Wow sorry for the long wait but it seems that too much has been going on
here. With in the past two weeks I worked nearly every day except the last
three days because of a sprained wrist I also had the flu and I got a new
boyfriend and my parents are remodeling the house. As you can tell I've
been busy!
Anyway I have a bit of news. My fanfic has been added to an archive recently and I am taking this opportunity to thank SweetSakura for adding me to her archive and also putting me under the recommended section ^_^
Also I will be completely revising this fanfic and changing it into NR17 for the archive only. It will be longer, a little darker maybe, and it will have a lot more Yaoi in it. If you would like to read the rewritten NR17 rated version of this fanfic you can find it at the archive which I will put the link up in my profile. It won't be done for at least a week if not longer I will keep you updated each time I post a new chapter.
On to the fic!
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SIXTEEN
Change of heart
Everything went in slow motion. The drapes hung neatly over the windows swaying at the cool breeze that slipped into the room. The walls were powder blue like the sky, soft and clean. The blankets on the bed were neatly spread and there was a fresh sent of vanilla cream in the air. Yugi crawled on the bed and sat down. His mother entered slowly with light foot steps and that same beautiful smile she always had. She sat down with the book and flipped to a story. Yugi crawled over to her smiling and resting on the bed.
"Just you and me Yugi-chan." She said putting an arm around him. She began to read the book. Yugi sat with her getting sleepy and hugging her as his eyes got heavy.
"...but there was no where for the princess to go, her price was gone and he would never come back. She began to search for him hoping to find him somewhere in the dark forest. She looked for days. She looked so hard that she too became lost. She could no longer see the light from the outside of the evil dark forest. Soon the darkness swallowed her up but would anyone be there to save her from her fate?.." His mother read on.
Yugi blinked his eyes open feeling something drip on him. He looked up at his mother. Every bit of air that he had was suddenly pushed out of his lungs. He slowly pulled away from his mother. She was covered in blood. She was pale and her eyes were blank. Yugi looked around the room. The blue walls now splashed with red and the white curtains now crimson and wet. The horrid smell of death lingered and the sheets were rancid and soaked with blood. Yugi slid off the bed trying desperately to take in air, or run, or do anything he could.
"The darkness took him." She said in her deathly blank face. Yugi tried to speak. His lips trembled as he only mouthed a few unknown words.
"It swallowed him up. Made him strong. Made him powerful." She mumbled
"Onegai." Yugi pleaded. It had to stop. It wasn't real. It was a dream. It was a nightmare. It had to be. It couldn't be real.
"Let it take you. You can have it my dear. It will take you and show you what its like to be in forever darkness." She said reaching out her blood splattered hand.
"Okasan.." Yugi tried to speak. He reached out for her hand.
"That's right my baby. The darkness will take you. The light half will fade. The dark half will destroy everything. Now my little one..come here." She said opening her arms up to hold him.
"NO!! I wont! You are NOT my mother!" Yugi screamed backing up and squeezing his eyes shut to block out the picture of this fake woman. He backed right into someone. Yugi turned looking up at the...thing.
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"AIBOU!!" The voice called out.
Yugi's eyes sprung open. He shook like mad under his thin sheet. He franticly looked around the room trying to grasp where he was. No blood. No bloody woman. No anything...except Yami. Yugi's eyes were wide and he was taking sharp deep gasps for air. Yami didn't know what else to do but put his arms around the frightened boy. Yugi buried his face in Yami's chest wanting to hide from the world at this point. He cried for a short time while clinging to Yami as if he was in the middle of the ocean with only a life preserver to hold him up.
"It.....was.." Yugi began still shaking. "...a nightmare?" he panted still unsure of his surroundings.
"Yes Aibou. Just a nightmare." Yami said rubbing Yugi's back to sooth him.
"They are getting worse. It seemed so real, like I was really there." Yugi said taking in Yami's comfort.
"It was only a dream." Yami confirmed. Yugi shook his head.
"I feel as if something awful will happen. Something neither of us can control. I want to stop it! There has to be something we can do." Yugi said
"Aibou..." Yami began looking down at Yugi. "...what ever it is we can handle it." Yami continued as he caressed Yugi's back. Yugi's big violet eyes settled on his dark half. They traced over Yami's similar looks.
