Demons Of The Night
Ladygodess: Hey not much to say but, HI!.
Yami Bakura: Warnings Yaoi and M this chap is cool so read, it's got fluff and everything.
Yami Marik: Ladygodess does not own Yu-gi-oh.
Ryou: That's it for now see ya at the bottom.
CHAP 5: Remembering The Past
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Later that afternoon Ryou sat in the library of the house, his forehead against the cool glass as the rain made light sounds against it. Tears fell with the water that ran down the glass on the out side. He had been in there playing the piano, but had given up on it after a while, as the dreams were running through his head and it worried him to no end. With everything that had happened to him in this year alone, he didn't put it out of his head that maybe it was a warning of some sort.
"Ry what's wrong?" came a worried voice, Ryou didn't need to look up to know that it was his demons standing there.
"Nothing" Ryou said wiping his eyes free of tears, but the others weren't convinced of that.
Bakura wrapped his arms around Ryou nuzzling his face into Ryou's hair, "tell me what's wrong?" Ryou looked out the window at the grey clouds, the scenery outside matched his mood.
"I've been having dreams lately…and well I can't help but think that they could be…warning me about something," he sighed, maybe they could help him out.
"Really, what are they about?" Marik sat down in the chair that was near by. Ryou told them that Malik had told him he loved him, but then ran away and that it all happened by a well.
"That was" Malik looked at Bakura and Marik they shared shocked looks.
"What? Is it bad? Should I be worried?" Ryou looked at them.
"No, what you're dreaming was of your past," Bakura said as he got himself comfy and pulled Ryou onto his lap.
"Ry, do you remember your past at all? Besides the dream" Malik asked. Ryou sniffed and nodded.
"I remember darkness and screaming, and a great fight, as I flew over the field on the back of something" he looked at Malik with is head rested on Bakura's shoulder.
"That was the war that killed our home," Bakura closed his eyes, it was a fight that almost killed every demon, but a few had escaped with there lives including them.
"How did I meet you all?" Ryou wiped his eyes Bakura smirked.
"I found you in an alleyway half dead" Bakura ran his hand through Ryou's hair tucking it behind his ear.
"I found Bakura at the circus," everyone looked at Marik with an odd look. Ryou then looked at Bakura. Who nodded his head yes.
"What were you doing in a circus?" curiosity was present in his voice.
"I'll tell you that another time," Bakura kissed his forehead.
"Was it Marik that found you?" Ryou moved his attention to Malik.
"It was you," Malik was purring like a cat as Marik ran his hands up and down Malik's back, "Then let him start at the beginning." Malik still wanted Ryou to have his memories back, but it wasn't as important anymore, Ryou loved them and it was more than he could have asked for.
"Well let's see, you Bakura, Marik, Yami, Seto and Mokuba had come to Egypt to live after the war in the shadow realm, which cost them their home land, but me I was a tomb keeper for the pharaoh and a slave" Malik looked at a shocked face.
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As the hot sun burnt the sandy sea of Egypt all the people walked around buying goods or selling for that matter "You can't do this!" a boy cried out he wore a cream colored long sleeved top that came down to his knees (A.N: the one his wears that looks like a dress, when Ishizu tells them about her brother when he was little, you get the point, shutting up now :p) as he was chained up hands together and his feet. His father only chained him up when they came into town.
"Shut up boy!" the man slapped him to the ground.
"Please father don't" the boy looked up and wiped his eyes, and looked at his sister.
"She is to be sold, you know that girls are worthless," he pushed her into a crowd of people.
"If the money is what you need, then sell me not her," he pleaded with his father.
"Don't worry Malik, she'll fetch a good price, and keep us in food for awhile" he smirked at his son.
"Doesn't the pharaoh give us enough" Malik pleaded, his father ignored him.
"FOR SALE FIVE GOLD PIECES!" he hollered over the crowded street.
"I'll buy her," A tall man in a turban and brown eyes said as he handed her father a small bag of gold. He undid the chains from around her ankles and hands, "You can say good bye to your brother if you like" he motioned to the boy. She hugged him and said her good bye and walked off with the man that had bought her. Malik fell to his knees as he watched her leave.
It wasn't until later that his father sent him out to get water from the well, Malik pulled up the pail of water. He wiped his forehead of the sweat, the sun beating down on him, he was suddenly pushed to the ground. "Looked what we have here" Malik looked up to see two boys the same age as him.
"What do you want?" Malik got up and dusted himself off annoyed.
"You must be brave to get your water here," the boy with short black hair laughed.
"Why's that?" Malik raised an eyebrow at them.
"They say that the demons of the under world come here for their water, and kill all who dare to come here and drink from their well," the other boy with longer black hair said in a spooky voice to scare Malik, who wasn't buying it.
"If you're worried about getting killed by them, then why are you here?" Malik crossed his arms in front of his chest.
"We just thought that you should know, so we warned you, two of them have white hair, the taller one is mean and would chop your head off, if he caught you looking at his little brother, and the third one is just plain mad and he'll eat you as good as look at you" they all froze as the sound of foot steps were heard, "Their coming!" the two boys ran past Malik knocking him to the ground again, he hit his head on the stone wall of the well and was out like a light.
