Summary: Ryou decides that Bakura has gone too far when he finds himself and his friends trapped in the shadow realm to live out the rest of their lives as Bakura takes over their bodies in the real world. With nowhere to go but out, can Ryou learn to stand up to the dark spirit even though they are miles apart and help save his friends?
Okay, this is my first actual fanfiction dealing with Ryou, so it might be a bit...off. Especially due to the fact that Ryou only became my favorite character recently, since somehow he moved up to tie with Yugi for the best! I've got an idea for another story that deals mainly with Yugi, but since I saw Ryou in my Shonen Jump today, I figured I'd pick on him! I always wanted Ryou to stand up to Bakura!! Anyway, I'll stop rambling and let you read! Cya!
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, or any of the characters, plots, etc. It'd be a nice Christmas present, though...
Notes: Ryou is just Ryou, and the spirit of the ring is referred to as Bakura
As for when they're talking in their minds...well, the stupid computer wouldn't let me put slashes, those little star things or anything on the thing, so...I guess for a bit you're going to have to figure out who's speaking when, which shouldn't be too difficult, considering how different the personalites are. Their words are just going to be in quotations for now. Basically Ryou only uses one, and Bakura uses two, but if there's only one, then that means he's speaking. If anyone knows why the site won't let me do it, then it'd really help me to know. Thanks!
Shadowed Truth
Chapter 1: First Time for Everything
Ryou Bakura trudged down the street away from Domino High and towards his apartment glumly. He had been made to endure constant threatening remarks from the spirit of the ring the entire day at school, and yet he still tried to pay attention to his professors. This mixture eventually resulted in Ryou standing up suddenly from his seat and yelling for his yami to "Stop talking!!" in the middle of a teacher's long boring monotonous drone about something having to do with trigonometry. The teacher obviously took it to mean that it was directed towards him, and immediately shoved Ryou down the hall towards the principal, where he was promptly transferred to mopping the halls in detention the rest of the afternoon. It was around 6 or so now, and Ryou wanted desperately wanted to get home and pretend it had never happened. Yugi had offered to wait for him, but Ryou politely refused, saying it would be late when he finished anyway. He continued his walk, sighing miserably and trying to ignore the taunts in his head from the yami spirit. It wasn't the first time the spirit had gotten him into such a mess, and he didn't doubt it'd be the last. He jumped suddenly as Bakura started chuckling in his soul room. He immediately took this to mean something bad, as Bakura had a very twisted sense of humor.
"What's so funny?" He asked quickly, partially dreading the answer. Bakura stopped laughing momentarily to answer him, a dark smirk plastered across his face.
""You, Ahou...I find it amusing that you can try and ignore my presence when I'm inside your head."" Yeah, and I'd like to keep it that way...Ryou thought to himself quietly, wincing when the spirit replied to the thought.
""Ah, so the little hikari does have a backbone...yet he's still obviously too cowardly to attempt to use it.""
Bakura chuckled again, sending chills up Ryou's spine. He knew there was no way he could ever stand up to Bakura. The spirit could control his host's body after all, and he obviously loved to play cruel jokes on innocent bystanders. Of course after his fun he'd relinquish control to the hikari while in the middle of the police station and have a very good laugh in his soul room as Ryou tried desperately to explain to the authorities. Try as he might, he couldn't think of a way to get out of his predicament. He had personally resigned to his fate and let the spirit control his life, as he didn't think he could do anything to prevent it. He sometimes envied Yugi, who had a spirit guardian he could trust, learn from, and become friends with. His spirit, however, was the exact opposite: He was cruel, cold- hearted, a former tomb-robber, and could without a doubt not be trusted. Ryou sighed, trying to tune out the laughing in his mind. Suddenly, however, he felt the sudden shoving aside of his mind, and landed in his soul room roughly, as if someone had thrown him into it violently. He winced and got up, suddenly panicked as he realized what had happened. Bakura had taken over his body again. That could never mean something good. He frantically tried to contact his yami through their mind link, trying to figure out what he was going to be trying without his consent.
"Bakura!! What are you doing?! Let me out!" He desperately tried pounding on the door to his soul room, not wanting to know what cruel game Bakura might unleash on some stranger before he could prevent it. To his surprise, he got a reply to his question from his yami.
""Be quiet, baka!! I'm trying to track shadow magic!! It's hard enough as it is, even without you screaming your head off and pounding on the door! Shut up!"" Ryou immediately stopped making so much noise, not wanting to set the tomb-robber on himself. He did, however, ask another question, though much quieter this time.
"There's shadow magic around here? What kind? It's not from the shadow realm is it?" Bakura smirked, chuckling quietly to himself.
