(Holds out a box of tissues) I know I'm cruel, (bows head) Sorry, but it makes good reading no? (Smirks) I swear I don't know where that last chap came from (looks innocent), I think just after the last chap their might be a few more. (Sighs) the more I try to end this story the more chaps I end up with (sighs again) anyway I don't mind and I know that my readers that have been here from the start will be happy with that, as when I started this I didn't really care for it that much and just put in what I thought would fit in, but now it has sucked me in and it sounds to me that some of you (looks at Falling-Angel) are addicted to this story as well. I know that I'm rambling now and your wanting to read the story, but I would once again like to thank you guys for reading and reviewing me (hugs everyone) LOVE YOU GUYS! Yes I had lots of sugar today. But even if I got really badly flamed for the last chap I still would be posting my story up, I couldn't just drop it and walk way, that's just not me.
Warning: M and Yaoi.
Disclaimer: think of buying it, (looks through wallet as moths fly out O.o ) but still don't own Yugioh.
CHAP 23: Make Me Again
Solomon sighed, Marik used his powers to take Bakura home, Solomon looked over Ryou one last time as Ishizu pulled the blood stained sheet over his head, "I don't know where I went wrong?" he said, Bakura had looked broken himself the two truly belonged together and it even broke his heart to see the proud and fearless Bakura sob over his lovers dead body.
"His injuries were to extensive," she said "it's a good thing really Bakura won't threaten us ever again."
"Don't underestimate him, Ryou died here and he is left alone again with no chance of," he stopped and hit his forehead with his hand and started to laugh.
"Solomon!" she snapped thinking the healer may have gone mad, as this was neither the time nor the place.
"How stupid could I have been," he pulled off the sheet from Ryou's head. "Come we don't have much time we have to act quickly, "she looked at him confused as he started to throw switches that he only just turned off and the machines whined and the mask hissed with air forcing Ryou to breath again.
"Solomon this is madness" Ishizu growled "he is dead" she went to stop him.
"Lets go," he grabbed her hand she didn't have a chance to protest. They soon landed outside a building he pulled out a card from his robes and swiped it the door hissed as it opened, the air moved their hair and clothes whipping them about as the air was sucked in.
"What are we doing here?" she asked as they entered she knew the building quite well that was until Ryou had destroyed it quite some time ago, Solomon had moved all the machines to the new healing hospital not that it was much of a hospital, but it took a lot of time to move them.
"If we want to live because it want take long for it to get to Bakura that Ryou is really gone and once that sets in he'll be here and we'll all perish." He said his voice bounced off the tiled walls with their footsteps.
"But what are we doing back here? We have everything back at the house." She said as they stopped walking.
"We need that," he said as he pointed to a round sliver stand that sat in the middle of the room it was covered in dust and lost it's shine awhile ago, she frowned "You take that and I'll take that," he pointed to the ceiling, he walked to the stand and pushed a few buttons and the glass tube hissed as it came down.
"How will we get all this back without being seen?" she asked.
"How I got the other machines over there a spell my dear girl, spells" he grinned he started to chant and the stand and the tube lifted off the ground he stopped. "This will stop anyone from seeing what we're doing and make them weightless." They moved to the door and outside taking the objects with them.
It wasn't long Solomon had moved Ryou who was still on the table out of the way. Solomon, Ishizu and Shizuka worked on putting the contraption together and hooking it up to power. The stand was in place on the floor and the tube was hanging from the ceiling. "Hope this works," he said.
"What if it doesn't work?" Ishizu asked worriedly.
"Then we all die," he said pushing a few buttons on the round stand it clunked, like a car stalling or out of gas, he pushed the buttons again, "Come you…you piece OF!" he was cut off as it started it whined loudly, then gave a soft humming noise, "That's it, it works," he grinned.
"This isn't right, if this works your going to hand an angel back over to a savage demon that almost destroyed heaven," Ishizu asked.
"It was because the higher archangels took Ryou away from him that caused him to go into his fit of rage. We have time but not that much, the first time he gave us a week before he showed up," he then walked over to Ryou pulling off the sheet to reveal his naked form and lifted him up into his arms. He walked back over and laid Ryou down on the stand and climbed on himself next to Ryou, "Take out the air tube," he instructed, Shizuka did as asked and pulled the tube from the machine the mask stopped hissing as she had pulled it away she then walked over and handed it to Solomon. He took it and stood up and connected it to the top of the tube. The mask started to hiss again Solomon climbed down.
He went to the panel and pressed a few more buttons and the tube came down again and made a suction sound as it sealed closed and it was slowly filled with light pink water with bubbles floating to the top. "That's it, all we have to do is wait for the solution to do its work," he stood back and watched as Ryou floated the air bubbles coming out of the mask.
"Should I call for Bakura to come back?" Ishizu asked.
