Author's Notes: Again this is written by Anei Aikouka and I don't own Yugioh. Yugioh is far too good to be made up by someone with as little imagination as me.
"Don't go," Bakura heard Ryou say softly.
"You should be glad I'm leaving. Now there won't be anyone to interfere with your precious freedom." He sneered to cover up the hurt and left. Running downstairs he slammed the door as hard as he could and headed out into the night. It was a pleasant summer evening that seemed to make a mock of his feelings.
Flashback
"You never let me do anything for myself!" Ryou yelled at Bakura in a rare display of defiance. "Everything I do you have to approve first and I can't do anything that you deem unnecessary!! You always have to be in control! Stop it!! Why can't you just leave me alone!!!?"
Flashback
Ryou's words kept playing back in his mind. He couldn't get rid of the thought. His hikari didn't want him. He'd tried to make Ryou happy, had stopped his beatings because Yami had said that they hurt Ryou. He could still remember the time when he first presented his bargain.
Flashback
"You don't want me to hurt you anymore is that it?" Bakura asked, staring down at his hikari who was curled up in a miserable ball after yet another violent episode. The boy nodded, tears leaking out of his eyes. He was obviously expecting to be hurt again for daring to ask Bakura to stop doing something he wanted to do.
"Then I suggest that you consider the alternative." Ryou looked up hopefully. It was pitifully easy to see that he was thinking that anything would be better than the pain Bakura gave him. "You either continue like this," Bakura gestured to the blood on the floor and walls, "Or you can give me complete control over your life. You wouldn't be able do anything without my permission. Choose, would you rather have your freedom or a relief from your torment?"
"I just want the pain to stop," Ryou had whispered, "Please, make it stop."
Bakura had smiled and pulled the small form into his arms. "Sleep," he breathed, "Sleep and let your dreams play along the Nile." He extended his energy into the other boy's consciousness and Ryou fell instantly into a sweet, dreamless sleep.
End Flashback
A smile tugged at the corners of his mouth as he remembered that time. He'd cleaned and bandaged Ryou. That night had been the beginning of a new relationship. As long as Ryou did what he was told Bakura looked out for him. The bullies who had bothered him wouldn't come within five yards of him after Bakura had taken care of them. Ryou's friends came back to him as his behavior became normal once again. Bakura had thought that everything was perfect.
He had been wrong. Apparently it wasn't enough that he had tried. His little one didn't want him. The decision had been made. Ryou wanted Bakura to leave, well then he would, and he had. He was unsure of what he was going to do now but it didn't matter really. Just as long as he got as far away from Domino and his hikari as possible.
He got to the train station and grabbed onto a train as it went speeding by. Away he went, where he didn't know, but he was going away from the only place he could remember being happy. He was going to make his hikari happy and nothing else mattered.
His feelings didn't matter. They had never mattered. It was Ryou that mattered and Ryou wanted him gone. Just like everyone else. No one had ever wanted him and no one ever would. So now he was leaving to try and find a place where he could be alone without any so-called friends. All friends ever did was betray you and Bakura had had enough of betrayal.
He leaned out from the train, holding on with only one hand. The whippy tree branches slashed his skin and the heat of the train scorched him. His insane laughter echoed along the tracks as he abandoned himself in the speed, the adrenaline, and the pleasure of the pain.