I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Rhapsody Moonschild and Tat Claire Kokoro
|~*Rhapsody: **sigh** I'm tired of doing disclaimers, ne?
Tat: Agreed. There's only one thing to do, then.
Rhapsody: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Tat: But where are we going to find a net and Swiss cheese at this time of night?
Rhapsody: **huge sweatdrop** I MEANT let's borrow a character.
Tat: Okies! ^^ **pulls Bakura from behind a curtain**
Bakura: **looks disoriented** Where—? **sees Tat and Rhapsody drooling** Uh oh… those look like fangirls!!!
Tat: **glomps him** Baku-chan!!!
Bakura: Ah! Ah! Get 'er off me!!! **runs around screaming**
Rhapsody: **smirk** Say our disclaimer and I will.
Bakura: o.O Okay, okay!!! Yu-Gi-Oh! with MYSELF included does not belong to these two crazy fangirls!!!
Tat: Who you calling crazy?
Bakura: Er… let me go now!
Rhapsody: **goes to help pry Tat off of Bakura**
Just start the fic…*~|
CHAPTER TEN (by Rhapsody)
Yami's POV
I am both relieved and disappointed when Ryou leaves the room… Relieved because I hadn't exactly been sure what I would have done next, and disappointed… because…
Because I might have liked what I was going to do next, I whisper to myself in my mind, blocking the thought from Yugi. It seems a little odd to be hiding something so important from my light, but he has his stuff and I have mine… I don't butt into his thoughts about Anzu or anything.
Wait, this is nothing like Anzu! I don't like Ryou that way…
……
Damn, it is impossible to lie to yourself.
……
Why would I have kissed him otherwise? My cheeks warm as I recall it. He was just lying there so peaceful and perfect… Some part of me asked crazily what it would be like to kiss him, and then there I was…
And after that, when I caught him from falling into the door, I was going to do it again.
……I don't even know how he feels about this. Maybe he doesn't like me in that way. I wouldn't be surprised. No one likes me much, I am too distant and cold… It is how I was raised, those long millennia ago…
There was one person, once… I shut my eyes and concentrate on that sudden wisp of memory. Someone I trusted…
"Good morning, Yami," he whispered in my ear. I muttered something sleepily and pulled him closer to me.
"Yami, let's watch the dawn," he asked. I wasn't exactly a morning person, so I simply grunted and tried to go back to sleep. But he insisted, and I loved him, so finally I sat up and gazed with him out my window.
There came my father Ra over the horizon, bedecked in sharp orange and red… It was so beautiful. It cast a golden sheen over my companion's pale hair.*
But all too soon the sunrise was over, and he gave me one last kiss and slipped out my window back into the town. I heard a servant call my name and reluctantly I turned away from the dawn.
It was always at its most beautiful when I spent it with him.
I blink and the memory fades. A more recent one emerges… This morning (what time is it now? It seems forever ago) when I had greeted the dawn by Ryou's bedside, hoping and praying to Ra-father to let him live…
……
But now I've gone full circle. What am I to do about this… sudden attraction… to Ryou?
I guess I'll have to see if he feels the same. When he comes back, we'll talk.
If I can find the courage.
((*Said pale-haired individual is not Bakura. Maybe one of Ryou's ancestors, who knows? We invented him.))