AN : -laughes- You all didn't thought I would have killed MY bishie, right? –shakes head- I would NEVER kill my bishie! –goes on and on about how great Ryou is- Nevermind me, just let's go on with the story!

Oh, and before I forget; the parts in italic, are flashbacks to when Bakura and Malik first met Alucard. They were then only 6 years old.

Disclaimer : I STILL don't own it.. so don't sue...

Chapter 7

"B-bakura...?" A voice softly whispered.

I shook my head. Why was my mind playing tricks with me? Ryou was dead, he couldn't be whispering my name. It just can't! I clutched my eyes even more shut, hoping to block the whispering voice and all the other things I do not want to remember.

"B-bakura...?" The voice whispered again.

What was happening? I slowly opened my eyes to prove my own right, but when I did I was totally shocked by the sight in front of me. Ryou was alive? But... how? Too shocked to give a proper answer, I just nodded at his question.

"I-it hurt s-so... m-much..." Ryou was breathing hard and fast. His hands still on the wounds, but not able to push anymore to stop the blood from coming out.

"I know." I just whispered back. After a few seconds I came out of my shock and realized I hat to take Ryou to some save place. Of course to be save and also to try to heal the teen again. I picked him up, making sure not to hurt him even more than he already was. "I'll help you Ryou. I'll make sure everyting will be okey again." I looked down at the broken angel again, but only to see he was already unconsious again. Poor little angel, so young and beautiful, but already knowing how hard and cruel the world is...

I looked around, wondering where to go, while Ryou was shivering in my arms. I put my coat a bit more around him, but only with my mind somewhere else. Where could we go to? I thought. The Manor? No, they won't take him, he isn't a vampire. I walked further, still deep in thoughts. But where else?

After a few minutes or so, Ryou start to cough. I looked down and saw that the angel had much pain. "Just be patient... I promise you will be okey again..." I said them, but deep inside I knew I wasn't sure if I could really keep on to that promise. Suddenly I got an idea. The hospital!

As fast as I could go, I carried Ryou to the hospital.

It took me only a few minutes to see the large building in front of me. I hurried towards it, while I looked at the teen in my arms. It was all even getting worse then it already was. He even had more wounds then I thought he had when I saw him the first time after his 'battle' with Yami. Also he had gotten colder and way paler. But I still heard his heart beating, so he was alive. But would we get there in time? Stop thinking like that! I said to myself. It will all become okey, and Ryou will survive!

As I walked into the white building, there came immediatly a nurse to us.

"What happened?" She asked as she mentioned me to follow her.

"He got stabbed with a knife a lot of times."

"When did it happen?"

"I'm not sure, maybe half an hour ago. Highly."

The nurse nodded and after a few seconds there came a few men in white and green coats to us. They put Ryou on a bed, I tried to follow them, but the nurse who took me here, pushed me back. "Come, you can clean yourself a bit in here." She pointed at a room at our left side. "When you are done, you just have to wait here until they are done."

I nodded slowly and walked to the room she had been pointing at.

"If you need me, I'll be at the end of the hallway, otherwise, just ask for Alice."

I nodded again and watched her walk away.

After trying to get rid of the blood of my clothes, arms and face, I walked back into the white hallway. I sat down on one of the, of course, white chairs. I looked at the clock on the wall in front of me and I noticed it was already 3pm.

Not bothered what else was around me, I closed my eyes and rested my head in my hands. It was a strange night. What started as a normal (well, normal...) night, turned out to be one of my worse nightmares.

And that all because of the hate from Yami to Alucard. A person who wasn't even alive anymore!

Just like always, Malik and I walked downstairs for breakfast. This day seemed just like another day in the orpagne where we both lived for already a couple of years. Both for our own reason.

I was here because of the fact my parents had died in a car-crash. We all three were on a trip to god knows where, and they say we were hit by an other car. My father was killed immediatly, my mother died a few hours later in the hospital. It was a miracle I was still alive. I only had a few scratches. I can't remember much of it, just small parts, but this is what they have told me... So I guess I just have to believe them.

Malik is here for way other reasons. Well, they are actually a bit the same; both our families are dead, but his on a different way. His father became crazy or something and killed his wife (Malik's mother). But not only her, also his sister Isis. He tried to kill Malik's half-brother (I never understood what they exactly were from eachother, but I'm not that curious to know about it, it aren't really my rights to ask for then, if he already remembers it.), but that didn't work. When his father tried to kill Malik too, his half-brother Odion (I guess it was) stopped his father. He killed the old man, but heself was also weakened because of his wounds and the lost of much blood, he died a few hours later. So Malik survived.

Someone adopted him, but for some reason they didn't want him anymore and dumped him here in the orpagne.

As I looked up from my thoughts, I saw a strange man standing with the head of the orpagne, mr. Isumi. The man had black hair, black pants and a black coat. When mr. Isumi noticed there were some people staring he stopped talking and waved to everyone, to move on. I turned around, looking at Malik. He also didn't really understood why this man was here. Would he maybe adopt someone? I hope it's not me, I thought.

We walked a few meter, when I looked over my shoulder again. I saw the man staring at me. We didn't broke the eyecontact for a few seconds, only because of something mr. Isumi asked the strange man. What did he wanted from me? I walked up to Malik, who stood a meter further, who apparently didn't noticed I still stood here.

"I wonder who he is..." I said to Malik when we walked further. Malik nodded and we fell in silence again.

I looked up, staring at the clock on the white wall in front of me. Only half an hour passed since the last time I looked at it. Can't they just hurry up a bit? I saw that nurse Alice coming this way, so I stood up. "Is Ryou okey?" I asked her.

