Title: Marik's Promise Vs. Riku's Patience
Hi again! Just to let you know, this chapter might have more humor and less angst than the first two chapters. Hope you like it. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! or any of its characters.
The whole group had already traveled back to Domino City. The gang had all separated to go home and call it a day. Riku tried to walk home by herself, but Seto insisted that he should walk her home. "Seto, for the last time I'm fine. You don't have to worry about me." Riku said. "Please Riku, I just don't want anything else to happen to you." Seto replied with a concerned look. Riku sighed and looked up as they both reached Riku's house. "Well, it's very sweet of you to walk me home. See ya later." Seto smiled and they both waved at each other before Riku went into the house and collapsed on the couch. "That guy... I swear, he really cares about his family and friends. Maybe a little too caring." Riku giggled at the thought before she closed her eyes and tried to fall asleep.
Riku slowly opened her eyes and looked around the room. It was clear to her that she fell asleep through the afternoon, since it had already gotten dark. Riku was about to get up and at least turn a lamp or two on, but she felt like something was a little odd. For one thing, Riku suspected that someone else other than her was in the house. She held her breath and confirmed her suspicions when she heard someone else breathing. Riku slowly stood up, but accidentally fell off the couch, due to her lack of vision in the darkness. As she fell, she heard someone yelp. She sat up and ended up staring at the shadow that looked like a young guy. "Who's there? Show yourself!" Riku shouted at the figure. The figure stood up and was about to walk to Riku, but the figure fell on the couch instead. Riku managed to turn on a lamp and was surprized that her late night visitor was acctually Marik. "Marik!?! What the heck are you doing here!?! Come to think of it... How did you even get here?" Riku looked around the room. None of the windows were broken, and even if someone broke the windows, they wouldn't be able to fit through because the windows were pretty small. The front door didn't look like it was forced open either, and there wasn't really any other way to get into the house besides those two ways. "You-you forgot?" Riku looked at Marik with a confused look. "Forgot what?" "Remember? I owe you my life for saving me from the Shadow Realm." "Er..." Riku looked even more confused. She thought that it was just his way of saying thanks. But she didn't think he acctually meant that he would acctually give his life to her. "You still don't remember?" "Er... Well, Marik... When you said 'you owe your life to me', I thought you were just saying 'thank you'." Marik looked even more confused than Riku. "Well, it's getting late...Ishizu and Odion might be worried about you." Marik nodded and then got up and walked out towards the door. "Good night Riku." "Night Marik." Marik walked out of the house. Riku still wondered how Marik was able to get into the house. She yawned a bit and walked up stairs to her bedroom. She then collapsed on her bed, and tried to sleep through the night.
Riku slowly opened her eyes. She could barely get any sleep. Just the thought about what happened in the Shadow Realm earlier had kept her up all night. But this time she heard a tapping noise, coming from the window. She turned on the light and made her way to the window. She noticed that someone was throwing small pebbles at her window, and when she opened her window, one of the pebbles hit her in the arm. The pebble was pretty sharp around its edges, and Riku's arm started to bleed. "Ow! Hey!" "My fair, sweet princess Riku! I wish for you to come down so I may propose to you, my love!" Riku turned her attention from her bleeding arm towards the guy who tossed rocks at her window. She gave a look of disgust towards Bandit Keith. "Hah! You wish! I'm not coming down for you!" Riku walked away from the window without even giving Keith a chance to say another word. But her attention quickly turned back towards where Keith was, when she heard someone yell. "Get away from her! Leave her alone!" Marik shouted, as he held his Melenium Rod, defensively, ready to attack Keith. "Hah hah hah! You have got to be kidding me! A little shrimp like you dares to challenge me? Pathetic!" Keith grabbed Marik and punched him over and over again, watching as blood started to flow down from his mouth and cuts appear on his body before throwing him towards the bushes, then he looked up at Riku and smiled, but she sent him a death glare as her eyes changed to a deep shade of red, and she turned into her ghost form. "Tell me Keith, do you have a death wish? Because right now your just begging me to kill you!" Riku leaped out through her bedroom window and landed between Marik and Keith. She was too fast for Keith to catch, and it wasn't long before Riku tripped him, grabbed Marik, and almost flew back into the house.
Riku layed Marik on her bed before locking all the doors and all the windows except her bedroom window. She then went to the bathroom to grab some supplies to heal Marik with. When she got back, she became irritated because the first thing she heard was Keith, whining like a dog from outside. Riku tried to calm her almost murderous mind as she put the supplies on the table next to Marik and walked towards the window. As soon as she opened the window, she was just about to yell at Keith when she spotted her next door neighbors, sticking their heads out and glaring at Keith.
"Hey! Keep it down!"
"Some of us are tryin' ta sleep here ya know!"
"Quiet down! Your worse than everyone else around here!"
"Hey!"
Just then, Marik tried to get up and see what all the yelling was about. Riku was shocked for a second, but then she scooted at the other side of her window so Marik would be able to see. They both watched as one of the neighbors was so annoyed that she grabbed a frying pan and threw it at Keith. Riku smirked at the fact that the frying pan smacked Keith right in the face. Keith ran away, but not after shouting towards Riku. "I shall be back, my love!" Riku gave a disgusted look to him, but felt a little happy that Keith was gone. Marik had forgotten about haw badly he got hurt from Keith's beating, and he collapsed, luckily Riku caught him before he hit the ground. Riku dragged Marik and put him on her bed again. This time she had enough peace and quiet to concentrate on healing Marik. "Riku! As pretty as a sunflower, and as silent as a mime, someday soon she'll be my valentine!" Riku was at the verge of wanting to kill. It was clear that Keith came back, and he was trying to sing to her. Riku tried to control herself before she accidentally hurts Marik, so she walked towards the window and threw the pebble in her room right back towards Keith. "Be quiet! For goodness sakes zip it!" The pebble smacked Keith right on the head, and he ran away, afraid that Riku might throw more stuff.
Riku sighed with relief that the singing baka had finally left. She walked towards her bed and began to treat Marik's wounds with her supplies. Riku had tried to clean up Marik's wounds and wrapped them up in bandages. She didn't want to disturb him while he was trying to get his strength back, so Riku walked back downstairs and decided to sleep on her couch. What she didn't hear was that as soon as she closed her bedroom door, Marik moaned, "Riku..."
TBC
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