Yugi's innocents was much deeper then his eye's. Yami brought his hand over Yugi's shoulder and up to feel the tender skin of his face. He ran his fingers over Yugi's cheek then lips. Yugi gazed up and Yami almost questioning his actions.
"You are far to innocent for me Aibou." Yami said. Yugi drew his face into a smile then put his arms around Yami's neck. Yugi rested his head on Yami's shoulder and tried to relax. Yami could feel Yugi's soft eyelashes flutter a few times before sleep over took him.
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Ryou woke up alone. He rubbed the sleep from his eyes and reached to shut the alarm clock off. He got ready for school then headed to the kitchen. His father wasn't in the best of moods as always. The resentment was almost more then Ryou could stand at the moment. The dirty looks and silence weren't helping at all. Things couldn't get much worse. Then again Bakura hadn't shown him self since the afternoon before. Ryou went to gather his school things when he heard the door slam. Off to work. At least he didn't yell at him again.
Ryou put his book bag on then left the house. It was fairly nice out so he didn't wear a jacket over his school uniform. In between his blue uniform and white undershirt he felt the ring move. He unbuttoned his shirt and pulled it out to see what was going on. It was pointing at something. It was also glowing which was unusual. Ryou looked over towards the coast line.
/Mou hitori no boku?/ Ryou called out to his other self.
//What do you want?// Bakura snapped.
/The ring is glowing/ Ryou almost wished he wouldn't have bothered his other self.
//It is?//
/Yes its pointing at something./ Bakura quickly took over sending Ryou to the spirit room. He took a hold of the ring and lifted it up.
"What ever it's pointing at, I will find it." Bakura said dropping Ryou's book bag on the ground and heading off in the direction that the ring pointed.
It was a strong presents. In fact it was so strong that the ring quivered as it picked up what ever dark power Bakura was getting closer too. Soon he came upon the Domino City boating dock. He stood there as a ship pulled up the dock. It was a huge ship but by the looks of it, it was privately owned. Bakura hid behind a few kraits and cargo baskets. He stepped off the ship onto the port. Lisid followed close behind. He removed his hood and pulled out the millennium rod. The ring pointed out the fact that it was a millennium item.
"Lisid you tend to the ship while I'm out. I will be back soon." Marik said.
"Hai Marik-sama." Lisid complied. Bakura took this moment to reveal him self. He jumped out blocking Marik's path just as he turned to leave. Marik stopped in his tracks and Lisid looked ready to defend his master if need be.
"Who are you?!" Marik demanded shifting the staff in Bakura's direction.
"A blood thirst animal from the seventh layer of hell." Bakura mused.
"Interesting." Marik said with his guard still high.
"I was referring to you, dark one." Bakura said. Marik chuckled.
"Tell me now, who are you, and what do you want?" Marik demanded. Bakura opened his unbuttoned shirt and revealed the ring dangling from his neck. It chimed softly as he lifted it from his chest.
"The millennium ring? Now tell me why you seek me out!" Marik ordered.
"Bring the seven together and win a prize..." Bakura smirked. "I demand you give me that item you got there." Bakura finished pointing out the staff.
"This thing? I will not give it up until I have completed my mission." Marik said.
"We'll see." Bakura said as the ring grew in power. Marik immediately raised his power. Soon the darkness grew from them both and the ground rumbled. Bakura took a step back. Marik's power tripled and continued to grow.
"Enough!" Bakura shouted. Fighting him directly wouldn't be a good idea. Marik laughed.
"What's wrong? Change your mind?" Marik said lowering his power but only a little.
"We are fighting for the same thing, we shouldn't be fighting we are allies." Bakura said.
"Don't give me that shit." Marik said crossing his arms. Bakura frowned.
"You want to team up then you do it my way." Marik said
"What would your way be?" Bakura said.
Marik laughed. Their surroundings darkened and the millennium symbol appeared on Marik's forehead. He grasped the staff tightly and pointed it at Bakura. As son as he did Bakura split from Ryou and was knocked down. Ryou stood there confused. He noticed Marik standing there with Lisid right behind him.
"You will do everything I say!" Marik demanded to Bakura who was on the ground.
"What makes you think I would do everything you say?" Bakura sneered as he got off the ground.
"Because we wouldn't want your weak half to get hurt now would we?" Marik said directing his staff to Ryou who was becoming scared. Bakura glanced at Ryou.
