Chapter 11! Revised! I was reading my reviews and one said I should use
spell check. I thought "Um. what the hell?" and went back and read the
posted story over. I realized I posted the unedited version I had on my
computer o_o U;;; So I reposted this one! It's exactly the same, only less
grammar errors. Thanks saki for pointing that out for me!!! I never would
have known if you didn't mention it!
I'm on track 11!! Sweet!! OMG!!! 136 reviews ::hugz every one of her reviewer:: Thanks Everyone!!
Bakura: Nice! I'm loved!
Ryou: ^_^ thank you!
Malik: *Blows kisses to all his fan girls* Thank you, Thank you!
Yami: O_o... You're so arrogant. Domo Arigatou everyone.
Yugi: *pouts* she made me a druggy... I can't believe it...
LYB: Semi-druggy. How about I promise to make you better?
Yugi: Really?
LYB: Yup!
Yugi: ^_________^ Thanks everyone who wanted to see my happy and healthy again!!!
Fan Girls: *run up and start chasing down the beautiful muses*
All: O_O!!! RUN!!!!
LYB: *watches as all her muses get glomped*
Muses: @_@...
LYB: *Reading her reviews* Wow! I've shamelessly promoted the Goo Goo Dolls. *Hands gives Ryou and Yami B plushies Hikaru Imonoyama and Psycho Mime ^_^* The CD is worth getting. If you've liked this story I promise you won't be disappointed with the CD if you get it.
Bakura: Your worst then me.
LYB: I know... I'm a sad, sad person.
Ryou: ^_^ I don't think you are Lady Yami.
LYB: *gets starry eyed* You mean that hikari ?
Ryou: Yup!
LYB: *glomps him* YAY!!!
Ryou: ^_^
LYB: AWWW!! Your so Kawaii!!! I think I'll make this chapter yours today!
Ryou: Yay!!!!
Bakura: O_O! He gets a chapter just for being cute!!!
LYB: Yup!
Bakura: _!
Cyris: That's the breaks Bakura.
Bakura: Oh be quiet Mr. Prince o' darkness!
LYB: *Tackles Bakura* Your so cute when your angry!!
Bakura: @_@....
Cyris&Ryou: O_o U...
Cyris: Um... mistress, the chapter?
LYB: Hmm? Oh yes. On with the story!!!
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Tucked Away
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Ryou stood in the park overlooking the pond, on a slight rise above it, near by an outcrop of rock which hung over a deeper part of the lake, though the whole thing was relatively shallow and an easy swim from side to side with no plants in it and a cobblestone man-made bottom. Once it a while he could see a glint of gold below the surface and wondered mournfully if it had once been his. It was mid-morning and it seemed like a good time to be alone with his thoughts. In his mind he could still see Bakura's eyes gazing at him with that same hurt expression he had seen the night before. He mentally kicked himself, he shouldn't have gone after him. It was totally uncalled for and now Bakura had put up another wall between them, or had they torn one down? Ryou brushed his fingers to his lips, he could still feel the hot touch of his yami's lips on his and he trembled slightly. Once more he had managed to turn their whole relationship over all because he wanted to prove something. What had he even gone after his yami for in the first place? /To show him that he was right, that I'm so much more then he thinks./
*Well I saw you once
Then I blew it for the next ten thousand days
Shoulda packed away
I needed to go back and show you
I needed to go back, I know it's wrong
I'll have to get along*
"Lost in thought?" a voice said from behind him. Ryou perked up, putting on his mask of happiness and turned his head slightly.
"Hello Yami." Ryou greeted as the former pharaoh stepped up beside him. "How are you this morning?"
"Fighting one hell of a hang over." Yami replied, rubbing his temples before flashing a lazy smile. Ryou gave him a look.
"Shouldn't you be in bed then?" Ryou laughed slightly. Yami sighed.
"Yugi wasn't impressed with me turning up at 4am three sheets to the wind so I decided it was best to come out and clear my head with air."
"What inspired you to go out and get wasted?" Ryou chuckled, "You don't seem like the type."
"In a round-about way, you did." Yami said, looking out over the pond.
"Me?"
"Yes. I suppose it's not beyond you that Yugi and I fight over your relationship. And no, it's not because I dislike you or anything of the sort, but I do worry about you."
Ryou fake laughed "Why should you worry about me?"
Yami just offered a sympathetic smile. "Because your not happy. You're with Yugi only to put up an act. Because you love your yami." Ryou sighed in response, letting his mask fall into a tired, sad smile. Yami just ran a hand through his hair.
