Tadaah, chapter three! Thank you for the reviews! Oh, that stupid keyboard is almost dead... YOU HEAR THAT, KEYBOARD? YOU'RE DEAD! Oops... don't take that literally keyboard, please...
There are now twenty-eight episodes of YGO broadcasted per week in the Netherlands, enough to broadcast the whole Dutch collection within two weeks...
Marik: Hey, what kind of statue is that?
Ryou-Ran: That's Hikari Lunar. She is guarding Ryou.
Ryou: ...
Yami Bakura: She said she would not move, huh? (mean grin) And she's sitting at Ryou's feet?
Ryou-Ran: Uh... yes.
Yami Bakura: Alright! (sneaks behind Ryou, pokes a few fingers in Ryou's sides)
Ryou: EEEEOAAAARRGGH! (launches himself)
Ryou-proof ceiling: BANG!
Hole-proof floor: BOOM!
Ryou: (swirly eyes)
Everybody but Yami Bakura: OO"
Yami Bakura: (content) And once again we get proof of the Ryou-proof ceiling being Ryou-proof and the hole-proof floor being hole-proof. (big smile)
Yami: --"Wow, Einstein!
Yami Bakura: Who's Einstein?
Yami: I don't know, I just felt like saying that.
Yami Bakura: Oh, sure.
Marik: Say, Yami Bakura, do you still hate me?
Yami Bakura: Yes, indeed.
Marik: I hate you too. Now we're equally matched!
Yami Bakura: (slaps an arm around Marik's back and dances with him around the room)
Marik: (steps on Hikari Lunar's tail)
Hikari Lunar: GROOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!
Marik: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! SHE BIT ME! Yami Bakura, help!
Yami Bakura: OO What am I supposed to do?!
Marik: Do whatever! Do something!
Yami Bakura: (brings out a guitar) And once there was a lonely girl, standing on a mountain, jodeliiieeee, jodelaaaa...
Yugi: (covers his ears)
Ryou: --"
Yami: OO"
Tristan: This is ridiculous!
Joey: My god!
Ryou-Ran: --"Shall we go on?
Téa: Go on?
Ryou-Ran: The fic.
Téa: Oh, sure.
Disclaimer: Ryou-Ran does not own Yu-Gi-Oh!
Yami Bakura: (sings) She does not, she does not, jodelahiti, jodelahoho...
Ryou: --"
The roots of Borgia
"Ryou?"a voice came. "Can you hear me?" Ryou slowly opened his big eyes. He saw a blurry, blue and brown thing. When he opened his eyes further he saw it was the head of his father. "Finally!"the head said with a big smile. Ryou sat up, but became dizzy and decided to get down again. "Hi, Dad."he said. "What happened?" He felt there was something cold on his forehead. "You collapsed. We think you got overheated."Mr Bakura said. He took a wet cloth away from Ryou's forehead, held it in a bowl of water and lay it back again. "Strange."Ryou said. "I did not feel like being overheated at all. My head began to hurt and then I just blacked out." Mr Bakura's hand stopped in mid-air. "You did not feel sick, or something?"he asked. Ryou shook no. "I felt fine until I felt a pang in my head."he said. Both he and Mr Bakura cupped their chins in their hands. "I don't know what it is."Ryou said after a while.
When Mr Bakura left the room Ryou had fallen asleep. Yugi looked up when Ryou's father enterd the living. "Is he awake?"he asked. Mr Bakura slumped down besides Tristan. "He was. We talked a bit and then he fell asleep."he answered. He took his chin between two fingers. "There was something strange, though. "he said. "I took his shirt off, and when I took the Ring of too the thing was hot. Like it had been lying in boiling water or so." Yugi's jaw fell, but he quickly shut his mouth again. Marik had a bit of an "wouldn't you know it?"-expression on his face. Joey, Tristan and Téa exchanged glances.