"I don't need him anyway." Bakura said crossing his arms. Dark energy grew around them. Marik stood firmly fists at his sides.
"Are you sure?" Marik said turning him palm up and opening his hand. Bakura shifted nervously.
"He just gets in my way." Bakura said calmly trying not to look at his hikari who was at the moment close to tears. Marik half decided to back down until he looked over at Ryou one last time. Marik stood for a moment analyzing the situation.
"You're bluffing." Marik said. Ryou looked up right away.
"I'm not bluffing." Bakura said as calm as he could. It was too late. Marik knew. The dark energy grew more.
"If your not bluffing then you won't mind if I do this." Marik said lifting the staff up. Bakura tensed up as fear over took him. The millennium symbol appeared on Ryou's forehead and his eyes went blank. Marik smirked.
"What did you do!?" Bakura finally snapped.
"He's under my control now. But it shouldn't matter to you, right? He just gets in your way." Marik said.
"Let him go!" Bakura growled.
"No. He belongs to me now." Marik said. Bakura clenched his fists. He took a step at Marik who quickly protected himself by using Ryou as a shield. He lifted up his dark energy even more which over took Ryou.
"Stop it!" Bakura shouted.
"I will do what I want!" Marik returned
"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" The only thing keeping Bakura from attacking Marik was the fact that the closer he got to Marik the stronger Marik's hold on Ryou got which made Ryou seem more dead, more gone.
"COOPERATE!" Marik shouted.
"Fine." Bakura gave in.
"You will help me kill the Pharaoh. If your try anything stupid, I'll kill him." Marik said with a grin.
Bakura stood silent finding it hard to take his eyes off of Ryou. This was all his fault. He put his light half in danger. It was up to him to keep him from getting hurt. He wasn't doing a very good job. But that's just it, this wasn't just a job. It was something he wanted to do. Why was it so difficult for him to realize how he felt? Why did this sudden urge to protect him from all harm. Hurting him seemed so easy before, but now, nothing else mattered to him but Ryou. Now to keep Ryou safe he would have to do what this creep in front of him wants.
"I will do what you ask as long as you swear to me you will not harm my yadounshi." Bakura said.
"Very well. You may go now, but when I need you I will find you." Marik said. He released Ryou who dropped to the ground. Bakura jumped forward just in time to ketch him. Bakura scooped him up off the ground eyeing Marik and leaving right away.
He knew things would change from here on out.
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"What do you mean he didn't show up?" Anzu said as she sat at the lunch table.
"He hasn't been at school all day. I don't know why he isn't here." Yugi said before taking a drink of his milk.
"That's weird. Why would he miss school he isn't sick or anything." Anzu said. Jonouchi shrugged.
//This doesn't sound good aibou. I don't think Ryou would miss school for no reason.//
/Hai, but what could have happened to him?/
//I'm not sure but we better check into it.//
/Right./
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Bakura laid Ryou on his bed and then sat down. Ryou had just woken up. He pushed him self to sit up and looked around. Bakura sat at the end of the bed. He was quiet and seemed not to notice Ryou's movement.
"Mo hitori no boku?" Ryou said softly
"Yes?" Bakura said in a quiet voice.
"What happened?" Ryou asked holding his arms close to warm him self.
"Nothing don't worry about it." Bakura said with the same quietness. His new actions were confusing Ryou. He wasn't being his normal angry self.
"Mo hitori no boku...what's the matter?" Ryou said scooting closer almost afraid of what would happen. Bakura stood up. He took a step passed Ryou on the bed to the window.
"He tried to take you away from me, but I wont let him. I'm not going to let him hurt you." Bakura said looking out the window. Ryou stood up from the bed. Did he hear his dark help correctly? He came up behind Bakura to question this new change of heart.
"I don't understand,..you..." Ryou began but was surprised to have Bakura turn to him and put his arms around him. Ryou's eyes went wide at the touch and he didn't know what to do at first.
"You are to good to be my hikari. I know now that I must not let anything happen to you. Please forgive me." Bakura said suddenly. Ryou was quiet for a while. This was new to him. He felt tense and his body wouldn't come to a rest. Bakura rubbed Ryou's back softly then rested his cheek on Ryou's head.
