I knew the suspense would kill you or at least torture you, but that isn't the point. Anyways, I know you want to know what happens to poor Ryou so I shall shut up for you and let you read. That is, I will only shut up if you haven't already skipped the beginning so you could just find out already. Well, whatever. See ya at the bottom.

The figures started to follow the pallid haired hikari as he walked down the street with his hands pushed into his pockets and his back hunched in a tired fashion. Suddenly, the eerie chill of being followed caught up to him and he peered back out the corner of his eye to see two men indeed following not far behind.

He steadily turned his eyes back to the path ahead of him and started to pick up his pace as he walked faster to gain some ground on the men, but it was useless. The men had also picked up their speed to keep up with the frightened hikari.

They looked at eachother and nodded and ran up behind Ryou and seized his arms and torso with their outstretched arms. The first man wrestled Ryou against his body and his eyes jutted around in search of a place that was out of sight and dark enough to not be seen.

"Let me go!" Ryou demanded and said quite loudly. The first man put his hand over Ryou's mouth and kept him quite while they looked around. The nearby alley caught their eyes. It was deep, dark, and out of sight. They realized that it was a stereotype to go into an alley, but its all they had.

They shrugged and hauled him off into the darkness and walked quite a ways to a very secluded area in the very end of the alley way. Ryou continued to struggle in their arms and wasn't about to give up himself to these to creeps.

Ryou was thrown to the moist cement with the two men hovering over him with smirks heavy on their looks and the glint in their screamed revenge. The taller man knelt down next to Ryou while holding him down and looked him over, poking and proding his stomach and chest. "He's a bit fat, but he'll do."

Ryou slapped the man's wandering hand away and looked at him with narrow orbs of disgust. "I am not fat, thank you very much. Now, release me." He demanded as he tried to sit up. The men pushed him back down on the ground and chuckled. "He's a bit whiny too." The shorter man commented.

The taller man had his partner hold the hikari down while he removed his jacket and shirt. His hands grazed the surface of Ryou's skin and he smiled at his comrade. "Someone's been working out." He teased as he touched Ryou's chest. The disgusted hikari bit down on the man's hand as it had traced its way up to his chin.

The taller man cried out and jerked his hand away. He punched him roughly with the other. "Why you little-!" He prepared to strike him again but was held back by the shorter one. "Now, now, don't do too much damage. We still want him to look pretty." The angry male undid the buckle on Ryou's belt and then undid the button on his pants. He tore them down to his ankles and touched Ryou gently.

Ryou blushed immensly at the unwanted touching and wanted to cry, but he refused to let down face for these criminals. The angry figure let down his own pants and started into Ryou, thoroughly enjoying every minute of the disgusting act. The second man looked up at his grinning friend and cocked his brow. "You seem to be enjoying yourself."

"I am. Do you want some of this?" He inquired of his comrade. "Of course I do, so hurry up so I can have my way with him." The other one snapped impatiently. Ryou's body was in pain, but he was trying his hardest not to cry out and give them what they wanted.

Once the taller male was finished with Ryou he dismounted the hikari and let his friend take his place atop the male. He gently brushed his hand across Ryou's red tinted cheek. "Such a beautiful thing you are." He dove in and picked up where the other male had left off.

Bakura had sat quietly on the living room sofa since he had arrived at Mariku's residence. He began to feel a sensation of pain in his lower half and at one poitn across his face. He couldn't understand exactly what it was, but he thought of it something important. Mariku walked into the living room from out of the kitchen with two glasses of wine and saw the serious look upon his lover's face.

"Are you all right?" He inquired and handed Bakura one of the crystal glasses. "Its Ryou…" He said quietly and sipped the wine slowly. Mariku rolled his eyes and sipped his own. "What of him?" Mariku didn't like the thought that Bakura had brought up the little hikari when there were far more important things that could be thought of.

"I feel it…it is unbelievably painful…" Bakura moved about in his chair and tried to get comfortable, but he couldn't seem to find the best spot. Mariku cocked a brow strangely and watched his face twist out of its normal vacant look. Bakura stood up and grabbed his jacket from the head of the chair. "I have to find him."

Mariku sighed and set his drink down on the coffee table, taking to his closet to get himself a jacket. "I'll go with you. We can find him faster." Mariku commented and walked out of the house with Bakura, who seemed to be in much more of a rush than he had to be in.

"Well, where do we look first?" Mariku inquired as he traced the steps of the robber who had started to get further ahead of him.

"Hurry up, stupid. I want another go at him." He licked his lips at Ryou. "Calm down. You sure are horny tonight." His comrade hissed back at his impatient friend.

"I am, so what?"

"I am not sure, I already have an idea of where is he, but not exactly…" Bakura closed his eyes a moment and tried to open the link between them, but Ryou's thoughts were garbling up the link and he couldn't get a word in to his hikari. "His thoughts are running wild…"

"I wonder what's happening to him." Mariku commented as he caught up to Bakura and walked alongside him. "If only I knew…I can't stand this pain that I am feeling."

