Wolfling: I finally did it! I finally connected this to a proper story!
Never thought I would but I have! So read it!
uChapter Three-A little time apart/u
Ryou put down the note and smiled. It had been a big step telling his Yami he wouldn't be home. Defying Bakuras' will was a necessity though. Maybe this time it would all be okay. Maybe this time it would work out all right.
The boy collapsed onto the sofa and lay down. Today he hadn't said anything to anyone apart from when one of the teachers asked him a question. But that was it. Nobody had even come over to talk to him today either but that was usual. He wasn't around everybody often anyway.
Ryou thought about the time him and his Yami were spending apart. At least 2 days with no contact. The clouds outside burst and rain fell from the sky. Despite all that had happened Ryou would miss the strange comfort that Bakura gave.
Somebody knocked on the door. Ryou really couldn't be bothered to get up but he did and answered it. Keeping the chain on the door closed so that he could check who it was first.
"Hello?" he said
An odd looking boy with light chocolate brown hair and piercing blue eyes stood there in front of him.
"Is this Ryou Bakura?"
"Yeah, what do you want?" Ryou said it kindly but it still had a twinge of annoyance.
"I have something for you from your twin brother. He told me to tell you to use it."
"Uh, thanks"
Ryou took the rectangular shaped package from the boy, and then shut the door on him. He knew it was from Bakura. He ceremoniously did what he always did. Felt the package, shook it and then opened it. Unfortunately it was stuffed tight into a box so it didn't work.
He sat the object down on the table and ripped off the brown paper that covered the box. The box was made of wood, dark unvarnished oak to be exact; it was beautiful with a simple carving of a running horse on the lid. Ryou lifted the top of the box to find it seemed to be empty. He then spotted a hole in the corner and poked his finger into it and pulled the false base off.
Ryou gasped. Inside was lots of information about Egypt, newspaper clippings of the discovery of new tombs, old letters from Bakura to another person called Simone, even an old brown photograph with curling corners due to age of an old house. They were documenting Bakuras' life and there were so many little things. Where had he got this? Where did he keep it?
Ryou got up to make some tea and get some custard creams out of the kitchen cupboards. All the while he was thinking of Bakura. His Yami was finally opening up to him and it seemed there was now more to wonder about him. Ryou even forgot to put milk in his tea. When he got up to put some in though he saw something taped to the underside of the false lid. A small scrap of paper with numbers and directions on it.
"Marker 1-84-right-69-left 2nd-7-89-straight-72?" said Ryou to himself.
He flipped the paper over to find a bit of a map with a spot in the middle of the park but slightly to the right circled and an arrow southwest pointing to home.
I'what on earth does this mean?'/I thought Ryou
He sat and pondered it for a while. It didn't seem to mean much to him at the moment. He decided to go to the spot in the park after he'd sifted through some the things in the box in front of him.
He first pulled out a newspaper clipping that was entitled 'New Tomb Discovered!'
bA new tomb was discovered today by Archaeologist Andrew .P. Simmons. The tomb is of an as of yet unknown person of nobility. The tomb contains a chamber with a great quantity of treasure and antiques. There is a great fear that someone will break into the site and steal the treasures but there is so much security that no one can possibly get in./b
Stuck to the back of that clipping was another about how somebody had gotten in and stolen everything. Ryou smiled, he knew who the thief was.
Ryou had planned to go the park, but found himself sifting through endless pieces of information thoroughly engrossed in what he was reading. In no time at all it was 8pm and too late to go to the park.
I'ah well. At least I managed to get through all that stuff in there'/I
Ryou went to sleep in a good mood. Knowing that tomorrow would bring yet more time to investigate into the life of his Yami.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Next day~*
The next day after Ryou was well and truly awake he walked to the park on his own it was a beautiful morning and it looked like it was going to stay that way through the whole weekend.
Ryou went to the middle of the park and looked around. The place on the map was a little to the right of here. Unfortunately a little to the right of here was a thick kind of bush thing that went on for miles. Ryou sighed and pushed his way in.
