You are my Super Star
Chapter 19—New Stars are born
by YYY
"Bakura…" Ryou tries to walk up to Bakura.
"Don't come near me! Don't look at me!" Bakura says to his brother. (I'm a bad person, I'm a killer. I'm ashamed to be seen by a nice person like you, Ryou.) Bakura screams inside.
"You must really hate me." Ryou lowers his head.
"Are you crzazy? Why would you even think that?" Bakura says.
"Because I made you into a killer!" Ryou cries.
--Ten years ago—
The six years old twins, Ryou and Bakura, are the best of friends and they do everything together. The things they do most in their time are hiding from their step dad. Their mom is always working so they're left with their stepfather, a man who drinks way too much.
One day, Ryou and Bakura see their dad drinking way too many bottles of beer again.
"We have to go before he hits us again, come on!" Bakura says. He takes Ryou to the closet and the two little boys hide in there.
"Bakura, he is not going to find us, is he?" Ryou asks. Poor Ryou is shaking in fear.
"Don't worry. I won't let him hurt you, I promise." Bakura says. He holds Ryou tight.
Their father opens the closet doors and pulls the two boys out. "You rats! How dare you make me run all over the house to look for you!" The father screams. The man waves his beer bottle. When he waves the bottle, it falls out of his hand and lands on the floor.
"NO!" The dad screams as the bottle shattered on the ground. He yells at his two step sons, "now look what you make me do! You make me drop my bottle of beer! I'm going to make you pay for that!"
The father walks up and grabs Ryou. Ryou screams in fear. Bakura grabs his father's hand and yells, "leave Ryou alone!"
The father kicks Bakura away. Bakura lands right next to the broken beer bottle.
The father hits Ryou. Ryou screams in pain. Bakura can't stand it anymore. He picks up the beer bottle and screams, "I said leave my brother alone!" Bakura screams. He takes the broken beer bottle and jabs his father hand.
This time is the father's turn to scream in pain. The man looses his grab on Ryou and Ryou falls to the ground. Bakura grabs Ryou and holds Ryou tight.
"You rat! You annoying rat! I'm going to make you pay for what you did! You're going to be sorry!" the father runs away.
The step tells the twin's mother that Bakura is dangerous. "He tries to kill me. He is hurting Ryou too. That's how Ryou got all the bruises and cuts on his body." The dad says to the mom.
No matter how hard Bakura and Ryou try to explain to their mother that the stepdad is the one who hurts Ryou, their mom will not believe it. She sends Bakura to a mental institute where the doctor is a friend of the stepdad.
The doctor and the nurses are really corrupted in the institute. After taking money from the Bakura's stepdad, the doctor locks Bakura into a dark room, saying that Bakura is really dangerous. A lot of the times, the doctor and his nurses wouldn't let Bakura out for days. Bakura hardly gets to eat. The doctor even beat Bakura up while calling Bakura a killer and a beast.
Slowly, the six years old Bakura breaks down. He starts to really turn into a dangerous and violent boy who have a strong tendency to kill. "I hate you! I hate you all! You all should die!" Bakura shouts.
Ryou can hear people talking. "His brother is a killer." Everyone says behind Ryou's back. It makes Ryou really sad.
"My brother isn't a killer." Ryou cries. He really misses Bakura.
When Ryou asks his mother to let him see Bakura, his mother turns really mad. "How can you even think about seeing your brother again? He is trying to hurt you! He might kill you! That's why we sent him away." His mother says, "we sent him away because of you, Ryou!"
"It was all my fault. It's because of me that Bakura got sent away!" Ryou sobs.
--End of flash back—
"If it weren't for me, you won't be hurt. It's all my fault. You would have been better if I wasn't born!" Ryou shouts as tears rolls down his eyes.
"You Moron! How can you even think that!" Bakura shouts to Ryou, "you're the best thing in my life! How dare you say I would have been better off if you weren't born!"
"Just stay away from me and you will be fine! I'm the one who caused you all the trouble!" Ryou says.
Joey puts his hand on Ryou's head, "Ryou, in your heart you don't want Bakura to stay away from you. You want to be with Bakura. That's why you like my song so much. 'Our love bind us together, we will be one again'. You were thinking about him when you sing my song. You want to be with Bakura once again."
