Falling From Grace
Ladygodess: Not in a chatty mood today people. Thanks to my lovely reviewers and the ones that I got for this story. (Hugs reviewers)
Disclaimer still don't own Yu-gi-oh (sighs)
Warnings: Are the some M later Yaoi.
CHAP 3: Getting By
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Malik woke up to knocking on the front door, he groaned as he untangled himself from Marik. He walked through the lounge room he stopped as he saw Bakura flat on his back fast asleep, with Ryou laying on his chest also asleep.
He smiled to himself, Ryou wouldn't leave Bakura's side at all. The funny thing was that Bakura didn't mind at all. He took a closer look at the sleeping two. It was unusual for Bakura to look that peaceful. He opened the door to not the most appealing of men. He frowned, as he looked at them "Can I help you?"
"We're the contractors to fix the roof," a gruff voice said. Malik looked them over as he opened the door more for them. They walked past Malik, and stood there looking at him.
"The rooms this way," Malik looked over with a relieved smile at the sound of the voice. Marik led the men to the said room, they began to work right way.
Ryou woke up to the noise coming from the hallway, he rubbed his eyes and sat up. Marik walked into the room, "Would you like something to eat?" he asked as he kept walking by and into the kitchen with Malik bouncing behind him at the mention of food.
Ryou looked down at the asleep Bakura and noticed that he was still on Bakura he blushed and got up. He followed Marik and Malik, he sat down next to Malik at the table. Marik sat a plate of food in front of him and sat down himself.
"Ryou do you think that you'll be okay around a lot of people today?" Marik asked as he sat down.
"I think so why?" Ryou hadn't touched his food.
"We are going to a place called a high school, there are a lot of people there and we need you to fit in as best you can" Marik started to eat.
"Will Bakura be coming too?" Ryou poked the food as if it was alive and going to crawl off his plate.
"Yes, Malik will lend you a uniform, but we should get ready" Marik looked up at the clock. Ryou frowned as he looked at his food, a feeling that he had felt once before but couldn't place it.
"What's wrong?" Malik asked noticing the look on Ryou's face.
"I don't know, I think I know something very important or I'm supposed to do something" he looked up with a smile that could melt a room.
"You'll work it out, Malik help Ryou get ready." Marik command as he left the table. Malik got up taking Ryou's hand as they walked off to his bedroom. Ryou stood in the doorway not sure on what to do.
Malik looked through the closet he found the said clothes, and handed them to Ryou. "You can get changed in the bathroom," Malik gave him a light push to the right door.
"Malik did I do something wrong?" Ryou bit his lip. Malik looked confused, "Marik just seems that he doesn't like me very much, he seems…… angry with me"
"No, it's just him. Marik's like that with everyone that he just meets." Ryou wasn't convinced, and that something was going on that they weren't telling him.
Ryou had changed into the school uniform he hoped that he had it on right, he walked out after sometime, he wasn't watching were he was going and walked right into one of the workers. Ryou apologized and went to walk way.
The worker grabbed him by the shoulder and turned him around. "Do you know what happened here?" he demanded. Ryou backed up, as a face flashed pashed his mind just for a second and the fear filled him in a crushing wave.
"I asked you a question boy, now answer me!" he stepped closer to Ryou, who's back hit the wall. Ryou closed his eyes as a pleading voice, filled his ears begging for someone to stop… but what? The voices in his head grew louder and louder begging over and over again and they were filled with such pain. Ryou opened his eyes, he then screamed so loud that all the glass in the apartment broke and the same for five blocks every car and window in the radius of the sound including alarms.
The men all fell unconscious including Malik, Bakura fell off the couch with a thud he cursed to himself as he got up and ran down the hall with his hands over his ears, he found the source of the sound. He pulled Ryou into his arms.
Ryou stopped straight away and threw his arms around Bakura. Marik got up from the ground taking his hands off his ears. Bakura held Ryou, "what the hell was that?" he asked as he got to his feet.
Bakura just shrugged as he pulled back from Ryou to look at him, "Are you alright? What happened?"
"It was him, I know it, I just can't tell who he is but I know, I do know" Ryou rambled on into Bakura's shoulder. They didn't get a word that Ryou had said, by this point the workers were getting up, Bakura walked out of the hallway with Ryou and Marik with Malik in his arms.
He sat Ryou down on this couch and walked over to Marik. "I think a constant watch on him is in order," Marik said as he walked over and laid Malik down next to Ryou, who moved over and patted Malik's hair.
"Obviously that he was scared, and that was a defense of some sort" Bakura looked over his shoulder.
"Lets just hope that it's the only one, he will be found if he keeps doing that," Marik hissed.
"Don't you think I don't know that," Bakura glared at him. At that point Malik woke up and rubbed his head.
"I have one hell of a headache," Malik whined. Marik gave one last glare at Bakura before walking over to Malik. Bakura knelt down in front of Ryou.
"Ryou I need you to never do that again as long as you are here with us" Bakura wiped same hair out of Ryou's eyes. Ryou nodded his head as he looked at Malik.
"Sorry" he mumbled.
"That's okay, you have one set of lungs" Malik rubbed the back of his head.
"We should get off to school now, I'll get rid of the workers" Marik got up and walked down the hall, the workers left in no time. Bakura locked the door behind them, and headed off for the school they filled Ryou in on the way of what to expect.
Bakura and Marik enrolled him as an exchange student from England, it was done without a problem at all. Ryou's every class was at least with one of them, he was reluctant to leave Bakura's side but with a little convincing from Bakura that he would see Ryou a little later that day, and that Marik and Malik would take care of him. Ryou let go and walked with the two to the class.
