I feel so useless, I have no important announcements…
WAHOOO! It's the weekend again! And you know what that means? Lots and lots of love! I've been at home these past two weeks and believe me when I say its been driving me INSANE! I'm getting real sick of it and that's not just because my blood relation is back from college.
I'm getting annoyed because all the recent chapters have the word "of" in them.
This chapter is pretty long I hope you all wonderful, wonderful people love it. Cause I sure do! YAY! I loooooooooooooove this chapter. I mean, love love love LOVE! For (cough, cough) reasons that shall become obvious when you read it!
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Chyaputa 22: Change of Heart
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"I play a ritual magic card," Yugi announced smugly. "Ritual of Black Chaos." Yami no Yugi scowled. "I take my Princess of Tsurugi and Black Magician as sacrifices to summon Magician of Black Chaos," Yugi said smoothing, placing his prized card on the field. "And I attack your Curse of Dragon."
Again, Yami no Yugi immediately felt pain shoot through his already aching body, only this time it felt like his skin was burning, darkness eating away at his insides. He cried out, falling over on the table, gasping for air. His Life Points were down to 300.
"Sit up, mou hitori no boku," Yugi ordered harshly. "Our game's not finished yet."
"Aibou…" Yami no Yugi growled. His arms were trembling as they slowly pulled his body off the table. His eyesight was dimming, shifting in and out of focus. Yami no Yugi didn't know how much more of this his could take.
"Did you know," Yugi began again. Yami no Yugi looked up, surprised to hear the creature, across the table, suddenly sound so serious. "When the darkness was attacking the city and all its people, the pharaoh and his priests stood up to fight the dark power?"
"Why…?" Yami no Yugi questioned, voice raspy and strained. The pain from the last the attack was settling deeper in Yami no Yugi's bones. "Why are you telling me these things?" Yugi's face was completely blank as if he were not seeing Yami no Yugi at all.
"When the pharaoh stood up to the face the dark power, he knew he could not defeat it. So he used his own soul to seal away the darkness, locking the dangerous power away forever," Yugi explained, his voice rigid as though he was reciting a verse to some long legendary epic.
"I don't understand…" Yami no Yugi hissed, finally removing his Curse of Dragon card from the field. Yugi's evil smirk was back again.
"Mou hitori no boku, you are strong but I know your weakness," Yugi commented coolly, turning his attention back to Yami no Yugi. "Your pride and honor make you very arrogant. You think you can save everyone and vanquish evil but you can't! Even now you are thinking of a way to save me from this shadow game, aren't you?"
"Aibou…" Yami no Yugi mouthed breathlessly.
"But that's not how it works," Yugi continued indifferently. "A person can only distinguish between what is good and what is evil based one's own personal values and experiences. But you can't because you have no memories, no impressions of what is right and wrong to understand the difference! You've never gotten hurt so you cannot see the pain in other people! Everyone is suffering! Bakura-kun, Malik-kun, even Yami no Malik and Yami no Bakura! But you only see the bad side of them; you don't trust anyone!"
"I can't fight you," Yami no Yugi protested weakly. "I don't want to fight with you…"
"Look at you! Pathetic! Are you afraid of failure because winning games is all you no how to do? You are a coward!" Yugi's voice was cold sharp and cutting. "How do you expect to save everyone else when can't even save yourself!" Yugi cackled cruelly. The pain was consuming Yami no Yugi's remaining strength, his body trembling. He could not think.
Yami no Yugi drew a card shakily from the deck. He had no monsters on the field yet he knew a way he could win.
'If I win, aibou will… he will…' Yami no Yugi stared hopelessly down at his hand.
"I end my…" Yami no Yugi began.
"You're going to give up?" the creature with Yugi's face asked nastily, eyes flashed, threateningly. Yami no Yugi kept his stare fixed on the ground, mouth dry from gasping for breath. "How will your precious aibou feel when you're gone? You said you'd never leave him, didn't you? You promised him he'd never be alone again, didn't you?"
"I can't kill you… aibou…" Yami no Yugi said.
