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)
Dedication- The Used without you guys I probably would never have sat down to write this chapter and I certainly wouldn't have had any inspiration to write it with, thank you for doing what you do and thank you for being my muses despite you really knowing it. One last thing, thank you for helping me to be less fucked up than I once was, take care…
Thanks to all reviewers, I love you all very much and thank you for taking the time to read and review to my work… individual review replies will be done at the end n.n
YGOYGOYGOYGOYGOYGOChapter three- Funeral of hearts
What was that phrase that Ryuuji had uttered on more than one occasion in regards to them and relationships in general? He couldn't remember, didn't really spend that much time contemplating it. It was just one of those annoying things that you had forgotten and felt the need to almost prove to yourself that you could remember without being told. Yet he felt that no matter how much he tried he couldn't remember and the only person that could tell him what it was had decided to go off and play stupid little pranks on him with his psychotic friends. Like it mattered it was trivial information just there to be forgotten, so why did it aggravate him so much that he couldn't remember it?
Infact it was annoying him to the point of distracting him from all of the work lying before him, which was a very hard thing to do. The azure-eyed CEO sighed and ran a hand through chestnut locks trying to soothe the pounding within his skull as best he could. With a slight growl he removed the reading glasses and placed them down on the papers resting on the mahogany desk before him. He didn't care what it was, couldn't give a fuck, and he didn't care about Ryuuji and his stupid little games. At least that's what he kept telling himself.
But there was this part of him, deep down, that felt that something wasn't right. Ryuuji wouldn't trick him like this and despite their insanity and instability it didn't seem like something Bakura and his group would do either. Still, he refused to listen to that part of himself, convincing himself that he was right, and that doubting himself would do no good, hoping that the voice… the feeling of worry would leave him, but it never did…
Blue-eyes fell closed to try to soothe the pain within the CEO's mind, and it seemed to work. The pain momentarily numbing becoming almost non-existent as the dragon masters mind floated somewhere between the world of sleep and the world of consciousness, deciding that it didn't want to fully be in either. Though with his eyes closing it seemed that another set opened within him, the emerald green eyes of his ex-lover. The ones that entranced, ensnared, and entrapped him within their lies and deceit. Yet he still loved those eyes and still craved to see them staring at him with what appeared to have been love.
For that, and so much more, he berated himself, the dice master had made a fool of him and after coldly shoving him aside the CEO found himself still wanting him. Craving the beauty and perfection that was Otogi Ryuuji; didn't that in itself make him twice the fool, even before he had done anything further? A callused hand grasped hold of the clown pendant around his neck, closing around it and tugging hard until the chain holding it in place snapped and fell limply down his arm. Azure eyes seemed to harden and darken at the sight of the thing in his hand. The dice-master had set the stage with it, pretending he would return, then he decided to toy with the CEO one last time… well Kaiba had decided that he wouldn't play the fool again. Thus he wouldn't play the game… or pay the fucking ransom…
Dropping the necklace onto the desk he pushed it aside and turned his attention back to the computer screen. Though he couldn't remember what he was supposed to be doing or what everything written upon the screen was about. In the end, he just couldn't focus, and it seemed to him that as he turned away from the screen the clown on the pendant was laughing at him. Laughing at how pathetic and foolish he was and he could almost hear Ryuuji laughing at him for loving him and for playing into his hands, well never again would he make that mistake… and the clown laughed again…
The pounding within the former priest's skull started once again, a dull throbbing at first, then growing…slowly but surely until it felt as if he was being hit over the head again and again with a large brick. 'Kill. Smile. Cut it out for me this time.' The clown smirked darkly. Insanity, that's what this was… he was going insane. Hearing voices, believing an inanimate object could laugh at him. How foolish… but it didn't stop… the pounding… the laughing…the voices… the pain… the worry. It all just merged together to become one great mess inside his head. 'Smile! Haven't seen him smile in a while!' the laughing grew…
There was a loud knock at the door that seemed to push the insanity from his mind, if only just for the time being. The CEO sighed in relief, the clown pendant still smirking up at him, but then again wasn't that how it had been designed. Kaiba Seto had never liked clowns and he liked to be made to look like one even less. With another sigh he told the person to come in. The large door creaked open, slowly, guiltily, and then entered an employee who Seto had only realised existed yesterday, and who Seto only remembered because of the things he had said.
