TR: Hey I'm back

Chapter three:

Ryou's P.o.V

Ryou woke to smell something cooking. When he left his room, he was going to wake Bakura up decide not to. When he walked into the kitchen, Zora was standing at the stove cooking eggs. Right beside her was kura, standing as close as possible to her. (Aww! Cute, eh?) He looked up a Ryou and quickly hid on the other side of Zora.

Zora looked down to see kura move. She looked up noticing why the little albino hid. "Morning," she smiled. "Morning," Ryou replied. He looked at kura and noticed something...different. Kura was a little taller than last night, reaching the height of passed Zora's shoulder. "Um...Zora, could I talk to you for a minute alone?" Ryou asked.

Zora had to reassure the little albino that she would be back. When they got into the living room, Ryou asked her,

"Have you noticed he's changed?"

"What do you mean?"

"Look,"

They peered into the kitchen and saw kura sitting on the ground, waiting for Zora to return. "Last night he looked around the age of six or seven, but now it's like eleven." "Yeah you're right, he does look like he's aged," she looked back into the kitchen, seeing kura sitting against the counter, looking down at the floor, "this is strange, how can someone age over night like that?"

"It has to have something to do with the ring, because he appeared after it glowed like that."

Ryou turned to Zora after not getting an answer. She looked like she was in a deep trance, concerned really. The strange thing was she had looking out into space lately. Ryou shook her gently on the shoulder. "Are you okay?"

She snapped out of it and looked at him. "Yeah, i'm just thinking," she replied in a usual whisper, "if he ages, do you think it has an affect on Bakura?"

Ryou's eyes widened. He had never thought about it that way. Getting up quickly, Ryou ran to his Yami's room. When he opened the door, Bakura was sleeping silently under the covers, with only his head, arm and leg out from underneath. Ryou walked over to the bedside, being cautious.

He shook Bakura's shoulder lightly. "Bakura?" It was a few minutes before Bakura started to stir. "Hmm?" he replied in a moan. "Are you okay?" Bakura slowly sat up. He was paler in the face than usual and he looked ill. It took him a few minutes to answer.

"Yeah, just tired a bit," Bakura got up and stumbled out of his room and into the bathroom. Ryou walked out of Bakura's room and back to the kitchen where Zora was sitting at the table with kura. Kura was nibbled on a piece of bacon, while Zora had her head on the table in her crossed arms.

When Ryou sat down she look up. "Is Bakura ok?" Ryou shrugged. "I don't know, he said he's just a little tired, but he looks really depressed or something like that." "Oh," Zora frowned sadly, "I feel sorry for him," she was on the verge of tears, but stopped them, "His past keeps haunting him. It must be horrible."

There was silence for a while until Bakura came into the kitchen. Zora got up from chair and asked if he wanted anything to eat, but he didn't. So Zora went to work on the morning dishes and Kura stood beside her. Bakura seeing this went up to him and grabbed his arm, pulling him out of the kitchen. Ryou eyes met Zora with the same worried thought.

"AMANA!!" Ryou heard Kura cry out and ran into the living room with Zora right behind. Bakura had Kura by the hair, on his knees, shaking him around. "Who are you?!?" he hissed into the smaller albino face. Bakura shook him again and threw across the floor and advance to kick him, but Ryou ran in front of him and pushed him away. Bakura tried pushing pass him yelling and threatening Kura.

Ryou turned his head around to see Zora run over to the Kura and embraced him. Kura cried loudly on her. He turned back to Bakura to see him pushed him over and stomp over towards Kura. Ryou grabbed onto his ankle and made him fall. When he hit the ground, Bakura gave a furious glare to the little albino crying and got up, leaving the apartment...

TR: sorry this took so long. I was in a depression all week, so I had no will to do anything. Even my homework... well I'm up and moving around again...again sorry for making you wait...