AN- Hello again, and how are you? I'm feeling pretty darn good on this side. Heh, I have my fourth chapter half way written now and it's just a matter of finishing it and editing now. The third has been done for almost two weeks I just haven't bothered to post it. i like to wait a bit first but I do have them and I plan to post up every Monday I guess...yeah that sounds good. I'll try to post a chapter a week and see if I can manage it. It's not like I'm doing much of anything else here. -
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/Blah/ Ryou to Bakura within the mind link
/Blah/ Bakura to Ryou within the mind link
Blah - Personal thoughts and/or letters
"Speech"
(Time laps!)
Disclaimer-Again I fail to own YuGiOh...
My Life...My Death...My Story...
Chapter Two: The Sennen Ring
White linen moved across porcelain skin, the body resting beneath it stretched out moving it's long arms above its head before resting it's small, fragile fingers to it's eyes, wiping away the matter that had appeared over the course of the night.
Dark lashes moved and the bright green eye's opened up to the world. A light moan escaped their throat as they slowly moved their legs over the side of their bed and onto the cold floor.
"eeeh…." They let out a yean stretching again. "It's so cold…." He shivered rubbing his bare arms and walking to the open window of his apartment. The wind flew past his body making his silver tresses float in the breeze like a lily on the water. His eyes searched the sky's low lying sun for what would be the days events….but all remained a mystery.
"Not going to share your secrets with me today?" the boy's voice was soft, smooth and carried a slight accent. He smiled at the still pail sky, not yet fully lit up as he was not yet fully awake.
He giggled to himself before making another comment. "you never do…" he sighed staring to a flower covered in a thick white frost from the evenings light snow fall. "you look as cold as I am." He reached through the window and pulled in the little flower pot.
"fifteen stories is a long way down…it would be a shame if you were to fall." his eye's fell to the window sill and his smile quickly faded. "I'm afraid of heights…why'd they have to give me this one."
His eye's drifted back to the lightening sky. "It's so early…no one will be up for hours." A light laugh emerged from his soft virgin lips. "no rush for me today…"
His hand traveled to through his still blowing locks as his other half closed the window, he gave another shiver. "cold…".
Moving across his navy blue carpet he entered his bathroom. The room was small and had been covered in an infants shade of pastel blue. There was a small pile of towels on the side of the sink. He sat on the edge of the chilled tub and reached for the two silver toned taps twisting the knobs and preparing the water needed for his shower.
He smiled to himself enjoying the feeling of being lost in the steam. It was as if he had entered a sauna, the thick warm mist forming small crystal water droplets across his pail skin. He rose from his seat and pulled off the clothing that had been chosen for his last nights rest. He threw the cotton to the side and into a green laundry basket before finally entering the source of the mist.
Hot water washed across his body, gliding into each curve and filing every craves. It streamed down his back, running over his sides and down his long leg. He reached for the shampoo, holding the bottle up-side down he gently squeezed…
A sound pounded from out side the main door…
His smile slipped away, and he tuned his gaze to the direction of the noise. He then sighed heavily before removing himself from the shower and turning off his heaven, pulling one of the small towel from the sink's side to wrap around his waist he left the small fog filled room.
He made his way to the door, his still open window blowing another cool breath of air across his wet body. "cold…" he whimpered before reached for the knob and twisting slightly, he pulled it open and stared unto the mail man placed upon the other side.
"I have a package here for a Ryou Bakura…"
Smiling the boy accepted the small parcel and pen extended to him squiggled his name onto the needed paper. 'Thank you's' were exchanged and Ryou re-entered his cold and lonely home.
"Well what do you know…it's a package from father…"The small paper parcel was placed onto the counter side and he hurried off to finish his chore, quickly cleaning his small thin body and hurrying back out in his new arrangement of cloths, a nave blue uniform pants and jacket set, accompanied with a plain white t-shirt…
Smiling he lifted the small parcel off of the counter and seated himself at the table, First picking up the small envelope that had accompanied his package he removed the letter hidden inside…
Dear Ryou,
I've been gone for almost a year now, it's difficult for you I know. Always celebrating birthday's and holiday's alone. But I promise you that I will be returning home within the month, I've been gone for far too long now.
I'm dreadfully sorry to have missed your birthday like this again, I thought for sure that I would be back in time to see you turn sixteen…but unfortunately that didn't seem to have worked out as I had hoped…
Happy birthday son…I miss you more with every day that passes, keep up your good
grades and try a little harder to make some more friends.
Lot's of love, Dad.
