Hey you guys im back ;) and i'v decided to continue writing the fic! Thanks to all those who reviewed and supported me to still write the story. I love all ya'll so much3 just in case...NO FLAMES. Don't worry i'm not gonna go off and kill Ryou just like that. Anyways. . onto to the story. Enjoy. ^_^
-Yumi
Chapter 11.
Just when Bakura was about to give up and go home after struggling searching for the boy. . he saw a familiar form laying down motionless on the ground. Immediately recognizing the body he quickly rushed over and carefully turned the boy over onto his back for better observation, to soon realize that it was Ryou. This made him to gasp surprisingly at the sight.
"Ryou! RYOU!!!" Bakura gently picked the boy up and carefully cradled him in his wrapped arms while he screamed frantically to wake the boy up. He searched the boy's body to look for any important injurys that might of caused the boy to possibly pass out from. He soon noticed a severe bleeding wound in his chest, also along with a blood-stained knife placed right into his hikari's own hand. Bakura's eyes went impossibly wide as he slowly grabbed it from the hand.
"You didn't...." Bakura whimpered uncontrollably as he cradled the body closer to him. "Ryou, please wake up!!" He tried again while lightly shaking the teen. Nothing. Bakura quickly placed his head close to the boy's chest, to hear any possible heartbeats.
Luckily, the boy was still alive. Bakura quickly scooped him up in his arms as he started sprinting towards the hospital again. He needed desperate help even if he hated admitting it, much to his own self that he's never 'asked' someone to help him at least or so..
On his way bakura spoted a small phone booth nearby. He decided to call Yugi's place to check and see if the pharaoh was there or not. ..
"Hello?" He heard a chirpy voice on the other line.
"Yugi, get yami! It's an emergency!!" Bakura cried over the phone, making the boy cringe.
"OOwwwww..." The tri-colored hair boy moaned while holding his ear in pain.
"ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO WHAT I'M SAYING?!?"
"B-Bakura..?? Is that you..? Um..h-hold on." The boy studdered.
"..."
"Hello?" Came a slightly deeper voice than the previous one before.
"Yami, I ..I need you to come to the hospital right away.."
"..Bakura? What do you want now?" Yami narrowed his eyebrows at hearing the boy's voice.
"It's..Ryou.." Bakura trailed off as he was about to loose that control he had for temporairly at the thought of the boy again. Silence instantly only filled in between their conversations..
"..Bakura? Hello?!" Yami repeated. "What happened?!?"
"..Just come to the hospital, alone. Then i'll tell you..." He quckly hung up the phone even before the pharaoh could say anything.
"Bakura! Matte-"
His attention immediately focused back to the laying boy with his own shaky breath as he slowly walked over to pick him back up in his arms. He did this carefully so he wouldn't accidently hurt the injured boy..
"Ryou..."
Bakura
I rushed through the entrance doors with Ryou still carried in my arms like a little baby as I quickly ran up to one of the persons in charge. I told her that my hikari's chest was bleeding persistantly and that he needed an emergency help badly in need. Noticing the severely injured wound, she immediately called in some docters on the way..it wasn't too long until they arrived. They carefully took Ryou from my arms as they put him on the trailer. Now he had the oxygen breather over his mouth while the docters continued to quickly get him to the emergency and operation room.
I wanted to go and make sure he was ok but they wouldn't even allow me go along with them and told me to just stay over and wait at the other room . That's when yami arrived and noticed that a couple of guys were restraining me from still going in there. .he then looked at me oddly...I could then tell what was exactly on his mind. .
The white-haired teen and the pharaoh sat silently by the waiting room, waiting and expecting for one the docters to come out and tell them how the boy was progressing along. .
Unpatiently, Yami continued to stand stiffly while crossing his arms over his bare chest trying to control himself from going in there ... while Bakura had calmed down a bit from earlier and had already managed to sit himself down on one of the chairs that were in the hallways, still desperately worried about the boy. His hands and whole body shivered terribly from the whole situation.
Hesitantly, Yami walked slowly towards him, trying not to somehow accidently make the other boy to become more nervous than he already currently was. .
As he finally reached the boy the pharaoh sat down beside him and placed a comfortable hand on top of the other's shoulder. .
"Bakura...tell me what happened to him...onegai." came the usual serious but soft gesture of his voice.
Bakura didn't respond back , instead he only clenched his fists tighter onto his jeans, causing the material of the pants to form more wrinkles into its own place. Yami saw this and glanced back at the boy continuing to stare at the other's covered appearence. He then sighed softly realizing afterwards.