"C'mon, beautiful. Don't just lay there." The taller male insisted. Ryou was very weak and in a lot of pain. He didn't want to move, even if he would have had his whole strength he wouldn't have moved for either man. He still struggled to get free even though it was obvious by now that he would never truly get free on his own. He wished Bakura were here right now.

The shorter male forced his tongue into Ryou's mouth as the other occupied his lower body. The taller male fell back out of Ryou and onto the ground, out of breath, with a look of ecstacy upon his features. "That was…awesome…"

"As I can see." His friend commented after pulling his mouth from Ryou's. "I will have another go at him while you catch your breath." The shorter one took over once again. "Get him tiger." His breathless friend cheered weakly from against the wall.

Mariku had started to take notice that Bakura was staggering and occasionally groaning as quietly as he could manage. "How are you holding up, Bakura?" Mariku inquired and looked over at Bakura. "I am fine….I can take it more than Ryou probably can." Bakura returned and kept his eyes on the path ahead.

"I can go find him by myself." Mariku optioned. Bakura glanced over at him with an upset look in his eyes that Mariku hadn't seen for the longest time. "No, lets keep looking." Bakura said and turned his eyes back to the path. Mariku nodded and walked on beside his lover.

The shorter of the two was more aggressive with his actions, unlike his friend who wasn't this way with Ryou. This was enough to cause Ryou to cry out. The taller male laughed at the hikari's pain and nudged himself closer to the two to cause more of the unwanted pain, or at least as much as his tired body was able.

This extra help caused Bakura more than enough to pain to fall to his knees holding himself in pain. "Bakura!" The sandy blonde knelt down beside his boyfriend and watched him with a worried expression as he winced and struggled to stand. "Stop Bakura!"

"No…" Bakura rebelled.

"You can't continue to search, I'll do it myself!" Mariku raged. Bakura grabbed his arm and used it to help himself stand so that he may continue on. Mariku picked up a small pebble vacantly laying on the ground and threw it at the back of the persistant male's head. He swiftly turned about looking exhausted and rubbing the back of his head. "What was that for?" He yelled at Mariku.

"I want you to step down this instant, and let me look for Ryou! You are too weak to continue!" Mariku yelled in return. " Bakura just stood there staring at him and trembling. "I can't…" He said in a quiet voice.

Mariku perched his hands on his hips and looked at Bakura roughly. "And why is that?" He inquired and looked at him with narrow orbs of worry and anger. "I just can't…I have to protect him…and do all I can to help him…"

"I know you want to protect him, but look at yourself!" Mariku pointed out. "You can barely walk or for that matter stand!"

"…I have too…" Bakura started to walk and Mariku mummbled something under his breath and followed up. "I don't care what kind of condition I am in." Mariku growled at Bakura and threw another rock, hitting him in about the same place as before. Bakura turned and looked at Mariku very unkindly. "Would you stop doing that?"

"Did you ever consider that maybe I cared about your health or safety? Did you?"

"I know that you care." Bakura started off. Mariku narrowed his eyes dangerously at him and blurted, "It's apparent to me that you obviously don't!" Bakura stopped and looked back at Mariku for the hundredth time. "Why do you say that?" He said more calmly towards the keeper.

"You won't listen!"

"I did listen to you!"

Mariku turned to face another direction and crossed his arms. "Mhmmm, you go ahead and think that." He said before sitting down on the ground rather childishly. Bakura sighed and rolled his eyes. "Why are you doing this?" He said with a slight whine in his voice. "I did listen to you, and I did think about how it would affect the both of us."

Bakura walked back to Mariku and painfully knelt down beside him. "I can't stop when my hikari is probably in more pain than myself. He needs me right now." Mariku's hand was graced by Bakura's who had broken his crossed arms and was holding to his hand tightly.

Mariku stared at their hands for a moment and sighed, rolling his eyes as well and then narrowing them at Bakura unfavorably. "Fine, you can keep going…and I'll come with you, but if you die or something stupid…"

"Thank you…"

"Whatever…" Mariku stood up off of the ground and brushed the dust from his clothing. "Let's get this over with." Mariku pressed on ahead of Bakura. The raider shook his head and smiled slightly as he too started off.

No sooner had they left that particular spot they had stood and fought for so long, but they had turned down a long alley and had been walking for quite some time when they started to hear screaming and painful cries. Bakura and Mariku ran towards the sound and quickly came upon Ryou and two other men that were all over the hikari. "What the hell are you doing?" Bakura yelled loudly as he saw his hikari lying there without clothing and looking the way he did.

Ryou was in tears and shivering because of the temperature in the dark alleyway. He was covered in bruises and trembling in pain, just as Bakura was. The two men looked back at Mariku and Bakura. They licked their lips greedily. "They're kind of cute." The taller one said to the shorter. "I agree."

