Author- Luna P aka Nikki
Rating- R/M
Warning- Yaoi, language (from the very start to the very end n.n) abuse, violence, angst and Yami no Malik and Yami no Bakura n.n
Disclaimer- if I owned it then Ryuuji would get a lot more screen time, as would Yami no Malik and Malik himself. However I do not and I do not claim to so I ask for you to be nice and to not sue me n.n
Summary- Ryuuji and his lover have a fight and he storms out to calm down, when he doesn't return his loved ones start to worry, but what happened to him, where is he and will they find him before it's too late… SetoxRyuuji, YsxHs (and many others)
A/N- Review replies will be done at the end thanks to you all n.n hugs and kisses and I'm glad that you're all liking it n.n
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Chapter two- sapphire
The loud banging coming from the door downstairs was enough to drive anyone to the brink of their sanity and if listening carefully then one would believe the stoic dragon-master to be no different as was evident in how his typing, slowed from the fast and well timed pace that it usually was at to the slow and often concentrated pace it now was. Most people would believe that this was all down to the noise coming from the front door but infact most of it was due to the events of the previous night. The way he had acted had shocked even him and he had even refused to sleep in his bedroom where the events had taken place. As a result he had not slept and was in a seriously bad mood that only the bravest or the most insane of men would dare to challenge.
Lucky for him two of such men lived in the same city as he. The music that Mokuba had previously been listening to was turned off as he stormed out of his room, slamming the door behind him and causing the whole house to shake before he stomped his way down the stairs. Complaining all the way about how he was seemingly the only one with the ability to open a door in their house and something about how they paid people to do this so why weren't they doing it. What he didn't know was that the maid had gone to get the door only to catch a glimpse of who it was and then run off in the other direction, pretending not to exist. With a growl of annoyance Mokuba threw open the door and glared at whoever was there.
"You know you can look scarier than that fucker of a brother of yours kiddo, speaking of said fucker where is he? We need to have a little 'talk.'" Mokuba smirked darkly at the man infront of him and glanced back at the staircase, with a slight chuckle he caught sight of one of the maid's running off up the stairs and called out to her, gaining her attention.
"Mina, could you tell my Nii-sama that he has visitors, very persistent visitors that won't go away until he comes down to see them. They will be waiting in the lounge," Mokuba explained, the women nodded and smiled at the youngest Kaiba before continuing up the stairs. "Well come on in then, it's freezing out here." The group smirked and piled into the house before following the raven-haired teen to the lounge and seating themselves in the seats scattered around the room.
"Sorry for the intrusion Mokuba, my Yami can be awfully brazen when he feels the need to be." The doe-eyed hikari explained with a gentle smile as he sat down next to Bakura on the couch. The raven-haired boy just smiled and nodded understanding everything the elder was telling him very well. Bakura huffed slightly and rolled his eyes, his hikari's niceties beginning to grate on his nerves, as they tended to do.
"Well my apologies Ryou, you speak kindly to Seto dearest and I'll punch his fucking face in," the Yami suggested quite pleased with the ultimatum he had presented to his other half. Ryou just hit his Yami's arm lightly before returning his attention to the young boy in their company.
"Sorry once again Mokuba, he can be quite foul mouthed and ill tempered even on the best of days." The youngest Kaiba just shrugged and smiled,
"Don't worry about it Ryou, I've been considering hitting Seto myself a lot at the moment, he's just…losing it, for lack of a better term." The teen explained glancing down at the floor with a slight growl, Marik raised an eyebrow at the younger's reaction as he shifted his hikari in his lap to make the position more comfortable on them both.
"And why is that Mokie?" Malik asked, leaning against his Yami's chest as he glanced over the small boy, he looked tired, more than that he looked angry and extremely pissed off. Was that for the same reason as them or something else? Ebony-eyes glanced up at the blonde hikari before shrugging slightly.
"Why are you guys here?" the teen asked, leaning back in the armchair and glancing inquisitively at each of his guests in turn. Marik sighed slightly and stole a quick look around the room before returning his attention to their present host.
"Ryu here?" The blond haired Yami asked, his gaze locking with Mokuba's, the younger thought about the question for a second then allowed his eyes to widen in shock and fear a like. His heart began to pound in his chest as his mind raced with a million and one ideas of what could have happened to his friend. He hoped none of them were accurate, but hope really was all that he could do.
"No, he said he was going to see you," The raven-haired teen explained, shifting uncomfortably in his seat, as he glanced at every person in turn. "Why? He didn't show up did he? Where is he? Is he ok? I haven't heard from him since he left…what…what if something happened to him on his way to yours yesterday?"
