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Hey again! Sorry this one wasn't out as soon as the last, but hey I tried, can't hold be against that, lol, just kidding! I hope you all enjoyed the last chapter, because I've got a brand new one already for you guys to read! (This sounds like a t.v. broadcast -.-) Anyways, I hope my cliffie didn't freak you guys out too much! :P Alright anyways, hopefully this chapter doesn't throw you guys off, cuz I know writing it, made me a bit lost, hence the reason it wasn't out sooner then this. O.k. then enough babbling, on to the thank-you and then on with the fic!
Lylli Riddle: Hey! WOW! Thank you soooooooo much! I can't believe you took the time to review each and every chapter! You are so super sweet! [Hands Lylli a bag of cute plushies from Yu-gi-oh, and a bag of pixy stix, and a movie pass to see any movie you want] You are such a nice person! And btw, you'll see Joey's feelings in this chapter, obviously! o.k. that was probably the stupidest thing I have ever said. Catch ya later bud byez!
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To everyone else who read and/or reviewed thank you ever so much! You guys have no idea how happy I was after reading all of your wonderful reviews Aite den with out further interruption, I present chapter 14: In your Heart!
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CHAPTER 14: In your Heart
Seto stopped dead in his tracks. "J...Joey?" I... what are you doing here?"
Joey rolled his eyes, and limped forward towards Yugi who was on the floor, but first he stopped beside Kaiba's ear and mumbled, "I go to this school... moneybags." And with that he continued to limp over to his friend. But was stopped with a heavy hand placed on his shoulder. "Wait... Joey, we... we need to talk."
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Yugi was on the floor, he had blood dripping out of his mouth where he had accidentally been hit. Yami was holding him up and brushing away the tears that were falling from his eyes. //aibou are you o.k.? //
/Hai... I'm fine Yami, arigatou, domo I want to go to the bathroom with Ryou and Serenity to wash up, you can stay here with Bakura ok? / Then Yugi turned off the mind link and stood up allowing Ryou and Serenity to take him to the bathroom to get cleaned up. Much to the dislikes of both Yami's, they stayed together as to the wishes of Yugi and Ryou //what did I do? I'm sorry Yugi, Gomen//
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Seto quietly lead the way to a desolate area behind the school. Joey limped slowly behind following at a snail's pace in Kaiba's perspective. Finally Joey made it there as he leaned against the school wall and slumped down in pain. He held his leg trying his best to ease the horrible pain surging through him.
Kaiba crouched down beside him, removing the teens hand on his leg, and replacing it with his own, as he gently rubbed it, soothing his ache. Joey looked up in surprise, his amber eyes wide and shocked. "K...Kaiba?"
The young billionaire stopped and looked into the teens' golden orbs, love and compassion present in his own ice blue eyes, "Tell me Joey, what happened last night?"
Joey quickly looked away, closing his eyes tight refusing to cry in front of him, "I... I fell down the stairs this morning."
The brunette frowned, he hated liars, and it didn't take a genius to know that Wheeler was lying, but what did he have to hide? Kaiba raised his hand and put his fingers under the blonds chin, turning his face towards his own, "Please... Joey tell me what happened, I wanna know... onegai."
He looked at Kaiba, frozen in shock once again, did Kaiba really care? His eyes glazed over, as he recalled what had happened earlier that morning, "my, my dad, he's always gettin' drunk, I... I jus' tripped ova' him, it was dark so I couldn't see and so I hurt my leg... dat's all. Ya happy now Moneybags?" Joey then decided to end the conversation, and made his way to get up, propping himself up on his arms, he began to stand up, then he quickly fell back down again, as his arms gave away.
He closed his eyes tightly, awaiting the hard impact on the floor, but instead he fell onto something soft. He opened his eyes slightly, somewhat afraid of what he had hit, and as it turned out he fell into the arms of none other then Seto Kaiba. Then unexpectedly they fell to the floor, being that Kaiba was totally unprepared for the vast change in weight, he couldn't support both there mass. They landed with a soft THUD.
Joey blinked in disbelief, "You... you caught me...?"
Kaiba groaned and rubbed his back, "No shit Sherlock, who were you expecting the pope? Now get off of me."
Once again he blinked, "huh... oh ya," he grinned sheepishly. As he made a move to get off, he found he was stuck. He looked down to realize that Kaiba had wrapped his arm tightly around his waist, making it virtually impossible to move at all. "Umm... Kaiba, what do you think you're doing?"
Seto removed his hand and blushed slightly, "You hurt, you stupid mongrel, so do us both a favor, and stop lying to me and yourself."
This got Joey mad, "Listen, ya snob, what's wit you? Ya keep playin' these stupid mind games with me. It's like one moment you're ya usual stuck up, snobby self, who does nothin' but walk around insulting me and putting everyone else down for ya own amusement, and da next yuh like Mr. Kind and Gentle, I mean what's up wit dat?"
"Well, excuse me if I was just trying to help, if you're such a hotshot, then you should take care of yourself, but you've obviously proved that you can't. And for your information, you think you've got me all figured out, but I got news for you, YOU DON'T! You don't know why I am the way I am. And if you really do understand things all so well, tell me... why can't you just accept the fact that maybe I do care about someone else other the Mokuba?" With all that said, Kaiba for the third time stalked off that day, leaving Joey on the floor; lost and confused as ever.
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Meanwhile on the opposite side of the playground, Yami and Bakura were engaged in another one of there infamous arguments. "Yes you did Tomb robber no baka; you were the one who hurt my hikari."
"No I did not you stupid Pharaoh that was you."
"Yes you did, you moron"
"No I didn't, you idiotic numskull"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes, yes, yes"
"No, No, no"
"Listen you dim-witted fool, Yes you did, end of discussion."
"Ta hell with you, I DID NOT! Now it's end of discussion."
Yami determined not to lose this argument was about to come up with a witty comeback but fate had obviously had other plans, as the school lunch bell rung, meaning class once again, luckily these two were in separate classes.
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The rest of the day went by fairly quickly. Yugi still hadn't opened up the mind link, and didn't speak very much to Yami or anyone else for that matter, even though Yami was sure it was Bakura who had indeed harmed his hikari. Bakura was wearing a victorious smirk for the rest of the day, and it just so happened that he was behaving for once, which Ryou was quite delighted about. Seto and Joey had passed in the hall on there way to class but neither spoke a word to each other 'nor did they even spare each other a glance.
