I like water…

It is always so clean, always so gentle…

As long as there is water, I could always cure this filthy body of mine…

Reaching out his arms, Ryuu slowly bailed the transparent spring water onto his body, feeling the water droplet rolling down his nice curved form. Then he raised both of his soft hands in front of him, gazing at them.

"The smell of blood… is on my hand…" A deep yet emotionless voice came out from his parted lips. "How disgusting…"

No matter how many times I washed myself, the vestige of blood was still lingered and remained on my hands…

"Where are you when I need you the most?" He dropped his hands, staring at his beautiful reflection on the water surface. "Where are you when I am all alone?" The reflection did not answer Ryuu's questions, he only silently returned his sorrowful gaze.

"Why did you have to hurt me so much…?" Tears silently forming in his crystal blue eyes, "Osiris…"

"Why…" Ryuu covered up his face, and suddenly collapsed into the waist high spring. His silk snowy hair flowed on water with his shaking body. "Why did you have to abandon me, Seishirou, Seiichirou, father, mother?" Painful tears uncontrollably streamed down his cheek, dripped and mixed with the spring water.

"…Why didn't you take me with you along?" Sobbing so hard he was choking, blinded by tears. "Didn't you know that the only reason I live is to bear your blood and revenge?"

He raised his hands again and gripped them into fists, angrily smacked at the mirror like water surface, causing the water to ripple violently and tiny water droplet flied everywhere. His own berserk and frantic actions only caused him to resent himself even more.

"I hate you! Father! Mother!"

"I hate you! Seishirou! Seiichirou!"

"I hate you even more! Osiris!"

Ryuu then gripped onto himself and knelt down, allowing himself to sink into the water. "YET WHY DO I RESENTMYSELF THE MOST?"

Rage and pain were warring inside of him but none of the two was able to overpower the other, ice started to encase his heart. He was extremely disgusted with his own being in the world. If he had a choice to bring back his deceased parents, he would rather be the ones who died long ago.


While consoling you, I found that even your tear-streaked face is beautiful…

Though imprudent, that made me anxious and eager.

As we slowly shrink the distances between us…

You became a fragile object that's dear to me…

Kaikou let his towel slowly slide off his waist, as he went into the waist-height water. He had found this tranquil spring not long time ago after his return to the Duel Monster world. Though tonight was his first time came to bath himself in this particular spring, he felt like he had been here before…

A hazy image of a depressed yet beautiful tear blurred child's face flashed across his mind, but exactly when he had come here before, Kaikou could not tell.

"…I can't stand this any more!" Suddenly, a loud screaming shattered the peaceful silence of the night, and the air particles seemed to be shaking by the strong power source which was just spreading out with the voice.

Kaikou could sense it; the resonance oscillation came from a very powerful light attribute monster that was indeed very close to him. At the same time, he was very familiar with the kind of power vibration coming from the other end of this huge spring.

Who could it be?

Kaikou mused; he decided to find out the person's identity. He slowly and cautiously approached the place where the voice came from. Hiding himself behind a huge rock, the magician saw the mysterious person he was looking for. Almost immediately he realized the person was Ryuu the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

He had turned his soft hands into his sharp dragon claws and kept hitting the water surface and the rocks around him as if he had completely insane. He was screaming at the same time; the magician had never imagined the usual calm and cold Ryuu would act like this. Kaikou noticed the tainted blood on his claws. Without registering what he's doing in his brain, Kaikou had already ran over and tightly held onto the dragon.

"Stop it! That is enough!" The lilac haired magician tightly held Ryuu on his waist with one hand, while grabbing his right claw with the other hand, preventing him from hitting the rock again. He rested his chin onto Ryuu's shoulder from his back, and pressed his chest to the dragon's back. "You are getting hurt, Ryuu…" He whispered into Ryuu's ear. "Please stop…"

Ryuu gasped sharply as he felt another presence behind him and all of a suddenly his cold body was embraced into a warm form.

"It's not like someone would ever cry for me, when I am dead…"

"…I will cry for you! Please, do not hurt yourself… Live, even it's just for me…"

Someone else was here! Ryuu quickly turned his head and tried to find out who was behind him. He never liked the idea of having physical contact with people, needless to say being hugged by another so closely from behind.

By this action, his cold lips lightly brushed against the other's warm ones. The dragon's azure eyes widened at the taste of cool spring water lingered on that person's lips. Ryuu immediately knocked he person off of him, and quickly whirled around in the water. This made him lose his balance and fell into the spring.

