Dagger
Chapter 7
Bakura awoke, expecting to feel the warm body of his light laying next to him because he usual forced the white haired youth to sleep with him. Only, today he found the bed cold, empty, and seemingly endless on both ends... At first, he was furious with Ryou, until he realized Ryou hadn't been there even when he'd gone to sleep. That, Ryou was gone, taken from him by force. He'd stayed in his material form just to see if he would lose that ability without Ryou with him. Which, apparently wasn't so, however, he wished he would at least then he wouldn't be able to feel the pain racing through the flesh he'd created and enveloped his soul in. When he smelled the bacon cooking, Bakura thought it almost too true to be good, Ryou wasn't gone, he was here! Bakura rushed to get dressed, hurrying to comb his messy mane, and rushing down the stairwell to the kitchen, only to find it was Ryou's Dad standing in front of the stove. "You seem excited to see me home, Ryou.", Mr. Bakura said, smiling.
Bakura couldn't take it, everything in this building reminded him of Ryou. He finally burst right in front of Ryou's Father. "I'm not Ryou, damn it! I'm the stupid spirit that had him taken by him! Ryou's gone! He's gone, and he's never coming back, don't you get it you ass?!!!!", Bakura replied, now crying openly, before turning, and running.
When all the world seems like it's out to crush you into nothing but a ball of crying flesh running always feels like flying away. It helps to ease the pain even if just by a little as you vent your anger step by hurried step. For Bakura, at least it felt like this, and he soon found himself in what he remembered as Ryou's favorite spot in this city. It was a park, just a simple, quiet park, with a babbling brook in the center of it and a small wooden bridge connecting both halves. It was usually abandoned but, still soothing, quiet. However, it was here of all places that Bakura ran into Yami Yugi, who just sat casually on a bench a little ways off. "Peaceful isn't it?", Yami asked, only bothering to open one eye and gaze in a lazy manner up at Bakura's face.
He could figure what he looked like right now, wide, red eyes brimming with fresh tears, his face a faint tint of red hue coloring it. Along with the panting breaths and wild tangled mane of snowy white hair would make for quite the appearance. "You look distraught, not what you thought it would be without you're slave at your side is it?",
"So, you side with him, don't you, figures you would you're such a goody two shoes, you damnable fuck.", Bakura growled underneath his breath.
"Not necessarily. Unlike him, I figured you'd learn your lesson if I gave you darkness for a while even though I knew you'd return after a while, and in some sense you did. However, other fears kept you from seeing the larger fear that overwhelmed you during your short stay in the Shadow Realm.", Yami replied, "However, I do have to admit he finally got through your thick skull, didn't he?",
"Now, I'm regretting leaving him when I did.", Bakura muttered.
"That's what I don't get, how did you two know each other in the first place, and frankly speaking, I'd like to know.", Yami stated.
"He was my first hikari, however, do to certain reasons I severed the mental link I had with him, and left.", Bakura replied, "Apparently his pain became that piece of shit dagger and he's followed me taking into himself the hikaris that I left behind. I don't know for sure, but I think that's what he's been doing.",
"So, he took Ryou like the others you left behind you, only this time Ryou hadn't been left behind yet.", Yami replied.
"What do you mean by that?!", Bakura retorted.
"Only that you would have done it eventually.", Yami replied with a shrug.
"I would never have left Ryo-", Bakura started to argue.
"Oh, that's right, he's your little fucking hoar, right?", Yami said in a sarcastic tone, "But, you don't realize how much you'll miss something until it's gone.",
"I am such a fucking asshole!", Bakura replied.
"It's okay, you just have to wait this out, try to figure out what you'll do when and if Ryou actually comes back.", Yami replied, "Yugi's waking up, I have to go home. Just, think on what I said.",
With that, Yami vanished to his soul room to await Yugi's smiling face. Bakura looked out at the swirling currents of the stream in the early morning light. "I'm so sorry, Ryou.", Bakura whispered to himself.
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Ryou woke again in the strange room it was white everywhere. The bed's blankets were soft underneath his skin and pillows cushioned his head. He didn't feel Bakura anywhere here or at all actually. "Don't worry about him right now, what he needs is time to think about his actions.", Sirus said.
"When am I going back to Bakura?", Ryou asked.
"When I believe he's learned his lesson.", Sirus replied, "It shouldn't take that long though, you are after all his true hikari he'll feel the effects quickly.",
End Chapter: More Bakura angst, blah, blah, blah, see what happens in the next chapter.