Tristan and Serenity were all over Joey when they saw him, making sure he was o.k. and all, but apparently Marik and Malik had done a fairly good job, or so it seemed, (To make a long story short, Marik had thought the bandage was going to be used to make Joey a mummy and he went ballistic tearing apart the house looking for drying solutions and salt to dry his body since "the sickly poor lad" had no natron. Malik asked Joey to just humor him, so he did, but then he decided it was time to end the charade as soon as Marik wanted to shove a coat hanger up his nose to pull out his brains. So in the end Marik had tied Joey down and wrapped him up from head to toe in bandages right after pretty much spilling a whole bottle of rubbing alcohol and peroxide all over the teen. However lucky for Joey, Trinity decided to come by to check on them and did some hocus pocus magic stuff, repaired any initial damage caused by the Yami and erased Joey's memory of her magic, then sent him out the door, as fresh as a daisy with minor wounds to say the least ~.^)
As the last bell rang for the day, everyone headed home, except for those who signed up for Trinity's poetry class. Quietly, several people piled into the class and took a seat. After 5 minutes or so, Trinity had decided to take attendance, just to see who would be in her class, and who would receive there extra credit.
"Yugi"
"Yami"
"Kaiba"
"Joey"
"Ryou"
"Bakura'
"Tea"
"Tristan"
"Serenity"
As the list went on, she ended up with a total of 15 people. Finally she began her class with an introduction to Poetry.
"Alright everyone, welcome to Poetry-101, I'm glad you could all make it. Just a reminder classes are every Tuesday and Thursday after school for 30 minutes. If any of you wish to leave, go now, if not, by the end if this course you will have an extra credit. For those of you who wish to know what's going to be going on in this class, you will first learn about a few different types of poetry as well as write some of your own. Got it? Any questions?"
Everyone nodded there head and a few hands went up, "Yugi?"
"Umm... is there any particular genre we have to write about?"
"Not at all, poetry is about free expression, once you have chosen the style you want to write, you are allowed to write about whatever you please." She winked at Yugi, knowing all to well about what genre he and many others wanted to write about.
"Bakura?"
"Ya, so why do I have to be here?"
Trinity rolled her eyes, "You don't have to be, however I think it's a neat idea and a valuable learning experience, and don't put it down before you've had a chance to play around a bit." She looked at him, causing Bakura to feel weird inside, //I still don't see why I have to be here. That stupid fucker Ryou, he's what made me join this class in the first place. He's the one making me feel like this, making me think I'm in love where in reality, he wants revenge my making me part take in such stupidness, making me believe I'm in love with him by the shit he does. I hate him, and I do believe this poetry thing will be exactly what I need to show that to him. He may of have corrupted my mind a few days ago, but I assure you...I wouldn't do ANYTHING for his love no. I will crush your spirits if it's the last think I do... hikari// He grinned evilly, and then replied to Trinity.
"Fine whatever"
Trinity raised an eyebrow and sent somewhat of a warning glare Bakura's way, making the spirit shiver. "All right then anymore questions?"
"Yes lil' miss Prissy, I have one."
Trinity looked at Tea and sent her a death glare, as did most of the class, whom by the way all despised Tea and the thought of having her in the class, "What the hell do you want?"
"Excuse me? You are a teacher you can't talk to me like that? I'll tell the principal on you."
Once again this cause Trinity's eyes to start twitching under the hideous look Tea was sending her, "Listen, you high tailed cocky dog, this is MY class, you are going to follow MY rules, and you are going to do the work I assign for you, and if you don't like it, then you can pick your dirty ass up and get the hell outta MY class, you stupid little bait."
"Uh... you can't speak to me like that I can get you fired?" Tea stood up and crossed her arms in mock fashion.
"Like I care and why are you even here if you're just going to be a pain in the behind? Get this through your head, on top of the fact that Yami doesn't like you, I don't like you, and regardless of what you may think, this class will definitely not score you any points with him, now if you wish to stay, keep you trap shut and sit down."
Tea growled, "I can do as I damn well please."
"NO, you can do as you 'damn well please' in the principal's office if you want, you can do as you 'damn well please' when you get suspended for mouthing me off, which by the way I have the power to do, then you can do as you 'damn well please', after I fail you, and make sure you can't graduate, considering you ARE failing all of your other classes THEN you can once again 'do as you damn well please'. However you can not do as you 'damn well please' in MY class, now I'm telling you for the last friggin' time shut your god damn mouth and sit your flippin' ass DOWN." Trinity replied catching her breath, and sending Tea several looks of dissatisfaction otherwise once again known as Trin' trademark death glare.
Tea finally decided to sit down with a 'humph' especially considering the fact that they weren't even 10 minutes into the class as she had Trinity screaming and threatening her already.
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By the end of class, Trinity had told them about the origin of poetry, poetry sanctuaries on the net, as well as clubs, different forms and how to get inspiration. Before the class was ready to leave she gave them their assignment.
"All right class! Good job today, I can't wait to see you all next time, however before you go your assignment is to write a piece of original poetry and present it to the class in about 2 weeks tops, next period you guys will have time and I can help with, o.k. then if no one has any questions, y'all don't gotta go home, but you gotta get the hell up outta here." Then she winked and walked out of the class.
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Later that night everyone was at home. At the Game shop Yami was busy cleaning up the kitchen after attempting to help grandpa out with dinner after closing time. Let's just say it didn't turn out all to well, he dropped the chicken, and then decided upon the 5 second rule, he washed it, rinsing off all the seasoning, which he had to do again. Then... since he was running late and Yugi was getting hungry he thought that maybe if he doubled the Fahrenheit on the stove he could cut the cooking time in half. No such luck, he ended up burning it to a crisp.
In the end, he had flour, seasoning, parsley, gravy and chicken fat spread throughout the kitchen. Yugi had offered to help Yami clean up, instead of grandpa who Yugi was sure was going to faint, after tasting Yami's supposed "chicken noodle soup."
So Yugi opted for mopping the floor and allowed Yami to load the dishwasher, hoping that maybe he could do that without breaking a dish. Soon after Yami had finished loading the dishwasher, Yugi was just about finished mopping. The spirit had closed the dishwasher turned around only to discover the hard way that Yugi had just mopped that area.
BOOM! The ancient ruler fell with a hard thud on the floor, following the sound was a mock fit of giggles coming from the dark's counterpart.
