DISCLAIMER: *Tsuki shoves Bakura in front of a microphone*
Bakura: I don't want to....
Tsuki: Just do it!
Bakura: Fine, Kuro Tsuki Tenshi does not own Yu-Gi-Oh! There I said it now give me my five bucks.
Tsuki: Too bad I'm Broke. ^_~
*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* = flashback
= Mental picture ( seen through mind links)
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*= Dreams
A/N: I'm experimenting with point of view so tell me what ya think
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Ryou: Thanks to Tsuki's unusually hard head the writer's block has been defeated.
Tsuki: Hey Bakura! Get over here I need to be fanned. I'm hot.
Bakura: Iie....
Tsuki: Okay then I guess I'll just let Ryou, Yugi, Yami and Neko see this picture of you with bright pink hair.
Bakura: *mumbles* I'll go get the fan. *walks off. Comes back a few minutes later*
Tsuki: Good boy. Now fan me slave for I am hot.
Bakura: * Plugs fan into the wall. Pushes on button.* There.
Ryou: That's cheating
Bakura: What? She said fan her. This is a fan and it's on her.
Tsuki: Stupid loop holes.
Neko: Hey can we see that picture?
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Bakura's POV
We went back to Ryou's house the next day. As soon as I walked in I had to step back out. I could still smell blood in the air. It probably wasn't strong enough for Ryou to detect but to me, it was like someone had punched me in the face. I couldn't stand it in that house, or the fact that I knew what his room looked like. That image haunted me. Ryou, lying on his bed unconscious, the pill bottles on the floor, his bathroom mirror smashed, the bloody shard in his limp hand, the ring in a pool of his blood. It wouldn't have bothered me before. I used to welcome blood, it meant that I was the one in control. Just last week I was washing Ryou's blood from my knuckles, now just the thought of the thick crimson substance made me sick. He put his hand on my arm, saying something that didn't seem to reach my ears. My hikari tugged on my sleeve, trying to get my attention.
/Aibou? Are you all right?/
I put my arm around his shoulders, pulling him into a hug.
//I'm sorry.// I didn't know what else to say, I felt so guilty. Somehow he managed to get me inside. We spent the rest of the day cleaning his room and bathroom, scrubbing the blood from the carpet and replacing the mirror, throwing his bloody sheets into the wash. I stayed quiet, avoiding his eyes, and keeping my distance a bit. When we were done I just sat on the edge of the bed, staring at my boots.
"Aibou, please don't be like this."
"I just. I..."
"Don't worry about it aibou, you know I forgive you. Besides, I did it not you."
"Bu tI drove you to it."
"Bakura, put it in the past. Things can only get better."
"Hai my hikari, as usual you're right."
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Third Person POV
Bakura jolted up in bed, breathing heavily and covered in a cold sweat. The nightmares were getting worse and more frequent. He looked over at Ryou, seeing that his hikari was sleeping soundly beside him. (A/N: Quit that! Get your head out of there! This is not that kind of fic. My sister and me share a bed and not in THAT way, neither do Ryou and Bakura. No I don't support yaoi thank you very much. You can quote on that or even flame for all I care, but screwing you aibou is just wrong. Even kissing them in the romantic sense is wrong.) He didn't want Ryou to share his dreams. His past was a harsh one, on that even made him cry. Bakura was crying now, letting the tears flow silently down his cheeks. He frowned, suddenly and violently wiping the tears away, angry with himself. He hated crying over the past. He had crying period, for he was never shown mercy for tears, so he wasn't one to cry often, if ever. The last time her had cried was about a month ago when Ryou had tried to kill himself.
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Bakura ran through the rain. His hikari's body cradled in his arms. He stopped briefly, out of breath and out of hope. Ryou was so cold, so pale ad lifeless. That's when he realized it. The water on his body was cold, but the water on his face was hot. He was, crying, afraid or losing his light, afraid of being sealed back into the Ring. He wasn't sure which he was more afraid of but her knew he had to save Ryou, he had to make it to Yugi's house in time.
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He stiffened as Ryou made a noise and rolled over. Bakura looked over his shoulder, making sure the teen was still asleep, which he was. He lay back against the pillow, his breathing slowing back into a normal rhythm. He closed his eyes as the Ring glowed softly. With that the Spirit of the Ring returned to his long empty soul room.
