Ladygodess: Hey, another update for you.
Ryou: warnings: Yaoi, M.
Yami Marik: You need to write something, where I take over the world (laughs insanely)
Malik: (sighs) Not again.
Ladygodess: (runs out of the room) I'm not writing it.
Yami Bakura: Ladygodess doesn't own Yugioh or anything else but the story plot and the characters that she makes up along the way.
CHAP 16: Day Out
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"Everyone is here," a guard knelt down in a dark room, it was small and had an off smell to it, in the early hours of the morning in front of the three council members.
"Good we have what we need," the woman said as she sat down on a chair.
"But what do we do now?" the old man asked.
"The best way to do it is to observe them and then take care of them," the younger one smiled.
"But what do we do about Yami? If we take out his most trusted and loyal people, starting with the slaves and one at a time than we go after the throne".
"Call the assassins and watch them, they will pay in the most painful of ways" laughter rang out in the hall as the guard got up and left the room.
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Ryou gasped he sat up holding his head as it was throbbing and he couldn't remember last night at all. Bakura was still sound asleep next to him, his hair over his eyes and his bare chest raised and fell with every steady breath that he took in. Ryou smiled as he leant his head on Bakura's chest listening to his strong heartbeat, he closed his eyes and was starting to fall back asleep again.
Bakura pulled him closer in his sleep. Ryou sighed smiling at the warmth coming from Bakura's body. A knock came at the door, Bakura growled deep in his throat. "I'll get it" Ryou whispered as he stretched and got up and walked over to it.
"I would like one morning with you without interruptions." Bakura put the pillow over his head, Ryou rolled his eyes heavenward as he opened the door. He yelped as Malik jumped into his arms and kissed him soundly on the lips. Marik smirked as he walked past kissing Ryou on the cheek and walked over to the bed.
Marik climbed onto the bed and over the top of Bakura like a cat, he smirked mischievously as he lifted the pillow off Bakura's face and started to kiss up his neck moving slowly to his lips with his hands following close behind. "Morning love," Marik purred as he ran a hand over Bakura's chest.
"Morning," Bakura took in a sharp breath at the touch and Marik chuckled.
"Get up we're going into town," Marik rolled off and lay there with his hands behind his head. Bakura pulled the pillow over his head again and mumbled something about getting up early, they had decided that the less time Ryou spent here the better it would be for him. Ryou giggled as Malik whispered something in his ear and pulled him into the bathroom.
After a while they were ready to leave, "Here Ryou you'll need this." Marik pulled out of the closet a cream colored cape and draped it over Ryou's body, he frowned as he got a closer look at him "are you feeling alright?" Marik asked, as he noticed Ryou's cheeks were flushed, which indicated that he would have a fever.
"I'm fine… what's this for?" Ryou looked up confused motioning to the cape as it covered his head and most of his body.
"You have never been in the desert before, with skin like yours you'll burn before we get down the street." Marik said as he was wearing his dark purple cape.
"The light colour won't be as hot," Bakura said as he threw on a red one with a white stripe on it, it looked old and worn but had kept its colors.
"But won't you get hot Marik?" Ryou asked looking at his dark cape.
"Marik doesn't feel the heat or cold much," Malik shrugged as he had on a light lavender one. Soon they walked out of the bedroom and down the halls to the front gates, Malik, Marik, Bakura and Ryou stood there for a few minutes as a carriage pulled up with the same creepy animals at the front. Malik climbed in and then Marik who held out a hand for Ryou who took it and stepped in, Bakura followed after Marik closing the door behind them. The carriage gave a pull and Ryou stumbled and fell into Bakura's arms.
"If you wanted to sit on my lap you could have just said so," Bakura smirked as he sat Ryou next to him.
"I don't see why we just didn't fly out of here," Malik grumbled absentmindedly as he looked out the window.
"The council doesn't want anyone flying, we have to use the door to the human world," Marik rolled his eyes as they sat for a while in silence.
"Has anyone found it by accident?" Ryou drew his eyes away from the window, to Bakura.
"A few but they don't leave again," Bakura grabbed Ryou again as the carriage gave another pull and then it stopped.
