Author's Note: Gasp! The horror of it all! Poor Ryou, poor Bakura! From now on, there be a lull in my updating schedule: First off I will be updating Stormy Weather first, Reincarnation second, and The Man Behind the Demon third. Good enough? Ok? Um…also I feel like this story isn't getting much attention so I may stop updating altogether.
Stormy Weather
Chapter 3-Doubt and Memories
Yugi Motou's House
9:28 P.M.
Ryou Bakura:
I hate my life. I was weak and the injury sustained to my shoulder proved it. As it turned out, Bakura had severed some tendons in my shoulder, which meant that I couldn't used my right arm for at least four weeks without causing more harm to myself. I guess that in itself was ok, but my main concern was on my yami. I wanted to talk to him so desperately. At random times, I would throw myself at his soul door, begging for him to answer.
But there was always silence and my harsh breathing. I didn't want to say anything about it to Yugi and Yami, but it was hard to keep a secret from them. Besides, they already knew what Bakura was doing to me. Not only that, but I was the one stopping Yami from banishing him to the Shadow Realm. Now isn't that ironic when you think about it?
Yami Bakura:
The confines of my soul room never looked so sad and dreary before in my life. I had an urge I couldn't satisfy and it was starting to wear down on me. No…not wear down…it just irritates me. Yes…irritation…that sounds much better. I admit I was growing tired of being in this cold room, but at least it kept me away from Ryou.
Ryou. Why was I afraid of that boy? What made me lock myself in this cold, dark, and moldy tomb? That child was about to banish me. Why? Did he want me around? Now that was a stupid question, Bakura. Of course that idiot hated me. He said so a long time ago and you accepted it. I accepted the fact that I would have someone despise me for the rest of his/her life. I'll be damned if I accepted that sitting down.
(Flashback; Lyrics to Missing by Evanescence)
Ryou Bakura whimpered and fell back on the carpeted floor near the stairs. Tears and a mixture of blood streamed down his face.
Please, please forgive me…
He looked up at me pitifully and in those blue eyes was hatred, carefully placed hatred. And Yami Bakura hated that look; it infuriated him immensely.
But I won't be home again…
Bakura snatched him up to his feet and growled.
"Do you hate me now, aibou?"
Ryou gave me a look that held hatred, but it also held confusion.
Maybe someday you'll have woke up…
"Answer me, aibou!"
And, barely conscious, you'll say to no one: "Isn't something missing?"
"Stop calling me that."
Ryou's voice was loud and clear and even then, Bakura could not doubt the words that came from his mouth.
You won't cry for my absence, I know…
Ryou had long since stopped crying. Anger and fury boiled up in Bakura's heat and he slammed Ryou's face into the wall.
You forgot me long ago…
"How dare you, Ryou! I gave you the world and my presence!"
Not a sound escaped from his mouth.
Am I that unimportant…?
Am I so insignificant…?
Isn't something missing?
Bakura held Ryou up to his face and sneered, expecting for him to cry. But he wasn't. His brilliant blue eyes peered at him sadly, no longer holding the hatred that had resided there before.
Isn't someone missing me…?
(End Flashback)
And now, I was about to get banished for that and for many other transgressions. But Ryou stopped it from happening. How could someone like him want to save me? Could he harbor feelings of love for me? (A/N: We are not going to Yaoi Island, people.) Ugh…right. I just impaired the use of his arm yesterday. That's showing love all right.
Domino High
Kalani:
It was late when I finally emerged from the Domino High School campus. I should have been home a long time ago, but things had to be done and it left me with a sense of liberation. I was a supernatural being who above anything else at the moment, wanted to stretch my powers and return home. Home was my card and certain areas of the Shadow Realm. Ah…the Shadow realm…shouldn't Bakura be there by now? My senses told me that he wasn't there immediately. ~Humph, Ryou couldn't put him out of his misery~
Maybe that something I would help Ryou accomplish. A rough hand snatched me out of the street and into a dark ally. I screamed and fought against the pull, but to no avail. I was forced to come face to face with Antsei, the bully I had 'met' before.
"My, my, look who I found."
He sounded like he was almost purring with delight. That wasn't good.
"I think I'm going to enjoy having fun with you."
I growled, trying to kick up the energy I so desperately need to send this man to the Shadow Realm. But…I failed. I couldn't do it.
"Say goodnight, dear."
Antsei forced me against the wall and drove his fist into my chest. My vision went blank and I could feel myself falling. I was doomed.
11:58 P.M.
Ryou Bakura:
I couldn't sleep. Maybe had something to do with my yami. Or it might just be my shoulder. In fact, it was a combination of both. I was indeed worried about my yami who was hidden within the deeper regions of his soul room. I glanced at Yami's prone sleeping form, due to the fact that he took control of Yugi. He was in deep sleep, which was fine. I didn't want to have him worry. I sighed and focused upon my soul room's interior. Soon enough, I was standing in the middle of it, with the door wide open.
I moved over to the door across from it, trying to find the doorknob. It was there and it didn't seem to be booby-trapped. I pulled on it softly at first, but with more and more ferocity.
"Bakura, open the door!"
Bakura:
//Wow that kid is on some kind of time schedule.//
/I heard that./
I laughed, eyeing the door to the soul room. I should let him in and scare him for old times sake. But I wasn't ready to face him. I was still…afraid of him. That was something I didn't want to admit.