"Mr Kaiba, I have something I need to tell you…" the man started, closing the door and making his way over to the desk. He stopped just before it and stared down at the wood, his eyes falling onto the clown pendant, frowning up at him due to his perception of the thing.
"Hurry up then, I don't have time to be wasting, I'm a busy man." The employee nodded and placed his hands behind his back, head still down and staring at the pendant. A slight smirk tugging at his lips that went unnoticed by the CEO sat behind the desk.
"The things I said to you yesterday…they were lies…every last one. I barely even know who Otogi Ryuuji is. I made it all up, I've never even met him let alone had an affair with him behind your back and I most certainly have never spoken to him about you being tricked into falling for him. From what I can tell he's been totally loyal to you, I think he loves you more than anything. Trusts you with his life, it was wrong of me to say the things I did, wrong to try and split you up." Blue eyes darkened and narrowed,
"So why did you?" the CEO asked, voice low and dangerous, how could he have been so foolish, he had trusted the word of a man he didn't even know over that of his lovers. Ryuuji had been correct, he was paranoid, he was paranoid of being made to look a fool, that's what this man had done to him, not Otogi…him…
"These men came to me a few days ago, they asked me if I wanted to make a sum of money by lying to you. I don't earn a lot doing what I do for you Mr Kaiba a little extra money from an outside source is a good deal. Especially when all I have to do is make up a story that will have a knock on effect at getting your partner out of the house and away from you and your guards for a while." The dragon master's attention was now solely on the man stood before him, as a little voice in the back of his mind screamed out that it had told him so.
"Why did these men want to get Ryuuji out of the house?" He asked, already knowing the answer but hoping that it wasn't what he thought it was.
"I wasn't entirely sure, until this morning, an envelope was pushed through my door before I came to work. It had my money sealed inside with a little note saying that I had done a good job and that Otogi Ryuuji had been successfully kidnapped. If I would have known that would have been the outcome I never would have agreed to doing it. That's also why I'm telling you the truth, I feel partly to blame for what has happened and thought it best to tell you the truth and hand you my resignation." The former priest just chuckled darkly and shook his head his eyes narrowing even further, the chuckle turning into a malicious growl.
"What do you mean, you feel partly to blame? Surely this is all your fault, don't go placing the blame elsewhere, you can't interfere in people's lives like that, you can't go round lying and deceiving people for a little bit more money. It's wrong and I'll make sure you pay for it… mark my words." The brunette growled standing from his chair and slamming his hands down onto the desk, staring the man down. A smirk crept across the other male's lips as he watched the CEO's reaction.
"But it's not all my fault Mr Kaiba, I just made up a little story it was you who chose to believe the word of a man you didn't even know. You who blew it all out of proportion, you who was too paranoid to trust the word of your lover." The man moved round the desk until he was behind the CEO, waiting for the words to sink into Kaiba's mind before he continued. "The seeds of doubt had already been planted Seto, I just helped them to grow until they completely over took you. I did what I did because I hate you, I hate the way you have everything anyone could ever want but you don't give a fuck about it. If it was only you this had affected then I wouldn't have given a fuck."
The man started walking towards the door stopping as he reached it and standing just infront of it for a while before glancing back at where the CEO was glared daggers at him. Obviously trying to keep his anger in check so that he didn't kill the man who had actually made a fool of him. The man smirked once again but the smirk disappeared before the former priest could even realise that it had been there.