"I'm nothing but trouble, it's better if he stay away from me…" Ryou says.
"You can't make Bakura stay away from you! You're the only one who can make him better. Bakura had been through a lot of suffering that cause him a lot of pain. The only one who can heal his pain is you." Joey says, "See, he dropped his knife when he sees you, right?"
"There he is!" The police shout. They come in and grab Bakura.
"Hey, where do you think you're going with my friend?" Joey asks.
"He is your friend?" the police ask.
"Of course he is!" Joey says.
"I am?" Bakura asks.
"What are you waiting for! The fans are waiting! I need to get all of you in custom! Come on! Let's go!" Gokuu says. He pushes Bakura away.
"Yeah! Can't keep the fans waiting! Bad for business!" Joey pushes Ryou away.
"But someone told me that boy is holding a knife!" The police say.
"What knife? We didn't see any knife." Tristan says while Duke hides the knife.
The Raiders and the twins put on a navy blue Japanese school boy uniform. "Alright, you guys, let's go!" Gokuu says. The police watches and Joey pushes Ryou and Bakura to the stage.
"You think he is really Joey's friend?" One of the police asks.
"I'm not sure." The other policeman answers.
Outside the stage, the fan girls are still asking, "what's going on?" All they see is someone swings toward the stage and then fireworks explode all over the stage.
The stage is filled with smoke from the firework still. Joey shouts, "turn on the electric fan now!"
The electric fan blows all the smoke away, Joey and the twins appear in the middle of the stage as the smoke clear up. All the fan girls cheer. They all thought that the fireworks are some sort of intermission so the boys can get change.
"What is going on? How come Bakura is on stage?" Seto asks Sanzo through the walkie-talkie.
"Don't ask me, it's Joey's idea." Sanzo answers.
"Hi!" Joey says to the fans.
"Joey!" the girl screams.
"This is my friend Bakura! He is Ryou's twin brother. Don't they look great together?" Joey asks the fans.
"Yes!" The fan girls scream.
"Did you all enjoy Bakura's awsome entrance?" Joey says.
"Yes! All the fan girls shout. They all think that the Bakura is doing a stunt act when he swings down from the ceiling.
"Bakura wants to sing for us, do you want him to sing?" Joey asks.
"Yeah!" the fan girls shout.
"What do you mean I want to sing?" Bakura asks.
Joey smiles and plays the piano. A melody that is really familiar to Bakura comes out from the piano. "How do you know this song?" Bakura asks.
"Sing!" Joey says.
Bakura starts singing,
Every time I look around me
all I see is darkness
Every time I try to listen to those
all I can hear is cry of desperation.
It is killing me inside!
I'm going insane!
I don't want to see anymore!
I don't want to listen ever again!
Don't want to be alive anymore!
I shut my eyes, I cover my ears,
and I lived my life in Qarafa.
But then one day you walk up to me.
When I look at you I see colours,
When I listen to you I hear music,
You make me want to be alive again…
All the girls start screaming, "Bakura! Bakura!"
" Well, I guess he really is a performer." The police says.
" Wow! The crazy can sing!" Pegasus says.
" Don't call him crazy boy!" Ceilica says.
Joey and the twins get back to the backstage. "That's a beautiful song! Who wrote it?" Ryou says.
" Bakura did. He wrote it for you." Joey smiles.
Bakura ruffles Ryou's silver hair. "When I was in the mental institute, the doctor would beat me up and lock me up in a darkroom. I wanted to die, the only thing that keeps me alive is thinking about you. No matter how sad and desperate I am, I think of you and I have strength to go on. That's when I wrote that song." Bakura says to his brother.
" You must have a really tough time." Ryou says, "Joey, how come you know how to play that song?"
" I listened to it all the time. Bakura always sing the song to you when the two of you visit me at my garden." Joey smiles.
" Your garden?" Ryou says.
" Yeah, the two of you used to come and play with my garden all the time when you two were young. You loved the swing." Joey smiles, "you would sit on the swing and Bakura will push you all the way up to the stars. You loved the swing." Joey smiles, "you would sit on the swing and Bakura will push you all the way up to the stars. You laughed so happily."
