Hey Happy Birthday Fallen-Angel (hands over big colourful balloons and a cupcake with a lit candle and plushies of Ryou and Bakura) I know it's a little late but anyway (winks and does the victory sign) but at least I updated and for you I'm updating again and of course for my other readers and reviewers, you all don't mind I know that a lot of you really like this story.
Anyway I wasn't even going to have a Mai/Ishizu meeting at all but it came to me and I had to put it in to get Ryou back to earth but anyway, this story isn't far from over I hit chap 28 a few days a go as the plot bunnies are still with the bugging me and won't let it end just yet.
Warning: M and Yaoi.
Disclaimer: still don't own Yugioh or anything else or make money off this but I do own this plot and the plot bunnies (holds up bunny) see aren't they cute! O.o
CHAP 26: Recovered MemoriesOf Love
Malik sighed as he stepped outside the house and walked to the letterbox hoping to get word from Bakura letting them know where he was. He had been gone for a month now and Ryou had come back a few days after Bakura left. Ryou remembered them but still didn't know about Bakura. Marik lost any form of contact he had with him two weeks after he left. Malik and Marik were wondering if he was okay. He pulled a few letters out but none of any importance and none from Bakura, Malik sighed as he walked back to the house. "Excuse me," came a voice, Malik stopped and looked around. "Over here," he turned his head from left to right then spotted their neighbour.
The elderly old woman stood at the fence line "Could you please tell your brother to stop driving over my flowerbed when he rides that contraption of his." She huffed holding up broken roses in her gloved hand.
"I could but I don't think he would listen to me," Malik said.
"These are my prize wining flowers," she shook them in her hand at Malik who rolled his eyes, they had moved here a few weeks back and this neighbour hood was a family area and full of elderly.
"Those are nice," Malik turned and saw Ryou approaching them with a book in his hand.
"There broken," she growled.
"Who would do such a thing?" Ryou frowned.
"His brother," she pointed.
"Brother?" Ryou looked confused.
"You haven't met my boyfriend yet Mrs Finklestien this is Ryou isn't he adorable?" Malik reached over and took one of her roses and snapped off the thorns and a bit of the stem and handed it to Ryou with a kiss on the cheek, Ryou blushed and blinked at the rose in his hand.
"Your up to something I know it I can feel it in my bones your probably working with the government or you are a spy, you and your brother look like criminals rather shady characters if you ask me?" she said as she backed up towards her house. "I'm watching you." She said as she closed her front door.
"Bye Mrs Finklestien have a great day!" Malik called out.
"Malik?" Ryou asked.
"Sorry to do that she's nosey, okay, but she's nosey." Malik smiled as he took Ryou's hand, "You can keep the rose," Malik noticed that Mrs Finklestien was watching them through her curtains as they walked towards the house, Malik opened the door and gave her a wink she gasped and the curtains closed and he chucked as he stepped inside.
Marik stood at the stove his eyes narrowed at the small t.v on the counter as the news reporter spoke, 'Yesterday in Paris in a small café, a group of people were found in a comatose state the police are baffled as are the doctors of their condition as this is the fifth time this has happened, whether it's a virus,' Marik snorted. "Yeah virus Bakura I bet," 'not commenting as of yet, more as it comes in. In other news.' Marik turned it off the small t.v, "what are you doing Bakura?" Marik had searched a few places but didn't find Bakura anywhere he was brought out of his thoughts.
"Marik, Ryou's here!" Malik called out as he made his way to the kitchen to see Marik cooking breakfast.
"Are you hungry?" he asked Ryou.
"No Mai insisted that I have a full course breakfast before I left." Ryou lent on the counter.
"Oh by the way, Mrs Finklestien complained about her flowers again." Malik said with a smirk as he stood next to Ryou.
"That old biddy again."
"Yeah she thinks we're criminals or spies or something, she was watching us walk up to the house through her curtains." Malik said almost laughing.
"We should get Yami and Yugi to dress up in suites and knock on her door with photos of us and have them ask her if she has seen these people, then tell her we believe them to be undercover spies from another country trying to infiltrate our defences, to give her something to really talk about" They both laughed holding their sides as Ryou just raised an eyebrow.
"Either that or hang up our washing in our underwear," Malik suggested.
"Did that already?" Marik smirked, after they had calmed down Marik asked. "Was there anything from him yet?"
"Nothing yet," Malik sighed as he dropped the mail on the counter.
"Give him time," Marik said as he started to put the food onto the plates and sat down next to them. "We're still going out today?"
"Yeah, I wouldn't miss this for the world," Ryou said excitedly. The cherry blossoms were starting to lose their flowers and everyone gathered in the park for fun and picnics.
"Lets get there a little early as I want to get a good spot," Malik said.
"Oh I brought back the book you lent me," Ryou held it up, "I'll go and put it back." Marik nodded his head.
"Your welcome to take what you want," Marik called out after him.
"Thanks" Ryou replied leaving the room. He walked into the living room and went over to the bookshelves and placed the book back in its place. He looked the others over, seeing one he pulled it out and something fell on the floor, he crouched down and picked it up. He flipped it over and looked at it he gasped and dropped it, "It couldn't be?" he shakily picked it up. It was a photo of himself with a creampuff in his mouth and the one from his dreams had the other end playfully in a tug of war with the pastry treat, Malik had taken the shot. Ryou frowned as he looked at it more closely, his mind going over time sure the dreams would have him panting and flushed and he wished for nothing more for him to be real, the touches to be real. "I-I know you?" he stood up. A name came to his lips and rolled off his tongue and with everything else. "Bakura."
