Life after Death
By Katia-chan
A/N: Please don't kill me! Please please please please please! It hasn't been quite 4 months, so this one didn't take quite so long, but it has been inexcusably long and I so sowwy! I do have the slight excuse that my computer wouldn't work for like a month, and I was grounded. growls stupid school.
Anywho, now that school's out I'll have a bit more time, and my computer works again! celebrates
Well, since I kept yall waiting for so long I figure the long rant can be skipped and we can get to the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own YGO, I do not own anything.
Dedication: I usually don't do this, but I'm dedicating this to my imoto Saak-chan! She rocks! Go read her fics!
Onto the chapter! Enjoy!
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Chapter 9: Coffee and Caskets (don't ask me, I'm just the authoress)
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Sun poured through the window, causing Ryou to pull the pillow over his head. He lay in the Motou's guest bed, which just happened to have an eastern window. "Damn the sun to hell." Ryou muttered as he poked his head out from under the pillow. Some dry clothes sat on the chair. 'Oh shit,' Ryou thought. 'Yugi's lending me clothes...I can't fit into leather like that!'
He climbed slowly out of bed and, skipping looking at the clothes for the moment, headed for the shower.
He bumped into Yami coming out of the bathroom, towel wrapped around his waste and a large bottle of Jell in his hand. "Morning Yami. "The spirit stared blankly at him.
"Coffee." was all he said before wandering downstairs. Ryou blinked after him, then shrugged and went in to take a shower.
After he finished he brushed his hair and rebandaged his shoulder. Studying his face in the mirror he was displeased to see that his bruises looked worse. They had started to turn colors and his face began to swell.
'Oh well." he thought, making his way back into his room. The pile of clothes still sat on the chair. He glanced at them, there was a note sitting on top of them.
Ryou,
I guess I owe you some dry clothes, wouldn't want the Pharaoh to subject you to leather torture just because I knocked you into a fountain.
I'll try to stop by later. I'm not saying anything to Malik either by the way. I think he'd probably kill you as much as Baku-chan.
See you later.
Marik
Ryou grinned and pulled on the clothes. It felt so wonderful to finally be clean. After making the bed he went downstairs.
Yugi was sitting at the kitchen table, cereal in front of him and Yami had himself plastered to a coffee cup.
"Good morning Ryou.' Yugi said around a mouthful of cereal.
"Morning." Ryou said, grabbing a bowl and pouring himself cereal. Then he went over to the pot and poured himself a cup of coffee.
"Oh no!" Yugi groaned. "Not another addict." Ryou grinned at him and slugged back a mouthful of scalding black coffee. "Hi, my name's Ryou, and I'm a coffee addict." Yugi groaned dramatically again and threw a spoon at Ryou.
"See Yami, not everyone has to have 2 cups of sugar in their coffee, and some even eat instead of just kill themselves with caffeine."
"So sue me if I like a little zip in the morning." Yami grumbled, pouring himself another cup.
"If only I could." Yugi muttered. Yami glared and Ryou smiled at them. When they had all finished with their breakfast and Yami had been persuaded not to make another pot of coffee they began to clean up.
"Yugi," Ryou said suddenly, staring at the smaller boy in horror. "Shouldn't you be at school?" Yugi raised a brow at him.
"Remember? One of my best friends died 2 days ago. Yami called the school to tell them I wouldn't be in." Ryou raised an eye brow.
"You know, you're going to look really bad when I finally let everyone know that I'm still alive." Yugi nodded, but didn't seem too concerned.
"You're going to look way worse then me Ryou." he said. Ryou sweatdropped.
"Touche Yugi, touché."
As they put the last of the dishes away the doorbell rang.
"Do this many people always come to your house?" Ryou hissed as Yami shoved him not so gently into a cupboard.
"Yes, when someone dies." Yami glared at him and slammed the cupboard. Great, these hiding places just got better and better.
"Hey Yugi." it was Tea's voice.
"Hey, Ryou, you can come out, it's just everyone from yesterday." Ryou pushed the door open and walked into the living room.
"You have very small cupboards." he muttered to Yami.
"And you have a small brain, it's not my fault."
"I see coffee doesn't make you happier."
"No." Yugi sighed and pushed them both onto the couch.
"Shut up for a moment will you? Kaiba had something he wanted to talk about." They exchanged glares, but then got comfortable.
"Talk away Mr. Kaiba." Yami said irritably. Kaiba gave him a glare and pulled out a bunch of papers.
"I don't know if anyone remembered this or not, but our friend is dead." They all stared at him. Ryou's eye twitched and Tea was giving a 'shouldn't this be obvious?' look.
