(( Mondai Senshi ))
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Okay, so I've had this for a while... Should have uploaded it a while ago...
Disclaimer: None of the characters in this fic belong to me, and no profit is being made in writing this story.
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Ryou lay silently on his bed. Surely it could not be as simple as this. Bakura would never have given up without finding the answer he sought, especially over that which would release him from his eternal tomb, which denied him even death. No, the answer must have been in the labyrinth of the Pharoah's mind. Ryou rose and walked lightly to the door.
Suddenly he felt lightheaded, and the next thing he saw was his ceiling. Bakura sat beside Ryou, looking to the window. "You forget I can hear you speaking to yourself."
"Yami-chan," Ryou pleaded desperately, "you lied. You found the answer. There is a way, isn't there? Why won't you tell me?"
Bakura stared resolutely. He refused to speak, or even to turn around. Ryou lightly lifted the millennium ring from his neck and hung it on his bedpost, and his shadow's figure faded in the dreary afternoon light. He headed stubbornly towards the door.
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The dull pounding was met after a short delay by a feeble call of "Yuugi, there's someone at the door!" Yuugi quickly grabbed his millenium puzzle and his coat and sprinted down the stairs, nearly falling onto his face in the process. He turned just enough at the bottom step to not run into a wall, and stopped just short of the door. When he flung it open, he was surprised to see Ryou, an urgent look of desperation on his face.
Yuugi called back to Sugaroku, "Grandpa, if Anzu shows up, let her know I'll be back soon!"
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Although he wasn't sure why, Ryou had insisted on talking in a heavily shaded deserted allyway. His hand seemed to be moving by instinct alone, slowly stroking his neck as if hoping to come across the string of the millenium ring. "I hate to keep doing this, but I need to talk to the pharoah."
"Don't worry about it. I'm just sorry that's all I can do." Yuugi closed his eyes, only to open them seconds later with a harsher look in them. "Yes?"
"Do you," Ryou paused uncertainly before he pushed on. "Do you know what he found?"
"The spirit of the ring?" The pharoah asked, pausing not so much for confirmation as to better decide how to respond. "He found a ritual."
Ryou turned this word over in his mind. "A ritual...? Why wouldn't he tell me?"
"He was only trying to protect you. You are the first person he has cared about for thousands of years. He did not want to put you in danger in any way."
Again Ryou's mind filled with dark images, the cloaked figure in the shadows of a pyramid, sun-bleached hair painting shadows over his eyes, and a horendous scar beneath his blood-red eyes. "That jackass."
Yuugi blinked and watched his friend walk away, his stride resembling a limp despite its complete lack thereof.
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Cliff-hanger-mania... XD But at least I updated this time
