As Bakura got inside the house, it was dark, abandoned. He looked around the empty kitchen, there was a fowl scent in the air, no doubt about that, no one had been here to clean, or throw anything out, so there were all sorts of rotten foods. He moved on to the living room, what made him wince was there on the wall, there was a small splash of old blood. Probably Ryou's, when he got beaten, he ignored the thought and decided to sleep.

Bakura slowly dragged himself up the stairs and over to Ryou's room, and let himself colapse on Ryou's bed letting sleep consume him.

The next morning, he woke up to a sharp pain on his left cheek, he lazilly let himself drop off the bed onto the floor, and slowly got up. He put a trembling hand to his throbing face and cut his hand on a sharp shard of glass that was stuck in his face.

He moaned at the thought of how there was broken glass in his bed, but quickly shook it off and went to the bathroom across the hallway. Once there he stood in front of the mirror and looked at himself.

There he saw an extremelly pale young man, with a long white mane of hair. He looked very malnurished and unhealthy. Almost forgetting why he was there he started at the piece of glass.

Bakura: "damned glasssss-Ow"

He winced as he tried to pull out the glass, it was stuck from the side and was painfully hard to remove from such an akward angle it was placed. Then there was a knock at the door. He waited bitterly for the noise to stop, but this person was, apparently, very persistent and wasn't giving up any time soon.

Bakura: What should I do? should I wait for the knocking to cease or answer it? aw hell, "I'm coming!!"

He, more than patiently, walked downstairs and to the door. He looked out the window and saw Yugi there, or Yami...which ever. Joey and Tea were with him, what in the hell did they want?

Bakura: "if you wanted to see if I was still alive, my corps are in the backyard, now go away and let me sleep!"

Apparently that didn't work. Bakura walked up the stairs again, but the knocking didn't stop. He ignored it and kept walking up the stairs. Once there he opened a window in Ryou's room, one right above the door and watched, amused, as Joey was now pounding loudly on the door.

Only when they looked up did Bakura's smirk fade.

Yugi had a drop of blood on his face, Bakura quickly remembered about his cheek being almost pierced with glass. He put his hand to it trying to wipe the blood, but stopped when he heard the door slam open downstairs.

Yugi: "Joey! don't, calm down!"

Joey had run up the stairs being followed by Yugi close by and Tea a few seconds latter who was walking slowly behind.

Joey: "so, this is where ya hang out, eh?"

Bakura: "..."

****Bakura's POV****

I looked out the window, hated more than anything when Ryou's friends came to confront me, why did they bother anymore, I thought, now Ryou was gone they would leave me alone. Apparently not.

Joey: "answer me! now!"

Yugi was on the verge of tears now, what a pathetic mortal, just like Ryou...

Tea was just...blank, intresting... her expretion showed no emotions whatso ever...

Joey was still yelling at me, no clue what about, I couldn't seem to pay attention, my vision was coming in and out of focus...

Sudenly Joey took me by the colar of my jacket and shook me, trying to get an answer for something I didn't even hear the question for, but couldn't care less. I winced a bit, I'd just realized how weak I was after little to no sleep. And cursed to myslef in thought.

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Joey: "so, are ya glad now, ya freak! Ryou's dead and it's your fault!"

Yugi was now quietly sobing on the ground

Bakura: "so why are you here?"

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I couldn't stay awake long enough to hear the answer for that, I think he let go of my collar and hit me, I couldn't really tell, I had blacked out.

****Tea's POV****

I couldn't beleive it, Ryou was dead, one of my friends...one of my very best friends was gone...no one knows why he did it, he was living with Yugi and Yami ever since they found out Bakura was beating him.

I always thought everthing would be alright with Yami to look after him. But just last night, we found him dead, in a pool of his own blood with a note.

It was a note he wrote before....it was scribbled pretty fast. All it said was that he was sorry and that he really beleived there was no point to live, I can't remember what exacly it said, but I was left speechless. Even if I wanted to say something, I couldn't.

Then Yugi decided to go tell Bakura, even if we didn't want to talk to him, he said, Ryou's yami had a right to know. So Yugi, me and Joey came to Ryou's house, incase Bakura was here. Only a few minutes after knocking there came a rude reply. Something like: "if you came to see me, my body's in the backyard."

Well, now, Joey's beating up Bakura, for some reason I want him to stop, he looks so...weak and pitifull with his face all cut up like that, I just hoped he didn't do that to himself.

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Tea: "Joey! stop it, he's had enough!"

I ran over to where they were, Joey wasn't stopping, didn't anything I just say get through to him? I pushed him so hard he almost fell, damn, I think he almost flew! I glared at him, I think he got the message, he left imediatly, Yugi following behind.Yeah, you guessed it, they left.

I couldn't say anything, so I sat next to Bakura's limp body on the floor, locked my arms around my knees and cried.

I don't know how long I was crying there on the floor, but it seemed like forever, (actually, I think it was just five minutes). But when I stopped, I dragged myself closser to Bakura. He looked so much like Ryou, even more so when he was sleeping, cause then he looked so innoscent, just like Ryou did.

I decided to wash his face up a bit, it looked all tattered. I knew where everything was since I use to come to Ryou's house alot before we found out about Bakura.

I went to the bathroom and got a cloth, I soaked it in warm water and got some rubing alcohol.

I figured he was still sleeping, so I started on cleaning up that nasty cut.

First I dabbed the wet cloth on it and gently wiped all the blood off his face, then I poured a bit of alcohol on the cloth and pressed it against his cheek.

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A few minutes latter Tea was tired and a bit bored, she decided to take a nap. When she got to Ryou's bed she noticed bits of glass, she figured that's how Bakura must have cut himself, and was a bit releived that he wasn't trying to kill himself.

Tea: maybe I should just wait untill he wakes up, incase he tries anything...

A few minutes went by, but for Tea it felt like hours, was he even still alive? She slowly crawled over to him on the floor and checked his pulse, he had one.

Tea: why am I still here? I should leave, I mean, he might have looked all weak and everything when Joey and Yugi left, but what if he gets better? Would he kill....me? (gulp)

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DHG: hey every one, I'm really sorry I didn't update, but I thought I did and I started writting the 3rd chapter already, when I went to upload the 3rd one, there wasn't a second one, so I'm really sorry! I'm going to wait a few more days before I post up the 3rd chapee, k?