OK...back again... I might mention that there will be only two more chapters in this story... but this is just the first part of a story of two big parts.
Oh... and I'm sorry about all the writing errors... I don't have much time to correct... but when it comes to the complains about Ryou throwing up blood, and still being able to move... I will only say this:
I'm no doctor!
Enjoy...
Brother of mine
Chapter 6- the perfect christmas gift
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Bakura toss himself to the side… having luck enough as the knife only scratched him… and he lay silent as he hit the floor… just waiting for the next attack… why the hell was Ryou trying to kill him, when he didn't hate him?
"Why?…" Bakura ask, as Ryou stand over him… ready with the knife… "Why are you trying to kill me?!"
"Because… I don't want to be alone…" Ryou whisper… tears gliding…as his hand started shaking… he still couldn't do it… he just couldn't…"Why the hell do I have to feel like this?!!!"
He loose the knife to the floor… before falling to his knees in front of Bakura…hiding his face in his hands… he didn't want to hurt Bakura… he didn't want to…
"Ryou…" Bakura whisper… and wrap his hands around Ryou… who turned nine again… so Bakura quickly kick the knife in under the bed…"You have to be carefull… you fell out of your bed in your sleep."
"Oh… did I really do that?" Ryou whimper tired, and clutch to Bakura as he lifted him to his bed again…"I don't want to sleep now… I want to play with you niisan…"
"You know you have to be in bed…" Bakura sigh, and smile… "I can carry you into the living room, then you can sleep on the coach… do you want that?"
Ryou yawn and nod…
"Niisan… I had a dream again… but now… I didn't tell myself that you had hit me… now I told myself that I loved my niisan over all in the world… but not in a brother way… isn't that weird?" Ryou giggle, falling to sleep, as Bakura sat down in the coach.. with Ryou under a blanket on his lap…
He said… he loved me…but not in a brother way… could… Ryou have been… in love with me?
----------One week later-----------
"Come on momy!" Ryou cheer, and draw his mother down the street… he was finally going to buy something to his big brother… it was only three days left untill it was christmas… then he would have fun with his big brother! "What do you think I should give to him?"
"You decide for yourself." She giggle, and they walk into the shopping mall…that was packed with people shopping… "Let us just look around a little…"
"Hai!" Ryou cheered… and take a loving hold of his mothers hand… as they walked around in the mall… but Ryou just couldn't think what he wanted to his niisan… it had to be something he would like… maybe something that reminded him of Ryou? "Momy… do you know what I can buy to niisan?"
"No… let us look in that shop… it is many christmas things there…" She sigh, as she could see that Ryou was starting to sniffle… he really wanted to make his big brother happy. "Ryou, how about this? I will give him a present that will make him wery happy… then you can find something small togheter with it?"
"But… I want to give him something big… people always become happy when they get big gifts…" Ryou sob… and look around… he wanted his niisan to smile again… he had seemed to confused for a while now.. after he had told him about his dream… maybe his niisan was worried about him? Then he had to get a big present!
Ryou's mother sigh again… patting his hair gently… he was just the cutest angel… nice and caring… no wonder he would grow up to love his brother in a passionate way…since he already now cared so much for him…
"Ryou… I have to buy some grosseries to make christmas food… can you wait here a little?" His mother ask, Ryou nod… and she walk of… leaving a confused Ryou alone… what should he buy for Bakura? He only had the candy money he had spared up to a present… if he got money from his mom now… it wouldn't be a present from only him…
"Hey little boy…why so sad?"
Ryou look up, and the store manager smile gentle to him…
"I want to find a nice present for my niisan… but I can't find anything nice to him…" Ryou whisper… drying of his tears… "Do you know something he would like?"
"No… but… maybe I have just the thing that would fit you." He laugh, and walk into the store room… getting back in with a small statue… it was an angel… who looked like Ryou… one white side, one black… and it was holding up a heart over it's chest… he looked a little sad…but… his niisan would love this! "I found this in one of the old stores down south… it was so special so I just had to have it…"
"How much do it cost?" Ryou ask, as the store owner put it in his hand… it wasn't big… on the size with a little coca cola bottle… but it didn't weigh much… "My niisan would be happy if he got this.."
"Then you can have it for…how much do you have?"