"Ai shiteru." Bakura said softly. A faint smile crawled on Ryou's lips and he finally relaxed into his darker half's arms.
"I forgive you."
To be continued...
Anyway I have a bit of news. My fanfic has been added to an archive recently and I am taking this opportunity to thank SweetSakura for adding me to her archive and also putting me under the recommended section ^_^
Also I will be completely revising this fanfic and changing it into NR17 for the archive only. It will be longer, a little darker maybe, and it will have a lot more Yaoi in it. If you would like to read the rewritten NR17 rated version of this fanfic you can find it at the archive which I will put the link up in my profile. It won't be done for at least a week if not longer I will keep you updated each time I post a new chapter.
On to the fic!
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SIXTEEN
Change of heart
Everything went in slow motion. The drapes hung neatly over the windows swaying at the cool breeze that slipped into the room. The walls were powder blue like the sky, soft and clean. The blankets on the bed were neatly spread and there was a fresh sent of vanilla cream in the air. Yugi crawled on the bed and sat down. His mother entered slowly with light foot steps and that same beautiful smile she always had. She sat down with the book and flipped to a story. Yugi crawled over to her smiling and resting on the bed.
"Just you and me Yugi-chan." She said putting an arm around him. She began to read the book. Yugi sat with her getting sleepy and hugging her as his eyes got heavy.
"...but there was no where for the princess to go, her price was gone and he would never come back. She began to search for him hoping to find him somewhere in the dark forest. She looked for days. She looked so hard that she too became lost. She could no longer see the light from the outside of the evil dark forest. Soon the darkness swallowed her up but would anyone be there to save her from her fate?.." His mother read on.
Yugi blinked his eyes open feeling something drip on him. He looked up at his mother. Every bit of air that he had was suddenly pushed out of his lungs. He slowly pulled away from his mother. She was covered in blood. She was pale and her eyes were blank. Yugi looked around the room. The blue walls now splashed with red and the white curtains now crimson and wet. The horrid smell of death lingered and the sheets were rancid and soaked with blood. Yugi slid off the bed trying desperately to take in air, or run, or do anything he could.
"The darkness took him." She said in her deathly blank face. Yugi tried to speak. His lips trembled as he only mouthed a few unknown words.
"It swallowed him up. Made him strong. Made him powerful." She mumbled
"Onegai." Yugi pleaded. It had to stop. It wasn't real. It was a dream. It was a nightmare. It had to be. It couldn't be real.
"Let it take you. You can have it my dear. It will take you and show you what its like to be in forever darkness." She said reaching out her blood splattered hand.
"Okasan.." Yugi tried to speak. He reached out for her hand.
"That's right my baby. The darkness will take you. The light half will fade. The dark half will destroy everything. Now my little one..come here." She said opening her arms up to hold him.
"NO!! I wont! You are NOT my mother!" Yugi screamed backing up and squeezing his eyes shut to block out the picture of this fake woman. He backed right into someone. Yugi turned looking up at the...thing.
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"AIBOU!!" The voice called out.
Yugi's eyes sprung open. He shook like mad under his thin sheet. He franticly looked around the room trying to grasp where he was. No blood. No bloody woman. No anything...except Yami. Yugi's eyes were wide and he was taking sharp deep gasps for air. Yami didn't know what else to do but put his arms around the frightened boy. Yugi buried his face in Yami's chest wanting to hide from the world at this point. He cried for a short time while clinging to Yami as if he was in the middle of the ocean with only a life preserver to hold him up.
"It.....was.." Yugi began still shaking. "...a nightmare?" he panted still unsure of his surroundings.
"Yes Aibou. Just a nightmare." Yami said rubbing Yugi's back to sooth him.
"They are getting worse. It seemed so real, like I was really there." Yugi said taking in Yami's comfort.
"It was only a dream." Yami confirmed. Yugi shook his head.
"I feel as if something awful will happen. Something neither of us can control. I want to stop it! There has to be something we can do." Yugi said
"Aibou..." Yami began looking down at Yugi. "...what ever it is we can handle it." Yami continued as he caressed Yugi's back. Yugi's big violet eyes settled on his dark half. They traced over Yami's similar looks.
Yugi's innocents was much deeper then his eye's. Yami brought his hand over Yugi's shoulder and up to feel the tender skin of his face. He ran his fingers over Yugi's cheek then lips. Yugi gazed up and Yami almost questioning his actions.
