Summary:
Ryou Bakura's days still seemed empty and alone months after Battle City."Another new day.." he thought,"and I can't believe I'm still alive.." While on a weekend morning walk, he runs into a young 16 year old girl named Danirure, or "Dani" as she likes to be called. He rescues her from a Gang of thugs called the "Gurei Gyangu";Grey Gang. While taking her to her apartment complex, Ryou finds out she'll be going to his high school the next day. Although seeing a scar on her right wrist made him uneasy, he kept a blank-ish expression and walked on back home. As she walked back into her apartment, she thought "Just another day...and I can't believe I'm still alive.."

Now time for chapter 2! (if there are any new japanese words in this chapter, the translations are at the bottom.
and for last chapter: Shizuka ni means shut up. sorreh i forgot it!)

Chapter 2-Whoa! New Girl!;So Far Away..

The morning sun's rays were scattered across the blinds on the window. One beam of light fell onto the young girl's eyes and made her close her eyes tighter. But, when that didn't work, she finally gave up and sat up slowly, stretching her bare arms out infront of her. Bare arms. She never wears short sleeved shirts. Only when she felt no one could see, she wore them. She would rather wear long sleeves, though. But why? To hide from the suns rays? To hide an embarassing body feature? To hide scars?...Scars...So many....a long array of them down her right arm. But those can not compete to the horrid looking red bruise on her left arm. It covered her forearm completely, like a band, or arm jewlery...Jewlery...She stood up and stretched her back, her shirt which reached mid thigh rose up slightly revealing only a small glimpse of white silk underwear. She turned to the window, wanting to open the blinds and let the sun's warm light flow in...But she didn't move. Something had stopped her from opening them. She sighed and turned away to get dressed into a familiar pair of clothes.

The school bell rung, DING DONG DANG DONG, DONG DANG DING DONG, and the many teenage students ran into the building. Domino High School. One of many different schools in Domino, but no other school was like it. The reason: It was the school of which one special person went to. Yup, you guessed it, Yugi Motou. The little guy with the big heart, and big hair. He walked into his classroom with a smile on his face and his friends behind him. Two of them, Jounouchi Katsuya and Honda Hiroto, were fighting over a breakfast onigiri. Yugi and his other friend Anzu Mazaki turned to them and sweatdropped.

"IT'S MINE, HONDA!!!" Jounouchi yelled grabbing Honda in a headlock.

"Ack! JOUNOUCHI!!!" Honda yelled back, holding the onigiri away from him.

"Guys.." Yugi said, sweatdropping more.

"Seriously, it's only an onigiri," Anzu said, crossing her arms,"No big deal.."

"IT'S MIIIIINE!!!" the two shouted and they eventually fell to the floor, the onigiri flying into the air above them, "NO!!!"

Just as the onigiri was going to fall onto their heads, a hand reached out and caught it. The person brought it to their mouth and took a bite then swallowed. He smirked and brushed some of his black hair back.

"Thanks for the onigiri, guys. I was starving," Ryuuji Otogi told them then laughed and walked to his seat.

Honda and Jounouchi blinked a few times but then started to growl. Yugi and Anzu looked at them nervously and stepped back.

"RYUUUUUUJIIIIII!!!!!!" they both shouted. They stood up and ran after Ryuuji only to trip on eachother's feet and fall to the floor again with a loud THUMP. "Waaaah..."

Yugi and Anzu sweatdropped again. It was then Ryou Bakura walked into the classroom quietly. Yugi saw Ryou and smiled. "Ohayo, Ryou."

Ryou stopped and looked at Yugi to his right. He smiled slightly, "Ohayo, Yugi, Anzu." He looked to the floor and saw Jounouchi and Honda in a knot. He blinked, "Anou...Daijobu desu ka?"

"Oh they're fine," Anzu told Ryou, "Just being the idiots that they are, is all." She shaked her head in pity and Ryou gave a small chuckle. Once the teacher entered the room all the students flocked to their desks.