"I don't want to get his hopes up if this doesn't work he'll be uncontrollable," he said, "If this doesn't work then nothing will." For a few days now Solomon kept a close eye on Ryou, he ate in the room and when he had to sleep he got Shizuka or Ishizu to watch him.
Marik sighed as he lay on the bed with Malik and Bakura he was running his fingers through his hair, he had used his powers to keep Bakura in a calmer mood. There was nothing that he or anyone could do for Ryou. A sigh reached his ears and he looked down to see Bakura asleep with a few tears running down his cheek, he was crying in his sleep again.
It was such a fight to get him home, he refused to leave Ryou, he had said that he just wanted to hold him one last time, so Marik sat in the room with for a few hours but when it looked like Bakura wasn't going to let go, Marik put him into unconsciousness and left.
Marik had finally drifted off to sleep himself and hopped that Bakura would be okay in the end. Marik and Malik sat at the table a few days later eating breakfast, Bakura just looked at his food not touching it at all. "Seto called he asked if we were still doing that job." Malik asked, Bakura just narrowed his eyes. "What do you think Kura?" he didn't get a response he looked at Marik, "Come on Kura I know how much you like your treasure and this load would be enough to buy a new place for us." Bakura got up and looked at Malik.
"Leave me, ALONE!" he stormed into the lounge room and sat down on the couch. He pulled his knees up to his chest and looked out the in window.
"Bakura, Malik was only trying to help," Marik said as he sat down next to him.
"I don't want help, I don't want to cheer up," he closed his eyes, "I don't want to forget him," he opened them and once again the tears fell, he had no real satisfaction in killing Pegasus especially now.
"No one wants you to forget him and I understand I do, but Bakura Ryou wouldn't want you to be like this, he loved your bad tempered side, not this." Marik moved closer.
"What would you know what he wanted?" Bakura growled as he wiped his eyes with the back of his sleeve.
"Because if something happened to me I wouldn't want Malik to be like this, though he would, but it's not what I would want. You wouldn't be betraying him if you had a little fun and went outside robbed a few places. Terrorize a few people, kids, teens the elderly." Marik chuckled but stopped as Bakura gave him a look then turned his head away.
"I'm not in the mood," Bakura sighed, "I miss him."
"I know," Marik touched his shoulder Bakura shrugged it off.
"Don't touch me," Bakura said calmly Marik pulled back his hand and closed his eyes then opened them.
"We'll take that place this week, then I'm going away for awhile."
"Your leaving," Marik asked wide eyed and a hint of panic in his voice. "For how long?"
"I don't know, I just want to be alone." He got up and went to walk away Marik grabbed his wrist stopping him.
"You're leaving me and Malik? I-I"
"I'm leaving everyone not just you and I know Marik, I've always known I feel the same, but Ryou" his voice seemed strained, "Ryou just, meant more to me." Marik let his wrist go and watched Bakura walk out of the room.
Bakura walked into his room closing the door he walked over falling on his bed and buried his face into the pillow, his fingers landed on something cold that was under the pillow, he knew what it was and it meant that Ryou was really gone, his body started to shake with the force of his sobs. 'Why Ryou? Was it true what Marik said was is easier for you to escape the pain that way?…A way that I can't follow you, to hold you and kiss you, I would have loved you no mater what, all I asked was for one more chance' his cries were muffled by the pillow as this was the first time in a few days that he was really able to let his feelings out. 'Oh Ra Ryou, I want to be with you but I don't know how, I'm so lost,' He lay there for a bit.
"I think my happiest memories that I have are of you," Ryou wrapped his arms over the top of Bakura's. "We are totally opposite, you're grouchy, bad tempered. The kind that you never take home to your family in fear that they would have a heart attack."
"That's right I'm all bad right to the bone baby," Bakura smirked as they were sitting outside on the small balcony of Malik's apartment both wrapped up in a blanket star gazing and talking. "How about you then, if I'm all bad, then what makes you, angel?" Bakura poked him in the side.
"Well, I'm kind at heart, quiet."
"Lets not forget gorgeous, sexy down right hot, irresistibly good looking, adorable, oh wait… that's me," he laughed.
"Bakura!" Ryou jumped up and started to tickle him "your evil."
"You don't know how right you are."
"Bakura? Are you okay? I've been knocking for a few minutes now." Bakura lifted his head from the pillow. "Sorry to wake you, but we're all going out and" he stopped as Bakura put his head in the pillow.
"GET OUT!" was all he got, Yugi nodded and closed the door.
Coming into the end of the week. One morning Solomon was walking around the tube looking at Ryou's back which had healed nicely but he was left with two long scares in his back right next to his shoulder blades. The light pink water had turned red like last time, this water came from the River Of Life, it was forbidden for anyone to bathe in or to drink from it. The name said it all, the angels would bath the infant angels in it to protect them and keep them from hurting themselves when they were learning to fly.
