Kinsako- Well, well. Here I am again. In a somewhat less than fun mood I might add.

Tonde- fearful look Uh oh.

Kinsako- Yessssss. Interesting situation I got myself into this weekend, which left me in a very bad mood. I had a crush on a friend for quite some time. I never said anything because he already had a girlfriend. This Saturday I met an interesting and very dateable guy who I hit it off with. Unfortunately, my crush also picked this weekend to break up with his girlfriend. (apparently it was mutual). So I was left with a dilemma. Cancel my date with this new, interesting guy, and confess to my crush, or go out with the new, very, very good looking one.

Tonde- slowly edging away

Kinsako- So, what do I do?! I cancel my date with new guy, and I tell my crush how I felt.
Tonde- (This is the part you run away before the carnage starts)

Kinsako- ... and what, do you think happens! I get brushed off. He says he doesn't want to date right now, but maybe, maybe we could date casually or something in a couple of months.

Tonde- Eeep! disappears

Kinsako- Ouch. Now I feel like an idiot, and I end up alone. I hate the fates sometimes. Anyway, since right now I could either break something or break down and cry, I decided to use a somewhat positive outlet for my negative energy. I'm going to finish this fan fic tonight, but be warned. This is not the original plan I had for this story, this ending is something I made up right now. I'm not sure how people will react to it.

This is a story is done completely spur of the moment, I have no idea what the plot is yet, I'm just making it up as I go along. Oh, and I liked the first song fic I did, so I decided to do another.

Warning This story contains Yaoi, or a guy on guy couple. Don't like it, don't read it. It's that simple. Flames will be used to set fire to spare soul cards. This story is rather angsty, with a lot of violence and such.

You have been warned.

Kinsako- And, I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, in any part or way, nor do I own any other copyrighted items, such as songs by Linkin Park.

Kinsako- And I would like to thank all the nice people who reviewed:

Silvershadowfire- So sorry that I killed Ryou, he's actually my favourite character as well. I was planning on brining him back, and making it a happy ending, but as my old English teacher said, life doesn't have a happy ending, so why should writing?

Me Again-Allo Jess. Here's the rest of the fic. I hope you like it. You're right, I can't end it like that. But I can end it like this.
StarVixen- Thanks! Glad you like it. Well, if you liked that does of angst, I'm sure you'll love this one. I don't actually speak Japanese, I just know a few odd phrases.
SaffronStarlight- Arigato! Glad you like it!
Dark Moon Empathy- Glad to hear from you again! And you are one of my favourite reviewers hun. hug I am sorry for killing Ryou, I did have every intention of bringing him back, but now, well read and see. Don't worry, I got a nasty verbal slander from a few people I know. I'm a Sagittarius, why do you ask?
Marik's Lil Sex Kitten- So sorry for making you sad. I'm glad you liked my story so far, but be ready to cry a bit more yet.

Dedicated to- My own frigging stupidity. Grrrr. That was so stupid of me. And Jess. Always a faithful reader of my fan fics.

Kinsako-Gomen in advance to anyone who doesn't like this ending. But not everything can have a happy ending you know...

/…/ is Hikari to Yami

…is Yami to Hikari

... is song lyrics

... is don't worry, you find out in this chapter

Fallen- Chapter 5
Don't Stay

"Sometimes I need to remember just to breathe
Sometimes I need you to stay away from me"

Sounds. Strange sounds, that seem to be moving too fast to hear properly. Flashing lights, that flash red and white. Now bright lights. Too bright to look at, shining right in my eyes. Sounds again. Different this time. A high pitched beeping, someone screaming, many people crying. Cold. An icy cold that sinks right down into my bones. Crying. So much crying.

I try to move, but find my body won't obey me. I try to look around, but can't open my eyes. I try to scream, but no sounds escape my lips. What is this? Where am I? What's happening to me. Even my mind isn't working. My thoughts are jumbled and I can't seem to concentrate. I struggle to organize my thoughts, to understand what's going on. I try to focus...I try to see...