"...I understand." Yami took his grip off the boy's shoulder and stood back up, ready to return back to his own previous position and place.
"..I-I don't really know... exactly what happened to him.." Bakura spoke lightly.
Yami stopped at his own tracks after hearing the other's familiar voice again.
"..When I finally found him...I-I-"
Bakura could instantly feel his own voice breaking again.
Yami walked back to the teen and sat back down next to him.
"You.." Yami helped.
"..I noticed that his chest was bleeding horribly. He had a knife with him. . . and that blade was also covered in his own blood.." He whispered softly while a new small tear trailed down his delicate pale skin.
Yami's eyes instantly widened.
"Then I knew that it was obvious afterwards.....he was trying to ..kill himself."
"Ryou.." The quiet whisper escaped from the pharaoh's open lips.
"...Why. Why did he do this Bakura. Tell me now!" He lightly shook the other's shoulders, easily expected to get some answers from the other's mouth.
"I don't know..it's not likely for him ever acting like this. But, we did get into another argument before he ran off. I didn't really know where he went. . ."
The tri-colored hair boy narrowed his eyebrows angrily after already predicting what he could of possibly done to his hikari.
"....You hit him. Didn't you?.."
Again, Bakura stood silent. Abit surprised by the other's correction and right statement. "I told you that it was an accident.."
" ..You.....love him. Don't you.. " Yami finally said to the boy with confidence, a slight unsure smile revealed on his lips.
Bakura didn't asnwer back. He only continued to gaze down at the floor beneath him again, alittle startled and unaware of the other's question.
"Why can't you just admit it to others ? Are you that scared?"
"Iie.." Bakura lightly shook his head.
"Then why don't you tell him how you feel..?"
"..He wouldn't believe me." Bakura replied doubtfully.
"Yes he would. If you told him the truth." Yami told the boy calmly.
"
"I....don't want him to die." Bakura admitted hesitantly.
Just when Yami was about to reply back, one of the docters had already come out from the operation room. Immediately noticing this , Bakura and Yami quickly got up and ran up to the young man.
"Well..how is he docter??" The pharaoh asked curiously. Bakura just listened while he swallowed nervously.
"Well..he does have a serious injury in his chest. But luckily the knife didn't damage any part of his insides. We managed to finally stop the bleeding awhile ago and we took care of everything by bandaging his whole chest up, so he should be doing fine later." The man smiled.
Bakura sighed softly, glad that the boy wasn't badly hurt.
"But..may I ask you some questions concerning to the boy's own condition?" the man asked the two boys.
"W-What about his condition..?" The white-haired boy asked curiously.
The docter sighed deeply. "Um..has he had some particular physical problems before with his health?"
"Well...he hasn't been feeling very well these days, we don't know why though. He stayed over at the hospital for a couple days until he finally got out today." Yami replied slowly. "He's been having bad headaches recently and he's collapsed a couple of times without any warnings. Do you know what's wrong with him?"
"..While we were checking on him for the reason...we...-"
"What?! Tell me damn it!!" Bakura yelled while quickly grabbing the surprised man by the collars of his white shirt.
"Bakura! stop this now!" Yami screamed, trying to get the other's attention.
"Not until he tells me what the hell is wrong with Ryou! " The boy tightened his grip on the man. "If you don't tell me what's wrong with him i'll kill you!!" Bakura cried furiously.
Yami quickly ran up to him and grabbed his arm. "Bakura let him go now!" the pharaoh repeated himself.
"H-he...has...some sort of cancer." The man finally spoke shakily, terrified of the boy. "We..just found this out."
Bakura's expression immediately faded as he felt himself shaking violently at the unexpected news, making him more difficult to keep his own balance. Yami noticed this by just staring at the boy beside him.
"I'm sorry to tell you this, i don't really know what to say. . we don't truely know how he got it but . . i also don't know how long he'll be able to live through with it, if we don't quickly do something about it soon. ."
Hearing the man say this to both of them. Bakura slowly released his grip off the man's wrinkled shirt. Total shockness and despair filled his wide chocolate eyes and he remained motionless, seeming like the boy was just staring off into the open atmosphere without not even noticing and remembering the place that just surrounded him.. he just... stared off. He couldn't bare and believe the fact of what he was just hearing infront of him..
The pharaoh also shook lightly with his wide violet eyes, not even comparable to the other boy. He also too had no idea that Ryou was-. What surprised him the most was that none of them, or anyone else, hadn't known or had the slightest clue all along on what was really going on.
Bakura instantly fell to his knees while clutching onto his head. "Ryou...no.." he shakily breathed out exhaustedly. He began whimpering softly.