It was damp and prickly but eventually Ryou found a wall. He followed the wall and picked his way out of the large bush thing he had come to call 'The evil shrub'. So with one large push against all the twisted vines and branches, he fell right out into a beautiful overgrown clearing that no one appeared to have found before.
It had a cracked old fountain in the middle that was still running and a bench covered in ivy next to a set of monkey bars that led to a platform, which had a bird's nest on it. The area held a sort of sentimental feel to it. At the side there was a large stump of an oak tree. Ryou walked over to it and looked at it. It was at least 100 years old and the bark had what seemed to be remnants of old carvings.
Well this was the spot but what on earth did it have to do with directions and numbers.
'Marker 1-84-right-69-left 2nd-7-89-straight-72' that was what was written on the small scrap of paper. Ryou sighed and sat down on the edge of the fountain.
He looked into the nearly crystal clear water. 'How had it been kept so clean?' he wondered to himself.
Ryou touched the water and the ripples sent out by his fingers caused some large goldfish to swim out of their hiding place.
The boy came to the conclusion that somebody must be coming here to look after everything. HE wondered if it might have been Bakura. It was possible Ryou didn't know what his Yami actually did when he was at school.
After bout half and hour of sitting and wondering what to do Ryou caught sight of a map caught in the ivy. And suddenly it came to him. The numbers on the scrap of paper were paces! 84 paces from where though? All he had was marker one.
I'What on earth is marker 1?'/I
Ryou stared at the sky and his eyes fell on a bird landing on the monkey bars and hopping to its nest. It then flew into the tree next to the nest. A small metallic sound was heard and then the bird came back with a small red piece of wire.
Where did it get that from?" Ryou stood and walked over to the monkey bars. He looked up through the branches of the old tree. There were another two platforms up there.
Ryou really didn't want to climb. But it wasn't like he had a choice. He jumped onto the bench and carefully made his way across the monkey bars to the first platform. With difficulty the boy made his way up onto the platform and gasped at what he saw on the next.
Wolfling: well...how was that? I'm waiting for reviews but I don't really foresee anything good. But when I find out what I did wrong I'll correct it!!!!!!
uChapter Three-A little time apart/u
Ryou put down the note and smiled. It had been a big step telling his Yami he wouldn't be home. Defying Bakuras' will was a necessity though. Maybe this time it would all be okay. Maybe this time it would work out all right.
The boy collapsed onto the sofa and lay down. Today he hadn't said anything to anyone apart from when one of the teachers asked him a question. But that was it. Nobody had even come over to talk to him today either but that was usual. He wasn't around everybody often anyway.
Ryou thought about the time him and his Yami were spending apart. At least 2 days with no contact. The clouds outside burst and rain fell from the sky. Despite all that had happened Ryou would miss the strange comfort that Bakura gave.
Somebody knocked on the door. Ryou really couldn't be bothered to get up but he did and answered it. Keeping the chain on the door closed so that he could check who it was first.
"Hello?" he said
An odd looking boy with light chocolate brown hair and piercing blue eyes stood there in front of him.
"Is this Ryou Bakura?"
"Yeah, what do you want?" Ryou said it kindly but it still had a twinge of annoyance.
"I have something for you from your twin brother. He told me to tell you to use it."
"Uh, thanks"
Ryou took the rectangular shaped package from the boy, and then shut the door on him. He knew it was from Bakura. He ceremoniously did what he always did. Felt the package, shook it and then opened it. Unfortunately it was stuffed tight into a box so it didn't work.
He sat the object down on the table and ripped off the brown paper that covered the box. The box was made of wood, dark unvarnished oak to be exact; it was beautiful with a simple carving of a running horse on the lid. Ryou lifted the top of the box to find it seemed to be empty. He then spotted a hole in the corner and poked his finger into it and pulled the false base off.
Ryou gasped. Inside was lots of information about Egypt, newspaper clippings of the discovery of new tombs, old letters from Bakura to another person called Simone, even an old brown photograph with curling corners due to age of an old house. They were documenting Bakuras' life and there were so many little things. Where had he got this? Where did he keep it?
