Title: Affectionate Sacrifices
Author: Broken Music Box
Rating: PG- 13
Summery: oneshot Someone thinks about a dear friend and his lover.
A/N: Guess the POV.
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He conquered the world to be with his love, and in doing so, lost him.
Because his love couldn't bear to see the people who had befriended him and cared for him imprisoned and slaughtered, simply because they didn't know.
They didn't know how desperately they loved each other, or how afraid they were of not being accepted, of being rejected. They didn't know that the King of Thieves conquered the world because he and his love knew they would have separated them if they had known. Which they would have.
Who would have thought that he killed so many simply so he could have a beautiful home that he and his beautiful Ryou could live in, in peace?
It was quick. It took less than two days. And for the first day, Ryou sat quietly, anxiously, unaware of what Bakura was doing, just waiting for him to come back to him.
For the second day, the King of Thieves' love trod the battleground, calling out so many different names, hoping they would stand and walk towards him out of the carnage. Only one did.
Only the one who had been standing above it all, laughing. The one who had caused it.
Only the one he thought he would give up everything for.
Now? Now, I watch Ryou sleep fitfully, tears running down his face, tormented by the dreams the one he still loves should have. I wonder why I didn't go to him on the second day while he called out my name like he needed me, as one of his lost friends, and how long it will take for Bakura to realize Ryou's not going to forgive him.
And of how long it will take until I can find a knife or rope to kill myself with, so I can follow my love into the void.
Most of all, I wonder what my love would have done for me.
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