Innocence?
Mystical Knight Dragon: Whoo! Two updates in one day! Go me! *does a happy dance*
Disclaimer: Today is opposite day. I own everything.
All warnings and symbols from the previous chapters still apply to this one. But so I don't forget, here are the symbols:
Symbols: /Hikari to Yami/, //Yami to Hikari//, 'thinking', "speaking", YELLING/EMPHASIS, *italics*, (Random response from me; A/N being Author's Note, and R/A/N being Random Author's Note)
Chapter 4: Bricks and Bakura
~*~Bakura's POV~*~
Darkness overtook me and my head began to swirl. A picture of Yugi's deceased face kept popping up, various insects devouring his flesh. I tried to call out, but felt too weak to even make this attempt. When the darkness finally cleared who knows how long later, my head was throbbing in pain.
I raised my hand to the source of the pain and felt a large bump about the size of a scarab beetle. My whole body began to ache and groan with the effort to hold on to the present. My eyes slid open to reveal the gleaming face of Yami. I groaned as he pulled me roughly to my feet. "What happened?" I moaned out.
~*~Normal POV~*~
Yami just grinned and pointed to a brick that had smashed in half. A red substance coated it that looked strangely like blood: his blood. Bakura reached his hand to his head again and found it moist against his fingers. He looked at the appendages and found them dripping with blood. Yami picked up another brick. His eyes seemed to be redder than normal and were saying, "Stay in hell, baka!"
Bakura crouched, covering his head with his hands in fear, waiting for the brick to make contact with his head and hurtle him into infinite darkness again. But the blow never came. Instead voices began to float around his head.
"What happened here?" one of the voices asked. Bakura looked up and saw a man with a black suit and grim face standing above him. Bakura's eyes widened, though it wasn't this man's suit or expression that drew his attention: it was the shiny gold badge that was pinned to his chest that stuck out. The tomb robber's thoughts began to wander to how much the gold thing was worth and how he could steal it.
Bakura's thoughts were broken by Yami telling the police officer that the tomb robber had killed his hikari. "But I didn't!" Bakura shot back.
Yami's eyes seemed to glow, and a faint outline of the eye of Horus shimmered on his forehead. Bakura gulped and, for some reason, allowed himself to be lead away by the police officer to the jail to be questioned.
A few moments later, Bakura snapped back to focus and found that he was being led away. He wriggled a bit to try to escape, but the three officers holding him were too strong. Immediately Bakura's mind swung to his deck, but then he remembered that Ryou had taken it away from him that morning...
~*~Flashback--Bakura's POV~*~
I searched everywhere for my knives, but, for some reason, I couldn't find them. You can't go to a party without knives! What kind of party would that be?!
After a few more minutes of digging in my "Death Closet" (the place with all my knives, dead corpses, world domination plans, etc.), I still couldn't find them. "Ryou!" I shouted at my hikari. "My knives are gone!"
"I'm completely aware of that!" Ryou shouted back at me. But how does he know...? "I had to take them away so you wouldn't kill anyone at Yugi's party!" Oh. That's how.
//You know me all too well, Aibou.// I sent to him. Now to find the knives... 'Perhaps Ryou is still hiding them. So where he is, that could be where the knives are!'
But where was Ryou...?
I was walking by a room when I heard a huge CLANKing sound. I looked into the room and saw Ryou standing next to a drawer. 'Aha!' "What are you doing?" I asked him, walking into the room.
"Nothing," my light squeaked at me.
I raised an eyebrow, knowing what he must be doing, but decided to play along. "I'm...going to go take a shower..." I said and left the room. Perhaps while he's gone I can go back into the room and steal my knives back.
I heard Ryou mentally sigh. That baka. He always forgot to turn off the link. /Why do I have to be such an idiot?/ I knew that thought was not directed to me, but for some reason I heard it anyway.
//You're not.// I told him.
/I thought you could only read thoughts sent directly to you.../
//Or you could have just forgotten to turn off the link.//
/I'm going to go take a walk./
'Yes!' I thought to myself. 'I get to get my knives back!!!'
