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Brother of mine
Chapter 4- I'm in the way?
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Ryou hide his sniffling towards Bakura's chest… because he didn't want to see the sharp piece of metal enter his hand… it was so scary… he wouldn't have dared it… if he wasn't sitting on Bakura's lap.
"Niisan… is he finished soon?" Ryou sob, while Bakura brush his hair gently… "It hurts a little… can't he take it out soon?"
"Now he has taken it out." Bakura whisper, and Ryou look at his hand again… the nurse had put on a little bandage wrap, and gave him a little candystick.
"Here little honey, you were so brave." She laugh, and pat his head gently… she was nice, Ryou think to himself… and start licking on the candy stick, while his Niisan was talking to the nurse and doctor about some things he didn't understand… he felt ok, so he couldn't be sick. "Maybe I can take with me little Ryou to the play room… so he can play?"
"No… I won't leave Niisan!" Ryou sob, and clutch to Bakura… "I can stay here… I'll be nice.. I promise…"
"He is really attached to me…" Bakura sigh… "I don't think it can be to bad to let him be here…"
"Ok." The doctor say, and sho the nurse of to get the result of the blood test… "Well… it seems Ryou is fit as a fiddle… exept the memory loss…and the fact that he is 7 years younger now… but he will most probably get his memories back soon… Amnesia from shock does never last to long… and it seems he will be taken good care of."
"But… I'm still in school… so I don't know what to do when I don't work… I can't keep us both with money…" Bakura point out…
"Well… you can quit school and start working… or you can probably get support… since you stand alone with a child under 18… you are 18 soon aren't you?" The doc ask, and Bakura nod. "Then I can arrange it for you… since your father has been thrown into jail… then you two will have a fair share of support…"
"Ok…thank you…" Bakura sigh relieved… brushing Ryou's hair gently… he… would really do anything for his little brother…so why the hell had he forgotten that over the years?
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"Niisan… can I sleep in the bed with you?"
Bakura turn around, and see Ryou standing at the bed side, the washed plushie in his arms… it looked like Ryou was shivering…
"Just jump in." Bakura laugh, and hold the blanket up, so Ryou can lay down untill him."Why are you shivering?"
"I had a nightmare… that dady was beating me… and… when you came home… you would yell at me… saying you never wanted to see me again…" Ryou whisper… "But… you would never say that… ne… Niisan?"
"Off course not Ryou…" Bakura whisper… he had said that to Ryou… what would Ryou say to him if he rememberd? It would only be fair of him to hate Bakura then… "Sleep now… and tomorrow we can go and have fun with my friends…"
"Oh.. that will be so cool." Ryou giggle, and after a little… he doze of… clutching to Bakura.
I'll never leave you again… I promise I will always take good care of you…
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Ryou sitt up in the bed… where was his niisan? Maybe he had gone up to make food..? No… it was still dark outside… Ryou grab his plushie, and open the door to the living room… and then he could hear his big brother talking to a lady…
"Come on honey… there is this cool party tonight…" A blonde (wery hoe dressed woman) say, and clutch to Bakura's arm. "And don't pretend you are sorry for loosing your little brother… you have always said that he was the worst nuicence in the world… and you only looked forward to the day you could leave him, and never see him again…"
Ryou loose the plushie to the floor… before walking back to Bakura's room…laying sobbing under the blanket… so… he was in the way for his Niisan… he hadn't been to any parties since Ryou had become ill… so he had ruined his big brothers fun… he was a bad person… his big brother would be happy if he wasn't there…
"Um… Ryou… would you be ok if I went out a little?" Bakura ask, sitting down on the bed side… shaking in Ryou gently, since he didn't think he was awake… "I'll be back soon… I just have to do something…"
"I'm ok niisan…" Ryou whisper… and hide his tears… why did he feel like this had happened before…? "You can go out and have fun."
"Believe me Ryou… this isn't going to be fun…" Bakura sigh… before walking out, letting the door stay open into Ryou's room.. "I have written down my phone number and set it on the fridge… if you can't reach me… Marik and Yugi's numbers are there to…"
Ryou nod… and wait untill he is sure Bakura has left the house…then he find his clothes, and walk to the kitchen… writing a little note..:
Dear NiisanI don't want to be a nuicence… so I will let you be alone…
Then you can party with your girl friend when you want to…
Sorry I was so much bother to you…
Ryou…
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Bakura groan… oh… how happy he was to be free from that bitch… she had been the worst of his girl friends ever… to think he didn't even care for his little brother… of course he cared for Ryou!
"Ryou! I'm home now! Are you sleeping?!" Bakura yell, and put his outside clothes away… well, since it was morning soon, he should make some breakfast to Ryou… he was still to thin… so with that in mind… Bakura head to the kitchen… noticing the wery poorly writen note… quickly reading it… "Ryou!… Ryou! Where are you?!"
He quickly search the house, but no Ryou…he must have heard what that damn hoe said… half of the words he had said to her was when he was drunk… of course he would have told her something else when he was sober… but… damn… he had to find Ryou!
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Ryou knock on the door… and finally someone open… a old man, with a weird hat… and pointy gray hair…
"Um.. can I help you Ryou-kun?" He ask, and look down on the shivering boy… it was winter… so he was ice cold.. "Do you want to come in?"