"Cough, cough…" The dragon was choking with water, and he tried to wipe the water from his face. Now he was completely soaked and naked sitting in the spring, to make it worse, there was someone else standing in front of him.

"Are you alright?" Kaikou reached out his hand, offering the dragon help to stand up. Ryuu raised his head and met his gaze.

It's Kaikou! He let out a frustrated sigh inwardly. Of all the people, why did it have to be Kaikou who just… kissed him?

Although his eyes were partially blinded by his own silvery fringe, Ryuu still saw Kaikou's lean yet strong form. He was wearing the flax material shirt which opened wide in the front, revealing his muscular and smooth chest. However, the magician before him not only had a tall and sexy body, he also had an extremely handsome face. A few locks of lavender coloured hair fell down and covered part of his forehead, giving him completely charm of sexy. Under the thick, black eyebrows were a pair of long lashed eyes. He even saw the emerald colours in Kaikou's orbs. The moonlight reflected on his elegant body in this dark night, as he slowly reached out his hand.

Ryuu immediately closed his eyes, attempting to subside the instant sensation while he saw Kaikou. That was a kind of strange feeling liked his heart had been pulled out and strongly got hit hard on. He had forgotten to breath, forgotten to speak; he only held his breath and staring at Kaikou, as if he was the centre of his universe…

The water droplets streamed as strings down along Ryuu's exquisite and soft cheeks; the soaked silvery tresses docilely stuck to his face contour, inlaying his elegant body curve. Though Ryuu himself didn't know what happened, but in the magician's eyes, all of these had added more bewitching aliveness and deadly attraction to the dragon sitting in front of him.

Kaikou found himself staring at the dragon's face, gradually lost his mind. His pair of emerald pupils instantaneously darkened by a certain emotion in them, turned into the deepest dark virid like the in-depth luster of the ocean before a strong storm.

Noticing Kaikou's weird reaction to him, Ryuu could not help but give him a questioning glance. "Kaikou-"

However, he was soon cut short by the magician. Kaikou's slender fingers accurately found Ryuu's lips and lightly stroked them, this action almost made the dragon's heart skip a beat.

Seeing Ryuu gazing back at him like this, Kaikou's lips curved up into a mysterious smile. Some of Ryuu's silvery tresses slickly struck to his naked waist, chest, neck and forehead, as the dragon only stayed in the water completely froze. Kaikou smiled as he once again raised his hand, but this time he carefully yet fondly moved away the wet fringe off Ryuu's forehead.

Ryuu gasped again at the soft feeling of Kaikou's fingertips from his forehead. He opened his eyes again and looked at Kaikou, afraid what he's going to do. Then very slowly, the magician traced the fragile contour of Ryuu's face along his hair, down to his elegant, long neck, then raised again to grab onto the dragon's chin suddenly.

Under the beautiful and dreamily dim blue moonlight, everything seemed to be so peaceful and heart-smoothing. Ryuu titled his face and his eyes slowly closed as Kaikou's lips gradually approached his…

It is so automatic, as if they had done this thousand of times… this very moment of peace and warmth…

"What are you two doing?" Unfortunately, a questioning voice soon broke this moment of silence between the Dark Magician and the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

"Shujo… Nice to know that you come…" Kaikou sighed, and groaned inwardly. His lips were only a few millimeters away from the dragon's. "But you don't have to come right at this moment…" He was so close!

Shujo stood not very far away from Kaikou and Ryuu, obviously was shocked to believe what he just witnessed.

Ryuu was suddenly pulled back to the real world by the intruder's voice, then immediately he found out Kaikou was leaning, or to exact almost lying on top him. He was that close that he could even felt the warm breath from Kaikou remained on his lips. His heart beats were getting fast again, as he quickly smacked the magician off him. "Get off of me, Kaikou!"

Kaikou grabbed Ryuu's hand, and then grinned. "This is the real Ryuu that I know of…" He leaned closer again and whispered it into the dragon's ear.

Ryuu blinked. What did he mean by the real Ryuu he knew of? Could he possibly… understand my true feelings? But then his thought had gone when he saw Shujo. Last night he was with that pathetic Buster Blader, now the love affair object had changed to the even lower Celtic Guardian! Ryuu was really angry, though he didn't know the anger was actual coming from Kaikou dating Shujo in his favourite spring, or himself not being able to kiss the Dark Magician…