RYU NO FUKUSHU

Chapter Ten: The End

It was some time after Ryu had pushed Seto into the void before she pulled him up and out of the Shadow Realm. "That ought to have been long enough. Perhaps now he has spent enough time reliving his past lives that he will remember." She murmured under her breath as she reached into the void and pulled Seto out by the collar of his trench coat. Ryu fell backwards as Seto piled on top of her. They landed in a very awkward position, and their noses were very close together. "I-I'm so sorry!" Seto said hastily, trying to push him self up off of her, fearing that he might crush her tiny form. "Oh! O-oh no, it's my fault entirely! Ummmm, please don't get up," She mumbled, pulling him back on to her, "there's something I've been meaning to do for some time." Almost immediately after saying this, she pulled his face closer to his and pressed her lips to his. Ryu felt his whole body relaxing, and saw his eyes close with pleasure. She laughed inwardly as she let the dagger she had up her sleeve slide easily into the palm of her hand. Ryu eased the dagger between them and pushed it into Seto's stomach. She felt him gag, and she tasted the blood in his mouth that told her she had succeeded. Slowly, Ryu pushed him off of her, and savored the expression of pain that came across his face. "Why Ryu?" Seto coughed.

"WHY? Why, you ask? I'll tell you WHY! It's because I hate and loathe you, Seto Kaiba!!" Ryu managed to yell between great sobs that tore at her chest. "I-I did love you, but I can't any more, not after what you did to me! You sacrificed me, all for your selfish stupid plan! I hate you! How could any one ever love a scum-bag like you!?!!" She shouted, tears now streaming freely from her eyes.

"I love you, and forever will I continue to do so. Nothing that any one can do or say will ever change that. You're stuck with me for ever, not even in the after life will you be free of me. I'll follow you to the end of the earth, if need be." Seto croaked, now struggling for air.

As he said the very words that she, herself had once said to him, more tears began to erupt from Ryu's eyes. She crawled forward to the place where Seto still lay, and put her head on the rapidly rising and falling chest of Seto Kaiba. He was near death, and she knew it. As she lay against her dying lover's chest, covered in blood, she felt something cold and hard against her cheek. It hung by a chain around Seto's neck and it looked like a Duel Monster's card, but upon further examination, it appeared to be a picture frame with a picture of his brother in it. "What am I doing here? How could I be so blind! The only reason that my desire to kill Seto was strong enough for my prism to take me to this time is because of my wish to see him again, but he has other things to live for now, like his family. I have no place here, in his life, I do not belong. I'm sorry Seto, for all the trouble I have caused you. I only hope that I can undo what should never have happened." Ryu murmured, wiping the tears from her eyes. As the last breath left his body, Ryu took the Millennium Prism and placed it gently on Seto's body. As more tears rushed to her eyes, she said quietly, "By the Millennium Prism, undo all the horrible things that I have done, and take me to the place that I belong." As a single tear cascaded down her cheek, and fell on to the prism, her final request of this life was granted. "You won't remember me, Seto Kaiba, but I will always remember you." Ryu said quietly as she faded away from this time and dimension, and was returned to the place she belonged.

The End

Author's note: well, that's it! THE END! WEEEEEE! I hope you liked it!