Calmhorizon: Hi peeps! I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of Don't go. Well on with the second chapter
Ryou: I get hit again.
Calmhorizon: In other words, there's more violence. Enjoy!
Chapter Two
"Get up! Get up you little brat!" Ryou was being shaken by Bakura. Not wanting to anger Bakura further, Ryou disorientatedly got to his feet. "Good, now get out!"
"It's only 07:30." Ryou said meekly.
"You've got friends haven't you? Why don't you go and see them?" Ryou opened his mouth to speak again. "Ahahahah, don't even think about it." He walked round the back of the Ryou and placed a hand on his trembling shoulder.
"I thought you would have learnt your lesson by now. You know what angers me. But I didn't know you were that stupid. Stupid people need to be educated. They need to be taught what is right and what is wrong. YOU need to be taught a lesson." Bakura struck him with the back of his hand. "When you have learned your lesson you will be treated like a normal human being." He struck him again. "Have you learned your lesson? Have you?"
"Yes."
"Good, now you can go."
Without saying a word, Ryou ran out of the house. He cried as he made his way to school. He would change his shirt at school, he decided. And if anyone asked about the black eyes he'd say he ran into a lamppost last night. No-one would ever learn of Bakura's abuse.
He started a new entry in his diary,
My enthusiasm was short-lived; last night he went back to his old ways. But I need food. And I wish he'd have let me sleep more, I feel so tired. And cold. Why do I feel so cold? I've learned my lesson. I won't ever upset him again; I'll be a good boy.
Ryou stared at the page, now tear-stained and wrote four more words: A good little boy.
He walked a little way further and realised where he was: Domino bridge. For once brief moment while looking into the water, he thought of jumping and ending it all. But he didn't. He just kept looking. And looking. Then he saw something unbelievable.
"Seto?" Doing the only thing he could think of, he picked up a rock and threw it in the water. The image of Seto shattered into a million pieces. It was only imagination. He began to feel unwell and was suddenly sick, vomit spraying on the bridge the water. He peered at his watch: 08:25. He should walk to school now; he didn't want to be late. He wiped his lips with his sleeve and started running. He got to school in ten minutes although every inch of his body hurt. To avoid confrontation he went the long way into school. He went to his locker and got a clean shirt. Then, he went to the boys' bathroom and had a wash and rinsed the blood out of his hair, turning it back to its pure white colour. When he was done, he looked as good as new, save for the black eyes and bruises, and he'd lie about them anyway.
Everything's gonna be fine. I've done it. No-one will ever find out. It's gonna be fine. He thought to himself as he neared his form room door. He twisted the handle and...
"Ryou Bakura, you're late!"
"Huh?" Ryou looked down at his watch, it was 09:00.
"Well?" inquired his teacher, tapping her foot, waiting for an answer.
"Um, I got up late." He lied.
"Well, that's evident from the marks on your face. You haven't even had a wash have you?" Ryou just stood there. "Well what are you waiting for? The next ice age? Go sit down."
Ryou walked silently to his seat. Their teacher laid the register down on the desk and swivelled round on her chair to face the class. "Now, I presume you all saw the news yesterday evening?" Thirty heads nodded in reply. "So you all know that Seto Kaiba is missing?" Several people started to whisper but the majority kept schtum. "That isn't a sign for you to start talking. As you know there are search parties out looking for him. If any of you know anything about his disappearance you must come and tell me immediately. Ok?" Silence reigned in the classroom and nothing more was said until the bell went.
First lesson, French, was as boring as hell. Their teacher, Madame Richard was busy with another class whose teacher had been called away. They had been left to do exercises from the text book. Unbeknown to Madame Richard they had already done all the exercises set.
"I thought I saw him today." Said Ryou to the others.
"What?" Anzu asked.
"In the water at Domino Bridge. I thought I saw Seto in the water."
"Seto! You gotta tell teach."
"No, it was only imagination."
"Maybe you really did see him." Yuugi interjected.
"No way!"
"Dude, he might have done."
"He already said it was imagination," Jounouchi shouted at Tristan, "leave him alone."
"Can we just drop it now guys?"
"Of course, Ryou." Malik said.
For the rest of the lesson Ryou indulged himself in the exercises.
Ex.1.Write a simple conversation in French.
"Bonjour."
"Salut."
"Comment tu t'appelle?"
"Je m'appelle Frederic, et toi?"
"Je m'appelle Jean-Luc. Ça va, Frederic?"
"Ça va bien, merci. Et toi?"
Blah...blah...blah...
Second lesson, music, was better.
"Right class," their teacher, Hatori Kotano announced, "just carry on with your compositions."
"What compositions?" asked a worrying Ryou when the teacher had gone away.
"The compositions we were meant to start last week."
"Oh, when we were-"
"Yeah." A short silence followed then Ryou asked,
"Shall we just muck around for the lesson?"
Yuugi nodded and they spent the whole lesson writing notes and playing games."
"Yuugi, get Malik." Ryou asked. And it went down the line.
"Anzu, get Malik."
"Honda, get Malik."
"Jounouchi, get Malik."
"Hey, short stuff, Ryou wants you." Malik looked in the direction of Ryou.
"Hi Malik!" Ryou waved.
