Ryou is slowly going into depression; the one he loves appears to want nothing but to kill him. Can Bakura come face to face with his fears of love in time to save Ryou or will someone else hurt his hikari even more? Slight OOC-ness, angst, romance, Bakura/Ryou, Ryou/Bakura, ?/Ryou YAOI! (don't like don't read)

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of the characters in this story. It would be awesome to own Bakura and Ryou though (Evil Smirk) but I don't, eventually I will make plushies of them though! Anyway enjoy the story.

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The Basement

Malik was sitting in Geometry class, in his opinion it was a worse torture than being slowly eaten alive by the shadow realm. His eyes closed and his head began to drop, then the glorious tune to Wonder Wall rang through his ears. He began to sing the words forgetting where he was until he realized it was his cell phone. He pulled it out and registered that all eyes were on him.

"That had better be your guardian Mr. Ishtar."

Malik looked down at his phone and saw that it said Ryou Bakura on the display. "Yes it is," he lied.

"Answer it out in the hall..." The teacher sighed. Malik got up and left the boring class. He pressed the send button on his phone and spoke into it, "Moshi Moshi."

"God Malik! What took you so long to answer your phone?!" The enraged voice of a certain Yami sounded through his ears.

"Oh I don't know, maybe because you called me in the middle of class!"

"Whatever! That's not important right now! What is important is that I need you to take Ryou to the hospital!"

"What! Why does he need to be taken to the hospital!?" Malik's voice gaining an edge with the question.

"Just find him! He's in school, hurry!" The Yami sounded frantic. Malik knew that he could probably sense the pain his light was in. Before Malik could respond Bakura ended the call. Growling Malik put his cell phone away. He wanted to ask what was wrong with Ryou but apparently Bakura didn't think there was time for that.

"Okay, calm down Malik. Just find Ryou and take him to the hospital." Malik ran his hands through his hair trying to relax, but it was hard. Malik loved Ryou as more than a friend but he never said anything afraid of what Bakura would do if he found out. "Let's see...Ryou has gym this period and I know he wouldn't risk being caught so he's probably somewhere by the front of the school."

Coming to this conclusion Malik raced towards the front of the school. It took him a while to get to the first floor from the third. When he came to one of the first floor hallways he noticed Ryou wasn't too far ahead of him. Ryou appeared to be on the brink of collapse, Malik rushed over to him, he just barely managed to catch the shorter boy before he hit the floor.

Malik took this time to asses Ryou's condition. The white haired tenshi was panting hard, sweat dripping down his face. Blood started to stain his clothes. Malik deciding that his friend needed to get to the hospital immediately, picked him up cradling him like a baby and ran to his car.

Malik sped to the hospital glad that it was not yet rush hour. He made it there in 15 minutes and rushed Ryou inside. "Help! Please Help!" He called out. Doctors came swarming on and began questioning him.

"How did this happen?" One doctor asked while placing Ryou onto a gurney.

"I don't know, I found him at school in a hallway right before he collapsed." Malik explained frantically.

"Well we'll see what's up with him then." The doctors all fled form the room with Ryou taking him to be inspected probably in the ER.

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Yume: Sorry it took so long to update I've just been busy with school and field hockey and my other fics! Sorry that I only posted a little bit I'll try to do better next time! Jan e!