"I don't know. They aren't finished yet. So you just have to wait a while. We will come as soon as we are done." And she walked further.

Disappointed I sank down on the white chair again. They weren't finished yet. But at least he was still alive... I closed my eyes again, hoping the time would go faster.

"Bakura? Malik?" We looked up at the head mr. Isumi. "Could you two please follow me?" Malik and I stared at eachother. Happyness and fear were both reading in our eyes. Following mr. Isumi could mean two things. Or you were getting punished or there was someone who wanted to adopt you. Bakura wasn't sure if he would like any of the options. Getting punished was always something bad, but he couldn't think of something they had done lately. So that ment there was someone who wanted to adopt them. But the only person he had seen today was the strange, dressed in black, man.

We gulped, but stood up. Watched by all the other children in the room, who probably all wondered what would happen. Malik and I followed the head to his office on the third floor of the building. They almost had to run to keep up with the older man who walked always fast.

After a walk (or run) from a few minutes we finally reached the office of mr. Isumi. I had been a lot of times here, almost every time to get punished for something evil he had done. Malik had been here a lot less, but still more than the usual kids had ever been.

The wall behind the desk was totally of glass. It wasn't such a great view; you could only see other high buildings, but apparently he liked it. The big wooden desk and the large leather chair stood in the middle of the room. Some other chairs at the other side of the desk. Some large shelves of books and reports were on both sides of the room. Even the floor looked un-friendly. It was made of dark cold tiles, and were so clean you almost were afraid to walk on it with your shoes.

Mr. Isumi opened the door and walked in, the two boys allowing to come in too. As I already expected, the man with the black hair and clothes was sitting on one side of the desk, mr. Isumi sat down on the other. Mentioning to us to sit down next to the man. Slowly we walked up to the desk and sat down on the other two empty chairs in the room.

"As you two maybe expected, this man is interested to adopt someone." He grabbed some papers from his big desk and lay them down in front of him. He looked down on one of them before speaking further. "Mr. Alucard," he nodded to the man next to us, I looked at him for a few seconds before looking back at mr. Isumi again. Waiting for him to continue. "Was willing to adopt you, Bakura." Malik and I looked at each other for a few seconds, fear reading in our eyes. I did not want to leave, and if I really had to, not without Malik! "But as I already thought, you would not leave without Malik. So mr. Alucard was also willing to adopt you, Malik." He looked at both of us, first at me, then at the blonde at the right side of me.

"And...?" I asked, hoping his wouldn't be true.

"And, so mr. Alucard will take you two with him to his home."

NO! NO! NO! My mind screamed. This couldn't be happening!

"Do you two want to go with mr. Alucard?"

NOOOOO! Both my heart and mind screamed, but my mouth decides differently. "Yes." What! NO! I do NOT want to go with him! NO! NO! NO!

Malik took a while before answering, but agreed. "I'll not stay here without Bakura, so I'll go with him."

Mr. Isumi nodded in understandment. "Very well then. Will you please sign here mr. Alucard? Then you can take the two boys with you when they are done with packing their stuff."

The man named mr. Alucard nodded and took a pen out of a pocket in the inside of his coat. I expected to see all kind of weapons, but thank god there weren't any. He signed the papers and mr. Isumi looked at us.

"You two can leave and pack your stuff. But hurry up, don't let mr. Alucard wait too long."

"Yes sir." We both said at the same time and we hurried out of the room. Going as fast as we could to our room. Feeling both exited and afraid.

"What do you think? Can we trust him?" I asked Malik once we reached our room. We slept both in this room, every room had place for two persons. Malik had came here only a month after I had came in. There had been an other boy before, but he had been adopted too, so he had left only a week before Malik came.

"You are the one who said 'yes' in the first place."

"I wasn't planned to!"

Malik raised an eyebrow as he looked up from his suitcase, which he had just grabbed. "Then why didn't you just said no instead of yes?"

I sat down on my bed, looking at a black spot on the floor. "I don't know Malik... I really don't know... I don't want to go with him, but for some reason I said yes. I don't even know how, because I was planning to say no. I just can't explain, because I don't understand it myself."

Malik walked over to me and sat down on my bed, putting an arm around me. "Even thou we can't change it anymore, at least we are together. Maybe we can make it a great time anyway. We will see. First just packing our stuff, we can better make a good sight of us for the first time."

"Maybe you are right..." I said, nodding. "We should get packing our stuff."

Malik smiled and nodded. Grabbing some of his stuff and putting it in his own suitcase.

"Mr. Alucard?" A female's voice asked. "Mr. Alucard?" She asked again, touching my shoulder. I snapped back into reality, grabbing her wrist immediatly.

She shrieked and I opened my eyes. Slowly letting her go as I saw it was a nurse, but an other who had been here twice before. "I'm sorry." She said. "I didn't mean to scare you mr. Alucard."

I winced at the name, still hating the name Alucard. "What?" I asked with anger and annoyance in my voice.

She blinked a few times, shocked at my reaction. "I eh... t-they are f-finished."

"They are? Why haven't you woke me up earlier?" I stopped when I saw the scared face of the nurse. "I'm sorry. Is Ryou okey?"

She nodded, probably too scared to answer because of my strange reaction.

"Can I see him?"

"N-no... Not yet. You can visit him in a few minutes."

AN : -is happy- Finally a bit a longer chapter than I usually made. And it even has a happy end this time! So, everyone can get happy again, 'cause my lovely Ryou is still alive... But who says he will...?

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