"I have two dollars…" Ryou whimper… and hold the figure uo to the store owner again…it was no way he could afford that…
"Then you can have it for free… it is only standing in the back room collecting dust… so it is better if a little cute angel like you have it." The old man laugh, as he saw the happy face of the young boy… he wasn't used to a little boy that age being so worried about giving gifts… they were usually just thinking about what they would get for themselves…
"Thank you mister store owner…" Ryou thank… and look at his money… giving them to the man… "I have to pay… since you are so nice… I don't need the money… I can only be in my bed the whoule day… since I'm sick.."
The old man smile to Ryou… the angel figure really fitted him…
"Aren't you giving anything to your mom?" The store owner ask, giving Ryou back the money… "You can use this to buy something to her…"
"I have already found something to momy…" Ryou giggle, and smile. "I made a nice drawing of me, niisan and momy… she said she loved it…so I'm going to draw her a book with just family pictures… then she will be wery happy… and niisan will be happy if he get a angel…"
The old man laughed heartly… as the little boy ran out to his mother, showing her the angel figure… that was really a special boy….to bad the world seemed to destroy youths like that….
---------------Home again--------------
Bakura almost stumble over the coach… as he could hear the door open… damn! He had to hide his present to Ryou… he turn confused around… before tossing it under the coach… he knew Ryou wasn't the kind of person who would peel open all the packets he found… Ryou had acctually never cared much for presents… more about giving them…
"Niisan!" Ryou cheer, and run into the living room… "I found a nice present for you! You will be so happy!"
"And I have bought something nice to you to." Bakura laugh, laying Ryou down on the coach… pulling the blanket over him…"You will be happy for it… cause I know you have dreamt of having it."
Ryou giggle, as Bakura started to tickle him…pining him gentle to the coach… Bakura knew how much Ryou loved to be tickled.. he said he could laugh all he wanted then…and it wouldn't stop being funny…
Bakura look down on the giggling Ryou, and sigh to himself… he had tought about the dream Ryou had had… the only thing he could think of now… was how he himself would act… if Ryou became himself again… how would Bakura act toward him then? Knowing his own little brother loved him… in a not brotherly way…
Ryou look confused up at his big brother… he wasn't looking happy anymore… he wanted his niisan to be happy all the time… if his niisan where sad… he would become sad…
"Niisan… don't look so sad…" Ryou whisper… and hold his arms up… "Hug?"
Bakura laugh at the cute gesture… he couldn't be sad or anything with that Ryou… he was to cute… as cute as any girl… Bakura tough to himself a little unhappy… would he and Ryou be happy if they did become a couple?
"Hug now!" Ryou order.. as he saw Bakura look sad down on him again… and Bakura give him a long hug… he had to handle this Ryou now first… little cute Ryou…"I don't want you to look sad Niisan… then I will be sader than you…"
"Sorry Ryou." Bakura sigh, and brush Ryou's back gently… while Ryou was humming happy on a christmas song… this would be the best christmas they would have togheter…. The year before… their father had banned christmas in their house… and Bakura had gone to celebrate it with Marik and the oters… while Ryou had spendt the whoule evening alone in his room…holding a unopend present he had bought for Bakura… he had never gotten to give it to him… he had been so sad… "Um… Ryou… now you seem a little far of…"
"Why… didn't I get to give you a present last year?" Ryou whisper…a feeling of sadness had taken a hold of him… he couldn't even remember those memories… but it felt so real…
Bakura look confused at Ryou…last year? That was the year Ryou had been sitting alone the whoule night in his own room… while he himself was out partying… but… how the hell could he remember that now?
"Do you remember last year?" Bakura ask, and look asking down on Ryou… who shake his head… "You was not allowed to go out…since father was angry at you for burning the food."
"But… why didn't you stay with me?" Ryou ask…and the words started echoing in Bakura's mind… why hadn't he stayed with him? He had really been a terrible brother…
"Because I was stupid…"Bakura answer, and sigh… Ryou seemed to become weaker and weaker… he had been told by the doctor that Ryou shouldn't be out of bed all in all anymore… it seemed that Ryou had gotten a uncureable decease… and would stay in his bed (Or the coach) for the rest of his life, a tought Bakura just couldn't handle… Ryou was so full of life… to make him go trough something like this…"This year you won't be alone…I promise to have a wonderfull christmas with you… and we will all be as happy as we can."
