Gruzzee: Yep it's me again man this is starting to get annoying --sigh-- I don't own Yu-gi-oh and if you sue me all you'll get is lint.

Cazi: --comes running in with Bakura tied and gagged-- aw man I was gonna make him do that.

Gruzzee: oh goody you're back, um what did you do to him?

Bakura: MMMMmmmMMmmph!!! (He bound and gagged me what does it look like!!!)

Cazi: --takes gag out-- what was that?

Bakura: untie me!

Cazi: be nice and read her story and I will

Bakura: fine

Gruzzee: -- mega sweatdrop—well while the boys do that lets get on with the story

Beat and run

Ryou awoke yet again in his small attic he had had the strangest dream last night.

Rain was dipping all over the floor through cracks in the ceiling drenching anything in the room and thunder crackled over head making him squeak. Another bolt crackled through the sky lighting the dim room when he noticed someone in the corner

"D-d-d-dad?" he said crawling forward on his knees, he got close enough to realize this wasn't his father but they seemed so familiar

"B-Bakura!" he squeaked jumping back as the now flesh and blood spirit stepped out of the shadows.

"Shut up kid" he said raising his hand to strike when he realized that he boy was already pressed up against the opposite wall scared out of his mind he brought his hand down and crossed his arms approaching him with a dominant air about him.

"Why did you touch me like that last night?" he questioned. Ryou stayed quiet staring up at the older boy above him.

"Answer me or I will hit you" he said a little louder

"Don't make me come up there you little rat!" his father yelled up the stairs.

Bakura looked over his shoulder at the stairs

'I'll deal with you later for that' he thought

"I was scared" Bakura looked back at Ryou

"Say that again?"

"I-I was scared"

"That isn't a good enough answer!" he hissed

"Tell me the true reason!" he said picking Ryou up and pinning him to the wall by his shoulders

"It's true I was scared you would understand if only you knew what my life is like day after day. You beat me they beat me even my father beats me I can't get away from it and it all started when my mother died!" he said crying. Bakura really didn't have any idea all he did was eves drop on some of Ryou's thoughts and pound the little bug almost daily he had never even come out of the ring until now and he only came out because he wanted to do this face to face. Forget saddening Ryou crying just then made it heart wrenching and he'd been helping it. Bakura dropped the boy and knelt down with him, blushing embarrassed that he was doing this; his raised the boy s chin to look up at him

"Hey you've got a name right?" Ryou's eyes widened and nodded

"Ryou" he said.

"THAT'S IT!" Ryou's father pounded up the stairs fed up with his son. Bakura was caught off guard and Ryou ripped himself out of his grip scurrying to get away, to hide, Bakura watched as Ryou buried himself under the thin mattress in the room and had just enough time to get back into the ring as Ryou's father kicked open the door just about taking it off its hinges.

"I've had it with you now your going to be punished for disobeying" he said kicking the mattress knowing where Ryou was hiding Ryou let out a pain filled gasp his father flipped the mattress over reveling his son. He slung him across the room slamming him against the wall; Ryou had suddenly become blind before the mattress was moved because Bakura was watching through Ryou's eyes so he hadn't known to move

"Now you wait right here don't you dare move or I'll make it even worse for you" his father said leaving. Bakura stopped watching he had a faint idea of what the man was getting course his primitive mind was thinking 'whip' and he wasn't too far off the man came back with a knife a good sharp knife. Ryou saw the shining blade flash in the light from another lightning bolt and tried to get away his father grabbed his wrist twisting him around so that Ryou's back was facing him he took a rope he'd brought with him and tied Ryou's feet and pressed him up harder against the wall he took the knife and slowly ran the cold edge along Ryou's back making a bloody line between Ryou's shoulder blades. Ryou screamed as his back felt like it was on fire, his entire body writhed in pain as he tried to escape the blade; his father brought the blade down again at the base of Ryou's neck he ran the blade down Ryou's spine making a thin line down the middle of his back which almost looked like a really long paper cut, it stung about as bad Ryou saw red as he felt the agony of his back feeling like it had thousand's upon thousands of needles stuck into it. His father leaned back to examine the bloody cross he had created on his son's back he flipped him over Ryou screamed again as his back was rubbed into the floor. He took the knife and ran the flat of it across his son's forehead wetting the blade with his sweat; Ryou stared up with huge eyes pleading for forgiveness, into the cold blue eyes of the man with the knife. He drew wavy lines along his arms stopping midway down his forearms, then quickly slashed five more lines across his stomach causing the fire from his back to come around to his front making it feel like his entire body was on fire as the ropes also dug into his ankles. His father stood up looking down at the bloody crying heap in font of him he kicked Ryou to the side intensifying his cries and with a sickening laugh

"Maybe that'll teach ya to obey me" he said going back down the stairs. Bakura came out of the ring to examine his fallen half, he just about barfed at the sight of all the blood, Ryou was covered in it and what made it worse was the pitiful crying that was coming from him, sure Bakura had done some horrible things even killed sometimes but he'd never tortured anyone like this he'd always killed quickly or dove them insane but never this. Ryou saw Bakura appear out of the corner of his eye and started to cry harder and back away even though his feet were still bound and bloody. That alone almost made Bakura cry himself had he really been that bad to him; he kneeled down next to Ryou

"It's all right I'm not going to hurt ya" he said laying his hand on his back

"Ahhhh" Ryou shut his eyes tight.

"Hurts, it hurts, stop it hurrrts" Ryou moaned cringing.

Bakura grabbed the sheet that had been on Ryou's mattress and shifted Ryou onto it as painlessly as possible he laid Ryou out flat and wrapped the blanket around him as tight as possible without hurting him, to keep him from moving around too much as he removed the ropes around Ryou's ankles, the blood quickly started to seep through the blankets in places. Ryou coughed and hacked as the water chilled him,

'I've gotta get him out of here' he though staring down at the pained look on Ryou's face. He bent down and picked Ryou up sheets and all; Ryou didn't care who had picked it up just so long as it wasn't his dad he tried to lean in closer to get closer to the warmth of Bakura's body. Bakura carefully went down the stairs using the power of the millennium ring for silencing Ryou's ragged breathing and the squeaks of the stairs; he reached the first floor and peered around the corner into the living room Ryou's father was asleep in a chair with a beer bottle in one hand and the TV remote in the other Bakura crept past Ryou's sleeping abuser and out the door into the rain. He slightly remembered one time when he'd been listening in on Ryou he had mentioned something about a friend named Kaiba that he wished he could ask him about using his medical staff or something like that, but he didn't know where that was. Ryou let out a small gasp as Bakura probed through his mind looking for directions it kind of tickled but all the pain he was in drowned that feeling out and made it hurt more. Bakura stopped he had gained the information he had needed and set out at a run towards Kaiba's mansion.

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Gruzzee: ((crying)) I can't believe I just did that to Ryou

Cazi: sorry guy's no fluffiness yet but look on the bright ((looks back))-er side she got Ryou away from that hell of a home.

Gruzzee: Hey where did Bakura go?

Cazi: I tied him to a chair and made him read the latest chapter.

Gruzzee: you didn't.

Cazi: oh really? ((Walks over and opens the closet with Bakura and a laptop))

Bakura: you're a coldhearted witch to do that to my aibou

Gruzzee: I'm Sorry Bakura I'll try to make it better next time pleez R & R.