Disclaimer: Same as always, I'm afraid. I don't own, you don't sue.
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Ryou whimpered at the soreness in his hips and backside as he climbed up the stairs to his apartment. "Oh gods, tell me Bakura won't want to do it tonight. I won't be able to take it if I have to put out for him."
He slid his key into the lock only to find that the door wasn't even closed. "No… Bakura must be waiting for me!" Ryou clutched his chest and inched the door open. Poking his head in, he saw no sign of the psychotic demon that he knew would be ready to either have him or kill him.
Sighing with relief, he stepped in and closed the door silently. Still no Bakura. Ryou began to wonder if he and Danner had just forgotten to close the door.
Though that would be too easy.
The albino teen slipped through the hall and into the nearest room to the front door, the kitchen. He started to feel much safer because he hadn't encountered his very commanding boyfriend yet.
'Maybe Bakura is still at work. Hopefully he won't even know I went out tonight!' Ryou pulled out a glass and opened the fridge, quietly pulling out raspberry cola and pouring it into the glass.
He tipped the edge of the drink to his lips and took a few sips of the fizzy drink and sighed happily as his throat was eased from all of his… screaming… at Tobrian's hands.
Ryou finally decided that the door must truly have been an effort of himself and Danner, because Bakura would have surely shown himself if he were home by that point. He walked back to his bedroom and flopped down on his bed, pulling out a small notebook to doodle in.
After a few minutes of distracted sketching, the albino started to feel a little drowsy and rested his head on his pillow, wondering if he would finally get some well-deserved rest.
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Ryou sighed as he slowly woke up from his little nap. He yawned loudly and felt a little crick in the back of his neck at the jaw movement. The moment he tried to rub his eyes, though, he realized that something was very, very wrong.
He was tied down! How in the hell did that happen! Did Tobrian come back for him! Did Danner! Ryou started to hyperventilate but had soft hands brushing his hair back.
"Calm down my little bunny rabbit. There is nothing to fear with me, now, is there my love?" Ryou relaxed to hear the deep tones of his one true love, his yami, near his ear.
"Bakura, did you tie me down? I'm going to bap you upside the head for this one." His lover just laughed and nipped his ear harshly. Ryou whimpered and pulled away from him. "What are you doing?"
"I'm giving you what you've got coming to you, babe. Before that jackass boss of mine interrupted us, I believe we were about to fuck," he purred, pulling a pocketknife out of his pocket and flicking out the blade.
Ryou gasped as his shirt was sliced clean in half, the metal just teasing his skin. "Bakura, you're insane! Come on, let me go. I mean it, this isn't funny. I promise, we'll still do what you want but I don't like this."
"Don't care," Bakura muttered, taking a large breath of Ryou's smell, catching the hint of cigarette smoke and bodily fluids. "You were gone when I got back," he accused, pulling up to look right into his little light's chocolate eyes.
The littler blushed and tried to squirm out from under his lover, hurting his wrists as he tugged. "Well, I didn't know how long you would be out, Bakura-chan. I didn't think there was any point to sitting around at home alone."
Bakura smirked and scooted his hikari back over to where he wanted him. "Heh, sure. Now that I'm home, though, let's simply never leave this bed again."
He chuckled and ripped the cloth of Ryou's torn shirt away from his chest. The light began to protest heavily, not wanting to have sex like this for the second time in one night.
"Please, Bakura, can't you just be more gentle with me? I don't like doing it this way! Bakura, you're going to end up hurting me!" He pulled his body up more and tried to block his quickly hardening nipples with the loose part of his arms but Bakura wouldn't allow it.
"Nuh-uh-uh my little hikari. You aren't hiding yourself from me." Bakura dipped his head and licked the tip of the little mound, hearing Ryou squeal and whine.
"Bakura, stop it!" The yami growled and grabbed part of Ryou's tattered shirt and rolled it up, shoving it in Ryou's mouth to stop him from protesting any more. The complaints were starting to get on his nerves.
"Mrph!" Ryou bucked his hips and tried to throw his dominator off but Bakura held fast and instead used Ryou's own movements to remove the smaller one's pants.
Once the small albino was down to his undergarments, Bakura pulled back and stared at him. "Fuck, you're beautiful, light. You look so sexy tied up and gagged like this. I just want to give it to you like a machine."