"You are far to innocent for me Aibou." Yami said. Yugi drew his face into a smile then put his arms around Yami's neck. Yugi rested his head on Yami's shoulder and tried to relax. Yami could feel Yugi's soft eyelashes flutter a few times before sleep over took him.
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Ryou woke up alone. He rubbed the sleep from his eyes and reached to shut the alarm clock off. He got ready for school then headed to the kitchen. His father wasn't in the best of moods as always. The resentment was almost more then Ryou could stand at the moment. The dirty looks and silence weren't helping at all. Things couldn't get much worse. Then again Bakura hadn't shown him self since the afternoon before. Ryou went to gather his school things when he heard the door slam. Off to work. At least he didn't yell at him again.
Ryou put his book bag on then left the house. It was fairly nice out so he didn't wear a jacket over his school uniform. In between his blue uniform and white undershirt he felt the ring move. He unbuttoned his shirt and pulled it out to see what was going on. It was pointing at something. It was also glowing which was unusual. Ryou looked over towards the coast line.
/Mou hitori no boku?/ Ryou called out to his other self.
//What do you want?// Bakura snapped.
/The ring is glowing/ Ryou almost wished he wouldn't have bothered his other self.
//It is?//
/Yes its pointing at something./ Bakura quickly took over sending Ryou to the spirit room. He took a hold of the ring and lifted it up.
"What ever it's pointing at, I will find it." Bakura said dropping Ryou's book bag on the ground and heading off in the direction that the ring pointed.
It was a strong presents. In fact it was so strong that the ring quivered as it picked up what ever dark power Bakura was getting closer too. Soon he came upon the Domino City boating dock. He stood there as a ship pulled up the dock. It was a huge ship but by the looks of it, it was privately owned. Bakura hid behind a few kraits and cargo baskets. He stepped off the ship onto the port. Lisid followed close behind. He removed his hood and pulled out the millennium rod. The ring pointed out the fact that it was a millennium item.
"Lisid you tend to the ship while I'm out. I will be back soon." Marik said.
"Hai Marik-sama." Lisid complied. Bakura took this moment to reveal him self. He jumped out blocking Marik's path just as he turned to leave. Marik stopped in his tracks and Lisid looked ready to defend his master if need be.
"Who are you?!" Marik demanded shifting the staff in Bakura's direction.
"A blood thirst animal from the seventh layer of hell." Bakura mused.
"Interesting." Marik said with his guard still high.
"I was referring to you, dark one." Bakura said. Marik chuckled.
"Tell me now, who are you, and what do you want?" Marik demanded. Bakura opened his unbuttoned shirt and revealed the ring dangling from his neck. It chimed softly as he lifted it from his chest.
"The millennium ring? Now tell me why you seek me out!" Marik ordered.
"Bring the seven together and win a prize..." Bakura smirked. "I demand you give me that item you got there." Bakura finished pointing out the staff.
"This thing? I will not give it up until I have completed my mission." Marik said.
"We'll see." Bakura said as the ring grew in power. Marik immediately raised his power. Soon the darkness grew from them both and the ground rumbled. Bakura took a step back. Marik's power tripled and continued to grow.
"Enough!" Bakura shouted. Fighting him directly wouldn't be a good idea. Marik laughed.
"What's wrong? Change your mind?" Marik said lowering his power but only a little.
"We are fighting for the same thing, we shouldn't be fighting we are allies." Bakura said.
"Don't give me that shit." Marik said crossing his arms. Bakura frowned.
"You want to team up then you do it my way." Marik said
"What would your way be?" Bakura said.
Marik laughed. Their surroundings darkened and the millennium symbol appeared on Marik's forehead. He grasped the staff tightly and pointed it at Bakura. As son as he did Bakura split from Ryou and was knocked down. Ryou stood there confused. He noticed Marik standing there with Lisid right behind him.
"You will do everything I say!" Marik demanded to Bakura who was on the ground.
"What makes you think I would do everything you say?" Bakura sneered as he got off the ground.
"Because we wouldn't want your weak half to get hurt now would we?" Marik said directing his staff to Ryou who was becoming scared. Bakura glanced at Ryou.
"I don't need him anyway." Bakura said crossing his arms. Dark energy grew around them. Marik stood firmly fists at his sides.
