Author's Note: Yeah, I'm trying to get Stormy Weather and Reincarnation finished as quickly as I can, but sometimes your mind doesn't work like that. Thanks to all the people who have been reviewing! Tell your friends about this fic! Also, this is the last chapter.
Stormy Weather
Chapter 7-Moment of Truth
Domino High School
Yami Bakura:
"We need to get away from here."
"Why?"
"Because I am here."
In the doorway was my aibou, his pale face covered in caked blood.
"Am I the only one wondering how my aibou got blood all over his face?" I asked out loud.
Yami shot me an incredulous look and broke the girl's bonds. Ryou smiled, revealing bloodstained teeth.
"Where's Yugi, Ryou?" I asked, helping the girl to her feet.
Ryou's grin grew wider.
"Answer him!" Yami shouted.
The girl covered her ears and sighed.
"Yugi's alive," She muttered.
"You know what's going on with my hikari, don't you?" I asked.
The girl nodded.
"The shadows have taken over his mind. He's determined to banish all of us."
"All of us?" Yami asked.
I handed the girl off to him and rushed up the stairs. I would have to get Ryou away in order for the other's to escape. Ryou jumped back from the doorway and held his hand out. All of a sudden, I found myself being flung down the right side of the hallway roughly. I was then overwhelmed with a sense of longing to return back to the safety of my soul room. It wasn't a very good idea to do so now, that much I knew. Yami and the girl emerged from the room, running at top speed.
"Move, Bakura, move!"
I got to my feet and ran around the corner, narrowly avoiding a beam of shadow magic. Yugi was waiting beyond the door, clearly shaken. Ryou must have gotten to him first, but I was distantly hoped he didn't sustain any injury. He opened the door, ushering me, Yami and the girl through before relocking the door. There was a loud thud from the other side of the door and a growl.
"That's not going to hold him long," I muttered, trying not to sound as frightened as I was.
Yugi fell back against his yami and let out a dry sob.
"He trapped me in the hall for a while, tempting and calling on the shadows. It was awful."
The girl touched Yugi shoulder, trying to comfort him.
"It's not Ryou's fault. The shadows were not supposed to come for him so soon."
Yami stared at the girl.
"You are the reincarnation of the Priestess Kalani, are you not?"
The girl nodded, much to my horror. Yami noticed my expression and got up to his feet.
"We should go back to house, so that we can…talk about this."
Yugi Motou's House
Bakura:
I was growing tired from being so far away from my ring. However, I wasn't about to go back to Domino High and face Ryou's wrath just yet. Kalani was my long lost love from 5,000 years ago. I couldn't believe she was back in card form. And why did she want me sent to the Shadow Realm? What happened while I was gone?
"If you don't mind, Kalani, could you tell us how you got this way?" Yami asked.
//Thank you, Pharaoh. I'll remember this when the time comes for revenge.//
Kalani nodded.
"I had a child who was as pale as a spirit and his eyes were of the darkest hue of brown. I had ever seen. But his hair…his hair gave everything about him away. As a priestess of the highest temple in Egypt, I knew this child was an omen. Could you imagine? My child was a…curse. But as I held him I knew better. I would defy the laws to keep him alive. I had to. One day, there was uproar in the central palace. Something about the shadows leaking out of the sacred room. I really didn't know much about that the Shadow Games at this time. But a few years later, it became known to me that the child's father was participating in the games."
I shifted in my seat and covered my face.
"Bakura, do you know something about this?" Yugi asked.
I coughed nervously.
"Yes," I said softly.
"Please tell us."
"I knew Kalani 5,000 years ago. I…um…was the father of that child. I was responsible for the leak of the shadows at the palace that tainted my son."
I felt like I was about to die from revealing all that. Kalani gave me a shocked look along with Yugi. Yami was eerily silent and thoughtful.
"So how did Ryou receive the shadow magic?" He asked.
Now that was something I didn't know.
"He inherited it, I suppose," Kalani said softly.
"One question remains, Kalani. Why did you want to banish me?" I asked.
The room went cold and silent as Kalani turned her gaze away from me. I felt like my old self again in that one moment and that did not please me at all. I felt the old desire for pain resurface and growled.
"Why are you taking so long to answer that question?"
Kalani flinched. Yugi tensed up beside Yami, ready for anything. Yami was watching Kalani with mild interest.
"I wanted you dead," Kalani whispered.
I grabbed her arm and shook her violently.
"What for, priestess?"