"I am not your aibou!" Yugi spat hatefully, slamming his hand down on the table. "You're talking to a empty shell! If you try to save me you'll only end up killing yourself! Are you going to let you're precious companion be alone for the rest of his life? Surpass your fears! He's waiting for you!" Yami no Yugi lifted his eyes from the ground.
'Aibou is waiting for me?' Yami no Yugi thought slowly, eyes concentrating on the field once more. 'Aibou…'
"I… activate Monster Reborn… bring Black Magician back from your grave," Yami no Yugi spoke, taking the Black Magician card from Yugi's grave.
"You activated my trap, Bottomless Trap Hole," Yugi challenged. "It can automatically destroy any monster normal summoned, tribute summoned or special summoned to the field that has an attack power of over 1500."
"I play a counter trap, Trap Jammer," Yami no Yugi said, voice still very shaky, flipping over another one of his face down cards.
"What will you do now?" Yugi urged, eyes suddenly very serious. "My monster's attack is still higher. How are you going to finish me off?" Yami no Yugi's hands were shaking, his head was pounding shaking his vision.
"I-I summon, Magnet Warrior Beta in attack mode," Yami no Yugi continued hesitantly.
'Aibou… aibou…'
"I play Cursed Magic Book, it raises my Black Magician's attack by 300." Now Magician of Black Chaos and Black Magician had the same attack power. "Black Magician attack Magician of Black Chaos," Yami no Yugi said, voice dead.
"Both monsters are destroyed," Yugi said calmly placing his monster card in the graveyard, Yami no Yugi followed. "Now my field is open for attack from your Magnet Warrior Beta. I'll be finished my life points will become zero."
Yami no Yugi did not move, he did not even breathe.
"I can't…" he said hollowly. Yugi frowned.
"Yes, you can," Yugi argued.
Yami no Yugi hesitated, the pain was drilling into his brain; everything was spinning around him.
'Aibou…'
"M-Magnet Warrior Beta… direct attack," Yami no Yugi spoke. He looked up shakily and was startled to find a smile on the dark creature's face. A pure smile, like the one aibou had.
There was a crack and, as though someone had attacked the creature with Yugi's face with an invisible sword, a long deep slash erupted on his chest, blood flying everywhere.
"Aibou!" Yami no Yugi cried and jumped out his chair. The table, chairs and game cards vanished in a flash. The Yugi was lying on the floor, crimson blood spreading through his clothing. Yami no Yugi ran forward frantically, his own pain had disappeared, although he hadn't noticed. He scooped up the fake Yugi into his arms, the first tears he had ever know flowing from his red eyes.
"Why? Why did you want me to attack?" he cried, clutching the Yugi's body disparately. "If you hadn't told me to attack…" The Yugi smiled, blood covering his white teeth.
"I am just a shadow…" the creature spoke, dead eyes staring blankly up at the ceiling. "I, like you, have never known tenderness only darkness… Don't worry about your body, you are still in an illusion world, nothing here is real…" He coughed, blood dribbling down his chin. "…Yet…in this form I could sense the kindness of your companion," he explained. "I could feel his light. For that light… I am happy to have felt it… at least once…" His eyes rolled, his breathing was slowing down.
"But you'll die…" Yami no Yugi cried, cold tears falling on the creature's face. The fake Yugi turned his head to Yami no Yugi, still smiling. God, how could he be smiling?
"I can feel…" the shadow spoke. It lifted a trembling hand, struggling to touch Yami no Yugi's face. "I can see why… this body longs for you…"
Yami no Yugi gave a start, his heart jumped in his chest.
"What are you talking about?" Yami no Yugi asked breathlessly.
"I envy your companion." The shadow's hand touched Yami no Yugi's face, his purple eyes clouding over. "If only I could stay in this form a little longer… maybe I could… you…" The eyes went dead, still fixed on Yami no Yugi's face. The hand dropped and the body went limp and cold. Yami no Yugi's eyes widened in terror.