Yami propped his head up, placing one hand under his chin, and rolled his eyes, "And what may I ask do YOU find so amusing about this aibou?"
Yugi continued laughing, falling to his feet in hysteria. /it's... it's just that [another fit of giggles] you... you practically destroyed the kitchen [giggles again] and now you... [Laughs out loud] /
Yami sighed and turned on his back, //aibou help me up will ya? //
Yugi stopped laughing and looked at Yami, and then he stood up and held out his hand for the spirit. Yami gladly took his hand, and with one hard tug on it, let's just say it was Yami's turn to laugh.
(Well truth be told it would've been, and should've been his turn, however since the king of games had his mind set on winning this little episode, he had forgotten that by pulling Yugi down it would and should have made him hit the ground. But... our clumsy 5000 year old pharaoh forgot that, since the position he was in allowed not for his light to hit the ground, but to fall into his chest, he was totally unprepared... hence the current predicament.)
Yugi blinked waiting for the impact of the hard tile floor, but instead of hitting it, he heard a low moaning sound. He slowly opened his eyes, and found himself staring into the crimson depths of none other then his secret love.
/Yami?? I... are you o.k? /
//hai, aibou, I'm fine... but...//
Yugi began to raise himself from Yami, but stopped when he felt a firm pair of arms wrap around him. /Yami? /
Yami held on a bit tighter, but no so tight that it would hurt his precious light, just tight enough and he pulled him a bit closer. He looked right into Yugi's amethyst orbs, his own ruby eyes shining with a look of adoration, and innocence, if at all possible for him. His features held an air of seriousness, as he opened his mind link, so that Yugi could feel his emotions too, as well as hear his words. As Yami prepared to finish his sentence, Yugi gulped.
//But... you're gonna pay for laughing at me//
And just as quickly as he had said it, his grin turned into a devious smirk as he flipped Yugi over so he was on his back and Yami began to tickle his, under his neck, at his sides, anywhere and everywhere he knew his light was ticklish.
/ha ha... ha Yami... ha st... st...s....stop.... haha that... that.... t....t...ick....tick....tickles/
Yami continued with his torture as he and Yugi rolled out of the kitchen and onto the softer carpet in the living room. Yami didn't let up until Yugi had tears streaming out of his eyes and was hiccupping for laughing so hard. Yugi sighed as Yami rolled off of him and onto the carpet so that they were beside each other neck and neck. "That was fun Yami, but I'm tired now, can you..." Yugi blushed quite embarrassed about what he was about to ask his Yami to do.
Yami looked to his left at the side of Yugi's face, "yes aibou?" He knew all to well what Yugi was going to ask him, but he just wanted to hear him say it.
"Umm... can you... can you... carry me?"
Yami laughed a deep rich laugh that caused the hair on Yugi's back to raise and goosebumps to form on his arms. Then the spirit rose to his feet and stretched, bending down afterwards to pick his light up. Surprisingly he was very lightweight and fit perfectly in Yami's arms as if he was made especially for that purpose. Yugi snuggled up close to Yami's chest savoring the spicy exotic smell emanating from his body. Yugi felt as if he had died and gone to heaven. His eyes fluttered shut as Yami proceeded to climb the stairs.
Yami smiled down at the bundle in his arms. He was so happy just holding him like this. //My Ra! He is so beautiful, he looks like an angel// It was funny, even the simple moments like this seemed so special, maybe because it was the closest he got to be with Yugi, but whatever it was, Yami was happy, because nothing could ruin this moment! The spirit continued to ascend up the stairs... in all the silence Yami could hear Yugi's soft breathing in his chest, this truly was like heaven. Well it was at least until the utter silence was broken by a loud BOOM!
Yugi jolted up in Yami's arms, as the spirit muttered, "nope... nothing could possibly ruin this moment except for an exploding dishwasher!!!!!!!!" Yugi groaned as he saw the bubbles flowing into the living room then he sighed. "I'll get the mop."
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Meanwhile at The Kaiba mansion, Mokuba was fast asleep leaving Seto to some quality alone time. He sat alone in the den with nothing to keep him company except for the constant crackling of the fire he had set. The brightness of the fire illuminated the room casting eerie shadows to dance along the wall. It radiated warmth throughout the chamber giving a sense of security to the elder Kaiba brother.
Seto sighed as he recalled the events from earlier in the day. The way things had gone with Joey, the conversation they had, what he had said to him. "Why couldn't he just see that I was worried about him?"
He sighed once again, burrowing his brow in thought. "Maybe, I should back off maybe I am becoming too soft, maybe I was wrong to fall in love, I mean they say only fools fall in love, and I am no fool."
He shifted uncomfortably in his seat, startled as he heard his cell ring. Reluctantly he picked it up, checking his caller ID he realized that it was a private number, he was going to ignore it, but decided upon better judgment... something inside of him was urging him to pick up the phone. "Hello?"
"You've been a genius all your life Kaiba, why not be a fool for once... after all, what's the worst that can happen?" Then the line went dead.
Kaiba's eyes widened, who was that? He had all the doors and windows locked and he had the best security around, not to mention he had requested all the maids to go to bed, it was past midnight, there was no possible way anyone could've heard him, unless somehow it was done by magic. He shook his head to clear his thoughts then grunted, "Magic? O.k. I am changing for sure I mean come on first love and now magic? You have got to be kidding me." He yawned as he made his way upstairs, "I really need to sleep more. Magic... ha-ha!"
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Bakura muttered and crumpled yet another piece of paper. "Ahh... how the hell am I expected to get this math stuff?"
Ryou groaned, "Egyptians were some of the smartest people in the world, they had renowned scholars and had a unique system in mathematics, figure it out."
Bakura turned towards the bed and growled, "DON'T YOU EVEN DARE CONTRIDICT ME HIKARI! I WAS A TOMB ROBBER NOT A FRIGGIN' SMART ASS!"
Ryou moaned again and shoved his head under his pillow, "its 1 o'clock in the morning, go to bed Yami."
Bakura was about to yell at his hikari and knock the living hell out of him, but stopped, not that he wanted to it's just that he couldn't, it was like he was prone to it, not allowed to even speak, or raise his hand to hit him. Some kind of magical force field or so it seemed.
The darker half rolled his eyes, pissed beyond belief "I'm going out hikari, don't wait up." With that Bakura stamped all the way down the stairs, opened the door and slammed it shut, purposely just to annoy his hikari since he couldn't do anything else.