*Mama just called and said she's tucked away
Mama just called and said she's tucked away another day
Mama just called and said she's tucked away
Momma just called and said she's extra sad today*
Yami continued. "I just had to get out of the house for awhile, went and talked to Kaiba till he kicked me out because Joey came over." Ryou smirked at the comment before nodded for Yami to continue. "I wandered for awhile before ending up at a bar down on the strip. And I ran into your Tomb Robber and Malik."
Ryou scowled and visibly bristled, "Oh? What were THEY doing there?"
"Dancing, of all things. Shocked the hell out of me."
Ryou looked at him like he had ten heads. "Dancing?" He paused, remembering his yami had said something the night before about how he danced to kill pain and suddenly felt a bit guilty.
Yami nodded, "Yes. The three of us sat around most of the night till we were pretty well gone. Just talking, interesting the things you learn."
"My yami didn't try to kill you or anything?"
"No, he was pretty civil thanks to dancing his frustrations out and the few drinks he had in him. I learned a lot last night. Such as where you vanished to last night." Ryou stiffened.
"Oh?"
Yami sat down on the grass, Ryou looked down at him. "Yes, Bakura was talking about it. He was in quite a state."
"What did he say?" Ryou asked, dropping down beside him.
"He was upset, having quite the inner debate." Yami admitted, he looked at Ryou , "Do you love him?" Ryou was shocked and felt his face flush red.
"I. um."
"I thought you did. It's apparent." Yami went back to looking at the water. "What are you waiting for Ryou?"
"What do you mean?" Ryou asked, raising a brow.
"Why did you go to him last night? Even went as far as to kiss him. You risked your emotions to run and see him, why?"
Ryou thought a moment. "To prove everything I know about love wrong. That maybe all the old saying are wrong. I saw him sitting in my window last night? Did he tell you that? He was listening to me sing. I had to find out if that meant something, I had to find out if there was something there, anything at all. I was tired of being a love-sick cliché and I wanted an explanation. For why he was in my window, for why he insists on plaguing me, for why he does the things he does. And unfortunately I got my answer. I know how selfish it was but I had to show him, I had to show him what went wrong. I had to make him listen."
*Well I spent the whole day yesterday on clichés about love
Makin' me remember when your pushes became shoves
I wanted to go back and show you
I needed to go back, I know it's wrong
I'll have to get along*
"he listened." Yami smiled gentle. "Believe me. He amazed me that's for sure, with his debating."
"He did?" Ryou said, trying to take in this information
"Yes. He worries about you, you know. All while you were gone, Malik says he was kicking himself over how torn apart he had made you."
"He made me?" Ryou said questioningly, normally he would have said that was true but resent events made him think. "No, it wasn't him who tore me apart."
"No?" Yami said curiously, partly hiding a knowing smile. "Who then?"
Ryou didn't look up, just looked wistfully at the lake. "I did it, to myself..." he trailed off slightly but when Yami made no remark, he continued with his thoughts "I though the world had answers, I took the risk of believing the world had more for me, but I just ended up getting caught in the act. The Worlds a Stage! Isn't that the truth... and I was it's poor player. Such a poor player I forgot I was acting, in I got caught up in the ruse, the lies, everything pushed me down further and further and it was choking me. Everything screamed at me. My argument with yami was my last straw, I couldn't take the noise, being alone. But then... I really was alone... and I still couldn't see the truth, and no one else around me could either. Only he came to save me, to pull me up and then...." Ryou paused, realizing he had been rambling, he blushed slightly.
"And then?" Yami prompted.
Ryou glanced at him and seeing Yami was truly listening he decided to continue "I heard the truth, threw all the noise. I was never alone, just to caught up to relies it. None of them knew it, none of them knew the truth and it kept changing, overnight things got worst for me."
"And for him." Yami added. Ryou made a non-comment-al noise before throwing a rock toward the lake and watching it skip across the surface. "Don't believe that?"
Ryou sighed in response. "It's just... He seems to know everything about me, everything I am. But I don't, I don't know a thing about myself. I've never really ~been~ myself, I had nothing to believe in. But he always did. He doesn't falter in who he is, he knows who he is, I want to believe in something like he does. I want to know he can love me back."
"Why do you think he can't?"
"I don't know! It's just.... HIM! He's always been cold and emotionless, I've had bruises to prove it. But I look back now and wonder." Ryou shook his head and rested his chin on his knees. "They can be part of his lie too. He says he can't tell me what I need to hear, denies he has it in him. But I've seen the truth behind that. Though I've seen him care too. Even after all this time, what happened to him still haunts him. It's almost like Yami Malik and what happened to him hang over him like a shadow and now what I have to decide is who in the end does he listen to, the past, or his pride..."