Mariku backed away and actually looked frightened of the men. Bakura hadn't taken notice since his eyes were too occupied with his hikari and the two men. The shorter man licked the curve of Ryou's jaw. "Get away from him!" Bakura yelled angrily.

"Hey, I'll trade ya." The taller man stood and gave Bakura a daring smirk. "What are you talking about?" Bakura snarled. "This lifeless thing," the man lifted Ryou to his feet and held him close under his arm. "For you and your buddy."

"No fucking way…" Bakura quickly answered, not willing to negotiate or do any such thing with the likes of these men. "Then you can just fuck off." The taller man threw Ryou at his comrade in crime, who caught Ryou and snacked on his neck again.

"The taller male curved his eyes around Bakura to the frightened one standing behind him. "Wait, then how about just that guy?" He said with interest in Mariku. "No…" Bakura replied sternly.

"Aw, c'mon. I don't bite…hard."

"Leave these two out of this…" Bakura felt a sharp pain on his lower body and saw the little man hurting Ryou the same as before.

"Hey, I think I let up a little too easy by just asking for that guy. Hey, I'll even pay him." The taller one pulled a few twenty dollar bills out of his pocket and waved it at Mariku as if he were a dog.

Bakura stepped in front of Mariku and glared at the man. "I said leave him out of this…it is just between you and me…got it?" The guy walked directly past Bakura and grabbed Mariku by the jaw and looked him over, his half bare body pressed closely to Mariku. The keeper began to tremble with fear as terrible memories filled his mind. "Why don't you let him decide for himself. Maybe he wants a good time and we're happy to oblige."

"I…you…." Mariku fumbled with his words, and his eyes were wide and filled with fear. The man reached down and grabbed Mariku's groin and smirked at him. Bakura pivoted on his heel and tore the man away from Mariku and threw him against the wall. He started into him and hit him from every vulernable point he could get at. The shorter of the two men threw Ryou off of his lap and went to assist his partner.

Mariku took hold of himself and hurried over to Ryou to assist him. He removed his jacket and put it around Ryou. "Are you all right?" He held the hikari in his arms and felt him shaking uncontrollably. "Don't worry, Bakura's here…."

The taller man called to his friend from over Bakura's shoulder and pointed out Mariku and Ryou who were sitting there near eachother. The smaller man walked towards them and had obviously received a few hits explaining the pace he was coming towards them in. Bakura took notice of the man and called out to Mariku and Ryou. "Get out of here now!"

Mariku grabbed Ryou's clothing and the hikari himself, who he boosted up onto his back and ran out of the alley with him. He hadn't gotten far before he stopped and set Ryou down on the ground at the edge of a smaller alley that he made sure to inspect before returning to Ryou. "I have to go help Bakura, stay here and try to get yourself dressed." Ryou nodded with understanding and watched Mariku run back in the direction they had just come.

Just as he had returned to the dark alley, he witnessed the two men hitting Bakura at the same time, knocking him down to the ground and backing away tiredly. One glanced up and noticed Mariku as he came running and calling to Bakura. "Well, look who came back for round two." He said and wiped a spot of blood from his lip.

Mariku knelt down beside Bakura and put his hand on Bakura's back. "Are you all right?" Bakura sat up slowly and looked at Mariku with pain in his all telling eyes. "I thought I told you to get out of here…?"

"I'm not leaving without you."

"Just go!" Bakura returned. Just then, the taller of the men grabbed Mariku by the neck and tore him back from Bakura with a pocket knife held to his throat. "et him go you bastard!" Bakura's eyes lit up with fury and rage. He regained his height and prepared to attack the man again.

"Come near me and I'll cut his fucking throat!" The man retorted and held the knife to his throat more tightly. Mariku's eyes were filled with fear and he was stiff and unmoving. "I'm tired of fighting with you! I'm going to fuck one of you whether you like it or not!" The second man looked at his partner oddly and tried to understand what his friend was trying to convey.

"If you let him go, you can do whatever you want to me." Bakura tried to bargain. The man refused his offer quickly. "You already beat the shit out of me. Now, just get lost!"

"Bakura, get the hell out of here!" Mariku yelled at Bakura.

"No…"

"Please!" Mariku begged.

"I said no! You should have fucking listened to me when I told you to stay away!" He blurted out angrily. "Well, I didn't…I couldn't leave you here by yourself." Bakura reached out quickly and grabbed the shorter male by his neck and began to choke him using only one hand.

The knife was brought closer to Mariku's neck and was close enough to graze the skin of his neck. A small stream of blood flowed down his long neck and down to his chest. "Let him go, unless you want your friend to die." Bakura offered as his fingers gripped the man's neck more tightly.

Well, I shall leave it there for today. I hope you somewhat liked this chapter.