"The only reason I told you the truth, is because this ended up hurting a man whose only crime was loving you and being loyal to you. I wonder what he's thinking right now, probably that loving you wasn't worth it. That you won't part with however much money they asked for to get him back, because… you don't give a fuck do you? He's probably thinking how little you actually cared and trusted him and that love's the funeral of hearts." And there is was, that little saying he had been trying to remember all day. With nothing more said the man opened the door and left, slamming the door shut behind him as he went.
Growling the CEO collapsed back down into the chair, grabbing hold of the clown pendant and looking at it closely. It was still laughing at him, mocking him, as it had been doing all along but what he hadn't realised was that the reason it had been mocking him, was not what he had originally believed it to be. Ryuuji hadn't made him look a fool, he had made himself look like one and now the man he loved had been ripped from him just for loving him. Blue eyes closed gently, he didn't deserve to be loved…
He didn't deserve anything, because everything he touched turned to ashes under his fingertips, everyone he loved grew to hate and despise everything about him. And he was slowly growing to hate what he was becoming… everything that he had promised he wouldn't… Ryuuji had been right. He was becoming his stepfather, cold, alone, cruel, untouchable, generally just a cold-hearted bastard. Sighing he ran a hand through his hair and picked up the phone patching through to his secretary who answered immediately, knowing better than to make her Boss wait for her nails to dry.
"Get me my Accountant on the line now," he ordered before she had even had a chance to breathe into the other end of the phone. That being said he hung up and waited for the call to be patched through. All the while thinking about how he was going to explain all of this to Mokuba without making his little brother hate him just like everyone else already did.
XxxxxXThe dice master tugged at the restraints once again, trying to free himself from the bindings, he already knew that it was futile, that he could not break free but nevertheless what else did he have to do? Drive himself insane with what ifs and fantasies of what his life could have been like. With a sigh he stopped struggling and leant back against the chair, emerald eyes closing as he tried to will this nightmare to end.
There was a loud creaking as the door behind him was pushed open, he jumped slightly, his heart starting to pound within his chest but he forced it to slow and himself to calm down. Kaiba may have viewed him as a coward but that he was not and he would not fear these bastards. The light seemed to flood into the room, chasing the darkness into the furthest corners. Ryuuji just straightened himself out and stared straight ahead, showing that the person's entrance meant absolutely nothing to him.
"I'm supposed to make sure you have something to drink whilst Mikey's out," the male voice explained, Ryuuji just chuckled and rolled his eyes.
"Then I suppose you will have to untie me as I'm not about to let you pour just anything into my mouth." The dice master explained, never once letting his gaze slip from the wall. The other man just growled and grabbed a chair, dragging it until it was infront of Ryuuji and then sitting down on it, essentially blocking the dice master's view.
"Mikey did say something about you being a defiant little fucker, he also said not to hurt you too bad, but Mikey's not the one in charge here. Now," the man growled standing up and grabbing hold of the raven-haired male's chin and forcing the dice master's head back. The emerald-eyed teen went to protest but before he could his mouth was filled with the cold liquid that had previously been held within the glass. With a smirk of satisfaction the other male let go of the dice masters head, the second he did so however the liquid he had just poured into the green-eyed teens mouth was spat back at him.
"You little piece of shit!" The man snarled and backhanded the raven-haired teen before grabbing hold of the dice master's hair and yanking his head back with a loud click. Again he tipped some of the liquid into Ryuuji's mouth this time making sure that the teen had swallowed the drink before he let him go again. "Do what you're told around here kid, or this room might be the last place you ever see. Mikey might coddle you but I don't give a fuck what happens to you. I just want my money and trust me, I will get it, whatever happens here Ryuuji, I win, so just be a good little boy and do as you're told and you just might leave here alive." Green-eyes locked onto the hazel ones of the other male.
"You're a fool, Kaiba doesn't care about me and he won't pay to get me, or my corpse if that is what this comes to, back. So I can't see you winning no matter what you do, you chose the wrong person to blackmail. Kaiba Seto doesn't have a heart, he doesn't feel compassion, he's incapable of it. You won't get your money, he'll probably just think this is some sort of sick joke anyway." A smirk tugged at the other male's lips that made Ryuuji feel sick to his stomach.
