A/N: Does anyone else hate school as much has I do? -_-; By the way, I
don't own The Doors or their songs ((OBIVIOUSLY.))
Dog Tags
Ryou stalked his prey silently. He saw the figure jogging just barley ahead of him. They moved away from the wreckage that was one Ryou's camp. 'Even though it's only his shadow.there is something familiar about him.' he thought to himself. Finally, he was close enough to launch an attack.
Rather then let the gun ring out and take a chance of attracting the attention of other enemy officers, Ryou jumped onto the man of equal size as the two of them rolled on the ground. Ryou landed on top and looked into the same pair of eyes that had been so carefully observing Yugi about one week before.
The dark, familiar eyes smiled up at him in an amused fashion. The man smirked as a tiny amount of sun fell onto his face revealing his identity. The yin and yang lay there for a moment, the yang temporarily shocked by the yin's mysterious reappearance.
"S-Spirit?" Ryou asked in a confused tone as he stared into the eyes of the ancient tomb robber.
"Took you a moment there." he said, pushing Ryou off him, standing up, and brushing himself off. "I knew I could get you away from there easily, you're all to predictable Ryou." he said. Though Ryou was a very patient, easy going person, the war had him high strung and for obvious reasons. A small amount of anger flashed in his usually docile eyes. The spirit smirked. "Calm yourself Ryou, I see your quick to temper these days. Oh well, I suggest you check on your little friend Yugi. You're closer then you think Ryou, run west and move quickly."
The spirit turned to leave but paused, faced Ryou once more and said, "And when I said quickly I ment it. You need to stop Jounouchi from blowing Kaiba's head off." and with that, his image faded as he became one with the rising sun.
*~Jounouchi, Seto, Marik~*
Jounouchi was about to burst into the tent, where he knew Kaiba would be. He had been ready to smash his head in or blow it off, depending on which instinct took over first. But he heard something, Kaiba was singing an old, familiar, and haunting tune.
"This is the end, Beautiful friend
This is the end, My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again
Can you picture what will be, So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand
In a...desperate land
Lost in a Roman...wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane, All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake...he's old, and his skin is cold
The west is the best, The west is the best
Get here, and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is callin' us, The blue bus is callin' us
Driver, where you taken' us
The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother...I want to...*screams*
C'mon baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, On a blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, C'mon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
This is the end, Beautiful friend
This is the end, My only friend, the end
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end."
'What the fuck?' Jou thought to himself. For thing, Kaiba never sang.as far as he knew at least. For another why that song? 'It's Yugi, it's gotta be.' Jou thought slowly. 'I won't kill him just yet, I want to know why he did it now.' Slowly, he entered the tent and was welcomed by the woefully delirious Seto.
"Not going to kill me just yet, are you?" he said smirking. But this was not the "normal" smirk, something was...wrong.
"Kaiba.why were ya singing dat song?" Jou inquired tentatively.
"Even you must know it by now.this IS the end, for all of us." That same low and cold laugh that escaped his throat in their discussion weeks ago in the early morning reemerged once more.((A/N: See chapter 7)). "Think about it, this war...it's the end of all of us. Your dead inside, I can tell just by looking at you. Yugi ment a lot to you he was your best friend, perhaps I didn't realize I was killing two people when I did it." Seto paused and looked into Jou's eyes.
"Yugi was suffering, he wouldn't have made it. Not with that guilt weighing on him, his conscious is too powerful. You'll get over it though...someday you will realize I was doing him a favor Katsuya." Seto continued staring him in the eye, sapphire orbs pouring out thoughts of a soul stained with red. But the honey eyes simply deflect the message from the blue, possibly not understanding or possibly not WANTING to understand. Kaiba smirked. "You don't get it, do you? You will though, maybe someday.Katsuya."
Jou dropped his gun to the floor. 'He used my name.' he thought seemingly disconnected from his own mind. The honey eyes rose upward to meet the gaze of the blue and at last open their doors accepting and understanding what the blue had told them. Jounouchi fell numbly to the floor and wept for the first time in years. His soul accepted the horrible facts that Seto Kaiba had known and had suffered all this time. Non of them would come out the same, whether by their own death or through the death of others, no one would come out totally unscarred.
"C'mon, Katsuya, stand up." Kaiba knew where the other man's thought were leading, he desired death more the anything else right now and Seto refused to have soul stained with more blood. "You need to get out of here alive. If you won't do it for your own good, do it for Yugi. Do it for whatever you've got left, it can't all be gone." He said as he reached out his hand and helped Katsuya to stand up.
'I never thought I would see the day that Seto Kaiba was the one helping me up.' Jou thought. Just then, Ryou dove into the tent and was in slight awe of the sight before him. It's not everyday you see a weeping Jounouchi leaning on Seto Kaiba emotionally and physically for support. "Um." Ryou said as he blinked. "Can someone fill me in on whatever has happened with Yugi?" Jounouchi shook his head no. Kaiba walked up to him as he regained his ice like demeanor.