Ryou got up to make some tea and get some custard creams out of the kitchen cupboards. All the while he was thinking of Bakura. His Yami was finally opening up to him and it seemed there was now more to wonder about him. Ryou even forgot to put milk in his tea. When he got up to put some in though he saw something taped to the underside of the false lid. A small scrap of paper with numbers and directions on it.
"Marker 1-84-right-69-left 2nd-7-89-straight-72?" said Ryou to himself.
He flipped the paper over to find a bit of a map with a spot in the middle of the park but slightly to the right circled and an arrow southwest pointing to home.
I'what on earth does this mean?'/I thought Ryou
He sat and pondered it for a while. It didn't seem to mean much to him at the moment. He decided to go to the spot in the park after he'd sifted through some the things in the box in front of him.
He first pulled out a newspaper clipping that was entitled 'New Tomb Discovered!'
bA new tomb was discovered today by Archaeologist Andrew .P. Simmons. The tomb is of an as of yet unknown person of nobility. The tomb contains a chamber with a great quantity of treasure and antiques. There is a great fear that someone will break into the site and steal the treasures but there is so much security that no one can possibly get in./b
Stuck to the back of that clipping was another about how somebody had gotten in and stolen everything. Ryou smiled, he knew who the thief was.
Ryou had planned to go the park, but found himself sifting through endless pieces of information thoroughly engrossed in what he was reading. In no time at all it was 8pm and too late to go to the park.
I'ah well. At least I managed to get through all that stuff in there'/I
Ryou went to sleep in a good mood. Knowing that tomorrow would bring yet more time to investigate into the life of his Yami.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Next day~*
The next day after Ryou was well and truly awake he walked to the park on his own it was a beautiful morning and it looked like it was going to stay that way through the whole weekend.
Ryou went to the middle of the park and looked around. The place on the map was a little to the right of here. Unfortunately a little to the right of here was a thick kind of bush thing that went on for miles. Ryou sighed and pushed his way in.
It was damp and prickly but eventually Ryou found a wall. He followed the wall and picked his way out of the large bush thing he had come to call 'The evil shrub'. So with one large push against all the twisted vines and branches, he fell right out into a beautiful overgrown clearing that no one appeared to have found before.
It had a cracked old fountain in the middle that was still running and a bench covered in ivy next to a set of monkey bars that led to a platform, which had a bird's nest on it. The area held a sort of sentimental feel to it. At the side there was a large stump of an oak tree. Ryou walked over to it and looked at it. It was at least 100 years old and the bark had what seemed to be remnants of old carvings.
Well this was the spot but what on earth did it have to do with directions and numbers.
'Marker 1-84-right-69-left 2nd-7-89-straight-72' that was what was written on the small scrap of paper. Ryou sighed and sat down on the edge of the fountain.
He looked into the nearly crystal clear water. 'How had it been kept so clean?' he wondered to himself.
Ryou touched the water and the ripples sent out by his fingers caused some large goldfish to swim out of their hiding place.
The boy came to the conclusion that somebody must be coming here to look after everything. HE wondered if it might have been Bakura. It was possible Ryou didn't know what his Yami actually did when he was at school.
After bout half and hour of sitting and wondering what to do Ryou caught sight of a map caught in the ivy. And suddenly it came to him. The numbers on the scrap of paper were paces! 84 paces from where though? All he had was marker one.
I'What on earth is marker 1?'/I
Ryou stared at the sky and his eyes fell on a bird landing on the monkey bars and hopping to its nest. It then flew into the tree next to the nest. A small metallic sound was heard and then the bird came back with a small red piece of wire.
Where did it get that from?" Ryou stood and walked over to the monkey bars. He looked up through the branches of the old tree. There were another two platforms up there.
Ryou really didn't want to climb. But it wasn't like he had a choice. He jumped onto the bench and carefully made his way across the monkey bars to the first platform. With difficulty the boy made his way up onto the platform and gasped at what he saw on the next.
Wolfling: well...how was that? I'm waiting for reviews but I don't really foresee anything good. But when I find out what I did wrong I'll correct it!!!!!!