"Your point...he is alive you know." Joey said. Kaiba gave a long sigh.
"Well, since his father is out of town it falls to us to arrange the funeral." Joey looked annoyed, an expression that didn't often cross the blonde's face.
"Kaiba, in case your master mind hasn't noticed, he's alive, so theirs no need for a funeral." Kaiba looked extremely irritated.
"Well Joey, think of the people who don't know. Don't you think they'd start to wonder what happened?"
"Oh yah." Kaiba's eye twitched majorly and he rubbed his temples.
"Well, my original offer still stands. I will pay for funeral arrangements for the late Ryou Bakura." Ryou chuckled to himself. How many times in his life would he be able to hear someone say that. The others had moved onto other problems.
"Firstly Kaiba, wouldn't a funeral home be suspicious without a body to attend to?" Tea said, thinking the idea over. Kaiba gave a small smile.
"Money buys privacy, I'll just tell them that I had a private organization take care of everything, and that, as a last tribute to my friend I'd like to handle arrangements personally."
"And people won't wonder?" Yugi asked, staring at the CEO in amazement.
"They're all scared shitless of me, they won't ask questions." Kaiba said smugly.
"There is one more problem though." Yami said, rubbing his hand across his forehead.
"And that is?" Joey asked.
"Casket." he said. "We can't use an erne, people may look in, and I don't think you could fake records at a crematorium."
"Correct, it could be done, but it would be difficult and raise more questions then we'd like to have."
"What about a closed casket." Tea said.
"Oh," said Yami, "And how would we explain that the body was mutilated, but there's still a casket?"
"That part is easy." Said Kaiba, warming to the topic. "Ryou had a will saying he wanted to be buried in a casket, not cremated."
"But why would Ryou have a will made up at 17?" Yugi asked.
"Simple, we all know his mother and sister, sorry Ryou, died when he was young of a disease." he looked at Ryou for confirmation. The boy nodded, "He was afraid of contracting the same thing and so he had a special form of a will drawn up."
"That works I guess." Yugi agreed, lying back in his chair.
"So, we'll have pictures or something, and a closed casket." Joey said.
"Kaiba." Ryou said, he hadn't spoken a word through the whole conversation.
"What is it Ryou?"
"I want to be in the casket."
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A/N: Well, that's as close to a cliffy as I'll get in this chapter. It's sort of odd and very uneventful, but I figured a bad update was better then no update at all.
I need to wrap this up, so here are the review thank you's!
MalletWielderofDoom: grins evilly yes, I guess Ryou is a bit of a sadist...Bakura is a bastard...and Yugi is right about both of them. ...Rainbows and ... sweatdrops uh...frightening. Bakura is still yelling about the mallet wound. Thanks for bruising him and the review!
Sugahigh: Yesh, it wasn't a cliffy. I don't know what's been happening to me...lack of cliffies is making me a bit nutty. Glad you liked it! And sorry the update wasn't sooner then later.
Pork Stake the Grand: ...you have very strange muses...has what's her name woken up yet? I am glad you liked this...and you called me a duck! I always wanted to be called a duck. Thanks for reviewing!
MusumeMarron: You reviewed again! The disk didn't crash and I was able to update this soon! I said it would be sooner...but...sweatdrops Thanks for reviewing!
Kelly Noel: Yes! Updation...though you must update a few things too ne? cough cough to resurrect a demon cough cough YnKN must update Fantasy too! I need to laugh my brains out about something...goes chibi I wikes specs. Day ish awtom! hides YnKN's specs behind her back hehehehe insane chibi grin Thanks for reviewing! IM me!
The queen of games2: ...shank?...shrugs oh well. I must hook you up with my friend Josh...who loves Lamas...never mind, their can't be two of them in the same room. And no! Not everyone knows...Malik doesn't know, Ryou's father doesn't know, Bakura doesn't know, the random people on the street don't know...have I made my point?...Hope so, sorry for staying away so long! Thanks for coming back.
Dark Magician Girl/hikaru: It's longer! And yes, Marik found out...but he got revenge for Ryou's trick by dumping him in a fountain. I say again! It's longer! Thanks so much for the review!
Windswift: Wisdom can be found? looks under her bed nope, none there. sniffs souls face died cries... or is it really dead? Is it faking? It's no prob that your review was short, I am just happy you reviewed and that you have chosen to spare my life yet again. Thanks! hugs
That's it. Gotta scoot, see ya next chapter!
