The two stood at the edge of the forbidding woods,
"Looks dark…" "And scary…" The two looked at each,
"Ready?" Asked Sophie.
"Yup… Are you??" Asked Bakura trying to hide the fright in his voice.
"Of course I am fool… On the count of three?" "How about 5?" Said Bakura looking back to the black-swallowed wood.
"HOW ABOUT NOW?" Laughed Sophie running into the woods.
"HEY!!!!" Bakura ran after her not wanting to be left alone.
The leaves and twigs upon the ground crackled and crunched as the two darted over them; running through the heart of the land.
"Yo Sophie come catch me!" Said Bakura taking over the blonde.
"In these shoes??…. You're on!!" They both ran as fast as their legs would carry them. Into the darkness were all could seek. Bakura ran ahead, Sophie just behind.
Into the forest deeper and deeper while Sophie fell further and further behind. She tried calling out to him; to get him to slow but with the wind in his ears he didn't hear her. She slowed to a walk; suddenly aware of the dark around her. Silhouettes of trees were everywhere she looked. She thought she heard a noise. She turned,
"Bakura?" She looked around her; unintentionally losing her sense of direction. She was lost.
Bakura slowed, looking behind him. Sophie wasn't there.
"No. No. SOPHIE??" He called out fearing the worst. He looked but no sign, he had ran too fast for her. But where was she now?
He looked to his sides, paying no attention to the noise of soft footsteps.
He turned again, this time he saw something. But it wasn't Sophie… The black figure stepped out from behind the tree, so calm, so… Normal. Bakura, wide eyed took a step back. The figure open the black cloak slightly to pull out a large knife; dripping from it fresh blood. Sophie's blood.
"You killed her… You killed them all… YOU KILLED RYOU!! Bakura's anger rushed through him like the blood under his skin. He ran for the person he hated. He didn't intend on killing them but to find out who they was before he died. Diving Bakura headed for the non-moving figure, just as he reached them the person moved in a way that seemed unhuman; so fast, so swift. Tripping Bakura and sending him to his knees before the killer.
Bakura spat out the leaves that covered his face; this was it. The killer grabbed his hair, lifting his head to look at him.
"No." Choked Bakura standing unwillingly. He looked into the sockets of the blackened face hidden by the hood. He could just see the eyes; they seemed so familiar. Before he could reach out, before he could scream or reveal the killer he felt something.
The killer plunged the knife into the stomach of Bakura; twisting it into his guts. Bakura winced in silent pain, he couldn't scream now. Not that there was anyone to help him, to even hear him. He was alone. Blood coughed out of his mouth as death swirled around him like a shadow. But it wasn't over yet. He saw the rope; saw the plan somehow. He saw death as it swallowed him with no mercy. His last dying thought; Why?
The body fell forward, he wasn't gone yet.
The killer smiled, picking up the rope by their side… They planned on inflicting just a ''small'' more amount of pain before it was over…
Sophie walked forward, she had been walking mindlessly for several minutes not knowing where. She continued past a tree that looked familiar, wondering where on earth Bakura was now.
Just then she thought she heard something up ahead. She looked up and started to walk in the direction of the noise; maybe it was Bakura.
She stumbled through gathered trees to see something. She threw her hands to her mouth hoping that was silence her ear-splitting scream. There hanging from a large tree was Bakura. Limply he swung back and forth, his eyes staring at nothing from the grave. She looked down at his exposed chest; upon it were thousands of small wounds cut with a jagged knife. She wanted to run, wanted to hide but most of all she wanted it over. She stared at his endless eyes that seemed to look through her.
Tears stained down her face as she ran like she had never ran before. The shoes upon her feet slowed her no more; her need to be away from the woods and the killer within were too great now. She didn't even get to get him down, he just hung there waiting for the help that no longer could come to save him.