~*~End Flashback---Normal POV~*~
Bakura shuddered as he remembered what he did next: he had grinned like a foolish idiot. He hated showing expression, especially happiness. But then again, he had remembered to retrieve a knife, which was still under his shirt---
"Ouch!"
---right where that officer had just placed his hand.
"What the fuck was that?!" the officer yelled as he clutched at his bleeding hand.
Bakura smirked. "My knife," he stated simply.
"The one that you killed Yugi with?" another officer asked.
Bakura's eyes widened. "But I didn't kill anyone!"
"Sure you didn't," the third officer spoke, trying to remove the knife strapped to Bakura's back.
//Ryou!// he yelled to his hikari. //Help! They've got me!//
/What do you mean?/ he asked.
"Do you have any other knives with you?" the second officer asked.
"No!" he spat at him. //They've accused me of killing Yugi! I don't even know what's going on!// "And I didn't kill anyone!"
"That's what they all say," said the first officer, who had somehow managed to get some gauze wrapped around his hand.
"I didn't!" Bakura lunged at the officer, only to be hit in the head with the barrel of a gun, right where the brick had smashed earlier. He screamed out in pain and sank to the ground.
/All right (R/A/N: What is the difference between "all right" and "alright"?) Yami,/ Ryou sighed, /but you owe me big time. By the way, where are you?/
The same officer raised the barrel of his gun again to try to make Bakura unconscious. The only thing the tomb robber could manage was a growl. //I'm being taken to what you foolish mortals call jail.//
/J...jail?!/
//I believe that's what it's called.//
Bakura heard Ryou moan but wasn't paying too much attention, for there was a gun pointed at him right between the eyes. Sure Bakura couldn't die again, but a shot to the brain would take away quite a bit of knowledge and perhaps might send him back into the ring again since he wouldn't be able to use the organ up there until a new reincarnation came along.
/Sorry Bakura, but I can't help you./
Bakura's eyes widened. //Ryou! Please! It's your fault! You're the one who took away my Ring and my deck so that I wouldn't kill anyone at Yugi's party!//
~*~Bakura's POV~*~
/"Ryou?"/
'That wasn't Ryou's voice...' I thought to myself. 'He must have forgotten to turn off the link again.'
"Are you ready to cooperate?" the third officer asked me. I snarled at him only to have him kick me hard in the stomach. "I'm going to ask you one more time: are you ready to cooperate?"
/"Why are you standing in front of the jail?"/ The other person was speaking again.
So Ryou was at this jail place. My breath was coming in short, little gasps, so all I could manage was a nod to the officers before I was pulled to my feet and we began to walk.
/"Bailing Bakura."/ Ryou's voice.
I began to hear laughter echoing around me. /"I knew that baka would screw up someday! What did he do this time?"/ Was that Marik's voice? If it was, I'd have to kick his ass later.
No one answered Marik's inquiry. Instead, Malik asked if Ryou had heard about Yugi. I didn't hear this question through the link; instead, I heard it as if it were only a few feet away. I looked up and saw Malik, a laughing Marik, and a very pale Ryou.
/Do they suspect me...?/ I thought I heard Ryou mumble very quietly. Suddenly, Ryou whipped around and ran past me down the street.
//Aibou?// I questioned after him.
I got no response. Just the sound of his pounding feet on the sidewalk.
Finally, I couldn't take it anymore. The pressure of being accused for a murder and no hope for getting out of this mess put its full weight upon me. I sank to my knees and began to cry: something I hadn't done in 5000 years.
I looked up when I felt a hand on my shoulder. Malik and Marik were standing over me, thought it wasn't there hand: it was one of the officer's: the one who's hand was *still* bleeding. Gosh. Foolish weakling.
"Get up," he snarled at me.
My mind did not want to obey
But my body did.
So I followed the officer
Into the building
Out of fear
So deep
That it was blacker
Than the Shadow Realm itself.
~*~
Mystical Knight Dragon: And there's chapter four for you. I hope you liked it.
Yugi: It was terrible. I'm still dead.
Mystical Knight Dragon: Of course. You can't just wake up from being dead.
Yugi: *picks up Marikay* I'm holding him ransom until you bring me back.
Baku (my other muse): That's going to take a while because she's not bringing you back.