"Hi Ryou!" Malik waved back, humouring him. And that's all they did for the whole lesson. Whenever the teacher came past they pretended that they were talking about the next stage of their compositions. It was one pure lesson of bliss. They came out all smiles.
Great, wasn't it?"
"Yeah, we should do it again."
"Next lesson?"
"Yeah!" everyone but Ryou replied.
"Ryou?"
They all looked over their shoulders. Ryou was stumbling along at a slow pace behind them.
"Ryou?" Malik asked again.
"I'll be fine." He lied through gritted teeth. "I twisted my ankle is all."
"Are you sure?" Anzu took over, "we could take you to the nurse."
"I'll be fine!"
"Ok." And they all walked to the next lesson.
In English they were watching a video: Blackadder back and forth. The gang all chose a character to be:
"I'm Blackadder." Yuugi said.
"I'm Baldrick." Ryou said.
"I'm Melchette." Said Jounouchi.
"I'm George." Said Honda.
"I'm Darling." Malik said.
"And I'm Elizabeth." Anzu said finally.
They all waited for the scene to fold out.
Malik said the first bit as Darling. "There was the time you said you were dying of kidney failure and I donated one of my Kidneys to save your life and you said it was an April's Fool and we had to throw my kidney away."
Then later Anzu and Yuugi.
"What are they?" said Anzu mimicking the actions on screen.
"Little minty things."
"I want one."
"Yes of course."
"Oh, it's got a hole in it."
"They're meant to be like that. That's how they're made." They all howled with laughter, fetching many strange looks from fellow class mates.
They also had enormous fun singing the theme song.
"Most prime ministers are wet, but Baldrick, he is even moister. Blackadder, Blackadder, a bastard on the throne...Blackadder, Blackadder, he's going to rule the world!"
The bell went and the gang made their way outside to eat their lunch. When they'd finished they sat on the benches and talked about this and that, laughing and joking. It had only seemed like five minutes when the bell signalling the end of lunch rang.
"What? Lunch is over already?" protested Honda.
"I guess so," said Malik.
"Oh, no!" Anzu gasped, "math next!"
"I've got an idea," said Jou, "let's walk along really slowly so we're late and just say that we were talking to a teacher."
"Yeah." The rest agreed enthusiastically.
Despite taking over half the normal time Yuugi, Ryou, Malik, Anzu, Jounouchi and Honda didn't need to make any excuses.
"Ah, the late-comers." Mr. Hana concluded as they walked through the door. "Still, I'm glad you all decided to show up because guess what? We're having a surprise math test." Jounouchi frowned at his undue optimism and took his seat.
Ryou glared at the blackboard straight ahead of him. He couldn't read the inscriptions. Weird. He rubbed his eyes and looked down at the newly placed bundle of papers in front of him.
"You may begin, now."
Ryou opened up the booklet to the first page and glared at the words. He could barely read the question:
Multiply out the sum:
(ab)(cd)
He stared for a long time, straining his eyes from looking for too long. Then he closed his eyes.
Mr Hana sat at the desk right at the front of the room, marking books from one of his first year classes. The current class were barely into a test and so would be occupied for about an hour. Then, quite unexpectedly, there was a loud thud as Ryou fell to the floor.
Mr. Hana rushed over to Ryou's desk where he was lying, unconscious, on the floor.
"Ryou?" he shouted at the boy. "Ryou, open your eyes." Ryou didn't respond. "Quick, someone. Go call for an ambulance!" Jounouchi leaped across the desks and out of the classroom.
"Does anyone know what could be wrong with him?" Anzu, Yuugi, Malik and Honda sprinted to Ryou's side. "Well, he was walking funny on the way back from Music." Malik answered.
"Er, Mr. Hana," said Anzu, pointing to Ryou's head, "his head's bleeding!"
"He must have hit his head on the way down!"
"No." Anzu objected. "This is an old cut."
It was then that Mr. Hana realised that Ryou seriously hurt. "Guys, give him some space, I've got to try to find out what's wrong with him."
Jounouchi sped down the halls with the heart of a lion as he tried to get to the reception as quickly as possible. "Quick, call an ambulance." He breathed heavily as he attempted to the lady on reception. "Ryou, he's...fell...over...he's...unconscious."
"Oh my God!" cried the receptionist, finally getting the message, and the dialled the number of the emergency services.
"There's nothing else we can do now." Mr. Hana announced rising from putting Ryou in the recovery position. "Just wait for the ambulance."
"Shouldn't one of us call his Dad?" shouted a pupil.
"His Dad's out of town 'til Tuesday." Yuugi revealed.
"Don't worry, Ok? We can contact his Dad later."
Jounouchi came in then. "The ambulance is on its way!" he said.
"Right, now we just wait."
Fifteen minutes later, Toby and Dylan, the paramedics, burst through the door.
"What's his name?" queried Dylan.
"Ryou," Mr. Hana said, "Ryou Bakura."
"How long has he been unconscious?"
"About twenty minutes."
"Can I go with him?" The remaining five piped up at the same time.
"No, I'm sorry, but no-one can come along." Toby said above the noise, as they carted Ryou out on a stretcher.
Calmhorizon: Well that's it for Chapter Two. Please RR. Adieu adieu remember me.
If you've seen Blackadder Back and Forth you will know what I'm talking about.
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