"Class," the sensei started, adjusting his glasses, "We have a new student here today." He turned to the board and started writing something with the white chalk.

Ryou blinked. Was it the girl he met yesterday? Or someone else? He payed attention to the sensei once finishing what he was writing on the board. On it said "Danirure" in japanese kanji. Ryou was right, it WAS her.

"You may come in now," the sensei said, turning to the door.

The door opened slowly and the girl walked in, the sun from the window shaping her every curve. The light framed her face and twinkled her eyes like stars. Her hazel green eyes looked foreward at the teacher and glanced at the students before her. Her shoulder length dirty blonde hair swayed softly behind her along with her blue skirt. She looked to be sixteen and about five foot three. Her hands stayed at her sides rocking gently back and forth as she moved, causing little wrinkles in her pink uniform top, and her school bag to sway quietly. On her wrists were two heart shaped bracelets. On the right was a white one and the left was a black one. She finally stopped next to the teacher and bowed to the students saying "Ohayo, watashi wa Danirure desu." When she rose back up she blinked at the students, for they were gazing at her in shock.(Mainly the boys) They couldn't believe it. All the boys' jaws dropped, even Yugi's, Jounouchi's, AND Honda's.(tsk tsk.) They've never seen anyone like her before. Ryou blushed.

"Your seat is right over there in front of Ryou Bakura," the sensei said, pointing out the desk. All the boys' jaws dropped even more. "Man, he's lucky" they thought.

Dani nodded and walked down the aisle to her seat. When she saw Ryou she smiled. He just blushed a bit more. She sat down and looked behind her shoulder at Ryou. "Hi!" she whispered.

Ryou blinked a second but whispered back a simple "Hello". The other boys were staring in amazement. He KNEW her already?! The sensei started growing impatient so he cleared his throat loudly to get everyone's attention.

"You can all talk to Danirure-san later. We have class NOW," he told them. Then he turned to the board, erased the kanji away, and started writing down his assignment.

In the far left corner of the room sat Koji Masashi. A slightly bulky young man with dark brown hair that was spiked up, only some bangs covering his small, sharp reddish-brown eyes. Those eyes were glancing at the other end of the room. At a girl. The new girl. With his arms crossed he made a small smirk. "Perfect..." he thought,"she's just perfect...heh heh..."

A few hours later the bell rang and it was lunchtime. All the students rose from their seats, grabbing their lunches from their school bags, and when into groups with their freinds. Yugi, Jounouchi, Honda, and Anzu got together and formed a group. Dani looked around at all the other groups and then looked at Ryou. As she was about to speak, though, he rose from his seat and went to another with his lunch. She sighed and looked down at her bag, picking it up and getting her lunch. Slowly a group of guys from the class came around and sat in the desks around her. One of which was Ryuuji. Dani blinked and blushed at them all.

"A-Anou.." she said nervously while looking at all of them. One stood up and took her hand gently in his and kissed it,only making her blush more.

"Hello, Boku wa Otogi Ryuuji desu," he said smiling sweetly, "It's very nice to meet you."

"A-Anou..You too," she said blushing more. She glanced at the other guys, their faces looking mad at Ryuuji, and got more nervous.

"Alright, Mr. Show-off, back off!" one with dark green hair and brwon eyes said impatiently, "Let US have a chance to introduce ourselves. jeeze!" The others nodded and agreed. Ryuuji sighed.

"Come on, Dani. It looks like SOME people have short patience," he told her, glaring at the other guys who glared back. Dani became uneasy and gently slipped away from the group with her lunch and school bag in hand. The boys started yelling at eachother, oblivious to the fact that Dani wasn't there. Dani found another seat away from them in the back of the class and sat down sighing. She then put away her lunch, deciding she wasn't too hungry anymore, and put her hands on the desk. Again, she sighed and then gripped onto her white heart bracelet with her left hand. "It's always the same," she thought, " every school is the same. All the guys coming up to me and everything...But....only one thing is different.." She looked up and looked around thr room until she found Ryou eating his lunch silently. "Him...No one ever helps me...I could be running from a homocidal maniac and no one would care...But him....he was the only one who ever helped me..."
---Flashback---

"Sir!! P-Please help me!.."she begged him. Ryou just gazed at her in astonishment. "Thugs are chasing me! Th-They won't stop and th-they're close behind! Please help me!!"