Yami raised a brow, this time in genuine curiosity "Yami Malik?" Ryou bit his lip, he had said far too much. He looked at Yami who only looked sincere. "I won't say anything. On my word as a pharaoh, Ra can strike me down." Ryou smiled slightly, it sounded ridicules in the modern day but he was well aware Yami was from a time of difference beliefs and meant it quiet seriously.
"You know how he hates being confined?"
"Yes."
"And only lets Malik near him most of the time?"
"Yes...
"And how he hides his wrists?"
"I suppose he does but, Ryou, I fail to see..."
"You know how's he's jumpy with people touching him?"
"Ryou I... oh." Yami's look darkened as the puzzle fell together. He turned and glared at nothing, cursing in an early Arabic. Ryou caught a few words he had learned from listening to his own yami at times: a few choice words and a threat at a more painful death then Yami had already given the rod spirit. "It's a power thing, that's what it is." Yami said finally, "It's not about the sex, just destroying something." Ryou nodded slowly.
"Even so... my yami's always been the strong one." Ryou ran a hand through his hair. "He's keep pushing me forward regardless of whatever was going on in his head. I only wanted him to love me back, to show in someway I mattered to him and he never did. I wonder if there will ever be a peace in him before he comes to some end, or if...
"Your his peace." Yami cut him off. "He worries for you, he cares about you, certainly gets jealous of Yugi." Yami stated this last fact with a look of dark amusement on his face.
"But, that's not what I need." Ryou sighed, exasperated. "I wanted to hear it, to see it, I needed..."
"Maybe you should question just what you need." Yami cut him off again. Ryou bit his tongue and let the thought sink in. He sighed again and relaxed his body a bit.
"You sound like my mother." Ryou smiled sadly, wishing he could somehow tell his yami all these thoughts.
"This mother," Yami said, stressing mother, "Wishes he could move his own hikari and talk to him like I'm talking to you. I've tucked away the days, the ones like this are the loneliness of all."
"With Yugi being mad at you?"
"Yes." Yami smiled slightly "But last night was semi-worth it."
*Mama just called and said she's tucked away
Mama just called and said she's tucked away another day
Mama just called and said she's tucked away
Momma just called and said she's extra sad today*
Ryou shook his head "I feel like a fool. He told me last night he spent his nights with Malik, NOT drinking. Damn it, I'm still at square one. What am I supposed to do? I'm still in the same set of questions I was in a month ago."
Yami laughed and Ryou looked at him helpless as if to say oh-what's-so- funny. "But you still so head over heals for him!" Yami laughed, and looked at him "Why do you worry so much, you love him and that's all that matters! Sometimes I wonder how you manage to get along."
"Any way I can without him. It's damn near impossible. With Yugi, and the band..."
*Now why'd you go and play my trust
Today's the same as yesterday
And I'm okay
I'll take a doctor's recommended time to get along
Since you've been gone
I'll get along oh any way at all*
"Run back to him then." Yami said, putting a hand on Ryou's shoulder. "Don't think of what everyone else says, Not to damn my abiou or anything, but screw them all. There is something so much more then yourself to believe in Ryou. Fate has played a hand in bringing him to you. He's your darker, you're made for each other."
Ryou stared at him a moment and blinked. "You think?" he said gently as a genuine smile touched his lips. Yami nodded. "I only wish I had the same bond with my hikari."
"Don't worry, Yami." Ryou said with a smile, rising. "I'm sure everything will work out for you and Yugi, why not listen to your own advice, it's helped me." Ryou started to run. He awhile before the concert and an idea was forming in his mind. A vague idea of how to finally cast off all the lies and let the whisper of truth be heard.
"Ryou!" Yami called, a shocked tone in his voice. Ryou didn't answer. He hit the outcrop of rocks over the deeper part of the lake at a dead run and jumped, plunging into the icy water head first. "Ryou!!" Yami cried, and raced for the lake.
*Mama just called and said she's tucked away
Mama just called and said she's tucked away another day Mama just called and said she's tucked away
Momma just called and said she's extra sad today*
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Ohhhh cliffy. Not a very good one.... buuuuuuut.... oh well. I'm going to go start tearing down the wallpaper in my room, it's going from flowers to Egyptian gold and purple!!! YAY!!!!!!! *Runs around and does a happy dance*
Cyris: o_O.... While she's dancing and wall stripping, please review. We need encouragement before going on to the last chapter. Yes, the last chapter, so pllllleease R&R!