"Thank you niisan… both I and Momy have presents for you… I got mine only for you… so you can be happy again… cause it is a wery nice present…" Ryou giggle… twinning his fingers… why was he really so found of his brother? It was like his heart acked because of something…"Niisan… will you become grown up… and find a wife?"
"Well I guess that…" Bakura answer, and smile… "I won't be young and singel forever you know…"
"Will I be alone then?" Ryou ask… "I will have to stay in the bed all day… while some people I don't know take care of me…"
"But mom will take care of you…"Bakura whisper… combing his hair… as he saw him starting to cry…
"She said she was leaving after giving us our presents…" Ryou answer… "She had to leave… since she wasn't supposed to be here anyway…"
"She is leaving?" Bakura ask confused…"Where is she now?"
"She said she would come here with the present… then she would leave…" Ryou sob… "I will be all alone… I want Niisan to stay with me… but I don't want to be a nuicence… I'm only in the way!"
Ryou hide under the blanket… and continue sobing… he didn't want his brother to become unhappy because he had to take care of him…
"Ryou… I will take care of you… and you won't be any trouble… you are the worlds best little brother…" Bakura whisper, smiling gently to Ryou… "You are more inportant to me than anything else… little cute Ryou."
--------------Christmas eve------------
Ryou look at the packet from Bakura… what could it be? He had looked so forward to getting his christmas present… and to give his own to Bakura…
"Hey… you better open now.. so I can open the one from you." Bakura laugh, and smile happy at Ryou's expresion as he saw what he had gotten… "You said you wanted a necklas like that… so I spared up to it for you…"
Ryou look at the big egyptian necklas… it was so cool… a ring, with a pyramid inside it… and some sharp points out on the side… Ryou take it on, and jump Bakura, hugging him hard…
"You are the best niisan!" Ryou cheer… he had wished for that necklas for so long! "Now you open my present… I found it for you"
Bakura nod, and open the neatly wraped present… looking in wonder at the angel figure… but that was…
"It… is you.." Bakura whisper… and look at the sad looking angel… "It's wonderfull Ryou… I love it…"
Ryou light up… his niisan liked it… now he would be happy…but… when was their mom going to come? She had a big present for his niisan…
Bakura set the angel gently down on the table… and draw Ryou to his lap… as they continued watching tv… Ryou had wanted to look at some christmas cartoons.. so they was going to look at that… Ryou yawn, and clutch his plushie close…this had been the best christmas in his whoule life… his niisan looked happy to… that was the best thing about it…
"Niisan…I think the food is ready now…" Ryou whisper, and look down…"Niisan…This is the best christmas I have ever had…I don't want this to end…"
"I know Ryou…" Bakura sigh, and walk to the kitchen… he was making some pourage to them…
"Ryou honey… are you ready?"
Ryou turn confused around… and look at his mother… who stood behind him…
"Ready for what?" Ryou ask, and look innocently up at her… "Are you giving niisan his present?"
"Yes honey…" She sigh, and wrap her hands around Ryou…"I'll give you to him… and I will give him to you… that is my last gift to both of you…."
"Mother? How did you get in?" Bakura ask, and look at Ryou and their mother…
"Bakura… I believe you have learned a little of all this… pay more attention to your little brother…" She whisper, and kiss Ryou gently on the head… and a light surround him… as their mother dissapear…and Ryou change back into his true age… looking confused around… before spoting Bakura…
"Bakura…" Ryou whisper…closing his eyes…letting all the new memories pass into his mind…Bakura really cared for him… but only as a brother… nothing more… "I'm sorry if I caused you pain… I… should have told you about fathers treatment towards me long ago.."
Bakura sigh, and sit down beside Ryou… giving him a hug…
"It was my fault.. the way I acted… I wouldn't have told myself either…" Bakura explain.. and smile to Ryou, laying a little back on the coach…drawing Ryou down to… letting him rest on his chest… Ryou didn't look so sick now… thank god… "Ryou… I will stay with you… and take care of you… since you are so sick…"
"Thank you… Bakura…"
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