They climbed out and Bakura took Ryou's hand then walked through the tavern, it was empty except for a few that lay on the floor past out from drinking and also some that had been fighting. They soon stepped out into the street, Malik pulled Ryou's hand and they walked off, Bakura and Marik followed them.
They walked through the busy market, Ryou walked looking at all the stalls, Bakura and Marik pocketed some of the stuff as they went, they stopped and smirked as they saw what they were looking for.
Bakura and Marik walked up to a man that was selling the use of his horses for the day, they started to talk, Ryou and Malik walked over. Ryou was about to protest that he didn't know how to ride a horse, when something caught his eye and a mischievous smirk crossed his lips, "Dune buggies" he said to himself as he walked over, this would be fun.
"You can have them for a day" a man said as he walked up to Ryou, Marik, Bakura and Malik walked over to see what Ryou had found.
"Are they hard to use?" Ryou asked with interest as he looked them over.
"Easier then horses, here I'll show you," the man climbed in giving Ryou a quick run down of how to run the buggy and jumped out again. "There's an extra can of fuel" he showed Ryou, who looked on with excitement, "It should last you the whole day and a few more if your lucky" Bakura pulled out the money and handed it to the man.
"We'll take two," they climbed into the two seats that they had beside each other and a roll cage over the top. Ryou and Bakura were in a Black one, Malik and Marik had a blue one. They drove out of the city and into the desert where they traveled half the morning, they pulled up at what looked like a large patch of rubble, Bakura, Marik and Malik climbed out and Ryou followed, he had never had so much fun riding in a dune buggy before.
They walked through the rubble but it was more like stones and half of a house standing with a path broken and covered in sand. Ryou walked through it and it was like the small town had been in a war. Ryou sighed as he walked through past a well and he was standing on a hill as he glanced back to see Malik and Marik under a tree talking, there was a palace just up ahead, it sat higher than anything else around him. "That's where we're going!" Ryou jumped and turned around to see Bakura standing there.
"What is it that place?" Ryou asked turning back around.
"It once housed the pharaohs of Egypt and made our life a living hell," Bakura walked up and stood beside Ryou.
"Was it that bad back then?" Ryou asked as his cape blew around him.
"Marik and I robbed from the pharaoh to feed ourselves and he would send the palace guards to find out who was doing it, with the three of us with the hair that we have they had their eyes on us, so we had to be extra careful but the pharaoh got wind that we were staying in a town not to far from here, the village of Kuru Eruna and he sent in guards after us, Marik was out of town that night, you and I almost died in that town if it wasn't for me having wings we would have, along with everyone else that we knew," Bakura sighed, "I had good friends in that village too,"
"Were you ever caught?" Ryou asked.
"Once, I was coming out of a tomb and a friend told them that I was robbing it, you were right behind me but as soon as my feet hit the ground they grabbed and shackled me, you had enough sense to stay where you were, you ran back home and told Marik, he got me out, but after that they knew me and it made it harder to rob and move around, we moved from here after the guards ripped you from the street and put you in their dungeon," Bakura started to walk past Ryou in the direction of the palace and Ryou followed him.
"So I was your partner?" Ryou walked beside him, Bakura smirked.
"You were able to get into places that I couldn't like rooms and such, you came in handy a lot of the time," Ryou stopped and frowned.
"Is that why you saved me, to help you rob tombs?" Bakura stopped and turned around looking at Ryou.
"No you wanted to be with me and help me no matter what I did you followed me, so I taught you how to steal and take care of yourself in case something happened to us, so don't act all shocked" the wind blew around them carrying with it sand.
"No I wasn't I just wanted to know that's all, I didn't mean anything by it," Ryou said quietly as he looked away.
"I know, come on," Bakura turned around and walked into the large palace. Ryou walked in right behind Bakura, sand lay thick on the ground and a few footprints were there as well from others that ventured in before them. "Stay close, thugs come here to hide from the law while they steal from town." Bakura looked back as he walked up to a door that was ajar, then walked through it not touching the door at all, Ryou followed. He gasped as the room that they walked into was like a hall the ceiling was high and pillars placed around the hall.
Ryou looked around in aww "this is the throne room where the pharaoh sat and gave his orders," Bakura hissed, Ryou looked at him and thought that Bakura really hated that pharaoh.