In the distance, deep laughter and yells were heard. She was right, it was a gang. Random shouts and whistles were also heard. Ones like 'yoooohooo!!' and 'Come here little missy!!' and 'Dammit where'd she go?!'. Upon hearing the gang's voices getting louder,he grabbed her hand and started running down the street.
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There were only two sides to hide but one was visible to the thugs when they would pass by, so Ryou quickly pushed the girl to the other side and leaned up close, pressing his body against her's so she was hidden. The girl gasped and blushed but Ryou whispered to her "Stay quiet.." She nodded slightly in agreement and stayed silent, then closed her eyes tightly. The gang's footsteps became louder and louder until they finally pass the room going down a different alleyway. Once they were out of sound distance, they both sighed in relief and panted. Ryou stepped back from the girl and blushed slightly.

"G-Gomen..Daijobu desu ka?" he asked her shyly.

She nodded. "Hai..Arigatou.."..


---End Flashback---

"Though he may have saved me.." she continued thinking, messing with her bracelets as she did so, "..He's still very quiet..almost mysterious.." She glanced at Ryou again. "I want to know you...but you seem so far away from me...I can't reach...." Dani sighed and the bell rang signaling the end of lunch hour. She grabbed her school bag, stood up, and walked back to her desk. "Ah, well.." she thought again, sitting down, "it's not like that's the first time I've felt I couldn't reach something..."

She can't hide no matter how hard she tries
Her secret disguised behind the lies
And at night she crys away her pride
With eyes shut tight staring at her inside
All her friends know why she can't sleep at night
All her family askin' if she's alright
All she wants to do is get rid of this hell
Well all she's got to do is stop kiddin' herself

Ryou sat back down in his seat and glanced at Dani before him. All he could see was the back of her head and hands. Also her wrists. He squint his eyes to see the faint scar on her right wrist again. He wanted to know what it really was. Was it an accident? Was it abuse? Self abuse? "What does she hide?.." he thought, "What do you hide, Dani?...What do you hide like I have hidden?"..

When it comes to how to live his life he can't be told
Says he's got it all under control
Thinks he knows it's not a problem he's stuck with
But in reality it would be a problem to just quit
An addict and he can't hold the reigns
The pain is worse cause his friends have it the same
Tries to slow down the problem he's got
But can't get off the carousel until he makes it stop

The bell rang and it was time to head on home. The students rushed out of the building as though it was to explode. Everyone has secrets. Things hidden away for no one to know but themselves. Is it best to know about these secrets? Or best to keep them silent?Well, that depends on the secret itself. Some can be known, like Yugi and his spirit Yami. Some known but best locked away, like Ryou and his spirit Bakura. Some best just to be locked away...But what if the secret was affecting another? In more ways than one? Should it be locked away forever unknown?...Or should it be revealed?....

I never know
Just why you run
So far away, far away from me

I never know
Just why you run
So far away, far away from me

End of Chapter 2

Thank you for reading! please keep sending your reviews!
Japanese translations:

Ohayo-Good morning

Onigiri-a type of food found in Japan. basicly a rice ball that can come in many different flavors.

sensei-teacher

-san- formal hororific meaning "Ms., Mrs., or Mr."

Disclamers:
Yu-Gi-Oh! and all it's characters (c) Kazuki Takahashi. I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! but I sure wish i did XDD
Dani and other new characters (c) me

Carousel lyrics (c) Linkin Park. ( I love that band! XD)
That's all for now, tune in for the next chapter, ja!