As soon as he got outside, he yelled bloody murder, "OH FOR THE LOVE OF RA! Why the hell couldn't I do what I wanted, this was MY body!? I know it must've been that stupid Pharaoh no baka, couldn't handle losing a single argument to me, he had to go and mess my life up in some way. Well there is no way in bloody hell; he's getting away with it." And he stormed off on the way to the Turtle Game Shop.
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On his way there he bumped into someone, "Ouch, watch where you are going, you miscreant." He rubbed his head where he had bumped it.
"Nice to see you to Bakurie!" Tea fluttered her eye lids as she smiled at him, waving her hand right in front of his face. It made Bakura want barf it was so sickening. He grabbed her hand and twisted it.
"Don't ever put your filthy hands in my face again for if you do, I will break each of your disgustingly manicured fingers and break 'em off one by one, and furthermore NEVER EVER call me 'Bakurie' or I shall send you PITIFUL soul to the shadow realm, got it?"
Tea grinned, placing a hand over the spot where your heart is supposed to be she replied, "I'm hurt," as she moved closer to the dark spirit, "I rally admire a dark and mysterious soul such as your own you know."
Bakura gagged and kneed her, "Go back to the whore house you came from bitch." The he stalked off towards the Game Shop once again, shuttering about the previous occurrence, mumbling something about sending her to the Shadow Realm the next time he sees her hideous face.
As he reached the door, he was about to knock it down, but decided otherwise as he saw a mysterious shadow moving about outside the shop. "Whose there? Show yourself."
The shadow stopped and then appeared to shake their head back and forth as if saying 'no' giggling, they then ran off deep into the darkness. Bakura grinned he loved wild goose chases, he ran after the person, only to find himself trapped in a dark alleyway far from the Moutou residence. "What in the world..."
He ventured further into the darkness allowing it to consume any bit of light that dared seep in. As he got to the back of the alley, he noticed it was a dead end. Everything was silent and dark, just as it had been before he had been released from the Millennium Ring. All of the loneliness he once felt, he was starting to feel again.
He looked around quickly for any trace of people, or the mysterious shadow that he was so sure he had followed here... no one; it was a desolate area, dark and cold... an exact replica of him.
Bakura turned around hoping to see the light at the end of the alleyway from the street lamps but it was all dark, no light what so ever. Then all of a sudden he heard giggling, the same giggling he had heard before, the one that belonged to that figure he had followed. Bakura's look turned from one that was dreaded and frightened to one of confidence and mock, "Show yourself, you coward."
The person began to laugh again, "I'm not the coward, you are the one who isolates yourself from everyone, and you are the reason you are surrounded by darkness."
Bakura laughed back at the person, who I might say was no where in sight, "Show yourself if you are not a coward then."
Once again the person laughed, "Tell me, do you like being alone?"
"WHAT THE HELL, OF COUSRE I LIKE BEING ALONE!"
"If you like being alone so much, why do you want to see me?"
Bakura for once in his life was speechless, "I...I..."
"With darkness comes light... all you have to do is find yours... tomb robber."
Bakura's eyes widened, "How... who... where... tell me who are you, and what kind of sick joke is this?"
The figure laughed again, "You don't have to be alone Bakura, in fact you are not..."
"I'm...I'm not?" Bakura who stubbornly refused to admit he was tired of being alone, and tired of being kept in the darkness, was for once aware of his vulnerability.
"No... Your hikari, the light to you darkness, I have led you to a place that mirrors your very existence."
"But... this, all of it is darkness, nothing more, I can't see anything else."
Once again the shadow laughed, "Open your eyes and look again."
Bakura grinded his teeth, this person was really getting on his nerves there was nothing to see, yet for some reason in all his 5000 years he finally did as he was told, he opened his eyes and looked into the darkness.
He saw the laughing faces of all of Ryou's friends, he saw the Pharaoh and his hikari laughing together and holding hands, he saw everyone. He even saw images of his past, with his mother and father, everyone was happy. But not only that but, everyone there, had someone. Bakura shook his head; he had seen everyone there but Ryou.
He looked deeper, into the 'darkness' and he kept walking and walking as if he were in a tunnel, then finally he saw light, he raised his head and he saw Ryou standing there with a smile on his face. Bakura ran towards him, but the further he ran... the further away Ryou got.
Angrily he stopped, "What is the meaning of this?"
The shadowed figure appeared behind him, face still hidden by the darkness, "You have found the light, now all you have to do is embrace it, and you shall be free."
"Free? Where are we? This is not the shadow realm... what is this place?"
The shadow giggled again, then smiled, "How naive you are... you shall find out soon enough, just as soon as you embrace the light, and allow it to fill the darkness." Then the figured disappeared.
Bakura growled, 'embrace the light?' He looked up and saw Ryou standing there with a lopsided grin. Behind him there were a bunch of scenes being played out. They were all of Bakura hitting him, and calling him 'worthless' and other hurtful names. There were scenes of Ryou crying in his room at night after he left, or after being brutally beaten. There were scenes of Ryou in the bathroom cutting his wrist with a razor, and bandaging it up so he wouldn't lose too much blood. As well there was a scene of the time Bakura got extremely pissed and had literally beaten him to a bloody pulp.
The last scene Bakura saw was a scene of Ryou and him walking in the park. It was just a few days ago, when Bakura thought he was falling in love with Ryou, he had decided to be nice that day, so he took him for a stroll in the park. That was the only scene he had seen where Ryou was actually, truly happy.
After seeing all of the scenes play out, Bakura looked back at Ryou, he was still standing there, looking as angelic as ever, except for the fact that he was crying. For once in all the months Bakura had spent with Ryou, he had never actually seen the full extent of the pain he had caused Ryou, and now... now he knew. "I... I... I'm sorry Ryou, I... I'm truly, truly sorry."
All of a sudden Bakura was blinded by a bright light, soon after he opened his eyes again, he found himself at the edge of the sidewalk, just outside the alley way. No Ryou, no, anyone, just him alone and the street lamp.
He blinked wondering if what happened really just happened, but somehow even though he doubted it, he knew in his heart, it had. "Where was I? That person said I'd know..."
Just then a cool breeze swished by, and as the ancient tomb robber felt the wind pass by his ear, making him feel at calm and at ease, a feeling he had never once known. The spirit shuddered as the cool air swept past him and then it finally hit him, "All I had to do was embrace the light... Ryou... the light to my darkness, and the key to my soul, and my heart..."