They moved through the hall to the back where the throne was, Bakura smirked as he pushed a stone brick in the wall and the floor opened up, Ryou jumped back as Bakura pulled off an old flame torch, he pulled out a lighter and lit it.
Bakura winked at Ryou as he started to walk down the stars Ryou ran around and walked down the stars, he walked right behind him, after a bit they came to the bottom of the stairs. With the torchlight it made everything have a yellow hew to it, they walked down the long hallway and they stopped at a door.
"Hold this," Bakura handed Ryou the torch who took it. Bakura ran his hand over the door, "this is it!" Bakura pushed opened the door, he took the torch from Ryou and walked in.
Ryou gasped as Bakura lit one of the torches and the rest of them lit up one by one, the room was big, the size of there lounge room at Yami's place and it had hieroglyphs on the walls, pots, jewels, jewelry and statues laid out around the room.
Ryou walked around looking at the wall his hand moved over it lightly, "can you read all of this?" Ryou asked as he looked at Bakura who was looking through the room's treasures.
"It's just records of who put what here and who had the most treasure, I'm bigger than you, type of stuff, they were all like that," Bakura had his back to Ryou who chuckled.
"Like you," Ryou smirked.
"What!" Bakura straightened and looked at Ryou.
"Right here, look it's a drawing of you with gold, did you put yourself on the wall?" Ryou was laughing, Bakura walked over and looked at the wall.
"That's not me, he's to short and the hair is to long and he's not carrying enough gold, so see it's not me!" Bakura pointed to the picture then walked off.
"How did that go, I'm bigger than you," Ryou was still chuckling.
"Yeah, yeah," Bakura rolled his eyes as he went back to what he was doing. "They must have thought that I had a lot of gold to have put me on that wall, after all I was the thief king" he picked up a pot and moved it to the side. "It was a record of what I stole from here," Bakura picked another pot and moved it, "You should see the center of this place they have a whole wall about Marik and I," Bakura said proudly.
"See you just said that it was you" Ryou smirked, Bakura blinked a few times, then shrugged as he went back to what he was doing, "How is it that no one has found this place?" Ryou asked as he looked back at the wall.
"Who knows maybe they weren't looking for it," Just as Bakura had said that, Ryou's hand moved over the wall and it moved a stone and the wall moved, Ryou yelped as the floor gave way, Bakura jumped up and rushed over, but the wall closed back over. "RYOU!" Bakura banged on the wall with his fists. He looked over the wall and cursed knowing that he wasn't going to get through it this way and Ryou would end up somewhere else in this place, he ran out of the room picking up his bag as he went and back up to the throne room.
Ryou slid down what was like a slide and it was dark when he soon came to a stop, it was more of a roll and then hit the wall, he whimpered a few times rubbing his head as he sat up and looked around. It was dark he got up, he was about to call out but then thought that it wasn't a good idea as Bakura had told him that thugs came here and he would surely be heard and found. He got up and put his hand on the wall and walked using the wall to guide him in the dark.
He stopped as his hand gripped a corner, he bit his lip and walked around and then down that hallway, all of a sudden he fell forward, his knees hitting the steps, "Lucky there not going down," he rubbed his knees and climbed them.
It was a little lighter and he could see better as he walked down the hall, "how am I going to get out of here?" he mumbled to himself as he walked past a door way and something caught his eye. Ryou stopped and walked into the room it was bright as if he was outside, he sighed in relief as he didn't like the dark and walking through a strange place it was scary.
He looked at the wall they had hieroglyphs all over them as did the pillars of battles and farms and the Nile, everything that they had ever done was in the massive room, he walked around with his hand on the wall. Was this the center of this place that Bakura was talking about? Ryou could be in here all day and he still wouldn't see every wall.
Ryou sighed as he stopped looking at the hieroglyphs and started looking for a way out. He walked in a straight line and soon he found himself in a room that was like a kitchen, he walked through to the other side of the room, sand and dust flew around his feet as he walked. He opened the door and he was in another room, it was empty and he frowned and wondered if he was going to get out of this.
As he walked through yet another, he found himself looking down stairs and a pool with water from the river coming in, the water was clear and lily pads floating on top of the water.
