Yami's koi: First off a BIG thanks to reviewers.

Neutral Man: Yup. She reads them all, she's encouraged. A lot.

Yami's koi: first off sorry to the lover's of Ryou: I love him too! I dunno. Just felt... very attached to Ryou when I wrote this.

Neutral Man: You decided what to do with this next chappie?

Yami's koi: yes and no. Still undecided so...I think I'll do both. This chap focusing on Bakura, then Ryou with Ra.

Bakura: you make a price too great and I'll kill you.

Yami's koi: Eep! More at the end.

[Ryou to Bakura] [[Bakura to Ryou]]

Sunlight pours down onto my face and into my eyes as I struggle down the busy street, laden with groceries. Many are chatting, holding hands or pointing to things that take to their fancy. Seems only I can see how annoying that is. The only sunlight I need is Ryou.

I sigh, weaving through the streams of shoppers smoothly. Ryou. The one who I had once bruised, and scarred. Only when I saw how things could be did I relent. Recently I've been redeeming myself for those mistakes. Shopping being one of them.

Truth is...I love my Ryou. Ironic, isn't it? I, the once heartless and merciless Tomb Robber, who murdered for his own pleasure, have fallen in love. With the purest and most naïve person imaginable. The Gods move in strange ways.

Course, the Pharaoh has seen it. It's amazing really that he could stop screwing Yugi for a moment just to realise it.

['Nice atmosphere? Nice people?' My arse.]

I freeze then; listening harder to the voice I am certain is Ryou's. But... I've never heard him sound like that. So cold...and yet in this world so empty. It's almost as if he has no emotion left.

I try to contact him, willing my frozen limbs to carry me into a run, knowing that he was in some form of danger. His mind defences are up, and I feel a pang of hurt at that. Why be linked together like that only to block ourselves off? I start into a run.

[No one's here anymore. That's how it's always been.]

'No Ryou,' I think hurriedly, 'I'm here for you. I always have. I love you. Damn it why won't he talk to me?!'

I turn, running full force across the road, hearing several car horns blare at me in return. But I don't care. I need to find my hikari, now! What if he's injured, or hurt? I'd never live with myself if that's the case.

"Tomb Robber!" A voice calls. I turn. Finding it's the Pharaoh. I have no time!

"Pharaoh, one question and one only! Where's Ryou?" I demand, catching him by surprise. At his silence, I turn, taking a side alley as a short cut. Those few moments with the Pharaoh could have been critical to my light's life! I scream in frustration, urging my legs to carry me faster.

The blackness of the alley soon dissolves into a clean street, one which I recognise as my own.

[I wonder if I'll be missed?]

At that I pause. Missed? Implying that he's about to die? Shit I hope I'm not too late. I run again, vaulting our garden wall expertly. Landing not so brilliantly into a hedge. I growl in anger, the shopping lying there as I force my hand to co-operate. It trembles in anxiety, the key refusing to enter the lock.

I snarl quietly a curse in Egyptian, using my Shadow Magic to open the door instead. I race upstairs.

[I am so close...]

Close to what? I fear the answer.

I open the door to our room, and stare. A vast amount of blood pools around his gasping figure on the floor, staining his clothes red. Still blood leaks out of slashes seen on his upturned wrists. I see him tense, then his head turns to face me, his eyes wide.

No way is this happening. Not to him. Not to someone so innocent. My hand touches my mouth to force back a sob, then running through the spikes of my hair. I rush over to him, my knees sinking into the cooling substance in which he lives with. I shake my head, as if to say nay to the universe, that this is an illusion. That Ryou is okay.

But I know he isn't. I stare into his eyes, no spark of happiness or hope in them. Only guilt. And at that moment I realise that he knew he was doing something he would regret.

My hand falls to grasp his own, my form shivering all over. His hand is cold, so cold I fear that he may not survive for me to tell him this. To tell him what I have not dared to, for fear of rejection. Now I know I'd rather have him reject me than leave this world. Our world.

"How...hikari, my light, why? Please, don't go, I...I love you." I whisper brokenly, a tear trailing its way down my cheek. The last thing he would remember. My tear, my confession.

I am truly shocked when I hear him speak next. Shocked at what he tells me.

"I love you too...Kura...Don't ever...forget there's always...something... worth living for..."

His eyes fall to a close before I may express my awe. With a shuddery breath I allow more tears to fall onto his pale, cold cheek. I cannot believe that he would have done something this devastating.

Before he draws his last breath, my lips brush across his own.

Owari (End)

Yami's koi: and that concludes chapter two. Shortest I have ever done.

Neutral Man: review if you like, don't if not.

Yami's koi: how friendly of you, Neutral Man. Thanks again to all of the reviewers from the previous chap. Song of inspiration: HIM, Gone with the Sin, Evanescence, My Last Breath.

Neutral Man: next chapter is finalised: Ryou POV, with Ra and Osiris.

Yami's koi: Luvvies! Catch you whenever dudes. R&R if you wish to, Yami and Bakura plushies to reviewers.