I'm on track 11!! Sweet!! OMG!!! 136 reviews ::hugz every one of her reviewer:: Thanks Everyone!!
Bakura: Nice! I'm loved!
Ryou: ^_^ thank you!
Malik: *Blows kisses to all his fan girls* Thank you, Thank you!
Yami: O_o... You're so arrogant. Domo Arigatou everyone.
Yugi: *pouts* she made me a druggy... I can't believe it...
LYB: Semi-druggy. How about I promise to make you better?
Yugi: Really?
LYB: Yup!
Yugi: ^_________^ Thanks everyone who wanted to see my happy and healthy again!!!
Fan Girls: *run up and start chasing down the beautiful muses*
All: O_O!!! RUN!!!!
LYB: *watches as all her muses get glomped*
Muses: @_@...
LYB: *Reading her reviews* Wow! I've shamelessly promoted the Goo Goo Dolls. *Hands gives Ryou and Yami B plushies Hikaru Imonoyama and Psycho Mime ^_^* The CD is worth getting. If you've liked this story I promise you won't be disappointed with the CD if you get it.
Bakura: Your worst then me.
LYB: I know... I'm a sad, sad person.
Ryou: ^_^ I don't think you are Lady Yami.
LYB: *gets starry eyed* You mean that hikari ?
Ryou: Yup!
LYB: *glomps him* YAY!!!
Ryou: ^_^
LYB: AWWW!! Your so Kawaii!!! I think I'll make this chapter yours today!
Ryou: Yay!!!!
Bakura: O_O! He gets a chapter just for being cute!!!
LYB: Yup!
Bakura: _!
Cyris: That's the breaks Bakura.
Bakura: Oh be quiet Mr. Prince o' darkness!
LYB: *Tackles Bakura* Your so cute when your angry!!
Bakura: @_@....
Cyris&Ryou: O_o U...
Cyris: Um... mistress, the chapter?
LYB: Hmm? Oh yes. On with the story!!!
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Tucked Away
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Ryou stood in the park overlooking the pond, on a slight rise above it, near by an outcrop of rock which hung over a deeper part of the lake, though the whole thing was relatively shallow and an easy swim from side to side with no plants in it and a cobblestone man-made bottom. Once it a while he could see a glint of gold below the surface and wondered mournfully if it had once been his. It was mid-morning and it seemed like a good time to be alone with his thoughts. In his mind he could still see Bakura's eyes gazing at him with that same hurt expression he had seen the night before. He mentally kicked himself, he shouldn't have gone after him. It was totally uncalled for and now Bakura had put up another wall between them, or had they torn one down? Ryou brushed his fingers to his lips, he could still feel the hot touch of his yami's lips on his and he trembled slightly. Once more he had managed to turn their whole relationship over all because he wanted to prove something. What had he even gone after his yami for in the first place? /To show him that he was right, that I'm so much more then he thinks./
*Well I saw you once
Then I blew it for the next ten thousand days
Shoulda packed away
I needed to go back and show you
I needed to go back, I know it's wrong
I'll have to get along*
"Lost in thought?" a voice said from behind him. Ryou perked up, putting on his mask of happiness and turned his head slightly.
"Hello Yami." Ryou greeted as the former pharaoh stepped up beside him. "How are you this morning?"
"Fighting one hell of a hang over." Yami replied, rubbing his temples before flashing a lazy smile. Ryou gave him a look.
"Shouldn't you be in bed then?" Ryou laughed slightly. Yami sighed.
"Yugi wasn't impressed with me turning up at 4am three sheets to the wind so I decided it was best to come out and clear my head with air."
"What inspired you to go out and get wasted?" Ryou chuckled, "You don't seem like the type."
"In a round-about way, you did." Yami said, looking out over the pond.
"Me?"
"Yes. I suppose it's not beyond you that Yugi and I fight over your relationship. And no, it's not because I dislike you or anything of the sort, but I do worry about you."
Ryou fake laughed "Why should you worry about me?"
Yami just offered a sympathetic smile. "Because your not happy. You're with Yugi only to put up an act. Because you love your yami." Ryou sighed in response, letting his mask fall into a tired, sad smile. Yami just ran a hand through his hair.