TTFN
Katia-chan
By Katia-chan
A/N: Please don't kill me! Please please please please please! It hasn't been quite 4 months, so this one didn't take quite so long, but it has been inexcusably long and I so sowwy! I do have the slight excuse that my computer wouldn't work for like a month, and I was grounded. growls stupid school.
Anywho, now that school's out I'll have a bit more time, and my computer works again! celebrates
Well, since I kept yall waiting for so long I figure the long rant can be skipped and we can get to the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own YGO, I do not own anything.
Dedication: I usually don't do this, but I'm dedicating this to my imoto Saak-chan! She rocks! Go read her fics!
Onto the chapter! Enjoy!
()()()()()()()()()()()()
Chapter 9: Coffee and Caskets (don't ask me, I'm just the authoress)
()()()()()()()()()()
Sun poured through the window, causing Ryou to pull the pillow over his head. He lay in the Motou's guest bed, which just happened to have an eastern window. "Damn the sun to hell." Ryou muttered as he poked his head out from under the pillow. Some dry clothes sat on the chair. 'Oh shit,' Ryou thought. 'Yugi's lending me clothes...I can't fit into leather like that!'
He climbed slowly out of bed and, skipping looking at the clothes for the moment, headed for the shower.
He bumped into Yami coming out of the bathroom, towel wrapped around his waste and a large bottle of Jell in his hand. "Morning Yami. "The spirit stared blankly at him.
"Coffee." was all he said before wandering downstairs. Ryou blinked after him, then shrugged and went in to take a shower.
After he finished he brushed his hair and rebandaged his shoulder. Studying his face in the mirror he was displeased to see that his bruises looked worse. They had started to turn colors and his face began to swell.
'Oh well." he thought, making his way back into his room. The pile of clothes still sat on the chair. He glanced at them, there was a note sitting on top of them.
Ryou,
I guess I owe you some dry clothes, wouldn't want the Pharaoh to subject you to leather torture just because I knocked you into a fountain.
I'll try to stop by later. I'm not saying anything to Malik either by the way. I think he'd probably kill you as much as Baku-chan.
See you later.
Marik
Ryou grinned and pulled on the clothes. It felt so wonderful to finally be clean. After making the bed he went downstairs.
Yugi was sitting at the kitchen table, cereal in front of him and Yami had himself plastered to a coffee cup.
"Good morning Ryou.' Yugi said around a mouthful of cereal.
"Morning." Ryou said, grabbing a bowl and pouring himself cereal. Then he went over to the pot and poured himself a cup of coffee.
"Oh no!" Yugi groaned. "Not another addict." Ryou grinned at him and slugged back a mouthful of scalding black coffee. "Hi, my name's Ryou, and I'm a coffee addict." Yugi groaned dramatically again and threw a spoon at Ryou.
"See Yami, not everyone has to have 2 cups of sugar in their coffee, and some even eat instead of just kill themselves with caffeine."
"So sue me if I like a little zip in the morning." Yami grumbled, pouring himself another cup.
"If only I could." Yugi muttered. Yami glared and Ryou smiled at them. When they had all finished with their breakfast and Yami had been persuaded not to make another pot of coffee they began to clean up.
"Yugi," Ryou said suddenly, staring at the smaller boy in horror. "Shouldn't you be at school?" Yugi raised a brow at him.
"Remember? One of my best friends died 2 days ago. Yami called the school to tell them I wouldn't be in." Ryou raised an eye brow.
"You know, you're going to look really bad when I finally let everyone know that I'm still alive." Yugi nodded, but didn't seem too concerned.
"You're going to look way worse then me Ryou." he said. Ryou sweatdropped.
"Touche Yugi, touché."
As they put the last of the dishes away the doorbell rang.
"Do this many people always come to your house?" Ryou hissed as Yami shoved him not so gently into a cupboard.
"Yes, when someone dies." Yami glared at him and slammed the cupboard. Great, these hiding places just got better and better.
"Hey Yugi." it was Tea's voice.
"Hey, Ryou, you can come out, it's just everyone from yesterday." Ryou pushed the door open and walked into the living room.
"You have very small cupboards." he muttered to Yami.
"And you have a small brain, it's not my fault."
"I see coffee doesn't make you happier."
"No." Yugi sighed and pushed them both onto the couch.
"Shut up for a moment will you? Kaiba had something he wanted to talk about." They exchanged glares, but then got comfortable.
"Talk away Mr. Kaiba." Yami said irritably. Kaiba gave him a glare and pulled out a bunch of papers.