"Aibou…" Yami no Yugi cried. The tears would not stop. Yami no Yugi had never felt so empty, so alone in his whole life. The body of Yugi would not move. "Aibou… Aibou!" Yami no Yugi screamed, voice ripping his throat raw. "Aibou! AIBOU!"
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Yugi had collected over fifteen pieces of the golden puzzle. He sat on the cold stone floor, all of his limbs shivering with cold, trying to piece the mysterious puzzle together. He thought he must have been at least half way done. He had found out a while ago that when the gold puzzle pieces were put together, they shined brighter than a signal piece alone.
'If I finish the puzzle,' Yugi thought, fingers fumbling in the dim light. 'Maybe I can find a way out of here.' Slowly the pieces began to fit into place; the puzzle was completing itself before his very eyes, the light growing steadily brighter. He could see its final form now; it looked something like a pyramid.
Finally, after what seemed like hours, every piece fit into place but as Yugi examined the puzzle he saw that there was a hole in center of one of the pyramid's triangular faces. There was still one piece he had not found. Yugi stood up and began walking down the path again, his pace faster and more confident than before.
He turned a corner and saw a doorway.
'Is this the exit?' Yugi thought curiously. He looked down; the last golden piece was lying there in front of the door. Yugi picked up it up. While the other golden pieces had been plain with no markings, this piece had a golden eye carved into its surface. 'Strange…' Yugi thought and put it in its place in the puzzle. It fit perfectly.
The puzzle grew even brighter, its light now blinding Yugi. The door in front of him swung open. Yugi stumbled in, holding the glowing golden puzzle over his head.
He had entered another stone hallway, that continued onward into a blinding light but on either side of the hallway were two doors. One door was very ordinary looking and seemed very familiar. Yugi had an urge to go inside it but then he spotted the other door. It looked like it was made of black iron; it had veins coursing through its surface and to Yugi's shock, it had a large golden eye identical to the one on Yugi's golden puzzle.
Something, someone deep inside him was telling him to open that door. Yugi followed that instinct. He hesitated slightly as he place his hand on the golden door handle, and then he took a deep breath and opened it.
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Yugi's body had disappeared; even the blood had seemingly evaporated from Yami no Yugi's hands and clothing but he could still see the creature of darkness in his mind. That sad bloody smile…
There was a creak and a door opened somewhere on the other side of the dark shadowy room. Light flooded into the space, surrounding Yami no Yugi; a figure was standing the open doorway. He squinted and put a hand over his eyes trying to see who was there.
"Mou hitori no boku!" the figure cried suddenly running forward, towards him.
"Aibou…" Yami no Yugi mouthed. He couldn't believe it. This had to be another illusion. As Yugi drew closer he suddenly stopped dead in his tracts. Yami no Yugi could see Yugi's wide purple eyes staring worriedly at him.
"Mou hitori no boku… are you crying?" Yugi asked softly, face fill of concern. Yami no Yugi turned forcefully away. This was just another trick of the darkness, it had to be. There was a thud; something soft fell to the ground beside him. A cold freezing hand was on his shoulder, making him turn around to face his light.
"What h-happened to you?" Yugi asked concerned.
"Are you…" Yami no Yugi stammered. "Are you real?" Yugi grabbedone of his darkness' hands with his own cold trembling one.
"Yes-s, I'm real," Yugi said firmly.
"I saw you die… I killed you…" Yami no Yugi stammered. It was important to explain this, he didn't know why. "You challenged me to a shadow game and then…whoever lost had to die," Yami no Yugi said urgently, eyes wide and unseeing. "I knew it wasn't you. You-he told me it wasn't you but… you died… and there was blood, all this blood and…"
"M-mou hitori no boku," Yugi said, trying to stay cheerful. "Its okay. I'm not dead. W-we're both fine, we both made it out of our t-tests."
Yami no Yugi suddenly looked down at Yugi's hand.
"You're freezing," Yami no Yugi realized, eyes wide. Yugi smiled weakly, his whole body shivering. His skin was paler than Ryou's, almost bluish white.