Ps. Enclosed is a vary special gift, it's over 3000 years old and the man at the stand that I purchased it from told me that it had something to do with that card game your so obsessed with…I hope it will be enough for you to forgive me with…
"Of course dad…I know that your trying…" his gave moved to the brown paper package sitting beside him. "..too bad my birthday was only three months ago…."
Placing the letter down and picking up the small parcel, he began to examine the paper, trying to guess as to what might be confined with in it…with a small laugh he decided upon gave up, sliding his fingers beneath a corner of the paper he began to remove it's thin protective coating…
A glisten of gold shown in the bright morning light and his eye's lit slightly at the sight of this treasure…It was a large golden pendent, a ring…a small pyramid placed with it's circle, and five large golden spokes that hung loosely from it's sides and bottom. On the center of it's triangular center piece was an ancient Egyptian eye…the eye of Osiris… Accompanied with this glistening ring was a small piece of paper no bigger then your hand.
He stared to the yellowed parchment…the scriptures written in blood…the parchment wrinkled with age…and the hand used to write it older then Ryou himself… he studied the odd lettering of it's text…trying to figure out the message hidden with in it's writings…A cry for help? A plead for mercy?…a treasure hunt perhaps?
"Oh, a puzzle! I'll have to go through my old books of hieroglyphics if I want to read this..." He moved his attention back to the ring picking it up by rope located at the vary top of it, he held it up to the sun light...the reddened sky shimmering it's many colors across it's ancient metal surface...it was beautiful...
Ryou turned his attention back to the clock and smiled weakly at it's many blinking numbers...5:51 shown brightly in the florescent lighting.
"hmm, I guess it's time that I made something to eat, school starts in about an hour and a half or so..." Smiling he moved into the kitchen, all the while examining the ring with in his hand...
"What on Kami's green earth could that note be saying that's would be so bad about you? I mean I know that it has to be something terrible, otherwise it wouldn't have been written in blood...right?" he continued to smile staring down to his new pendent…"I know you'll never answer me...your just like the sky, always holding so many secrets and stories and never willing to share them with the rest of the world...it's a shame really...I would love to hear what tails you have to share...I bet you've been to a thousand places, passed to a hundred people and have traveled the world, perhaps you belonged to an Egyptian prince or priest and hold with in you the stories of how they had became king or the magic that was used to help one serve the gods..." he laughed to himself re-entering the bathroom. "I must be going crazy...all I seem to do is talk to myself and random objects hidden with in my house...a toaster, a sandwich, a necklace..." sighing he placed the rope about his neck and gazing into the mirror...
/You need to get out more kid.../
Ryou's mouth opened slightly as he stared into the mirror before him...not quite seeing himself for an image. It was him...kind of...it was the same face as what he had...the same skin...same clothes...but his hair...the tresses were slightly more pointed then what they usually were...and his kind eye's were narrowed and a deep shade of violet...his face was darker appearing almost chaotic...and the small smile he had been wearing before was gone...replaced by the curve of a smirk...
"W-who's there..?" His eye's were wide in terror...the voice hadn't come from any where with in his home...there was no real direction that it seemed to be coming from...
A deep laugh swam through out his mind...as if what ever this thing was...it was located with in his vary own thoughts...
/heh heh heh, what a clueless pain in the ass your going to be...completely oblivious as to what you have done to yourself, ne?/
The boy stumbled back, hitting the edge of the bath tub and falling with in...
/clumsy little bugger aren't you, oh well I suppose your better then nothing... /
"Who are you?...where are you?... g-go away! get out of my mind!" he clutched the sides of his head, getting up from the bath tub and racing into the kitchen.
A laugh trickled through his mind, the other deep voice once more tickling through his thoughts. /You can't run away from me boy...I'm not going to leave you alone...your soul now belongs to me...it well now become my new resting place...and you my new host./
He stopped in his racing spinning around, searching for something...
"the paper...where's the paper!" soft foot steps raced their way across his powder blue carpet as he fled to the table, grasping the parchment within his hands and staring to it's ancient text. "..this...this is a warning isn't it...a warning for me to not have pulled this thing on..."
He looked to the ring lying so plainly on his chest, his eyes watering as the man's cruel deep voice rang through his head once more...
/heh heh heh, that's right Ryou...it was a warning note, meant to show you the mercy that you so desire...and will no longer receive.../ A new feeling fled through his mind...the trickling feeling…of some sort of action...a smirk...like the one he had seen with in the glass of the mirror only moments ago...this-this thing was smirking at him...it was enjoying his panicking...his fear!
"St-stop it! go away! l-leave me alone!" he began to sob to himself staring to the small piece of parchment and throwing books to his floor from his shelves in search for the one that he need...