"Follow me." And he lead Ryou outside. He proceeded to explain all that had happened with Yugi, Yami's mysterious entrance and exit with Yugi, and when they were back at camp, Ryou explained how he had managed to meet up with them. Of course, Seto simply shook his head and brushed the explanation off; he had slightly more faith in the Millennium Items currently though his opinion hadn't changed all that much.
"We need to tell Marik." Seto said. Suddenly, Jou emerged from the tent, walked behind some trees, and came back with Honda's dog tag in his hands.
"Yea.we do need to tell Marik....about everything." Jou stated. Ryou and Seto nodded as they approached his temporary living quarters.
Once again, they explained everything. The accidental death of Honda, Yugi, Yami, and anything else that could be related to the situation. "Where do you suppose yami took Yugi?" Ryou asked Marik. Marik just shrugged.
"You know I don't know Ryou. Who knows? Someplace better then this, where the two of them can be happy surely.." He said trailing off distantly. "There has been news from the general." He pulled out a letter. "The war is over, our country won....we'll be able to go home in a little while." He said.
But everyone was too numb to be able to take in the good news. What was go do about it? They had already suffered, even if it was over, it didn't matter. And what was waiting for each of them at home? Seto Kaiba had no company, an overly large, lonely house, detectives and curious reporters, and the news of whether his brother's death had been suicide or homicide. Not all that welcoming.
Jounouchi had literally nothing. No house, his father was dead now and his sister was back with their mother. He had no money, he left it all behind to fight in this war that was, in the end, what killed him.
Ryou had lost nothing physically. But his sweet, almost child like innocence was gone. Witnessing endless deaths and feeling the pain of the people surrounding him, he knew now what extent fate can take things too. It can and is taken too far too often.
Marik had lost just as much as anyone there. Faith, friends, but he had gained knowledge. Knowledge of things he didn't want. Knowledge of what war can do, what death does. Not to those who are killed, not only them, but the toll it takes on anyone and everyone who was ever close to them.
Marik and Ryou had been dragged unwillingly to this place. Seto and Jou had come to escape whatever of their bloody pasts still lingered to torture them. In the end however, it seemed that even this place of torment began looking good compared to reality. Everyone knew they had to go back, but in this place the pain seemed like a dream almost, why return to the real pain? Why even go on trying? Home was a far off prospect, for this group, this war WAS home....
"We oughtta hold some kinda...memorial or sometin." Jou said as he stared at Honda's dog tag in his palm. Ryou removed Yugi's from his jacket pocket and handed it to Jou. The two looked at each other in a silent sort of understanding.
Kaiba stood up and walked away and as he left, they heard him sing faintly, "This is the end...." as the sound of his low, solemn voice faded.
END CHAPTER TEN
A/N: this is NOT the ending chapter. There's still a lot of stuff I want to do, so please stick around!
Dog Tags
Ryou stalked his prey silently. He saw the figure jogging just barley ahead of him. They moved away from the wreckage that was one Ryou's camp. 'Even though it's only his shadow.there is something familiar about him.' he thought to himself. Finally, he was close enough to launch an attack.
Rather then let the gun ring out and take a chance of attracting the attention of other enemy officers, Ryou jumped onto the man of equal size as the two of them rolled on the ground. Ryou landed on top and looked into the same pair of eyes that had been so carefully observing Yugi about one week before.
The dark, familiar eyes smiled up at him in an amused fashion. The man smirked as a tiny amount of sun fell onto his face revealing his identity. The yin and yang lay there for a moment, the yang temporarily shocked by the yin's mysterious reappearance.
"S-Spirit?" Ryou asked in a confused tone as he stared into the eyes of the ancient tomb robber.
"Took you a moment there." he said, pushing Ryou off him, standing up, and brushing himself off. "I knew I could get you away from there easily, you're all to predictable Ryou." he said. Though Ryou was a very patient, easy going person, the war had him high strung and for obvious reasons. A small amount of anger flashed in his usually docile eyes. The spirit smirked. "Calm yourself Ryou, I see your quick to temper these days. Oh well, I suggest you check on your little friend Yugi. You're closer then you think Ryou, run west and move quickly."
The spirit turned to leave but paused, faced Ryou once more and said, "And when I said quickly I ment it. You need to stop Jounouchi from blowing Kaiba's head off." and with that, his image faded as he became one with the rising sun.
*~Jounouchi, Seto, Marik~*
Jounouchi was about to burst into the tent, where he knew Kaiba would be. He had been ready to smash his head in or blow it off, depending on which instinct took over first. But he heard something, Kaiba was singing an old, familiar, and haunting tune.
"This is the end, Beautiful friend
This is the end, My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again
Can you picture what will be, So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand
In a...desperate land
Lost in a Roman...wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane, All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake...he's old, and his skin is cold
The west is the best, The west is the best
Get here, and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is callin' us, The blue bus is callin' us
Driver, where you taken' us
The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother...I want to...*screams*
C'mon baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, On a blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, C'mon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
This is the end, Beautiful friend
This is the end, My only friend, the end
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end."
'What the fuck?' Jou thought to himself. For thing, Kaiba never sang.as far as he knew at least. For another why that song? 'It's Yugi, it's gotta be.' Jou thought slowly. 'I won't kill him just yet, I want to know why he did it now.' Slowly, he entered the tent and was welcomed by the woefully delirious Seto.