Malik's eyes fluttered open after a while, "Oh thank goodness your alright? You had me so worried" Malik blinked a few times to get his eyes to focus, he tried to sit up. "You should take it easy you got a nasty bump on the head" he pulled a cold bit of cloth from Malik's head.
"Thanks" Malik looked up to see a boy with big brown eyes and a warm smile, he had on the same clothes as Malik, with his hair covered up in a hood like fashion, and he looked to have very pale skin from what Malik could see, it looked to him that the boy was hiding himself from the sun.
"How did you get like this?" he asked tilting his head to the side.
"I was pushed over and hit my head" Malik sat up with the help of the other boy.
"If you were out here any longer, I would have hated to see what would have happened to you if I hadn't come a long when I did" he rubbed the back of his neck, Malik gave him an odd look.
"Well I came for water so I better get it" he said as he got up.
"Don't you know that the well is owned by demons?" Malik asked as he got up.
"Yes I have"the boygiggled, Malik thought that it was cute.
"Aren't you scared that you could be eaten?" his eyes wide didn't this boy have any fear at all.
"No, my masters own this well" he smiled and it could melt the coldest of people hearts Malik's melted.
"Your masters?" Malik helped him with the water. "You mean that you have two? One with the white hair, one that would chop your head off for looking at his brother, and the other one is just plain mad and would eat you as good as look at you" Malik remembered what the other had said to him just before, the other giggled.
"That's one that I haven't heard yet"
"So you live with them?" Malik's eyes widening again as he looked at the boy in front of him.
"Yes, and they are hardly like that," he tilted his head to the side and smiled.
"What's your name?" Malik asked.
"Ryou, yours if you don't mind?" Ryou asked.
"Malik, so what are they like?"
"Nice, and one of them looks a little like you" Ryou pointed out, as he pulled off his hood to reveal his white hair that came down in soft waves and ended at his shoulder blades.
"Your one of them, so which one are you, the brother of the chop your head off, or the other one" Malik yelped as he stepped away.
"Neither, I don't have a brother, they are my masters." Ryou looked at him as he picked up the bucket of water. Malik couldn't help but notice how happy Ryou looked, no slave could be happy like that.
"Ryou what's taking you?" a voice called out, Malik paled at the voice.
"Oh… I have to go… will you come back tomorrow?" Ryou asked as he walked off carrying the bucket in both hands.
"Sure…okay see you tomorrow," Malik picked up his water and left as well.
A few days had past and the boys had met every day at the well, and would talk for the short time that they had or they would just sit there happy just to be in the presence of each other. They had become close, and Malik was always looking forward to spending that short time with Ryou everyday by the well. Ryou's masters where wondering what he was doing with his time at the well, but unknowing to them that they were being watched.
"Malik!" Ryou called happily as he ran up to the boy and hugged him, Malik cried out in pain and fell to his knees, and Ryou let go immediately.
"Malik what's wrong?" Ryou knelt down with him. Malik didn't answer him as he fought back tears of pain, he took a sharp breath and stood up. Ryou saw the blood run down his back and stuck to his clothes. "Malik? Your back" Ryou gasped eyes widening.
"My father, thought the pharaohs secret would look good on my back" Malik chuckled in bad humor.
"He did that to you" Ryou said mortified and tears welled up in his eyes.
"That's not what I came for" Malik sat down on the edge of the well, sitting Ryou down with him. "Ryou…. I can't come anymore," Malik said with tears in his eyes. "I shouldn't have come today… but I had to see you." Malik grabbed his hand, his heart was in his throat and he was running out of time now.
"What? Why?" Ryou said with tears in his eyes.
"I just can't see you anymore" Malik looked down at the ground.
"I don't understand why are you doing this?" Ryou asked as tears ran down his cheeks.
"I want to tell you something, but do something for me first." Malik looked at him with a blush across his face, "close your eyes."
"Okay" Ryou whispered as he did it with out hesitation. Malik moved in closer to him tilting his chin with his hand, and pushed his lips to Ryou's. Ryou wasn't shocked or upset as Malik kissed him.
Malik ended the kiss his eyes fluttered open as he looked at Ryou, who had his eyes still closed. "I love you" Malik whispered to Ryou, with that he got up and walked away thinking that Ryou would hate him for what he had done. Ryou snapped out of his daze, he got up and ran after him.
"I love you too" Ryou stopped Malik in his tracks, and kissed him with tears in the mix Ryou knew the life of a slave thou he wasn't really one, and that he would never see Malik again after this. They kissed for a bit but it was Malik that pulled away from Ryou and ran away.
"Please Malik… don't go" Ryou ran after him desperately, Malik picked up his pace.
Ryou had lost track of Malik and walked home and sobbed in the arms of his master, he had told them all about Malik, and his feelings for him.
Malik had cried himself to sleep and spent a few days in his bedchamber as he missed Ryou. He had gotten punished by his father who had seen him kiss Ryou. So his father had planned to sell him the next day. He had also noticed that a few people had gotten sick in the underground home that he lived in. By the next day his father was sick also and Ishizu had come home so see them.
