I Cry Tears of Blood

Chapter 16: And they lived happily

Bakura jammed his cell phone into his back pocket, "Dammit! Fuck ... Ryou better not have done anything to MY Marik!"

Putting the pedal to the metal, Bakura made it to the building very quickly. He ran up the stairs and to the room, and kicked the door open.

But he was caught off guard when he was met by darkness and silence.

"Marik! MARIK!"

Walking in cautiously, Bakura looked around wildly. He suddenly heard a whimper near the couch.

Striding towards it quickly he prepared himself for the worst. He gasped when he saw Marik, hands tied behind his back, ankles tied, and pants down to his knees.

Bakura bent down and held Marik tightly, "Oh Ra ... I'm so glad you're okay ..."

He helped put Marik's pants back on.

"It's going to be okay ..."

Marik started shaking his head frantically.

Bakura frowned, "What's wrong?"

Then he felt cold metal against his temple and he knew exactly what was wrong.

"Get up, dear Bakura ..." came Ryou's voice.

Bakura slowly stood up, "Ryou ... what the hell is wrong with you!"

"I hate you ... the way you claimed Marik as yours ... the way it was always you who came out the victor! The way you were always the strong one while I ... I ... the WEAK one! NO! I'm SICK of it! SICK of being the weakling! And Marik is MINE! I won him fair and square! Killing down anyone that stood in my way! He's mine ... but you ... you're still here!"

Bakura frowned, "Ryou ... Ryou ... "

Ryou pointed the gun at Bakura and pulled the trigger. Yugi and Yami arrived just in time to see Marik lunge in front of Bakura.

Ryou's eyes widened, "NO!"

His brain registered bits and pieces of it. Blood everywhere. Marik on the floor. Blood around him ... the gun in his hands. Blood ... the gun ...

'I killed ... I killed Marik ... NO!'

Ryou looked at the gun, "Whoso shed man's blood ... by man his blood be shed ... "

And suddenly he was falling. Falling for what seemed an eternity. And all went black.

"Miracle! What do you mean miracle! Don't talk about RYOU like that, you hear!"

Marik grabbed the doctors' coat and Bakura pulled him away, "Darling ... your arm ..."

Marik looked down at his bandaged arm. The painful reminder of what had happened three days ago ... what would've happened if he hadn't jumped in front of Bakura ...

"Well!" asked Bakura angrily. "Can we see him or not, dammit!"

The doctor, quite scared by Marik and Bakura, nodded. The two quickly strode into Ryou's room.

They found him awake, staring out a window from his bed.

"Ryou?" asked Marik gently.

Ryou smiled, "Hi Marik. Hello Bakura."

Bakura frowned at him and put an arm around Marik's waist.

Ryou blushed, "Marik ... Bakura ... are you two going out ...?"

Ryou quickly looked down at the sheets of his bed.

Marik hesitated before answering truthfully, "Actually ... yes ... "

Ryou looked up, eyes wide, "What!"

Marik bit his lip, "Ryou ... "

Bakura's hand went for his deck.

Ryou suddenly blushed again and giggled, "I knew it! AW! You're so cuuuute together! Marik and Bakura sitting in a tree ..."

The other two sighed in relief.

Then Bakura shook his head, "Gave us quite a fright, you know ...?"

Ryou looked down at the sheets again, "I'm sorry ... I frankly don't know what came over me ... and I don't remember anything after my father's death to boot ..."

Bakura shrugged, "You didn't kill anyone important ... no worries."

Marik shrugged too, "Yeah, couple of teachers ... Te'a ... you know. No one will miss them."

Ryou smiled mischievously, "I bet you won't!"

"No I won't! Math makes no sense! That Pythogrun Therum shit's driving me crazy! But you'll help me out, right Ryou?"

Ryou giggled again, "Help ... but I can't let you copy!"

"Aw come on Ryou ..."

Bakura stood up suddenly and looked at the doorway. Joey and Yugi were standing there.

Joey nodded to them, "Ey."

Yugi smiled, "We just came to say good-bye. Joey's feeling better now."

Joey looked at Ryou, "You're not weirding out right? I mean Bakura and Marik are dating ..."

"Oh no!" Ryou said with a smile. "Marik's too wild for me."

"Too wild! What do you mean!"

With that Yugi and Joey waved to Bakura who sweatdropped back. But he smiled.

'Things ... are finally back to normal ... or ... as normal as they can get with me and Marik, anyway ...'

The End.

A/N: Disclaimer

Anything that is not the plot and dialouge and certain ideas, is not mine. The mathematical theorems are credited to whoever invented them. All characters belong to Mr. Takahashi, or Konami ... or whoever. Any names ... "sighs and starts to get annoyed" well, you get the point! Jeez.

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