Ryou nod, and the old man open the door to him… yelling for Yugi… who came quickly…
"Ryou? What are you doing here?" He ask, and help the shivering Ryou to the fire place… his hands were almost frozen stuck to the plushie he always had… "Bakura said he had gone home to you… he didn't even stay at the party…"
"Niisan… can't be out and party when I'm there… he will be happy if I leave…" Ryou whisper, and start sobing again… "I didn't disturb you to did I?"
"No Ryou… you can stay here untill Bakura pick you up…" Yugi whisper, and smile. "He doesn't think you are in the way… he just broke up with his girl friend because she talked bad about you… that was the reason he went to the party… so she couldn't clinge to him in his own home… then he would never have gotten writh of her… he is happy whe he is with you Ryou… so.. you should go home to him.. he must be worried sick now…"
"Niisan love me?" Ryou whisper, and Yugi nod… "But… why did she say he had been telling her that he didn't like me?"
"Well… it is the same as with your dad… they get drunk… and say things they don't mean… but Bakura has promised not to drink at all anymore…" Yugi explain, and smile… "I can call Bakura… so you can lay and get your warmth back untill he comes for you…"
Ryou nod… but then he started coughing…trying to hold it back with his hand… but a trail of blood broke free… and his baby blue jacket became red… then everything started swirling for him… as he fell uncuntious to the coach…
"Grandpa! Call a ambulance! Ryou is sick!" Yugi yell to his grandfather, who quickly get the hint, and call as fast as he can…
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Bakura groan… where could Ryou be? It was so cold outside… what if he had gotten lost? Maybe he was even laying in the street somewhere… trying to find some food… that was Bakura toughts… as his cell phone rang…
"Moshi Moshi…" Bakura answer… shivering… "Yugi?"
"Ryou is at the hospital… come there… and I will explain everything…" Yugi answer, and Bakura run of… not even turning his cell phone of…
He quickly arrive at the hospital, and look for Yugi in the waiting room…
"Yugi… where is Ryou?" Bakura ask, and try to catch his breath… he had run all over town to find Ryou… "Is he ok? He isn't to hurt is he?"
"No… the doctor treated him early enough… but it seems he have to stay in bed untill december time… he is in poor condition…" Yugi's grandfather said… and pat Bakura on the shoulder… "You can go to him now… child care, room 240… the third floor."
"Thank you.." Bakura whisper, and starts running again… he had to get to Ryou… he had to, his little brother had been all alone out in the cold winter air… he had to have been so afraid… "Ryou!"
He run into the room he had been told, and he spot Ryou on a bed, coverd in a warm blanket, and it seemed he was getting blood transferd into his hand…
"Ryou… are you ok?" Bakura ask, and sit down on a chair beside the bed… taking a gentle grip at Ryou's hand… it seemed he had gotten his warmth back… "I'm sorry if you heard what she said… I hadn't meant it when I told her that…"
"I know…" Ryou whimper… opening his eyes slowly… "Yugi told me everything… and I believe him… so I want to stay with Niisan…"
"Off course you will, and you will have to be in bed for a while… so I will have to stay home from school to take care of you…" Bakura point out.
"But… then you can't be out and party with your friends…" Ryou whimper… almost sobing again… "Then I will feel bad again…"
"Come on Ryou… now that our father is gone… we can just hold the parties at our house… Marik talked about it… since our house is bigger than his…" Bakura laugh, and brush Ryou's hair gently… "I won't leave you little brother… you are much more important than girl friends.. and friends all in all…"
"Niisan!" Ryou sob happy, and clutch Bakura… his big brother was the best in the world… he loved him so much… "I'll never leave and make you worried again… I promise!"
"I know that Ryou… and I promise I won't drink again… then I won't say things like I did…" Bakura promise…"Ok? Then we will be a happy family…"
"You won't find a girl friend again will you?" Ryou whimper… looking innocently up at Bakura… "The one you had now looked evil… and she only wanted to party…"
"Yes she did…" Bakura sigh… "How about this… I won't find a evil girl friend again… and you promise to never leave me again… does that sound fine?"
Ryou nod, and smile happy… now he had his big brother all for himself… only his Niisan… no evil girl's…
Then the door open, and the doctor come in… looking from Bakura to Ryou…
"Well… we have to talk about how to take care of a child… don't go on parties… and don't put him under to much stress… it seems his old injuries can come back if he becomes to lost…" The doctor explain… "We have given him a refill of blood… since he threw up a fair share… but it seems he came here in time…"
"Did you throw up blood Ryou?" Bakura ask, and Ryou nod, still clutching him… "So… it will be best for him to stay in bed?"
"Yes… and he must never be alone for to long… It seems he is wery delicate… he needs someone all the time…"
"Don't worry… I will be there day and night to take care of him…" Bakura answer, and smile… combing Ryou's hair gently… "When can I take him home?"
"Just wait an hour… we can't find any trace of the injuries now… so he should get home to bed." The doctor answer, and smile. "If you want Bakura... I can call to your school tomorrow to tell that you will be staying home.."
"Ok…" Bakura sigh, and look at Ryou… who was close to falling asleep… he looked so innocent… like he had always been… even when he was 16… cute and innocent…
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Bakura toss in his sleep… he had a terrible nightmare… a dark figure walked towards him in the bedroom… holding a sharp knife in it's hand… lifting it silently into the air… the cold blade shimmering in the moon light… before it is brought fast down!
"Ahh!" Bakura sit up in the bed… almost bathing in sweat… what the hell was that dream? Was he heading for a break down or something? A sudden sound, and Bakura turn around… just in time to jump back… as a big blade went past him… "Ryou?"
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