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Twisted Chain

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(Chapter Seven: Ritual)

"Hello hikari" Bakura said as he entered the room. Laria sat up.

"What do you want Bakura?"

"I appreciate the concern Girl" Bakura grinned "But I'm just here cause I want to spend some... Quality time with my hikari."

"You lie" Laria narrowed her eyes at Bakura.

"I'd never" Bakura said stepping closer to Ryou. Ryou whimpered and backed away but Bakura grabbed his wrist. Ryou looked up at his Yami fearfully.

"d-don't" Ryou whimpered again. Bakura stared into his hikari's eyes as he brought his hand up to his mouth, placing a feather light kiss on the top of Ryou's hand. Laria's jaw dropped and Ryou's eyes went wide.

"Don't what, my hikari?" Bakura gave a sideways glance at Laria still grinning.

"I... I..." was all Ryou could get out. Bakura just chuckled and leaned over so that both there cheeks were touching.

"You can thank you're little protector for all the pain you'll be put through tonight" Bakura whispered in Ryou's ear as he tightened the grip on Ryou's wrist. "This is all her fault"

Without any warning Bakura twisted Ryou's arm around. Ryou screamed and fell to his knees, tears in his eyes. Bakura went to grab Ryou again but Laria got in front of him before he could.

"You're not going to touch him again!"

"Give me my hikari, Girl" Bakura growled

"Never!" Laria said, standing her ground.

"He needs to be punished"

"No he doesn't" Laria countered "he hasn't done anything wrong!"

"Oh really?" Bakura asked. "That's not the way Yani tells it"

Laria looked up to see Yani walking over to them.

"Yani tells me Ryou's been touching my Tarot cards." Bakura said as Yani wrapped her arms around him from behind. "Isn't that right koi?"

Yani nodded "I would never lie to you Baku-Chan"

"I don't care if he burned your cards," Laria said glaring at the two ancient spirits in front of her "Your not going to touch him... Baku-baba"

Before Laria knew what was going on she was on the floor with a deep cut in her arm. Bakura was standing over her licking her bitter-sweet blood off his dagger. Yani had a hold of Ryou. Laria started to feel lightheaded; she knew she would pass out soon.

"You're in for a nightmare, and its only going to be worse for the Boy" Bakura said grinning viciously "Sweet dreams..."

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When Laria came to the first thing she noticed was the cold... and the sharp pain in her arm. She was in Bakura's room, but everything was hazy. She figured it's was the after effects of the blood loss. Her head hurt, her arm was throbbing, and the inhuman cold was starting to numb her fingers.

Laria shivered and tried to wrap her arms around herself when she realized that her wrists were clasped in golden shackles. There was a chain that went up to the eye of Ra, which hung in midair. She looked down and saw her feet were the same way. She couldn't move at all.

She looked up and scanned Bakura's room. Yani was curled up to Bakura on the bed. Bakura was lying on his stomach, shirtless. She also noted that black candle burning on the night stand. What Laria couldn't understand was why she was here. And why she was chained up.

"Welcome to the Shadow Realm, my dear" said a harsh voice behind her. It was then she realized that it was Ryou on the bed next to Yani, which meant...

"Bakura!" Laria said trying to look behind her. "What are you doing? Why are we here!?"

"It's good you're awake" Bakura said from in front of Laria, as though she didn't say anything "I was afraid you'd miss the ritual"

"Ritual?" Laria blinked

"Oh yes" Bakura said as though he was commenting on the weather "you remember Malik's little ritual don't you?"

Laria nodded slowly

"Well we've got our own little ritual set up for my little hikari."

"No..."

Laria looked over at the bed again Yani and Ryou were still laying there. As she gazed at them the image faded away. Tears stung the corners of Laria's eyes as she saw Yani trying to hold down a struggling Ryou. You could already see bruises all over him starting to form.

"Ryou!" Laria called out. Yani had Ryou's mouth covered so he couldn't respond.

"Don't you wish you would have said something about the cards earlier" Bakura said into Laria's ear from behind her again.

"Bakura..." Laria begged tears starting to roll down her cheek "please don't do this!"

Bakura grabbed Laria's hair and yanked it back. Laria screamed, which just made Ryou struggle against Yani more.

"You knew my warning Girl" Bakura yelled at the hikari "You knew this would happen! This is all your fault... all of the Boy's suffering is caused by you!"

Bakura let go of Laria and walked over to the bed. He took his dagger out of his back pocket and held it over the candle. He waited until it was just right before handing it to Yani. He looked up at Laria.

"The funs just about to start..."

"No! Bakura!" Laria screamed again as she struggled with her bindings "please don't do this!"

"Scream all you want Girl" Bakura said "it's not going to do any good"

Yani grinned at the red hot dagger and then looked down at Ryou's bare back.

"Can I start now Baku-Chan?" She asked running her hand down Ryou's back. She could feel him trembling. He whimpered and looked up at Yani with his tearful eyes. There was a bruise on his cheek from where Bakura had slapped him earlier. Yani frowned.

"Yes," Bakura said "make sure your hikari can see"

Yani nodded slowly and moved over to Ryou's left side giving Laria full view of what was about to happen. She ran her hand down Ryou's back again and then began to cut. Ryou screamed out as the dagger pierced his skin. The hot blade burned his skin as it cut and felt more like a thousand knives then just one dagger.

Laria was shaking now, trembling. She fought as hard as she could against the golden shackles while Yani continued her work. Blood covered most of Ryou's back and spilled down unto the black sheets below him. Yani leaned down and started to lick off some of the blood.

Laria closed her eyes tightly. She couldn't watch it anymore. Even so, she couldn't block out Ryou's screams and sobs that seemed to echo though the vast darkness of the Shadow Realm. Laria shook her head as she cried. She couldn't take it anymore; she couldn't believe this was happening.

Ryou's screams seemed to get softer and softer and then they just stopped. Laria opened her eyes again and saw that Ryou had passed out. But Yani was still cutting.

"Yani!" Laria cried out to her alter ego "please stop!"

"Very well hikari" Yani said sitting up "I'm done anyway"

Bakura, who had been watching the whole thing with sadistic glee, looked over Yani's work.

"Very good koi" Bakura said as he leaned over, pulling Yani into a kiss. The taste of his hikari's blood was still on her lips.

"We should let my hikari have a look" Yani said with a devilish grin.

"Yes, we should"

Bakura snapped his fingers and the chains that were holding Laria were pulled over to the bed. She looked down at her koibito's back and gasped. Yani had carved the Millennium Ring there.

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