"I don't know if anyone remembered this or not, but our friend is dead." They all stared at him. Ryou's eye twitched and Tea was giving a 'shouldn't this be obvious?' look.
"Your point...he is alive you know." Joey said. Kaiba gave a long sigh.
"Well, since his father is out of town it falls to us to arrange the funeral." Joey looked annoyed, an expression that didn't often cross the blonde's face.
"Kaiba, in case your master mind hasn't noticed, he's alive, so theirs no need for a funeral." Kaiba looked extremely irritated.
"Well Joey, think of the people who don't know. Don't you think they'd start to wonder what happened?"
"Oh yah." Kaiba's eye twitched majorly and he rubbed his temples.
"Well, my original offer still stands. I will pay for funeral arrangements for the late Ryou Bakura." Ryou chuckled to himself. How many times in his life would he be able to hear someone say that. The others had moved onto other problems.
"Firstly Kaiba, wouldn't a funeral home be suspicious without a body to attend to?" Tea said, thinking the idea over. Kaiba gave a small smile.
"Money buys privacy, I'll just tell them that I had a private organization take care of everything, and that, as a last tribute to my friend I'd like to handle arrangements personally."
"And people won't wonder?" Yugi asked, staring at the CEO in amazement.
"They're all scared shitless of me, they won't ask questions." Kaiba said smugly.
"There is one more problem though." Yami said, rubbing his hand across his forehead.
"And that is?" Joey asked.
"Casket." he said. "We can't use an erne, people may look in, and I don't think you could fake records at a crematorium."
"Correct, it could be done, but it would be difficult and raise more questions then we'd like to have."
"What about a closed casket." Tea said.
"Oh," said Yami, "And how would we explain that the body was mutilated, but there's still a casket?"
"That part is easy." Said Kaiba, warming to the topic. "Ryou had a will saying he wanted to be buried in a casket, not cremated."
"But why would Ryou have a will made up at 17?" Yugi asked.
"Simple, we all know his mother and sister, sorry Ryou, died when he was young of a disease." he looked at Ryou for confirmation. The boy nodded, "He was afraid of contracting the same thing and so he had a special form of a will drawn up."
"That works I guess." Yugi agreed, lying back in his chair.
"So, we'll have pictures or something, and a closed casket." Joey said.
"Kaiba." Ryou said, he hadn't spoken a word through the whole conversation.
"What is it Ryou?"
"I want to be in the casket."
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A/N: Well, that's as close to a cliffy as I'll get in this chapter. It's sort of odd and very uneventful, but I figured a bad update was better then no update at all.
I need to wrap this up, so here are the review thank you's!
MalletWielderofDoom: grins evilly yes, I guess Ryou is a bit of a sadist...Bakura is a bastard...and Yugi is right about both of them. ...Rainbows and ... sweatdrops uh...frightening. Bakura is still yelling about the mallet wound. Thanks for bruising him and the review!
Sugahigh: Yesh, it wasn't a cliffy. I don't know what's been happening to me...lack of cliffies is making me a bit nutty. Glad you liked it! And sorry the update wasn't sooner then later.
Pork Stake the Grand: ...you have very strange muses...has what's her name woken up yet? I am glad you liked this...and you called me a duck! I always wanted to be called a duck. Thanks for reviewing!
MusumeMarron: You reviewed again! The disk didn't crash and I was able to update this soon! I said it would be sooner...but...sweatdrops Thanks for reviewing!
Kelly Noel: Yes! Updation...though you must update a few things too ne? cough cough to resurrect a demon cough cough YnKN must update Fantasy too! I need to laugh my brains out about something...goes chibi I wikes specs. Day ish awtom! hides YnKN's specs behind her back hehehehe insane chibi grin Thanks for reviewing! IM me!
The queen of games2: ...shank?...shrugs oh well. I must hook you up with my friend Josh...who loves Lamas...never mind, their can't be two of them in the same room. And no! Not everyone knows...Malik doesn't know, Ryou's father doesn't know, Bakura doesn't know, the random people on the street don't know...have I made my point?...Hope so, sorry for staying away so long! Thanks for coming back.
Dark Magician Girl/hikaru: It's longer! And yes, Marik found out...but he got revenge for Ryou's trick by dumping him in a fountain. I say again! It's longer! Thanks so much for the review!
Windswift: Wisdom can be found? looks under her bed nope, none there. sniffs souls face died cries... or is it really dead? Is it faking? It's no prob that your review was short, I am just happy you reviewed and that you have chosen to spare my life yet again. Thanks! hugs
That's it. Gotta scoot, see ya next chapter!
TTFN
Katia-chan