"d-damn-it! where is it..." he sobbed weakly again, moving to his knees and rummaging beneath his bed, pulling out a small box again filled with books and throwing to the side as well.
/What are you doing now boy? Trying to find a cure for your newly acquired disease?/ He laughed again, and more crystals fell from the lids of the emerald eyes.
Placing his fingers to the surface of the final black covered book he through it open, dust from it's ancient cover flew across the room chocking and gagging as he chocked on some more of his tears of terror...
Ryou's finger traced the text upon the page as he began to translate the finally scribbled letters...writing each translated one beneath it's original...
His eye's now scanned the letter as the voice perked up from the back of his mind taking it upon himself to read the note aloud for the trembling boy.
The Sennen Ring, home to the corrupted soul of Thief King Bakura…all those who enter the forbidden chambers of his soul, be warned.
For those who have entered have never returned…and those who have never returned also have never died…
An eternal life…an eternal death…
You have been warned…
"no..." His skin was like ice and his body began to tremble, throwing the note to the ground and backing into a corner he looked to his newly acquired pendent once more, this time a new question drawing with in his mind...why had his father decided upon sending him such a dangerous item...why?...He had heard stories from his father about the infamous Tomb King Bakura and his fights with Atemu, Pharaoh of Kemet, he had heard tails of the torture and pain that the white haired demon had inflicted upon the flesh of his victims with out so much as a flinch...
"no…th-this can't be real...this can't be happening...it-it's impossible...y-your dead..." his voice was a whisper...a hopeful whisper...a whisper of fear and terror tangled within the late winter's coming breeze...
/and your right boy...I am dead...I am no longer with those of flesh and blood...however.../
Emerald eyes widened and Ryou clutched his chest, blood now poring from the five holes made through his porcelain flesh the golden spokes spread out and grounding themselves firmly with in his body, panic stricken he placed his fingers to the chilling metal shaking uncontrollably as his touch seemed to do nothing more then confirm this dream to be a nightmare...and the nightmare to be real...a flash of heat spread into it's spokes forcing Ryou to cry out in the sudden pain...
A golden glow filled the room and time itself seemed to stop for a moment.
A smirk fell upon his soft lips of the young boy's body was moved into one more befitting of a man. Standing with his shoulders just a little broader then before, the muscle tone of his arms and legs firmer then they had been…and his voice…
What had once been calm and soothing, like that of a child loving parent was now a much huskier, deeper…like that of an ancient kings…
"...once one has acquired a host, one is granted certain privileges...such as borrowing their flesh to walk among the living once more..."
Violet eye's opened and another laugh rang out, deep, smooth, threatening...no, promising pain and pleaser mixed with in his darkest thoughts of blood…that would be his gift to the world, that would be his way with life and those around him…
Another noise came through the door and the sound of giggling could be heard through it's thick oak barrier...
"heh...I guess some of your friends thought it would be pleasant to visit you this morning ne, aibou?" his current smirk widened and his slender fingers flew across the buttons of the jacket, hiding the blood soaked Sennen Ring and any signs of what might be going on within the boy's head. "...and I think I'd like to meet them..."
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That night, hot tears seemed to flow onto the carpet, the silence of the dead being and the sound of the ambulances sirens wailing was all that was there to comfort the small boy...
Through the thick darkness then medics racing about within his small home gathering the victims and questioning the small white haired boy...what had happened?...why were they all doing last? where had he been when this had all taken place?
...every last one of his friends...every last one...gone...it had been happening all day, ever since he appeared at school?...If that was it…he couldn't remember anything from before then...his chest was sore and his shirt was stained with blood...
All he wanted was to play a game with them and now...now they were...gone...all gone...every time he played so mach as one small game with someone they passed out on the floor...almost like he was killing them with his smile...
All I wanted...was to play...and we did...we played Dungeons and Dragons...Dungeon Monsters...Duel Monsters...and every time...they fell...
Another hot tear found it's way to the carpet's soft floor
"What is happening to me!"
/Heh heh heh.../
AN: There it is for now…the second chapter of many to come...it wasn't nearly as long or detailed or good as what I had hoped for but what can I do? I have to start off with introductions right? Well only one more and then I'm set to get to work souly on my own plot line and boy is it looking good! XD
Next up is the puzzle and after that a bit more with Ryou and everyone else! It should be a bit before Malik appears again unless someone asks specify otherwise of it...
The romance isn't going to be for a little while longer ok? I do promis that in the fourth chapter a lovely bit of tourture though to make up for how crappy chapter three is gonna be. Ok?
Well gotta go get to my writing's. heh, believe it or not I've had these first four chapters pre-writen befor I even posted number one. See ya in a bit then!