Ryou's eyes went huge and he started trying to scream around the cloth in his mouth. 'Please, Bakura. No! Gods, please! Someone help, I don't want this!'
Bakura started to kiss down his lover's smooth chest and brushed over the small nipples, causing Ryou to buck in spite of himself. His dark's tongue delved into his navel and tickled him cruelly.
"Does my little one want this mouth to pay attention to something else, hmm? Maybe that little tent-let in your panties?" Ryou blushed bright pink at his dark's teasing of his briefs.
"But don't worry, hikari – I don't tease without fulfilling. For you, anyway. So let's rid you of your little undies and find out... what's yet to come."
Ryou panicked, knowing that Bakura would probably see the remains of the acts he had done with Tobrian! He spazzed across their mind-link. – Yami, please, stop it! Stop it! Let me alone! —
Bakura pulled up and slapped Ryou, surprising his little light who, despite prior rumors, had never been abused before. "So! You'll let someone else stick it to you like this, but not your lover! You're a disappointment to me, hikari."
-- What are you talking about? – Ryou demanded, trying to play the fool, shaking like a leaf under Bakura's harsh glare. He was afraid! His lover had just hauled off and slapped him… for not wanting to have sex!
"I know about you, Ryou. Running around on me! Playing me for the fool while you go out and get fucked like a little prostitute! But that doesn't matter because you are one!" He snarled at Ryou and challenged him with his look to dare say anything.
Ryou, however, just blushed. -- How did you find out, Bakura? – he asked whiningly and started to squirm to get free of his bonds.
"I'm not stupid my little light. I have those loyal to me who are willing to tell me whether or not my soul mate is going out getting screwed by random, strange old men in exchange for money. Though that does explain why you were able to afford your school trip."
He tipped Ryou's head forward and removed his gag. Bakura then lightly kissed his forehead and his cheek. "You little bitch. You had best start talking and it had better be convincing."
Ryou gasped and tried to convince Bakura to release his arms, but he was not about to be set free. "Bakura…. Um, I… well, it's like this. See, I know someone who works as a prostitute to make spare money and I found out about it."
Bakura tilted his head and pulled out a knife, holding it dangerously close to Ryou's flesh. He had a fetish for blood, but this was more than just sexual. This was his lover's going out and becoming a whore!
"W-when I found out, I just knew that he was making a lot of money from it, so I asked if I would be able to do it. He told me I shouldn't…."
"Quite right, he did! Do you have any idea what it is like for Jou? He sells himself to pay for his father's alcohol addiction, did he tell you that? How about being chased and beaten by a thug for a pimp that he stole clientele from with his sexy little ass?"
Ryou gasped and hid his head in his arm pinned up by his head. "No, he didn't tell me… wait, how did you know it was Jou!"
"How do you think! He called me, Ryou! He told me you were hanging around with Tobrian's bitch, Danner! Do you know how dangerous that man is! You could have been killed! I've seen what Tobrian does to those who piss him off!"
The small light flushed and he started to sweat nervously. "Wait, you even know Tobrian?"
"I know everyone out there, Ryou! Those are my peers, my people! You know as well as I do that I'm ten times as dangerous as anything that lurks in the dark! And Tobrian dares to challenge my throne!"
Ryou whimpered at Bakura's thundering shouts. "Challenge you?"
"For my throne as the King of the Underworld, King of the Shadows! But Tobrian is a fool! If Marik cannot steal my title, what makes him think a pathetic prostitute like him could do anything! All he does is hide behind Danner's strength!"
He punched the bed-frame only inches from Ryou's head, causing the light to start crying in fear. Bakura realized how badly he was scaring his little one and unlocked his hands from the headboard, pulling him into his chest.
"But that isn't what matters now. You are! Ryou, I'm going to tell you once and only once: you are never getting anywhere near Tobrian or that part of town again!"
Bakura climbed onto his light and ran his nose along Ryou's neck. "I had no idea how stupid you are but I will protect you, my light, even if I have to tie you to this bed from the second you get home from school until the second you leave.
"I love you too much to lose you to him, Ryou!"