Bakura smiled thoughtfully, as he took in all his new emotions then he realized it, the shadow, he was so sure that I'd know, and whoever it was they were right, "I was in my heart."
Hey again! Sorry this one wasn't out as soon as the last, but hey I tried, can't hold be against that, lol, just kidding! I hope you all enjoyed the last chapter, because I've got a brand new one already for you guys to read! (This sounds like a t.v. broadcast -.-) Anyways, I hope my cliffie didn't freak you guys out too much! :P Alright anyways, hopefully this chapter doesn't throw you guys off, cuz I know writing it, made me a bit lost, hence the reason it wasn't out sooner then this. O.k. then enough babbling, on to the thank-you and then on with the fic!
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To everyone else who read and/or reviewed thank you ever so much! You guys have no idea how happy I was after reading all of your wonderful reviews Aite den with out further interruption, I present chapter 14: In your Heart!
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CHAPTER 14: In your Heart
Seto stopped dead in his tracks. "J...Joey?" I... what are you doing here?"
Joey rolled his eyes, and limped forward towards Yugi who was on the floor, but first he stopped beside Kaiba's ear and mumbled, "I go to this school... moneybags." And with that he continued to limp over to his friend. But was stopped with a heavy hand placed on his shoulder. "Wait... Joey, we... we need to talk."
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Yugi was on the floor, he had blood dripping out of his mouth where he had accidentally been hit. Yami was holding him up and brushing away the tears that were falling from his eyes. //aibou are you o.k.? //
/Hai... I'm fine Yami, arigatou, domo I want to go to the bathroom with Ryou and Serenity to wash up, you can stay here with Bakura ok? / Then Yugi turned off the mind link and stood up allowing Ryou and Serenity to take him to the bathroom to get cleaned up. Much to the dislikes of both Yami's, they stayed together as to the wishes of Yugi and Ryou //what did I do? I'm sorry Yugi, Gomen//
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Seto quietly lead the way to a desolate area behind the school. Joey limped slowly behind following at a snail's pace in Kaiba's perspective. Finally Joey made it there as he leaned against the school wall and slumped down in pain. He held his leg trying his best to ease the horrible pain surging through him.
Kaiba crouched down beside him, removing the teens hand on his leg, and replacing it with his own, as he gently rubbed it, soothing his ache. Joey looked up in surprise, his amber eyes wide and shocked. "K...Kaiba?"
The young billionaire stopped and looked into the teens' golden orbs, love and compassion present in his own ice blue eyes, "Tell me Joey, what happened last night?"
Joey quickly looked away, closing his eyes tight refusing to cry in front of him, "I... I fell down the stairs this morning."
The brunette frowned, he hated liars, and it didn't take a genius to know that Wheeler was lying, but what did he have to hide? Kaiba raised his hand and put his fingers under the blonds chin, turning his face towards his own, "Please... Joey tell me what happened, I wanna know... onegai."
He looked at Kaiba, frozen in shock once again, did Kaiba really care? His eyes glazed over, as he recalled what had happened earlier that morning, "my, my dad, he's always gettin' drunk, I... I jus' tripped ova' him, it was dark so I couldn't see and so I hurt my leg... dat's all. Ya happy now Moneybags?" Joey then decided to end the conversation, and made his way to get up, propping himself up on his arms, he began to stand up, then he quickly fell back down again, as his arms gave away.
He closed his eyes tightly, awaiting the hard impact on the floor, but instead he fell onto something soft. He opened his eyes slightly, somewhat afraid of what he had hit, and as it turned out he fell into the arms of none other then Seto Kaiba. Then unexpectedly they fell to the floor, being that Kaiba was totally unprepared for the vast change in weight, he couldn't support both there mass. They landed with a soft THUD.
Joey blinked in disbelief, "You... you caught me...?"
Kaiba groaned and rubbed his back, "No shit Sherlock, who were you expecting the pope? Now get off of me."
Once again he blinked, "huh... oh ya," he grinned sheepishly. As he made a move to get off, he found he was stuck. He looked down to realize that Kaiba had wrapped his arm tightly around his waist, making it virtually impossible to move at all. "Umm... Kaiba, what do you think you're doing?"
Seto removed his hand and blushed slightly, "You hurt, you stupid mongrel, so do us both a favor, and stop lying to me and yourself."
This got Joey mad, "Listen, ya snob, what's wit you? Ya keep playin' these stupid mind games with me. It's like one moment you're ya usual stuck up, snobby self, who does nothin' but walk around insulting me and putting everyone else down for ya own amusement, and da next yuh like Mr. Kind and Gentle, I mean what's up wit dat?"
"Well, excuse me if I was just trying to help, if you're such a hotshot, then you should take care of yourself, but you've obviously proved that you can't. And for your information, you think you've got me all figured out, but I got news for you, YOU DON'T! You don't know why I am the way I am. And if you really do understand things all so well, tell me... why can't you just accept the fact that maybe I do care about someone else other the Mokuba?" With all that said, Kaiba for the third time stalked off that day, leaving Joey on the floor; lost and confused as ever.
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Meanwhile on the opposite side of the playground, Yami and Bakura were engaged in another one of there infamous arguments. "Yes you did Tomb robber no baka; you were the one who hurt my hikari."
"No I did not you stupid Pharaoh that was you."
"Yes you did, you moron"
"No I didn't, you idiotic numskull"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes, yes, yes"
"No, No, no"
"Listen you dim-witted fool, Yes you did, end of discussion."
"Ta hell with you, I DID NOT! Now it's end of discussion."
Yami determined not to lose this argument was about to come up with a witty comeback but fate had obviously had other plans, as the school lunch bell rung, meaning class once again, luckily these two were in separate classes.
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The rest of the day went by fairly quickly. Yugi still hadn't opened up the mind link, and didn't speak very much to Yami or anyone else for that matter, even though Yami was sure it was Bakura who had indeed harmed his hikari. Bakura was wearing a victorious smirk for the rest of the day, and it just so happened that he was behaving for once, which Ryou was quite delighted about. Seto and Joey had passed in the hall on there way to class but neither spoke a word to each other 'nor did they even spare each other a glance.