Chibi Bakura: Pwease review!!! ^___^
Mystical Knight Dragon: Whoo! Two updates in one day! Go me! *does a happy dance*
Disclaimer: Today is opposite day. I own everything.
All warnings and symbols from the previous chapters still apply to this one. But so I don't forget, here are the symbols:
Symbols: /Hikari to Yami/, //Yami to Hikari//, 'thinking', "speaking", YELLING/EMPHASIS, *italics*, (Random response from me; A/N being Author's Note, and R/A/N being Random Author's Note)
Chapter 4: Bricks and Bakura
~*~Bakura's POV~*~
Darkness overtook me and my head began to swirl. A picture of Yugi's deceased face kept popping up, various insects devouring his flesh. I tried to call out, but felt too weak to even make this attempt. When the darkness finally cleared who knows how long later, my head was throbbing in pain.
I raised my hand to the source of the pain and felt a large bump about the size of a scarab beetle. My whole body began to ache and groan with the effort to hold on to the present. My eyes slid open to reveal the gleaming face of Yami. I groaned as he pulled me roughly to my feet. "What happened?" I moaned out.
~*~Normal POV~*~
Yami just grinned and pointed to a brick that had smashed in half. A red substance coated it that looked strangely like blood: his blood. Bakura reached his hand to his head again and found it moist against his fingers. He looked at the appendages and found them dripping with blood. Yami picked up another brick. His eyes seemed to be redder than normal and were saying, "Stay in hell, baka!"
Bakura crouched, covering his head with his hands in fear, waiting for the brick to make contact with his head and hurtle him into infinite darkness again. But the blow never came. Instead voices began to float around his head.
"What happened here?" one of the voices asked. Bakura looked up and saw a man with a black suit and grim face standing above him. Bakura's eyes widened, though it wasn't this man's suit or expression that drew his attention: it was the shiny gold badge that was pinned to his chest that stuck out. The tomb robber's thoughts began to wander to how much the gold thing was worth and how he could steal it.
Bakura's thoughts were broken by Yami telling the police officer that the tomb robber had killed his hikari. "But I didn't!" Bakura shot back.
Yami's eyes seemed to glow, and a faint outline of the eye of Horus shimmered on his forehead. Bakura gulped and, for some reason, allowed himself to be lead away by the police officer to the jail to be questioned.
A few moments later, Bakura snapped back to focus and found that he was being led away. He wriggled a bit to try to escape, but the three officers holding him were too strong. Immediately Bakura's mind swung to his deck, but then he remembered that Ryou had taken it away from him that morning...
~*~Flashback--Bakura's POV~*~
I searched everywhere for my knives, but, for some reason, I couldn't find them. You can't go to a party without knives! What kind of party would that be?!
After a few more minutes of digging in my "Death Closet" (the place with all my knives, dead corpses, world domination plans, etc.), I still couldn't find them. "Ryou!" I shouted at my hikari. "My knives are gone!"
"I'm completely aware of that!" Ryou shouted back at me. But how does he know...? "I had to take them away so you wouldn't kill anyone at Yugi's party!" Oh. That's how.
//You know me all too well, Aibou.// I sent to him. Now to find the knives... 'Perhaps Ryou is still hiding them. So where he is, that could be where the knives are!'
But where was Ryou...?
I was walking by a room when I heard a huge CLANKing sound. I looked into the room and saw Ryou standing next to a drawer. 'Aha!' "What are you doing?" I asked him, walking into the room.
"Nothing," my light squeaked at me.
I raised an eyebrow, knowing what he must be doing, but decided to play along. "I'm...going to go take a shower..." I said and left the room. Perhaps while he's gone I can go back into the room and steal my knives back.
I heard Ryou mentally sigh. That baka. He always forgot to turn off the link. /Why do I have to be such an idiot?/ I knew that thought was not directed to me, but for some reason I heard it anyway.
//You're not.// I told him.
/I thought you could only read thoughts sent directly to you.../
//Or you could have just forgotten to turn off the link.//
/I'm going to go take a walk./
'Yes!' I thought to myself. 'I get to get my knives back!!!'