Malik had never been happier to see her, but a few days had past and the sick ones had died and were burnt, Malik now had gotten sick as well. Everyone had died in his home and his sister had left the day before, due to her master worrying that she might get it as well. So they left Malik to deal with death that was now knocking at his door. Malik knew that he had to get out of there but he didn't have the strength to leave. So he lay in the bed thinking of Ryou.
A while later he opened his eyes, he frowned, as the ceiling didn't look familiar to him. "Good your awake… Ryou's been worried sick" a smooth voice said moving into his line of sight.
"Ryou?" Malik asked weakly looking up into dark lavender eyes. "Can I see him?"
"No not until your better, I don't won't him getting sick" he looked over the boy in the bed. Malik nodded his head, and closed his eyes as sleep took him once again.
He opened them again only half lidded, and felt warmth next to him and it moved closer to him, he turned his head to see white hair on his shoulder, Malik knew whom it was. "Ryou, you're not supposed to be here." Ryou lifted his head and rubbed his eyes tiredly.
"I was worried about you, they were talking about you and said that you might not live much longer" Ryou rested his head on his chest as a few tears fell.
"Ryou what are you doing?" Ryou looked up then looked away, the other sighed "Ryou you have to leave this room, and take a bath and burn your clothes" Ryou looked up at him.
"I want to stay" Ryou pleaded to the other.
"We are leaving soon, you have to get ready, Bakura will be furious if he finds you in here" the other sat down on the bed.
"This is Marik" Ryou got comfy again next to Malik.
"Are you leaving as well?" Malik asked looking at Ryou.
"Yes, you'll be coming with us, we're going to Britannia" Marik said as he put a bowl of soup down next to the bed. (AN: okay I didn't get time to look up what England was called back then, so this sounded familiar to me sorry if it's wrong I sucked at history :p)
"Will Malik be okay with the traveling?" Ryou asked worriedly.
"I don't know, we'll have to see, will you feed him?" Ryou nodded as Marik got up and left the room.
They had all gathered in the room that Malik was in, "He won't make the trip and you know it" Ryou wide eyed looked at Yami.
"I know this, but it's for Ryou, so his coming" Bakura growled.
"We'll be asleep the whole time," Seto pointed out.
"I was going to change him before we leave," Marik said looking at the boy.
"That will leave him even weaker then he already is" Yami looked up at Seto.
"Make up your minds, we leave soon I don't want Mokuba getting sick with this" Seto walked out of the room. Everyone left the room, with only the four remaining in the room.
"Change me?" Malik asked. Ryou held his hand and smiled at him.
"We are demons, and can offer you a batter life then you have, we gave Ryou the same choice as you," Marik looked at Bakura.
"Will I be a demon as well?" Malik looked worried.
"Yes it's the only way to save you, Ryou seems to be in love with you" Bakura smirked.
"I don't know," Malik looked at Ryou.
"They have taken care of me for years" Ryou brushed some hair out of Malik's eyes.
"I'll be your mate if I do this, and we would be bonded together like Bakura and Ryou are" Marik hugged Ryou.
"Why you? And not Ryou?" Malik frowned at him.
"Ryou's a human and Bakura's mate," Marik sat down on the bed.
"Will it hurt?" Malik asked.
"I won't lie, you'll die and then come back to life along with strength, sight, smell, hearing, wings, fangs and claws." Marik ran his fingers through Malik's hair.
"That's all" Malik said sarcastically offering a weak smirk as he went into a fit of coughs.
"That's it, but you'll be very weak, weaker then you are already" Bakura moved to the bed, Malik couldn't help but notice how nice they were to him.
"Okay, do it" Malik said as he fell unconscious. A few days had past, Malik was on the mend, and was sleeping with Marik and Bakura, in a coffin. While Ryou was playing cabin boy on the ship, at the same time watching over his sleeping demons, Yami and Seto had their own coffin and Mokuba was creating havoc on board.
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"That was what I dreamt," Ryou said as he looked at Malik.
"You could be getting your past back," Marik stood up and stretched.
"Well I'm hungry and should go and," he stopped as Ryou looked out the window as if he didn't hear what Marik was going to say.
"Who was Mokuba? And were Yami and Seto together back then?" Ryou asked absentmindedly.
"Seto's younger brother, he died the witches put a spell on him as they killed him so he wouldn't come back at all, as for Yami and Seto I don't think that there was anything there, but they did a lot together and it was hard to tell what was going on between them at the time" Bakura rested his head on Ryou's shoulder.
"I was walking past Yami's room one night and I could hear…well he wasn't alone if you get my drift," Marik smirked, They sat there and talked for a while as Ryou had fallen asleep in Bakura's arms.
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TBC
Ladygodess: that's it a little taste of the past of Malik and Ryou, no muses, they have past out on me, and it's late guys and I'm tired so I'm off to bed since it's like 12:15am in the morning and I had a busy day.
R&R (hands out plushies)