Ryou

"Sometimes I'm in disbelief I didn't know
Somehow I need you to go"

My eyes snap open, and I surge to my feet. A wave of dizziness overtakes me, blurring my vision and forcing me back to the ground. I close my eyes and rest my head in my hands until the dizziness passes. I open my eyes cautiously, and blink puzzled at my surroundings.

Grey stones surround me, and endless field of erect slabs or grey rock. I twist my head around, and find myself sitting on a patch of fresh dirt in front of one of the stones. My eyes focus slowly, and I squint to make out the engraving on the stone.

Bakura Ryou
1987-2004
Rest In Peace

Bakura Ryou. My mind struggles to grasp this concept. Bakura... Ryou...
Ryou.

"Don't stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities"

A scream rips through my throat, and I throw myself at the tombstone. No! No, it's not possible! He can't be gone. I called for help in time, they were going to save him. He can't have... there's no way... he can't be...

Dead

I whirl around with a growl, but the cemetery is empty. I push myself to my feet, and glance around in all directions. "Show yourself!" I snarl.

A sigh echoes through the tombstones. You really didn't care about him at all, did you?

I swallow thickly. This is not happening. Ryou is not dead. I am not hearing the voices of the Mieru Dakedo Mienai Mono. This is just a dream... an illusion.

No, tomb raider. Said the voice sadly. This is your reality. This is what you have brought to yourself. Ryou is dead.

"What you were changing me into
Just give me myself back and"

"No!" I snarl, my voice cracking in spite of myself. "You lie! He can't be dead! They would have saved him in time!"

I wait tensely for the voice to answer, but the graveyard remains silent. I turn slowly, and crouch down to look ad the tombstone again. I reach out to trace the letters with my finger, but my hand goes right through the stone. I glance at my hand, and my eyes widen. My hand is almost completely see through, my entire body is little more that opaque air.

"What..." I say slowly. "What magic is this?! What have you done to me? What have you done to Ryou?!"

My voice echoes slightly through the rows of tombstones, but still the voice does no answer.

"Don't stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities"

I rise slowly, and fearfully reach out across our mind link to Ryou. He has to be there. He has to be alive...

Nothing. The other side of the mind link is empty.

I scream out in rage. No! I will not allow this. I will not allow them to take him from me. I will not allow him to die. I will not allow him to leave me...

"Ryou..." I whisper softly, and sink back down next to the tombstone. "Ryou,ryou,ryou. Where are you? What have they done to you?" I swallow thickly, tears forming unwillingly in my eyes. "What... have... I done to you..."

"Take all your faithlessness with you
Just give me myself back and
Don't stay"

I rose suddenly, an overwhelming urge to run overtaking me. I wanted to get as far away from this place as possible. I wanted to escape, and leave everything behind. I wanted to get out of here, and somehow, somewhere, find Ryou alive. I wanted none of this to have happened. I wanted him back.

I stumble as I try to take a step, a numbing weakness spreading throughout my entire body. I try to fight it, struggle to get to my feet, but I fail, and the last of my strength leaves me. I lay on the ground, breathing hard, and the tears I had been so carefully holding back for over 3,000 years finally break free, and run down my face.

You can't run Bakura. The voice whispers. You can't escape what you have done. Not this time.

"Sometimes I feel like I trusted you too well
Sometimes I just feel like screaming at myself"

I try to speak, try to fight the darkness that is creeping across my vision, but I fail, and I fall into the black nothingness of unconsciousness.

I wake slowly, blinking as my eyes adjust to their surrounding.

Grey. As far as I could see in every direction, I was surrounded by grey mist. I shake my head to clear it, and slowly get to my feet. I glance around for a few moments, trying to figure out where I am. I hear footsteps approaching suddenly, and I tense, and turn to meet the one who approaches.

"Sometimes I'm in disbelief I didn't know
Somehow I need to be alone"

The figure walking towards me slowly became clearer as they grew closer to me. It was a woman, with dark hair and bronzed skin, dressed in traditional Egyptian clothing from my time, dyed a fierce blood red. She wore a headband of a similar color, from which protruded a large black feather. She stopped a few feet away me, and narrowed her dark eyes.

My eyes widened, and I backed up slightly as a memory of the old legends came to me. "You can't be..." I said slowly in disbelief.