"Not going to kill me just yet, are you?" he said smirking. But this was not the "normal" smirk, something was...wrong.
"Kaiba.why were ya singing dat song?" Jou inquired tentatively.
"Even you must know it by now.this IS the end, for all of us." That same low and cold laugh that escaped his throat in their discussion weeks ago in the early morning reemerged once more.((A/N: See chapter 7)). "Think about it, this war...it's the end of all of us. Your dead inside, I can tell just by looking at you. Yugi ment a lot to you he was your best friend, perhaps I didn't realize I was killing two people when I did it." Seto paused and looked into Jou's eyes.
"Yugi was suffering, he wouldn't have made it. Not with that guilt weighing on him, his conscious is too powerful. You'll get over it though...someday you will realize I was doing him a favor Katsuya." Seto continued staring him in the eye, sapphire orbs pouring out thoughts of a soul stained with red. But the honey eyes simply deflect the message from the blue, possibly not understanding or possibly not WANTING to understand. Kaiba smirked. "You don't get it, do you? You will though, maybe someday.Katsuya."
Jou dropped his gun to the floor. 'He used my name.' he thought seemingly disconnected from his own mind. The honey eyes rose upward to meet the gaze of the blue and at last open their doors accepting and understanding what the blue had told them. Jounouchi fell numbly to the floor and wept for the first time in years. His soul accepted the horrible facts that Seto Kaiba had known and had suffered all this time. Non of them would come out the same, whether by their own death or through the death of others, no one would come out totally unscarred.
"C'mon, Katsuya, stand up." Kaiba knew where the other man's thought were leading, he desired death more the anything else right now and Seto refused to have soul stained with more blood. "You need to get out of here alive. If you won't do it for your own good, do it for Yugi. Do it for whatever you've got left, it can't all be gone." He said as he reached out his hand and helped Katsuya to stand up.
'I never thought I would see the day that Seto Kaiba was the one helping me up.' Jou thought. Just then, Ryou dove into the tent and was in slight awe of the sight before him. It's not everyday you see a weeping Jounouchi leaning on Seto Kaiba emotionally and physically for support. "Um." Ryou said as he blinked. "Can someone fill me in on whatever has happened with Yugi?" Jounouchi shook his head no. Kaiba walked up to him as he regained his ice like demeanor.
"Follow me." And he lead Ryou outside. He proceeded to explain all that had happened with Yugi, Yami's mysterious entrance and exit with Yugi, and when they were back at camp, Ryou explained how he had managed to meet up with them. Of course, Seto simply shook his head and brushed the explanation off; he had slightly more faith in the Millennium Items currently though his opinion hadn't changed all that much.
"We need to tell Marik." Seto said. Suddenly, Jou emerged from the tent, walked behind some trees, and came back with Honda's dog tag in his hands.
"Yea.we do need to tell Marik....about everything." Jou stated. Ryou and Seto nodded as they approached his temporary living quarters.
Once again, they explained everything. The accidental death of Honda, Yugi, Yami, and anything else that could be related to the situation. "Where do you suppose yami took Yugi?" Ryou asked Marik. Marik just shrugged.
"You know I don't know Ryou. Who knows? Someplace better then this, where the two of them can be happy surely.." He said trailing off distantly. "There has been news from the general." He pulled out a letter. "The war is over, our country won....we'll be able to go home in a little while." He said.
But everyone was too numb to be able to take in the good news. What was go do about it? They had already suffered, even if it was over, it didn't matter. And what was waiting for each of them at home? Seto Kaiba had no company, an overly large, lonely house, detectives and curious reporters, and the news of whether his brother's death had been suicide or homicide. Not all that welcoming.
Jounouchi had literally nothing. No house, his father was dead now and his sister was back with their mother. He had no money, he left it all behind to fight in this war that was, in the end, what killed him.
Ryou had lost nothing physically. But his sweet, almost child like innocence was gone. Witnessing endless deaths and feeling the pain of the people surrounding him, he knew now what extent fate can take things too. It can and is taken too far too often.
Marik had lost just as much as anyone there. Faith, friends, but he had gained knowledge. Knowledge of things he didn't want. Knowledge of what war can do, what death does. Not to those who are killed, not only them, but the toll it takes on anyone and everyone who was ever close to them.
Marik and Ryou had been dragged unwillingly to this place. Seto and Jou had come to escape whatever of their bloody pasts still lingered to torture them. In the end however, it seemed that even this place of torment began looking good compared to reality. Everyone knew they had to go back, but in this place the pain seemed like a dream almost, why return to the real pain? Why even go on trying? Home was a far off prospect, for this group, this war WAS home....
"We oughtta hold some kinda...memorial or sometin." Jou said as he stared at Honda's dog tag in his palm. Ryou removed Yugi's from his jacket pocket and handed it to Jou. The two looked at each other in a silent sort of understanding.
Kaiba stood up and walked away and as he left, they heard him sing faintly, "This is the end...." as the sound of his low, solemn voice faded.
END CHAPTER TEN
A/N: this is NOT the ending chapter. There's still a lot of stuff I want to do, so please stick around!