Falling From Grace

Warnings: M, Yaoi and mild abuse in this chap, you have been warned as it is with all other chapters that I write. So if you do not like this, do not read it's that simple.

Disclaimer: Do NOT! Own Yugioh

Ladygodess: This chap is continuing from the last one in a flashback so if you haven't read it then please do as you will be so lost and will not know what's going on.

CHAP 11: Dieing Nights

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Ryou sighed as he carried a heavy basket of goods to sell in the market from his master, it was his fifth master this year. He walk by the Nile and stopped and he bit his lip as he would have liked to cool off from the hot day and the water looked all to inviting, "Just for a minute," Ryou said as he walked over to the waters edge.

He put the basket down and looked around to make sure that no one would take it while he was in the water, he dropped his clock and stepped in as he cooled himself off he turned around and gasped almost falling over by shock.

"Kura!" Ryou yelled happily as he ran up to him knocking them both down on the sandy bank of the river, "I missed you," Ryou hugged him again.

"I wouldn't have known" Bakura chuckled as Ryou got off and helped him up.

"Where have you been? I haven't seen you in a few months," Ryou hugged him again.

"Around, but I'm here now," he walked over and sat down under the tree in the shade, Ryou followed him and sat next to him. He looked over Ryou and frowned as his body was covered in scars and a few cuts.

"It's good to see you again…but are you here for long?" Ryou asked as he pulled himself into a ball and leant his head on his knees looking at Bakura.

"I'm no sure, so how have you been?" Bakura said as he reached around the back of the tree and a small bag appeared in his hand.

"Okay I guess, as well as a slave can be, you?" Ryou shrugged as he looked over the water.

"Busy, I have something for you," he said and as he pulled his hand back time had stopped and a blue card appeared in front of him. He growled "ALWAYS! Cant you give me ten minutes with the boy!" Bakura yelled at the sky, the card burst into flames and disappeared.

"What is it?" Ryou asked as he moved closer to Bakura. He sighed as he looked at Ryou, knowing he would not be happy with him at all for what he was about to do.

"I have to go,"

"What? Why?" Ryou asked with tears in his eyes, he looked down as Bakura handed him a bag, Ryou opened it to find food in it. Bakura stood up and went to walk away, Ryou dropped the bag and grabbed Bakura's arm. "Don't go!" Ryou begged.

"I have to," Bakura took his hand and Ryou pulled it away angrily.

"You think that you can show up and give me food and I'll be okay with it, you turned up and then you leave me for who knows how long and you except me to be okay with it," Ryou yelled, Bakura took a step backwards as he had never seen the boy act like this before.

"No I don't, I care for you I always have since you were five, I'm busy and what I do takes a lot of my time, I'm sorry that you don't understand," he said worriedly.

"I would if you told me, your just gone sometimes for months at a time," Ryou held himself.

"I'm busy and I try to see you when ever I get the chance to,"

"What to bring me food? I don't want your food I just want to spend time with you," Ryou looked away and Bakura stepped up to him, he wasn't offended by the food comment.

"I care about you," he was cut off.

"I'm not five anymore I'm fifteen… I won't have that anymore of you caring for me… if you did then you wouldn't leave me here," tears welled up in his eyes, Bakura's heart sank to his stomach.

"If I could I would but I can't and you know this," Bakura caressed his cheek as his heart was now in his throat. "You have to be strong, I'll see you soon, okay," Bakura pulled his hand back and turned on his heels and started to walked away just as he got to the top of the bank.

"I love you… do you even care? " Ryou yelled out suddenly as he ran up to Bakura and kissed him firmly on the lips, Bakura eyes widening at the contact, Ryou pulled away a few minutes later, Bakura didn't know how to take it "obviously not," Ryou whimpered with tears falling down his face as he turned to get his basket and the bag.

"I do care more than you'll ever know," Bakura pulled him into his arms and held him close. "Please don't hate me for leaving you here, I do love you."

Ryou beamed, "I could never hate you, I'm sorry" Ryou threw his arms around Bakura's neck and hugged him, Bakura lifted his chin with his thumb and fore finger, they were so close and Ryou's heart pounding in his chest.

"Don't be," with that Bakura kissed him again, Ryou made a funny happy noise as he closed his eyes, Bakura kept the kiss simple, he pulled back and chuckled as Ryou still had his eyes closed in the after math of it, "like that ha," Ryou snapped his eyes open and blushed, he nodded his head as he touched his lips. "I have to go now, I'll see you when I can," Bakura stepped back and winked at him as he turned on his heels and walked away.

"See you then and thank you for the food," Ryou called out, Bakura waved as he walked over the small hill and vanished.

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"Oh Ra he's going to kill me," the teen shut his eyes and then opened them as he ran desperately in the hot sun, he stopped for a minute and looked around to find a good hiding place from his master.

"Boy you dare steal from ME!" boomed an enraged voice. Ryou bit his lip as he moved through the streets pulling his cream colored cloak around him protecting his pale skin from the sun and hopefully from his master. "I'll find YOU!" that only encouraged Ryou to move more quickly through the people, for once in his life he was thankful that the slaves and guards did nothing to stop him.