"Got trapped in a maze…" Yugi said weakly. It looked as though he were about to collapse. Frantically Yami no Yugi wrapped his arms around his lighter half's shivering body, trying desperately to warm him up. He pulled Yugi onto his lap, getting him off the cold floor. Yugi sighed and closed his eyes, head falling against his darkness' warm shoulder. Yami no Yugi placed one of his arms around Yugi's back to make sure he didn't fall off.
"Aibou… what is that?" his darker said asked curiously, pointing to the golden triangle object Yugi had brought in.
"Oh, it's a…" Yugi looked down at the thing in his hands and shrugged, "Actually, I don't really know what it is but, when I was walking around that maze I kept finding these pieces of gold, I think they were leading me out. Turns out they were all apart of this puzzle thing and when I finished it, I got out of the maze," he explained, hooking a finger through the loop at the center of the base of the pyramid. "It must be important."
"I suppose," Yami no Yugi said, studying the strange object. "I think you're supposed to wear it."
Yugi looked confused. "Wear it? How?"
"On this loop thing," Yami no Yugi said. He lifted the silver chain up from around Yugi's neck, unhooked one end and slid the chain through the loop, like a pendent on a necklace. "See," Yami no Yugi said slipped the chain over Yugi's head again, "Fits you perfectly."
"I don't know," Yugi thought staring at the golden pyramid, now hanging upside down, golden eye facing outwards. "It's too fancy and heavy," he complained.
"I think it makes you look cool," said Yami no Yugi meaningfully, staring into Yugi eyes. Yugi flushed.
"Well… I guess, it's not so bad," Yugi muttered nervously. Yami no Yugi grinned but Yugi noticed something about it was off. He firmly clasped both of Yugi's icy cold hands, trying to warm them up as his gaze drifted away like it always did when he was hiding something. "What's wrong?" Yugi inquired worriedly.
"Aibou… I'm so sorry," Yami no Yugi said.
"What do you have to be sorry about?" Yugi asked curiously, voice almost making no sound.
"I killed you, even if it wasn't the real you… I felt so horrible… but he wanted me to do it…" Yugi let his darkness talk himself into silence as he leaned back against Yami no Yugi's shoulder. He could hear his darkness breathing, feel his chest go up and down. Yugi could have easily fallen asleep.
"You're warm…" Yugi murmured very softly, interrupting his darker side's apologies. Yami no Yugi's heart jumped again. Yugi glanced up, staring at Yami no Yugi. Silence and complete comfort, wrapped around the two of them.
Yami no Yugi didn't know what he was doing, he couldn't even remember deciding to do it. He lifted one of Yugi's hands up to his face and kissed it.
Yugi and Yami no Yugi were both quite shocked. Warmth spread into Yugi's fingers as something else shot through his system like an arrow. Not daring to take his eyes off his darkness' red orbs, Yugi slowly pulled his hand away from Yami no Yugi's face and then reached into the warmth inside his darkness' jacket, wrapping his both arms around Yami no Yugi's waist, bringing their bodies closer together.
"Aibou…" Yami no Yugi whispered, lowering his head. His hand that had been holding Yugi's hands reached down and took a hold of Yugi's head. Yugi was trembling again, but it wasn't with the cold this time. Yami no Yugi kissed his hikari's forehead, then his temple and then his cheek, his hot breath washing over Yugi's face. Yugi's mouth was already slightly open.
"Is this okay?" Yami no Yugi asked hesitantly, his voice very low. "…You don't mind?"
"No…" Yugi whispered.
Yami no Yugi kissed Yugi's freezing lips softly, chapped with cold. He backed away shyly, but he didn't want to. Yami no Yugi stared into Yugi's purple eyes for a second, both speechless. Something was squirming inside him, his temperature raising. He had just discovered something; he liked kissing Yugi. He really liked kissing Yugi. He wanted to… again… Yami no Yugi lowered his head again, it was as if he couldn't stop himself.