Tristan and Serenity were all over Joey when they saw him, making sure he was o.k. and all, but apparently Marik and Malik had done a fairly good job, or so it seemed, (To make a long story short, Marik had thought the bandage was going to be used to make Joey a mummy and he went ballistic tearing apart the house looking for drying solutions and salt to dry his body since "the sickly poor lad" had no natron. Malik asked Joey to just humor him, so he did, but then he decided it was time to end the charade as soon as Marik wanted to shove a coat hanger up his nose to pull out his brains. So in the end Marik had tied Joey down and wrapped him up from head to toe in bandages right after pretty much spilling a whole bottle of rubbing alcohol and peroxide all over the teen. However lucky for Joey, Trinity decided to come by to check on them and did some hocus pocus magic stuff, repaired any initial damage caused by the Yami and erased Joey's memory of her magic, then sent him out the door, as fresh as a daisy with minor wounds to say the least ~.^)
As the last bell rang for the day, everyone headed home, except for those who signed up for Trinity's poetry class. Quietly, several people piled into the class and took a seat. After 5 minutes or so, Trinity had decided to take attendance, just to see who would be in her class, and who would receive there extra credit.
"Yugi"
"Yami"
"Kaiba"
"Joey"
"Ryou"
"Bakura'
"Tea"
"Tristan"
"Serenity"
As the list went on, she ended up with a total of 15 people. Finally she began her class with an introduction to Poetry.
"Alright everyone, welcome to Poetry-101, I'm glad you could all make it. Just a reminder classes are every Tuesday and Thursday after school for 30 minutes. If any of you wish to leave, go now, if not, by the end if this course you will have an extra credit. For those of you who wish to know what's going to be going on in this class, you will first learn about a few different types of poetry as well as write some of your own. Got it? Any questions?"
Everyone nodded there head and a few hands went up, "Yugi?"
"Umm... is there any particular genre we have to write about?"
"Not at all, poetry is about free expression, once you have chosen the style you want to write, you are allowed to write about whatever you please." She winked at Yugi, knowing all to well about what genre he and many others wanted to write about.
"Bakura?"
"Ya, so why do I have to be here?"
Trinity rolled her eyes, "You don't have to be, however I think it's a neat idea and a valuable learning experience, and don't put it down before you've had a chance to play around a bit." She looked at him, causing Bakura to feel weird inside, //I still don't see why I have to be here. That stupid fucker Ryou, he's what made me join this class in the first place. He's the one making me feel like this, making me think I'm in love where in reality, he wants revenge my making me part take in such stupidness, making me believe I'm in love with him by the shit he does. I hate him, and I do believe this poetry thing will be exactly what I need to show that to him. He may of have corrupted my mind a few days ago, but I assure you...I wouldn't do ANYTHING for his love no. I will crush your spirits if it's the last think I do... hikari// He grinned evilly, and then replied to Trinity.
"Fine whatever"
Trinity raised an eyebrow and sent somewhat of a warning glare Bakura's way, making the spirit shiver. "All right then anymore questions?"
"Yes lil' miss Prissy, I have one."
Trinity looked at Tea and sent her a death glare, as did most of the class, whom by the way all despised Tea and the thought of having her in the class, "What the hell do you want?"
"Excuse me? You are a teacher you can't talk to me like that? I'll tell the principal on you."
Once again this cause Trinity's eyes to start twitching under the hideous look Tea was sending her, "Listen, you high tailed cocky dog, this is MY class, you are going to follow MY rules, and you are going to do the work I assign for you, and if you don't like it, then you can pick your dirty ass up and get the hell outta MY class, you stupid little bait."
"Uh... you can't speak to me like that I can get you fired?" Tea stood up and crossed her arms in mock fashion.
"Like I care and why are you even here if you're just going to be a pain in the behind? Get this through your head, on top of the fact that Yami doesn't like you, I don't like you, and regardless of what you may think, this class will definitely not score you any points with him, now if you wish to stay, keep you trap shut and sit down."
Tea growled, "I can do as I damn well please."
"NO, you can do as you 'damn well please' in the principal's office if you want, you can do as you 'damn well please' when you get suspended for mouthing me off, which by the way I have the power to do, then you can do as you 'damn well please', after I fail you, and make sure you can't graduate, considering you ARE failing all of your other classes THEN you can once again 'do as you damn well please'. However you can not do as you 'damn well please' in MY class, now I'm telling you for the last friggin' time shut your god damn mouth and sit your flippin' ass DOWN." Trinity replied catching her breath, and sending Tea several looks of dissatisfaction otherwise once again known as Trin' trademark death glare.
Tea finally decided to sit down with a 'humph' especially considering the fact that they weren't even 10 minutes into the class as she had Trinity screaming and threatening her already.
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By the end of class, Trinity had told them about the origin of poetry, poetry sanctuaries on the net, as well as clubs, different forms and how to get inspiration. Before the class was ready to leave she gave them their assignment.
"All right class! Good job today, I can't wait to see you all next time, however before you go your assignment is to write a piece of original poetry and present it to the class in about 2 weeks tops, next period you guys will have time and I can help with, o.k. then if no one has any questions, y'all don't gotta go home, but you gotta get the hell up outta here." Then she winked and walked out of the class.
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Later that night everyone was at home. At the Game shop Yami was busy cleaning up the kitchen after attempting to help grandpa out with dinner after closing time. Let's just say it didn't turn out all to well, he dropped the chicken, and then decided upon the 5 second rule, he washed it, rinsing off all the seasoning, which he had to do again. Then... since he was running late and Yugi was getting hungry he thought that maybe if he doubled the Fahrenheit on the stove he could cut the cooking time in half. No such luck, he ended up burning it to a crisp.
In the end, he had flour, seasoning, parsley, gravy and chicken fat spread throughout the kitchen. Yugi had offered to help Yami clean up, instead of grandpa who Yugi was sure was going to faint, after tasting Yami's supposed "chicken noodle soup."
So Yugi opted for mopping the floor and allowed Yami to load the dishwasher, hoping that maybe he could do that without breaking a dish. Soon after Yami had finished loading the dishwasher, Yugi was just about finished mopping. The spirit had closed the dishwasher turned around only to discover the hard way that Yugi had just mopped that area.
BOOM! The ancient ruler fell with a hard thud on the floor, following the sound was a mock fit of giggles coming from the dark's counterpart.
Yami propped his head up, placing one hand under his chin, and rolled his eyes, "And what may I ask do YOU find so amusing about this aibou?"