Ryou woke up the next morning, sat up a rubbed his eyes. He looked over, noticing the empty spot in the bed. I thought I sensed him going back to the Ring. / Bakura are you awake? /
//Hai and I'm fine. // Bakura seemed to spit the words back at the teen, acid lining every one.
/Y-you know I just worry a-about you. /
//You worry too much. Why are you stuttering? //
/You just sound angry. /
Bakura lowered his voice and checked his tone before continuing the conversation, but the fright he was sensing from Ryou was only making him angrier.
//Damn it Ryou! Why are you scared of me again!?//
/You're yelling at me that's why!/
Ryou sat in silence for a moment before Bakura materialized behind him ad pulled him into a hug, resting his chin on top of Ryou's head.
"Gomen aibou. I haven't slept well lately and I'm edgy."
"I know you don't."
"Huh?"
"I feel you toss and turn at night. I even hear you cry sometimes. Like you did last night."
Bakura closed his eyes, he still wasn't ready to tell and Ryou wasn't ready to hear.
"It's just nightmares my hikari, nothing more."
"Then why do they scare you so much?"
Bakura sighed, lifting his head. " Don't you have school?"
"Are you changing the subject?"
"Hai I am, and it's a Monday and it's 8:00 and your still here so now you've confused you."
"It's one of those teacher workday things. I don't have to go when the school has those."
"Oh."
" Want some breakfast?"
"Aibou you know I don't eat."
"You ate lunch with me last Wednesday."
"Okay so technically I don't need to eat but I do sometimes."
"Come on, I'll make you something with cinnamon in it."
Bakura raised an eyebrow. "Cinnamon?"
"Yeah, it'll be ready in fifteen minutes so hurry up and get down stairs.
Ryou slid out of bed and headed downstairs to the kitchen. Twenty minutes later Bakura came down to find a fresh plate of cinnamon rolls on the kitchen counter. He reached out for one only to be stopped by Ryou.
"Hey what's the deal?"
Ryou sighed. shoving a silver object in front of his darker half.
"Fork."
"Fork?"
"Use it."
"But aibou forks are over rated."
"Onegai just use the fork."
Bakura sighed in defeat. " Never could say no when you say onegai."
"And at the table." Ryou turned around to get a glass of milk as Bakura started eating. A few minutes later Ryou found himself being poked with a semi sharp object.
"Bakura what are doing?"
"I'm using the fork."
"What do you want aibou?"
"I want another one."
"But I just gave y-"
"I ate it already." Bakura smiled and poked his hikari again.
"Okay okay you can have another one."
"Arigato aibou."
Hikari and yami sat on the couch, flipping through the various TV channels. Bakura sighed, trying to fight off sleep. Ryou looked over, noticing his other half's closed eyes.
" Why don't you take a nap?"
"Huh? Oh I don't need one."
"You said you didn't sleep well last night."
"I'll be fine."
"Onegai Bakura?"
Bakura reached over, ruffling his hikari's hair. " Why do you always talk me into things." He stood up and yawned heading for Ryou's room. " I 'll be back in a while."
Ryou turned off the TV and walked down the hallway to his room.
"Hey Bakura wake up, if you sleep all day you won't be able to sleep toni-. Bakura?"
Ryou looked around the room, finding no sign of his yami. He must be in his soul room. Wonder why though. He closed his eyes, making a mental connection to his other.
"No! Let me go! You're hurting me!"
"That's the point you worthless has been tomb raider! You will learn your place even if it kills you!"
"I'll never be a dog at your feet!"
"Wrong choice brat! I'll just have to beat the sense into you!"
"No! Stop!"
Ryou opened his eyes, shaking. "His nightmares?" He closed his eyes again, trying to wake his other.
/ Bakura wake up!/
" Look how pitiful you are. Can't even get up from your own pool of blood."
"I-I'll never b-bow down to the l-likes of y-you."
"But my dear boy don't you realize that it's better to be a cringing dog at my feet than a bug under my boot?"
"You'll have to kill me first."
"Boy, when I am through with you not only will you learn to watch your mouth and obey me but you'll pray to the Gods themselves that I would just kill you and end your worthless little life."