"Mou hitori no boku…" Yugi breathed, lips brushing against Yami no Yugi's as he spoke. His darkness shushed him gently, the hand on Yugi's head stroking his hair.
Yami no Yugi kissed him again. Yugi's arms tightened on his waist, clutching his back as he leaned upward into the kiss, warmth spreading like fire with his system now. Yugi had never kissed anyone before. The new sensation of blood suddenly rushing through his body making him slightly light headed was oddly pleasant. Yami no Yugi cupped Yugi's mouth with his own, his contact getting deeper. His mouth felt like fire to Yugi's cold skin. The arm around Yugi's back was getting tighter, pulling Yugi up.
Then a sudden sharp pain in both Yugi's and Yami no Yugi's stomachs brought them back to reality. They jerk apart slightly and then, curiously, both looked down to find the problem. The bulky golden puzzle Yami no Yugi had placed on his aibou's neck not one minute before had stopped them from drawing too close.
"Oh," Yami no Yugi gulped. Yugi coughed nervously.
"Oops, sorry about that," Yugi mumbled, face glowing red and feeling horribly ashamed.
"It's ok, don't worry about it," Yami no Yugi reassured awkwardly. Both the pair were suddenly silent.
Their heads still very close together and their breathing was only just starting to slow down.
"Well, I guess we should… ah, meet up with the others…" Yami no Yugi muttered distractedly, not looking away from his lighter half's eyes.
"Yes, cause you know… they, ah, could be worried," Yugi pointed out, not really paying attention to what he was saying at all. Neither one of them had moved.
"Yeah… we should probably…" Yami no Yugi said, staring down at their tangled limbs. Yugi blushed brighter.
"Ah… sure," Yugi said shakily and reluctantly extracting his arms from the warmth inside of Yami no Yugi's jacket. He pulled himself off Yami no Yugi's lap and they both stood up, brushing off the wrinkles in their clothes. "Um… How do we get out of here?" Yugi asked lightly to cover up the awkwardness. Yami no Yugi shrugged and looked around. He hadn't noticed it before but the ceiling above the room continued upwards into darkness, the faint outlines of complex labyrinth was all around him.
"I'm not even quite sure where we are…" he answered. Yugi looked around, also noticing the twisting staircases of the three dimensional maze about them.
"Strange place," Yugi commented. "Maybe we should go through the door that I came in," he suggested, pointing back to the still open door.
"I guess," Yami no Yugi shrugged and they both walked out of the dark room. Their arms brushed as they walked through the door. Yugi's ears turned pink. Yami no Yugi saw this and hold Yugi's hand in his own, giving it a playful squeeze. Yugi gave him a silent smile.
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Ryou had been following the pointers on the golden object down twisting corridors for quite some time; he could only hope that they were leading him in the right direction. He turned a corner and was surprised to find the twisting corridors had finally ended. He stood at the end on a long straight corridor. Not needing the pointers to tell him where to go, Ryou ran down the hall as fast as he could manage, his limbs and muscles still sore from Zork's attack.
The corridor finally came to a dead end, however on either side of this dead end were two doors, one on one wall of the hallway and one on the other. One door was light blue and the other was black and metal, a number of complicated locks lining up the side of the frame, as if the owner really didn't want people getting in. The golden object in Ryou's hands pointed to the black door. Ryou sighed.
'It hasn't lead me astray so far,' Ryou reasoned uncertainly. He approached the door cautiously and not sure how he was going to get passed all the strange locks, poked one curiously with a pale finger. The lock made a loud clunking noise that made Ryou jump back. Then suddenly, like a change reaction, all the locks clicked, chimed, clanged or thudded as they proceeded to magically unlock themselves. There was silence for a moment; Ryou blinked, waiting for whatever the mysterious door had next in store. Then, just as strangely, the door swung open on its own as though welcoming Ryou inside.
Ryou looked accusingly down at the golden ring in his hands. "You better be right about this,"he said apprehensively. He took a deep breath and then marched straight into the dark room.
