A/N: THAT WASNT EVEN A CHAPTER!! Oky, lame intro chapter....but heck, i got a review 45 misn after posting.....i turned 13 yesterday and GOOD NEWS: MY MEANY SCIENCE TEACHER MAY GET HER ASS FIRED! Yippee! SHe wrote: "This was a complete waste of YOUR and MY time!" on this kid's science projectr and his mom is tring to get her fired. ^_^ ALso, she wnet to the trouble of amkign a whole Powerpoint presentation to display some ridiculous answers for this one question that we had.

Q: How can the chemical in this leaf (it makes muscles relax, yall) be used by doctors?

A: This one kid who loves himself: Anastasia. (attempted spelling Anesthesia [did I spell it rite?])

A: Kid: To put a shop in yoo for sleep. (to put a shot in you for sleep)

A: Kid: To make doctor sleep while surgery.

A: Kid: To make yo muskles relax

A: Kid: Asprin

A: Kid: Put a paitent to sleep while doctor operate.

My answer: To put person to sleep anesthesia.

Mine was just as bad as the others, lol...........Anastasia? LMAO this one kid___he loves himself!

Dad: *looks out window of car* Is that him? Me: Yup. (he's 'popular' and sh*t, dunno why.hes a jerk) Dad: I don't know why so many people like him, he looks like a dweeb!

I have cool rents. Sometimes. Well, given that they bought me a little pocket FM radio for my birthday, and a string bikini, and a few outfits..........and plan to take me to get anime dvds.............they are pretty dang cool today! ^_^_^_^_ WAIT, WRONG IMPRESSION! I'M NOT A SPOILED BRAT!

Malik: *cough* Me: SHut up. *gets out the infamous Nutcracker* Malik: !!!!!!! *runs and hides* Me: Ya wanna know what I use THIS for? (get it? hope u don't, im mean to him) Herher! Im not that mean to my widdle Malik poo....

Hey, ever seen that movie See Spot Run? THis guy gets his ball bitten off by the dog, and he gets this metal ball berring as a replacement,,,,,,and later in the movie, he gets his other ball bitten off. He gets another ball berring and he goes to jail, and every time he walks his nuts clink together cause of the metal and jingle! XD This one guy in the jail says "Howsit going, Jingleballs?" or something of the nature. They sound liek those little clicky toys that lil kids have.

Malik: *immitates* CLIEENK! CLEENK!! Me: WHen I was 5, i did a vocal immitation of a toilet flushing.

Otogi: SHUT UP AND GET ON WITH THE STORY!!!!!!!!!

Me and MAlik: Godddd!!!!!!!!!! Like, geesh.....*pout*

Me: ~!!!!~~!!!!~~WAIT!~!!!!~~!!!!~ If u want my teacher to get fired, let me know in ur review, if u bother to review. THen i can make a petition! LOL!

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Just a Jerk

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Yugi and Yami were in the cafeteria. They had decided to stay at the hospital during Ryou's recovery. Nobody had been allowed to visit the withering boy yet. Until that very minute.

"Go on in, but keep quiet. The boy needs his rest," the nurse ordered. One person had been waiting outside that hospital door ever since Ryou had been released from the ER. The nurse let him inside, and he tiptoed across the tile floor.

He saw a sleeping angel. Ryou had a large bandage on his head, and little bits of gauze all across his body. He was dressed in a loose hospital robe with little aqua checkers on it. The sheets wrapped loosely around his slender form, and his heart monitor broadcasted the boy's weak grip on life.

Malik shut the door behind himself. He didn't want anyone else to come in. He pulled up a chair and sat down by the boy's bedside.

"He left you," he whispered. "I'm so sorry."

Ryou did not stir.

"How could that bastard just leave you here like that? You're just....a kid. Like Yugi....and, well, me. Maybe. We're all seventeen, but you're special....how could he just leave you here to die?"

Ryou's eyes remained closed.

"How could he just leave you to die?" Malik whispered again. He laid a gentle hand onto the boy's forhead, brushing away the boy's wispy white bangs. He looked at the sleeping victim, helpless in a hospital bed. Malik just stared, until a rythym of beeping caught his attention.

~He took the thread and embraced it.~

~Life was life.~

They weren't weak anymore. Malik jerked his head over to the boy's heart monitor, which was beeping steadily. The little green lines went up and down, as they wer supposed to do, not like before, when they jutted randomly and softly. Ryou's heart was beating at a steady pace.

Malik's eyes widened. He looked at the boy who was still in a deep sleep and smiled sadly.

"Am.....am I the only one who cares about you?" he whispered softly. "Even if you don't....remember me?" Malik stared deeply into the broken boy's eyelids, and gasped as they revealed themselves.

Ryou's soft little eyes fluttered open, staring right into Malik's eyes as they did so. His innocent little eyes glimmered in the morning light, and seemed to dance with every speck of radiance that touched them.

"Ryou?" said Malik as he lifted his hand off of the boy's forehead. Ryou just kept staring at him. He blinked. He stared as if staring were all he knew how to do.