/ Bakura! Come on wake up!/
Bakura jolted awake in his soul room, his mind racing.
/ Bakura come out here./
// A-aibou?//
/ Hai, it's me. Don't worry you were just having a nightmare./
Bakura closed his eyes, materializing onto Ryou's bed. He brushed his hair out of his face and leaned back against the headboard, waiting for his breathing to return to normal. Ryou walked over and sat down on the bed next to his yami, pulling him into a hug in an attempt to comfort him.
" Everything is alright my hikari, I'm alright. Memories and dreams don't hurt."
"Then why do yours cause you so much pain?"
Bakura's POV
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There was blood everywhere. The walls, the floor, and in the center of it all sat me, also covered in blood. My own blood. I was no more than fifteen, Ryou's age. I could hear his footsteps on the marble floor behind me, coming back to finish the beating he was interrupted from. Laying back, I closed my eyes and held my breath. Maybe if he thought I had passed out he would go away. The footsteps stopped a few moments later and I inhaled deeply, dizzy from the lack of oxygen. I sat back up, my once white hair now stained crimson with blood dripping over my shoulders. I blinked several times, my vision blurry, most likely from the day's earlier beating session. But the Gods seemed against me today as I was yanked off the floor by my hair and slammed into the nearby wall.
" Did you think you could trick me boy? Do you think I'm stupid?"
"N-no m-master I-I would nev-"
I suddenly couldn't breath again, his hand was around my throat, cutting off my air. He let me go just as I stopped struggling and started to go limp. I hit the ground hard, gasping for breath, only getting it knocked out again by a swift kick to my stomach. I sank down to the floor, coughing up blood and curling into a ball, trying to protect myself. My body couldn't take much more.
" Don't try my patience again brat or you'll wish I had killed you this night."
He walked away, leaving me in another pool of my own blood. I pulled myself to my hands and knees, crawling over to my bed and laying down. I feel asleep that night not from exhaustion but from the blood loss and pain. Suddenly I felt a tight grip on my shoulders. Someone started roughly shaking me causing my already bruised and battered body even more pain. I couldn't get away, I had to fight back, I don't want to die!
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I jolted up in bed, my eyes still closed, my mind still telling me that I was asleep, my body saying I wasn't. I could still feel that iron grip on my shoulders. I clenched my hand into a fist, throwing a punch out to my right. I froze as I heard the sickening sound of flesh hitting flesh, my mind finally awakening from it. I opened my eyes, and there in front of me sat Ryou, holding his right cheek with tears in his eyes that were threatening to fall.
I hit him. No I promised him! This can't be happening!
I backed away from him, getting up from the bed.
"Y-you you hit m-me."
"Ryou I-I didn't mean to! I didn't know it was you!"
"B-but you p-promised you'd n-never-"
Hot tears had started to roll down his face, and it was because of me that he was crying. I took a step closer, reaching out for him. He only flinched away, giving me that look of pure fear. The look he used to give me when I would beat on him. I closed my eyes not able to stand that look any longer.
"Gomen nasai my aibou. I didn't mean to!"
I back out of the room, bolting down the stairs and out the door.
I broke my promise.......
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Neko: Come on let us see the picture.
Bakura: Iie don't let them see the picture!
Tsuki: why shouldn't I? You cheated.
Ryou: But he didn't cheat it was a loophole.
Tsuki: Ryou! You're supposed to be on my side!
Yami" Come on. One look that's it.
Yugi: *puppy eyes* Onegai?
Tsuki: Well Bakura you best give me a good reason, cause Yugi has broken out the puppy eyes.
Bakura: Ummmm..got it. Aishiteru Tsuki-chan.
Tsuki: Awwwww isn't that sweet. *looks at Yugi* But no one can resist the puppy eyes so here ya go. *hands picture to Neko, Yugi and Yami.*
Neko, Yugi, and Yami: *Burst out in laugher and end up on the floor due to the fact that they're laughing so hard they can't stand up*
Ryou: *stands behind Tsuki* I think I'll just stand right here, out of the way, out of his way.
Bakura: *eye twitch* And I said aishiteru too and that still didn't help
Tsuki: Gomen , but like I said he no one can resist his puppy eyes.
Ryou: Review guys!
Yami: Ha! Bright pink hair!