TR: Wahhhh! I'm hurting Ryou, I'm so mean ~_~ my poor Ryou *huggles Ryou* well that it for cliffies ^^ I promise Muria-Sakura, No more cliffies pinkie swear! Thank you for the reviews, everyone!!!... Ok on wit da fic!!!

Disclaimer: Not a song fic but based on "Forgive me" from "Evanescence" and it's obvious I don't own them.... NM I lied it's going to be ^^""...

Chapter 12: *~Can You Forgive Me? *~

It had been a few hours since they took Ryou into surgery. He had barely survived it. His heart had stop a couple times, but the doctors kept him alive and Bakura stayed by Ryou's side. Now he sat in the chair again next to his hikari with his head resting in his arms on the bed. Ryou was bandaged up even more than he had first started out in the hospital.

(Can you forgive me again; I don't know what I said, But I didn't mean to hurt you...)

Bakura couldn't look at the damage he had caused Ryou, so he closed his eyes. He should of thought before what would happen if he had turned those boys into dolls, but He was arrogant and...a fool. Bakura tried to stop a tear from falling, alas it did. He was changing and knew it well. It was different than where he first had started his life with Ryou. It all came back...

(...I heard the words come out; I thought that I would die, It hurt some much to hurt you...)

Bakura remembered all the things he had done to Ryou. Punishing him without reason, verbally abusing him, lowering his esteem and dignity. Even used him to get the millennium items. It felt like running into a brick wall without ever seeing the consequences. For some reason it made him feel good, beating and downing Ryou, but it was different now. Bakura felt like disappearing, he felt so bad inside; guilt was what it was.

// Can you forgive me...Ryou? // He risked the mind link. There was no answer, but he understood why...he was the same with his father. When he opened his eyes to see something that made him stand.

/.../

(...Then you look at me, you're not shouting anymore, You're silently broken...)

Ryou eyes were halfway opened. Bakura stared completely mesmerized by his light's awake. "Ryou?" he asked. Ryou tried to get up but Bakura shook his head no to him. When his hikari lied back down, he sat in his chair. "Do you really mean it?" Ryou's voice crackled from nonuse, tears rolled down his cheeks. "Y-yes." Bakura said nervously. "I was gone for a long time. I was so scared," said Ryou, "I thought... I'd never wake up." More tears fell from his eyes.

(...I 'd give anything now to kill those words for you, Each time I say something I regret, I cry I don't want to lose you...)

"I-I'm so sorry..." Bakura laid his head on the bed, "I don't blame you if you hate me, for all th-" "...I don't hate you, Yami," Bakura looked up to see Ryou looking at him with a small smile, then stared up at the ceiling, "I-I saw your past memories when you were beaten by your father, I'm sorry that you had to go through that." He turned his head back to Bakura. "But why are you sorry for me, I've hurt you worse than what MY father had done to me," Bakura asked confused.

(...But somehow I know that you will never leave me, Cause you were made for me, some how I'll make you see...)

"I learned that an abuser is the way he is, because of how they were raised and were also abused themselves," Ryou replied, "that's why I don't blame you...and plus you were trapped in this for 5,000 years." He said as he lifted the Millennium Ring up. Bakura was overwhelmed so much by his hikari's forgivingness. He slipped his arm under Ryou neck and over his shoulder, taking hold of the Ring also. Bakura buried his face in Ryou's hair and cried for the first time in five millenniums. Ryou laid his head on Bakura's shoulder and cried with him.

(...How happy you make me, I can't live this life without by My side, I need you to survive, so stay with me...)

// I'm sorry hikari, I regret all that I've done to you, I cannot say that I didn't mean it because I did it with malice // Ryou didn't say anything, just laid there, but Bakura knew that he had forgiven him. He felt better than he ever had; no one hurt him or slashed out at him with words that hurt him. Instead he had someone how cared about him and trusted him. He was upset because he had wasted five thousand years for this.

(...You look in my eyes and I'm screaming inside, That I'm soooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyy!!!!....)

Bakura looked down Ryou. He saw that Ryou understood and knew that he was telling the truth at last. "I believe you." He said. The door opened. Bakura unmaterialized and walked over to the corner. Zora, Yugi, Joey, Tristen, and Tea walked over to Ryou's bedside, gasping in surprise that he had woken up. Bakura standing at the doorway looked back. Seeing Ryou had sensed being watched by him looked in his direction. He smiled and Bakura smiled back, even though it felt strange.

(...And do you forgive again; you're my one true friend, And I never meant to hurt you...)

Bakura nodded to Ryou and got a return. He told one last look at his hikari and left. Bakura walked down the hall and thought to himself. He'd return later, when Ryou's friends weren't around. Bakura knew that Yami and Zora probably knew that he had change, but he still didn't feel that he could show this in front of everyone else...

TR: Well typing this up moved me, Gah! Me the writer moved by my own writing, is that wrong??? Wahhhh!!! And Bakura and Ryou were both out of character. Well I hope this didn't sound Yaoi hehe cause if it did I'm sorry ~_~ !!! I didn't want it to, it just came out like this, I guess I was going for the very close friend relationship or brother or or ...something else but not yaoi. R&R tell me what you think!!