Bakura remembers Joey now. "You're the moon bunny! Ryou and I used to go to your garden every night in our dreams! What are you doing on earth?"
" It's a long story. Doesn't really matter now, I'm going to go back to the moon after today. You two take good care of each other now, okay?" Joey says as hugs the two of them. The twins hug Joey back and say, "Thank you for everything, bunny. Sorry we don't go and play with on the moon garden anymore."
' Don't worry about it. All the children leave my garden when they grow up. I'm used to that." Joey smiles.
" Joey, come on! The singles are on sale now! Everyone wants your autograph on their single." Tristan says.
" Time to go." Joey runs off to the signing booth. The twins are the only ones who are left at the backstage.
" We're going to follow him and make sure he doesn't get himself killed." Sanzo, Hakkai and Gojyo go after Joey.
"Bakura, it's so nice to see you again." Ryou says.
"I'll never leave you again." Bakura hugs Ryou tight.
"Bakura! You're so crazy!" Pegasus runs into the back stage and says.
"Did he just call you crazy?" Ryou asks Bakura.
"I think so!" Bakura says.
"Oh, honey. You really need to work on your talking skill." Cecilia says, "don't mind him, boys. He called Joey cute face and sexy legs."
"Well…Joey is a cute face with sexy legs, but I'm not crazy. I'm a psychopathic murderer." Bakura says.
"Well, Mr. Psychopathic murderer, do you want to be our star? The girls surely love you. You got that 'bad boy' factor that intrigues the girls." Cecilia says.
"Ryou is a star of Voize, and you guys are the competitor of Voize. I don't want to go up against my brother."
"Actually, we want your brother to be our star too." Cecilica says.
"Ryou still has a contract with Voize!" Ricky comes in and says.
"We can get Ryou's contract out easily." Pegasus says, "Ryou has a junior contract with Voize. There is only one performance on that contract. Right?"
Ryou nods, "That's right. Voize never have any faith with me. They just want to give me a performance to try me out."
"And today Ricky took you here and asked you to get on stage and sing with Joey. So your contract ended. Ryou can sign a new contract to any company you want." Cecilica says.
"Not even your lawyer father can get Ryou back to you." Pegasus says to Ricky.
"I don't believe this!" Ricky leaves.
"The two of you together are going to be unstoppable! Twins are a very good selling point!" Cecilia says to the twins.
"Hmm…just out of curiosity, just what did Pegasus call Seto?" Bakura asks.
"I believe it was 'antisocial brat'…" Cecilia says.
"I didn't call him that!" Pegasus says.
"No, you didn't call me that." Seto comes in, "you called me 'antisocial aristocratic brat'."
"Seto!" Ryou says, "I'm so sorry we tried to hurt Joey."
"Don't worry about it. I'm not upset at you. I figure that Ricky must have been threatening you." Seto says.
"You really aren't mad at us?" Bakura says.
"I'm not. Welcome to Starr. You two are going to be great. Now if you would excuse me I'm going to check the stage and make sure everything is okay for Joey." Seto walks out to the stage.
"Seto looks like he is really upset at me and my brother…" Ryou says.
"He is just upset that Joey is leaving. Give him some space." Pegasus says to the twins.
Seto walks out to the stage and get all the special effect ready. An old worker is dusting up all the dust of the firework on the stage.
'Hey, what are you doing here?" Seto says, "it's dangerous to clean up those dust without a mask! Get back from there before you chock yourself."
"Oh, I'm just cleaning the stage." The man says.
"Don't worry. Let me do that and you go take a rest." Seto says. The old man sits down and Seto gives him a cup of tea.
"Joey is a really good singer. All the fan girls love him." The old man says.
"Joey is a pain who always get into serious trouble." Seto says.
"He is, huh?" the man says.
"Yeah, but you can never get mad at him." Seto says as he gets the vacuum cleaner and suck up all the dust.
"You really do care about Joey, do you?" The old man asks Seto. But Seto cannot hear him because the vacuum is too loud.
TBC…