Yugi continued laughing, falling to his feet in hysteria. /it's... it's just that [another fit of giggles] you... you practically destroyed the kitchen [giggles again] and now you... [Laughs out loud] /
Yami sighed and turned on his back, //aibou help me up will ya? //
Yugi stopped laughing and looked at Yami, and then he stood up and held out his hand for the spirit. Yami gladly took his hand, and with one hard tug on it, let's just say it was Yami's turn to laugh.
(Well truth be told it would've been, and should've been his turn, however since the king of games had his mind set on winning this little episode, he had forgotten that by pulling Yugi down it would and should have made him hit the ground. But... our clumsy 5000 year old pharaoh forgot that, since the position he was in allowed not for his light to hit the ground, but to fall into his chest, he was totally unprepared... hence the current predicament.)
Yugi blinked waiting for the impact of the hard tile floor, but instead of hitting it, he heard a low moaning sound. He slowly opened his eyes, and found himself staring into the crimson depths of none other then his secret love.
/Yami?? I... are you o.k? /
//hai, aibou, I'm fine... but...//
Yugi began to raise himself from Yami, but stopped when he felt a firm pair of arms wrap around him. /Yami? /
Yami held on a bit tighter, but no so tight that it would hurt his precious light, just tight enough and he pulled him a bit closer. He looked right into Yugi's amethyst orbs, his own ruby eyes shining with a look of adoration, and innocence, if at all possible for him. His features held an air of seriousness, as he opened his mind link, so that Yugi could feel his emotions too, as well as hear his words. As Yami prepared to finish his sentence, Yugi gulped.
//But... you're gonna pay for laughing at me//
And just as quickly as he had said it, his grin turned into a devious smirk as he flipped Yugi over so he was on his back and Yami began to tickle his, under his neck, at his sides, anywhere and everywhere he knew his light was ticklish.
/ha ha... ha Yami... ha st... st...s....stop.... haha that... that.... t....t...ick....tick....tickles/
Yami continued with his torture as he and Yugi rolled out of the kitchen and onto the softer carpet in the living room. Yami didn't let up until Yugi had tears streaming out of his eyes and was hiccupping for laughing so hard. Yugi sighed as Yami rolled off of him and onto the carpet so that they were beside each other neck and neck. "That was fun Yami, but I'm tired now, can you..." Yugi blushed quite embarrassed about what he was about to ask his Yami to do.
Yami looked to his left at the side of Yugi's face, "yes aibou?" He knew all to well what Yugi was going to ask him, but he just wanted to hear him say it.
"Umm... can you... can you... carry me?"
Yami laughed a deep rich laugh that caused the hair on Yugi's back to raise and goosebumps to form on his arms. Then the spirit rose to his feet and stretched, bending down afterwards to pick his light up. Surprisingly he was very lightweight and fit perfectly in Yami's arms as if he was made especially for that purpose. Yugi snuggled up close to Yami's chest savoring the spicy exotic smell emanating from his body. Yugi felt as if he had died and gone to heaven. His eyes fluttered shut as Yami proceeded to climb the stairs.
Yami smiled down at the bundle in his arms. He was so happy just holding him like this. //My Ra! He is so beautiful, he looks like an angel// It was funny, even the simple moments like this seemed so special, maybe because it was the closest he got to be with Yugi, but whatever it was, Yami was happy, because nothing could ruin this moment! The spirit continued to ascend up the stairs... in all the silence Yami could hear Yugi's soft breathing in his chest, this truly was like heaven. Well it was at least until the utter silence was broken by a loud BOOM!
Yugi jolted up in Yami's arms, as the spirit muttered, "nope... nothing could possibly ruin this moment except for an exploding dishwasher!!!!!!!!" Yugi groaned as he saw the bubbles flowing into the living room then he sighed. "I'll get the mop."
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Meanwhile at The Kaiba mansion, Mokuba was fast asleep leaving Seto to some quality alone time. He sat alone in the den with nothing to keep him company except for the constant crackling of the fire he had set. The brightness of the fire illuminated the room casting eerie shadows to dance along the wall. It radiated warmth throughout the chamber giving a sense of security to the elder Kaiba brother.
Seto sighed as he recalled the events from earlier in the day. The way things had gone with Joey, the conversation they had, what he had said to him. "Why couldn't he just see that I was worried about him?"
He sighed once again, burrowing his brow in thought. "Maybe, I should back off maybe I am becoming too soft, maybe I was wrong to fall in love, I mean they say only fools fall in love, and I am no fool."
He shifted uncomfortably in his seat, startled as he heard his cell ring. Reluctantly he picked it up, checking his caller ID he realized that it was a private number, he was going to ignore it, but decided upon better judgment... something inside of him was urging him to pick up the phone. "Hello?"
"You've been a genius all your life Kaiba, why not be a fool for once... after all, what's the worst that can happen?" Then the line went dead.
Kaiba's eyes widened, who was that? He had all the doors and windows locked and he had the best security around, not to mention he had requested all the maids to go to bed, it was past midnight, there was no possible way anyone could've heard him, unless somehow it was done by magic. He shook his head to clear his thoughts then grunted, "Magic? O.k. I am changing for sure I mean come on first love and now magic? You have got to be kidding me." He yawned as he made his way upstairs, "I really need to sleep more. Magic... ha-ha!"
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Bakura muttered and crumpled yet another piece of paper. "Ahh... how the hell am I expected to get this math stuff?"
Ryou groaned, "Egyptians were some of the smartest people in the world, they had renowned scholars and had a unique system in mathematics, figure it out."
Bakura turned towards the bed and growled, "DON'T YOU EVEN DARE CONTRIDICT ME HIKARI! I WAS A TOMB ROBBER NOT A FRIGGIN' SMART ASS!"
Ryou moaned again and shoved his head under his pillow, "its 1 o'clock in the morning, go to bed Yami."
Bakura was about to yell at his hikari and knock the living hell out of him, but stopped, not that he wanted to it's just that he couldn't, it was like he was prone to it, not allowed to even speak, or raise his hand to hit him. Some kind of magical force field or so it seemed.
The darker half rolled his eyes, pissed beyond belief "I'm going out hikari, don't wait up." With that Bakura stamped all the way down the stairs, opened the door and slammed it shut, purposely just to annoy his hikari since he couldn't do anything else.
As soon as he got outside, he yelled bloody murder, "OH FOR THE LOVE OF RA! Why the hell couldn't I do what I wanted, this was MY body!? I know it must've been that stupid Pharaoh no baka, couldn't handle losing a single argument to me, he had to go and mess my life up in some way. Well there is no way in bloody hell; he's getting away with it." And he stormed off on the way to the Turtle Game Shop.