The man only slowly walked away with his head low, leaving the two boys alone as he felt somewhat guilty about himself.
Yami walked over to the teen and knelt down beside, grabbing the boy's shoulders.
"You had no idea..?!? You didn't even have any clue or suspicious feelings on what was wrong with him in the beginning?! Did you even care about him Bakura?! Well did you?!?" Yami cried frantically.
"Tell me damn you!!" The pharaoh felt his own voice breaking as he almost lost his own control over the other.
The pharaoh grabbed his shoulders again more firmly and his fingernails tightened into the boy's skin as he looked into the other's eyes with his own glare, demanding for an quick answer. This made the boy to slightly tilt his head up from his gaze on the ground he had for seemingly forever ever since they both arrived at the hospital, the pharaoh saw more tears in the boy's dark brown eyes, along with the small quiet whimpers that he also heard clearly from the other's mouth. The pharaoh knew then he was just making things more worse for the boy. It literally shocked him to realize that he would never even see the day that Bakura would 'cry' over someone for once, so his last harsh expression that he took out towards on him had immediately worn off after seeing the other's miserable face. Yami felt himself loosening up again at the unbelievable sight right infront of his own eyes..
Bakura choked on the words that he was struggling to get out, to yami it seemed like he couldn't barely understand what he was trying to say...
"...R-Ryou...he had no idea that he-" Bakura couldn't manage to control himself anymore as he failed miserably to finish his last sentence. Everything new to him was too much for him to handle. That emotion again. That feeling. It just..hurt so much inside. And the pain; he felt that terrible pain which he now experienced for the very first time in the past over 3,000 yrs that the whole purpose for it finally made him to realize..
"And everytime I saw him...he would just always........smile." He whispered softly before loosing that control again that he once had for temporarily, soon bursting out with more sobs and tears persistantly flowed from his eyes while he kept them shut tightly , allowing his head to fall foward and causing them to rapidly land down below on top of his clenched fists, gasping breathlessly.
"Bakura...." Yami spoke softly while resting one of his hands on top of the boy's shoulder.
Without thinking about it, Yami slowly pulled Bakura into an embrace as the white-haired one began to
bawl more violently into the formal pharaoh's chest. Again, he didn't know what made him to go ahead and hug his worst evil rival, but He didn't know what had possessed him to do it and now that he had either, what he was going to do. .but he didn't really care; he was too worried about him..and he felt deeply sorry.
They both just stayed like that for it seemed forever..
-Yumi
Chapter 11.
Just when Bakura was about to give up and go home after struggling searching for the boy. . he saw a familiar form laying down motionless on the ground. Immediately recognizing the body he quickly rushed over and carefully turned the boy over onto his back for better observation, to soon realize that it was Ryou. This made him to gasp surprisingly at the sight.
"Ryou! RYOU!!!" Bakura gently picked the boy up and carefully cradled him in his wrapped arms while he screamed frantically to wake the boy up. He searched the boy's body to look for any important injurys that might of caused the boy to possibly pass out from. He soon noticed a severe bleeding wound in his chest, also along with a blood-stained knife placed right into his hikari's own hand. Bakura's eyes went impossibly wide as he slowly grabbed it from the hand.
"You didn't...." Bakura whimpered uncontrollably as he cradled the body closer to him. "Ryou, please wake up!!" He tried again while lightly shaking the teen. Nothing. Bakura quickly placed his head close to the boy's chest, to hear any possible heartbeats.
Luckily, the boy was still alive. Bakura quickly scooped him up in his arms as he started sprinting towards the hospital again. He needed desperate help even if he hated admitting it, much to his own self that he's never 'asked' someone to help him at least or so..
On his way bakura spoted a small phone booth nearby. He decided to call Yugi's place to check and see if the pharaoh was there or not. ..
"Hello?" He heard a chirpy voice on the other line.
"Yugi, get yami! It's an emergency!!" Bakura cried over the phone, making the boy cringe.
"OOwwwww..." The tri-colored hair boy moaned while holding his ear in pain.
"ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO WHAT I'M SAYING?!?"
"B-Bakura..?? Is that you..? Um..h-hold on." The boy studdered.
"..."
"Hello?" Came a slightly deeper voice than the previous one before.
"Yami, I ..I need you to come to the hospital right away.."
"..Bakura? What do you want now?" Yami narrowed his eyebrows at hearing the boy's voice.
"It's..Ryou.." Bakura trailed off as he was about to loose that control he had for temporairly at the thought of the boy again. Silence instantly only filled in between their conversations..
"..Bakura? Hello?!" Yami repeated. "What happened?!?"