"Solomon, all of Ryou's vitals are normal, I took away the heart machine and his heart is steady and beating strongly, it was the same for the air he's breathing that on his own as well." Ishizu said as she looked up from a folder as she wrote in it.
"I think he can come out today," said Solomon as he came back around to the front and stopped beside her.
"We should have everything on stand by just in case," she closed the folder.
"Then we'll let him out now," he stopped as he looked at Ryou, "give him a light sedative first. The last thing we need is for him to destroy this place as well." She nodded her head and walked over to a glass cabinet and pulled out a bottle and a needle filling it with the clear liquid she walked over to one of the tubes and injected it in and watched it run empty then stepped back.
"Shizuka get some towels and clothes," he ordered, she ran up the stairs. The tube emptied slowly and Ryou was on the bottom curled up, Solomon lifted the glass tube and moved it.
"Ryou" Solomon called as he wrapped a towel over him. "Wake up," Ryou groaned and started to cough.
"What?" his voice was raspy and dry he opened his eyes again but the light was to bright for his liking and closed them again.
"Get him some water," Solomon asked and it wasn't long when the glass was handed to him and he helped sit Ryou up and helped him to drink it, Ryou drank it thirstily but started to cough and spat some of the water out. "Better?" Ryou nodded his head as he looked around more and he started to look worried, what kind of place was he in?
"Where am I?" he turned and looked at Solomon confused.
"Do you remember anything at all?" he asked as he placed another towel over Ryou's head and started to dry his hair.
"No," Ryou frowned.
"Nothing at all?"
"No."
Solomon sighed and draped the towel over Ryou's shoulders, this was going to make things harder then he thought, if Ryou didn't remember anything and had no wings at all and the point that he could no longer stay here, gave him a headache, what was he going to do with the boy now?
"Lets get you cleaned up and dressed, okay?"
"Where am I?" he asked again as he was helped off the stand, red water ran down his body and onto the white towel around his hips turning it light pink.
"Heaven." He said as he guided Ryou to the stairs.
"Heaven?" He looked confused, he bit his lip then let it go as if letting the words sink into his head. "Heaven? I don't understand."
"We'll talk after your dressed." He smiled Ryou nodded his head. He was lead to the bathroom where they had already run a bath for him. It wasn't to long when he stepped out of the bathroom and went looking for Solomon.
Shizuka approached him "Come with me and I'll take you to see Solomon."
"Why am I here? I don't know any of you." He felt so lost nothing looked familiar to him and he himself seemed out of place, not because everyone that was walking around had wings and he didn't it was he just didn't even know himself.
"It's okay we know you," she smiled as she gave a quick knock then opened the door, "sir, Ryou's here now."
"Let him in," came the reply she opened the door more and Ryou walked in and sat down. He noticed another one in the room with long black hair and blue almost grey eyes narrowed in annoyance. He shifted worriedly and looked at Solomon who was sitting behind his desk.
She turned her gaze to the old angel then to Ryou, he was such a hypocrite at first he wanted to terminate Ryou, then save him by bringing him back, she dug her fingers into the wooden arm of the chair she was in. "As I was saying. Solomon. I think it best that you take this matter to the higher angels, the boy doesn't remember anything at all, by the stars, he doesn't even know who he is."
"Umm?… excuse me but do you know who I am?" he asked she blinked at him a few times before he spoke again, "Do I have a name?"
"It's Ryou," Solomon answered him
"Why am I here?"
"Do you remember any body, any body at all? Think, think hard now," he asked, Ryou looked thoughtful for a minute. "Anything at all?" Ryou shook his head no after a long minute.
Solomon sighed, it looked like he would have to see the higher angels after all, he couldn't in his right mind send Ryou to Bakura the way he was. He looked at Ryou as something formed in his mind, why not keep him here in heaven in case Bakura came looking to seek revenge on him and everyone else in heaven, Ryou would be able to stop him a in battle as he wouldn't know who Bakura was anyway and the higher angels could train him for that time, though he would be at a disadvantage with no wings but Bakura wouldn't attack his beloved former angel.
Solomon stood up with a smirk, Ishizu gave him a look, "come Ryou we'll see the higher angels and see what is to be done with you." He walked to the door. Ryou got up and followed him along with Ishizu.
They stepped outside the healers home and started to walk down the crystal paths angels flew in the air going to and from the buildings to the green field that could been seen from where they were walking.
They walked up to the building and Solomon pushed open the large door, he knew that there would be consequences for his actions, but surely considering the circumstances they might be lenient with him.
TBC
I know what I said about two chaps left one after this one, but can you guys forget about that, I couldn't keep Ryou out of the picture or dead for that matter, Solomon just has some bad ideas, no? Bye for now.
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