"Are you sure?" Marik said turning him palm up and opening his hand. Bakura shifted nervously.
"He just gets in my way." Bakura said calmly trying not to look at his hikari who was at the moment close to tears. Marik half decided to back down until he looked over at Ryou one last time. Marik stood for a moment analyzing the situation.
"You're bluffing." Marik said. Ryou looked up right away.
"I'm not bluffing." Bakura said as calm as he could. It was too late. Marik knew. The dark energy grew more.
"If your not bluffing then you won't mind if I do this." Marik said lifting the staff up. Bakura tensed up as fear over took him. The millennium symbol appeared on Ryou's forehead and his eyes went blank. Marik smirked.
"What did you do!?" Bakura finally snapped.
"He's under my control now. But it shouldn't matter to you, right? He just gets in your way." Marik said.
"Let him go!" Bakura growled.
"No. He belongs to me now." Marik said. Bakura clenched his fists. He took a step at Marik who quickly protected himself by using Ryou as a shield. He lifted up his dark energy even more which over took Ryou.
"Stop it!" Bakura shouted.
"I will do what I want!" Marik returned
"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" The only thing keeping Bakura from attacking Marik was the fact that the closer he got to Marik the stronger Marik's hold on Ryou got which made Ryou seem more dead, more gone.
"COOPERATE!" Marik shouted.
"Fine." Bakura gave in.
"You will help me kill the Pharaoh. If your try anything stupid, I'll kill him." Marik said with a grin.
Bakura stood silent finding it hard to take his eyes off of Ryou. This was all his fault. He put his light half in danger. It was up to him to keep him from getting hurt. He wasn't doing a very good job. But that's just it, this wasn't just a job. It was something he wanted to do. Why was it so difficult for him to realize how he felt? Why did this sudden urge to protect him from all harm. Hurting him seemed so easy before, but now, nothing else mattered to him but Ryou. Now to keep Ryou safe he would have to do what this creep in front of him wants.
"I will do what you ask as long as you swear to me you will not harm my yadounshi." Bakura said.
"Very well. You may go now, but when I need you I will find you." Marik said. He released Ryou who dropped to the ground. Bakura jumped forward just in time to ketch him. Bakura scooped him up off the ground eyeing Marik and leaving right away.
He knew things would change from here on out.
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"What do you mean he didn't show up?" Anzu said as she sat at the lunch table.
"He hasn't been at school all day. I don't know why he isn't here." Yugi said before taking a drink of his milk.
"That's weird. Why would he miss school he isn't sick or anything." Anzu said. Jonouchi shrugged.
//This doesn't sound good aibou. I don't think Ryou would miss school for no reason.//
/Hai, but what could have happened to him?/
//I'm not sure but we better check into it.//
/Right./
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Bakura laid Ryou on his bed and then sat down. Ryou had just woken up. He pushed him self to sit up and looked around. Bakura sat at the end of the bed. He was quiet and seemed not to notice Ryou's movement.
"Mo hitori no boku?" Ryou said softly
"Yes?" Bakura said in a quiet voice.
"What happened?" Ryou asked holding his arms close to warm him self.
"Nothing don't worry about it." Bakura said with the same quietness. His new actions were confusing Ryou. He wasn't being his normal angry self.
"Mo hitori no boku...what's the matter?" Ryou said scooting closer almost afraid of what would happen. Bakura stood up. He took a step passed Ryou on the bed to the window.
"He tried to take you away from me, but I wont let him. I'm not going to let him hurt you." Bakura said looking out the window. Ryou stood up from the bed. Did he hear his dark help correctly? He came up behind Bakura to question this new change of heart.
"I don't understand,..you..." Ryou began but was surprised to have Bakura turn to him and put his arms around him. Ryou's eyes went wide at the touch and he didn't know what to do at first.
"You are to good to be my hikari. I know now that I must not let anything happen to you. Please forgive me." Bakura said suddenly. Ryou was quiet for a while. This was new to him. He felt tense and his body wouldn't come to a rest. Bakura rubbed Ryou's back softly then rested his cheek on Ryou's head.
"Ai shiteru." Bakura said softly. A faint smile crawled on Ryou's lips and he finally relaxed into his darker half's arms.
"I forgive you."
To be continued...