"You ungrateful little child! After all I have done for you, you go and get yourself knocked up!" Rumiko's hand raised, and forcefully slapped her daughter across the face.

Rika glared at her mother, "There's a difference between consensual sex and rape, mother." Rika stressed the last word, and Rumiko flinched slightly.

"I don't have time to deal with this, you were never wanted at ALL, but I took you, when I could have easily given you up." Rumiko grabbed her purse, and before she slammed the door, Rika heard her mother say, "Wish I had too. I expect you gone by the time I get back."

And for the first time since she had learnt of her pregnancy, Ruki began to cry.

Ruki sat straight up, breathing hard, her dream still lingering in her head. Placing a hand against her flat belly, she thought of her mother's last words to her.

Bitch, she thought, all her mother had to do was what any common whore could do, flaunt her body to please the desires of men, it was sickening really.

Ruki walked into the bathroom of her grandmother's old home, the one she had lived in while her mother's career had just started off.

Domino city was a perfect place to get lost in, and it had made life easier for herself when she had come across Soloman Muto's name in her grandmother's old journals.

Taking a shower to wash off the sweat, Ruki was ready and out of the house 30 minutes later. Buying a red rose from a vendor, Ruki made her way down the street, and then entered the cemetery.

She never hated nor liked graveyards, but for having dead bodies in it, she always felt a certain amount of calm and serenity from it.

Kneeling in front of the headstone, she laid the rose down on her grandmother's grave. "I wish you were here, Grandma. You understood me, you would have helped me, unlike your own daughter who threw me out. I really am grateful for all the money you had put away for me. That should last me at least four years if I don't squander it.

Even if I do run out, I know mom's password, I can always take a few hundreds without her knowing. She wouldn't care, it is going towards her grandchild."

Ruki sighed, "I miss you grandma, I wish you hadn't gotten sick, it was so unfair." Ruki cried out the last part.

"It was unfair." She mumbled.

"I am glad I am no longer Rika Nonaka. I am now known as Ruki Makino. That was the name my mother gave me, but she had no right, it was you who raised me. Made sure I did the things I was supposed to. And it was you who loved me, and for that I will be forever grateful.

You named me Ruki, and that is what I am, not Rika, just Ruki....."

She got to her feet slowly, and brushed the dirt off her clothes. Not having to go to work until a few hours, Ruki decided to walk around.

After a while, she came upon a young boy, maybe around 13 or 14, just standing there looking at a grave. A flash of concern swept through her, and she tried to brush it off, but it only grew, and Ruki cursed herself with her new maternal weakness.

"Are you all right?"

He turned away, his big dark blue eyes wide in surprise, and the wind messed up his already untidy black hair.

"Yes I'm fine" The boy gave a sheepish smile, "I was just thinking about my parents, I must have zoned out." He motioned towards the grave.

"I'm sorry."

He waved her off.

"It's alright, they died when I was little, I really do not remember them."

"What's your name?"

"Mokuba, what's yours?"

"Ruki, it's nice to meet you Mokuba."

Ruki reached out and shook his hand. And she gave him a small smile.

"Who were you visiting?"

Mokuba asked, and Ruki looked away.

"Oh I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked!"

Ruki just waved his comment off, "It's alright, my Grandmother recently died, and she raised me."

They descended into a comfortable silence.

"Do you have a ride Mokuba?"

"I was going to walk home. My brother Seto had a meeting, otherwise I would have driven."

"Would you like me to accompany you?"

Mokuba smiled a bright smile at her, "That would be nice."

Ruki gave him a smile, and both walked out of the graveyard, talking about whatever Mokuba brought up. Sooner than Ruki realized, they were in front of a large building.

"Thank you Ruki, it was nice making a new friend. This is were my brother works. How would I be able to keep in touch with you?"

Ruki smiled again, and started mentally hitting herself, god damnit Ruki your going soft again, remember what happened last time you let someone close? Ruki brushed that thought away for now.

She then handed him a card.

"This is where I work, that is the most reliable place to get a hold of me."

Mokuba looked down at the card, and his eyes widened, "Hey do you by chance know...." his voice faded softly, she already was walking down the street, "Yugi Muto?"



There I'm good, two chaps in two days, hee! Cool! But only one review, come on people, this ain't that bad!

magick-angel- Thank you!!!! My first reviewer!!! Hee! Yeah, a Yami Bakura/Ruki or Seto Ruki would be fun!! 'Cept I really don't know how to pair them together without making our favorite bad-ass dudes looking mushy..... -_-'