Ryou gasped both at the affectionate touches and the impassioned words. "Oh, Bakura! D-don't worry. I've learned my lesson. If I got too close to that area, I probably wouldn't make it out alive if Tobrian is as insane as you say he is."
"And more so! I mean, you just… Ra, Ryou, you can't comprehend what that nutcase would be willing to do. I mean, I honestly think he has a screw or twenty loose in there!"
He sat up and began to drum his fingers on his bed-frame. "What are we going to do about him, though? He has to know not to think he can mess with what's mine! I swear, I'm going to go rip that little whore a new one! Even his boy Danner won't be able to handle that kind of blood-shed from his master."
He stood up sharply and started to load weapons onto his body, but Ryou grabbed his arm. "Bakura… just let it go. Don't get into a fight with him over me. I promise I'll stay away from him! Just let it go."
Tears welled up in the little light's eyes and he stared at Bakura with his lips lightly parted. A surge of lust filed through the yami and he had to give up. He returned to the bed with Ryou and kissed him.
"Fine. But you'd best be ready for me, boy. I plan to re-claim my property!"
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Tobrian coughed and wheezed as he stared at the brunet over him. His jaw and arm both hurt like they were on fire and his ribs simply felt numb. "W-why are you doing this!"
Seto cracked his knuckles and kicked him in the side. Danner lunged forward only to be stopped by one of Seto's giant 'public relations' workers. "You are the bastard who hurt my friend, Ryou, are you not? You are the bastard who is a threat to my one true love, Jounouchi. Thus, you must be eliminated."
He pulled a gun out of a holster on his hip.
"No!" Danner screamed, biting, kicking, and pulling to get himself free and to his master's side. "Don't you dare lay a paw on him!" He received a firm hit to the stomach.
"Enough, Danner! I don't need your pathetic ass looking out for me! I'm more than capable of handling myself without some useless slave like yourself guarding me!"
Seto's finger twitched on the trigger but he didn't fire. Instead, he turned on Danner. "You! Are you saying that this wretch has anything worth letting him live for? I see nothing worthy about his life. So tell me, why should I let your master live?"
Danner looked away and wouldn't answer. Seto raised an eyebrow, amazed that he hadn't hauled off and shot his puppy's abuser yet. But he couldn't help but wonder, either.
Had he not over-heard Jou's emergency phone call to Bakura, he would never have known what his lover was out on the streets doing. Could Jou have become just like Tobrian if he hadn't a lover to pull him back from that world by force as he had?
"You're not going to tell your 'master' that you love him, then? What do you think he can do to you at gunpoint?" Danner gulped and Tobrian's eyes went huge.
"What in the hell! You love me? That's… God, Danner, you freak-show! How can you love me! You are no where near enough to say you feel anything worth my time!"
Seto frowned and aimed the gun at Tobrian's chest. "Then I suppose there is no one worth staying in this little state we call existence, right? If that's the case, then I owe you one for screwing around with my puppy. Goodbye, you useless waste of space."
"Master Tobrian!"
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Ryou sniffled as he read the paper that he, Seto, and Joey had spread across their desks. "Who would think that Danner really could love a heartless person like Tobrian enough to die for him."
"I dunno. But Danny didn't deserve dat. I mean, he only did wha' Tobrian told 'im too. I guess in da end, he should a known better." Jou shook his head and sighed.
The albino agreed but didn't say anything. Seto had done so much for him and Jou. He had even allowed Ryou to totally re-start his relationship with Bakura. They were still living in the less-than-perfect conditions, but at least they had each other emotionally again – like they'd had before moving out.
"I just can't believe I let that little bastard Tobrian scurry away in the underbrush. But I'll bet Bakura has his own little pack on his useless ass. With any luck, he has the brains to run from a pissed demon."
Jou nodded. "Still, you doin' okay, Ryou?"
"As best as I can. I'm still as paranoid as hell, and I just can't talk to Bakura about that old guy and Tobrian, but I feel like he'll listen to me when I can."
"Class!" Koiyoko trilled, sounding less harsh than usual. Maybe it was true that the world smiled with you when you were happy. "Let's get on the bus to go on our trip!"
Seto and Jou grabbed each other's hand and nuzzled lightly. Behind them, Ryou blushed and prepared to step on the bus. Maybe a vacation would be just what he needed.