There were shadows hanging in every corner and a dirt floor beneath his feet. The room was small and cramped with stone and clay walls like he was entering some under ground cave or tomb. There was a bitter dank smell in the air as though something had been festering in room for a while and the murderous whiff of what might have been dried blood. Ryou shivered, stepping carefully into the room, all five pointers on the golden object were leading him onward into the darkness. He reached the stone wall on the other side of the room and came upon another door. The pointers were glowing with excitement, clinking as they trembled, there was something important in that room. Ryou hesitantly opened the door.
He almost dropped the golden object in his shock; his body went rigid, paralyzed at the spot.
There on the floor of the dark room was Yugi lying flat on his back, a large bloody hole in the center of his chest, face white and stretched with fear. Next to him was his darker side, Yami no Yugi lying face down in a pool of his own blood, there were a number of deep scratch marks on his back. Malik was lying on his side, his head only a few feet away from his bloody open neck. Yami no Malik's limbs and back were twisted in very strange ways, I looked like every bone in his body had been purposely broken. Ryou made a small weak sound, somewhere between a choke and gasp. His knees collapsed beneath him.
'All dead… but how… How could this happen? Who…' Ryou's null brain imploding in upon itself for answers. 'Who could have…?'
"You're not supposed to be in here," a cold voice snapped. Ryou rotated his head around to see Yami no Bakura standing a few feet behind him, his form very cool and collected. If he could see what was in the room, he had no reaction to it.
"Killed…" Ryou choked, his mind trying to come up with a plausible solution. "Malik-kun… Yugi-kun… how? How could this happen?" Yami no Bakura walked over to the room and smirked as he saw what was inside.
"Relax, yadonushi," Yami no Bakura ordered, amused. "We're still in the illusion world, your friends are not really dead," Yami no Bakura spat slamming the door shut in Ryou's still stunned face. "You weren't supposed to see that." Ryou looked up at his darker side; he was still kneeling upon the ground, shock still gripping his heart.
"Where…" Ryou asked numbly, eyes wide staring at the closed door in front of him. "What is this place?"
"You've walked straight into the room of my soul," Yami no Bakura hissed coldly, moving away from the door, gesturing to the dark stone tomb-like room around him. "This room reflects my mind and my thoughts."
Ryou's eyes snapped into focus. "Your mind?" he repeated, slowly pulling himself to his feet.
Yami no Bakura turned, dark intelligent eyes catching on the burns and bruises covering Ryou's skin as a result from his encounter with Zork. "You're damaged."
"Its nothing," Ryou insisted softly. "The test was a little harder than I thought it would be…" Yami no Bakura's mouth set in a frown and he turned away from Ryou again. "Um… if you don't mind me asking, why is there a room like that in your mind? Why are the others dead?" Ryou asked curiously. Yami no Bakura had his back facing Ryou so he couldn't see his yami's face.
"It is a sign of things to come," Yami no Bakura answered. His voice was trembling. Ryou didn't understand, what was his dark side talking about?
"What do you mean?" Ryou asked, voice growing in urgency. "Are Yugi and the others in danger? If that's true, we've got to do something! We have to warn them!"
"Yadonushi," Yami no Bakura said coolly. "That's been the plan since the very beginning."
Ryou's breath caught painfully in his throat. "What are you talking about?" he asked, voice tight.
"You mean, you didn't know?" Yami no Bakura said, quite calmly. "I am going to kill every last one of them." His back was still facing Ryou; the dark soul's shoulders twitching as if with excitement. Ryou froze, joints tense; he couldn't comprehend his darker side's answer. Surely he didn't know what he was saying.
"You don't mean… you can't…" Ryou protested, a pleading edge to his voice. "You… we… why?" Ryou questioned desperately, taking a step towards his darkness. Ryou could remember Yami no Bakura fighting along side Yugi and his darker half in the illusion forest world. Hadn't they joined together in a rescue mission to save Malik? Yami no Bakura had protected Yugi when Yami no Malik had attacked him, hadn't he? He couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe he would do this, not after all they had been through. "Why? They're our friends!"