"But I am." She said in a softly accented voice. "The Goddess Maat, the Goddess of truth, justice, and order."

I backed up a few more steps, but she flicked her hand slightly, and my body froze suddenly.

"You cannot escape Bakura. Not this time. Not from what you have done." She took a step towards me, and I struggled in vain against my invisible bonds.

"Are you afraid, tomb raider?" She said softly as she approached. "Are you afraid now, afraid of the gods you forsook so long ago? Are you afraid of the fate you know awaits you now?" She stopped in front of me, and something stirred in her dark eyes.

I tried to speak, but once again found myself incapable of doing so.

"I argued with him." She said slowly. "I fought with The Hidden One, the great Amun on your behalf. I told him I thought you could change. That you could forget your past, and finally own up to your mistakes. I told him you could feel again. That you could finally live, and admit your love to the one who so desperately yearned for it."

She raised her hand, and ran her fingers slowly down the side of my face. "But no." She said, anger creeping into her voice. "No, you wouldn't listen. I warned you. A direct warning from Mieru Dakedo Mienai Mono, and you still don't listen."

She dug her fingernails slightly into my skin. "You hurt him." She hissed. "You abused him in every way you possibly could, and he still loved you. He loved you with his heart and soul, and little by little, you pushed him. You pushed him over the edge until he finally fell."

She lowered her hand from my face. "And in the end, even after you had taken everything, even his life from him, he still loved you. He was happy, happy in his end, simply because he was finally able to admit his love. And for that, he has gone to the afterlife in peace. I have hope that he may be able to find happiness in the eternal life."

She turned away from me. "But you, even in the end, were not able to admit your feelings. He died never knowing the love that you kept so carefully hidden from him."

She turned to face me again, and I saw that her eyes had gone completely black. She reached up and pulled the feather from her headband. "For that, and all the other pain you have caused in your life, I sentence you to the most terrifying fate that awaits the soul."

A dark shape began to form behind her in the mist, and I struggled as hard as I could against the invisible bonds. No! This can't be happening! All my power, all my hard work, my quest... I would not allow it to end like this! I closed my eyes, and tried to draw on the power of the millennium ring. I felt nothing, and opened my eyes in shock, to find my chest bare of the golden ring.

Maat sighed sadly. And my eyes widened in fear as I saw the millennium ring appear in her hand. She shook her head, and the shape behind her sharpened, and became a monster with the head of a crocodile, the body of a line, and back of a hippopotamus. I struggled harder, and screamed silently. Ammut. The Devourer of Souls. The fate feared above all others in my time. The absolute end of your existence.

No! There had to be a way I could break free! It couldn't end like this!

Ammut opened its massive jaws, and began to come closer to me. Maat stepped aside, and closed her eyed sadly.

"I don't need you anymore, I don't want to be ignored
I don't need one more day of you wasting me away"

"So many chances Bakura," she said sadly. "I did not want it to come to this. But this fate, you have brought upon yourself." She turned away, and Ammut loomed above me, the blackness inside it's jaws filling my vision.

NO! I screamed silently, straining as hard as I could. NONONO! It can't end like this! IT CAN'T END LIKE....

Ammut's jaws descended upon me, and I screamed endlessly as my soul was swallowed by the void.

"With no apologies
Don't stay"

-END-

And there you have it. That is the end.

Yes, I know I killed off both of my favourite characters, and doomed one to a fate more horrible than death, but meh. Like I said, not everything can have a happy ending.

I did a bit of research for this chapter, and this is the site I used for my information on the Egyptian Gods and Goddess, feel free to visit it if you're confused or would like more information.

Well, that's it for me. I'm still in a less than stellar moon, it's one in the morning, and I have to work tomorrow.

Since it's likely I'll be in a better mood in a few days, if anyone would like to request a different, somewhat happier ending to this story, I may write one if enough people want it.

Well, that's it! I hope you liked it, and if not, meh, the Shadow Realm can have your soul.

Thanks for reading my story. Reviews rock my world, and would most likely put me in a very good mood! Review if you'd like an alternate ending! :-P