"What are you raving lunatics doing here?" The icy voice cut the tension in the room like a knife; before Ryou could react to the situation rising or even realise what was going on Bakura has leapt over the back of the couch, grabbed hold of the CEO's collar and thrown him up against the nearest wall with a loud thud. Marik chuckled darkly and began to twirl his hikari's hair mindlessly.
"Stab the shit Bakura!" Marik practically ordered, wrapping his arms around Malik's waist possessively. The blond-haired hikari just growled and elbowed his Yami in the chest, glancing back at the other and giving him the best death glare he could muster. Failing to scare his Yami in any way shape or form but making him look incredibly sexy nevertheless.
"Don't encourage him Yami" the Egyptian ordered sternly before looking back over at where the white-haired Yami was glaring at Seto with such a force that Malik was surprised the CEO hadn't turned into a pile of ash. "Got to admire the bastard for still standing even with that glare to compete with." He smirked feeling his Yami nodding against his shoulder in agreement. Ryou sighed and ran over to his Yami trying to pry him off of the dragon-master and failing miserably.
"Bakura it's always a pain in my ass whenever you're within three miles of me so if you wouldn't mind would you pick up the trash you brought in with you and drop it on the corner as you leave." Bakura growled angrily and glanced back at Malik and Marik, Malik had begun swearing in Egyptian and cursing the former priest whilst his Yami chuckled maliciously and made a cut throat motion. Ryou just scoffed politely and frowned at what the CEO had said but chose to ignore it. With a darkened smirk Bakura went to shout a comeback but a low growl from Mokuba stopped him from doing so and silenced the entire room.
"Shut up Seto! Just shut up!" The younger growled, glancing up and locking his gaze with his elder brother. "You can't talk to them like that, you can't call them trash and insult them like you do because they're better people than you will ever be. They can feel and they can love and they don't push everyone away because they're paranoid of someone getting too close. They're not robots like you so you can't treat them the way you do! They just want to help and you're so isolated that you don't even know what is happening to the people you claim to love!" The smaller Kaiba practically screamed before running out of the room and storming up the stairs.
"Oh, Mokuba, you can be a heartless bastard sometimes Kaiba-kun, Malik, make sure that they don't kill him please, I'm going to go speak with Mokuba." Ryou explained as he left the room and made his way up the staircase, throwing Seto one last disapproving glare before he was out of sight.
"Ok 'Kura, you heard him let the obnoxious bastard go, obnoxious bastard sit, Kura sit. Now lets talk like civilised human beings which is what Mokuba and Ryou wanted, no comments from the former priest about the civilised remark. Everyone sit and shut up then we will take it from there." Malik announced to his surprise both Bakura and Seto sat down, on opposite sides of the room but sat and shut up nevertheless. "My Ra you actually did it? Kaiba are you feeling ok?" The CEO snarled distastefully and folded his arms in annoyance at the remark.
"Fine, I just want to get all this over as soon as possible and get you all out of my house." The dragon master explained, glaring over at the blond hikari who just shrugged and glared back.
"How's Ryuuji?" Bakura asked, wasting no time with his interrogating of the other male. The azure-eyed man turned to look at him, eyes narrowing dangerously, Bakura just held his ground, refusing to even blink whilst the former priests eyes were focused on him.
"He's not here," a shadow crossed the tomb robbers face as he tore his gaze from that of Seto's to Malik who's eyes narrowed dangerously. Out of all of Yugi tachi and their preaching about friendship after battle city when he had returned to Domino with Isis the only member of the group that had accepted him, as Ryou had been in Egypt with Bakura and his father at the time, was Ryuuji. They had immediately became close friends and with the return of Ryou, Bakura and most noticeably Malik's Yami the four had broken away from Yugi tachi and formed their own little group.
"Yeah we know, which means that he's nowhere, and I for one am worried, because Ryu's not one to just run off without telling someone. He called Malik last night saying that he needed to talk to us, he sounded distraught, upset, maybe even panicked. He never showed up Kaiba, why was that?" Marik asked, propping his head on his hikari's shoulder. The CEO stared at them placidly but inside he was anything but calm, his heart was pounding a mile a minute and his mind was in shreds. Ryuuji really wasn't one to just go missing or not show up somewhere when he said he would. So what had happened…
"So tell us Kaiba, why was Ryu so upset? Why was he coming to see us instead of being here with you?" The tomb robber growled out. The dragon master stayed silent, it was personnel after all and Kaiba Seto did not speak about personnel things to people who weren't involved. It just wasn't his way. "Tell us, or I'll tear you to pieces…" the extra malice in the white haired Yami's voice was enough to make even the bravest solider cower in fear, but not Kaiba Seto.
