Going Under: Chapter two

BR: hey people sorry it took so long to get this next chapter up, but I've been busy with

final exams, anyway here is the next chapter...

Random Lawyer: Uh-Um? *Glares*

BR: What? I'm not missing anything

Lawyer: A Disclaimer?

BR: NO! I won't say it! *Runs around psychotically*

Lawyer: *hits me over the head with legal papers*

BR: Where did those come from?

Lawyer: *Shrugs* Say it! Or I'll sure you for 4.6 million dollars!

BR: O.o -okay, okay, *screams at top of lungs* I DO NOT OWN YU-GI-OH! Happy?

Lawyer: No, I wanted the money.

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//Blurring and stirring the truth and the lies

So I don't know what's real and what's not

Always confusing the thoughts in my head

So I can't trust myself anymore

I'm dying again //

Ryou awoke to a world of pain. He reached over and turned of his painfully loud

alarm clock. Last night had been extremely hard for him; he tried so hard just to not

scream. Screaming only made things worse. It seemed like the tomb robber had taken out

of his problems on Ryou's small body. After Bakura started screaming in ancient

Egyptian he stopped listening to his insults. Trying to erase last night's memories Ryou

got into the shower. The hot water poured over Ryou's body. The water awoke cuts and

bruises that he didn't even know he had. Ryou discovered large scratches up his arms;

'that was probably from Bakura trying to pull me downstairs. He was trying to get to the

kitchen, but I don't want to be with Bakura when he has a knife. ... Why does he do

this to me? I've never hurt or done anything to make him this angry. He says he does this to

protect me, to keep me safe. Maybe his is right- no, he is right. He has saved me, saved

me from my friends; all that friends do is hurt you. They lie and hurt you. That's it.

Bakura is all that I have. And he doesn't even care about me. I love him so much and he

beats me.'

*Time passage*

Ryou got out of the shower, slowly closing the steam covered door behind him.

Ryou reached over and wiped off the mirror till the silver-haired youth could see his own

sad reflection glooming back at him. Ryou locked the bathroom door with a click.

Making sure that the way was clear he reached over top of the mirror and pulled down a

cover-up make-up case. Ryou opened and began to cover up his bruises.

After he was dressed and ready, Ryou went to grab his bag but it wasn't in his

room. "Bakura, um ... have you seen my backpack?"

"Sure, Abiou it's here in the living room" Bakura called.

'He makes this house seem so normal, like nothing out of the ordinary ever

happens'. "Thank you, yami" with that, a trembling Ryou grabbed his bag and left for

another school day.

"Hey Ryou!" A voice called from behind.

Ryou turned around to see his welcomer, it was joey. "Hello, Joey".

"Looks like your feeling better"

Ryou looked at the blond youth puzzled. "Oh yeah" he replied going along with

Bakura's lie.

Suddenly Joey grabbed Ryou's arm "maybe you're not better".

"Oh, those ... um" realizing what Joey was talking about the youth quickly came

up with a lie to cover for Bakura "I'm fine. I just fell down the stairs last night".

"Ryou, you know that you can tell me anything-"

"Tell you what Joey?"

'Oh god. It's Yugi' Ryou worried, and quickly began to show his nervousness.

"I think that that Bakura guy is hurting Ryou" Joey proposed.

"Ryou?" Yugi turned to Ryou in shock "is this true?"

"No!" Ryou shouted in denial "Bakura loves me, he is protecting me, he would

never do anything to hurt me!"

"Ryou, bud. I just don't think that's true" the blonde insisted "Ryou he is hurting

you!"

"I've suspected but I wasn't sure-"

"No! You're wrong you're both wrong! Bakura is protecting me-"

"Protecting you from what?!? He is hurting you Ryou he doesn't love you, he

doesn't care!"

Those words hurt Ryou, 'can it be true? I just don't know! Is Bakura lying or is it

my friends? No, they are lying. Bakura loves me! But why does he?' Ryou burst into tears

trying to cope with his internal struggle of lies. He had to run. He had to get away. Get

away from people. People hurt. People lied. Suddenly Ryou turned from his friends and

ran in the other direction. A bag was hurled from Ryou's backpack as he spun.

Yugi bent down to pick up the mysterious bag. "Ryou!" He called. Ryou stopped,

surprised at his friends' outburst. "Ryou, what is this?" Yugi asked holding up a bag with

a white powder substance inside. Ryou looked at the bag. He had never seen that bag. It

was not his. But who would do this. Who would want to get him in that much trouble?

"Ryou is that? Is that drugs?" Joey yelled in shock. Alarmed at Joey raised voice

of the word drug a nearby teacher turned to face the three friends.

"Ryou" the teacher called "come with me" she said grabbing the bag out of Yugi's

hand.

Ryou looked at the principal. He couldn't believe this. He was sitting in the

Principal's office facing suspension.

"Ryou, I have no choice" the deep voice boomed from behind his desk. "I have to

suspend you for two weeks".

Ryou gasped 'No!' "No you can't. You can't make me stay home. You can't leave

me alone with him!"

"Leave you alone with whom? Ryou, is somebody-"

Ryou seemed to awake, like he was brought back to reality. He realized what he

had shouted.

"-Hurting you?"

"No, sorry I just... uh... zoned out there for a minute"

"Ryou are you sure?"

"Yes" Ryou said with a depressing sigh.

"Ryou, what took you so long? The school called over half an hour ago?"

"Oh, sorry Bakura".

"Don't oh, sorry ME! What are you doing? Drugs?!? Ryou what has-"

"But I didn't! I swear"

"Don't lie!"

"I can't, I just can't" Ryou ran upstairs. He ran into the bathroom. 'I can't live

with him. I can't live with him for two weeks! Two weeks in this house with Bakura. I ... I can't

do this... I can't live my life this way anymore. I just can't live.

// I'm going under

Drowning in you

I'm falling forever

I've got to break through//

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BR: Well if you can't tell where that is going than, well you need help. Next chapter is

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