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Maria: :sigh: Seeing as she is.... Incapacitated at this time, here is chapter 8.
Immortal Death: Chapter 8
A few years later, when Rei turned 12.......
The constant beatings and mistreatment were wearing on Bakura, a few days after one such occurrence, Master was to leave for a week, leaving them to care for the house, he expected everything to be taken care of when he returned. The night Master left, Bakura devised a plan, he would run away and secure a home for himself and Rei. He would leave while Master was gone, find a suitable home, then send for Rei. After Rei went to bed, Bakura pretended to be asleep and listened for her breaths to become slow and steady. Once he was confident she was asleep, he grabbed some supplies and left, under the cover of darkness.
In the Morning...
Rei awoke, she wasn't alarmed Bakura wasn't in his bed, for he usually was awake before her. She wandered into the kitchen, Bakura would normally be cooking breakfast, but there was no Bakura. She then turned towards the kitchen table to find a note, "Rei, I have run away to find us a suitable new home, we can't stay with this madman anymore. When I am successful in my search, I will send for you. Love, Bakura.", it said. Rei sighed and hoped Bakura was successful, she could no longer stand living here either. Master would not be back for a week, so she took the day off. The day after she attended to the chores. On the third day of Master's trip, Rei was hanging wash in the backyard when she heard a noise from in the house, thinking it was Bakura she rushed into the house to find.. " M- Master! What are you doing back so soon?", she exclaimed. "My trip was quicker than I had expected, where is Bakura?" "H-he,.. I-I-I....." she gulped. "I do not know, forgive my incompetence Master!" she plead. "What do you mean you don't know?!" he yelled. "W-Well, when I woke up the morning after you left he was nowhere to be found and has not returned since." In a blind rage he backhanded Rei to the floor and stormed out to contact his friends about finding his renegade slave. The next day, Rei had just finished serving Master his lunch when there was a knock a the door. She went to the door and opened it, standing outside were three men with a large burlap bag laying on the ground, "Is your Master home?", one of the men asked. "Yes sir, right this way." and she let them in. Upon Master seeing their arrival, Rei was sent to her room. She closed the door and listened in. "We found him," she heard one say, then she could hear something being dragged across the dirt floor. "Most excellent." she heard her Master say. Oh, no! My dearest Bakura, what will they do to you? she thought. She heard the rip open the bag, that was Bakura in there! she would have never guessed. A few seconds later she heard the men fumbling around, by the sounds of it, they were tying him up, soon followed the sound of a fire crackling. "This will teach you to run away!" Master said. She heard Bakura scream in pain and began to sob. She was helpless, she could not stop them. She could only imagine what they were doing to him. Not long after she heard them all leave, probably out to get a drink, great a drunken Master, just what she needed. She opened the door with caution, and entered the kitchen, tears still flowing freely down her face, stinging her eyes and chapped lips. Then she saw him, Bakura was tied up, laying on his side, blood flowing from his face and onto the floor, staining the dirt. She rushed over to him and untied him, he flinched at her touch, for he could not see, the blood clouding his vision. "Shh, it's ok Bakura, it's just me." Bakura sighed. Rei fetched some rags and bandages, and began to clean his cut. It went from his lower lid, down to the middle of his cheek , and was obviously made by a hot knife. After he was bandaged she dragged him to his cot to rest. ( seems to happen often doesn't it?) Bakura was unable to work for a few days, but recovered soon, but that scar would remain, as a reminder of his actions.
NS: Yay! I mean... Poor Bakura. REVIEW!