*Mama just called and said she's tucked away
Mama just called and said she's tucked away another day
Mama just called and said she's tucked away
Momma just called and said she's extra sad today*
Yami continued. "I just had to get out of the house for awhile, went and talked to Kaiba till he kicked me out because Joey came over." Ryou smirked at the comment before nodded for Yami to continue. "I wandered for awhile before ending up at a bar down on the strip. And I ran into your Tomb Robber and Malik."
Ryou scowled and visibly bristled, "Oh? What were THEY doing there?"
"Dancing, of all things. Shocked the hell out of me."
Ryou looked at him like he had ten heads. "Dancing?" He paused, remembering his yami had said something the night before about how he danced to kill pain and suddenly felt a bit guilty.
Yami nodded, "Yes. The three of us sat around most of the night till we were pretty well gone. Just talking, interesting the things you learn."
"My yami didn't try to kill you or anything?"
"No, he was pretty civil thanks to dancing his frustrations out and the few drinks he had in him. I learned a lot last night. Such as where you vanished to last night." Ryou stiffened.
"Oh?"
Yami sat down on the grass, Ryou looked down at him. "Yes, Bakura was talking about it. He was in quite a state."
"What did he say?" Ryou asked, dropping down beside him.
"He was upset, having quite the inner debate." Yami admitted, he looked at Ryou , "Do you love him?" Ryou was shocked and felt his face flush red.
"I. um."
"I thought you did. It's apparent." Yami went back to looking at the water. "What are you waiting for Ryou?"
"What do you mean?" Ryou asked, raising a brow.
"Why did you go to him last night? Even went as far as to kiss him. You risked your emotions to run and see him, why?"
Ryou thought a moment. "To prove everything I know about love wrong. That maybe all the old saying are wrong. I saw him sitting in my window last night? Did he tell you that? He was listening to me sing. I had to find out if that meant something, I had to find out if there was something there, anything at all. I was tired of being a love-sick cliché and I wanted an explanation. For why he was in my window, for why he insists on plaguing me, for why he does the things he does. And unfortunately I got my answer. I know how selfish it was but I had to show him, I had to show him what went wrong. I had to make him listen."
*Well I spent the whole day yesterday on clichés about love
Makin' me remember when your pushes became shoves
I wanted to go back and show you
I needed to go back, I know it's wrong
I'll have to get along*
"he listened." Yami smiled gentle. "Believe me. He amazed me that's for sure, with his debating."
"He did?" Ryou said, trying to take in this information
"Yes. He worries about you, you know. All while you were gone, Malik says he was kicking himself over how torn apart he had made you."
"He made me?" Ryou said questioningly, normally he would have said that was true but resent events made him think. "No, it wasn't him who tore me apart."
"No?" Yami said curiously, partly hiding a knowing smile. "Who then?"
Ryou didn't look up, just looked wistfully at the lake. "I did it, to myself..." he trailed off slightly but when Yami made no remark, he continued with his thoughts "I though the world had answers, I took the risk of believing the world had more for me, but I just ended up getting caught in the act. The Worlds a Stage! Isn't that the truth... and I was it's poor player. Such a poor player I forgot I was acting, in I got caught up in the ruse, the lies, everything pushed me down further and further and it was choking me. Everything screamed at me. My argument with yami was my last straw, I couldn't take the noise, being alone. But then... I really was alone... and I still couldn't see the truth, and no one else around me could either. Only he came to save me, to pull me up and then...." Ryou paused, realizing he had been rambling, he blushed slightly.
"And then?" Yami prompted.
Ryou glanced at him and seeing Yami was truly listening he decided to continue "I heard the truth, threw all the noise. I was never alone, just to caught up to relies it. None of them knew it, none of them knew the truth and it kept changing, overnight things got worst for me."
"And for him." Yami added. Ryou made a non-comment-al noise before throwing a rock toward the lake and watching it skip across the surface. "Don't believe that?"
Ryou sighed in response. "It's just... He seems to know everything about me, everything I am. But I don't, I don't know a thing about myself. I've never really ~been~ myself, I had nothing to believe in. But he always did. He doesn't falter in who he is, he knows who he is, I want to believe in something like he does. I want to know he can love me back."
"Why do you think he can't?"
"I don't know! It's just.... HIM! He's always been cold and emotionless, I've had bruises to prove it. But I look back now and wonder." Ryou shook his head and rested his chin on his knees. "They can be part of his lie too. He says he can't tell me what I need to hear, denies he has it in him. But I've seen the truth behind that. Though I've seen him care too. Even after all this time, what happened to him still haunts him. It's almost like Yami Malik and what happened to him hang over him like a shadow and now what I have to decide is who in the end does he listen to, the past, or his pride..."