"Don't worry your pretty little head about that, believe it or not we are not amateurs and we do know what we are doing. Your boyfriend will give us what we want because believe it or not he does have a heart and its quite partial to you. Then again who wouldn't be?" The other asked, leaning down and capturing Ryuuji's lips with his own. The dice master snarled and tried to pull away but the hand holding his head in place stopped him from doing as he wished.
"Iwata! What did I tell you, Mikey's not in charge but neither are you, and there are other things that I want you to be doing other than molesting our bargaining chip." Another male voice filtered into the room and the man pulled away. The second he did so the dice master spat at him once again.
"You bastard, touch me again and I promise you, I'll make sure you don't get a penny of what you asked." The raven-haired teen snarled, eyes narrowing dangerously in a way that proved it was not just an idle threat.
"Iwata, go now, I wish to have some time alone with our captive." The other man explained, Iwata muttered something under his breath and glared at Ryuuji as he stalked away. The minute he was out of the room the other man closed the door and turned on the lights, almost blinding the dice master with the sudden intensity of light in the room. "I apologise for him and his behaviour, he can be a little unfocused and easy to aggravate. That is why, as Mikey said to you earlier, you need to be on your best behaviour around them."
"What about you, do I need to hold my tongue around you?" The emerald-eyed teen asked, the other male chuckled as he walked to the empty chair opposite of Ryuuji's and sat down. He just observed the dice master for a while, taking in everything about the raven-haired male.
"No, I'm not one to get so hot tempered. Anyway, my apologies I haven't even introduced myself to you yet. I'm Ville and I'm the one calling the shots around here, sorry for the accommodation it's probably not what you're used to but for the time being it's all we've got. You're looking at me like I'm some sort of monster, awfully big assumption is it not?" Ville asked, the dice master shrugged and stared at the other male with narrowed eyes.
"How am I supposed to view you? You've kidnapped me, tied me up, locked me in here. Threatened to kill me, had your goons attack me, am I supposed to pretend that we can be friends, especially when you've done all this just so that you can get some money off of someone I love. So tell me, are you not a monster?" Ville just shrugged,
"I don't really care how you view me, I'm doing what I'm doing for a reason and I don't think I have to explain myself to you. Now I will make sure that you are kept safe and that Iwata stays away from you. I know that Mikey will also do the same when he returns as he is quite taken with you. Following that hopefully Kaiba Seto will pay up and we can all go our separate ways soon."
Ryuuji just chuckled and turned his head to his left, deciding that he didn't want to talk to the other male anymore. After a long silence the loud screeching of a chair being forced back across the floor cut through the silence in the room.
"I'd best be making my leave, Mikey is expected back any moment now and I want to hear how things went. He'll no doubt be by to visit you later, if you're still here that is, we might get lucky and part ways before then. What do you think?" The dice master just stayed silent, with a shrug of indifference and a slight chuckle, Ville started to the door. Before he left though Ryuuji glanced back at him, calling out to him simultaneously.
"Ville, why us? Why chose me? Out of all those people out there who are in love with billionaires, billionaires who would give everything up just to get their partners back, why did you chose to take me?" Ville's pale green eyes regarded the raven-haired male with a calm composure. Then smirked and walked back to where the dice master was sat, standing infront of him and gently lifting his chin with his index finger. Pale green locking with dark emerald.
"Simple, because I took pity on you, you love Seto so much but he has such a lot to learn about love, we shall teach him about it. As the saying goes, you don't realise how much you truly love someone until they're gone. When I first saw you, I noticed your eyes, and I saw your pain, how deep that pain runs, how much it hurts you. I felt that you needed this and that your boyfriend did to, I think I was correct and with time I think that you will grow to see that too. It may not be today, or tomorrow, not when you're back with Kaiba, but it will happen, trust me on that, I'm hardly ever wrong, just ask Mikey. If there's one thing I know how to do, it's toy with people. Goodbye Ryuuji,"
The dice master blinked a few times as the explanation sunk in, he didn't agree with what they had done but he suppose he could somewhat understand the reasoning behind it. Still that didn't mean that he was about to turn around and thank them all for kidnapping him locking him up in here and then putting a price on his head. He couldn't help but wonder though, how much did they think that he was worth. How much did Kaiba think that he was worth?