"..Just come to the hospital, alone. Then i'll tell you..." He quckly hung up the phone even before the pharaoh could say anything.
"Bakura! Matte-"
His attention immediately focused back to the laying boy with his own shaky breath as he slowly walked over to pick him back up in his arms. He did this carefully so he wouldn't accidently hurt the injured boy..
"Ryou..."
Bakura
I rushed through the entrance doors with Ryou still carried in my arms like a little baby as I quickly ran up to one of the persons in charge. I told her that my hikari's chest was bleeding persistantly and that he needed an emergency help badly in need. Noticing the severely injured wound, she immediately called in some docters on the way..it wasn't too long until they arrived. They carefully took Ryou from my arms as they put him on the trailer. Now he had the oxygen breather over his mouth while the docters continued to quickly get him to the emergency and operation room.
I wanted to go and make sure he was ok but they wouldn't even allow me go along with them and told me to just stay over and wait at the other room . That's when yami arrived and noticed that a couple of guys were restraining me from still going in there. .he then looked at me oddly...I could then tell what was exactly on his mind. .
The white-haired teen and the pharaoh sat silently by the waiting room, waiting and expecting for one the docters to come out and tell them how the boy was progressing along. .
Unpatiently, Yami continued to stand stiffly while crossing his arms over his bare chest trying to control himself from going in there ... while Bakura had calmed down a bit from earlier and had already managed to sit himself down on one of the chairs that were in the hallways, still desperately worried about the boy. His hands and whole body shivered terribly from the whole situation.
Hesitantly, Yami walked slowly towards him, trying not to somehow accidently make the other boy to become more nervous than he already currently was. .
As he finally reached the boy the pharaoh sat down beside him and placed a comfortable hand on top of the other's shoulder. .
"Bakura...tell me what happened to him...onegai." came the usual serious but soft gesture of his voice.
Bakura didn't respond back , instead he only clenched his fists tighter onto his jeans, causing the material of the pants to form more wrinkles into its own place. Yami saw this and glanced back at the boy continuing to stare at the other's covered appearence. He then sighed softly realizing afterwards.
"...I understand." Yami took his grip off the boy's shoulder and stood back up, ready to return back to his own previous position and place.
"..I-I don't really know... exactly what happened to him.." Bakura spoke lightly.
Yami stopped at his own tracks after hearing the other's familiar voice again.
"..When I finally found him...I-I-"
Bakura could instantly feel his own voice breaking again.
Yami walked back to the teen and sat back down next to him.
"You.." Yami helped.
"..I noticed that his chest was bleeding horribly. He had a knife with him. . . and that blade was also covered in his own blood.." He whispered softly while a new small tear trailed down his delicate pale skin.
Yami's eyes instantly widened.
"Then I knew that it was obvious afterwards.....he was trying to ..kill himself."
"Ryou.." The quiet whisper escaped from the pharaoh's open lips.
"...Why. Why did he do this Bakura. Tell me now!" He lightly shook the other's shoulders, easily expected to get some answers from the other's mouth.
"I don't know..it's not likely for him ever acting like this. But, we did get into another argument before he ran off. I didn't really know where he went. . ."
The tri-colored hair boy narrowed his eyebrows angrily after already predicting what he could of possibly done to his hikari.
"....You hit him. Didn't you?.."
Again, Bakura stood silent. Abit surprised by the other's correction and right statement. "I told you that it was an accident.."
" ..You.....love him. Don't you.. " Yami finally said to the boy with confidence, a slight unsure smile revealed on his lips.
Bakura didn't asnwer back. He only continued to gaze down at the floor beneath him again, alittle startled and unaware of the other's question.
"Why can't you just admit it to others ? Are you that scared?"
"Iie.." Bakura lightly shook his head.
"Then why don't you tell him how you feel..?"
"..He wouldn't believe me." Bakura replied doubtfully.
"Yes he would. If you told him the truth." Yami told the boy calmly.
"
"I....don't want him to die." Bakura admitted hesitantly.
Just when Yami was about to reply back, one of the docters had already come out from the operation room. Immediately noticing this , Bakura and Yami quickly got up and ran up to the young man.
"Well..how is he docter??" The pharaoh asked curiously. Bakura just listened while he swallowed nervously.
"Well..he does have a serious injury in his chest. But luckily the knife didn't damage any part of his insides. We managed to finally stop the bleeding awhile ago and we took care of everything by bandaging his whole chest up, so he should be doing fine later." The man smiled.
Bakura sighed softly, glad that the boy wasn't badly hurt.
