A new student wins over Ryou's heart, but Bakura isn't too happy with his new girl. When Bakura - and Ryou - discover her role in Bakura's past, Bakura get's angry. Angry enough... to turn her life, as well as Ryou's into a living hell.
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so... i have updated this wittle ficcy! why did Ryou throw the Ring on the floor... what was up with that dream? and why... and why does he have the feeling this has a lot to do with his yami...?
\ \-Ryou to Bakura
/-Bakura to Ryou
#:footnotes (if any)
-Devils Food-
Chapter Two
Ryou was breathing hard, staring at the Sennen Ring. It glowed faintly before muting itself, the light completely gone. Even the monotonous humming sound it was making dispersed.
"What... what was that?" he said to no one. He closed his eyes.
\Bakura... did you do anything?\
/ME/
\Yes.\
/Why the hell would I waste my time making you have messed-up nightmares/ Ryou sighed. He leaned back against his pillow and turned onto his side, staring into the darkness.
I wonder what that was... It wasn't long before he once again had fallen into a world where his subconscious could make him see anything it wanted. It could even...
It could even unlock memories Bakura didn't know he had.
Inside the Ring, Bakura was fuming over his host's odd reactions. He wondered what Ryou's problem could be.
Having this fool as a hikari is pointless and stupid, he decided. Yet he had decided this long ago... He closed his eyes and leaned against the wall of his soul room, which also depicted a vast, ancient tomb. Only this tomb looked like a plundered tomb, with some of the doors - which weren't as numerous as the ones in the Pharaoh's soul room - wide open with light in them. Memories that just... couldn't rest.
"That girl..." he thought, remembering the new girl from yesterday. "She seemed strangely interested in my Ring. I wonder why..." he closed his eyes. "Ah, what do I care? She has more interest in this fool then me anyway..."
But that was a... lie...
Ryou looked like the living dead the next day.
"Wow, Ryou," Tea said, staring at him. "You look awful."
"Yeah," Joey agreed, sliding into his seat next to his friend. "Did you get any sleep last night?" Ryou smiled sheepishly.
"Sort of..."
"Why didn't you?" Yugi asked, sitting on Joey's desk. Ryou closed his eyes in bliss for a moment, wishing he could lose consciousness and rest for awhile... Oh. Yugi had asked a question.
"Oh, ummm... It was my Ring... and Bakura... They were both acting strangely last night." This caused three different reactions: Yugi looked concerned, Joey looked angry, and Tea had pity in her eyes.
"How so?" Yugi asked, but then Samayo came over so the conversation had to change.
"Hi, Ryou," Samayo said, smiling brightly. Tea meandered over to where Mandy was sitting, and Yugi and Joey took to talking about cards. Samayo took the seat in front of her and sat backwards.
"Hi, Samayo," Ryou answered. Samayo frowned at his appearance.
"What happened to you?"
"Umm, I didn't get enough sleep last night."
"You really should."
"Yeah." The two new friends just sat there, not saying anything.
/Say something./
Ryou blinked, startled.
\What?\
/Say something, fool, or I'll say it for you./
\Say what?\
/Ask her how she knows anything about my Ring./ Ryou's face became surprised and foolish.
Of course! he thought. I forgot!
/Thanks alot./
\Shut up.\ Ryou bit his lower lip, then started,
"How do you-"
"Okay!" Miss Kokoronokinsen announced, silencing Ryou. "So, how are you all today? I trust that you're ready for the test preps..." This was met with groans. Samayo rolled her eyes and stood up.
"See you," she whispered, then retreated back to her proper place across the room.
Ryou was staring out the window, getting drowsier and drowsier. It didn't help that history was a total bore. He let his head fall onto his desk, and he felt himself drifting away from the room...
An aching pain raced through his body, being the strongest and the sharpest in his back. He was chained to a stone wall, the tight shackles cutting into his thin wrists. He could see the metal bars keeping him locked up. All he had on was a cloth wrapped around his waist, and his thin body was covered in dirt and what also looked like... blood. He had smears of paint and blood on his face, and a thin trail of the dark, sticky substance was running down his cheek like water runoff from a cliff.
Tall, stern-looking men were pacing back and forth outside of his cell, giving him an occasional glare. Ryou breathed heavily, feeling the strains of war on his back.
Footsteps came from down the hallway, and a steadily growing light followed in their wake. A figure appeared, robed in black with a hood, holding a torch. The men tightened and ran forwards, drawing their swords.
"Who are you?"
"What do you want with this dirty theif?"
'Theif?' Ryou thought. 'I'm no theif...' The robed figure raised a slender arm. Their hand raised itself to face the open palm to the men.
"I want him to come with me," said a feminine voice. The two men were suddenly blasted backwards. They both hit the wall - hard. They fell to the floor, their unconscious forms taking up the hallway. Blood was splattered on the wall from where one hit the corner of the doorway. The figure took off the hood, to reveal itself as...
'SAMAYO!' Ryou thought. Samayo grabbed the keys and unlocked the door, then unlocked the shackles.
"You alright, Bakura?" she asked. Ryou rubbed his wrists. He stopped.
"I'm not-" he started, but Samayo silenced him. She had leaned forwards and placed a small kiss on his lips.
"Come, we have no time!" she said in a voice unlike her own. It was close to hers, but not quite. Her eyes also looked different... she her body...
Ryou didn't have time to dwell. Soon he and Samayo had run into the night, running through rushes. He could feel them brushing against his legs.
But man were bearing down on them.
"Get them!" Someone was yelling, and Ryou felt a horrible, splitting sensation in his arm... Then his back... the pain... the blood...
