had to see if it was true or this was some cruel joke fate had played. See if Ryou had truely rejoined me after all this time...onegai...Ra, don't let this be a trick...let me be with him again...onegai...
~Where ever you go, whatever you do
I'll be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes, or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you~
~I wonder how we can survive
This romance
But in the end if I'm with you
I'll take the chance~
~Oh can't you see it, baby
You've got me goin' crazy~
**************Ryou's P.O.V.***************
The secoud the Ring slipped over my neck it was like a switch had been flipped inside of my mind. A flamboyant joy surged through my very soul, a feeling of completeness riveted through me like a warm fire. My flesh tingled, a smile surged across my face. All the peices fell into place at that moment. A puzzle finaly sovled.
They weren't dreams.
They were memories.
My memories from my past life.
I had returned at long last...but had he waited? Was my darker half I'd longed for still inside the Ring after all this time? Kami-sama...onegai...
The Ring pulsated against my chest. Heat spreaded through my body and I suddenly found myself inches away from the being that had haunted me for so very long...the person I had waited for...was here. My Yami. My Koi. My other halfl My dark fallen angel.
"Ryou..."he whipered, my name sounded so preciouse falling from his lips. Regreat, happiness, hope...love even....all woven into it.
I smiled, feeling tears of joy slither down my cheeks. He was here. After so long...we were together again.And tihs time I won't let him go...I will not lose him again I swear it. I won't let my damnable pride get in the way like before...I won't be so distrustful of him ever again...I swear it.
"Yami...I...I told you I'd be back."I replied softly, throwing my arms around him...needing to feel him against me...to prove he was real and I wans't dreaming anymore...that he was truely here with me....
He squeezed me tight against him, my breath left my longs and though they burned with the need for air I didn't care. He was here...holding me. The pain only meant that this was reality...
"This is a dream..."he whispered...his breath hot against my ear.
I shook my head, burying my face in his hair...it smelled of vanilla,"Its real, Yami...its real...I've missed you...and I...I still love you"
He pulled away from me slightly, cradleing my face between his hands,"I love you too, Hikari"he replied before crushing his lips against my own.
Passion that had waited far too long for relese flew through us. We were soaring high above the sky, above any limit or shadows that would dare to swipe our love away. We were together again....and never would we part.
//Ai sherteru, Yami//
/Ai sherteru, HIkari, zutto/
//Zutto//
~Where ever you go, whatever you do
I'll be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks
I'll be right here waiting for you~
~Waiting for you~
A.n.-^_^I hope you liked the real ending to this^_^Arigato all of you for your reviews^_^It has truely meant a lot to me^_^Also for those of you who don't know "Itsu mo" means always/forever:)Onegai, review to tell me what you thought of the epilogu!^_^Sorry it was kinda short...I re-wrote this too so I hope ya'all liked the new version better^_^
Ja Ne