"But..may I ask you some questions concerning to the boy's own condition?" the man asked the two boys.
"W-What about his condition..?" The white-haired boy asked curiously.
The docter sighed deeply. "Um..has he had some particular physical problems before with his health?"
"Well...he hasn't been feeling very well these days, we don't know why though. He stayed over at the hospital for a couple days until he finally got out today." Yami replied slowly. "He's been having bad headaches recently and he's collapsed a couple of times without any warnings. Do you know what's wrong with him?"
"..While we were checking on him for the reason...we...-"
"What?! Tell me damn it!!" Bakura yelled while quickly grabbing the surprised man by the collars of his white shirt.
"Bakura! stop this now!" Yami screamed, trying to get the other's attention.
"Not until he tells me what the hell is wrong with Ryou! " The boy tightened his grip on the man. "If you don't tell me what's wrong with him i'll kill you!!" Bakura cried furiously.
Yami quickly ran up to him and grabbed his arm. "Bakura let him go now!" the pharaoh repeated himself.
"H-he...has...some sort of cancer." The man finally spoke shakily, terrified of the boy. "We..just found this out."
Bakura's expression immediately faded as he felt himself shaking violently at the unexpected news, making him more difficult to keep his own balance. Yami noticed this by just staring at the boy beside him.
"I'm sorry to tell you this, i don't really know what to say. . we don't truely know how he got it but . . i also don't know how long he'll be able to live through with it, if we don't quickly do something about it soon. ."
Hearing the man say this to both of them. Bakura slowly released his grip off the man's wrinkled shirt. Total shockness and despair filled his wide chocolate eyes and he remained motionless, seeming like the boy was just staring off into the open atmosphere without not even noticing and remembering the place that just surrounded him.. he just... stared off. He couldn't bare and believe the fact of what he was just hearing infront of him..
The pharaoh also shook lightly with his wide violet eyes, not even comparable to the other boy. He also too had no idea that Ryou was-. What surprised him the most was that none of them, or anyone else, hadn't known or had the slightest clue all along on what was really going on.
Bakura instantly fell to his knees while clutching onto his head. "Ryou...no.." he shakily breathed out exhaustedly. He began whimpering softly.
The man only slowly walked away with his head low, leaving the two boys alone as he felt somewhat guilty about himself.
Yami walked over to the teen and knelt down beside, grabbing the boy's shoulders.
"You had no idea..?!? You didn't even have any clue or suspicious feelings on what was wrong with him in the beginning?! Did you even care about him Bakura?! Well did you?!?" Yami cried frantically.
"Tell me damn you!!" The pharaoh felt his own voice breaking as he almost lost his own control over the other.
The pharaoh grabbed his shoulders again more firmly and his fingernails tightened into the boy's skin as he looked into the other's eyes with his own glare, demanding for an quick answer. This made the boy to slightly tilt his head up from his gaze on the ground he had for seemingly forever ever since they both arrived at the hospital, the pharaoh saw more tears in the boy's dark brown eyes, along with the small quiet whimpers that he also heard clearly from the other's mouth. The pharaoh knew then he was just making things more worse for the boy. It literally shocked him to realize that he would never even see the day that Bakura would 'cry' over someone for once, so his last harsh expression that he took out towards on him had immediately worn off after seeing the other's miserable face. Yami felt himself loosening up again at the unbelievable sight right infront of his own eyes..
Bakura choked on the words that he was struggling to get out, to yami it seemed like he couldn't barely understand what he was trying to say...
"...R-Ryou...he had no idea that he-" Bakura couldn't manage to control himself anymore as he failed miserably to finish his last sentence. Everything new to him was too much for him to handle. That emotion again. That feeling. It just..hurt so much inside. And the pain; he felt that terrible pain which he now experienced for the very first time in the past over 3,000 yrs that the whole purpose for it finally made him to realize..
"And everytime I saw him...he would just always........smile." He whispered softly before loosing that control again that he once had for temporarily, soon bursting out with more sobs and tears persistantly flowed from his eyes while he kept them shut tightly , allowing his head to fall foward and causing them to rapidly land down below on top of his clenched fists, gasping breathlessly.
"Bakura...." Yami spoke softly while resting one of his hands on top of the boy's shoulder.
Without thinking about it, Yami slowly pulled Bakura into an embrace as the white-haired one began to
bawl more violently into the formal pharaoh's chest. Again, he didn't know what made him to go ahead and hug his worst evil rival, but He didn't know what had possessed him to do it and now that he had either, what he was going to do. .but he didn't really care; he was too worried about him..and he felt deeply sorry.
They both just stayed like that for it seemed forever..