Yami held a bewildered Yugi back as I pressed my hand against her throat. I was going to cut her airway off if she didn't give an indication that she wanted to say something. She tapped my arm and let out a strangled cry.
"Because you d-damned my family!" She shrieked.
I let her go roughly, a twisted smile on my lips. I had fallen in love with this woman and had a son. But because of the shadows from the Shadow Games leaking out and the discovery of her family, she wanted to banish me.
//Oh, happy day, Bakura. Your old girlfriend has gotten revenge on you for your son. Oh, why won't you kill her…//
And I thought about killing her or at least beating her within an inch of her life, but I had something better. I picked Kalani up and shook her.
"You will help reverse what you have done to my aibou! And then you will spend your life in the Shadow Realm, understand?" I snarled.
Kalani whimpered.
"Come on, Pharaoh. Let's get my aibou back."
Ryou:
I was in a field, surrounded by beautiful closed flowers. Why was I here? I touched the base of a flower nearby, tightening my grip around it so that I may pluck the dead thing from the earth. All of a sudden, the flower opened up and I felt a sharp pain in my hand. I pulled away, glancing at my hand in confusion. There were three puncture holes in my now reddening palm. My gaze drifted back to the pure white rose that had red branching out from the middle. As I sat there, the flower transformed into a red rose and then it started to decay all in a second.
~That is the way of the shadow.~
/The shadows took everything from me…my mother…my father…my friends…my yami. I hate the shadows!/
The image of the flower field shattered and collapsed in nothingness. I shrieked, knowing that there was nothing I could do to escape the maddening darkness! A loud bang startled me out of my feverish dreams. New amounts of blood lined my clothing due to my body force-feeding itself flesh from the thugs in the hallway. At that thought, I wanted to throw up. My vision blurred as I glanced around the room. Blood…dead bodies…Yugi and the others…
"Ryou!"
Without warning, I hissed. I wasn't sure why, but I felt that they were a threat. Yugi backed away a few steps, then started towards me again.
"Stay away from me!" I shouted.
"Tell me what I can do to help him!" A rough-sounding voice ordered.
"I don't have to tell you anything!"
There was a shriek and a gargle as shadowy mist swept down the hallway. I inhaled it sharply; reveling in the delight it brought me. A silver haired man walked in my line of sight. I recognized him as…my yami. (A/N: Song Lyrics from 'Get It Together' by India.arie)
Dark future ahead of me that's what they said
I'd be starving if I ate all the lies they fed
"Ryou, do you know who I am?"
I locked my gaze with Bakura's and growled.
~You can kill him, Ryou. End your suffering!~
"I can kill you. I can send you away forever, Bakura."
The words sounded foreign coming from my mouth.
Cause I've been redeemed from your anguish and pain
"But why would you?"
Bakura's question startled me.
~Send him!~
I held out my hand and energy instantly snaked up my arm. Bakura grabbed my hand and instantly went stiff. Pain snaked up that very same arm and my muscles locked up.
A miracle child I'm floating on a cloud
Cause the words that came from your mouth
You're the first to hear
Yami Bakura:
I found myself in a flower field full of black roses. In the middle of those roses, lay a frightened Ryou. I could tell by the way my head hurt that the shadow energy was taking effect. I walked through the field of roses to the middle where Ryou lay.
"Stand up, aibou," I whispered.
Ryou whimpered.
"The shadows aren't going away. Make it go away…"
What did I do to this child to make him this way? I knelt beside him and touched his cheek softly.
"We've had some good times, haven't we, aibou? Now try to remember…"
Speak words of beauty and you will be there
Ryou chuckled.
"I…guess…"
"Please, Ryou…forgive me."
I felt dizzy all of a sudden and fell flat on my ass. The banishment shadow magic was taking effect and I felt the pull of the ring. Ryou tried to touch my hand, but failed due to the fact that I was fading away.
"Yami! Yami, don't go!" He shouted.
"I'm sorry…"
No matter what anybody says what matters most is what you think of yourself
One tear ran down my cheek slowly as I vanished within my ring.
Ryou:
"No! Don't leave me alone! I can't be alone!" I shrieked as I flew back into my soul room.
I threw open my door and ran into Bakura's room. My yami was flying backwards in a large purplish portal. I grabbed his arm and tried to pull him back.
"Please? I love you, yami! You are the best thing that's happened to me!"
Bakura looked at me.
"You mean that?" He asked.
I nodded. The portal closed up instantly, dropping Bakura to the floor. I hugged him while he was down there and sighed.
"I couldn't lose you, yami. You're too precious to me," I whispered.
"I'm glad to hear it, aibou."