"I really don't think that is any of your fucking business," The azure-eyed male explained, eyes dark and dangerous.
"Well it is, cause you see Kaiba, Ryuuji is one of my dearest friends and if you hurt him it's my duty to make you pay." The white-haired Yami explained, the dragon master just watched him with a cold indifference.
"It's over between the two of us, I found out who he really was and it wasn't who I had been tricked into believing he was, we had an argument and he left. The last I heard he was going to see you. I haven't heard from him since, but he's a big boy now and can take care of himself, so there it is now if you would all please get the fuck out of my house. He's probably waiting for you there…"
"I don't think he is…" Ryou interrupted, eyes downcast as he walked into the room and sat beside his Yami, hands shaking as he placed them in his lap. Sapphire-eyes rolled at the hikari's overdramatics, for a bunch of 'psycho's' they were awfully touchy feely. "Kaiba, I think you should read this." Ryou said handing an envelope to the CEO who growled, annoyed at the other male for opening his mail. His heart caught in his throat at what was inside.
"What is it…Ryou? Kaiba?" Malik asked, the room was completely silent for a few minutes before the CEO stood from his seat and glared at the occupants in the room with all he had making them slightly uncomfortable if not actually scared.
"If I find out that this is your sick idea of a joke I will kill you all," the CEO muttered darkly, before he glared at each of the room's occupants in turn and stormed out of the room, trenchcoat billowing dramatically behind him as he walked.
"What the fuck was that all about?" Bakura asked with a growl as he leant back into the couch and glanced over at his hikari, prompting him to give the answer.
"Kaiba thinks that we have kidnapped Ryuuji as a way to spite him what he fails to realise is that we couldn't care any less about him and what happens to him. All we care about is Ryuuji; I just hope that one day Kaiba Seto will stop and realise that the world doesn't revolve around him, never has and never will." Ryou muttered and glanced over at Malik who gave a slight nod in understanding and stood from his Yami's lap.
"So what do we do now?" He asked, violet eyes shimmering slightly, Ryou shrugged and glanced over at his Yami, Bakura just smirked maliciously.
"Wait for Kaiba to come to his senses, it's all we can do, like it or not this does revolve around him as such we don't have the kind of money they're asking for, or at least we can't obtain it all in the amount of time they've given. Mainly we have no starting points and no leads, we don't know who's out to get Kaiba, after all that's a big field to start looking in and we're in it. As much as I hate to say it, it's all down to Kaiba." Why did that send shivers down each of their spines?
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The dice master groaned softly as consciousness finally reclaimed him, giving him back his vision, blurry though it was and allowing him to take in his surroundings, which he did not recognise. His heart began to pound in his chest as his vision started to clear and the fogginess within his mind dissipated allowing him to feel the pain around his wrists and work out that his arms were tied behind him. In a flash of panic the emerald-eyed male began to struggle against the restraints holding his arms to the back of the chair he was sat on.
He noted half way through his attempts to free himself that his legs too were tied to the legs of the chair and that there was a rope around his waist that tied to the back of his chair and the rope securing his arms. With a slight sigh he gave up his fight against the restraints and turned his attention to the room. It was a large room, like one that would be found in a warehouse, the windows were boarded up and if it wouldn't have been for the lights scattered around on the ceiling he would have been in complete darkness.
"Sorry about the accommodation, it's hardly a mansion after all, but you may as well make yourself at home. You'll be here for a while, until that boyfriend of yours pays us the money to let you go." Green-eyes widened and then softened as a smirk appeared across his lips.
"We'll be waiting a long time then, Seto would only pay for me to be returned safely if we were still together, which we are not. So I have nothing to do with him and he'll only ever give you money if you have something that he wants. He made it perfectly clear yesterday that he didn't want me." The emerald-eyed beauty explained, keeping his voice calm and steady though it was a hard thing for him to do given that the topic he was discussing still weighed heavily on his heart.
"Doesn't he? Or was your little 'lovers tiff' yesterday evening of my creation? Just to get you out of the house? I'll leave you to think about that, there is work that needs to be done." The man explained softly, there was the loud squeaking of a chair being pushed back across the floor, following that the gentle click, click, of shoes as the man walked to where he was sat. Ryuuji's breath caught in his throat as the mans shadow draped itself over him and then his hands rested on the dice masters shoulders, rubbing them gently.
