NOTE!: To people who were reading this before:: My chapters got all mixed up so I'm trying to get them back in order. Please bear with me, okay? I don't own Yugioh! but the nice man on E-bay wants to sell it to me for 50 cents. Should I?

~ Failing Lights, Brightening Darkness ~

~ Chapter 1-Pain is not a weakness. ~

Ryou felt his face get pounded into a wall. 'The one time' he thought 'The one time I'm alone, a bully

shows up. Ra must love me!' "Had enough, baby?" the thug said. In Ryous haze of pain, he couldn't reply.

'I must have hit my head hard', he thought, before losing consciousness. When the bully realized Ryou had

stopped screaming, he dragged the limp boy to the side of the road to die. Many hours later, a jogger found

him and called an ambulance. "Yes... I found a boy in critical condition on the side of the road... We're

outside of Citgo on Main St... Thank you." The man closed his cell phone and covered Ryou up with his

windbreaker. The pale boy had a steady heart rate and was still breathing, he was just unconscious. Soon

the ambulance arrived and the semi-albino was loaded in to the back and the jogger's name and address

was jotted down for reference. As the ambulance rushed away, a single tear slid down Ryou's cheek. One

of the women in the ambulance happened to be his neighbor and she recognized him immediately. "Poor

kid", she said, "His brother(Bakura)and dad are going to be so sad if the youngling is to badly hurt."

"What?", said the other EMP, "you know him? What's his name? His family is probably freaking out!"

"His name is Ryou Bakura", she said solemnly. As they reached the hospital, Ryou moaned as his arm was

jolted. A few hours later, Ryou's dad and Bakura arrived at the hospital and were informed that Ryou's arm

was broken in three places, his nose was broken, and two ribs were fractured. He was awake, so they went

to see him. "I'm sorry, Bakura," Ryou said weakly. "Sorry for what, aibou?" "That I was so weak that I got

hurt so badly." "Pain is not a weakness, hikari..."

~~ To be continued ~~ I'll update when Youko Yamato, my beta reader types it up. Many thousands thankyous to Youko Yamato. (It never would get typed up without her/him/it!)