Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh cause then I would be rich. However, I am not rich. Not even close. Wish I was, but I'm just not.

This is a songfiction about Ryou Bakura. I do not see Ryou as a wimp and shall not portray him that way. It always seems to me that everyone forgets that he was willing to DIE so that Yami Yugi could stop Yami Bakura. So, why does everyone assume that Ryou = wimpy?

-Yami thoughts-

+Hikari thoughts +

Remember Me

//*\\

I stand here face to face,

With someone that I used to know;

Who used to look at me and laugh.

But now he claims,

That he's known me for so very long.

But I remember being no one.

\\*//

Ryou woke up and got out of bed. Something felt so different that morning.

"Where are you, Bakura," Ryou asked, purposely leaving out the title 'Master.' Why? He had no idea.

There was no answer. So Ryou hurried to get his school things together and raced to school. In addition, as he raced through the kitchen Ryou noticed a note from his Yami. It told him that Bakura was out and would be back later.

Ryou shook his head slightly as he rushed out the door and ran down the street. He hoped that his Yami wouldn't remember to come home. That maybe he would stay where he had gone.

-You'll pay for that thought, servant!- Bakura thought viciously at Ryou.

+Of course, my Master,+ Ryou thought back, his mental voice dripping with sarcasm.

By then Ryou had made it all the way to the school.

//*\\

I wanted to be just like you,

So perfect,

So untouchable.

Now you want me to be with you,

Someone who used to have it all.

Do you remember now?

You acted like you never noticed me.

Forget it.

What has gone has come around,

You're not allowed to be a part of me.

\\*//

Ryou raced into class and just barely was able to reach his desk and sit down in it before the bell rang. Then Joey, always late, rushed into class. And, as always, was cursing the bell under his breath.

Then, the unexpected happened. Right as the teacher was about to discipline Joey for his tardy, Bakura appeared.

"I told you that you would pay for your remarks, idiot child," Bakura growled, hitting Ryou in front of the entire class.

Yugi got up out of his chair and turned into his Yami. However, before he could do anything for Ryou, Ryou himself took charge.

"I am not an idiot, and, no thanks to you, I am no child. And you've got to be kidding me to just burst in on MY class and just start trying to beat me up!" Ryou pressed the advantage that he had gained from his outburst. "You've no right. You shouldn't even be here, seeing as you've failed at about everything else I'm surprised you've succeeded in living this long!"

Ryou was punched again for his last remark, but Bakura seemed quiet shaken from the turn of events.

"You audacious servant! You'll learn the error of your ways now!" Bakura practically screamed.

"Really?" Ryou asked, flipping over the top bar, on the side of his desk, banking on forgotten gymnastics skills to rise to the surface. He landed on the other side deftly and then pushed the desk towards Bakura as he did so. "I am not your servant, nor are you the master of me."

"You are the lesser half Hikari!" Bakura said, lunging over the fallen desk and towards Ryou. Neither had noticed that most everyone in the class had taken refuge by one of walls.

//*\\

Did you know me?

Or were you to preoccupied,

With playing King in your small kingdom?

And now the real world,

Has stripped you of your royalty.

And from your kingdom,

You're invisible.

\\*//

"Scared?" Bakura sneered.

"Nope, why do you ask? Are you?" Ryou countered, ducking to avoid another blow.

"I know you, your mine," Bakura said. "Hikari, your class is frightened and even your teacher cowers. Don't make me banish them to the Shadow Realm in order to show you your place!"

Ryou quickly weighed his options and found the one plan that would get rid of his Yami. The one thing that Bakura would never see coming until it hit him. And then it would be too late.

Ryou quickly went into his soul room and into the hallway connecting him to Bakura. And the he grabbed the arrow held aloft there and forcefully turned it around so that it pointed the other way. Then he was knocked back into the real world by Bakura's use of one of the textbooks on his head.

"Fight back, you worthless baka!" Exclaimed Bakura.

//*\\

I wanted to be just like you,

So perfect,

So untouchable.

Now you want me to be with you,

Someone who used to have it all.

Do you remember now?

You acted like you never noticed me.

Forget it.

What has gone has come around,

You're not allowed to be a part of me.

Part of me,

Part of me,

Part of me,

Part of me!

\\*//

Ryou began to draw Shadow Power through his Millennium Ring. Counting on the fact that he was drawing nearer to Bakura to keep his Yami off balance.

"What? Coming to give up?" Bakura taunted.

"No, though you might want to," Ryou smiled eerily. "You've always said that I'm weak and worthless and there is no point to me. That I shouldn't be here and that I ought to be thankful that you let me even have a life. In fact you've mocked me from my accent to my hair." Ryou was standing right in front of Bakura as he said the last part. "And I've tolerated you until now."

Then he released the Shadow Power and both Ryou and Bakura disappeared in a black cloud that also vanished.

Yugi walked forward uncertainly. "What did Bakura do, Yami?"

"I don't know, my Hikari," Yami Yugi replied. "Whatever it was, Bakura didn't do it. It was Ryou. He sent himself and his Yami to the Shadow Realm, but how he managed not to leave a way of return I don't know." Yami looked sad as he finished, "he might not return."

//*\\

You're never going to be a part of me,

You're never going to be a part of me,

You're never going to be a part of me,

You're never going to be a part of me,

You're never going to be a part of me,

You're never going to be a part of me,

Do you remember now?

You acted like you never noticed me.

Forget it.

What has gone has come around,

You're not allowed to be a part of me.

\\*//

Ryou gazed at his Yami and then at the purple and black hues of the Shadow Realm.

"We aren't going back until you can handle living on a mortal plane, Yami," Ryou laughed bitterly. "You've lost your powers to me so you can't go back alone."

Bakura stared at the swirling colors and whispered softly, "I'll kill you."

"You lost that chance too," Ryou frowned. "I doubt you ever really had that chance, though."

//*\\

Part of me,

Part of me,

Part of me,

Part of me!

\\*//

What did you think? Will you review and tell me? Thanks for reading, anyway.