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On his way there he bumped into someone, "Ouch, watch where you are going, you miscreant." He rubbed his head where he had bumped it.
"Nice to see you to Bakurie!" Tea fluttered her eye lids as she smiled at him, waving her hand right in front of his face. It made Bakura want barf it was so sickening. He grabbed her hand and twisted it.
"Don't ever put your filthy hands in my face again for if you do, I will break each of your disgustingly manicured fingers and break 'em off one by one, and furthermore NEVER EVER call me 'Bakurie' or I shall send you PITIFUL soul to the shadow realm, got it?"
Tea grinned, placing a hand over the spot where your heart is supposed to be she replied, "I'm hurt," as she moved closer to the dark spirit, "I rally admire a dark and mysterious soul such as your own you know."
Bakura gagged and kneed her, "Go back to the whore house you came from bitch." The he stalked off towards the Game Shop once again, shuttering about the previous occurrence, mumbling something about sending her to the Shadow Realm the next time he sees her hideous face.
As he reached the door, he was about to knock it down, but decided otherwise as he saw a mysterious shadow moving about outside the shop. "Whose there? Show yourself."
The shadow stopped and then appeared to shake their head back and forth as if saying 'no' giggling, they then ran off deep into the darkness. Bakura grinned he loved wild goose chases, he ran after the person, only to find himself trapped in a dark alleyway far from the Moutou residence. "What in the world..."
He ventured further into the darkness allowing it to consume any bit of light that dared seep in. As he got to the back of the alley, he noticed it was a dead end. Everything was silent and dark, just as it had been before he had been released from the Millennium Ring. All of the loneliness he once felt, he was starting to feel again.
He looked around quickly for any trace of people, or the mysterious shadow that he was so sure he had followed here... no one; it was a desolate area, dark and cold... an exact replica of him.
Bakura turned around hoping to see the light at the end of the alleyway from the street lamps but it was all dark, no light what so ever. Then all of a sudden he heard giggling, the same giggling he had heard before, the one that belonged to that figure he had followed. Bakura's look turned from one that was dreaded and frightened to one of confidence and mock, "Show yourself, you coward."
The person began to laugh again, "I'm not the coward, you are the one who isolates yourself from everyone, and you are the reason you are surrounded by darkness."
Bakura laughed back at the person, who I might say was no where in sight, "Show yourself if you are not a coward then."
Once again the person laughed, "Tell me, do you like being alone?"
"WHAT THE HELL, OF COUSRE I LIKE BEING ALONE!"
"If you like being alone so much, why do you want to see me?"
Bakura for once in his life was speechless, "I...I..."
"With darkness comes light... all you have to do is find yours... tomb robber."
Bakura's eyes widened, "How... who... where... tell me who are you, and what kind of sick joke is this?"
The figure laughed again, "You don't have to be alone Bakura, in fact you are not..."
"I'm...I'm not?" Bakura who stubbornly refused to admit he was tired of being alone, and tired of being kept in the darkness, was for once aware of his vulnerability.
"No... Your hikari, the light to you darkness, I have led you to a place that mirrors your very existence."
"But... this, all of it is darkness, nothing more, I can't see anything else."
Once again the shadow laughed, "Open your eyes and look again."
Bakura grinded his teeth, this person was really getting on his nerves there was nothing to see, yet for some reason in all his 5000 years he finally did as he was told, he opened his eyes and looked into the darkness.
He saw the laughing faces of all of Ryou's friends, he saw the Pharaoh and his hikari laughing together and holding hands, he saw everyone. He even saw images of his past, with his mother and father, everyone was happy. But not only that but, everyone there, had someone. Bakura shook his head; he had seen everyone there but Ryou.
He looked deeper, into the 'darkness' and he kept walking and walking as if he were in a tunnel, then finally he saw light, he raised his head and he saw Ryou standing there with a smile on his face. Bakura ran towards him, but the further he ran... the further away Ryou got.
Angrily he stopped, "What is the meaning of this?"
The shadowed figure appeared behind him, face still hidden by the darkness, "You have found the light, now all you have to do is embrace it, and you shall be free."
"Free? Where are we? This is not the shadow realm... what is this place?"
The shadow giggled again, then smiled, "How naive you are... you shall find out soon enough, just as soon as you embrace the light, and allow it to fill the darkness." Then the figured disappeared.
Bakura growled, 'embrace the light?' He looked up and saw Ryou standing there with a lopsided grin. Behind him there were a bunch of scenes being played out. They were all of Bakura hitting him, and calling him 'worthless' and other hurtful names. There were scenes of Ryou crying in his room at night after he left, or after being brutally beaten. There were scenes of Ryou in the bathroom cutting his wrist with a razor, and bandaging it up so he wouldn't lose too much blood. As well there was a scene of the time Bakura got extremely pissed and had literally beaten him to a bloody pulp.
The last scene Bakura saw was a scene of Ryou and him walking in the park. It was just a few days ago, when Bakura thought he was falling in love with Ryou, he had decided to be nice that day, so he took him for a stroll in the park. That was the only scene he had seen where Ryou was actually, truly happy.
After seeing all of the scenes play out, Bakura looked back at Ryou, he was still standing there, looking as angelic as ever, except for the fact that he was crying. For once in all the months Bakura had spent with Ryou, he had never actually seen the full extent of the pain he had caused Ryou, and now... now he knew. "I... I... I'm sorry Ryou, I... I'm truly, truly sorry."
All of a sudden Bakura was blinded by a bright light, soon after he opened his eyes again, he found himself at the edge of the sidewalk, just outside the alley way. No Ryou, no, anyone, just him alone and the street lamp.
He blinked wondering if what happened really just happened, but somehow even though he doubted it, he knew in his heart, it had. "Where was I? That person said I'd know..."
Just then a cool breeze swished by, and as the ancient tomb robber felt the wind pass by his ear, making him feel at calm and at ease, a feeling he had never once known. The spirit shuddered as the cool air swept past him and then it finally hit him, "All I had to do was embrace the light... Ryou... the light to my darkness, and the key to my soul, and my heart..."
Bakura smiled thoughtfully, as he took in all his new emotions then he realized it, the shadow, he was so sure that I'd know, and whoever it was they were right, "I was in my heart."