Breaking the moment, a nurse with a stretcher crashed through the door, seeing that Ryou had awoken.

"Okay, time's up. Let's get a move on, blondie," she said sternly. She shoved Malik out of the way and lifted Ryou onto the stretcher and whicked him out of the room. Mlaik's hand rose up as if Ryou was still there. He opened his mouth as if he were going to say something, but he never did.

***

Malik sat in a waiting chair impatiently while waiting for Ryou's tests to be over. He got out his cell phone and dialed up Bakura's number. He waited for the phone to start ringing, but when he heard the ring on his cell, he heard a ringer tune across the hall instead. Malik got up out of his seat and followed the ringtone. Bakura picked up before he could reach him.

"What?"

"Bakura...?"

Dialtone. Bakura hung up.

Malik called him again and followed the ringtone.

"WHAT, ISHTAR?!"

"Turn around."

Bakura whipped around to see Malik staring into the little crevice he was hiding in.

"I have a room here," Bakura barked.

"Yeah. So why didn't you show up when they let us visit Ryou? Yami and Yugi had an excuse, they didn't know and they were out buying food. But why didn't YOU come? He needs you!" Malik asked with a hint of anger in his voice.

"So what if I didn't come?" Bakura spat. Malik stared at him in disbelief.

"What...whatever," he coughed, shaking his head and turning around. "You can jack around.....just, whatever...Ryou..Ra!" Malik let out an exasperated sigh and stomped off. Bakura remained hidden in his little crevice, thinking to himself. He began to follow Malik, but Malik was oblivious to his tail.

*

Malik stared into the boy's empty room.

"So this is where he is..." thought Bakura.

***

"Is he okay?"

"He is heavily injured, Mr. Ishtar. He will need to relearn how to live. He is like a disabled person," repiled the nurse.

"He's retarded," spat Bakura.

The boys, all of them, were gathered by Ryou's room. Yugi and Yami remained silent.

Malik shot an angry glance at Bakura. "He isn't retarded."

"Then what do you call him?" he growled. Bakura got up out of his seat and wandered off. Particularly to Ryou's room.

***

Ryou was lying back in his bed, staring at the celing. Bakura stopped at the door and looked at his broken angel.

"Ryou?" he grunted. Ryou didn't look at him. He wandered over to the boy's bedside and looked into his eyes. Ryou turned his head toward Bakura and stared in emptiness.

"Ryou...it's me. Don't you know me?" he said sharply. Ryou remained silent. A small drop of saliva slipped from the corner of his mouth and ran down his chin.

"Ryou! Answer ME!!" he spat in a raging whisper. Ryou just kept staring at him.

"Retard...." he growled. "You stupid drooling baby, ANSWER ME!!!!" Bakura was raging. He wasn't even mad at his hikari. He was torn apart by the fact that his aibou had lost memory. He was mad. /WHY DOES THIS HAVE TO HAPPEN TO ME?? WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO HIM?!/ he thought. /I HATE EVERYTHING!!/ He was taking out all his angst and grief on his little aibou. Anger vented out. He rose his hand up and was about to strike litte Ryou in his bed, but a force stopped him in his tracks.

"STOP!!!" Malik ran into the hospital room and grabbed Bakura's arm. He shoved Bakura away from the bed and stood in front of it.

"He's your LIGHT, don't you lay a FINGER on him!!!" he spat. Ryou's expression of emptiness changed to one of sadness. He sniffled. Malik looked back at the boy, who was beginning to cry. He squinted his eyes and hot little tears flooded his eyelids and ran down his face.

"Sniveling retard..." Bakura growled as he walked away. Ryou kept crying.

"Sshhhh...stop.." said Malik as he sat down on the bed and wiped Ryou's tears away. He wrapped an arm around the boy's neck and propped him upright. Malik stared angrily at the doorway.

Ryou stopped sniffling and looked up at Malik. More spittle ran down the boy's chin.

"We have to get you fixed up...." said Malik. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a red bandana and wrapped it around his neck, tieing it securely and making sure not to choke the boy.

"There we go. Now smile for me!"

Ryou just stared, as usual. Malik put his hands on the boy's face and grabbed his cheeks. He stretched his mouth into a clown- like grin and smiled himself.

"Smiiillleee. See, you can smile!" he said, letting go. Ryou's mouth remained in a grin. He made a little baby noise and remained smiling. He began to giggle, bouncing the bed.

"Yeah! You can laugh! Don't let that big jerk get to you. He's just a jerk." He began to laugh with Ryou.

"Hey Ryou---That's your name. Ryyyooooou. Got it??" Ryou giggled and started bouncing again.

"I can get you back.....stupid Bakura.."



~So the two were happy together.~

~But one of the two began to grow attatched to the other.~

~He didn't want to steal the boy from his opposite lover.~

~But his lover had given up on him.~

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A/N: Well, that's it....you should have seen me laughing..im such a jerk, i was imagineing Ryou making little baby noises and stuff....lol