He looked around he was so lost that it looked like he could be lost for a week in here, then a path caught his eye, "I could follow it until I came to the front again," he smiled as he liked that idea better than walking around in this place.
He walked around the path, it lead to what would have been a garden at one time, he was to busy looking around to see the figure standing in front of him. He walked right into it and he yelped, but instead of falling he had strong arms wrap around him.
He looked up and gasped as he didn't realize straight away who was holding him, "Where's Bakura?" Malik asked smiling down at him.
"We got separated from each other," Ryou looked at the front entrance.
"How'd you mange that one?" Malik let him go and took Ryou by the hand and started to walk back to the throne room.
"Where were you and Marik?" Ryou was walking beside him.
"We were in there and we heard Bakura call out to you,' Malik said. "So how did you get,"
"Separated, I was looking at the wall in the room and then I was falling," Ryou looked around his surroundings. Malik shook his head, they walked up the front steps, Bakura came running down them and embraced Ryou.
"Are you alright?" Bakura stepped back and looked Ryou over, traps were still active and many had died in the attempting to look for the treasures within this place.
"I'm fine, I saw that place that you were talking about," Ryou said with a smile. "But I didn't really look,"
"We'll come back and I'll take you through it," Malik said as he looked up at the door to see Marik coming down to them.
"I think we should get back anyway," Bakura said as he held Ryou's hand and walked back to the buggies.
They pulled into town and gave back the buggies then they walked through the town, Bakura stopped at seeing something and a smirk played across his lips, "Hey guys lets have dinner in town and see a show?"
Marik frowned as he looked around "Ahh… no way I'll do the dinner but I'm not doing that," Ryou and Malik looked to where Bakura had been, Malik rolled his eyes as Ryou smiled.
"Do you like Macbeth Ry?" Bakura smirked.
"You only like it because everyone dies in Shakespeare's plays and it's the most violent of ones," Malik stated.
"Hey I knew the guy, we had a very good time drinking and talking, though he got a little worried at times but a lot of fun and the man could hold his liquor," Bakura laughed.
"I've never seen it but if you want to go then I'll be more than happy to go with you," Ryou smiled.
"Then Malik and I have other plans, we'll do dinner then meet back at the tavern say at midnight," Marik said, everyone nodded their heads in agreement and left for the dinner.
They went in and sat at a table then ordered their meals, they ate and had a few drinks, before leaving they stood outside and gave each other a kiss before going their separate ways.
Bakura and Ryou walked into the theatre, Bakura got the tickets and walked up to a box that was all theirs which over looked the stage nicely.
Ryou got comfy in the seat and Bakura sat next to him, Ryou watched as everyone below them moved around getting into their seats, the man stepped out and announced that it was starting and the lights dimmed as the show began.
After a while the show was stopped at halfway, "How are you liking it so far?" Bakura asked he looked quite comfy in the oversized red chair.
"It's great, I like this one better than his others," Ryou said excitedly as he leaned on the railing, Bakura smirked as he watched Ryou, half way through the intermission, Marik and Malik burst in through the door closing it behind them and leaning on it and laughing.
"What have you two done now?" Bakura raised an eyebrow at them as they sat down.
"Nothing!" they both said innocently, Bakura rolled his eyes, the lights dimmed again and the show started up, Malik and Marik rolled their eyes as they sat down.
Soon the show ended and they walked outside and out of the theatre when a few people ran by shouting something about a monster and a door to a home burning down, Malik and Marik tried to look innocent as possible, "Nothing ha" Bakura raised an eyebrow.
"What, just some fun with the locals Ra knows that they need it," Marik shrugged as he walked by them. They walked back through the old house and through the tavern, the black carriage was there in no time and took them back to the castle.
Ryou walked into the bathroom and ran a bath he was happy that they had running water, he climbed in and washed off the sand from the day out, he came back out into the room to find Bakura fast asleep already, Ryou towel dried his hair and climbed in next to Bakura and fell asleep.
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TBC
Ladygodess: that's it for today, I'm worn out as it was a long chap, sorry for the late update on this one (beams) but I updated SEE, SEE. (Giggles waving) BYE!
Ryou: So R&R thanks.