There was a giggle that bubbled up into a laugh; Yami no Bakura turned his head toward the ceiling laughing insanely at the darkness.
"Why?" Yami no Bakura repeated darkly, finally facing his lighter half. He looked sick, his skin was paler than usual, his eyes were glassy, almost feverish. Ryou could see the deep-seated hatred inthose eyes, the illness that controlled his darkness' soul. An old fear Ryou had not felt since before the illusion world came back and clutched his heart.
'Its just like before… Why? Why is he like this again?' Ryou thought. He could feel the ice and distance forming between them again. 'We were just… We had…'
"You said once that you thought I hated you," Yami no Bakura said, drawing closer to his host. Ryou found his back up against the wall. "You were right, I did hate you," the dark soul admitted seriously, dark eyes narrowing. Ryou's chest tightened painfully. "In the beginning, when I first came to recognize myself apart from you, I was very unstable. I was filled with this uncontrollable hate and darkness. I didn't even know where the darkness had came from or why I was imprisoned within the body of a child," he sneered angrily. "I was so confused as I watched you, with your the perfect life, the perfect mother, perfect father and perfect sister. It sickened me that there was nothing wrong in your life! That you could never feel the hate and anger that I felt! I detested you! I loathed you!" Yami no Bakura spat, finally reaching Ryou pressed firmly up against the wall.
"So… you killed Kaa-san?" Ryou asked, brown eyes wide and fearful. "And Amane?" Yami no Bakura grinned, the action looked sick.
"It was never supposed to be your sister. If that stupid girl hadn't gotten in the way she could have been spared," Yami no Bakura explained casually. Ryou's jaw trembled. Why? Why was he telling Ryou these things?
"After your father locked you away in that insane asylum, cutting you off from his life, I finally understood my fate. The fate that lies with all dark personalities," Yami no Bakura continued, his eyes empty as though he was looking at something no longer there.
"Fate?" Ryou repeated, mind buzzing.
"Yadonushi, your body is very important to me," Yami no Bakura spoke, his voice very low. He placed a hand on the stone wall behind Ryou's head, leaning down closer to his host. Ryou stared up at him terrified, limbs numb. "We, dark personalities, must protect our hosts. It's our mission, our curse for ones who do not have their own bodies. I knew I had to protect you. Maybe that's why I jumped in front of Yami no Malik's attack for you."
"Back at my first hospital…" Ryou spoke slowly, looking down at the floor. "You lured patients and nurses into an innocent game and then hurt them. How is that protecting me?"
"Oh, so you remember that?" Yami no Bakura asked, dark eyes sparkling with amusement. "Yes, that's right. I sealed their souls into the game. But those people were only experiments. I was exploring the extent of my power, seeing how far my darkness could spread…" Ryou was still trembling, fists shaking.
"I don't understand," Ryou said, his voice growing louder. "Why would you do this? Why do you have to hurt people!" Yami no Bakura scoffed coldly, his grin suddenly dropped.
"Yadonushi, you are so naïve," Yami no Bakura taunted. He lifted a hand, curling his fingers around a white lock of Ryou's hair. Ryou shivered. "You have never seen the true evilness that hides in every human heart. You have never felt true hatred…Unlike me." His dark eyes hardened seriously. "It is our fate," he explained, his voice firm. "We were all destined to be here, in this temple… He started it three thousand years ago."
"Three thousand years ago?" Ryou repeated, confused. "What are you talking about?"
"I will end it today. And I will win, yadonushi. Their souls will be consumed by the shadows. The eternal dark hell is waiting for them…"
"You can't!" Ryou cried. His posture suddenly straightened. Yami no Bakura let go of Ryou's hair in surprise. "You can't hurt Yugi-kun and the others! I…" Ryou's jaw fixed, brown eyes firm yet slightly pleading. "I-I won't let you."
"You? Try to stop me?" Yami no Bakura asked, his face holding a cruel smirk as though the idea of his lighter half having a back bone was entertaining to him.
"I won't let you hurt my friends," Ryou said more firmly. "Please… don't do this."
