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Without futher ado... I bring you chapter 28!
It was cooler here. Ryou looked around the shop as people bustled and bargained and bought. He tapped the pouch at his side and the money and jewels he took with him jingled. Now he needed to buy his twin his daily wine and he would spend some of the money on himself and more food. It was just like those dark followers of Bakura's to eat everything in the cupboards and cellars. He made his way around large men and arguing ones but for some reason he missed this skinny little girl. "Oh, my!" Ryou bent over and offered the toppled girl his hand, she took it and rubbed her lower back when she stood. Wisps of whitish-blond hair fell over her eyes.
"Thank you." She muttered and then as she grabbed for her fallen bag two large men appeared through the crowd.
"You, girl! Stop!" The girl looked over her shoulder fleetingly and took off running. Standing there for a moment and a moment only as the two burly men came closer and closer, Ryou took off after the girl. She was fast for a tiny girl, but he noticed now how long her legs were. She threw the bag over a wall and climbed several boxes and jumped over the sun-dried wall.
"Wait!" Ryou shouted but she was already over. Ryou climbed the boxes and fell over the side. The alley was empty. He looked around. He didn't know where she was, but he could feel the weight of someone's stare. He took a step towards the door to his right and suddenly he was grabbed and pulled behind more crates. He turned over and looked at the girl, sitting and panting heavily.
"Sorry, did I..." she trailed off and closed her mouth with her hand. Ryou held his breath and listened to the voices behind the wall.
"She went this way! I know she did!"
"She had an friend! I saw him!" the other said in his course voice. Sounds of running feet made the girl remove her hand from her mouth. She stood up and dusted her dress off. She lifted the bag and frowned, opening it. A thin smile showed how relieved she was and her blue eyes suddenly locked with his gray ones.
"I'm Kisara." She said reaching her hand down to him. He accepted her hand and stood up, using his own weight rather than hers.
"Ryou." He told her as he rubbed his shoulders. "Why were you running from those men?"
"Because I stole this from them." She said, waving the bag about before hiding it under her robe. "The suns getting high." She said, raising her fist above her eyesight and looked back at the man who had followed her. "So Ryou, I guess this is where we part ways." She turned around on her heel and walked off. Ryou frowned and caught up with her.
"Wait a moment. What do you have?"
Kisara shook her head. "It's mine."
"Not really. You stole it." Kisara reached for his face cloth and he jerked back.
"So there. I don't want to know what your hiding, so don't ask me!" And she took off running. Ryou narrowed his eyes and made his way out of the alley. He pulled back against the wall when guards walked past him. He walked out when they were gone.