~*~End Flashback---Normal POV~*~
Bakura shuddered as he remembered what he did next: he had grinned like a foolish idiot. He hated showing expression, especially happiness. But then again, he had remembered to retrieve a knife, which was still under his shirt---
"Ouch!"
---right where that officer had just placed his hand.
"What the fuck was that?!" the officer yelled as he clutched at his bleeding hand.
Bakura smirked. "My knife," he stated simply.
"The one that you killed Yugi with?" another officer asked.
Bakura's eyes widened. "But I didn't kill anyone!"
"Sure you didn't," the third officer spoke, trying to remove the knife strapped to Bakura's back.
//Ryou!// he yelled to his hikari. //Help! They've got me!//
/What do you mean?/ he asked.
"Do you have any other knives with you?" the second officer asked.
"No!" he spat at him. //They've accused me of killing Yugi! I don't even know what's going on!// "And I didn't kill anyone!"
"That's what they all say," said the first officer, who had somehow managed to get some gauze wrapped around his hand.
"I didn't!" Bakura lunged at the officer, only to be hit in the head with the barrel of a gun, right where the brick had smashed earlier. He screamed out in pain and sank to the ground.
/All right (R/A/N: What is the difference between "all right" and "alright"?) Yami,/ Ryou sighed, /but you owe me big time. By the way, where are you?/
The same officer raised the barrel of his gun again to try to make Bakura unconscious. The only thing the tomb robber could manage was a growl. //I'm being taken to what you foolish mortals call jail.//
/J...jail?!/
//I believe that's what it's called.//
Bakura heard Ryou moan but wasn't paying too much attention, for there was a gun pointed at him right between the eyes. Sure Bakura couldn't die again, but a shot to the brain would take away quite a bit of knowledge and perhaps might send him back into the ring again since he wouldn't be able to use the organ up there until a new reincarnation came along.
/Sorry Bakura, but I can't help you./
Bakura's eyes widened. //Ryou! Please! It's your fault! You're the one who took away my Ring and my deck so that I wouldn't kill anyone at Yugi's party!//
~*~Bakura's POV~*~
/"Ryou?"/
'That wasn't Ryou's voice...' I thought to myself. 'He must have forgotten to turn off the link again.'
"Are you ready to cooperate?" the third officer asked me. I snarled at him only to have him kick me hard in the stomach. "I'm going to ask you one more time: are you ready to cooperate?"
/"Why are you standing in front of the jail?"/ The other person was speaking again.
So Ryou was at this jail place. My breath was coming in short, little gasps, so all I could manage was a nod to the officers before I was pulled to my feet and we began to walk.
/"Bailing Bakura."/ Ryou's voice.
I began to hear laughter echoing around me. /"I knew that baka would screw up someday! What did he do this time?"/ Was that Marik's voice? If it was, I'd have to kick his ass later.
No one answered Marik's inquiry. Instead, Malik asked if Ryou had heard about Yugi. I didn't hear this question through the link; instead, I heard it as if it were only a few feet away. I looked up and saw Malik, a laughing Marik, and a very pale Ryou.
/Do they suspect me...?/ I thought I heard Ryou mumble very quietly. Suddenly, Ryou whipped around and ran past me down the street.
//Aibou?// I questioned after him.
I got no response. Just the sound of his pounding feet on the sidewalk.
Finally, I couldn't take it anymore. The pressure of being accused for a murder and no hope for getting out of this mess put its full weight upon me. I sank to my knees and began to cry: something I hadn't done in 5000 years.
I looked up when I felt a hand on my shoulder. Malik and Marik were standing over me, thought it wasn't there hand: it was one of the officer's: the one who's hand was *still* bleeding. Gosh. Foolish weakling.
"Get up," he snarled at me.
My mind did not want to obey
But my body did.
So I followed the officer
Into the building
Out of fear
So deep
That it was blacker
Than the Shadow Realm itself.
~*~
Mystical Knight Dragon: And there's chapter four for you. I hope you liked it.
Yugi: It was terrible. I'm still dead.
Mystical Knight Dragon: Of course. You can't just wake up from being dead.
Yugi: *picks up Marikay* I'm holding him ransom until you bring me back.
Baku (my other muse): That's going to take a while because she's not bringing you back.
Chibi Bakura: Pwease review!!! ^___^