Ryou jumped as a hand touch him on the shoulder "Malik?"
"What do you have there?" he asked as Ryou held out the photo, Malik gasped as he went to take it Ryou pulled it away and clutched it to his chest.
"I know him where is he?" he looked up into light lavender eyes. "I have been dreaming of Bakura since I woke up and I didn't understand who he was until I saw this, where is he Malik?"
"He left after the incident in heaven." He didn't get to finish.
"He left me," tears welled up in Ryou's eyes, how could the one that claimed to love him so much leave him? But then again Ryou wasn't an angel anymore and maybe the soul collector had a thing for angels and went to find another to take his place.
"He didn't leave you Ryou, he did but you were." Malik stopped as Ryou stood up.
"It's clear to me now." He walked out of the room.
"Were are you going?" Malik ran after him.
"Home," Ryou snapped, as all possibilities ran through his head for what Bakura would be doing now.
"Marik!" Malik called out. Marik was there in an instant and blocked Ryou from going out the front door.
"What's going on?" he asked.
"HE LEFT ME!" Ryou yelled at him angry that they did tell him to begin with. "Was it what Pegasus did to me? I'm a freak, I'm not an angel nor am I human, just something with a life extension and he left me to die in heaven of all the places that I hate he left me there!" his volume didn't change, Marik winched.
"It wasn't like that," Marik tried to calm him.
"Why didn't you tell me that I knew him… just let me out!" Ryou yelled again, Marik shook his head "Tell me did he even come for me or was it the angels in heaven that found me?"
"We were told that you had to remember him yourself and you know that's not true Bakura found you, he was with you for the whole time that they were trying to heal you."
"Then where was he? I woke up in such a strange place and what Solomon wanted to do with me…," tears now fell as Ryou bowed his head and placed his hands over his face as his shoulders started to shake.
"Hey" Marik cooed as he pulled Ryou into his arms, "Let me explain." Ryou nodded his head. Marik lead him into the living room and sat him down. Marik sat next to him, "Bakura, Yami, Seto and myself we came looking for you and Pegasus. We found you both, Bakura left Pegasus in the marshes of Zilla, we came back to Solomon's who was fixing you, Bakura wouldn't leave your side no matter what, but after five days you died it was the machines that kept you going after that, I took Bakura and I suppose that Solomon was going to do something with you. After we came back Bakura was just so… he couldn't take it he needed to be alone and he left," Marik looked up, "I have never see him like that he was so heartbroken."
"But where is he, call him tell him I'm here, I want to see him" Ryou grabbed his hands.
"I can't he keeps moving and he cut me off we have to wait for him to come home or call," Malik said.
"Could I ask you something?" Ryou looked at them both.
"Ryou do you remember what I said to you about that if anything happened to Bakura that you could count on me and Malik to take care of you." Ryou nodded his head.
"That's what I wanted to ask, if I can move in here with you?" Ryou gasped as Malik hugged him Marik chuckled.
"We'd love you to," Malik pulled back, "and that way if Bakura comes back he'll know where to find you."
Bakura stood on the bank of the Nile where Ryou had told him that he loved him for the first time. He clutched the ring in his hand it had now been a month and the ring had been pulsing and glowing at night for a while, "You were supposed to keep him with ME!" Bakura yelled at it. He gripped it so tightly that his knuckles were white.
"Its all your fault," Bakura pitched his arms back and threw it out over the water. The ring was just a constant reminder that his beloved angel was gone. He gasped as he shot over the water and caught the ring before it hit the water and landed on the other side of the Nile.
"What is your problem?" he growled, "FINE!" he closed his eyes. "Tell me why you're acting up," he took a deep breath and his brows knitted together. /…Bakura…/
Bakura almost dropped the ring, "That was Ryou's voice…that's it, your going back." He leaped in the air and flew straight up to heaven, he was going to take it back to heaven and leave it there. The last thing that he needed was for the ring to mock him, in how he failed in saving his Ryou.
He landed on the path and stormed into heaven, angels fled from the area. He headed straight for the healers home, he would drop it off and walk away forever. He kicked the door down and stepped inside "Solomon!" he yelled.
"Please don't yell," Shizuka said as she came from under the stairs. Bakura frowned why was the girl coming out from under there.
"Where's Solomon?" he asked as she took the last of the steps.
"He was put into the flora division, about a month ago. I'm the new healer."
"Why what happened?"
"He was punished for breaking the law." She looked at him, he turned his back on her she couldn't help him he needed to see Solomon. "I remember you, you were the one that was with the angel that had his wings ripped out."
"I don't need to be reminded," he walked to the door.
"Solomon brought him back he's alive," Bakura froze at the door by the mention of the name he narrowed his eyes, "it was just after you left that he brought that angel back and healed him…," she didn't get to finish as Bakura grabbed her around the neck.
"Don't lie to me girl I was here he died as I held his dead body in my arms." She yelped as he dropped her and walked out of the door. He was going to find Solomon maybe he could tell him what that girl was on about.
TBC
Poor Bakura just can't quite let go can he? But the trouble is just starting, anyway I know it was a short chap but the next ones will be longer.
R&R