Yami raised a brow, this time in genuine curiosity "Yami Malik?" Ryou bit his lip, he had said far too much. He looked at Yami who only looked sincere. "I won't say anything. On my word as a pharaoh, Ra can strike me down." Ryou smiled slightly, it sounded ridicules in the modern day but he was well aware Yami was from a time of difference beliefs and meant it quiet seriously.
"You know how he hates being confined?"
"Yes."
"And only lets Malik near him most of the time?"
"Yes...
"And how he hides his wrists?"
"I suppose he does but, Ryou, I fail to see..."
"You know how's he's jumpy with people touching him?"
"Ryou I... oh." Yami's look darkened as the puzzle fell together. He turned and glared at nothing, cursing in an early Arabic. Ryou caught a few words he had learned from listening to his own yami at times: a few choice words and a threat at a more painful death then Yami had already given the rod spirit. "It's a power thing, that's what it is." Yami said finally, "It's not about the sex, just destroying something." Ryou nodded slowly.
"Even so... my yami's always been the strong one." Ryou ran a hand through his hair. "He's keep pushing me forward regardless of whatever was going on in his head. I only wanted him to love me back, to show in someway I mattered to him and he never did. I wonder if there will ever be a peace in him before he comes to some end, or if...
"Your his peace." Yami cut him off. "He worries for you, he cares about you, certainly gets jealous of Yugi." Yami stated this last fact with a look of dark amusement on his face.
"But, that's not what I need." Ryou sighed, exasperated. "I wanted to hear it, to see it, I needed..."
"Maybe you should question just what you need." Yami cut him off again. Ryou bit his tongue and let the thought sink in. He sighed again and relaxed his body a bit.
"You sound like my mother." Ryou smiled sadly, wishing he could somehow tell his yami all these thoughts.
"This mother," Yami said, stressing mother, "Wishes he could move his own hikari and talk to him like I'm talking to you. I've tucked away the days, the ones like this are the loneliness of all."
"With Yugi being mad at you?"
"Yes." Yami smiled slightly "But last night was semi-worth it."
*Mama just called and said she's tucked away
Mama just called and said she's tucked away another day
Mama just called and said she's tucked away
Momma just called and said she's extra sad today*
Ryou shook his head "I feel like a fool. He told me last night he spent his nights with Malik, NOT drinking. Damn it, I'm still at square one. What am I supposed to do? I'm still in the same set of questions I was in a month ago."
Yami laughed and Ryou looked at him helpless as if to say oh-what's-so- funny. "But you still so head over heals for him!" Yami laughed, and looked at him "Why do you worry so much, you love him and that's all that matters! Sometimes I wonder how you manage to get along."
"Any way I can without him. It's damn near impossible. With Yugi, and the band..."
*Now why'd you go and play my trust
Today's the same as yesterday
And I'm okay
I'll take a doctor's recommended time to get along
Since you've been gone
I'll get along oh any way at all*
"Run back to him then." Yami said, putting a hand on Ryou's shoulder. "Don't think of what everyone else says, Not to damn my abiou or anything, but screw them all. There is something so much more then yourself to believe in Ryou. Fate has played a hand in bringing him to you. He's your darker, you're made for each other."
Ryou stared at him a moment and blinked. "You think?" he said gently as a genuine smile touched his lips. Yami nodded. "I only wish I had the same bond with my hikari."
"Don't worry, Yami." Ryou said with a smile, rising. "I'm sure everything will work out for you and Yugi, why not listen to your own advice, it's helped me." Ryou started to run. He awhile before the concert and an idea was forming in his mind. A vague idea of how to finally cast off all the lies and let the whisper of truth be heard.
"Ryou!" Yami called, a shocked tone in his voice. Ryou didn't answer. He hit the outcrop of rocks over the deeper part of the lake at a dead run and jumped, plunging into the icy water head first. "Ryou!!" Yami cried, and raced for the lake.
*Mama just called and said she's tucked away
Mama just called and said she's tucked away another day Mama just called and said she's tucked away
Momma just called and said she's extra sad today*
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Ohhhh cliffy. Not a very good one.... buuuuuuut.... oh well. I'm going to go start tearing down the wallpaper in my room, it's going from flowers to Egyptian gold and purple!!! YAY!!!!!!! *Runs around and does a happy dance*
Cyris: o_O.... While she's dancing and wall stripping, please review. We need encouragement before going on to the last chapter. Yes, the last chapter, so pllllleease R&R!