"Yami, did you hear that?"Yugi asked the Spirit of the Millennium Puzzle. "Huh? Hear what?"a sleepy voice came. Yugi rolled his eyes. "Bakura-kun's father said the Millennium Ring felt hot when he touched it!"he almost snapped. Yami was immediately wide awake. "What?"he blurted. "HE SAID THE RING FELT HOT!"Yugi screamed in his Yami's ears. Yami flew about six feet back and banged with his shoulderblades against the wall of his soul room. "Ow, my ears..."he groaned. "But that means something must be going on with the Spirit of the Millennium Ring." "Yes."Yugi said. "And when Marik touched the Ring he flew ten feet back and shouted the thing had electrocuted him or something." "Electrowhat?"Yami asked, but Yugi rolled his eyes again and rather abruptly closed the soullink.
Yami Bakura was troubled. He was boiling over with energy, but he did not dare to use it. Using it hurt him. But the problem was that not using it hurt him too. He looked at his hands and saw tiny sparks fly between his fingers when he opened them. When he balled his fists his hands began to sting. He opened them again with a soft gasp and held them in a pool of grey water nearby. The water absorbed some of the energy running through his veins, but not enough. The Yami paced around and did not know what to do. Perhaps he should try to find a way to relieve himself through his Hikari. He looked down at his Ring activated it.
The people sitting in the living suddenly saw a bright light coming from the room in which Ryou was. Yami immediately popped out of the Puzzle and rushed inside, followed by the others. Yami suddenly hit his personal brakes, causing Marik to crash into him.
Ryou was lying on the bed, tossing and turning. He moaned. "Noo, my head! Stop it!"he cried. Mr Bakura wanted to grab him, but Yami stopped him. Ryou began to change. His cries became lower and harsher. His hair grew wilder and his mouth wider. Mr Bakura's eyes grew to the size of diner-plates. "Ryou!"he cried. "What's going on?" Ryou bowed his head, so his bangs covered his face. "I'm not Ryou."he said in a low voice. He looked up. The people present looked in the eyes of Yami Bakura. But the eyes were different. They seemed to hold a strong, ancient power. His hair stuck up more than ever. He removed the blanket. Black stains were left on the places where he had placed his fingers. He stood and even seemed to have grown a few inches. He had an arrogant look in his blood-red eyes.
"Blood-red..."Yami thought. "They used to be brown." Mr Bakura stepped forward and grabbed the hand of the person he assumed to be his son. "What do you think you are doing, Ryou? "he angrily asked. Yami Bakura wrenched his hand free. "Don't touch me."he snarled, but Mr Bakura grabbed his wrist in an iron grip. "Ryou, don't be ridiculous!"he snapped. Yami Bakura's eyes seemed to glow. "How many times I have to tell you I'm not BAKURA!"he shouted, screaming the last word. At the same moment a wave of energy emanated from him and sent all the people inside the room sprawling.
Yami scrambled up again. Marik looked at him and nodded in Yami Bakura's direction. They saw the Yami was pushing a hand against his chest and was panting. Appearantly attacking them had hurt him. Yami did not dare to attack him, though, but Marik brought out his Millennium Rod. He pointed it at Yami Bakura. "Spirit of the Millennium Ring, I command you to release the body of your host!"he shouted, and the Rod began to glow, but Yami Bakura seemed to remain unaffected. He grinned and turned to Marik. "Even your stronger half could not beat me when my powers were weaker."he said. "You won't stand a chance." Marik grew really pissed and let the Rod emanate more energy. Yami Bakura was caught in a big flash of golden light. They saw him cringe. "Good, Marik!"Joey shouted, but suddenly the golden flames turned black. They surrounded Yami Bakura and did not seem to do him any harm. Yami Bakura had a slight smile on his face and his eyes were shining red. The black fire danced over his arms and hair. "What did I tell you?"he whispered to a shocked Marik. "You can't hurt me." He raised his arms and let the flames gather is his hands. He then lowerd them again, shooting them at Marik. Marik activated the Rod again and tried to counter the attack, but it nevertheless came through, though weakened. Marik flew back with a yell and fell in Mr Bakura's arms.
Everybody was looking at Marik, so nobody saw Yami Bakura clutch at his throat. They did not see his eyes bulge.
