Disclaimer: I don't own Ryou Bakura, his yami, or Yu-Gi-Oh.
Ryou
Yami Bakura
So that is your explanation? You've only been trying to strengthen me so the two of us can rule over the world from my body?
You make it sound like a bad thing.
I don't want to rule the world! I don't even understand why anybody would!
Well I do, and I think I'd do a much better job than the Pharaoh did.
So this is just another, "I'll prove I'm better than the Pharaoh" thing?"
No! This is... this is...
Is?
Silence.
I'm doing this for us... it will be better in the end. Trust me.
How can I? After all you put me through... after all you did to my friends...
What do you want me to do? I won't stop. I can't.
Why can't you?
I don't know how...
Yugi said that Yami, the name he's been using for the Spirit of the Puzzle, can barely remember his past and has been trying to find a way to regain it.
Oh?
You never told me your name. "Yami" is just a nickname, since that spirit can't even remember his real name.
Are you suggesting I don't know my own name?
Somehow, Ryou could almost feel the spirit's eyes burning into his own, despite the fact that he was on the outside and the spirit was in his soul room. Still, he decided to be honest.
Can you?
It's... it's...
You can't...
Don't make a big deal out of it.
I'm sorry.
For what?
I'm sorry that you can't remember. It must be terrible not to know your name, your past...
Why do you care?
Because I do... just like you told me, I also want it to be the two of us.
You do?
Despite everything... if there's some way we can make it work. Yugi and Yami can get along, why can't we? I want it to work.
As do I... I want us to be together.
And I'll help you regain your memories. I'll do what I can to help, just like how Yugi is helping Yami.
A pause.
Thank you.
Yami Bakura thought to himself, careful to make sure his hikari could not hear, "He's being kind despite everything, maybe that's not completely weak... maybe he's not quite as weak as I thought."