The bell rang out through the school to indicate that is was time for a break the halls were filled with students pushing and shoving each other as Marik, Malik and Ryou made there way outside.
Ryou sat pulling the grass up and letting it go in the wind, he looked up just in time to see Bakura walking up to them, Ryou beamed as he got up and ran over to Bakura hugging him. "Missed me huh?" Ryou blushed and let go. Bakura chuckled as he wrapped his arm around Ryou's shoulders and walked over to sit down with the other two.
Ryou and Malik had engaged in a conversation with each other Ryou had taken a liking to him, but as for Marik it was hard to know, one minute he was so nice and then the next he gave the cold shoulder.
"You like him don't you?" Marik asked as he watched the two.
"What are you on about?" Bakura bit back.
"Ryou, you have fallen for him," Marik said simply.
"No I haven't" Bakura growled, but truth be told he had.
"Bakura it's one thing to fool others, but me, come on" Marik rolled his eyes.
"You don't know what you're talking about"
"You have finally found him, and you are going to deny that you have fallen for him," Marik said a little surprised. "How long have you being looking for him now?"
"Since I found out about him, but that's not the point you know that I can't" Bakura sighed, he was over the moon when he found out that it was Ryou that had landed in his bed, but he had to make sure that it was him before he got his hopes up.
"Then you're a bigger fool then I thought" Marik shrugged knowing that Bakura wouldn't admit his feelings straight out. "We have company" Marik nodded his head for Bakura to look. Jou, Seto, Yami and Yugi. Were approaching them. Marik and Bakura jumped to their feet and ran over to them and led them away a bit.
"We have to talk" Bakura said.
"What are you doing?" Seto gave him an annoyed look as he brushed off the imaginary dirt off his shirt.
"We have a small problem," Bakura ran a hand through his hair.
"What do you mean a small problem?" Yami repeated raising an eyebrow at him. Bakura was known for getting himself into trouble.
"We have an angel, he fell through the roof last night and to make things worse he has no memories of where he comes from, I don't think that he knows what he really is" Marik said as he glared at Bakura as if it was his fault.
"You what!" the four said at the same time.
"You have to take him back, and explain to them what happened, NOW Bakura!" Yami growled.
"I'm not taking him back until he has his memories back" Bakura said simply as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"You have to, it's not a choice. You can't keep him." Seto said in his annoyed tone.
"You didn't see him last night, he was in a bad way" Marik said sadly.
"How so? An angel shouldn't be in a bad way they all have healing powers of their own" Yugi looked up at Yami.
"He was beaten and what we could tell he saw, he was…." Bakura looked at Marik as if asking for help
"Raped" Marik looked at all the shocked faces, "when we say he was in a bad way we meant it"
"How is that possible?" Jou asked. "Would he be a fallen in that chase?"
"Yes, but we have decided to keep him until his better" Bakura stated.
"What do you mean, we?" Marik gave him an odd look.
"This is trouble Bakura, you are going to get brunt" Yugi said but then paled as a pair of arms wrapped around Bakura. Everyone stopped talking and looked at the two, just at that point Ryou just happened to look over.
"Bakura baby I missed you all weekend" the girl hugged him more tightly. Bakura tried to pull away from her death grip but failed.
Ryou had tears in his eyes as he watched to the two, his heart sank to his stomach as he felt it break, how could he have been so stupid of course a guy like Bakura would already have someone, but he didn't know why he was felling this way about someone he just met.
"Anzu I told you before that we are over, and that I never wanted to see you again" Bakura growled at her he had caught her cheating on him.
"Don't be stupid, why would I dump you, you are so sexy" she planted a kiss on his lips. The world had stopped for Ryou as his breath caught in his throat, he got up and ran back to the building that they had come out of.
"RYOU!" Malik called out as everyone looked at Malik then Ryou's back as he ran.
"Shit!" Bakura growled feeling a ping of guilt as he pushed Anzu away, and ran after Ryou. Anzu glared at Ryou that would promise his painful death, for taking her Bakura away.
She stood there watching the two look a likes. Bakura easily caught Ryou by the shoulder and turned him around, Bakura was shocked to see tears running down Ryou's face.
"Ryou I'm sorry" Bakura looked confused for a minute, he never said that word hell it wasn't even in his vocabulary. Ryou looked away "Why are you so upset?"
"I'm not I just…" Ryou bowed his head his white bangs fell over his eyes to hide the hurt look that was there.
"Well it's obvious that you are, or you wouldn't be crying like this" Bakura held Ryou by the shoulders to look into his eyes.
"If you think that I'm upset over" Ryou stopped he wasn't sure what he was going to say.
"If your not upset then what's your problem," Bakura half yelled, making Ryou flinch at his voice.
"I'm sorry, I don't have a problem" Ryou said sadly Bakura got the feeling that Ryou was a quiet and soft type and very submissive if challenged at all. Bakura sighed as he pulled Ryou into his arms.
"Your hopeless, I would hate to see you out on your own" Bakura wiped Ryou's eyes free of the falling tears.
"I'm not hopeless," Ryou protested.
"No, not at all my tenshi" Bakura's eyes widened at his use of words 'my', "I'm going soft" he groaned as Ryou giggled.
"You would make a great marshmallow, they're soft and sweet" Ryou poked him in the ribs, his mood changing.
"Take that back" Bakura halfheartedly growled, Ryou laughed in a childish manner. He then took off running.
"You'll have to catch me first," he yelled over his shoulder, all his worries had run right out the window when he was around Bakura.
"Oh I plan to tenshi" Bakura smirked.
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To Be Continued.
Ladygodess: the plot thickens (laughs insanely) hope that it wasn't to long of a wait for you. So please R&R for me, it keeps me going.