"You've really got to ask yourself now, was your relationship with Kaiba Seto worth being kidnapped? I personally think not, but I know what will happen to you if lover boy doesn't pay up. Lets hope he does, it would be such a shame to have to hurt someone so beautiful." His kidnapper cooed into his ear and then kissed him lightly on the cheek, Ryuuji groaned and pulled his head away, disgusted by what the other had just done.
"Surprisingly, I don't care, beat me, kill me, do what you please, you won't get your money, Seto's a cold hearted bastard who only cares for himself. If anyone should no that, it's me." The words passed his lips as a lone tear slipped from one jade eye and trailed its way down perfect milk skin to where it fell onto his jeans. Going unnoticed by the man behind him or so the dice master hoped.
"Well I hope you're wrong and that all of this won't come to us having to injure you in some way, because that would be most unfortunate and completely unnecessary." The man told him with a gentle chuckle, "you know what if all goes according to plan you might even grow to like us, or at least me. Maybe I'll tell you my reason for doing all of this sometime and maybe you'll find it in your heart to forgive me." The man explained and turned away walking towards where Ryuuji assumed the door to be.
"I know why you're doing this so don't waste your breath, you're doing this for the money, what is your share for, power? Women, maybe men depending on your preferences, perhaps even both? To clear you of your debts, to pay off a loan shark, to buy drugs? Which is it then, don't I have a right to know?" The dice master asked monotonously.
"Probably, but I can't tell you that, not now anyway, I'll see you later Otogi Ryuuji, a word or warning before I leave, do not push my associates as you have pushed me. They will not take it as kindly as I have." The man explained as he unlocked and opened the door, stepping out and closing and re-locking it behind him. Ryuuji sighed softly and glanced down at his lap. Was his relationship with Seto really worth all of this torment and suffering? The thought crossed his mind that, no, it wasn't.
If Seto didn't trust him then why should he be willing to give up his life for a man that no longer cared for him in anyway shape or form? The answer to that was easy to come by, because he loved him, that was why, no matter what happened, he couldn't chose who he fell in love with. It was just fate that decided to make him fall for a cold-hearted bastard who couldn't care less about anyone who crossed paths with him. To love Kaiba Seto was to realise that there is no such thing as love…
Love was a lie…
Painful though it was to believe… love was a lie…The dice master shook slightly at that thought, that truth, or maybe it was that love wasn't a lie, just their love. Nobody else seemed to have to deal with all the pain and heartache that he did, Bakura and Ryou seemed to get by just fine and no matter how much time passed Malik and Marik were like new found lovers. Yes that seemed about right to love Kaiba Seto was not to realise that there was no such thing as love because there was such a thing. To love Kaiba Seto was to realise the he couldn't love and was to turn your heart to stone.
Green-eyes stared at the wall before him as the questions ploughed through his mind, would Seto come for him? Would he even realise that he was gone? Would he be killed here? Would he die alone? Would anyone care? Would Seto forever be alone? Would his friends miss him? Did any of that matter?
Green-eyes closed as he leant against the back of the chair, what would fate decide to deal him this time, he pretty much figured anything would be better than having to spend your life being in love with Kaiba Seto. Anything, even death would be better than what he went through loving Kaiba… what he's going through loving Kaiba Seto…
"Love's the funeral of hearts"
How true…
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Ok just a note before I go onto writing the reply's to the reviews (thanks n.n) I'm expecting this to have roughly four of five chapters and I don't have set update times for this. Around a two week period is the longest you'll have to wait for the next chapter I guess, I just write it when I'm inspired and have the time…
Hope this was worth your time with reading it and if anyone can guess where "Love's the funeral of hearts" came from then they get a cookie and a big hug n.n
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Review replies
Wild Stallion- Yay you were my first reviewer and I remember you from… Fallen? I think it was that you reviewed to sorry if I'm wrong n.n but thanks for the review I didn't expect any for this so when I saw that I had one I was over the moon n.n thanks once again and hope you enjoyed this chapter n.n
yepoleq- I'm glad you're liking it, and I too love this pairing, it is actually one of my very favourites but I find that it is very under appreciated and often ignored on this site by people who aren't willing to give it a try n.n so I'm glad that you like it as well n.n thanks for the review and I hope to hear from you again soon n.n
Black.Thorns.and.White.Tear...- Well he's ok for now n.n and yes Seto is stupid but it's just who he is none of us can change him no matter how much we want to. I'm really happy that you're enjoying the story and I hope that this chapter has lived up to your expectations n.n P.S. hope this update was soon enough to prompt another review n.n
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