""What's it to you, Ahou?"" Ryou winced slightly at the nickname Bakura had kindly dubbed him with, meaning 'idiot' or 'fool', but let the dark spirit continue, hoping for an answer. ""In answer to your question, yes there is...and it is indeed from the shadow realm, which should prove quite interesting..."" He smirked again to himself before saying more. ""Quite perceptive actually...maybe you're not a complete waste after all..."" Ryou stood confusedly in his soul room at that comment. His yami had never given him even a small compliment at that, and he was at a loss for its meaning. What could he mean by that? Ryou wondered to himself quietly. He didn't have long to wonder however, as Bakura had obviously found what he was searching for. "Ah...a portal to the shadow realm...how convenient...and at a perfect spot to be useable..." The dark spirit murmured to himself, smirking menacingly and observing the shadows rolling around the dark rip in the atmosphere in front of them. Ryou however, heard the dark comment the sprit made and started panicking immediately.
"You're not going to drag what few friends I have into this mess!!!" He yelled loudly through his mind, scared at the possible things the spirit could do to him or his friends. Bakura grinned widely, a dark grin that didn't match his eyes, one full of vengeance, and knowing that he had complete power over the younger boy.
"What a great idea, Ahou! Let's go see what your friends are up to, shall we...?" He didn't wait for a reply from the dumbstruck Ryou, but rather closed the portal within the Ring, the blue and golden aura swirling around with the shadows ominously before the portal was sealed in the ring for further use. Ryou stared in shock at the walls in his soul room. How could the spirit do this to him? After fighting him off from doing such a thing to the small group of friends he had been allowed to keep, he had left the spirit a small opening in which to escape; one tiny bit of trust had been his downfall. He turned to his door and began to pound on it loudly again, desperate to be released as the dark spirit began to walk towards Yugi's game shop, plotting to make his host gone with his friends.
"No! You can't do this to me!! Leave my friends alone!! You're just aiming for me anyway!" Bakura laughed loudly, making several people on the street make a wide berth around him, for fear of getting near the tomb-robber.
"Foolish mortal!!" That comment sent several other people scattering away from Bakura, each hurrying to get away from him as quickly as possible. "I am aiming for you...that's exactly why your friends are brought into this...what better way to get to a person than using their friends, hmm?" Bakura smirked at the distance everyone had put between themselves and him, which had to be a good 30 feet. Ryou started to get hopeless, just letting Bakura walk towards his friends.
"Please, Bakura...you don't want to do this..." He uttered quietly, hoping against hope that the tomb-robber would listen. The spirit continued on his way, however, ignoring the fact that the hikari had said anything. Within minutes, they had arrived at Yugi's game shop, where the whole group was standing and looking at a stack of Duel Monsters cards. Bakura walked in quietly, to where the group didn't notice him at first.
"Oh, c'mon, Yugi!! Convince your gramps to let me have an extension on my tab!! Please?" Yugi looked uncomfortably at Jonouchi, not wanting to be rude or not be truthful.
"Well, Jonouchi...you've kind of had about 10 or so extensions already on your tab...I can't really convince him..." He shrugged and smiled at the taller teen. "Sorry, Jonouchi!" The taller boy looked slightly disappointed, but said no more on the matter as Yugi turned, realizing Ryou had walked in. "Hey, Ryou!!" He smiled at the white haired boy, not recognizing him to be the spirit of the ring. Bakura put on his best imitation of trying to act like Ryou before he spoke.
"Hello, Yugi. Would you guys care to go outside with me for a moment? There's something I'd like to show you." He smiled at the group, waiting patiently for their answer. Jonouchi took a step forward, patting Bakura on the shoulder. "Sure, Ryou! Lead the way!" Bakura turned towards the door, smirking in the absence of the groups' attention. He walked out the door, going towards the side of Yugi's shop and beginning to open up the portal. The rest of the group came up behind Bakura, laughing and talking as if nothing were wrong. Yugi was the first to notice something was wrong as he watched Bakura opening the dark rip in the air, and immediately began to back up away from Bakura. Jonouchi, noticing Yugi's panicked expression began to ask him what was wrong, only to be cut off by Bakura's yell of "Mortal fools!!!" and his manic laughter filling the alleyway as the group was torn from their bodies and into the gaping hole.
"Stop, Bakura!!! NO! PLEASE!!!" Bakura lost his concentration for a moment at the sound of Ryou's voice, only to laugh louder.
"You too, Ahou!! In, now!!" Ryou gasped as he felt a sudden pulling sensation as the portal began to pull him in. The last thing he saw and heard was his own face, marred by Bakura's twisted humor, and will to seriously do anything cruel he could think of to his host, with no signs of pity, remorse, guilt, or anything remotely human about it.
Ryou: Forget it!!
DG: I kinda like torturing you. It was fun! Bakura was particularly sadistic in this, though...
Ryou: -- "Yeah, and you were too....
DG: Nope, just Bakura! Anyway, ignore Ryou...he complains too much! Please review!!