With the click of the door shutting and the lights being turned off the dice master remembered his promise to Mokuba to go back. He had never once broken a promise before and he prayed that this wouldn't be the first time. Tugging on the restraints once again Ryuuji gave up for what seemed like the millionth time that day. Then he wondered about Malik, Marik, Bakura and Ryou, his best friends, would they know about what had happened, would they be the ones to come to his rescue instead of Kaiba?
That thought saddened him a little, sure he would love to get out of here but to know that Kaiba wouldn't be his knight in shining armour was crushing him. Then again he supposed that it would be fitting after all, Kaiba was no longer his lover so why should Ryuuji expect him to put himself out to be his hero? Maybe he didn't, maybe he just wished that the dragon master would care enough for him to do this one last thing for him…
YGOYGOYGOYGOYGOYGOA/N- Ok first and foremost I am so sorry that this took so long to update but I had a lot of trouble with finding the inspiration for this chapter. Finally I did find it within The Used as such this is sort of dedicated to them as well as all of you who were so kind to review.
Review Reply'sWild Stallion- Woo hoo, I got it right! Glad to see someone I know around here n.n and please don't be mad with 'Kura-kun, he's just doing what he thinks is right and acting with Ryuuji's best interests in mind n.n hope you enjoyed this chapter and that I will see you again soon.
Black.Thorns.and.White.Tear...- Wow, I'm glad that you're enjoying reading my work so much, that's what makes this so worth while I just love writing things that people love to read and I also like that I'm keeping you on the edge of your seat. I think angst fanfiction just has this great bittersweet thing going on and that's why I love writing it so much. Thank you for all your wonderful comments I really do try my best to keep the characters as they are and so I'm glad that that's coming across. Thank you also for being so supportive with my updating, I know it's not the best in the world but if I rush I'm likely to get bored and stop writing it all together so I'll take that pina colada and hopefully see you again next chapter n.n
yepoleq- Glad to hear that you're liking Marik, Malik, Ryou and Bakura, I just love them so much so they had to go in here somewhere and I just have to make sure that I do their characters justice because they're so exciting and fun to work with in terms of characteristics. Anyway, I'm super happy to know that you're enjoying it and I hope that you have enjoyed this chapter too and that I will hear from you sometime soon n.n
seto'swifey- I absolutely love this pairing so I'm glad that you like it aswell, it's not actually one of the more popular ones so there isn't really much of it, which is sad because as I said I'm a huge fan of it. And what you said is true most people do portray Duke as a drama queen, which is something that I entirely disagree with because I can just see so much more depth to his character. So I for one refuse to write him as a pathetic little wimp because I can't see that when I look at him, glad to see that you like the way I've written him and that you're liking my work, hope to here from you again soon n.n
Futile Faith- Glad you agree with me, I've only read a couple that I've truly fell in love with, it's the portrayal of Ryuuji in most that get to me. The way he is often made into a drama Queen or an airhead is just irritating as I don't see him like that. I'm glad that you're enjoying the fic and I hope that I've done better with my punctuation in this chapter but it's often something that I'm not too good with so sorry if it's still lacking, hope to see you soon n.n
MornMeril- Wow thanks, I'm not exactly sure what my style is but I'm glad to see that it's making and impact and that you're liking it. I'm also super happy to here that I've managed to make you like this pairing. It's one very close to my own heart and I'm glad that you like it too. Hope that you like this chapter too and that thing are progressing nicely for you, I also hope that this update was quick enough for you, if not I'm sorry, hope to hear from you soon n.n
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