He slipped and fell. Samayo had been hit as well. She was kneeling, swearing under her breath, holding her knee gingerly. Ryou could feel only immense pain and he was dying, dying a thousand deaths... His heart tinged as he saw Samayo get captured...
"Ryou!'
"Wake up, please!"
"He's not waking..."
"Look! He's breathing, at least!" Ryou could feel many eyes watching him. His back and his arm and his head all ached with immense pain. His eyes opened slowly as hands pressed into his shoulder. He saw Yugi hovering above him.
"Yu...Gi..." he whispered. He blinked, then the focus of the room appeared. Everyone in his class was crowded around him, kneeling or squatting or standing. Joey was standing, pushing his way through the class.
"Lemme through!" he spurted, then knelt down beside Ryou. "Oh my God... Are you... Is he..." Ryou could hear the teacher far away.
"Everyone, everyone, move away, move away..." Ryou turned his head to the side. His white hair was spread out like a peacock around his head. And the tips were stained red...
Wait...
Ryou realized he was lying in a small pool of blood. His hair was slowly being stained red. He just stared at it, not really noticing it at all. He closed his eyes and relaxed his body. He could feel real pain in his back and his arm. Yugi moved his hair out of his face, so he could look at him.
"Ryou," he said, his face terror-stricken. No words could express what he felt right then. Ryou opened his eyes once more. He could see Samayo in the corner, her hands over her mouth, her eyes scared.
Drip, drip, drip…. A thick, sticky liquid was steadily falling onto his cheek. It was blood… from the corner of the desk. He turned onto the back of his head, then lifted his head a little. He could see a little more, but his neck ached. He tried to weakly call out to Bakura.
\Bakura…. Ba…ku….\
Suddenly, a powerful wave of emotions took over his body. A strong sense of heartache poured itself into his heart, into his soul.
His head hit the floor, splashing blood into the heavens, the far reaches of the earth and sky, showing to the world where his weaknesses lie.
Joey sat there, his legs crossed, staring at the desk where Ryou had fell.
It had happened so fast.
One second, Ryou was dozing off, staring out the window. Joey had been close behind in following him in a daze. Next second-
WHAM!
He rolled off the desk, hitting his head and his back on the corner of the desk, slumped onto the floor. The people around him had panicked, not knowing what to do. Their annoying, monotonous teacher had been alerted quickly, and then they had been crowding around him, trying to wake him while the ambulance came.
Joey and his friends were talking, but then he kinda of droned out and instead thought about his friend. There were just too many times when things happened to him beyond his earthly control…
"…so scary," Tea was saying, holding the edge of the desk. The blood was still there, and classes had yet to begin again after the scare. Ryou had been taken to the hospital only ten minutes earlier… And he was losing blood fast…
"He may be comatose this time tomorrow," Tea hypothesized. "I sure as hell hope not."
"We all hope not, Tea," Tristan said, irritated. "Dammit, dammit dammit…" The group sat sullenly and silently for a few seconds, wondering if it was the end for their friend.
Wait. Why were they thinking that? And why was this creep feeling coming over them….
"Is it just me, or am I getting major de ja vu?" Tea said, shivering.
"It's not just you, it's me, too," Joey said. Yugi and Tristan agreed. "This seems oddly familiar…"
"Ryou's never blacked out in class before…." Tristan noted, getting a suspicious hint in his voice. "You don't think a particular someone is doing something to him… Do you?"
"You mean Samayo, don't you?" Tea accused. "Tristan, how could it be her? How could it be anyone without any hint of Shadow Power?" Tristan glared at Tea.
"Well… How do you know she doesn't, huh? Well? How do you?" Tea sighed and turned away from him.
"This is getting us all antsy," Yugi said. "But I do agree with you. I just don't… feel right about this. And Samayo…"
"She seems really familiar for someone who just moved here," Joey deducted. "I don't know. I don't like the way this is going…."
"Oh, what, now are you gonna try to get Samayo away from Ryou?" Tea asked, her hands on her hips. Joey put up his hands defensively.
"All I'm saying is, that something is going on here."
"Maybe it's the Sennen Ring," Yugi said thoughtfully.
"Not that thing again."
"Yes, that thing again. We can't forget that thing, because it's important!" Tea announced. "Now get over yourselves! This is really important, guys!"
"What are you talking about, Tea?" Yugi asked. She had completely lost them for a moment. Tea blinked and lowered her arms.
"Truthfully… I don't know." She looked at them. Then she looked around the room. Then back at them. "I'm sorry, it's just…."
"It's so soon after we went into Yami's memory world," Yugi said. "And you know what Ishizu said. Anything can happen, now that all the Shadow Magic is loose again… She said even more people could be drawn by it's power…" They were silent once again. Tea crossed her arms over her chest.
"You know what, I'm gonna go talk to that Samayo," she said, hopping off the desk. "Today, after school." She picked up her books and dropped them into her bag. She turned just in time to see Samayo leave the room, her head down, a strange look on her face. She stopped in the doorway, then lifted her head, a scared, horrified, and surprised look on her face. Then she turned on her heel and ran down the hallway.
Tea stared. She lifted her bag over her shoulder, then proceeded to the door.
She turned to her friends.
"I wish…" she started. Then-"When did we become so suspicious…. So jumpy…. Of every little thing?" No one knew how to answer. Until….
"For three thousand years, Tea. Since those Items were created, three thousand years ago," Yugi answered.
hehe. Well, that is all for now…. So ryou is in the hospital, and they're all REALLY suspicious of the new girl.. like tea said….. this whole thing left them really jumpy….
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