Suddenly the darkness radiating from the evil Yami disappeared. They all turned to Yami Bakura, who had fallen onto his knees on the floor. When he tilted his head red tears ran down his face. He gasped, lost control over his host-body and the very next moment Ryou was sitting in front of them, confused and not knowing what had happened. "What's going on? What happened to Marik?"he asked. He wanted to grab the Ring and take it off, but he retreated his hand with a sharp cry. It was so hot that it burned his fingers. He stuck out a hand to his father, but Mr Bakura backed away from him. "Dad?"he asked, voice quavering. "What happened?" Nobody answered. Ryou looked at them, eyes slowly filling with tears. "Why don't you speak? Why are you afraid of me?"he cried. "I... Yami... uhh..."Tristan began, but did not know how to go on. He could not go on. Ryou leapt up, pushed Joey aside and ran away, tears running down his cheeks like waterfall. The Millennium Ring floated in mid air for a second and then fell with a "cling" to the floor.
Ryou was running through the desert outside the city. He felt the hot sand underneath his feet, but did not care. He could feel the heat of the sun shining on his back, but did not care. He was thirsty, but did not care. He did not care for anything.
"My, God!"Mr Bakura screamed. "RYOU! COME BACK!" He left the house, but Ryou had gone out of sight. He could not find his son any more.
Marik woke up, heard about what had happened and went to his home under the ground. A few minutes later he came back with a dog. He let the dog smell the blankets Ryou had been under, picked up the Ring and followed the dog outside.
It took them several hours, but then they heard the dog howl and bark. They ran in the direction on the barking as fast as they could. They saw the dog was pushing his nose against a boy and whined. The boy had white hair. "RYOU!"Mr Bakura screamed, fell from a hill, rolled down and landed with his chin on Ryou's backbone. He was shocked when he saw Ryou's back was red and covered with burns. There was even a blister just below his shoulderblade. He turned Ryou to his back and looked at his face. He wiped some sand away from the corners of Ryou's mouth. Ryou's mouth had dried out and his cheeks had fallen in. Mr Bakura brought out a bottle of water and poured a bit in Ryou's mouth. Ryou coughed, stirred and then swallowed. Mr Bakura was relieved and kept giving him water until the bottle was empty and Ryou had drank almost a liter already. He then picked him up, careful not to touch the blister and carried him back home.
Ryou did not want to wake up. He was been embraced by a soft, warm darkness. But very far away he could feel pain. His back hurt. He knew that if he would wake up his back would hurt even more. He could hear soft voices, far away. He vaguely recognized them as his father's, Marik's and Yugi's. His head began to hurt too, he began to feel sick, he did not want to wake up...
"He's beginning to wake up."Yugi said. Ryou was lying on his stomach in front of him. He wrinkled his nose a bit and sighed. His face was almost yellow. Marik was just tightening the bandages he was placing around Ryou's back and chest. Ryou woke up with a reedy scream. "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW STOP THAT!"he screamed. He wanted to get up, but fell down again. When he saw the faces of his father and his friends he writhed, tried to crawl away, but he was too weak. And his back hurt so much. Yugi stretched out a hand, but Ryou pulled back. "Don't touch me!"he shouted. "Don't! Why do you touch me?! You're afraid of me, aren't you!? Then why do you touch me?!"
Yes, I know, it's a cliffie. Heh heh heh...
Man, did I almost break my wrist yesterday...
To the Hikari-side: This may sound pretty psycho, but it's fun hurting Ryou because he doesn't deserve it. Yami Bakura is so evil that everybody expects him to die in a terrible way. But instincively we do not think Ryou will have that fate, so the fanfic writers just make a big contradiction. That's why it's fun.
Though I can't help feeling sorry for poor Ryou, even though he does not exist.
Ryou-Ran: You hear that, Ryou? I feel sorry for you. (hugs Ryou tightly)
Ryou: OO"
Yami Bakura: And what about me? Do you feel sorry for me too?
Ryou-Ran: Sure. (hugs Yami Bakura too)
Yami Bakura: Say, why do you feel sorry for me?
Ryou-Ran: I feel sorry for you being yourself.
Yami Bakura: OO"
Ryou: Heeh heeh heeh...
Anyways; please review.