Yami no Bakura's smirk vanished in an instant. He snorted doubtfully; an irritable scowl carved his pale lips. "You would turn on me too?" he questioned sharply. "You would stand in my way for weaklings, yadonushi?" Ryou didn't say anything; his silence spoke his answer for him. Yami no Bakura's eyes widened. He knew this was no bluff, no empty threat. "I see… You have chosen your side then, have you?" Again, Ryou could not find his voice. "If you too are going to be against me, I guess I have no choice," Yami no Bakura said mildly.
Ryou's steadfast gaze wavered, terror griped his lungs. "What are you going to do to me?"
Yami no Bakura smiled wickedly and placed his hand over Ryou's fist. Ryou looked down to see he was still holding the golden ring that had led him to Yami no Bakura's soul room. Yami no Bakura slid his smooth fingers underneath Ryou's limp hand and pried the golden object out of his grip. Yami no Bakura raised the golden object up and examined it.
"Thank you for the present." His rough voice was deathly low, breath sliding in between his white teeth.
Ryou took in a shuddering breath as his darkness' fingers touched the skin on his lower neck and slowly dragged them up towards his face.
"I can't have you standing in my way, yadonushi," Yami no Bakura hissed, his black eyes watching his own fingers travel up Ryou's neck. He took another step forward, the space between them disappearing, his dark eyes flashed cunningly. He lowered his head, getting very close to Ryou's face. Ryou leaned backward into the solid wall behind him, too afraid to move. Yami no Bakura was very, very close now, Ryou could feel the heat from his face.
"I think you should sleep for a bit, yadonushi…"
"What are you doing?" Ryou questioned panicked. "Don't-"
"I'll let you see the truth…" the dark soul hissed, breath hitting Ryou's tight mouth.
Before Ryou could say another word, Bakura pressed his lips onto Ryou's.
A split second of shock consumed him then suddenly Ryou noticed the over powering scent of blood coming off of Bakura's body. The warmth from his mouth was humid sticky air, his gripping fingers felt like the lick of hot flames. There were columns of black smoke and flames in his dark eyes. His teeth felt like the sting of metal blades. Ryou's ears began to ring; the ringing grew louder and turned slowly into screaming, the terrified, fearful screaming of someone about to meet their death. Human flesh was burning, sizzling; Ryou could smell it, he could feel it.
His mind was spinning; Ryou no longer knew where he was, barely who he was. His mind was lost in the flames, screaming and smoke that surrounded him.
Yami no Bakura let his hikari slip off his body and crumple onto the floor, Ryou's large brown eyes unseeing, blinded by the vision Yami no Bakura had placed in them. Ryou's body was shivering, his mouth hanging open gasping for air. One of his pale hands clawed the dirt floor desperately.
"M-mou… hito…ri…no bo-ku…" The words fell out of Ryou's mouth, broken violently into pieces. Yami no Bakura did not move to help him.
"I don't hate you, yadonushi… not anymore," Yami no Bakura spoke, an empty look echoed through his black eyes. "I can't, no matter how hard I try…"
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YAY! KISSES! (does happy dance)
Yugi and Yami are so cute! I love those guys to death! Heehee, the puzzel, get it? Haha! Come on, don't tell me that does happen! I had to rewrite a part of their scene and I accidentally wrote "Atemu" instead of "Yami no Yugi" cause that's what his name is in the fic I'm writing now. Oops. But I caught it before I updated!
Teehee. I love that line. "Your body is very important to me." Heehee. And it was in the show! Or maybe it was in the manga... Aw, Ryou and Bakura are so CUTE! You know, even though Bakura is a bastard… You know besides that.
Now here's a question, what were Malik and Yami no Malik doing all chapter? Off stage… By themselves… With no interruptions… Hm… (cough, cough)
NEXT CHAPTER: It's the Beginning of the End and SHIT! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON! What's wrong with Shadi? And what are these Sennen Item thingies? I don't understand! EXPLANATIONS AHEAD!
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