Chapter 2: Home at last

"Wait! I left a piece of myself in the Puzzle! I'll get through to Ryou through the Pharaoh's brat! He's the only one who can get me out of here!" Bakura screamed ecstatically

He closed his eyes and suddenly was in the pharaoh's chambers of the Millennium Puzzle. The Pharaoh and his brat were siting on one of the many staircases in the vaults of the ancient king's mind. The chamber was a lot more organized then the last time he had been there.

"So its all over now huh, Yami?" Asked Yugi.

"Yes Abou, it's over now." Yami smiled at his light. "Now that we have all the millennium items and I have my memories back I think everything will be find."

What the Pharaoh had the millennium items? Wasn't Marik supposed to stop that?

Oh well. Bakura gained control of Yugi's voice and…

"Yami? Do we really need all the millennium items now? We should spread them out between our friends. At least give Ryou-chan the Ring back, it was a gift from his father. He may want it back." Bakura impersonated through Yugi's mouth.

"Sure Yugi, that would be fine." Yami gushed, not being able to resist anything his brat said. The Pharaoh bent down and kissed his light slowly on the lips.

The first thing that went through Bakura's head was to get out of the brat's body, the second was BLACKMAIL!!! The third was to get out of the puzzle before he was forced to watch the two boys have sex.

Blackmail wouldn't really work though since everyone had seen that coming. I mean Yami practically lives inside Yugi. Pun intend.

Bakura chuckled. Now he just had to wait for the brat to tell Ryou that he had the ring back.

Ryou Bakura turned around at the sound of his name.

"Hey Ryou!" Yugi yelled across the schoolyard.

"Oh hi Yugi. How are you?"

"We're good. Me and Yami were wondering if you would want the Millennium Ring back?" Yugi bounced. "We mean we think its safe now."

Yugi had gained the annoying habit of talking double.

"That would be nice Yugi thank you!" Ryou squealed, hardly containing his excitement.

Bakura curled in the dark. Ok, no one was here to judge him, he could admit that he was afraid of large open spaces. It wasn't a big deal. He was a Tomb Robber; he had spent most of his time in caves and booby-trapped halls. It's ok to be scared, right?

Bakura felt another vision coming. But this one wasn't a memory… Ra! He was getting tired of this place.

Ryou was standing in the middle of his Japanese style bathroom in complete nakedness as he took off the last article of clothing, his boxers and the Millennium Ring.

He stroked the rim of it and pressed it to his heart lovingly. Then set it down on the rest of his clothes. He took a showering hoop from the cabinet to keep the soap out of his eyes and walked over to the bath to run the water.

"Oh whoops!" Ryou giggled, running over to the sink and putting away his contacts that protected his vulnerable, red/pink eyes from the sun.

"Whoa. I've never seen Ryou take off his contacts before what sexy big eyes he has."

Ryou squatted by the drain and turned on the water, after sudding up his hair, he started to lather his albino skin. A soft moan/sigh came out of his mouth.

"Ok now, I've seen Ryou naked before but that's just hot. Damn It! Turn around stupid hikari! You're blocking all the good parts." Bakura yelled at his vision.

Ryou smiled and rinsed himself off, then turning off the both taps he slipped into the bath. Grabbing the remote he turned on the stereo and turned off the lights, a moment later a lighter he lit a candle on the edge of the tub.

"This was Bakura's lighter…" Ryou reminisced.

"Oh my Ra, he's talking about me."

"Maybe the shadow realm has changed him… Maybe he can come back now… Even if he made Okaa-san, and Imoto-chan, and Otoo-san, and my friends leave… he was never really mean to me…" Ryou mumbled softly, "He always stayed by my side. I remember on Kaiba's Blimp he couldn't stand to see me in so much pain he gave up his chance to win the Millennium Puzzle to save me."

"He was so sweet!" Ryou began to sob into his hands.

"No! I'm being silly. Bloody Hell!" He lay back in the tub and listened to the music on the stereo:

These wounds won't seem to heal

This pain is just too real

There's just too much, that time cannot erase

You cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears

You scream, I'd fight away all of your fears

I held your hand through all of these years

Ryou sighed, "Bloody Hell! Kaiba and Jou, Yami and Yugi, Honda and Otogi, they're all acting so close lately------

"Hmm… I wonder why." Bakura said rolling his eyes, poor innocent hikari.

----I'm the only one who doesn't have someone close to them." Ryou sigh again, "I'm sure glad that Marik comes to pick me up after school and hangs out, or I'm might me totally alone."

Twitch… "MARIK…"

"OH NO!!! Am I that alone that I'm talking to myself?" Ryou groan, turning off the c.d. player, blowing out the candle, and changing into a long cotton nightshirt.

In the bedroom Ryou slipped into bed and fell asleep.

In the shadow realm Bukura closed his eyes hoping his message would reach his adorable little hikari.