Ryou sighed sadly for a minute as this was the way it has always been, even in his mother's death did they ignore her in her time of need, but also when he was beaten in the street he to was ignored, no one cared about him all but for one person that cared deeply for him.

"Bakura?" Ryou whimpered he had not seen him in a year and now he was sixteen, it left Ryou thinking that Bakura had abandoned him as it was the longest time that he had been away from Ryou, "no!" Ryou growled he refused to believe that, if he did he would cave in and break down, "I'll be strong until you return" he said with determination in his voice and mind as he touched his lips and smiled, he remembered his first kiss that Bakura gave him also when he told Bakura that he loved him and Bakura said he loved him back, he stopped again and looked around, "when ever that maybe."

He moved again into a near by alleyway, he looked around for a way up, seeing one he put his foot onto the window sill and reached up to hoist himself onto the roof, he grabbed the roofs edge and went to pull himself up but the tile gave way and he fell back to the ground, he cried out as the wind was knocked out of him.

"You runt, you filthy little rat!" the large man grabbed Ryou by the back of the shirt and pulled him back into the street then dragged him back to his home, Ryou kicked and fought to get free of his masters grip, his master stopped and hit Ryou with such force that he blacked out.

Ryou woke with a headache and his vision was blurred, he groaned as he pushed himself up, only to be kicked back down again, he cried out and held his side tightly as if it would take the pain away. "You steal from me, then you ran away," Ryou coward on the floor.

"Please master," he whimpered to the ground of the lavish home of his master, "I-I was hungry I ha" he didn't get to finish as he was kicked in the face, he whimpered holding his face and shaking.

"You don't get food demon," the master raged, ever since he was put into slavery everyone though him to be a devil or demon on how he looked, not one Egyptian had white hair and pale skin like the moon, "I take you into my home, I give you work and this is how you thank me, by stealing off my table," he backhanded Ryou again.

"P-please I-I… won't do it a-again," Ryou started to sob his eyes widened as a crack of a whip was heard from behind him.

"That's right you won't," fear ran through his body as the whip came down on him over and over again, he screamed out but after the first few his back became numb. His master knowing this would happen moved to the back of his legs to increase the pain for the teen after a few hours of enduring his master various torturing techniques he was thrown into a room and the door locked. Ryou didn't move he just lay there looking at the ceiling pain still running through his body, "where are you Bakura?" he whispered as a tear fell running into his now crimson hair, he fell unconscious and there was not one place on his delicate pale skin that was not bruised, cut, swollen or bleeding.

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Bakura woke up after an exhausted sleep, he had spent three days on a battle field collecting souls from the dead or dieing soldiers without rest, he needed to rest before he went to see Ryou and he stretched then got up, he opened a portal and stepped through it and on the other side he walked into a dark room, he narrowed his eyes in disgust and wondered why did they always keep his Ryou in a dark room?

He waved a hand and a little light shone in the room, he gasped as he saw Ryou on the floor tortured and beaten, he knelt down "Ryou, I'm here now, wake up." Bakura didn't want to shake him in case he hurt him more and healing was out of the question, the last time he did his previous master freaked out and Ryou got into trouble, Bakura spent a few days apologizing to him.

"Ryou?" Bakura bit his lip "I'm sorry for leaving you for so long, Ryou open your eyes," Bakura growled as another appeared in the room.

"Bakura I didn't know that you got the card for this one," a short teen said, he looked the part for the job.

"There is no card for him he's not dieing," Bakura growled.

"I got the card not more than five minutes ago, I have to take him," the shorter one held his hand out as he stepped forward.

"Back of Bones he's not going anywhere." Bakura gathered the teen in his arms and stood up, Ryou made no sound of discomfort or pain.

"But, what are you doing? You have to abide by the rules and not interfere with mortals, now let me do my job!" Bones said shocked.

"He's mine," Bakura growled as he shot an energy ball at Bones, he screamed out as it engulfed him in flames and then he disappeared, Bakura opened a portal back to heaven and he stepped out on the other side holding the dieing teen in his arms, he was outside of a study hall that funny enough looked like a humans hospital, he hastily ran inside as his Ryou was fading fast.

"Solomon!" Bakura growled as he placed Ryou on the table.

"Bakura? What are you?" he stopped and gasped as he saw the teen and then looked at Bakura shocked and questioningly.

"He's dieing save him," Bakura commanded.

"You brought a human here to heaven, are you insane?" Solomon still looked over the boy anyway.

"Make him an angel," Bakura whispered.

"Do you know what you're asking? You'll be cast out of heaven and you'll never be able to walk here again," he picked up the boy in his arms.

"I don't care about the gods, they do more wrong than anyone, please just save him I can't lose him now," Bakura bowed his head with unshed tears in his eyes.

"I'll try, but I'm not promising anything," Solomon said over his shoulder as he walked away with the boy.

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TBC

Ladygodess: I hope that this is clearing up the curiosity bunnies for you, still more to come, a lot more. You don't have all the answers yet. (Laughs insanely)

More plushies but as my stock is getting low I have a Jou, Seto, Yami, Anzu O.O? (Throws it over the shoulder) Yugi, Marik and Malik, (hands out all plushies) R&R thank you.