I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Tat Claire Kokoro and Rhapsody Moonschild
|~*Rhapsody: **wanders in casually, holding a stack of letters**
Tat: Psst… **looks to audience**
Rhapsody: **looks up** Oh, hi!!! **beams** Welcome to chapter twenty-one of "Caged Bird!"
Tat: What's in the mail?
Rhapsody: **looks through** Bill, bill, bill… ooh, a reply to our ad! **tears open, reads** **face falls**
Tat: What's it say?
Rhapsody: All of the Yu-Gi-Oh! characters have gotten a restraining order. On us. **sweatdrop**
Tat: o.O …Guess… we're doing our own disclaimer, ne?
Rhapsody: **sigh** Yu-Gi-Oh! is not our property… Just go read, okay?*~|
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE (by Tat)
Ryou's POV
So we couldn't find anything to do to Bakura…
I don't blame us. We tried everything we could think of before: sending him to the Shadow Realm, the curse… That was all we could do.
It'd been weeks since Bakura came out of the Ring. There were times when Yami and I wanted to make love but there was still one thing lingering: Bakura was in the Ring and could come out at any moment.
So we held back our desires and went on some dates, mostly to the park.
Then one day Bakura came back out…
"Ryou…" he nudged me.
My eyes snapped open. "Bakura?!"
He gave a Cheshire Cat grin. "Do you know what I'm going to do, light?"
I crawled back from him until I was cornered into a wall. "No… No…"
His hand cradled my chin and he tilted my head up. "I'm taking what's most important to you. Would you like it if you forgot about Yami? Hm…?"
I was silent. He was going to make me forget…?
"I think you would, my dear hikari. Yes, yes… I think you would." He kissed my cheek, causing me to shudder.
Then his hand covered my eyes and there was blankness…